349. Golden Mage Tower Southwest Building 1
The lower floor of the Mage Tower Southwest Building.
After a fire of unknown cause broke out a month ago, the entire closed off-access area for the safety of the investigation and members.
At the same time, it was also a hidden space for the secret passage of the Lophemus family leading to the magical center.
jerk jerk.
“It’s very strange. Why is there a fire in such an important place?”
Kim Ho-jeong, who was walking down the hallway, muttered while rubbing her chin.
In fact, until they heard about the secret passage, Kang Seung-hyeon and his party had no interest in the Southwest Building fire.
It happened a month ago, so it had nothing to do with them, and it had nothing to do with the great plan to use the Mage Tower as a source of money.
However, due to the secret that Dail confided in, he couldn’t pass it up after he learned that there was a secret passage for the Loffiamus family in the Southwest Building.
“Since we have to enter the secret passageway to use it, maybe we can learn the truth about the fire.”
“They said that the investigation was suspended for a while because the wizards who were investigating there were all involved in the fight for the next master.”
“Because we fought so hard. It’s because each submaster they support is different.”
It wasn’t intentional, but thanks to that, I was able to enter the Southwest Building more comfortably.
“So, Mr. Kang, where is the secret passage?”
“Um, what lab would you have said you were in Dail’s words?”
“Lab?”
“The location on the map is D-SW-11R4, but he said he had never been there.”
That’s also true, after Doradel ascends to the Master’s position, there will be no need to use the secret passage any more.
“That’s why the Lophemus and the others in the current Mage Tower only know about the existence of the secret passage.”
“Then you must have left it unused for almost several decades?”
“For now, it will be.”
It is common to build the magic center in the basement of the central hall of the magic tower.
Now, even if the Lophemus family openly entered the center of magic, there was no one to argue with, so why bother going all the way to the Southwest Building?
“By the way, Lophemus’s secret lab is located on the first floor of the Southwest Building.”
“oh. Then we can go straight to the first floor!”
“The problem is that the entrance to the Southwest Building is physically blocked.”
Seunghyun Kang pointed out the window at the Southwest Building.
Currently, the entrance to the Southwest Building is in a situation where access itself is impossible as the floor is turned off and the ceiling collapses due to the explosion.
“Then how do you get in? I can’t even break it in front of all the wizards!”
“Heh, if that’s the case, don’t worry.”
At that time, Alec, who was walking behind, opened his mouth with a confident smile.
“I found a secret passage to the Southwest Building.”
“Really? Did you find out by fortune-telling?”
“I obtained the secret documents of the Golden Mage Tower.”
“The fortuneteller’s job wasn’t decoration!”
“Show us too!”
Alec held out a well-folded piece of paper, and Kim Ho-jung and Lee Ji-ah happily unfolded the paper.
[The Golden Magic Tower consists of the Central Building, Northwest Building, Northeastern Building, Southwest Building, and Southeastern Building. It is classified into 5 zones.]
[The central hall is connected to the other 4 zones, so if you want to move to other zones, use the passageway to the central hall!
] You can.]
It was the Golden Mage Tower tour guide booklet.
If you want to go to the Southwest Hall, there was a friendly explanation saying to use the passageway connecting the Central Hall.
“Hey, is this a secret document?”
“It’s from the Mage Tower Information Desk!”
“There is a lot of information written on it? If you want to go to the Southwest Building, you can use the Central Building’s secret passage.”
Kim Ho-jeong and Lee Ji-ah threw down the booklet and shook Alec’s collar and shouted.
“What kind of secret passage is that! A common aisle!”
“It’s a secret passage to me. Because… I didn’t know.”
“You impostor!”
“Tsk, so you should have looked at the map.”
Unlike the two, Kang Seung-hyeon had already checked the map inside the Golden Mage Tower, so he didn’t fall for Alec’s pranks.
“Now, to enter the first floor of the Southwest Building, you have no choice but to go through the passageway to the Southwest Building and go down the stairs.”
“Did you know Mr. Kang?”
“I must have come without knowing that.”
“Then you just wasted my time….”
“Safe because it was funny.”
jerk jerk.
Kang Seung-hyun and his party entered the Southwest Hall after passing through the passageway connecting the Central Hall.
“Oh, is there no elevator?”
“Even if there is, they will tell you to use your magic.”
“Hey.”
trudge.
It was when Kang Seung-hyeon and his party, who had been diligently stepping down the stairs, passed the stairs on the 4th floor.
Ugh.
A translucent barrier magic circle at the entrance to the third floor blocked Kang Seung-hyeon and his party.
“What a barrier!”
“If I were a barrier master, I would put up a transparent barrier and pretend to use this perfect pantomime…”
“Are you just thinking of cheating on anything?”
As such, if you cannot enter the 1st floor of the Southwest Building because it is physically closed, you cannot enter the 3rd floor of the Southwest Building due to the barrier set by the Mage Tower.
‘But if you use a temporary permit…’
Kang Seung-hyun presented the permit issued in the name of Dail to the barrier magic circle.
Ugh.
Fire.
Then the temporary permit disappears in a yellow light and
pat!
The barrier was temporarily lifted, allowing us to enter the interior.
“Oh gone! But the license is gone?”
“So I got a few extra copies.”
“I heard it’s pretty hard to make something like this. Since it’s Mr. Kang, I must have ripped out about 10 pages.”
“I only opened about 100 sheets because I didn’t have time.”
“I was thinking of tearing off a few pages…”
Uung!
When Kang Seung-hyun and his party entered the interior of the third floor, the barrier that had been released was recreated and blocked the passage.
“Enter the 3rd floor!”
“Excuse me.”
“I can’t escape now…”
Looking around the 3rd floor of the Southwest Building, I could see traces of burns everywhere.
“Looks like there was a real fire.”
“Yes, but I don’t think they’re going to shut it down just for this reason.”
“In the first place, even before the fire incident, wizards rarely stopped by the lower floors of the Southwest Building?”
Alec looked inside the third floor and said with a grin.
First of all, it seems to be true that a fire broke out, and it is understandable that it was blocked for safety.
But before that, there was something I had to point out.
“According to the secret document I obtained…”
“It’s not a secret document, it’s a tour guide booklet.”
“Southwest Building is the oldest building in District 5, and among them, the lower floors of Southwest Building are mostly facilities that you don’t normally visit, such as equipment warehouses, archives, morgues, and dark magic waste storage rooms.”
In fact, if you look at the map, other facilities such as the southwest hall’s lecture hall, break room, and general store are concentrated on the upper floors of the southwest hall.
On the other hand, the lower floors of the Southwest Building had many vacant rooms and closed passages as well as avoidance facilities, so even the wizards only stopped by the lower floors of the Southwest Building for a short time when going up and down the stairs.
“In other words, it seems strange that a fire starts in a place where wizards don’t come often.”
“One interesting fact is that the lower floors of the Southwest Building started to be neglected in earnest after Doradel took the master’s seat.”
The main facilities of the Southwest Building were moved to the upper floors of the Southwest Building or other areas, and the current Master Doradel was the one who drove all the facilities that were avoided or avoided and that he did not visit often to the lower floors.
“Those noble wizards intentionally excluded them from stopping by the lower floors of the Mage Tower.”
“Is it to hide a secret passage?”
“In that case, I would have placed someone from the Lofiarmus family as an administrator and cared about security.”
In fact, until Doradel became a master, the members of the Loffiamus family occupied the secret passage lab under the pretext of continuing the will of their ancestors and blocked outsiders from entering.
However, after Doradel became a master, there was no need to use the secret passage, so the laboratory itself was closed for security.
“This means that neither outsiders nor members of the Lofiarmus family have visited the Secret Passage Lab for decades.”
“Except for one person, Doradel.”
Yes.
Only Doradel was the master of the Mage Tower, so he freely came and went to the closed laboratory where no wizards were found in the Golden Mage Tower.
While giving the general members the excuse of reminiscing about their youth, and giving the family members the excuse of checking the state of the secret passage just in case.
“Perhaps they didn’t do research to lift the family curse there…”
“You’ll need a lot of mana to do research, so that room with a secret passage is perfect.”
At first, Kang Seung-hyeon guessed that the reason why the Rophemus family stole the magical tower was either a secret research that required a large amount of magical power or simple embezzlement, but the conclusion was both.
“But it’s suspicious that they excluded the Lophemus family.”
“Well, if the goal is to get rid of the family curse, of course it would be right to cooperate with the family.”
However, except for Doradel, the rest of Lofiarmus and the others have never been to a closed laboratory and have not even heard of such research being conducted.
“Unless there’s some reason…”
“I wonder if my family didn’t want to see me.”
jerk jerk.
“There is nothing to look at on the third floor. Let’s go down.”
“Go to the second floor! GO!”
Kang Seung-hyun and his party went down to the second floor.
‘huh?’
When I headed to the third floor, there was a subtle burnt smell, but this time I felt a subtle fishy smell.
“Did it rot because you poured too much water to put out the fire?”
“I wonder if wizards can’t even control that much.”
“Then what does this smell like…”
The moment I reached the second floor, I thought.
“…!”
I met eyes with a man.
he exclaimed in great bewilderment.
“what! 3rd floor investigation team? This is our responsibility! Go back to your place!”
“I have received permission. I have something to do on the first floor, so could you step aside?”
“permission? Whose permission?”
“That’s right, Vice Master Dail’s…”
The moment Kang Seung-Hyun tried to answer like this.
‘huh?’
It was only then that the man’s attire caught my eye.
At first glance, it looks like a wizard, but the clothes he was wearing were not golden robes, but a robe worn over them.
‘Isn’t this bastard a member of the Golden Mage Tower?’
