On the Seven Towers

In a guest room next to Xiao Chen's room, Count Arias walked around the room with his head lowered and his hands behind his back. His usual frivolous demeanor has long disappeared. Pinto stood by the door without saying a word, looking at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, not knowing what he was thinking. On the other side of the door is Nina's father, Knight Holmes. The knight was obviously as unable to calm down as the count. He looked at a wall on the left from time to time. On the other side of the wall was Xiao Chen's room. The stone wall blocked his sight, but it could not block his urgent mood.

Master Banderas was sitting by the window, with a crystal ball on the table in front of him. The crystal ball is floating, and directly below it is a square tray made of metal. There is a magic circle on each of the four corners of the tray, and a crystal is placed at the core of each magic circle. Banderas held a red hair in his hand, his lips trembled slightly, and in a moment, a cluster of blue fire burst out from his fingertips, burning the hair into ashes from bottom to top. The ashes exuded a faint golden light and fell towards the crystal ball. When they touched the edge of the crystal ball, they melted into the ball without any obstruction, sinking and floating in the center of the originally transparent and colorless crystal ball.

Master Banderas clasped his hands outside the crystal ball and began to speak slowly. The crystal on the tray began to glow. The light path followed the magic circle and finally merged into one. Under this light, the ashes in the crystal ball were faint. Dispersed, a blurry picture slowly appeared in the middle.

The count stopped and stared at the crystal ball. In the picture, you can vaguely see a red-haired girl walking forward with a sword. She walked among some strange houses, and from time to time some very fast monsters would appear around her, attacking her with extremely long arms. The girl tried her best to fight these monsters, but occasionally she was hit by these monsters. However, the girl is very tenacious, and like a rock on the shore, she remains standing despite waves of attacks.

This scene lasted for more than ten seconds. As the four magic crystals shattered into powder, the scene in the crystal ball suddenly stopped.

"It's Selinda! She's fighting in her dream! What kind of monster keeps attacking her? That Li Jia's? Where is he? Why is Selinda the only one fighting!" the count asked eagerly.

"Pani, you have lost your cool. This is very inappropriate." Master Banderas waved his hand and touched the crystal ball, and the crystal ball disappeared.

"Sorry, Uncle Banderas, I just saw she was in a bad fight."

"This is just a picture that her consciousness has experienced. According to the current situation, it is just a dream. Even if you are injured in the dream, you will not really bleed. On the contrary, I see a good news from here, at least she His consciousness was active and he did not fall into the silence of death," Banderas said.

"But this involves the Tower of Dreams." The count stared blankly at the position where the crystal ball disappeared, as if he was still reviewing those images in his mind, "Tower of Dreams... According to rumors, there are people who can turn dreams into reality. Terrifying power? What if this is not an ordinary dream, but some kind of test that will hurt your life? "

Master Banderas shook his head and said: "My little Pani, I have never seen you worry about gains and losses like this since your coming-of-age ceremony. Remember, you can't do anything now. You should be as quiet as your knight Come down and wait.”

The earl glanced at Knight Holmes. The two looked at each other. The knight lowered his head, and the earl saw that the latter's eyes were red and bloodshot.

"Holmes, I've made a note of your performance today," the count said. "Go outside and take a look. If there's anything going on, let me know."

"Yes, sir." Holmes saluted, turned around and left without saying anything else.

When the knight went out, the count was like an actor taking off his makeup, revealing his true colors, and his whole body slumped. He grabbed his hair with both hands and walked quickly in his room, growling as he walked: "Uncle Banderas, you know. Selinda is everything to me. No matter what I do these years, I hope not to involve her in anything. If I finally get to that point, all she needs to do is follow me to the high platform one day, take my scepter, and sit on that seat. If she fails, she can live a prosperous life in the southern city-state, but she is not a person who is content with being ordinary. She will always do something like this or that, just like this time, if she hadn't done it this time. Come on! What's the point of everything I've done?"

"Count Carlos! Your emotions are out of control. This is not what a lord should be like." Master Banderas looked more serious than ever before, "I like little Selinda very much, and I was the one who initiated her path to magic. But even so, I would not associate her with the revival of the Arias family, and your words disappoint me."

"No matter how sweet the wine of power is, what's the point if there are no people to drink it with?" the count asked, staring at Master Banderas.

"Don't I deserve to drink this glass of wine with you?" Master Banderas slammed his fingers on the table, then pointed at Pinto and said: "Aren't you loyal subordinates worthy of it? Are you just for this? Is your bloodline fighting? If so, how many people can you gather under your banner? Wake up! Otherwise, go back to the capital and continue to be your playboy!"

"Uncle Banderas!" Count Arias was stunned. He seemed to have realized something. He stood still for a while and said, "I'm sorry, I, I lost my temper."

He walked to a wine cabinet, wanted to open the cabinet door, stretched out his hand to grab it, but missed it. Pinto followed him calmly, opened the wine cabinet, took out a wooden wine barrel, and poured it into a ceramic cup.

The Count drank all the wine in the glass. He stood holding the wine cabinet for a while, then turned to Master Banderas and said: "My determination has not wavered."

Master Banderas stared at him silently for a while and said slowly: "Even if today's incident hadn't happened, you should still have this awareness: no one can't sacrifice in the face of that important event, your father can, my son can , I can do it, you can do it, and so can your daughter. The old masters of the Temple of Nature have a saying that makes sense: if an eagle wants to hunt, it shouldn't spare its feathers. What's more, she is asking for trouble this time. ”

The Count nodded. The room fell silent.

Just when the atmosphere was extremely dull, Pinto suddenly spoke: "Two adults, in fact, although Miss Selinda is a bit reckless, what she did is not without value."

Seeing that the other two people were looking over, he continued: "At least this time we have found out more details about those magicians and know that they have a lot to do with the Tower of Dreams. Moreover, they are treating the young lady. It seems that they also value their relationship with us. What I want to say is that regardless of the original intention, Miss Selinda has taken a big step forward in our relationship with the magician."

"Have you not always advocated the elimination of these magicians?" the count said.

"My mind is always at your service. Since you don't agree with my initial plan, I can only hope to achieve the best on the current road." Pinto bowed slightly.

"Pinto is indeed your think tank." Master Banderas suddenly praised, "What he said made me think of some things, and I have more guesses about the origins of these people."

"Is it the treasure that hurt Selinda?"

"That's right. Although the other party didn't say clearly what it was, according to my guess, it might be a holy book from the Tower of Dreams."

"You originally guessed that Xiao Chen and the others had some inheritance from the Tower of Dreams."

"Being able to master the spells of the Dream Tower and possessing the Holy Book of the Dream Tower are two completely different things." Master Banderas shook his head slightly and said: "With the Holy Book, you can re-erect the tower. You know Does this mean anything?"

The count was not a mage and was not familiar with the affairs of the mage world. He asked tentatively: "You mean, he represents an orthodox status?"

"More than orthodox, this means that one of the Seven Saints may reappear in this world." Banderas looked at the two people in the room, lowered his voice and said, "You outsiders may not understand the Seven Saints. As for the meaning of the tower, I think they may be no different from the current magic towers, except that their strength is different. However, I want to tell you that the Seven Saints Tower is fundamentally different from other magic towers. They are not the same. levels of things.”

"I still don't quite understand what you said," said the earl.

"In the simplest terms, the Seven Saints Tower is the tower of the divine world, and the other magic towers are the towers of the human world."

"God? But I remember that magicians at that time didn't believe in God?"

"They are not gods, and they do not believe in gods, but they can become enemies of gods. Think about it, would you consider monkeys as your enemies? No matter how weak your enemies are, they must be humans, right?"

These words stirred up huge waves in the hearts of Earl and Pintuo. They never realized that the secret behind Xiao Chen and his party might involve some terrifying truth. The count's plans in his mind were always in the realm of the human world. He never thought that he would have anything to do with God's enemies. He couldn't help but calculate the pros and cons in his mind, and the room became strangely quiet again.

However, before a few people could come up with a plan, there was a knock on the door. The door opened, and Knight Holmes walked in with a happy face: "Your Majesty, Master Xiao Chen has revived Nina!"

"Where is Selinda?" asked the Count.

"He's still working hard, as if Selinda's situation is more complicated than Nina's. But he seems very confident."

"If Nina can survive it, Selinda can definitely do it too," Pinto said.

"It must be so!" Holmes said, "But they made a request. They need a dog to guard the door downstairs."

"Dog?" The count and Master Banderas looked at each other.

"Ahem, maybe it's the material for casting spells." Master Banderas said.

"Yes, yes. Go and bring all the watchdogs downstairs to the courtyard behind, including my two hounds, and bring them all to Master Xiao Chen for selection."