The dilapidated and desolate streets were a little warmer under the dim sunset, but this gentle warmth was dissipated by the cold wind from the north.

The biting cold wind passed through sections of damaged eaves and broken tiles, making a "wow" sound in the gaps, adding to the eerie feeling of hundreds of ghosts roaring at this deserted street.

This street has been abandoned for more than ten years. Most of the shopkeepers have moved out here one after another. Until now, there is only a small fortune telling shop that occasionally opens for business.

As a long-lost visitor on this street, a young man with black hair was not noticed by the sneaky things on the street. He happily returned to his residence with the items he purchased, and it can be said that he returned home with a full load.

This is a rare sight. You must know that the only people who really love to patronize this street are thieves armed with sacks and crowbars. Therefore, the reason why the shops on this street are so dilapidated is not entirely the result of the weather.

"Hmm? You've gone far, that boy."

Mayena removed her index finger from her temple, and she was able to detect the boy's position with her mental power. Although there was nothing really dangerous on this street, there were still some unfriendly things, so Mayena was still a little bit

Worried about whether the boy would encounter them.

Everything seems to be fine now, which saves her the trouble.

Let me explain it again: I, Moena Sisley, the great Elf Archmage, don’t care about the life or death of an ordinary human. I just...well, I care about my servants.

"Then let's get down to business now."

Mayena reached out to the small crystal bottle placed on the table. She held it between her index finger and thumb and held it close to her eyes. With the soft light of the crystal lamp, she silently stared at the dark red bottles in the bottle.

liquid.

Testing attributes does not require drawing blood. You only need to put your hands on the crystal to test. This is what the boy noticed before.

Of course, Mayena didn't mean to mess with him... Well, although it can't be ruled out that this idea may be true, there are indeed other reasons for the high elf to need the boy's blood sample.

"The color is very dark. Although it is venous blood, it is still much darker than normal human blood."

Is that really the case?

Moena grabbed the crystal bottle and stood up from her seat. Just looking at it like this, even she couldn't get any more information from this bottle of blood sample.

She walked towards the room at the back of the divination hall. This room contained two wardrobes and a simple bed. It looked like an ordinary bedroom.

"Hey!"

Mayena put her hands against the wardrobe on the left and pushed it hard to move it away. A wooden board with a handle on the ground was exposed.

Pulling the wooden board open again, a ladder was exposed underneath. Mayena grabbed the crystal bottle with one hand and supported the dusty ground with the other, and stepped up it carefully.

"Hey, when we first designed the house, who was messing with the cellar?"

This is a cellar. Many houses have similar designs, which can expand the space of the house, and the passages are generally relatively hidden. For children living in the north, it is quite a shameless behavior to hide and seek in the cellar.

But Mayena doesn't like cellars. If it weren't for the fact that there was no other room in the house that was safer, she wouldn't have put her laboratory here.

"It's dark and humid. If the vents hadn't been built, I would have suffocated to death."

Although she complained repeatedly, she still had to come here, and it had been three years since the last time she went down to this cellar.

Snap!

Just as her heels were about to hit the ground, Mayena snapped her fingers, and the magic lamp in the cellar immediately lit up.

Of course, there won't be any wine or pickled radish in the cellar of the divination hall. What is placed in it is a complete set of alchemy equipment.

Since there is nothing edible in this cellar, there is no mouse nest or anything like that, which is something that makes Mayena happy.

"Fortunately, most of these things can be used."

After inspection, Mayena determined that the test tubes and beakers were just a little dusty. The debugger and engraving machine on the alchemy test bench were also intact. As for the reagents in the alchemy storage cabinet, some of them had expired and could not be used.

But there is no need to use those things right now.

First, she placed the crystal bottle containing blood on the table, and then used a rag to wipe the dust on the alchemy test table. Mayena took out a larger porcelain bottle from the storage cabinet, and poured the colorless liquid in the porcelain bottle onto the table.

After entering the empty pool in the middle of the test platform, she poured the boy's blood into it.

Then Mayena took out a rectangular wooden box from the space bag.

As soon as the wooden box was held in hand, a gust of cold air came out from the cracks in the box. After placing the wooden box on the alchemy test stand, ice flowers immediately formed on the glass plate covering the test stand.

If ordinary people's hands came into contact with the cold air, they would lose consciousness. If Mayena hadn't first blessed her hands with anti-cold magic, she wouldn't have dared to pick up the wooden box with bare hands.

Pulling out the wooden pegs on the wooden box, the thin wooden boards fell around, revealing the contents inside the wooden box.

This is also a crystal bottle, but it is larger than the crystal bottle containing the boy's blood, and the pattern on it is more complex. Because it can protect the items in the bottle from corruption, this crystal bottle is also called "

"Eternal Crystal Vase".

Several circles of cold magic lines travel back and forth on this crystal bottle. Pure crystal without impurities is regarded as a "pure thing". The attribute of this crystal is "nothing", which is not among the six attributes.

It will interfere with the release of magic, so pure crystal has become a commonly used magic medium for mages.

The principle of this eternal crystal bottle is to use a permanent "frost array" to ensure that the crystal bottle remains at a low temperature all year round, thereby achieving the effect of preventing the item from being eroded by time.

Building this kind of magic circle is also a very difficult job for Mayena, who is the great mage. It is also not easy to find a crystal with such high purity. It is also not easy to put this small crystal bottle on the market.

, can be sold for more than five thousand gold coins.

What is placed in this crystal bottle is a small half bottle of dark golden liquid. This dark golden liquid is actually the blood of a certain being. The blood of ordinary people should have frozen into ice cubes in the bottle, but his blood has always remained

liquid state.

But other than that, there doesn't seem to be anything magical about it, but using such a precious container to contain something even more precious can only happen.

"I'm offended... Well, will you hear what I say now?"

Mayena smiled, and some crystal liquid shone in the light in her drooping eyes.

Mayena's forehead was dripping with sweat, and she opened the cork with slightly trembling hands, then took out a syringe and sucked a little from it, and then she dripped the blood in the syringe into the pool.

The moment this drop of dark golden blood came into contact with the boy's blood, it was like water droplets being dropped into a hot oil pan, and the pool immediately began to boil.

"Wow! The effect is still so immediate. It seems that it is right."

Mayena quickly took a step back to avoid being hit by the splashing water.

"Can the test subjects from back then survive to this day?"

It seems that the crazy plan proposed by the madman was not a complete failure.

But it was indeed a coincidence that that boy would be bumped into by him here.

"Hmm, now it's time to take a closer look."

Mayena hummed, repackaged the cold crystal bottle and put it back into the space bag.

When she finished organizing the test bench and was about to return to the ground, her left hand touched a stone brick on the wall. The unique touch from this stone brick made Mayena stop.

The surface of this stone brick is uneven, and a pattern is carved on the surface.

The pattern is a small circle with a few random strokes carved on it, which look like claw marks.

As if she remembered something, Mayena drew pictures on the stone tiles with her nails, then continued to climb out and left the cellar...

The cold wind howling on the ice sea seems to freeze the bone marrow. However, there are no so-called four seasons here. It is always so cold. The blizzards blown by this endless cold wind can freeze the most cold-resistant horses to death. No plants can grow here.

, there are not even fish or shrimps in the waters under the ice.

Almost no one would come to such a ghost place.

Mattis, the captain of the icebreaker Magana, stood behind a blue-robed priest and said in an almost pleading tone: "Should we continue to move forward? Sir, this is too dangerous."

"Can't this ship move forward?"

The man in the royal blue priest uniform looked at the glacier in the distance. The face under the mask seemed to be like the frozen sea of ​​ice, still so calm.

"No, sir. This is the first time I have sent a ship to a place like this. The ice here is so thick that even with a full-horsepower ice-breaking spear, it cannot break through it."

The priest said without hesitation: "Then there is no need to sail the boat, just get off the boat and go."

"Huh? How can this work?! There are many bottomless ice cracks in the ice on this ice sea, and they are covered with snow. Most people can't tell them apart. If you take one random step, you may be in jeopardy!"

Matisse was anxious. He didn't expect that the target of this mission was so ignorant.

Having said that, this boat has been sailing at sea for half a month, and the weather gets colder the further north it goes. Even if the crew on this boat are Northern Norma people who dare to swim and play in the frozen lake, it will still be the same when they get here.

You have to put on three layers of cotton clothes, a cotton hat and earmuffs, and finally wrap yourself inside and out into a rice dumpling.

And this young blue-robed priest actually still wears his original attire and has never added a piece of clothing.

Does he have a stronger cold-resistant physique than the Northern Norma people living in the polar regions?

Matisse knew that this priest should not be simple. After all, the deep-sea emperor squids he encountered before were expelled by this priest. Now there is a squid tentacle in the food storage warehouse on the ship that can feed the entire ship for a month.

But if we continue to move forward, regardless of whether there are enough magic cores on the ship to return, this desolate far north land may also be haunted by powerful polar monsters.

He, Matisse, as the captain, has the need to ensure that everyone on the ship returns to port safely.

"You don't need to follow me, you just need to wait here. If I haven't returned after a week, you can set off."

However, the stubbornness of the blue-robed priest exceeded Matisse's expectations. He had never seen anyone who dared to go to the Far North alone.

"You are the person that the adults require us to protect. We cannot let you take risks alone!"

Matisse did not dare to let the blue-robed priest take risks. If something happened to the person he was protecting, they would not have a good end.

"Oh...but I have to go there."

The blue-robed priest sighed. He looked up at the flying snowflakes in the sky. Under the dim sky was an endless sea of ​​ice. Not many people in the world knew what was at the end of this sea of ​​ice, and he happened to know those few people.
To be continued...