"It was a torch-like tower. Many people came up to the deck to see it, including Mei Tiantian, Roger, and Evelyn. I remembered that you were all in the cabin, so I came down to look for you. When I passed by these people, I felt the surroundings suddenly light up, and then I fell into that illusion." Huang Zheng wiped the sweat from his face and said, "I didn't even notice the change, I was already immersed in the memories of the past. Maybe the people on the deck will know what happened."
"Let's go up and take a look." Xiao Chen said.
The group walked up the stairs to the deck and found the scene in front of them was strange. The deck was silent, and everyone stood there with their eyes closed, including the Saint Mei Tiantian, and all of them were facing the same direction. Xiao Chen looked in that direction and saw a tall tower standing on an island close to the sea level. There was a huge fiery red crystal on the top of the tower. No wonder Huang Zheng said it looked like a big torch. When he saw the tower, Xiao Chen clearly felt that the magic power around him came from the torch.
"It seems that this is undoubtedly the Soul Forging Tower. It looks exactly the same as described in the written records." Xiao Chen said.
"It's just that the power of the magic just now was too great. Even Mei Tiantian was hit. It doesn't look like the automatic defense of a magic tower at all." Luo Ling said.
"I'm afraid they think we are invaders. As for whether there is someone controlling this magic behind the scenes, it's hard to say." Xiao Chen came to Umeda Tian and found that Umeda Tian's expression was even more painful than Huang Zheng's just now. She gritted her teeth tightly, her brows were completely squeezed together, her fists were clenched, and her breathing was very rapid. I'm afraid what she experienced was not a good dream.
"Let's try to wake up Mei Tiantian first. Her condition seems to be very unusual." Luo Ling said.
Xiao Chen tried to put his hand on Mei Tiantian's forehead and cast a spell, but after only a few seconds, his hand bounced back as if he had been electrocuted.
"Meitian Tian's mental defense is difficult to penetrate. I only had a trace of mental power to get through and take a look, and it was completely torn apart. All I observed were some fragmentary fragments. However, I can roughly tell that she is fighting the God of Nature. But her mental power is too strong, and it is difficult for me to intervene like I helped Huang Zheng." Xiao Chen said.
"How could a strong person like her fall into a dream and be unable to extricate herself?" Huang Zheng asked puzzled.
"Although Mei Tiantian absorbed the soul fragments of another world, she is still a child in her teens in this world. No matter how high her realm is, her heart is also fragile. In the illusion fragments I just saw, the battle scenes were terrifying, as if the world was in the hands of the God of Nature and was being manipulated at will. Although I only took a glance, I still felt a sense of being absent-minded. I guess she might have been shocked by the illusion of fighting with the God of Nature and didn't have the opportunity to calm down and analyze her situation."
Luo Ling said: "Let me try it with the Soul Bridge."
She stretched out a finger and placed it between Mei Tiantian's eyebrows, but soon her finger began to tremble. After more than ten seconds, she shook her head and gave up, saying, "No, her spiritual world is too unstable. I can't establish a connection."
"We have to start solving this problem from the Soul Forging Tower." Xiao Chen said, "Drive the boat over there first."
Since there was almost no wind in this area, the sails of the Houyi were furled. For some reason, the magic crystal power was not started, and the entire ship was drifting slowly with the ocean current.
Xiao Chen was unable to steer the sailboat with just these people, so they deployed more spirit servants. Although these people were not professional sailors, they could still provide some power to get the boat closer to the island.
The ship slowly moved forward. Xiao Chen and Luo Ling tried to wake up more crew members on and off the ship. Generally speaking, only those who have reached the level of high-level magicians and great magicians can be awakened by them, and then break through the limitations of the illusion with their own strength. Therefore, after working for a long time, they only woke up seven or eight people, most of whom were senior crew members on the ship and magic masters in the marines. With the help of these people, at least the ship became more stable.
The ship was getting closer and closer to the island. Xiao Chen asked everyone on board to be on alert to guard against a possible second attack, but the attack he expected never came.
The Houyi was anchored on the sea about 300 meters away from the island, from where they could see the tower more clearly.
Xiao Chen used a magic amplifier to speak in the direction of the Soul Forging Tower: "I am Xiao Chen, and I have obtained the secret inheritance ring of Saint Gomez and Saint Gregorio. I have obtained the inheritance of "Shadow Scroll of Sea of Consciousness" and "True Form of Fantasy World". Now I am the leader of the Tower of China, and we are here to find the whereabouts of the Dream Tower. I think there must be some misunderstanding just now, which caused my crew to suffer a powerful mental magic attack. If there is anyone in the Soul Forging Tower, please come out to meet me!"
Xiao Chen shouted twice in a row, but received no response. However, he vaguely felt that some energy in the tower was mobilized and swept over his position.
"There seems to be someone in the tower. We should go down and take a look." Xiao Chen said.
"I felt it too. It seems like some kind of detection magic." Luo Ling said.
"Let's go. Since they want to hide it, we have no choice but to go over and find out what's going on."
Huang Zheng was left on the boat, and Xiao Chen took Luo Ling and several spirit servant masters and flew towards the Soul Forging Tower.
Xiao Chen had already used the Mage's Eye to investigate the island. At least there were some signs of human life on the island, but they seemed to have been gone for a long time. Now there were only some sparse trees on the island buried in large patches of snow.
However, there were several stranded ships and more piles of rotten wood on the coast of this island. Most of these ships were very old and of different styles. According to Xiao Chen's judgment based on the ship type and emblems, these ships should have been stranded here in the past few hundred years. There were ships from both the secular kingdom and the natural temple, and there seemed to be many ships with only some dry bones left.
And those piles of rotten wood are probably ships from even earlier times.
Xiao Chen guessed that these were probably ships that entered this sea area for various reasons, and they were probably attacked similarly to today. It was conceivable that if no one among them woke up like Xiao Chen and his crew, all the crew members might fall into illusions on the ship and eventually starve to death.
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