The walls around the manor were entwined with countless green vines, and the gate was a half-open rusty iron gate, and the gray and white building standing in the innermost part was the destination of Ivan and the three of them.

With a calm face and a secret vigilance in his heart, Ivan followed Andrew and Sophie into the manor together.

Walking into the half-open rusty rust, the ground was black and gray mixed with some white strange powder, as if the ashes of some kind of creature had been incinerated.

To Ivan's surprise, there was not even a single weed to be seen outside the manor, but in the manor, there were strange flowers blooming one after another, and the two huge petals were tightly closed, and a little thick yellow liquid flowed from the gaps between them, and the air emitted a strange smell similar to that of fishy on the seaside.

And these strange flowers, the thick rhizomes of the baby's arms are firmly rooted in the ground, as if it is this fertile ground that gives them the most adequate nutrition.

On both sides of the entrance of the gray and white building stand two hideous and terrifying statues of strange beasts, the whole body of the strange beast does not know what metal it is made of, it is pitch black, it is surprising that there is a familiar sign painted on the forehead of the strange beast, a cross.

This symbol is simply familiar to the people of the Empire, and the cross represents the Church of Light in the Empire, and each believer will wear a silver cross with a necklace to represent their devotion to the God of Light.

And these two strange beasts marked the positive cross of the Church of Light on their foreheads, could it be that this mage manor has some relationship with the Church of Light, and they had a lot of thoughts in their hearts, but the three of them had no intention of retreating at all.

Pushing open the heavy doors of the gray building, a rotten stench came to her face, and Sophie calmly applied a simple lighting technique, and the bright light illuminated the entire empty hall.

On both sides of the hall there was a triangular cone-shaped lighting platform, which was made of black metal shelves, and on top of it was an oil lamp, and the remaining lamp oil in the lamp was still sufficient, and Andrew stepped forward to light it, and suddenly the whole hall was as bright as day.

Ivan surveyed the hall, there was nothing in the hall, as if it had been baptized by thieves, no furniture, no decorations, no carpets, the only thing left on the wall was an old oil painting.

The oil painting shows a starry sky, and the stars are slightly shining, bringing a different kind of vitality to a dark and dead night.

"Now how about we start exploring separately and meet in the hall after dark?" asked Sophie.

"No problem. With that, Andrew hurriedly walked towards a passage in the hall.

Sophie didn't wait for Ivan to answer, and found a different passage for Andrew.

Ivan was not in a hurry, first approached the starry sky oil painting in the hall, and when he walked to the bottom of the oil painting, Ivan was surprised to find that the light around the oil painting was extremely dim, as if all the light had been absorbed by this oil painting.

Ivan's right hand inadvertently stretched out and gently touched the surface of the oil painting, and a cold touch passed from the paper to his fingertips, and it was no different, was it his illusion?

Retracting his right hand, Ivan suppressed the strange feeling and walked towards a passage in the hall, waiting until Ivan's figure disappeared into the hall.

The starry sky oil painting in the hall slowly deformed, and an old human face appeared, and the god's eyes seemed to see through everything.

Walking on the floor made of colored tiles, it is a long, dark corridor, on both sides of the corridor there are placed candlesticks every ten meters, Ivan lit up little by little along the way, the flickering pale yellow fire in the darkness gives people a sense of stability.

The corridor was surrounded by gray-white walls, and there were no other extra rooms, and Ivan was not in a hurry, slowly lighting the candlesticks along the way, and walked down unhurriedly.

Ivan walked for a while, and finally saw a room at the end of the corridor, the door of which was a black iron bag in the shape of an arch, black, with a faint white pit in the center, and an ancient key in it.

Ivan took the key, twisted it slightly, and with a "click", the door opened, and Ivan pushed it open, and used illumination to illuminate everything in the room.

The room was similar to the hall, it was also empty, and there was nothing, except that the wall in the middle of the room was inlaid with a mask, which was bone-white, with no strange patterns, only two sunken dark holes.

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"It's really unlucky, there's nothing, I don't think there is any trace of a mage living in this manor, Sophie, is your family getting an error message. Andrew complained.

"No way, it took a lot of effort for my family to get the news from various sources that this manor is indeed inhabited by a strange mage. Sophie retorted.

"Is it possible that it isn't this manor, it's something else?"

"It's impossible, there is only one manor in this area of dozens of miles, I can't be mistaken. Sophie thought for a moment and replied with a frown.

"Then why is it that the room we opened is empty, and there is not even a piece of scum?" replied Anderu.

"It's already dark, let's rest first, let's look for it tomorrow after dawn, if not, then we can only consider ourselves unlucky. Sophie said helplessly.

"That's all there is to it. Andrew said.

"Go find a room to rest in. Sophie said to Andrew and Ivan.

Ivan nodded silently, and under the slightly strange gaze of Sophie and Andrew, he walked quickly towards a room like a ghost.

The room is very quiet, with a rectangular door-like window on the side, and the floor is made of hexagonal red tiles, densely arranged together, with a special beauty.

I don't know how Ivan found this room, the room is not empty, there is a large bed in the center, and there are iron shelves for mosquito nets around the large bed.

At this time, Ivan was standing at the window of the room, caressing a bone-white mask in his hand, and looked at the bottom of the hillside. At night, the Magalutev Mountains were dark, there was no human figure, and a gentle evening breeze blew, accompanied by fireflies flying in the darkness, and the Buddha warmed a dark soul that had been dry and dead for countless years.

Ivan's eyes were filled with infinite thoughts and feelings, and his body was like a dying old man, exuding a heavy smell of decay and vicissitudes.

The night ticked by, and the whole manor was silent, and Sophie and Andrew fell asleep in their chosen rooms.

The silence of the night was broken by a violent explosion, followed by countless strange footsteps, mixed with someone's angry shouts.