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Wang: "A rookie may be able to unlock the secret of the tower. But how can a rookie see through fate? How could he know that this secret is in my fate? Did he know about me at that time? Does this seem like something a rookie can do?"

"Master" Mel nodded: "That makes sense."

Emperor: "So your teacher lied?"

"No!" Wang denied flatly, "The best liars will use the truth to deceive people. The devil likes to do this! My teacher is telling the truth, but he is not a rookie wizard who has just started his adventure, but a planeswalker who has changed his identity and traveled through the planes! It is the first time in that identity!"

The emperor lost his patience. "So? We've been basking in the sun with you for so long, and you just discovered this?"

"Don't be impatient! The planeswalker's teacher discovered the truth of the mystery of the tower at the first sight, but over the past thousands of years, countless mages have tried to crack the truth of the tower but failed! Is it possible that the difference between the planeswalker and these mages caused them to fail to see through the tricks of the tower?"

Wang turned around with great interest, looked at the tower, and continued his thoughts: "The biggest difference between a planeswalker and an ordinary mage is that he has gained eternity. He has jumped out of the time flow of this plane. So, is this tower not in the time flow either?

"No, that's not right. We can't see the tower if it's not in the flow of time. The planeswalker appears in front of the residents of this plane because he has merged into the flow of time of the plane. So the tower is indeed in the flow of time."

Mel next to him widened his eyes. "This is... This is knowledge I have never heard of before! So the essence of time is... Oh my God!"

Everyone else turned to look at the old wizard.

Wang ignored the old wizard's reaction and continued to follow his train of thought: "What else is different between planeswalkers and ordinary wizards? Do they understand the nature of the universe? Can this thing be related to the nature of the universe? If that's the case, I can't crack it without understanding the nature of the universe! But the tone of the uncles, this is a problem I can solve.

"What else?"

Suddenly, Wang stopped mumbling and a smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's an illusion," he said.

"Master" Mel immediately denied it, "Impossible! Over the years, countless people have used spells like True Seeing on it. If it was an illusion, it would have been discovered long ago!"

"No, the most powerful illusion can directly change people's cognition and even distort the laws of physics. I only read about this in books before, but today I actually saw it!" Wang touched the surface of the tower with his hand, then turned his head excitedly and said to everyone, "Look!"

Elizabeth looked confused: "What are you looking at?"

Wang turned around and skimmed a layer of oil off her secondary sexual characteristics: "Look! The sun is so strong, you are almost dehydrated and suffering from heatstroke, but this tower is completely cold. Because it only exists in my cognition!"

"Wait a minute!" Rosalie yelled, "Didn't I just tell you that there is a group of cultists in Minos whose hobby is climbing this tower!"

Wang: "Yes, but think about it, how could an ordinary stone tower have 'ripples'? This is exactly what is possible because this tower does not actually exist. It only exists in cognition. If someone firmly believes that he can feel the ripples on it, and then uses techniques such as the monk's qi sea to climb up along the ripples, he may succeed!"

Rosalie: "What you said... I can't find any reason to refute it. But I always feel that this can't be the case! I have been looking at this tower for twenty years. It has existed here since I opened my eyes. And you suddenly tell me that it doesn't exist..."

Wang: "I didn't say it doesn't exist. It exists to you! This is the same principle as many illusions, such as the Phantom Killer. To the person who is hit, the killer is real, so he is 'killed'."

He suddenly stopped and said, "So that's how it is. I always thought that the Phantom Killer used illusions to scare people to death, but it turns out that it's not scaring people to death, but distorting their cognition. So in the world perceived by the target, he was really killed.

"If we follow this line of thought, we might succeed!"

The king grabbed Elizabeth's shoulders. "I might be about to get my first fourth-level spell! And it's a cool spell like Phantom Killer!"

Elizabeth was stunned. "Opened? Can't you just dream and sleep to get to the next level?"

Wang: "That's you, you're a warlock!"

"Then... congratulations?" Elizabeth said uncertainly.

"Thank you." The wizard thought about it and his excitement immediately cooled down because of a new confusion. "But why is the shadow spell only 20% true? Shouldn't it perfectly reproduce the spell being copied? Tsk, it seems that this inspiration is not enough for me to understand all the fourth-ring illusions. What is wrong?"

The emperor, who was now even more impatient, spoke up: "How long are you going to keep doing this? Have you cracked the tower yet?"

The king looked at the emperor in surprise: "It has been solved. This tower is a high-level illusion that distorts the real world by distorting cognition. In fact, it does not exist at all. The Cyclops proverb is indeed the key to solving this puzzle: the lack of an answer is also an answer!"

Bernal: "Nonsense! How is this different from a charlatan?"

Wang: "Yes. Let me show you!"

As he said that, he turned and rushed towards the tower!

Then he bumped into something and sat back on the ground with a big bump on his forehead.

Bernal laughed out loud: "See! I told you this was a trick by a charlatan!!"

Wang stood up and patted his buttocks. There was no shame on his face because of this failure. He muttered: "It seems that my vision has stopped me. My eyes are trying to tell me that it is real. I just need to close my eyes."

Bernal: "Hahaha, look at this, Mel, the legendary wizard's apprentice has gone crazy!"

Mel was still muttering like a madman: "Time! Time is like this! If he can master the method of casting the Phantom Killer like this, then I should be able to master the method of stopping time. What's the difference?"

The emperor shook his head, and the king closed his eyes at this time.

He rushed towards the tower with his eyes closed, faster and with even more force than before!

Rosalie closed her eyes, unable to bear to watch.

Elizabeth, however, stared at him, and it was obvious that the two people had completely different levels of trust in the young wizard!

The next moment, the wizard rushed into the tower and disappeared.

Bernal was ready to laugh, but the smile froze on his face.

Mel, who was still concentrating on his thoughts, suddenly looked up and said, "Fuck! It disappeared!"

The soldiers and knights who came with the emperor and the old wizard were all from Monrovia. Many of them had served under the tower for many years and were all stunned by this scene.

After a few seconds, Wang appeared again: "There is nothing inside. This is a solid illusion. This time I am going to open my eyes and give it a try."

He turned around and was about to rush forward again, but changed his mind halfway and walked slowly towards the tower with leisurely steps, then disappeared into the white wall.

The onlookers were silent.

The emperor shouted, "I don't believe it! If it was so simple, how could so many great wizards and dwarf craftsmen not have discovered it!"

The king's voice came from inside the tower walls, and it sounded like the walls themselves were speaking: "Because this might be a legendary illusion, the kind of super complex spell that requires years of research before casting, and then thirty days of continuous casting to complete the entire casting process.

"Moreover, those who can see through this spell will probably lose interest in it immediately because it is really simple. They may also think that it is very interesting that later generations can study this thing tirelessly. Maybe someone will come back regularly to check what ordinary people have done."

Wang came out of the high wall and spread his hands. "Among all the people present, I probably know the most planeswalkers. Believe me, for a planeswalker, people's reactions to this false entity are much more valuable than the spell itself."

Bernal still looked unconvinced. "So... Monrovia's greatest unsolved mystery, the pride of Minos, is actually a joke? There are no powerful magic items or powerful magic weapons in it?"

Wang: “Yes.”

But the emperor immediately frowned: "No, your teacher said that this is a gift for you. You didn't get anything?"

Wang: "How could I not get it? I was already at the third ring when I was ten, and I haven't opened the fourth ring in eight years. Now I may have mastered my first fourth ring spell! This is a great gift! Of course, we won't know until tomorrow morning when I prepare spells."

Bernal: "I still don't believe it!"

Rosalie looked at her father, then turned to the king and said, "It seems that father won't believe it unless you remove this spell."

The king turned his head and looked at the tower. "Actually, I can't see the tower now. The magic has been lifted for me. If anyone among you truly believes in me, you can give it a try. Close your eyes at first."

Elizabeth: “Let me try.”

Without waiting for the king's response, she walked towards the tower.

Wang shouted at her back: "You can try it with your own secondary sexual characteristics first. Remember not to open your eyes when you try, otherwise they might get embedded in there."

Elizabeth: “Got it!”

She stopped one step in front of the tower, took a deep breath, and then pressed herself against it with her eyes open - yes, she opened her eyes.

Then she blended perfectly into the tower - of course this was what people other than the king saw.

After a few seconds, Elizabeth came out with a complicated expression on her face: "I thought I would hit my head against the wall like you if I opened my eyes, but after all, I had a buffer, so I went straight in. But in the end..."

Wang: "Can you still see this tower now?"

Elizabeth looked back: "I can see it, but...ah, it's starting to disappear."

Bernal strode forward.

The King: "Wait a minute! Your Majesty, a non-believer like you will surely run into him!"

Before he could finish his words, the emperor hit the stone wall. His nose, as the most protruding part of his body, was hit first and immediately began to bleed profusely.

The priest who came with the emperor rushed forward and began to treat him.

Rosalie looked at Wang and Elizabeth and took a deep breath: "I'll try."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiaobai had already rushed into the white wall of the tower.

The werewolf's voice came from the white wall: "There's really nothing! Wow, not interesting at all."

The little girl ran out and said: "I saw that a big wave could fit in, so I tried it, and it really worked."

Wang: "That's right. After the seeds of doubt were planted, the spell began to lose its effect. I thought that as long as the news was announced and enough people gathered to watch, I would go in once in front of everyone, and gradually no one in Minos would be able to see the tower. Of course, it would be useless for those who stubbornly believed that there was a tower."

Elizabeth looked at the king and said, "But I want to know, do you have a way to remove this magic? Your teacher said that this is a gift from fate to you, but I also think that just opening a loop is not enough to be called a gift. Or maybe you will learn more after removing this magic?"

The king thought about it and nodded: "You make sense. Then I'll see how to remove it. First, I need to know where the core of this magic is. It is definitely not in the foundation of the tower. Because it was rebuilt by the dwarves."

**

A room in a giant wizard tower in a certain demiplane.

An old man was entering another old man's study.

"Has it been cracked?" he asked.

"It's cracked. After all, he is the darling of fate. He regarded the cognitive modification effect of fate anchoring as a kind of illusion and cracked it. Although... illusion can indeed be regarded as cognitive modification, the boundary is very vague."

"Other people can see through it because their fate has been led astray by him, such as the mage Mel and his teammates. Those who have not been led astray will not have this problem. Soon, those who hear rumors and come to hit the wall will regard him as a charlatan."

"Hey, that's also a kind of experience. Besides, is it possible that he won't remove the magic? No way! Okay, you keep watching. I'm going to punish those troublemakers now."

Chapter 114 "Tricks"

At this time, Wang was thinking.

Elizabeth asked from the side: "This magic...can't it be cast directly here? Is there another location?"

Wang: "Ordinary magic is indeed effective within a certain range after it is cast, and does not require any constant objects. But these will become ineffective after a period of time. For a permanent effect like this, it must be fixed on a certain object or something else. And this spell is so powerful that the object used to keep it fixed cannot be small."

Elizabeth thought for a moment and pointed at the white wall in the distance: "Stay on the wall?"

Wang: "It's possible. Is there anything on the white wall that looks like a magic rune? A spell of this scale is very complicated to stabilize, and it must be assisted by runes. It may even require a large number of runes."

Rosalie looked at Oscar, who had followed but was too frightened to speak because of the raging display, and then answered, "No. The most famous thing about the white wall is that it has no brick joints, let alone words."

Wang: “Then it’s not a white wall.”

At this time, Emperor Bernal crashed into the wall of the tower again, and his nose bled again.

The king stopped and looked at the emperor suspiciously: "Shouldn't it be?"

At this time, the elf Nini, who had been listening carefully, spoke up: "Teacher, I also find it strange. If it is so easy to see through this spell, it is impossible that there has been no rumor that this is an illusion for so many years."