In this life, Urrutia seems to have formed an indissoluble bond with ice from the moment she was born, or rather, with people who use ice.

As it is now, the second road on the left is cold to the bone.

Few people know that she will not only use Lost Magic, the Arc of Time, but also the Shape of Ice.

She is the daughter of Uru, and naturally inherited her magical talent, although it is rarely used, Urrutia's attainments in this area are not much worse than Gray and Leon.

Urrutia also has a hardy physique, and the cold ice in front of her did not make her feel cold, but what puzzled her was that after perceiving along the way, she felt that the magic contained in this ice cube was very familiar.

"What the hell is going on?"

Urrutia was suspicious, her brows furrowed, and she fell into deep thought, "Why do I think this ice feels kind? It's like...... As I am from one......"

……

On the second path on the right, Gerald paced it, trying to sense the darkness ahead, where there were no bones, no foul-smelling monster corpses, no bone-chilling ice, but the entire passage was empty, and nothing could be seen.

"Is this the same scenario for the other passages?"

Looking at the metal passage in front of him, Gerald pondered for a while, "Deliberately separating us, I thought someone would be ambushed here, did I guess wrong?" ”

At this moment, a dazzling light flashed!

Gerald looked up and found that he had reached the end of the passage at some point!

"What's going on? I remember that I couldn't see the end...... That's right! Kira said that the whole castle was made of that kind of metal, and it could be controlled at will! Since the owner of this place has free control of the castle, it is natural that I can reach the end at any time......"

Thinking of this, Gerald looked at the metal door in front of him: "In this situation, don't you plan to waste your time in vain, do you plan to have a good talk face-to-face?" ”

He stepped forward and reached out to push open the door......

……

"You're the owner of this castle?"

When Kira pushed open the door, the blonde youth was fiddling with his "knick-knacks" in the room, and on the wall in front of him hung four large screens, showing the scenes of the other four passages, including Urrutia, Gerald, Eric, Dark Night, and others.

"Kira Hoplett, first meeting, I'm Silver!"

The blonde youth got up to greet Kira, he smiled brightly, Kira looked closely, and found that his eyes were like Natsu, his behavior was like Gray, and his hairstyle was like Laxus, so he almost wrote the words "I am a good person" and "My youth is also hot-blooded" on his face.

Kira only felt like she was on the wrong set: "You...... Wouldn't he be the owner of this institute? ”

Silver gave Kira a strange look, "Of course! ”

Kira: "......"

Silver beckoned Kira to sit down, and said, "To be exact, I'm just one of them, plus me, there are five researchers here, I'm in charge of the mechanical research, and I designed this castle." What do you think? Pretty good, right? ”

Kira sat down across from him, nodded sincerely, and said, "Indeed, it's amazing!" It's a gospel for otaku! I feel a little envious of it! ”

Actually, I was very envious, but Kira didn't think there was much difference between the two. Now his main concern is ......

"I learned from Brian that isn't the owner of this place an old man?"

"Brian......" The other party lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then looked up at Kira again after a while, and said, "It's the leader of the 'Six Demon Generals', right?" He did come here a few years ago, when the old director was still in charge, and the director died not long after. Since then, I've been managing it with a few companions. ”

"I see!" Kira knew in her heart, "So this is indeed the 'Dragon Slaying Research Institute', and you are doing research on Dragon Slaying Demon Crystals, as well as selling Dragon Slaying Demon Crystals?" ”

Silver nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It used to be! Don't do it now! ”

Kira asked, "Why?" ”

"Because the supply is insufficient! You may not know that the so-called Dragon Slayer Crystal is processed from the heart of a dragon. But in this era, dragons are almost extinct! ”

For very real and pure reasons, Silver replied succinctly.

"Actually, since the time of the old director, this place has been in decline. The cost of research is too high, the success rate of research is too low, and the dragon slaying crystals that were successfully made in the end were also sold. The "Poison Dragon Slayer Crystal" that Brian purchased back then was already the last few. ”

"Isn't there a single one here?" Although she had expected it, Kira was still a little unwilling and asked, "I can buy it...... I mean, buy it at a high price. ”

Kira is really disappointed inside!

Before he came, he had always thought that this group of mysterious and suspicious magicians who had never appeared must be mad scientists who were trading invisible people on the black market all day long, and at the same time doing all kinds of human experiments in the dark laboratory, so he could "do the right thing for heaven" without any psychological burden.

But the scene in front of me, the sunny youth, the well-lit villa with a unique style, and the machines, metals and magic props everywhere, no matter how you look at it, are very different from the imaginary scene.

"It seems that this is not the kind of black-hearted processing factory I imagined, originally I thought there must be a lot of stock here, and I thought I would grab it directly......

Di Xizu's face did not change: "There is indeed not a single one here!" ”

Kira keenly grasped a certain word: "You say ...... 'here'?" Is there any other place where it is? ”

Silver was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's true!" Regardless, 'making a dragon's heart into a dragon slayer crystal' doesn't sound like a simple experiment that will yield results in a few years or decades. ”

"I don't even know how long this organization has been studying the 'Dragon Slayer Demon Crystal'. All I know is that this is only one branch of the institute, and all along, this institute has been able to contact other branches. ”

"But because the base had been out of stock for a long time, and the remaining machines had been scrapped, we had no contact with the other divisions after the death of the previous director."

"In other words, we haven't had any contact with the organization for seven years, and maybe they thought there was no one here and gave up on the stronghold. If you want to find clues here, it's impossible! ”

Just a few words, clogged up all Kira's thoughts.

Do you want to go home empty-handed this time?

Kira turned his gaze to the screen, where he was chatting with each other when several of his teammates had already stepped out of the passage and confronted the guards at the end of their respective passages.

"These are the five researchers you are talking about? You're all young...... Wait, this gray cat is the Beyonder, right? ”

Silver didn't seem surprised that Kira was referring to the term "Beyond", and when he looked up at the screen, Kira noticed that his eyes had become much kinder: "That's right! His name is Nikkle, and he's the youngest here, 6 years old, and he hadn't hatched out of his eggs when I picked it up. ”

6 years ago...... That is, like the hobbies, the ones who came from Adras to escape.

"Can a cat be a researcher? It's not that I'm racist, but the cat's brain capacity is ...... Well...... The one in our guild is still clamoring to eat fish every day! ”

"Haha......" Silver couldn't help but chuckle, "Nichol is similar, he has lived in the research institute since he was a child, and what he has seen and learned is much more advanced than that of people in the outside world, and he is naturally smart under the influence of his ears and eyes." ”

"However, if you want to talk about gluttony, he is the same, he thinks about eating bones every day, and even I can't do anything about him."

Silver's tone was full of pampering, and Kira felt that he was not talking about his teammates, but about his own brother.

"Wait...... He's a cat, not a dog, right? Eat bones?! ”