"Please follow me." Ryan waited until Victor and Orlando teleported over, and then took the initiative to walk in front and act as a guide. He led everyone directly to the magic teleportation array next to him, preparing to teleport to the entire magic tower through it. The other floor is where Master Jiexi’s crystal coffin is placed. Knowing that his body is aging, Delanai has been staying there almost all day recently, and his mind seems to be lost in contemplation of the past.
Generally speaking, a magic tower like this consisting of multiple layers of space will usually have one layer dedicated to transit, while other spaces can be directly reached through the magic array on the transit layer. This structure is the simplest. In case there is a problem in a certain layer of space, you only need to close the corresponding teleportation magic circle. It will not affect the stability of other space layers of the entire magic tower.
After another teleportation, Ryan led the others to his teacher Delanai. At this time, Delanai's eyebrows and beard had all turned white, and his body was even more rickety, as if it was blowing in the wind. Ryan's heart skipped a beat when he saw that he would fall down. He clearly remembered that before he left, Mr. Delanai just kept coughing and his complexion began to look older. Unexpectedly, in just a few months, his face turned old. It's so serious,
"You are here." Delanai turned his back to Ryan and the others, as if he was focusing on Archmage Jiexi who was sleeping in the crystal coffin.
"Yes, teacher, how did you change... how do you feel now?" Ryan's anxious tone was very obvious. He originally wanted to ask his teacher directly how he became like this, but as soon as he spoke, he changed his tone to avoid his teacher I care in my heart,
"I'm fine." Delanai slowly turned around, smiled at Ryan, and said in a very relaxed tone: "How many more years can I live? Besides, I have lived for more than a hundred years. , well, it’s worth it.”
"Hey, it's you." Ryan was about to speak with a wry smile, but Orlando suddenly interrupted and said: "I, I seem to have seen you, it seems that I was in Archbishop Ibell..."
"Yes, General Orlando." Delanai said calmly: "This is the second time we have met. Come on, everyone can sit down wherever you like." Delanai waved his right hand gently in the air, and in an instant, the empty space was empty. Several chairs appeared in the room, and Delanai slowly sat on the one closest to him, looking at Ryan and others with a calm expression.
Seeing that Delanai seemed to have a lot to say, Ryan and others found a chair and sat down. Then they all turned their attention to Delanai, waiting for him to reveal everything for them.
"More than 100 years ago, I was just an ordinary shop apprentice. It was my teacher Jessie who brought me into the palace of magic. About 20 years later, I took over this 'Earth Guardian' from my teacher. ." After Delanai said this, he stretched out his right hand, and a cane covered with bark suddenly appeared in the palm of his hand.
"Inheriting its power, I wanted to do something, so I embarked on the road of adventure. During the entire 50-year journey, Ibel, Ghalib, and several close friends, this is how we met Yes, I remember that Ibel was less than 20 years old at that time. Time has passed so long that my memory is a little blurry."
"Later, Ibel inherited the power of "Praise of Light" and became the archbishop. Naturally, we couldn't continue our adventures together, so we went our separate ways. After many years of adventures, I returned here to continue studying magic. About ten years ago, I left here again, preparing to find an heir for this staff. My first target was Ibel in the imperial capital. We had a long talk together, and you, General Orlando, It seems that he inherited the power of the God of War at that time.”
"Yes, I met you at Archbishop Ibel's place when I met him. It's just that I didn't know your identity at the time. However, Master Ibel never seemed to have any magician friends, so I was very concerned about your appearance in his place. I felt very strange in the quiet room, which also made me have a very deep impression on you. Well, you seemed to be a middle-aged man in his dozens of years at that time, not like you do now." Orlando answered respectfully. This attitude towards Delanai is not because Delanai is Ryan's teacher, but because Delanai is a friend of Ibel, and Master Ibel is the person Orlando respects most.
Delanai nodded and continued: "Actually, I asked Ibel to make a prophecy for me. Although it will have a great impact on his body, the matter is so important that I can't care about it. Ibel's The prophecy surprised me because he didn’t give any hints, just that the old friend should move around more.”
"So I met Ghalib in Dense Fog Town. You can never imagine my expression when I saw him. As... ahem, he actually accepted someone... ahem, he actually accepted Ryan as his student. This made me sad. I was so amazed that I stopped there for a short time and was struck by Ryan."
"Teacher." Seeing Delanai talking about his childhood, Ryan couldn't help but want to ask. Unexpectedly, Delanai shook his head gently, and Ryan closed his mouth again and listened quietly to himself. The teacher slowly recalled the scene at that time,
“To this day, I still don’t understand why my teacher Jessie passed it on to me, but when I saw Ryan desperately running on the rugged mountain road with a wooden stake heavier than his body, my heart broke. I was moved by him, isn’t this who I was 100 years ago?”
"The spies you sent probably found out what happened next. I stayed in Dense Fog Town and taught Ryan some magic basics." Delanai gently stroked the armrest of the chair. The understatement made Orlando look extremely embarrassed, because Fernando XIII had entrusted Orlando to send spies to collect information about Ryan.
"To be honest, Ryan's magic is not at the level where he can stand alone. This is mainly because I suddenly received news from Ibel. Ryan, you probably still remember the situation a month before you left your hometown." Della. Durable asked with a somewhat regretful tone,
"Yes, you said you had something to do... but you came back after only a month. I thought you were going to be away for more than half a year." Ryan replied,
"Ibel came up with another prophecy, which is about you and the demigod lich." Delanai suddenly stopped when he said this. His eyes looked straight ahead quietly, as if he wanted to see through time. In the long river, seeing the scene when Ibel slowly told him the entire prophecy, Ryan and others sat quietly in their chairs, waiting for the old man in front of them to slowly wake up from his memory.