Not long after returning to the room, Aculi suddenly ran through the small door that connected the two rooms to Frick's room. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Frick had just opened the curtain to take a look at the view, and he was startled by the sight of Acully, who silently walked through the small door and appeared behind him. By the time he sensed the aura behind him, Akuli, who was wearing only one pajama, was already standing just two steps away.

It was a black gown, embroidered with wonderful patterns of different colored threads, which looked too wide for Akuli. It may be rude to say that, but it doesn't look like pajamas, it looks a bit like a dress worn in some suspicious ceremony.

He didn't seem to be wearing anything under the black gauze, and he could even see through a part of the fabric the outline of his thin limbs. That being said, there was nothing to look at as if the body of a young girl was actually ten years older than him, but it was only the equivalent of a young girl who had not yet grown up compared to the long life they had possessed.

The window opened to the moor beyond the manor, revealing a semicircular moon through the gaps in the rushing clouds, illuminating the small room and the scenery outside the window. Frick wanted to see the structure of the manor, but the cold fog that filled him could only see some ambiguous outlines.

"I think you've noticed, as the old crow said, that the manor is covered in high-intensity defenses, and that an illusionary maze has been created to keep some unrelated people from breaking into it - if no one leads the way, it will probably be trapped inside. ”

Akuli's red eyes seemed to be able to cut through the thick cold fog, and she pointed out the magic nodes placed in the manor one by one, and even dipped some tea in the window to trace the outline of the foundation. But in a moment, the courtyard that had been hidden in the cold mist revealed its true appearance under her fingertips.

But she didn't stop observing the manor's defenses, and instead took a pen and paper from Frick's luggage and tried to draw a sketch of the manor's defenses. Although she spends most of her time immersed in the classics, her research on magic is far above that of ordinary people, and she can easily deduce the structure of the defensive spells that protect this manor just by looking at the magical structure in one direction.

The defensive spells set outside the manor appear to be the same system as the protective walls originally used to defend Lemonglas, but the magic of both the structure and the support is much larger, and it has excellent defensive capabilities that are not inferior to those of the fortress. Moreover, the defense facilities in this manor are not only on the outer wall, the manor has been divided into several areas by Rubik's cubes of different sizes, relying on various facilities to provide assistance in various aspects.

"That's why Leinster—I mean Mr. Curt—told us to let him buy it for him...... They don't seem to be going to let us out for a while. Under Acully's guidance, Frick managed to discover the illusionary formations hidden in the outer wasteland.

The wasteland where the manor is located is already covered with a lot of dense vegetation, and it is in that grove of trees that the mages of the Raven Society have mixed in certain magically processed plants, using the shallow magic they exude to construct some kind of illusion that is difficult to detect.

As for the marvelous ruins they saw on the way here, they seemed to have remnants of magic similar to those found in the caves found in Lemonglas. They were apparently things that existed before the land was exploited, and now they have fallen into a deathly slumber as they lay dying.

Perhaps they were symbols of the land left by the ancient ancestors of the Northlands, and once played a mysterious role that is difficult for modern people to understand, but now they are nothing more than pale boulders with insignificant magical remains. Under the guidance of Sir Leinster, the wizards of the Raven Society excavated and protected the remaining monoliths, but the original species that existed in the wasteland were destroyed by the passage of time.

Perhaps their only value now is to pour the remaining magic into the illusion maze designed by the Raven Society, adding more variety to it. These ancient boulders have become part of the manor's protective system, protecting the landowners with their last strength.

After seeing the layers of defense lines designed around the manor, Frick couldn't help but pick up a pen and paper and calculate how much magic it would take to build a Rubik's cube of this level. However, just by listing all the basic items, he came up with the answer that "this is not something that can be maintained in a conventional way".

In the nearly 100 years since the invention of the magic furnace, the Rubik's Cube, which originally required a continuous infusion of magic by mages, can be maintained by refining mineral materials from a large number of traps to produce mana. As a result, the scale of the fixed Rubik's cube was further expanded, and techniques that previously required the use of moonstone fragments as the core were gradually becoming popular.

However, without an extremely complex large-scale mana refining facility, it would be absolutely impossible for the Rubik's Cubes set up around the manor to maintain operation for a long time. This is because the magic furnace, which can provide a lot of energy to supply the Rubik's Cube, also has an extremely large structure and consumes a lot of mineral materials.

Moreover, the Rubik's Cubes set up in the vicinity are not a few large cities that can only be seen in the "modern Rubik's Cubes", which need to rely on some metal equipment as the basic structure for the transmission of magic power. Like primitive spells, they follow the laws of nature and become one with their surroundings.

"If I'm not mistaken, they should be supported by the magic flowing in the leylines, and there should be a spring of magic gushing out somewhere beneath this manor. Aculi walked over to Frick's side, his gaze sweeping over the cold mist outside, "The land around here is impregnated with too much magic, so both animals and plants have been affected in the long run, and have produced wonderful mutations. ”

Modern research in monstology has proven that too much magic in the environment can cause creatures to mutate, ranging from changes in size to strange abilities. When some of these special traits spread to most biological populations, those creatures become known as "monsters".

The land bought by Sir Leinster is one of the areas where magic is very active, and it has almost formed some kind of special ecology. This is a good place for a mage to set up a research institute, but it is undoubtedly a barren and dangerous wilderness for ordinary people.

"That's a lot of money, and if it weren't for the fact that the original owner of the land didn't know its true value, I am afraid Sir Leinster would not have bought it so easily. ”

Frick sighed and said to the Majin girl standing beside him, "Speaking of which...... Acully, even if you had a feud with Sir Uls Leinster before, there should be no need to put on such a face to the people of his family, anyway, we are now in their turf manor, maybe he is only hoping to use us for some purpose, but at least for now, we are allies. ”

Akuli wasn't an unsympathetic person, and he didn't think she would show ill will to anyone else on any occasion, even if they had a blood feud with her. Even if she really hated Sir Uls Leonster, there should be no need for Curt to have similar feelings for another girl.

"You'll probably never understand...... Probably shouldn't have understood either. She sighed, her eyes twitching slightly, "It's an almost instinctive disgust, imprinted in the deepest part of our vein—the 'curse' is too light, I'm afraid." ”

Frick had just mentioned it casually, but he didn't expect Akuli to give such an answer, his intuition told him that there was important information hidden in these words, but it was as difficult to understand as ciphertext. Just as he pondered whether these words contained deep meaning, Aculi suddenly jumped onto a chair beside him.

At the moment when Frick turned his head to look at the past because of her sudden movement, she condescendingly put her hand on Frick's head. Frick's open mouth was blocked by slender fingers, and she wasn't joking, but was doing something that resembled a ritual.

"You will encounter nine difficulties, but you will survive in the end, and even if you encounter ten times, the plague will not cause you any harm. In the midst of the snowstorm, you will find a place to stay, and in battle, you will be able to escape the malice of the sword. Then she whispered, "The wicked will be scorched by calamity, but the righteous will be strengthened in the midst of calamities and will be on the road to rise." ”

These words seem to be the blessings of some holy book, and if the pages are used as a medium, they can indeed have some effect on protecting the recipient from misfortune. But Aculi didn't drive the magic when she recited the text, in other words, she was just making a appearance.

Frick didn't know what the point of her doing this was, but he did as she was instructed to complete the ritual in vain. And after completing this brief "ceremony", she ran back to her room with a cigarette, not even leaving time to ask Frick questions.

A puzzled Frick glanced out the window before stepping into bed, the bleak moonlight shining on the cold fog, and he saw the crumbling edge of the hill and the slowly rolling gloomy wilderness. The indescribable feeling that had been before suddenly became clear, almost filling his chest and abdomen.

So he closed the curtains and forced himself to lie down on the bed, and although he was quite tired, he could not fall asleep for some reason. The historic mansion was shrouded in a deathly silence, and out of nowhere came the chiming bell, striking a quarter of an hour and a quarter of an hour.