Section 7 Gray Stone Tower

After some distance on, Alicia and the others came to another clearing surrounded by trees, and after careful observation by the two of them, they could be sure that this was definitely a different place from the previous clearing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info at least from here, the distance of the tower on the top of the mountain seems closer.

With the experience just now, both Alicia and Melissa began to look around.

After a period of churning and scouting, Alicia was the first to discover the hidden mark. On the cross-section of an inconspicuous tree stump, two small words "pain" are engraved.

"Everit!" this time Alicia shouted loudly without hesitation.

As the coda fell, a red circle of light appeared between the two trees in the distance. Alicia and Melissa immediately looked at each other and smiled, got on their horses and continued on their way.

In this way, every time they arrived in the clearing, they would stop and check, and after discovering the hidden inscription left by someone who did not know, they would call out the corresponding elf name, and the aperture would show the correct path. After passing through the two gates of light in Katis and Kulabey, the stone pagoda is already close at hand. Later, they came to the last clearing, and after rummaging around, Alicia finally found a stone slab under the stacks of leaves, and on the reverse side of the stone slab, the word "healing" was inconspicuously engraved.

This time, Alicia and Melissa spoke almost in unison:

"Wendini!"

The final pale blue circle appeared. After riding through the horses, Alicia was greeted by a triangular lawn. The sun, which had already sunk half of her body into the horizon, cast the last rays of the day on Alicia, shining the golden disc that was blowing in the wind. The emerald green lawn was clothed in the veil of dusk, and the scent of grass was caught in the wind.

At the top of this triangular piece of land stands a three-story gray stone tower, which looks uncharacteristic on the surface, as if it had been built at random by the designers themselves. At the base of the triangle is the border of the forest, and at the top of the hill, except for the stone tower, next to it is low grass.

On the other two sides of the triangle is the cliff, and the lush green of the top of the hill extends to the fault of the cliff, and the vertical wall is somewhat sunken downward. The triangular land at the top of the entire mountain is like the horns of a mountain, protruding and independent.

"It's finally here!" Alicia sighed, if Melissa hadn't noticed the small writing on the stone in the first place, they might still be wandering around the forest by now.

Melissa picked a relatively thick tree and tied the horse rope to it. Alicia took advantage of this opportunity to run to the stone tower and looked at it curiously.

Melissa walked over and found Alicia staring at a one-man tall wooden door in front of her.

"What's wrong?"

"Melissa, what do you think...... Can there be people living in here?"

Hearing Alicia ask like this, Melissa was a little baffled. But after a little observation, she also understood the reason why Alicia asked such a question.

"This ...... Perhaps the Sage has some special preferences for the place where he lives. ”

The whole stone tower looks very strange and unreasonable from the outside. It's strange not because of its prosaic shape and color, it's not unreasonable, it's not because it's built lonely on the top of a cliff. However, no matter how you arrange the furniture, the interior space of each floor of this tall tower is probably only enough for a bed. The tower looks like a cylinder from the front, but when you go around the back, you will find that the back of the tower is actually a vertical bare plate. The top and bottom of the tower are crescent-shaped sections of the same size, and the whole tower sits here like a pillar being cut by a large knife falling from the sky. It is conceivable that the internal structure of each floor of the tower must have been very flat and narrow. Maybe the magicians are really all weirdos, and Alicia is worried now that as long as they both squeeze in, they may not be able to move inside.

Regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, Alicia decided to knock on the door first, but after repeating it several times, no one responded.

"Not at home?" Alicia frowned, leaning her ear against the wooden door, and distinctly heard a tinkling sound coming from inside.

After hesitating for about a blink of an eye, Alicia decisively reached for the doorknob and pushed the door open before Melissa could stop it. Melissa sighed, she wanted to go in with Alicia to find out, but she didn't expect Alicia to freeze in place and not move for a long time.

"Alicia?" Melissa asked, confused. She wondered if it was because the sage had cast some strange spell on the door that had caused Alicia to freeze in the doorway like a wooden man. Just as she was about to tap Alicia on the shoulder with her hand, Alicia suddenly stopped, exited the door, and closed the door with her hand.

Melissa was confused.

The expression on Alicia's face now was as if she had seen something very terrible, and then she suddenly began to run, circled around the stone tower, returned to the door, and said with trembling lips to the door:

"It's horrible!"

Melissa felt confused, and in order to understand the truth of the facts, she also mustered up the courage to open the wooden door......

Melissa then reacted almost identically to Alicia.

After standing outside the door for a long time, the two looked at each other and nodded at the same time. After that, Alicia made up her mind and pushed open the wooden door again.

In front of the two of them, there is an unimaginably spacious space. The ceiling above the ceiling is about five stories high above the floor, and the entire room covers an area of 60 square meters.

"That's about the size of ten of our living rooms!" said Melissa.

A silently swirling array of magical light covered the ceiling, and the light purple streaks of light in it were reminiscent of a clock. From the ceiling down, rows of curved bookshelves stacked with books leaned against the wall until they reached a circle of wooden terraces about the second floor of a normal building. At the edge of the platform, handrails and railings are erected, and on the north and south sides of the platform, a straight ladder descends to the floor of the hall. In the hall, there are all kinds of scrolls and utensils, and in the corner there is a pot roasted on the fire.

It is amazing that this room is actually round! Why does it look like a crescent-shaped cross-section on the outside, but on the inside, it is a completely different scene?

From the dense pile of clutter in the room, there was a crisp sound of utensils colliding. Only then did Alicia and Melissa finally put away their curious gaze and moved it to the corner of the room.

Next to the pot that was boiling on the fire, a cute figure in navy blue clothes and short playful pink hair was crouching there and tinkering with something.

"Sulfur, saltpeter, sea salt, evening primrose, fine sand...... Hey, what's the other thing?" the girl's crisp loli voice came from the mouth of the man with the cute back.

"Ah, that's right, the ashes of the firewolf, woo~ I'm so stupid that I actually forgot about this. The short-haired girl picked out the test tubes containing colorful liquids and objects from the shelves on the ground, then held them in her arms and stood up, and the unstability of her feet almost made the test tubes fall, causing Alicia and Melissa to pinch a cold sweat for her.

The girl's height was not very high, and when she stood up, the top of her head only reached the bridge of Alicia's nose, and Alicia already felt that she was short enough.

"That...... Excuse me......" Alicia walked up to the pink-haired girl and saw a delicate pink melon seed face, she couldn't help but be a little amazed, and thought to herself, "It's good that it's not a back killer." But this pink face has a pair of heavy and tasteless big glasses, which makes the girl look a little cute.

"Okay, the recipe and ingredients are ready, and the next step is to mix. The girl with short pink hair continued her homework as if she hadn't heard Alicia's voice. I saw that she took out a big spoon and scooped out a plate of soup from the pot. Then she began to pour the liquids and objects from the various tubes into the pot.

"First the ashes, then the evening primrose, then the fine sand...... What is the ratio of sulfur to saltpeter?" the girl suddenly stopped what she was doing, as if she was a little troubled.

"I say......" Alicia pulled her face closer to the girl, hoping to get her attention.

"Woo, wait a minute! I'm about to remember...... Well...... Like, probably, maybe...... Is that so?" the girl took a big breath, as if she had made some big decision, and began to pour the liquid from the other two test tubes into the pot as well.

"Boom!!" a sudden burst of smoke erupted into the room with an explosion-like sound, and both Alicia and Melissa screamed in fright, covering their ears and crouching in place.

The girl herself seemed to be quite surprised, she was in the closest place to the explosion, not only her white and pure face was blackened, but her refreshing pink hair was also fried.

"Woo~ failed again......" The girl hung her shoulders weakly with an innocent cry.

"What the hell are you doing illegal drugs!" Alicia, who was so frightened, suddenly jumped up and protested loudly.

"Huh?" the short-haired girl finally noticed Alicia's presence, she turned her head and pushed her crooked glasses, and the two looked at each other for a full ten seconds.

"Ah!!" the girl suddenly let out a high-decibel scream, "Who are you, why are you here?"

"Uh, did you find out now...... Well, it's our fault to trespass, but I just want to ask......"

"The forest is obviously enchanted, why can you still come in?

"Hey, listen to people......"

"I see, you're robbers, aren't you? But we have nothing to steal from, Miss Bandit, I'm really sorry to let you run away in vain. ”

"If you don't shut up, I'll be 10,000 times more terrible than a robber......" Alicia, who couldn't stand it, put on a vicious expression at the girl, so the girl finally obediently closed her chattering mouth and squatted in the corner of the wall with a weeping expression.

"Hey, Melissa, I suddenly had an unreal idea, and you're going to think I'm crazy. Alicia looked at the girl in front of her for a while, then turned to Melissa and said.

"What?"

"Didn't she just mutter about the enchantment of the forest or something? I was thinking, this little girl is the sage we are looking for......

The girl with short pink hair shrunk in the corner, her expression was so innocent, such a cute Lori, could she really be a sage?