Qin Lun carefully looked at the horned eagle beneath him. The feathers of this large bird were dark green, with two forked gray sheep horns on its head and sharp beaks and claws. The wingspan of the adult horned eagle can reach five meters, have a wide back, and can hold a saddle, and can ride up to two people.

The horned eagle beast is called a carriage. It has strong body and is strong enough to transport various cargo and passengers. Some races will also train them to become combat air riders, which have slightly inferior to griffins.

These specially trained horned eagles are very smart and can follow the flight route back and forth on their own. They have strong cleft ropes tied to their saddles, which can completely secure the occupants. As long as there is no acrophobia, any adventurer can ride the horned eagle.

Because Qin Lun and his group were in a hurry, they did not adopt the method of riding together with two people, but instead tried to reach Candle Castle as soon as possible.

Qin Lun looked down from the air and saw that most of the creatures on the ground were the size of an ant, and the river was like a crystalline water line, flashing silver light in the sun. As the breeze hit, I felt refreshed for a moment.

Unfortunately, this novel journey ended in just over three hours, and soon a blue color appeared on the horizon in the distance. It was the color of the sea water, and they finally returned to the coast of Jianwan again.

"Arctic?" As the Horned Eagle approached the coastline, more than 30 islands of various shapes appeared on the sea surface.

Most of these islands are steep cliffs covered with lush vegetation and trees. Below the cliffs are full of dark and hideous reefs, and dark red coral bushes can be seen underwater around them.

This place is probably not accessible to fishing boats, because there is no place to dock or land. The undistributed reefs are enough to allow any ship who dares to take risks to sink to the bottom and feed the fish. Only flying mounts can land on these cliff islands.

The small archipelago nearest island to the mainland coast is the largest of them. Although there are steep mountain walls on all sides, the top of the cliff is very flat, and a huge hexagonal castle stands, which should be the famous candle castle.

In fact, in addition to the islands that stand on the candle castle, there are also many mage towers similar to lighthouse-shaped. Although their heights are different, you can sometimes see flashing magic halos, which are the protective covers that mage towers generally have.

On the way to Candle Castle, Linda introduced these mage towers to everyone.

The six high towers on the six-sided edge wall of Zhubao are the mage towers exclusive to Zhubao. The mage towers on these islands around Zhubao are only partially owned by Zhubao, and the other part belongs to some great mages who cooperate with Zhubao.

For various reasons, these great mages had no intention of staying in Candle Castle for a long time, so they only signed an ordinary cooperation contract with Candle Castle. They provided different levels of services to Candle Castle to exchange the knowledge they needed.

Some of this kind of service is a defensive work, while others simply provide property and research results.

Guided by Linda, the seven horned eagles were neatly arranged, hovering over the archipelago for a week, and then landed towards the island where the candle castle was located.

Because a certain range of air-forbidden magic circles are covered by candle castles, except for some special flying mounts worn with special marks, other horned eagles cannot enter. They can only descend at the foot of the island cliff, and there are more than a dozen large eagle stables and visitor registration offices around the foot of the mountain.

The difference between the island where Candle Fort is located and other archipelago islands may be that it has an artificially paved gravel road. This stone road circles upwards around the island cliff, and the end is the main entrance of Candle Fort.

The stone road is not wide, probably only accommodates three people in parallel, and there is no mount allowed here, so you can only walk up the mountain. According to Linda, this is to express your respect for this temple of knowledge.

Except for Linda, everyone else started climbing the mountain with a curiosity. The stone road was not long. About half a quarter of an hour later, everyone saw the giant ridge at the end of the road.

Unlike what you see at high altitude, when you stand at the front door of this stone castle called Candle Castle, you will find that it is so huge and magnificent.

The wall of the castle is made of large white stones, with almost tight seams up and down, and is as smooth as a mirror. Because the entire fortress is covered with a composite protective magic, there is no living environment for fungi and insects on the wall, which is similar to the Eternal Purification Technique and does not require manual cleaning at all.

The city wall is more than fifty meters high and about ten meters thick. There are square colorful crystal windows in the middle and upper part, and the top is a conical dome covered with glazed tiles, without the female wall in the usual sense.

According to Linda's private introduction, the city wall outside the candlestick not only has the function of a city wall, but also has two rows of opposite private rooms in the middle, mainly a place for living for scholars and guards. After all, the central library, as the main library, cannot accommodate so many people.

The main entrance of the castle looks very atmospheric, about ten meters wide, consisting of two 10,000 jin gates, and can only be opened with huge winches and iron chains. There are four side doors on both sides of it. This main entrance is not open most of the time, and visitors and internal personnel need to enter and exit through the side door.

There are two steel golems over five meters high on each side door. This golem is driven by the magic crystal and is given a certain amount of artificial intelligence by the rune master. The golem has no facial features, but is only inlaid with a crystal of image flashing green light, which is equivalent to the function of the eyes.

At the left and right ends of the city wall, the two lower half of the mage towers connected to the city wall are towering into the clouds, with a height of nearly a hundred meters, which is completely different from the weather you see when you are on the back of the horned eagle.

Seeing the arrival of strangers, one of the four golems walked towards them with heavy steps. Linda hurried forward, took out the nameplate he had just obtained at the registration office at the foot of the mountain, and handed it to the golem for scanning.

Although the little girl is also an insider of the candle castle, these steel creatures do not have friendships and do not have a nameplate. After three warnings, they will launch an expulsion attack.

After the golem has checked the visitor's nameplate, the side door of the candle castle will automatically open. When passing through the side door, everyone looked around curiously.

After entering the interior, they found that Linda was right. The walls of Candle Castle are indeed different from ordinary city walls. Behind the side door is a wide porch, with rooms with closed doors on both sides, which do not look like the interior of the city wall at all.

"Linda, you are back!" The group walked not far away with Linda, and a surprised greeting came from the opposite side.

It was a female mage wearing a black robe and monocle glasses. Her hair was messy like a chicken coop, and she was holding a large stack of books in her arms. Although the robe was not dirty, it was wrinkled and ugly, just like the thick lenses at the bottom of a beer bottle that made her look like she was wearing a brown eye mask. The image was really rustic and sloppy.

"Dear Ms. Leni, I'm back!"

To everyone's surprise, facing this thin and invisible female mage, Linda, who seemed to care about nothing, bent down respectfully and shook her little hand behind her back vigorously, signaling everyone to salute with her.

Qin Lun and others were not fools, so they immediately understood and bowed down to salute.

"Okay, Linda, since you are back, hurry up and see your teacher. He seems a little angry."

Ms. Leni made a free hand and waved her swaying indifferently. She held the books and continued walking forward. Because the books in her arms were folded too high, it blocked her view. From time to time, she would see her feet mixing with garlic, but she could stand firm again every time she swayed, which made people feel very heartbreaking.

"Linda, that lady Leni is..." Mastasha asked tentatively.

"Ms. Leni is one of the eight great readers of Candle Castle after the Guardians of History and the First Reader. The seventeenth prophet and great sage in Candle Castle history!" Linda twitched her mouth and said expressionlessly.

Hearing Linda's words, everyone couldn't help but twitch, and they felt a great image of kindness and humility in their minds collapsed...

However, as Linda walked along the way, everyone found that the scholars passing by seemed not paying much attention to their appearance, and some scholars even wore patched robes.

Most of the scholars in Candle Castle are magicians. Naturally, they are not short of money, but are too lazy to go shopping in mainland cities, and all their time is devoted to their favorite careers.

Of course, it is rare to be as sloppy as Ms. Leni. It’s not a nerd yet, but if the nerd is a slut, he has become one of the most terrifying creatures in the world.

"Where are we going next?" After walking for a while, Qin Lun took the lead in breaking the silence.

"I want to see the teacher first. Have you seen the magic gate ahead? It is the charging place for the candle castle. If you want to enter the underground maze and borrow a long-distance teleportation array, you must pay a large fee." Linda pointed to an elliptical magic gate like a water mirror a hundred meters ahead and said.

"Pay the fee? Do we need to pay the money when we follow you?" Mastasha asked strangely.

"Of course, the regulations of the candle castle are even the guardian of the booklets. I have no right to waive your fees!" Linda blinked slyly, "Okay, I'll leave first!"

The little girl ran away like a gust of wind, leaving a group of people looking at each other, feeling a little bad.

"Ahem, Mastasha, this action is mainly based on your Harpist Alliance. You should be rich, right?" Qin Lun looked at the Highland Elves with expectation.

"Ah? Are you not rich either?" Mastasha widened her beautiful eyes and stared at Qin Lun innocently, "Don't lie to me. When I left the Troll's Claw, I saw you take out a lot of wealth coins for Rick and Sif!"
Chapter completed!