Dawn of the Grey Tower

Two things can be determined now. First, what cheese did just now is by no means the only way to enter the Totem School area without being affected by emptiness. The reason is simple. If you have to do the same sequence every time you enter and exit, it will be a waste of physical strength and energy, not to mention that it will delay urgent news.

Therefore, teachers and students of the Totem School, at least adult mages, must have their way through totems. Secondly, since there is such a wooden sign standing here, the meaning of it is very clear. The stealth plan that Cheese hopes to achieve may have failed when he stepped into the void, and even turned into a laughing stock.

So how should he react? In other words, what is his mood now? Snakes and lizards are not stupid, on the contrary, whether it is a foreign object transformed by a wizard or a demon lurking in humans, they are extremely smart or can be said to be cunning. Such obvious things are naturally clear to them, so two On the contrary, the person did not make a sound, but silently observed the gray robe, wanting to see how the cheese would react.

The well-planned action becomes a joke in the layout that you think you can see through. How should people react at this time? Pretend to be calm? Take a hit? Or is it angry and furious, and walk away? In cheese, these emotions may have existed, but they all faded quickly.

What really stays behind is thinking, thinking about the gains and losses of doing this, and thinking about where this set of mysterious entrance tests is excellent.

He was thinking and waiting, waiting for someone from the Totem School to contact him or expel him. After all, he ran to other people’s teaching area in the middle of the night. He is a wizard who is not in the system of ten thousand laws. He really has nothing to refute. Moreover, he is a wizard of ten thousand laws. The disputes between different schools are also extremely fierce, stealing research results. Such things have long been commonplace.

It's just that he waited for a long time and didn't wait for anything.

Seeing the sky gradually turning towards dawn, Cheese knew he couldn't wait any longer. No matter what circumstances the other party has not come, he should now proceed according to the plan, time is precious.

Of course, the cautious mage had subconsciously determined that his whereabouts were understood, and he had no luck on this issue. The deepest darkness before dawn put a coat on the gray robe, and he walked forward, although the time for rest has passed, the look in his eyes is still full.

This allowed him to successfully arrive at the place indicated by Weidao before the night was over. It was a large willow tree with luxuriant branches and leaves that made it difficult to see the trunk.

The willow tree, it reminds people of spring, thinking of the thawing river flowing over the ice that has not completely melted, and the whole world is full of sprouting vitality. But those slender branches and leaves that swing with the wind occasionally remind people of twisted snakes, centipedes or human bodies.

Moreover, the willow tree shouldn't be so luxuriant in this season. Judging from the appearance of this tree, it seems to have no idea what winter is. This is not very reasonable, but also very reasonable.

Cheese walked around the willow tree twice, and he could conclude that the tree had a similar effect to the previous totem pole, and it stood up as a kind of secret door.

The difference is that in terms of privacy alone, this willow tree is much more difficult to build than a totem pole. Its overly dense wicker makes it a natural keeper of secrets. For those who don’t know it, open it. What the branches and leaves can see is probably just the trunk of an ordinary willow tree.

"Do you have a way to solve it?" Gray Robe usually doesn't ask for help easily. He is used to solving problems on his own, so he knows very well that it is decidedly fast to solve the puzzle by his ability alone. It's impossible.

"Perhaps you can try to start from the biological level. No matter how the tree is transformed, it is an independent biological entity. You can connect to its root and gain insight into its life state."

This suggestion comes from the former life school mage Bophis, or the female mage in Bophis's consciousness. However, Cheese did not see the exposed roots on the surrounding ground, which meant that he could not directly connect.

"Let me say, it's better to cover it with smoke. You know, smoke is pervasive. They will tell us the secrets hidden under the green shoots." Weidao gave a different view.

As a demon, his advice has both a devil’s unique style and a restraint. If another demon comes, the suggestion it may give is to burn the tree instead of using smoke to gain insight. .

"The smoke is too conspicuous. If I open the ground to find the roots of the willow tree, it will also have a lot of momentum. I should break through here with a more gentle and secretive method." Cheese said softly.

His eyes turned quickly, and his thoughts had flown across many levels while he was speaking. It seems that Gray Robe only rejected the suggestions given by the two consultants, but in fact, he understood the starting point and thinking of the two suggestions. Start with the symbolic object, and start with the penetrating substance that the symbolic object cannot block. So is it possible to combine the two?

No, there is no need to combine, just a little compromise.

This willow tree must know the secret it is hiding, he just needs to ask it. Thinking of this, Cheese stepped back and walked around the willow tree again, but this time, he walked very slowly.

The aura of magic beats in his eyes, providing him with visual perception capabilities that ordinary people cannot experience. He didn't want to directly combine his consciousness with the trees like a druid. What he called asking was actually observing.

The appearance and the inside of things are related. Even if it is disguised, the disguise itself is also a kind of connection. For a less appropriate example, the secret room will be found, often because it is used too frequently.

This includes the different degrees of wear on the spine of a book on the shelf, abnormal friction marks on the floor under the cabinet, or a broken wooden board because it is often opened. Creatures are more secretive than these dead things, because the willow is alive, and it will repair those traces by itself.

But creatures are also more honest than those dead. Because its first priority is its own survival, if people often enter and exit in a certain direction, there will be something abnormal there.

Of course, this kind of inference is very subjective, and it is based on the fact that the observer can perceive very subtle differences, and most of the time, those subtle differences cannot be found at all.

But magic has the same nature, and the magic that a person of character masters will often conform to his character and way of doing things, just like a warrior will always use his best weapon on the battlefield.

The spells that Cheese masters are especially insights or observations. After all, his talent in prophecy is really not good, and his mastery of symbolic spells is not strong enough to obtain additional enlightenment, so it is necessary to strengthen his senses. It became an important means for him to understand the external environment.

So why didn't he "see" the problem in the first place? In fact, the answer is very simple, just like the situation in the void just now. To be aware of it, you need to presuppose it first.

A hungry person will first observe the food, and a dynamic vision person can catch the movements of tiny insects. Similarly, when cheese wants to observe the relationship between the growth of the willow tree and the magic contained in it, he can only notice it. Things to notice.

"Okay, I see the entrance."