Looking at Cellynina's back, the corners of Lothar's mouth curled slightly.

He had always had a question, that is, would a beast-eared girl like Cellinina only have a pair of plush animal ears on the top of her head, or would there be a pair of human ears under her hair?

As a result of the rain, Lothar's doubts were solved.

It's the latter.

…

The torrential rain came and went so fast that it stopped in less than an hour.

It's also a good thing, because it's wheat harvest right now, and if this rainstorm lasts longer, the crops will suffer.

A considerable part of Constantinople's grain came from Thrace and the west coast of Asia Minor, which were just outside of Constantinople.

Of course, the empire had many granaries, the Crimean peninsula on the other side of the Black Sea, and the Trabizond Military Region in Asia Minor, which were all well-known grain-producing regions, and they could also be imported from Egypt.

Even if the grain production in Thrace and Asia Minor was reduced, Constantinople would not be starved of food, but the soaring price of food was still predictable.

It's getting dark.

In the courtyard, the green plants are green, and the branches and leaves are hung with a little droplets.

Anna, dressed in luxurious purple and carrying the scent of incense, walked into the house with her hands behind her back.

As soon as she saw Lothar, she frowned and looked at it carefully.

Lothar, who had just taken a shower, lay lazily on the chair and said casually: "Why, you haven't seen me for a night, so you don't know me?" ”

"You've regained some of your strength?"

Lothar was slightly stunned, realizing that Anna could see that she was getting stronger again: "Good vision." ”

Anna couldn't stop yawning.

"I made a treasure for you last night, and I stayed up all night."

"Thank you, Lady Anna."

"We don't have to be polite in this relationship. But I need you to come with me today and finish the final steps of making a Noble Phantasm, so that when you make it in the future, it will cost less. ”

"Okay, when are you leaving?"

"Right now. You know, I'm actually very busy, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the whole of Constantinople, and there will always be all kinds of trivial things when there are more people, a few pilgrims are missing today, they were dragged to the underground tunnels by water ghosts to eat, and two more officials die tomorrow, they were invited by the enemy to curse the wizard, and the day after tomorrow, someone found the trace of a werewolf in such and such a place..."

"You have to deal with all these things yourself?"

Lothar frowned, if that was the case, Anna would be pitiful.

is about to become a legend, and he has to be conscientious, like a social animal, this transcendent person should be, and there is really no rank.

"That's not it, if it's a trivial matter, the Thracian Janissaries can handle it. Also, don't forget, this is the Levantine Wizards Association, and there is an association. ”

Anna smiled at the corner of her mouth: "By the way, I just want to introduce you to a few more companions today." ”

"Okay."

Lothar nodded.

"In the future, if they go to your territory, I will ask you to take care of them, of course, if you have something to ask them for help, for the sake of everyone being a member of the association, they will also give you some face."

The association says that it pays attention to "equivalent exchange", but it is impossible for people to be clear about everything after getting along for a long time.

"Flynn wants to be together?"

Anna proposed, "We're going to the Imperial Library, where there are many books on witchcraft. If you go along, you can just learn some knowledge, and the books in it are limited to the rules that I can't borrow, but it's okay for you to see it yourself. ”

Fringilla tilted her head, thought for a while, and refused: "Don't go, I don't want to learn, I want to go out and play." ”

Lothar was a little speechless, but there was a kind of "not to lose it" in anticipation.

Cellina reminded, "My lord, what happened last night..."

"Oh, yes!"

Lothar suddenly began to tell Anna about being spied on last night.

Anna listened, and her expression became serious: "A snooper who is as fast as this Miss Cellynina, or even faster, is indeed very dangerous. ”

Anna could feel a dangerous aura in Cellynina, which meant that, at close range, Cellina was capable of threatening the life of such a powerful wizard as hers.

It's just a threat, but that's pretty remarkable.

Faster than Cellinina...

Anna thought for a while and said, "The other party may not have malicious intentions, after all, he was discovered, and he just ran away." Maybe it's just curious about you, but let's be a little more vigilant. ”

On the side of the couch, the Greeks also understood the truth that others should not be allowed to sleep peacefully.

Cellina wanted to follow Lothar to protect him, but Lothar refused, and he hoped that the four of them could travel together and visit Constantinople again, and not come in vain.

Fringilla wasn't much of a studious, and Lothar didn't expect her to go to the library and read the boring books all day.

...

The Imperial Library of Constantinople is one of the largest libraries in continental Europe.

It is a beacon of civilization throughout Christendom.

As soon as she entered, Lothar was shocked by what she saw.

In front of me, there is a spiraling building, with bookshelves clinging to the walls, and with the spiral staircase, it continues to extend upwards, and the bookshelves are full of all kinds of books.

They are organized on various shelves according to sedge, parchment, slate, paper, and there are originals, translations, and superfluous manuscript copies.

As far as the eye can see, the towering bookshelves look like giants, reaching into the dome, and there is no end in sight.

"Welcome to the Imperial Library, come with me."

Anna led the way, and the two walked upward.

When you go up to the third floor.

Lothar saw a very sloppy woman, sitting cross-legged on the ground.

Her hair, probably hadn't been washed in a long time, messy, glued into locks, hanging down to the side of her face, covering her face, and she was holding a book, reading intently.

Anna said casually: "This is Yin Fu, a very powerful formation specialist witch. Hey, don't look, the guests are coming. ”

"Oh... You, hello. ”

Yin Fu was probably a little socially afraid, came back to her senses, and replied in a somewhat stammering tone.

"Hello, Ms. Yin Fu. I am the lord of Lothar, Transjordan and Limassol, and a spellcaster. ”

After Yin Fu spoke, he didn't know what to say.

Her hands were holding the cover of the book with some restraint, and Lothar couldn't help but feel a little restrained when she saw her so restrained.

"It's time for you to take a shower, if you continue like this, my books will be dirty by you."

Anna complained helplessly: "I doubt whether I was right or wrong to accept Yin Fu in the first place, and I was not happy to let her clean up a water ghost, so I nested in the library all day." ”

"Last time, the wizard who made the fusion monster came to steal the book, but in front of her, it is said that as a formation master, she must have been able to detect it, but she just didn't."

Lothar smiled and thought of the otaku in her previous life: "Probably Ms. Yin Fu, she yearns for the world in books more." ”

Yin Fu's eyes lit up in her unkempt hair.

Anna looked at her and said helplessly: "Maybe, who asked me to accept her, it can only be like this." ”

More than ten floors.

Lothar sees a witch again.

She was not as scruffy as the former, with her delicate hair, sitting on a chaise longue, looking at a book with the cover from Lothar's angle.

It's a pity that Lothar doesn't recognize the words on the cover.

He guessed it was Hebrew, and he had seen many similar words on some of the statues and stone tablets in the Holy Land, but he didn't recognize them.

"The elder is back."

The witch raised her head and looked at Lothar's face for a long time before she smiled and said, "It's really handsome, the elder didn't lie to me, if you have the chance, you will communicate more in the future." ”

Anna said angrily: "Don't complain, today the chief tribune reported that a ghoul lair was found in the western suburbs, and the Thracian Janissaries are not in the capital, so I will hand it over to you to clean up." ”

"Oh yes, I haven't introduced you yet, this is Liena, a fire mage who is still alive and well, and is good at dealing with this kind of rotting dark creatures."

Ghouls are monsters that like to live in dark and damp places and steal corpses for a living, but they will never refuse to eat living people, and are known as the most common monsters along with water ghosts.

But the fact that they are common does not mean that they are easy to deal with, the former is infinitely powerful and full of poison in their minions; The latter can dive to the bottom and are as agile as a swimming fish, making them difficult to catch.

Anna is right, too many people always give rise to all kinds of trivial things.

With so many churches and so many tombs in Constantinople, it's no surprise that ghouls will be provoked, and unless everyone strides into the cremation era, this kind of thing is inevitable.

Liena grumbled, "Elder, do you want a beautiful wizard like me to go to the stinking sewers or tombs to find a bunch of disgusting ghouls?" ”

She chattered:

"This kind of thing, even if the Thracian Janissaries are not there, you should hire some witchers to do it, I remember that there are several witcher schools in Poland that offer fairly fair commissions, and I can match you up."

Anna snorted softly, "You have to be worthy of the allowance you received from the association, and don't try to be a salary thief." ”

It seems that the Wizarding Association does not raise people who eat white rice either.

Lothar said silently in her heart.

"Okay."

Liena got up, and when she passed by Lothar's side, she rubbed the back of her hand with the back of her hand, and when she saw Lothar look at her in surprise, she showed a charming smile.

"You can come here anytime in the future, we can do it right here, or you can pick a manor with a nice view, your breath is really fascinating."

Anna rolled her eyes: "Don't pay attention to this slut, her ambition is to sleep with all the handsome and extraordinary people in the world, even those demon hunters who have the smell of monsters on their bodies, they will not let go." ”

"Sounds familiar."

"Yes, just like Van Helsing in 'The Witcher' you wrote, and the sassy witches you met."

Lothar secretly said in her heart, this is probably the worst time Van Helsing has been hacked.

What does your Geralt pile have to do with me Van Helsing?

And go on again.

From the outside, the large library, which is 20 meters tall, looks even taller inside, with more than 20 floors in a row, and when you look up, you can still see the layers of stairs.

During this period, Lothar encounters three more witches, whose images are much more normal, with scholarly busyness, constantly shuttling through the bookshelves, copying and repairing fragile books; Translate hard-to-read ancient texts into Latin.

"This big library was built by a powerful spellcaster, and it used a lot of spatial expansion formations, that is, I really don't have any talent in space spells, otherwise there would be no theft at all."

Anna sighed lightly, she still regretted that she couldn't master the space spell.

Because it's really convenient.

If you open a portal and directly connect to the enemy's capital, then the gods will descend from the sky, and you can easily win a war that has not been won or lost for more than ten years in the past.

Lothar asked, "Are there any other famous wizards who have mastered space spells?" ”

Anna shook her head and said: "I don't know, but even if there is, it shouldn't be too profound, it's difficult to get started with space spells, and it's even more difficult to go further if you enter the door, which is completely different from the traditional spells that rely on spell models to gather magic power." ”

Lothar remembered her experience in Montreal and said, "I met an old god in Montreal before, probably a crocodile god in Egyptian mythology, who had cast a good space spell. ”

"Those old antiques are exceptions, and what they cast is not a space spell, but a direct use of divine power to create an effect equivalent to a space spell."

Lothar listened to these awkward words, but she could understand the meaning.

In fact, it's like casting a spell borrowed from Hu, only knowing that you can fork the fish by aiming your harpoon at the bottom of the underwater fish, but you don't know that this is the principle of light refraction.

Anna thought for a moment and said, "However, most of them have survived until now, and most of them are in a state of lingering, and they are not as feared as the totem gods of Africa. ”

...

When I came to the top floor, I roughly counted it, and it was at least fifty floors up.

It is obviously a spiral stepped structure, and the higher you go, the smaller the minaret structure.

On the contrary, the space here has become extraordinarily open, and there is a large pool on the right-hand side, at least thirty meters in diameter, and the pool looks like it is bottomless.

As soon as Lothar approached, there was a hint of seasonal movement in his blood, and his eyes had the urge to turn into a golden boy.

Thankfully, Lothar restrained herself in time.

This is probably the breath of the sea dragon that Anna often wears on her lips, and no matter what, it is impossible to eat.

Anna beckoned, "Niko, come and say hello to the guests." ”

in the pool.

Shadows emerge.

A pair of golden vertical boys gradually approached the water.

Niko looked at Lothar, her eyes flashing with alertness, in Lothar, she could feel a strong sense of threat, but this person was with "Mother".

"Hello, Miss Niko."

Lothar swallowed.

Even if it is a serious dragon clan, devouring the bloodline of the same kind is also very beneficial to its own strength, which also causes the dragon clan to live alone except for a few.

Niko didn't feel greedy, but felt that there was a black terrifying dragon faintly behind Lothar, wearing a bony crown on the top of her head, and salivating from the corners of her mouth, staring at her.

Bang –

Niko dives back into the water, swimming back into the depths without looking back.

"Niko is afraid of you."

Anna thought for a moment: "I guess you hunted too many dragons, and you were contaminated with the resentment of the dragons - by the way, I haven't asked you yet, what are you looking for dragons for?" ”

Lothar thought for a moment.

He's thinking about how to make it up.

As soon as she saw Lothar's expression, Anna waved her hand excitedly: "Okay, if you don't want to say it, forget it, you don't have to make up a lie." ”

Lothar is as good as a stream: "Then I won't make it up." ”

"Come with me."

Anna pressed on a bookshelf on the top floor of the library, and the bookshelf slid to the side, revealing a wooden door behind it.

Push open the door.

In front of me is a room full of cauldrons, crucibles, test tubes, measuring cups, glass jars and other experimental equipment, and there are faint traces of smoke and fire on the walls.

Lothar's eyes were immediately attracted by a fiery red gem suspended in the room, the familiar aura of belonging to the "Volcano King", definitely from the tyrannical dragon.

"This is..."

"That's right, this is a treasure made for you."

Anna smiled: "The tyrannical dragon you killed is not simple, there is a small amount of volcanic divinity in it, as long as it is used properly, it is at least a demigod weapon." ”

"What am I going to do?"

"Because the main body of this thing is the heart of the tyrannical dragon, and it is not afraid of fire by nature, it is very difficult to completely integrate it with the materials I put in, and I need you to cast your most powerful fire spell to melt it away."

"Can't you do it?"

"It's not impossible, but this treasure is for you to use, and you can handle this link, which can improve the fit between you, that is, as I said before, it can reduce your consumption of using it."

"You have faith in me, but I haven't even mastered the spell model of the 'Beaded Fireball', so you're sure I can melt it."

Anna smiled, "You don't have to hide it in front of me, if you are not good at fire spells, how can you ask me to create a fire treasure for you?" ”

Lothar smiled, "Good eye. ”

"What should I do?"

"Calcinate it with your most powerful fire spell, the more powerful the better, don't worry about burning it out, it has the divinity of fire, the higher the temperature, the higher the quality."

Lothar looked around: "Won't you destroy this place?" ”

"Don't worry."

Anna snapped her fingers, and the clutter in the room disappeared suddenly, leaving only an empty room: "This is the alchemy laboratory that the designers of Constantinople have built for themselves, and it is very strong. ”

Lothar thought for a while, and felt that Anna was still credible, so she didn't need to be too wary, so she instructed: "Then you stay back and don't be scared." ”

"Joke, I've also experienced strong winds and waves!"

Anna snorted, and ran behind Lothar, far away.

She is very hard-mouthed, but Anna has always been very concerned about her safety.