Chapter 516: Concealment and Suspicion
"Do you think that you can completely absolve yourself of responsibility by saying 'you are also victims'?"
However, Sid didn't buy Talina's explanation.
"Hand over the murderer and the Sword of the King-Choice, or start the war immediately. I will not repeat it a third time!"
Sid laughed in anger, staring at Talina fiercely. Under him, the golden dragon, which was as big as a hill, also roared, ready for battle.
“First of all, Skarsa is currently in a state of mental sleep. I cannot give you any answer until he wakes up and finds out the situation.
Secondly, are you sure that what your prophet predicts is the truth? As the magic world has developed to this day, there have been more than one secret technique that can interfere with the results of predictions. At our level, I think you should also be aware of these.
In the end, the sword that Skarsa brought back was a fake, and I will not repeat the same thing a third time."
Standing on the top of the Tower of Mysticism, Talina tightly grasped her Silver Moon Heart Staff, her silver eyes staring at the golden-armored knight standing on the back of a pure golden dragon in front of her. She spoke in a cold tone, not afraid of the other party's threat at all.
Although her strength only reached the veteran ninth-grade level, for high-level spellcasters, the difference in combat effectiveness between having the blessing of a mage tower and not having it would be like heaven and earth.
As one of the four major families, the Enoch family is famous in the empire for its profound magical attainments. No one can go wild against the people of the Enoch family in the Forest of a Thousand Towers of Magnum, not even the ninth-level dragon knight.
"...I've often heard people say that if the Enoch family's City of Thousand Towers is fully operational, its power is even comparable to the floating city of the mainland Magic Council."
Slowly grasping the hilt of the sword behind his back with both hands, Sid pulled out the dark golden giant sword with mysterious patterns from his back inch by inch.
During this process, the invisible aura he exuded gradually began to rise. When the giant sword was almost completely pulled out, the huge pressure almost became a substance, causing the air to become stagnant and stop flowing.
"It seems that I, Sid, will have the honor of experiencing the power of the world-famous Thousand Towers Forest of the Enoch family today."
As the cold words fell, with his momentum already raised to the limit, Sid's arm muscles bulged, as if he was holding a mountain, and he slashed at Talina with an extremely slow sword.
Wherever the sword passed, the air was strangely distorted, as if a drop of detergent suddenly fell on the surface of an oil painting, melting all the paint into one piece.
This is the result of an attack purely with the power of rules. When the operating rules of the surface world are distorted, things that depend on the world itself will also be inevitably distorted and destroyed.
Facing this terrifying attack, Talina's eyes were extremely calm. She raised the staff emitting silver moonlight in her hand, and a huge hexagonal translucent magic barrier instantly blocked the attack.
At the same time, the Thousand Pagodas Forest behind her glowed faintly, and an incredible force was bestowed upon her, which suddenly greatly enhanced her ability to control the rules.
The next moment, the slash collided with the barrier.
There was no earth-shaking sound or blazing light. Where the collision occurred, everything turned into a strange darkness. Even the concepts of "sound" and "light" had been distorted and erased.
After a very short stalemate, the concept of "blocking" of the barrier was also distorted, breaking a large chaotic hole, but the second and third layers of defensive barriers continued to block the slash.
When this slash penetrated twelve layers of barriers in succession and was less than fifty meters away from the main body of the magic tower, it was finally blocked by the thirteenth layer of barrier due to lack of strength and dissipated into thin air along with the tower.
"...It's quite a bit of skill. It's a really nice turtle shell."
Seeing this scene, Sid's eyebrows raised slightly.
Although the sword strike just now seemed to be of little force, he had really used all his strength. In his estimation, this strike would at least cause a slight rule injury to the [Silver Moon Traveler] himself.
But things were a little different from what he thought, although it seemed difficult, the opponent used the help of those magic towers to actually block his attack.
"Hmph! Not bad... Fontes, please!"
Realizing that his normal form seemed to be useless against Talina, Sid snorted coldly, closed his eyes, and then opened them again. As his pupils completely transformed into vertical pupils like a giant dragon, his entire aura instantly merged with the giant dragon under him.
"roar--!!"
A violent magic storm burst out from Sid's body, and its mighty momentum even affected the celestial phenomena, causing thick leaden clouds like the eye of a storm to gather in the sky out of thin air, covering the entire forest of a thousand towers.
"Don't let someone use you as a pawn for nothing, Sir Sid."
Looking at the arrogant golden dragon in the sky with cold eyes, Talina poked the ground with her staff. Countless silver lines spread out from the end of the staff, flowing and climbing along the patterns on the surface of the entire mage tower, even making the thousands of towers behind her emit a faint silver light at the same time.
A chilling sense of crisis instantly enveloped Sid's body. Even though he moved several times in an instant, this sense of danger always locked onto him like a thorn in his flesh.
“…”
silence.
After both sides revealed all their cards, they fell into a special state of confrontation.
Both sides could feel that under this situation, the next attack and collision would likely cause unpredictable serious consequences.
Under such circumstances, both sides had deep concerns in their hearts.
Even the warlike Aslade would have to consider whether it was worthwhile to engage in a deadly battle that could result in a subsequent recuperation of hundreds of years, given that the authenticity of the target was in doubt.
"...Sir Sid, we have also made a prophecy before you arrived, and we can understand your current mood.
But the injuries that Skarsa received are very strange, and cannot be simply explained by the aftermath of the ruins' self-destruction. I hope we can temporarily stop and thoroughly investigate what happened before deciding what to do."
Maintaining this state of intimidation, Talina suddenly spoke.
Since both sides have serious concerns, it means that it is possible to solve the problem through means other than fighting.
"…Give me that sword, and I'll leave."
Looking at the forest of thousands of towers below with a gloomy expression, Sid suddenly spoke after a while.
"I can only give you half."
After thinking about it, Talina also spoke up and took a step back.
After a while, watching the golden dragon disappear from the clouds, Talina turned around and entered the tower with the other half of the broken sword.
"According to the fragment of fate, people from the other two families are also involved in this matter, right? Arrange some personnel, I need to find out their situation."
(End of this chapter)
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