At night, in the campsite in the wild, the atmosphere around the bonfire was not harmonious at all. Instead, it was tit-for-tat.
The young noble's son stared angrily at the adventurers hired by his father. The blow to the back of his head still made him feel groggy. However, for people who had seen all kinds of people and encountered all kinds of dangers, this group of seasoned adventurers directly ignored the non-threatening gaze.
But not everyone had no complaints about the current situation. The archer poked at the bonfire and complained, "Didn't we just say that we were going to spend the night in a place with a roof? Why are we out camping again? "
The warrior leader laughed mockingly and said, "After such a thing happened, I won't be at ease if we're still living in the magic tower. Whether it's for the tower master or for our people. "
"Damn it!" The young noble scolded angrily and said in a fierce tone, "If you hadn't stopped me just now, I would have taken down that vicious mage. I was just a few steps away. "
"Oh, a few steps away." The warrior continued to mock, but he did not want to have a bigger argument with the employer's son. He turned to the empty forest and asked, "According to your opinion, what are our chances of winning just now? Maher. "
The mage of the team was walking out of the forest. As soon as he appeared, he heard the leader's question. He said casually, "The correct question should be, if we were to fight just now, how many people would survive?"
"Oh, then Maher, tell me, if we were to fight, how many of us would survive?"
"According to my original idea, except for me who could escape, all of you should have died."
"Original idea?" The warrior leader was curious about the key words he heard. He continued to ask the mage who was already sitting by the bonfire, "So what's your opinion now?"
"My opinion now is that except for me who might escape, all of you would have died." Looking at his companion's somewhat surprised expression, the mage shrugged and continued, "After all, my original plan was that once you guys got into a fight, I would definitely run away immediately. And those who don't run, of course, have no chance. "
"Damn it!" It was that young noble again. He angrily complained, "If you didn't stop me, I would have suppressed him and placed the Magic Breaking Blade on his neck. Even if he was a Warlock Saint, he wouldn't have been able to do anything. He can only go to hell to pay for his sins. "
"Yeah, that's right." The Archmage replied weakly, and whispered, "If it is placed on his own neck."
The warrior leader's eyes flashed as he immediately thought of the key point. "Maher, what did you see in the nuclear chamber?"
He tilted his head, thinking about how to organize his words. The Magician then said, "There are many things that are hard to describe, but the most shocking thing is still the Tower Master himself. Well, to be precise, it's not the one we saw. It seems that none of you have realized that the one in front of you is just a clone. It's normal because I couldn't tell either. "
The explosive news still shocked the companions beside the bonfire. But when he thought about it carefully, it was normal. When guests came to visit, the residents of the tower would come out to greet them as a sign of goodwill. But generally speaking, the apprentices would come out to greet them.
Unless it was a friend or someone of high enough status, the Archmage himself would come out to greet them. Otherwise, if the Tower Master came out to greet anyone who came, would the magic experiment still be done? Should he interrupt the reading halfway through? If being a Tower Master was so degrading, then he might as well not be.
To put it bluntly, this was just a courtesy to express goodwill. When the Tower Master came out, what needed to be negotiated would be negotiated. After the negotiation, each of them would do what they needed to do. If the visiting guests couldn't realize that the Tower Master who came out was just a clone, naturally there would be no disrespect.
Even if they were really disrespectful, so what? It was common for some Tower Masters of high enough status to let puppets or servants who were ordinary people come out to greet them. This didn't violate the law that had to be maintained by the Mage Supervisors. Besides, if the other party's disrespect made him feel unhappy, he would fight his way up the tower if he had the ability and drag out that arrogant Mage to beat him up. If the visiting guests really had such ability, the Tower Master couldn't help but pay attention to them.
Besides, some of the people in his team had also come to him with ill intentions. He really couldn't blame the other party for hiding in the nuclear room. However, the knowledgeable warrior leader was still curious and asked, "What kind of clone spell did he use? Did you understand it? Mach. "
"According to the Tower Master, it's called three-dimensional imaging. He explained it roughly, but I didn't understand. I only understood one part, that is, the spell relies on the Magic Tower to operate. It's a type of trap spell and can't be used outside. "
The noble young master, unwilling to be a supporting character, snorted and said, "So what if he used a clone to deceive us, can he stop us from going up to the third floor? Or rather, this just gives us a reason to go up. Right, Captain Haas? "
In a world of life and death, not seeing through deception meant death. The adventurer group and others wanted to warn the noble young master, but they still looked at the man who came out from behind the noble young master. The strongest sword in Earl Sita's hands, the head of the Thunder and Lightning Corps, Richard Haas, an upright and powerful knight.
Although in this era, wars between countries and between nobles were not so frequent, but it didn't mean that there were no threats to the development of civilization. Beasts and even magical beasts living in nature, as well as uncivilized homo sapiens who were used to plundering others or destroying themselves, these threats were the reason why the lords maintained their armaments.
Some people let others do whatever they wanted, for fear that the sharp blade in their hand would turn around and hurt them. But some people let others do what they wanted, as long as their subordinates were truly capable, they would turn a blind eye to some small problems and muddle through. Richard Haas's weakness was his stubbornness, but he was trustworthy in training and using troops. This was how he created a famous corps in the kingdom, and also brought the prosperity of the Earl's territory.
And this time, in order to protect his eldest son, Earl Sita asked the head of the corps to personally take action. It was impossible to bring the entire corps, but he brought a squadron and a hundred or so elites. As for the five-man adventurer group, it was a group of veterans who led the way for his son to see the world.
In terms of identity, the warrior leader certainly couldn't command the head of the corps who was in charge of more than 3,000 people, but the aristocratic young master could. Although he wouldn't obey all orders, Richard Haas still got a lot of autonomy from the Earl. But under the premise of protecting his young master's life, he wouldn't be so unreasonable as to not obey any request. Not to mention that he had heard about the evil deeds of the Tower Master. If there was a chance to punish him, he wouldn't refuse.
So when Richard Haas came forward, it meant that he was also seriously considering the possibility of attacking the magic tower. Such information made the adventurers have to face it cautiously.
However, looking at the heavily armored knight who had a few more tufts of white hair in his prime, the mage said half-mockingly and half-cautiously, "Commander, you wouldn't be thinking of launching a surprise attack on the magic tower, right?"
"You betrayed our whereabouts?" With a slightly cold voice, Richard Haas stared at the group of mercenaries.
The magician shrugged his shoulders and denied it. At the same time, he remembered the previous meeting with the Tower Master.
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Maher Lindflis went up to the nuclear room on the third floor. In addition to seeing the two masters of the Tower of the Great Sage, one of them, the one he followed, disappeared like a phantom when he set foot on the third floor.
And in addition to being shocked, he also saw that the layout of this place was completely different from the nuclear rooms of other magic towers. The biggest difference was that in addition to the energy pool standing upright in mid-air, there were more than a dozen images formed by the Water Mirror Spell hanging in front of the control panel and next to the energy pool.
Most of the things in the images, the guest magician couldn't recognize. But there were a few that could be seen. They were of the same nature as the surveillance images on the first floor. But the content wasn't the scene of the dozens of villagers breaking into the tower and then being killed. Instead, it was the scene of the companions on the first floor leaving the magic tower after a discussion that couldn't be considered a discussion.
"It seems that your companions don't want to stay in my tower." With this as an opening, Lin got up and saluted to his counterpart, saying: "Nice to meet you, Magician Lindflis. I'm the master of the Tower of the Great Sage, Guebrach Lin Tripwood. "
Lindflis laughed and returned the salute. He didn't intend to pursue the matter of the clone welcoming the guest. Magicians, especially those who had been adventuring outside for a long time, had a common belief. Etiquette and strength were not as important as their lives. The damn rule of a magician welcoming the guest was just a bullshit reason to cater to the ordinary nobles.
He was curious about one of the Water Mirror Spell. It was suspected that the map around the Tower of the Great Sage was full of light spots of different shades of color. The light spots were moving around everywhere. "Excuse me, sir, what are these light spots?"
"Oh, that's a biological aura." Without waiting for the question, Lin followed his curious counterpart to the map and continued: "It's a biological aura, but it's actually my own term. Because until now, I still don't know what the things I observe are based on. It may be the magician's magical power, or it may be the warrior's qi power, or it may even be the spiritual power emitted by the soul. In short, the size of the light spot can represent the size of the creature, and the shade of its color can represent the level of its energy essence. "
Pointing at a cluster of light spots on the map, Lindflis continued to ask: "That cluster of light, what do you think it represents, sir?"
Lin walked back to the control panel and started fiddling with his things. He casually replied: "Maybe it's an army from somewhere. It's just that I don't know what race it is and where it came from. "
"Oh, why would you directly say that it's an army and not immigrants or herd magical beasts?"
"Even if immigrants hire powerful mercenaries as guards, it's inevitable that there will be some women or children among them. Generally speaking, the biological auras of these two are not strong. And the cluster of light you're referring to, it doesn't matter if it's strong, and it's also very average. So, it's unlikely that it's an immigrant. As for herd magical beasts, there won't be a large gathering of herbivorous magical beasts in the forest. If it's a carnivorous magical beast, it will also leave after wreaking havoc due to the lack of food in this place. It won't have such behavior of staying here. And their behavior pattern should be more scattered, which is conducive to increasing the range of distribution and hunting more prey to fill their stomachs. To be able to gather so densely together, other than an army established by the Homo sapiens, I can't think of any other possibility. "
"Then you're not worried at all about the purpose of this army's appearance here?"
"If they wanted to say hello, they would've already come to visit. And if they didn't disturb me, it means that they have other secret missions to carry out. It's not good for me to go up and say that I've already discovered your whereabouts. Anyway, this kind of person should only be staying for a night and leave the next day to carry out their own mission. If they don't leave by tomorrow morning and don't inform me, just treat them as unfriendly guests and directly kill them. After all, on the continent, there are rules for the actions of the army. Breaking into other people's territory without permission is an act of aggression, and they deserve to die. Isn't that right? "
Lin smiled kindly. But it made Maher Lindflis's scalp tingle.
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