Wildfire Town was extremely quiet. As a town in between the Silver Province and Dawn Academy, merchant groups would often stop there and rest, so it was usually bustling in the day, never being as barren as it was now. The streets were completely empty save for Xiao Lin and Lilith. There was no one to be seen, even when they went into the inns or the shops. The strange thing was that the objects within the buildings were all still neat and tidy; no signs of a battle could be seen.
The two of them looked around in shock. They had left bright and early that day, but less than an hour later, the priest had somehow made everyone in the town disappear.
“I’m not well-versed in magic.” Lilith shook her head.
Xiao Lin sighed as well. “I’ve never heard of any spells like this. Asabanor seems to have come prepared this time.”
The two of them were on high alert, carefully advancing toward the resurrection tower. Even though the strange atmosphere caused their hairs to stand, they did not encounter any ambushes. Asabanor had not appeared at all since the last time, so Xiao Lin and Lilith safely reached the tower.
However, the sight in front of them caused them to suck in their breaths in shock. The resurrection tower was still there, but the originally silver tower was now ink black.
“A black resurrection tower!” Xiao Lin had never heard of one, but he could just be too inexperienced, but when he turned his head, Lilith’s green face said everything.
“Resurrection towers can’t be black; resurrection towers are always made with starmetal, which is silver!” Lilith said.
Xiao Lin exclaimed, “Starmetal? You’re saying the resurrection towers are made from starmetal?!”
“Please, that’s common knowledge! Why else do you think this province is so important, making the other academies spy on it? I thought you knew.”
Xiao Lin smiled bitterly. He only knew that starmetal was a very rare ore, but no one had told him it was used to make resurrection towers. If that was the case, Asabanor’s goal was suddenly very clear.
Lilith furrowed her eyebrows. “Could that old fart be here for the ore? What use could he have for it?”
In the past century, in order to defeat the outsider from Earth, the natives had constantly thought of controlling the Silver Province to seize the starmetal, but the only consequence was being crushed by the collective might of the academies. Asabanor only had some necromantic magic. He might be able to control Wildfire Town, but there was no way he could control the whole province. It was also easy to anticipate that the academies had probably already assembled their troops after getting the news.
No matter how he looked at it, Asabanor had no chance of success. Trying to attack the resurrection towers by controlling starmetal was an impossible dream.
However, Xiao Lin once again thought back to the third monthly examination and the complete resurrection tower that the elves took, and if Yu Mei’s grandfather, the engineer, was taken as well.
Could Asabanor have had any contact with the elves after he escaped from The Final Lands? There were a lot of elves in New Washington!
Lilith did not know about that examination, and would naturally not think about that possibility. In truth, Dawn Academy had covered that battle up; not many people knew about the resurrection tower that had been conquered.
There was still no one even near the resurrection tower. The investigation teams from both academies were definitely not there as well, even if they had resurrected. Xiao Lin recalled that there were still other resurrection towers around the town. It was a common defensive measure to erect many towers around certain key areas, even if it wasted a great amount of resources. The resurrection towers incurred a heavy cost, even to the strongest academies.
That was not good news. It meant that the black resurrection tower in front of them had lost its abilities, which was why they had resurrected at the other ones.
They originally wanted to reunite with the investigation team before defending the area while waiting for reinforcements, but the situation was out of their expectations. It was still fine if they died now, but if they continued and left the area of the other resurrection towers, would they still be able to come back?
Xiao Lin looked at Lilith, and the woman had a rare look of consternation, but she only hesitated for a moment before waving her scythe and charging in.
Asabanor was not someone who would do anything for no reason, nor would he have emptied an entire city just as a show of force. He definitely had something planned. To put things simply, that old fart was definitely still in the town.
That was what Lilith’s plan was; whatever he wanted, everything would be fine if Asabanor was dead. It was the simple and effective strategy of pure violence.
However, the problem was actually locating the high priest. Lilith had a plan, which was to use necromantic meditation. That was because Asabanor’s body was definitely an undead soul, which meant they would be able to sense him.
The idea was right, but Lilith had failed many times. Under the heavy condensation of the death clouds, it was much easier to use necromantic meditation, but the air was filled with complicated death energy, so it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
Xiao Lin had a different thought: entering a state of meditation. Thanks to the dark clouds around, the elemental energies were very scarce around them. He immediately switched into necromantic meditation after that, and the meditative world was filled with grey flames, much more condensed than when he was just meditating.
After that, Xiao Lin used Miracle, and the blackhole once again appeared in that meditative world. He had actually never figured out why that strange phenomenon happened, but after several experiments, he had figured out the use for the blackhole.
The blackhole would frantically absorb all the elements in the vicinity, but it was not absorbed into Xiao Lin’s body. At the very least, he could not feel any energy coming into him. It was as if the energies were being eaten away by a monster.
