338. Carrot and Stick 1
The Golden Mage Tower is divided into Central Building, Southwest Building, Southeastern Building, Northwest Building, and Northeast Building. Divided into 5 zones.
The structure of the Mage Tower is subtly different for each Mage Tower, but it is legally stipulated that the Mage Tower Master Room must be built in the center, so you have to go to the central hall to meet the Golden Mage Tower as well.
“Wow, there’s something like an escalator here! They say it automatically moves you even if you are standing still!”
Because it was a mage tower overflowing with money, it was easy to see various magical engineering facilities throughout the building.
Elevators that can move up and down, purifiers that purify polluted air, vending machines that exchange coins for potions, and so on.
They are things that can only be seen as walking on Earth, but on the Azul continent, which seems to have escaped the Stone Age, to Earthlings, it is difficult to see them unless they are in a magical tower.
“This is not an escalator, it’s a moving walk, and you have to put horsepower in it to work.”
“Oh really! Isn’t this a public facility!”
“Kuh, this candy machine ate my money!”
“Because the power is off.”
“Although I’ve attached a string to the coin just in case.”
The problem is that Kang Seung-hyun and his party can’t even use it because ‘magic is self-sufficient’.
Originally, the Golden Mage Tower would attach guide wizards to recharge magical power when outside guests visit, but Kang Seung-hyun and his party were treated coldly because they had been out of sight of the powerful.
“{This is scary. What will Mr. Kang do…}”
“{It’s not a big deal, there are 5 submasters each.}” “{
That’s right.}”
“{Then I thought you could retire at least one person from this world. }”
“{They say scary things casually.}” “
{Oh, I’m not saying I’m killing myself.}”
“{That scares me even more!}”
There are a few lessons Kim Ho-jeong learned while adventuring with Kang Seung-hyun.
One of them is that if Kang Seung-hyun says things like ‘I won’t kill him’, it’s better to kill himself quickly.
“This way.”
“Nice to meet you. Kang Seung-Hyun, Kim Ho-Jung, and Alek Drright.”
Leaving the moving walkway in good condition, I walked down the hallway and stepped into the master room of the central building, where several wizards of the Mage Tower greeted Kang Seung-hyeon and his party.
Some of them seemed to be members of the Lofiarmus family, judging by their resemblance to the submasters I met yesterday.
“Something is wrong.”
“It looks like the Lophemus family will gather at the Golden Mage Tower and have a meal even on holidays~.”
Like the other rooms, the inside of the master room was a luxurious room decorated with golden pillars and gorgeous ornaments made of various jewels.
A man with his back turned stood in the middle of the dazzling magic circle in the center.
He is the Golden Mage Tower Master, Doradel Lofiarmus.
“Doradel. A guest has arrived.”
Hearing those words, Doradel slowly looked this way.
“clothes?”
I heard that he was about to be 120 years old, but when I saw Doradel, he looked young enough to believe that he was 50 years old.
“{Are you over 100 years old? You look very young?}” “{You
seem to have rejuvenated through extreme training.}” “{
Some research has shown that the more magic you have, the slower your body ages.}”
did.
“{If you want to sit in the Mage Tower Master position for 80 consecutive years, it would be impossible with a tolerable amount of magic power.}”
In fact, Azul’s top-ranked people maintain a youthful appearance compared to their age, and some apostles have their body age fixed by the power of God. there is.
‘This is a strange town where reviving lions is prohibited, but immortality is not.’
With that thought in mind, I greeted Master Doradel, and the man who was looking over opened his mouth slowly.
“My name is Healer Kang Seung-hyun.”
“You are the person Miss Matiana recommended.”
An unexpected answer came out.
‘I knew that I had contacted the person at the top of the Golden Tower, but I wonder if it was directly from the master.’
It seems that Matiana’s network was greater than expected.
“You seem to know Matiana-sama well.”
“Miss Mattiana’s father was one of my pupils. That’s why she is like a great-granddaughter to me.”
“okay.”
“It made me feel proud to see the child I saw from when he was a toddler grow up to be a full-fledged wizard.”
Master Doradel laughed lightly and recounted old memories, but Kang Seung-hyun heard it with one ear and let it go with the other because it was a good story.
“I apologize for my earlier rudeness.”
I was talking in one ear, so I couldn’t hear the middle of the story, so I said something.
“I wanted to meet you, but there are many grandchildren of this old man in our mage tower. It must have happened while I was meditating.”
It turns out that the reason why the Golden Mage Tower wizards invaded Hind Village last time was not the Master’s will.
The Lopiermus family, including the deputy master, were enraged at the insult of the master and an elder in the family, but after receiving a call from Liwen, they suddenly proceeded.
“Forgive me even if you look at me.”
Unlike the snobbish submasters, Doradel, a deceased Master in 1980, politely bowed his head and apologized.
‘The master’s career in the 80’s wasn’t water career.’
To be honest, Kang Seung-hyun was thinking that Master would also be screwed over yesterday and today, but even if his grandson’s education is a mess, he seems to be at least aware of it.
“I’ll think about it if you send donations to the Hind branch of the Magic Association in the name of the Golden Mage Tower.”
“Okay.”
I decided to ‘consider’ forgiveness after receiving the settlement money.
It’s not that I’m never going to forgive.
“Getting to the point… I heard a simple story from Miss Matiana. You are a healer with great power, and for the sake of the Golden Mage Tower, I must make a contract with you no matter what.”
Upon hearing this, the submasters argued that Matiana, who had just started working at the Hind branch, was playing tricks for money, but Doradel invited Kang Seung-hyeon despite objections, saying that he could trust anyone Mattiana recommends.
“I don’t know because you didn’t tell me the specifics, but since I believe in that child, I want to believe in you too.”
“It is a wise choice.”
One hundred words are not enough.
Seunghyun Kang nodded and put on the [Gloves of the Silver Screen].
“First of all, the biggest worry of wizards is the problem of magic pollution, right?”
The decisive reason why normal healers are underestimated compared to priest healers is that they can only heal wounds, but cannot heal contaminated magic.
On the contrary, if you touch a patient by mistake, even your own magical power will be contaminated, so the value of the church has increased day by day, and the mage tower that opposes them has no choice but to pay a large fee and bow down to the church.
“To begin with, it is possible to cure all magical pollution. Even without holy water and holy power.”
“what? really?”
What surprised Kang Seung-hyun the most was not Master Doradel, but Kim Ho-jeong, who was next to him.
“Is this your first time hearing it?”
“Because I didn’t ask.”
“Eh.”
Recently, he used arrows of the Holy Water of Dawn because he was annoyed, but in fact, Kang Seung-hyun was a wild healer who had been curing magic pollution before obtaining the Holy Water of Dawn.
“Okay. come in.”
At Master Doradel’s signal, a wizard wearing a silver horse’s robe bowed his head and entered.
Without question, he is a mana-polluted patient.
“Could you keep wearing the robe and roll up your arms a little?”
“Yes…”
As the wizard rolled up his arms, black magic powerful enough to be seen with the naked eye spread out.
Originally, he would have to use holy water or purify it with a divine skill, but Kang Seung-hyun reached out and grabbed the wizard’s arm without taking out anything.
That moment.
“uh?”
“Dark magic is disappearing!”
“Are you absorbing dark magic right now?”
The wizards who were watching from the side couldn’t help but be astonished.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It was because the spreading black magic was suddenly being sucked into Kang Seung-hyun’s hand.
“I don’t have the ability to purify dark magic. But it is possible to pull them apart.”
[Absorption], one of Kang’s old skills.
It’s usually a skill used when absorbing potions without drinking them, but in fact it has one more effect.
[Absorbs negative energy from abnormal conditions such as poison, burns, magical contamination, and curses.
]
So, in theory, Kang Seung-hyeon was a miraculous healer who could cure all conditions.
‘…If you’re going to use something like this, it’s better to just make a cure.’
However, Kang Seung-hyeon did not use [Absorption] to treat abnormal conditions.
‘I’m not a healer who is merciful enough to heal others while sacrificing myself.’
Due to the nature of the skill, if you [absorb] the patient’s poison to cure it, the poison does not disappear but spreads to Kang Seung-hyun himself.
‘But “Magic Pollution” is an exception.’
If nothing else, since black magic means nothing to a person with 0 mana, Kang Seung-hyeon used [Absorption] only to treat mana pollution.
“This can’t be…”
“To use a skill even though you’re not a black magician or a priest and you’re in contact with dark magic!”
“I really can’t believe it…”
Master Doradel also touched his chin in admiration.
He had already passed the age of 100, and even he, who was slowly heading towards his 120-year life, had never seen or heard of such a sight.
Whoa.
“It’s done.”
And soon after, Kang Seung-hyeon smiled and took off the magician’s silver robe.
“Thank you! thank you!”
Even if the magician took off his robe, the dark magic did not spread out.
This is because the dark magic within her body has completely disappeared.
“Indeed, there must have been a reason that Miss Matiana praised her as the one and only healer. This is the first time in my life that someone removes the dark magic without borrowing the power of a god.”
“is it so? It’s still too early to be surprised by this.”
“What?”
Seunghyun Kang said with a smile.
Of course, this is great enough, but in the end, it’s not much different from what a priest healer does.
“Mr. Kim Ho-jeong.”
“huh?”
“Come out.”
Kang Seung-hyun smiled as he called Kim Ho-jung, who was behind him.
“Let me tell you why I am called the One and Only Healer.”
