The silent night soaked into the imperial capital like water.Condescendingly looking down on the imperial capital, those street lamps weave a network of brightly colored lights in the city that is not visible at a glance.Mo Xiang and I left the Imperial Capital Magic Research Institute and walked out of the Tower of Arrogance.Many citizens gathered in front of some of the stalls in the market, and the whole street was filled with the aroma of food.Walk past several stalls filled with delicate handicrafts and walk along the square's curved promenade to the street.A carriage with gold ornaments parked on the side of the street, with a hollowed-out gold relief showing the luxury of the carriage, and the Mo family crest hanging on the front of the carriage.We came to the front of the carriage, the door of the carriage was pushed open from the inside, and a delicate beautiful face poked its head out of it, first brushing over Mo Xiang's face, and then smiling and nodding at me.She is Mo Xiang's personal maid, I have met her a few times before, and the most impressive thing about her is that she has two hard armor gloves hanging on her belt, and I can't figure out why this soft-looking girl would choose a cold profession like a martial artist.The magic caravan drove along Yulin Avenue all the way to Lakeside Avenue, which was not too far from James's Lakeside Manor.When the carriage drove into the gate of the manor, I vaguely saw the ancient castle built on the high ground in the manor, and only the general outline could be seen in the night, the inside of the castle was brightly lit, and the carriage traveled along a flat stone road for some distance, and did not stop in front of the castle steps, but drove along the stone road around the huge complex and towards the back of the castle."
Over the years, there has been an ever-increasing number of displays in the showroom, and ten years ago it was moved from the basement of the castle to a separate building in the back garden."
Mo Xiang sat across from me and explained.I nodded a little reservedly.The lady-in-waiting next to him seemed curious about me, and kept looking at me along the way.The magic caravan passed through a garden lit with lights, cheerful music and women's laughter, and occasional exclamations, which looked very lively, but was blocked by a wall of bushes, and could only be seen as the garden was crowded with people, and some waiters kept carrying trays full of wine glasses into the garden."
Who's throwing the prom here?"
Mo Xiang squinted his eyes and glanced over there, and asked the maid beside him.The valet spoke briskly, her nimble fingers kept turning, and I couldn't even see her movements clearly, because she was mute."
It's Jessica?
Is that little girl going to participate in the coming-of-age festival this year?
Time flies!
”Mo Xiang was very familiar with these sign languages, and then said with a slight sigh.Next to the shrub wall in the back garden, Mo Xiang pointed to the lively scene inside and asked me, "Would you like to participate in the dance later?"
You may meet a girl you like. ”The organ played cheerful music, and I could see that there were many girls in beautiful dresses in the garden square, but when I thought that this was in the Mo family, I said to Mo Xiang: "Forget it, I don't want to meet William." ”Mo Xiang smiled disappreciatively at me, the carriage continued to drive forward, Mo Xiang withdrew his gaze from the window, and said to me: "Having said that, William has grown a lot in the past year, and has become more calm, in the past, he always called himself a dragon blood mage, and his vision was inevitably a little arrogant, but now at least he is not so flamboyant, he has recently been sent to the Kenda plane to take turn, and he will stay there for at least a year." ”Turning around this back garden, a huge building with dark tones appears in the night.Mo Xiang pointed to the building in front of him and said, "Oh, here we are" The magic caravan stopped at the bottom of the steps.The coachman opened the door attentively, and Mo Xiang and I stepped out of the magic caravan one after another.There is a huge square building in front of him, the gray stone wall surface is covered with green vines, there are two bronze statues in front of the steps, the statue on the left is a warrior wearing armor, holding a long sword and shield, and on the right is a ranger with an archer and a spear in his hand, a five-meter-high giant stone door appears at the end of the stone steps, the handles of the two round arched stone doors are copper rings of animal heads, and there are two magic wall lamps on both sides of the stone door, but the light is a little dim.There are no guards outside the building.Mo Xiang took me up the stone steps and introduced me: "This is the demon species exhibition room you want to visit, there are almost thousands of large and small demon specimens on display, there are more specimens of low-level demons, and the information is more detailed, if you want to dissect on the spot, there should be demon creatures such as double-headed hellhounds and sheep's head monsters, and the high-level demons are basically some specimens, and after the connecting passage on the other side of the Wara Valley is sealed, the dungeons on the family side are basically idle." ”There are some sculptures of people on the stone pillars on both sides of the steps, which look lifelike.A group of waiters came from the castle and waited for us to walk up the steps, just in front of the building.The leader was a middle-aged housekeeper, who bowed respectfully after seeing Mo Xiang, and then glanced at me politely and bowed slightly to me.Mo Xiang said to the middle-aged housekeeper: "Butler Alberta, please turn on all the lights in the exhibition hall inside, my friend and I want to go inside and have a look." ”"Okay, I'll be there for you right away, what else do you have to order?"
The butler said in a standard Imperial Capital accent of Grimm Chinese, this is the accent I hate the most, William, Ivan, Diego and those magic students of the Imperial Capital Gang of the Academy of Magic all speak in this tone.Mo Xiang patted his stomach and said to the middle-aged housekeeper: "Then prepare some more wine and some food for us, whatever you want." ”The middle-aged butler couldn't help but look at me, and then said: "Tonight, the kitchen has prepared roasted salamander shoulder and neck meat and magic antelope leg meatballs, and I asked the kitchen to prepare a creamy mushroom soup for you, what do you think?"
”It's worthy of a wealthy aristocracy, dinner is a dish made of some Warcraft ingredients, and it sounds like it should be good, I heard that regular consumption of Warcraft meat, you can subtly improve your physique, but in my opinion, white bread, mashed potatoes, beef soup and gin cider can also improve physique, and the ingredients on those Warcraft are nothing special except for some preciousness."
Okay, just eat this, better have some dessert."
Mo Xiang glanced at the maid behind him and added.At this time, there was already a waiter walking to the front and slowly pushing open the heavy stone door.The middle-aged housekeeper asked Mo Xiang again, "So where are you going to eat?"
This side of the showroom?
Or will there be a restaurant for you in the Kasbah?
”The stone door opened with the two servants pushing it in, and there was a series of gear clashes, and it was pitch black inside, and the two servants took two torches from the wall of the doorway, raised them in their hands, and walked into the building first, lighting the magic wall lamps inside along the way."
It's in the restaurant!"
Before Mo Xiang entered the door, he instructed the housekeeper."
Do as you command."
The middle-aged housekeeper said respectfully.Mo Xiang waved his hand at the butler and motioned for him to prepare: "Okay, that's all, maybe we will stay in there a little later." ”Then the Marquis of Moxiang led me into this demon creature exhibition hall.When I returned to the Imperial Capital from Haiyuan City, I always remembered what the demon on the nameless island had said to me: Where are your horns?
The meaning of his words was as if I should have a demon's horn on my head, so I looked up the materials in the library of the Royal Academy of Magic, flipped through some books about demons, and compared the demons introduced in the books with myself, and felt that I didn't look like a demon in any way, at least in terms of my own body structure was fundamentally different.But if I wasn't a demon, there seemed to be no reason for that demon to give me such a potions plantation on the knot of time.In the past few days, I have accompanied Ying Li to the potions plantation almost every day, and found that the belly of this mountain was actually split by someone with a sharp axe, and the axe marks left on the stone wall are clearly visible, and the top of the mountain has also carved a very obscure lighting opening, so that the herb garden in the belly of the mountain can get some sunshine and sunlight, the preciousness of the time knot is self-evident, and many herbs in the potions plantation have entered the maturity stage, which is the best time to collect.At times like these, the demon gave me a herb plantation, and I can't help but think about it.I couldn't find the answer in the library, so I went to consult the Sean scholar, but unfortunately the Sean scholar bluntly said that he knew a lot about elemental creatures, but he didn't know much about those demons in hell, and then the Sean scholar told him: The Mo family, which is at war with the demons on the Kenda plane, has the most complete kind of demon race exhibition hall in the imperial capital manor, which is the original reason why I made an appointment with Mo Xiang, I didn't expect to be able to enter this exhibition hall so soon.After bypassing a rock screen, my eyes suddenly opened up, a display room of several thousand square meters appeared in front of me, two servants with torches quickly lit the magic wall lamps around the wall, and the general outline of the entire stone room appeared in front of my eyes, and the stone platforms were full of large and small specimens of demon creatures, which were quite well preserved.Mo Xiang took me into the showroom from the left passage, there was a circular pool with a diameter of ten meters in front of me, which was actually planted with night charm, as if I felt that someone was approaching, the night charm in the pool opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth, and bright flowers bloomed on the mouth, and there was a dead tree without leaves in the middle of the pool, but the dead branches were full of strange fruits like the heads of dried corpses.Mo Xiang stood on the edge of the pool, took a spear from the servant's hand, and broke the flower on the head of a night magic flower by the pool, and the night magic flower immediately opened its big mouth and bit the spear, and the sharp teeth bit on the tip of the spear made of stainless steel, bursting out some sparks.Mo Xiang introduced to me: "This is the lowest invasive species of the demon race, the night pineapple that can grow savagely in any environment, they can not only absorb nutrients from the soil, but also set traps to catch things, but this thing is very fragile, it will only cause harm to ordinary residents, the tree in the middle is the most common corpse tree in the hell demon world, this kind of tree uses corpses as nourishment, and absorbing a corpse can produce a fruit on the branches, don't look at it motionless now, in fact, it is bound in place by the magic circle, These corpse trees can actually run freely on the ground, and the weapons they possess are vine entanglements, but they are only battlefield cleaners and have no combat effectiveness. ”I haven't seen a corpse tree, but I know these Night Charms.Mo Xiang led me forward, there was a glass container with the thickness of a bucket on the wall, only about a meter high, placed on a wooden shelf, the container was filled with pale green antiseptic liquid, and each glass container was soaked in a reddish-brown lump of flesh, which could distinguish the limbs, but there was no head, only a large mouth in the abdomen.On the other side was a row of wooden boxes, on top of which was a circular stone platform, on which a specimen of Cerberus covered with gray volcanic rock was made, and the eye sockets looked like two rubies.Mo Xiang pointed to the meat ball in the container and said to me: "This is the cave people, in the connecting passage of the Wara Valley, there are a large number of these cave creatures, they usually eat moss as food, once they eat the night magic rose, they will go crazy, this thing is very fecundity" Mo Xiang is very familiar with the characteristics of these low-level demon creatures, talking about how to kill the hellhound, Mo Xiang seems very experienced, he said to me: "These cerberus only have one tendon in their brain, and they will only pounce when fighting, As long as it can master a little bit of the rhythm of the battle, ordinary people can defeat it, and the moment it pounces, as long as the spear in his hand is aimed at its mouth and pierced into it, the tip of the spear can easily pass through its anus with this momentum.
"Actually, I really want to tell him, I'm a water magician!"
There is no need for hand-to-hand combat, just pin it to the ground with an ice gun from a distance.Ordinary Cerberus walked forward, a sheep-headed monster was placed on a sarcophagus, its head was completely the head of a goat, but the torso of the body was in human form, and the arms looked very strong.
The legs were sheep's hooves, and the sheep's chest was cut open, and the internal organs in the chest cavity were hollowed out, and I couldn't help but reach out and touch the crooked horns on the top of its head.Mo Xiang saw that I was particularly curious about the sheep's horns, so he asked me very enthusiastically: "The sheep-headed monster is right, there are still a few sheep-headed monsters locked up in the dungeon, do you want to dissect one to see the internal structure of their bodies?"
”Dissecting a sheepshead?
After thinking about it for a while, he shook his head very resolutely, pointed to the dried corpse of the sheep's head and said, "Just look at these specimens on the stage, these are the most common low-level demons?"
”Mo Xiang explained to me: "That's right, the double-headed hellhound over there is a variant of the hellhound, although it only has one more head, but its strength has increased a lot, and it is classified into the ranks of medium demons, Gege and succubus."