Chapter 23: Steal
After watching the attendant mage step back, close the door and leave, the fiery red-haired tower guard walked to the enchantment table nearby and picked up a magic-sealing rune with flowing lightning from a box.
She hesitated again and again, but finally did not activate the communication technique inside.
The magic chanters who can be selected as tower guardians are all members of the ancient parliamentarian families in the Star Council that have been passed down for hundreds of years. And in the Star Observation Room, where mobilizing magic is as easy as breathing all year round, as long as
It’s not that your talent is too dull, you can basically train your mental strength to reach the threshold of legend during your tenure.
On this basis, as long as you do a little work in the parliament, you can get the legendary promotion quota and truly be promoted to the legendary field.
However, even with such favorable conditions, most of the talented young people from the parliamentarian families are not willing to come to the Star Lighthouse for practice. The threshold is only part of it, the key point is that this way of practice is too boring and boring, and once inside the lighthouse,
It means being completely disconnected from the world.
Being a tower keeper means that you are completely part of the operation of the laws of the stars during your term of office, and you are not allowed to bring any personal emotions or family interests into your work. Not to mention keeping in touch with your family, as a tower keeper even
You can't even use your own name, you can only call yourself the lighthouse itself.
She voluntarily came to Nakuland, known as the sewer of the empire, to serve as the tower guard of the Viper Star Lighthouse in Black Light City, just to break through the legendary realm and keep her family's shaky seat in the parliament. Now she has successfully been promoted to the legendary realm.
, the five-year period is almost up, and in the remaining more than a month, she really does not want any trouble to happen in this city again.
Especially in these troubled times.
God knows why so many things have happened recently. There is a wave of undead, the appearance of the eighth Holy Spirit, and the Moon Realm Worship Cult is active...
It's as if some huge changes are brewing in this land.
If it weren't for the constraints of her status as a tower guard, she really wanted to contact her family far away in the French Ring City and ask her what the Star Council's current attitude was towards the Blackwater Province.
I just hope that there won't be any trouble here in Black Light City, at least within this month.
Thinking of this, she spread her hands, and a shadow formed on her hands, then squirmed and transformed into a dark bat.
"Go and inform the guards guarding the 'Crazy Box' to raise the security level by two levels during this period."
The bat-familiar made of shadows flapped its wings and flew out, blending into the night outside the lighthouse.
She looked at the deep night sky outside the lighthouse and breathed a sigh of relief.
If we ignore the Moon Realm worship groups outside the fortress area, the only thing that might cause chaos in this star lighthouse is probably the crazy box that seals the Moon Realm monsters.
Take good care of the security there, and at least get through the rest of the month safely.
Apart from that, she has no higher requirements for this unfortunate place.
…………
A tavern, a tavern again.
William held up his collar and followed Crowfeather Prophet into a tavern that smelled of cooked potatoes.
Why is it that when it comes to matters related to intelligence, I can't avoid the tavern?
William looked around at the terrible environment and couldn't help complaining in his heart.
The boss at the bar was currently wiping a dirty wine glass with a dirty rag. I believe that any normal customer would give up the idea of ordering a drink here after seeing this scene.
"Two glasses of moonshine brew."
Prophet Crow Feather skillfully sat in front of the bar and said to the middle-aged man whose eyes looked a little dull.
The man struggled to turn one eye towards him, and William discovered that one of the other's eyes was a glass prosthetic eye.
"Pah, pah."
After a while, two glasses of amber liquid were placed in front of the bar.
Crowfeather Seer picked up one of the cups and drank it in one gulp. William didn't say anything, just sat next to him and played with the cup.
"Only night, nothing else..."
Crowfeather Prophet lowered his voice and said to the boss.
After confirming the secret code for the incision, the boss nodded without changing his expression.
He took out a wine coaster from under the bar and pressed it on the table, then quietly moved it to Crowfeather Prophet's hand.
"This is the garrison map outside the Star Lighthouse Fortress area, as well as the rotation information of the guards last month. This month they have been raising the security level. Our familiars do not dare to explore too deep, so try not to rely too much on the information about
Information on this."
The boss said as if talking to himself.
Then he continued:
"If we need cover, the Crows active in this area have accumulated a large number of magic explosive stones. You can detonate them on the west wall of the fortress area to attract their attention, and then you can use them from the east side.
Sneak into the shadows at the No. 4 sewer port. We have already removed a hole in the magic barrier over there. Then you can enter the vicinity of the Star Lighthouse for deeper detection..."
"Wait a moment……"
Crowfeather Prophet interrupted the other party's words, and then turned his gaze to William beside him.
"This time I am not here to take charge of the exploration mission of the Star Lighthouse like before. We plan to go directly to take out the target this time."
The tavern owner stopped, glanced at William who was dressed in dusty clothes, and then said to the Crowfeather Prophet:
"Is it just the two of you? You should still remember how many people died last time we tried to break in, right?"
The "last time" he said meant fifteen years ago.
At that time, the elite of the crows were mobilized. A legendary "beak" and three master-level "claws", together with a dozen "feathers" who instigated the riot in Black Light City, directly tried to break into the lighthouse fortress.
However, due to a serious miscalculation of the defensive level of the seal in the fortress area, the result of that operation was an extremely tragic failure.
Not only were all the elite combat forces of the year lost in the tower, but the entire Black Light City's intelligence system also suffered a devastating blow afterwards. The entire Crow Group has not fully recovered from that loss until now.
"Recently, the defense of the lighthouse fortress has been completely reduced, and the tower guard is said to be at a higher level than the one fifteen years ago. Once an alarm is given, she can blockade the entire fortress in half a minute.
magic."
The tavern owner reminded.
This does not include the consequences of breaking the seal and releasing the "manic" demon general.
The tavern owner who said this did not know William's identity.
He is not a Crow, and he has never had the experience of connecting with the Father of Crows in a dream on a rainy night.
Just when Prophet Crowfeather was about to explain to him, William said first:
"We are not going to snatch the soul fragments out, but we are going to steal them."
Crowfeather Prophet looked at the presiding judge with some doubts after hearing this.
It originally thought that this trip was a simple operation such as the judge entering the fortress area through his own power, grabbing the soul fragments from the star lighthouse in the Serpent constellation, and then evacuating.
But from what he said, it seems like he wants to sneak in and steal the soul fragments?
So he doesn't plan to banish the demon general named "Manic" and let the god-level moon-level monster wreak havoc in the city?
Or does the presiding judge want to wait for the Star Lighthouse, the Moon Realm, and possibly the Gift Sect to defeat them all first, and then reap the benefits?
Just as he was thinking about the purpose of the presiding judge's plan, the other party suddenly pointed at him and said:
Chapter completed!