316 Building the Image (2/2)
Hearing that, the servants all looked a bit concerned. The crazy old witch did not care, because she was insane. However, they did.
Lucien stopped at this point, leaving them with their own imagination. He believed that the image of himself that he wished to build in their mind was already there.
”Legendary sorcerer…? How powerful is a legendary sorcerer?” Carina could not help but ask.
Adam answered this question for Lucien, ”A legendary sorcerer can easily destroy this magic tower, the nearby cities and villages, and even this whole Black Forest.”
This was just Adam's guess, but his answer still shocked the adventurers and the servants.
After a while of silence, Carina looked at Lucien with great passion, ”So… Mr. Lucien? What level are you of, as a sorcerer? What about the old witch? What do you do in the Congress?”
Lucien released a sigh and replied, ”You don't have to call me a mister. We're all prisoners here. In the Congress, I'm one of the many middle-rank mages, and I still have a long way to go to reach the higher level. The old witch… should be about the seventh or eighth circle.”
Telling them that he was a middle-rank sorcerer was enough. Lucien did not mean to reveal more of his information to them.
”I knew it! You're a middle-rank mage!” Carina was very surprised. In this remote place, middle-rank sorcerers were very rare. Becoming a middle-rank sorcerer was even harder than becoming a grand knight. Carina, as a sorcerer, admired Lucien a lot just like how Alva, Bullard, and Ophelia admired Adam, the grand knight.
However, the other adventurers looked very concerned, ”The old witch is of… the seventh or eighth circle?”
In their eyes, Carina, a second-circle sorcerer, was already quite powerful. They could not imagine what a senior-rank sorcerer could do. They wondered why she stayed in the magic tower instead of choosing to rule the whole territory?
Adam knew what they were thinking, so he said, ”Ruling isn't the old woman's thing. She's only crazy about magic and her experiments. All the rumors and stories about this magic tower were all spread by her.”
Hearing that, the adventurers all felt very desperate, including Carina, who was still feeling very excited a second ago.
”So we are… her lambs now,” murmured Ophelia hopelessly.
Lucien directly asked, ”Since when did the stories about the magic tower start to emerge? Since when did those sorcerers and knights start to go missing?”
”About five hundred years ago.” Carina was not very confident.
Lucien nodded and thought to himself. It seemed that the old witch was trapped in the Devil's territory before the Congress of Magic was established, so she probably knew nothing about arcana. If Lucien could somehow become her assistant, and seize a chance to show her some ”wonderful” experiments, maybe her brain would directly explode. However, since the old witch was quite insane, Lucien did not think that she would allow him to be her assistant. Therefore, he still had to find other ways around.
The most important thing for Lucien to do now was to get rid of the collar and the shackles. In order to do so, and without the help of his spiritual power and Blessing, Lucien had to find the place in the magic tower where the anti-magic circle was in, to make the collar and the shackles lose effect. However, so far, Lucien had no idea where this place in the tower was.
A while later, through talking, the adventurers slowly calmed down a little. In their eyes, Lucien could be their hope.
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Two days later, when Lucien was still digging in the wall using his nails, the old witch unusually sent her servant to bring Lucien back to the lab.
On his way to the lab, Lucien carefully remembered the locations of the flesh-golems who were guarding the important parts of the tower with sharp axes and swords in their hands.
The lab's door opened. Lucien saw that Ophelia was tied to the operation table. And the old witch was casting some weird spells with a black mirror in her hand, ”Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?”
Lucien was very confused.