After dodging several groups of guards and sneaking up, Lu Lu suddenly felt breathless, and the dizziness on the verge of suffocation caused everything in his vision to twist and spin.
The oppressive darkness poured into every corner of the field of vision like a tide, dyeing the long white marble steps covered with red carpet into a dilapidated dark gray. The delicately painted walls were like a woman who relies on makeup to retain her youth, taking off her disguise and revealing her naked body.
There is a thick accumulation of history under the skin, the mottled walls are full of cracks, and the deep shadows seem to be echoing with unexplained mutterings.
The inexplicable feeling of nausea lasted for more than ten seconds. After regaining control of his breathing rhythm, Lu Lu carefully checked his surroundings. After confirming that no one was around, he speeded up and hid in an unlocked compartment.
Ever since she was thrown ashore by the water column raised by the whirlpool, her body had been very weak. Her intermittent headaches made her suspect that she had suffered internal injuries in the collision.
"Rat? Why do those gentlemen like to eat such things? It's so disgusting."
"Don't you know this? Rats smell good. If we could catch a nest of rats in the past, we would be so happy."
"The taste of the old man is really strange."
"When I'm tired of eating exotic delicacies, I occasionally want to taste the delicacies that common people talk about."
The discussion between the two female waiters pushing the dining cart attracted Lulu's attention, and she followed them quietly.
There were dense footsteps in the upper area of the castle, which was obviously the residence of dignitaries, and Lu Lu sensed less intense magic fluctuations - this was the first time she felt traces of magicians' activities since entering the castle.
Maybe it was the extremely bad celestial phenomena that distracted these people, maybe it was because no one had ever invaded the castle and gave them a little shock. The patrols they encountered along the way were not on duty seriously, and the magic power was extremely perfunctory.
The perception never spread to the top of her head, which reminded her of what Lu Yu said about his game teammates who were unwilling to raise their eyes to observe when playing games in his world.
The topics they discussed were also all kinds of strange.
"Perhaps I should express my love to the Countess."
"Oh, really, then you will definitely need a lot of potatoes. Believe me, they are the most perfect thing in the world."
"Why don't you dance? I once danced with a lovely girl with horse ears."
"It's really weird. My knife suddenly became rusty. I just maintained it yesterday. Why is it so rusty..."
“The food in the kitchen was terrible, they even served dried gecko.”
It would make sense if these words were the murmurs of individuals, but the topics discussed by the magicians gathered in twos and threes could not be connected up and down at all, and they still chatted happily, and Lulu's understanding ability was down. This kind of flying style
Even if Noel is thrown here and asked to drive like crazy, it may not necessarily work.
After the two maids brought the food into the room, they bowed out and looked for a gap. Lu Lu dodged into an unoccupied room not far away, which allowed her to avoid the two people controlling the summons.
Summoner patrolling by.
"The people here also master elemental life?"
Peeking through the crack in the door, she saw a humanoid figure condensed with fire and water elements floating by. Lu Lu felt a little bit in her heart. She knew a little about Lu Yu's summoning skills. The smells of the two elemental summons were inexplicably familiar.
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This unoccupied room is a separate study room. The light cast by the chandelier made of lighting crystals above the head is slightly dim. Almost only the desk directly under the chandelier can enjoy the best lighting. The corners of the room are gray.
The wind that leaked in through the cracks in the window whined, and the furious wind that traveled through the castle buildings was torn and shattered. The sound was shrill and shrill like a ghost, making Lu Lu, who was always very courageous, couldn't help but tremble.
A small fireball was released as a supplementary light source, and Lu Lu could clearly see what the drawings on the table depicted - a huge black spot that had been smeared wantonly.
The messy lines reveal the inner irritability and frenzy of the owner of the drawing, and the scratches on the edge of the drawing reveal its fate of being accompanied by waste paper in a bamboo basket not far away.
At the corner of the black spot, Lu Lu caught a line of words that had not been completely erased.
"Bitter algae."
This is a rare marine plant with powerful medicinal properties. Once involved in refining potions, it often plays a major role, and its most famous effect is...long-lasting calming.
It can be used externally or internally. When used externally, it can suppress the pain to a certain extent. Depending on the purity of the extraction, the proportion of the potion is different, and it may be configured as an anesthetic to completely numb the contact area. Many high-level magicians want to attack enemies of the same level.
I will always look for similar potions in order to gain an advantage.
Because the potency is too powerful, not much is known about the internal potion refined based on it. Because of its strong inhibitory power, it can even make the user sleep for a long time and lose the concept of time.
"This is it..." Lulu murmured.
One part of Granahan's deposited toxins that concerned her very much was the bitter algae that participated in the mutation as a part of the potion. It is precisely because of its existence that the poisoned person's sanity will decline rapidly, and his/her attention to external things will be reduced.
His ability to judge was zero, and he was eventually allowed to be eroded by other ingredients in the potion, turning into a manic and restless walking corpse that did not recognize his relatives.
Gaslow's mastery of potion proportions was astonishing as early as ten years ago. Even if you look at the Panmera continent, this skill is enough to be called a master.
Could this be Gaslow's study?
Lu Lu cursed endlessly. Although this castle was grand and majestic, the internal defenses were ridiculous. Not only were most of the patrolling guards just fishermen, but the corresponding magic circle had no sense of existence. All the way to this place, she and
There were many battles of wits and courage in the air, but in the end it made me laugh, and it was completely self-indulgent.
The drawers of the table were empty, save for a few maps of the island. Through it, Lu Lu learned that he was in the northwest of the entire Whining Island, and was still a long way away from the depicted building complex in the center of the island.
Flipping through the bookshelf, Lu Lu pulled out an ancient book similar to a medicine refining manual with yellowing pages.
"Huh?"
The pages of the medicine refining manual are extremely hazy, as if shrouded in a layer of fog, and every word on it is crooked and cannot be read clearly.
Lu Lu rubbed her eyes, she flipped through quickly, and found that almost every page was like this, as if looking indoors through a fogged window, with only faint shadows.
She gently swept it with magic power. The notebook had no special magic design. It was just an ordinary old book.
Lulu rubbed the corners of her eyebrows vigorously: "It's strange...did you do such a special treatment when you first wrote it to avoid being spied on?"
Turning to the last page of the notebook, a clear portrait came into view. It was a magician riding on a horse who seemed to be entering his twilight years. He opened his arms to the front and laughed. The saddle was for
The tubular storage structure specially made to store medicines is particularly eye-catching, and the background looks like the castle.
The sound of footsteps coming from far and near made Lu Lu prick up her ears. She quickly put her books back and went to the recently closed balcony, ready to block the wind and rain and hide out. However, the footsteps went straight to the opposite side of the study, and the door opened.
Open and close lightly.
Lu Lu's perception stretched, and the corridor was empty. The magicians and guards who had been standing guard here seemed to have received some order and left this floor.
She waited patiently for a while, like a little thief, she crept out and came to the edge of the room to listen, but there was silence in the room.
"Boom!"
Lu Lu was startled, but she quickly realized that the loud noise came from her head.
The stinging pain spread, and Lulu was sweating from the pain. She endured the severe discomfort that could make her faint and returned to the study, gritting her teeth to suppress the increasingly severe pain.
Her vision was first red, then pitch black, as if a painter had taken away the color from the things around her.
Suppressing the urge to vomit, she opened her heavy eyelids, walked to the corner of the wall, and leaned her almost exhausted body against it. Her too-rapid heartbeat speeded up her breathing rate.
The desk was rotten and rotten, covered with mildew, and moisture-loving plants grew out of the cracked gaps; the dark chandelier flickered on and off, and suddenly went out. In a short and long moment, it became shaky, as if the wind and rain were blowing.
Its final balance was destroyed, and the crystal stones above it all cracked, revealing the lines that only those who have been tortured by years; the musty smell from the bookshelf entered Lu Lu's nose, and the yellowed pages curled due to moisture, and the mildew turned into blue-black.
The shelves with damaged support structures were crooked, and the symbols of knowledge that were supposed to be lifted up were scattered on the ground; in the deep darkness, only Lu Lu's heartbeat was echoing, like a giant beast wandering around in a narrow room.
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Suppressing her breathing and forcing it to hold her breath, Lu Lu's face turned red. The things in her field of vision changed rapidly, like a dream. The terrifying hallucinations were enough to defeat anyone with weak psychological endurance.
The pain lasted for a minute this time. Lu Lu covered her head and knelt weakly under the dim light. Listening to the sound of wind and rain still roaring outside, her mood gradually eased.
"Are you kidding me... is this hurting my brain..." Lu Lu pressed her temple hard, "What if I become stupid and can't recognize Lu Yu and Sera... what should I do?"
The Crimson Witch did not fall into the hands of a powerful enemy. After experiencing various legendary events, she lost her proud wisdom in a small accident that happened unexpectedly. This is too ironic.
The corridor was still empty. Lu Lu, who had recovered his condition, couldn't help but wonder, could it be that everyone here has been moved to the first floor?
She tiptoed to the door again, and listened silently for a long time, but there was still no movement. After examining her own condition, and convinced that the people in the room could not possess sixth-level knowledge, she twisted the handle and quickly entered the room.
Inside.
Incited by magic power, Lu Lu, who was ready to subdue the homeowner in an instant, was stunned. The spacious bedroom was also empty.
There were three lounge chairs surrounding one of the coffee tables. The tea in the three teacups was still steaming. Fruits and biscuits that had been eaten for two or three bites were on the tray.
Lu Lu stared at the coffee table, a huge feeling of fear silently clinging to her body, making her hair stand on end.
A space without any magic fluctuations. There were various signs that there were still people here not long ago, but the moment he pushed the door in, they all disappeared... Lulu felt like an ant falling into the maze of the Minotaur.
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What a joke!
"Why, I started to have a headache again..."
Lu Lu covered her head and fell to the ground, and the items in the small backpack she had been carrying were scattered on the ground.
The porcelain bottle containing the potion, the doll's heart kept for Lu Yu, and the purple box used to summon Sayer...
Lu Lu's eyes widened. The doll's heart and purple box that fell to the ground released a dull light, and a strange rhythm was transmitted to her perception through her gaze.
Somewhere in the dark, there seemed to be a voice reminding her...
"careful!"
Lulu struggled to pick up the purple box and the doll's heart. She held the relics of Sayer and Vanessa in her hands, and the pain lingering in her mind like a nightmare disappeared instantly.
"What's going on..." Lu Lu was stunned.
The brightly lit bedroom fell into darkness, the whistling wind roared in the corridor, and the distant sounds could no longer attract Lu Lu's attention.
The three skeletons were constantly swaying with the recliner as the wind poured in through the broken windows. All that was left in the clean and tidy interior was a dilapidated look, broken teacups, big spiders running away in fright, rotten and mushroom-covered things.
On the lonely ground, the chandelier made a "squeaking" sound and was about to fall to the ground.
It's like stepping into the door of time and space, traveling from the past to the present.
She pinched her cheeks and pushed out the door in disbelief. The bumpy walls, the tattered floor, and the long white marble steps she walked through in her memory were no longer as bright as before.
Only then did Lu Lu realize that the headache she had been having was not caused by the impact, but by Sayer's spiritual magic and long-term experience in using chat rooms to resist the big hands that were invisiblely modifying everything she saw.
He scanned his surroundings vigilantly and drew his sword while he was ready for battle, looking around at a loss.
"Hallucination... No, there is no caster, how could I be hallucinating?"
Confused, she lowered her head. At this time, the doll's heart and purple box had returned to their original state. Lu Lu stared at them and suddenly choked up.
"Teacher, senior...are you guys..."
If that urgent "be careful" was the teacher's warning to her, then where is the enemy?
Lu Lu took off a necklace from the skeleton, opened the pendant, and saw the family emblem made of two leaves intertwined.
"Gulu~~"
"Gulu!"
The sudden sound echoed in the dilapidated castle. Lu Lu did not dare to put the doll heart and the purple box back into his backpack, and kept them on his body.
She pushed the door open and walked out. At the end of the corridor, a large amount of gravel rolled and condensed into a stone giant that could fill the corridor. It staggered towards Lulu.
Lu Lu already had the fireball in his hands, ready to give this uninvited guest a bit of the shock of the Crimson Witch.
Just when Lu Lu was grinning ferociously and about to vent his frustration at being teased, the stone giant quickly retreated as if rewinding, and hit the wall at the end of the corridor. His body fell apart and turned into a stone whirlwind. The splashing stones strangely swayed along the
Return along the trajectory formed by combining them, and stop moving.
Lulu swallowed, lowered her head and stared at the relics of the two teachers.