Tifeng Empire, southwest border.

The winter rain mixed with fine snowflakes kept falling, and a chaotic curtain was poured out in the dim skylight in the evening. The continuous rain, the gloomy sky, and the fog in the mountains were entangled and mixed together, making the whole world appear blurred and hazy.

In this vague and hazy world, the poor border mountain village fell into darkness early. The mountain people who had no money to buy lamp oil could only hide in the dark room in this bad weather. While relying on the small fire to keep warm, they looked at the ancient black spire standing on the top of the mountain with a little horror.

Several windows on the top of the black spire were emitting strange dark red light, while unknown dark clouds were covering the spire. The chaotic and hazy rain seemed to be summoned by those lights, making the whole world dark and wet.

The crazy old magician was doing those terrible things again - the superstitious mountain people closed the window uneasily, whispered the gods they believed in at home, and hoped that the curse of the black magician would not come to him.

At the top of the magic tower, Mary and several other apprentices did not know what the superstitious and ignorant villagers in the mountain village were thinking, and even if they knew, they had no interest in paying attention.

These apprentices were nervously setting up the laboratory, placing various magical materials in the right place as the instructor ordered. A large brazier was burning in the middle of this stone-made room, and an unusually colored red flame jumped in the brazier, and the flame was like blood shaking in the air.

The old magician stood in the center of a magic circle next to the brazier, injecting magic power into the circle while staring at every apprentice's movement with his gloomy eyes. He was not wearing the black robe, and the artificial nerve cord spread out from his spine position and slowly wriggled behind him, like a poisonous snake.

An apprentice accidentally shook his hand while spilling amethyst dust into the brazier. The sparks burst out rippled in circles in the air. The apprentice immediately looked at his mentor in horror, but the old magician just glared at him fiercely: "Be careful! You waste!"

The apprentice was relieved with great gratitude and quickly continued the work at hand with a more careful attitude.

While using special tools, Mary poured liquid mixed with ore powder, blood of the beast, and magic grass juice into the rune groove on the floor, she secretly glanced at her instructor.

Since the last time he "connected", the old mage Daniel's condition has become increasingly wrong.

Although he always acted crazy in the past, would punish his apprentices for no reason, and would conduct various creepy experiments, the old mage's mistake this time was different from before. He seemed to be frightened and under huge but unspeakable pressure. He seemed particularly nervous. He drove the apprentices to set up countless spiritual defense arrays in the magic tower almost sleeplessly, and carved countless new runes on himself. He had to meditate for a long time to fall asleep, and woke up in nightmare more than once...

Other apprentices don’t know why, but Mary suspects that this series of abnormal behaviors are related to the “connection” made by the instructor last time.

The instructor said he made a deal with a terrible existence... so all this was caused by that deal? Is that "terrible existence" that frightened the powerful magician to this extent?

What a terrifying monster that would be...

Mary didn't dare to ask the instructor details. She could only lower her head and do her job silently, begging not to make mistakes in the process and not to be punished by the old wizard. And she knew that others might think so too.

Finally, all the magic runes were set, and the braziers and magic tools used for the ceremony were in the correct position and state. The old magician took a look at the situation in the laboratory and waved his hand anxiously: "Get out!"

The apprentices were as if they were amnesty and quickly left the laboratory one by one.

"Mary! Stay behind!" The old mage's vicious voice came from behind.

The young low-level female mage's body trembled involuntarily, but she did not dare to disobey the mentor's orders, so she could only try to calm down her heartbeat. Then she slowly turned her head and came to the old mage respectfully.

"You, put your hand out!"

Mary obeyed the order almost numbly, raised her left hand and handed it over, then she watched the old wizard grab her arm and stabbed her with a dagger.

At this moment, she almost pulled her hand back, but in the end she stopped this action that might bring terrible punishment.

After the sharp pain, the female mage's blood flowed out of the wound and floated strangely in the air.

Daniel casually outlined a few runes in the air with a blood-stained dagger. The blood from Mary was then pulled, floating towards the brazier in the center of the room, and quickly swallowed by the flames inside.

"Okay... OK..." the old mage murmured nervously, "Mix the blood of the sacrificer into the ritual process, so that the extraterritorial wanderers should be transferred to the sacrificer... and with these misleading and defensive runes around me, I will be safe, I will be safe..."

Before Mary could hear the old mage's meaning clearly, she was pushed hard by the latter behind her back: "Go, stand in the middle of the magic circle, hurry!"

Mary glanced at the magic circle, judged it from the mysterious knowledge she had mastered, and then recalled her mentor's previous words, and finally realized what this terrible old master wanted to do-

This old man wanted to deceive the terrible existence who had made a deal with him. He wanted to treat himself as a sacrifice and a scapegoat!

But she had no time to resist. She had already stepped into the magic circle, and a powerful force sucked her firmly in place!

And even if she was not sucked by the magic circle, she knew that the result would not change. She didn't dare and was powerless to resist...

Daniel watched the dark red runes light up one by one, while the most silent female apprentice who was usually standing obediently within the magic circle, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The time he agreed with the rogues outside the domain will soon come, but he will make his last struggle - he has already set up dozens of protective magic circles in this mage tower, and has set up a large number of protective spells on himself. So much protection may be enough to resist the arrival of rogues outside the domain...

He also used Mary as a misleading medium to push it into the magic circle, which is also a layer of insurance.

What if an out-of-domain wanderer discovers this "fake"?

Then I would like to blame all the mistakes on this female apprentice, saying that she broke into the magic circle at the critical moment of the ceremony, which caused trouble to the great extraterritorial wanderers...

Daniel felt his mind swelling and his thinking slowly became chaotic. He looked at the female apprentice in the magic circle and suddenly felt a little confused, wondering when the other party became his apprentice, wondering why he stood here, wondering why he wanted to hurt an innocent child...

A few messy and broken scenes suddenly popped up in his mind. He saw a younger self standing in a dilapidated mage tower. He saw a little girl who was only about ten years old running to him rashly, and saw himself preparing food for the little girl...

Daniel was stunned for a moment and rushed up to rescue Mary, but as soon as he took action, his mind fell into chaos again.

The end of the road, the magical power of the eternal sleeper, the joy of exploring the truth and achieving great success...

He looked at Mary fiercely, waiting for the moment when the protections he set up to block out the extraterritorial wanderers.

Then, his eyes shaking, and an endless world composed of clear sky and boundless water surface quickly unfolded beside him, countless huge metal platforms floated onto the water, while the outworld wanderer stood in front of him with a smile.

The protective measures he set up were of no effect - Mary, who was misleading, came in use at all.

"Lord...my lord..."

The old mage's always chaotic thinking finally woke up in this virtual world. He instantly realized how stupid his actions were and tried to remedy them.

However, Gao Wen did not care about the old master's attitude at all, nor did he even realize that the other party had taken any protection before-

Because he did not connect to this old mage through "invasion" at all, the last time he kicked the other party out of the network, he left an open port in his mind and dug up a corresponding backdoor on the network...

This is also one of the achievements of his research on the spiritual network technology of the Eternal Sleeper for a period of time.

He believes that those eternal sleepers who have always focused on improving their personal strength and still only know how to use traditional spiritual protection spells to protect their minds and consciousness will definitely not be able to discover this new operation based on network architecture...

The old mage looked at the "outsider wanderer" in front of him with a little surprise, and a doubt arose in his heart - why is this non-human existence in front of him not angry? Isn't his own protection and misleading an offense and betrayal to him?

Gao Wen finally noticed the old mage's weirdness and asked casually: "Why are you nervous?"

The old mage was stunned for a moment and quickly lowered his head: "I... no, I just felt a little panic because I was summoned by you again."

He suddenly understood why the extraterritorial wanderer in front of him ignored his "small moves".

Because this powerful existence didn't feel his little resistance at all...

The dozens of layers of mental protection barriers in the mage tower, the countless protective runes on his body, and the ritual scene specially arranged by Mary, the combined obstacle force generated by the ritual scene has not yet reached the level that can be perceived by the "outsiders"...

"Don't be nervous, let's sit down and talk slowly." Gao Wen waved his hand to create tea tables, seats, tea and snacks and other things, and instructed Daniel to sit down.

Daniel sat down carefully, because he felt guilty, so he didn't even look at Gao Wen.

He heard the calm voice coming from the opposite side: "I have something left to you to do."

"Just give me the order..."
Chapter completed!