Chapter 274: Five Aspirations
Siegel relaxes his body and allows the power of the tower to connect with himself, and the magical power enters his body. A hot sensation came from the fingers holding the wand, and gradually penetrated the whole body, as if it was soaked in warm water, and it was extremely comfortable. He closed his eyes and began to use the tower to "see" his surroundings.
Now he's the Tower, the giant of Fort Hub, and he's in sight. He saw a city surrounded by elves, the contrast between the soldiers on the towers and the refugees struggling to survive behind the walls.
Refugees fleeing the fighting poured into the city had no place to live, only to find shelter between hungry horses and leaning cattle and sheep. The men who still had some strength ran to the barracks, trying to join the forces of the Lord of Fort Hub, in exchange for a straw bed for food and clothing. But even the guards' rations began to run low, and the guards of the barracks had no choice but to harden their hearts and drive the men away.
Without farmland and land, cities themselves cannot support themselves. It was crowded with people everywhere, it was very noisy, they first begged, then shouted, and finally only ** remained.
There are only three places in the entire Hub Fort that still have enough food: the Lord's kitchen, the mage's tower's storeroom, and the elven camp outside the city. Taking advantage of the view of the Red Tower, Siegel saw that the lord was munching on figs in sorrow, and the servant had not eaten a single bite of the hot soup and bread he had served. His eyes looked helplessly in the direction of the elf, unsure of what he was thinking. The current lord was nothing more than a young man, looking thin and sluggish. Even when he was heavily guarded by knights and castles, he probably didn't feel safe, so he even wore a chainmail shirt when he ate. However, his shoulders were too narrow, and his chainmail shirt looked baggy. It doesn't look like a warrior at all.
The storage room in the Mage's Tower is now unoccupied. Food piled up all the way to the ceiling. There are no servants here who are responsible for cooking and putting away dishes. The mages take their own food and use magic to process it simply. Drinks are more popular than vegetables and meat, and mages like drinks that don't interfere with the mind and fill their stomachs. That way, they could spend a lot of time discussing magic, hiding behind the tower's protective spells, not caring about what's going on outside.
The tower's vision stretches out into the elven camp. Since the other party also has a magician. A cloud-like shield blocked most of the view, so Siegel could barely get a glimpse of the outline. He could see the Ancient War Tree walking around, planting saplings, and he could hear the music of the camp and the elves singing the bright moon in the sky.
It's a weird war, the elves are studying the arts, the mages are discussing magic, the lords are in a daze, and there are only war refugees. The good fields are gradually turning into forests, and the elves will change the continent in hundreds or even thousands of years. But what about those who can't wait for the change to be completed, can they only wait for death?
It's like plugging a prisoner's mouth and nose with layers of soaked paper and slowly drowning him. In fact, it was not the pieces of paper that killed the prisoners, but the chains that bound the hands and feet of the prisoners. In the end, it was the prisoners who failed. It is the elves who win, but smiles on the dead and waits for the next prisoner. It's just chains.
In these chains, there are conspiracy, interests, calculations, and cowardice. Compared to the elves, the Mage Federation, Knox, and the other lords, Siegel didn't feel that different, and he was also a link in the chain, but he wanted to break the other chains and give the prisoner a chance to struggle.
He mobilized the Crimson Spire and tried to connect to the Circle of Tranquility in the Upper Courtyard, but the Crystal Ball told him that the Circle of Tranquility did not exist. This must not be right, Siegel had borrowed the power of the Tranquility Circle with his wand not long ago, and there was no reason why the Magic Tower could not amplify the effects of this circle.
Siegel frowned, focused, and ordered the tower to follow his orders. The pulsations of magic were like heartbeats, coming from the crystal ball in waves. Its heartbeat and the mage's heartbeat merged into one, perfectly synchronized, but there was no way to communicate with the Circle of Tranquility.
There's definitely something wrong with that. Siegel temporarily withdrew his attention from the core of control, pondering the secrets. He was sure that all the magic circles outside would be connected to the control nodes here, and the crystal ball would manage them. Just now, he was able to fully manipulate the protective barrier of the mage tower itself, and he was able to command the tower to mobilize elements to counterattack, but he could not use the spell function related to the Knox common association.
Could it be that there is another layer of protection here, and only the members of the Commons know about the secrets? It is not impossible: the Commons have been secret societies for hundreds of years, and they are used to hiding themselves, and setting up double protection is an effective means of protecting themselves. Siegel is not sure about controlling another guild mage, and a person who is good at manipulating the minds of others must also be proficient in protecting his own minds.
The only way to do this is to try to break the control.
It is wishful thinking to guess the secret words, but the foundation of the entire control core is still based on the Flame Soul Crystal. This is the specialty of Nagkoth, and the Common Guild has only received superficial fur from the Void Will. Siegel had seen the overall technical structure of the Flame Soul Crystal, which was much more complex and clever than the magic circle in the Hub Control Room.
Surely he will be able to find a way to bypass the Secret Whisper and directly control the Flame Soul Crystal system - Siegel places his wand on the base of the crystal ball, closest to the Flame Soul Crystal. He infiltrated the power of the magic fluctuations and began to analyze the connection between the Flame Soul Crystal Circle and the Crystal Ball Control Hub.
Knox's control orb is a hybrid of the two systems, both the control part of the syndicated common spell spell and the secret magic emblem that includes Knox's characteristics. If there were no secret words, there would be no magic energy transmitted into the magic circle enchantment of the Flame Soul Crystal system, and the magic tower would naturally not be able to invoke the power of the peace magic circle.
However, the depiction of the control hub of the Tranquility Circle is very similar to the lines of the plasma Circle, whether it is the material or the style of brushwork, it can be said to be in the same vein. The benefits of this are obvious, as it ensures that the control of the Tranquility Circle will not be accidentally affected by ordinary magic, which is conducive to concealing secrets. But the downside is that it gives Siegel a certain opportunity.
The mages of the Knox Guild are not scripted by the plasma, and cannot directly manipulate the plasma circuit, only with the help of an encrypted ordinary circle. And Siegel doesn't have to be so troublesome.
The mage transforms himself into the form of a Naykoth skeleton. Channel the power of plasma directly into the control core of the Tranquility Circle. In order to bypass the steps to verify your identity. It was as if he had bypassed a strong line of defense and directly attacked the capital of the enemy country. With the support and help of the circle, he quickly circled back from the rear, shielded the Whisper, and completely controlled the Crimson Spire.
That's when he discovered the uniqueness of the Crimson Tower.
The crimson spire of Fort Hub can be connected with the towers of Ximu Town and Makabuda, and you can vaguely feel that there are two unfinished red towers in Waterdeep City and Merlenburg in the south. Siegel's mind can move through these towers, and everything can be seen.
Each tower uses the same protective circle. But the hidden Knox circle is different. Fort Hub is happiness, Brookwood is sadness, Makabuda is anger, and the unfinished Waterdeep and Merenburg are not yet fully confirmed, and Siegel deduces from the incomplete information he feels that there may be thoughts and fears laid out there.
Each emotion is supported by a basic spell: Laughter, Demise, Berserk, Fox Cunning, and Terror. Siegel didn't have time to distinguish them one by one, and it was impossible to memorize all the formations of the circle in a short time. However, he knew how Fort Hub used laughter to set up the Tranquility Circle, and he believed that these circles had a common design idea, so he could effectively target them after knowing the basic spells.
In addition to the Mood Circle, Siegel also discovered another function of the Tower: attracting resentful spirits. Starting from the Makabuda in the north, when the magic circle resonates, it can summon the resentful spirits of the Far North. And control them in the way of legions, participate in the war. This is a force to be reckoned with. A staggering number and powerful possession can quickly crush an army of living beings. I wonder if the information I gave to Leah's father has caught the attention of the elves, and if they don't take targeted protection, they will suffer a big loss now.
Originally, Siegel wanted to manipulate the local peace circle and use the sneak attack to attack the elven troops outside the city gates, so as to drag the Knox Guild into the quagmire of the elven war, but now there is a better way.
Outside of Deepwater City, there was a half-built crimson spire, and it was still growing with the power of the Flame Soul Crystal, far from reaching its peak power. The Mood Circle here is not usable, but it is not a big problem to mobilize the Wraith.
You have to be quick to move and not bring Knox back to his senses. Since he was able to see elsewhere from one of the core control rooms, others would surely be able to see him as well. Siegel recalls the surroundings of Waterdeep in his mind, thinking about where the elves might be stationed. Pointy ears are here to plant trees, so the fertile soil along the river will be their first choice.
All thoughts were done in a flash of lightning, and then Siegel focused his will to resonate with the magic tower.
The crimson spires all began to glow with magical power, navigating the wraiths like lighthouses. This is the largest flame crystal that can be used to provide habitat for the resentful spirits, and wash away the resentment and become the shadow of the deceased. The Wraiths entrenched in the Far North are moving rapidly south, but the first to arrive will be those from the Walled Mountains. They had overwhelmed the Blackblood Fortress and nearly caught up with Prince Aaron's troops. When Siegel went to invite Red, he didn't find any trace of these spirits, in fact, they had been hiding in the mountains.
By the time Archmage Casper got the news, the wraiths had already arrived outside Waterdeep. The elven troops were unprepared and immediately fell into chaos. Bows and arrows and ancient trees of war pose no threat to these spirits, only the priests and elven mages of the Moon Temple have the power to protect themselves.
Every elf is proficient in bows and arrows, and the consequence of possession and control is an immediate threat of death to mages who do not wear armor, and the battlefield is hell. Before many mages could react, they were shot through the throat with powerful bows like lightning. By the time they had set up their defensive arrows, they had missed the best chance to fight back. The elves are inseparable from each other, and have been caught in a scuffle.
The Luna priest tried to disperse these spirits, but with little success. Although the Wraith is an undead creature, it has a strong possession power and dispel resistance after sacrificing all its spell ability and hand-to-hand combat ability very extremely. The general undead dispel effect is better than directly using the holy light full of positive energy to cause damage.
The experience that Siegel had provided them was still on the shelf, and the proud elves didn't trust or value the words of a human mage, so the grassroots elves didn't know about it. Their forces besieging Waterdeep suffered heavy losses as a result, and only a few of the Luna priests supported the Evil Barrier, and some warriors and mages avoided the terrible consequences of being possessed.
Subsequently, the wraith began to attack the location of the Crimson Tower. By this time, Siegel had stopped resonating with the Crimson Tower, and the spirits were no longer heading south.
Archmage Casper let out an angry howl: "Who is it!who has activated the mage tower without permission, I'm going to kill this idiot, I'm going to kill him!" (To be continued......)