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Nini: "This is the first time I've heard that you can reset the number of times you can use Speak with the Dead in this way."
Flint: “I think everyone is hearing about it for the first time.”
At this moment, the talking stone in Rosalie's pocket vibrated.
Rosalie took out the voice stone and glanced at Wang: "Old Lady Hashir is looking for me. Should I answer it now?"
Wang: “Of course I’ll pick it up now!”
Rosalie activated the voice stone: "I'm Rosalie, what's wrong?"
Old Lady Hashir's voice came out: "Oh, she really spoke! We should arrange one of these for each of our leaders! Your Highness, an old wizard came and asked us for food as soon as he sat down."
A strange, old voice came from the side: "After all, I walked in the rain forest for so long, and I ran out of dry food yesterday. You don't want to let an old man starve for so many days, right?"
Flint frowned, approached Rosalie who was holding the speaking stone, and asked, "Is that old man wearing a blue pointed hat, and his familiar is a winged cat with black and white stripes?"
Hashir: "Yeah. Do you know him?"
Flint muttered, "Kaelin's belly button!"
Wang: "You are now the parish priest of the only Kailin Temple on the island and the cardinal of the floating city diocese. You should restrain yourself and stop cursing your god all the time."
Flint: "No, I don't think Kailin would care about such a thing now."
The old man's voice came from the other side of the talking stone: "Flint Steelfurnace! Is that you?"
Xiao Bai: "Judging from the sound, he should be standing next to old lady Hasher now."
Flint: "It's me, you old man, do you still remember that you owed me two hundred gold coins?"
Old man: "I am different from you. I am a human being. My memory will fade away with time. I don't remember owing you so much gambling debt."
Flint: "You obviously remember it! I didn't mention gambling debts at all!"
Wang: "Is this guy a gambler?"
Flint: "That's right! When we were traveling, he owed money to everyone in the team! In the end, he had to give up the treasure that he deserved to pay off his debts! But he was very cunning, and that treasure was only suitable for him, so in order to continue the adventure, everyone returned the treasure to him!
"Kaelin's horns. I should have remembered it when I heard about the reins that can control a dragon just now!"
The old man's hearty laughter came from the sound transmission stone: "Hahaha, I'm different. When I heard that there was a dwarf in the salvation team and he was Kailin's pastor, I felt that it might be you. After coming here and seeing the Kailin wood carving you carved, I am even more sure that it is you! I am very sad that you treat an old friend who came to you specially like this."
Flint: "Don't you know why I do this to you?"
"Apart from having some minor hobbies, I haven't done anything bad. In fact, I played a role in our ability to turn danger into safety during those adventures!"
Flint shook his head and turned to warn Wang: "Remember, this is the person in our team that we should not trust easily. He looks like a loyal and honest old wizard, but he is actually very cunning."
Wang: "How many rings does he have?"
Flint: "Back then, he was just a sixth-ring spellcaster, but now... I don't know."
"Eight Rings." The old man's voice came from the other side of the sound transmission stone, "Don't you want to meet your old friend? And I can smell it. Next to the statue of Kailin you carved, there is the aroma of Shire Pure Brew! Don't you want to share it with your old friend?"
Wang looked at the rest of the team and took the voice stone from Rosalie: "I am the captain of the salvation team. Are you here to join us?"
"No." The old man answered very straightforwardly, "I am also very busy. After all, I am already very old. If I don't want to turn into a lich, I have to find a way to gain eternity. So I..."
Wang: "I know the way to upgrade. Do you want to trade with me?"
"So I'm running around for this matter...wait, what did you say?" The old man's voice was very shocked.
Wang: "As for the method of upgrading, we have a lot of planeswalkers in our Mage Tower. This secret is not a secret in our Mage Tower."
As soon as he finished speaking, Flint pulled Wang's trouser leg hard: "Don't tell him! This guy will definitely find a way to trick your secret out!"
"How can you say it's a lie?" The old man laughed. "Of course I'm exchanging information for information. In fact, the rumor that the captain of the salvation team knows the secrets of all spells has spread, and many wizards are rushing here. I came here to trade with you."
Wang: "Then please come downstairs. I'll send the elevator up right away."
"Wait, elevator? It sounds like a Cyclops word. You are indeed an expert in Cyclops as rumored. Very good, that's very good." said the old man.
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A minute later, Wang met this old acquaintance of Flint.
He wore a blue peaked hat, a blue robe, and a huge beard that was almost as long and thick as Flint's, but it was totally unmanicured and looked like a tangled pile of weeds, and it was not waxed, so it looked dull and gray, as if it was about to turn to ashes.
After seeing Wang, the old man narrowed his eyes and said, "You do have a bookish air. You look like one of those bookish guys from the Austrian Mage Union. I heard that you are now in the third ring?"
Wang: "Fourth Ring, your intelligence is behind."
"Oh, you have already reached the fourth ring at such a young age, that's amazing. When I was your age, I had just mastered the second ring, and then I became the most promising future star in the Mage Tower." The old man looked sentimental.
Wang: "Mage Tower?"
Old man: "Yes, I am also from the Mage Tower, but the Mage Tower I belonged to was destroyed in the war with the Union of Arcane Law ninety-seven years ago."
Wang: "Ninety-seven years ago? How old are you this year?"
Old man: "Two hundred and seventeen years old. I know you will be wondering how a human who has not embraced eternity and has not transformed into a lich can..."
Wang: "The necklace on your neck, if I'm not mistaken, should be the reason why you can live so long."
The old man was stunned.
Flint laughed loudly. "You tried to keep us in suspense but failed! Although we are both from the Mage Tower, our captain is different from your Mage Tower that can be destroyed by the Union of Arcane Law. He was even raised by the Succubus Queen and the Devil Duke!"
The old man put the necklace around his neck into the collar of his robe awkwardly and hid it, muttering: "When did it escape? Why didn't I notice it?"
Wang: "The aura of that necklace is already very weak. It should be ineffective soon."
The old man sighed and said, "Yes, it is indeed about to lose its effect. I don't have age spots on my body, but look at this."
The old man rolled up his sleeves and showed the age spots on his arms: "Look! And my memory is getting worse and worse. Just now I really forgot that I still owed Flint two hundred gold coins."
As he spoke, the old man took out a dimensional bag from his pocket, and then took out a bag of gold coins from the dimensional bag.
Flint: "Is that exactly two hundred ducats?"
Old man: "Of course not, this is... I didn't order it!"
Flint: "You definitely ordered it, otherwise how can you be sure it's not exactly 200! There must be exactly a dozen missing, so you can perform a drama of using your belongings to pay off the debt! You have been trying to gain sympathy from the beginning! Wang, don't be fooled by him, there is a reason why their Mage Tower offended the Arcane Federation!"
Wang: "I don't mind two hundred gold coins, because we are rich."
The two princesses nodded together: "Yes."
Wang: "So Flint is very rich now. Elizabeth has already paid a deposit before setting off. So you don't need to mention the money, just tell me your purpose."
The old man sighed, "Okay. Let me get this straight. The main reason I came here is because I heard that you are an encyclopedic talent who has mastered all the secrets of magic. I want to find you to confirm the authenticity of the half scroll I got. Of course, I didn't expect you to directly trade the secret of ascension with me."
Wang: "There is actually nothing to keep secret about the secret of upgrading. Even if most people know how to upgrade, they can't gather enough materials. Naturally formed planeswalkers all achieve eternity through a relatively simplified method after their understanding of magic and the world reaches a certain level.
"Take this plane as an example. You can't get the key materials for the ascension ceremony in this plane. There are none here. You have to go to other planes to get the materials. And if you want to go to other planes, you have to understand the nature of magic and even the nature of the world to a certain level, and then you can cross the time and space isolation wall between the planes.
"But if you have reached this level, you can embrace eternity through a relatively simple ceremony. In fact, most planeswalkers ignite the spark and embrace eternity before gaining the ability to travel through planes."
Rosalie looked at Wang: "But you are different. Your Mage Tower has all kinds of materials, so you can use the ritual to force one of us to upgrade."
Wang: “No, generally speaking, you still have to get the materials for the Ascension Ceremony yourself, but you can use the Mage Tower as a transit point to collect materials from various planes.
"In other words, after reaching the ninth ring in the tower, collecting materials for the next level becomes like a graduation exam, and you have to complete it independently. Just like how we are dealing with the world-saving crisis now."
"Wait a minute!" The old wizard made a pause gesture, "Is it common for your wizard tower to reach the ninth ring?"
Wang: "Not really. In the past 18 years, I have only seen four people reach the ninth ring, and only one succeeded in upgrading. The others are just gathering materials."
With a thud, Flint's old acquaintance fainted on the ground.
Flint laughed out loud, looking very happy.
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Wang turned to look at Flint: "Is your old friend okay?"
Flint: "No problem. To be honest, I'm not sure if he was really scared or just acting. I think it's a bit of both. The main thing is that your wizard tower is too outrageous."
Wang: “Is it outrageous?”
"Yes, embracing eternity and becoming a planeswalker is just part of the graduation exam. Isn't that outrageous enough?" Flint said, "I heard from Karin herself that you planeswalkers are even troubled by gods because you can't kill them."
The old man who had just fainted sat up and exclaimed when he heard Flint's words: "You also saw Kailin?"
Wang: "He is now Kailin's messenger. Didn't I just say that?"
The old man frowned and asked, "You have become Kailin's messenger?"
Flint: "Yes, after I died, I was pulled into Kailin's sanctuary. I saw Kailin and four saints who had turned into women having a party. Then Kailin used her own musical instrument to reshape my body and sent me back."
King: "And we didn't know this, and wasted a scroll of Limited Wish and a scroll of Resurrection to revive him."
The king never mentioned that he had obtained the scroll of limited wishes from the lich who had just destroyed Shallow Water City.
The old man shook his head and said, "Well, compared to our previous team, your new team is indeed much more legendary, Flint."
Flint: "Don't tell me you want to join this team now?"
The old man shook his head: "No, since the knowledge of upgrading is just a piece of waste paper to a native of this plane like me, I decided to continue with the original plan and find a way to extend my life. Or is the captain of the salvation team also willing to trade the materials needed for upgrading?"
Wang: "How is that possible? I will have to worry about my own promotion in the future."
Old man: “That’s it.”
He pulled out a broken scroll from his dimensional bag. "I have a damaged scroll here. I believe it contains the spells used by the legendary wizards of the Cyclops Empire to prolong their lives."
Wang: "The spell that harvests the life of creatures within the range to increase your own lifespan?"
The old man smiled and said, "You do know. Then please take a look and see if this scroll is real."
Wang: "What can I gain by helping you identify the scroll?"
The old man took out a scroll from his dimensional bag and said, "This contains all the arrangements of the cult in Yisongzuo. Your next step is to go to Yisongzuo, right?"
Wang: "But we already know where to go to Yisongzuo."
The old man was embarrassed: "Do you know?"
Wang: "Yes. It was revealed by the top leaders of the cult themselves."
Old man: "Aren't you afraid that it's a trap? Intelligence requires cross-verification."
The king looked at Marika.
The drow elf who was the best at gathering intelligence in the team nodded and said, "Indeed, cross-verification of intelligence obtained from different sources to separate the true from the false is indeed the standard procedure for gathering intelligence."