Lorenzo was in a dark ruin, surrounded by intricate roads.
In the past, it seemed that there were many lighting crystals here, but now, the crystals have long lost their energy and turned into powder.
The light around him was now maintained by a small golden crystal, which emitted a warm light, giving people a sense of peace. There was also a small golden man sitting on it, also emitting light.
It was the image of a short-haired woman, with one foot tiptoed on the sharpest part of the crystal, and her hands folded in front of her chest watching Lorenzo busying around.
But Lorenzo, illuminated by the light, looked miserable. There were several blood stains on his face, and his wizard robe had long been torn. From the tear in the robe, it could be seen that someone had cut a hole in his abdomen with a sword. Although the bleeding had stopped now, his face was frighteningly pale due to the blood loss.
Lorenzo seemed to have an injury on his leg as well. He limped to a formation at the intersection ahead, took out a few high-quality magic crystals from his storage ring, and replaced the crystals that had begun to dim in the running formation.
However, he was not the one described as the most miserable here. In the corner behind him, there was a man wearing a temple priest robe lying on the ground. His priest robe was covered with burn marks and his head was tilted to one side. It was unknown whether he was dead or alive.
"Your movements are too slow. If your hand speed and accuracy can be improved by another 20 percent, the loss rate of magic crystal can be reduced by another 5 percent." The little man on the crystal said in a cold tone.
"Don't you see that I'm injured all over?" Lorenzo said with an irritated tone. He raised one hand and said, "Look, even here I'm injured!"
"In my life, I have been in a worse situation than you three times. But even then, I was still faster than you in setting up the formation. The last time, my hand was cut off by the lackeys of the City of God. I used my mental power to set up the formation, and it was still 5% faster than you are now." The little person chattered non-stop. She was the tower spirit Virgina of the Tower of Talisman, one of the most powerful formation masters in the Seven Towers era. "Your current state is the best time to improve your strength. The experience of this life-and-death moment is equivalent to you sitting in the laboratory for a year."
"Senior, have you been hidden for too long? Have you gone crazy after not speaking for thousands of years?"
"No, no, no, I just think that the younger generation of the Seventh Tower is so disappointing. When I think about you being the successor of the Tower of Talismans and being known as the most powerful formation master in the world, I feel a little ashamed. Not only you, but all the formation masters of this era are so shameful." When Virgina said this, there was no sarcasm in her tone, but this made Lorenzo feel even more angry.
“Didn’t they say that the Tower Spirit was deprived of emotions? How come you have so many… emotional words?” Despite being injured and talking nonsense with this meaningless villain, Lorenzo’s opponent remained very stable.
"No, no, no, this is not nonsense, and I don't mean to look down on you. I am just stating the facts, and they are facts backed by data." Virgina said seriously.
Lorenzo stood up, glanced at the little man behind him, and said, "How about you show me?"
"Are you sure?" Virgina asked.
Before Lorenzo could answer, he saw the pile of crystal stones that he had taken out of the storage ring earlier began to move on their own and flew into the formation at an extremely fast speed. Not only that, the materials for drawing the formation also moved, adding a third of the content to the outside of his formation.
Lorenzo was shocked when he saw Virgina's actions. As a tower spirit without a body, she was able to use her mental power to set up the formation faster than he was. Moreover, he couldn't understand at least one-third of the additional formations. He only knew that the overall effectiveness of his illusion formation, which was used to delay the pursuers, had been greatly increased, and the coverage area had become larger. Moreover, the resonance between the control formation around him and the functional formations he had previously set up in various parts of the ruins had also been greatly strengthened.
"You're really fast," Lorenzo admitted.
"I am better than you, and what I said is true." Virgina said in a flat tone.
Lorenzo suddenly felt a pity. He would rather her previous words were said in a sarcastic tone. That at least showed that she was still a complete person.
He squatted down, looked at the formation carefully, pointed at a few places on it and asked, "What are these magic words and structures used for? I have never seen them before."
"This is an invention of mine, called a rule-maintaining structure."
"Rules maintain structure?" Lorenzo was completely confused.
"Thousands of years ago, the God-killing War failed, and Wilfred, the Saint of the Tower of Runes who protected me, was killed by the people of the Temple of Nature. I fell into the hands of the Golden Branch Priests, who spent a lot of time studying me at that time. Of course, the super-holy weapon that the Seven Towers worked so hard to create is not so easy to crack. Even if they want to destroy me, they can't do it. Because the Seven Towers themselves are things beyond this dimension. However, when they were studying me, I used some small tricks to learn some of the truth of the God-killing War. Asilos of the Tower of Origin was right. The God of Nature really has a way to invalidate magic runes. So, when they proposed to use the origin to cast spells in battle, it was not alarmist. Unfortunately, it's too late.
However, there is a more important problem here. It is relatively easy to use the source to cast other magic, but it is very difficult to use the source to cast the array. Even if it is finally done, the cost is often very high. For example, there are many arrays in the Seven Towers, and it is a big problem to make them still work after the God of Nature cuts off the magic connection.
Later, the remaining saints of the Tower of Talisman snatched me away and hid me, and put the clues to the hiding place in three holy books. "
Lorenzo nodded. Currently, the Tower of China was using miniature high-quality crystals instead of runes to simulate the original spellcasting method to drive the magic circle. This method was costly, inefficient, and easily damaged.
"So, during the thousands of years I have been staying in this ruin, I have been deducing this problem in the Tower of Runes. To put it in an analogy, how can we keep water in the ditch when the water source is cut off?"
Lorenzo asked, "Then we need another water source? For example, we can build a water tower near the canal? Or a reservoir?"
Virgina nodded and said, "Yes, that's right. It seems that your brain is more flexible than your hands. The rule-maintaining structure you see now is an additional reservoir!"