Typhon's Empire, Southwestern Frontier.

The winter rain mixed with fine snowflakes kept falling, splashing a chaotic curtain in the dim evening skylight, and the continuous rain, the gloomy sky, and the fog in the mountains were entangled and mixed with each other, making the whole world seem blurry and hazy.

In this vague and hazy world, the poor border mountain village fell into darkness early, and the mountain people who had no money to buy lamp oil could only hide in their dark and dreary houses in this bad weather, relying on the small stove fire for warmth, while looking at the ancient black spire standing on the top of the mountain with a little horror.

The windows at the top of the black spire were emitting an eerie dark red glow, ominous dark clouds loomed over the spire, and the chaotic rain seemed to be summoned by those rays, making the whole world dark and damp.

The crazy old magician was doing all those terrible things, and the superstitious mountain people closed their windows one by one, whispering to their gods in their homes, hoping that the curse of the black magician would not come upon them.

At the top of the Magic Tower, Mary and the other apprentices didn't know what the superstitious and ignorant villagers were thinking, and even if they did, they had no interest in paying attention.

The apprentices were nervously setting up their labs, placing the various magical materials in the right places as instructed by their mentors, and a large brazier burned in the center of the stone room, and from the brazier jumped an unusually colored red flame that seemed to tremble in the air like blood.

The old magician stood in the middle of a certain magic circle next to the brazier, staring at the movements of each apprentice with his gloomy eyes as he injected magic into the magic circle, he was not wearing the black robes, and the artificial nerve cords spread out of his spine, slowly wriggling behind him, like a poisonous snake.

An apprentice accidentally shook his hand as he sprinkled amethyst dust into the brazier, and the sparks rippled in the air, and the apprentice immediately looked at his mentor in horror, but the old magician just glared at him viciously: "Be careful! You shit! ”

The apprentice breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to continue the task at hand with greater care.

Mary used a special tool to pour a liquid mixed with ore powder, demonic blood, and magical grass juice into the rune grooves on the floor, while sneaking a look at her mentor.

Since the last "connection", the state of the old mage Daniel has become more and more wrong.

Although he always behaved crazy in the past, would punish apprentices for no reason, and would do all kinds of creepy experiments, but the old mage was not right this time as before, he seemed to be greatly frightened, under huge but unspeakable pressure, the whole person seemed to be extremely nervous, he drove the apprentices to set up countless spiritual defense circles in the magic tower almost sleeplessly, and also carved countless new runes on his body, he had to meditate for a long time to fall asleep, and more than once woke up in nightmares

The other apprentices don't know why, but Mary suspects that this series of anomalous behaviors has something to do with the mentor's last "connection".

The mentor said he made a deal with a terrible being, so it was all because of that deal? Was it that "terrifying being" that frightened this powerful magician to such an extent?

What a horrible monster it must be

Mary didn't dare to ask the tutor for details, she could only keep her head down and silently do her work, and pray that she would not make mistakes in the process, and not be punished by the old mage, and she knew that others might think the same way.

Finally, all the magic runes were set up, and the brazier and magic weapons used for the ceremony were also in the correct position and state, the old magician glanced at the situation in the laboratory and waved his hand anxiously: "Get out!" ”

As if they had been granted amnesty, the apprentices hurried out of the laboratory one by one.

"Mary! You stay! The old mage's vicious voice came from behind him.

The young low-level female mage's body shook involuntarily, but she didn't dare to disobey her master's order, so she could only try to calm her heartbeat, and then slowly turned her head and came to the old mage respectfully.

"You, put your hand out!"

Mary obeyed almost numbly, raised her left hand and handed it over, and then she watched as the old mage grabbed her arm and stabbed her in the arm with a dagger.

At this moment, she almost pulled her hand away, but in the end, she forcibly stopped the action that could bring terrible punishment.

After a sharp pain, the female mage's blood flowed out of the wound and floated eerily in the air.

Daniel casually traced a few runes in the air with his blood-stained dagger, and the blood from Mary was dragged and floated towards the brazier in the center of the room, where it was quickly consumed by the flames within.

"Okay," the old mage muttered nervously, "Mix the blood of the sacrificer into the ritual process, so that you can transfer the extraterritorial wanderer to the sacrificer, and add these misleading, defensive runes around me, I'll be safe, I'll be safe."

Before Mary could hear what the old mage meant, she was pushed hard behind by the latter: "Go, stand in the middle of the circle, quick!" ”

Mary glanced at the circle, judged it from the occult knowledge she possessed, and remembered her mentor's previous words, and finally realized what this terrible old mage wanted to do

This old man wants to deceive the terrible being who has made a deal with him, he wants to use himself as a sacrifice, as a scapegoat!

But she didn't have time to resist, she had already stepped into the magic array, and a powerful force sucked her firmly in place!

And even if she wasn't sucked by the magic array, she knew that the result wouldn't change in any way, she didn't dare at all, and she was powerless to resist

Daniel watched the dark red runes light up one by one, and the female apprentice, who was usually the most silent, stood obediently within the circle range, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The time he agreed with the Extraterritorial Wanderer was coming soon, but he still had to make one last struggle, he had already arranged dozens of layers of protective magic circles in this mage tower, and set up a large number of protective spells on his body, so much protection, maybe enough to resist the arrival of the Extraterritorial Wanderer

And he also pushed Mary into the circle as a misleading medium, which is also a layer of insurance.

What if an extraterritorial wanderer discovers this "fake"?

Then put all the blame on this female apprentice, and say that she trespassed into the circle at the critical moment of the ceremony, which caused trouble to the great extraterritorial wanderer

Daniel felt that his mind was swelling, and his thoughts were slowly becoming confused, he looked at the female apprentice in the circle, and suddenly had some doubts, wondering when the other party became his apprentice, wondering why he was standing here, wondering why he wanted to hurt an innocent child

Several messy and broken images suddenly popped up in his mind, and he saw his younger self standing in a dilapidated mage tower, and saw a little girl who was only about ten years old running in front of him recklessly, and saw himself preparing food for the little girl

Daniel was stunned for a moment and immediately rushed to rescue Mary, but the moment he took action, his mind was thrown into confusion again.

The study of spells at the end of the road, the magical power of the Sleeper, the joy of seeking truth and achieving great success

He looked at Mary viciously, waiting for the moment when the protections he had set in place would stop the wanderers.

Then, his eyes shook as an endless world of clear skies and waters unfolded around him, countless massive metal platforms rising to the surface, and the Extraterritorial Wanderer stood in front of him with a smile on his face.

The protective measures he had set up had no effect at all, and Mary was not in the least useful as a misleading one.

"Lord My Lord"

The old mage's chaotic mind finally came to his senses in this virtual world, and he instantly realized how stupid his actions were, and tried to remedy it.

However, Gawain didn't care about the old mage's attitude at all, and he didn't even realize that the other party had done any protection before

Because he didn't connect to this old mage through "invasion" at all, he left an open port in the opponent's mind when he kicked the other party out of the network last time, and also dug a corresponding backdoor on the network

This is one of the results of his research on the mind network technology of the Eternal Sleeper for a period of time.

He believed that the Eternal Sleepers, who had always focused on improving their personal strength, and who still only knew how to use traditional psychic protection spells to protect their minds, would not be able to discover this new operation based on the network architecture

The old mage looked at the "Extraterritorial Wanderer" in front of him with a little surprise, and a question arose in his heart, why was this inhuman existence in front of him not angry? Isn't it an offense and a betrayal to him to protect and mislead him?

Gawain finally noticed the old mage's strangeness and casually asked, "Why are you nervous?" ”

The old mage was stunned for a moment, and quickly lowered his head: "I don't, I just feel a little panicked because I am summoned by you again." ”

He suddenly understood, and understood why the extraterritorial wanderer in front of him would ignore his "small movements".

Because this powerful being didn't feel his little resistance at all

The dozens of layers of spiritual protective barriers in the mage tower, the countless protective runes on his body, and Mary as bait, and the specially arranged ritual scene, all of which combined to produce an obstructive force that could be perceived by the "extraterritorial wanderer".

"Don't be nervous, let's sit down and talk slowly." With that ever-gentle smile, Gawain waved his hand to create a tea table, chairs, tea and snacks, and instructed Daniel to sit down.

Daniel sat down cautiously, and because of his weak heart, he didn't even bother to make eye contact with Gawain.

He heard the indifferent voice coming from the other side: "I have something for you to do. ”

"Tell Your Commands"

Gao Wen smiled, and a bunch of volumes and drawings appeared in his hand: "Don't worry, let's do two sets of big questions first." ”

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