Wizard: You can become stronger by living life to the fullest.

Chapter 161, Section 058: Exploring the Wizard's Tower

"No amount of anger will change anything now. That's how the wizarding world is: the victor is king, and the loser is slave."

The old man sighed, then pleaded, "Now that things have come to this, I have only one small request: stranger, please help me release the innocent souls here."

"They were originally my followers. I shouldn't have done this, but I had no choice at the time. I was still lacking some life energy to concoct the Holy Spirit Potion, and I didn't have enough time to find a sufficient substitute. War was imminent."

"Their flesh and blood, their lives, provided me with enough energy to finally complete the potion, but their souls were imprisoned here as a result."

"Refining the Holy Spirit Elixir has exhausted all my spiritual energy, leaving me unable to release them. Time also doesn't allow me to slowly recover my spiritual energy. All I can do is guide them into the defensive array here, letting them remain here temporarily as guardians."

"If I return, I will release them and repent for them. If I fail, stranger, you can take everything in this tower, on the condition that you help me release them."

The video ends there; Cleo's figure slowly blurs and eventually disappears.

Luo Xi sighed deeply.

Now he understood why there were such dense sparks of souls in the town, but he still couldn't see any of the townspeople's remains or any large-scale escape.

It seems these townspeople were directly refined by this potion-making sage. How cruel!

The image in the crystal ball disappeared, but a layer of light shone from beneath the thick dust next to it. After wiping away the dust, Rosie found a notebook containing various protective measures for the tower, essentially serving as the operating manual for this wizard's tower.

Over the centuries, most of the protective measures here have become ineffective, but the souls that survived the refining process remain trapped here for a long time.

Nilu asked curiously, "What is this, Brother Rosie?"

As the soul image disappeared, the strange energy reaction also dissipated, and she felt the pressure on her body decrease instantly.

Rosie licked his lips and explained, "It's the control manual for this wizard tower. With it, we can explore this wizard tower."

Nilu was taken aback: "What about those soul entities outside?"

Those things weren't exactly powerful, but they were certainly quite troublesome.

Looking at the manual, Rosie said, "I know how to deal with them."

It seems that the Potion Master exhausted his mental energy while concocting the Demon Seed Potion. These souls, stripped of their flesh and blood, were trapped in the tower and could not be released. In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further and destroying the Wizard Tower, the Potion Master incorporated them into the tower's original protective measures, making them the guardians of this place.

The methods for controlling these soul guardians are detailed in this notebook. Once you have them under your control, the soul guardians outside will no longer be a problem.

Luo Xi said, "Let's go, let's go for a walk."

He led Nilu to the outside stairwell. As soon as they appeared, it was as if they had smelled a delicious scent of the living. Countless ghosts flew in from all directions, completely filling the passageway.

"Intruder! Kill the intruder!"

"Kill them! Kill them!"

"All intruders must die! All of them must die!"

They stretched out their claws and necks, howling at Rosie and Nilu with resentment, looking as if they wanted to devour them alive.

Rosie summoned the Grim Reaper's scythe, wielding it to draw runes in the air while reciting the incantations word by word from the notes.

As the incantation was chanted, pale blue runes appeared in the air and floated towards the souls.

The previously noisy souls, upon seeing these runes, seemed to be switched on and suddenly stopped, then one by one they either disappeared into the walls or burrowed into the floor and ceiling, and the once noisy stairwell and corridor instantly became quiet.

"Finally done!"

Luo Xi breathed a sigh of relief. These things had been acting strangely and causing him a lot of headaches.

"Let's go see what treasures are here!"

Rosie enthusiastically led Nilu down the path.

He first went to the materials room on the third floor that he couldn't enter before. The materials room was enchanted with magic, and judging from the energy reaction, it was a relatively high-level magic enchantment, at least equivalent to the third or fourth ring.

This level cannot be forcibly opened by Rosie's brute force, and it cannot be broken in a day or two.

However, now that he had the operation manual, things were much easier. Luo Xi simply recited the corresponding incantation and drew the corresponding runes before entering the entrance, thus deactivating the entry system and entering the room.

"There's really a lot of good stuff!"

A sage, especially one renowned for his potion-making skills, the treasures in the Wizard Tower certainly did not disappoint Rosie.

Rows of shelves were filled with all sorts of materials: Dragon Blood Grass, Flower of Life, Crying Fruit. A quick glance at any of them, just the ones that Luo Xi could name, would easily cost tens of thousands of magic stones on the market.

"Haha, this is a real windfall!"

Luo Xi was overjoyed and immediately took out his spatial ring to store all the intact materials inside.

The only slight drawback is that many of the materials inside have spoiled and decayed due to the passage of time. Many magical materials also have a shelf life, and they will all rot over time if they are not specially preserved. Originally, there should have been corresponding preservation magic in this material room, but it has stopped working due to the passage of time.

These rotten materials occupied about 70-80% of the material room, which made Luo Xi feel a pang of heartache. After picking and choosing, he could only select 10-20% of the materials that had been preserved for a longer period of time.

Rosie roughly estimated that these items alone were worth over a million magic stones.

"Truly worthy of being called a sage."

According to Cleo, he had previously used up most of the materials to concoct a potion, and the war preparations probably also cost him some money, as many of the shelves here have been emptied.

War, potion-making, and now most of it has rotted away, yet what remains still exceeds a million magic stones, which shows how wealthy this wizard's tower was before.

These materials are only one part of the wealth within the Wizard's Tower, and not even the most valuable part.

(End of this chapter)