Returning from the abyss

Chapter 499 Tower Top
As the sun sets, it shines on the watchtower with a peaceful afterglow.

On a rocking chair that recorded the years, an old man was sitting. He had a kind face, but his eyes were cloudy but still sharp.In his arms is a glass ball, which contains the treasures at the top of the entire Ewa Gallery.

"That was... a long time ago."

The old man sighed.

"Hey, old man, I thought you'd take this opportunity to kill me."

Behind him, at the entrance of the watchtower, Bai Meigui held a simple healing spell in her hand, and slowly recovered her broken arm, but her face was still full of rebellion.Hyakkihiro, who caused the wound, was sitting less than five meters away, cross-legged on the ground, with three poison darts pierced in his abdomen, his face was bruised, and he was using magic to detoxify.

After the two people met, they didn't even say hello and went straight to the killer. In a sense, if it wasn't for Bai Meigui, someone else might not be able to handle it.

"Ghost face, step back." The old man slowly turned his chair and turned to White Rose.

"I thought it would be people I know very well, but I didn't expect you to be the first to arrive here."

"Your tone doesn't mean you don't know me." Bai Meigui dispelled the spell in her hand and squeezed her shoulders, where the bones were making a slight noise.

"I know many people, including some of your actions. But it doesn't affect me, so I don't care." The old man smiled, "Your soul is not pure, but you can still stand firm. It's amazing to be on the 'right' side. So even though it's not as expected, I'm still happy."

"Wonderful?" Bai Meigui raised her eyebrows. Out of the corner of her eye, she had already seen the ghost's face—that is, Bai Guihong had detoxified the poison dart and retreated to the wall, and indeed did not continue to attack.But the old man in front of her was Liszt, the emperor of the spell system. If it was this person, she had no chance of winning, even if she looked old enough to die.

"As people get older, they will gradually lose interest in new things because of their own experiences." Liszt touched the ball in his hand, "Many people and many things can hardly bring me any surprises. And you are a small gift, not out of line, but enough."

The old man laughed, as if recalling something happy.Looking at such a person, Bai Meigui is actually a little hard to understand.Whether she analyzed it from the right path or the evil path, she couldn't guess what kind of person Liszt was and why.

"A lot of people died." Slowly, the laughter ended, and the old man continued to tell in his old tone, "I have lived a long time, young man, and death has hardly touched me. Tell me, what do you think Can Heinz make it?"

"He will not succeed. He himself is outside the library. Although he seems to have some advantages, he is actually isolated from the key battlefield here. And in the library, your rebellion has long been expected Well, the main force of the Magic Council probably didn't suffer too much damage at all, they just didn't deal with you directly for some reason."

"Yes, yes... Heinz has skills, ambition, and courage, but he lacks the ability to judge the overall situation. Maybe in another three to fifty years, he can submit his ideas as a proposal to the parliament. It may not be impossible. Okay. But he was too impatient, that’s why he has today.” Liszt nodded, “In the library, I really couldn’t find out where the people headed by Dulemond went. If he is too powerful, perhaps only Percival can say that he is able to stabilize Dullermond, and although we are on the same level as him in name, we are actually not as good as him."

"Since you know this, why do you still want to do this kind of thing?" White Rose glanced behind Liszt. Under the setting sun, there were still magical flashes of light everywhere in the Ewa Gallery, indicating that the battle outside was still going on.

"Because I don't have much time, young man." Liszt said lightly, "The Sorcerer Emperor is still a person, and a person's lifespan will come to an end one day. What's more unfortunate is that my own strength makes me I am becoming more and more aware of the coming of death, when you see the god of death approaching you step by step, you will let go of many things, except the past... no, the obsession of a lifetime."

"Obsession? You? As far as I know, your life is more perfect than most people's."

"Yes, so what I'm doing now is also very mundane."

"Ordinary?" Bai Meigui couldn't help but sneer.

At this moment, Lu Ning's voice came from the door behind him.

"He is indeed doing an ordinary thing, which a person like him would do."

"Oh, a new guest." Liszt raised his hand to stop the ghost face that was about to move again, "Lilian, Garcia, Juno, very good..."

"You seem to know us very well." Lu Ning came out from the exit first, and naturally took over the conversation, "Good afternoon, Mr. Liszt."

"I know a lot of people, sudden emergence, talents, changes in personality... I will pay a little attention to these more interesting things. Besides, you have all participated in my 'collection' work."

"Sure enough, you made those murderers for Heinz." Lu Ning nodded, "But he has already destroyed the magic book that the murderer sent. After today's most powerful time has passed, Ewalang will be able to Take over order again, and if Heinz's seizure of power doesn't happen today, he's lost."

"You're right. So...about me?"

"This is the conclusion we reached in the end." Lu Ning turned her head to look at Garcia and Juno at the back, and they both smiled and nodded at her.

"Aside from those superficial arrangements, your real purpose is the same as that of every magician emperor who is similar to you. You are writing your own magic book, I don't know if I'm right?"

"Hahahahaha..."

Liszt smiled and tapped the ball in his arms lightly. With a smile, he suddenly coughed twice, then restrained himself, and said appreciatively, "Very good, very good."

"The collection of magic books probably started very early, even many years ago, you arranged a lot of suitable people. It's just that what I saw included the royal magician of Catherine's country and Professor Abel himself I originally thought that the person who made it was just one person, but if it was you, it would not be difficult to find a few such people." Lu Ning said.

"The second is my inference based on all the things that happened in the city from the beginning of this exchange meeting to the present." Juno followed up and said, "There have been more than a hundred incidents similar to what Lu Ning encountered in the city. This kind of concentrated outbreak is not normal even in such a grand event. The most important thing is that these events are intertwined. If you list all the people involved in the event in the network, you will find that they have mutual The direct or indirect connection even exceeds the tightness of the six-dimensional spatial relationship network, and this kind of thing can be defined as a whole large-scale case in case inference.”

"Then in the end..." Garcia saluted Liszt slightly, "I have been counting the undead every day since the start of the exchange meeting. Although the soul cannot share too many memories about life, as long as the number is enough, it can be counted. Some problems. For example, some special souls did not flow in the normal direction, but disappeared at a certain time or place. After comparing the information between Juno and I, I can roughly determine the direction of these souls. "

"Of course, what you want is not the soul, but the adaptor of the magic book." Lu Ning concluded, "At first it was an experiment. In this case, your name must be among the next emperor-level verifiers. What makes you so enthusiastic about verifying magic books? In the rule that if only one person has a problem, you will be postponed. You probably use this The means intercepted quite a few 'usable' magic books, didn't they?"

"Yes. I must admit that dead souls are failures. Although they have great power, they lack flexibility and humanity after all. It just so happened that Heinz took a fancy to this, so I found an opportunity to pass this method on to him. Gave it to him, and promised to help him make more similar items, on the condition that it promotes the implementation of his plans."

"Heinz is also part of your arrangement, isn't it?"

"Yes, he is a passage in my magic book." Liszt nodded, "I even used some of my contacts to help him find a way to contact powerful helpers, just for this moment."

"To kill more people?" White Rose shook her head, "Old man, I know what you want to say."

"You are very smart. After this incident, the greatest threat of instability inside and outside the Ewa Corridor will be eradicated, and the strength here will never be shaken. After my magic book is completed, it will also become a precious part of the Ewa Corridor. Treasure, it is different from those ordinary magic books, it contains the wisdom of countless people, not just myself. I don't mind your friends doing those little tricks in your backyard, because it doesn't matter whether these people live or die."

Liszt stood up slowly, and the sun gradually sank below the horizon, leaving only a glow.

"Really? Do you think everything will be peaceful in this way? When you are dying, you still plan to hide some facts?" Lu Ning said.

"Hiding the truth? I've said everything I need to say."

"You said that the biggest difference in your magic book is that it includes the wisdom of countless people. However, if you really have that pursuit, your ultimate goal should be all the wisdom in the world, otherwise it will not have that absolute particularity."

"I'm old and not so naive."

"Really?" Lu Ning raised her finger, "Then why did you start thinking that you wanted to write such a magic book?"

Liszt was silent.

"Inheritance." Lu Ning answered for him, "Kari mythology, the magic from Karui, has been passed down for countless generations, and it has reached your hands. Are you the only one? It's hard to say, but I know, you taught it yourself There are more than a thousand apprentices, how many of them have received your true biography?"

This time, Liszt sighed slightly.

"Not many... maybe one out of ten."

"Your crazy thoughts are starting to spread?" Bai Meigui immediately widened her eyes.

"If you want to collect the wisdom of the world, you must rely on more people and more generations. If you want to get rid of my disciples, it is too late. The No.1 student who got my inheritance was as early as 100 years ago He has graduated before, how many disciples do you think he will teach? What about his disciples? But... Don't worry, just like the hundreds of kinds of magic books, people also have different appearances, not everyone will have the same thoughts as me, Not everyone will take such an action. After all, this is a tacit understanding passed down from master to disciple, just like magic in the oldest age."

Liszt raised the ball in his hand with his aging arm, and then let go of his hands.

With a crisp cracking sound, the ball shattered, and the Stone of Eternity inside fell out, igniting the magic light on the watchtower again, and the last ray of light was replaced by this ray of light, flawless.

"It will exist in the minds of everyone who carries my idea, and its true appearance will be scattered in every corner of the world, waiting for one day, the day of world unity, someone can piece them together Back to the original appearance. It may not start with me, nor will it end with me, but I am willing to do my part for that day to come. At this time, it is a lost magic book. "

Following Liszt's words, the fragments on the ground flew up again, and the total amount of magic power endowed by the Stone of Eternity was extremely large. Those crystals slowly merged back into a spherical shape, while the broken lines turned into strange magic symbols, deeply embedded in the within the spherical shell.Liszt opened his eyes wide suddenly, and exhaled his last breath. The air passed through the sphere, turned into a cloud inside, and slowly condensed into a colorless and transparent water drop.The old man fell back on the chair, the ball landed in his lap, bounced slightly, and stopped.

The rocking chair was still shaking slightly due to the final impact, and the old man turned into a pitch-black silhouette in the magical light coming in from the window, only the sphere still exuded the faint light of the runes.

At this time, a person approached Liszt's body, holding the magic book with both hands.

"Haiguihong, we seem to have a debt to settle." Lu Ning said.

"You can't beat me...you can't beat me together." Bai Guihong glanced at several people, "That woman has some skills, but after Liszt's death, we can use the full power of the magic book without restraint, she will Killed by me within three strokes."

"Are you crazy?" Bai Meigui immediately raised her eyebrows, "Don't think that being famous in your circle means you are great!"

"No, go back to the distribution center and fight again. We may not be able to tell the winner, but in the scene, I have a force advantage."

Hyakkihiro took out a flannelette and wrapped the ball carefully.

"For a fight, you need to find a suitable opponent. You are not enough now."

"Oh, what about the one behind?" Lu Ning asked with a smile.

Hearing these words, Hyakkihiro suddenly turned his head, and at the same time he raised his arm to hold a pitch-black silent blade. With a soft sound, his arm was cut off from the elbow.

(End of this chapter)