07 Tower
"Hmm...... It hurts......"
In the dark and smelly room of 'Silence of Everything', a vague voice suddenly broke the silence that had lasted for a long time, and then a hand reached up, grabbed the table, and pulled its owner up with force, revealing Inter's trance-like face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's ...... Where ......"
He muttered to himself vaguely, trying to see his surroundings wide as far as he could see, but there was only a vague darkness as far as he could see.
Of the three, he had the strongest magic resistance, so he woke up first. But how could the magic that Fifian had cast be ordinary? Even though he was awake now, he couldn't even stand on his feet, and his eyes scurried disobediently, and he couldn't get the focus right.
"Woo......"
After working hard for a long time, there was still chaos in front of his eyes, and the little physical strength he had just recovered was quickly exhausted, and the surrounding scenery suddenly spun around, making him feel a pang of boredom in his chest, and he couldn't help but bow up with a whimper, ready to vomit -
Smack!
A strange sound suddenly sounded behind him, and the poor magic apprentice had just thought of the thought of 'what sound', and a violent impact spread throughout his body, making him suddenly like a rabbit struck by lightning, and then fell straight to the ground after a few violent beats, smashing countless fine white dust flying on the ground
Under the light scattered by the dust, three dark shadows slowly appeared in the inner chamber of 'Everything is Silent'.
"Mr. Linax, you're too heavy!" Fifian, who was standing at the front, complained dissatisfiedly as he applied a healing magic glowing with a soft white light to Intere's body, "This human is Doug's very important tool, if you are stupid by your magic, it will take a lot of time to find him!"
"He's going to throw up, I just don't want to dirty my shop. ”
Linax, who had returned to human form, responded absentmindedly, his fair and elegant face without much expression, his brow furrowed slightly, and a gloomy aura enveloped his body in his contemplation—he had been like this since he knew that Doug's followers were only himself and Fifian, and he seemed to have been thinking about something.
Doug watched coldly, and couldn't help but shake his head - this dragon lich, oh no, demigod @Linax, is actually very old, why is his heart so small, and he can't let go of such a little thing?
"Linax,"
After thinking about it for a moment, Doug decided that it was better to solve the problem as soon as possible. In his eyes, Linax, who has lived alone for thousands of years, is much more reliable than Fifian, who often goes off the line at critical moments, and after becoming an apostle, he can neither betray himself, nor has an embarrassing relationship with himself such as 'Lines of Restraint', and is a subordinate who needs to be taken very seriously:
"You've been waiting for almost a thousand years, what can you do if you wait for another hundred or more decades? I heard the speaker of the Wright Empire say that the total population of the Wright Empire alone has now exceeded 30 million, and it will only be more than 600,000 believers in the future—I don't believe that with our ability, we won't be able to make up even 600,000 believers by then!"
After adding a powerful apostle and opening up some of the knowledge of the gods, Doug's ambition unconsciously swelled and began to want to become a real god.
“...... I am not dissatisfied with you, my Lord God. ”
After a moment of silence, Linax said unexpectedly, "After hundreds of years of desperate prayers, I am very satisfied to meet the new ruler of the world's fulcrum again...... As you said, time doesn't mean much to me, and waiting for a thousand years and waiting for two thousand years has little impact – I'm worried about something else. ”
"Oh?" Doug raised an eyebrow, his face grimacing. It would certainly not be a trivial matter to make a powerful existence like Linax worry about it: "What worries you so much?"
"It's Barones, my master. ”
Linax's handsome face slowly lifted, and he said a name that made Doug's heart tighten, and his crystal black eyes looked up at the roof of 'All Things Silence', as if he saw the stars in the sky directly through everything: "What happened between the gods, even the mighty Barons is nowhere to be found?...... If you don't know this, it's not good for us!"
“...... You're right. ”
Doug nodded solemnly, couldn't help but follow Linax's gaze, and also looked up at the ceiling of 'Everything is silent', pretending to put on a contemplative expression, but secretly asked the little girl: "Fifian, do you know anything?"
Fifian is a soul from a time when magic technology was extremely expansive four hundred years later, when people were even able to force the gods into an equal agreement, and perhaps provide some information.
"Oh, I only have the 'official account' provided by the gods here. ”
Fei Fei replied with a smile. After the events of Byronnes, she had a faint sense of something, and she had become very skeptical about the authenticity of these 'official histories': "According to the gods, the god of conservation—well, now we know that his name is Byron Earns—was originally one of the ancient gods of this plane, but because he was such a useless priesthood, he could not attract believers at all, and gradually weakened, and the godhead gradually weakened, and finally died out naturally. ”
“...... That's what all the accounts say?"
Doug quickly spotted the point, his eyes frozen, "None of the gods left any 'different' records?"
"Yes, the gods say almost identically. Fifian nodded slightly, a look of remembrance flashed in her big eyes, and after a moment she shook her head: "...... No, there is nothing different in the textbooks I have studied. ”
"So, this is a 'collective action' of the gods!"
Doug was stunned, only to feel a cold air rushing up from under his feet, instantly cold to his heart, and finally remembered that there were new subordinates next to him, and the expression on his face remained unchanged, but there was a storm in his heart - according to the information provided by Fifian, the disappearance of Byron was likely to be an event jointly planned by the gods, at least it was led by several main gods, otherwise, the records of the gods would not be so 'neat'!
Linax beside him heard his self-talk, cast an inquiring look, Doug smiled dryly, avoided his question, turned his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes flashed - it seems that his road to becoming a god who was forced to win the lottery really needs to be cautious and cautious! Now the abilities of several main gods have increased correspondingly with the expansion of the number of believers, even if he has the same magical powers as his predecessor Byrones, I am afraid that he still does not dare to move, not to mention that his hands are empty now, except for two believers......
However, he is not completely without advantages, according to Fifian, after four hundred years, the magic technology of human beings can already compete with the gods, although he may not be able to 'copy' the same technology, but with the efforts of Fifian and Linax, who is also a research madman, he can at least have one or two trump cards, so they have to be afraid, right?
After carefully analyzing his situation, Doug, who felt that it was not too bad, exhaled a little comfortingly, and turned his head to see Fifian looking at him with big clear eyes:
"What about these people?"
She pointed to the three magic apprentices on the ground and asked, "I didn't expect it to take so long in the Sea of Sorrows, and some of them have already woken up...... It's a hassle to explain!"
"Leave it to me. ”
Linax spoke lightly, and without waiting for Doug to agree, he approached the three apprentices with graceful steps: "I have some research on illusions, and I can make a realistic false memory for them - 'How about drinking the boss's treasured elixir and falling asleep and waking up feeling full of magic in his body'?"
"Just keep them suspicious. ”
Doug nodded indifferently as Linax easily sent three balls of light into the foreheads of several magic apprentices: "In the future, I will also need them as cover for my activities in Xi'an, so-"
'Beep-'''
A small voice suddenly sounded around them, and Fifian's little face showed a puzzled expression, and he quickly pulled out the pendant that hung from the necklace around his neck—it was glittering and shining—and then pressed it to his forehead, closing his eyes and listening to something.
Linax saw this novel pendant, his bright black eyes suddenly showed a warm look, and he was engrossed in studying its structure, and the gloom around him was swept away, and Doug shook his head slightly, and couldn't help but sigh again.
Research freak, tsk!
Fifian suddenly opened her eyes, and the expression on her little face was complicated: "Something's wrong! we must rush back to the Tower of Overlook!" she hurriedly grabbed Doug's hand and began to chant a flying spell to prepare for the magical teleportation array to fly to Xi'an—but she stopped again as Linax gracefully swiped his white fingers in the air, easily opening a 'door' in the void.
"Some of the godheads I have can manipulate the space, and as long as you can find a familiar aura location, you can teleport...... Although the distance is relatively short. ”
He explained with a faint smile, and stepped through the door first.
"What's wrong?"
Doug then followed, frowning slightly as he asked Fifian on his shoulder. After the thrilling journey of the Sea of Sorrows, the little girl had quickly developed the bad habit of climbing onto his shoulders as soon as she could run—but it seemed that he had also begun to get used to it.
"Something happened to the Tower of Overlook—" Fifian replied a little absent-mindedly, "Billyne has sent a message that the entire tower is about to be torn down!"
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"The whole tower is almost demolished...... Right?"
In the dim, damp, and smelly basement, Rabina @ Alexent muttered to himself as she sorted out her dusty snow-white beard while feeling the constant vibrations on the ground, and her heart hurt as if it were dripping blood - it would cost a lot more to rebuild the Mage Tower than an ordinary building!
"Mentor, the data is out!"
An apprentice in a tattered mage robe and his head covered in dust and sweat squeezed over with a large bundle of paper in his arms and sweating profusely - the people who were still working in the tower at the time of the incident are now basically blocked here, squeezing a large basement into a miasma, and after three days, it is even more full of all kinds of peculiar smells, and hell is almost like this: "The attack power has only increased by 100%...... If we have enough 'Babel Stone', according to this design, the attack power should be at least 300%!"
Obviously, this is an apprentice who is fortunate enough to participate in the core project, as soon as he said this, the sharp eyes of the innocently implicated apprentices around him suddenly pierced him, and all the angry eyes were telling the same message - 300%?
"Mentor!"
Huo Di, an apprentice fire war mage with red eyes and heavy breathing like an ox, stood up, and for three days in a row, eating, drinking, and sleeping in this damn cellar, his self-control was about to be worn out: "Please allow us to go out and subdue it!
"No way!"
Without even thinking about it, Rabina firmly rejected the student's proposal: "You know what! That's a bunch of walking gold coins! Four-fifths of the storage materials of the Tower of Overhead are used, and that thing is now worth more than the whole tower! In case any of you are not careful...... Bear with me, and the new control crystal ball will be made soon!"
"But Mentor, if we continue like this, I'm afraid that we can't help but blow ourselves up before the new control crystal ball is made!"
The apprentice was still red-eyed, and he refused to retreat from his neck, and the apprentices around him began to clamor and demanded to fight. People who study fire are already short-tempered, and now everyone is crowded in such a small and aggrieved place, and the stinking sewage is flowing sideways - magicians are also human - and then rubbing each other a little bit or something will add fuel to the fire, and they are basically almost at a critical point.
"Oh, is the self-explosion so serious?" Rabina twisted her snow-white beard and looked at her red eyes, finally realizing that the apprentices in the basement were really on the verge of exploding: "It seems that I didn't think it through and didn't notice your ability to bear it...... Well. ”
"Yes, yes, we're really putting up with it, Mentor!"
Seeing that the instructor seemed to be showing signs of loosening, the students' eyes lit up and they echoed excitedly, only the apprentice who came to report the data swallowed with a strange expression and quietly took a few steps back.
"Well, you are my students after all, and I feel very uncomfortable watching you suffer!"
After a moment of silence, Rabina showed a determined expression, looked at the students who were waiting for his decision with hope, and slowly raised his hand: "-In the name of my Rabina, the law @ Elemental Grabbing!"
As soon as the voice fell, the group of magic apprentices in front of them suddenly let out a miserable wail, and the magical elements in their bodies flowed out like a flood that opened the floodgates, and in an instant their bodies became empty, and they fell to the ground softly - those who stood in clean places were fine, and those apprentices who were more unlucky enough to stand in less 'tidy' places could only stare at each other motionless, speechless and choked with tears.
The apprentice who came to report the data had an expression of 'I knew it would be like this', and hid far away, secretly glad to exhale air.
"That won't be painful, right?!"
Rabina casually kneaded the elements he had taken from the apprentices into a multicolored ball of light, and as he played, his mind returned to the most important thing: "How's the new control crystal ball progressing?"
He turned his head to ask the apprentice magician who had come to report the data.
"Uh, not ideal—"
Slight beads of sweat immediately appeared on the face of the apprentice who was asked, and after hesitating for a moment, he weighed the pros and cons and decided that it was better to tell the truth: "Actually, it is not ideal - in order not to be cracked by the enemy, we added an extremely complex encryption system, but after the crystal ball was destroyed by that cunning guy, everyone moved, uh, and retreated in a hurry, and a lot of information was not brought with it...... Now it's actually a matter of luck, if you're lucky, you might be able to do it right away, but if you're unlucky, you're ......."
"Humph!"
Rabina snorted coldly, and under her white eyebrows, her wrinkled eyes flashed: "If you can't finish it, hmm?!"
He paused suddenly, then grabbed his chest, gasped a little quickly, and his pale face startled the apprentice next to him, and hurriedly ran over to support his shaky body:
"Mentor?!Are you alright?"
The apprentice's face was full of anxiety, and he was about to cry. If something happens to Rabina, the pillar of Rabina, suddenly happens in this situation, things are really out of control - the monster will have to rely on the monster to deal with it in the end!
"I'm fine!"
Rabina's snow-white beard trembled, and after taking a few deep breaths, his face quickly returned to normal: "I just suddenly realized that if the crystal ball can't be completed in time, I will be forced to destroy a lot of gold coins with my own hands - just thinking about it, my heart immediately feels like a thousand blades are cutting, and it hurts so much!"
“......”
The apprentice retracted his hand, and suddenly felt an inexplicable urge to draw some black lines on his face.
"Mentor!"
At this time, the shouts of excitement came, and three more apprentices ran over from the improvised laboratory in the basement, all of them were sloppy and haggard, with deep-set eyes, and the leader was holding a jet-black crystal ball excitedly, with an irrepressible look of excitement on his face: "It's done! Mentor, I'm done! I passed all the tests at once, and this time I will definitely be able to control that guy perfectly-ah!!"
After three days of hard work in the dark basement, some of his dazzling eyes did not see clearly the victims of the 'elemental grabbing' lying on the ground, and the tragedy naturally happened, the apprentice only felt a sudden trip under his feet, and then the surrounding scenery began to spin, and the newly completed control crystal ball seemed to have its own will, and escaped from his palm without hesitation, and rushed straight towards the ground-