Vicky and Goth walk up the stairs of the Mage's Tower.

"The fact that the two of you currently share the same body is known only to me, my six classmates, the other six 'apostles,' and my teacher, the great 'Lord of the Black', Mr. Palamedes," said Goth, "and I think they are all worthy of trust. As for whether you want to give the news to anyone else...... It's up to your own judgment. ”

In the bottom of his heart, Goth is grateful for the trust of the girl and Xiaowei.

The world's greatest legendary mage, Mr. Palamedes, the builder of the Black Floating City, has been on the fringes of the system of the French state of Elrios since his apprenticeship. After the establishment of the Floating City, he still nominally belonged to Elrios, but he had an arrogant attitude of "listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement".

Beginning with the Black Lord Mr. Palamedes' plot to kill Elrios' other legendary mage, the "Lord of the Crown", Elrios attacked the Floating City with the power of the whole country, but never succeeded. In the end, the three major kingdoms of the continent, feared by the strength of Palamedes, joined forces to besiege the Black Floating City, and finally won the "victory" of this war. The Black Floating City disappeared into the vast sea of clouds.

However...... Mr. Palamedes used some means to temporarily deceive the eyes of the continental nations, allowing himself and the Floating City to survive for a while. It was only recently that the high-level leaders of the continental countries were aware of the existence of the Black Floating City.

Now that the countries of the mainland are intriguing with each other, they will never work together to resist the enemy as they did in the past. Mr. Palamedes, the arrogant boss of the year, seems to have changed his mind and sent an invitation to the major forces to reconcile.

"Aren't you worried," looking at Xiaowei's carefree appearance, Goth couldn't help but speak, "My teacher, he will break his promise, imprison you, and use you as experimental materials?" ”

"A little. After all, it's the rumored big devil. Xiaowei said.

Goth chuckled inwardly.

"Arrogance once swallowed up the teacher's reason," Goth hastened to excuse the teacher, "but that doesn't mean ...... Feed? Are you listening? ”

Goth was ready to tell a long story, but Xiaowei's absent-minded appearance annoyed him.

Xiaowei smiled.

"It's useless to worry," she said innocently, "and the entire Black Floating City is his territory, and we can't escape from it." Didn't you invite me to your spell lab? No mage would waste the precious knowledge he imparts on enemies and experiments. So I'm willing to believe him. ”

“……”

Goth was dumbfounded.

"You'll see him soon," said Goth, "and the teacher would love to see you, but he's not in the Floating City right now." Tomorrow night...... At the latest, the day after tomorrow, he will be back, and then he will see you as soon as possible. ”

"But ......," Xiaowei showed a hesitant expression.

Goth thought that Xiaowei was worried that the teacher would suddenly change his mind: "You can rest assured, I will be with you at that time." ”

Xiaowei shook her head: "No, I didn't mean that." All my research has been left behind in Okad. On the basis of what I remember in my head, I am not confident that I will satisfy Mr. Palamedes. ”

Goth opened his mouth, but said nothing.

[Why didn't he speak?] Angry? In the inner world, Xiaowei asked worriedly.

[No, it's not what you think. The girl said, "Just mention the subject of magic, and you will become ...... Very...... Pure. 】

The girl thought about it, but swallowed back the word "innocent" on her lips.

[Aren't you worried, otherworldly creatures? 】

[Nope.] How so? The girl said casually.

And her psychology has already been complained.

Where is not to worry, she thought. I'm just worried about the explosion!

If there was anyone in the cloud world who worried her the most, it was the Black Lord!

She had read "How to Write a Character Smarter Than Yourself" for a whole day, and then she started to create the character of the Black Lord! If you do learn something from that strange article, then the Black Lord is really smarter than himself!

The original work of the girl did not have a set outline, and all the plots were naturally driven by "the development of characters and stories". Now the girl not only does not know the hole cards of the Black Lord, but she also does not know what his purpose is. It is undoubtedly worth fearing to be an enemy of such a big boss with "unknown" written on his body.

And yet—

She can't trust the "Black Lord", but she can trust the protagonist Goth. As long as he and Goth are on their side, they are safe for the time being. As for the longer term...... Take it one step at a time.

……

Although she was mentally prepared for how boring the mage's daily life was, when the girl was actually in Goth's laboratory, she was bored and wanted to fall asleep.

There's nothing romantic about it, and it doesn't fit the modern fantasy of a mage's tower. Goth's laboratory is more like a professional modern chemistry or biology laboratory, and the black color decoration makes the atmosphere of this "laboratory" more oppressive.

The girl knows what life is like for the "scientific research dog" in the laboratory - this is one of the reasons why she chose liberal arts.

The girl watched as Goth took the various materials from the neatly arranged cabinets—she hoped it was bat droppings, something like bat droppings, and weighed them on a silver scale, and then threw them into a test tube filled with colorful solvents (the girl did not know if the material of the test tube was glass), and mixed the solution back and forth, and occasionally operated a few unnamed instruments to fill the materials and the solution.

Goth tinkered with this stuff very quickly. Sometimes he just waved his hand, and the materials and test tubes flew in the air, and they were all set up on their own. In the girl's eyes, Goth's style of preparing spells was more like a modern researcher conducting experiments than a mage.

To the girl's relief, Xiaowei agreed with her feelings.

[This is too old-fashioned,] Xiaowei complained, took out a tree root from the cabinet, and honestly cut it with a silver knife, [He didn't need to be so precise.] Prepare spells with him, and the spell casting materials are going to stink. 】

[Doesn't it really need to be that complicated?] 】

[How is that possible?] Most of the cast materials are dosed within a general range and will not cause accidents. More than seventy percent of common spells do not require further processing of the ready-made materials in the cast material pack. 】

[So, you don't know what he's doing, do you?] 】

[Maybe you're preparing some kind of special powerful spell?] Xiao Wei guessed that it would be good if he was willing to let us observe his preparations. He must have mastered a lot of secret spells. 】

As if hearing the heart-to-heart conversation between the girl and Xiaowei, Goth turned his head: "There is no such thing as a unique secret. I'm making additives that I add to normal casting ingredients, and that's it. ”

"Wait. You mean, by modifying the casting material, changing the effect of ordinary spells? Xiaowei's eyes suddenly lit up.

"For example, what I'm doing right now is a simple programmatic job," says Gort, "and I'm configureting an acid and dripping it into this piece of grease...... Like this...... This piece of grease is used to perform the 'greasy technique', and the greasy oil created can be burned. ”

The greasy spell is just the simplest primary spell of the sea of clouds. This spell is usually used by low-level mages to escape for their lives, or in combination with spells such as "spider webs".

"A 'greasy technique' that can burn!" Xiao Wei knew the significance of improving the primary spell, "Let me make sure - this spell you prepared is still a 'greasy spell'?" If ......"

"Yes," Goth continued to concentrate on his project, "its main casting material is still a piece of grease, the posture factor and sound factor of the spell casting have not increased or changed, and the basic requirements for the caster's mental power and the level of energy consumed in a single cast are still within the lowest level of spells at the beginning of the sea of clouds. According to the basic principles that define a sorcery, it's still greasy, and at most we can name a modified spell. ”

"Do you know what that means?" Xiaowei glanced at Goth, "We all have a lot of unique spells that we don't want to communicate with others. But you've improved on this popular spell that almost every mage can cast......"

"If it's taught widely, it might change the methods of all junior battle mages," Goth laughed, "but it's useless. The additives I use are too costly, and almost all of them are extracted from the casting materials of real high-level spells, which those low-level mages simply can't configure. And, do you really think they're going to have the device I have here? With their pitiful mental strength, they may not even be able to power the equipment. ”

It turns out that the equipment in your place is powered by yourselves! The girl complained wildly in her heart. Combined with Goth's merchant nature, the girl was not sure that in the future, the advertisements of "black floating city brand centrifuges, as long as the blue sky primary can be supplied" will be posted all over the streets and alleys of the French power.

But Xiaowei calmly accepted such a setting.

"I know," she sighed, "that they can do it, but it's pointless unless we give them the reagents and equipment." ”

"Cost first." Goth said without raising his head.