Lucy lowered her head slightly, feeling Kist's breath blowing against the hair strands on her forehead, as if the peaceful lakeside in her heart had been stirred into ripples.
Kist looked at Lucy, who was so close yet motionless, the corners of his mouth slowly curving into an arc.
Just as he was about to say sothing more, Lucy suddenly raised her hand and struck his chest with her palm.
Kist imdiately lost his balance and staggered back two steps.
"Hmph! You can barely stand steady now, yet you want to kill soone? You'd be more likely to get yourself killed."
Lucy hadn't used magical power just now, only a bit more force.
Kist rubbed his chest, but his smile beca even more obvious.
Lucy no longer wanted to look at his smiling face and turned to walk toward Old Days Manor.
But Kist called out loudly behind her, "I'm not joking, you know. Anyway, if such a precious opportunity were placed before , I would definitely fight for it with all my might."
Lucy didn't turn back or speak, her figure disappearing into the manor.
Kist's smile gradually faded, but the light in his eyes beca even more brilliant.
"Gold..."
He murmured softly.
...
A magic formation capable of sealing Storm Eyes was destined not to be magical research that could be easily completed.
While the three candidates—Saul and the others—imrsed themselves in research, other high-rank wizards in this world were also not idle.
The Glare Family was located in a World Side attached to the edge of the wizard world.
Originally there had been several such World Sides, but after the Abyssal Eye appeared, wizard inheritance was almost severed, and many World Sides lost contact due to tremors in the main world.
The Glare Family's World Side had survived until now largely because they once had fifth-rank wizard ancestors, and fourth-rank wizard inheritance that had never been broken from the Dark Moon Era to the Lunar Calendar Era.
Although the current Glare Family patriarch held the position of elder in the Stargate Council, he almost never left the Glare Family's World Side.
This was to maintain the connection between the World Side and the main world.
However, today Glare Family head Norton left the World Side.
Because a fellow fourth-rank wizard had personally invited him to et.
This wizard was the Tribunal Chief, the fourth-rank wizard Frim, known as "where there is light, there he is."
The place the two wizards chose to et was also very special.
Right at the Sighing Wall in the Far North of Stat Continent.
For fourth-rank wizards, spatial distance was no longer a constraint.
Crossing continents took only a few minutes.
So when Norton appeared at the highest point of the Sighing Wall, the surrounding candle flas flickered a few tis, and Frim's figure appeared above.
Unlike Norton's infant appearance, Frim was not in human form but was a ball of light.
After this ball of light appeared, the surrounding candle lamps dimd several degrees out of thin air.
The infant-form Norton sat directly on the wall, looking down at the endless waves below and the black wall that seed like it would never collapse, his little feet dangling as if he were truly a carefree child.
The light above his head simply hung there quietly, as if just to illuminate him.
They hadn't begun talking yet.
Because they were also waiting for soone.
"It's truly rare to see you two co out at the sa ti. Don't tell the Tribunal and Stargate Council are about to formally go to war?"
A white-haired, white-bearded old man whose beard reached his knees slowly walked up the stairs behind the city wall, leaning on a black skull staff.
Although this old wizard had completely white hair and beard, his skin was ruddy and he didn't have many wrinkles, looking only about fifty.
But he was the oldest person among the wizards present.
"Lord Murphy."
Even Norton and Frim, who were fellow fourth-rank wizards at the world's top level, were respectful and polite when facing Murphy.
If it weren't for this Wizard Murphy in front of them condensing all his knowledge and power into the Sighing Wall beneath their feet, Stat Continent would probably have been swallowed by the Abyssal Eye long ago.
So even though both were hegemon-like figures, they still wouldn't be impolite before Wizard Murphy.
Frim had set the eting place here also certain that Norton wouldn't dare play tricks in this location.
Facing a dying fourth-rank whose body and soul had begun showing problems, Frim absolutely wouldn't allow himself to be taken down in a mutual destruction.
"Sorry to disturb Lord Murphy. I'd like to borrow your place to discuss so matters with Norton." The light orb made a deep voice in mid-air.
Murphy nodded indifferently and didn't approach the two, standing a hundred ters away.
Although this distance wasn't really distance for them.
After greetings, light orb Frim discussed the real purpose of this invitation with the Glare Family head.
"Norton, your family's Gorsa hasn't been very well-behaved lately."
Child-like Norton spread his hands, "How so? I've already had him resist the Black Tide at the Sighing Wall, and his recent battle record has been quite good."
Norton turned his upper body to ask Murphy, "Right? Lord Murphy?"
Murphy chuckled like a real elder and picked his ear with his pinky finger.
"He's a good lad. I even t him on the first day he climbed the Sighing Wall."
But Frim completely ignored these evasive words.
"He conducted revival experints in Stat, and they were low-rank wizard revival experints explicitly forbidden by the Tribunal. As the family head, you wouldn't be unaware of this, would you?"
Norton said indifferently: "Children grow up and beco disobedient."
"If you think you can't discipline Gorsa, I can do it for you."
Norton looked up at the light orb above his head, his face still composed, "That won't be necessary."
"Then please Lord Norton keep an eye on your child. If I discover him landing on Nephret Continent again to conduct those rebellious experints, I will personally issue a purge order against him!"
Norton's eyes narrowed slightly, but he still had a smile on his face.
"Fine, then I'll personally experience the Tribunal Chief's purge order."
Before he finished speaking, a layer of soft white light appeared around Norton's body, not as dazzling as the golden light around Frim.
But when the two types of light made contact, all the seawater below the Sighing Wall ca to a standstill.
The world seed to enter a static state.
But it wasn't truly ti stopping, but rather a power equilibrium phenonon caused by two powerful forces simultaneously mobilizing nearby magical elents.
At this ti, Wizard Murphy beside them suddenly raised the skull staff in his hand and tapped it on the ground.
The world that had seed frozen began moving again.
"I say, you two shouldn't fight on the Sighing Wall." Wizard Murphy said helplessly.
He had known before coming that these two fourth-rank wizards would definitely fight, and also knew they would definitely wait for him to break it up.
Sure enough, when the world resud operation, Norton and Frim both restrained their power.
Norton spoke first, "My family's junior doesn't need the Chief's concern. If the Chief really wants to help educate my junior, don't bla for being protective."
Frim's light began to dim, "It's useless for you to stop . What he's doing—even if the Tribunal doesn't interfere, there will definitely be consequences to resolve this troublemaker."
As the last word was spoken, the golden light orb instantly disappeared, and the surrounding dim firelight beca bright again.
After Frim left, Norton nodded to Wizard Murphy beside him, and his figure also disappeared.
After both troublemakers had left, Wizard Murphy stood on the empty city wall gazing at the distant sea.
"Frim personally ca to test Norton. Could Norton really not hold on?"
Seawater crashed against the city wall with rushing sounds.
The Sighing Wall stood in the Far North day after day, year after year, like a giant who would never fall.
But now, the giant's creator sighed softly on the city wall.
"Is this world... truly still salvageable?"
(End of Chapter)
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