Diamonds are a wonderful substance, they are pure, they are hard, and that's all. It is true that a diamond that has been cut by a jeweler is enough to exist as a gemstone, but it lacks an incomprehensible mystery compared to other gemstones. In this era, people lacked the means to cut diamonds, and in their eyes, diamonds were more of a hard and precious material. For example, the legendary dwarven king's battle axe has ninety-nine jagged diamond blades embedded in the blade, giving the battle axe the sharpness to cut through most of the armor in the world.

Diamonds are also a delicate material for spellcasters. Ore, as a substance contained in the ground, itself has multiple symbolic meanings in a magical sense, and combined with the different properties of various minerals, ore is also endowed with various meanings. But the diamond is so pure, so pure that it can't tolerate any impurities and added value, so even in the hands of wizards, diamonds are more used as processing tools for other materials, and there are not many cases where they are involved in spells.

When the crow looked at the diamond fragments in his hand, he also fell into a momentary confusion because of this habitual thinking. It wasn't until Cheese picked up a small piece of it from his hand that the sorcerer remembered that he should know more about it than he did. "Did you find anything?"

"Nope. Cheese took the fragment in front of him and looked at it carefully, and subconsciously replied, but he quickly realized his problem and changed his words, "I'm not saying I didn't find it. It's that there's nothing on this piece of shard. Then, he took all the other pieces from the crow's hand, and didn't care about the gloves, and touched them directly with his bare skin.

The sorcerer tried to stop the mage's dangerous move, but he was one step too late. He had no choice but to give up the mystery of the jeweler's death and take over the task of guarding. At this point, the cursed crow can basically be sure that the death of this fellow disciple is probably not because of a foreign enemy. After all, if an enemy could kill the jeweler in the Grey Tower, there was no reason to let the two grey robes search for more clues from the corpse. The jeweler had probably died on something else, and the Raven had realized that the one he was least willing to accept was probably the closest to the truth.

"The jeweler is not dead. After a brief observation, Cheese tossed the pieces of his hand to the ground, which to outsiders may seem to be precious materials, but to him at this time, these things are just waste that has no research value. The mage's tone was so sure that the Raven frowned slightly.

"How can you be sure? Anyway, this corpse is right in front of us, and it's still wearing a gray robe. ”

"There is more than one form of life. Our mind or soul is only one part of the machine of life, and even if it is the most important part, it is not the whole story. Cheese looked up and looked up, as if looking for something. However, he continued to explain to the Spell Raven, partly to clear his mind, and partly in the hope that the Spell Master would point out the shortcomings or mistakes in his speculation, "The fragments are from the same diamond, and the matching fractures are proof. The reason why I just said no is because although diamonds are difficult to treat, they are still minerals from the earth, and they carry part of their own magic, just like the life force on our bodies. But when the diamond shattered, the magic it carried on it disappeared, and it felt like something had been sucked away. My guess is that the jeweler used some kind of magic to drain the mana on the diamond, and that the magic was probably defensive. ”

"Why?" asked Raven without thinking, not understanding Cheese's association of diamonds and defensive magic.

The mage glanced back at his companion, as if surprised by the sorcerer's question, and waited for him to turn his head back before speaking slowly, "Because diamonds are characterized by being hard and pure, neither of which is enough to constitute a destructive result. Unless combined with something else. But the purity of diamonds rejects this union, so nine times out of ten, spells that use diamonds as a medium are related to defense. With a jeweler's knowledge of ores, such a large piece of diamond would never be wasted easily, so I guess the role of diamonds should be preservation, and the question is what to preserve. ”

"Soul?" Combined with what Cheese said earlier, this result is not difficult to speculate. The jeweler used the diamond to preserve his soul, and now that the diamond is shattered, where does the soul that is being protected go? So, does the person who threw the jeweler from a high altitude know about it?

"I'm going to see Ann Lina. The mage said to his companion behind him, just as the crow had speculated, and Cheese believed that what was happening was not from an outsider. Since it is not an external enemy, as the controller of the Gray Tower after Clark, An Lina will naturally know what exactly was launched.

"Are you sure? she might—" The sorcerer had no doubt that Anna would know about this, and he was concerned that the current Lord of the Grey Tower had knowingly acquiesced in this. Even worse, she contributed to it. Regardless of Lina's attitude, it would be dangerous to venture into close proximity to her.

Cheese was silent for a moment, "It's okay, there are some things that can't be avoided." ”

The mage stepped up the steps, imagining his destination, and after twelve steps his feet had gone from solid ground to an abyss with no bottom in sight. If he fell from here, I'm afraid his outcome wouldn't be much better than that corpse. However, to Cheese's surprise, the door to the stargazing room at the top of the tower was actually open, or rather, the originally heavy wooden door was violently damaged and turned into scattered sawdust, and the light of the setting sun was shining from the room onto the corridor.

Cheese stepped up, and the worries that had just been dismissed came back to his mind. However, when he reached the door of the stargazing room, he dismissed the possibility that the Gray Tower would be attacked by the enemy. Because he saw that in the room, An Lina stood quietly in the center of the room with her back to the setting sun, as if she had been carved by the greatest carver. She was covered in a gray robe that was more like a trench coat than a robe, and her long blond hair shone in the glow of the setting sun that only gold was about to melt in the heat.

"Today's sunset is exceptionally beautiful, isn't it?" said the female vampire, who was supposed to be burned to ashes by the sun.

"I hope the jeweler feels the same way. "The mage did not go into the stargazing room, but stood in the corridor and spoke. His intuition told him that the current An Lina was extremely dangerous.

"No, people with lust in their eyes can't appreciate the beauty of nature. ”

"So you killed him?"

The smile on An Lina's face disappeared, and she looked slightly frustrated, "Although I don't want to admit it, it's not easy to kill a gray robe. Even I'm a gray robe. ”