Time and Space Mage - Light and Darkness

In front of the palace in the main city of Na.

After getting off the car, just like last time, the imperial reception steward was already waiting at the gate of the palace.

Billig, who was at the front, still saluted on the road, and the other party politely returned, and then led them into the palace.

El Ann, the little tail following Heber, was still looking around curiously, but what he saw this time was a palace that was more than one or two grades behind the decoration of Villeradelli Castle.

The broken strokes and yellowed walls are reflected under the dim orange chandelier, and even the servants who seem to be dying and lacking energy occasionally pass by.

There was an indescribable strangeness in the heaviness.

A thin servant with a dinner plate glanced at him inadvertently. With that skeleton-like face, Al-Ann was so frightened that he quickly looked away, only feeling that his scalp was still numb for a while.

Butler Turks did not lead them into the palace, but a room similar to a library.

However, even this room seemed to have not been cleaned for hundreds of years. As soon as he entered the door, thick dust rushed towards his face. Indel waved his arms vigorously to drive away the dust, but saw countless layers of spider webs in the corner. Before he could recover, a flower spider with silk dragging suddenly hung lightly in front of him.

With a scream, Turks' toneless voice also slowly sounded: "I'm really sorry."

"No, it's okay..." Indel knew that he was embarrassing, and quickly let go of Billig's arms.

"Are you afraid of spiders?" Billig raised his eyebrows and smirked.

Indel straightened up and glared at him.

I saw Turks pull out a yellowed and moldy scroll book from the huge square carved wooden table in the center, walked up to them and said: "This is your majesty's letter of entrustment, and the details of the task have been written on it. You guys, you can come to me to sign after you are done."

Billig took the power of attorney and frowned slightly: "What about Your Majesty? Even if it is approved, his signature is required."

"I'll just sign it. It's not convenient for His Majesty to receive guests right now." Turks said lightly, "Do you want to rest in the palace tonight or...?"

Anyone with a discerning ear can tell that this is not a welcome for them to stay.

Only listening to Indel, who was stiff on the side, said first: "Let's go out and find a hotel by ourselves, don't bother."

Turks nodded, and sent them out without holding back.

Afterwards, everyone found a random hotel in a corner of the main city and stayed. After dinner, the three of them gathered together to discuss the task, but Xibo was not interested in this, so he voluntarily attached himself to El Ann's ring.

Billig took out the scroll from the bag, and the yellowed rice paper was spread flat on the wooden table with a few crisp sounds.

However, the moment they saw the content on the paper, the entire group stared wide-eyed.

After a while, Indel spoke slowly.

"……what is this?"

……

I saw that on the broken and incomplete rice paper, the words "Kill him" were written all over the place in blinding red blood, large and small, in random order.

——This is a power of attorney from a student!If it must be described, using the killer power of attorney is more worthy of the name.

Everyone took a deep breath.

"Who did you kill?"

And half a minute after Indel finished speaking, Billig frowned again and spoke.

"..."

No one answered, and a strange breath instantly spread in the air.

"That butler is strange, don't you think? He doesn't let us see His Majesty the King." Suddenly, Aieran's small voice suddenly sounded, and when the two turned their heads to look at him, Aieran was nervous again He quickly waved his hand: "I'm just guessing."

"That's right, there must be some weirdness in it." Indel touched his chin and echoed, "And he actually signed the power of attorney."

"..." Billig put away the scroll without any hesitation, watched the two of them raise their voices on purpose, and said, "Go back and rest, let's go to the palace tomorrow and ask if the other party gave the wrong scroll."

"Of course I'm going to see His Majesty the King."

At the end, he did not forget to add a sentence.

……

When I got up the next day, the sky in the main city of Punaina seemed to be more gray than yesterday, like an old man who was seriously ill and dying in the dark, the air was filled with the usual fishy smell and even more depressing Feeling, it makes people breathless.

Aieran felt that he had no appetite, so he took two casual bites of food and entered the palace with everyone.

The one who received them was still yesterday's Turks housekeeper.

And when Billig explained their reason for coming, Turks opened the abnormal power of attorney, his face changed immediately, but he quickly returned to normal, raised his head and put away the scroll, and said without missing a word: "This, I'm really sorry, I think it was my carelessness that caused me to accidentally take something that a child in the palace scribbled and naughty, if you don't mind, I will issue a formal power of attorney..."

"We want to apply to see His Majesty the King." Billig interrupted him without hesitation.

"..." Tex, who was leading the way, paused for a while, and turned around after a while, but his voice remained unchanged, and he said slowly, "Definitely?"

"must."

"..." Turks stepped forward again and said, "Please follow me."

For a moment, there was only the sound of depressing footsteps in the silent corridor.

A servant, not even a guard.

As the palace went deeper, Aieran found that the decoration walls around him could be described as unsightly. The blue-gray moss and mold danced on it with strange patterns one after another. The roots are perpetually wet, like a leaky toilet at worst.

There was a disgusting and pungent fishy smell in the air.

Al-Ann swallowed his saliva, and got close to Xibo's side, and then his little hand tightly wrapped around his arm.

Turks stopped in front of a brown-red fan-shaped door, and the red paint on the door had peeled off in large pieces as the water mist soaked.

knock knock.

Suddenly, just as the clear knock on the door fell, a heart-piercing roar suddenly came from the tightly closed room, followed by a certain heavy object hitting the fan-shaped door crazily as you can imagine. The sound startled everyone immediately.

Xibo frowned slightly, and calmly struggled with his arm, because he suddenly found that El Ann was also very forceful in twisting people under nervous conditions.

"..." Billig and Indel looked at each other for a while, and then looked at Turks with a calm expression on the side.

He walked slowly to the door and said politely in a low voice, "Your Majesty, the students of Peorista Academy of Magic have requested to see you."

"..." There was silence in the room.

However, the fan-shaped brown-red door slowly opened inward with a creak.

"Please." Tex stretched out his hand as an invitation.

"..." Billig suddenly realized that he had made a mistake in his decision to apply to meet His Majesty the King.

But in this situation, he couldn't help but go back on his word again, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and enter the room hidden in the darkness first.

A fishy stench rushed towards him.

And Indel, who came in second, almost vomited out.

Al huddled next to Shebe.

When everyone entered the room, the door behind them suddenly closed with a bang, and the room immediately returned to the deadly darkness.

"——!" Al'an was so frightened that he hugged Xibo fiercely.

But before Billig could react, he felt a black object madly rushing towards him in front of him, which he couldn't see. Reflexively, he propped up the space domain and flashed to the other side.

The black object suddenly fell to the ground.

Indel's expression changed, he stretched out his hand and chanted the spell, and the scorching fire instantly shone on the palm of his hand, illuminating the entire room.

I saw that the room was full of dilapidated and crumbling furniture, puddles of water stains of invisible color were flowing on the bottom of everyone's feet, and the walls were full of paw prints or knife-carved large pieces that rolled down and looked down. wallpaper.

And the black thing that fell under their feet suddenly got up, and a terrifying face that they didn't know how to describe suddenly came into their eyes.

The man didn't have a whole piece of clothing on his body, and his greasy black hair was stuck in knots, hanging down beside his thin and pale cheeks.

"Your Majesty?" Billig paused, and hesitated uncertainly.

"Kill him——! Kill him!! Kill him!!" In an instant, the man roared again as if mad, and grabbed Billig again with quick eyes and hands.

"..." Billig was stunned.

But it wasn't because of the howling red-eyed nervous emperor who suddenly appeared in front of him, but because he saw the emperor suddenly conjure a crumpled thing that looked like a note in the other hand that didn't grab him.

El'an wanted to go forward, but was blocked by Indel. Obviously, he also noticed the weirdness here.

……

Billig took the note calmly, and suddenly broke free from the emperor's shackles. Indel also extinguished the fire at the right time and began to scream.

bang.

With a loud bang, the fan-shaped door of the room was knocked open.

Turks stood at the door with a changed expression and shouted for them to come out quickly.

Billig was the first to rush out of the room as if he had been frightened by a particularly terrible terror, followed by the others.

However, after coming out, Turks stuffed everyone with a scroll without explaining anything, and ordered them to leave the palace.

The leaders, Billig and Indel, who were more wilted than the frosted eggplants, didn't ask anything, and returned to the hotel in an unusually cooperative manner.

Along the way, El'an was so honest that he didn't say a word.

After entering the hotel room, Billy