Mage Federation, Tower District - Forest of a Thousand Towers, Seventh Tower.

At the top of the Mage's Tower, on top of the astrological platform with the dome ajar.

An old man with a white beard and an old face slowly opened his eyes.

In his baby-like pupils, dots of starlight jumped, vaguely forming different constellation patterns.

"Started ......"

"The stars have dimmed. ”

"In the midst of the turmoil that is about to sweep across the entire physical plane, no one is immune, not even the Mage Federation. ”

"Although this is only the beginning of everything......"

A trace of helplessness flashed on the old man's face, and he slowly shook his head and said.

"Don't do that, Norton. ”

"When the men at Order's Edge and Black Rose tried to cover up their little moves, intending to keep them from being brought to the Council of Truth. ”

"We all saw it clearly, and even helped them secretly. ”

"Then they were able to hide for so many years, and even completed the 'secret' arrangement. ”

At this moment, a round alchemy device suddenly gurgled out of the corner, and from it came an extremely strange-sounding voice - what should have been a mocking word, but it was spoken in a mechanical, unheaving tone and tone.

"It's ridiculous, if it weren't for our joint efforts to cover up, they thought those small movements would really be able to evade the monitoring of the giant mystical 'Grand Cross'?"

"Now that you're saying that, it's kind of funny. ”

The most powerful astrologer in the world, [Great Astrologer] Norton Logar was not moved in the slightest by hearing these words, he just lowered his eyelids silently, and then said calmly:

"I'm just following the dictates of fate. ”

“......”

"This is the choice of the times......"

The circular alchemy device spun around in place, spinning a lens-like crystal hole to the top, and with a hint of magic aura, an image was quickly projected.

It was a middle-aged man in an alloy wheelchair, dressed in an off-white robe with a blanket on his knees.

And when the image gradually becomes clearer, it presents a rather terrifying picture.

The middle-aged man's appearance is extremely strange, his facial features seem to grow obliquely, and his sitting posture is like curled up in a wheelchair, his right shoulder is high, and his left shoulder is lowered, and his head is tilted against his right shoulder......

"Okay, okay, Norton. ”

"It's like this every time, I'm really convinced of you. ”

Sitting in a wheelchair, the middle-aged man seemed unable to move a bit, and after a few movements of his eyes, a voice with a mechanical tone sounded again.

"You can't ......"

Just as the middle-aged man wanted to continue, a little bit of elemental light quickly converged from all directions, forming an elemental light curtain between Norton and the middle-aged man, and quickly projected a tall figure.

"Alright, no more, Hawking. ”

"It's a choice we made together, and in order to make real progress, the necessary losses are acceptable. ”

The voice that came from the light curtain was extremely calm, and the next moment, Douglas's kind and majestic face appeared in front of the two of them.

"I don't feel like there's anything wrong with our choice. ”

"It's just that I'm a little tired of Norton's pretending to be profound. ”

With his eyes turning, the middle-aged man known as Hawking continued to answer in a mechanical, undulating voice.

"Stephen Hawking, on this issue, you will have time to argue privately with Norton later. ”

"Don't let personal emotions get in the way of our big things. ”

"Now, we're here to observe the development of the situation and prevent it from getting out of our control!"

However, Douglas didn't care too much about the dispute between the two, and said bluntly, and after speaking, he turned his gaze to Norton, who had been standing in place with a calm face.

"Norton, what's going on now?"

Without speaking, Norton raised his hand and waved, and in the dazzling magic light, countless silver-white runes that rose into the air quickly built a huge arcane eye at the top of the mage tower, and as the starlight flashed in his eyes again, a constellation pattern faintly appeared in the arcane eye, and then looked down into the distance.

At the same time, a curtain of light that was a full man high spread out in front of the three of them......

Then, Ainro, who had been covered by a thin layer of gray mist over most of the city, appeared in their eyes.

As the angle of view rises, you can see that thirteen huge fog masses are hovering in the city of Ainro, and they are still spreading.

And within the range of the gray mist, the spell runes that were originally everywhere in Ainro lost their luster one by one, and after losing the protection and restraint of spells, a considerable part of the laboratories in Ainro exploded in an instant, and all kinds of rampant energy fluctuations overflowed, causing a large number of spellcasters to escape in panic......

And when the casters used their own means to solve the dilemma in front of them with the magic power they had mastered, as they had done countless times in the past, they noticed that the magic nets that were ubiquitous in the past and could be easily connected were now nowhere to be seen as if they were far away from the sky, and no matter how much they tried, they couldn't cast spells!

Only some spell items that are constant or filled with spells can be used, but they are also much less powerful!

And in such chaos, the giant mystery lock "Grand Cross Star" that covered the entire Ainro did not react at all, and it can be said that it did nothing......

"Interesting ......"

"The 'Mist of Mystra' in a very large area?"

"No!"

"This effect is stronger than the 'Mist of Mystra'!"

"It looks like the connection between the caster and the web is completely blocked. ”

The eyes blinked twice, and Hawking's mechanical voice sounded again.

"It's the 'Fog of the Devil's Web', something that often appears in the depths of the most terrifying [Dead Demon Zone]. ”

"It has the power to completely cut off the magic net and disrupt all spells. ”

As if to see the essence of these gray mist at a glance, Douglas said lightly.

"Huh?"

At this time, Norton, who remained unfazed throughout the whole process, suddenly frowned, and the next moment, the three of them invariably turned their heads to look in the same direction.

At the same time, they sensed a powerful spatial fluctuation coming, as if an ultra-long-distance spatial teleportation had occurred for no reason.

Norton raised his hand and tapped it a few times in mid-air, and as he moved, the camera in the light curtain quickly fell to a certain point in Ainro, and a backward image appeared in the flickering light.

When the image is finally frozen, a young man is held hostage by several black-robed men, and the scene of walking out of a house is reflected in the vision of the three of them.

"Muse?"

Douglas still has a clear impression of the young man he had just met......