The tower has a total of 99 floors, and the entire building serves as both the royal palace and the government hall of Yassel, with ministers working on the lower 90 floors and the upper 9 floors belonging to the royal family.

As the planks slowly rose, one empty room after another flickered before Oreo's eyes, and the more he went up, the more solemn and luxurious the decoration became.

As the journey nears its end, Oreo inexplicably feels that all the efforts he has made over the years have been to walk up this astrological tower, as if the end had already been predestined.

The hinges overhead made a screeching sound, and the plank slowed its upward spiral, and it climbed a few blocks in the last inch before coming to a halt one step from the previous one.

Oreo took off the black robe on his body, and under the robe was still the Tutan robe, and there was nothing on the shoulders of the robe, which his father had been wearing since he was stripped of his teaching position.

He walked forward step by step with his cane, this level was a royal road, on both sides were placed tables and chairs with gold carvings and jade pecks, he continued to walk forward, at the end of the royal road was the throne carved by jade, the curtains on both sides of the throne swayed in the wind, and the throne was empty.

Oreo reached out and touched it, and there was a thin layer of dust on his hands.

He lowered his right hand and went up the staircase behind the throne, where his father had spent a brief time and who vaguely remembered the layout of the palace.

On the second and third floors is the ballroom, where the lights are off, and through the starlight peeking in through the cracks in the windows, Oreo can see the tables and chairs.

In the past, when it was lively, it was crowded with ministers, everyone gathered around the table to talk and laugh, the coolly dressed palace maids danced in the pool in the center of the second floor, and the father would usually sit on the third floor, patting him on the shoulder while pointing at a certain palace maid and laughing.

Oreo withdrew his gaze, and he raised his guard and headed upstairs. The defense in the palace is too lax, Angelo is not a nervous person, he will definitely treat uninvited guests like himself well.

A few floors above belonged to Angelo's private domain, where the staircase had been replaced by stone and metal, the pale blue metal was inlaid with blue lines, and from time to time you could see the flow of blue magic spreading all the way up.

It was a realm of spells that had been built over the years by dozens of spell masters, and in which only the ruler of the Emperor's Token could capture the magical elements in the air.

But unfortunately, this realm needs energy to maintain, and the spell core on the sixty-seventh floor of the astrological tower has been dismantled by Albert, and this realm relies on the remaining energy to operate, and it will not last long.

"Oreo Pravor."

The voice of the old man came from the end of the stairs, where stood an old man with gray hair, and a blond goddess embroidered on his shoulder.

Harold, the current Bishop of Tutan, Oreo has seen him, and his status in the empire is only higher than that of Monin, but he didn't expect Angelo to arrange such a big man to come to him.

Harold bowed his head.

"Your Majesty is waiting for you inside."

"Heh, wait for me inside."

Oreo smiled sarcastically and didn't look at Harold.

The door in front of him had been opened by the maid, and the noisy wind poured in from the distant terrace, and they peeked through the candles and beaded curtains like ghosts, and peeked out of the window beside Oreo with an eerie chill.

Stopping by the window, Oreo stretched out his right hand, and there was the sound of birds fluttering outside the window, and those black gospels flew out of the window one after another, hovering behind Oreo like crows, and the pages rattled.

He glanced at Harold, then walked forward.

"Babble".

The maid gently closed the door, and the noise in the corridor was cut off, and the whole room fell silent in an instant, except for the sound of canes hitting the carpet.

On the terrace in the distance, a figure in a white robe slowly turned around, he was also wearing a white robe, his blonde hair was draped down his shoulders, his eyes were lowered, and his dark blue pupils were faintly visible.

But he opened his eyes, and the fiery red stars cut through the air like sharp blades, and he glanced at the black gospels behind Oreo, which turned the pages uncontrollably like frightened birds with feathers up.

He pointed to the only table and ordered.

"Sit."

Oreo sat down, placed his cane on the table, and looked at Angelo through the candlelight, who sat down across from him, and clapped his hands gently.

The sound of wheels came from far and near, and soon a handcart appeared in the candlelight, on which were placed two inverted iron towers made of entwined wires, like some ancient handicraft.

Oreo knows this thing, it's the Tower of the Elements, a training tool used by beginners in spells to improve their mastery of magic.

Angelo did like to tease him with this thing when he was a child, and now it seems that she wants to use it to play the warm card with him.

Oreo didn't say anything, just stared at Angelo quietly, he had expected the latter to show an embarrassed expression, but he still underestimated Angelo too much.

Angelo took a tower from the cart and whispered.

"Do you want to play a game?"

The tone was even the same as it had been seven or eight years ago, and Oreo wanted to pull out his cane and shoot Angelo, but he said it in a ghostly way.

"Okay."

He took down another elemental tower, which was divided into dozens of levels by tiny wires, and the magician had to fill it with magical elements from the bottom up, with one at the bottom. Due to the limitation of the magic flow, the condensed elements do not slip from the wire, and at this time, the spellcaster has to fill the second layer with two magic elements.

Magical elements of the magnitude of each other, they will attract each other, and the sorcerer needs to keep each layer of elements in each other's place, and this subtle elemental control is essential for a sorcerer.

It is rare for beginners in spells to be able to pile up to the third layer, and they already have the qualifications to master high-level magic when they reach the fifth layer, and as for the dozens of layers above, no one except for madmen will be willing to spend time on this.

Angelo sat up straight.

"Then there begins."

"Okay."

Oreo knew that Angelo must have a conspiracy, but there were nearly 100,000 resentful spirits collected in these black gospels behind him, and he alone was a thousand troops, and Angelo without the forbidden realm was not even a fart, and he was seriously injured.

The elemental towers in front of the two of them lit up at the same time, and each wire lit up with a light blue halo, this thing was not only used to interfere with the vision, but also played a timekeeping role, the time of the first layer was ten seconds, and if it exceeded this time, the light blue light would go out.

The number of elements required to go up each layer doubles, and the time it takes doubles, but the attraction between elements increases exponentially, and the difficulty is more than just multiplying by two.

Almost just a trance, the fiery red halo continued to climb in the elemental tower in front of Angelo, because of the continuous action of mutual repulsion, each fire element was trembling sharply, as long as Angelo was not careful, this elemental tower would collapse instantly.

Like Angelo, Oreo quickly filled the first ten floors of the Tower of the Elements, after which his speed slowed down visibly, as each floor would be filled with thousands of magical elements, and with each ascending level, the attraction of the elements below would change again, and he would have to put thousands of efforts into keeping each element in place.

Fine beads of sweat slowly seeped down the corners of his forehead, and Angelo on the other side was no better, his blonde hair was messily on his forehead, and his blue eyes were trembling with the trembling of the fire elemental.

Oreo glanced at the grandfather clock not far away, he had spent more than fifteen minutes on the eleventh layer, he only had less than two minutes, but there were still three hundred elements that had not been piled up on the eleventh layer, and it was probably too late in time.

He glanced at the staff in front of him, according to the rules, the sorcerer could use all his power to complete the stacking of elements, but Angelo hadn't drawn the staff yet, and he didn't want to fall into his mouth.

But before a while, Angelo reached in front of him with trembling fingers, he pulled a pendant from his neck and held it in his hand, and since then the speed of elemental accumulation has increased visibly to the naked eye, and he has not looked at Oreo the whole time, just staring at the elemental tower in front of him with fanatical eyes.

Oreo followed and grasped the scheme, and the crumbling elemental tower gradually stabilized, and one water elemental after another condensed from the air, filling the eleventh layer like a beam of light.

The blue light on the Tower of the Elements flickered slightly, and soon turned bright again.

This is already the twelfth layer of the Elemental Tower, Oreo has read stories about the Emperor of East Iqla in ancient books, it is said that East Ikra VII is the most talented being in the Ikra Empire, and at the peak of his spell prowess he was able to fill the twelve layers of the Elemental Tower.

Oreo had never believed this before, because he thought it was an artistically processed rumor, but now it's not impossible.

Just a distraction, the water elemental in the middle was already jumping violently, it was on the verge of collapse, it could burrow into the air or merge with other elements at any moment, and in order to calm the manic water elemental, Oreo had to reposition the rest of the elements, which alone took him ten minutes.

The water elementals continued to lay out, and before those water elementals could fill two-thirds of the twelfth floor, Oreo's fingers had gone from stiffness to numbness, and he gradually lost the perception of his body, and the entire elemental tower was on the verge of collapse.

That's the end of it.

Oreo shuddered and raised his head to keep the Elemental Tower steady, and Angelo continued, his progress a cut slower than Oreo's.

The fire elemental was more violent than the water elemental, and theoretically he would have to exert far more energy than Oreo, beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, and he didn't seem to sense his embarrassment, still staring intently at the elemental tower in front of him.

As the minutes passed, Angelo's stacking speed became slower and slower, and the fire elemental in the center of the Elemental Tower had already flickered, but Angelo had no time to control the position of the rest of the elements, so he chose to continue stacking backwards.

Every time he piled up a fire elemental in front of him, the flickering fire element would cause a circle of surrounding elements to start flickering, which was already a sign that he was on the verge of collapse.

Angelo took a deep breath, the elemental tower in front of him seemed to be disturbed by breathing, and a large area of fire elemental continued to flicker, but Angelo still didn't stop, he piled another fire element on the top.

With the addition of this fire elemental, the entire elemental tower flickered in unison, and Angelo only lasted five seconds before the entire elemental tower collapsed, and a slight heat wave swept in front of the two of them.

"1698."

Oreo had been counting Angelo, and he held on for more than three seconds, so the last fire elemental could also be counted, which happened to be two more than his water elemental.

Angelo smiled with relief, sweat oozing from under her skin.

"I won."

"Yes, you won."

Oreo nodded in agreement, and the elemental tower in front of him also collapsed, and he pulled out a black gospel from behind him, the pages of the book flipped, and the black energy flowed into the staff like a vortex, and the vast sea of stars spread rapidly in the depths of Oreo's pupils.

Angelo was not surprised when he saw the magic circle in Oreo's eyes, but spread out his right hand, revealing the pendant in his palm, with this thing, Oreo couldn't cast any spells at all.

But he actually put it down.

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