"However, this is not a summoning array. Ed looked up in confusion and clapped his hands to his feet.

Ogro looked equally confused.

"I know," he said, "you said that this is a prison circle, and I can understand a little bit of dragon language, but here ......"

He waved his hand around, "Isn't there a ready-made summoning array? Aren't you restoring this circle just to summon something dangerous more safely? Why don't you start trying it out as soon as possible?"

"But," Ed was still confused, not knowing if he had missed something, or if the mage had misunderstood something: "This magic circle is still far from 'using'!"

The circle on the ground had just been carved out of charcoal by little he, and even if he had examined it carefully, it was only "in his own opinion" that it had to be redrawn with a special material, or, more extravagantly, carved into the ground first, and then filled with the appropriate material, such as deathly expensive adamantite, and activated, to determine if it was really usable.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Nana...... But he doesn't have the ability to inexplicably activate a circle from a run-over on the most ordinary piece of paper drawn with the most ordinary ink!

When he began to wonder if Ogro had this hidden ability, the mage clasped his palms in a sudden realization.

"Ah," he said, "you don't know that, the 'Experimental Circle Crash Method.'" ”

Nigel's eyes drooped, as if he was still studying the circle, but his ears quietly pricked up.

"The unique skill of the Archmage Tower," Augro did not hide his pride, "conceived by the great 'Tuchman the Walker', and succeeded in realizing it decades later by Chip Fernand—when he was even an apprentice. ”

"Fernand," Ed felt the name familiar, "isn't it the ...... from the Archmage Tower Library?"

Ogro's glowing face darkened almost immediately.

"That position was a complete waste of his talent!" he commented indignantly, "no, what wasted his talent more was the reason why he chose that position......

He stopped suddenly, the anger on his face slowly returning to his usual listlessness. Ed, who thought he would be able to hear some wonderful gossip, hid that little regret and said at the right time: "So, what kind of 'quick fix' is that?"

The mage's eyebrows, which had just been drooped, began to rise again.

Ed kind of wanted to laugh. As he got acquainted with it, the previously unlikable mage gradually showed a rather interesting side. He seems to have two faces, and when dealing with people he doesn't like, he looks half-dead, and everything he says is a little yin and yang, but it doesn't leak, and people can't catch it, but when he can talk about topics he is interested in, such as magic, his wooden face will unconsciously come alive, and it will be extraordinarily contagious and persuasive because of his full emotions, but he will try to pull all the lines on his face down and freeze when he realizes that he is too excited, and then uncontrollably raise and pull down again...... It's a lot of fun.

However, his fanaticism for magic often led him in extremely dangerous directions - he didn't care much about how he could get his power.

Ed listened with 120,000 points of caution as he explained the miraculous "quick fix", and was surprised to find that it was not very dangerous, and more importantly, although the efficacy would be discounted a lot, it was really, very, very cost-effective for the initial experiments!

"It was originally researched to save money. "After all, it's foolish to spend a bunch of precious materials to make sure a new circle will work properly." There are more than half of the mages in the Archmage Tower, who are always very poor, unlike the priests who have always been rich...... Speaking of which, this quick fix was directly bought by the Archmage Tower, which allowed Fernand to make a lot of money. ”

Almost immediately, Ed remembered the bustling bazaar of the Archmage's Tower, selling all sorts of bizarre "research results." He liked it a lot...... I don't know if it's restored now.

"Even so, there is another problem. When he began to be stunned again, Nigel had to speak to himself: "Summoning and imprisoning need to work at the same time. ”

"This involves the unique skill of another archmage tower," Ogro rolled up his overly wide sleeves, "'Circle Stacking Quick Method', ...... by the Lord of the East Tower"

He paused.

- Wakefield Toomus, the former Lord of the East Tower, improved on the Circle Quick Method. ”

No matter how many mistakes Tumus makes, to be able to become the master of a tower, his ability in spells is not to be underestimated.

“...... These are the secrets of the Archmage Tower, aren't they?" Ed asked in a low voice, "Is that okay...... Tell us it's okay?"

Nigel lowered his eyelids and glanced obliquely.

"Of course...... There is a price. Ogro's slender eyes narrowed in a sly arc.

Ed looked at Nigel silently, and then understood what he meant by that inexplicable glance - how could the fox from the Archmage Tower make himself suffer!

"Can I designate a summoner?" the mage said generously as if it weren't a big deal.

But this requirement is actually very problematic.

Nigel didn't even raise his eyelids: "Is there anything you can't summon yourself?"

Ogro let out a long sigh.

"To tell you the truth, we are...... There is hardly anything that we dare not summon, and there is hardly anything that we dare to summon that cannot be summoned. "But there is one man, after being summoned by us a few times......"

"Wait," this time Ed was keen to get to the point: "'People'?"

"You've all heard of his name," Ogro puffed out his chest, as if he were talking about the famous ancestors of the Archmage Tower, "Romuen West." ”

“...... Mad mage?" Ed blurted out.

"Genius is always crazy in the eyes of some people. Ogro said.

"Santo the Stone Shaper, Harold the Silver Staff, Tuchman the Walker. Slowly, one by one, Nigel counted them.

He didn't even have to finish his sentence to make Ogro roll his eyes—the creators of the three archmage towers didn't have the name of "crazy", so were they not "geniuses" enough, or were they actually crazy too?

"'Some.'" the mage could only repeat in a huff. But what this "certain people" refers to is obviously different from the one in the previous sentence.

"So, you're going to summon a ...... Ghosts?" Ed pulled back the topic with ease.