Furnace (3) Building
1 is used as a warehouse to store the assets of the Mage Tower, and Building 2 is used as a laboratory for wizards.
3 buildings in charge of old book storage and practice area. And four buildings that are used as living areas for wizards.
And even the central building, which is the core of the mage tower built in the center of the four towers.
Gionis opened all the facilities to the two city delegations, but kept the most important secret from their eyes.
Between the bridges between Buildings 2 and 3, Lennok looked up at the sky.
‘The top of the two towers closest to the sky.’
Lava still boils under the bridge, and endless smoke and haze flow.
Even though he was standing in the deepest part of the volcano, Lennok didn’t get any heat.
However, the external environment beyond the barrier of the tower is mixed with ash and dust, so even Lennok’s magic perception does not work well.
The flow of haze seems to exquisitely cover a specific part of the air.
The sky is obscured by turbid streams of ash and dust, but it is certain.
The center of the five-pronged magic tower. To be precise, it was clear that something was hidden several hundred meters above the central wing.
Whoops!!
Lennok immediately cast the floating spell on his collar and floated up, then began to float several hundred meters in the air.
[Reverse Gravity]
My body shakes back and forth due to the hot air blowing from below. After applying reverse gravity magic, the balance is roughly balanced.
As soon as I got out of the barrier, I felt my breathing become stuffy in an instant, but it didn’t matter too much after wearing the overlapping shields.
Only after leaving the crater and rising high enough to touch the clouds, Lennok was able to confirm the identity of what was hidden in the invisible air.
A huge stone slab that looked like a radius of several tens of meters.
It must have been mining the bedrock near the volcanic area and using it as a support for Beecher.
“You used the hot wind and haze of the volcanic zone as a medium to cast a powerful spell. If you use the environmental conditions so exquisitely, will you be able to hide your existence even from the sense of magic…? … .”
Whoa-oh-oh-
When you step on the stone slab, the constant noise inside the crater disappears and you can only hear the strange sound of the wind.
Between the night sky above the clouds. Another huge tower was built under the moonlight.
Although it is not comparable to the five towers inside the crater, it is high enough to easily exceed the 5th floor.
Lennok entered the tower without hesitation.
After passing through the empty first floor and stepping up the spiral staircase, I saw hundreds of books lined up in ornately decorated bookshelves.
A cozy space made by smelting the hides of rare animals into carpets.
However, what catches your eye first is that hundreds of books in this spacious library all radiate intense magic.
‘Spellbook.’
Books that simply contain magical theories do not hold much value among wizards.
Knowledge contained in books that do not have power even though they are directly marked and specified does not have much meaning in the end.
However, it is not enough to deal with really high-level magic theory, so a book that contains knowledge acquired through direct reflection and research is different.
A phenomenon in which the will of the magician who wrote the book melts into itself and becomes a powerful artifact.
A type of magical artifact that becomes more famous or powerful than the author himself with the passage of time.
Even Lennok saw it in person only at the auction house or in Aris’ laboratory, the executive safe of the cartel.
As if bewitched, Lennok approached the study, pulled out a thick book that was within his reach, and exclaimed in admiration.
“A high-class crafted with the knowledge of a military rank…. It’s worth keeping and hiding.”
As Lennok muttered, he quickly opened the other books and immediately began to read them.
Basically, the explanation is based on the premise that a wizard of level 6 or higher who can change the nature of magic reads the book, and there are books that assume the development of the magnetic realm as if it were natural and begin to explain the theory.
Although all the theories were discussing the application and development potential of all flame series unique magic, it was not difficult for Lennok to understand because he had already completed the hierarchy in the lightning series with his own power.
Rather, I was just busy concentrating on confirming the theories that were only vaguely conceived in my head through books.
Of course, it may be a state that Lennok could have reached someday if he spent time steadily using and researching fire-type magic and longing for it in actual combat.
What a valuable opportunity it is to be able to reduce that time and cost to just a few books.
Changes in the nature of fire-related magic, record the precautions and abnormal phenomena when casting unique magic, and leave a matter for future research to future generations.
A case of a wizard who lived tied up in a volcanic area for the rest of his life and failed to establish his realm because the image of flame and lava he had inside was altered.
On the contrary, it is a record of a great wizard who had the formless image of flame in his heart and rose to the level of a great wizard.
It was all the kind of knowledge the old Lennok desperately craved.
How other wizards besides himself had grown up, what kind of troubles and hardships they had reached their peak.
Items that may have filled Lennok’s loneliness, who felt a faint sense of unity even with the wizards he had dealt with as enemies.
“….”
It’s ironic.
Things that were hard to come by when you really wished for them reached the stage and reached the kite only after you relieved some of your regrets.
I wanted to keep that time and emotion while continuing to turn the pages on the spot, but… … . Lennox let go of his regrets and rose from his seat.
A foreign smell that had spread from the first time I entered the tower.
It was because Lennok’s sense of smell, which could not even distinguish cigarette smoke properly, could not detect the stench beyond the study room.
“Whoa….”
It is too heterogeneous to be a sign of life, and extremely clear to be not.
Grabbing the corner of one side of the study and pushing it, the bookshelf rotated lightly, revealing a hidden space beyond it.
There were more than dozens of beds in a solitary room lit by moonlight, and someone was lying on every bed.
The figure of people breathing slowly while looking up at the ceiling with blank eyes.
Judging from the magic they exude, they seem to be wizards of a considerable level, but most of them seem to have lost their senses for a long time, so the flow of magic is tangled.
The face of the people did not cover men and women of all ages, but among them there were those who wore exceptionally noticeable costumes.
Elderly men in old-fashioned robes and muscular giants dressed as travelers. Probably the members of the Senate and the delegation from the missing Machine City.
Most of the people lying unconscious have lost an arm or a leg, and the cuts are clearly marked by teeth.
Realizing what that meant, Lennok took a short breath.
“What is going on here?”
I heard a cold voice behind me, like ice rolling.
“….”
Slowly turning his head, he saw Gionis leaning against the stairs with his arms crossed.
“I opened all the magic towers, but I never gave them permission to enter even the hidden secrets.”
After saying that, Gionis picked up one of the books Lennok had spread out on the floor and read through.
“A Study on the Sequence of Deploying a Multiple Window for Heat Flow Control…. It’s a title I miss.”
“….”
“There was a time when I was engrossed in research and training while being buried in these sorcery books.”
Gionis murmured.
“Everyone told me that it would be a new rosary and that one day I might inherit Master’s tower.”
After he said that, he chuckled as if he couldn’t stand it because he was laughing at himself.
“I was stupid enough to believe it right out of the box.”
Lennok stared blankly at Gionis, then slowly turned his head.
“Is that also the reason why you have not reached the level of full Aspect?”
“….”
This time, Gionis kept his mouth shut.
A sparring with him in the 3rd building magic tower practice area.
In the battle that ended at the same time as he opened his new magic eye, Lennok was aware that there was something immature in Zionis’ magic.
Completion of the hierarchy is proof that the magician himself has perfectly mastered all the application methods of changing his nature.
On top of that, it is like a qualification to be able to project one’s own firm image through the change in the nature of space.
However, Gionis did not use any change in nature during the confrontation with Lennok.
It’s probably because Gionis himself can’t perfectly control the power of the change in his nature.
It is by no means a phenomenon that a wizard who has risen to level 7 in a perfect way can see it.
The answer you can think of is probably… … .
“I’ve seen a few times those who forced their own achievements through constraints or geas.”
Lennok’s cold gaze turned to Gionis’s chest.
“But it’s the first time I’ve seen a sorcerer who forcibly raised his level in that way.”
“…under.”
Gionis let out a hot breath.
As he threw off his monocle with a shaking hand, his left eye was completely faded, unlike what he could see through the glasses.
“I trusted Master.”
As if he had revealed his biggest shame, he vomited out words one after another as if he couldn’t stand it.
“Even when I was hit by a wall at the end of the military position, I firmly believed the advice to put restrictions on and get over the wall. But after a while, I realized.”
He clenched his fists.
“The restrictions placed on oneself are only privileges for monsters who challenge the ascension…. That hastily setting shackles is tantamount to removing the platform for growth.”
“….”
“Thanks to that, I lost my left eye and became an X-God who couldn’t use magic except near the Mage Tower. It’s not even a rosary candidate. Master only thought of me as a dog guarding the house!!!”
Was it because of this strangely agitated attitude of Zionis when Lennok opened the magic eye in his left pupil?
How did he feel when he looked at Lennok, who had awakened a new possibility in the same eyes that he had lost forever?
Lennok stared at Gionis, who couldn’t control his emotions and screamed.
“That’s why I contacted Pandemonium.”
“….”
Gionis stopped talking at Lennok’s sudden words.
It’s a simple thing if you think about it.
Why were the members of Pandemonium so easily able to take over control of the furnace?
Why are the other members of the Senate not showing up?
Where did the missing people who were increasing in numbers in the Mage Tower disappear?
Aren’t all the answers here?
Lennok is well aware of the case of the cartel that the Mage Tower’s security, which has been going on for hundreds of years, is also helpless against the blades stabbed from the inside.
All of these things that have happened so far are absurdly simple under one assumption.
Zionis Verwein joined hands with Pandaemonium.
Turning his head, his eyes shone eerily.
“I’m sorry. I thought half of you could understand my feelings.”
“….”
“After gathering information from the Balkans, I was convinced. The timing of your inactivity in the megalopolis coincides with the timing of Evelyn Marcia’s visit to the Magic Tower… … Knowing that there aren’t many people who are more than a military magician who can lend their strength to an agent.”
“hmm.”
“I didn’t know you had such a deep knowledge of freezing magic, but…I was convinced when I saw that I had found this Beecher. As far as sensitivity alone, it is an unmistakable level of Aspect. Then there is only one correct answer.”
“It looks like you worked hard on the background investigation.”
Lennox nodded obediently.
It was Ibelin’s idea to suggest hiding her identity right before visiting the Mage Tower.
Since he hadn’t even changed his magic pattern, it wouldn’t be strange if he was caught at any time.
Zionis’s lips twitched at Lennok’s unfazed attitude.
“What good…. It doesn’t matter who you are.”
Gionis slowly opened his arms and said.
The magic book he was holding fell terribly to the floor.
“The important thing is that you are a wizard skilled enough to temporarily block even the heat of the furnace. There is only one.”
“….”
“Through the deal with Pandemonium, I got the chance to get rid of Master’s spell. They said that if I brought you one item, I could release the geas I had cast on myself.”
It was only then that Lennok realized why Gionis had told him about his situation and frowned.
“Damn it, that trade item….”
“okay.”
Gionis’ eyes shone sharply.
“With the centralization that all the capital and technology of the Western Continent branch were integrated…. I will reclaim my freedom in exchange for the Mage Tower’s most precious treasure.”
Genius Wizard Who Takes Medicine Chapter 251
