Could it be that once something started, it would be easy for it to happen one after another?
Lin had this thought because ever since a group of people requested to settle down in the village outside the Tower of the Great Sage. Every once in a while, someone would come and make the same request.
Basically, Lin's attitude was to not refuse anyone. However, the final decision was thrown to the group of people who had already settled down in the village. It was up to them to decide whether to accept new people, how to allocate the houses or build new ones, how to allocate the farmland restored from the wasteland, and how to share the work of the small ranch dedicated to the Tower Master.
Lin did not care about any of these things. In fact, this was also the way most Magic Tower owners managed the gathering place of Homo sapiens within ten kilometers. At the same time, it was also the reason why ordinary people would abandon the protection of the nobles and live in the Mage Territory. Not only was the degree of freedom higher, but if they were lucky, the taxes were also lower.
Of course, there were also times when they were unlucky. If they encountered a high-pressure Mage Lord, they would work harder than a dog and eat worse than a pig. It was also very likely that their lives would be in danger. After all, the Magic Tower was the world's top military force. There was no chance for rebellion under the rule of the nobles. If they rebelled against the Tower Master, they would be bombarded with magic.
However, it was unknown whether the Tower of the Great Sage's reputation was too good or whether the people who came here had ulterior motives. Looking at the village in the east becoming more and more lively, Lin did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Because from his observation, that village was now in the state of the eight-nation alliance.
There were a few groups of people who knew the first group and met up here later. These people integrated into the life of the village the fastest. After all, they were all familiar faces.
There were also a few groups of people who really met others for the first time. However, Lin did not believe that he was a simple farmer. If he didn't have ulterior motives, he was probably a fugitive or a wanted bandit.
The latter seemed to be more likely not to know each other. In other words, it was more likely that they were spies from various parties.
The reason why he knew these things was because of the surveillance footage outside the Tower of the Great Sage and the records of the biological activities around the Tower of the Great Sage. Those people's actions that they thought were secret were, in fact, all exposed under Lin's nose. After some consideration, it was not difficult to guess the intentions of everyone's strange behavior. Of course, he didn't know who was behind these people, and Lin wasn't interested in finding out.
The funniest thing was that someone actually started to run a hotel. This was because there would be a small caravan coming to the Tower of the Great Sage to purchase browser magic crystals. The original village was in an abandoned state. If the caravans did not leave on the same day, some of them would sleep outside, while others would stay in the tower.
They had no choice but to stay in the Magic Tower. Therefore, when there were signs of human habitation in the village, some quick-witted merchants joined forces with a few families in the village and opened a simple inn.
It wasn't just the caravans that were visiting the Tower of the Great Sage. Due to the rise of the forum, adventurers and mercenaries expanded their scope of operations and moved more frequently. During their missions, they would occasionally pass by this place.
In the past, because there was no one around, they stayed in the tower. Now that there were inns in the villages outside the tower, no one wanted to stay in the Magic Tower where the Tower Master held the power of life and death.
They didn't want to offend the Tower Master somehow and be killed without a word. After all, the Tower Master was infamous for killing a team of inspectors. There were even rumors of him massacring a village. Therefore, they shouldn't make things difficult for themselves.
In short, with a group of people with ulterior motives, the village became even more lively.
Faced with this kind of situation, the Tower of the Great Sage could not stay out of it. From time to time, there would be villagers who would visit and use clumsy methods to investigate. They even thought that girls in their early teens would be easy to coax. They used all kinds of strange reasons to get the girls to talk. As the Pagoda Master, Lin could easily shirk responsibility and not care about anything. However, the two apprentices were not so easy to deal with.
At first, Hallumi and Kaya were very enthusiastic in negotiating with the villagers to see if they could help with their needs. If they wanted to use them and coax them, they might even be able to get the two girls to do it for free. But perhaps this group of people was too careful and didn't dare to use them. Or perhaps this group of people only cared about information and tried every possible way to get the girls to talk. In the end, the two girls' patience was worn out. Because when different people asked the same question, even a pig would know that something was wrong.
But how could they refuse? Even on Earth, this was a difficult problem for adults, not to mention two elementary school-age girls in the maze world.
Lin didn't want to deal with the group of people outside, and he couldn't bear to see the two apprentices suffer in his place. So, he came up with a strange idea, which was to get the two big dogs to come back and be door guards. Whenever someone troublesome came to the door, they would take a few steps closer and look down, drooling at the person and glaring at the person without blinking.
Some ignorant person teased the dogs and had their arm bitten and thrown more than ten steps away. Although it didn't hurt their lives, they were bedridden for several days.
After that, the two girls trained the dogs, meditated, and practiced magic. Anyway, they just didn't have time. After putting up excuses and pretending to be busy to the end, they finally got rid of those annoying people.
As for whether or not the villagers came to protest? That was true. After all, with the incident of a village being slaughtered before, no one wanted to enter the Magic Tower with their lives and bet with the tower master on whether or not they dared to kill.
It was so lively outside the tower, but in fact, it wasn't much worse inside the tower.
The conflict began on a certain night when clouds covered half of the stars in the sky and it was getting colder. Kaja had just delivered supper to her teacher on the observatory. When she went down to the second floor, Hallumi was drying her wet hair and walking to her room. Seeing a girl of the same age, she said, "Kaja, I'm done bathing. It's your turn. "
"After I finish patrolling the other rooms, I'll go bathe."
"Okay, I'll go to bed first. Good night. "
"Good night."
Passing through the dim central stairwell, the girl followed her habit and patrolled the rooms on the first floor. After the village outside the Tower of the Great Sage started operating inns, no one came to stay at the Tower of the Great Sage anymore. For the teacher and disciple who were afraid of trouble, this was a good thing.
Step by step, he walked down the stairs. On the familiar stairs, Kaja wouldn't feel any inconvenience even if her eyes were closed. Therefore, when it was time to sleep, the lights in the Tower of the Great Sage were adjusted to a very weak state. This was one of the results of the teacher's research during this period.
In the past, the Tower of the Great Sage used to be lit at night by the luminous pearls on the walls. However, no one knew whether they had been dug out and sold by the previous tower master or there were other reasons. Although there were traces of the luminous pearls inlaid on the walls in many passageways and rooms, the most important beads were missing. Therefore, the lighting at night was scattered everywhere, which was quite inconvenient.
Moreover, in order to modify the layout of the energy passageways of the entire tower, those beads were also an obstacle. Therefore, during one of the modifications, Lin ruthlessly dug out all the luminous pearls and changed the layout of the energy passageways of the entire tower. Magic patterns similar to the laser network passageways on the first floor covered every corner.
Although the changes were not as good as the meticulously arranged first floor, a laser beam of the same power could still be shot out. In addition to this defensive measure, he used the passageway of magic authority to achieve the walls of the entire tower to self-emit light.
Lin also used research on spectral wavelengths to make adjustments. In addition to adjusting the intensity of the lighting, he could also adjust the color. In fact, this was also an important technical foundation for Lin's three-dimensional image clone. Using color-changing light to project the appearance of a human body.
Of course, these were too complicated for the girls to understand. They only knew that the brightness of the lighting in the tower could be adjusted at will, and could be controlled by voice or hand. Generally, when there was activity at night, it would be adjusted to simulate the sunlight during the day. When it was time to sleep, the entire tower would dim its brightness, showing a weak orange light that would make people feel at ease.
However, why did the warm light, which usually made people feel at ease, feel cold today?
In the silence of the night, the sound of footsteps was particularly clear. In the closed and windowless Magic Tower, every step seemed to be accompanied by one's own heartbeat. The sound of breathing would also be infinitely magnified, rumbling in the ears. The light at night of the Tower of the Great Sage was not like the light of a candle, which would flicker with the wind. The soft and weak orange light seemed to embrace a calm soul, lulling people to sleep.
This was the feeling that it gave people in the past, but it seemed a little strange today. Not to mention the flashing shadows, the gentle flapping of wings, and the squeaking sound, were insects flying in? Kaya was puzzled.
Suddenly, a pair of cold hands grabbed her shoulders, and an unbearable pain in the right side of her neck made the girl scream, breaking the silence in the Magic Tower.
Hallumi was worried about her companions and ran downstairs in a panic, but in the tower that she thought was safe, she was restrained by a pair of hands in the dark. As she covered her mouth, the skinny girl was lifted up and kicked in the air.
Lin, who was on the observatory on the third floor, also heard the shrill scream. He did not ignore it, nor did he panic. All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind. If it was just a fall, the two girls would not have screamed so loudly. In his past adventures, he had suffered more serious injuries than this. The stubborn two often did not make a sound.
Seeing cockroaches, ants, spiders, and rats, they screamed in fear? Those little things could not scare them. This was not Earth, and they were not spoiled little girls.
Then why did they scream so miserably? Lin had a few guesses in his mind. As he passed by the nuclear room and was about to go downstairs, he glanced at the surveillance footage on the first and second floor. The unknown shadow seemed to be leading the situation to the place he least wanted to see.
He walked slowly to the first floor. As soon as he exited the stairwell, he heard a strange laugh from the corner. "Mr. Guebrash Tripwood."
"Oh, these days, a sneaky thief is still so polite. What an eye-opener. "
"Your apprentices are all in our hands. Is it okay to talk like that? "
There was a thin black mist in the place where the voice came from, obscuring the orange light of the Magic Tower at night. But the two girls who were pushed to the edge of the mist could still be seen clearly. Hallumi was gagged, her face full of horror. Kaya fainted and leaned on the person behind her, barely managing not to fall.
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