Chapter 1: Inside and Outside the Circle
Lorenzo is in the middle of a dark ruin, surrounded by a maze of roads.
In the past, it seems that there were a lot of lighting hedrons here, but by now, the hedrons have long since lost their energy and turned into powder.
What kept the light around him alive now was a small golden crystal, and the warm light emanated from the crystal, giving people a sense of serenity. There was also a small golden figure sitting on it, which also radiated light.
It was the image of a short-haired woman, with one foot on tiptoe at the sharpest point above the crystal, her hands clasped to her chest and watching Lorenzo go about his work.
But Lorenzo, who was shining in the light, described himself as embarrassed, there were several pieces of blood on his face, and the mage robe on his body had long been torn, and it could be seen from the laceration in the robe that someone had cut a hole in his abdomen with a sword, and now although the blood had stopped, his face was frighteningly white because of the blood loss.
Lorenzo also seemed to have an injury on his leg, and he limped over to a formation at the entrance in front of him, and took out a few high-quality magic crystals from the storage ring, replacing the crystals that were already fading on the running circle.
But he wasn't the most miserable one here, for in the corner behind him lay on the ground a man in a temple robe, his priestly robes covered with burns, his head tilted to one side, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
"Your movements are too slow, if your hand speed and accuracy can be increased by another twenty percent, the attrition rate of the magic crystal can be reduced by another five percent. The little man on the crystal said in a cold tone.
"Don't you see I'm all hurt?" Lorenzo raised his hand with irritation in his tone, "Look, I've even hurt here!"
"There have been three times in my life that I have been more miserable than yours, but even at that time, I was still faster than you. The last time, my hand had been cut off by the lackeys of the Divine City, and I used my spiritual power to set up the array, which was still five percent faster than you are now. The villain chattered that she was none other than the Tower of Runes, one of the most powerful array mages in the Seven Towers era, "Now is the best time for you to improve your strength, and the experience of life and death in this kind of life and death is worth sitting in the laboratory for a year." ”
"Senior, have you been hidden for too long, haven't you spoken for thousands of years, and are you crazy?"
"No, no, no, I just think that the juniors of the Seven Towers are too unsatisfactory, and I feel a little ashamed when I think that you are the successor of the Fu Tower and the most powerful array mage in the world. It's not just you, but the formation mages of this era are too ashamed. Virgina said this without any sarcastic tone, but it made Lorenzo feel even more annoyed.
"Didn't you say that Taling was deprived of emotion? How could you have so much ...... Emotional words. Despite being injured and talking nonsense with this unknown villain, Lorenzo's opponent is still very consistent.
"No, no, no, it's not nonsense, and there's no point of looking down on you, I'm just stating the facts, and it's data-backed facts. Virgina said earnestly.
Lorenzo straightened up, glanced at the villain behind him, and said, "Would you like to demonstrate it?"
"Are you sure?" asked Virgina.
Before Lorenzo could reply, he saw that the pile of hedrons he had taken out of the storage ring earlier for spare time moved on its own, flying into the formation at an extremely fast speed. Not only that, but the materials he had placed in the formation also moved, adding a third of the content to the outside of his formation.
Lorenzo watched Virgina's movements, and was shocked in her heart, as a tower spirit without a body, she used her mental power to set up the formation faster than herself. And there was at least a third of the content of those additional formations that he couldn't understand. He only knew that the overall effectiveness of his phantom array, which was used to delay the pursuers, had been greatly increased, and the coverage had also become larger, and the resonance between the control array around him and the effect arrays he had previously arranged in various parts of the ruins had also been strengthened a lot.
"You're really fast. Lorenzo admitted.
"I'm better than you, and I'm telling the truth. Virgina said in a flat tone.
Lorenzo suddenly had a feeling of pity, he would rather her previous words had been said in a mocking tone. That at least shows that she is still a complete person.
He squatted down, looked at the formation carefully, pointed to a few places above with his finger and asked, "What are these magic texts and structures for, I have never seen them." ”
"This is something I've always invented, and it's called the rule maintenance structure. ”
"Rules maintain structure?" Lorenzo was completely unsure.
"Thousands of years ago, after the defeat of the God-killing War, and Wilfredo, the Sage of the Tower of Runes who protected me, was killed by the people of the Temple of Nature, I fell into the hands of the Golden Bough Priests, who spent a lot of time studying me. Of course, the super holy weapon that the Seven Towers worked so hard to create was not so easy to crack, and even if they wanted to destroy me, they couldn't do it. Because the Seven Towers themselves are things that transcend this dimension. However, when they were studying me, I used some small means to learn some truths about the God-killing War. Asiros of the Tower of Origins is right, the gods of nature really have the means to neutralize magical runes. Therefore, it was not alarmist for them to propose to use the Origin Spell to fight back then. Unfortunately, it was already late.
However, there is a more important issue here. It is relatively easy to cast other spells with the source, but it is very difficult for the formation to become the source spell. Even if it is done in the end, the cost is often significant. For example, there are many magic circles in the Seven Towers itself, and it is a big problem for them to be able to work after the God of Nature severes the connection with the demon text.
Later, the remaining Sages of the Tower of Runes snatched me out and hid me again, putting the clues to the hiding place in the three holy books. ”
Lorenzo nodded, now the Tower of China is a method of using miniature high-quality hedron instead of runes to simulate the origin spell casting method to drive the magic circle, which is costly, inefficient, and easily damaged.
"So, for thousands of years in this ruin, I've been deducing this problem in the Tower of Runes. For example, how do you cut off the water supply and keep the water in the ditch?"
Lorenzo said: "Then we have to have another water source -- let's say another water tower near the ditch, or build a reservoir?"
Virgina nodded, "That's right, that's it, it seems that your brain is more flexible than your hands." The regular maintenance structure you see now is an additional reservoir!"