Businessmen in a place have repeatedly hit a wall and are always unlucky, and naturally after a long time, even if everyone is not very superstitious, they will unconsciously avoid this place for investment and operation. Not to mention the fact that not far from here is one of the world's most lucrative megacities, how much pitiful attraction does the city have left?

"But the existence of these buildings makes it easier for those who are homeless. There are far more homeless people in this city than in the surrounding areas. This is because there are many abandoned buildings that do not have any internal facilities, but at least they can shelter from the wind and rain. ”

At the same time, it is also convenient for many criminals and gangsters, so there is no need for Lévy to tell Alice.

"There are a lot of homeless people living in this building?"

Alice felt as if it wasn't what Levi had said, for she, as a magician, had already noticed the unusual flow of magic in and around the building as she approached here. It's not an enchantment or a seal, but the place where this unusual flow of magic flows is usually the private domain of people who are good at manipulating magic. That is, similar to the territory of each youkai in Gensokyo.

Alice, who can be regarded as both a magician and a monster, knows very well that whether it is a monster or a magician, they all have a relatively strong sense of territory. It's not just a matter of so-called dignity and majesty. More importantly, the occupied territory is often blessed with external conditions that are conducive to their cultivation. How could such a good place that allowed one's cultivation to be faster, safer, and more secure, and how could it be possible to casually let idle people who didn't want to do anything come in and out? Even if it was just some ordinary human who was unlikely to interfere with the flow of magic, magicians would generally avoid even the slightest instability.

Because cultivation itself carries a considerable risk to itself. The so-called wealth and danger are sought in the middle of danger, and it is impossible to grow rapidly and surpass others, and to be stable, stable, safe and completely without taking risks. Just like the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy, it is impossible to get something without paying. The most fundamental reason why youkai like to practice in seclusion in inaccessible places is that they can avoid being disturbed and accidents.

Just like the popular martial arts novels and Xianxia novels in the East, whether the characters in them are practicing martial arts or immortal arts, as long as they reach an important juncture to break through a certain stage, they will choose to 'retreat' in some hidden places that are inaccessible, or in quiet and safe places guarded by others.

The magicians on this earth are somewhat similar to the monsters of Alice's world. Even if some magic families have a long-term inheritance, because of the restriction that a family's magic mark can only be passed on to a single heir, it seems that most of the magic families are not prosperous as far as Levy knows. Most of the magic families that Levi knows are one- or two-child families like the Tosaka family and the Maki family. And the owner of the building that Lévi has brought Alice to now is also from a family of magicians whose parents gave birth to two children.

The small size of the magic family determines that it is impossible for them to guard a special place for a long time with an absolute number of people with good quality like the high-ranking factions in martial arts novels. Under such conditions, finding a secluded place where no one is located is theoretically the safest option for their practice. However, it is not as convenient for magicians to practice and study magic as those simple martial artists. If you just find a quiet place like a martial artist, of course, no one will disturb you, but if you lack the support of external magic, the results obtained by your own efforts alone will obviously be much worse than those who have mastered the unique cultivation place.

As a result, due to the existence of 'spiritual veins' that can help with practice, magicians can choose to set up their practice sites, that is, the places where they can build magic workshops have become relatively limited. If a spiritual vein with abundant and active magic flow appears in the center of a bustling metropolis, then in order to obtain the most suitable point for building a magic workshop on this spiritual vein that can be beneficial to themselves and their families, magicians can only do everything possible to eliminate the interference of the surrounding area, and build their mansion in a densely populated location in a way that is not easy to see through the camouflage.

For example, Tosaka's house is in a relatively less prosperous area in the central part of the island, but Shinji Makiri's home is located in a relatively dense residential area where many people come and go every day. It's because in order to achieve an unobtrusive purpose, except for some simple and continuous enchantment magic that can be effective, and don't require much strength but are enough for ordinary people, the house built by the Ma Tong family looks quite ordinary, except for being slightly larger, it is not much different from the ordinary houses built around. Unlike Tosaka House, it gives the impression of a wealthy and tasteful noble residence just from the outside. Also as the 'base' of a long-standing magic family, the differences between the Tosaka family and the Maki family are not only caused by the differences in the interests and hobbies of the heads of the two families.

Although the house of the Makiri, which no longer exists, the current head of the Makiri, who once lived in it or not, is said to be not as particular and detail-oriented as Rin Tosaka's biological father.

"I'm talking about other abandoned buildings like this. And there are no homeless people living in this building, at most there are occasional adventurous and daring children running into it to play?"

Alice nodded, and she felt that the smell coming from this building didn't feel like it could be casually let ordinary people in. Although it's not an enchantment, there is actually some kind of spell around this building that is constantly in effect. Alice, who worked hard to study magic every day, just stared at it for a while, and basically determined that it was a faint interference cognitive type of magic. Judging from the fluctuating state of the magic power emitted, it can be judged that this magic can only work on the most ordinary ordinary human beings who have no knowledge of magic at all. And the effect is quite weak, and it basically has the effect of 'making people who are close to this place subconsciously not want to enter this building'. If Alice stays on this earth a little longer, she will have a deeper understanding of the magic, magic, and so on on this earth. She would discover that the magic that was constantly in effect around the building was very similar to the 'dispel idlers' magic that was most commonly used by religious magicians.