001, Silver Tower (1)
After the fall of the Sissi Empire, dozens of kingdoms and principalities were born on her vast territory, and after a long war, the three successor states were finally established, Sock, Seps, and Frans, who has now been replaced by Romano. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 On the border of the three countries are scattered small principalities, the largest ones are almost the size of half of the Seven-City Federation, and the small ones are basically only one big city.
These principalities that survive in the gap between the three kingdoms are better said to be buffer belts, and some are ugly to say are small forces that can be cleaned up at any time, and they are infiltrated. Among these principalities, perhaps the Duchy of Dieter is the most transcendent, thanks to the Silver Tower, one of the three major magical organizations, is located in this Duchy at the junction of Frans and Sock, and is as famous as the Silver Tower of Babelades and the Hanging Gardens.
Every citizen of the Duchy of Dieter would point to outsiders at the twenty-two-story silver tower, like the Optimus Pillar, and proudly say, "That's the Silver Tower, the guardian of the Duchy of Dieter." Yes, of course there is a magic array, which is usually difficult to see. But at night, you can see some silver light emanating from the tower in the distance, as beautiful as another moon. On top of that, there are four Golden Archmages in this Silver Tower! ”
Then they would change their tone and continue to introduce enthusiastically and mysteriously: "You may not know that there is a mysterious tower master above the four golden archmages, but no one has seen the Silver Tower since it was established in the Duchy of Dieter, I don't know if it's a man or a woman, and I don't know how many generations it has been passed down. The elderly people of Dieter pretended to be very sorry as they said this, but the expression on their faces betrayed the pride and pride in their hearts.
White mages from all over the world aspire to join the Silver Tower, and with excellent companions, precious collections, and even the guidance of the Golden Archmage, it can be said that the most outstanding white mages in the entire world study and communicate magic here. Each one was enough for those young people who were not too old and had just embarked on the path of the White Mage to come to the Kingdom of Dieter at any cost.
Jason is such a young man who was attracted by the Silver Tower, he came from the kingdom of Kochi, and aspired to become a great white mage since he was a child. Born in the kingdom of Kochi, a country ruled by the Asha people in Upra, he grew up listening to the stories of Colin and Morgan, two of the greatest mages of Yupla and Asha, and whether it was with the conquerors to overthrow the Elven Empire and establish the Sisor Empire or establish the first mage kingdom in history, Jason was deeply fascinated. He was overjoyed when he was a little older and found out that he really had mage talents, even though the white mages weren't the best in the eyes of others - the brave Asha people generally believed that elemental magic and black magic were good magic, and white magic, which could only defend and heal, was only used for logistics.
When he was a little older, Jason learned about the Silver Tower, about Babelatis, about the Hanging Gardens. Among the three mage organizations, the Silver Tower was the place he revered and longed for the most, and he had dreamed more than once in his dreams that he was wearing a brand new mage robe, and entered the Silver Tower through the magic circle under the amazed and envious gaze of everyone.
Now, at the age of twenty-one, three months before his next birthday, he finally did, stepping into the Silver Tower, which he had seen in his dreams I don't know how many times, in a peculiar way.
In front of Jason were two middle-aged silver mages with tense facial expressions, and behind him there were even more mages, there were six of them, and two of them were also silver ranks.
"I hope you've listened to what you just said, and you probably have ......," one of the mages in front of Jason kindly reminded the pitiful-looking little mage as he led the way, "Ten minutes to sort out your thoughts, and I hope you won't be too nervous when you meet a few adults." "He's the only mage around Jason who has reached the Silver Rank, and he doesn't look easy to get along with because of his appearance, so he has to carefully control the muscles on his face to make sure the little mage isn't intimidated.
Jason was already scared.
The gods are above, and it is the first time he has seen so many silver mages at the same time, two in front and two behind him. Even finally entering the Silver Tower didn't make him feel better.
"I'll try to ...... I mean, I will, sir. Jason tried to put a smile on his face, but unfortunately it was worse than crying. As the group of nine hurriedly walked, curious glances kept casting on both sides, but when they saw a gray shading on the two middle-aged mage magic robes in the lead, and the pattern of three wands crossed on them, they hurriedly turned their eyes to other places.
This pattern symbolizes the personnel who have the power to inspect the Silver Tower, and any mage who violates the rules of the Silver Tower will fall into their hands. But the situation was a bit strange now, as they were usually taken to the dungeon by those who made mistakes, not upwards - as they were thinking, Jason had gone up a ladder led by eight mages, which could go up and down freely between the first and fifteenth floors of the Silver Tower.
3rd Floor......
7th Floor......
Twelfth Floor......
Jason felt slimy, probably because he was too nervous and scared to break out in a cold sweat.
Bite!
The elevator stops on the fifteenth floor of the Silver Tower.
Following the queue when he entered, Jason walked step by step to a higher place under the guidance of the four mages. The other four mages whose strength had not reached the silver rank had to stop here, in fact, if it weren't for Jason, they wouldn't have the right to enter the eleventh layer or higher.
As a fan of the Silver Tower, Jason knew that there were twenty-two layers in the Silver Tower, of which the first to fifth floors corresponded to the Black Iron rank, the sixth to tenth floors corresponded to the bronze rank, the eleventh to fifteenth floors corresponded to the Silver rank, and the sixteenth to twenty floors corresponded to the Gold rank. As for the remaining twenty-one and twenty-two floors, Jason still doesn't know about them.
His whole body trembled a little as he stepped up the stairs, and in a few minutes he would be standing on the sixteenth floor of the Silver Tower or even higher, a place that some members of the Silver Tower would never be able to set foot in their lifetimes.
The sixteenth floor quickly appeared in front of Jason, but the two mages walking in front of him continued to walk up.
The seventeenth layer passed.
The eighteenth floor passed.
Finally, they stopped on the nineteenth floor.
When Jason reached the nineteenth floor under the guard of the four silver mages, eyes were cast at him from all directions. The mages standing here are the lowest in strength and are all in the Silver Rank, the best in the Elementary Rank.
"Here, here, that mage is here."
"The meeting will start right away."
"Tell the adults."
The entire nineteenth floor was silent for a second or two, and then remembered a buzzing sound, like the flies Jason had seen around a pile of garbage in the slums as a child.
"Jason, huh?" A tall old mage walked from a short distance away from the crowd, his sharp eyes making Jason feel a slight stinging in his face.
"Yes, sir." He replied cautiously.
"I need to make sure that you witnessed the battle two days ago?"
"Yes, sir."
"I'm assuming you can tell the whole story?"
"Yes, sir."
Jason numbly answered the old man's question.
"Very well, then please wait here for now, the meeting will begin immediately." After seven or eight questions, the old man finished confirming and left quickly. The entire Silver Mage on the Nineteenth Floor also quickly dispersed, and the silence around them was terrifying, except for the sound of his own heartbeat—Jason thought they should all go to the conference room first.
"Come with me, it's time for us to get ready." The middle-aged mage took Jason through the nineteenth floor for about three minutes and entered a passageway.
He pointed to the front door: "You can enter from here later, you don't have to worry about anything else, the only thing you have to do today is one thing: answer the questions of the adults." ”
"I know, sir." Jason prayed to the gods, if they heard my prayers, please bless me to get out of the Silver Tower alive today, and that I would never set foot in the Silver Tower again.
"Let Jason in." A serious voice came from the other side of the door.
Even through the door, Jason could feel the eyes staring at the door like substance, or a few seconds later.
I don't know if it's an illusion, the air around him is a little scorching, he takes a deep breath, pushes open the door, and sticks his left leg inside.
Jason didn't know how he got to this seat, though as the only Black Iron Mage here he probably didn't even have the qualifications to sit down. He didn't know where he got the courage to take a quick look at the moment he stepped in: the vast white conference hall was enveloped by a solemn and oppressive atmosphere, and the silver mages who had turned their eyes on him filled nearly three hundred places in the hall.
On the main seat above were three extremely powerful mages, two men and one woman. They are like three lighthouses in a sea of light, and it's hard for Jason to ignore them.
There is no doubt that they are the Lord in the mouth of the mage who led him up just now, the three existing golden archmages in the Silver Tower!
Yes, there are three Golden Archmages in existence!
As of today, or more precisely, since two days ago, there are only three Golden Archmages in the Silver Tower, and one was killed two days ago.
If he hadn't happened to witness the battle in which the Silver Tower's Golden Archmage was killed, Jason wouldn't have been brought here to be questioned by the entire Silver Tower.
He still remembered the golden archmage who had been killed, Lang, a golden beginner archmage!
That's why he's standing here today.