Travels of the Necromancer

We were a little disappointed that our search for the two key areas of the master bedroom and study still turned up no results.In the past two days, everyone's spirits have been kept at a high level of tension. Coupled with the upside down day and night, it is inevitable that they will feel tired.However, there are not many rooms left to be searched. After a morning's rest, we re-invested in the search activities.

First check whether there are any abnormal magic fluctuations in the room, then open the cabinets and drawers one by one to check whether there are sealed magic props, and finally check whether there are hidden compartments on the walls of the entire room.I have been very familiar with this process in the past two days. I will not miss any corner of every room, but I still haven't found anything.

When I divided into groups and determined the tasks, I assigned the rooms most likely to hide things to my group, so when I closed the door of the last room, I was quite disappointed.If the artifact attached to Mrs. Anne's resentment is discovered by others, they will definitely give it to Erwin for purification, then I will lose the chance to get a ghost mage.

But maybe this is not bad, I glanced at Lai next to me, Mrs. Aini was considered to be his grandmother, this guy should not want her to continue wandering in this world in the state of a wraith.

In order not to let other people doubt our fast search speed, Ley and I stayed in our room for a while before going to the small restaurant to gather. Anyway, I have already taken several books from the study with Lai’s tacit approval. , this time is still good to kill.

When we walked to the door of the restaurant, we happened to run into Alice and the others. Seeing their empty hands, we knew they hadn't found anything.In the dining room, Merkel and Oska were already sitting at the table drinking tea.Before I could ask, Merkel shook her head.

"What should we do now?" Catherine frowned.She is impatient, and the search work these days has consumed a lot of her patience.

"I know that you have been searching very seriously and hard these days, but I have to say that people always have blind spots, and they may inadvertently miss important things." Merkel turned the teacup in her hand, "I therefore suggest that the three groups exchange search tasks and search again."

"Cousin Merkel is very reasonable, I agree." Alice said.Although Catherine was a little helpless, she glanced at Alice and nodded in agreement. Naturally, Ley and I had no reason to object.

"Well, I want to say something." Blaise, who had been quiet all this time, said suddenly, "Actually, I found something wrong with the room on the third floor."

This immediately attracted everyone's attention: "What's wrong?"

Seemingly unaccustomed to being watched by so many people at the same time, Blaise's round face was a little red, he got up and brought the floor plan of the castle: "I found that the area of ​​the rooms on the third floor does not match the floor plan. A few square meters are missing."

As he spoke, he marked the actual area on the floor plan with a quill pen.

"Didn't I see you measure the area of ​​the room when you searched?"

"Uh, um, I'm good at comparing data such as area, er, I can roughly estimate it without measuring it." Facing Catherine's question, his face seemed to turn redder.

And I looked at the floor plan marked by him, and every room was missing a small piece at the back. Although Blaize only marked the rooms inspected by his group, the rest should be similar.The rooms on the third floor are arranged in a circle, which means...

"A secret room is hidden in the middle of all the rooms." Alice responded immediately.

"A very clever design, it's hard to see from the outside," Merkel continued. "But we still have to find the entrance, and if we can't find it, we can only destroy a wall."

"I don't think I need to hit the wall. I know where the entrance is." I rolled up the floor plan. "Let's go see it now."

I took everyone to the study.

"Cousin, do you think the entrance is here?"

"Yes, have you noticed anything unreasonable here?" Hearing what I said, everyone began to observe the study carefully.

"There doesn't seem to be anything unreasonable." Blaise looked around. "The types of books are also very comprehensive, and there are all kinds of books."

"I see what my cousin means!" Alice said with a smile, "the books here are too 'clean'!"

"Yes, there are no books about curses, undead magic, and black magic. This is incredible for a noble who loves to study magic. Even ordinary nobles like to have one or two books like this in their study Facade." When I said this, I suddenly remembered that there were two temple personnel next to me, I looked at them with some embarrassment, and I got a clear smile.

So I continued: "Aristocrats generally don't have to worry about someone coming to search their study, so the prohibited books are placed directly on the shelf. People who are more cautious may change the cover and put it in the back row or in a hidden compartment. But I have searched the study carefully and found no prohibited books, so I suppose that the chamber is where the count kept his collection."

"However, the earl's magic experiment equipment is still in the study. You know, many magicians suddenly get inspiration while reading a book, and they can't help but start experimenting immediately at this time." This can be said to be my Speaking from experience, "So I guess it is very convenient to go from that secret room to the study, or the entrance to that secret room is hidden in this study."

So we resumed our search for the study.The back wall of the study room is the focus of the search. This time we removed all the tall bookcases leaning against the wall and inspected the wall inch by inch.Finally, Blaize found the location of the original entrance, but the entrance was completely sealed, so we still had to break through the wall in the end.

The wall was so thick that Ley and I didn't find another room behind when we banged on the wall.There are also two layers of silent rock sandwiched in the wall to block the magic. After we break through the surface layer with magic, we can only use the most primitive method to break the wall.Erwin and Alice blessed us with the "boost spell", but even so we worked together for nearly three hours to dig a small hole for people to come and go.

Erwin threw a lighting ball inside, and Oskar drew his sword and was the first to enter the chamber.

"Oscar, how is the situation?" Erwin asked with concern.

"How should I put it, it's very... Spectacular. You can come in and take a look. There shouldn't be any danger." After Oska entered, he stood blankly at the entrance until he heard Erwin's question, and it seemed that he had just The reaction is average.

So Catherine and Alice stayed at the entrance to guard, and the others got in through the small hole one by one.As soon as I entered the secret room, I stayed for a while like Oscar, and even forgot to pat off the dust on my body.

The ceiling, the walls, the floor, every place I can see in this room is densely packed, covered with runes layer by layer, like a densely pressed fishing net.I have seen a magic circle with stronger lethality in the Dark Night Swamp, and a magic circle with a larger scale in Skull City, but this is the first time I have seen such a depressing magic circle.The core of the magic circle is a small square platform located in the center of the room, on which there is a stone box carved from Mo Yan.

"This is the sealing magic circle." Erwin carefully identified the runes on the wall.

"What is sealed is what's in this box." I circled the platform a few times, "And there are multiple layers of protective magic around it."

Since protection magic is mainly natural magic, I will be responsible for disabling it.It wasn't until dawn that I removed the last layer of magic and moved the light stone box to the dining room.