Chapter 173 – 15. Graduation Exam
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A huge tower built in the center of the continent.
Even when viewed from the outside, it boasts an ignorant size, but the inside is much larger than it looks from the outside.
The area of one layer is approximately 100,000 square kilometers.
It can be said to be small if it is small, but it is still a sufficient area to create a group that can be called a ‘nation’.
As much as it was a place where the resources and vitality of the entire continent were created, the fertility of the land was incomparable to that of the continent, which created a tremendous population support.
Now that more than 70 floors have been lost due to the invasion of the gods, from the perspective of the continental powers, not a single floor should be used carelessly. We have to use it to strengthen our forces by squeezing the production force somehow.
Nevertheless, there was a layer that did not produce anything….
It was the ’11th floor’ used as a place for graduation exams at all academies.
Due to everyone’s agreement, this place is used for purposes that have nothing to do with production, but countless traps are laid and countless golems and monsters are crammed into it.
And when it’s time to take the graduation exam for each academy, the trainees led by the instructors play a survival game to determine the final winner.
The purpose was to build up proficiency and train more outstanding tower warriors so that more floors could be restored in the long run.
But recently, a big problem arose with this role.
In the graduation test of the former jockey, all trainees and instructors were wiped out.
Not only the Ha family’s academy, but all academies that were taking graduation exams at the time suffered this kind of damage.
Although there were various traps and monsters, it was never to the extent that the trainees were wiped out or even the instructors, who were warriors of the tower, died.
This is obviously due to the intervention of other beings.
The committee dispatched an investigation team with several large guilds, but the return income was only the decayed corpse.
“It’s the right thing to do. Really useless committee.”
“… You broke it.”
“The graduation exam was decided before collapsing the committee. Because it’s like that, the sound says let’s push it away. It is self-employed.”
“Well, it is.”
A room filled with thick smoke.
Surprisingly, it is a room prepared inside a huge aircraft.
Currently, about 10 airplanes were spinning in the sky over Seoul.
It’s like an airplane, a giant clone.
Of course, it wasn’t to summon a ghost, it was an action to move to the next floor.
Here’s how to get to the next level in the tower.
1. Go to the central city of each floor.
2. Activate ‘Gongjeopseok’ managed by the central city.
3. Gather the group you want to move within a radius of 50 meters from the ball seat that triggered it.
4. Move.
A simple yet complex way.
The height of the ball seat was about 20 meters, and all kinds of geometric magic circles and normling codes were engraved on the surface, so when it was activated, it resonated with the designated ‘ball seat’.
At this time, if you are within a radius of 50 meters, you will move to the place where there is a resonating ball seat.
Since it transcends space, to be precise, it temporarily attaches and then removes a space that is apart and additionally moves people, so of course there are many restrictions.
First of all, the range is insignificant compared to the cost.
An empty seat is not easily made.
To explain the process, first, a stone the size of a person’s palm is prepared and the surface is smoothed.
No ordinary stone. It must be a stone with a loss rate of mana and noble ring close to 0. Of course, this is also a product, and noblesse, a high-quality manpower, must be included.
After preparing the stone, magic formulas and norming codes are inscribed densely on the surface, and the top is covered with melted stones.
Of course, it must be a stone that converges to zero loss rate.
When the poured surface hardens, formulas and codes are inscribed on it again, and the top is covered with molten stone.
In this way, by repeating the process of engraving all the formulas and codes and covering them with stones, when the stone, which was the size of a palm, grows to a height of about 20 meters, it is only then that it is possible to perform ’empty welding’.
Absolutely horrendous cost and time.
However, even if it is made with so much effort, it is limited to just connecting the layers.
1st to 2nd floor.
2nd to 3rd floor.
Even so, it was possible only in the same area on the upper floor. For example, connecting from the central city on the 1st floor to the outer city on the 2nd floor was too far away, so it was impossible with a public seat of this size.
Even if the size is increased, it would have to be 100 times larger than it is now, but it is realistically impossible. After all, moving between floors is like riding an elevator.
Also, there is a cooldown.
After triggering it once on an expensive and short subject, you need to cool it down for at least an hour after ‘air contact’.
You can’t rely on nature either, and professional wizards stick to it and use cold-related magic to cool it down in about an hour.
Of course, it cannot be used when it is cold, and at this time, the ball seat is very vulnerable to attack, so you must pay attention to defense.
In fact, it wasn’t like moving between floors from the beginning.
A long time ago, about 10,000 years ago, when 『Human』 Waged war against 『?』, Destroyed them, and invaded the 2nd floor where 『Elf』 And 『Dwarf』 Were, it was the size of a village that could transport huge troops and logistics. An elevator was installed.
However, when the First Tower War was over and “Humans” Were expelled from the tower, the Supreme Council at the time, concerned about such an invasion between floors and a large-scale war, removed the giant elevator between floors and even put the technology into practice.
Since then, various methods have been introduced as the Tower continued to be built, and from about 7,000 years ago, floor-to-floor movement using ‘gongjeopseok’ was adopted.
“Anyway, I’m not surprised anymore. How did you end up eating it?”
Yeonseo overlooks Seoul from the window.
In her gaze her, something gigantic was being built.
A product of Bari.
A special measure was taken because it is impossible to move a large airplane such as a dropship or a carpet by moving between floors through an empty seat, and it is impossible to move smoothly in the sky, as if passing through a portal.
It’s not such a great thing.
In a way, it is an applied version of Gongjeopseok.
When the Gongjeopseok is activated, it reads the spatial coordinates of the Gongjeopseok on the second floor that resonates with it, and creates and fixes the passage in the space where the two Gongjeopseok are ‘Gongjeopseok’ in the air.
To put it simply, you can think of a huge portal with a diameter of 1km being created over Seoul. In this way, at least from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor, you do not have to activate the ball seat, and missiles such as Jukppang-1 can be fired separately from the 1st to 2nd floors. Can be blown away without any action.
Cons: Huge amount of resources consumed during installation.
According to Bari’s calculations, even if he used all of the stockpile accumulated so far, it was all about connecting the 1st floor to the 12th floor.
Fortunately, the graduation exam is held on the 11th floor. Enough to move dropships and carpets.
“What if I am surprised by something like that?”
“Can you add the word ‘barely’ to that?”
As mentioned above, ‘Gate’ is a huge structure with a diameter of 1 km floating in the sky above Seoul.
However, that ‘giant’ was only the continental people’s position, and for Sihwan and Bari, this was just a part rolling around in a corner.
Of course, I don’t have the resources right now, so I can only build 12 of them.
Sihwan gave her a cynical answer to her questioning her with her eyes wide open.
“You know the Dyson Sphere?”
“?”
Of course I don’t know
“Look up at the sky. You will see the sun.”
“Can’t you see this is the tower?”
“Uh… Then what is that?”
Where Sihwan pointed.
Clearly, something like the sun is shining.
“It’s magic.”
“… Anyway… If you go out of the tower, you will see things like the sun and moon.”
“I guess so.”
“Among them, those that shine on their own like the sun are called ‘stars’, and a huge amount of energy comes out of them. Where I was, the star was wrapped in man-made structures to make full use of its energy. Control the climate while adjusting the amount of light as needed, and if you need a little more energy, expose a solar panel on the surface of the planet and focus on that side to shoot. Of course, you can use it as a weapon if you remodel it.”
“Under. You covered the sun?”
“Compared to that, that… Oops. It’s child’s play.”
Dyson sphere.
In the star system where Ryu Si-hwan’s planet is located, Bari spent about 10 years building a giant structure surrounding the sun in the system.
The diameter of the structure reached about 2 million km, and the mass of resources expended in its construction was equivalent to about 140 Earth masses.
This means that at least 10 systems have been changed.
