Chapter 116: The Mage Tower and the Journey
If there is anything that is most attractive to a magician, then the answer is definitely magical knowledge, as the source of a magician's progress, any magician has a strong learning of the knowledge that he has not mastered**. But if there is anything that is most important to a magician, then I am afraid that 99% of magicians will answer that you are a mage tower.
The Mage Tower is not just a simple tower-shaped structure, in that case it is obviously easier to have a flat house than a magic tower that has to climb up and down. A complete mage tower not only includes a complete magic defense system and a magic attack system, but also needs to have functions that can meet the needs of magicians to carry out various magic practices, cultivate some magic materials, and even raise some magic creatures.
With so many functions in place, the Mage Tower also needed facilities that could provide a living and living facility for a mage and a certain number of magical apprentices under his name. It can be said that as long as a mage is in his own mage tower, even if an enemy one or two levels higher than him wants to attack it, he will need to pay a lot of price. There are many high-level mage towers that have solidified offensive and defensive magic that are even strategic, and can be one or two levels higher than the level of the master of the mage tower. In the amplification equipment in the mage tower that is leaning on, the owner of the mage tower can rely on these devices to control the mage tower to continuously release magic that is one or two levels higher than his own. Some mage towers that use precious materials can even allow a mage to cast spells by three or four levels, but there are not many mage towers in the history of Talumia 6.
Generally, a mage is qualified to build his own mage tower after level 3, but in fact, it is very difficult for many level 7 mages to have their own mage tower. The reason is also very simple. The amount of money required to build a mage tower is so large that even a nobleman with an actual fief would consume about half of the territory's funds to build a third-level mage tower. And a third-level mage tower is actually of little help to a nobleman of this level. Although the magician is claimed to be one of the richest professions, in fact, the consumption of gold coins by magicians is unimaginable to ordinary people. Building a mage tower that matches their level is beyond the financial means of more than ninety percent of mages.
Of course, for a tyrant-level marquis like Xu Yue, who is not bad for money, building a third-level mage tower is still within the range he can afford. Although the amount and price of magic materials needed to build the Mage Tower were staggering, with the help of the more than 10 million magic materials that were brought from the trolls two years ago and left behind. In fact, the amount of gold he had to pay was not too much. With the steady stream of gold coins that the Ivo Chamber of Commerce had earned from all over Talumia 6, he wouldn't have much pressure to build his own mage tower even if he expanded Walker County.
Xu Yue's current level is only just entering the third level, and in the world of magicians, he is at most the top of the junior mage. Not even an intermediate mage. Generally speaking, even some very wealthy nobles are rarely willing to build mage towers for their most outstanding direct lineage juniors when they reach the level of third-level magician.
This is because it costs a lot to build a low-level mage tower. But it doesn't play a big role, and an ordinary mage tower can at most allow a third-level mage to rely on the mage tower to deal with a group of fifth-level mages. For a faction that can build a mage tower, this is really not very attractive. Therefore, even if a rich magician or a great nobleman builds a mage tower for an excellent son, he will reach the fifth or even sixth level. Otherwise, it's a bit of a waste.
The mage tower Xu Yue built this time is not just a third-level mage tower, but only three floors. A rudimentary mage tower with simple attack and defense effects, but built directly on the scale of a sixth-level mage tower. According to common sense, even if this kind of mage tower is built, he has no problem if he wants to move in. But there were a lot of fifth- or sixth-level magic in those mage towers, and even higher, that he couldn't control at all.
The magic in the mage tower is different from the magic scroll and the magic equipment, the magic on the scroll and the equipment has been completely burned by the magic circle, and it can be released as long as it is stimulated with mental power, except that the magician has to lock the opponent with mental power. You don't have to do anything.
However, although the magic array fixed in the magic tower can also assist the mage to release fixed magic, the role it plays in it is mostly biased towards amplification. The formation and release of magic depends more on the guidance of the magician, and the energy of magic mainly depends on the energy core of the magic tower.
Of course, there are also people who have thought of making the magic circle in the Zuò Mage Tower in the same way as magic equipment. But in the end, they all had to give up, and the reason was very simple, so many magic materials would be consumed that it would make people feel crazy, even if one of the seven kingdoms of mankind smashed the pot and sold iron, I am afraid that it would be able to get a fifth-level mage tower.
Even if you think about it with your knees, the magic array on a storage ring is probably less than three centimeters in size, but the magic array on a magic tower is at least a few meters in size, and the materials to be consumed are not at the same level in terms of quantity and level.
The magic on the tower is not the same as the magic cast by the magician. Take a fire rain technique as an example, no matter how powerful a magician is a third-level magician, it is powerful to be able to release a fire rain area that can cover a hundred square meters. However, after the same spell is engraved on the mage tower, it becomes a real strategic magic, relying on the increase of the magic tower, the area that the same fire rain spell can cover can be expanded to more than a thousand square meters. Its power and coverage are unmatched by the magicians who cast their own magic.
However, according to the general theory, Xu Yue, a third-level mage, can only operate a fifth-level mage tower at most, unless he uses that extremely precious and almost impossible to find material as the material for the construction of the mage tower, otherwise it is almost impossible to control a sixth-level mage tower by himself.
However, not being able to control it yourself does not mean that there are no other ways to take advantage of it, in order to save the trouble of repeated construction. When Xu Yue directly built the mage tower into the sixth level, he also found a way to trick it. That is to find an artificial soul at level six, before he reaches the level of being able to manipulate the mage tower. Instead of him, control the operation of the entire mage tower.
Although the magic of Talumia Big 6 is not the same as the technology of the earth, there are similarities in the direction of any civilization. After several explosions in the earth's scientific and technological civilization, the computer is a magical tool. And the magicians of Talumia's Big 6 have also conducted research on this before.
While the myriad of realities and things has increased the level of the magicians, they also feel that their energy is becoming less and less abundant, and they urgently need an assistant who can help them handle things efficiently. As for replacing it with an apprentice, if it's some simple part, it's fine, but in some of the more advanced magical realities. The apprentice's magical knowledge was obviously not up to the task, so after a long period of exploration, the artificial soul was born as an excellent assistant.
Earth's computers are longer than calculations. However, its logical analysis and judgment ability cannot be compared with that of real humans. Artificial souls, on the other hand, are the opposite. Because of the magical power of magic, the magician has the ability to understand the soul and destroy the scientists of the earth a few streets away. From the very beginning, they focused on imitating the human soul, and after a long period of research, they finally developed an artificial soul that closely resembles the human soul.
Because these souls are created with magical powers, they are not pre-set to have the fatigue and boredom of human beings. And as long as there is a supply of magical energy. They can keep working. Because artificial souls are modeled after human souls, they are almost indistinguishable from human souls in terms of logical thinking and judgment, which allows artificial souls to deal with things without appearing rigid and stiff.
But it is precisely because they are too similar to human souls that these artificial souls are not much different from humans in terms of calculation power and processing, even if the magician intentionally increases their ability to deal with things when they create them, but a third-level artificial soul is only three to four times faster than a third-level mage of the same level in terms of handling things. The only thing that gives it an advantage over humans is that it never gets tired. A magician may have to rest after working for two or three hours, but an artificial soul can continue to work, which is invisibly equivalent to the ability of an artificial soul to work more than ten or even twenty times that of an ordinary magician.
The creation of artificial souls has indeed solved many of the problems of magicians. In many fields, artificial souls can take the place of magicians, but at the same time, they also miss the opportunity to develop advanced processing tools similar to Earth's computers. Once the direction of the exhibition is deviated. It's very difficult to correct it.
Now artificial souls have been widely used in Talamia, and many high-level artificial souls are not much different from humans in consciousness because they are highly similar to humans, but they don't get tired. Therefore, the Magic Guild even treats some high-level souls internally as beings equal to mages. This was the case with the artificial souls that Xu Yue had encountered when he had purchased items from the Magic Guild before.
The use of artificial souls to control mage towers is actually nothing new, but few people do it except for the Magic Guild. The reason is actually very simple, it's not that others don't know the benefits of artificial souls, but that the money and magic materials consumed to make artificial souls are too expensive, and even the consumption of magic towers of the same level is not much lower.
If there is a sixth-level artificial soul to control the magic tower instead of Xu Yue, although it may not be possible to fully wield the power of the magic in the magic tower, it is still no problem to wield seven or eighty percent. The power of Level 6 strategic-level magic is enough to make the ranks of any force fearful. If some single attack magic is fixed in the magic tower, even if the seventh-level powerhouse encounters the attack of the magic tower, there is only one escape, and even if it is killed under hard fighting, it is not an accident.
Of course, Xu Yue does not have a sixth-level artificial soul in his hands, this level of artificial soul is an extremely precious non-sale item even within the Magic Guild, unless you are a high-level person in the Magic Guild, and you can only get an artificial soul of this level after paying a sufficient price, otherwise, if outsiders want to buy it with gold coins, let alone buy it or not, it is impossible for the Magic Guild to sell it alone to block this road.
But just because you can't buy them from the Magic Guild doesn't mean you can't get high-level artificial souls from other sources. The technology of making artificial souls has matured and been widely used tens of thousands of years ago. Historically, some high-level magicians and some powerful powerhouses have had their own artificial souls as support.
It is important to know that artificial souls themselves are not very easy to destroy due to their properties. Even if the energy is depleted, the artificial soul will not dissipate immediately, but will return to a dormant state. And once the original owner of the artificial soul dies. The imprint imprinted on the core of the artificial soul will disappear, and at this time, as long as any strong person can engrave his spiritual imprint on the core of the artificial soul, he can become the new master of this artificial soul.
The history of Talumia 6 has not always been very smooth, whether it is the war with the troll empire Aleka in ancient times, or the Battle of Twilight in the large-scale invasion of hell, Talumia 6 has been greatly affected by the impact of the entire Big 6. Countless strong people have fallen in these wars, and many of the strong people's nests have even been destroyed or sunk into the ground in the war.
This has long been the source of interest for Talumia mercenaries and adventurers in exploring various ruins. It is obvious that the dwellings of those who have fallen strong will have many precious items, even if most of them have been destroyed by the passage of time, but as long as they remain, they are all rare treasures. The legend of an adventurer who discovered a precious item from the ruins and used it to become a rich man or a powerful man has never been broken.
Nature. It's not uncommon for some dormant artificial souls to appear in these ruins. Although not everyone has artificial souls even in ancient times, and there are not many that can be preserved intact to this day, but with the huge number of ruins, it is still no problem to have one or two every year. Often these artificial souls are revealed. It is either taken by the presenter as his own, or it is used to exchange benefits with some high-level powerhouses. The few that are used to sell it directly are pitiful, and they are even bought at a high price on the day they appear.
Xu Yue didn't plan to meet someone who happened to sell a sixth-level artificial soul, and that possibility was smaller than the earth's two-color ball lottery. But he wasn't completely unprepared. For the past two years, he has spent a lot of money collecting information on various ruins and former fallen powerhouses, and then analyzing and sifting out several locations that are most likely to obtain artificial souls.
Although the construction of his mage tower had already begun, it would take a long time for a level 6 mage tower to be completely completed, and there was enough time for him to find a suitable artificial soul. Of course, if you can't find it. Xu Yue will not force it. In terms of the aid of magical learning, the function of 'Kenneth's Cabin' is barely enough for him for the time being. The main reason why he wanted to build the Mage Tower quickly was to increase the defense of Walkershire.
If he really can't find an artificial soul, then he simply uses the funds to expand the strength of the members of the escort team and his own powerhouses, and as long as he maintains his current promotion level, he can barely do it if he has two or three years to break through to the fourth level, and then he will almost be able to meet the minimum requirements for controlling a sixth-level mage tower.
After a year of construction, the show in Walker County was basically on track, and the exhibition of the Ivor caravan was also very smooth under Caro's careful planning. Although from time to time, some forces that are jealous of Walker County will secretly make some small moves, but under the strong strength of Xu Yue's side, they all come back with a feather.
After feeling that he was no longer needed here, Xu Yue finally made up his mind to leave here and explore the ruins he was concerned about. At the same time, there is a very important thing that has always been in his mind.
The reason why he was able to follow the path of a mage and come to the magical land of Talumia can be all given by Oward. Without the Crossing Gate left by Oward, he would not have been able to come to Talumia 6, nor would he have been able to rely on the difference between the two 6s to become a rich man and a nobleman who was admired both on Earth and in Talumia 6. Without the magical imprint that Oward left on him, he would not have been able to become a magician, gain great power, and prolong the life of his loved ones while pursuing the path of eternal life.
It can be said that he was able to obtain today's qiē, although he had his own efforts, but Oward's gift was the most fundamental reason for this qiē. So he kept Oward's dying wish in mind.
He's not the ungrateful character. The main reason why he didn't immediately complete Ovod's entrustment was because he had just come to Talamia at that time, and when a person had no strength and strength of his own, he could only focus on the present.
Now that he has enough power, Walker County is enough to ensure that his own interests in this world are not compromised. In terms of personal strength, although his third-level strength is still very weak, relying on the magic equipment on his body that has been updated several times, as long as it is not a hard-fought fight with a seventh-level powerhouse, it is no longer a problem for him to save his life, so he decided to complete Oward's last wish this time.
After talking to Ai Wo about his thoughts, Xu Yue rejected Ai Wo's desire to send his own seventh-level powerhouse to protect him. It's not that he doesn't want to bring a seventh-level powerhouse with him, but after all, Walker County has not been occupied for a long time, and even with Carlo's calculations and their own strong strength, those forces who are jealous of their gains and continue to secretly use means have not been able to cause them much trouble.
But that doesn't mean Walker County is safe. Over the past year or so, whether it is the assassination of high-level officials, the bribery of people underneath, or even the destruction of food and other materials, those outside forces have been sparing no effort to do it. If it weren't for the support of the three seventh-level powerhouses of Kailus, the strong strength of the escort team, and enough food to envelop the residents of the town, Walker County really wouldn't be as easy as it is now.
For the current Walker County, the three seventh-level powerhouses of Kailus can be said to be the pillars here, and none of them can be missing. In this year, there were no less than three or four seventh-level powerhouses that they secretly ran away and even killed. If there is one missing, it is easy for those outside forces to see the weakening of Walkershire's power and unite to attack. As for the professions below the seventh level, if the number is small, it is not as good as the power of the magic equipment on Xu Yue's body, and if the number is slightly more, it is easy to be targeted by those outside forces. Although those forces from the outside world in Walker County can't do anything with high-level people like Xu Yue and Ivor, once they leave Walker County, those forces will definitely not mind killing these high-level people. If Xu Yue is alone, he can escape from danger at any time by relying on the role of the boundary gate, but it is not so convenient to bring a few subordinates.
So after thinking about it again, Xu Yue decided not to bring anyone, so that he could leave without knowing the ghost by relying on the boundary gate, and he would not have to worry about his subordinates and retreat calmly when he encountered danger.
As early as a year ago, Xu Yue had already set the fixed coordinates of the Boundary Gate in Black Rock City, where Aiwo's Chamber of Commerce had been operating for a long time, and it was an important stronghold of their Chamber of Commerce, and it was much easier to cover up his whereabouts.
After coming to an inconspicuous house in Black Rock City by passing through the boundary gate, Xu Yue first used magic to change his appearance, and then changed into a traveler's costume and left the house.
After blending in with a caravan out of the city, he paid a fee and was allowed to stay in the caravan by the caravan's higher-ups. In fact, there are not a few travelers who pay for the refuge of large caravans, most of them are solo adventurers or scattered merchants. In this way, you can ensure your own safety on the maximum distance, after all, even some bandits and robbers do not dare to attack lightly when they encounter large teams.
After a month-long journey, Xu Yue finally arrived at the destination of his trip. The Kingdom of Dallas, one of the Seven Kingdoms of Mankind, is known as the Kingdom of Magic. (To be continued......)
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