Chapter 179 016: Sage
As the most powerful third-level wizard domain in the southern border at that time, the wizard domains in the southern border today are more or less related to the fantasy forest at that time, and even a large part of them were simply split from the fantasy forest at that time.
After the Tower of Truth collapsed, the wizards inside scattered or died. Some of the survivors became dark wizards of the Dark Forest, and of course some joined other wizard organizations, such as Antonio and Jeraak.
More than a thousand years ago, when the two were still apprentices, they both detected their wizard talents. Because of their excellent talents, they were both noticed by the most powerful Tower of Truth in the South Territory at that time, and were brought into the Tower of Truth for training.
In the years that followed, the two lived up to expectations, grew into outstanding wizards, and stayed together in the Tower of Truth to serve it.
However, such peaceful years were completely changed until the war several hundred years ago. After the war, the Tower of Truth and even the Fantasy Forest were destroyed.
At that time, the two were not in the Tower of Truth because they were out on a mission, so they luckily escaped the war.
It was only after the war that the two men began to have different ideas.
Seeing that the Tower of Truth was gone, Antonio had to accept the reality even though he was reluctant. He quickly put down his burdens and planned to leave the fantasy forest and find another way out.
However, Jeraak could never let go of the destruction of the Tower of Truth. After all, this was supposed to be the place where he had fought all his life, and it held too many of his spiritual thoughts, beliefs and faiths.
So he decided to stay and later established the wizard organization, the Tower of Shadows, using all means to fulfill his long-cherished wish at the time and search for the legendary truth and eternity.
At this moment, the two former friends met each other in such a scene, and their moods were indeed very different.
In response to Antonio's greeting, Jeraak sneered, "Friend?"
He looked at the chaotic battlefield below and asked: "Is there anyone who is as good as you?"
Antonio frowned and said, "You have done too many bad things, and your methods are too cruel and bloody. I can't help it. You know that I don't like war."
Jeraak sneered, "Bad things? What have I done? I just paid back to these traitors what they did to us before. Compared to what they did to us in the first place, what does this mean?"
Antonio frowned. "This happened hundreds of years ago. Why do you have to be so persistent? It's time to let it go."
Jeraak said coldly: "Shut up, you traitor!"
"Have you forgotten how our mentor taught us? If he hadn't brought us into the tower, you would have been just a beggar at the dock, dying in a gang fight or starving to death in some corner that no one cared about."
"It was the mentor! It was the mentor who pulled you out of that cesspool and cultivated you with great care, giving you the opportunity to master magic and achieve what you have today."
"Have you forgotten all this?"
Antonio said angrily, "I didn't forget!"
"But the mentor has passed away, and the world is still moving forward. We must say goodbye to the past. Can you wake up? Jeraak, don't be stuck in the past anymore. The Fantasy Sea of Trees and the Tower of Truth are all in the distant past."
Jeraak sneered: "Oh, is this the reason why you are colluding with those traitors? Each of them has the blood of the mentor on their hands, don't you know?"
Antonio sighed: "But order needs someone to maintain it."
"Look at what you are doing now. You have completely deviated from the original intention of magic. Those apprentices are innocent, but you wantonly subjected them to various cruel experiments. This mentor did not teach us this."
Jeraak said disdainfully: "I have never deviated from my mentor's original intention. On the contrary, I am only fulfilling my mentor's long-cherished wish and the goal that all wizards pursue throughout their lives, to find truth and eternity."
"The mentor once said that in the search for truth and eternity, necessary sacrifices must be made, and history will remember all the apprentices who have contributed to it."
Antonio shook his head: "You're crazy!"
Jeraak raised his hands, and a long curved wooden staff appeared in his hands. He held the staff with both hands and shouted coldly: "I have never been so clear-headed. There is no point in saying more. Let God decide who is right between the two of us!"
At this point, there was really no point in continuing the debate, so Antonio took out his magic wand.
The two sides stood facing each other, and their mental power began to flow towards each other.
At the sage level, the use of magic has gone beyond the simple arrangement and combination of runes, and has already involved a series of magical rules such as the nature of magic and the operation of elements.
At this time, every word, expression, and even thought of the sage himself is magic.
“Crackle!”
The spiritual power of both sides quickly transformed into various forms of spells in the air. Lightning, ice, fire, and various elemental forms intertwined in the air. For a moment, the whole sky was filled with violent roars.
Large amounts of energy overflowed during the fight, and the power generated by just this aftermath was extremely astonishing.
Several apprentices who were fighting were accidentally swept by a bolt of lightning. They didn't even have a chance to react. They disappeared from the spot and turned into powder in an instant.
A wizard was hit by a beam of falling fire. It looked like just a tiny flame the size of a thumb, but it instantly penetrated the defensive magic that the wizard had just put up, burning the wizard into a fireball.
The powerful wizard didn't even have the chance to resist and was burned to charcoal alive amidst hysterical screams.
"Is this a sage-level battle?"
Luo Xi, who had just arrived here, was standing on a hillside in the distance. The scene in front of him really shocked him.
Although he had always known that the sage was very powerful, actually seeing this kind of energy collision was still far beyond his expectations. It was really hard to believe that this could be controlled by humans.
"Do you really want to go..."
Suddenly he wanted to back out. After all, the scene was too scary. If he was even slightly touched, he would turn into ashes. He didn't feel that he was much stronger than the wizard who had just died.
After hesitating for a long time, he still couldn't let go of the knowledge in the Shadow Tower. After all, these were the stocks that the Shadow Tower had accumulated for who knows how many years.
Now is his only chance to get in touch with this knowledge. Otherwise, after this place is completely occupied by the Alliance, all the things inside will be packed up and shipped to the Alliance. At that time, it will not be easy for him, a small wizard, to get in touch with it.
"Be careful, be careful."
Silently admonishing himself, he took a deep breath and walked cautiously towards the tower ahead. (End of this chapter)
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