"The teacher is having lunch. Walking between the workshops on the floating island, Felek lowered his voice and introduced: "You have brought the teacher's favorite gift at this time, and you should have invited you to have lunch with the teacher, but the teacher has a habit recently, except for a few maids, he doesn't like people to be around, even the whole of us is not seen, so unfortunately, I can't invite you to go with me, so I can only ask the masters to sit in the living room for a while, and wait for the teacher's lunch to end and meet again." But...... Forget it, I think it's better to take you from a distance, please come with me. ”

Felek, who seemed to be mature and reliable, seemed very hesitant at this time, as if there was a fierce struggle in his heart. In the end, he made up his mind, and made an invitation with bitterness in his voice.

Walking among the large workshops, you can feel the difference between this place and the mage district of the capital of knowledge. Take the Mithril Processing Workshop as an example, it is also a magic-related supporting workshop, and the mage area is more by craftsmen to carry out the Mithril forging and fine processing work, while on the floating island, it is by some low-level mages and magic puppets who control the heavy Mithril forging work, and then these low-level mages carry out fine processing, these mages often have the common problems of mages, their faces are gloomy, their expressions are focused, and they wear dark robes and float silently against the ground like they have no legs, making the girls passing by feel chills for no reason, and they always feel that they are not on the floating island at noon, but wandering in the cemetery for a hundred years at midnight。

But obviously. The mages didn't think anything out of the ordinary, most of the mages who passed by came and went in a hurry, and a few of them were still babbling on their mouths as they went, not knowing which magic formula they were repeating. Even one of them, after looking at the timer in his hand when he passed by, went straight from fast walking to running, and those who didn't know probably thought that he was scared by the Pannis, but in fact, it may just be a heater to heat up the time. These mages passing by, even if some of them were not so focused that they ignored their surroundings. Even though they had seen a few strangers who were not non-teachers, it was as if they hadn't seen them. It's like when six people don't exist, and in their minds, instead of being distracted by these strangers, it's better to use that time to do more experiments.

"A hundred years is too long for humanity. So the composition of these mages is very complex. Felek explained in a low voice: "In the teacher's department, there have been many students for more than a hundred years, and most of these students have become powerful mages later, some of them have served as consuls in various places, and some of them have concentrated on this floating island to study their own subjects. And they also have their own students, most of their students have also graduated, and they also have their own next generation of apprentices, I'm afraid it's hard for you to imagine, this floating island. It brings together at least five generations of mage apprentices before and after. As for me, I was the luckiest one, the last of the teacher's students. I was valued by the teacher again, and I have never been out of the teacher, so I can stay with the teacher and accept his teaching at all times, and the other students who were sent out are very envious of me, and they also want to return to the teacher to continue studying, but unfortunately the teacher is very strict. Believing that chicks can only learn to fly if they are driven out of their nests, they are forced to take up positions in the city they are in charge of. They are not allowed to come back to study. ”

"However, since there are five generations of mages and apprentices here, it means that there are still some other students of Master Fila who remain on the floating island. Infected by the environment, Catherine also lowered her voice and said, "Don't they want to have their own city and position?"

"They don't want to. Felek shook his head and said, "Those who stay on the floating island are people who are obsessed with knowledge, or some of the purest mages, not just a mixture of mages and politicians like me. In their eyes, knowledge and magicians are supreme, and in order to study knowledge and magic, they can ignore everything, and for this kind of students, the teacher is not worried about sending them out, otherwise I am afraid that within a year, the territory will be completely chaotic, so simply let them stay on the island and continue their respective magic research as researchers. In fact, I also envy these people, they can put all their energy into one thing, not be distracted by worldly things, maybe because of this, they will achieve their respective achievements, whether it is strength or intellectual achievements. It's not like me, who didn't become a legend until the age of thirty-five, and had no hope of breaking through the demigod line in his life, not at all. ”

"Oh?" Pannis asked, "Listen to you, have any of your classmates also been promoted to demigods?"

"Well, there was one fifty years ago. "But he died five years ago, and his death saddened the teacher for a long time, and he kept thinking that he was his best student, and that he had hoped that he would inherit his lordship." ”

"He's even ......better than Fira," Pannis stopped in the middle of his words, and coughed dryly, "Didn't Fira teach you his understanding of time magic?"

"Not really. Felek knew very well what Pannis meant, Phila could use time magic to halve the effect of time and live until now, then his apprentice is also a demigod, so he should also have this opportunity, but Felek shook his head and said: "The teacher said that time magic cannot be taught in words, and can only be experienced by himself, but unfortunately, he did not succeed in learning the teacher's time magic, or rather, no one among all our classmates learned this special magic." ”

"That's a shame. Pannis suddenly stopped with Felek, and in front of him was the black gate of the Magic Tower and the bluestone door frame.

If you look at the Magic Tower up close, you can feel the towering of the Magic Tower even more, and if you look up at the bottom, you can't see the top of the spire even if you tilt your neck up. The spire is surrounded by a large number of magical runes, which flicker in a regular sequence under the drive of magical energy, adding a bit of mystery to the tower and bringing more oppressive force to those who observe.

Yes, the oppressive force, looking up at the tower, you can feel the pressure from the tower, the towering spire seems to be about to fall in the direction of the observer, people can't help but want to retreat. However, the building is too tall to cause oppressive forces, and there is a more important reason for the oppressive forces, mainly due to the effects of the mage towers themselves. As the rulers of Bute, the mage lords' mage towers and floating cities, in addition to conducting magic research and maintaining external deterrence, the more important function is to maintain their own rule over the territory, they need mystery and oppression to ensure the awe of the people in the territory, so they will choose this high-minded way to maintain authority, and at the same time the shape of the magic tower has been designed in a targeted manner, starting from some small details, highlighting the majesty and solemnity of the magic tower, so that ordinary people are afraid when they see it, even professionals will have psychological pressure。

"Please go this way. The red-robed mage Felek pushed open the door of the magic tower and led everyone into the inside of the tower, and as soon as they entered the tower, the girls saw a very unique decoration, hanging in the reception hall on the first floor.

The top of the floating island is a plane, and the bottom is an irregular cone, the most convex part of the cone, about a hundred meters away from the plane of the floating island, and across the ground of the floating island and the tip of the cone below is the magic tower in the center of the island. The one hundred and twenty-meter-high tower, including the underground part, is divided into more than twenty layers, and the bottom is the energy center of the magic tower, which is the most important place of the mage tower, and it is also the most heavily defended place, where the energy of the leylines is absorbed, stored and transformed. Countless energy pipelines radiate upwards from the bottom of the magic energy center along the interior of the magic tower, sending a steady stream of magical energy to each room, providing sufficient energy for all magic energy machines and magic circles. Above the magic center is the defense force of the magic tower, a large number of magic battle puppets are dormant on this floor, once an unexpected situation occurs, these puppets will be activated, thousands of small puppets made of metal, in the radiation range of the magic tower, like a tireless small army, ready to enter the battle.

As for how large the radiation range of the magic tower can cover how many nearby cities, it doesn't matter, because the country of mages itself is an extremely rich and active area of leyline energy, although the large leyline energy explosion points have been occupied by dozens of mage lords' floating islands, but small and medium-sized energy explosion points can be seen everywhere, and each lord's floating island can control the floating island to use these small and medium-sized flashpoints to reach any corner of the territory in a very short time, and even fly out of the range of the mage country to carry out air strikes on the surrounding areas。 In the disaster of the return of the dead more than a hundred years ago, the country of mages responded to the call of the coalition forces, not only Master Fira personally participated in Kyle's team, but also the Supreme Mage Council also sent three floating islands controlled by legendary mages, relying on these three islands alone, it firmly guarded part of the border of the Sighing Desert, powerful air strikes with magic energy combat puppet troops on the ground, no undead could pass through this border, and almost no casualties were caused, compared to the tragic deaths and injuries of other human countries, Bout's record can almost be called a miracle。

And the floating city that the girls set foot in belonged to one of the three floating islands that participated in the war that year, and was controlled by one of Fira's most powerful students at that time, destroying countless undead, and still hanging on the high wall of the first floor of the magic tower, the head of a destroyed bone dragon that year's record is still hung, which is the unique decoration that the girls saw at first sight when they entered the tower. To be continued

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