067. "Snake Hair Care Guide"
As a former mage, Talos heard the name of the Oriental Freeport when he was receiving magic enlightenment. He checked the relevant pictures on the Magic Network, but it was far less shocking than what he saw with his own eyes.
Although it is called the Oriental Freeport, it has never been just a port city.
The first thing that hit Talos's sight was a towering and straight round tower in the distance, which was in the shape of a round platform, with a lead-gray exterior wall, huge and thick walls, and each layer had a cylindrical support of the same size. The style was very similar to the Romanesque building in his previous life. With Talos's eyes, he could not see the top of the building hidden above the thick clouds.
Recognizing Talos's gaze, Frederick introduced: "The Tower of Babel, the most prestigious in the Nine Rings Parliament, will be held there in five days."
A piece of familiar information automatically emerged in Talos's mind:
Tower of Babel, a magical building preserved from the ancient Arcane Empire period, is also known as the "Tower in the Cloud" and the "Tower of the Sky". It is 3,500 feet high and has a total of 400 floors, of which 300 floors are on the surface and 100 floors underground. It is the pinnacle of the ancient Arcane Empire's Mage Tower technology.
It is so tall and magnificent that the internal area is not under a small city, so that a tower spirit comparable to the intelligent AI in the previous life cannot handle all matters. The mages had to set up a total of thirteen tower spirits to manage different functional areas respectively to ensure the normal operation of the Tower of Babel.
The basic building materials of the Tower of Babel are special stones made of obsidian, diamond, gold sand, magic ingots doped with a small amount of elemental gems, star silver and other magic materials, and artificially synthesized by the power of the empire. They are the hardest stone in the world and have good magic characteristics. Each symbol and pattern with very beautiful feeling on the tower is a master-level enchantment.
Around the Tower of Babel, there are six sub-towers arranged in the direction of the hexagram, which are only half the height of the main tower. Together with the Tower of Babel, they form the most indestructible headquarters and symbol of the Nine Rings Parliament.
There are rumors that the legendary mages of the enchanted faction of the Nine Rings Parliament tried to cast activation spells on the entire Tower of Babel (along with six sub-towers), but they failed because the project was too difficult.
Since it is the holy land of the main material plane spell caster, the Mage Tower is an indispensable part of the Eastern Free Harbor. As far as Talos knows, this city (including the sky, surface, underground, and ocean) is large and small, with as many as 300 Mage Towers in a forest. Their original owners were all a legendary wizard.
Then, Talos turned his gaze to the distant sky, and a huge floating city was suspended about 1,000 feet from the sea.
If necessary, it will become an air fortress in less than ten seconds, and cooperate with the construction of strategic weapons such as mage towers, magic magic launchers, magic crystal pulse cannons, etc., which burst out with extremely terrifying destructive power.
Perhaps it was because of fear of the great power of the gods, or perhaps it was simply showing its strength as a deterrent. In the two thousand years after the establishment of the Nine Rings Parliament, the mages invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and successively built a total of nine floating cities to protect the Eastern Free Port.
Twenty minutes later, under Frederick, Talos drove a magic carpet to the floating city and came to a magic manor above it, where Sandra was waiting for him.
——Magic flying carpets, flying brooms, and aerial carriages are the most common means of transportation in the Eastern Freeport. Of course, various teleportation arrays are indispensable.
According to convention, Talos will report to Sandra one by one from the last time he arrived at the Antarctic waters through the space gate and met with Dolores, even though some important things had been mentioned through the Magic Net Ring before.
The mother tree of the undead in the Underwater Palace, the great wizard Harvey who smuggled from the lower plane, the Titans on the Andes, and the ascetic in the desert, handed the gift intact to the Sand Mountain Chief Safiros...
When he and Dolores handed the gifts to Saferos one after another, Talos finally couldn't help asking a question that he had been holding back for a long time: "Doles said that you, the Ice Witch and the Sand Mountain Chief are both snake-haired banshees, is that true?"
Talos naturally believed in the conclusion given by Dolores at the time, but some things still need to be witnessed once, after all, hearing is false and seeing is true.
"good."
Sandra admitted openly that the dark and golden long hair was windless, and bunches of hair gathered together, twisted, thrust, and deformed, and quickly turned into poisonous snakes. The originally quiet room seemed to suddenly become a terrifying snake cave that made people's hearts break, and the creepy snake hissings echoed everywhere.
For a moment, Sandra's temperament was different.
In the past, the first impression given by the Black Sea lord was based on the indifference and alienation brought by power and identity. The appearance of snake hair shrouded her a mysterious and terrifying halo, making people unable to show the courage to look at her.
Of course, I dare not look at each other. Anyone who looks at the snake-haired banshee will become a statue of a soul trapped in it in the next second, except for Talos.
This was the first time that young Naga saw the legendary snake-haired banshee's appearance, so she did not suppress the vigorous curiosity and carefully observed it.
I saw the poisonous snake entrenched on Sandra's head, like the strange snake that Talos saw in the gift box that day, was covered with fine dark golden scales, but it was different in length, which was more than 4 feet long and only 1.5 feet short. The sharp and curved fangs could be clearly seen in the open mouth, and they looked very ferocious.
Probably because he lived as Naga for too long, further recognized the snake characteristics on his body, or because the other party was his biological mother, he was sure that he would not hurt himself. In short, before Talos reacted, he had already extended his right middle arm to one of the snake hairs.
"Shit-"
The venomous snake raised its body like a stimulated cobra, but it did not attack, but wrapped around Talos' wrist at a rapid speed, two circles.
The double touch brought by the fine scales and the cold snake letter made Talos's body stiffen and he came to his senses completely. He tried to free his right middle arm, but failed.
The venomous snake's body, which was less than 3 feet short, seemed to contain powerful power, and it wrapped tighter around Talos's wrist, causing him to feel pain.
——This is very exaggerated. You should know that Talos is now a veritable high-level bloodline knight with the kind of awakening bloodline expertise, and Sandra is just a mage who is not good at physical strength.
Not only that, the attention of the other five poisonous snakes next to them was also attracted, and they were wrapped around Talos.
In less than three seconds, Talos could no longer see his palm, and instead he was six hideous snake heads with fierce light flashing in his eyes.
According to classics, although the eyes of the snake-haired banshee on the head of the snake-haired banshee cannot directly petrify the human, the body of the target they are targeting will become stiff and move slowly.
There was no choice but to ask Sandra for help with his eyes.
"Any rash action before confirming the danger-"
"It can lead to serious consequences and even life-threatening." Talos weakly added the second half.
Sandra didn't speak, looking at Talos with disagreement like every strict mother in the Naga tribe, the meaning she wanted to express was clear.
"I swear to always keep your teachings in mind when taking risks outside and never take the initiative to cause trouble, really!" Talos quickly tried to express his innocence, but under Sandra's gaze, he muttered vaguely, "Besides, this is your snake hair, not someone else's."
The implication is that if he really encounters other snake-haired banshees, he will definitely not cause trouble, let alone make such reckless actions.
"I hope you do as well as you say."
As the words came, the cold touch of Talos's arm disappeared, and the six poisonous snakes turned into six bunches of soft dark golden hair.
Talos easily pulled his middle arm back, but his eyes were tightly attached to Sandra's long hair.
Since the crisis has been lifted, Talos's thinking has become active again and further diverged:
The snake hair he gave to Safiros should have been transformed from a bunch of long hair instead of a hair, right?
Will it hurt and bleed when cutting off the poisonous snake from its head?
Or should I cut off a bunch of hair first and then turn into a poisonous snake?
Can hair growth potions used to treat baldness work on the hairs of the snake-haired Banshee?
If you cut a short hairstyle, what will the venomous snake look like? Are it short and ugly?
"What after?"
Sandra didn't know that all kinds of strange questions flashed through Talos's mind in just a moment, so she just turned the topic back.
“The night I arrived at Sand Mountain…”
Talos spared the incoming consciousness to the Terra plane and everything that happened there, focusing on the pain of growing the lower arm comparable to childbirth.
To be honest, Talos really doesn't want to repeat the experience of pain from his bone marrow to the depths of his heart, but when he thinks that it is the only way to advance to the fifth level to become a six-armed Naga, he is a little shaken, which can be said to be very contradictory.
Promoted to the third level, grew the lower arm, awakened the bloodline specialty, and cursed by the Reptile God of Astrologer Horn, Kaspi Sea, Mosanhawk Island...
The next time was mainly Talos saying that Sandra was responsible for listening and occasionally commenting on key points.
When the content entered the last paragraph, Maeve showed the divine power mark in front of everyone and became the god of Order and Knight, Sandra frowned slightly.
After a long time, she reminded: "Don't mention Maeve's becoming a favored person to anyone else for the time being."
"Dolores said so too."
Talos had no intention of spreading things everywhere and nodded and agreed.
"That's great." Sandra's eyes softened a little, "Go out and have a lot of good gadgets in Oriental Freeport."
The young Naga went out happily. When the door closed, a small thing that had long been ignored appeared from the depths of his memory:
It was a book called "A Guide to Snake Hair Care", which he accidentally read in Sandra's study when he was a child.
Was he seven or eight years old at that time?
Chapter completed!