Tang Feng came to the entrance of the Spirit Eye Tower in Suero City. Since the Chinese took over Suero, the Spirit Eye Tower moved the entrance to the small world back to its original location, which was the inconspicuous house.
After knocking on the door, it was Xiao Chen's old friend, Mage Perrin, who opened the door.
"Hello! Xiao Chen introduced me here to visit Master Ikasa. I have a letter from him in my hand." Tang Feng handed him an envelope.
Perrin said, "You can give the letter to Master Ikasa yourself. He is waiting for you up there."
Tang Feng followed Perrin through the portal to the small world where the Tower of the Spirit Eye was located, entered the pure white tower, and met Master Ikasa in the high-altitude garden on the tower.
Ikasa invited Tang Feng to sit down and said, "Welcome, young mage, the way you come here now reminds me of the first time Xiao Chen visited the Spirit Eye Tower.
It’s been two years now, and that time is always too short for the real challenges we are about to experience.”
"I came here this time to seek your help." Tang Feng said.
"Is it about Blackwood Pass?" said Mage Ikasa.
"Yes, we need to find out who the traitor is quickly. The situation is tense now, and we don't have time to waste on mutual suspicion."
Master Ikasa said, "I didn't expect that Hei Mu Pass would be lost. I have already made a prediction about the subsequent development of the Hei Mu Pass incident. There may be a series of consequences after this, and any result I see is not good news for you."
"What did you see?" Tang Feng asked.
"Suero was besieged by the Empire, River Bay New City was raided by the Beast Legion, the Empire broke through the Kingdom's defenses and completely annexed the northern part of the Kingdom. These are all possible things that could happen. Of course, they may not happen. With the help of the Spirit Eye Tower, I saw several different possibilities."
"Is there any way to avoid these outcomes?" Tang Feng asked.
"It's up to you to explore solutions to the problem, not me." Ikasa took out a booklet from the storage ring and handed it to Tang Feng. "This booklet records some key points I saw. When you change the key points, you may be able to change the final outcome."
Tang Feng took the booklet and quickly handed the envelope to Ikasa. The master opened the envelope and took a piece of paper inside in his hand and felt it. The information that Xiao Chen wanted to convey came into his mind.
"Will you let me help you investigate the truth behind the fall of Kuroki Pass?" Ikasa put the letter back into the envelope and said, "I will help you with this matter. This is one of the key points I mentioned earlier. If you can quickly resolve this matter, it will change many related processes later."
"I guess Xiao Chen told you that whenever you need to observe a person's past and future, you need some medium to cast a spell, right? The more time this medium spends with that person, the better." Ikasa asked.
"Of course, I brought a coat of Zhang Hong, a comb of Shen Yuan, and a watch of Cheng Jing." Tang Feng took out these things and handed them to Master Ikasa.
"Come with me." Master Ikasa led him out of the garden and came through a door to a circular hall. The dome of the hall was made of black rocks, which emitted a little fluorescence for some reason, just like the black night sky. On a high platform under the night sky, there was a square stone platform.
"This is the Hall of the Past. If you want to find traces of the past, you can start from here." Master Ikasa placed Shen Yuan's wooden comb on the stone platform and cast a spell that Tang Feng couldn't understand. A bright white light enveloped the wooden comb on the stone platform. At the same time, at the top of the Spirit Eye Tower, the blue ball of light began to flicker non-stop. "Sir Tang Feng, tell me, what do you want to know about the owner of this wooden comb?"
"Is she dead?"
"Yes, on the day when Hei Mu Pass was breached."
"Who killed her?"
"A hidden person, he pierced her body with a sharp blade. At that time, she had no time to resist. The two companions beside him suffered the same fate at the same time." Master Ikasa said.
"Master, can the information you provide be more specific?" Tang Feng asked.
Master Ikasa shook his head and said, "I can only look for vague clues based on your question. The information I just gave is already the limit."
"Is the person who killed her related to Zhang Hong?"
"There should be. I seem to have vaguely seen Zhang Hong nearby."
Master Ikasa put on Cheng Jing's watch again, "Do you have any questions about this man?"
Tang Feng asked, "Did he have contact with Zhang Hong that day?"
"Yes, he and Zhang Hong had a brief encounter, but it was very short, and after that they never had any contact again."
"Was the place where they met in front of a small slope? Zhang Hong stopped Cheng Jing and asked Cheng Jing to go back the way she came?"
"Yes."
Tang Feng said: "Then I don't have anything else to ask about this person, let's take a look at Zhang Hong."
After Ikasa was ready, he said, "Zhang Hong's clothes are not as closely related as the items of the previous two people, so there may be less things that can be seen clearly."
Tang Feng said: "Let's give it a try. I want to know where Zhang Hong went after he left the cafeteria that day."
Master Ikasa said, "We arrived at a remote house. I saw a portal opening in the darkness. I also saw a huge barrier and an explosion, but these images were fragments. I can't be sure of the connection between them."
"Portal? Barrier? Explosion? That's right, people who are not at the battle scene can't see these! Zhang Hong can be connected with these, which means he is inseparable from these things!" Tang Feng wrote some of them in the notebook, "Did you see Zhang Hong with other people?"
"Yes, seven or eight people. I saw two were magicians, and the rest were warriors. Their faces were a little blurry, and I couldn't see clearly who they were. They seemed to be hiding in the shadows just like the assassin who killed the woman before."
Tang Feng asked again: "Has Zhang Hong ever attacked anyone?"
“I didn’t see any such scene.”
Tang Feng asked a few more questions, but the connection between the coat and Zhang Hong was not enough to reveal more.
"Thank you, Master Ikasa, you helped me identify many important key points. I am much more confident now." Tang Feng said.
"I hope you can hurry up and resolve this matter. Also, from some clues I've sensed, I must remind you that Xiao Chen is a vital person to the entire mage world. He is related to the awakening of the God of Nature and the inheritance of the Dream Tower. I and many people around me hope that he can grow quickly without being disturbed. Anyone who wants to interrupt this process will be our... enemy." (To be continued)