What did you do with the dice?

The invisible Sani Tower quickly passed by them and found the platform to go upstairs. After inputting magic power, it let the platform carry itself, slowly rising up and passing through the opened ceiling to the second floor.

The guards around saw the empty lift platform and were immediately confused. They asked their companions, "Is this thing malfunctioning? How can it rise on its own without anyone inputting magic power?"

"Who knows? Maybe the fighting outside was so intense that the magic circuit was accidentally connected."

Sani Tower: (Before the alarm goes off, I'll quickly head to the top of the tower to find the tower master's control room. Phoenix will probably attack the magic turret from the outer wall. You go to the bottom of the tower to find the magic supply room where the core is.)

Rusalka's movements were faster than Sanitta's words. In the blink of an eye, she attacked with both hands and crushed the necks of the two guards at the door who had just pulled out daggers from their pockets.

Ever since she discovered that crushing the neck seemed to have an instant kill effect, Rusalka now basically likes this move when she's fighting against weak opponents in close combat. It's quick, decisive, quiet, and stable to trigger, which can prevent the opponent from exploding with low health.

Rusalka didn't like the tedious task of finding rooms, especially the Mage Tower, which was placed in the game. It sounded like a huge maze with many useless hidden monster rooms. It was a waste of time to go around in circles.

But games are games, reality is reality, and of course there are ways to speed through reality.

Seeing the last apprentice who was lucky enough to stand on the other side collapse on the ground with weak legs, Rusalka took two steps forward and drew her sword to press against the shoulder of the opponent who had quietly lost control of his bladder. However, the weight of the giant sword was too heavy, and it completely crushed the opponent's originally bent waist, and the whole person collapsed on the ground and trembled.

"Tell me! Where is the demon room?"

If he didn't tell her, Rusalka would give him a "realm of honesty" in the physical sense - breaking his bones before asking again.

"It's on the second underground floor. You have to take the magic ladder down. The underground floor is full of guards. The tower master is on the top floor, and the deputy tower master is in the magic cannon control room on the third floor. To the left is the magic crystal warehouse. Please let me go. I'm just a mage apprentice, here to move things."

Rusalka put away her sword. "Alright, I like people like you who are quick and decisive. Everyone's busy, so it's better for both of us if we don't waste time. Let's go. Oh, by the way, which way is the basement?"

"Go to the end here, there's a magic ladder. Input magic power to activate the platform to descend."

Rusalka was silent for a while, then picked him up from the ground with one hand, scaring him so much that his face turned pale and his body shook like a sieve.

"Ahhh! I'm not lying, I'm really telling the truth. Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

"I told you I won't kill you. I just want to borrow your magic power. You should be happy and say 'Sir, this way', because from today on, you will become the most senior wizard in the tower!"

After saying that, Rusalka dragged the unlucky guy to the up-and-down teleportation platform. Just when they reached the edge, the ground happened to separate and a man was teleported up from below. The man was stunned when he saw Rusalka holding the mage apprentice. Before he could react, Rusalka used a sword followed by the Holy Slash to directly chopped off the magic shield protecting his body.

"la......"

The opponent was about to chant, but Rusalka would not give him the chance to finish even a syllable. Within these three steps, she used close combat quickly and accurately. She raised her shield and pushed the bean sprout against the wall. The huge force even made the latter's chest bones crack. Then, the moment she released her shield, she chopped off his head with a sword, sending the wizard to a perfect end.

After doing all this, Rusalka pulled up the mage apprentice on the ground, pointed to the platform that looked like it was unlocked by swiping a fingerprint, but was actually an elevator button for inputting magic power, and made a "please" gesture to him.

The latter kept vomiting. The scene of Rusalka drawing the sword and killing people was too brutal and bloody for him. After all, it was a far cry from the elegance of the throat-crushing or Phoenix's throat-slitting, corroded by black mist, without a drop of blood. Because Rusalka saved the Holy Slash, the blood and filth splattered everywhere, instead of being roasted into charcoal by the holy light.

That's a precious ring space! It's such a waste to use it to clean up the crime scene!

When the time comes, just hire two cleaners to sweep the place. Use your salary to exchange for the effect of the ring, and you can be happy!

By the way, the thunder dragon that Rusalka hunted has now been added to the lord's trophy vault. Of course, no one dared to steal the dragon meat. After all, it was hunted by Rusalka. Who would dare to touch the trophy of the Lord of Pearl Tears? And the barbecue that Rusalka mentioned to Phoenix just before entering the door was referring to the hope that Phoenix would take the time to cook it for him.

"Hurry up!"

The apprentice retched as he placed his hands on the platform and inputted magic power, causing the ground to crack again and lower the platform.

As soon as Rusalka passed through the floor, before landing from the air, she couldn't wait to take the apprentice with her and jumped to the ground. There was a loud noise, which attracted the attention of everyone present, including the surrounding guards.

However, he didn't look like a good guy. He was covered in blood, holding a huge black sword in one hand, and in the other hand, which had a shield on his arm, he was holding a man dressed as a wizard with gastric juice on the corner of his mouth. He looked like he was breathing more than breathing and was dying. He looked like an invader no matter how you looked at him.

"Who are you!"

"Don't move a muscle! I have a hostage! If you don't want me to hurt him, then raise your hands and lay down your weapons! Take me to the second basement level and get me a bulletproof money truck filled with gold coins. Do you understand?"

Rusalka shouted, though they didn't quite understand the latter part. "Why the hell are you coming to the Mage Tower to steal gold? At least show some respect for the environment, even if it's just for some spell materials."

But the man's roar, which resounded underground, sounded like the posture of a confident and fierce bandit, and shocked the soldiers who surrounded him. They subconsciously felt a tightness in their hearts and quickly took a step back, fearing that they would be forced into a corner and kill him.

Everyone looked closely, their chests pounding like drums. The hostage in front of them was actually... was...

Who are these?

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"Tower Master, this is bad! Someone has invaded the tower and is now at the magic cannon position! It's a black Filin!"

Then there was the sound of weapons hitting the ground, the sound of magic shooting out, the sound of ice breaking, the sound of whistling wind, and the sound of barriers breaking.

"Ugh!"

"She's so fast! Shadow, there's something in your shadow!"

"No, don't come here!"

As screams and wails for mercy rang out one after another, the originally complex sounds began to become increasingly sparse, and finally, the other end of the sound transmission array fell into dead silence.

The enemy was so fast? In just a few minutes, even the magic cannon control room on the third floor fell?

The tower master immediately activated the rune of the guard room on the third floor: "Is there any guard still alive on the third floor?"

"Ah? Tower Master, we are all fine. Are there any intruders?"

"The magic cannon control room has been invaded by foreign enemies. Are you blind?"

"Huh? But there's no suspicious person entering the third floor's entrance staircase. Hey, everyone, grab your weapons immediately and call everyone to the magic artillery room! There's an intruder!"

Hearing the alarm finally sounded in the tower, the tower master also activated the alarm runes on other floors. However, this communication made him very surprised. After all, there was only one entrance and exit between the upper and lower floors of the magic tower, which was a magic ladder. If they didn't take this route, it would mean that the other party had climbed over the hole in the outer wall between the magic cannon and the outside world.

But that was even stranger. Grease spells and gravity arrays were set up on the outer wall. Not even birds could fly above the second floor. Even if someone could climb up the outer wall like a gecko, which was so slippery that it was impossible to get close to it, there were still many catapult rune traps waiting for him.

He took a look at the activation of the magic runes on the outer wall and found that everything was normal. So according to this situation, the other party had avoided all the arrangements and climbed over?

But the shooting angle gap left by the muzzle is only one meter in radius. Can it be drilled?

The answer is actually quite simple. Why climb the wall? Phoenix simply let the shadow tentacles "throw" her over. When she encountered the third-layer gravity array, she used the power of shadow to transform into a hook to grab the muzzle of the magic cannon and then pull her body over.

As for the size of the hole, it is not a problem at all for the Filin people's bodies, which are as soft as liquid. Even for Phoenix, a one-meter-wide hole is as spacious as Dio's sidewalk.

But this group of people were destined to come up empty-handed, and could only face the magic gun room full of corpses but no sign of Phoenix, because after she killed these people, she immediately let the tentacles send herself out of the window, and then spread upwards little by little to the fourth floor, made a circle, found the entrance to the magic gun room on the fifth floor, and then pulled it closer with a hook and drilled in again.

Even when leaving, Phoenix rolled up a few corpses with the black mist tentacles and stuffed them into the muzzle of the magic cannon. Now, even if someone else comes in, unless someone dares to climb along the cannon body to the muzzle outside the wall to clean up the corpses, there is no way to fire again.

"Hurry, hurry, the tower master said the enemy is going to attack the magic cannon control room, quickly go to the fifth floor to provide support!"

A group of guards hurriedly pressed the up button and went upstairs.

"I think I stepped on something on the edge of the magic ladder just now?"

"It's an illusion, let's go quickly, the next group of people are waiting to come up!"

Well, Sanita patted his head. Just when he was grabbing the edge of the magic ladder, he lost a drop of blood because he was stepped on.

Although this was indeed an unexpected loss of health, fortunately he was not particularly unlucky. This insignificant injury allowed him to pass his physical immunity normally, so his dual spell concentration of [Shrinkage] and [Advanced Invisibility] was not interrupted.

I have to say, the ability to shield pain and injuries when the health is low is very useful at times like this. Even if he was stepped on, he didn't feel anything. He hid in the gaps under the feet of these guards all the way, and flew to the fifth floor with them, and then lifted the effect of [Shrinkage].

Double focus is so unreasonable. Being able to become invisible is bad enough, and it can also reduce the invisibility. No one would guess that there is an invisible little man under their feet.

If Rusalka knew about this, she would definitely think that the soldier could brag about this for the rest of his life.

Although it sounds incredible, in fact, he is the only creature besides the dragon Garces who has hurt the Archmage Sanita since the beginning of the Kalbes War.

Looking back at the time when the two of them traveled through time until now, the number of creatures that could truly hurt the invincible Grand Wizard Sanita could be counted on one hand, and each of them was legendary.

You said two elves hurt his brain cells? Why? Just ask if you are the only elf who can use fire magic. Isn't this legendary?

Chapter 271: Fierce Battle Outside the Kingdom's Capital Castle (11)

Alice's wizard tower has a total of 9 floors.

Intuitively, people always feel that the taller the tower is, the more functions it has and the stronger it is.

This is a typical case of putting cause and effect before the effect. In fact, the Mage Tower is counterintuitive. It is precisely because of the continuous development of Alice City and the fact that there has been peace for too long and there is too much money with nowhere to use it, that construction funds are continuously invested in places like the Mage Tower, so the towers are built higher and higher. It just so happens that the mage is also a money-burning research position, and constantly adding new functions and reporting them can also make it easier to defraud funds.

Of course, how can this research on humans be called cheating? It's called the experimental environment requirements, high standards and strict requirements. The magician's mood is also a crucial factor in the success of the magic. The Japanese girls next door rely on cheap parfaits to boost their mood, which is why their entire band has so many problems. Our wizards rely on gold coins and magic props to boost their mood. You get what you pay for. As long as you're willing to pay, you can have fun with anything.

So the tower was built taller day by day, and finally from the initial design of six floors with rooms and a rooftop turret on the top floor, it became a nine-story building filled with rooms. By the way, the turrets were also distributed in pairs on the five levels of 3578 and the rooftop. Later, the rotation function was added.

A tall tower has its advantages, such as multifunctional rooms, where materials can be stored in various places for easy transportation, and the tower can have more permanent staff for wizards to dispatch.

Of course, there are disadvantages as well. For example, the expansion of the magic power supply circuit is equivalent to increasing the burden on the load side. Even the Earth knows that one socket cannot be fully plugged with high-power electrical appliances, otherwise it will cause a circuit breaker at best and an explosion at worst. This is why the Sunny Tower asked Rusalka to go to the bottom floor.

The 21st century has taught Sunita many common principles of science and magic, such as how to prevent viruses from attacking computers as quickly as possible?

The answer is to unplug the power cord.

The same goes for the Mage Tower. It's too inefficient for you to kill people one by one like Phoenix did. Just let Rusalka sacrifice herself to pull out the energy source. The number of endless magic cores dug out like this is very rare. He doesn't believe that there are two of these things in a tower. Even if there are, if Rusalka pulls out one, your other magic circles will not be powered enough and will be paralyzed. After all, magic is not a light bulb. If you don't charge it enough, it will not appear to be not bright enough, it will only cause it to not light up at all.

But why did you choose Rusalka to go instead of yourself who is more proficient in magic or Phoenix who is better at quick and covert movements?

The answer was also given on Earth in the 21st century - what is this? High-voltage cable? Dig deeper.

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At this moment, Rusalka had not yet realized that he was carrying out a great act of sacrificing himself to blow up the Mage Tower, otherwise he would have recited a poem and started with the line "The wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold."

Of course, he is still on the underground floor, confronting a group of guards who are communicating with each other to confirm the identity of the "hostage" in his hands.

"Do you know the man he has in his hand?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen it. Have you?"

"I've never seen him before. Judging from his attire, he looks like a wizard's apprentice. Could he be the offspring of some lord?"

"I've never heard of anyone bringing their own children to the Mage Tower during war. Aren't they usually sent away?"

"So this is actually just a mage apprentice?"

"Damn it! How dare he lie to us? Kill him!"

After the guards realized that they had been tricked, they immediately rushed towards Rusalka. However, even faster than their pace was a blue freezing ray and a green wind-attribute spell hammer that smashed down on Rusalka's head.

The poor wizard apprentice was hit by these two spells, frozen and smashed into ice fragments.

"Wow, Russian-style rescue, capturing the hostages first, right? I'll put you, the executioners, on the internet and criticize you harshly when I get back!"

Rusalka disappeared at the moment the spell appeared, surprising the guards who had finally surrounded him.

But the screams and the smell of burning holy fire quickly attracted their attention. Looking in the direction of the sound, Rusalka had teleported behind a spellcasting wizard without them noticing. At this moment, she was kicking the opponent's charred body and pulling out the giant sword.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you seen an assassin who kills a mage first? I am Hydra's half-brother, the ace assassin Phoenix."

Sanita: (What do you mean, you're tired of playing Paladin and want to play Phoenix? You're not a Filin, so you can't act like one.)

Rusalka: (Note: I said Phoenix, without the female radical. Couldn't a clever wizard with an intelligence of 19 hear that?)

The ability to teleport may not be surprising to this group of people, but the problem is, no one knows how Rusalka managed to teleport into the nearby wizard tower where the entire space was blocked?

They would never have thought that Rusalka's [Tear Time +] could ignore the space blockade effect and be regarded as an ordinary movement. After all, the skill effect does not follow the rules of this world at all. This is as terrible as the appearance of the periodic table of chemical elements in the magical world.

In this way, the space blockade not only has no effect on Rusalka, but also limits the mage's flexibility.

"Protect the Master Mage first!"

The guards now came to their senses and no longer dared to attack Rusalka all at once. Instead, they sent a group of people to stay by the wizard's side to protect him.

The conventional battlefield style of play centered around mages was once criticized by the Sani Tower, because the premise of this thing is that the guard level cannot be crushed. Otherwise, the melee combatants who lose their subjective initiative and have weaknesses and dare not retreat freely to expand the battlefield will become bulky spellcasting units, and their shortcomings will immediately become apparent.

"When Pearly Tears opens her eyes today, she will see blood!"

He used his shield to block a fiercely chopped naginata, paid 20 days of his life to absorb the flashing lightning, and swung the black sword in his backhand to break the naginata's long handle.

The strength of the extremely precious weapons can be seen from this. They are not at all ordinary weapons that can be used to cheat after being enchanted.

Rusalka relied on her 20 strength advantage to turn the downward sword force upwards, breaking the opponent's protective air shield with one move, and then kicked the opponent in the abdomen with the spur of her boot, followed by the Three Rings of Holy Slash, directly turning the opponent into a ball of golden fire.

Don't panic if you get stabbed in the head. Use the whirlwind slash on the spot. When you hit someone, activate the Holy Slash and seriously injure another person.

Human immobilization spell + slow spell, all are blocked, all are exempted, tear time is activated, and whirlwind slash is made immediately after landing. It was you who cast a spell on me secretly just now!

Ding! The guard beside him raised his heavy shield in time to block Rusalka's sword. Taking advantage of this gap, the mage prepared his spell. A whirlwind formed a wind wall around Rusalka, directly deflecting the guard and enveloping Rusalka alone.

Wall magic is still a noble non-directional spell, and it does not restrict Rusalka. As a result, [Eel Transformer] cannot be activated, and Phantom Step cannot be used here. This is a bit tricky. I can only try to chop it hard to see if I can regard the wind wall as a "wall" to activate the Holy Slash.

Just as Rusalka was about to swing her sword, she heard the mage's wild laughter: "Be crushed to pieces by the storm, you fool who overestimates your own abilities!"

As it spoke, the wind wall actually shrank towards Rusalka inside. This thing was really good at switching from defense to offense, causing Rusalka to suffer [squeezing damage] and [wind damage] at the same time, and even put her in a [bound] state.

I'm speechless. I don't really understand your mage's combo. In the first stage, the wind wall sends people to jail, and in the second stage, it directly transforms into dual-type damage + forced control effect. It's really over the top. Do those war dogs next to you have such cheating skills?

As a melee fighter, I have no way to fight against it. I have no choice but to use [Eel Transformer] first.

His health bar dropped and his body was instantly "stuck" outside the wind wall, and now the problem was solved.

“Well fought!”

"How is that possible? You got out without destroying the magical structure!"

"I don't know. I'm gifted."