Chapter 119 Secret Basement
Chapter 119 Secret Basement
Swamp Forest City.
The next day, Ivan returned to the house arranged by the city lord. Through the answers from the silkworm hidden in the wood, he learned that six people had visited his bedroom last night, two of whom were wearing apprentice robes.
"What about you? Any news?"
"Leaving the city? Leaving the city is good."
The other two swift wood silkworms told him a message through their actions that the person who came to the house last night had left Swamp Forest City.
Last night he not only temporarily avoided the spotlight, but also left behind several swift wood silkworms to monitor every move in the mansion. The swift wood silkworms are good at hiding their breath, so it is not difficult for them to avoid being discovered by intruders.
In fact, when he was learning the art of insect concealment, he learned from the Swift Wood Silkworm and found that the Swift Wood Silkworm was indeed very good at hiding its breath.
Ivan walked around the room, and after a while he made a decision: "Since none of them are coming back, I'll go take a look first."
He is not trying to save face, and no one wants to play with him. It is impossible to say that he does not have some thoughts in his mind.
Wait until he finds the key items alone and see what those people have to say.
He took out the box from yesterday and absorbed a trace of special breath from the magic stone. As he chanted a spell, a palm-sized tracking butterfly took shape. The butterfly had stripes on its body, half black and half colorless.
The butterfly flew out of the house, fluttering and hovering in the yard, reluctant to choose a direction.
Seeing this scene, Ivan analyzed it carefully. It was the first time he had seen such a situation.
"It seems that there is interference in the place we are tracking, which interferes with the judgment of the tracking technique." After thinking it through, he commanded the tracking butterfly to fly towards the city lord's manor. Combined with the current situation, it is most likely that the city lord's manor is hiding something fishy.
The city lord's manor is located in the south of the city. It has been run by the Albert family for hundreds of years. It is a long-standing manor that occupies a large area in the south of the city.
"Sir Ivan, what instructions do you have?"
Simmons and his son appeared in front of Ivan as soon as possible, this time only bringing two trusted guards.
The two did not find the butterfly in front of them strange. In their understanding, wizard apprentices could always cast various spells and summon various magical beasts.
Ivan said, "I'm looking for clues. I want to take a look around your manor. Is that convenient?"
"It's convenient, you can go anywhere." The betrayal of his personal guards left a big shadow on him. Simmons hoped that he would go around more, preferably to help him find the traitor. "Do you need me to gather some people?"
"No need."
Ivan thought about it and refused.
He was not afraid of the guards' sneak attack, but he thought it was troublesome.
Tracking the butterfly, it flapped its wings slowly, and the others followed eagerly behind. Simmons kept introducing his manor to Ivan, where the training ground was, where the garden was, and so on.
When they reached a certain place, the tracking butterfly suddenly trembled, began to flap its wings rapidly, and flew to one side at an accelerated speed.
"What's ahead?"
"That's the horse ranch."
The others' expressions brightened, and they followed closely behind the tracking butterfly, getting closer and closer to the horse farm.
At this time, Ivan, who was walking in the front, noticed something: "Be careful of arrows."
The Simmons father and son felt a pang in their hearts.
Sure enough, just as he finished speaking, the sound of an arrow breaking through the air was heard from one side, and the sharp arrows flew straight towards where the few people were.
"Damn it!" Simmons drew his weapon and cursed, because he saw a familiar figure, his second son Matthew, who was leading the other archers to attack everyone.
He thought many people would be infected, but he didn't expect that his own son would be among them.
Faced with such an attack, Simmons and his men used their swords to block it, relying on their impressive strength to fight and retreat, and were suppressed by the arrows from the opposite side for a while. On the other hand, Ivan, with his extraordinary speed and reaction, deflected the arrows with his sword as soon as they approached, appearing to do it at will.
He waved his hand vigorously, and a large number of Swift Wood Moths flew out and rushed towards the direction where the arrows came from.
Seeing this, Simmons opened his mouth, but in the end no words of pleading were uttered.
The Swift Wood Silkworm once again displayed its fierce side, and soon only wailing was heard on the other side.
Simmons told his eldest son Nashi, "Go check on your brother, that good-for-nothing. If he's not dead, send him to jail."
The tracking butterfly flew into the stable. Ivan and Simmons' men were still following not far away, watching the tracking butterfly turn into a stream of light, which then disappeared into the ground under one of the stables.
This change caused the horses in the stable to gurgle.
"What are you standing there for? Get the horse out of here and clean up the place."
Simmons asked the servants at the stable to start working, while Ivan was free.
Several servants hurriedly cleaned the stable and pried open the bricks on the ground, revealing an iron plate hidden underneath. When the iron plate was lifted, a basement was revealed. Under Simmons' instructions, a guard went into the basement along the wooden ladder below.
"My Lord, there is something strange down there."
"Bring it up."
"Wait, don't mess with the things down there, or you'll lose your mind."
Ivan stopped their reckless actions.
The basement was located under the stable and was filled with a strange smell. Ivan didn't pay attention to it and went down to the ground. He found a regular stone pier on the ground with lines drawn on the front of the pier.
On the stone pier was a washbasin-sized disc. The disc was made of stone, and this material gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Line patterns could be vaguely seen on the disc, and there were also a number of magic stones placed there, with a crystal clear crystal ball in the middle of the magic stones.
There were wisps of black and gray air floating around in the crystal ball.
"What is this? It smells very vicious."
He stretched out his hand and then retracted it. He could feel a vicious resentment from the crystal ball.
The thing in front of him was undoubtedly the core of a simple rune magic array. It should be the culprit that caused the residents in the city to go crazy. The magic stone that was spread out on the disc was the medium, and the means of manipulation was unknown.
Faced with such an unknown rune magic formation, he did not dare to act rashly, but just stood around and observed more carefully.
This was a startling sight, as he discovered that there were several special magic stones underneath the crystal ball. Their color and quality were different from those of the lower-grade magic stones; they were clearly three relatively rare medium-grade magic stones.
Using medium-level magic stone as material, the person behind the scenes is more powerful than he expected.
As he was observing, he noticed some movement in his pocket, it turned out to be Gina contacting him through the secret mark, after activating it, Gina's voice came, the other party was almost at Swamp Forest City, he told her his discovery and location.
"Where's Ivan?"
"Lord Ivan is in the basement below."
Soon, Heidi and the other two arrived at the manor and were led to the stable.
Hearing the noise, Ivan looked up and saw Heidi coming down the wooden stairs. After the three of them landed, they were immediately attracted by the object in the middle.
"Tell me, what's the situation?"
"The story begins yesterday. Look, there are medium-level magic stones below. They should be very important mediums."
Heidi bent down and looked sideways, and discovered the existence of the three medium-sized magic stones.
Suddenly her face turned interesting. Medium-level magic stones were quite rare and rarely circulated in the hands of apprentices. The other party was extravagant enough to use them to set up this simple rune magic formation. Coupled with the special material of the disc, all these gave her an ominous premonition.
(End of this chapter)