Chapter 3: In front of the Mage's Tower
In front of the towering magic tower, Xiao Chen stepped out of the carriage.
He looked up. The five connected magic towers are like castles in the clouds, entrenched in most of the field of vision. Beneath the five towers is a domed building four or five stories high. This is the headquarters of the Kingdom Magic Society, as well as the regular entrance to the five magic towers.
Xiao Chen took out an invitation card from his arms and injected spiritual power into it, the invitation emitted a faint shimmer, and a small bird formed by light broke out of the paper from the invitation card and flew into the window of the dome building. A moment later, the arch of the Magic Guild slowly opened, and a young man in a mage's robe stepped out of the doorway. The young man was of medium height, tepid in his walk, well-educated at first glance, he was very neatly dressed, his hair was meticulously combed, and the crescent moon badge of a low-ranking mage was pinned to his chest. It's just that Xiao Chen noticed that his mage robe was a little shabby, and the sleeves and neckline were worn white.
He came to Xiao Chen and made a mage salute and said, "Your Excellency Xiao Chen, welcome to the Kingdom Magic Association and the Royal Magic Tower. I'm Feng Qi, the deacon of the Magic Association, and I'll take you to the Tower of Alchemy for an initiation assessment. ”
Xiao Chentong returned the salute with a nod of his hand, and he asked, "Can my entourage enter together?"
"Sorry, you can't bring people in until you've been granted membership in the association. Feng Qi said.
"Ahh
"Lord Xiao, then your safety..."Roger said with some embarrassment.
"Don't worry. I can take care of myself, and when I pass the assessment, you will be able to go in next time. ”
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Xiao Chen followed Feng Qi into the Magic Association, and this room was really like Master Icasa's Spirit Eye Tower, which was unique.
Through a short hallway, they came to a large hall with a very high dome made of translucent material that reached into the sky, and the sunlight gently filtered in, illuminating the room.
It is surrounded by layers of cloisters, similar to the shopping malls on earth, except that the decoration style is much more classical, and the facades of the walls are made of rock, supplemented by various relief decorations. Of course, there are also all kinds of large and small magic arrays. Xiao Chen glanced at it and couldn't recognize a few, but he was sure that anyone looking for trouble here would get into big trouble.
Xiao Chen looked up and could see that there were a total of five floors, and many people were walking around the upper floors. In the middle of the square on the ground floor, there is a large platform that occupies a third of the square area, the front half of the platform is open, and the back half has walls and five doors on it. Several golems with a metallic sheen guard each doorway. The area around the platform is made to look like a garden, with many plants and seating areas.
"The Magical Guild is a place to settle mage matters, discuss magical research, and buy and sell magical resources. On the ground floor is the garden and access to the five magic towers. The second floor is dedicated to shops and reception rooms, the third floor is dedicated to libraries and archives, the fourth floor is dedicated to public laboratories, and the fifth floor is dedicated to the private rooms of the Grand Mages and High Mages. These five golem-guarded gates lead to the five Royal Magic Towers. Feng Qi explained on the side.
"I've always had a question, why the 'Kingdom' Magic Association and the 'Royal' Magic Tower?" Xiao Chen asked.
Feng Qi pondered for a while and said, "The Royal Magic Tower is loyal to the Imperial Family, and if anyone in the Royal Family practices magic, they will join a certain Magic Tower. However, there are also many highly independent magic towers in the kingdom, and their relationship with the royal family is more like cooperation. These magicians need a place to communicate, and the royal family wants a platform to talk to them. This is how the Kingdom Magic Association came to be. ”
"And which one do you belong to?"
"I'm a mage in the Tower of God Alchemy, but not a royal mage. ”
"Oh, do you want to maintain a certain degree of independence?" Xiao Chen said curiously.
Feng Qi smiled and said, "No, no, not every mage is qualified to become a royal mage. Pledge allegiance to the royal family, and the royal family will give corresponding resources. Only the mages they fancied had a chance to be loyal. Some of the five royal towers are people like me who want to be loyal but can't. ”
"But I think your talent should be very good. Xiao Chen was puzzled, "I think you are very young, you should become an official mage before the age of twenty, right?"
"Eighteen years and four months. The look of pride on Feng Qi's face was fleeting, "You will slowly know about these things in the magic tower in the future." Let's go and evaluate it today. ”
Xiao Chen followed him thoughtfully, and after a few steps, he heard two mages upstairs fighting for the laboratory, and they greeted each other's mother and grandmother in a loud voice, directly from the fourth floor to the first floor.
Feng Qi saw Xiao Chen stop and said with a smile: "There will be things every day, you will get used to it in the future." It's okay, at most, no one in the Magic Association dares to do it. ”
"These facilities should be available in every magic tower, right? Why would anyone come to the Magic Association to compete for these? ”
"Some mages come from all over the kingdom, and it is impossible to carry experimental equipment with them, so once they want to prepare potions, test formations, make scrolls or enchanted items, they naturally need to borrow these facilities. Feng Qi smiled bitterly, "But even if we are local middle and low-level mages, how many opportunities do we have to use the equipment in the magic tower? mages from the royal family always occupy the best private laboratories, and the royal mages also have their own territory, and most of the public laboratories of the magic tower are occupied by the preparatory royal mages, and in the end, the leftovers belong to us." ”
Xiao Chen listened quietly, feeling that this royal magic tower was becoming more and more interesting.
When the two of them came to the platform in the room, Xiao Chen saw that the five doors were written in front of them: The Tower of the Healer, the Tower of the Alchemy, the Tower of the Broken Sky, the Tower of the Ice and the Tower of Radiant Wings. The first four towers have some looks from their names, but the last one is completely unrecognizable in what they do.
Feng Qi came to the golem of the Tower of God Alchemy, this golem resembled a robot, its entire body was made of black metal, and it was full of power. Its body is painted with large and small silver circles, and its body is connected by various transmission components, and it seems that it can do some actions that humans can't do. There were two sets of steel blades on the outside of the forearm that shrank in, and Xiao Chen believed that this golem, which was two and a half meters high, would definitely be an efficient killing weapon once it was activated.
"Gama, this is Your Excellency Xiao Chen, who Archmage Kona wants to assess, please open the door to the Tower of God Alchemy. ”
The golem turned its head to look at Xiao Chen, its originally light blue eyes glowing red, sweeping up and down Xiao Chen.
"The check passed. Can be released. The voice of the golem was actually a sonorous female voice. Xiao Chen looked at Feng Qi.
"I know what you want to ask, yes, Gama's body is the soul of a woman. At least I'll treat her like a human being. Feng Qi said in a low voice.
The door had already opened, Xiao Chen glanced back at Gama and stepped into the light gate.