Spellcasters are generally adept at long-range combat, and the Mage's range is the best of all spellcasters.

Most fighters will try to get close to their opponents when fighting a mage, as most people have the impression that it is far easier to kill a mage from a distance than to fight in close combat.

And the reason why Sean used Touch of Weakness as his fourth spell was to make up for his shortcomings in melee combat.

Due to the limited cast range of Touch of Weakness, if you want to attach it to the vine binding, you can't let the vine appear too far away from you.

So in Sean's vision, the combination of the two spells of Touch of Weakness and Vine Binding would be his primary means of limiting his melee combat.

When an enemy approaches him, a large number of vines with the Touch of Weakness effect will burst through the ground, and if the enemy accidentally comes into contact with the vines, they will quickly fall into a weakened state, making it difficult to break free or evade the next control.

……

The runes and energy circuits that make up the apprentice-level Touch of Weakness are very simple for Sean now, and it didn't take long for him to burn them.

With an increasingly powerful staff of reincarnation in his hand, Sean began to pray for the side of the Kingdom of Karis.

He had a crazy idea in his heart, that is, to exchange most of the military merits he had obtained for Mithril and put all of them into the staff of reincarnation.

Although the secondary fusion crystal gave the staff an extremely powerful bonus effect, Sean's inference revealed that its true ability had not yet been brought into play.

As a very advanced material at the apprentice level, it can of course be burned with runes and energy circuits inside, and the reason why it is performing so unsatisfactorily is perhaps because the other parts of the staff are too poor to resonate with it.

This is like a wooden bucket filled with water, the capacity of the water in the barrel does not depend on the longest part, but on the shortest plank, even if the secondary fusion crystal can withstand a large amount of mana, it will not function perfectly due to the fragility of the silver devouring vine and the backbone of the mineral-eating beast.

What Sean will do in the future is to strengthen the backbone of the mineral-eating beast and the silver-devouring vine with a large amount of Mithril, according to his estimates, in order to complete this step, he will need at least more than 200,000 gold worth of military merits.

Even if Sean worked hard and did his duty along the way, plus the rewards he received in Millin Town and Ryan City before, the military merit at hand was only a little more than 100,000.

To achieve the goal of 200,000, his only hope is that the Karis Kingdom side will achieve the final victory, and then everyone's military exploits will be doubled.

Doubling military merit is a promise made by the strong men of the official level and above before the start of the war, and the reason why Sean thinks this is the only hope is because the current advance speed of the Karis Kingdom side is too fast!

After settling the matter in Ryan City, it didn't take long for the Silver Eagle Legion to move towards its next target location.

The news of the massacre in Lane City spread quickly in a short period of time, and thanks to Camillo's murderous reputation, the Silver Eagle Legion did not encounter a large-scale resistance on the way.

Whenever they see the banner of the Silver Eagle Legion, the nobles in the city will inevitably quickly go out of the city to greet and reward the Silver Eagle Legion, and if they find that there are still people on their side who want to defend it, they will even take the initiative to tie them up in front of Camillo to ask for credit.

The Wagner kingdom seems to have given up on the means of inflicting damage on the enemy through the province of Bellock, and even supplies have begun to gradually decrease.

As the combined forces of the Kingdom of Karis and the Kingdom of Connery advanced at an accelerated pace, the situation became clearer.

So five or six days later, Sean finally followed the army to the city where he had lived since he had been a child, the city of Theresa!

……

Walking along the familiar road and gazing at the green woods beside him, a ripple suddenly rippled in Sean's heart.

When he was a normal person, he was attacked by an apprentice-level mage while trying to make his way through the woods, and was put in a prison car and nearly died.

Later, he learned that both the mage and the other soldiers were the men of Count Brent Brod, the great nobleman of Teresa.

They seem to have come to the neighborhood for other reasons, only to knock down the servants who had escaped from the Lauren Mage's Tower, and they made a big bargain.

Speaking of which, Sean may also have to thank the black-robed mage, if he hadn't had that coma technique, he probably wouldn't have had time to digest Wang Changge's soul, and he would have been torn to pieces by the brutal kobold, and finally turned into fertilizer for plants.

But fortunately, there are no ifs in reality, and Sean finally survived from a desperate situation, and even became a trainee-level professional, and at the same time had the Silver Eagle Legion as a big backer.

He no longer had to be afraid of being captured back to Teresa by Broad's men who suddenly appeared, and he even had to take the initiative and find a way to make that damn guy pay!

A hint of killing intent crossed Sean's eyes, and the Silver Eagle Legion was not far from Theresa City. If all goes well, he should soon be able to meet his unmet enemy.

Provided that the guy didn't run away.

……

But before that, Sean has one more thing to do, and that is to check on the situation in Lauren's Mage Tower, and pick up things by the way.

After continuing the march for a short distance, Sean greeted his fellow team members and rode his blood-colored horse onto a path that appeared on the side of the main road.

Although Bilaire and the others had some doubts in their hearts, they still watched Sean go away quickly and did not tell the others about it.

Even in the military, professionals have many privileges, and although it is not allowed to leave the team for a short time like this, as long as nothing happens, then no one will meddle in things.

Especially since Sean is still a trainee level professional, the degree of freedom is even higher, as long as he does not commit major disciplinary violations, Camillo will only laugh at other small things.

The Scarlet Warhorse was still moving fast, and it didn't take long for Sean to see Lauren's Mage Tower.

Or rather......

The wreckage of the Mage Tower!

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With an indescribable mood, Sean came to the front of the building.

The originally eye-catching door became dilapidated, and the half on the right side was smashed into pieces and scattered on the ground for unknown reasons.

The one on the left is slightly better, except that there is a large hole in the bottom and it looks crumbling.

The tall and smooth tower body was also smashed into a few gaps, and even some lianas climbed on it, although it was only a little more than a year, but the place looked desolate.

After covering himself with a defensive spell and placing the Scarlet Warhorse outside the Mage Tower, Sean strolled into the bottom of the tower.

It was originally an ornate hall, and although visitors were not often there, Lauren would order the servants to clean every corner.

There were empty spaces on the walls of the hall where materials, specimens, or elaborate ornaments had been placed, but they were now long gone, leaving only empty spaces that suggested they once existed.

There was a thin layer of dust on the floor, making Sien's footprints appear wherever he walked, and he chose a staircase at random, and Sean ascended to the second floor.

The second floor was mainly the servants' rooms and kitchens, etc., for the sake of convenience, Lauren bought a large number of slaves in the city of Theresa to help him take care of the mage's tower, of course, he knew that some of them had been quietly bought by the nobles, but he didn't care about it at all.

Although the mage tower built by Lauren does not have the function of a real mage tower at all, it is at least a house with very complete defense facilities, and as long as he is alive for a day, those nobles will not dare to directly attack his idea.

Further up is the third floor, where the restaurant and relaxation area are located, and Lauren is no less diligent than Sean, so it is rarely used.

In addition, Lauren is actually a more decent mage, and perhaps it is because of this that he does not mix very well. At least Sean had never seen him experiment on a living person, or do something that would be more evil in the eyes of ordinary people.

There are ten floors in the Mage Tower, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth floors are filled with Lauren's various collection of books, and Sean has lived in these books for many years, often in addition to the necessary actions of life, constantly turning over books and recording problems.

It is because of this energy, combined with a genius memory and intelligence, that Sean has been able to achieve where he is today.

Those warriors with muscles in their brains will never understand how much knowledge powerful mages know, whether it is fighting or transforming the world, mages rely on their brains to get ahead of other professions.

Sighing as he walked up the stairs, Sean looked at the empty bookshelves, and his mood became even worse.

Although the books placed here are relatively common, and all the precious things have long been memorized by Lauren, who has been taught to Sean in his daily study and experiments, he still regrets it immensely.

The stupid aristocrats simply did not cherish these precious treasures, and they would only equate them with money, sell them directly to the market, or use them to recruit professionals.

The seventh and eighth floors were Lauren's collection room, and Sean continued to walk up without even looking at it.

In order to increase his success rate of promotion, Lauren used up most of the wealth he had accumulated in his life, and even when he was alive, there were not many things left here, let alone those nobles who came to loot again.

But that's okay, if the nobles gain too much, Sean is really a little distressed, after all, in his heart, all the relics of Lauren should belong to him, and those nobles are completely a group of robbers.

The ninth floor is Lauren's bedroom and laboratory, and when the news just broke, Sean hurriedly ran here from the second floor and took the two Mithril coins from Lauren's pocket.

The servants were afraid of all sorts of magic traps or other tricks that Lauren had set up during her lifetime, but Sean wasn't panicked at all.

In order to better assist him, Lauren had already told Sean most of the arrangements in the mage tower, which allowed him to retain the greatest material wealth that Lauren left during his lifetime.

The door to the laboratory had long since been destroyed, and Sean walked in to take a look, and as expected, Lauren's body was not found.

Not to mention a corpse, it was not strange for those nobles to do anything, Sean even suspected that if it weren't for the fact that the stone bricks had been muded together by magic and were very inconvenient to transport, he might not even be able to see this mage tower.

But it's a good thing that this didn't happen, otherwise he might really have to run for nothing.

Yes, the reason why Sean returned to Lauren's Mage Tower was not only to miss this place a little and want to see the situation here, but also for one thing.

Something that most likely didn't get removed!

……

It is said that the real Mage Tower can only be built by a mage who is above the official level.

This is not only due to technical reasons, but most importantly, it is difficult for professionals below the official level to collect the materials needed to build a mage tower, so even if a similar building is built, it is far less powerful than a real mage tower.

And what is the core part of a mage tower?

The answer, of course, is elemental pools!

The aether that is free between heaven and earth cannot be controlled by things other than the power of the soul, but in some special circumstances, the aether will be transformed into various forms of elements and energy according to the rules of the world.

By this time, the nature of the ether had already changed, and when it was no longer pure, this power could be harnessed.

This is what the Elemental Pool does, collecting all kinds of energy converted from the surrounding ether and storing it through a large number of runes, energy circuits, ritual circles, and so on.

This stored energy can be used to power various devices in the mage's tower, to sustain traps, to provide alchemy life, and of course, to cast spells by the mage himself.

In daily life, mages often keep their mana at full value, and in order not to waste their mana regeneration, they often recharge the elemental pool directly.

If the elemental pool is lost, then the mage tower is no different from an ordinary house, and the purpose of Sean's trip is very simple, it is a treasure related to the elemental pool that Lauren has not been disclosed.

……

Shortly after Sean was adopted by Lauren, he discovered that Lauren often studied a piece of metal as tall as his man on his own after his experiments.

Although he didn't ask any questions, the curiosity in Sean's eyes was almost written on his face, and Lauren didn't care about it when he saw this, and directly told him the origin of this thing.

He had studied in a place called Golx Academy in his youth, and did not leave there until he was nearly two hundred years old, and in the first half of his long life, Lauren had the good fortune of befriending an apprentice under a full-ranking powerhouse.

Later, the official-level powerhouse seemed to have an accident because of the experiment, which caused a violent explosion in the elemental pool, and although he himself had nothing to do, the mage tower was mostly scrapped.

The piece of metal was a fragment of the elemental pool that his apprentice had stolen from the mountain after the explosion, and Lauren had paid a lot of money to buy it, and it was said to be of high value, and it also had some formal-level alchemy technology on it, which was worth studying.