Chapter 578 – Stealers and Misty People
Chapter 578 – Stealers and Misty People
Meanwhile, Nefertiti.
Ruling Court.
The most central building.
The Dawn Cloister.
The passageways inside this corridor were more complicated than a labyrinth. In the center of the cloister, a slender and ornate but dark-toned column appeared every hundred meters.
At the top of these pillars was a spherical fire cage the size of a man’s head, with white flames gently licking the edges of the cage, as if it had the ability to break away from the cage’s constraints, but was still willing to be imprisoned by it.
The ghastly white light made the already gloomy style of the building even more terrifying.
The architectural style inside this cloister was set in stone, and walking inside had the unsettling feeling of repeating the past all the time.
If there was no one to show the way, those who mistakenly entered would be lost in it forever, and even death couldn’t put an end to it.
The soul will wander in it forever, becoming another wisp of smoke in this Dawn Cloister.
And every day in the Dawn Cloister there would be an adjudicator clad in black robes, walking barefoot in it, responsible for receiving and conveying the will of the Lord of the Court of Adjudication.
At this moment, the white flames on one of the pillars surged. White tongues of fire passed through the black fire cage, like several arms reaching up to the sky in supplication.
The black-robed man who was walking in the corridor immediately stopped when he saw this scene and bent down on his knees, interlocking his hands and placing them in front of his knees, while his forehead was pressed tightly against the back of his hands.
“Court Master.” He said respectfully.
“Have you found it?” Frim’s low voice rang out.
“Not yet. The person who infiltrated the Eternal Night King’s Palace was very cunning, after stealing the source of the Red Sea Tree that was prepared to be used at the enthronement ceremony, he didn’t flee, instead, he traveled to the King’s Palace and directly took half of the blood in Alyxandrah’s body. If it wasn’t for the fact that we had already symbiotized his heart with the Red Sea Tree in order to prevent Alyxandrah from accidentally dying, I’m afraid he would have ……”
“This person must be of the third rank. Investigate all Third Order sorcerers who have recently entered the Neverwinter Nights Empire.”
“Yes!”
“He stole the tree source and took the blood of the Winged Night royal family ……”
In between the words of the Lord of the Court of Judgment, the black-robed man kept his motion of bending down on his knees unchanged.
“…… At this particular time, Justin, the sole successor of the Black Sea Tree Source, also suddenly appeared, and sought out a First Order Sorcerer to treat him? And Justin’s memory didn’t have any information related to the Black Sea Tree Source, apparently the memory had been taken out before he came.
Did he think the wind demon would kill him? Or had he already guessed that I would show up through the mass exclusion of the wind eye?
With both tree sources having problems at the same time, could it be that the group of rebels were still not dead? Do they have to let this world be destroyed before it hurts?”
The black-robed man crouching on the ground then quietly listened to Frim’s thoughts. He didn’t deliberately memorize what was in those words.
Even at the Fourth Order Sorcerer, one was not an omniscient person, and even more questions would arise from exposure to more secrets of this world.
The black-robed man would never be interested in the doubts of a higher power, that would only cause him to live and die an incredibly miserable life.
After a few moments, the light source’s voice re-stabilized.
“Send someone to the entrance of the Masterless Land, the person who stole the source of the Red Sea Tree will definitely go there next. Be sure to stop the person outside.”
“Yes!” The black-robed man paused for a moment, “Court Master, the new ruling order has been issued, and the number of people is a bit high. Our manpower may not be very sufficient.”
The list on the ruling order could only be viewed by sorcerers of the Ruling Court, and the rulings were all executed with a time limit. If a large number of Ruling Court sorcerers were sent to guard the entrance to the Lordless Land, the execution of the ruling order would be affected.
Lightsource was silent for another moment and finally said, “I will execute this ruling order.”
The black-robed man shuddered and bent down once more, hating to press his head into the ground, “Yes!”
……
Unclaimed Land, Rhine Lake, Pure Spirit Wizard Tower.
Saul was walking down the dark stairwell.
“Maybe I should take a cue from my mentor and get a row of white candles too?”
The butler, Hope, followed him, “The piping within the walls has finished developing, and I’m ready to finish installing the sconces if you need them.”
“I’m not so keen on all those arms and mouths running around the wizard’s tower.” “Naturally, they can be restrained to the 2nd basement level if you need them. But with all due respect, there will surely be more people entering your Sorcerer’s Tower in the future. It is more convenient to install some monitoring facilities inside the Sorcerer’s Tower.”
Saul pressed his hand on the wall with a frosted grainy texture, “I don’t intend to develop the Sorcerer’s Tower into a pseudo-college organization like Mentor.
But you’re right, even if it’s just treating the contamination, there will still be more wizards like Justin coming in. It would be too troublesome and dangerous not to be able to control their actions.
Let’s do what you said. Put the mouths out first, then keep the eyes on the first floor and third level.”
Saul had chosen the same management style as Golza after all.
“By the way, I once saw some mist-like humanoids in my mentor’s wizard tower. Hope, do you know what those are?”
Hope bowed slightly, “Lord Tower Master those mist-like people are a byproduct of the Sorcerer’s Tower. It is both a means of protection and an early warning measure.
When the wizard tower’s grievances increase, most of them will be absorbed by the pipes. However, a few remnants will be left behind, which are attached to the resentful spirits’ obsessions and are unable to communicate, but will instinctively gravitate towards places where there are abnormal magical and spiritual power fluctuations present.
You can view the distribution of these Mists on the 2nd basement level. By the density of their distribution, determine where there are places where abnormalities have appeared.”
“You have more experience than me in this regard, and you used to be the one to check the distribution of these fog people?”
“Yes, my lord.”
Saul now felt more and more that this Lord Steward of the Sorcerer’s Tower was very powerful.
Not only did he have to be responsible for the living and living of every living person, he also had to control the movements of every dead person.
Looking at the butler’s humble yet elegant posture, Saul was more or less impressed.
No wonder he could become the top steward of the Wizard Tower.
At the same time, he thought of the time he had entered the cursed slit in the second treasury and saw the roof of the treasury crawling with Misty Men on the inside.
At first glance the number was almost a hundred.
If there were that many Misty People in one second storehouse, how many were there in the entire Sorcerer’s Tower?
How many ordinary people and apprentices had to die before such a large number of Mist People formed in the Sorcerer’s Tower?
He was inwardly both shocked and curious, “How many foggy people appearing in one place represents the appearance of an abnormality?”
“If a room doesn’t have any abnormal fluctuations, there are probably only two or three Misty People in it. If the number of foggy people exceeds 10, it means that someone is using 1st or 2nd order sorcery or conducting experiments of equal magnitude. If there are more than 30, it means that someone is using 3rd order sorcery or is conducting experiments that cannot be controlled. Because 3rd order and above sorcery may cause damage to the Sorcerer’s Tower proper, we prohibit destructive 3rd order and above sorcery in the Sorcerer’s Tower.”
Hearing the steward’s reply, Saul was a little confused.
He hesitantly asked, “Then what if there are close to a hundred Mists in a room?”
This time it turned into the butler hesitating, “Perhaps only a large-scale experiment conducted by Lord Tower Master himself would have this effect?”
Saul was silent, his second storage room seemed to have close to a hundred mistborn hovering around all the time.
But it wasn’t like he was synchronizing a dangerous experimental operation every time he ducked into a crevice to observe.
Was it because the second storage room itself held dangerous items? Or was it the fact that it was surrounded by eye-monitoring, mezzanine partitions that made these Misty People wander around all year round?
But the steward in charge of monitoring the mistformers didn’t mention this.
“Can you usually monitor the second storehouse as well?”
“The second storehouse has a mezzanine partition that only Lord Tower Master can monitor on weekdays, and only Lord Tower Master can enter and exit at will without passing through the bronze gate.”
“No wonder ……,” Sol looked back at the butler and realized that he didn’t seem to be curious about what was in the second storage room.
Suddenly, the butler’s left eye exploded violently.
The explosion turned the entire left side of his face into a hollow.
Immediately afterward, tiny sparks automatically ignited on his face and spread rapidly, looking to burn off his entire skull.
Without hesitation, Sol immediately transformed one of his hands into a gray translucent tentacle and covered the butler’s head.
Those tiny sparks were instantly sucked into Sol’s tentacle and quickly extinguished again, turning into some tiny black ashes.
The butler’s body shook and grew a new head in the blink of an eye.
“Lord Tower Master, there is bad news.” The steward’s new head spoke.
Sol’s face darkened, “I know, Justin is dead.”
(End of chapter)