Arcane Lord

She couldn't wait for a moment. Since the Mage Tower was intact, why did her father die suddenly? Even if she might be in danger, she couldn't care so much.

"Master, the Tower of Time is damaged and cannot guide the teleportation."

Taling's feedback made Niya's heart sink again, "What happened over there? How could my father..."

"..." The tower spirit paused at first, and then replied: "The high elf mage is coming, Mage Epps, Mage Epps, Mage Epps——"

Speaking of the latter, the tower spirit started to freeze again, which made Niya feel angry. Fortunately, the communication between the tower spirit and the tower owner was not just words, but also a deeper exchange of information.

After receiving Niya's subconscious signal that she wanted to obtain more detailed information, Talling immediately received a series of sensory images——

From the arrival of the Mage Tower and the confinement of the Elf Mage, to the sudden change of the Mystery Lock and the arrival of the High Mage, to the High Mage's repeated attempts to no avail, at the cost of the destruction of the Mystery Lock, he rushed into the Mage Tower and took away the Stardew Scepter, and That last finger.

At the end, Niya exclaimed, "Father is not dead?!"

Tarling didn't respond, but Niya had already determined that her father was not dead. She really couldn't accept the reality of his death. She rubbed her cheeks and Niya tried to pretend to be relaxed.

Although the mage tower is currently damaged and my father is injured, the enemy has disappeared and everything will be fine!

"By the way, where's Uncle Aibo?"

Only then did she remember that Aiboike had been teleported in advance. The message from the tower spirit just now did not mention Aiboike, and Niya was filled with doubts.

With thoughts in his mind, the tower spirit immediately began to reply, "Master, Master Aibok was affected by the destruction of the Mystery Lock and is in a coma!"

Then a picture came from the tower spirit. Ai Burke's robe was damaged and he fell not far from the Tower of Time, just in the chaotic area of ​​​​the magic network. However, those randomly generated magic effects disappeared on their own after touching Ai Burke's body. Dissolve.

"It's Uncle Aibo!"

Niya knew that Aiboike had advanced to become an arcanist. The arcane fire could passively comb the magic network, but it was hard to predict how much effect it would have when the arcanist was unconscious.

Maybe you can be immune to level 0 and level 1 spells, but more advanced spells——

"Tower Spirit, is there any way for me to return to the Tower of Time immediately?"

Not only because of Ai Burke, Niya also wanted to confirm her father's condition. Although he seemed to be fine now, the sudden start of the inheritance process still cast a shadow on Niya's heart.

"Master, no!"

But Taling also gave two alternatives -

One is to ask the mages currently in the Tower of Time to repair the relevant magic circles so that the guidance and transmission function can be restored.

The other is to start the upgrade process, which is the reverse operation of the downgrade process. Doing so can restore related functions immediately, but the damage to the mage tower itself will not be repaired. Doing so will make it impossible to downgrade again before repair.

The low-energy state of the Mage Tower is to replace high-level magic circles with a large number of low-level magic circles. After upgrading, the damaged low-level magic circles will be replaced with intact high-level magic circles.

The highest energy level of the Tower of Time is level 11, which means that it has 11 backup arrays. (The level of the mage tower array is high and has nothing to do with the actual combat power. It can maintain the 11th level combat power even if it is in a low energy state).

Of course, considering that some magic arrays involve various energy levels at the same time, the number of backup magic arrays that can actually be used does not reach 11 sets.

Now Niya faces two choices, one is to wait for the mage in the mage tower to repair it, the other is to take the risk of not being able to downgrade and upgrade to obtain full functionality.

In this way, once you encounter an enemy who can isolate the magic network and cannot lower the energy level to maintain combat power, the mage tower will be no different from a stone tower.

"Execute the upgrade procedure!" Niya said without any hesitation.

The current mage tower has been damaged and key functions have been lost. It is hard to say whether it can continue to be downgraded. Rather than waiting for a fix, upgrade first to get full functionality.

As for the enemies who can isolate the magic network, Niya can't look so far away. She should look at the present first. Without the teleportation function, not only people outside can't get in, but people inside can't get out either.

"Master, the upgrade program is being executed, please wait-"

The higher the energy level of the mage tower, the higher the efficiency. Upgrading and downgrading are also related to this. The higher the energy level, the faster the upgrade and downgrade speed.

The Tower of Time is currently in the 6th ring state, so in fact only the magic circle in the 6th ring state is damaged, and these damages may involve the magic circle in a lower energy level state.

However, the upgrade will avoid these damaged magic circles and replace them with fewer high-level magic circles, so that full functions can be obtained. In contrast, after upgrading, you cannot downgrade again because the relevant magic circle has been damaged.

While waiting, Niya paced back and forth between the pillars, and from time to time she prayed towards the main hall inside.

The cheers of the celebration outside are still continuing, hitting the temple from time to time, but Niya seems to have not heard any sound, and is looking forward to the completion of the upgrade!

But she has to leave later, and the follow-up of the celebration must be handled well. For now, Uncle Aibo and her phantom are still maintained by her. Once she leaves, the phantom will dissipate.

There has to be an explanation.

Otherwise, if the mage tower disappears in the front and the acting lord disappears in the back, the lord himself will never show up, and we don’t know what trouble will happen later!

The excuse for a secret experiment can be hidden from ordinary people, but it cannot be hidden from the members of the Tower of Time.

Niya was pacing and looking for excuses. After a moment, the tower spirit sent a message, "The upgrade is completed. The current level is 7. The function recovery progress is 87%. It can guide teleportation."

well--

Now that it has started, she is not afraid to continue to the end. Niya calmly ordered: "Continue to upgrade!"

However, she did not have to wait until all functions were restored before teleporting. She couldn't wait any longer. After a few words with Bishop Ambril, who was presiding with her, Niya controlled the two phantoms to come to the temple and let them dissipate.

"Tower spirit, guide the teleportation!"

…

On the other side, inside the Tower of Time.

Xia Duo was checking around the residence. Just now, the magic network suddenly became disordered, accompanied by a rapid and short-lived strong earthquake. Although it soon returned to normal, he could no longer calm down.

He had guessed before that an enemy might be attacking the mage tower. Although the tower spirit sounded an alarm and the spell laboratory was deactivated, it did not have much impact after all.

But now, the sudden disorder of the magic network is very abnormal, at least Xia Duo has never encountered such a thing before.

Not to mention the inside of the Wizard Tower, even in the normal outside world, he had never seen such an abnormal state of the magic network. He felt that something must have happened outside!

Or maybe the mage tower is already at a disadvantage and is about to be attacked by the enemy?

Xia Duo was suddenly startled, and suddenly had a bad premonition. He quickly put all the things he could put away into his personal space, and blessed himself with protective spells.

Then, while testing the tower spirit that had not responded since the alarm was issued, he patiently waited for possible escape opportunities.