Adriana's voice finally sounded at this time, her voice was a little deeper than before: "As you wished, you saw me. Oh, they are all fresh and tender people."
Xiao Chen had dark vision. He saw the face of the person below through the cloak and couldn't help but gasp.
This face was so strange that he was speechless. The upper part of the head was bulging and much larger than a normal person's head. The eyes were as big as tennis balls, which contrasted with the extremely small chin, nose and mouth. The skin on her face was dark gray and covered with layers of wrinkles. The eyes were bloodshot and the pupils were so small that they were almost invisible. There was not a single hair on her head, and her scalp was full of wrinkles like her face. She didn't look like a human at all, but more like an alien in a movie. Xiao Chen also noticed that there was nothing underneath the robe, as if her body was as thin as paper.
This face can no longer be described with words like ugly or unsightly. It should only appear in horror movies or nightmares.
The bloodshot eyes saw Xiao Chen's expression and stopped on him: "Young man, it seems you have seen my face."
When Xiao Chen heard Adriana's voice, he swallowed unconsciously and said, "Saint Adriana, what is the current state of your body?"
"Status? You've already seen it. Not dead, but not alive either." Adriana's mouth didn't move at all when she spoke. Xiao Chen guessed that she spoke by vibrating the air with her mental power. She said slowly: "For thousands of years, since I fled to the sea, no one has seen my face... maybe a few. But they were all killed by me after seeing it. How could I allow people to remember me like this? At that time, I didn't look like this now, and I couldn't tolerate it, let alone the way I look now. And you actually asked to see me, you are really a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger."
After Adriana said this, the cloak on her head fell down by itself, and the terrifying face appeared in front of everyone.
No one dared to show any emotion, but the expressions they showed the moment they saw her betrayed their thoughts. However, just when everyone was unsure about what Adriana was going to do, Glade, who was originally standing at the end of the team, quickly stepped forward and walked in front of her. He said with some excitement: "Sister Adriana, I finally see you again."
"Sister?" Adriana was stunned, and the hostility in her words was reduced a little. "Who are you? Who is qualified to call me sister now?"
Glade's elemental body suddenly dissipated and re-formed into a younger boy. "I am Glade. The book spirit of the Book of Possession, the younger brother you have been teaching. You have taught Milda and me for many years, influencing us little by little, turning us from artificial souls who knew nothing into book spirits with emotions and thoughts."
Adriana's tone completely changed. It was no longer cold and sarcastic, but a little excited: "You, you are the little book spirit of Uncle Alsa and Aunt Alyssa! My father helped your father create you two. But didn't Uncle Alsa and the others die in the war? How come you are still here?"
Glade said: "Father and mother did not take us to participate in that battle, just like Uncle Frey and Brother Larios did not let you participate in that battle, right? Later we were handed over to the emperor of the Black Dragon Empire until the wizards of the Tower of China rescued us from Rick, the last emperor of the Black Dragon Empire."
Adriana said, "I am different from you. You and Milda have no fighting power, but I am different. I am a saint. Even my father and brother may not be able to defeat me. I told them that I would also participate in the war of killing gods, but what did they do? On the surface, they quietly agreed to my request, but secretly used the sleeping flower to make me unconscious. When I woke up, all they left for me was a letter with a few words and the mission of protecting the Spirit Tower."
Glade said, "They just want to protect you, just like they did before."
"But I don't need it!" Adriana said loudly, her tone full of resentment. "Not only did they abandon me to die, but they also gave me the cursed task of guarding the Spirit Tower, which lasted for thousands of years."
"I know, but you are the most talented wizard in the Spirit Tower. I know that other magic towers later made the same choice as Uncle Frey, and handed over the task of inheritance to those wizards who may not be the most powerful, but the most talented." Glade said, "And you are always too stubborn, so they used such means, right?"
"Forget it. I have already guessed all their thoughts and even simulated their souls to talk to them. I have said everything I should say to them. I have hated them for thousands of years, but... I have also thought about them for thousands of years."
"Sister Adriana. Why are you like this?"
Adriana sighed and said, "This... is the price of protecting the Spirit Tower. Human beings... at least in the realm of saints, life is very limited. Even though the Spirit Tower I am in is good at the magic of life and death, it cannot extend life to thousands of years. But the task they gave me requires me to wait until the day when the God of Nature awakens, so that the inheritance of the Spirit Tower can play its due role. So I used the power of the Spirit Tower to freeze the functions of my body, and my life consumption became very small, and aging became very, very slow. The price was that my body became very, very weak, and I almost lost the strength of the flesh. So I can only stimulate my mental power to complete the things that the body originally needed to do. After thousands of years, my body has almost degenerated into stone, and the excessive use of mental power has made my head bigger and bigger. Later, I could only sacrifice the magic equipment around me to assemble this seat of immortality in front of you. Gradually, my body has become inseparable from this device that keeps me alive. Once I leave it, I am afraid that my body will collapse immediately."
"This... Such a price is too terrible." Glade showed a look of regret on his face. Since communicating with Crete, he seemed to be able to understand human emotions more and more.
"This is my own choice." Adriana glanced at Xiao Chen and the others and said, "I know that even though you all say various reasons, whether you are seeking help or asking me for advice, in the final analysis, you want the Spirit Tower, right?" (To be continued)