After the voice announcing the final verdict disappeared, the familiar feeling of weightlessness returned, and blinding white light engulfed the entire world.
When the light finally dimmed, Yun Wei opened his eyes and found himself once again in the flower bed in front of the clock tower.
But before he could even utter a word of reflection, his entire attention was drawn to the scene not far away.
The original dark and dilapidated tower base had been replaced by a huge oak sapling, which emitted a bright white light that illuminated the dark night sky.
The branches extend, resembling both a vast, boundless canopy and clouds hanging from the sky. Countless tender leaves sprout and awaken on the ever-extending branches, swaying gently in the wind, as if each unfolding leaf is silently chanting an ancient story.
"Could this be... the 'Tower of Ten Thousand Laws'?" Yun Wei heard a girl's soft call behind him; it was Vivian.
"It should be right." Xie Mulang nodded. He was exhausted from the scene just now. He stood tall with his arms crossed. "We are really lucky. We were on the verge of disaster but escaped unscathed. All our hard work has finally paid off."
"Hmph, don't be too happy yet," Richard sneered. He got up from the ground, his cold, vertical pupils somewhat eerie. "Didn't you hear the final warning? Only one of us can go inside."
He looked around at everyone, but his gaze finally landed on Yun Wei, and he smiled meaningfully.
Yun Wei noticed the other person's unfriendly gaze and looked back. He saw that Richard's face was pale, and his unruly silver hair was hanging down, seemingly soaked with sweat.
He was about to say something, but Vivian spoke up with a frown, "For me, whether or not I enter the tower isn't that important. Being able to adventure with everyone is enough to make me happy—"
However, Richard interrupted her, his silver eyes flashing, "Oh? As expected of the young lady of the Rose family, you speak quite generously."
Vivian's expression immediately changed, and she glared back defiantly. This was the first time she'd encountered such an impolite dragon, and she was quite annoyed.
Upon hearing Richard's words, Yun Wei was somewhat surprised. It turned out that Vivian came from the Rose family, one of the three most powerful vassal families directly under the Second Dynasty's royal family.
He couldn't help but glance at Isaac, who was also looking at him, and was nervously touching his nose.
Yun Wei couldn't help but recall the day he first met Vivian. He had been so jealous back then, feeling incredibly sad all by himself alone in the "Warrior's Feather" inn...
His heart felt like a kettle of boiling water was screaming wildly, but he turned his gaze away expressionlessly.
The atmosphere right now is clearly not right.
No, to be precise, Richard was acting unusually strange tonight.
But did the other person only start acting strangely today? Or...?
Yun Wei couldn't help but recall Alch's instructions, and his eyes darkened.
Richard and Vivian were at an impasse when Xie Mulang stepped forward, saying with some concern, "Mr. Long? Have you not recovered from the scene just now... You don't look very well."
“Actually, Miss Vivian is right. Isn’t the important thing the process of overcoming difficulties together?”
"The process?" Richard dusted off non-existent dust from his chest and grinned. "Kids, it's about time our house game ended."
He walked straight into the darkness behind him, his tone flippant and dangerous, "In short, our alliance ends here. I will not easily give up the opportunity to enter the Tower of All Laws."
"Mr. Long!" Xie Mulang called out to Richard's departing figure. He quickly glanced at the others present and said, "I'll go after him and keep an eye on him. Farewell." Before he finished speaking, he vanished from the spot.
"What happened?" After the two men had gone far away, Baler looked around as if he had just woken up from a dream, only to see that the other three people present all had complicated expressions.
But he didn't think too much about it; he never did.
He then looked at Yun Wei and said with a smile, "Actually, I haven't done much work, and besides, I'm not a magician, so you don't need to worry about me."
"If there's nothing else, I'll head back to sleep now! Goodnight everyone!"
"Goodnight, Baller." Yun Wei waved goodbye to the chubby boy whose eyelids were almost closed. He then looked at Vivian and comforted her, "That's just how Richard is, don't take it to heart. Actually, I also..."
He wanted to say that he didn't actually value the opportunity to enter the Tower of All Laws that much, but when he thought of the Lord of Radiance, the Abyss Apostles he had encountered, and Alch's request, he felt as if several mountains were pressing down on him, and he could only reluctantly shut his mouth.
He really needed this opportunity to enter the Tower of All Laws.
Vivian scoffed, "Heh, I don't care about him at all."
“It seems that when the voice said the Tower of All Laws needed a month to repair itself, it meant that the oak tree needed to grow to maturity in a month.” Isaac stood behind Yun Wei, carefully examining the slowly growing sapling, unaware of the expression on Yun Wei’s face. “Do you know that the ‘Branch of Time’ within us is actually an upside-down oak tree?”
Vivian waved her hand and said, "Isn't this basic common sense—uh, no way, Claude, you don't know that?" She was incredulous when she saw the unusually curious expression on Yun Wei's face. But then she remembered that he might come from the distant city of Bili, far from the mainland, and it made perfect sense.
Yun Wei smiled faintly and shook his head, saying, "Hmm, I didn't know it was an oak tree."
Oak tree, what a familiar name. Besides the oak furniture that can be seen everywhere in Moonflower City, has he heard of or seen it somewhere else?
However, he had something else on his mind. He said to Vivian, "By the way, Vivian, you can call me Cloud. That's my real name, and it means the same as 'Claude,' which refers to the cloud in the sky."
After spending more than ten days together, he developed a liking for this intelligent and lively blonde girl, so he simply told her his surname.
Xie Mulang calls him Brother Yun, and Isaac also calls him Yun, but other girls call him Claude all the time, which always feels too formal.
“Okay, ‘win.’ Win, what a wonderful meaning.” Vivian’s eyes lit up immediately. She had actually wanted to call him that all along, but since he hadn’t suggested it, she still called him Claude out of courtesy.
Yun Wei: "..."
Well, actually, it's more standard than Isaac's "dizzy" back then, at least it sounds rather festive.
Vivian looked very tired tonight. After exchanging pleasantries for a while, she said goodbye to the two of them as usual.
And so, the necromancer, sitting on the ground deep in thought, once again met his knight's gaze under the moonlight.
Yun Wei looked up and said, "Isaac, I have many questions."
Actually, he was very tired tonight, a weariness and vulnerability of the soul. At this moment, he longed for Isaac's embrace.
Fortunately, Isaac understood him well.
The other person sat down behind him and hugged him tightly from behind, letting him relax against their broad chest.
This is Yunwei's favorite pose.
He heard Isaac say in his ear, "Then ask."
Like a message in a bottle in the ocean being scooped up by a fishing net under the starry night.
The other party's usual gentleness and patience finally calmed Yun Wei down.
He thought for a moment, then asked, "What is the surname of the First Dynasty, to which Tyrant Luther belongs?"
The knight behind him remained silent for a moment, as if lost in a distant memory.
However, Yun Wei had enough patience to wait. He relaxed in the other's reliable embrace and lazily looked at the oak tree bathed in moonlight not far away.
It's truly hard to imagine that this was the sacred ground for all magicians on the Zhuyuan Continent, the 'Tower of Ten Thousand Laws' that had long been lost to time.
“Star”.
However, he heard his follower behind him answer in this way.
"If I remember correctly, the surname of the First Dynasty was Star. Their ancestors swore an oath to the eternal starry sky to protect all things and civilizations on the continent of Zhuyuan for generations to come."
"So the stars gave them their own names, so that they might replace the countless shining stars and forever watch over the endless night in the sky that had lost its stars."
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