Blooming Tower of the West Wind

Hipper stood for a while, then turned around and said a few words in Theron's ear. Theron raised his head and smiled at her, and said something very softly.

They were not far away, but the ringing in his ears caused by the teleportation made it difficult for him to hear.

Hipper walked forward first, found the counter and took three forms, and handed them back to the counter after signing. Virgil couldn't help asking, "How much money have you deposited in your teleportation account?"

"Every time I come to the city, I will save some money. Don't worry, they will write to me to urge me to pay when it is almost used up."

"More than a Theron, I guess."

Hipper hooked Theron's shoulder, "Every mage who rents the portal position has a special discount for using the teleportation array, and Theron is worth at least one Aimee Cortes now, don't underestimate her."

"I dare not." Virgil raised his hands.

"...How much is Ayme Cortes worth?" After a period of unknown silence, Theron couldn't help asking.

"Well, the cost of the eight stones probably exceeds [-] gold coins each."

Virgil bowed his head and whispered into Theron's ear, "You've doubled eighty times!"

Hipper hooked Theron to his other side.

"Teacher, are you okay? I mean, teleport."

"I'm fine, thanks, and if I'm not, I promise I'll let you know. Don't worry too much about me, okay?"

"All right……"

After waiting for a while, maybe half an hour, a staff member sent the teleportation rune to each of them, Theron held it in her hand, but this way, she couldn't hold Hipper's hand .

"Why do you need this?"

"Table Mountain City is beyond the safe distance of teleportation, so a positioning rune is needed. I will help you get the box. If you are afraid, catch me, okay?"

Theron shook his head, holding his suitcase in his arms, clutching the rune stone in his hand, and holding Hipper tightly in his free hand.She wasn't afraid, but she didn't want to explain too much: she was just afraid that Hipper's body wouldn't be able to bear the two teleportations, after all, she had teleported too many times these days.If Lenning had asked Hektra yesterday, she would have gotten the information she wanted, but two days ago, she was only concerned about why Hipper's attitude towards her had changed subtly, and now the two water lords are almost gone. The chance to be alone.

"Please close your eyes." The staff reminded politely. After a moment of dizziness and blackness, Theron stepped on the solid ground again, and Theron felt Hipper's body shake sharply again. She didn't even care about the box. Now, free your hands to help her.

The small suitcase was hooked by a blue tentacle. Lenning stretched out a water line from the element interface and poked Theron, but the latter had no time to deal with it, so he had to put down the box and return to the element interface.

"Hipper, what's the matter with you recently?" Virgil finally noticed something strange, "Did you..."

The archmage turned his head and glared at him, making him swallow the rest of his words.

Theron asked, "What night? What happened?"

The archmage said, "It's nothing, there was a big storm, and I didn't sleep well."

"Really? Thinking about it now, that storm is a bit strange. It came too fast and disappeared too fast. Maybe its mysterious element magnetic field has an effect on you that ordinary people would never have?" Virgil said Aftertaste said.

"Stop worrying about these things, Virgil, it's time for you to get down to business."

"Yes, ladies, give me the list."

Hipper took out a small notebook out of nowhere, and gave the note inside to Virgil, "Don't lose it, the only original copy."

"Okay, okay." The mage's strange problem, Virgil walked out while cursing, hastily signed the arrival form and walked out.

Now that there were only two of them left, Theron jumped for joy a little, and asked, "Are you going to get a meter now?"

"Yes, can I entrust this task to you?"

Theron was silent for a moment, and her first reaction was to refuse. She didn't like dealing with strangers very much, but Hipper might not feel comfortable, so of course she shouldn't be allowed to go, so she still tried her best and pretended to be willing. , replied: "Okay, of course!"

She ran to the counter and asked where she could get a geophysics gauge, but the other party asked her to fill out a form, nervously filling in "Theron Sivir" in the applicant column.

The other party took the form, raised his glasses and looked at it for a while, frowning, and said, "Sorry, you must have the qualifications of a mage to apply for it."

Theron was stunned for a while, and turned back to find Hipper.

Hipper was looking away, and there was some kind of mysterious tacit understanding. When Theron turned her head, she just turned around. After catching her eyes asking for help, Hipper got up and walked over, putting a hand on her shoulder and asking ,"What's wrong?"

Seeing the silk thread embroidered in four colors at her neckline, the other party even stood up a little straighter, "Oh, oh, ma'am, I'm sorry, but now only official mages can apply for measuring meters, not apprentices."

Hipper also frowned, "When did this happen?"

"Late last year, ma'am, but there really is a rule." He held up a piece of parchment with a quilt to show Hipper, and she saw the signature of the Board of Supervisors underneath.

"Let me sign it." She raised her hand and shredded the one that Theron had filled. The shredded paper itself was sucked into the trash can. It seemed that the wind was equally flattering no matter where it was.

She filled in her name, and seemed reluctant to take out the gold badge of the Archmage to prove her identity. This badge really scared the other party, and the other party stared at Hipper and the badge repeatedly with wide eyes in a little horror. , and finally returned the badge to her respectfully.

The measuring gauge is a set of test tubes filled with stones, which are stuck in a wooden frame and weigh a lot. Theron directed the Son of Earth to hold up these wooden frames and count ten.

"Do you want to take so much?"

"Do you have any extra stones?"

"Ah...you wait!"

Hipper guessed that there would be. Wood is something that can be seen everywhere, and glass is a fragile product for transportation. The only thing that must be supervised is stone. The stone supervised by the guild will be transported to the designated place and then packaged by the local guild.Part of the stone must have been damaged during transport.

As expected, the staff brought out some badly damaged pieces to her, and asked her if she wanted it. Hipper nodded, and after signing another form, she brought two earth sons and Seper who were holding heavy objects. Long left here.

"You didn't ask what the gravel is for, have you already guessed it?" Hipper asked her on the way to wait for Virgil.

"Yes, I guess it is used to measure the range of the ley lines so as not to affect the accuracy of the reading."

"I think a lot."

"Shouldn't you think so?"

"Of course I should. I just think it's rare for a novice, please keep it up." Hipper couldn't hide her complacency, but she still had a stomach full of praise to say.

"Hey, Hipper, you have such a sweet smile!" Virgil suddenly appeared from the corner of the street and raised his hand to say hello. His short beard made him look like a villain than everyone else on the street, "Come this way, Ready to go out of town."

There is a flat mountain near the city of Table Mountain. The whole city is built under Table Mountain, hence the name. However, they did not need to go to the distant plateau, but left the city from the east, which was completely a plain. It's just that the plain is dotted with miniature "tables" -- little hills with flat tops.

It was a very strange landform. Theron looked around while walking, "I seem to have been here before."

"Have you been here too?"

Virgil interjected: "It's not surprising. We entered the city from here at the time, and it's still too late to turn back now. The Hunter's Guild is not far from the east city gate."

"No, we won't turn back." Hipper coldly separated Virgil with a son of earth.

"Just kidding, don't be angry, Archmage."

"Don't call me Archmage outside."

"Observe ma'am."

"No... It's the opposite direction to enter the city, and it's a different scenery. I remember this direction."

Hipper guessed that she probably saw her on the way to escape, hugged her shoulders tightly, and whispered in her ear, "Don't take it to heart."

"I really envy the mage," walking ahead, halfway through the journey, the two mages had already sat on the son of the earth because of the bad road, and the luggage was carried by these elemental creatures that hardly felt heavy.

"You can do it too, don't say you have forgotten how to summon the Son of Earth."

"It doesn't succeed every time, so over time, I basically forget it."

"That's right, why doesn't Virgil use the Son of the Earth to carry his bow?"

Virgil opened and closed his mouth a few times before finally deciding on the words: "Old friend, can you explain to the little beast what 'ordinary people' really means?"

Hipper shrugged: "'Earth' is an inert element, as you already know, which means that they are the most difficult to be driven, and the least likely to respond to the call of the caster. The interface of the earth element is also an interface that is difficult to open. For people like Virgil who don't like elements, summoning earth elementals is a spell with a very low success rate."

Virgil stretched out his hand and shook it cooperatively.

"At the same time, driving elemental creatures requires you to have some kind of connection with them. They told me that sometimes this connection needs to be maintained very attentively, otherwise they will return to the elemental interface. The city of Table Mountain is not very far from the gate of the elements. Far, the elements here are quite active, so you may not feel that way."

"Oh..." Theron responded half-understood, she could vaguely understand this feeling, for example, sometimes after accidentally blowing up the tower, the little sons of the soil were summoned, as long as they were ignored, They will find a hole in the wall to hide.

She asked Hipper if this was the feeling, but the archmage also found it difficult to describe: "Almost, in short, it is the feeling that if you really don't have time to manage them, you will run away."

Virgil felt that these two people were simply unreasonable, and desperately hoped that an "ordinary person" could really join the team.

But he definitely couldn't get what he wanted, and even Tius didn't come this time.Because bringing it will bring an extra portion of food. Tius is not the kind of hard-working animal. If you don’t give him food, he will start to roll around and play tricks.

Virgil walked in front lonely, while the mighty Son of Earth dutifully carried two high-ranking elemental messengers.