"Are you sure this is the place?"

"How do I know that I'm not myself?"

"If it was a trustworthy companion, then he should have already told the whole plan......"

"Are you driving a wedge between us? I'm sorry, I might be about to disappoint you. ”

On the night of February 3, 796 New Calendar, two figures that had sunk into the darkness slowly appeared in the corner of the alley near the southerly part of the center of Tanzania, and they distanced themselves from each other, and stood like adventurers in the past, alerting the surrounding movements, and at the same time questioning each other in a distrustful tone: "Although I don't know why he promised you and brought you over, but in my eyes, you are still just an uninvited guest." ”

"I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, maybe it's just an occupational disease."

Shrugged his shoulders slightly, the middle-aged uncle with his back against the street wall gestured to his side: "But you don't have to worry so much, after all, this Mr. Linyuan Broken Water is also a person who doesn't need to be guarded in my eyes, otherwise, I wouldn't have followed so easily." ”

"So, you're the weakest party between us?" Xue Ling, who was still staring at the side of the alley, let out two sneers: "Don't be kidding. ”

"Don't be so nervous, I'm just an ordinary imperial nobleman now." Tristan's laughter then came from the other side of the darkness: "Presumably your companion also saw how harmless I was, so he nodded so easily to agree to my rude request...... Not. ”

"There used to be a proverb in the city of the free – don't always be wary of the same direction."

A pair of bright eyes gradually rose in the darkness, and followed Tristan's words to the roof of the alley where they were: "But I really didn't expect you to come back so quickly." ”

"Hey."

The sound of jumping into the air then appeared above the night sky where the white-haired woman in front of her suddenly looked back, accompanied by the figure of a gray-robed magician who had just jumped into the darkness from the top of the alley: "I didn't expect that group of royal guards to be so difficult to shake off, so Lao Tzu used two bottles of phantom potions and a bottle of smoke bombs......"

"Duan—you're back."

The knee-jerk shouts were replaced by suppressed voices, and the voice belonging to Snow Spirit Phantom Ice then came to this side of the alley along with her running footsteps: "Throw off those enemies?" ”

"Don't call us enemies, after all, we don't mean to go against those royal guards." Slapping his magic robe, Duan Qing, who was still distressed just now, then showed a comforting smile: "But before we come to any conclusions, it's better for us not to let them easily get involved in our current actions." ”

"According to my guess, your actions and intentions should not be within the current consideration of His Royal Highness the Prince." Tristan, who also came over, echoed with a smile: "Most of the people who want to investigate you are just those people from the Royal Guard who discovered your strange whereabouts and finally gave up halfway. ”

"Royal Guard...... Shh After taking a bottle of homemade stamina potion, Duan Qing then suppressed his wheezing voice slightly: "With our current strength, it is better not to have a conflict or not to conflict...... Don't rush to go, drink these things. ”

He stopped the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, who was about to leave this place first, and then reached out and stuffed two bottles of dark-colored potions into her and Tristan's arms: "Although they have avoided the tracking of the royal guards, the magic surveillance of those royal magicians is still very powerful, if you want not to show your feet under their magic sense, it is best to drink this potion first." ”

"This ...... Is it still that magic suppression potion? ”

"Of course not, it's enough for such a thing as self-abandonment of martial arts to happen once."

Duan Qing, who raised his head and poured the bottle that belonged to him into his mouth, wiped his mouth, and then pointed to a faint film that gradually appeared on the surface of his body: "This is my newly developed potion. FIELD-TYPE Alpha - Well, don't look at me like that, it's just a mana isolation potion. ”

"You can actually apply a magic suppression magic to a protective shield...... He is truly a magician and alchemist. Looking at the glowing film that appeared on his body, Tristan's voice was also full of admiration: "Of course, it would be nice to be able to cover up the magical light emitted from this." ”

"Hey, don't so easily deny the fruits of my labor." Duan Qing, who was walking forward, pursed his mouth: "It's already great to be able to do this, okay?" If you want to hide your whereabouts completely, you can add an illusion potion or a refraction potion......"

"Forget it, I don't want to be a medicine jar." The middle-aged nobleman who waved his hand then followed Duan Qing's footsteps: "Where should I go next?" ”

"I don't have to ask, of course it's- ah, I forgot." Subconsciously saying this, Duan Qing suddenly turned his gaze to the two figures behind him: "Just like when we first started, you are also a person who has just come to this city, so you don't know much about the map of this city and many landmark buildings......

"May I introduce you, the tower on our right hand is the Violet Tower, the famous attraction of Tanzania." He raised one of his arms, and then pointed to the silhouette of the tower that loomed into the sky in the darkness, "It was originally the residence of the representatives of the Mage Council here and the Lord of Violet, but now...... I'm probably about to be taken over by the Imperial Army and the adventurers. ”

"You, did you hide that woman in the tower?" Then the surprised voice of Snow Spirit Phantom Ice sounded in his ears: "How is this possible? There, now—"

"I know, I know, it's probably not the most dangerous place and the safest place." Interrupting the other party's words, Duan Qing then winked at the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice behind him: "But there are not many safe areas in Tanzanian City that I know, and the only place I could choose at that time was that place." ”

"You're not going to put it on top of the tower, are you?" So Xue Ling, who came forward, raised his head and looked at the top of the pitch-black tower: "We didn't teleport, do we have to rely on the means of the mixed team to climb again?" ”

"Not to mention, those adventurers will only attack from the front, they never think about the prestige of the Violet Tower, and the usefulness of intelligence." The figure gradually disappeared into the alley on the other side of the tower, and Duan Qing, who was walking in front, gestured towards the starry lights that were faintly flashing over there: "And I, a great alchemist and negotiator......"

"Digging out a hidden passage is something like that."

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The so-called hidden passage in Duan Qing's mouth was actually the small positioning magic array that was passed down when they first visited the Violet Tower before, but in the previous design of the Violet Tower, that magic array was just a one-way teleportation array used by the Violet Lord to leave quickly. The rest of the violet mages who stayed in the Violet Tower had some means to transform it into a two-way teleportation array, but the large amount of magical materials needed to transform the magic array had also become an insurmountable chasm in front of them at this time, but in the eyes of an alchemist who could conjure precious materials anytime and anywhere, this level of chasm did not seem to be impossible to cross.

With his selfless help of "not feeling the slightest pain", this reverse teleportation array located in the depths of the courtyard of the Violet Tower was also established very smoothly.

"What a splendid room."

With an involuntary sigh in his mouth, Tristan, who walked into the dim darkness of the spherical hall, looked up at the magic lights that still kept running automatically around him and the puppet devices that shuttled between the halls: "And it looks magical." ”

"Words like this shouldn't come out of your mouth, after all, we adventurers haven't said anything yet." Duan Qing, who also walked out of the central magic array, looked around here: "And it doesn't look very different here than when we first came, not even the dust has accumulated much......"

"I guess it's because these puppets have been working on their own."

The words were said in a low voice, and the last Snow Spirit Phantom Ice who reflected his body into this darkness still maintained his usual vigilant look: "Although it has been about three full days since the Great Magician was caught and put on trial. ”

"Today, three days later." Duan Qing let out a sigh of embarrassment: "The Violet Tower has been decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye in the past three days, and the magician members have fled one after another, and this room, which once housed the master of the great magician, has probably been left unattended. ”

"Until just now."

He turned, and his gaze fell on a corner of the spherical hall, where a silhouette of a woman curled up and fallen to the ground with her back against the wall was looming in the corner, looming as the shifting gaps between the roving puppets in the vicinity loomed. The footsteps slowly approached in that direction, and the figures belonging to Duan Qing's three people then slowly took the long purple hair that spread out on the figure's body into their eyes, but before they could fully confirm the identity of the suspected violet lord Violet, the humanoid puppets who were gliding around the hall with various structures suddenly stopped their movements: "...... What happened to them? ”

"Looks like they're going to form a defensive front - oh no, is that one of the settings they've been hovering around here all this time?"

"The Autonomic Action Doll is supposed to have a setting to defend against enemies, after all, no matter how you think about it, the current situation is too suspicious...... It's coming! Be careful! ”

"As a powerless nobleman, I can only reluctantly declare here - the matter of the battle will be left to you."

The sound of ping-pong then sounded around Duan Qing and Xue Lingphantom Bing, accompanied by the phantoms surrounded by the magic puppets in all directions of the hall and transformed into the sound of swords and weapons colliding with each other, the messy alchemy tables and magic tables and chairs placed between the spherical halls did not seem to have the slightest impact on the operation of these magic puppets, but gradually emitted magical light of different sizes under their rapid operation. Looking at those colorful eyes becoming more and more serious, Duan Qing, who was leaning against the white-haired woman on his back, finally slowly put away the action that he had just wanted to take out the magic potion, he raised his magic wand to barely resist the whistling arm waved down by those magic puppets, and at the same time looked at the last trace of the back left by the middle-aged nobleman who had slipped away from nowhere: "Combined force source array...... Hey, I thought it would be okay to use the ultimate skipping method. ”

"Didn't you get the back door from Violet? Don't you have the means to control these puppets? ”

"The teleportation array was set by the violet magician, and it wasn't part of the memory I got when I was possessed, and it was a hundred-year movie of life that I watched in just a few minutes, how could I remember all the contents!"

"Then can't you choose another place to store her? I have to save it in her lair! ”

The incessant sound of metal collision became more and more dense as the magic light became stronger and stronger, and the sword shadow from the Snow Spirit Phantom Ice Dance became more and more rapid with her voice, and she gradually became the main force of physical defense, and then she had to pull Duan Qing's body and began to slowly retreat backwards, trying to pull the position to a safe place farther away from the encirclement point: "Is that great magician still alive?" ”

"I should be alive, but it's hard to say whether I'm conscious or not...... Anyway, pull a little further and see if you can get out of the hatred of these dolls. ”

"Thankfully, that Sherman is dead, and there is no other entrance to this place, otherwise if an outsider had broken in at this time-"

"Stop! Don't talk about this kind of self-milk! ”

A moment of dangerous light flashed in the corner of his eyes, and Duan Qing, who had been protected by Snow Spirit Phantom Ice, suddenly raised his head and turned to the other side of the spherical hall: "Who is it?" ”

Whew-

The ice-blue cold air suddenly arose from the direction that Duan Qing had warned, and swept around the entire hall like a cold wave in a cold winter, and the concentrated burst of cold air then formed a thick layer of frost on the bodies of those demon puppets at a speed visible to the naked eye, freezing all the high-speed moving figures, including Duan Qing, in place: "...... Nice sensibility, able to spot my existence. ”

"It's you." Looking at the dark blue figure that slowly appeared above the hall, Duan Qing, who had a thick layer of frost on his eyebrows, replied in a trembling voice, "Long time no see...... Uh, no, it's a long time to admire the Great Name, Lord Christine, the Great Magician. ”

"I've been observing this area, and I didn't want to intervene in this matter."

The figure floating in the air slowly approached, and the blue figure that appeared in front of Duan Qing and the two of them then began to gradually become clear: "But since you have a way to obscure magical observations, then my time as a spectator should also be over." ”

"Mr. Tristan, there's the abyss cut off."

As if they had just come to this place, the figure of Sheng Ran, who belonged to the Great Magician, once again floated in front of Duan Qing in the form of a descending manner: "For the cause and effect of your visit here tonight......

"Can you explain that in a little bit more completely?"