"You came just in time." After walking out of the quiet room and seeing the old woman in gray waiting outside the door, Rhodes' face darkened, and his words were a bit unhappy, "It will save me the trouble of continuing to look for you."
"Oh?" Feeling the unkind aura on Rhode's body, Margaret didn't take it seriously. "I wonder what I did wrong to make you so angry?"
Rhodes sneered, stretched out his hand, and handed her the magic eye wrapped in his hand: "Do you have anything to explain about this?"
Margaret stretched out her hand to take the magic eye, but Rhodes took his hand back first and squeezed it tighter without any intention of releasing the magic eye.
Under Rhode's huge power, his eyeballs kept turning with obvious panic, and the tentacles at the rear kept swinging, trying to get out of Rhode's control. Unfortunately, it did not have any ability to fight back, let alone Rhodes was hurt at this time.
"Wait! Let go of your hand first." After noticing Rhode's behavior, Margaret finally became anxious, and her words were full of worries about the magic eye.
Seeing that Rhodes was not moved at all, Margaret stamped her feet and said in a deep voice: "Okay, okay. I felt the breath of the witchcraft ritual, so I sent my child to find out."
Rhodes relaxed his grip slightly and asked, "Why don't you come to me directly? It's not like I won't let you visit the ceremony."
Seeing this, Margaret hurriedly explained: "By the time I found out, the ceremony had already begun. In order not to interfere with the leader of the ceremony or even destroy the entire ceremony, I could only let my children observe in secret."
"That's not right." Rhodes was keenly aware of the abnormality and held the magic eye in his hand tighter. "Before the ceremony started, I sensed the prying eyes of the magic eye. You didn't just discover it in the middle of the ceremony."
Hearing Rhodes' words, Margaret shook her head: "You don't know that. The biggest difference between a magic ritual and a magic ritual is its integrity. Starting from the preparation of materials, the entire magic ritual It has already started, and any accidents during this process will affect the final result.”
Rhodes was silent and did not answer.
In his impression, there is indeed such a saying in the underground world of magicians. This is also a habit of magicians, but it is not common among mages.
After learning all this, Rhodes let go, threw the magic eye in his hand towards Margaret, and said at the same time: "You can leave, the next batch of eyeballs may not be given to you for some time."
After saying that, Rhodes was ready to leave.
"Don't leave in a hurry."
The magic eye slowly disappeared in the air. At this moment, Rhodes was stopped by Margaret. Her voice was high-pitched, and even though she tried hard to lower the volume, there was still a sense of incongruity.
Margaret whispered: "I feel the power contained in that ancient ritual. It is not an ordinary fusion ritual. I have never seen this kind of ritual. I want to know how that girl Those who have learned this kind of black magic ritual would be better off if they could teach me this ritual, as it will be very helpful for my research.”
After listening, Rhodes just curled his lips: "Do you know what the Thieves Guild and the Magic Guild say, that intelligence and knowledge need to be exchanged for equivalent things. What can you offer?"
Unlike the former Elon or the prophet Messiga, Margaret did not choose to be loyal to Rhodes, but chose to stay in Saou City as a cooperative partner.
For this reason, Rhodes also expressed his attitude. If he wanted to learn this kind of magic ritual, Margaret needed to exchange it for something of equal value.
"Equivalent things, let me think about it..." Margaret thought for a while and said, "I see that you are very interested in potions. I have a formula for potions that can make people drink potions." What do you think about being permanently blind? Tell me the details of the ritual and it will be yours."
"..." The corner of Rhodes' mouth twitched, "No, I need a powerful potion. Unless you can come up with ten potion formulas similar to blindness, I will tell you about the ritual."
"Well, it seems that you don't like ordinary things." Margaret said with some annoyance, "What do you think about the method of making the magic eye and the 'Silent Eye Ritual' you tried? I use these in exchange for that sorcery ritual."
Rhodes thought about it. The Silent Eye Ritual should refer to the ritual of seeing the enemy's movements from a distance. It requires the cooperation of magic potions. To a certain extent, this ritual has extremely high value.
From Margaret's attitude, Rhodes saw her desire for the [Fusion Ceremony].
It stands to reason that with her level of sorcery in creating the magic eye, she should have already learned the [Fusion Ritual] that all sorcerer apprentices know, so it is impossible for her to show such an attitude, even at the expense of her own research. In other words, what she really longed for was the [Fusion Ritual] adjusted by a powerful magician in the ritual book.
A powerful magician will make various adjustments to the basic ritual based on his own research until the effect of the ritual satisfies him.
After discovering this, the original extremely precious method of making the magic eye, plus the ritual of spying on the enemy's movements, could not satisfy Rhodes at this time.
Looking at Margaret who was rubbing her hands anxiously, Rhodes shook his head and said: "That special fusion ritual was left by a magician named Sasha. I think you should You know the meaning of this name among magicians, ordinary knowledge cannot be exchanged for this kind of ritual."
"Sasha...it turns out to be a ritual he researched..." After hearing the name, Margaret was shocked and her body couldn't stop trembling. Even Rhodes didn't expect it to be so good. Effect.
After a long time, Margaret lowered her head slightly and her body slowly calmed down. She sighed deeply and said, "If this ritual is really left by him, everything I have now will be gone." Not enough in exchange for you..."
Listening to the old woman's words, Rhodes frowned slightly. He only knew that Sasha had an extremely high status among the bards and left many precious books. Now it seems that Sasha has a very high status in the world of magicians. In fact, it is even more famous. Just hearing this name, Margaret felt sincerely in awe.
"However, I still have an unfinished research... I have spent my whole life on this research. As long as it is completed, it will definitely surpass the ritual he left..."
At the end, Margaret seemed to have finally made some kind of decision, and her empty eye sockets stared directly at Rhodes.
"I have decided that I will use the 'Eternal Demonic Eye', a magic ritual that I am currently conducting and has not yet reached the final stage, in exchange for this ritual."
