Chapter 186: Ralph’s Manor
Chapter 186 – Ralph Manor
Since the other party stopped attacking and even came out from the shadows, Saul also relaxed a bit on the surface, “Who are you, are you the official wizards of this place?”
“Ahem!” The white-haired old man coughed twice with some embarrassment, “How can that be? I am only a third level …… wandering sorcerer My name is Krang. This is my apprentice, Swan who has just leveled up.”
Third level? That would be a third level apprentice, not a third level full-fledged wizard.
But the other party said something about wandering wizards later, and although this title could also collectively refer to all wizards and wizard apprentices, Saul always felt that the other party was deliberately blurring the identity.
At this time that boy Swan, who had been injured by Saul with a small stone, limped over to the side of the old sorcerer apprentice and was staring at Saul with an indignant face.
This boy didn’t look more than eleven or twelve years old, a little younger than Saul.
The other boy had holes in his calf pants and a scrape on his skin.
Saul smiled weakly at Swan, “Sorry, I’m a bit of a coward, and I attack first when someone is watching me from the shadows.”
Swan glared and was about to speak when his teacher stopped him.
“Swan is but a level one, you don’t need to apologize to him. Spying on a high level wizard, you would be showing him mercy if you didn’t kill him.”
At these words, the expression on Swan’s face suddenly became somewhat aggravated.
The atmosphere finally eased, and the not-so-young third level apprentice Kron pointed at the manor not far away.
“Are you also here to try your luck?”
“Take your chances?” Sol asked rhetorically.
“Ralph Manor.” Krang pointed to the weathered manor behind him, “There was once a wealthy out-of-town merchant who was cajoled into buying this manor. But he didn’t know that a long-established family of wizards once lived here.”
“The rich merchant went out to do business, and his family and all his servants, all disappeared in one night. And the manor, too, became the most terrifying legend in the small town of Thorpe.”
“An ordinary person moving into a sorcerer’s residence is indeed looking for death. But it’s impossible for him to not inquire …… before buying this house thinking that someone deliberately concealed the truth.” Saul pondered for a moment and said slowly.
Krang’s eyes lit up, “I think so too. And in the past two years that rich merchant spent a lot of money to let adventurers enter the manor to help him transport out the property hidden inside. But none of those people could come out alive after entering the manor. Half a month ago, he even convinced one of the nobles here to send a group of knights into ……”
Saul suddenly interrupted the other party, “The rich merchant has been looking for people to enter the manor for the past two years? He can’t have been unaware that this place was once a wizard’s residence for so many years, right?”
Krang shrugged, “Of course he knew, but the things in the manor were too important to him, so he made money while hiring people, to the point where no one was willing to take the risk anymore, so he found more powerful knights. But that group of knights went in and never came out.”
Saul narrowed his eyes, something always felt wrong.
A rich merchant, even if he was rich, couldn’t afford to be so wasteful, could he?
And what could there be in the manor that would make him hold out for two years and not give up?
Saul raised his eyes and looked at the smiling Klang and the pouting unhappy boy Swann, “You guys are also invited by the rich merchant?”
Swan muttered, “How can an ordinary man with a little money at best hire a teacher?”
Kron, however, said, “It’s a collaboration of sorts. He told me about the events of the past two years and the layout of the manor, and I stopped by to help him bring out an item from the manor.”
“You’re talking to me about this ……,” Saul frowned.
“You …… are an apprentice at the Wizard’s Tower, aren’t you?” Kron called out Saul’s identity with a grin.
Swann looked incredulously at his teacher and stole a glance at Saul in awe, his face no longer holding the resentment he had just felt. Saul didn’t admit or deny it.
Seeing that Saul didn’t say anything, Kron didn’t press the issue.
“I think you’ve guessed that I want to invite you to cooperate and enter the manor together.”
“Dakshi, oh that’s that unjustly rich merchant has also found quite a few powerful people to enter the manor over the past two years, and there’s even a first level apprentice in there. But these people all got stuck in the manor and didn’t make it out. Not only that, even the residents living outside the manor have been affected.”
“I’m analyzing the bizarre phenomenon embedded in here, and after two years of fermentation, it has become even more dangerous. It also means that the already-destroyed Bloodthorn family must still have sorcery-related things left behind.”
“The most important thing is the secret embedded in this manor. But the already extinguished Bloodthorn family had also given birth to formal sorcerers. There are definitely unpredictable dangers hidden inside the manor. That’s why I suggest that it’s safer for everyone to work together.”
Listening to Krang’s introduction, Saul turned back to observe the scenery in the manor through the crumbling fence.
The entire manor was shrouded under deep dark clouds, and even the wind here seemed to be fiercer than outside.
Suddenly Saul felt like he heard something, and he pricked up his ears to be still for a moment, but all he could feel was the howling wind.
Krang was still waiting for his answer.
“We can work together, however, I would suggest splitting up and entering the manor first, this place is not small and it would be inefficient to move all together.”
Krang frowned, what do you call cooperation if you don’t act together?
Saul smiled, “The tallest building in this manor can be seen through the fence, and that should be the castle where the owner of the manor resides. Normally, the most important things in the manor are kept there. But just in case, it’s also important to explore the perimeter. Let’s enter from different places and explore the surrounding area, if we feel it’s dangerous we can not go deeper, wait for an hour and meet in front of the castle gate to share the information before deciding whether to enter the main building directly or head to other places to check it out.”
Saul’s proposal to check the surrounding area was not on a whim, through the fence, he vaguely felt that the arrangement in the manor seemed to contain the rules of some kind of sorcery spells, it was just that time had passed coupled with severe damage, he could not analyze it for a while.
Out of caution, he wanted to first figure out the arrangement of the entire manor. If he could analyze the characteristics and rules of this spell formation, he might be able to unearth the secrets of the manor without having to search hard.
Seeing that Saul had seized the initiative of the conversation, the young boy, Silkswan, nervously looked at his teacher.
This time, Krang did not hesitate for long before agreeing to Sol’s proposal.
“Good, although according to the information I received, the wealth of this manor is all in the castle, but you have a point, wizards can’t just focus on the danger in front of them, it’s also important to analyze the situation around them. Then ……”
“Shall we act now?”
“Now?” Krang was a bit stunned.
Between the two men talking, Saul once again heard something, but what as he listened intently, the sound disappeared again.
Saul checked his status, his magic fluctuations were smooth, his mental body was stable, and his diary was still pretending to be asleep.
The sound just now shouldn’t be something he hallucinated.
This made Saul more curious about Ralph Manor and more alert.
“Since you’ve decided to go in, of course you should act now, do you have to wait for someone?”
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(End of chapter)