Karina tried to get rid of the old witch's strength and the truth behind the vaguely perceived things, and asked Lucian with a polite smile: "Sir, are you also a legendary strong man? But none of those famous mid-level magicians match your image."
Karina, who came from a good background and successfully became a magician, has always been an arrogant and confident girl, but Adam is a "legendary figure" outside the Magic Tower, with strong strength and a fierce style.
Lucian smiled and shook his head: "I'm just a magician without fame, not a legendary character, and I only came a day earlier than you. You can call me Lucian."
"Come a day earlier? Mr. Lucian, you are not from here?" The tall and beautiful girl Ophelia looked at Lucian with slight surprise, and Alva, Brad, and Karina also had the same expression.
Their eyes always gave Lucian the illusion that he had become a rare beast in the zoo, surrounded by humans outside the iron railing, so the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "Haven't you seen outsiders? The people here should be descendants of outsiders, right?"
Perhaps realizing that her curious and inquisitive eyes were too much, Karina smiled awkwardly with a flushed face of shame: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lucian, we really haven't seen outsiders. Although many families with long history have stories of ancestors who came from the outside world and were trapped here and could not get out, for hundreds of years, people in cities and villages have thrived, fighting with surrounding beasts, fighting monsters, and gradually growing up, but they have never encountered outsiders."
Adam laughed next to him and said: "Actually, there has always been, but unless it is swallowed up on a large scale, a small number of outsiders will first choose to hide their identities and blend into human society, such as me, and many outsiders are either killed by monsters in the forest or directly caught by old witches, such as Lucian, an unlucky guy."
"Old witch?" Karina, Alva, Ophelia, and Brad retreated from Adam almost at the same time.
How dare he directly call the owner of the magic tower an old witch? I and others only dare to curse like this in my heart! Although he used to be domineering, but now he has also become a prisoner, isn't he afraid that the old witch will arrest him and punish him severely, or even kill him?
Seeing their movements as if avoiding monsters, Adam understood that they were worried about being implicated, so he smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "It's okay, the old witch never cares about what we say, she only cares about her experiments and appearance, don't you think they don't react?" He was talking about the servants of several guards of the prisoners.
Seeing Adam's eyes aimed at himself and the others, the red-faced servant glared back fiercely: "Adam, if you discuss this matter again, I will beat you with a whip!"
Legend has it that a long time ago, a servant who was eager to make meritorious contributions reported to the witch that there were experimental materials and secretly called her the old witch, but the witch repeated "old witch" several times in a cold voice between her teeth, and then executed everyone who said this word, whether it was a prisoner or a servant.
The reactions of the servants dispelled the concerns of Karina and the others, and they all sighed: "Mr. Adam, you are originally an outsider, no wonder you have such great strength as soon as you appear. So it can be inferred that those gentlemen who are similar to you should also be outsiders."
Then, a strong curiosity welled up in their hearts, and Brad, the young knight, couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Adam, Mr. Lucian, what is it like in the outside world? Are there those poems and stories that are so beautifully told? Are there many strong people who are no worse than witches?"
Adam pointed to Lucian, who was thinking next to him: "I have been in a place of confinement for decades, and I don't know much about the situation outside, so let Lucian tell me."
Several servants not far away stopped talking to each other and focused on Lucian, they were equally curious about the outside world, and life in the Magic Tower was extremely boring, so it was good to listen to the story.
Lucian thought about something worth paying attention to from Karina's words just now, and said casually: "The outside world is many times bigger than here, not only the dark and terrifying Black Forest, but also the green emerald lake, towering and tall mountain peaks, golden and abundant plains, crowded and prosperous cities, and buildings floating in the sky ......."
Although it is only an extensive description, the scenery that is completely different from this place still makes Karina and the others listen to it with relish, especially the city in the sky, the magic steam train that can be taken to the sky, the completely unimaginable form of the magic council, and the incredible alchemy life, which makes them yearn for it.
"There are so many wonderful places in this world, and there is actually a city in the sky." Karena stared blankly at the silver moon in mid-air, as if she could hardly believe that a city could fly there, and then she asked more enthusiastically than her companions: "Mr. Lucian, don't you know how powerful the Magic Council is?"
Lucian looked at the magic towers on the upper floor of the terrace, and said in a calm tone: "Magicians like the old witch can be seen everywhere in the Magic Council."
"You can see it everywhere...... Even Adam was shocked by Lucian's description, he had the impression that high-level magicians and strong people of the level of sky knights were rare no matter where they were, no matter how powerful the Magic Council was, it would not allow a middle-level magician to meet a high-level magician at any time, right?
Lucian smiled and said: "What I said is the truth, at least for me." Of course, the premise is to be able to obtain the Holm Crown Ring like me and get the approval of the upper echelons of the Elemental Will.
Then, Lucian emphasized: "And there are many magicians who are ten, a hundred, or a thousand times more powerful than her."
"Really?" Karina felt that this was beyond her imagination, and she and Alva and the others looked at Lucian with more awe and trust.
Seeing that the power of the Magic Council was deliberately showing off and successfully making the prisoners in desperate situations faintly regard themselves as objects to follow, Lucian nodded in satisfaction, looked at several servants, and said "arrogantly": "I am in the place of confinement this time because I sent a letter to the Dark Mountains for a certain Excellency, and it may not be long before someone comes to save me. In front of the legendary magician, the old witch is like an ant, pinching her to death as she wants."
The old witch was almost a madman, and she was trapped here and couldn't get out, so she didn't worry about the legendary magician's problem at all, but her servants were still normal people, and after hearing Lucian's words of "the king's anger is wild", their faces changed slightly.
Lucian didn't continue to show off, because it is difficult for others to believe in empty words, so it is better to stop it appropriately and let the servants, Karina and others use their own imagination to make up for the gap, and they don't need to really believe it, as long as it can leave this impression in their hearts and interfere with their judgment and decisions at critical moments, anyway, this is also the icing on the cake.
"Legendary sorcerers? How powerful are they?" As a sorcerer, Karina asked this question almost instinctively.
Adam replied for Lucian: "It can easily destroy this magic tower, destroy nearby cities and villages, and destroy the surrounding dark forests......"
He had never seen a legend make a move, and he replied according to his imagination, startling Karina and the others again, making the servants' eyes flicker a little.
After a moment of silence, Karina looked at Lucian with a fiery eye for the Magic Council and the legendary magician: "Mr. Lucian, how many rings of magician are you? What is your position in the Magic Council? How many rings does the old witch have?"
Lucian sighed softly: "No need to call me sir, we are all prisoners, there is no distinction between high and low. I am only one of the many intermediate magicians in the Magic Council, and I am still far from the high, so there is really nothing to be proud of, and the old witch probably has seven or eight rings." It is enough to reveal the strength of the middle level, there is no need to reveal the specific level.
"Intermediate magician? You are indeed a mid-level magician!" Karina was pleasantly surprised and said that in this region with serious deficiencies in resources and knowledge, mid-level magicians are very scarce, and it is even more difficult to advance than the great knights, so after confirming that Lucian is a mid-level magician, Karina, a girl who aspires to the path of magic, exudes reverence and enthusiasm just like Alva, Brad, Ophelia and others saw Adam.
But Ophelia, Alva and the others couldn't help but take a few steps back, and said with a pale face: "The old witch has seven or eight rings?"
The strength of Karina, a second-ring magician, is obvious to all, how powerful will the seven-and-eight-ring magician be? Why is she hiding in the magic tower and not ruling the nearby territory?
Seeing that they seemed to be guessing, Adam nodded in affirmation: "The old witch is not interested in rule, only crazy about magic and experiments, and she spread rumors about the magic tower."
The curtain of light that shrouded her past life was mercilessly lifted, revealing the darkness and despair below, and Karina quickly fell from the joy of seeing a mid-level sorcerer into a seemingly eternal end.
"Are we just lambs raised in captivity?" Ophelia asked herself with a little difficulty and despair, and she couldn't see any hope in life.
Lucian ignored their confusion and directly asked the question that had just come to mind: "When did the legend about the Magic Tower appear? When did magicians and knights disappear in the first place?"
"It was probably more than five hundred years ago." Karina replied unsurely.
Lucian didn't ask, just speculated: "The old witch fell into a place of confinement before the establishment of the Magic Council? Then she may not know arcane, if she can mix it into her assistant and show her a few 'magical' experiments, it may directly blow her head. However, the old witch is not mentally normal, and it is difficult to communicate and arouse her interest, so she can focus on other methods."
For Lucian, the most important thing at present is to get rid of the imprisonment bracelet and the forbidden demon collar, and the easiest way without spiritual power and bloodline power is to find a place with an anti-magic circle. Unfortunately, Lucian has not found the anti-magic field in the Magic Tower so far, so he can only think of other ways.
After exchanging some more information, Karina and the others' emotions gradually stabilized, anyway, they were all caught as experimental materials, no matter how bad they were, they couldn't be worse, and with Lucian, a mid-level magician with a terrifying "identity background", they would inevitably have some hope.
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Two days later, while Lucian was still digging the stone bricks on the right wall with his fingernails, the old witch unconventionally sent someone to take him to the magic laboratory.
Along the way, Lucian carefully observed the flesh and blood puppet knights guarding the key positions and the sharp and bright giant axes and giant swords in their hands.
The door to the laboratory opened from the inside, and Lucian saw Ophelia tied to the dissection table, while the old witch held a dark mirror next to her and looked at her shriveled, wrinkled face, chanting a strange spell: "The magic mirror tells me who is the most beautiful woman in the world?"
"Huh?" Lucian, who almost started singing along, felt more and more weird.
I wish the couples a happy Qixi Festival, if you don't have a couple, read the book like me, there is a golden house in the book, and the beauty in the book is like jade. Forget it, the more I talk, the sadder I become. Ask for a monthly pass in the middle of the month~
(End of this chapter)