Alien world

Chapter 287 140. Doomed Destruction

The burning mage tower collapsed.The center of the royal capital, the symbol of Montreal, the Palace Garden around the hill is burning.

Under the doomsday-like blood-colored clouds, the capital turned into a sea of ​​flames, the fiery twisted air rolled up ashes, and scorched black ferocious ratmen stepped across the street——

Lilith wakes from a desperate nightmare.

The cool northern summer brought her back to tranquility. Picking up the wooden box, Lilith knocked on Annan's bedroom while staring at her vaguely.

"...Who is outside?"

"I'm Lilith."

Not long after, Annan, who was wearing a mage's robe, opened the door sleepily: "Is there something wrong at this late hour?"

"I have an ominous feeling..."

"About the capital?"

"Ah."

Annan allowed Lilith to come in before opening the door. He looked out of the corridor with his head, felt Laila's presence, and then gently closed the door.

After lighting up the dim oil lamp, Annan gestured for Lilith to sit on the seat: "What happened?"

"I dreamed that my teacher died."

"Mr. Asimov? He's an epic..." Annan didn't believe that a mere "conspiracy" would kill an epic mage, and the eldest prince would never dare to do such a thing.

Lilith narrated her dream about the ruined capital.

"The Ratmen are still in the Extreme North County, they are not that fast... I just came back from the Mage Tower, and the tower spirit will tell me if there is an accident in the Mage Tower in the capital."

But as someone who had been reminded by the dream, Annan still asked her: "Have you ever dreamed of a similar omen before?"

Lilith shook her head, and then handed the wooden box to Annan: "I conducted a private observation for a while, and I think I can give it to you."

"The teacher said it was the key to getting everything back on track, and I think you'd be more useful with it than I am."

"what is it?"

Of course Annan knew about the wooden box that Lilith had brought with her when she came.

"I don't know, I haven't opened it."

After hesitating, Annan opened the wooden box in front of Lilith.

A spell book lay quietly in the wooden box—Annan was out of interest, and he couldn't use a bunch of forbidden spells written in the spell book.

In addition to the spell book, there is also a stone doll and a small wooden box in the wooden box.
"Why is it here?" Lilith's light voice was full of surprise.

"You know?"

Lilith looked at the stone doll: "The toy I had when I was very young, but I couldn't find it anymore."

"what about this?"

Annan pointed to the small wooden box, the words fell, and an illusory spirit appeared from the wooden box.

"Hello, King of the North, I'm Asimov." Asimov pointed his finger at the surprised Annan: "Shh, don't tell her I'm here."

Lilith didn't respond, it seemed that only Annan could see him.

"what happened to you?"

Lilith swept across the empty space Annan was staring at, but there was nothing.

"What are the characteristics of your teacher Asimov?"

"With a white beard as long as his hair, and pale yellow eyes like the morning sun, he is a wise curator, and there is nothing he doesn't know."

"Does he know this too?"

Annan opened the wooden box containing the black powder.

"The smell of sulfur... and some saltpeter and charcoal? It's interesting that they have a violent reaction when they are mixed together." Said the illusory Asimov.

The description matches, and the wooden box was given to her by Asimov...

Annan thought that Asimov was actually dead, and whether he could help him refine black powder.

"The king of the north, can you let Lilith leave first?" the illusory Asimov asked gently.

Annan and Lilith said: "I will study the wooden box and tell you the answer tomorrow night?"

"it is good."

Lilith left the room. After a while, the door sounded in the corridor. Annan closed the door and said to the illusory Asimov, "Do you mind if I ask a mage to verify it?"

"of course."

So Annan activated the amulet again and summoned Mr. Swallow wearing a nightcap to the bedroom.

"You helped my daughter, but shouldn't you use it to...Mr. Asimov without restraint?"

"Long time no see, Swallow, I thought I would never see you again after you left." Asimov sighed nostalgicly, and explained to the curious Annan: "Swallow went to school in Odaggers 50 years ago. He was working as a librarian at the time."

Annan nodded, and continued to stare up at the fluff ball hanging from Mr. Swallow's nightcap——

"That's what Alice insisted on wearing for me..." Mr. Swallow didn't take off his nightcap when he said that, it was a kind of affection that Olmedo envied...

"Mr. Asimov, why is your soul in Xingyue Bay?"

"I glimpsed a glimmer of the future from the chaotic chaos, Annan...he is the key to bringing this world back to order."

Mr. Swallow re-observed Annan who was stroking his head shyly.He never doubted that Annan would bring prosperity to Xingyue Bay and even the entire northern border.

"So that's what you paid for?"

"I'm going to die anyway... the king of the north, Lilith's dream is right, the capital of the king is facing destruction."

"How is this possible... The Rat Man is thousands of miles away. I told the capital a few days ago, the mage tower, the scavengers, the guards...they are indifferent?"

"The false future blinded them. Even if I... came to Xingyue Bay, I didn't know what the Ratman did... But it was too late."

"What does this have to do with Lilith? Why is she dreaming about this?"

"Lilith is the newborn Taling."

Asimov's answer was full of surprise.That stone toy is Lilith's "body".

"What about that?" Annan pointed to the wooden box.

"Vitalig's phylactery, this is my request to send Lilith to Xingyue Bay, so that Vitalig can be revived."

"And help him take back the kingdom?"

"No... the king of the northern border, what to do is his business, you just need to resurrect him."

More like investing than trading.Asimov believed that Annan would have a bright future, so he gave him Taring in exchange for the resurrection of Vitalig.

The key to the mage tower has never been the tower owner, but the tower spirit.With the help of the tower spirit, the legendary mage will have the power comparable to that of the gods in the mage tower.But Lilith's identity didn't make Anando happy, because the mage tower in the capital was far more magnificent than Breeze City, but it still couldn't stop the Ratman...

"I'm running out of time, let's end this conversation. Annan, Lilith doesn't know her identity yet, it's up to you when you tell her. Swallow, remember to help Annan..."

Asimov's spirit fades away, just as he suddenly appears.

"Did you hear what Mr. Asimov said?" Annan handed over the amulet.

Mr. Swallow recharged his energy helplessly and left silently.

Annan closed the wooden box and came to the corridor: "Leila, call everyone."

Sitting on the sofa in the living room downstairs, Annan pondered, where is the end of the Rat Man?
Will they stop when they annex the capital, or continue northward?It was a mistake to advertise your identity back then...

When everyone was called to the Lord's Mansion in the middle of the night, Annan told them:

"Get ready, the Kingdom can't stop the Ratmen."

(End of this chapter)