Chapter 276 – Blaze Magic Tower
Red mage tower.
This place, where experts in flame-based elemental magic gather, is often called the Red Magic Tower for the convenience of being ‘easy to call’, but there is a separate name for it, the Blaze Magic Tower.
The situation is the same for other magic towers, such as the blue magic tower and the white magic tower.
The abbreviation, which is classified according to the color of the main magic, has become more famous than the official name as time goes by. I guess you could say it was a complete turnaround.
For the mages belonging to the Mage Tower, it wasn’t very pleasant.
However, apart from such trivial inconveniences, the status of the Mage Tower in the society of wizards is very high.
The gap between wizards from the Magic Tower and those from the Non-Magic Tower is reminiscent of the gap between nobles and commoners, and the gap is even bigger when considering the difference in ability stemming from the growth environment.
Truly the elite of the elite. The magic tower is the monumental tower of knowledge where the wisest of wise men gather.
Also, most magic towers, especially those that study elemental magic, are usually located in places where the energy of the purest elements is gathered.
In the case of the Blaze Magic Tower, it is located in the middle of an active volcano that is still active.
Etnard territory near the southeastern part of the Empire, and its landmark, Vulcanus Volcano.
— Bubbling…
Inside the crater of a gigantic active volcano reaching an altitude of 4,800 meters above sea level, red-hot magma rolls over hot prominences and creates a dragon.
If a major eruption begins, the reason why this volcano is still relatively quiet, enough to cause an empire-wide disaster beyond the scale of the territory, is only thanks to the stabilization magic circle installed by the Blaze Magic Tower.
Wizards who have nested in this place, which is more full of fire energy than anywhere else, are working hard every day to pursue the most beautiful and destructive fire magic.
One peaceful day when hot geysers explode and gray volcanic ash billows.
— Boom boom…
“Um, what the hell is that?”
“Meteor…? No. According to astronomical records, nothing today…”
Observatory, a space prepared to observe external changes including volcanic activity. There, a number of wizards gathered and were exchanging opinions with quite serious faces.
“Hey, is such a trivial thing important now?”
It is none other than the black meteor that is getting closer and closer at this moment.
The meaning of Meteor in the Blaze Magic Tower is very great. Meteor Swarm, a large-scale magic called the romance and pinnacle of fire elemental magic. It is because the original form is the meteorite impact.
“Everyone, keep your eyes on the current scene somehow! I never thought I would see this precious sight while I was alive…!”
An elderly wizard with a white beard trembled and trembled.
He was looking at the meteor falling from the sky and making a very thrilled expression, and a young wizard next to him muttered with a trembling face.
“Hey, that doesn’t look like a meteor.”
“What?!”
“Look. The speed of approach is strangely fast. It looks similar to the naked eye, but it is clearly different when viewed through a telescope. It is not even a celestial body that entered the atmosphere through the stratosphere in the first place.”
—Shuuuuu… !
“Look out of the way!”
When the young wizard raised his hand to point to a meteor, the old wizard hurriedly overtook him and stood in front of an astronomical telescope.
“Uh, uh…!”
Before long, the old wizard’s mouth dropped open as he witnessed a scene that was hard to believe even after seeing it.
Meteor? No, it’s not a meteorite. The identity of that thing surrounded by a mana curtain high enough to be mistaken for a meteorite at first glance…
My whole body trembled, and the vibrations even reached my white beard. And the sound of screaming sounds.
“Contact the Lord of the Tower, hurry!”
— Whoops!
“I-I can’t…”
“Lord of beads, Lord of beads!”
Eventually, with a roar that shook the entire tower, the old wizard passed out.
* * *
“What the hell is this all about?”
A small woman sprinting towards the crater that was hollowed out in front of the entrance of the mage tower.
“Lord of the Magic Tower! It’s dangerous!”
“Danger is nothing. If it was really dangerous, it would have exploded even if it exploded.”
Beneath her long red hair, her white, dense face was full of irritation.
A bold red dress that showed off her petite and slender body to the fullest. It was an outfit that went against her polite dress code in her mage tower, but no one treated her carelessly.
“Ha…?”
Looking at the situation with her head sticking out and her eyes wide open, she soon noticed a man crouching in the middle of the crater in a strange pose, and sneered at her as if he was dumbfounded.
And immediately I realized what had happened.
She was well aware of the fact that her man often carried out eccentricities far beyond her common sense, and that she could adapt her main weapon and use it as the world’s most reckless means of transportation. I knew it well.
Then she waved her hand at the wizards around her and said,
“Go ahead and take care of your business. I’ll take care of that guy myself.”
“But Tower Lord, the author dared to invade the domain of the Blaze Magic Tower…!”
“Sup, you can’t hear me!”
After calming down the wizards of the Mage Tower, who were heating up with her blushing face, with just one word.
The red-haired woman, striding toward the cause of all this confusion, raised her fern-like hand and slapped her man on the shoulder and back, shouting:
“Hey. Are you crazy?”
The person who drove the peaceful Blaze Magic Tower into chaos.
Wolfgang, a large man, answered Scarlett by lowering her head as if he had no face.
“I-I’m sorry. I failed to control my strength in the middle. I was able to land stably. As I approached within a certain radius, the magical flow got twisted.”
“What bullshit, really! Didn’t you train so much that even your brain became muscle? If you forcibly squeeze into the barrier, of course the magical flow gets twisted! Call that an excuse now!”
— Kwak!
“Anyway, really… If it weren’t for me, dude, you would go to court right away. No, even if you bathe in lava right now, there’s nothing to say.
Scarlett pinches Wolfgang’s cheeks with her fern-like hands and bruises him hard.
The words were so correct that Wolfgang had to deal with her wrath quietly. According to her words, if Scarlett, the owner of the Mage Tower, hadn’t been close to him, she would have had to pay a huge price.
“Idiot! Brain muscle! Idiot!”
Scarlett, who had been scolding Wolfgang in the midst of her spirited look, looked at her friend’s face anxiously before long.
“Hey, but why do you look so weird?”
“Is it.”
“Is that so?”
It was because, unlike usual, he looked very gloomy.
“…I don’t think we’re going to continue talking here. Follow me.”
“Thank you for your consideration.”
“Tower lord, isn’t he an intruder?”
“That’s right! No matter how high-ranking Vice-Admiral Wolfgang is in the Empire, the Mage Tower has its own rules!”
“Noisy! How dare you talk back to the tower’s owner when you talk about the law of the mage tower?”
Scarlett brought Wolfgang to her room on the top floor of the Mage Tower, ignoring the astonished reactions of her aides.
“Phew, so what’s going on? No matter how much you try to do something crazy like this, it’s usually not an urgent matter. Tell this sister once.”
Originally, we would have to sit face to face and have a conversation, but Scarlett, who took the seat right next to Wolfgang as if she was used to it, patted him on the shoulder and said,
She was similar in size and light-hearted, like her nephew who clung to her big uncle and played pranks on her, but Wolfgang was quite moved by her.
She didn’t ask or ask what was going on and immediately offered to help. Is this what friendship is? Even if you look at it, it’s no different from a colossal nuisance.
Wolfgang gripped Scarlett’s tiny hand tightly and spoke earnestly.
“Thanks.”
“What, what is it? Why is he suddenly like this?”
Then, as if embarrassed, Scarlett blushed a lot and quietly turned her head. Even so, he doesn’t pull his hand out of the way, but rather seems to enjoy the warm feeling of the big hand wrapping the small one.
It was a kind of facial expression and gesture that the magicians of the Mage Tower could never see.
Aside from her very problematic personality, she was a beautiful Scarlett as much as her appearance, so there were not a few young wizards who adored her.
It was as if they were playing with a tall, sturdy knight, rather than their idol, the mage tower master.
“Alicia has amnesia. I need your help, Scarlett.”
Meanwhile, Wolfgang went straight to the point without turning his back.
It was because he trusted his immediate comrade and friend.
“What?!”
Anyway, was this unexpected for a long time?
Scarlett’s eyes wide open in astonishment. After being dumbfounded for a few seconds with her mouth open, she soon regained her composure and answered.
“Amnesia loss, memory loss… Well. I guess I can roughly understand what you were thinking. I couldn’t ask for help from the saintess for fear of useless talk. So you ended up going round and round and finding this body that is the smartest of your acquaintances?”
“It’s accurate. It gives me goosebumps.”
Wolfgang nodded in admiration.
It’s as if it completely entered and came out of his head. He wouldn’t be a mind reader like Hasine. He is also a great magician, so his deduction skills are no joke.
Scarlett, who was twisting her hair with her index finger, smiled and replied to Wolfgang.
“Well, it’s obvious. But as you know, wizards surprisingly don’t know much about anything other than their field of expertise. There are very few wise men who are equally proficient in all fields.”
“I see. Then what should I do?”
Contrary to his confident tone, Wolfgang was visibly despondent at the poor reply.
“Ughhhhh!”
“Ugh, what the hell is that bad laugh?”
Scarlett looked up at him and gave him a sinister smile.
“By the way! One of those sages is this body!”
Wolfgang looks at Scarlett with a bewildered expression, pretending and pointing at his meager breasts by raising his thumb.
“Last time I went to the polar regions with you.”
She gestured toward the storage box that filled one wall and brought out a rolled sheet of parchment.
“There were some pretty useful things among the Runics I learned from the shamans there.”
