Carbota Forest is located in the south of Beauclair. It is the largest forest around Beauclair. It is also a hunting ground for the Beauclair nobles on vacation, so many hunter cabins have been built here. There is also a small village specially designed for vacation hunting.

Nobles provide services.

However, those merchants and servants who specialize in serving the nobles will only come to the small village during the hunting season in the forest. Most of the people who usually live here are lumberjacks, beekeepers and other people who rely on the forest. The number is not very large.

And I work in the forest for a long time, so the village here is very quiet at ordinary times, giving people the feeling of a dead village.

The environment of the Carbota Forest is not suitable for growing grapes, so the vineyards here are very rare and are all located on the edge of the forest. Most of the manors used by the nobles for their vacations are also built here.

However, there is an exception to everything. The manor Leo was going to was built deep in the forest. There was only one path leading to the manor, which made it seem a bit secluded.

Leo obtained some information about the manor from Fringilla, and coupled with some information he found in nearby villages, he basically had a very good understanding of the manor.

Like many noble manors in Toussaint, this Josh Manor was also built on elven ruins, and retained a large number of elven ruins and even built gardens based on these ruins.

I have to say, this is really ironic. The people of Toussaint have an extremely contemptuous attitude towards the elves, calling them inferior pointed ears. However, the nobles of Toussaint are eager for the items of the elves, and they are even willing to pay for an elf kingdom.

There was a big fight over precious relics.

The records of the original builder of Josh Manor can no longer be found. It is said that the time can be traced back to the early days of the establishment of the Principality of Toussaint. When Earl Josh took over the manor, the manor had already experienced many years of development.

Before Baron Josh took over this manor, the manor had been abandoned for many years. Many buildings had collapsed due to disrepair. The place looked like ruins. Coupled with environmental geography and other issues, Baron Josh only used

He took over this manor at a very low price, and most of his expenses were spent on the renovation of the manor.

What makes people feel weird is that he did not find specialized craftsmen and architects to design the manor. Instead, he found an architectural drawing from the Elf Kingdom period, slightly modified the style of the main building, and then designed it according to the Elf Kingdom.

Kingdom's architectural drawings to build this estate.

After Leo knew this, he wanted to see the architectural drawings, but he couldn't find them. His intuition told him that there might be something wrong with the architectural drawings.

Fringilla also said that she had doubts about this blueprint during her previous investigation, because almost all items related to the Elf Kingdom in Toussaint have more or less value, and the more well-preserved items are

The greater the value, the carved building materials like the elven ruins that can be seen everywhere are naturally of the lowest value, but items like a complete architectural drawing of the elven kingdom are absolutely astonishing in value. Even a duchess will be interested in it. Basically, it is not worth it.

may be circulated on the market.

Therefore, when Baron Josh said that he had a complete architectural drawing of the manor in the Elf Kingdom, almost everyone who heard the news thought it was impossible. They felt that Baron Josh had been deceived, and under Baron Josh

After the construction of the manor started, everyone was waiting to see Baron Josh's joke.

However, when Baron Josh built the manor, everyone realized that Baron Josh was not lying, because except for the human-style main building, the overall style of his manor was exactly the same as the manor in the Elf Kingdom.

This also caused many people to start thinking about the architectural drawings in the hands of Baron Josh, but Baron Josh said that the original architectural drawings had been lost, and he only had scattered architectural materials left by some craftsmen.

At that time, everyone thought that Baron Josh was just making excuses. He did not want to sell the drawing at all. But in fact, after the incident at Josh Manor, Beauclair learned from the craftsmen who built the manor for Baron Josh during the investigation.

, that drawing was indeed lost after the manor was built. Baron Josh was so angry about this that he almost executed several of the craftsmen leaders as thieves.

After Leo understood these circumstances, he could almost conclude that there was something wrong with the drawing. If it was not a coincidence, it might have been done intentionally. Even Baron Josh, who had a normal relationship with Fringilla, came to the sorceress to borrow the elf.

It is also possible that items from the Kingdom period were inspired by someone else.

Leo was thinking as he drove his horse to the outside of Josh's manor. Although it had been abandoned for a while, the materials used to build the manor were all high-quality materials. Coupled with the adverse effects of what happened here,

Therefore, no one comes here to steal things, so both the manor wall and the gate are basically well preserved.

Leo parked his horse at the manor, and spread out his spiritual network to check the surrounding situation. He did not feel any energy fluctuations in the manor, but he also did not sense any animals inside or outside the manor.

and insects. It is obvious that there is an energy wave in this manor that cannot be detected with the spiritual network. It is precisely because of the influence of this energy wave that all living creatures that can escape inside and outside the manor flee far away.

Leo tied the horse to a small tree nearby, then climbed over the gate and jumped into the manor.

Because the manor was built in the elf style, a large number of plants were planted here. These plants can make the entire manor very beautiful if someone takes care of them. However, if no one takes care of them, these plants will grow randomly and make the original beauty more beautiful.

The very gloomy manor became even gloomier.

Leo lowered his head and looked at the stone slabs under his feet. He saw that the stone slabs were all covered with exquisite patterns, allowing people who had just entered the manor to instantly feel the magnificence of the manor.

If he had never entered the underground ruins, Leo might just regard the patterns on the floor as ordinary decorative patterns, but after learning the ancient elven script from Aisrys, he knew that these patterns were also part of the ancient elven script.

Most of the elves today no longer know the ancient elven script, but their inheritance still retains the usage of the ancient elven script. Knowing how to use it can produce what effect, so swordsmen do not need to know how to forge a long sword.

You can also use a long sword.

The patterns on the floor of this manor are now part of the ancient elven script, which is also part of a huge elven magic circle. Leo can see from the ancient elven script under his feet that the three meanings of confinement, attraction and circulation represent three meanings.

The elf magic circle in this manor attracts the surrounding free energy and traps it here to form a cycle. It is a very satisfactory elf magic array layout plan.

Continuing to walk deeper into the manor, he soon came to the first fountain square. According to the drawing, Leo already knew in advance that there were a total of sixteen fountain squares in the manor. After arriving at this fountain square, the shape of the square

He couldn't help but feel like he was back in the underground elven ruins, because this square was very similar to the elven garden he saw in the underground ruins.

Although the shape of the garden here is very similar to that of the underground elven ruins, the patterns on the floor are different. The ancient elven script composed of the patterns on the floor here means accumulation and sacrifice.

After seeing these ancient elven texts, Leo could almost understand what the elven magic circle in this manor was used for, sacrificing living people, cultivating evil spirits, and then the outer confinement power not only imprisoned those who were absorbed, but

Free energy also imprisons the evil spirits that have been cultivated.

At this moment, a cold air suddenly appeared out of thin air around him, and the water vapor exhaled by Leo instantly turned into mist in the air. This was obviously caused by the influence of extraordinary power, but Leo could not feel anything around him.

Energy fluctuations.

"Did this happen?" Leo spoke, stimulating his spiritual vision, and the scene in his eyes changed instantly.

The originally empty manor was now overcrowded, and the surrounding trees that had not been rested were all rested. Nobles in various gorgeous costumes were gathered together and chatting, and uniformly dressed servants were shuttled among the crowd carrying food.

Standing and providing services to the guests here, it looks like a grand cocktail party is going on here.

"Ghost!" After seeing this, the expression on Leo's face was very calm, as if this was a normal situation.

At this time, a maid carrying a plate of food was about to pass by Leo. Leo immediately stretched out his hand to stop her, and a large amount of spiritual energy gathered in his hand.

The maid who originally turned a blind eye to Leo stopped instantly when her body was about to touch Leo's arm. The transition from movement to stillness was so sudden and so perfect that even the clothes on her body did not move forward with the inertia.

sign.

Then the maid turned to look at Leo. At the same time, all the servants and nobles around them stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Leo. Their normal eyes instantly turned dark.

A ball, like a ball of ink embedded in the eye.

If ordinary people saw this scene, they would have been frightened, but Leo seemed very excited and curious, and directly reached out to grab the maid. He wanted to study what the ghost was about, but unfortunately he could never find it.

The objects that can be studied are all ghosts here at the moment. To him, this is simply a breeding ground for experimental products.

Faced with Leo's grasping action, the maid could not dodge at all. She was instantly caught by Leo's hand that condensed spiritual energy. The power of spiritual energy seemed to be able to cause harm to this kind of ghost. A burst of black smoke erupted from the contact.

Out of nowhere, the maid ghost also made a piercing scream, and the surrounding ghosts also made similar piercing sounds.

Although Leo controlled his ears in time and closed the ear holes in an attempt to isolate this sound, this sound did not seem to be transmitted through the air, but some invisible force that could directly act on the spirit, consciousness and even the soul, making Lei

Europe's preventive measures have lost their effect.

Hearing this harsh sound for the first time also made Leo feel an uncomfortable dizziness. The psychic energy in his hand was slightly scattered, and the grip was loosened. The ghost of the maid instantly took advantage of this opportunity.

It escaped Leo's grasp and disappeared from Leo's eyes. The other ghosts also disappeared, and the surrounding scene instantly changed back to its original state.

When all the ghosts disappeared, Leo also recovered from his brief dizzy state, but his face did not show the annoyance of the prey escaping at this moment, but instead showed a trace of doubt.

Although the mental network is not omnipotent in detecting abnormal energy, there are many extraordinary energies in the universe that the mental network cannot detect, but the scene just happened happened around him, and he had close contact with ghosts and felt

When the ghosts resist, it stands to reason that even a low-level mental network should be able to sense some energy abnormalities. However, the result of the feedback from the mental network is that the surrounding environment is normal, and there were no abnormal energy fluctuations just now.

"Is it just an illusion?" Leo quickly made a guess, and also found evidence that it was an illusion. This evidence was the psychic energy in his hand.

After his head caught the ghost just now, his spiritual energy had a restraining effect on the ghost and was destroying the ghost. Logically speaking, part of the spiritual energy in his hand should have been used at this time, but the actual situation now is that his spiritual energy

There is no sign of use, which means that what he saw just now is just an illusion, and this is an illusion that can be said to be for spiritual vision. The hallucination appears the moment the spiritual vision is used, and it is silent.

affected him.

Although he did not suffer any harm, he was unknowingly affected by the hallucination, which surprised Leo because he had never encountered such a thing.

However, this did not make Leo feel any worries. Instead, it made him feel a little novel. Originally, he only planned to check some situations and take away the pillar, but the current situation made him focus on

on this manor.

He continued walking towards the depths of the manor and passed several fountain squares. He also saw similar elven magic circles, but the power that caused him to fall into hallucinations did not appear again. It seemed that Leo's behavior just now had no effect on him.

It seemed like that force had an impact.

Soon he came to the main building of the manor, and saw a large front square in front of the main building, which was convenient for guests to park their carriages. There were eighteen stone pillars standing around the front square, and there was an elf on the top of each stone pillar.

Sculpture, there is a small pool in the center of the square, and the stone pillar with the monster relief that Leo is looking for is in the pool.
Chapter completed!