Chapter 37: The City of Astrology, Scottel (2)

[Sgdal] is one of the few cities in the empire that dare not get too involved after the city [Vando] that exists in the Reoks Academy of Magic.

The reason is very simple, it is nothing more than because Scottel is a city with more magicians than Reochs, and the magicians of Scottel are different from the magic apprentices of Reox, although these magicians may not be powerful themselves, but most of them are wise and sages in various fields, and enjoy great fame.

In particular, the magicians who live in Scottel's most famous building, the mage tower [Vander], which has existed for hundreds of years like the castle of Reoks, are almost all powerful black magicians.

Speaking of which, Scottel is a real city of magicians, in front of it, Reox can only be called the "Cradle of Magicians" at best, you may not imagine how many now famous magicians live in the city of Sgedel.

Perhaps in the minds of ordinary Imperial civilians, Reox in Van Duo City is the gateway to the wizarding world, but as long as he is a magician, he will not know Sgdal, otherwise, he is not a real magician at all.

Scottel is not an academy, nor is it a reserve base for the magical power of the Empire, and most of the magicians who choose to stay in the city are scholars who have no interest in power and status, and are the kind of people who are really interested in studying magic.

Here, some magicians, who may stay at the level of ordinary magicians all their lives, and some have not even passed the qualification assessment of magicians, they can only be regarded as apprentices, but they are such apprentices, but they have the ability to talk about all kinds of applications of magic, including negative energy, they can draw all the complicated spells of ritual magic in one night, they will add their own opinions on the basis of their predecessors, they will analyze the use of each spell one by one, and think about it more powerful. A more simplified spell.

It's not that Sgdal doesn't take magic apprentices, but like Weston, the chief wizard of the Royal, it only admits gifted students, and the teaching model is fundamentally different from that of Reox, where sometimes your tutor is too busy with his own scholarship to deal with minor questions about the 'use of fireballs'. Of course, this is just an analogy.

In Scottel, every magician has a house of their own, just simple cabins, each of which is very close, and the doors of the houses are almost always open, and some don't even have a gate, of course, I don't think there will be any stupid thief who is so ignorant as to steal something and steal from Scottel.

The mages who were devoted to their studies did not have time to take care of their own houses, and the small cabins here were more places to store magical objects than to live, and the mage tower erected in the middle of the city was their real home.

It was not so easy to enter the mage tower, even more so than Reox, the entire city of Sgdal was shrouded in a layer of protective shield, especially the [Mage Tower--Vander], after all, it was a protective shield supported by only the old dean like Reoks.

When you enter Sgdal, you will find that the city itself is built on a huge magic array, a huge inherent enchantment, legend has it, even the forbidden spells respected by countless magicians cannot smash open the gates of Sgdal, not even shake Sgdal, how amazing is this!

A magician once calculated the defensive ability of this shield, taking the combined magic of fire and earth, the most powerful [Flame] forbidden spell [Meteor Fire Shower] as an example, Skedel's protective shield is enough to withstand two hours, have you ever seen a great magician, ah no, a holy magician, who can continue to release a forbidden spell for two hours?

Even if you are a holy magician, ten minutes can be considered the limit, right?

Of course, if two holy magicians cast the forbidden spell together, then the defense time would probably be halved, and this is just an analogy.

Of course, please don't forget the magicians in the mage tower, they are not decorations, although they are not very good at fighting, but if they only maintain the magic power of the magic array, hehe, I think even if ten great mages perform magic together, they will not be able to cause the slightest damage to Scottel in a short time.

Are there ten great magicians in the world? There are! There are more than twenty.

But the point is, which of the great magicians will be idle and come to Sgdal to make trouble? You must know that the mage tower called Vander is the holy place in the hearts of most of the dark mages in the empire!

One may ask, why is Sgdal a sacred place in the hearts of dark magicians, but it is called an astrological city?

The reason is simple, because hundreds of years ago, the city of Sgedel was founded by some astrologers, the original dark magicians, who lived in Reoks.

Even this great mage, Tavandel, was originally only a place where astrologers studied the stars.

At the beginning of the first Sassen king's order to improve magic, some of the magicians stayed in Sasson, some of the magicians moved to Thessalonia, and some of the remaining magicians chose Scottel.

Later, with the changes of the times, many black magicians who have no intention of power and status have migrated to this land to study the mysteries of magic with astrologers. ,Some aspects have been applied to the magic array and the great ritual magic,Take the inherent enchantment of Sgdal,This ancient magic array is not a random display,Every point in the magic array represents a star,In addition,The magic array is also nested with the spells of the four systems of debilitating wind、Fire、Water、Earth damage magic,It is a valuable cultural heritage left over from ancient times。

However, unfortunately, due to the changes of history, the construction blueprints of the magic circle have been lost, and the magicians have not been able to completely crack this magic array that combines black magic and astrology...... Unlike the usual city, Scottel is a dreary city, or rather quiet, in this city, you can rarely hear anything other than the wind, but today seems destined to be different, because the city welcomes a few uninvited guests...... "This is Scottel?" A mile away from the legendary city, a word of deep disappointment came out of Alan's mouth.

It's no wonder that the Scottel presented to him is nothing more than rows of dilapidated houses, how can this not disappoint him?

"Heh!" Professor Hodd only smiled at Allen's complaint, and then whispered, "Let's talk about it when you arrive!"

"What's the difference?" Obviously, Jiang Zhe heard the deep meaning of Professor Huo De's words, but this made it difficult for him to understand, could it be that there was still some mystery in the seemingly ordinary town in front of him?

Just when Jiang Zhe and Alan were puzzled, Scott pushed his glasses and said in a low voice, "Scottel, it's not an ordinary city, without the permission of the magician of the mage tower in the city, we wouldn't want to enter it for the rest of our lives, and of course, we can't see what it really looks like......"

"What does it really look like?" Jiang Zhe was stunned, and was about to ask Professor Huo De, but saw that he took out a special magic letter from his arms and was whispering something.

In the blink of an eye, the magic letter gave birth to a pair of small golden wings, which flew like a bird towards the city in the distance, and when it flew less than a hundred or two hundred yards, it suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"This ......" may be a little incomprehensible, and Alan is speechless with his mouth wide open.

"It's an enchantment!" Lavia, who was standing on the side, was afraid that she couldn't stand the 'ignorance' of her companions, and explained angrily, "What you see now is just some illusions, the real Scottel, will it be like this?"

"It's like you've been here......" muttered in a low voice, Alan obviously didn't notice Lavia, who was glaring at him, and still patted Jiang Zhe on the shoulder without knowing whether he was alive or dead, and said, "Right, buddy?"

"Hehe!" Under the gaze of Lavia's murderous eyes, Jiang Zhe smiled, turned his head to Professor Hodd and said, "Professor, Scott said that we can only enter if the magician inside agrees, so how do we get in?"

"Don't worry, haven't I already released a letter from the Golden Winged Magic, it was written by the Dean himself!" Professor Hodd sighed slightly, looking at his expression, it was obvious that he didn't want to come here.

"Dean?" Alan was stunned, then smiled with relief, "Yes, the dean is also a respected great magician, and if you say that, they will let us in......"

"Hehe, that's not the reason," Professor Hodd shook his head with a smile and explained, "The identity of the dean is not the main thing...... Well, even if we don't have a magic letter written by the dean, we can go in......" As he spoke, the professor seemed to suddenly think of something, and his expression suddenly became very strange, and he couldn't go on anymore.

As if seeing Professor Hodd's strange expression, Lavia whispered, "Professor, you've been here before?"

"I didn't ...... I've never been here......"

"Really?" Lavia asked, looking at the professor with bright eyes, "Then why do we say that we can go in without a letter from the dean?"

"How would I know that kind of thing......

Just as Professor Huo De was vigorously arguing, an uncoordinated wavy circle of light suddenly appeared in front of everyone, and along with the aperture, an old man with a brown cane in his hand, not tall, about the same as Jiang Zhe, wearing an incongruous dark green magic robe, with a monocle, the most eye-catching thing was his long white beard that was dragged to the ground.

"Instant displacement, ......" The old man who suddenly appeared almost made Alan bite his tongue, and even Scott put away his smile in an instant, after all, it is not a simple character who can master this hand.

For a long time, the old man just stood with the cane, just looking at the trembling appearance of his legs and feet, he thought it was just an ordinary old man.

"You...... What are you doing here?" asked Lavia out of curiosity.

"I'm ......dizzy," the old man's answer made everyone present dumbfounded.

"Dizzy?" Alan tilted his head and grimaced at Scott.

As soon as he heard this, the old man suddenly became angry, blew his long gray beard and said, "I'm ninety-seven years old, and I have to work hard to get down from the tower for you, can I not get dizzy?"

"Didn't you come down with magic?" would say this, I'm afraid the only one who is not afraid of anything is Allen.

"I'll get dizzy with magic!" I saw the old man holding a cane, his beard trembling and retorting, "You little guy, do you know that this way of moving needs to cross the plane, do you know the plane? You must not know, this plane is space, space you know, you know?" The world we live in, it's a space, I'm going to come up from the tower, it's actually a way to fold the space, in a sense, it's to overlap the place where you're standing and the place I'm standing just now, but between these two places, there's still a layer of obstacles, we call it a surface, why do we call it a surface? This is complicated, we know that the plane is actually composed of a bit and a surface, the position is the position, the coordinates, and the positioning in space; The surface is a barrier, used to distinguish each bit, and if there is no such thing, those guys in the abyss can enter our world, understand?

And the magic of displacement, he didn't simply send me here, you can think of this magic as a door, take your door as an example, originally connected this door, is inside and outside the house, you enter the door from the outside, you can only go back to your own home, but, with this magic, I can change the connection of that door, I connect it to your neighbor's house next door, in this way, after I pass through this door, what I enter is no longer your house, but your neighbor's house, but this door, or the door of your house, so how to connect this door of your house to your neighbor's houseIn other words, the moment I stepped into this door, I had actually crossed the plane, crossed the space, and I moved through the gaps in the space, and this way of moving was the most terrible for me as an old man, do you know?"

He just said something quickly, but the old man spoke for more than ten minutes, and Alan was already dumbfounded, and he finally wanted to say 'I know', but the word 'I' just came out and was interrupted by the old man...... I saw the old man roll his eyes, leaning on crutches and muttering to himself, "So, it may be difficult to understand, then I'll be more specific," he said, paused on crutches, looked at a few children and said seriously, "Little guys, when it comes to the surface, we can't help but talk about space, and when it comes to space, we can't help but explain subspace, what is subspace? Then, following the principle of the law, since there is a positive material space, then there is naturally an antimatter space, and what connects these two spaces is the subspace, which can also be called the [space gap], and the magic of displacement is the use of the method of traveling through the subspace, you don't know, there are many terrible creatures living there, but what is more terrifying is not these, but a careless, in case you enter the wrong door, enter the world that leads to the antimatter space, it will be bad......"

"For ...... Why is it bad?" Alan subconsciously asked, who was a little dumbfounded.

"Stupid!" the old man paused his crutches and shook his head, "That's not our world, well, according to our research, it should be an upside-down world, let's say, in our world, it's the fastest, right?"

"Right...... Ah......h

"But in that world, light is probably the slowest! In our world, water flows from the top down, right?"

"Right...... yes......"

"But in that world, there's a good chance that the water is flowing from the bottom up!"

"What's that? Isn't that interesting?" Allen had just finished speaking when he noticed the murderous looks from Jiang Zhe, Lavia, and Scott.

"Don't you understand? You idiot, this means that you can enter the antimatter space with magic, but there is no guarantee that you can magically come back, understand?!

"Understood, understood!" Not only Allen, but even Jiang Zhe, Lavia, and Scott nodded again and again, for fear that this inexplicable old man would make another tirade, and he hadn't even entered Scottel's door yet, what was going on?

"Do you really understand?" the old man looked at the children with regret, regret, and unfinished eyes.

"Understood, you've made it clear!" Allen's little head kept nodding, and he didn't dare to stop at all.

"Ahem," even Professor Hodd couldn't stand it anymore, and greeted him with an uncomfortable expression, "I see that your old body is quite tough, right?" Elder Jeffs ......."

"Hmm, it's all old bones, it's okay," said the old man, raised his head, looked at Professor Huo De with a confused look in his eyes, then paused on his crutches, pointed at him and smiled and said, "Yo! Huo Huohuo, it's you, Xiao Huo De, who did I think it was!

"Ahem!" said Professor Hod, coughing repeatedly.

"Elder," it was clear that there was a question that had been difficult for Lavia to solve, and seeing that she finally had a chance to speak, she asked cautiously, "Can you enter Scottel without a magic letter?"

I saw the old man stroking his gray beard, and said with a smile, "Yes!" As he spoke, he pointed at Professor Huo De and said with a smile, "As long as your voice is loud enough to reach the ...... of the Mage Tower."

"Huh?"

Looking at Professor Hodd's flushed face, not only Alan couldn't help laughing, but even Scott and Jiang Zhe couldn't help laughing, and Lavia, who was asking, was even more dumbfounded.

That's it?

Elder Graves didn't seem to notice Professor Hodd's flushed face, stroked his beard and recalled, "Of course, we can't hear it under normal circumstances, unless you shout loudly, just like little Hodd used to......"

Arching Scott slightly, Alan whispered, "That's how feelings go in...... Do you think he was annoyed by Professor Hod, so you let him in?"

"Ahem," Hearing Allen's words, Professor Hodd's face turned even redder, coughed twice, and said to Elder Jeffs, "Elder, do you think we're going in first?"

"Oh-oh," said Elder Gilves, as he seemed to remember, patting his head, "look at my last name, little Gretel asked you to come to his granddaughter, right?"

"Grid......" Hearing this, Allen's eyes widened, and even Scott and Lavia looked incredulous, you must know that the old man said that Gretel is the dean of Reochs Academy!

As for Jiang Zhe, he didn't feel anything, because until now, he hadn't figured out what the dean of his academy was.

As if seeing the shocked eyes of the children, Professor Hodd explained in a low voice, "This is the most respected elder in the Mage Tower, and the dean has also been to Sgedel before, so he is considered half of the elder's student......"

"Oh my God......" Lavia covered her mouth in disbelief.

"What a half-student, I'm just an old man guarding the door," squinting and smiling, Jievs looked left and right, his eyes suddenly froze when he swept towards Jiang Zhe, his brows furrowed slightly, but then, his eyebrows stretched instantly, and he said with a smile, "Just a few of you little guys?" I saw the letter, and I thought that Gretel's little guy was here, I hadn't seen him for many years......

"The dean is entertaining the people of the Holy See, so he can't take a break, so he specially asked me to help him bring a message, say hello when he sees the elders, don't be embarrassed by the elders......"

"Oh, the people of the Holy See......" Geeves nodded slightly, and said in a low voice, "Something is going to happen......" As he said, he raised his head, paused on crutches and smiled, "All right, you guys come in with me!"

"So go in?" Alan asked stupidly, he knew that the Scottel in front of him was full of layers of enchantments and prohibitions.

"Hehe," Elder Gilvess smiled slightly, raised his cane and waved it lightly, everyone only felt that the surrounding scenery instantly retreated backwards at an extremely fast speed, and then, the surrounding scenery was suddenly shrouded in a dark glow of multicolored light, all of which only lasted for less than a second, and everyone was just a blink of an eye, and a towering building suddenly appeared in their eyes.

【Mage Tower--Vander】

"Alright, here we are, little ones!" The old man smiled and stroked his long gray beard with a smile in contrast to the incredulous glances of the children except Professor Hod.

The eyes of the group of children were full ......of shock.

This...... This is the legendary Mage Tower?

The castle-like structure that floats in mid-air is the legendary Mage Tower?

There were no stairs, no handrails, nothing, and after looking up for a long time, Jiang Zhe faintly saw something like a suspension bridge.

How did this kind of building, which clearly defies the laws of gravity, come to be?

Jiang Zhe couldn't explain it.

(To be continued)