Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
The blasts together with the tumbling flame were about to overwhelm Lucien. The gray slates covering the corridor were lifted fiercely with the great power, as if they were paper pieces. The bombing was deafening, so no screaming or crying could be heard.
However, when the flame and air billows were about to cover Lucien, they were instantly restrained inside an invisible cage, and thus Lucien was not hurt. In the cage, the white gas shining with the glow of fire simply could not move even an inch closer to Lucien.
The seventh-circle spell, Forcecage!
The person who was walking with Lucien was Raventi, the ninth-circle archmage, a member of the Highest Council, and the friend of the Astrologer, who was one of the leaders of Tower. Therefore, even though he did not specialize in the school of Astrology, Raventi still had the magic item enchanted with some precautionary spells. When the blond-haired sorcerer lowered his head, he immediately had the bad foreboding. In the next second, Raventi activated the spell, Forcecage, and it caged the blond-haired sorcerer within when the burning streaks of light first appeared.
Although the power of the explosion was astonishing, it was not magic. The air blast slowly died out, failing to do any damage to the magic cage. The fading sound from the air blast was full of desperation.
In front of the archmage, the middle-rank sorcerer’s assassination did not work.
At this time, the movement of the dust in the air suddenly slowed down, and the colors in this space faded away.
The ninth-circle spell, Time Stop!
Lucien heard Donald’s hoarse voice, “All of you, leave the place.”
Unlike Raventi, Donald studied the school of Astrology, and he had rich experience in exploring the starry sky and the star tombs, therefore, his Host Star of Destiny was more sensitive than that of other people. He noticed that something was wrong even earlier than Raventi, however, the casting time of Time Stop was a second or two longer than that of other magic spells, so Raventi’s Forcecage was first activated to win some time.
Lucien was a bit perplexed. He did not understand why Donald just asked them to leave. After all, the explosion had been stopped by Raventi’s spell, why did Donald still choose to cast the ninth-circle spell? But Lucien still followed Donald’s words, and, meanwhile, Bellak took a step forward to protect Lucien.
As soon as they started to retreat, Morris started to cast the weird spell which made him feel really dizzy. When Morris was prepared, Donald stopped the ninth-circle spell two seconds before it expired. The dust in the air started to roll and tumble again, but a half-transparent figure was pulled out of the flame and dust by an invisible power.
The ninth-circle Necromancy spell – Soul Bind!
Unlike the low-rank magic circles that shared the similar name with it, this ninth-circle spell could catch the soul before it dissolved in the air and trap it in a precious stone. Unless the spell-caster was an expert in the field of Necromancy, he or she must chant the spell first instead of directly activating it.
Lucien could see, although very blurry, that the soul of the blond-haired sorcerer was pulled into a flame-like ruby, screaming and crying. The ruby was thus covered with a layer of dark green light.
In front of an archmage, killing oneself was not even that easy!
“I’ll figure this out.” Holding the precious stone, Morris walked to Lucien, “Are you alright?”
“I’m…I’m okay.” Although Lucien was always quite calm and quick-reacted, in front of the three archmages, he still appeared to be rather slow.
At the same time, the rest of the leading sorcerers including Gaston and Florencia of the Will of Elements also came. They cared about Lucien, and they also wanted to know what just happened here. They could not believe that Lucien Evans, one of the senior members of the Will of Element, just encountered assassination in the headquarter.
This had to be thoroughly investigated!
“Stay where you are!” Bellak suddenly raised his hands to stop them.
The arcanists and sorcerers including Lucien, Morris, Donald, and Raventi all looked at Bellak, feeling very confused.
The look on Bellak’s face was rather serious and he said at a fast pace, “Forgive my rudeness, your Excellencies. The blond-haired sorcerer’s target was for sure Mr. Evans. It seems that he is one of the sorcerers whose cognition world is permanently damaged because of Mr. Evans’ discovery of the new particle, and he wanted to die with Mr. Evans in despair. In the past several hundred years, we have dealt with this kind of case multiple times, and it is not a big deal. However, the problem is – why the assassinator knew the time so well? Why he walked out of the demiplane warehouse only a few minutes after the meeting ended?”
The corridor along which the blond-haired sorcerer walked here was only connected to the demiplane warehouse, and the security on this floor was very strict – No one was allowed to wander around here. If the blond-haired sorcerer was doing an ambush in the corner, the patrolling golems and the built-in magic circles must have activated the alarm.
“So, my guess is that – At least one of the senior members in the Will of Elements was helping him! For Mr. Evans’s safety, please stay no closer to him, your Excellencies, in case the real ringleader of the assassination can find the chance!”
Hearing what Bellak just said, the senior members of the Will of Elements were all very surprised and they looked at each other – His reasoning made sense! But who did it?
Subconsciously, they were divided into three groups, and they were on the alert toward each other. Only Raventi roared angrily, “This’s a shame! Shame!”
“Mr. Raventi, Mr. Donald, Mr. Morris, please launch the investigation as soon as possible. Mr. Evans should not stay here any longer, and I’ll safeguard him back to Allyn.” suggested Bellak. He trusted the three archmages who just helped, especially Raventi.
Except for Lucien whose story was like a miracle, the rest of the senior members of the Will of Elements were at least senior-rank sorcerers. If there was a traitor among them, only the archmages could handle.
Donald nodded to Morris, “Let’s handle this. Raventi, please send Evans back together with Mr. Bellak.”
The second after Donald finished his words, the entire magic tower started to shake fiercely. A series of deafening explosions came from some distance away.
“The core!” Morris’s facial expression suddenly changed. Reaching his hands forward, a mysterious gate drawn with many magic symbols suddenly showed up in the air.
The rusted, heavy black gate was pulled open by Morris. As soon as he stepped into it, Morris and the gate disappeared together.
The ninth-circle spell, Precise Transfer!
The spell worked within the range of a thousand meters. And it worked the best within the spell-caster’s magic tower!
“The assassination is for distracting us?” Donald murmured to himself. Although he wanted to send out the senior sorcerers present to safeguard around, he was concerned that this might provide the traitor with the opportunity to do any further damage to them.
So he said to Raventi, “You go to the control core and turn on the second level defense of the magic tower, in case the tower is further damaged. I’ll handle the assassination case.”
Except for the two legendary sorcerers, only the president and the vice president had the right to turn on the top three levels of defense of the Royal Magic Tower of Holm.
Then Donald turned to Bellak and said seriously, “You safeguard Evans back to Allyn.”
Allyn was very carefully designed by the congress, and the teleport magic circles were everywhere. Any fight in Allyn would be spotted immediately, and thus Allyn was now way safer than the Royal Magic Tower of Holm.
Also, right now, Lucien’s teacher, the Lord of Storm, was also in Allyn, while the other two major leaders of the Will of Elements were being very busy: Hathaway was out of the city, and Davy was fascinated with trying to create a new transformation golem.
“As your command, Mr. Donald.” Bellak bowed seriously, and the turned to Lucien, “Let’s go, Mr. Evans.”
Lucien took a glance at the senior members of the Will of Elements who had divided into three groups in a subtle way. Lucien shook his head in his mind. Then he followed Bellak to the room where the demiplane magic circle was in.
Pushing open the gate, Lucien and Bellak walked to the magic circle. When they stepped on it, the magic circle was about to activate when the light burst out.
However, the same light covered Bellak as well.
The light suddenly swelled, and the whole space was filled with the light!
Feeling extremely dizzy, Lucien was not able to stay focused. He looked at Bellak in great shock and realized that the darkness had enveloped him. In the background of darkness, the many time curves were creepy and mysterious, and the light spots were surrounding.
Bellak…Bellak was the one who plotted all of these?!
Lucien was shocked.
And they even wasted a ninth-level magic scroll, Space Countercurrent.
Space Countercurrent was a ninth-circle spell used for interrupting the process of teleportation!
When the darkness disappeared, the sudden light dazzled Lucien’s eyes. But in the next second, he activated Douglas’ Absorbing Wall immediately.
When the dizziness disappeared, he found himself in the middle of a broad lake. Bellak, floating in the air, was right in front of him.
There was a triumphant smile on his dark-skinned face. Putting his right hand on the left side of his chest, Bellak bowed at Lucien elegantly,
“Black Revenger, no. 135 night watcher, sends greetings to you, the Demon of Primary.”
It was him!
When Bellak was waiting outside of the meeting room, he could do the timing based on the sound of their footsteps.
There were two purposes behind the cursed vase.
If Lucien had not found the problem in the vase, he would gradually drain out and die, and the Church would use this as an excuse to attack the congress because they would say that Lucien’s death was because of the God’s condemnation.
But Lucien did find out, and Bellak thus managed to have the opportunity to get close to Lucien!
