The three of them arrived in front of the Second Wizard Tower.
The Defense Array Maria had set up back then still enveloped the Wizard Tower. The half-open door had been shut.
"Lord Thor, Lady Keli, please wait here while I go in and activate the Wizard Tower. Lord Thor didn't sign the Crystal Hub, so I'll need to act as an intermediary to control the tower."
Haili stepped forward and gently pushed the door open, then walked into the darkness.
Keli leaned closer. "Do you think he's connected to Wizard Murphy somehow? Otherwise, how could a Wizard Apprentice know so much—and even operate a Wizard Tower?"
"I suspect..." Thor studied the tall, slender Wizard Tower before him. "He might be descended from the Tier 4 Wizard who died here."
Thor had noticed that when Haili spoke of the Tier 4 Wizard who had died here, he didn't sound like an outsider.
Inside the Wizard Tower, Haili carefully cast a Fluorescence Spell. This Tier 0 Witchcraft was something almost every Apprentice could cast.
Yet his spell had a different effect in this Wizard Tower. The pale light suddenly drifted free of his palm and floated ahead like a firefly.
Haili hurried after it, going downstairs to the lowest level, where the Tier 3 Wizard had died.
The light hovered there for a while. Haili gave a wry smile. "Are you trying to tell me how the previous Tier 3 Wizard died? I wouldn't understand even if you did."
The light gave up and floated onward.
Muttering to himself, Haili walked through the Wizard Tower. He seemed much more at ease. "We can only wait for the results of Lady Maria's investigation. I hope this doesn't affect the Black Tide in a few days."
A Tier 3 Wizard had died just