Dawn of the Grey Tower

Cheese's decision sounds a bit contradictory, knowing that continuing to investigate the identity of the silent person will inevitably have a deeper conflict with the forces he is in, and his better solution at this time should be to directly lock the silent person through spells.

This is achievable for the mages. Catching the wind and catching the shadow means nothing in other contexts, but it is not true for the mages. The wind can bring information, and the shadow can also be caught.

In fact, Cheese caught one with a dream catcher not long ago, although that shadow was left in the Totem School. In short, in a city whose name might become a life-saving talisman, you don't need to really do it yourself.

But he didn't do it. Compared with the method of the mage to solve this grievance, the current style of cheese is obviously more mundane and more troublesome. Does he not understand that his whereabouts have been paid attention to by others? Did he not know that this matter would definitely attract attention if he visited the plastic energy school?

Of course he can foresee the consequences and possible obstructions of doing this, but he still has to do it, because the magician's methods can only solve small problems. Yes, a small problem. Killing the enemy and cursing the target is just the dissolution of personal enmity. Apart from the more subtle method, it is no different from the gangster holding a pig-killing knife and hiding in the corner to intercept and kill another gangster. He doesn't want this.

If the experience on the road has brought any enlightenment to the cheese, it is to tell him that the skill and inferiorness of the methods cannot change the essence of what he is doing. Attacks and vendettas are barbaric and cowardly practices because they cannot solve the problem. , Will want to destroy the cornerstone of the problem. Just like a lie, a lie temporarily solves the problem, but it will force more lies to be told, eventually forming a huge web of lies.

Destroying the cornerstone of a problem is a tricky method. After a person becomes accustomed to this method, he no longer has the ability and courage to solve the problem positively. Moreover, there are always some people, some things, and some contradictions that cannot be solved by such clever means.

"Where are you going? Are you going to keep me here? With this mortal, and the civilian who broke my knee?"

Lin En is a mage after all, she has keenly grasped the subtle way of information transmission between cheese and Jian Qi, or insight into their intentions from the trend of their actions. But it may just be pure neuroticism or the so-called female intuition.

"You don't have to know where we are going. No, you should know about it. We are going to the energy shaping school."

Cheese's hesitation is a kind of kindness, he can say nothing, he should also say nothing. But the consequence of doing that is that if someone comes to this hotel after they leave, they may kill them without getting any information. Telling Lynn some information is also a bargaining chip for her life.

"Don't worry so much, we will leave tomorrow morning, and I will lay down the stakes before I leave. The magic here is full, and it doesn't need a long time to run in, and it will work soon."

The so-called wooden stakes are a common method used by mages to hide their residences. The general content is to use wooden dowels with incantations to be nailed into the ground around the residence. After time, the wooden dowels will be connected with the earth and become a magical enchantment that takes effect for a long time.

The functions of these enchantments include, but are not limited to, sheltering the residence with a fog of no way out, replacing the original location of the residence with a mirage, or simply summoning a torrential rain to stop it when a hostile person approaches.

However, those strong wooden stakes have to be strengthened over time. Their initial effectiveness is likely to be accidentally tripped by people who pass by, and waiting for a group of wooden stakes to perform the effects expected by the designer, often takes several years or even Decades of waiting and maintenance.

Cheese naturally has no time here to wait for his stake to run into the ground. As he said, the enchantment he wants to set depends on the magical power of the City of Ten Thousand Laws, and uses this power that lingers here. , The weaver can weave many ingenious spells that the mage can’t imagine. Those spells don't need to be strong, just make sure it is effective.

Lynn knows the meaning of the wooden stakes. She also knows that many spells that have to be bred in the outside world for a long time in the city of all laws can be cast faster, but the so-called faster, at most, it will turn two minutes into one and a half minutes. It's just that, just laying the foundation of the stakes requires weeks of preparation, and it is not something that can be effective immediately.

But this idea gradually disappeared when Cheese took down a chair and started carving with the chair's bracket.

"You are not carving runes, what are you making?"

The wood used as the pillar of the chair will naturally not be any precious or rare wood, the material is not good or bad, and the exterior is covered by lacquer. Such things cannot be used as stakes in the conventional sense.

But Cheese didn't care about this. With a dagger in his hand, he cut one side of the wooden stake into shape with a single knife, instead of engraving the rune upward.

"Inspiration from others may be useful." Gray Robe replied quickly, his movement slowly, and he seemed to be thinking about how to make the next cut.

When night fell, the light of the Breath of Dawn could still reflect the concentrated figure of the gray robe. Jianqi can probably guess why cheese spent so much energy on making this protective measure. As they said before, there are not a few enemies in this city, and they are not like the original ones here. There is a school as the support of the mage, whether it is the fairy research institute or the totem school, it is not a truly reliable refuge.

If you don't have a safe base, you can make one yourself. This won't bother the gray robe. When the surrounding environment is not safe, a camp that can provide the most basic functions is more precious, which coincides with the strategy of the Crypt Lord.

"Are you here, carving a stone lion? No, you should say a wooden lion." Jian Qi's eyes are very good, so he can make judgments based on some reserved wood when the carving is not yet formed.

"Yes. But I realized that carving is really difficult until I did it. Although I have seen those lions, it is extremely difficult to copy any of them. I can only simplify it."

This is not a modest speech. If the wooden lion carved in Cheese's hand hadn't seen a stone lion and used it as a comparison object, it would be impossible to see its image. You can only guess that it is the crouching state of a wild beast.

But this is enough. Gray Robe is not a master sculptor, nor does he want to make art. The reason why he chooses the lion shape is that he was inspired by the stone lion statues and the totem school in Runliu City, and replaced the runes with images. To enhance effectiveness.

This is also thanks to the cheese who has been engaged in anatomy all year round, and he is also proficient in the drawing of the magic circle. If the two are missing, he will not be able to make even the crudest statue. After all, it is a creation that takes effect with the power of a totem. If it is true There was not even a hint of charm when it was carved out, so it had to be burned as fuelwood for warmth.

"The night is still long. I will make at least four stakes. You can take them to rest first. We will set off at dawn."