Whew-

The Wind Spirit made a slight wind sound as he walked, leading the Muse all the way deep into Sophie's Mage Tower.

Along the way, the Muse sees a lot of elemental creatures, most of them of various wind elementals, who are responsible for handling the chores of the Mage Tower.

Sophie seems to be more fond of, and more adept at, using these elemental creatures to work for herself than the various golems that Lydia uses in the Mage Tower.

She should have some special way to increase the intelligence of elemental creatures and train them to be good mage helpers.

In fact, the muses like to do this, they are more loyal than humans, hardworking, tireless, uncomplaining, can help with the work of inscribed runes, draw magic circles, make potions, etc., and do not make small mistakes such as remembering the wrong data, misplacing materials, breaking glass bottles, etc., if not limited by some reason, they are simply perfect assistants.

“......”

As he progressed deeper, around the seventh floor, the wind spirit finally led him to a large door, and then stood to the side, leaning over slightly, and signaling with his body to invite in.

Glancing at the door in front of him with a huge wind element crystal nucleus inlaid in the center, a trace of electric arcs spread in all directions from time to time, making lightning-like zigzag lines flicker, and the muse once again took out the dragon scale token given by Sophie.

Boom Boom –

A moment later, with the flickering of the arcane mark on the dragon scales, the door slowly opened to both sides, and closed again after the muse entered, obscuring the view of the wind spirit......

"Muse, you're here?"

As soon as he walked into Sophie's laboratory, a somewhat casual sounding sentence came into his ears, and just listening to it, he felt that the attention of the owner of the voice was completely off him, just a casual sentence.

"Yes, Sir Sophie. ”

"I came at the time you told me. ”

But even so, Muse replied with some respect.

"Hmm. ”

"You wait first, I'll talk about you after I'm done with the experiments at hand. ”

And following the direction of the voice, he saw Sophie's figure.

In the slightly messy laboratory, she stood in front of an open area that had apparently been deliberately cleared, and looked at a silver-gray wire in a sealed container on the ice-blue laboratory table in front of her.

Whoa—

As Muse cast his gaze on these objects, a small arc of electricity suddenly appeared from the bottom of the container, and then jumped onto the lilac wire.

Zi –

After a slight electric sound, the wire did not change in any way, but soon, as the experiment progressed, the temperature inside the container began to rise slowly......

In just a moment, the expression on Sophie's face, who was engrossed in perceiving the condition of the wire inside the container, changed.

"July 1642 of the Calendar of the Gods, the 52nd Experiment on the Exploration of the Phenomenon of 'Superconductivity', Material No. 573 - Zigang ,......"

At this time, with a wave of her hand, she took out a small notebook and wrote it quickly.

And when Muse walked up to Sophie, who was about three meters away, stood still, his eyes saw the words.

“......”

However, the Muse's attention is not much on these words.

He looked at the image of Sophie in front of him, his face looked a little unnatural, but his eyes were still a little unconsciously on her.

At this time, Sophie was wearing a wide mage robe, and the hood that was pulled down at the top covered nearly half of her face, only revealing the part below the bridge of her nose, and even her hands and feet were mostly covered in the spacious robe, in short, the whole person was tightly covered.

At the same time, it can be seen that Sophie's mage robe is brand new, and it is estimated that it is still newly bought.

This was not only because of how new the material was, but also because the mage robes were completely out of touch with the clothes she usually wore, and they didn't match Sophie's preferences in the muse's memory.

This can't help but give him some interesting speculation.

“......”

"This image, it looks, is a little familiar......"

Looks like Lydia had dressed up in a similar way. ”

"Hmmm......"

"I remember when Lydia was dressed like this, it was ......"

"When you get the symbol of the strong?"

Thinking about it, the muse's gaze couldn't help but change slightly.

Of course, this is well hidden from him.

But with this thought in mind, some other changes in Sophie's body easily entered the muse's field of vision.

For example, the staff that was strangely hovering beside Sophie at this time was no longer the one he had seen three days ago.

Also, compared to three days ago, although there were not many small numbers on Sophie's body, it seemed that there were many buttons, bracelets, pendants and other small magic items of the ornament category, all of which had disappeared.

“......”

"This situation. ”

"Combined with what could happen in the next few days......"

"The only thing that could have caused this change was the one where Sophie had to 'communicate' with Lydia because she had made a promise to move me into her project. ”

After a few glances out of the corner of his eye, Muse guessed something based on his own knowledge and experience.

"Sophie and Lydia made it up in a 'friendly' 'communication'?"

"Hmmm......"

"Sophie's spell gear, spell items, and ...... It's all gone. ”

"It's Lydia again, and it's hard not to remind me of something."

"I remember, the I. Super Demon Mystery - [Rune Splitting Technique] is the result of studying the bloodline of the Stephen family......

"[Rune Splitting] is not a matter of people, and any living matter cannot be cracked, but if it is an inanimate object, then this super magic mystery has a very powerful cracking ability, and there is even a 5% chance of directly destroying the artifact. ”

"So ......"

Thinking of this, the muse couldn't help but pout to himself, and was ready to throw all these things into the depths of his mind and ignore them again.

Not long after he finished thinking about it, Sophie finished writing the last character, and with a wave of her hand, a curtain of light rose and covered the bench.

After putting away the small notebook, which was obviously used to record the experimental data, she took a slow and deep breath before turning to look at the muse.

After glancing up and down, Sophie nodded, and then walked to the side of the lab, where two parallel metal coils flashing with electric arcs stood out.

"Follow me. ”

As she walked, she took out a scroll with a gray glow and gave it to Muse.

"I've communicated with Lydia. ”

"From today onwards, you will be transferred to the project I am responsible for. ”

"Before you can do that, though, you'll need to sign a Styx pact of secrecy. ”

"I can only tell you something after I have signed the contract. ”

Nodding silently, the muse also guessed that there would probably be such a thing, because the construction of the [Thunderstorm Instrument] was undoubtedly one of the top secrets of the Arcane Ring at this time, and it was absolutely impossible to lose.

Therefore, he probably browsed it, asked Illya and Elijah to scan it, and after confirming that there was no problem, he simply imprinted his spiritual power imprint on it.

And this Styx contract burned silently, turning into two gray rays of lightning into the eyebrows of Sophie and Muse.

"Good. ”

Sensing the establishment of the Styx contract, Sophie's face couldn't help but soften slightly.

"Well, maybe I can tell you about the 'One'. ”