On the Seven Towers

Mei said, "Lord Luo Ling, I owe you this time."

Luo Ling said, "No, you took Ye Zi out of the Tower of Shining Wings first. In fact, we don't know what happened specifically, and we still need you to tell me."

"Of course, I'll explain it to you slowly when we get to a safe place."

"Sister Luo Ling! Where are the other people in the office? Did they escape before this protective shield was raised?" Ye Zi asked.

Seeing that Ye Zi was concerned about the safety of others first, Luo Ling couldn't help but feel a little emotional. She said, "Everyone else has left, only Katarina and I stayed. She has gone to the safe house, let's go there quickly." Luo Ling led them to the safe house.

"I knew you wouldn't abandon us! But if you didn't come, we could find that place, so you wouldn't have to get yourself trapped." Ye Zi said guiltily.

"With two more people, we will always have a better chance of escaping!"

The four of them turned a few blocks and saw a team of Temple Knights guarding the street leading to the safe house.

Ye Zi retreated to the corner they were hiding in and said, "We can't get around it. There are no forks around. There is only one way to the safe house. Sister Luo Ling, don't you know how to become invisible? Can you use this to sneak through?"

"That's impossible. See that priest in a robe? He's holding the Eye of Truth, which can detect invisibility. We must think of another way."

"Unless we go from the sky or on the roof."

Luo Ling shook her head and said, "That won't work either. The Eye of Truth covers a large area, including the safe house. Even if we fly high, we can't reach the safe house. It's very high. If you land, you will be discovered. And when I just flew over, there was no one patrolling in the sky. After we killed those cavalry, didn't you notice that there were many more priests and mages flying around in the sky? "

"They must have discovered that there were still people making trouble in the city and started patrolling." Mei said with a long sword in hand, "I can go to a nearby place to make some noise and lead them away."

As soon as she finished speaking, a fireball drew a bright arc from a distance and hit the group of temple knights directly, blowing them upside down.

Three of the knights and a priest with their fighting spirit and shields withstood the blow. They immediately sent a signal and rushed to the direction where the fireball came from. And from farther away, you can see that the mages and priests flying in the sky are also gathering in that direction.

There was a line of fire on the ground shooting straight into the sky, and then a mage in the sky split into two and fell down. Then, at the end of the line of fire, a pair of wings composed of several white light bands suddenly appeared. The light of the wings illuminated a man wearing light armor and holding a flaming red sword. The man's figure was very agile under the support of the wings. The priests and mages around him retreated in panic when they saw his wings, but the man had no intention of letting them go. The white wings and the red sword formed a red and white afterimage.

"It's Gabriel! He really attracted the enemy for us." Mei clenched her fists tightly and looked at him from a distance. She couldn't move her feet for a while.

"Sister Mei, should we help Teacher Gabriel?" Javier, who had been silent, asked in a low voice.

Mei was silent for a long time, turned her head to the darkness and said: "No, let's hurry to the safe house. Nothing is more important than your safety now. If we are exposed, we will let Gabriel down."

"Let's go. Let's go!" Mei took the lead to walk towards the safe house.

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On the second floor of the safe house, behind a narrow wooden window, Mei looked out at the sky in the distance, where several light and shadows were flying and interlacing in the sky. They were two great knights of the Temple Knights who were besieging Gabriel. There was also a Silver Leaf Priest and two high-level magicians in the sky, participating in the siege. As long as there was a slight gap, they would attack Gabriel with all kinds of negative magic. The red and white light and shadows became slower and slower in the air.

Mei's hands were tightly pinched on the windowsill, and the wooden windowsill made an overwhelmed sound in her unconscious grip. She knew very well that it might take a long time for these people to defeat Gabriel, but once the battle of the Royal Magic Tower was decided, the team attacking the Tower of Shining Wings was free, and there was only one ending waiting for him.

"If you want to go, now is your last chance." Luo Ling said behind her.

Mei turned her head and glanced at her with her peripheral vision, "I thought you would stop me."

Luo Ling said: "There are some things I won't do, but I will respect those who are willing to do it. If possible, I will provide a little help."

She walked forward and stretched out her hand, holding three scrolls in her hand, "Advanced Invisibility Scroll, Mist Scroll and Random Teleportation Scroll, maybe you can use them."

"Thank you! If I can't come back, please give little Javier an explanation. I didn't abandon him." Mei pushed open the window and looked up at the red and white light in the sky. She jumped off the windowsill. When she climbed over the wall, her figure began to fade gradually, and finally disappeared without a trace.

After a while, Ye Zi walked in, "Javier has fallen asleep. Today is too tiring and difficult for him. But so are we. Just like Mei watched Master Gabriel trapped in the siege... Hey, where is Mei? Why is she gone?"

"She went to do what she wanted to do." Luo Ling closed the window and said.

"What do you want to do? Go and pick up Master Gabriel?" Ye Zi was somehow happy. "Then, can we do something?"

"Do you think we should take action?" Luo Ling asked.

Ye Zi pondered for a moment and said, "We can always come up with a thousand reasons to take action or not. If we didn't take action before, we could say that it was to allow Javier to arrive here safely. Now we don't take action, it's completely for our own safety. I think sometimes, the meaning of adventure is more valuable than the so-called safety."

"What's the meaning?"

"Sister Luo Ling, don't laugh at me. I think the meaning is that I can still maintain my original heart and let me remain myself. To be honest, hiding in this room makes me very uncomfortable. A feeling of shame emerges from my body. Reason can always say a lot of truths, such as preserving strength, not dying in vain, and making others' sacrifices valuable. But these nonsense can't solve the pain in my heart! Those problems that make me ashamed and heartbroken are all caused by emotions, and reason has no way to deal with them." Ye Zi said with a wry smile, "If, if we always use reason to decide our actions, then how different are we from a computer?"

"You convinced me."

"What?"

"Maybe I asked you this question just to find a reason for my own actions. Let's go!"