Chapter 249: There is no stock here
Throughout her life, it seemed that from the moment she was born, Urrutia had an indissoluble bond with ice, or rather, she had an indissoluble bond with people who used ice.
Just like now, the second road on the left is freezing cold.
Few people know that she not only knows the lost magic, the Arc of Time, but also the Ice Sculpture.
She is Uru's daughter, so naturally she inherited her magical talent. Although she rarely uses it, Urutia's attainments in this area are not much worse than Gray and Leon.
Urrutia also has a cold-resistant physique, so the ice in front of her did not make her feel cold. But what puzzled her was that after sensing it all the way, she felt that the magic contained in the ice was very familiar.
"what is going on?"
Urrutia was suspicious, frowning, and fell into deep thought, "Why do I feel that this ice has a kind of familiarity? It's like... it's from the same source as me..."
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Jellal paced along the second road on the right, trying to sense the darkness ahead. There were no eerie white bones, no foul-smelling monster corpses, and no bone-chilling ice. Instead, the entire passage was empty and nothing could be seen.
"Is the scene the same in the other passages?"
Looking at the metal passage in front of him, Gerard speculated, "They separated us on purpose. I thought someone must be lying in ambush here. Am I wrong?"
At this moment, a dazzling light flashed!
Gerard looked up suddenly and found that he had reached the end of the passage without knowing when!
"What's going on? I clearly remember that there should be no end in sight... Oh, right! Kira said that the entire castle is made of that kind of metal and can be controlled at will! Since the owner here can freely control the castle, then of course he can let me reach the end at any time..."
After thinking this through, Gerard looked at the metal door in front of him and said, "In this situation, don't you want to waste your time and have a good talk face to face?"
He took a step forward, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door...
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"Are you the owner of this castle?"
When Kira pushed open the door, the blond young man was fiddling with his "gadgets" in the room. On the wall in front of him were four large screens, showing scenes from the other four passages. Urutia, Jellal, Eric, Dark Night and others were among them.
"Kira Hopelet, nice to meet you, I'm Silver!"
The blond young man stood up and greeted Kira with a bright smile on his face. After looking at him carefully, Kira found that his eyes were like Natsu, his actions were like Gray, and his hairstyle was like Laxus. The only thing missing was the words "I am a good person" and "My youth is also passionate" written on his face.
Kira felt like he had walked into the wrong set: "You...are you the owner of this research institute?"
Silver gave Kira a strange look and said, "Of course!"
Kira: “…”
Silver asked Kira to sit down and said, "To be precise, I am just one of them. Including me, there are five researchers here. I am in charge of mechanical research. I designed this castle. How is it? Pretty good, right?"
Kira sat down opposite him, nodded sincerely, and said, "Indeed, it's amazing! It's really good news for otakus! I'm a little envious of it!"
In fact, he was envious, but Kira felt that there was not much difference between the two. What he was most concerned about now was...
"I learned from Brian that the owner of this place is an old man, isn't he?"
"Brian..." The other party lowered his head and thought for a moment. After a while, he looked up at Kira again and said, "Is he the leader of the 'Six Demon Generals'? He did come here once a few years ago. At that time, this place was still managed by the old director, and the director died not long after. Since then, this place has been managed by me and a few companions."
"I see!" Kira understood. "So this is indeed the 'Dragon Slayer Research Institute'. You are researching and selling Dragon Slayer Magic Crystals?"
Silver nodded, then shook his head and said, "I used to! I don't do it now!"
Kira asked, "Why?"
"Because the supply is insufficient! You may not know that the so-called Dragon Slayer Crystal is made from the heart of a dragon. But in this era, dragons are almost extinct!"
It was a very real and pure reason, Silver answered concisely.
"In fact, this place has been in decline since the old director's time. The research cost was too high, the success rate was too low, and the Dragon Slayer Crystals that were successfully produced were all sold. The 'Poison Dragon Slayer Crystals' that Brian bought were the last few."
"Is there not a single one left?" Although he had expected this, Kira was still a little unwilling and asked, "I can buy them... I mean, at a high price."
Kira was really disappointed!
Before coming, he had always believed that this group of mysterious and suspicious wizards who had never appeared must be crazy scientists who were conducting invisible transactions in the black market all day long and doing various human experiments in dark laboratories. In this way, he could "enforce justice" without any psychological burden.
But the scene before him, the sunny young man, the well-lit, uniquely styled villa, as well as the machines, metals and magic props everywhere, were very different from the imagined scene no matter how he looked at it.
"It seems that this is not the shady processing factory I imagined. I originally thought that there must be a lot of inventory here, so I thought of robbing it directly..."
Disizu remained calm and said, "There really isn't a single one left!"
Kira keenly grasped a certain word: "You said...'here'? Is there any other place?"
Silver was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's true! No matter how you think about it, 'making a dragon's heart into a dragon-slaying magic crystal' doesn't sound like a simple experiment that can produce results in a few years or even decades."
"I don't even know how long this organization that studies the 'Dragon Slayer Crystal' has existed. I only know that this is just one of the branches of the institute, and all along, this institute has only been able to contact other branches."
"But because this base ran out of stock a long time ago and the remaining machines were scrapped, we lost contact with other branches after the previous director passed away."
"That is to say, we haven't had any contact with the organization for seven years. Maybe they thought there was no one here and had abandoned this base a long time ago. It's impossible for you to find any clues here!"
Just a few words blocked all Kira's thoughts.
Are we going to return empty-handed this time?
Kira turned his eyes to the screen. While he was chatting with the other party, several teammates had already walked out of the passage and faced the guardians at the end of their respective passages.
"These are the five researchers you mentioned? They're all very young... Wait, this gray cat is a Transcendent, right?"
Silver didn't seem surprised by Kira's name "Transcendence". He looked up at the screen. Kira noticed that his eyes had become much more friendly. "Yes! Its name is Nikhil. It's the youngest one here. It's 6 years old. When I picked it up, it hadn't even hatched from the egg yet."
6 years ago... they were the same group as the Harpies, who came here from Edlas to escape.
"Can a cat be a researcher? I'm not being racist, but the brain capacity of a cat... well... the one in our guild is still crying out for fish every day!"
"Haha..." Silver couldn't help but chuckle, "Nichol is similar. He has lived in the research institute since he was a child. What he has seen and learned is much more advanced than what people in the outside world know. He has become smart naturally because of what he has seen and heard."
"But if we talk about gluttony, he is the same. He thinks about eating bones every day. Even I can't do anything about him."
Silver's tone was full of fondness, and Kira felt that he was not talking about his teammates, but his own brother.
"Wait... he's a cat, not a dog, right? He eats bones?!"
