Xiao Chen looked at the house in front of him and felt calmer. It looked like an ordinary house anyway. It was not a cave or an abyss, and there were no strange people around, which gave him a sense of security. But when he thought that the great magician in everyone's mouth lived in such a place, he was always a little disappointed, so he asked Claude beside him: "Is this where the Spirit Eye Tower is?"
Claude was a serious middle-aged man with gray hair on his temples. His eyes were always half-closed as if he had not woken up yet. He was silent but polite all the way, but he was much easier to get along with than his junior brother Perrin. Hearing Xiao Chen's question, he nodded slightly and replied, "That's right. The Spirit Eye Tower is an observer and foresight. We don't need to be conspicuous and magnificent. That will prevent us from seeing the things we want to observe clearly."
"Just like an elephant cannot observe the ant's cave?" Xiao Chen made an analogy.
"You are very wise, that's right. We don't even need strong power. Too strong power will always destroy the course of the world."
Xiao Chen sighed, "I don't sound like a violent person." In fact, neither Chen Hansheng nor Luo Ling agreed that Xiao Chen would accept the invitation from the Spirit Eye Tower to visit Master Ikasa alone. But Xiao Chen didn't want to put them in danger, so after several arguments, he chose to come alone.
Claude came to the door and whispered a spell, and the door opened automatically. The furnishings in the house were very ordinary. There was a hall at the entrance, and the spiral staircases on both sides led directly to the second floor. However, Claude did not take Xiao Chen into the living room, but walked into a passage from a small door behind the spiral staircase on one side.
Xiao Chen was puzzled, but he calmed down and followed him. After winding through several intersections, the two of them finally came to a small hall. There was nothing in the hall except a big door in the middle of the room. This door, which looked like it was made of metal, stood in the middle of the room out of thin air. It was decorated with complicated magic symbols, and there was nothing in front and behind.
Claude couldn't help but smile when he saw Xiao Chen's surprise, as if he had seen this expression many times before. He walked forward, as if he was visiting someone's house, and gently knocked on the door. Not long after, the door creaked open.
Before the door opened, Xiao Chen was wondering where this door would lead to? Was there another world behind it? However, even though he was mentally prepared, the scene after opening the door still shocked him so much that he couldn't take a step forward.
It was a piece of hills and grasslands under the blue sky and white clouds. The grassland was very vast, but it was surrounded by undulating peaks in the distance. Some cattle and sheep were walking in the grassland, like white stars in the green night sky. However, none of this mattered. About one kilometer in front of the portal where Xiao Chen was, there was a tower as tall as a skyscraper. This was the real center of the world.
Xiao Chen had looked up at the 632-meter-high Shanghai Tower in Lujiazui, and had also looked down at the entire Shanghai from its observation hall. He silently estimated the distance and height, and found that this tower was almost twice as high as the Shanghai Tower, more than a thousand meters.
The tower was silver-white, slender and smooth. It was slightly larger at the bottom and got smaller as it went higher. However, when it reached the top, the tower split into two sharp forks, like a fruit fork. In the void at the top of the fork, there was a blue ball of light suspended, flashing with electric light.
Claude was obviously satisfied with Xiao Chen's shock. He said proudly, "This is the Spirit Eye Tower. There are not many magic towers like this one that have been passed down from ancient times on the entire continent, let alone a unique existence like the Spirit Eye Tower that is a small world of its own."
Xiao Chen had heard Morey talk about the so-called small world, which is an independent space opened up outside the real world. The small world is self-sufficient and has its own natural laws. Some small worlds are very similar to the real world, but some of the laws are very unique. According to him, the legendary small worlds were mostly built by powerful people comparable to gods between the mythological age and the heroic age, and now the method of creating this strange secret realm has been lost. Over the past thousands of years, some small worlds have been broken, some small worlds have been closed, and some small worlds have been disconnected from the real world, and the existing small worlds are becoming fewer and fewer. A magic school with its own small world must have an ancient heritage and a power that cannot be ignored. Xiao Chen looked up at the tower and asked, "I wonder who built this world and this tower?"
"I'm sorry, I can't answer this question. Maybe my teacher can give you the answer." Claude said with some regret.
Xiao Chen stared at the ball of light on the top of the tower. The ball of light moved in rhythm, exhaling mist, and seemed to contain great power, making people feel an urge to worship it. Xiao Chen looked at the ball of light and suddenly remembered the white ball of light he encountered in the secret room under the Earl's mansion when he first arrived in this world. It was equally mysterious and powerful, but completely different. Now he and Luo Ling have gradually adapted to this world, but they don't know where the little girl named Zhou He went at that time? Maybe she has gained such a powerful power, and she should start a very different journey...
"Mr. Xiao Chen, Mr. Xiao Chen." Claude saw him staring at the ball of light in a daze, and called out several times to wake Xiao Chen up.
"I'm sorry, is that the spiritual eye? I seemed to be mesmerized when I saw it, and somehow I remembered things from the past. It's really strange." Xiao Chen said apologetically.
"That's not the spiritual eye. The spiritual eye is here." Claude pointed to his head, "That ball of light is just a part of the magic tower. Please follow me, the teacher is waiting for you at the tower."
Xiao Chen followed Claude along a road through the grass and came to the tower. As he got closer to the tower, the Spirit Eye Tower became more and more magnificent. As he got closer, Xiao Chen found that the tower, which looked slender from a distance, was also a hundred meters in radius at the base. The tower was built with a very fine white brick, which overturned Xiao Chen's cognition. Anyway, there was no brick on earth that could build such a tall house.
Xiao Chen stroked the bricks with his hands, just like touching porcelain. He suddenly felt mixed emotions. Although this group of people had accidentally fallen here for unknown reasons, most of them had a great sense of superiority when they saw the surrounding villages and residents. Even in front of a noble like Baron Goya, Xiao Chen and his group put their attitude high enough. This was all based on the advanced civilization looking down on the backward civilization. However, what he saw and heard today completely shook Xiao Chen's long-standing concept. Is this world really as backward as it seems
A door big enough for a giant to pass through suddenly opened. Before Xiao Chen could think about it, he was brought into the tower by Claude.
The bottom of the tower was actually a small circular square without pillars or windows, enclosed in a room. The ceiling of the square was engraved with lighting magic patterns, which illuminated the square. There was nothing in the square, but there were many doors on the surrounding walls.
"These doors lead directly to different levels of the Spirit Eye Tower." Claude said, leading him to a very ordinary door and said, "My teacher, Master Ikasa, is waiting for you behind this door."
Xiao Chen plucked up his courage, pushed the door open and walked inside.
This is a world full of birdsong and flowers.
Although it was indoors, the dome was very high, and a path appeared in front of him, with lush vegetation on both sides, including tall trees and clumps of flowers and plants. A white parrot was perched on a tree, tilting its head and staring at him with wide eyes.
"Welcome, welcome, please follow me." The white parrot called a few times, fluttered up and flew deeper into the trail. Xiao Chen followed the parrot around two corners and found a large lawn in front. An old man in a simple gray robe was dozing off in a rocking chair. The old man was a little thin, with a small mustache and short gray hair. The parrot fluttered over, landed on the armrest of the rocking chair, and shouted: "Old man, old man, the person you've been waiting for is here. He's a very energetic young man, open your eyes and take a look."
The old man was awakened by the parrot. He opened his eyes, waved his hand to drive the parrot away, stood up with the help of the handrail, and looked towards Xiao Chen.
As soon as Xiao Chen looked into the old man's eyes, he was attracted by his eyes. A pair of blue light balls were rolling in the old man's eyes, exactly the same as the huge blue ball on the top of the tower. Xiao Chen felt that his mind was shocked, his thinking became extremely rigid, and his mind became blank. Xiao Chen was very panicked, and just as he was trying to mobilize all his mental strength to get rid of this state, the blue light disappeared, and the old man's eyes turned into ordinary brown, and all the pressure was removed like water, as if everything just now was just an illusion.
He waved at Xiao Chen and said, "Welcome, young man from the Dream Tower. I am Ikasa, please come and sit over here." The old man pointed to the side, and two low stools appeared, with a coffee table in the middle. Xiao Chen put his index and middle fingers together, tapped his forehead, performed a wizard salute, and then walked over carefully.
"I have to thank you first." After the two of them sat down, an apprentice served them tea. Master Ikasa took a sip of the water and then said something that surprised Xiao Chen.
"Master Ikasa, this is the first time we meet. Why are you thanking me?" Xiao Chen asked puzzled.
"Haha, I thank you because you helped my disciple Perrin."
At first, Xiao Chen thought Ikasa was speaking in a sarcastic way and was going to call him to task, and he broke out in a cold sweat. But judging from his serious expression, it seemed that was not the case. Ikasa smiled and clapped his hands. Perrin walked out from under a tree not far away.
He walked quickly to Xiao Chen, bowed to him, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "Master Xiao Chen, I... I want to apologize to you for my rude attitude that day. I take back all the arrogant words I said that day, and ask for your forgiveness."
"This is... okay. That's nothing. I was a little impulsive. I apologize to you." Confused, Xiao Chen quickly stood up and accepted the apology. He felt that the current scene was like a parent dragging a child who had done something wrong to apologize to someone else's home. However, this happened to an adult and an old wizard, which seemed a little funny.
It was obvious that Perrin himself was also feeling uncomfortable. He frowned, saluted Xiao Chen again, and then retreated.
The old wizard looked at his departing figure and said, "Perrin is not a bad person by nature, but he was spoiled by me and his fellow apprentices. You taught him a lesson that day, which actually saved him. Otherwise, he would have died at the hands of someone more arrogant than him a few years later because of his arrogance. Of course, I was also wrong in this matter. People who look far away often ignore what is under their feet. I didn't even notice that his mentality had changed recently because of his increased strength. I owe you a favor in this matter."
"You make me feel guilty when you say that... But from your tone, it seems like you are very sure about what will happen to him in the future?"
Master Ikasa smiled and said, "You still don't know why this place is called the Tower of the Spirit Eye? The Spirit Eye is the eye that sees through the past and the future."