Blooming Tower of the West Wind

Theron pouted and said reluctantly: "I can't be completely sure, I can only say that I have a guess..."

Hipper's attitude was very tough: "Then I will listen to that conjecture." She even omitted the "please" and "hope" that were commonly used in the past.

"I guess... it's because of the 'mark of shame'." After saying the word, she saw Hipper's brow furrow deepen, and silently urged her to speak quickly. "Sauceland's 'Mark of Shame' is not a witchcraft, but a demonic spell, and demonic spells must be cast with a support."

"What is it?"

"……soul."

"Go on."

"There is a very important basic skill in demon spells, which is 'soul shattering'. Demons know how to separate a trace of the soul as a medium for casting spells. This kind of weak force often returns after the instant spell. within the body of the caster, but if it is a continuous spell, such as 'Mark of the Hunt'... the soul needs to be outside for a long time."

"So Saussurean's 'Mark of Shame' is actually the 'Mark of Hunting' of the demon spell?"

"……Yes."

"Then how did they find you? As long as the hellhound sniffs Saussurean, can they find you? Something like this? Or can they learn everything about you from the soul fragments? Amazing, I've never been in this field before."

"Well, I think it might be...very simple. The hunting mark is a mark of competition between demons, for example," Theron replied very seriously: "If Antihaza marked me, other weaker demons She doesn’t dare to touch her prey, but someone stronger than her, such as Kowa, doesn’t care about Antihaza, she will replace Antihaza’s with another mark, then Antihaza’s soul will be Float back into her body, unless caught by a few special vessels."

Hipper's hand exerted a little force, and Theron immediately felt tense and itchy. "You can rest assured to let your soul float outside?"

"Only, only a little bit!" She gestured a small one, trying to make Hipper not care about it.

"That is to say, someone removed Saussurean's 'hunting mark', and then chased your soul to find you?" The creepy locking feeling finally disappeared, the archmage withdrew his gaze, and held his chin for a while. Thinking, "So Saussurean's only function is this... no wonder it becomes a 'puppet'."

"What the hell is a 'puppet'?"

As the name suggests, a "puppet" is a puppet with strings. Saussurean herself is completely out of control, and everything on her body is controlled by invisible silk threads. However, this is not the iconic shadow magic, but many witchcrafts claims to have such an effect.

"Most of the legends about puppets appear in the assassination passages of some legendary novels, but in fact they are real. Every country has similar puppet techniques, and the principles are different."

"No wonder they recognized it so quickly..."

This small cross did not end Hipper's interrogation. After the puppet topic came to an end, Hipper asked again: "Did Kova teach you the devil spell?"

"Yes, it is."

The archmage sat back and fell into thinking again: "So this matter is not related to Kowa?"

"Why, why?"

"Obviously, she taught you the demon spell, and only she knows that it is a hunting mark. But this is very strange, generally speaking, demons will not participate in human conspiracies."

"This, why is this?" Is it because the devil is too arrogant and disdains to be with humans?

"Because Kova is too lazy, all her interest is in Yilan, unless Yilan is corrupted, and she is ordered by Yilan... This is unlikely, I think Kowa is only interested in human flesh, if Yilan Only skeletons or urns remain..."

It's hard for a creature like a demon to love an urn, right?

Theron felt that he saw the same question in Hipper's eyes, and quickly defended his accomplice, saying, "Of course not! Kova has something ulterior motive...uh...uh..."

The actual owner of Miracle's unicorn asked alertly, "Anything else?"

Sensing Theron's hesitation, Hipper's hand secretly exerted force again, Theron flashed aside with an oh, and looked at Hipper aggrievedly and refused to speak.

Hektra was no longer on her side now, the blue waves rolled her and pulled her towards the archmage, her stiff knuckles were against her waist again.She was happy to have physical contact with Hipper, but it would be better if it was not so confrontational...

"Theron." The gray eyes were locked on her tightly, and the archmage had a sharp smile on his mouth, as if he saw his prey.

"I...well...actually, it was Kowa who insisted on teaching me demonic spells in exchange for tricking me."

"What are you talking about?"

"She wants...she wants to know who my 'master' is..." The instant the word came out, she trembled all over.Her master is right in front of her, but she doesn't know what kind of thoughts she has, and the classmates in the school, including the devil himself, are keen to tease her about her crush on the "master".

"Why do you want to know? How does she know that you will have a 'master'? Branding belongs to branding. Most people don't think about contracts."

Theron thought: Isn't it because you are so famous?

But the knuckles on her waist prodded her again, and Theron reluctantly confessed about the hunt.

After listening, Hipper couldn't help asking: "Is this how you got hunted by demons?"

"Yes... Sister Nightmare Demon disguised herself as you, but when she wanted to attack me, she was isolated by a circle of golden flames."

"So Kowa heard about the Golden Flame when she went to her hometown to seek justice for you?"

Theron nodded, that's what she thought, and she never doubted that she said it herself under the charm of the succubus.

"What the hell is... what?"

"It could be an imprinting reaction, because there are so few cases that many scholars even suspect it's just some kind of coincidence," Hipper said.

"Imprint reaction?"

Hipper suddenly smiled and said, "You don't think that becoming an archmage of Warcraft will be of no benefit at all, do you?"

Theron's heart beat suddenly faster because of this shallow smile. What good would it be to become a Warcraft of the Archmage?So far she had felt only one kind of torment that was unattainable.

"When it's dangerous, the owner will provide some kind of protection to the pet, it's like the 'imprinting reaction'. By the way, when did this happen?"

Theron obediently explained the date this time, and the date was clearly written in the yearbook.

Hipper nodded coldly, "I have a feeling for this, so I'm sure it's an imprint reaction."

This marked the end of her cross-examination, and she lay back in Hektra's broad arms, closing her eyes and resting in the dots of light.

The forest in the afternoon is extremely quiet, the high and low winds stir the leaves, making high and low clattering sounds, and birds chirping from time to time come from far or near, other than that, there are only wheels grinding the ground rustle.

These sounds gradually became the background of this landscape, just like the constant wind was to Amecortes.

But Theron's ears were filled with his rumbling heartbeat, and the words Hipper just said echoed repeatedly in his mind.

She has...responsiveness to me...

Hipper seemed to notice her abnormality at this time, and said with a chuckle: "You don't think it's good to be my pet, do you? But I've never verified it myself before, and I will study it secretly in the future. .”

"Why secretly?" The archmage, who had always been upright, suddenly said the word "secretly" very cutely. Theron leaned next to her, propping his chin with his hands just like her.

In the past, even in Aymecortes, they had no chance to talk so close. It is not good if the house is too big. If Aymecortes was only as big as a carriage, they would have to stay close together every day.

"If there was a way for one person to enslave another, many people would not pass up the opportunity," Hipper said.

Theron asked strangely: "But what does it matter? Even if there is no mandatory contract, slaves exist legally in many places."

The archmage brushed his hair that was blown by the wind and said, "People should be equal."

Theron choked on this sentence, sneaked a glance at Hipper, and thought: Didn't you sign the contract without asking me at all?

But Hipper still seemed to be aware of it, and gave her a meaningful look.

Theron actually thought it was quite funny, and burst out laughing. Unexpectedly, Hipper laughed too.But Theron's memories just reached the time when he saw Hipper for the first time. The archmage had a stern and stern face at that time, and it seemed that he was not the same person at all as the man with the lips pursed in front of him.

"In short, this shows that there must be demons in the opponent's camp, or there must be demon spell users, like you, because the opponent can find you through the soul fragments." After a while of inexplicable silence, the archmage turned his head and said to her. Summarize.

Theron looked at her unpreparedly, but Hipper didn't look away immediately as usual, but squinted at her slightly and said, "You look a lot like your mother."

"...Is this some kind of abnormal phenomenon?" She had an intuition that Hipper had something to say later, otherwise she wouldn't bring up a topic at all.

"Yes, of course, I like you...your keen intuition," Hipper nodded, "generally a daughter will look like her father, unless your father looks like me."

It was a very...very strange sentence, and Theron didn't know how to answer it.

"Blonde hair and light eyes, and then look good."

"Why did you come to such a conclusion?"

The author has something to say: The reason for using English is because it must be a sensitive word, you should look it up yourself.

This kind of personality that has no opportunity to be revealed in front of others or has no willful line can indeed be drawn out only by Theron as an inducement. It can probably be regarded as the beginning of this relationship.