Chapter 53 The Central Tower (two chapters in one)
A conical mage tower on four sides appeared in the eyes of the four without warning. This was the first time that Shul and Judy saw the full view of the Seven Stars Tower from outside, and it was also the first time that they felt shocked.
The 150-meter-high tower body has at least one thousand meters long at the bottom, which makes it look like a tower at all. Moreover, the visual scale is particularly large. 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 Seven Stars Tower. The Central Tower did not have any entity at all, but was just a symbolic core institution. However, a hundred years ago, after the consultation of the core council of the Seven Stars Tower, it was finally decided to build a special tower.
The tower will be different from all existing mage towers and is an extremely special existence.
It is different from most mage towers in terms of function. Most mage towers are used by themselves or their own factions, and serve as residences, laboratories and fortresses. However, this tower is different. The purpose of this tower was to build a city that belongs to mages alone for mages who can concentrate on academics and magic. Of course, mages do not exclude scholars who do not have the ability to cast spells to enter the tower. For them, scholars are like their own work partners. Although they are not war vocationists, their hearts to explore unknown fields are the same, which is enough.
According to this purpose, the tower is designed very targeted and is simply a paradise for research mages. On the one hand, the facilities here can meet any of their needs. There are thousands of mage dormitories for everyone to live temporarily, there are giant libraries with a collection of books second only to the Temple of the Gods, there are a wide variety of laboratories and test sites, a large number of experimental animals and plants, and of course, there are also various research records that are outrageously numerous.
On the other hand, other facilities do not exist at all.
Entertainment facilities? No need.
Of course, those who can conduct research on this tower need the best experimental equipment and the most suitable experimental environment. Otherwise, it would be fine to work directly in their own laboratory. If it really doesn't work, you can go to the other six towers. There is no need to come to this tower. Therefore, they must be carrying out very important research work, and they can't wait to use it for 44 hours a day. How could they still have the intention to waste their time on entertainment? That is the most shameful waste.
Living facilities are not needed either.
The mages are the most enduranced people. Once they enter the work state, they can eat compressed foods that will not be rotten for several months or even one or two consecutive years. At this time, eating is just a necessary behavior to maintain life. As for life? It is enough to just have a place for sleeping and meditation, and a place that can solve the necessary physiological needs.
Commercial facilities? It's even more meaningless.
The mages who can come in to work temporarily must be internal members of the Seven Stars Tower. All casting materials and daily necessities are directly exchanged with points. Many mages even lack commercial concepts, so they can buy and sell things? Don’t joke.
So, a city belonging to the mages was built like this, and only fanatical mages could stay here for months or even years. Other normal intelligent creatures may rarely endure the boring life here. Perhaps this is the purpose of the mages, well, I believe that, even if others know the existence of this tower, they will be scared away soon as they see the specific situation inside.
It is said that this tower was originally located in the territory of the Griffon Empire, one of the three empires. As long as the members of the Seven Stars Tower reach a certain status, they are qualified to spend points in exchange for one year of use of a laboratory. Although the points required to be considered sky-high, the mages are still flocking to it. No matter at any time in the tower, there are at least dozens of groups of hundreds of mages working in it.
Unfortunately, this welfare measure was terminated ten years ago. The strangest mage tower in the eyes of the world disappeared from the territory of the Griffon Empire overnight. The royal family and senior officials of the Griffon Empire are still wondering where the tower has gone. It is probably difficult for them to guess where the tower has crossed tens of thousands of kilometers and appeared in the depths of the wilderness.
The core parliament at that time passed the proposal for this migration unanimously. The mage tower, which had the ability to take off, rose from the ground and launched an expedition to the wilderness with the assistance of a large number of demigods.
Tens of thousands of kilometers away, the journey is quite far, and you have to go deep into the wilderness. Even if you have the help of the demigods who have been invited by the mages for a lot of money, it is a very crazy move. The mages are not all powerful demigods, especially the core mage groups of the Seven Stars Tower. They are mainly researchers rather than fighters, and there are also many legends and even golden-level mages. However, the mages are fearless, not only because of courage, but mainly because, no matter how the functions of the central tower change, the core function of the mage tower has not changed.
Moving battle fortress, walking source of destruction, the most reliable companion for the mages, and the most dependent weapons.
Especially this tower where many mages have devoted their lives to it, it is simply a perfect war weapon. The shield can almost block all external attacks, and the attack power of magic is even more indestructible. With just one mage tower, you can almost withstand the attacks of most mythical creatures on the way, not to mention those careful demigods assist.
With the joint efforts of both sides, one of Pavatiga's craziest actions succeeded, and the strange magic tower finally arrived at the place chosen by the core parliament, which is its current location.
It has the richest and most active earth energy nodes in Pavatiga, but it also has the largest number of mythical creatures, so many that if we work together, it is enough to easily crush all the foreign demigods into pieces.
Unfortunately, most mythical creatures do not understand what it means to work together. They are driven only by the instinct of creatures. More importantly, among these mythical creatures, there is a group of names called the Dragon Clan. Yes, the dragon Clan’s nest is here. The mages dared to choose this place as their destination because they were recognized by some giant dragons.
Finally, after a secret voyage of seven and a half months, the mages finally completed a feat that could sensation Pavattiga but never betrayed him. The Central Tower took root in the new home.
Those who protect the mage tower are not only a hidden barrier, but also dare to go to the wilderness and succeed. The mages also have perfect methods of self-protection.
First of all, of course, it is a one-way concealment barrier. This technology that developed the self-exploration era is simply one of the greatest masterpieces in the magic world. Its existence is enough to save most of the troubles from the Mage Tower.
It is not just a hidden sound and light effect in the barrier, it is the most basic application. If it can only be achieved to this extent, it is not worthy of being called a great masterpiece in the magic world. It can perfectly obstruct the internal energy reaction. That is to say, as long as there is no breakthrough in the barrier boundary, let alone some magic experiments inside, it will make the magic tower fly again and attack madly, and there will be no energy fluctuations outside, and at most it can only detect the fluctuations in the hidden barrier itself.
It is precisely because of the existence of the hidden barrier that when the Thunderstorm Beast brought the four people into the mage base, Shul and Judy were shocked by the sudden appearance of the tower. Even though they knew that the tower was there, they would inevitably be surprised to appear suddenly in front of them.
At the moment of entering, Shull even thought about whether this barrier can be miniaturized and applied to dangerous adventures, which will make the most dangerous rest time safer and greatly reduce the risk of adventure. Unfortunately, Mia broke his fantasy. To achieve the current effect, she needed a very complex set of large-scale equipment, which was difficult to apply to daily adventures. Perhaps similar technologies will exist in a certain world, but at least in Pavatiga, it is not practical for a short period of time.
In addition to hiding barriers, the second thing is to induce barriers.
This 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 built, and put their will into the barrier, with almost no substantial effect. The only general purpose is to allow most creatures with unstable will to instinctively choose to circumvent when they approach the barrier.
I had been walking on the left, but today I suddenly wanted to walk from the right. Everyone had similar experiences. It is not surprising at all. The reason is very complicated to analyze, but simply describes it as what I saw and heard before, which induces choice. The will of the gods magically strengthens this inducement, allowing the induced creatures to subconsciously choose to circumvent, and always firmly believes that this is a decision made based on their own will.
The will of the gods is so unreasonable. With this barrier, although the Mage Tower covers a large area and is much higher than most buildings in Pavatiga, even within such a large coverage area, no creatures often pass by for a year or two, which shows how amazing the effect of the induction barrier is.
Yes, it is not that there are no large creatures passing by, but that there are no creatures at all. From mythical giant beasts to insects, snakes, rats and ants, all creatures have been induced to other directions, leaving the scope of the Central Tower far away, making this area a forgotten corner by the world. Of course, for smart creatures with firm will, relatively firm will, the effect is actually not too great, especially if smart creatures know in advance that there is a space there and make up their minds to pass, the induction barrier will not be effective.
This is indeed a slight flaw. If used in other places, the effect will be quite discounted, but it will not affect the purpose of the mages. Even if there is a next time, it can be ignored.
The induction barrier is in the outermost layer, the hidden barrier is in the innermost layer, and the filling in the middle is of course several layers of protective measures, such as protecting energy attacks, defending against physical attacks, long-range weapon deflection, and even rigid shields. Seven or eight layers of protective barriers are tightly placed on the inner space. Not to mention monsters and mythical creatures, even smart creatures are difficult to step into the scope of the central tower without the permission of the mage.
With this complete defense system, the mages can basically no longer worry about their safety. They do not need to huddle in the magic tower all day long. Although they are willing to do so, they can occasionally walk out of the magic tower to bask in the sun during the experiment, breathe the fresh air outside the civilized world, and appreciate the flowers, plants and trees in the wilderness. If they want, they can even observe the creatures passing by outside through a one-way hidden barrier, whether ordinary creatures or mythical creatures, which are enough to open the eyes of the mages.
That’s right, in addition to protecting the magic tower, protective measures even enveloped a part of the wild land. Among them, the lush plants naturally became part of the magic tower. Shuer even saw a garden with obvious artificial traces outside the tower, and there were several figures of mages busy inside. Blessed by the dark moon, build a garden in the wilderness. Will anyone really believe it if you say it?
However, why are there gardens? The mages should not have this kind of hobby.
"Well, of course not." Mia didn't think this was a derogatory statement at all. In fact, the mages were actually quite proud of this evaluation. "Those are just experimental fields. If you go around the other side of the magic tower, you will find a beast cliff with many animals in it. They are all our experimental materials. After all, this is a wild land. If you want to test materials, you can't transport them from outside. That's really inconvenient and too unsafe. And what do you think you should say to the mercenaries? If they want to transport a batch of animals raised, the destination is a wild land? You will be regarded as a madman."
That's true. Although the mercenaries are crazy people who exchange their lives for money, they shouldn't be so crazy that they transport livestock to the wilderness? Don't joke, are you planning to feed the mythical creatures? What to feed, do you?
"Okay, I must admit that the situation here is beyond my expectations." Shul and Judy looked at each other, unable to hide their inner surprise. "It is hard to believe that such an area can appear in the wilderness, which is not like a smart creature entering at all. I guess anyone believes it is within a certain city area. Tsk, I also feel the energy of the heart of the city. Is the Tower of Seven Stars really planning to imitate the feat of pioneering the times and build a city in the wilderness?"
Chapter completed!