873 Everybodys Trick (1/2)

In a forest on the border between Sherwell County and Rentato, the bright fog had covered the vast territory, suppressing the sorcerers' spiritual powers and the knights' instincts.

In the last years of the elves' reign, because of the ”scheme” of the Will of Abyss, many space gaps appeared on the ground. Some were tiny and disappeared on their own before long, but some further collapsed and connected different floors of the abyss, turning into the channels for the demons' invasion. Later, thanks to the help of the elven tree, the elves sealed most of the similar cracks. However, space disorder still lingered in some places, and this forest was one of such places. So, it became a good shelter for the sorcerers to hide in.

In a valley deep inside the forest, an ”invisible” magic tower was enshrouded in the thick fog. This was a very important base of ”Tower of Destroyers”. Thanks to the environment and its mobility, even though the Church knew that plenty of sorcerers were hiding in the forest and sent many people to search, nobody had ever discovered it.

Of course, it was also because the Church was not doing its best. Right when they were tired of searching and was about to erase the forest, the war in the west broke out, and the main forces were mobilized to the front line in Aalto. So, the plan had to be put on hold.

”Cracking (Advanced), plus your 'Time Stop', will finish the battle quickly.” At the edge of the valley, Priscilla, who was in a red magic robe, gave Douglas a scroll and looked at Arnold. She said with a faint smile, ”It's very difficult and costly to create the scroll even for me. Old fox, I get to pick the trophies first after the battle.”

Then, she paused and said, ”Also, I have offered my 'Tower of Destroyers'. If the plan fails and it's destroyed by the Church, hehe…” She had a ”you know what I would do” look on her face.

The magic tower, which could move and become invisible, was exactly what Tower of Destroyers was named after. After their headquarters was changed to someplace better and it was no longer useful, it was relocated here.

Fernando couldn't have seconded the way Priscilla called Arnold more. To this moment, he hadn't figured out why President Arnold was confident that Sharp would not betray them. Was it only a wild gamble? What an old fox!

Arnold said with a smile, ”Although it's been almost three hundred years since you became an archmage, I am still a senior who watched you grow up. Please show me some respect.”

His evasive answer certainly did not satisfy Priscilla, who snorted heavily. ”A senior? Who proposed to me at the beginning only to be refused?”

Ha.

Fernando burst into laughter when he learned the president's dark history that he did not know. He knew that Priscilla had a husband who was killed by the Church, but he did not know that she was with someone else before!

Blushing, Arnold said, ”I was in my prime years back then, not nearly as old as I am right now…”

Priscilla had prepared her own way of escape. So, instead of further pursuing the question, she looked at the servant of death next to Arnold gravely and asked, ”Who is this? I can tell that he is strong, but something is not right…”

”He's my servant of death, a supernatural creature equal to level nine…” Arnold explained again.

”A servant of death. No wonder it gives me the feeling of the dead.” Priscilla nodded in relief. Congus, who was behind them, said coarsely, ”Old fox, after the operation succeeds, you have to lend your servant of death to me for a while. It is not normal. Perhaps it contains the mysteries of death.”

Led by Priscilla, everybody called Arnold ”old fox”.

”I've noticed it too, but I never know why.” Arnold opened his eyes, neither declining nor accepting Congus' request.

Congus' eyes flashed. When he was about to continue asking, fat Nielson opened his mouth and said coldly, ”Alfonsol is probably coming, and you are still in the mood of chitchatting? Are all the sorcerers of Sylvanas as unreliable as you? In that case, I would have to reconsider the dangerousness of our cooperation.”

”Hehe.” Congus shut his mouth.

Looking at Amanata who stayed in shadow quietly, Priscilla nodded. ”According to the news from the south, Kritonia is still after League. So, we will stick to our plan.”

She turned around and flew back to the Tower of Destroyers. After all, Alfonsol would notice something wrong if no sorcerers were inside it.

Nielson and Congus flew in different directions, so far that it was beyond what Alfonsol could search and notice. It was also out of the range for them to reinforce the Tower of Destroyers immediately.

Amanata had long disappeared from the shadow too.

”Fernando, you set up the magic circle and keep this place in a storm, preferably for two hours.” Arnold led Douglas and Fernando into a crypt nearby and completely melted into the shadow with a weird spell.

He speculated that Alfonsol would arrive in one hour because the traitor was given a wrong location, which would mislead the enemy but eventually bring them to this place.

Boom!

Thanks to Fernando's arrangement, bolts of lightning struck the trees, setting them on fire.

Hualala.

Clouds were gathered, and rain poured, making the place look like the end of the world. Nobody could sense anything.

Arnold was not scared that Alfonsol might discover that the storm was manipulated. After all, this place was an important base of the Tower of Destroyers. It was perfectly normal that such stealth and interference circles had been established.

Time went by one second after another. The Tower of Destroyers, in the storm and the darkness, was more and more like a monster that was about to swallow the world. Arnold and Douglas both remained absolutely calm with the spells such as Mechanized Mind. Fernando, who did not need to attack, looked at the dark forest anxiously. If anything went wrong in the operation, half of the magic organizations in Holm would be paralyzed.

”The target is here…” The blowing wind brought Amanata's gloomy, unemotional voice.