On the Seven Towers

Xiao Chen opened his eyes.

He felt a little weak and his vision was blurry. So he had to close his eyes again and rest for a while, waiting for him to open his eyes again. Nina, who was lying beside him, coughed a few times quickly, took two deep breaths like a drowning person, let out a low hiss, and then woke up. When she turned sideways and propped up her body, water drops dripped from her nose, chin and hair ends. It was sweat with a faint fishy smell. She was soaked in sweat all over her body, and even a pool of water accumulated on the floor beside her. Xiao Chen's process of transforming her meditation world was like a major operation, which started with the spirit, but eventually affected the body. The huge and sudden metabolism made her look thinner, and even her cheekbones were much more distinct.

She glanced around the room and saw Xiao Chen looking at her. She shuddered involuntarily, and then lowered her eyes.

Xiao Chen stood up, loosened his hands and feet, walked over, held her arm, and helped her up. Nina tried to move away from Xiao Chen in fear, but she couldn't stand Xiao Chen's strength and was helped by him to sit on the edge of the bed.

"Don't worry." Xiao Chen grabbed a towel from the bedside and threw it to Nina. The latter failed to catch it, and picked up the towel from the bed in a panic, slowly wiping the sweat from her face.

"Everything will be fine." Xiao Chen smiled, "You can be regarded as a blessing in disguise. Now you have some abilities of a magic apprentice and are familiar with the models I left in your meditation space. You can release some simple little magic. Even if you are limited by your talent and have little room for development, this is a good thing, right?"

Nina looked at her hands, and after a moment, a small ball of light emerged from between her hands. It flickered a few times and burst like a soap bubble. However, seeing this scene, her face also showed some joy. Magic is so noble in this world, who can resist the temptation to release magic?

"Look, I am a man of my words, you just need to quietly fulfill our agreement." Xiao Chen said.

Nina looked at her hands again and nodded to Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen did not open the door to let the people waiting outside in, but stood in a corner of the room to observe the movements of Li Jia and Serinda. The two were as calm as sculptures, not at all like Nina's embarrassed look.

"How are they?" Nina asked.

Xiao Chen also looked at them. He held his chin and walked around the two people and said: "It seems that they are still in treatment. Judging from their physical condition, everything should be normal."

But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Jia's face suddenly twitched, and then his eyebrows twisted. Xiao Chen hurriedly sat next to Li Jia, activated the detection spirit magic, and scanned Li Jia's body with his spirit power.

"There is nothing wrong with the body, but... his spiritual power is declining!"

"Where is the lady?" Nina asked.

"It seems to be strengthening?"

In the meditation world, Serinda's body is much better than before. At least she can now support her body with her arms, but Li Jia beside her has a sad face.

Serinda's body was like a bottomless pit, and Li Jia needed to expend a great deal of mental energy to repair her disintegration of consciousness. However, the mental power carried by Li Jia's own consciousness was limited, and he felt increasingly exhausted and powerless. If this continued, it would not be long before he would lose control of his consciousness and fall asleep in Serinda's meditation space.

"Li Jia! You look... not so good, can you still hold on?" Serinda also noticed Li Jia's expression, "If you can't hold on, stop."

"No, what I'm doing now is like untying a bunch of tangled ropes. If I stop... then all my efforts will be wasted." Li Jia was already struggling to say these words, "And if I return to my world, I don't know if I can be so lucky to find you again!"

"But, I can feel that we are not even halfway there now. I'm really worried..."

Li Jia shook her head to stop her and said, "I still have a way."

He took out the black pebble that the book spirit gave him from his pocket and squeezed it hard.

"What is this?" Serinda saw the pebble break into powder in an instant, but the powder did not scatter on the ground, but began to rotate with the original location of the stone as the center. As the powder rotated, it turned into a deep black hole, suspended in the air.

Then the whole meditation world shook, as if something that shook the world was about to rush in from the outside.

"I feel it. That's the spiritual power in my subconscious mind, they are coming!" Li Jia said.

As he spoke, the hole suddenly expanded to the size of a bowl, and then countless black light spots with spiritual power poured out of it and rushed into Serinda's body.

In another body, Li Jia's meditation space began to become illusory from the outside. Rocks and tunnels turned into small black dots, and along an unknown path, they rushed out of Li Jia's world and entered Serinda's world. Only a faint shadow was left at the original position.

Li Jia watched Serinda's body slowly turn from illusory to substantial, and his expression became much more relaxed. The subconscious spiritual power is the raw material for practicing the spiritual power of casting spells. Even if some of it is lost, it will at most affect the speed of practice, and it will slowly recover after consumption. Moreover, Shu Ling said that his subconscious power is far greater than that of the ancient Dream Tower magic apprentices.

As long as Serinda can be saved, everything is worth it.

Xiao Chen stayed beside Li Jia, his face solemn. He had discovered the reason for the change in the strength of Li Jia and Serinda. The essence here was to use Li Jia's own mental power to fill Serinda's gap. This was completely different from his treatment of Nina.

It was like he used a bandage to bandage a wounded person and arrange a ward, which consumed only normal physical strength. What Li Jia was doing was to cut open his own blood vessels and give the patient a direct blood transfusion. No, maybe it's not appropriate to say blood transfusion, this is simply cutting the wrist and letting the other person drink blood!

Xiao Chen suddenly realized a problem. The way he and Li Jia treated the patient was taught by the book spirit in their respective meditation worlds. He did not communicate with Li Jia about the treatment plan for Serinda, and took it for granted that the other party's plan was the same as his, but it was treated by a close person, and the effect was better. But now it seems that this is completely different!

Xiao Chen touched the "Shadow Scroll of the Sea of ​​Consciousness" which was still emitting light, and called the book spirit with mental power, wanting to call him out and ask him a good question. However, as time went by, he did not get any response. Could it be that the book spirit was also trapped in Serinda's world? Or was there something wrong with the "Shadow Scroll of Consciousness"? Thinking of this, Xiao Chen felt a little chilly.

Looking at Li Jia again, in his vision of detecting spirit, the light ball representing Li Jia's spiritual power has become dimmer and dimmer, and the light ball representing Serinda is more than twice as large as when she was safe.

If this process continues to the end, Li Jia will only have one ending, becoming an idiot! His personality and memory will completely dissipate. In other words, the Li Jia that Xiao Chen knows is dead. And Serinda, God knows what will happen to her!

Xiao Chen could not accept such a result. He looked ugly and stared at Serinda lying on the ground.

The book spirit once said that if the plan failed, Serinda's meditation world would be broken and Li Jia's consciousness would return to her body. But now the book spirit is nowhere to be found, and it is impossible to help Li Jia do this, nor can it bring Xiao Chen into their world to help. Xiao Chen thought that the only way to effectively stop this was to kill Serinda and completely end her meditation world.

Kill Serinda? Once this idea appeared, it wandered in Xiao Chen's mind like a demon, constantly popping up.

However, when he faced this choice, he found that his heart was so excited.

A voice said in his mind: This woman, peeping at our treasures, has put Li Jia in a desperate situation. Now is the time for her to make a sacrifice, and Li Jia cannot be buried with her. Draw the sword and kill her with one sword!

Another voice said: No, you can't kill another person to save one person. If we do this, it violates our most basic principles as a human being. Where will our original intention go? Li Jia's doing everything to save this woman is his own choice. He will never agree with you to do this. You will make all his efforts worthless!

The previous voice argued: Why let your best friend in this world die in such a thing? That woman is nothing to you! We even hate her! Kill her and save Li Jia! We don't have to be afraid of her father at all. We can just use magic and rifles to eliminate these damn nobles.

The latter voice refuted: If Serinda is killed by us, all the arrangements related to the earl will be in vain, and it will even cause a war! The school can't stand the war with the earl now! This is a crazy idea!

...

"Master Xiao Chen, what are you doing?" Nina's voice interrupted Xiao Chen's thinking. When Xiao Chen woke up, he found that his hand was already on the hilt of the sword.

I actually wanted to kill Serinda? Xiao Chen was a little confused. He could now recall all the arguments of the two consciousnesses just now, and he could also understand the logic of those thoughts just now, but at this time he didn't have any impulse to draw the sword and kill. What's going on?

"Nina, did I look strange just now?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Ah? I, I don't know. I just saw you standing there motionless, staring at the lady, as if you were possessed." Nina said with some fear.

"Possessed? Did someone secretly influence me?" Xiao Chen thought.