As soon as Salvatore entered the Black Tower of Zedi, before he even saw Annan, he raised his voice and made a cheerful voice: "Where are you?"
His unexpected voice even disturbed the students passing by.
A pair of young apprentices who looked like a couple were passing by and looked at Salvatore in astonishment.
They quickly recognized Salvatore.
"Teacher Salvatore..."
"Hello, instructor..."
The two apprentices, who were younger than Annan, timidly bowed slightly to Salvatore and said hello.
"Ah, hello."
Salvatore lowered his head and showed a gentle smile to them without any pretense, and directly read out the other person's name: "Enoch and Nunnally, Hohenheim misses you too... It's just that he still has homework over there.
If you have to do it, you can't 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 plan to find a place to take a walk and chat."
The girl known as "Nunally" 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."
"It's good. Spending some time in the sun is good for your health."
As he spoke, Salvatore showed a wicked smile, stretched out his hand with a smile, and touched the heads of the two men.
The two children habitually turned their heads away, with frightened expressions on their faces.
But their reaction was still a little slow, and Salvatore reached out and grabbed their hair. Then Salvatore smiled proudly, rubbed their hair into a mess, and laughed loudly.
He raised his hands and left.
Only two young apprentices were left looking at Salvatore's back with resentful expressions.
Salvatore walked directly into the "elevator".
Although he didn't know the destination at all and didn't know which floor Annan was on, he didn't really need to worry about it at all.
When he entered the Black Tower of Zedi, he shouted "Annan"... Of course, he didn't expect that after he shouted Annan's name, Annan would directly hear him 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 it.
However, even if the body has this function, and being able to use this ability accurately are two completely different things.
Just like humans can originally see things moving at high speed and taste the taste of different foods. But if you want clear enough dynamic vision, or judge the details of food just by using your tongue... then you still need a certain level of
training.
The reason why Salvatore shouted at the door was not for Annan to hear, but for Hugo to hear.
As the master of the tower, Hugo's Zedi Black Tower is his eyes and ears. He is the brain of Zedi Black Tower.
Everything that happens in the Black Tower of Zedi will be known to him, and the apprentices cannot leave the wizard tower on weekdays. Even the king's control over the territory is completely impossible to be as strong as the wizard tower.
Salvatore just shouted this, and Hugo already knew that Salvatore was back and that he wanted to see Annan first.
Then there is no need for any buttons, there is no need for Annan to ask where he is now, and there is no need for any operation even when entering. When Salvatore enters the elevator, the elevator starts to run on its own.
Under Hugo's control...the elevator, carrying Salvatore, began to automatically rise toward a certain floor.
What surprised Salvatore was that the elevator seemed to take a long time to rise...
Could it be that Annan is learning spells in the upper area?
As soon as this thought came to Salvatore's mind, he discovered that the elevator had climbed all the way to the top.
"...What is Annan going to the top floor for?"
Salvatore was a little stunned.
There is no functional area on the top floor of Zedi Black Tower.
Even if you really need to talk to Hugo... Hugo's projected incarnation can actually appear on any level anytime, anywhere.
There isn't even a chair on the top floor, let alone anything else.
When the elevator arrived, Salvatore's heart suddenly jumped.
His inspiration allowed him to capture some traces and smell a rather uneasy air.
too dark.
Although the Black Tower of Zedi has normal and bright enough lights on the lower floors, it only uses relatively primitive torches on the top floor.
Twelve torches are evenly distributed around the 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 the Black Tower of Zedi. Although its scale is not large enough, so it is not considered "another holy torch", it is only the special meaning of the holy fire itself, and
The value represented by the holy number "twelve" can form a barrier sufficient to seal the original holy fire.
But now, this room is completely dark and extremely quiet.
...The holy fire went out?
Salvatore's heart tightened.
He subconsciously took two steps forward.
Then, a gray bowl-shaped realm suddenly enveloped Salvatore... to be precise, it covered the entire uppermost area.
Salvatore recognized it immediately.
That is Isaac's "refinement of inertia."
Just by being inside this spell, Salvatore almost completely lost his combat effectiveness. Although the transformation spell is extremely magical and can turn one substance into another completely unrelated substance, the transformation spell can be interrupted or even reversed.
Turned.
You only need to chant the opponent's transformation spell in reverse to perform counterspell.
The inertia refinement itself cannot prevent Salvatore from casting spells, but it will make his spell casting movements extremely slow. Even if it is only a third slower, it is 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, raising its head suddenly like a snake.
But she didn't say anything, she just frowned as if she realized something.
"What's happening here?"
Salvatore, who had not yet figured out what was going on, just stopped where he was and made a confused sound.
[The initial heat comes from the depths of the earth. Therefore, the earth is also called the mother of embers and charcoal]
Hugo's emotionless voice sounded.
That is the secret of the creation of "embers and coals".
Just reciting fragments of it is enough to ignite incombustible things.
The next moment, countless flames burst into flames
Surrounding the uppermost space, countless blood-stained coals simultaneously ignited fires wrapped in thick smoke; and at some point, a silver metal film that reflected light and heat was affixed to the surrounding walls, and they also began to burn.
.
And the smoke quickly ignited a new flame.
In the presence of the Word of Creation, even ashes and smoke can burn.
Even the flame itself can burn.
That's the fire
The violent smoke quickly blackened the mirror-like walls. The surrounding space seemed to turn into a sea of fire in the blink of an eye... The steaming heat and brilliant fire turned the not-so-narrow space into a foundry.
.
Salvatore was clearly standing in the middle, but he didn't feel the heat at all.
But at this time, he realized something belatedly.
"...Is this the concept of [casting furnace]?"
Salvatore murmured.
Who can turn the black tower of the Zedi that "stores fire" into a furnace that "calcines with fire"?
Ordinary fire is used to calcine steel, but what the holy fire can calcine can only be the soul itself.
And those who can do this...
Salvatore had actually guessed that answer.
But he didn't want to guess.
Because Salvatore knew very well that only one person could do this.
That is the owner of the Black Tower of Zeland, the holder of the Holy Fire.