Luna holds the ends of her dress in one hand to make sure they don't get dirty on the stairs, and holds the stone wall on the side of the stairs with the other to keep her body steady. The staircase, located inside the Sanction Mage's Tower, was previously reserved for servants, and was largely abandoned after the assassination in the square. Walking now, I can already see a slight amount of floating dust.

Climbing from the first floor of the Sanction Mage Tower to the fifth floor of the Hall of Radiance was not an easy task, unlike ordinary multi-storey buildings, each floor of the Sanction Mage Tower was more than ten meters high, and even the number of stairs with stairs was far beyond that of ordinary buildings. The physical strength it takes to climb five floors inside the Sanction Mage Tower is not good for Luna? Brewster, it's not a small number.

On the outer wall of this staircase, one person high, there are pyroxene street lamps every five meters or so, which are used for lighting and heating. In the summer, diligent servants would replace them with the finest Pyroxene stones, which emit only light and produce little to no heat. In the winter, the servants will replace it with Radiant Stones, which generate heat while emitting light to maintain the temperature of the Mage Tower. However, in Luna's eyes, most of the pyroxene on these lampstands were gone, and they were paid by the servants of the Wizard Tower.

These ugly people.

While Grand Magister Luke? Brewster's death was well kept secret, but the Square assassination was not a secret. His Majesty the Emperor later executed the soldiers who participated in the battle in various ways, but the servants and servants of the Mage Tower knew with great certainty that the Archmage Luke? Something went wrong with Brewster, and the Emperor had actually taken control of the Mage Tower. In this case, there are people like Elsa who have switched to a new master, and there are people who have suddenly disappeared quietly one night and have never been seen again.

Holding on to the wall for a moment, Luna stepped up the last few steps, and the half-open doors of the Hall of Radiance appeared in front of her. On the day of the assassination in the square, His Majesty the Emperor Paul? Gibson and Luna's teacher, Brooklyn, the director of the Mage Tower? It was here that Arquette waited for the result of Luna's activation of the magic sense, and what they were waiting for was undoubtedly not a satisfactory news for everyone.

Luna carefully held her skirt and stepped over the debris on the ground, and she even saw several magic books thrown on the ground like worthless garbage. She stopped, bent down, picked up the books one by one, dusted them off, held them in her arms, and squeezed sideways into the door of the Hall of Radiance, placing them back on the shelves.

Like the maid's staircase, the glow of the Hall of Radiance was lost, and the rest was not activated to provide light for Luna. The only light in the hall came from the sunlight that came in from the small windows that opened on both sides.

Luna settled to the bookshelf for a moment, and walked over to the activation circle, where the dense pyroxene had been stolen, leaving only the meandering formation and the ugly pits for the pyroxene. Luna stepped over the holes and lines, tucked her skirt in the center of the circle, and sat down, opening the book that was still in place.

The Book of Ludacris.

Did this human genius living in the Second Age foresee the end of the magician when he wrote this book? If it were him, how would he deal with it, and how would he deal with it?

Luna was slightly distracted. Ever since the failed assassination of His Majesty the Emperor on the day of the Fire Festival, she would come to the Hall of Radiance every day to sit for a while, trying to find the gap and open the door. Now, more than a month later, she can't clearly recall what she felt like on the day of the Fire Festival, and what the faint gap looked like. But for her Luna? For Brewster, there wasn't much he could do for the dead mage tower other than trying to activate his own magic sense.

Closing her eyes, clearing her mind, and silently reciting the induction incantation in her consciousness, Luna groped in the darkness, searching for the once-fleeting sensation. But no matter how hard Luna tries, she can't find her way, and it feels like drowning in a dark river, cold and suffocating despair.

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Two hours later, Luna woke up.

She found herself lying on the floor of the Hall of Light, one side chilling from contact with the stony floor, the book of Ludacis lying silently not far from her, watching her silently. Again, she fell asleep while trying to activate the magic sense.

The light from the high window turned dim, and Luna froze for a moment, dusting off the dirt and leaving the hall.

Back at her residence on the second floor of Fabria House, Luna allows her maids, Mellen and Lavielle, to change her clothes. She grabbed a mage novel and sat by the window, reading it while waiting for Brooklyn to return. Reading novels has been a hobby she's taken up lately, and when she was the first apprentice, she had spent all her time with magic, teaching, and magic sense, and she had no time to do such extravagant entertainment. Now that Luke is gone, the Mage Tower is dead, and there is no need to worry about magic sense, no more reading those obscure magic books, and even those schoolchildren, Luna doesn't know where Brooklyn has placed them. A lot of time is abundant, so she quickly entered the world of these entertainment novels.

Flipping through a few pages of the book in her hand, Luna couldn't help but sigh. This book tells the story of a free man from a poor family who is almost reduced to a serf, who accidentally meets the Grand Magus, overcomes many obstacles, becomes an apprentice of the Magister, and finally activates the magic sense. There is a lot of speculation and inaccuracies in the content of the book, but the plot is intriguing and the experiences of the main characters are wonderful. As a true apprentice of magic, Luna sometimes feels that her life is not as interesting as the protagonist's tenth.

After a few more pages, the protagonist sleeps with a beautiful maid in a tavern, the descriptions are naked and direct, and Luna glances twice and looks out the window. Her mentor, Brooklyn, has been going to the palace a lot lately, and every time she comes back, she is not in a high mood, and sometimes she cries. Luna could probably guess what was going on. The main characters of the Mage Tower are all women, beautiful and beautiful women, and when they lose the protection of the Magister, Luna can guess what will happen.

"Jingle bell—"

As Brooklyn's carriage chimes from far and near, Luna puts down the novel and gallops downstairs to greet Brooklyn into her room. Her mentor walks staggeringly, visibly drunk, much to Luna's surprise. Because as far as she knew, Brooklyn never drank.

Luna...... You, you...... Listen to me", Brooklyn remained largely conscious, and she staggered as she put her hands on Luna's shoulders.

"Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor wants to give you as a prize, give a prize, give a prize to the generals and generals who were the first to capture Tulucas and enter the Negro Republic, I won't let you, but I, I don't have ...... There is no way. You-"

Brooklyn couldn't finish what she was trying to say, and fell asleep on Luna's bed. Luna helped her to the bed, slippers, covered with a blanket, and sat back by the window, looking at the novel called "The Dragon Hunter" on the small table, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Archmage Luke's twelve magician apprentices, Elsa married to Daun? Gibson and Susulia committed suicide, Windella and Kajelina were called to the palace by the emperor and were not heard from, and the rest of the people have been in a state of panic lately. They were selected to be apprentices because of their talent and appearance, and they had an incomparably bright future, but they lost the trajectory of their lives because of the death of a person. Luna didn't know how many times something like this would happen, and who else would happen to her, and sometimes she even felt that these women in the entire Mage Tower had become the bargaining chips of the perverted emperor, and they were playing out one by one, helping him win people's hearts, help him satisfy his selfish desires, and help him control the country.

The protagonist of the novel has a very rare name called Dragon. The Magister he encounters is a woman with large breasts and a thin waist, and a dragon maid who can transform into a silver-haired beauty. Looking at the plot of the novel, the protagonist sooner or later has to conquer his own magister and her beautiful pet and reach the pinnacle of life.

Luna opened the book, closed it again, opened it, closed it again. She stood up from the window and called her maid, Merron.

"You can help me get a set of your clothes, you need to be clean, you can go out."

Meren glanced up at her, paused for a few seconds, and then looked down again.

At night, Luna asks to go out as usual, but is denied by the Emperor's guards. She feigned anger and returned to her room and found Melen and Avril who were already waiting there.

"Meimei, you put on my clothes, sit by the window, and read a novel as I usually do. Lavielle, you'll take me out later. ”

"But my lord, the guards—" Merron was surprised, trying to stop.

"Is the guard your lord or am I your lord?" Luna blocked Merlen's mouth with a word, "Listen to me, I'm going out for a walk, it's too suffocating here!" ”

Meren and Lavielle see that Luna is determined and can't stop her. As Luna instructed, one sits by the window pretending to be Luna, while the other leads Luna, who has changed into Melen's clothes, and plans to exit through the main entrance of the first floor of the Fabria Building.

Luna's hair is combed into the same bun as Merlen's, and she wears the hair ornament of the Maid of the Mage Tower. The hair ornament was not small, and it basically blocked all of her hair. Without saying a word, she followed Lavielle's footsteps past the guards at the door.

Yes, this way.

"Hey, those two chicks!"

Luna was startled by the sudden sound behind her, and she stood still, not knowing what to do. Lavielle, who was walking in front of her, turned around and said behind her with a smile.

"Do you have any instructions for you?"

"It's not an adult, it's not an adult," the voice behind him laughed, getting closer and closer. Luna sees a figure walk past her and grabs Raviel into her arms. Her eyes widened, surprised at what she saw.

When did the Emperor's soldiers dare to openly flirt with the Magister's maids?

But just as she was thinking about it, someone grabbed her waist from behind, put a big hand on her buttocks, and pinched it fiercely. The strength was so great that Luna couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Only then did she realize that there were two guards guarding the door.

"My lord, please don't do this, Luc? Mistress Giles will know. ”

It was obviously not the first time that Raviel had experienced such a thing, and she deftly raised a name and controlled the behavior of the two guards.

"And, that gelding of Gilles, if you don't do it yourself, you still take care of us, you wait for me, sooner or later, one day the master will be on you, the two of you together!"

The soldier in the lead grabbed Ravier's chest, turned his head and cursed back. The man who grabbed Luna did the same, pinched her chest hard, and blew in her ear before turning away. Raviel waited for the two of them to leave before pulling Luna out of Fabria House.

"How can they do this!"

That's when Luna relented. Although the two soldiers who supervised themselves usually did not let themselves go out, they were also respectful when they saw them. I didn't expect to treat my maid like this in private. She was angry, but she didn't know how to start, and her tone was a little anxious.

"I'm sorry for the frightening, sir. Luc? Gilles is the leader of the palace guard of the mage Tari, he is not so anxious, he can still control these ruffians, and if this happens again, just mention his name. ”

"Then let them bully you like that?"

"My lord, we can't help it, these are okay. In the first few days, several sisters were taken away by them in the middle of the night, and some never returned. Lord Giles came, and whipped a few of the leading soldiers, which was a little more reassuring to everyone. Your identity is there, and they usually don't dare to harass you, but it's good that we can keep our bodies. ”

"No, I'll have to tell them about it."

Luna was still a little dissatisfied, but she knew that it was useless to talk about it. The two of them silently walked through the annex to a small door used by servants on the west side of the mage's tower.

"My lord, it's here. You can get out from here. The soldiers don't care much about this door, just remember to come back tomorrow morning. ”

Raviel stopped at the door, admonished, hesitated, and added.

"My lord, it's not that good out there, do you want to think about it again?"

"What do you think? Do you think the dead emperor is going to marry me to some stupid pig? ”

Luna cursed under her breath and pushed the door open. The wind in the night poured in through the crack in the open door with her movements, and blew on her face, making her a little chilly.

"Okay, I'm leaving, you can go back."

"My lord, I'm waiting for you here!"

Raviel's final admonition is locked in the door by Luna. She took a few quick steps through the fence and into the block across the small door. Many of the people living in this neighborhood are ordinary people who serve the Mage Tower, and the population is quite large, and the environment is not too bad. Luna took a few turns around the corner before stopping.

She reached out and touched her purse, then the small package hidden under her clothes, and smiled softly.

Goodbye, Mage Tower.

Goodbye, my past life.