The Patrolman Naga bowed his head and spat out a few graceful notes—the language of the heavenly realm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

A small magic circle carved into the ground slowly activated, and the light spelled together the phantom of a middle-aged man in the air. He was dressed in a gray robe, his long hair tied back at the back of his head, revealing a smooth forehead and a tightly knit brow. His gaze looked straight ahead, past Lynn and Yuffie in front of him, and landed in the distance, empty behind them.

"First of all...... Introduce yourself. A slightly heavy voice rang out from where the phantom was, "I am Mantur Stark, the wizard of the White Tower, a man who has made a mistake. ”

"To be able to see me now means that you have the approval of Mithara, my fellow Naga patrolman. That being the case, I'm going to tell you two things. They may not sound that important, but for wizards, more information and knowledge is never a bad thing. Trust me, they might be able to help you in the future,"

The illusory middle-aged man looked left and right - Yuffie knew very well that he was just a sealed video, unable to see the people standing here. He stared at the long table, perhaps thinking about something, or perhaps thinking about the words he wanted to leave behind.

"The first thing is about the former genius of the White Tower family, Fermir. It's also about the devil who caused chaos across the continent, Huruman Stark. Today, you may already know that they are the same person.

"Fermier's father, Cook Stark, was my brother, but not a wizard. He lacks the talent to become a wizard and is therefore not recognized by his family, and we have given him a sum of money to live alone. He used that money, along with the numeracy skills he had acquired as an apprentice, to secure a position as an auditor in the Oron Empire. Soon he got married and had a child.

"Fermir was able to perform simple calculations and read from the age of three, and at the age of seven, he secretly read his father's spell notes and cast his first secret technique. Cook was ecstatic and took him to visit us, assuring him that he was a true genius.

"After detailed testing, we recognized Fermir's wizarding talent. He was chosen as an apprentice by the Grand Wizard of Sauron, and from the age of eight he learned magic as he learned, and at the age of thirteen, he achieved the title of Beginner Wizard. In the entire history of the family, this is a unique record.

The White Tower family rejoiced and believed that another great wizard was about to be born in the near future. However, when young Femir Stark left the wizard's academy and returned to his hometown, he only heard the news of the death of his own parents.

During the years that Fermier practiced magic, Cook used his political sense to earn the title of Earl and won the trust of the emperor at the time. Soon after, however, the emperor was murdered by his eldest son, who was on the throne, and Cook and his wife were killed in the ensuing reckoning.

Femmer didn't care about it. This is in line with the teachings of the White Tower Wizards - that we can give up our feelings for the sake of truth; And everything other than wizards and occult arts is not worth paying attention to. I had an urgent research to complete, and I didn't have time to learn more about the situation, let alone talk to my nephew. ”

The middle-aged man sighed and was silent for a while, his expression a little remorseful.

"Is it right to ignore life?" The mercenary muttered, "Wizards are a cold people. ”

"Many shamans in the old days measured the value of each life in their eyes by its contributions, not by blood or affection." Yuffie explained softly, "A wizard family like the White Tower may have been like this for a long time. ”

In fact, even now, there are not a few wizards who think so—fortunately, neither Lynn nor her, nor Dean Corens, but she silently added this sentence in her heart.

Life went on as usual, and five years later, at the age of eighteen, Fermir was given the title of mid-level wizard and the right to leave the White Tower freely. Soon after, he was on a solo expedition to collect materials...... Missing.

"We take this very seriously, and several archwizards have tried to determine his location using prophecy, but to no avail. At the time, we thought it would be acceptable to find his body, make an artificial body for him, or turn him into a lich - but in the end, we couldn't find anything useful, so we had to identify him as an "accidental death".

"What happened to him later, no one knows. The only thing we know is that twenty years later, two years ago, a lich who called himself Huruman Stark provoked a war between the Oron Empire and the kingdoms from behind, which led directly to the overthrow of the imperial dynasty. It took us a lot of work to determine that he was the genius wizard of the year, but all of our subsequent attempts to communicate were in vain.

"I'm not sure if he has a grudge against us. If so, perhaps the White Tower Wizard will not be spared. I came to this secret lab in the hope that I would pass on this passage to people who want to know a part of history and what we did wrong. ”

The middle-aged man exhaled and stopped his narration, waiting for Yuffie and the others to digest the words just now.

"As a result, it was still plotted by that Huruman here—there is also an Elna pot, right?" Lynn glanced at Amber and stuck out her tongue in apology, "Anyway, the news has arrived...... Speaking of which, is this a wake-up call for future generations? ”

"Maybe one day he will come out again, and then we will know his black history." Yuffie said half-jokingly.

The middle-aged man coughed twice and resumed talking, and Yuffie and Lin hurriedly quieted down.

"That was probably a bit boring. If you're a wizard, I'm afraid you wouldn't be interested in hearing me, a dead man, regret it here. Manthor sighed, "But this is indeed the cause of a disaster...... At least part of it. As pioneers of failure, I hope you will learn from us. ”

"That's all the. I want to convey it to future generations...... The second thing I want to do for you is about my unfinished task so far—the study of the mirror half-plane, or "mirror realm". ”

Yuffie blinked, remembering that Morrils had mentioned that it was a restored 'mirror' that had lifted them out of the enclosed space. It happened after he had transformed himself into a lich, mostly mixed with a partially real illusion.

And what Mantour's image is about to tell is probably the source of that 'imagination'.