top of magic

Leaving the small town, Amir's carriage turned to the mountains in the northwest, and arrived at the destination a few days later, a high and steep green mountain.

The coachman did not follow the two into the mountain in a carriage, and Kiki could only carry his light suitcase, followed behind Amir, and walked step by step to the mage tower that could not even see the shadow.

On the way, Amir saw Kiki walking hard, so he took the initiative to teach him a simple wind control technique - gather the wind elements on his legs, speed up the walking speed, and reduce the fatigue of the limbs.

With the help of Yufengshu, Kiki and Amir soon came to his mage tower on the mountainside.

The mage's tower has five floors, and it occupies a larger area than Tina's. It is surrounded by dense green forests, and the stone tower itself is covered with green vines. This may be why Kiki failed to find it at the foot of the mountain. reason.

"I'm going to have to make do with one night today." Amir said to Kiki while opening the door of the mage tower, "I don't have servants here, and I don't have a good apprentice like Avella. I have to do everything myself."

Keech listened in silence, without answering.

As Amir said, the stone tower has not been cleaned for a long time, and there is thick dust everywhere.Amir raised his finger and recited a simple incantation. A gentle whirlwind immediately appeared on his fingertips, and then floated to the corner of the hall, sweeping in all the dust that his eyes could see.

The hall quickly took on a new look, and Amir shook his fingertips again, causing the dust collected by the whirlwind to float outside the door and dissipate on the ground outside the door.

"Go and see your room." Amir led Kiki to the second floor and opened one of the rooms, "Stay here tonight, wait until tomorrow I get someone to deliver new daily necessities, and you can decide Do you want to change the room?"

Kiki glanced at Amir suspiciously, turned his head to look at the new room, and immediately understood what Amir meant.

This room has obviously been lived in by someone. From the layout of the furniture to the fabrics used, it has a clear style and taste, but it is not the same as Amir's usual style. It is a bit like it was specially arranged for someone.

Keech didn't say much, but he had decided in his heart that he would move out of this room tomorrow.

Amir released another whirlwind to clean up the dust in the room, then opened the cabinet, and replaced all the bedding and pillows on the bed.

"Take a break today. Remember to go downstairs for dinner when it gets dark." Amir said, "There is a library on the third floor. If you feel bored, you can go there to pass the time, but it's better to wait a little while and let me Let's clean it up first."

"En." Kiki responded, carrying his salute and walking towards the bed.

Amir didn't say anything to him, turned around and left the room, and went about his own business.

Amir didn't bother Kiki until dinner time.Keech didn't go to the library on the third floor either. He just lay quietly on the bed, passing the time with meditation, and resting his tired body from the long journey.

When it was getting dark, Kiki got up and went downstairs to have dinner with Amir.

Dinner is not rich, just some bread and cooked food that are often eaten on the road.

While eating, Kiki secretly looked at Amir who had changed into a gray and white uniform.

Since entering this mage tower, Amir seems to have become a little different. He has lost his usual smile and his usual amiability. He has become cold and tired.

"Is there something wrong?" Amir asked with squinted eyes after noticing Kiki's gaze.

"...Where can I take a bath?" Kiki didn't dare to say what he really thought, and asked another question instead.

"Your neighbor." Amir replied, "I'll take you there after dinner."

"Yeah." Kiki lowered his head and continued to eat honestly.

After dinner, Amir led Kiki into the bathroom on the second floor.

This bathroom is obviously not as refined as in Master Tina's tower. The floor and pool are made of ordinary bluestone slabs, and the switch used to divert water is just a metal pipe without any decoration.

Amir put the hot water on Kiki, got up and asked, "Would you mind washing with me?"

Keech froze for a moment, then quickly shook his head.

"See you later, then." Amir turned and left the bathroom, and walked down the stairs, as if to clean up the mess on the dining table.

Since there were no women in the mage's tower, Kiki didn't bother to go back to get a change of clothes, so he took off the apprentice's robe and the underwear inside, and stepped into the bath.

The water was very hot, even a little hot, but it felt very comfortable. The fatigue that had not been relieved after lying on the bed all afternoon disappeared under the hot water in an instant.

Kiki was squinting his eyes to enjoy, when Amir opened the door and came back, his upper body was naked, and a bath towel was wrapped around his lower body.

The naked Amir is more muscular than when he was wearing the magic robe. The muscles in his arms and chest are clearly defined, and his skin is also wheat-colored. Compared with him, Kiki feels like a little rooster with no feathers.

—It’s okay, I’m still young.

Keech consoled himself.

But then, Kiki noticed that Amir's body not only had muscles, but also scars, which covered almost his entire body, even the waist and hips.Moreover, there seemed to be many types of scars, some were like punctures with sharp objects, some were like scratches, and some were like burns.

Seeing Kiki staring at his body intently, Amir smiled calmly, "Are you looking at these scars?"

"Hmm..." Kiki hesitated for a moment, guessing with the only reason he could think of, "Have you been on the battlefield?"

"No, and this is not a scar left on the battlefield." Amir said indifferently, "If you are familiar with the "Rules for Magicians", you should know that magicians are not allowed to join the army or participate in wars."

"Then... is it fighting with wild beasts?" Keech racked his brains to come up with another reason.Amir said that his assessment of the Great Mage this time was an adventure, and if these injuries were suffered during the adventure, it seemed quite normal.But the large and small scars did not look like new injuries, which made Keech a little less confident about his guess.

"Don't guess, it's all from my childhood." Amir sat in the bathtub, untied the towel around his waist, put it on his shoulders, and smiled lightly, "I have a... very unpleasant childhood."

Keech stopped asking any more questions immediately.There was a boy near his farm who was often beaten by his father. He often had bruises on the corners of his mouth and eye sockets. Although the scars on his body were invisible, he was most afraid of being touched by others, so other boys slapped his body on purpose. Seeing him baring his teeth and even yelling in pain, he burst out laughing.

Keech has been bullied like this before, but he is more fierce. He fights and goes to the deadly place, and with the help of supernatural powers, he can slay people anytime, anywhere, and come and go. Those boys who are with Rocky She disliked him more and more, but she no longer dared to act rashly towards him.

——Amir, did you ever allow yourself to be bullied?

Keech thought curiously, and his eyes continued to linger on Amir's scar involuntarily.Suddenly, an idea popped up - he can help Amir remove these scars, his power can not only control the magical elements in the air, but also control the magic elements in the human body, heal wounds, remove scars, everything is very simple things.

It's just that this power...

Kitsch bit his lip and asked tentatively, "Amir...Your Excellency, can I trust you?"

Amir, who was wiping his body with a bath towel, raised his eyelids, glanced at Kiki suspiciously, then raised the corner of his mouth quickly, and asked, "Dear Kiki, do you think you have any other choice besides trusting me? "

Kiki was slightly taken aback, unable to understand the meaning of Amir's words for a while.

"You were brought into the Magic Association by me, and I also introduced you to Tina." Amir put down the towel, leaned against the wall of the bath, and continued with a smile, "Everything you have now is given by me. If you don't want to lose it, then—you have no choice but to trust me."

Hearing this, the corners of Kiki's mouth suddenly collapsed.

—He hates being threatened, very much!

Kiki was beginning to regret his rare kindness, and Amir asked more bluntly, "Tell me, little Kiki, is there something you want to ask me... um... this expression is wrong, don't you want to ask me?" I, but... want to help me?"

——Now I don’t want to!

Keech immediately turned his head away, not looking at him anymore.

However, Amir reluctantly leaned over to his ear, and guessed slowly and accurately, "Could it be that you want to help me remove the scars on my body?"

Kiki froze, subconsciously turned his head to look at Amir, and saw that he was looking at him meaningfully, his eyes full of jokes.

Kitsch bit his lip habitually, hesitating how to answer.

However, Amir shrank back, leaned against the pool wall again, and while splashing water on himself, he warned lightly, "Don't try to weave lies that you are not good at, my dear, use your mind to think, If I didn't know your talent, how could I pick you out of many ordinary people and take you away at the risk of becoming a laughing stock?"

"Last time, you didn't seem to say that." Keech frowned.

"The last time was in Tina's mage tower." Amir smiled. "There is a saying that walls have ears. Although I believe in Tina, I can't believe a great mage who loves her daughter. Who knows that he is in his daughter's mage tower?" How many traps did Talib lay down, just waiting for a man like me with an ulterior motive to fall into it?"

After finishing speaking, Amir looked at Kiki calmly, as if waiting for him to figure it out.

Keech, however, became more and more confused, staring at Amir in a daze, and then tentatively asked after a while: "Last time, did you lie?"

"It's not really a lie." Amir shrugged, "It's just that choosing you has never been a gamble."

"You..." Kiki opened his mouth, but he really didn't know what else to say.Amir doesn't look like he has any malicious intentions, but...it really doesn't look like he has any kind intentions.

Seeing that Kiki was still looking at him hesitantly, Amir smiled slightly and said bewitchingly, "Don't worry, this is not a threat, but a fair deal - don't you want to become a magician? I can help you, as long as , you also help me get what I want."

"How do you want me to help you?" Keech asked hesitantly.

"It's very simple, lend me your strength." Amir smiled.

Kiki immediately thought of the plot in the story where the demon gained power by eating people, and he was terrified, and subconsciously moved back a lot.

"Where are you thinking?" Amir didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I'm just borrowing your strength to help me do things that I can't do myself."

"How...how can I help?" Kiki looked at Amir hesitantly.

"For example, analyzing the forbidden curse." Amir replied.

After briefly washing his body in the bathroom, Amir took Kiki to his room, took out a piece of parchment full of characters, and put it in front of Kiki.

"This is the biggest achievement I have gained from participating in the Great Mage Examination, the curse-level magic 'Thunderstorm'." Amir explained, "However, this spell was memorized by me, and there may be some differences in the details. In and out, I need you to help me make corrections."

"How to correct it?" Keech asked puzzled.

"Check the elemental changes corresponding to each magic original sound, and find out the error based on these changes. In addition, I also hope that you can simplify this spell, eliminate unnecessary original sounds, and shorten the spell length as much as possible." Amir replied. Said, "Don't tell me you can't do it, my dear, your strength is not just as simple as being higher than ordinary people's elemental perception, is it?"

"But..." Kiki looked at Amir hesitantly, with a look of embarrassment.Since he has been busy making talking tubes and magic scrolls for the past few months, he only memorized one-third of the 118 original magic sounds, and most of them only stayed at the level of "reciting", being able to recite spells that echoed with the elements , and even fewer.

"But what, my dear, tell me what you have to say, don't always make me guess." Amir was very helpless.

"I don't know much about the original sound of magic." Kiki blushed.

Amir was stunned for a moment, then immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "You don't spend all your time making megaphones, do you?"

"I have an appointment with Hill..." Keech replied in a low voice.

There was a bit of haze on Amir's face, but soon, he restrained the haze, and didn't get angry on the spot as Kiki expected, but accused with a little displeasure: "My dear, Unless you want to be an alchemist like Tina, otherwise, the original sound of magic is the most common knowledge of magic that you should learn first. Also, I hope you can trust me more in the future, especially in terms of magic, please trust my authority Sex, stop arbitrarily adjusting your own course schedule."

"I, try my best." Kiki replied with lowered eyes, with obvious perfunctory.If it weren't for concealing his abilities, he wouldn't waste time on those complicated spells composed of the original sound of magic.He really didn't think those spells had any meaning to him. On the contrary, they brought him an extra burden, so that he had to devote his energy to reciting the original magic sounds that were more than one rap during the casting process.

Amir didn't force Kiki to promise anything, just took a deep breath, suppressed all the unhappiness in his heart, and then said seriously, "Then we will analyze it while studying, just right, I also want to see you with my own eyes. That magical power."

Kiki was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "If you just want to see my power, I can help you remove the scars first, which is much faster than analyzing spells."

"No need." Amir smiled faintly, "This scar is a very important memory, I don't want to forget it."