With the feather in hand, Luo Ming approached the mage tower in the west of the city.

From a closer look, it is estimated that it is about 15 meters in diameter at the widest point of the base, and about 456 meters in height when the spire is included.

Building such a tower in a medieval-like setting is nothing short of spectacular...... If it is a magicless world, it is estimated that it will be criticized by future generations as a waste of money and labor, and the builder will bear the infamy of a thousand years.

Even with the help of magic in this world, building towers is definitely cheap and easy.

Through the energy vision, it was filled with countless magical powers, almost able to stab Luo Ming's eyes - he could barely see that there were thousands of veins and spells in them, and he couldn't see what they were.

Luo Ming asked Aya to estimate the price...... The cost of materials for this tower is about 50,000 gold coins. In the process of building the tower, many spells have to be cast, almost 100,000 gold coins.

In addition to this, a large number of people had to be mobilized - ordinary tenant farmers and serfs were obliged to give the lord a few days of free labor every year, which is almost the same thing as the ancient Chinese forced labor, to build such a tower, from quarrying stones, cutting trees, carrying materials to building walls...... It is estimated that nearly 10,000 people had to be mobilized to leave their homes during the construction of the tower, unable to take care of the fields.

So, there is a special kind of scam circulating in this world: the Mage Tower scam.

It is somewhat similar to the methods of those alchemy alchemists on the earth in Luo Ming's previous life, the alchemists boasted to the emperors that they had the ability to make elixirs, and then kept asking the emperors for money, and finally suddenly disappeared when the pills were halfway through refining.

Some mages in this world ran to deceive those earth bun lords, asking them for money, saying that as long as they were willing to pay for the construction of the mage tower, he would be willing to stay in the mage tower, and he would serve the lord in the future, with many benefits of this and that......

Of course, the end result is often that the mage has taken away a sum of money and precious resources needed to build the tower, and the world has evaporated.

Swindling a large amount of money from a big lord, but it is a very risky act, if you don't get a wanted warrant, you will be hunted down across borders, and there may be other spellcasters hired to track him down with spells, if it is not profitable, those scammers will definitely not dare to do it.

In the same way, if the benefits of the Non-Master Tower were huge enough to lose their minds, there would not be so many lords who would have been fooled and handed over such a large sum of money at once.

Next to the mage tower is a row of residential areas where people in mage robes come and go from time to time, and outside this row of dwellings there is a ring of walls, built entirely to the specifications of a military fortress, guarded by a guard of twenty men.

Seeing Luo Ming, a man who had nothing to do with the mage and still carried a long sword at his waist, walked over, the guards were full of vigilance, and some people directly picked up the crossbow and wound it.

Commoners are generally reluctant to come closer, and there are many mages living here, who, in the opinion of superstitious people, will turn anyone who angers them into frogs and throw them into a pot to stew.

Even if a merchant or nobleman wants to find a mage, they will usually register directly at the liaison office outside, and then send someone to deliver the news.

After all, in addition to being a powerful military weapon that can be used for defense, the Mage Tower is also the best place for mages to conduct experiments. Take Luo Ming's previous life as an analogy, it is the high-tech laboratory in 985 University, next to which are the dormitory areas of senior researchers with doctorates and even professors.

I'm afraid these guards even have the right to shoot people who come near without reason and refuse to leave.

Luo Ming naturally wouldn't touch this mold, and in fact it was not necessary. He raised the owl's feathers aloft in the air, and the guards let their guard down.

Probably this has something to do with the fact that they are not the only defense - these twenty guards are just a façade to deal with ordinary people. There are definitely many spell traps around the Mage Tower, which are specifically for those who are masters.

If Luo Ming's token is forged, he will probably be blown to pieces by fireballs, lightning, or something when he walks to the door.

Passing through the door, Luo Ming felt a sudden sinking in his body, and then this pressure suddenly disappeared.

And the surrounding environment seems to have changed, although the sunlight and temperature are about the same, there is always a kind of difference between indoor and outdoor in summer, which is unpredictable. ”

Luo Ming savored it for a moment, and then understood what was going on: this was a semi-solidified realm maintained by the energy of the leylines, compared to the hellish realm of the Great Magic Decan, it was more like a net hidden in the void, as if it didn't normally exist, and once it made a hostile act, it would be shrouded in a net intertwined with countless spells, and it would be difficult to escape.

Walking to the bottom of the tower, a red light suddenly swept over the feathers in Luo Ming's hand, and then, a piece of the tower on the top floor suddenly raised and descended.

When it landed in front of Luo Ming, Luo Ming finally saw that it was a magically powered lift, with pulleys and iron cables on it.

At the beginning, the elevator on the earth looked like this for a while, with ventilation on all sides, and only the bottom floor.

Walking up the lift, it automatically rises up until it reaches the next floor next to the top floor.

The top floor seems to have a glass ceiling, and some plants and animals can still be seen...... Maybe it's an ecological garden or something, but on the lower floor is the room where Archmage Gandhi himself lived.

"Hello, Master Gandhi, my boy Lo Ming has come to visit you. ”

Although he was very familiar with that "Gandu" at the time, it was a fake identity of Master Gandhi after all - he himself was an archmage of more than two hundred years old, so he could be said to be an old monster, not a mere fifty-year-old man, and Luo Ming also maintained proper respect.

Of course, if the other party is willing to make a New Year's relationship with him, it is another matter, but since he hasn't said it yet, it is better to be cautious.

As he spoke, Luo Ming also brought up a box of small cakes as a gift - this small cake was made by himself, with milk, honey and eggs, and the materials alone cost a gold coin.

He specially made this cake very soft, just to consider that if the other party's body is old and his teeth are crumbling, he can still eat it normally.

"You don't need so many courtesies, the old man is already more than two hundred and seventy years old, and you are not my subordinate, so you don't have to worry much about these mundane etiquette. ”

As he spoke, Gandhi turned his wheelchair and turned around.

"Look at my stump, I have already been half-cut into the ground, that is, those who don't know the inside story will still respect me, and no one who knows will take me seriously...... I hadn't been out of the house for decades, and once I did, my body would be completely torn apart and completely destroyed.

You may not know it, but I see hope of getting out of this predicament now, thanks to you. ”