Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

The blond boy raised his hand and added:

"I support all the above views. I would like to add that there should be a connection between the leader of the forbidden magicians and the largest forbidden magic lair in Kaka. Maybe we will finally hit their lair."

The round-faced girl exclaimed:

"It's all so amazing! I can't be the only one lying flat in the end, right?"

Boys in school uniform expressed their doubts:

"I have a question, why is the time set four hundred years ago?"

Ryland replied without hesitation:

“The year 6746 was the reign of Aaron XXIV. In order to welcome Princess Lilith’s coming-of-age ceremony next year, he launched an unprecedented scale of forbidden magic eradication operations. This year, the kingdom’s forbidden magic field suffered a huge blow. He was hit hard and almost exterminated. At the same time, several far-reaching actions were recorded in history books and became famous for later generations.

"The most famous one is the hunt for Huge Wein, the leader of the forbidden magicians who stationed his base camp in the capital of the kingdom."

Everyone present was stunned, and the freckled boy said hesitantly:

"Is the background of this dungeon a reference to that operation? The hunt for Huge Venn—us?"

The round-faced girl spoke with difficulty:

"Uh... I guess it's just for background reference. The academy isn't that perverted... and it's said that the credits from this event are easy to get..."

The black-haired girl is still very calm:

"I think it is unreasonable to draw too early conclusions about the degree of perversion of the academy, but the strength of our mission target should be weakened compared to the one in history, otherwise this would not be a propaganda campaign, but a psychological attack. "

The blond boy smiled and comforted everyone:

"Isn't it certain? Even if it is, the academy will not set a dead end for us. Everyone, relax, relax."

*

Lucius chatted with his teammates for a while, and then the door to the room was opened from the outside. Everyone was silent. A middle-aged man with gray hair and a kind face walked in. He was wearing a formal police uniform. Wearing uniforms, hat in hand, he smiled at everyone and said:

"The meeting has ended, has everyone had lunch?"

Everyone entered the dungeon at two or three o'clock in the afternoon. It was not far from lunch time and they would not feel hungry so soon, so they all shook their heads.

The middle-aged man said:

"I thought I could treat you to a meal."

One astute teammate boldly said:

"We appreciate the captain's kindness."

The middle-aged man smiled and said:

"I still have to invite you once, maybe next time."

The other teammates all cast admiring glances at the teammate who spoke boldly.

Several people took turns chatting with the captain for a long time, and finally talked about their mission.

"What the General Administration means is that our large team is responsible for completely eradicating the forbidden magic den stationed in Kakkar and killing their leader Huge Wein."

"Captain, what do we need to do next?"

The captain pondered for a while and said:

"The rest of the large team will be responsible for the den's affairs. Our specific task in the overall plan is to kill Huge Wein.

"Huge Wein has made a body of bones. He is not afraid of any attack on the physical level. His only weakness is a black fire in the chest of the white bone body. As long as the black fire can be extinguished, Huge Wein will En will die completely.

"The only thing that can extinguish the black fire is a special fire-making stone. We generally call it - swimming ice."

The flint stone was a very common magical fire-making item in that era. A wizard who was not good at flame magic could still get fire if he had a flint stone in his hand. As long as he took out the flint stone and mobilized the elements inside to make it produce magical fluctuations, the flint stone would be able to make fire. Will burn immediately.

Someone said in shock:

“To put out the flame—with a flint?”

The captain smiled gently and tolerantly:

"Swimming ice is not an ordinary fire-making stone, and black fire is not an ordinary flame."

"So, where is the swimming ice?"

someone asked.

*

"Swimming Ice was acquired by a family that practiced forbidden magic many years ago, and then lost again. There may be clues there."

The captain told them,

"Next, we need to go to the family that used to practice forbidden magic - the Shavin family - to find out."

Her teammates got up and left one after another. Lucius and she were not in the same dungeon. After Angelia briefly introduced herself to the participants on the same team, she sat on the sofa with her head down and drew. She never chatted with others, only occasionally. Participate in discussions.

After she stopped writing, someone urged her to leave. She put down the drawing paper and hurried over.

The door was closed, and the drawing paper on the sofa was blown by the wind and fell to the ground. The drawing paper was covered with dense black butterflies. If you look carefully, you will find that every butterfly is so lifelike.

*

The captain drove them to the Shavin family. In the car, Ryland quietly listened to the chat of his teammates. Suddenly, he seemed to hear something and turned to look in the direction of the middle-aged man.

After a while, he asked:

"Captain, do you have a squirrel in the car?"

The captain who was driving the car was stunned and said with a smile:

"Young man, you quite understand."

While waiting for the red light, the captain patted his sleeve. A squirrel came out of the sleeve and looked around curiously.

"This is a squirrel I rescued during a previous mission that was almost used in a forbidden magic experiment. This little guy is very proactive. I just touched it lightly a few times and it kept holding my arm. I won’t let go until I promise to keep it.”

Ryland looked at the squirrel with wide eyes and said:

"It's inconvenient for you to drive, so I'll take it with me."

He stretched out his hand towards the squirrel, which was looking up at him without saying yes or no, but the captain became alert.

"It's more familiar with life, and it won't make a fuss when I'm driving - Mimien, come back."

The squirrel glanced at Leyland and retracted into the captain's sleeve. Leyland retracted his hand helplessly.

The car stopped in front of a tightly closed door. Everyone got out of the car and looked at the colorful door.

The round-faced girl went up and wiped the door with her finger, exclaiming:

“So much dust!”

Several people behind her could clearly see the dark ash on her fingers. The black-haired girl said:

"No one has taken care of it for a long time."

After that, she stepped forward and was about to push the door open. When she saw the captain also stepping forward, she thought they were going to push the door open together, but in the end, the captain just stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.

"Dong dong dong..."

The black-haired girl withdrew her hand and waited quietly for a possible response. After a while, the blond boy spoke again:

"How about we go in directly?"

They opened the door and walked into the courtyard of the family mansion.

The ground was completely covered with dead branches and leaves, and it was unknown how many creatures it supported. The surrounding branches and leaves were sparse, the buildings were dilapidated and desolate, and a cold wind blew by, making the freckled boy shiver.