Magus Tech Chapter 279: Black cat
A few days later.
Night.
The Chamber of Secrets.
This is a gloomy and oppressive secret room, buried deep underground to avoid being noticed. In the middle of the secret room, there is a long black table. On the table is a silver candlestick with a few candles stuck in it. The candle was lit, and the candle flame was burning erratically, like a dying person lingering on his last breath, the whole dark room looked extremely dim.
In the dim light, around the table in the middle of the secret room, there are more than a dozen high-backed leather chairs. At this time, less than half of the high-backed leather chairs are occupied by people. One of them was sitting at one end of the long table, and five other people were sitting on both sides. Everyone was wearing thick hoods, hiding their faces in the hoods, looking extremely cautious, and they were having some kind of discussion.
The person sitting at one end of the long table seemed to have a slightly higher status, and as the first speaker, he said to the rest of the people with a somewhat calm voice: "Everyone, tell me about the latest situation."
After the first speaker spoke, there was a long silence—a weird and suffocating silence, as if everyone in the secret room disappeared in an instant.
After a long time, the second speaker broke the silence, coughed lightly, and said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Let me talk about it first. Well, the situation on my side is not bad. One member died Yes, but three new recruits have been recruited, one of whom is very good and has the potential to be cultivated. Well, that's it."
After the second speaker finished speaking, the chamber fell silent again.
After waiting for a long time, the third speaker spoke, his voice was a bit sharp: "The situation on my side is very bad. I lost four members, and one of them is a backbone who has been cultivated for many years. There are also new seeds. , but they are all under investigation, and it is not yet determined whether to absorb it or not."
Silence.
The fourth speaker said: "My side is neither good nor bad. A new member has been absorbed, and an old member has died. End."
Silence.
The fifth speaker said: "My place is the same as before. There are no dead people and no new people."
After the fifth speaker had finished speaking, the silence fell again, this time remaining unbroken for a long time.
In the end, the five people who had spoken all looked at the last person who insisted on not speaking.
The first speaker asked with a unique calm voice: "Katrin, aren't you going to say something?"
"Heh." The sixth speaker finally spoke, it was a woman's voice, with a bit of meanness in her voice, "Do I still need to speak? Don't you all know the situation? A **** The traitor almost exposed me. If I hadn't dealt with it in time, I might not have appeared here.
I don't want to say more about the loss. Anyway, if you don't support me, I can retire in the future.
Speaking of which, there is actually nothing bad about it. After all, what we have been doing all along is providing for the elderly. It hides underground like a mole, hiding itself tremblingly, not daring to expose itself, for fear of being noticed. Take something that is impossible to achieve as a goal, and hope that a miracle will happen that day. Ah. "
After the woman finished speaking, there was a silence for a while. The first speaker spoke and said slowly: "Katlin, it seems that you have a lot of complaints."
"Am I the only one who has complaints?" The sixth speaker, the woman, asked back, "I want to ask everyone here, for so long, I have been implementing the so-called rules of avoiding the world, waiting hopelessly, just Do you think there is anything wrong?
The traitor incident this time has made me understand that if this continues, it will definitely be a dead end. Even if you don't get killed by people outside, you have to be killed by people inside yourself. "
"Katelyn, I know that the traitor incident has made you very angry." The first speaker said, his voice remained calm, without much emotional fluctuation, "But some things cannot be changed casually. Therefore, the rule of avoiding the world is formulated because we are weak. If other wizard organizations find out, they will probably be united to wipe us out, and then we will have no hope at all.
Now, although our strength has become stronger than before with development, compared to other wizarding organizations, we are still somewhat unbearable. Not to mention anything else, we are no match for the White Rock Tower Wizards Association alone.
So we need to continue to endure and continue to accumulate strength. When the time is right, when we unlock the secrets left to us by that great existence and get his treasures, we will have enough strength to tell others about our existence. At that time, it will be able to appear in this world aboveboard and restore the original glory of the previous great existence. "
"I understand the truth." A mean female voice sounded, "but the question is, how long will it take?"
"It's been a long time." The first speaker said, "It's so long that each of us may not see the day when we are alive. Therefore, in addition to the rules of avoiding the world, the second rule of our council is patience. And it is strictly forbidden to expose ourselves, so that our parliament can continue for a long time. Because of this, we will give severe punishment to any traitor who tries to expose our parliament.”
"Severe punishment? How severe? Kill him?" the female voice asked, as if a little disbelieving, "This time the traitor is different, he is a student of the master. If you really kill him, the master will disagree, right? .”
"You are wrong." Katrin, "We treat all traitors equally, even the master's students."
"Even?"
"If you don't believe me, we can have a trial now." The first speaker said.
"This is the best way." The female voice said.
"Let's begin then." The first speaker said, suddenly the candles on the table became brighter, dispelling the darkness in the secret room and illuminating the corner of the secret room.
In the corner, I saw a person tied tightly to a chair, unable to move. Several silver needles engraved with magic patterns pierced into the body, destroying any mana operation and preventing the release of the spell.
The face of the person tied to the chair was bloodstained, and the real face could not be seen, but it gave off a very young feeling. The six people around the table~IndoMTL.com~ looked full of anger and hatred, and tried to open their mouths to say something, but their mouths seemed to be sewn to death by invisible forces, and they couldn't open them no matter what.
The woman of the sixth speaker looked at it and said, "Have you used the Suppressing Curse?"
"Well, after all, he was too noisy." The first speaker said, "But now he is being tried, according to the rules, he has the right to defend himself."
The first speaker waved his hand while the first speaker was speaking, and the air surged slightly. The person who was tied to the chair suddenly opened his mouth, and then roared loudly: "Damn, you bastards, put it away!" Kill me! Otherwise, when my teacher finds out what you have done to me, you will all die!"
The first speaker looked at the person tied to the chair, and said slowly: "Kerry, you still don't understand, what you did, even your teacher, can't save you."
"What did I do?"
"Leak the secret, exposing the existence of the parliament."
"Nonsense, I didn't!" The man tied to the chair argued loudly, "You all framed me, I didn't do that at all!"
"Crack! Bastard! If you didn't do it, how did my subordinates die?" The sixth speaker, the woman, slammed the table and said angrily.
"I..." The tone of the person tied to the chair was weak, but the next moment he returned to normal, shouting, "I don't know! The death of your subordinate has nothing to do with me! You are framing me, You just want to attack my teacher! I warn you, if you dare to hurt me, my teacher will know and will not let you go! Let me go and let me see the teacher!"
"Shut up, Kerry!" Suddenly a majestic voice sounded, and an elderly man in a black robe stepped into the secret room, holding a black cat with sleek hair in his arms.