In the rather strange eyes of everyone, Xiuge directly pulled Wei Lin, who had just sat down, to a room.

Without waiting for Verin to ask, he explained everything that had happened in the Ernst Manor Hotel as quickly as possible.

After listening to Xiuge's narration, Wei Lin, who had originally planned to ask Xiuge some questions, frowned suddenly, she took the glass jar wrapped in layers of magic pages from Xiuge's hand, carefully looked at the black mouse trapped in it, and reached out to flip through the pages of the magic books that continued to play a role, and her originally gloomy face was soothed a lot.

After that, she went back to the wall of the room and examined it carefully.

It took a long time for Verin to speak, "The hotel itself...... It should be a big ceremonial arena."

"Same as Salem?"

Hearing Xiuge's words, Wei Lin rolled her eyes slightly: "Mr. Xiuge, as a spellcaster, not all problems and cases can be dealt with with the experience we have, not to mention that your experience in this area is really ......

Wei Lin didn't finish her sentence, but the contempt almost overflowed from her words.

"The ceremonial arena we encountered in the city of Salem was essentially a 'wall' built with magical rituals, and its greatest function was to block the inner and outer spaces at a certain height and depth, but now, this hotel is more like a whole."

Wei Lin raised her hand, her fingers brushing the wall between the planks and flannel, and her eyes closed slightly: "In the general large aristocratic mansion, the secret instrument used to provide basic protection rituals should have been laid in advance at the beginning of construction, and the walls and foundations will also reserve a loop for the flow and feedback of magical energy......

"Once the construction of the mansion is complete, the magical power of the large ritual will be successfully closed within the circuits of the building's walls, after which any attempt to add a permanent magical ritual will be difficult to achieve."

Verin was very professional in uttering a long list of terms that Xiuge seemed to understand and did not understand, but fortunately, Xiuge was still able to barely understand what she was trying to say.

Obviously, Willow had agreed with Shogg's view of the strange rat, but she added to Shog's view that she believed that the mansion had been built with what would happen in the future.

The fundamental reason why the swarms of rats made of magic can come and go freely in the solid stone walls is that the builders and the planners and designers of the mansion's secret instruments left them with "passages" to pass through in the first place.

"If the Ernst family has been affected by the Black Sun Society since the very long time ago, then I am afraid that the construction of this entire mansion is related to the Black Sun Society...... Even the members of the Black Sun Society use some of the sorcery or forbidden rituals they have at their disposal here."

Verin ended her perception of the mansion, opened her eyes, and said, "The traces of magic here are very well hidden, and if you hadn't warned me beforehand, I'm afraid I wouldn't have noticed anything strange about it." ….

"They also put a lot of magical objects in the room, but there were no rituals or magic attached to them."

With that, Hug looked around, then easily picked up a small, somewhat old picture frame from his desk and handed it to Verin.

Wei Lin reached out and took it, examining it as usual, and soon she made a judgment: "I've seen cases like this, but it's in Merlin Lehe's file...... It's true that they don't pose any threat on their own, or even constitute a complete ritual, but in fact, they are an extension of their magical powers."

"If one of the rituals set up under this mansion is that of a sea anemone living in the sea, then these objects placed separately are like its tentacles...... Different people will react differently under the influence of the magic they exude, and based on these reactions, 'Anemones will be able to identify which prey they need to catch.'

"Sounds like that's part of the 'screening?'"

"Probably yes."

Verin

He gently lowered the frame and said, "Although Mr. Shugg you passed some ...... The small trick has succeeded in detecting the existence of the underground level, but it also exposes you to the ritual setters completely."

"But it doesn't seem to matter now, after all, you're ready to use violence to solve the problem, right?"

Wei Lin untied her scarf a bit, then tilted her head slightly, "While facing the battle is a spellcaster's path, that doesn't mean you can close your eyes and go on a rampage like a reckless man...... Tell me, what did you prepare?"

So Shug pushed his magic book forward slightly, "There may be people related to the Black Sun Society and enemies similar to rats in the underground level, so the magic I imprinted temporarily is mainly aimed at causing direct damage...... Considering the underground environment and my initial impression of the rat colony, I have prepared a large number of fire spells."

Wei Lin looked at the heavy magic book with some surprise, and then opened it, and quickly browsed the magic that Xiuge had inscribed.

She had only disposed of the resource withdrawal document reported by the Fifth Hunting Regiment for Xiuge last night, so she naturally knew what her student had taken, which meant that he had just started to learn the imprint of magic......

"It's all ...... Stream-level magic?"

Verin silently swore to Goddess Mel in her heart that she had never heard of such an exaggerated achievement.

If a person like this was known to the mages of Merlin Lehe, he would probably be directly locked up and cultivated as a future deep-sea level mage.

And after she saw more than thirty pages of the "Instant Fire" magic in a row, Wei Lin's expression became a little strange.

"I remember ......"

"Miss Verin said, 'Instant fire, it's a somewhat redundant, stream-level magic, but I've been looking for a long time, but I haven't been able to find a suitable alternative."

"Miss Verin's appearance when she burned down the whole old Ernst mansion was impressive," Schug explained sincerely, and I think Marshal Zeke Ernst would not have minded tearing down the hotel in the manor house and rebuilding it." ….

……

Everything is ready to go.

In order to facilitate her movements, Wei Lin deliberately changed into her mage review robe, and instead put on a new manor hunting outfit found in the hotel, although she still wore glasses and held a magic book, but her gestures had revealed a special temperament that was different from ordinary mages and scholars.

After bringing a new revolver that Xiuge had "scavenged" from the guards, Wei Lin's capable temperament could not be concealed at all.

However, now is obviously not a good time to "appreciate" and "collect", after using the magic crystal to fill the tiny magic gap in his body, Xiuge quickly checked the various items he was carrying, and filled the 5 metal bullets into the nest of the revolver rifle, and the remaining 4 bullet nests were vacated by Xiuge.

This is the experience that Xiuge has accumulated from his previous experience, if you don't want to change bullets on the spot when facing some special enemies, then it is best to leave room to reload the magic bullets in advance.

When everything was ready, the two of them stepped into the old-fashioned elevator that was previously only open to hotel waiters and butlers.

The structure and style of the elevator is extremely old, and the floor selection is not a mechanical lever or a magic button, but a row of keyholes that are hung from the side of the huge metal keys.

As the waiters who knew nothing had explained, these keyholes corresponded to the six floors from the lobby to the restaurant on the top floor, and there was no hole or mechanism that allowed one to control the elevator to the so-called underground floor.

The inside of the old elevator was a little cramped, so Verin reached out and pushed Shug aside, and she came to the row of keyholes, and she thought seriously for two seconds before spreading out the magic book and tearing out a page from it.

"Hold it down for me."

Hearing Wei Lin say this, Xiug immediately reached out and helped the other party press the page on the page

Above the row of keyholes, after that, Wei Lin took a spare high-quality crystal from the hedron pouch around her waist and tapped it lightly in a specific order on the four corners and center of the page.

As if some switch had been flicked, when the last stroke was over, Hug saw a faint pale blue glow illuminate the intricate patterns on the hard pages, which quickly converged from the four corners of the page towards the center, and finally formed a somewhat abstract key pattern.

"Let go."

Wei Lin said softly, and Xiug immediately stepped back, and in the next second, a slight vibration burst out from the key pattern in the center of the page, and it quickly swept through the entire elevator, so Xiug saw countless traces of deep magic that had been hidden before.

At the same time, it was revealed that there was a separate keyhole, which was hidden in the lower position, without any numerical identification on it.

"This is the latest achievement in the Council, dedicated to the verification and verification of traces of magic...... I'm probably going to use it on the battlefield in the future."

Wei Lin easily destroyed the expired magic page, and then she pointed to the keyhole, "It seems that we have only one choice...... Let's go, hopefully it can be resolved as soon as possible, because there are so many things in the Council that I'm afraid I'll have a backlog of papers in my desk." ….

In Vilin's familiar tone of helplessness, Shog reached for the metal door of the old-fashioned elevator, then picked up the huge key hanging aside, inserted it into the hidden keyhole, and twisted it twice.

The elevator shook violently as a series of heavy metallic mechanical sounds rang out, and then began to descend slowly.

Although he had already explored the place through the vision of the Rat Run, when Shog stepped out of the elevator and stepped onto the ancient, cold stone floor, he felt as if he had traveled back in time to the first days of the founding of this ancient family.

This is not the same as those monuments that have been well maintained and can give a great sense of immersion, because as you walk here, you can feel a wave of extremely obscure, but extremely active.

It was as if the huge stone bricks under the feet were whispering, and the ancient magic lamps on the walls of the corridor were peeking in......

Shug noticed that his metal disc was continuing to accelerate.

"It's not like feeling the danger approaching, it's more like being stimulated by an external force...... There must be something related to an ancient god underground, and judging by the metal disc and the reaction of the emissary in the mirror, it may be an outlier among the ancient creations, and it is not very popular in any case."

"However, the feeling here is somewhat similar to that of a dream shelter......

The memories in his brain that belonged to the caster and the seasoned soldiers were once again invoked, so Xiuge quickly adjusted the position of the magic book, and then skillfully raised the revolver rifle, which was already in a state of full alert.

Instead of ridiculing Shuge for relying on firearms as a spellcaster, she carefully examined his gun holding and the hanging position of the spellbook, and a little confusion flashed in her eyes.

If Xiuge's astonishing efficiency in learning magic can be explained by his "talent" and his strange experience of "magic inscriptions", then there is no way to achieve a quick test with the actual combat experience that requires real exploration and accumulation.

Verin had confirmed in the Council's archives that Schug Ernst had no military experience, no access to firearms, and no exposure to any form of combat training......

But the action doesn't lie.

Wei Lin is sure that this set of reactions of his is not something that can be developed by learning and imitating only two or three times, but is more like a "habit" carved into the bone marrow.

But now is obviously not the time to ask these questions, as a lake-level spellcaster, although Wei Lin can't react to ancient creations like Shuge, she can also feel a bone-deep magic flowing in this underground space, that power seems to be a vicious beast lurking in the darkness, under the malicious solidification that seems to be absent

Every breath and heartbeat seems to come at a huge cost.

However, in the midst of this indiscriminate malice against all, as if he didn't feel anything at all, he quickly summoned the Rat of Rage, ordered it to reach the other end of the corridor first, and began to move forward steadily with his revolver rifle in hand.

It doesn't look like you've stepped into an environment where there is hidden danger at all, but rather like you're back home.

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