Lord of Glory

"Just take whatever you want." Looking at the black boy, Paladin said softly. As soon as he finished speaking, the invisible shield of gluttony that trapped Paladin suddenly disappeared. The black boy stepped forward and took Paladin's hand, walking towards the next circle. The moment he easily stepped into the next circle, a new shield appeared, trapping Paladin again. However, he was not moved at all. He just looked at the words on the circle at his feet and murmured: "**...Do you want me to abandon the most primitive instinct of mankind?"

Just as Paladin was deep in thought, the black boy next to him suddenly let go of Paladin's hand, opened his mouth suddenly, shook his head and bit off Paladin's left foot! "Bang!" Paladin suddenly lost his support and fell into the circle. However, he still calmly watched the huge mouth chewing his legs without saying a word. Wait until the black boy swallows the leg completely. Watching the boy suddenly grow taller, his hair grew longer, and his body became wider. After he became an older child, he calmly looked up at the boy and asked, "You eat me every time I reach a circle... Then when I reach the end, won't I be dead?"

"The price..." the taller boy replied while maintaining the same fake smile. Paladin, who knew the price well, was not satisfied with this answer. When he was about to ask more questions, the young man said: "Death or life, it depends on you. I can't control it." But Paladin, lying in the circle without saying a word, looked at the black young man in silence. Finally slowly closed my eyes...

Eyes opened, Paladin climbed up from the floor in the room. The sunlight still shines peacefully into this room, causing a mirror in the room to reflect a dazzling light. Paladin subconsciously turned his head to look, and when he saw himself in the mirror, he raised his brows and then fell silent.

Still the same face, still the same body. The Almighty Eye still flashes, and the fingers can still move. The only difference is that the hair has turned into snow white, and the golden pupils in the eyes. There was no golden light, no energy, just the pupils of the eyes changed from brown to gold. Looking at himself in the mirror, Paladin suddenly opened his mouth and murmured: "Anakin, Ripley...you have experienced it too..."

At the same time, let us look past this village, past the Principality of Barbari, through the Principality of Kasmi, across a wide river, and after passing by the most powerful Engelland Empire, we came to a place where dense trees stood. In the forest. Lin Hai kept retreating in front of the perspective, and the peaks and streams flew back like passers-by. Until we climbed over the last high mountain. The scenery in front of me suddenly took on a new look.

A city, to be precise, a very strange city. The wall formed the city into a huge circle. It's like the pot lid is placed in the green river water. The low city wall didn't seem to have any ability to resist invasion, but the runes engraved on it made people feel weird. From time to time, a mage wearing a cloak and a hood holding a staff would shuttle between the city gates. Entering the low city gate, I found that all the people walking on this ridiculously clean road were mages. Not even an ordinary person. But what is really shocking is that what stands in the city is not a building or a house at all. Instead, there are tall towers with different shapes and also engraved with runes! The entire city is actually made up of towers!

Although the magic lamps lined up on both sides of the road make people feel extremely luxurious, compared with the clustered towers, this is just a saving. Because these densely packed towers are all mage towers! It is unimaginable that the Mage Tower is a recognition of a mage's strength and a symbol of status. Even in the Principality of Kasmi, mage towers are very rare. But here there is a large area! Have these mages changed their solitary character and now like to live in groups? …,

But the surprise doesn't stop here, the wide road stretches to the end. You can vaguely see the stairs that go up in pieces. The higher you go up and closer to the center, the taller the mage tower will be. Because of the unwritten convention among mages, the higher the mage tower is, it means that its owner possesses a certain degree of magic power and rank. And there are actually four hundred mage towers including the great mage! Faintly visible, the silent mages under the mage tower were shuttled among them. Even people I know rarely say hello. Compared to the underground headquarters of the Free Masons, this place is filled with calming tranquility.

When the mage has any needed materials and books, a large number of apprentices immediately go to the Calvary Mage Tower to exchange items they have never seen before. Obviously, in this place, there is no difference between gold coins and stones on the roadside. These are a group of people who are unable to extricate themselves from the charm of magic.

As the steps go up, there are fewer and fewer mage towers. There are almost no mages coming and going. When we arrived at the center of the city, there was a huge 120-story tower at the highest point that we had never seen before. It has become a landmark of this city. Surrounding the central mage tower, there are only five tall but dwarfed mage towers. From a distance, this city is as spectacular as a forest sea of ​​towers!

Obviously, the giant master tower in the center has spent a long time. The rust and faded decorations on the tower tell people about its long history. If you look carefully, you will find huge coats of arms engraved on the roads throughout the city. It was a coat of arms consisting of three spiers. I believe that only knowledgeable people on the mainland understand what this means. What's more, there is a stone tablet in front of the huge mage tower in the center. A name is painted on it with vigorous and powerful strokes: "Hurlit."

The great and eternal mage Taherit! A city composed of thousands of mage towers! Need I say more? Isn't this what the entire continent knows about, Helit, one of the three guilds, the Forest of Towers! Among the three magician guilds, the only one that often moves around the mainland!

At this moment, in a mage tower near the center that symbolizes the rank of a mage, a silver-haired, 70-year-old old mage was examining the arm of a girl lying on the hospital bed with a painful face. After a while, he put down his arm, and saw that on the girl's delicate and pitiful right hand, there was a woman's hand that was different from the left hand. "It reacts perfectly to the soul, and there is no abnormality between the bones... Haha, it's a perfect masterpiece. I don't know anything about this kind of magic."

After hearing the old mage's words, the girl obviously breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, a man in black robe suddenly came in, holding a cooked roast chicken in his hand. After seeing the smile of the old mage, he immediately looked at the girl happily and asked, "Have you recovered?" "Well..." The man in black robe didn't pay much attention to it, moved a bench and sat down, holding the roast chicken. He handed it to the girl and said, "Eat it, I baked it with great care." "Huh?"

Looking at the roasted chicken, the old mage's eyes suddenly widened, his white beard immediately raised, and he hit the black-robed man on the head with a chestnut, and reprimanded him with dissatisfaction: "This is not the green turkey I caught." You brat, you roast a monster for your sweetheart, and you have forgotten about me, an old man?" "Teacher...don't I think Adela is weak...I'll help you catch another one another day."

But the old mage didn't appreciate it at all. Looking at the student begging for mercy, he went over and cursed again: "You captured him? I went to Nori Swamp to capture him, and I even fought an angry crawling dragon." All day long! Come back and let me take a look! If you don’t study hard and go out all day to cause trouble for me, you are really..."

The girl lying on the bed looked at the scene of the teacher and the student playing, and suddenly she covered her mouth and laughed happily... Is this the taste of happiness and comfort? Unexpectedly, it was better than she expected.

PS: There will definitely be a surprise in the next chapter...stay tuned.