Chapter 53: The Central Tower (Two Chapters in One)
A four-sided cone-shaped mage tower appeared in the eyes of the four without warning, and this was the first time that Shur and Judy had seen the full view of the true Seven Yao Towers from the outside, and it was also the first time they felt shocked.
The body of the tower is one hundred and fifty meters high, but the side length at the bottom is at least a thousand meters, which makes it look like a tower at all, and the visual scale is extraordinarily grand, in fact, it is not only the visual scale, in fact, the internal space of this tower is several times larger than the largest known mage tower, and it cannot be regarded as a tower at all.
According to Mia's introduction, there was no such tower in the original Seven Yao Tower, and the central tower did not exist at all, but was just a symbolic core institution. However, a hundred years ago, after the deliberation of the core council of the Tower of the Seven Dawns, it was finally decided to build a special tower.
The Tower will be different from all existing mage towers, and will be an extremely special being.
It is functionally different from most mage towers, most of which are used by themselves or their own factions, acting as residences, laboratories and fortresses, but this tower is different in that it was originally built to build a city that belongs to mages alone, for those who can concentrate on academics and magic. Of course, mages do not exclude scholars who do not have the ability to cast spells from entering the tower, for them, scholars are like their work partners, although they are not warriors, but the heart of exploring the unknown is the same, and this is enough.
With this in mind, the tower is designed to be a paradise for research mages. On the one hand, there are facilities to meet any need, with thousands of mage quarters for temporary residence, a huge library with a collection of books second only to the Temple of the Gods, a wide variety of laboratories and testing grounds, a large number of experimental plants and animals, and, of course, a montaginous number of research records.
On the other hand, other facilities are completely non-existent.
Entertainment facilities are not needed at all.
The people who will conduct research in this tower will of course need the best experimental equipment and the most suitable experimental environment, otherwise it is good to work directly in their own laboratory, but if it is not possible, they can go to the other six towers, there is no need to come to this tower at all, therefore, they must be carrying out quite important research work, and they can't wait to spend forty-four hours a day, how can they still have the mind to waste their time on entertainment? That is the most shameful waste.
There is no need for living facilities.
The mages are the most endurable people, and once they are in a working state, they can consume non-spoiling compressed food for months or even a year or two, when eating is just a necessary act for them to sustain life, and as for life, it is enough to have a place to sleep and meditate, and a place to meet the necessary physiological needs.
Commercial facilities?
The mages who can come in to work temporarily must be internal members of the Tower of Seven, and all the spell casting materials and daily necessities are directly exchanged for points, and many mages even lack business concepts, so let them buy and sell things? No kidding.
Thus, a city belonging to the mages was built, and only fanatical mages could stay here for months or even years, and few other normal intelligent beings could endure the boring life here. Maybe that's the purpose of the mages, well, presumably so, even if others know about the existence of this tower, they will soon be scared away when they see the specific situation inside.
It is said that this tower was originally located on the territory of the Griffon Empire, one of the three major empires, and as long as the members of the Seven Yao Tower reach a certain status, they are eligible to spend points in exchange for the right to use a laboratory for a year.
It's a pity that this kind of welfare measure was terminated ten years ago, and the most strange mage tower in the eyes of the world disappeared from the territory of the Griffon Empire overnight, and the royal family and high-ranking people of the Griffin Empire are still wondering where the tower went, they may find it difficult to guess that the tower has crossed a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers and appeared in the depths of the wilderness.
At that time, the core council unanimously approved the proposal for this relocation, and the mage tower, which had the ability to rise into the sky, rose from the ground and launched an expedition against the Savage Lands with the assistance of a large number of demigods.
With a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, the road is quite long, and it is necessary to go deep into the wilderness, even if there is the help of the demigods who have been hired by the mages at a great cost, it is a rather crazy move. The mages are not all demigod powerhouses, especially the core mage group of the Tower of Seven Dawn, they are mainly researchers rather than combatants, and there are many legendary and even gold-level mages in them, but the mages are fearless, not only because of courage, but mainly because of i, no matter how the function of the Central Tower changes, the core function of the Mage Tower has not changed.
A mobile battle fortress, a walking source of destruction, the most reliable companion of mages, and the most relied upon weapon.
In particular, this tower, which many mages have devoted their lives to, is simply a perfect weapon of war, the shield can block almost all external attacks, and the attack power of magic is even more indestructible, with only one mage tower, it can almost resist the attacks of most mythical creatures on the way, not to mention the assistance of those careful demigods.
Thanks to the combined efforts of both sides, one of Pavatiga's craziest moves actually succeeded, and the strange magic tower finally arrived at the site chosen by the Core Council, which is where it is now.
It has the richest and most active leyline energy nodes in Pavatiga, but it also has the largest number of mythical creatures, so many that if they work together, they can easily crush all the alien demigods to pieces.
It's a pity that most of the mythical creatures don't know what it means to work together, they are only driven by the instinct of the creatures, and more importantly, among these mythical creatures, there is also a group of names called dragons, yes, the dragons' lair is also here, and the mages dared to choose this place as their destination because they were recognized by some dragons.
Finally, after seven and a half months of seclusion, the mages had finally accomplished a feat that would have caused a sensation in Pavatiga, but had never been left behind, and the Central Tower had taken root in its new home.
The protection of the Mage Tower is not only a hidden barrier, but also the success of the expedition to the wilderness, and the mages also have a very perfect means of self-protection.
First of all, of course, is the one-way concealment enchantment, a technology developed since the Pioneer Era and one of the greatest masterpieces of the sorcery world, and its existence is enough to save the Mage Tower from most troubles.
It's not just to hide the sound and light effects in the enchantment, that's the most basic application, if it can only do it to this extent, it doesn't deserve to be called a great masterpiece in the spell world at all, it can perfectly shield the internal energy reaction, that is, as long as the masking boundary is not broken, let alone some magic experiments inside, it is to make the magic tower fly up again and attack wildly, and you can't feel a little energy fluctuation outside, at most you can only detect the fluctuation of the hidden enchantment itself.
It was precisely because of the existence of the hidden enchantment that when the Thunderstorm Beast entered the mage base with the four of them, Shul and Judy were shocked by the sudden appearance of the tower, even if they knew that the tower was there, but suddenly appeared in front of them, they would inevitably be surprised.
At the moment of entering, Shul even thought about whether it was possible to miniaturize this enchantment and apply it to dangerous adventures, which would make the most dangerous rest times much safer and greatly reduce the danger of adventure. Unfortunately, Mia shattered his illusions, to achieve the current effect, a very complex and large set of equipment is required, which is difficult to apply to everyday adventures, maybe there will be similar technology in some world, but at least in Pavatiga, it is not practical for a short time.
In addition to the Concealment Enchantment, the second is the Induction Barrier.
It is not only the power of the mages, but also the will of the gods. I don't know which god helped the mages once when they were building, and put their will into the barrier, which had almost no substantive effect, and the only general use was to make the vast majority of creatures with weak wills instinctively choose to bypass when approaching the barrier.
I have been walking the left road, but today I suddenly want to go from the right, everyone has had a similar experience, it is not surprising at all, the reason is very complicated to analyze, but the simple description is what I saw and heard before, and it has induced the choice. And the will of the gods is very miraculous to strengthen this inducement, so that the induced creatures subconsciously choose to bypass, and always firmly believe that this is a decision made by their own will.
The will of the gods is so unreasonable, with this barrier, although the mage tower covers a large area, and the height is much higher than most of the buildings in Parvatiga, but even in such a large area, there are often no creatures passing through for a year or two, which shows how amazing the effect of the induction barrier is.
Yes, it's not that there are no large creatures passing by, but there are no creatures at all, from mythical beasts to insects, snakes, rats and ants, all of which are lured in other directions, far away from the confines of the Central Tower, making this area a forgotten corner of the world. Of course, for the intelligent creatures who are relatively determined, the effect is actually not too great, especially if the intelligent creatures know in advance that there is a space there and make up their minds to go over, then the induction barrier will not be effective.
This is indeed a slight flaw, if used elsewhere, the effect will be greatly reduced, but it will not have any effect on the use of the mages, even if there is a next time, it can be ignored.
The inducement barrier is in the outermost layer, the concealment enchantment is in the innermost, and the one that is filled in the middle is, of course, several layers of protective measures, protective energy attacks, defensive physical attacks, long-range weapon deflections, and even rigid shields, seven or eight layers of protective barriers, and the internal space is tightly controlled, not to mention demonic beasts and mythical creatures, even if they are intelligent creatures, it is difficult to step into the scope of the central tower without the permission of the mage.
With this whole set of defense system, the mages can basically no longer worry about their own safety, they do not need to hide in the magic tower all day long, although they are willing to do so, but they can be like when they were originally in the griffon empire, during the interval of the experiment, occasionally go out of the magic tower to bask in the sun, breathe the fresh air outside the civilized world, admire the flowers and trees of the wild land, if they want, they can even observe those creatures passing by through the one-way hidden barrier, whether it is ordinary creatures or mythical creatures, it is enough to open the eyes of the magesใ
That's right, admiring the flowers and trees, in addition to protecting the magic tower, the protective measures even shrouded a part of the wild land, among which those plants that grew luxuriantly, naturally became part of the magic tower, Shul even saw a garden with obvious artificial traces outside the tower, and there were several mages who were busy inside, the dark moon blessed, building a garden in the wild land, would anyone really believe it?
But why are there gardens? The mages probably don't have this kind of love.
"Well, of course not. Mia didn't think it was a derogatory statement, in fact, the mages were quite proud of it, "Those are just test fields, and if you go around to the other side of the magic tower, you'll find a pen with a lot of animals in it." It's all our experimental materials, after all, this is a wild place, if you want experimental materials, you can't bring them in from the outside, it's really inconvenient, and it's too unsafe, and what do you think you should say to the escorting mercenaries? If you want them to transport a batch of raised animals, the destination is a wild land? You will be considered crazy. โ
Indeed, although the mercenaries are all crazy people who trade their lives for money, they should not be crazy enough to transport livestock to the wilderness? No kidding, is this going to feed the mythical creatures? What to feed yourself?
"Well, I have to admit that the situation here is not what I expected. Shuer and Judy glanced at each other, and they couldn't hide their surprise in their hearts, "It's hard to believe that such an area can appear in the Wild Land, it doesn't look like a sapient creature entering it at all, saying that it is within the scope of a certain city, I guess some people believe it." Tsk, I also feel the energy of the heart of the city, is the Tower of Seven Yao really planning to emulate the feat of the pioneering era and build a city in a wild place?"
The four of them had already jumped from the back of the thunderstorm beast, and they really set foot in the wilderness, stepping on the ground, and it seemed that it was no different from the civilized world outside. Just as Shur was adjusting his mentality, five or six mages hurriedly walked over from the magic tower in the distance.