On the pillars next to the arch of the cloister in the vestibule is a row of magic sconces with a moonstone wick, which radiates a cool halo through the milky white shade.I followed the shadow of the bush wall by the wall, bypassing the two guards in chain mail and sword and shield at the gatehouse, and pressed against the wall to reach into the courtyard.When I turned a corner, there was a wall lamp on the wall overhead, and the soft light suddenly illuminated my body out of the shadow, and a faint shadow was reflected on the mottled bluestone wall.I didn't expect to encounter a magic wall lamp around the corner, my body was exposed to the light, the shadow cloak lost its stealth effect, although the body was still in a semi-nihilistic state, the shadow was clearly imprinted on the stone wall, and was discovered by the guards at the door of the cloister.One of the sword and shield guards standing in front of the cloister immediately struck the wooden shield covered with metal plates on his hand with the hilt of his sword, making a dull clattering sound to alert his companions on the other side.He pressed his hand to the brass hilt and walked towards me, the chain mail rattling softly, the steel helmet on the guard's head presumably affecting his vision, and he reached out to straighten the helmet.I stood stupidly under the sconce, retreating little by little into the shadows of a square marble pillar in the cloister, until my body turned into a black mist again, and I quickly slipped into the cloister.The sword and shield guard wandered around the corner of the wall for a long time, using his long sword to push through the bushes and search back and forth for a long time, but he did not find any clues.At this time, his companion stood at the door of the cloister, also watching him nervously, and he also held the hilt of his sword tightly in his left hand, and if there was any disturbance, he would probably strike the shield with the bronze hilt of his longsword to warn all the guards in the manor.Seeing that the sword and shield guards had been tossing around in the bushes and the corners of the wall for a long time, and did not find any clues, the two guards got together and whispered a few words, probably thinking that there might be hallucinations or something, and the two of them chatted like this, ready to survive this long night.They speak the imperial Chinese language is not standard, always raising the pitch at the end of some repetitions, and some connective words are spoken lightly and quickly, probably a unique dialect of a certain region of the south wind, in short, the way they speak from the imperial capital is very surprising.I didn't get any useful information from their conversations, so I slipped out of the shadows behind them and prepared to search the warehouse in the northeast corner of the castle.Perhaps it was because of the cold wind that I had brought with me as I drifted through the shadows behind them, and as I passed behind them, the two guards invariably touched the back of their necks with their hands, and stared at each other with wide eyes, and although they did not issue any warning, the large round shield in their hands was held more tightly.This manor covers an area of about ten acres, and it can only be regarded as a mansion in the imperial capital, and it cannot be called a manor.Only in the second and third blocks can there be this kind of Cui Vanque style buildings, the most typical feature of these buildings is the exquisite relief and the use of exaggerated hollow patterns to build the walls, some of the small noble lords in the imperial capital in order to make themselves and the commoners burst out of the household, they pursue some extreme aristocratic life, in order to show that they have a higher taste and style, with a stronger artistic atmosphere.It is for this reason that the aristocracy brought the diverse architectural styles of various regions of the empire to the imperial capital, and many beautiful architectural complexes were formed in this prosperous city.This manor is also a very typical southern architectural style mansion, although the area is only more than ten acres, but the architect is to make full use of every inch of space here, this mansion has many rooms, it is not easy to find those corpse fire oil from this courtyard that covers an area of more than ten acres.So after sneaking into the courtyard, Caterina and I split up to search for the whereabouts of the corpse oil in the manor.Caterina burrowed into the complex and disappeared from my vision in a flash, wearing only the wurm skin pattern, a light leather suit designed to achieve the ultimate magical effect of the serpent's fangs.At the time of production, the master tanners designed it exactly according to Katarina's figure, and this set of light leather armor was almost like a layer of skin attached to her.When the magic effect on the Magic Pattern Construct is activated, her body will also undergo a certain degree of blurring, and if she stands motionless in a very dark place, she can merge with her surroundings, like a chameleon in a dark forest.Her movements are as light as a tanuki, like a dancer walking in a dark world.There seemed to be a dance party just held in the courtyard, and there was a row of long tables on the lawn of the courtyard, and on the white tablecloth were messy silver plates and silver wine glasses, and the roast goose on one plate was cut into a mess, and only a goose skeleton remained, and some wine bottles still contained residual wine, and the aroma of food and wine remained in the air.There are many rooms in the main courtyard that are lit up, and through the glass windows and curtains, you can see that the rooms are full of people, and it seems that the dance party is still going on, but the place of dancing has changed from the courtyard to the living room.Occasionally, the figures of women can be seen in the glass windows, faintly heard of music and laughter, dressed in graceful dresses, like colorful butterflies dancing in the room, and the male dance partners spin back and forth in the room.In front of some glass windows, the overlapping figures of the two are reflected, as if they are kissing in front of the window, but their faces are blocked by the gauze curtain, like a stage play without narration and lines.I don't know if there is the Marquis of Hasa in front of these glass windows, but I was surprised to see Quentin in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor of this mansion, and he was chatting cordially with an aristocratic lady in front of the window with a wine glass.Not long after, Prince George and a female companion appeared next to Quentin, and they were chatting happily, and the two female companions in full costume were laughing and leaning back beside them, almost clinging to them.There are some patrolling guards everywhere in the mansion, these guards are not ordinary warriors, almost all of them have the strength of a warrior, I guess these are members of the Constructed Knights brought by Lord Hasa from the south, and it is very likely that the entire Constructed Knights of the Marquis of Hasa live in this manor.I crept around to the northeast corner of the courtyard, the guards were very alert, and although I would not be seen by anyone if I hid in the shadows, the keen instincts of many of the guards were always able to guide them, and their eyes would frequently fall on the places I passed.I originally thought that there was a large warehouse in this corner, but I didn't expect it to be a row of stables, the stables were crowded with fat and strong horses, several horsemen in the dim light in front of the stable, with a huge guillotine to the grass, they mixed some bean and grain bran into those fine grasses, poured into the trough in front of the stable, and fed the horses more food at midnight, which could quickly replenish the physical strength of these horses.Many lords would only feed their horses like this on the eve of their expeditions.Apparently this was not the best place to store the corpse oil, and even if it was in a tin bucket, it would emit a faint stench, which I didn't smell at all, so I left the stable.The quality of these horsemen is much worse than that of the constructed knights who have the strength of the first turn.As I walked through the stables, some of the horses in the stables neighed in terror, and the grooms just got up and ran to reassure the horses in the stables, but no one was alert, and I walked through the stables to the back house of the courtyard.The summer in the imperial capital is warm and rainy, and it is located in the basin of the Majaro crater, although the overall terrain is high, but it is a low-lying part of the crater basin, and of course, the lowest place forms a vast Weiyang Lake.In anticipation of the summer rainy season, flood-proof cisterns were built in the backyards of each courtyard, which were connected to the city's sewers.I touched the backyard of the mansion and found the mark left by Caterina, so when I followed the mark, I saw Caterina lurking in the shadows in a cistern.She almost blended in with the night, but she couldn't escape my keen sense of magic, like a dancing octopus tentacle, constantly probing the surrounding area.I crept behind her, still in a state of black mist.Unexpectedly, she actually noticed something, her body tensed all of a sudden, as if the panther had been hiding from the original hiding position to the back of the low wall, and then glanced behind her vigilantly, of course, she didn't see anything, then she relaxed and waved to me quickly in the dark.There was a faint smell of corpses wafting through the air, and I touched Katarina's side and recovered from the shadows.Seeing me in shape, Caterina smiled softly at me.Then the two of us held our breath in unison, and two guards passed by the road of the flower bed next to us, their chain mail making a crisp clattering sound.I couldn't help but put it next to Katerina's ear and asked her curiously, "How did you find out about me just now?"
”Caterina curled up and asked me to lean over a bit, so we both ducked into the dark shadows.Her lips were right in front of my eyes, as seductive as two rose petals, and she gave me a blank look, but did not answer my question, and then pointed to the entrance of the cistern in front of me, and said to me in a low voice, "The corpse fire oil is hidden in the cistern." ”The backyard of the courtyard is also heavily guarded, and there are night guards passing by from time to time next to the cistern.Caterina and I took advantage of the gap between the guards and crept into the entrance to the cistern.The long winter kept the reservoir dry, and although there were a few rains in early spring, the reservoir was still dry until the soil was saturated, and Caterina and I dived into the reservoir, only to see buckets of iron oil barrels neatly stacked in the reservoir, and many of the seals on the oil barrels were not opened.The oil drums filled almost the entire cistern, and it seemed that the oil was the one that had been bought from the trading house, and Caterina and I looked at each other, and then walked along the narrow path reserved between the barrels to the innermost part of the cistern.I pulled out the Space-Breaker's Hammer from my magical belt, quietly opened the portal to Xinliu Valley, and carried a bucket of corpse oil into the portal.I found a few orc warriors guarding the teleportation altar in the underground caverns of the Willow Valley, and ordered them to move all the corpse fire oil in the cistern into the underground warehouse of the Willow Valley, and Katerina and I stayed at the entrance of the cistern.It took about a quarter of an hour for the orc warriors to empty all the corpse oil stored here, and then Caterina and I snuck out of the courtyard.For the next few days, I would show up at the Royal Academy of Magic every morning on time, and after taking the required classes at the Academy, I would go to the astrologers' union headquarters building to help Senior Dylan make the metal runes for the mobile magic teleportation array needed on the second teleportation ship.Senior Dylan has always been angry that the Prince of Wales did not invite me on board the ship during the last sea trial, but the person who ordered the construction of these ten mobile teleportation ships was His Majesty Charles, and it was directly issued to the Astrologer Magic Guild, which is also the largest project of the Astrologer Guild at present, and the Guild is currently devoting almost all resources to ensure that the renovation project can be carried out smoothly.No matter what Dylan Seniors asked, the union would solve it as quickly as possible, and Dylan was very inexperienced in how the magic lines between the metal runes could be perfectly connected, so the astrologer union directly wrote an invitation letter to the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute, inviting the Yerkes scholars to participate in the construction of the teleportation ship.Due to the will of His Majesty Charles in the construction of the teleportation ship plan, the research project of the continuous frost rune plate designed by the Yerkes scholar had to be terminated, and at the request of Lord Bruce, the vice president of the Magic Research Institute, he came to the astrologer guild to participate in the design and improvement of the metal rune plate of the teleportation ship, so I got together with Senior Dylan and Yerkes Scholar in this situation.Just two days after Caterina and I stole the batch of corpse oil, the Imperial Capital Magic Newspaper finally published a large news that the manor of a nobleman in the Imperial Capital had been stolen, and a large number of strategic materials had disappeared inexplicably, which even alarmed the law enforcement team of the Imperial Capital Magic Union.After a senior magician of the law enforcement group inspected the scene, he found that the scene contained a large number of space magic elements, so he determined that the theft of this strategic material was related to a space magician, and when all the fingers pointed at the astrologer union, the matter was closed.Without conclusive evidence, who wants to mess with the magicians of the astrologers' guild?
Recently, Prince George and Quentin have rarely appeared at the Royal Academy of Magic and Magic, and I heard from Senior Vernon that Prince George and Quentin have recently been searching the world for this magical herb and healing potion in the imperial capital.Since behind the two of them are His Royal Highness Charles and Duke Ryan, then it means that the situation in the many planes of Angela and the plane of Warsaw is not as optimistic as the people of the imperial capital had predicted, otherwise there would be a need for these two young people to collect healing potions all over the world.Prince George and Quentin came forward to stir up such a stir in the magic market, which directly increased the price of magic herbs in the magic market in the imperial capital by three tiers in an instant, and many magic potion stores also began to secretly stock up magic herbs in order to avoid the embarrassing shortage of goods last summer.There was an extremely strange scene in the Imperial Capital Magic Market, and those magic herbs seemed to have disappeared overnight