It is a magic tower built on the top of a high mountain.

From the bottom up, you can't see the edge of the magic tower at all, you can only look up at the light blue clouds that linger next to the tower all year round, which is actually the thin arcane energy radiating from the magic tower, extending from the top of the tower to the unknowable sky.

Legend has it that standing on the top floor of the magic tower is like being in the vast starry sky of the dimensional universe, and you can reach out and pick a shining star.

This is also the origin of the name of this magnificent magic tower--- [Star Tower].

However, Kepler, who has lived in the tower for more than a hundred years, knows that legends are legends after all, and the top floor of the Star Tower is not as far away as the world imagines, and the truth is that space magic and terrain create an illusion of vision.

The true height of the Star Tower is actually only a little over 700 meters, which is really nothing in the buildings of the City of Dawn that are often calculated in units of 100 meters, maybe not low, but it is by no means an exaggeration to the point of picking stars.

The so-called "astrology" never refers to the tower, but to the astrologers in the tower.

Like those obscure predecessors in history. Kepler was born with the ability to dialysis the main star of fate, and liked to look up at the stars, which is not a so-called romantic feeling, but an innate instinct.

The starry sky in the eyes of ordinary people is brilliant, magnificent and mysterious, which is admirable and fascinating.

But in the eyes of astrologers, the picture of the stars is expressed in a large number of boring and difficult data and characters, and the transformation of the stars presents a complex and clear mathematical structure, and is even inextricably linked to the complex fate, involving the deep fields of magical algebra and plane geometry.

It can be said that every great astrologer is a natural mathematician.

On this day, Kepler, as usual, sat on the observation terrace high above the Starry Tower, savoring the vast sky and distant mountains at twilight, as well as fate.

The twilight is sparse, and the sky is like a graceful woman with light makeup, revealing a beautiful side face under the dim yellow tulle, and the stars blink their eyes looming under the tulle, like the clear pupils in the woman's eyes.

However, in Kepler's deep eyes, the picture is a different landscape.

"Another mage with the Mark of Daybreak has fallen. ”

The old astrologer looking at the sky muttered to himself, turned his head slightly, and looked north. "Still a great magister. ”

In his line of sight, above the snowy peaks of the Icadia continent, a main star of destiny that was originally shimmering with blue light was slowly fading and gradually extinguishing, symbolizing irreparable aging and death.

The name of the dead mage was...

"Joy Cezreal. Kepler's lips spat out the name slightly.

Then, he frowned slightly, feeling that the name seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

But soon, he put this little doubt behind him, looked up, and continued to enjoy the rest of the day.

Over the past hundred years, Kepler's eyes have witnessed the dimming of countless Destiny Stars, and they have become accustomed to this.

In the long river of fate, the fallen creatures and planes are like the sands of the Ganges, even legends and demigods.

It's just a great magister, and it's not worth Kepler's memory.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party had the mark of dawn on him, he wouldn't even be interested in using astrology to read the caster's name.

Every astrologer is the best mathematician of nature, and the coldest observer of history.

Outside the walls of the magic tower, which was as straight as a knife, a thin cloud of energy floated and landed just on the terrace, blooming from the shimmering cloud with arcane brilliance, outlining a figure in a mage's robe.

"Good evening, old Kepler. The cheerful voice of the comer stepped out of the arcane clouds, revealing a young man with blonde hair and a delicate face, with a pair of glass glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.

"Good evening, little Hawking. Kepler replied calmly.

Hawking smiled, "I'm here to find Mr. Laplace, but as soon as I stepped out onto the terrace, your Lord of Destiny told me that he wasn't in the Tower of Vision. ”

Kepler said lightly: "Your perception of fate is good, but unfortunately the accuracy is still a little worse." ”

"The information I got from your Destiny Master is that you just activated the ultra-remote teleportation circle three minutes and nine seconds ago to rush back in order to consult Laplace about the Desperate Battlefield, and now, you can take that fragment out of the dimensional ring. Kepler narrated in a voice that was not emotional.

Hawking smiled bitterly, he now wants to compete with this old guy who has been in the tower for hundreds of years in astrology, and he is really too naïve.

Secretly suppressing the slight frustration in his heart, Hawking carefully pulled out a metal fragment from the dimensional ring on his index finger, which was engraved with coiled dark green lines, and next to the lines were a few scattered magic symbols.

"This is what Luna found outside the Great Wall of the Void. "It doesn't seem to be something that the Chaos race can create. It's more like the hand of a creature from the plane of order. ”

"Alchemy is not my specialty, if you want to know something more specific, you can go directly to the alchemy altar and find that old fellow Hilbert. Kepler said.

"I understand, but we want to know, where did it come from?" Hawking's gaze became as sharp as a knife blade under the lenses.

Kepler lowered his head and quietly examined the metal wreckage.

After a long time, the old astrologer shook his head, "Unfortunately, I don't know. ”

Hawking raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Even you..."

"The fate of this fragment is broken. Kepler said, "Didn't you use astrology on it, and even if Laplace were to observe it, the result would be the same." ”

Hawking frowned, "I thought it was my lack of astrology skills, so I couldn't make accurate predictions, but since even you said so, isn't it ......?"

Kepler said: "The previous owner of this fragment cut off the trajectory of fate very well, but in order to cover it up, he did so, but it just confirmed the fact that this fragment did come from the plane of order, because the Chaos race would not bother to do such a thing at all." ”

Hawking sighed, "Well, it seems that this time I'm going to disappoint Luna again, I'm such an incompetent adjutant." ”

Kepler glanced at the sky, "You have done a great job of surviving for more than a year in a place like the Void Desperate Realm, and you are also one of the best in a hundred when you look at the entire Star Tower." ”

However, Hawking did not get any comfort from this sentence, "Old man, I am also a person who has studied history, since the establishment of our Star Tower in the city of dawn, there have never been more than twenty people, and now there are only five left in the tower, which is not a ratio to be proud of." ”

"What's more, in your opinion, your combat power is too weak, and you can't rank on the Holy Monument at all. Kepler laughed and continued, "You feel inferior compared to other trialists who have entered the Void Realm, don't you?"

Hawking bowed his head gloomily.

"Power alone is not everything. Kepler taught with great gravity. "Faust said that the value of a mage lies in his insight into the reality of the world. ”

Hawking didn't continue the topic, "Where's Mr. Laplace?"

Kepler said, "He went to the continent of Icadia to open the door to this year's trials. ”

Hawking was taken aback: "The door of the trial is open? so early!"

"The talent of the newcomers selected this time seems to be very good. Kepler said lightly, "I don't know if our Xingjian Tower will be lucky enough to get one of the places this time." ”

Hawking smiled bitterly: "Don't think about it, old man, there are very few magicians who can enter the City of Dawn these years, even if there are, they will either go to the [Alchemy Altar] or the [Crown of Mysteries], or enter the [Elemental Heart] Castle, or even the [Immortal Throne] kind of ghost place, how can it be the turn of an organization like our Star Tower that is so unpopular that it can no longer be unpopular? Except for an unlucky ghost like me, who is useless." ”

"Trialists with excellent bloodlines and the pursuit of pure power will basically choose [Doomsday Arena] directly, and the trialists who enter that kind of place are all perverts who are bent on pursuing supreme power, such as Luna, and other guys whose names are engraved on the Dawnbreak Monument. ”

Hawking shook his head and said, "It's even more unlikely that they will come to the Star Tower." ”

Kepler blinked: "The trajectory of fate is not static, everything is possible, my dear child." ”

Just as the two were talking, the terrace beneath their feet suddenly shook.

An old man and a young man looked up at the same time, only to see that above the Star Tower, there was a tall door, and the door had the mark of the World Tree on it.

The door opened suddenly.

A ray of light erupted from the "Gate of Trials", and went straight into the dome of the Star Tower, and under the impact of spatial energy, the towering tower body trembled slightly.

With a "snap", Hawking's glasses fell off the bridge of his nose and he was dumbfounded.

Kepler looked at the stunned junior in front of him with a smile on his face, "Look, anything is possible." ”

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