Her body collapsed and dissipated like dust, leaving only some white crystal powder.

Kleist stood up, turned a mechanism on the bookshelf, and then the walls began to move, revealing a space that was much larger than the office looked.

What appeared in front of the old man was a milky white water tank, and a two-foot-wide floating stone bridge was erected on the water tank.

At the other end of the bridge is a flat altar supported by a stone statue of an angel with wings on his back and a stone statue of a hooded wizard.

On the altar is an indescribably strange statue.To put it bluntly, it looks like a dry but not decomposed female corpse. This corpse shows the characteristics of humans and plants at the same time. The roots pierced the woman's skin and pierced into the stone altar. Surround her and grow upward.

The woman maintains a posture of looking up, her right arm is wrapped around her chest, and the palm of her left hand points to the sky.

Kleist chanted an obscure and lengthy incantation, which was not runic, elvish or rune, long lost and oddly pronounced.

The old man's voice was like a gust of wind from the ancient times, so oppressive and grand that it was unbearable.A huge ring emerged on the ground, filled and perfected, just like the tree of Kabbalah recorded in ancient books, but completely different.

The milky white water tank began to stir, and the drum-like heartbeat reverberated and boiled in the space. Finally, what was condensed in the center of the ring was a flashing inverted triangle of light.

All light and sound ceased abruptly.

The naked girl climbed out of the sea of ​​milk. Light and heat radiated from her body, evaporating the remaining liquid and dirt.

The long golden flame-like hair burned on the back of her head, and the girl knelt on one knee on the ground and said:

"My lord."

Her appearance is exactly the same as Michelle who disappeared before, but her magical aura is more powerful.

The old man took a set of white cloaks and handed them out.

"No, call me father."

"It's...father."

The girl was a little confused at first, but she quickly accepted the title.

Chapter 9 Sheepskin Nautical Charts

At noon the next day,

Ella followed the other members of the mission to the turret inside the Faust manor, where the altar as the artificial transmission node was set up.

The candidates for the squad were finalized yesterday.

The first representatives of the alliance are Ella, Ling and Shadow.

Ling's position in this operation is very special. She did not enter the mission as an internal member of Mephisto. To some extent, this is also a statement to Mrs. Diana, showing that she would not Don't mind leaving Mephisto.

Lady Diana's face made Ella feel a little creepy. Although the other party barely maintained a smile, the malice contained in it was indeed difficult to conceal.

As the representative of the Belusay family, Hyde was accompanied by an old man named Fiennes, who was over 50 years old and was hired by Straw and was a senior wizard loyal to the Berusay family.

Farmine was the only representative of the Albion Brotherhood.

As the initiator of the proposal, Mephisto dispatched Lucien and Schiff. The former held the map and key to Enoch and was also the head of the envoy.

Other than that, it was Fittili Hajie, Victoria Milusel and other hired servants and guards.

Ella originally thought that Fitili would not join the embassy. She fled there long ago and hated the city deeply.Ella doesn't understand why she chooses to go back to the hell she once escaped once again.

Regarding this question, Fitili was very calm:

"It was Nils' last wish....and it made no difference where I was."

Before stepping into the range of the altar, Lady Diana stopped Ella.

Ella met Diana's fox-like slender blue eyes for the first time. This lady was very well-maintained and appeared to be between 20 and 30 years old, but in fact her son Lucien died last year. I celebrated my 30th birthday.

"Miss Williams, I have something to say to you alone."

Ling stood not far away, her two small eyebrows slowly raised.

Ella looked at her and reassured her that she did need to talk to Lady Diana.

The silver-haired girl and Lady Diana left the room and walked along the stairs to the platform at the top of the turret.

"What can you do, Lady Diana, we're leaving soon."

Because of that disgusting proposal, Ella didn't like the lady in front of her at all, but out of basic etiquette and the identity of the other party, she tried her best to soften her tone.

"It's about my daughter."

Diana said, which was a somewhat cunning statement.She put herself in the position of Ling's mother from the very beginning, using this as the premise of the conversation.

"You should have heard Ling mention that I once made a proposal to her."

"With all due respect, ma'am."

Ella's voice inevitably became a little colder.

"If you really thought of Ling as your daughter, you wouldn't say that to her."

Not paying attention to the offensive meaning in Ella's words, Diana smiled, and she was lying lazily on the guardrail of the turret.

"In fact, this is not a rare thing among pure-blood wizard families. When Fred was young, his father also tried to let him take his cousin."

Ella had heard Adolf bring it up, but it annoyed her even more.

"Maybe, but Mr. Fred married you in the end... Could it be that you, who broke tradition back then, are now defending those rotten things?"

"The ancient tradition does have its meaning, and I don't deny it now. Ling is a member of the Mephisto family. While enjoying the resources and wealth brought by her status, she also needs to undertake some necessary obligations .”

Diana replied in a calm tone.

"Obligation? If this is the case, I don't think we need to talk any further."

Even with Ella's character, there is no way to continue this topic calmly.

Fuck his family and obligations, Ella swears mentally.

Diana looked down on the scene in Faust Manor from the tower.

"Ling has a sense of belonging to Mephisto. In fact, she will not deny my statement... Every Mephisto must return to the family in the end, even someone like Lucien is no exception. .”

Ella sneered.

"I don't think that's the only way she can give back to the family."

Diana actually nodded in agreement.

"I don't think so either."

This time it was Ella who was stunned.

"I'm not such an unreasonable mother. Although tradition is sacred, I don't think it is an iron law that cannot be compromised."

Diana's light blue eyes narrowed like a fox's.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that your future first child should belong to Mephisto, or at least intermarry with the descendants of the family."

Ella blushed to her ears, and the other party's explosive speech made her slurred for a while?

"Kid...kid? Are you kidding me, we're not... and Ling and I are both female..."

Before she could finish her sentence, some information that she had accidentally seen appeared in her mind in such an inappropriate way.For wizards, this is not impossible. Life alchemy or some strange black magic, as far as Ella knows, there is more than one method.

Damn wizard!

Ella cursed secretly, even unconsciously scolding herself.

"You don't seem to object."

Diana smiled teasingly,

"This is not in a hurry, you still have a few years to think about it slowly."

Without waiting for Ella to say anything, she covered her face with a folding fan and strode away.

-

On the teleportation altar, the envoys transported supplies and personnel into the gate of light.

Ling glanced at the wall clock irritably. Ella and Lady Diana had left for almost 10 minutes. She didn't know why the old woman would hold her back at this time.

She didn't see Ayla return to the room until the last box was dragged through the light door.The short-haired girl noticed that something was wrong with the other party's state, and asked with some doubts:

"What did Diana tell you?"

Ella seemed to be startled, she shook her head vigorously and looked a little flustered.

"Nothing, let's quickly enter the portal!"

Ling felt a little confused, but now was not the time to think about other things. She was worried that Ayla would get lost in the last teleportation again.

Although Fred said that he had done some emergency treatment, Ling was still a little uneasy.

So she took the other person's hot hand and jumped into the light door.

-

Ling shook his head. The long-distance teleportation between several consecutive nodes brought inevitable dizziness and fatigue, but fortunately, the tactile sensation in his hands did not change.

She breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the scene in front of her.

A long queue poured out from a dilapidated seaside wooden house, building docks and diving boards on the beach covered with white gravel.

The beach in late autumn makes people feel a little cold, the strong wind rolls up the clouds, and a ray of sunlight pierces through the cracks in the dark clouds to the raging sea. Under the light, the sea in front of us is actually a dark blue.

Occasionally, black waves rolled up white water splashes, and the whole crashed on the raised rocks on the shore, making a thunderous roar.

The coastline stretches to endless horizons, but there is no one here except members of the embassy.

Looking from far to near, Ella found a tall black double-decker three-masted sailboat anchored on the coast. It was more than four hundred feet long, like a legendary giant.

Members of the mission are hoisting heavy barrels and boxes onto the ship with levitation spells and ropes.

Lucien Mephisto stood outside the wooden house, holding a chart in both hands.

"Monsieur Lucien, what is this place?"

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