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Outside the window, the moonlight is like water.

And under the tower, there is also a vast ocean.

When the five of them explored the stone pagoda, the valley outside had been swallowed by the flood from nowhere, and only a few branches remained in the woods not far away, and even the stone pagoda they were in was mostly submerged.

"It turns out that the rumors of floods in the abyss are true." Gordon gasped. "By the way, where does the water come from? It can't be underground, right?"

"Rather than where the water came from, I want to know more now—is this really water?" Tim Qi beside him said, his voice trembling, "Don't you feel it? It's so quiet outside Terrible, you can't hear the sound of water at all."

As Timzy said, the world outside the tower is dead silent. The water is still rising, but there are no sounds that should be produced by the fluctuation of the water flow, nor the struggle and mourning of wild animals when they flee. Everything comes suddenly, but it is quiet and orderly .

Amir thought indifferently and did not answer; Keech had changed his vision and did not pay attention to what Gordon and Timzi were saying at all; only Erin replied incoherently: "I don't know if it is water, but I can Definitely, it’s definitely the water element.”

"Is there any difference between water element and water?" Irene's words made Gordon roll his eyes and calm him down, "Okay, take it easy, it doesn't matter if it's water or something outside, we're already in the tower If you can't drown it, you can't touch it, what else is there to worry about?"

Gordon was trying to appease everyone, but Amir suddenly asked, "How many days do we have enough food?"

"Uh..." Gordon choked suddenly, and quickly stared, "You don't want to keep the pot open and carry the pot, okay? You can't say something nice, and you have to remind me of this?"

"It's better to plan ahead. If the water outside doesn't disappear, we can't starve to death here." Amir said lightly, "Of course, let's relax for a while tonight, but it's best not to eat too full, after all we I don't know how long I will stay in this tower."

"Well, at least we won't die of thirst." Gordon said helplessly, "It would be great if you magicians could even conjure bread."

——Not necessarily impossible.

Keech just came back to his senses at this moment, and thought to himself when he heard Gordon's teasing.There were so many elements in this valley that he couldn't help but think that he might actually be able to create anything he wanted to create.But under the eyes of everyone, if he really used his abilities to make bread or something, he might scare Gordon and others to death.

Thinking of this, Kiki glanced at Amir.Although Amir told him that he no longer had to use water magic as a disguise, he didn't say that he could show all his abilities.In fact, Amir only knows that he can "see" the elements. As for the extent to which he can use these elements, Amir is probably not very clear.

——If it is accidentally exposed, will Amir kill him for him?

Keech thought maliciously.

At this time, Timzi had returned to the original position and continued to light the fire and cook. Gordon and Amir packed their bags and discussed whether there was any way to leave the abyss without the flood.

Suddenly, Irene, who had been staying at the window, said to herself: "If we still stay outside, are we already drowned?"

"Uh, drowning is not a possibility. I can swim, and I won't die if I soak in the water for a day or two." Gordon scratched his head and said, "However, it will be very troublesome——wait, in this way, don't we have to Thanks to the monkey who brought us here?"

"Yes, yes, that's what I want to say!" Irene turned around and nodded vigorously.

"Where's the monkey?" Timzy asked casually.

"Disappeared, we disappeared after we entered the tower." Amir replied lightly.

"It's in this room?" Timzi's eyes lit up, he left the food he was cooking, got up and searched the room.

Gordon clapped his hands suddenly, "That's right! There must be a secret room here that disappears for no reason!"

With that said, he got up and searched with Tim Qi.

Keech looked at Amir next to him, and saw that he looked calm with the presence of an old god. He didn't know whether he didn't care if Gordon and others discovered the secret room first, or he believed that they couldn't find it.

Keech himself has checked this room with his abilities, and found that the passage leading to the secret room is in the fireplace, but this secret passage cannot be entered by pushing something away like an ordinary secret passage, but is hidden in the fireplace. Even if it is found above, it is likely to be regarded as a chimney, and there are no ladders for climbing at all. Only magicians who can fly or very powerful climbing masters can enter.

——The person who built this tower must be a magician who can fly even if he is not a wind magician!

Considering the structure of the entire tower, Keech couldn't help but come up with such an idea.

Gordon and Timzy searched around the dilapidated living room, and finally turned their attention to the fireplace next to the wall. The reason was that Timzy found that although the fireplace was old, it had no trace of use at all. unusual.

After testing with various methods, Timzy even tried to climb the "chimney" connected to the fireplace, but there was not even a place in the chimney where he could put his strength. Timzy and Gordon tried several times. He failed every time, and finally had to ask Amir for help.

"Let's eat first." Amir replied noncommittally.

Hearing this sentence, Gordon couldn't help but looked at Amir a few times, raised his eyebrows and asked, "You wouldn't have found out where the secret room is long ago, would you?"

Amir smiled slightly, raised his hand and drew a small whirlwind on his fingertips, "Don't forget, the element of wind is pervasive."

"Hmph!" Gordon curled his lips, said nothing more, and called back to Timzy, asking him to prepare dinner first.

After dinner, Amir still did not directly enter the secret passage, but gestured to Gordon, and left the room with him, and went downstairs to have a secret conversation.

Although he knew that Amir didn't like to eavesdrop, Kiki still couldn't help mobilizing the wind element to bring the voices of Amir and Gordon into his ears.However, the two only roughly divided up the spoils that might exist in the secret room, and quickly reached an agreement.

When he returned to the hall, Amir glanced at Keech meaningfully. He obviously noticed that he was eavesdropping, but he didn't expose it. He released the wind element to check the secret passage in the fireplace, and then took out his wand , got into the fireplace, chanted the spell of flying, and floated upwards.

But just after Amir ascended less than half a meter, there was a burst of elemental movement in the passage above the fireplace, which startled Kiki, who was watching by the side.

But at this time, it was too late to pull Amir down, and Kiki could only blurt out, "Be careful!"

Fortunately, Amir's perception of elements is also extremely high. When Kiki screamed, he noticed something different from above, immediately dispelled the flying spell, and fell down with a bang.

"What's wrong?" Gordon and Timzi rushed forward and pulled Amir out of the fireplace.

Fortunately, Amir's reaction was fast enough, and he didn't suffer any damage. It's just that a part of the hair on the top of his head turned into a scorched and eroded state as if corroded, and there were obvious signs of continuing to corrode the skin.

Kiki quickly threw out a wind blade, cut off all the corroded hair, and then walked quickly to Amir's side, pretending to check the injury, and quietly repaired the part of Amir's scalp that had been affected.

"I'm fine." Amir let Kiki toss on his head, while raising his hand to push Gordon and Timzi away, "There is a magic circle hidden on it, and it will be triggered when people approach it."

"Let me go in and take a look." Before Gordon and the others could answer, Keech turned around and got into the fireplace.

Amir didn't stop him, he just stood up and told him, "Look at it before you understand, don't go up in a hurry."

"Yeah." Kiki responded, closed his eyes, and checked the reason for the change in the elements above.

A magic circle inlaid with many magic cores soon appeared in front of Kiki, and most of these magic cores were still full of elemental essence, which may be the reason why this magic circle was still effective after so many years.

To Kiki's surprise, this is not such a complicated and obscure magic circle, but after deducing the elemental symbols on the magic circle, he recognized the origin and effect of the magic circle.

This is a magic circle of necromantic magic, the effect is between the blood appreciation technique and the blood of revenge, only people with the same bloodline as the blood bead hidden in the center of the magic circle can pass through safely, and others will be affected by magic. array of attacks.

It is not difficult for Kiki to destroy this magic circle, but by accident, or because of the monkey that led him here, Kiki came up with a weird idea and blurted out to Amir said, "Do you have a knife?"

"What are you going to do?" Amir asked suspiciously, but still reached out and pulled out a small knife that was not much longer than a finger from his belt, put it into the fireplace, and handed it to Kiki.

Keech didn't expect that Amir was actually carrying such a thing, but he didn't want to explain in front of Amir, so he took the knife and cut a small cut on his finger, and used the dripping blood The whirlwind technique wrapped it and rose to the position where the magic circle was.

There was a flash of red light, and his own blood was sucked in by the magic circle, mixing with the original blood beads inside.

Kiki immediately became more courageous, and immediately drove the wind element again, causing his body to fly upwards.

"Kiki!" Amir yelled angrily when he noticed that Kiki's feet were off the ground.

But Keech was not attacked by the magic circle like Amir, and in a blink of an eye he passed through the passage above the fireplace safely and entered another room.

"I'm fine." After standing firmly on the floor with both feet, Kiki shouted to Amir below, "Don't come up, the magic circle is still there!"

"Magician Kiki, what's on it?" Gordon asked immediately when he heard that Kiki had entered the secret room.

"Looks like a laboratory," Keech replied uncertainly.

There is no window in this room, and the light from under the fireplace cannot shine through, so he can only judge with another vision.

But soon, Kiki found several magic lamps that could emit light through the magic core in the corner, but the elemental essence inside had been exhausted and had to be replaced before they could be used.

Kiki groped his way to the wall, took out a few low-level magic cores from his pocket, and replaced the discarded magic cores inside.

Fortunately, these magic lamps do not need high-level magic cores to be effective. As soon as the magic cores are put in, the room immediately brightens.

Kiki breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to take a closer look at what it was, but as soon as he turned around, he found a writing desk behind him, and a human-shaped skeleton was sitting upright behind the writing desk.

—Is it just skeletons?

Kiki was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the skeletons, but he immediately calmed down and took a few steps forward. He was relieved to find that it was indeed just a pile of lifeless skeletons, and turned his head to look at the skeletons on the desk. A piece of parchment.

——Should it be parchment?

Keech thought uncertainly.Looking at how clean the skeleton of the skeleton is, you can tell how long it has been here. The clothes on the skeleton have been wiped out, but the paper on the table is still well preserved. Such tenacious vitality cannot be possessed by ordinary papyrus. Yes, only expensive parchment can have.

There was also a bald quill on the table, and the paper was also covered with scribbled words, but perhaps the words were too scribbled, and Kiki could not read them at all, so he could only curl his lips and turn his head to find He is more concerned about the magic core.

After looking at them with another vision, Keech found them in the cabinet in the corner.

Seeing that there was neither a lock nor a mechanism in the cabinet, Kiki walked straight over and opened the door with his hand.

The cabinet is divided into upper, middle and lower layers. The uppermost layer is full of high-grade magic cores. They are all individually installed in small and transparent crystal boxes. All of them hide exquisite magic circles, placed one by one, there are twenty or thirty; the second layer is the intermediate magic core, they are not stored separately, but are placed together in five larger magic circles according to their respective attributes. In the crystal box, the number is different, the water system is obviously the most, but the soil system is very few; the bottom layer is five large wooden boxes that look ordinary, Kiki opened it and found that there are also magic cores inside, but all It is a low-level one, and it is also classified by department, but it is placed very casually, like a pile of sand and stones.

Keech didn't count how many magic cores there were in the wooden box. There were so many of them that he couldn't hide them all on his body, so he had to take three high-level magic cores and stuff them into his pocket first, then went back to the passageway Beside, I wanted to break the magic circle inside directly, but hesitated for a while, after all, I just took out the blood beads inside, making the magic circle temporarily invalid.

"Amir, it's time to come up." Kiki shouted down after dissipating the drawn blood.

Amir quickly floated up from the passage.While Keech observed the secret room, Amir also tidied his hair, cutting it all short to cover up the damaged part.

"What's here?" Amir took back the knife from Kiki and looked at the secret room.

"Magic core." Kiki raised his hand and pointed to the cabinet he had opened.

Amir immediately showed a surprised expression, but in the next moment, his eyes were attracted by the skeleton behind the desk, and he strode over, looked at the skeleton first, and then turned his attention to the parchment on the table.

"Can you understand what's written on it?" Keech asked casually.

"The Argonian language of the golden age is somewhat different from the popular lingua franca now, but you can still understand some characters." Amir stared intently at the parchment, but didn't reach out to touch it.

After a while, Amir seemed to have digested the contents of the parchment, and then he turned his head and said to Kiki, "My dear, he may be your ancestor."