While falling, Baron's mind went blank for an instant.
But his reactions were quick. At the last mont, he suddenly grabbed the edge of the circular platform, preventing himself from actually falling.
The Purity Wizard Tower was five stories high, but each floor was four to five ters tall. Falling from this height would severely injure even a second-rank wizard's body.
Marsh saw the fingers at the edge of the circular platform and pulled out the pickaxe from his chest, wanting to cut off the opponent's fingers.
However, this ti he was careless.
Baron, who he thought had lost all resistance after losing magical power, used his powerful physical capabilities to pull his entire body up with just a few fingers.
As soon as he looked up, he saw the man who had just attacked him with a crossbow about to step forward and stomp on his fingers.
Baron used force to flip himself up, jumped directly onto the circular platform, and swung a vicious punch at Marsh.
Marsh was shocked and regretful.
Saul had clearly told him to flee imdiately after shooting the crossbow bolt.
But seeing the enemy actually cling to the wizard tower's platform edge without falling, he beca anxious and only wanted to kick the person's hand off, never expecting that person could jump up from the brink of falling using just a few fingers.
Now it was sowhat late for Marsh to try to escape.
Baron's punch connected directly with Marsh's chest.
The latter flew far like a kite with its string cut, nearly falling off the opposite side of the platform.
Baron was about to step forward and finish off this ordinary person who didn't know his limits, but his gaze was attracted by sothing else and could no longer look away.
He saw a huge cubic box in the center of the wizard tower's circular platform. A headless corpse was embedded in the side of the box.
"A wizard's corpse, the largest box—could that be the magic reservoir?" Baron excitedly pulled out the short arrow from his chest and almost ran toward the magic reservoir.
During his run, he was delighted to discover his sealed magical power could be used again.
So halfway there, he turned to electrocute the ordinary person who had shot him with an arrow into charcoal.
However, as soon as magical power began flowing, he imdiately noticed sothing wrong.
Inside his body, pollution accumulated from years of living in the Borderland was stirring restlessly!
Only then did Baron realize that the arrow the man had shot into him wasn't just to simply seal magical power.
It also contained poison that could agitate the pollution in his body.
"Despicable!"
Fearing a pollution outbreak, Baron quickly stopped his murderous thoughts and first walked to the suspected magic reservoir structure for a simple inspection.
"Should be correct." After finishing his inspection, he imdiately took out a cylinder from his chest and held it high toward the sky.
Then a red fireball shot out from the cylinder, flew to extre height, and exploded violently.
After doing this, Baron turned to look at Marsh.
Now he would personally kill the opponent and pound his entire body into minceat!
However, when Baron turned around, he found the ordinary person had already jumped off the circular platform himself.
Baron quickly stepped forward and looked down, discovering the person had fallen into a patch of mushrooms. He wasn't dead, and using the mushrooms as cover, he was actually starting to burrow into the ground!
But before Baron could take further action, a clear bird cry suddenly ca from the distance.
Baron quickly turned to greet it. After a mont, he saw a legless pale yellow giant bird approaching at extre speed from far to near, cutting through the sky.
The giant bird approached with fierce winds.
When passing over Rhine Lake, the giant bird's movents beca sowhat sluggish, but since it relied on wings for flight, it naturally wouldn't crash due to magic prohibition.
A person stood on the giant bird. Though her appearance couldn't be seen clearly, one could still tell she was a beautiful woman.
At this ti, the Old Witch had just prepared to return for support. Seeing the giant bird overhead, her expression suddenly changed dramatically.
For a mont, she was extrely conflicted, not knowing whether to flee directly or rush back to provide support.
"Wind Sprite has already co personally, and that brat Saul is still hiding in the wizard tower without showing his face... I've already dealt with one second-rank—that's enough." The severed finger behind the Old Witch's head was jumping frantically, as if saying if they didn't run now, they wouldn't be able to!
After hesitating briefly, the Old Witch still turned toward the mushroom forest.
But she didn't imdiately flee far away. Instead, she hid in the mushroom forest, sealed her magical power fluctuations, and prepared to act when the opportunity arose.
"I'm not trying to help him," she muttered quietly. "He hasn't completely removed all the pollution from my body yet! If he really dies, who will I turn to?"
When the pale yellow giant bird was about to fly over Rhine Lake, two windows suddenly appeared in the originally sealed wizard tower.
Two crossbow bolts thicker than adult arms erged from the windows. The arrow shafts were inscribed with dozens of micro magical arrays, all designed to improve the bolts' accuracy and range.
The arrowheads were also painted black, hiding the trump card Saul had created in collaboration with Camus.
"Whoosh—"
"Whoosh—"
Two giant arrows fired in succession, blocking the giant bird's evasion directions.
But when they approached the giant bird with terrifying montum, four thread-like limbs like whiskers suddenly extended from the giant bird's thick feathers.
Those seemingly weak long whiskers accurately caught the two giant crossbow bolts like springs, then truly like springs, converted kinetic energy to potential energy. After being compressed almost to the limit, they violently bounced the bolts back.
"Clang!"
"Clang!"
The giant arrows' tails struck the wizard tower walls, directly creating two cracks in the white walls.
Agu and the others hiding inside all felt the wizard tower's tremor.
Herman was sowhat panicked—this was his first ti facing a third-rank wizard with direct malicious intent.
"What do we do? Master is still over there and hasn't returned. He'll be back at the earliest in a day, and if Master encounters sothing that interests him, he might stay several days."
But Agu said, "It's good that Master went there. The visitor must be Wind Sprite Pei'er. After learning Master can cleanse pollution, she sent people to test several tis. Her purpose in coming this ti is very likely to kidnap Master. Him not being here is fortunate."
Herman still looked worried. "But will she wait here until Master returns?"
At this ti, Steward Hope was stroking an eyeball in his hand and gently shook his head. "She didn't appear on the battlefield initially. But later suddenly descended when the outside attackers failed. I believe she can't possibly spend too much ti at the Purity Wizard Tower.
First, she's always been in an antagonistic relationship with the other two third-rank wizards. Once she leaves her base too long, her ho base might be attacked. Second, the matter of Master having a powerful third-rank wizard as backing spread together with his healer identity. She also fears we can call for long-distance aid and catch her red-handed.
After all, forr Tower Master Gorsa cos from the Glare Family, and the Glare Family patriarch is one of the joint chairs of the Stargate Council. So Wind Sprite doesn't dare openly harm the Master."
Hearing this, Ann slapped the table, but she forgot she wasn't wearing a vessel body now. With one wave, her palm passed directly through the table surface.
"Since she probably understands the forces behind Master but still ca to attack, she's clearly determined! I hope Master stays there a while longer—if he cos back, he might really be kidnapped!"
At this ti, the wizard tower shook violently again, as if the people outside were conducting fierce attacks on the sealed tower body.
"Hiss—the wizard tower won't collapse, will it?" Herman shrank his neck.
Hope gripped the eyeball. "Wind Sprite hasn't acted yet. It's that giant bird and the second-rank wizard on the platform who are attacking."
He observed through the eye for a while longer. Suddenly, the eyeball in his hand exploded.
Hope showed no expression as he shook the fluid from his palm and took another eyeball from the wall.
"Hmm... Wind Sprite still hasn't acted... wait, what are they doing?" The Hope’s expression changed.
"What's wrong?" The others asked in unison.
"She, they're actually moving Tower Master's magic reservoir?"
The always elegant steward was so angry his face turned pale and his fingers trembled. "A third-rank wizard actually stealing from a first-rank wizard? This is truly, truly bandit behavior!"
Ann jumped high. "Shaless!"
(End of Chapter)
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