The magic union of Hailan Sa City is a circular dark gray tower like a birthday cake. The entire mage tower is divided into four layers. In addition to some exquisite stone carvings sculptures, the top of the tower is erected in four directions.
The mark of the elements. There is a statue of a magician on the top of the tower. The magician holds a staff in one hand and a thick magic book in the other. The statue faces southeast, and there are occasional signs on the staff.
There will also be a flash of lightning.
The Mage Tower is one of the few iconic buildings in the city of Halanza.
The guard at the entrance of the Magic Tower carefully checked Surdak's knight's badge before reluctantly allowing him to enter the Magic Tower.
The magic tower has a spiral internal corridor. It is difficult to clearly distinguish the floors from the inside. Some magic apprentices wearing magic robes are holding information, or holding some experimental equipment and magic materials. They shuttle back and forth in the hall, allowing Surda to
As soon as Ke walked in, he felt the strong learning atmosphere here.
According to the address left by Francis Magician to Suldak, Suldak easily found the magician's laboratory. It happened that Francis Magician had just completed an experiment. After the assistant in the laboratory reported it, Francis Magic
The teacher quickly walked out of the laboratory.
Surdak explained his purpose, and took out a specially reserved piece of salamander back meat and two salamander hearts and stomach pouches from his magic waist bag. Only then did Magician Francis remember what he said a month ago, and what he had said in
I bought some salamander meat in the underground market. Unexpectedly, just a month later, the other party actually delivered some salamander meat to my door. Magician Francis quickly asked his assistant to bring a glass container and put two salamander hearts into a petri dish.
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Then he asked his assistant to bring him two cups of hot drinks with light blue stars. He sat across from Suldak and asked curiously: "Are you a professional demon hunter?"
"In fact, not really. I just found some sulfur mines on the Paglos Mountains. These big guys also like to eat sulfur mines. They run out of the mountains. If you don't find a way to hunt them down, the sulfur mines will be eaten by them.
Light, so I prepared some traps." Surdak did not hide anything and said truthfully.
Francis was listening to Suldak's story carefully. At this time, a magic assistant took out a large map of Helensa City from the bookshelf and spread it on the coffee table.
Magician Francis pointed his fingers all the way down the Paglos Mountains to the vicinity of the Pussy Mountains. He pointed here with his hand and said: "I know that you can always find something outside the Paiste Volcano deep in the Paglos Mountains."
The sulfur mine, but it’s a bit far for us magicians, and it’s full of dirty volcanic ash, and the environment is extremely harsh. Are you digging sulfur there?”
Surdak did not expect that Magician Francis would immediately find out the approximate location of the sulfur mine. At this time, he could only say: "There are some stalagmites accompanied by sulfur in the lava river at the foot of Paiste Volcano...
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Seeing the hesitation on Surdak's face, Magician Francis smiled heartily and said: "Don't worry, although no one from the Magic Guild has set foot on Paiste Volcano in recent years, it doesn't mean that we don't know where it is.
What exactly is the situation? Generally speaking, as long as it is an active volcanic crater, there is a high probability of being accompanied by sulfur mines."
"I guess you won't climb to the top of that mountain to mine sulfur. The sulfur deposits you find at the foot of the mountain are mostly caused by the collapse of the magma pool in the crater or a small-scale eruption, causing lava to overflow into rivers from the top of the mountain.
The lava washed some gravel containing sulfur minerals from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and the sulfur mine you described appeared."
“If you want to get richer sulfur, you can only find it in the craters near the lava pools. However, I don’t recommend that you go to the lava pools in Paiste Mountain. It’s very dangerous there.”
“But I didn’t expect that this sulfur mine could actually attract salamanders. This only shows that you are really lucky.”
Magician Francis did not hide anything and told Suldak what he knew.
“Do you know there is a sulfur mine on the other side of Pudong Mountain?” Surdak asked in surprise.
Magician Francis showed a matter-of-fact look and said bluntly: "Of course, it's just that the cost of mining is too high. There are no professional alchemists in Helensa City, and the demand for sulfur is not that big. Who is willing to go there and eat the ashes?"
, it’s not like the group of dwarves in the West. Just buy some of this stuff and it’s enough for daily magic experiments. However, since you have sulfur in your hand, you can trade it with me for the market price!”
Suldak smiled and said: "That's no problem, Magician Francis."
Magician Francis chatted with Surdak for about a quarter of an hour. This magician was knowledgeable and seemed to know everything about the city of Helensa, especially the distribution of magical beasts in some mountains. I heard that Surdak
Ke's home is located on the edge of the deserted land, so he casually asked about the situation there. Hearing that Suldak said that there are occasionally groups of sand wolves in the deserted land, Magician Francis frowned and said: "If it wasn't
Forced with no way out, those sand wolves probably won’t set foot in the desolate land.”
Unexpectedly, the Magic Guild of Helensa City had already known that there was a sulfur mine in Pudu Mountain. It was only because of the harsh environment that it gave up the plan to mine the sulfur mine.
In the eyes of Francis Magician, the mine must be located in the crater of a volcano to be considered a serious sulfur mine.
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Walking out of the Magic Guild and seeing that it was still early, Suldak decided to go to Casement Mansion to visit Karl.
This time, Surdak was lucky. He happened to catch up with Carl Casement at home. Hearing that Surdak was visiting, he quickly came to the door to greet him. He saw that Surdak was still wearing the Warcraft leather armor.
Karl smiled and asked: "Did you report to the Knight Academy when you came to Helensa City this time?"
“He just came over there.” Surdak said.
The two walked through the courtyard, and Karl invited Suldak into a living room. It seemed that this should be the place where Karl usually entertained guests. Without waiting for Karl's instructions, the housekeeper and the maid served a set of afternoon tea. The two
Sitting on the soft leather sofa, Karl said to Suldak: "If you need me for anything here in Helensa City, just come to me."
“There’s nothing wrong with it,” Surdak replied.
Seeing Suldak glance at the butler next to him, Karl said to the butler: "Butler Kingsley, could you please see if there are any delicious waffles or hazelnut cakes in the kitchen? I want my friends to try them.
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"Okay, Master Karl, I'll prepare it for you now!" The butler saluted gracefully, and then left with the maid next to him, closing the door to the living room behind him.
The housekeeper was also very discerning and actually took away the maids in the living room. There was no need for Karl to find any more reasons to send them away.
“What’s wrong, what happened?” Karl asked Suldak.
Surdak hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell Karl about it. So he said: "A week ago, a construct knight entered the deserted land and investigated the bandit group in several villages near Wall Village.
According to some information, I think he seems to have some relationship with those bandits."
He didn't directly say that the Dark Red Knight was a member of the Black Magic Monastery, mainly because he couldn't produce any strong evidence, and the people had been reduced to ashes in the sulfur mines. Now Surdak just wanted to know about him.
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Hearing what Surdak said, Karl also put away the smile on his face, and said with a serious expression: "Construction Knight? Can you tell me his characteristics."
Suldak thought about the attire of the dark red knight, and then said: "He rides a black scale horse, wears a full black iron magic pattern structure, and wears a dark red cloak..."
When Suldak told the characteristics of his attire, Karl said directly: "You said this is the Dark Red Knight, a follower of Baron Grenfell."
"However, he is really a bit mysterious. He usually lives in seclusion and has few friends. No one in Halanza knows his true strength. Anyway, no one has seen him take action. However, some people say that his strength is unfathomable.
You also know that after the plane war broke out, most of the construct knights in Hellanza City set off with the legion to participate in the plane war in the Warsaw plane. There are very few construct knights still in the city." Almost none.
Through investigation, Carl determined his identity at a glance.
Suldak secretly wrote down the name of Baron Grenfell.
“You said he has something to do with the bandits?” Karl asked Suldak.
Suldak nodded and said: "He doesn't seem to be inquiring about the whereabouts of those bandit groups, but more like investigating the village patrols involved in nearby bandit groups."
Karl lowered his voice and said to Suldak: "The Dark Red Knight is related to the reputation of Baron Grenfell. Even though he is just a baron, he has many friends in Helensa City and is very influential.
He is a powerful nobleman and is also a member of the Council of Halanza City. His identity is somewhat sensitive. Unless conclusive evidence can be produced, any speculation will have little impact on him."
Then Karl said: "Even if the information about the patrol team is investigated, it must be related to the bandit group, maybe it is for the reward mission on the notice board..."
Looking at Suldak frowning, obviously disapproving of his conjecture, Karl quickly said: "Okay... I will investigate."
Karl spoke a little perfunctorily, obviously not believing the statement that "the Dark Red Knight colluded with the bandit group".
Seeing that he failed to convince Karl, Suldak could only sigh softly in his heart. He couldn't produce any evidence, nor could he act too eager. After all, the Dark Red Knight died at his hands. In the Dark Red Knight,
Before his crime was exposed, for Surdak, killing a Construct Knight meant he would be sent to a trial.
Suldak had eaten the hazelnut cake and drank two cups of black tea, and then said goodbye to Karl.
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Then Surdak went to a grocery store and bought some daily necessities. After all, there was almost nothing in the dormitory except a bed and a desk. The dormitory also needed to be cleaned carefully, but Surdak
Duck didn't even have a rag in his hand, so he needed to buy all these things from the grocery store.
When he entered the Junior Knight Academy again, Suldak stopped at the gate for a moment, chatted with the guard for a few words, and then walked into the gate of the academy.
In the afternoon, there were obviously a lot more trainee knights on the playground. Many people gathered together in twos and threes to communicate, and some simply practiced sparring with wooden swords on the playground. Most of these teenagers did not seem to have participated in the coming-of-age ceremony. Su
Erdak walked through this group of young people as if walking in a chest-high reed pond. In his eyes, those thin little bodies were not much different from the chickens in the henhouse.
Many trainee knights saw the knight's badge on Surdak's chest and thought he was an instructor in the academy. They stood up straight and bowed to him in a somewhat restrained manner.
Looking at those young faces, Suldak had no choice but to quickly walk across the playground and back to the dormitory area.
Under the sycamore tree in the dormitory area, a group of teenagers aged thirteen or fourteen were gathering together. They were probably watching the light leather armor on a teenager. When they walked into the dormitory, two faces walked out.
Delicate girls, seeing that they were also wearing the robes of apprentice knights from the Knight Academy, Surdak was still guessing why the female students actually came to this dormitory. When he climbed to the third floor, he passed by the long corridor.
At that time, from the half-open door of the room, he actually saw two girls talking casually in the room, and there were some small decorations hanging in the room. Surdak finally realized that this dormitory building was full of two girls.
Dormitories for first-year students. These dormitories are mixed-sex dormitories.
Surdak slapped his forehead hard, and once again doubted whether it was a mistake for him to choose to study in the junior college. Maybe he should choose to go to the advanced knight academy. Maybe in the advanced knight academy, the age gap between himself and other students
It won't be so obvious.
But the matter has come to this, regretting is of no use. For the sake of that piece of paper, no matter what hardships and hardships, we have to grit our teeth and persevere. Fortunately, it is said that it only lasts for half a year, which is one winter, and it will be over after enduring it.
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Suldak has never been a pampered person. It is not difficult to clean up the room. When he returned to the dormitory, he started cleaning the room, sweeping it inside and out, and wiping it several times. The oak floor in the room was
Only after the original dark red paint was revealed, the tables and chairs were wiped clean, and the beds were replaced with brand new sheets, did this dormitory look like it was lived in.
Then, Surdak threw the rag in his hand into a wooden basin, then sat on the single bed placed against the wall, took off his Warcraft leather armor, hung it on the shelf, and only wore a pair of clothes.
A linen shirt and trousers went out to the terrace to handle the withered flower pots on the railing.