Chapter 1110 - 863: Invitation to the Ancient Mage Tower

The news of the ancient powerhouses’ mysterious disappearances spread, causing a stir among their circles. They vaguely knew what was happening and almost everyone hoped that the Ancient Mage Tower would take them away soon, including the young ancient warrior Paganir.

He was considered young because, among the many ancient warriors, he was relatively younger. Nevertheless, he was over a hundred years old.

Paganir had not taken part in any action for or against Long Yi and believed that his strength was insufficient to make such a move. It turned out he was right, as no calamities had befallen him. But he was still filled with nervousness, convinced that Long Yi would not let them, the ancient powerhouses, off the hook.

So he always looked forward to the arrival of the Ancient Mage Tower.

Regrettably, instead of the Ancient Mage Tower, they were visited by Long Yi and Ai Lin.

Seeing Long Yi appear, Paganir’s legs went weak with fear. He didn’t even think of running away and could only steel himself to face the arrival of Long Yi and Ai Lin.

"Mr. Paganir, hello," Long Yi greeted politely.

"Honorable Mr. Long Yi, hello," Paganir’s voice trembled.

"Actually, we came here to visit you and also to casually inquire whether you’ve received any invitations recently?" Long Yi asked as he approached.

If I had received an invitation, would I still be standing here looking at you two? Paganir felt like crying and he shook his head hard, "No, absolutely not."

Long Yi, looking at the other’s expression, knew he definitely wasn’t lying.

"Well then, the thing is, we are planning to invite you to stay somewhere else for a while. How does that sound to you?" Long Yi asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Paganir dared not say no.

Then, Ai Lin immediately took Paganir away in secret, while Long Yi disguised himself as Paganir and stayed in his place. As expected, two days later, a man descended out of nowhere outside Paganir’s residence and knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Long Yi asked, imitating Paganir’s slightly panicked tone.

"A messenger bringing you an opportunity to enjoy glory," the person outside said.

Long Yi went to open the door, and sure enough, the visitor was dressed as a messenger from the Ancient Mage Tower.

"May I ask who you are?" Long Yi asked, feigning confusion.

"As you can see, I am from the great Ancient Mage Tower, and I bring an invitation from Master Elma, inviting you to enter the Ancient Mage Tower," the messenger said.

"Go to the Ancient Mage Tower? This..." Long Yi turned away, pretending to ponder.

"You must seize this opportunity. Right now, Long Yi is planning to unify the entire Plane, and you ancient powerhouses are precisely the stumbling blocks in his plan. Many ancient powerhouses have already joined the Ancient Mage Tower seeking refuge. I think, as wise as you are, you definitely shouldn’t pass up this chance."

As he spoke, the messenger handed over a scroll that seemed able to directly transport one to the Ancient Mage Tower.

Long Yi’s heart leapt with joy, Elma you old fool, hiding from me, are you? Today I’m going to storm back! he thought.

"In that case... I accept!" Long Yi received the scroll and attempted to activate it, but the entire scroll suddenly turned into a pile of ashes!

"You’re not Master Paganir! Who are you really!" the messenger shouted, adopting a stance ready for attack.

"You’ll soon find out who I am!" Long Yi didn’t give the man a chance, rushing forward and knocking him out with a punch. To prevent him from secretly using the scroll to escape, Long Yi also sealed his Mana.

By then, Ai Lin had also arrived and, seeing Long Yi holding the messenger with one hand, asked with a laugh, "Did the plan fail?"

Long Yi, looking annoyed, retorted, "That old scoundrel Elma is really something. The scroll actually discriminates by person, it burned to ashes the moment I touched it."

Ai Lin immediately burst into laughter, "After all, he’s lived so many years, if he didn’t have that bit of cunning, wouldn’t it be a life wasted?"

Long Yi couldn’t help but laugh as well, "I knew it was a long shot, but still, had to try, right? What if it had worked?"

Ai Lin glanced at the person Long Yi was holding in his hand, "How should we deal with this person?"

Long Yi lifted him up, shook him, and said, "Quite simple, hand him over to Little Zi."

Long Yi took the envoy back to the Sanctuary Empire, while Ai Lin returned to The Divine Auffa Empire. At this time, Little Zi was carrying out routine inspections on the warriors to ensure there were no internal spies. In fact, Little Zi had long since cast mental magic on all the warriors; she was merely checking whether this magic had been altered. Any act of betrayal or espionage would cause the spell to change, and all Little Zi needed to do was to ensure the spell remained intact.

When Long Yi returned, the envoy had already awakened, but since he was unable to cast magic, he couldn’t use scrolls to escape. Seeing Long Yi carrying someone from afar, Little Zi immediately sauntered over with a playful laugh.

"What should we do with this person?" asked Little Zi, feeling frustrated for not being able to participate in the last two battles. Thus, she naturally wouldn’t let go of a person delivered to her doorstep.

"I need him to become one of our people, but at the same time, he himself mustn’t know it. He will use all safe means to pass messages for us, and he will ensure that he himself is absolutely undetected," Long Yi said.

Little Zi thought carefully for a while, "Unless we create a new personality for him, the second personality shares the first one’s memories, but the first does not know about the second."

Long Yi nodded and said, "Sounds credible, difficult?"

Little Zi immediately smiled, "Brother Long, your little maid is not just good for doing chores and being cute, you know."

Little Zi’s strength was something Long Yi was very aware of, so his question was merely one out of habit, and of course, he knew that Little Zi would handle everything perfectly.

In about two days’ time, Little Zi had created a second personality within the individual’s mind, who was absolutely loyal to Little Zi and Long Yi. He would do his utmost to pass on intelligence for Long Yi, but his primary task was to ensure his own safety, because only by doing so could he pass on more information.

After the ordeal, Little Zi fabricated a segment of memory for him, making him believe that he had successfully escaped the moment he first met Long Yi. Then, Long Yi planted this spy within the Ancient Mage Tower.

With this experience under his belt, Long Yi got hooked. He simply took Little Zi and headed straight for the hideouts of various ancient powerhouses. Lou Aran provided him with a list; following the names on the list, Long Yi paid visit after visit, capturing several envoys to become his own spies.

The memories of these envoys were similar—they encountered Long Yi or Ai Lin while delivering invitations, then they fought desperately to escape, but the ancient powerhouses had already vanished.

Such memories wouldn’t arouse anyone’s suspicions because it was exactly what Long Yi would do. Once these envoys returned to the Ancient Mage Tower, their second personalities would manipulate them to pass messages to each other. Any useful information obtained by anyone would be shared, and as soon as any one of them got a chance, the information would be passed on to Long Yi.

However, it seems that the Ancient Mage Tower’s decision to oppose Long Yi to the end has not wavered in the slightest, but in what form will these ancient powerhouses reappear before Long Yi?

Gathering the entire Plane to oppose the Ancient Mage Tower, what kind of situation is this? No Emperor of any nation had ever dared to imagine such an occurrence because, until recently, the Ancient Mage Tower was the symbol of the supreme power of this Plane. And now, nearly all countries on the Plane are striving to oppose the Ancient Mage Tower—whether sincerely or not, at least that is what they are doing.

Of course, it was unrealistic to expect those nations to directly send troops, although they were equally furious at the Ancient Mage Tower for trying to invade their countries. However, getting them to truly stand up against the Ancient Mage Tower was something they currently didn’t have the courage for. Being able to provide resources was already their limit.

On the other hand, neither Emperor Saint Danze of the Sanctuary Empire nor Emperor Saint Jialin of The Divine Auffa Empire actually hoped that these countries would really send troops to join the resistance against the Ancient Mage Tower. Because once they sent troops, these two great Empires would inevitably have to share their Divine Mages and Divine Armors with them, and frankly, they were not that generous. Thus, both Emperors would rather have these nations act like timid turtles, dutifully handing over resources while they left the task of maintaining peace on the Plane to their two nations.

For a while, there was no movement from either side. Thus, the long preparations for war finally began.

Meanwhile, the messengers sent back to serve as insiders began to return with some internal news. Elma was preparing to implement the Crystal Core Mage Project internally. Of course, the specifics of this project were known to only a very few people, so no one knew exactly what he planned to do yet. Another piece of news that piqued Long Yi’s interest was that the Ancient Mage Tower had somehow found Landers and was trying to persuade him to join, but Landers had reacted cautiously to this invitation and requested a few days to consider it.

Since I’ve found you this time, how could I let you go?

Long Yi immediately headed to that planet with Little Zi, for the information provided was very detailed, even including the exact room where Landers was staying. Thus, Long Yi easily found the location, which was a small town in a minor country. The town was sparsely populated, and most of the people knew each other, so the sudden appearance of two strangers was rather conspicuous. Therefore, Long Yi and Ai Lin disguised themselves as merchants and followed a caravan into the town, stopping near the apartment where Landers was staying. Almost at the same time, Long Yi noticed a dozen people monitoring the residence of Landers.

No surprise, these disguised individuals were definitely from the Ancient Mage Tower.

Little Zi took the lead and used psychic magic to leave a solitary individual behind from whom they learned about these people. There were twenty of them in total, with thirteen currently here and the other seven responsible for the night and currently asleep.

Upon careful observation, Long Yi indeed saw only twelve people, and together with the one they had in hand, there were exactly thirteen.

These thirteen individuals were also insignificant figures within the Ancient Mage Tower, with low authority and average strength, having come here purely to run errands.

What intrigued Long Yi, however, was that the Ancient Mage Tower would send twenty people to look for him, obviously determined to succeed. But Long Yi did not believe that they truly intended to wait for Landers’ response here, as the only purpose to have so many people in this place was certainly to forcefully take Landers back.

What exactly does the Ancient Mage Tower want to obtain from Landers?

Could it be the Reverse Summoning Magic? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets on Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)