Chapter 783: Josh Manor
Located in the south of Bockland, the Caroberta Forest is the largest forest around Bockland, and it is also the hunting ground for the Balkland nobles, so there are many hunters' huts built here, and there is also a small village for the nobles who come here for vacation hunting.
However, the merchants and servants who specialized in serving the aristocracy only came to the small village during the hunting season in the forest, and most of the people who lived here were also lumberjacks, beekeepers, and other people who depended on the forest, and the number of people who lived in the forest was not very large, and they would work in the forest for a long time, so the village here was very quiet at ordinary times, and it felt like a dead village.
The environment of the Carroberta Forest is not suitable for grape cultivation, so the vineyards here are scarce, all on the edge of the forest, and most of the estates used by the nobles for their vacations were built here.
However, there is an exception to everything, and the manor that Leo is going to is built deep in the forest, with only a path leading to the manor, which is somewhat secluded.
Leo had obtained some information about the manor from Friengira, plus some information he had made in a nearby village, and he basically knew the manor very well.
Like many aristocratic manors in Towcent, this Josh manor was built on the Elven Ruins, and retained a large number of Elven ruins, and even built gardens based on these ruins.
It has to be said that this is really a bit ironic, the attitude of the Towsentes towards the elves is extremely contemptuous, calling them low-class pointed ears, but the nobles of the Towcente are eager for the elven items, and even do not hesitate to fight for a precious relic of the elven kingdom.
Records of the original builder of the Manor are no longer available, but it is said that the Manor was many years old when the Duchy of Touscent was founded, when the Earl of Josh took over the Manor.
Before Baron Josh took over the manor, the manor had been abandoned for many years, many buildings had collapsed due to disrepair, and it looked like ruins, coupled with environmental geography and other problems, Baron Josh took over the manor at a very low price, and most of his expenses were spent on the renovation of the manor.
What makes people feel strange is that he did not find a special craftsman and architect to design the manor, but somewhere to find an architectural drawing from the Elven Kingdom period, slightly modified the style of the main building, and then built the manor according to the architectural drawings of the Elven Kingdom.
Knowing this, Leo wanted to look at the architectural drawing, but he couldn't find it, and his instinct told him that there might be something wrong with it.
Fringira also said that she was also skeptical of this drawing when she investigated before, because almost all the items that are related to the Elven Kingdom in Touscent will have some value to a greater or lesser extent, and the more well-preserved the items, the greater the value, such as the carved building materials that can be seen everywhere are naturally the least valuable, but like a complete Elven Kingdom architectural drawings, the value of such items is absolutely amazing, even a duchess will be interested in it, and it is basically impossible to circulate to the market.
Therefore, when Baron Josh said that he had a complete manor building drawing of the Elven Kingdom on hand, almost everyone who heard the news thought that it was impossible, thinking that Baron Josh should have been deceived, and after Baron Josh's manor started, they were waiting to see Baron Josh's jokes.
However, when Baron Josh built the manor, everyone realized that Baron Josh was not lying, because except for the main building with a human style, the overall style of his manor was exactly the same as that of the elven kingdom.
This also made many people start to worry about the architectural drawings in Baron Josh's hands, but Baron Josh said that the original architectural drawings had been lost, and there were only some scattered architectural materials left by craftsmen on hand.
At that time, everyone thought that Baron Josh was just making excuses, and he didn't want to sell the drawings at all, but in fact, after the accident at Josh's manor, Bowclan's investigation learned from the craftsman who built the manor for Baron Josh that the drawings were indeed lost after the manor was built, and Baron Josh was furious about this, and almost executed several artisan leaders as thieves.
After learning about these circumstances, Leo could almost conclude that there was something wrong with the drawing, if it was not a coincidence, it might have been deliberate, and even Baron Josh, who had a similar relationship with Friengira, came to the sorceress to borrow items from the Elven Kingdom period, and it may have been instigated by some people.
Leo thought as he drove his horse to the outside of Josh's manor, although it had been abandoned for a while, but the materials used to build the manor were all high-quality materials, and the bad effects caused by what happened here did not lead to steal anything, so both the manor wall and the gate were basically preserved.
Leo parked the horse in the manor, the spirit net spread outward, looking at the surrounding situation, he did not feel any energy fluctuations in the manor, but he also did not sense any animals and insects in the manor and outside the manor, it is obvious that there is an energy fluctuation in this manor that cannot be detected with the spirit net, and it is precisely because of the influence of this energy fluctuation that all the living creatures around the manor that can escape are far away.
Leo tied his horse to a nearby tree, then jumped over the gate and jumped into the manor.
Because the manor is built in the elven style, there are a lot of plants planted here, which can make the whole manor very beautiful when taken care of, but without anyone taking care of it, these plants will grow indiscriminately, making the already gloomy manor even more gloomy.
Leo looked down at the stone slab under his feet, and saw that the stone slab was full of exquisite patterns, so that people who had just entered the manor could instantly feel the magnificence of the manor.
If he hadn't entered the ruins, Leo might have thought of the patterns on the floor as just plain ornaments, but when Ethrius learned the ancient elven script, he knew that they were part of the ancient elven script.
Most of the current elves don't know the ancient elven script anymore, but their inheritance still retains the use of the ancient elven script, knowing how to use it and what effect it can have, just like the swordsman who doesn't need to master how to forge a long sword can use a long sword.
Now the patterns on the floor of this manor are all part of the ancient elven text, it is also a part of a huge elven magic array, Leo from these ancient elven texts under his feet to see, imprison, attract and circulate the triple meaning, this triple meaning represents the elf magic array in this manor is attracting the surrounding free energy, and imprisoned here, forming a cycle, is a very decent elf magic array layout scheme.
Continuing to walk deeper into the manor, he soon came to the first fountain square, according to the drawings Leo already knew in advance that there were a total of sixteen fountain squares in the manor, and after arriving at this fountain square, the shape of the square made him feel like he was back in the underground elf ruins, because this square was very similar to the elven garden he saw in the underground ruins.
Although the shape of the garden here is similar to that of the underground elf ruins, the patterns on the floor are different, and the ancient elven characters composed of the patterns on the floor here mean to incubate and sacrifice.
After seeing these ancient elven texts, Leo can almost understand what the elven magic array in this manor is used for, sacrificing the living and nurturing evil spirits, and then the external imprisoning power not only imprisons the absorbed free energy, but also imprisons the cultivated evil spirits.
At this moment, a cold air suddenly appeared out of thin air around him, and the water vapor exhaled by Leo also instantly turned into mist in the air, which was obviously caused by the influence of extraordinary power, but Leo was not able to feel any energy fluctuations around him.
"Did that happen?" said Leo, activating his vision, and the scene in his eyes changed instantly.
The originally empty manor was now overcrowded, the surrounding trees that had not been rested were also neatly rested, the nobles dressed in all kinds of gorgeous costumes were gathered together to talk about something, and the uniformly dressed servants were shuttling through the crowd with food, serving the guests here, and it looked like a grand drinking party was going on here.
"Ghost!" Leo's face was very calm after seeing this scene, as if this was a normal situation.
At this time, a maid was about to walk in front of Leo with a plate of food, and Leo immediately reached out to stop him, and gathered a large amount of spiritual energy in his hands.
The maid, who was originally blind to Leo, stopped instantly when her body was about to touch Leo's arm, and her body moved from static to static so suddenly, so perfectly, and even the clothes on her body showed no signs of moving forward with inertia.
Then the maid turned her head to look at Leo, and at the same time, all the servants and nobles around her stopped what they were doing, and all turned their heads to look at Leo, whose normal eyes instantly turned black, as if a ball of ink was embedded in their eyes.
If ordinary people see this scene, they must be frightened stupid, but Leo seems very excited and curious, and directly reached out to the maid and grabbed it, he really wanted to study what the ghost was all about, but unfortunately he couldn't find an object to study, and now there are ghosts here, which is simply a breeding ground for experimental objects for him.
In the face of Leo's grasping action, the maid couldn't dodge at all, and was instantly grabbed by Leo's condensed psionic hand, the power of psionic energy seemed to be able to cause damage to this ghost, a burst of black smoke came out from the place of contact, and the maid ghost also let out a piercing scream, and the surrounding ghosts also made a similar piercing sound.
Although Leo controlled his ears in time to close the ear holes, trying to isolate the sound, it seemed that this sound did not spread through the air, but some kind of invisible force that could directly act on the spirit, consciousness and even the soul, making Leo's means of prevention useless.
And the first time I heard this harsh sound, it also made Leo feel a feeling of uncomfortable dizziness, the spiritual energy in his hand was slightly scattered, and the strength of the grasp was loosened, and the ghost of the maid instantly took this opportunity to escape from Leo's grasp, disappearing from Leo's eyes, and the other ghosts also disappeared together, and the surrounding scene instantly changed back to the original.
When all the ghosts disappeared, Leo also recovered from a brief state of vertigo, but his face did not show the chagrin of the prey fleeing at the moment, but showed a trace of doubt.
Although the spiritual network is not omnipotent in detecting abnormal energy, there are many supernormal energies in the universe that cannot be detected by the spiritual network, but the scene just now happened around, and he came into contact with the ghost at zero distance, and felt the resistance of the ghost, it stands to reason that even if it is a low-level spiritual network, it should be able to perceive a little energy abnormality, but the result of the feedback from the spiritual network is that the surrounding environment is very normal, and there is no abnormal energy fluctuation just now.
"Is it just a hallucination?" Leo quickly guessed, and found evidence that it was a hallucination, and that evidence was the psionic energy in his hand.
After his head caught the ghost just now, the spiritual energy caused a restraint effect on the ghost, and it was destroying the ghost, it stands to reason that the spiritual energy in his hand should have been partially used at this time, but the actual situation now is that his spiritual energy has no sign of use, that is to say, what he saw just now is just an illusion, and this is also an illusion that can be said to be aimed at spiritual vision, and the hallucination appeared at the moment when the spiritual vision was used, and it silently affected him.
Although he was not harmed, he was unknowingly affected by the hallucination, which surprised Leo because he had never encountered anything like this before.
However, this did not make Leo feel any worries, but rather made him feel a little new, originally he had only planned to check on the situation and take the pillar away, but the current situation made him interested in this manor.
He continued to walk towards the depths of the manor, passing through several fountain squares, and saw a similar elven magic array, but the power that caused him to hallucinate did not appear, as if Leo's actions just now also affected that force.
Soon he came to the main building of the manor, and saw that in front of the main building there was a large fore-lawn square, which was convenient for guests to park their carriages, and there were eighteen stone pillars around the fore-lawn square, each of which had an elven sculpture at the top, and there was a small pool in the center of the square, and the stone pillar carved with the monster relief that Leo was looking for was in the pool.
It's just that Leo's eyes at this moment are not on the stone pillar, but on the main building of the manor, which is incompatible with the surrounding buildings.