344 Awakening
Even the well-guarded Mage Tower probably wouldn't keep the warm light out of the window, especially for a [***] youth like Pan Diesel, who likes to enjoy himself.
When the morning light enters the house, few people in the mage tower will wake up: either they have already woken up, or there is no need to get up now.
Nephies wore a small apron, yawned and dragged the mop to wipe the floor of the mage's tower layer by layer, and then threw the mop into the utility room and walked to the kitchen, this is the work she used to do in Serre, the wizard had tried to find someone else to do the work, but the apprentice he found always found him after three or two days and cried and begged to stop doing this kind of work, he knew that it was Nephesis's ghost, but there was nothing to do.
It would be too much of a fuss to lose your temper with her because of such a trivial matter.
And the wizard got up early and started doing his own research.
It's been three days since he returned from the Giant's Run Mountains, and he can't be sure if Shar has seen his true colors, but there is no doubt that his eye of time is exposed, and he doesn't know how long it will be before the incarnation of the goddess will come again, but there is no doubt that he has caused big trouble, and if he doesn't prepare properly, he could lose his life at any time.
Although he has felt the power of time standing still for a long time, Penny still has not been able to find the power to reach the source of the outer perimeter: he has not yet fully accepted the information of the eye of time, but he believes that this time will not be too long, he is now experimenting with this power, extracting the 'law' that produces the effect of time standing still from the eye of time, and then compiling it into a spell, then he has the capital to reach the outer perimeter of the source of the source.
I have experienced the 'feeling' of crossing boundaries in person, and it is only a matter of time before I reach them.
Now the wizard is trying to keep this time as short as possible.
Although the materials and methodologies that make up the Nine Rings Arcane cannot be said to be completely different from the spells of the lower layers, they are still quite different, so he must prepare carefully.
While he was studying in the huge pile of materials in the library, a man opened his eyes in the warm sunlight.
Of course, there is a big difference between waking up from a coma and waking up from sleep, and Fina felt dizzy, she raised her head, looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings, and pressed her slender white fingers against her blood-thin lips, her eyes a little dazed.
She moved her two legs, her unfamiliar clothes made her a little uneasy, and she stepped out of the small bed, knocked over two more stools, and squinted her eyes again when she saw the mysterious text revealing under the stools.
There was a burst of aroma from the side that made her stomach boil, and she sniffled, opened the door next to her, and saw a large room.
Large cauldrons and grills are placed in front of the floor-to-ceiling balconies, huge ice cubes are piled up in the ground near the base of the wall, in which some fish and vegetables are stored, and on the table next to the wall, two men in aprons have their backs to her, as if cutting something on the board.
She rubbed her eyes, and saw clearly that the big and small backs seemed to be young girls, and the little girl seemed to notice something, and when she turned around, she saw Fina, who was pale, with a small mouth:
"Miss Dan Linton, is that you?"
"Nephis?" Fina rubbed her forehead, as if she knew what this place was, but she was a little puzzled by the little girl's question: "Why do you ask me that?"
"My lord told me that if you wake up, I will ask you like this. With a big smile on her face, Nephis put down her tools, wiped them on her apron, and hopped up to Fina: "There are no extra rooms in the tower, so your lord has put you in the cook's quarters." β
"So, this is really his residence?" Fina's expression immediately became very wary.
"Of course. Nephies nodded, seemingly very pleased.
"Excuse me......" As soon as the person next to Nephies turned around, Fina turned her gaze and found that it was indeed a young girl who was just as she thought, and an anger immediately rose in her heart.
The source of this anger is probably because she doesn't know this girl.
"My name is Hiccol, hello, Miss Danlington. The girl, who seemed to be very naΓ―ve, came over and owed her, and Fina was a little unsure of what to do, and her mind had just sobered, and she had forgotten even the most basic courtesy:
"You're also that guy's wife?"
As soon as she said it, she regretted it a little, it was too much to hurt people when they met like this.
But when it comes to that wizard, her sanity will always fly to the aetheric plane for some reason.
Such a straightforward inquiry made Hickor blush, and her heart was a little annoyed, but when she saw Fina's regretful expression, she also understood that it was just an unintentional mistake by the other party, but the observed change in expression and this inexplicable question also let her know that this Miss Dan Lington seemed to have some strange thoughts, which made her feel a little uncomfortable again.
"We were preparing breakfast, and the adults were in the first library upstairs. Sensing the awkward atmosphere, Nephies tugged at the corner of Fina's clothes and reminded in a low voice: "If you want to go, you can go to him now, the protection of the mage tower has not been fully opened." β
"Hmm...... Oh!" Fina nodded hurriedly, turned around and ran out of the kitchen, and when she reached the hallway, she patted her chest and was relieved of her embarrassment.
"Damn, there's another one. The bruises on her forehead were exposed, she gasped twice, and muttered viciously: "This big pervert." β
She gasped angrily as she walked down the corridor, and after a while, she heard a faint groan of pain coming from the room next to her, and with irrepressible curiosity, she opened the door and walked in, and saw a familiar girl lying on the bed, her eyes closed, and her hands pressed on the bulging lower abdomen, as if she felt pain in her sleep.
The sight caused Fina to open her mouth and stare petrified at her bulging belly, stunned like an idiot for a long time before swallowing a mouthful of saliva and exiting the room before Lanny could wake up.
Thunder and lightning echoed in her head, like a walking corpse, until she bumped into a child in front of the library door, and she came back to her senses for a moment.
"Hmm, you boring woman, how dare you run into me?" said Helast Blackrobe rose from the ground and glared at the culprit who had knocked him down.
And the next moment, the voice coming from the library made a loud rumbling sound in Fina's head again, "Black-robed senior, well, Miss Dan Linton has just woken up, please be considerate of him." β
Helast Blackrobe glanced at Fina hatefully and grunted away, not noticing that Fina's gaze stayed on him until he disappeared at the top of the stairs.
"You're finally awake. Penny opened the door and leaned against it, looking at Fina, who was still a little sluggish.
However, when Fina turned her head, the original disconnection and confusion were dispelled by a calm and composure, and it seemed that she was a completely different person.
In fact, it is true: "You call him a black-robed senior?"
Ansenfia asked.
"He's Hyrathar. The wizard nodded and raised his eyebrows slightly, "You're alright." β
"Luckily, we'll have to find a place to talk privately. Ansenfia's eyebrows moved, but she passed a message to the wizard in an extremely stealthy way, and between passing the messages, she didn't forget to look around, as if she was guarding against some surveillance.
This made Penny feel a little baffled, maybe the ancient grave keeper was a little too sensitive, this was his mage tower, what else was there to fear?
However, sensing Ansenfia's solemnity, he nodded anyway.
...... The candles in the crypt in the middle of the mountain range have not been extinguished for a long time, and the flickering candle flame illuminates the dim burial chamber as if countless ghosts have been born, and a white middle-aged man wearing a simple robe sits quietly in the small room, his eyes open and motionless looking at the small box on the table.
The swarthy little box looked unremarkable, but in Pallas Ottorian's eyes, it was all there was to him, and he had to keep an eye on it, at least as long as the adult finished his research.
But he didn't want anything to change the box, as the adult said:
"All you have to do is keep watch over him at all times, and then open it when its seal breaks, oh, it's easy to recognize, it's when it starts to glow, and it will free my soul from my life box. β
He didn't want the adult to really have any surprises in his dangerous research, especially at this time, and a gut told him that it didn't seem far from the end of the adult's experiment.
He turned his head slightly to look at the 'research room' enclosed by a boulder painted with runes.
The power of death roamed outside the door, and even Pallas, who didn't know much about the arcane, felt a tinge of discomfort from the cracks in his bones as soon as he leaned a little further, and as the gloom grew, Pallas felt more and more fear.
He looked back, and his eyelids jumped.
It seemed as if a ray of light had just dissipated from the small box.
This discovery immediately alerted him, and he quickly grabbed the small box and nervously observed it up and down.
He wasn't sure if he was delusional, and therefore he wasn't sure that the glow of the box was due to the mutation he was waiting for and fearing, but after a flash of anomaly, Pallas lost the chance to tell if it was real or hallucinatory, and he held the box in his hand, but the suspicion in his heart grew thicker.
The sound of the stone door stopped his hesitation, and he looked back to see a lich in tattered red robes appearing in the doorway, and Pallas's pupils constricted, trying to make out how this lich was different from the adult he remembered.
However, with his shallow perception, in the end he can only admit his futility: Sazastan does not seem to have changed at all.
"Thank you, Pallas. The lich's withered feet trampled on the ground, and with a small but clear footstep, he walked up to the watchful servant, glanced at the box in Pallas's hand, and with a stretch of his dry claws, the box fell back into his hand, and in an instant the blue phosphorus fire in his eyes turned into two dark shadows.
Pallas Ottorian shuddered for a moment.
He thought of the words that the adult in front of him had said to him that day:
"The power of this thing is terrifying, and I'm not sure I'm sure I'll be able to study it thoroughly, if my methodology is distorted by its power...... Sazastan will still exist, but I'm gone."
"Well, Pallas, my faithful servant, your expression looks a little off. "Noticing Pallas's abnormality, Sazastan turned the two phosphorus fires that had turned back to turquoise and aimed them at the sweaty face.
Pallas smiled reluctantly, his bones stiffening.
Sazastan's phosphopho fire flickered, and he patted Pallas on the shoulder with a bone claw.
Behind the lich, the open stone door was still so dark that it seemed like nothingness.
(To be continued)