Chapter 74 The Cicadas Are Here

Chapter 1006: Here Comes the Cicada

"—Annan!"

As soon as Salvatore entered the Black Tower of the Marsh, before he even saw Annan, he raised his throat and made a cheerful voice: "Where are you——"

His voice without warning even disturbed the passing students.

A pair of young apprentices passing by who looked like lovers looked at Salvatore in astonishment.

They quickly recognized Salvatore.

"Mr. Salvatore..."

"Hello, tutor..."

Two apprentices who were younger than Annan timidly bowed slightly to Salvatore and greeted them.

"Ah, hello."

Salvatore lowered his head and showed them a gentle smile without any airs, and directly read the other party's name: "Enoch and Nunnally, Hohenheim misses you very much too...but he still has homework on his side If you want to do it, you won't be able to come back for the time being.

"What are you going to do, go for a walk in the backyard?"

"...Well, we just finished lunch and we're going to find a place to take a walk and chat."

The girl called "Nuna Li" whispered: "Because Enoch has a roommate who is taking a nap, we were worried that chatting in the dormitory would wake him up...so we went out for a walk."

"Very good, basking in the sun is good for your health."

As he said that, Salvatore showed a wicked smile, and stretched out his hand smilingly, touching the heads of the two.

The two children habitually turned their heads back, with terrified expressions on their faces.

But their reaction was still half a beat slow, and Salvatore reached out and grabbed the hair. Then Salvatore smiled triumphantly, rubbed the hair of the two of them into a mess, and then laughed and left with his hands behind his back and his head raised.

Only two young apprentices were left looking at Salvatore's back with resentment.

Salvatore went straight into the "elevator".

Although he didn't know the destination at all or which floor Annan was on, he didn't care at all.

When he entered the Zedi Black Tower, he shouted "Annan"... Of course, he didn't hope that after he shouted Annan's name, Annan would hear him directly and come to him on his own initiative.

After Annan's soul is dyed, if someone calls his name, it is indeed possible that Annan will directly sense him.

But even if the body has this function,

It is completely different from being able to use this ability accurately.

It's like humans can see things moving at high speed and taste different foods. But if you want to have a clear enough dynamic vision, or judge the details of food with your tongue alone... then you need a certain degree of training.

The reason why Salvatore yelled at the door was not for Annan, but for Hugo.

Hugo is the master of the tower, and Zedihei Tower is his eyes and ears. He is the brain of Zedi Heita.

Everything that happened in Zedi Black Tower would be known to him—and apprentices couldn't leave the wizard's tower on weekdays. Even the king's control over the territory is completely impossible to be as strong as the wizard's tower.

Salvatore just yelled this sentence, and Hugo already knew that Salvatore was back and that he wanted to see Annan first.

Then there is no need for any button at all, and there is no need to ask where Annan is now, and even no operation is required when entering - when Salvatore enters the elevator, the elevator starts to run by itself.

Under Hugo's control... the elevator carried Salvatore and began to automatically lift towards a certain floor.

What surprised Salvatore was that the elevator took a long time to go up...

Did Annan learn spells in the upper area?

As soon as this idea came to Salvatore's mind, he discovered that the elevator had climbed all the way to the top floor.

"...What is Annan doing on the top floor?"

Salvatore was a little taken aback.

The top floor of Zedihei Tower does not have any functional areas.

Even if you really need to talk to Hugo... Hugo's projection avatar can actually appear on any floor anytime, anywhere.

A place like the top floor doesn't even have a chair, let alone anything else.

When the elevator arrived, Salvatore's heart skipped a beat.

——His inspiration made him catch some traces and smell a rather disturbed air.

too dark.

Although Zedi Hei Tower is on the lower floors, it has normal and bright enough lights. But only on the top floor, more primitive torches are still used.

The twelve torches are evenly distributed around the very center, like the dials of a clock.

Because the flame in this torch is drawn from the holy fire passed down from generation to generation in Zedi Black Tower - although its scale is not large enough, it is not yet "another holy fire platform", but it is only the special meaning of the holy fire itself , and the value represented by the holy number "twelve", can form an enchantment capable of sealing the original holy fire.

But now, the room was pitch black and extremely quiet.

...the holy flame went out?

Salvatore's heart tightened.

He subconsciously took two steps forward.

Then, a gray bowl-shaped field suddenly enveloped Salvatore... To be precise, it covered the entire uppermost area.

Salvatore recognized it immediately.

——That is exactly Isaac's "inert refinement".

Just being in this spell, Salvatore almost completely lost his fighting power-although the transformation spell is extremely magical, it can change one substance into another completely irrelevant substance, but the transformation spell can be interrupted even reversed.

You only need to chant the opponent's conversion spell in reverse, and you can counterspell.

Inert refining itself cannot prevent Salvatore from casting spells, it just makes his casting movements extremely slow. Even if it was only a third slower, it would be enough for all his spells to be interrupted by Isaac.

At this moment, "Vatore" who sensed the dangerous aura woke up instantly.

On Salvatore's shoulder, a liquid-like shadow crawled and raised its head suddenly like a snake.

But she didn't say anything, she just frowned—as if she realized something.

"What's happening here?"

And Salvatore, who hadn't figured out what happened, just stopped in place, making a blank sound.

[The initial heat comes from the depths of the earth. Therefore the earth is also called the mother of embers and coals—]

Hugo's emotionless voice sounded.

That is the secret of creation about "embers and coals".

Just chanting fragments of it is enough to set fire to the incombustible.

The next moment, countless flames exploded——

Surrounding the uppermost space, countless blood-stained coals ignited at the same time with thick smoke; and a silver metal film that reflected light and heat was pasted on the surrounding walls at some point, and they also began to burn .

And on the smoke, a new flame soon ignited.

—Even ashes and smoke burn before the Word of Creation.

Even the flame itself can burn.

It was the fire that kindled the fire—

The violent smoke soon blackened the mirror-like wall. The surrounding space seemed to turn into a sea of ​​flames in the blink of an eye... The steaming heat and brilliant fire turned the not so narrow space into a casting furnace.

Salvatore was clearly standing in the middle, but he didn't feel the heat at all.

But at this time, he realized something belatedly.

"...This is the concept of [Forging Furnace]?"

Salvatore murmured.

Who is it that can turn the Zedi Black Tower "stored with fire" into a casting furnace "calcined with fire"?

Ordinary fire is used to calcine steel, but what can be calcified by holy fire can only be the soul itself.

And being able to do this...

Salvatore had already guessed the answer.

It's just that he didn't want to guess.

Because Salvatore knew that only one person could do it.

That is the owner of the Zedi Black Tower, the holder of the holy flame.

his mentor...

— Hugo Black Tower.

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This was originally yesterday's second update, but it's just finished now.

Mr. Quanqin, hiccups are hot (sorrowful)——

Then I will write another chapter, and I will post it at six o'clock tomorrow morning, and then I will go to bed. Anyway, this month's Quanqin Jun has already burped...

Let's start working hard next month (