Blooming Tower of the West Wind

The archmage smiled and said, "So that's what Hektra meant by 'Legendary', but isn't your body a hundred percent liquid because of this?"

"Yes," Lenning said with a smile, "it's a little inconvenient, but I'm used to it. You see, aren't we used to the bumps too?"

It was really bumpy. The mountain giant took a step forward. In addition to the ups and downs, there were ups and downs from side to side. People were dizzy from time to time, but after the first part of the journey, everyone got used to such bumps. Dvorsha Ke was always flying up in surprise at first, but now he also began to doze off in his stone nest.

The Archmage and Theron were together, chatting wildly about topics that only they were interested in, Virgil dozed off incessantly under the continuous bombardment of dense and esoteric nouns, as if returning to the classroom of his school days in a trance inside.

"Virgil is asleep, sir."

"Let him sleep, and there will be a vigil at night. We still have about two days before we can reach Aymecortes."

Theron asked worriedly, "What if we have a storm?"

Hipper smiled, "You will see when the storm comes."

As if they couldn't help the call of the elemental messenger, the next morning, the sky that should have been bright did not light up, and bright silver "eyes" formed on the top of their heads.

When Theron got out of the tent, he saw the serious expressions on the faces of Virgil and Hipper through the light above his head.

Drawn overhead by the strange light, she let out a scream of terror.

"Teacher! Teacher! What is that!"

Hipper turned around to comfort her, "Storm Core, don't be afraid."

Theron suddenly turned her head and glanced at her, her eyes widened in disbelief. She hadn't forgotten that she and Hipper had witnessed the power of the storm when she first came to Aymecortes, and she hadn't forgotten that the howling wind rolled like slurry Falling lightning.

Now that they were directly below the pupil of the eye of the storm, those bright silver eyes on top of their heads were watching them evilly, and Hipper told her not to be afraid? ? ?

"teacher?!"

Hipper has personally faced the core of the storm. Of course, she is not very afraid, but when she casts a spell, it will definitely damage everything nearby, so she cannot penetrate the core of the storm immediately.

Theron looked at Hipper in horror, and then at Virgil. Virgil comforted Dvořák, but he didn't look too worried.

As if noticing her panic, Virgil came over and patted Theron on the shoulder (but was knocked off by Hipper) and said, "Don't worry, with the mountain giants around, it's hard for lightning to strike us. Lightning will The prominent place in the middle of the split, right? Did you know that there is a remnant of a clock tower in Withered Leaf City?"

Although he didn't know why Virgil wanted to mention the clock tower at this time, Theron still nodded.

"The bell tower used to be very tall, but it was struck by lightning and it collapsed. After that, no bell tower or temple dared to build to such a high height."

"'That high altitude', how high is it?"

"Uh...it's probably as high as the mountain next to Dead Leaf City. In fact, the valley is where thunderstorms are most likely to occur. Every year, more than a dozen people are struck by lightning in the valley."

"But Aimee Cortes was safe and sound in the lightning?"

"This is up to the Archmage to explain."

Hipper looked up at the top of his head and said absently: "It seems that we have to wait for this burst of discharge to pass... There is an energy storage crystal on the top of Amecortes, and a mithril wire is connected to the bottom, and the energy released by the lightning will go along As the wire goes all the way to the ground, people will be safe and sound in it... I hope you can find the specific principle in the library... It may take an hour, Virgil, should you do something for safer protection measures? How about making more contributions?"

"Oh, well..." Virgil looked very reluctant, even distressed.He sat down, took off all the ornaments from Dvořák's head, wrapped them around his bow and arrow, walked up to the sleeping mountain giant's head, and stuck the bow and arrow in the soil.

All of Dvořák's decorations looked valuable, at least some shiny tinsel.

"Is this all right?" Theron looked at the top of his head with lingering fear.

"Not necessarily, the metal decorations may be melted and broken due to poor conduction, and the bow may also be burned because of this. In that case, the direction of lightning conduction cannot be determined, but one thing is certain... in a place without metal interference case, it will go in the direction where the wind is most active, so you..."

"'No spells allowed', teacher, I still remember, I don't have amnesia." Theron said a little sadly.

"Sleep for a while? I'm going to lie down for a while too," Hipper said, lying on the Hektra water bed with a book floating in front of him, but the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and Hektra was like a shell Biting Hipper in, Theron also got into her side and leaned gently. There were no books in the desert, and they were reading the rock quick reference manual.

No matter how boring the book is, it is guaranteed to last a long time with Hipper. Theron leaned gently on Hipper, urging her to turn the pages quickly from time to time.

"Teacher, haven't you finished it yet? I've finished it! Why are you reading it so slowly?"

"I'm thinking. You turn the page."

Virgil, who was reclining on Dvořák beside him, was completely puzzled by such an unnutritious conversation. After all, this book is so boring, and Virgil couldn't help but yawned just seeing the title of the book.

The wind became stronger, and stones were rolled down from time to time. Dvořák buried his head in his stomach, and Virgil also opened his cloak to wrap it and himself. Fortunately, the mountain giant who sat down blocked most of them for them. One can imagine how strong the wind is outside.

Lightning wove out between the eyes, but the falling part was still outside the edge of the storm, spanning hundreds of miles, appearing and disappearing in an instant, followed by rumbling thunder.

But the eye-like storm core on the top of the head lingered here and did not go away, which made Virgil feel very strange. He came over and said to Hipper, "Master, is it coming for you?"

"Why is it coming at me?" Hipper raised her head and propped herself up from her soft and pure water bed.

Virgil put his hands over his eyes, looked at the increasingly bright core of the storm, and said, "The wind blows from west to east, it doesn't make sense for it to be here now, does it? From my point of view, it just keeps wandering in the sky .”

"I'm just a human after all. This must be some kind of coincidence, but you're right. Look, isn't lightning getting closer to us?"

"Teacher..." Hipper turned her head away, Theron looked at her blankly, and said, "Did you hear any sound? It's 'wind'..."

Hipper lifted off the azure blue film that almost completely covered them, and listened carefully. The rustling sound of the wind was indeed repeating indistinctly:

"No, she is our king."

"It's more fun here."

"Come here."

Hipper's face changed slightly. She hadn't forgotten that she said that the appearance of an elemental mage might spontaneously cause elemental commotion, which was much more serious than Theron's petty fight. This was a real commotion among elements. Flesh and blood are involved, and if you are a little negligent, there will be no dregs left.

But calm down, "These winds are only swirling around us, and the scale is not large. Let's get out of here, Virgil, although we can't go up, but we..."

"No problem!" Virgil quickly ran to the head of the mountain giant, inserted a row of metal arrows there, and then happily rescued the precious harness and his own bow that had been put on it before. After he got down, he used a The long rope was tied tightly around Dvořák.

Dvořák snorted and objected, and raised his front hooves to attack Virgil. The poor witcher kept reassuring him: "It's not like you haven't experienced it, and now is not the time to lose your temper. When you get to the tower, you It's up to you whether you want peeled peas or peeled carrots."

Dvořák reluctantly agreed, and the rope was later twisted into a coil for Hektra to wrap around.Not only was Dvořák unhappy, but the water lord clearly expressed his displeasure: "Oh my god, I thought I was finally free from this kind of thing. Is it really going to be like this?"

"Hector, I currently think this is the best way, since you are not willing to fly at high speed. Then let it drag you away."

Hektra reluctantly agreed, and Hipper pulled Theron to hold her measurement data, "Must, please, we won't be able to look back for anything we lost later, you can only I look forward to someone archaeologically discovering it in the future.”

"Okay..." Theron didn't know how to hug him tighter, so he had to use a belt to fix the schoolbag on himself, ugly.

Hektra specially prepared protrusions for them to hug, and the mountain giant woke up. The sons of the soil who were carrying luggage yesterday turned into giant hands, which looked like they grew on the mountain giant, and each of them held the luggage. .

Hipper wrapped her turban tightly, and the two were fixed by Hector, and said to Virgil: "Let's go!"

"Teacher, what about the mountain giant?"

"It will follow behind, attracting lightning, but it is not very reliable..." Hector shook, and the horse had already started to run. Hipper cast "Light as a Feather" on both of them, and Hector Like a gigantic trailer, whimpering and moaning as it sped along.

Theron whispered: "If Hector is unwilling, we can let Lenning change hands."

Hipper immediately vetoed: "No."

"why?"

Hipper grabbed the rope and said, "Pure water doesn't conduct electricity!"

Hektra was suddenly pulled sideways, and Theron was thrown up. Fortunately, there were special measures to prevent him from being thrown out.

Lightning suddenly hit the place just passed by, sand and gravel splashed on the ground, and some sand was melted in the air, leaving a black puddle on the ground.The mountain giant was about a hundred yards behind them, and seemed to be running, but its movements were a little too clumsy.