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On the third day after the celebration reception, Amir took Kiki and Avella who had just come from the source island to leave the Yasha Magic Association and headed for Chimera Castle in Yamila Province.

Originally, Tina also wanted to go there with them and meet the legendary Lich, but Fernando urged her to return to the source island as soon as possible and forbade her to travel far away.Considering that Fernando's days may really be numbered, Amir took the initiative to persuade Tina to go back, and hinted that Fernando's health didn't seem to be very good, maybe she should spend more time taking care of her father.

Hearing Amir's reminder, Tina also recalled all the abnormalities that Fernando had experienced during this period, and immediately put aside the lich and magic weapon, and hurried back to the source island with the other great magicians.

After Amir sent Kiki and Avila to Chimera's castle, he didn't stay there for too long. He only stayed for two nights, had a secret talk with Rafa, and then returned to Asia in his simple carriage. Xia Magic Association.In order to prevent Kiki from being exploited by Rafa again, before leaving, Amir took away most of Kiki's magic cores, leaving only a few primary magic cores for him to feed the monkeys.

As soon as Amir left, Kiki immediately told about the cheating method he planned to help Avella pass the junior magician examination, and asked Avella if he wanted to try it.

"What if we are found out?" Elvira asked with gestures, looking a little hesitant, but obviously moved.

"Of course, it can only be used if you are sure that no flaws will be seen. If there are flaws, you can only give up." Keech said, "However, I am not sure if this method will work. Let's try the effect first, and the rest will be later. How about thinking about it again?"

Avella hesitated for a while, finally nodded, and decided to cooperate with Keech's experiment.

Kiki immediately started to try, and asked Rafa to arrange a laboratory for him, and then took out all the possible materials that he had quietly brought over with the stomach of the nightmare beast, and compared the magic pattern encyclopedia and The notes left by Yeqi were first sketched on ordinary paper and debugged.

Keech's experiment quickly aroused Rafa's interest. He, who had nothing to do, stepped in as if he had found some fun. He spent every day in the laboratory with Keech and Avella, dictating and instilling his opinions and suggestions. For the two of them, Keech was annoyed and ran away from time to time, kneading him into a ball and throwing him out of the laboratory.

However, what Rafa brought to Kiki was not just irritability. When he found that the things Kiki brought were very limited, not even enough to complete a large magic pattern, Rafa immediately generously donated his money and asked Hasari to go outside the castle. Buy back a large amount of magic materials needed to draw the magic pattern, for Kiki to use at will.

Rafa's generosity stunned Kiki for a moment, but then he realized that this castle was not squandered by the descendants of the Chimera family as Rafa once said, and there were still some things left. It was preserved, or rather, hidden by Rafa—for example, the gold coins that Rafa gave Hasari.

Although he guessed that Rafa should hide a small treasury, Kiki was not interested in further exploration. When the materials were sufficient, he turned all his energy to magic pattern drawing and dye mixing.

From the perspective of drawing methods, magic patterns can be divided into two types, one is temporary magic patterns and the other is permanent magic patterns.The former is just an ordinary painting like drawing a magic scroll, which can be cleared at any time, has limited effect, and is easily damaged by sweat, clothing and the like; the latter uses a method similar to tattooing to engrave magic dye into the skin, once successful Ineffective, but this kind of magic pattern will lead to excessive concentration of magic elements, causing erosive damage to the magician's body, which can easily damage the body and shorten the lifespan.

After weighing again and again, Keech finally chose the temporary magic pattern with poor effect but low harm.And Avella didn't expect such earth-shaking changes that this magic pattern could bring to herself, as long as she could pass the junior magician assessment and let her wear a real magician's robe, she would be very satisfied.

Since Elvira's requirements were very low, Kiki quickly selected the magic patterns that suited her, and drew them on Elvira's arm one by one.Of course, magic patterns are not like making magic scrolls, as long as the magic circle is correctly drawn on the papyrus, it will take effect.In addition to the correct drawing method, it is also necessary to ensure the correct position, and this position varies from person to person. It must be adjusted and tried repeatedly, and even the details of the magic pattern must be modified to a certain extent before it can be finally determined.In addition, when there are more than one magic pattern, the order and distance between the magic pattern must also be carefully considered, so as not to conflict with each other, produce resistance, and destroy the correct convergence of elements.

It took much more time to adjust the position of the magic pattern than to choose the magic pattern. Just when Kiki was overwhelmed by this kind of adjustment, three unexpected visitors came outside Chimera's castle.

Hasari was the first to discover these three people, because their unexpected arrival not only aroused the protective magic circle outside the castle, but also caused the monsters to move. Hasari quickly reported this to Rafa, Ask for his instructions.

Rafa looked at the projection crystal in the Hall of the Falcon, and found that all three were wearing magic robes. The oldest one was wearing black, obviously a great magician, and the remaining two were wearing blue and purple.The one in the blue robe has short brown hair and is younger than Kiki, while the one in the purple robe is over middle-aged and looks very ordinary.

Rafa scratched his head, and simply called Keech to the Harrier Hall and asked him if he knew the three magicians.

"Rocky?" Kiki immediately recognized the brown-haired boy in the blue robe.

"Know?" Rafa asked curiously.

"The one in the blue robe is my younger brother, Rocky. The one in the black robe is his mentor, Somerhaile. I don't know the one in the purple robe, and he is probably an apprentice of Somerhaile." Kidge explained.

"Brother, how is it possible?" Rafa exclaimed in surprise, "How could the Chimera family, which is proud of black hair, give birth to such a child? He couldn't be an illegitimate child or picked it up?!"

"Probably because our grandfather and maternal grandfather are not the same person, our father has brown hair." Kiki twitched the corner of his mouth.

"No, no, no! How can you have such a hair color! This is simply blasphemy of the Chimera's bloodline, and it is more disgusting than a waste material without talent!" Rafa's roar became more and more hysterical, "If this happened in Yeqi In the era of the master, he would be thrown into the river and drowned when he was born!"

——Bullshit blasphemy, my bloodline is exactly the same as his, okay!

Kiki was about to complain, but Rafa disappeared in front of him with a bang, and he didn't know where he went.

Rafa disappeared too suddenly, and Kiki's ability also had limited vision. After looking around, he didn't find Rafa's figure, so he didn't bother to look for it again. He turned back and continued to stare at Rocky and others in the projection crystal.But the field of view of the projection crystal also has a limited range. Not long after Rafa disappeared, the black mist outside suddenly became thicker, making the projection crystal quickly turn into a mass of jet black, and he could no longer see anything .

——What is that lich doing?

Kitsch rolled his eyes annoyed.

After about half an hour, the scene in the projection crystal finally recovered, but Rocky and the others had disappeared.

After a while, Rafa came back from the outside triumphantly and told Kitsch that he had chased away the three uninvited guests.

Although I don't know what Rafa did, it's better to drive Rocky away than to let him in. Kitsch curled his lips, didn't ask any more questions, turned back to the laboratory, and continued his magic pattern research.

In the blink of an eye, it was the New Year, because the magic pattern prepared for Elvira still hadn't come to fruition, and Kiki didn't want to toss back and forth, so he rejected Amir's request to go to the source island, and stayed with Elvira in Chimera castle.

Hasari, who used to return to Demira to celebrate the New Year with his family, also stayed. He only went to the city to purchase a batch of fresh food and wine, and then, together with the three castle elves, decorated the entire castle. new.

Although there are only three living people and four ghosts in the castle, just three castle elves are enough to make this New Year lively and noisy.Avella was a little afraid of Rafa, but got along very happily with the three castle elves, and they became friends within a few days, often laughing and laughing together in the kitchen.The dinner on New Year's Day was also made by the cooperation of one person and three ghosts. It was a joy to eat Hasari's mouth full of oil.

On the night before New Year's Eve, Amir used the magic mirror to meet Kiki, and Tina was beside him, clamoring for Kiki to call the Lich Rafa to meet him, and she seemed to be in a good mood.Kiki complied with her request and called Rafa and the three castle elves to the magic mirror, completely satisfying Tina's curiosity.

On New Year's Day, Amir did not contact Kiki again. It was not until three days later that he suddenly notified Kiki through the communicator that he would go to Chimera's castle tomorrow to pick him and Avella to the source island. After finishing speaking, He turned off the communicator without waiting for Keech to agree or refuse.

—what's the matter?

Kiki suddenly had a premonition, and Rafa approached him pretending to be mysterious, and told him in a low voice that something happened to the Magic Association when it was obvious that they were the only ones alone.

"How do you know?" Keech asked suspiciously.

"The magic mirrors and connectors you use all go through magic channels, and all the magic channels are connected to each other. It's really too simple to intercept in the middle." Rafa said triumphantly.

"Since it's so simple, why do you only know what happened, but not what happened?" Kiki asked with his head tilted.

"They're not talking properly!" Rafa's tone immediately turned into complaints, "It's all incomprehensible code words, who knows what they're talking about!"

Keech rolled his eyes back, turned and walked away.

The next day, Amir took an airship to Chimera's castle and brought the truth about what happened to the Magic Association.

Without him, Fernando died, on New Year's Eve.

Fernando, who was still in good spirits and enjoyed dinner with Tina and others that night, fell on the bed after returning to his room, and could not open his eyes again. When he was found the next day, his body was already cold up.

Naturally, the news of the death of the president of the Magic Association cannot be concealed, but the current situation in the mainland is delicate, so it is not appropriate to announce it directly.Therefore, the Magic Association launched a special plan to inform the great magicians from all over the world of the news of Fernando's death in secret words, and let them rush to the place where the funeral will be held, Fernando's hometown, the island country of Gascoigne, to ensure a smooth and safe funeral. , and make preparations for the upcoming election of a new president.

The reason why Amir came here was to take Kidge to Gascoigne to attend Fernando's funeral. It was precisely because of this that he was able to use the airship, and Kidge was not the only person who needed him to greet him.

"You don't need to pack your things, just follow me." Without even drinking a glass of water, Amir grabbed Kiki and Avella, left the castle, and flew to the southern tip of the mainland by airship.

The one who was connected to the airship after Kiki was Barosh who was also in Yalong Kingdom. Like Kiki, she didn't know what happened until Amir appeared, but the reaction was much more intense than Kiki. Fernando had passed away, so he immediately stayed on the spot.

"Fernando is dead, how...how is this possible?!" After regaining his senses, Barosh grabbed Amir and asked tremblingly, "I'm not dead yet, how could he die! He's not as old as me big!"

—You are a necromancer, he is not.

Kiki wanted to intervene, but seeing that Barosh had clearly lost his mind just like last time, he finally decided to stay away from her and leave the trouble to Amir.

As expected, Amir handled it very well. When the third great magician boarded the airship, Barosh had completely calmed down, but he was still gloomy, like a cloud that might trigger a storm at any time.

Gascoigne is located at the southern end of the mainland. When the airship arrived there with four great magicians including Kiki and Baros, it was already the afternoon of the second day.

The great magicians residing on Source Island and various branches came much earlier than Keech and the others, but there was no magic association on the island where Gascoigne was located, and the funeral could only be arranged in Fernando's old residence when he was born, a seaside fishing village.Due to the poor conditions here, the Magic Association could only use magic to temporarily set up large tents around the fishing village for the magicians who came here to pay their respects.

The king of Gascoigne rushed over as soon as he heard the news, but the Magic Association didn't care about him at all, and only sent someone to ask him to keep the secret temporarily, control the kingdom well, and then "send" him back to his palace , declined all assistance he wanted to provide.

After getting off the airship, Amir left Kiki by Barosh's side, and told him to take good care of her, not to let her do stupid things on the spur of the moment, and then sent Avella to Tina, asking her to take care of Tina too. According to the look.

Keech didn't understand why Barosh was so sad that Fernando's death made him lose his mind, but it seemed that Amir didn't know it either, but he didn't care about it, and started planning for the funeral after sending the man Get busy and don't show up at Baros and Keech's tent until dinner time to have dinner with them.

"Don't you need to accompany Tina?" Kiki asked casually.

"She has no appetite, and she will probably be hungry for a few hours before she can eat." Amir replied lightly.

When he arrived here, Kitsch saw Tina once, but she was completely immersed in sadness like Barosh, ignoring anyone around her, standing alone beside Fernando's coffin, dazed and crying for a while .And this is also the main reason why Amir had to act as the host and support the entire funeral - Tina can't do anything anymore, and the other immediate family members are ordinary people who don't know magic. Ead has his own affairs, and at this moment, only Amir, the prospective son-in-law, can stand up to others.

"Is Angelina here?" Barosh asked suddenly.

"Of course, I came here with Freud, so I should still be together now." Amir nodded.

Barosh didn't ask further, but instead said, "Make a deal, Amir."

"Huh?" Amir was taken aback.

"Help me kill Angelina." Barosh said word by word, "I want this woman to be buried with Fernando."