Chapter 786 – 786. Sorcerer’s Stone (1)
“There are many strange things…”
It was Erin’s first impression while touring the facilities inside the Mage Tower.
The hallway was somehow familiar.
Unknowingly, she reminded her of the hallway of the school when she was a student at Aither.
It wasn’t a very pleasant memory for her, but unlike that time, the hallway on the first floor of the Mage Tower was strangely full of energy.
Not only the wizards walking down the hallway, but also the wizards in the numerous rooms, if you judged their level, none of them were ordinary people.
Indeed, a tower full of wizards deserves to be talked about, Erin thought.
‘It’s great, but… Are there only people like this?’
There are many wizards with strong magical powers, but that’s all.
Erin felt that she lacked something compared to herself and the mages who were active as adventurers in the Duchy of Armitas.
To put it bluntly, if the wizards who are active as adventurers are knives that have been sharpened by going through all kinds of battles, then the expression that the wizards of this mage tower are somehow rounded came to mind.
With that thought in mind, Erin walked through the corridors and looked at the facilities inside the Mage Tower.
“Hey. That woman Who is it?”
“Well, is this the first time I see you? Are you a newcomer?”
“No. You have a sword at your waist. You’re a swordsman, not a wizard.”
“It could be a magic swordsman.”
“… Pretty.”
Walking down her corridors, Erin couldn’t help but feel the eyes of the wizards around her glancing at her.
From those who wonder what she is, to those who guess her job based on her appearance, to those who don’t even realize that her Erin is bewitched by her beautiful appearance, and makes her look blank.
The wizards looked at Erin in different ways.
Erin, who often attracted many people’s attention from the beginning, no longer felt burdened by these outside gazes.
“Hmm…”
But she just doesn’t feel burdened, it’s not that she’s not bothered.
It was a moment when she was contemplating whether to just walk around and go find Eunhyeon and Illyana.
“Can I guide you?”
“Hmm?”
While walking down the hallway on the first floor with a curious expression and looking around, a man started talking to him.
When he was first with Eunhyeon and Illyana, it was Trev who greeted them and volunteered to guide them.
“Trev. Right?”
“Yes. You’re right.”
Erin was puzzled by the fact that he, who should have been busy guiding Eunhyeon and Illyana, appeared in front of her less than 10 minutes after they broke up.
“Uh… What about Hyun and Illyana-sama?”
“The two of you are currently having a conversation with the Chief Elder. I don’t think this is the place for me to be with, so I came down as soon as I finished the guide.”
“Oh, I see.”
Erin nodded her head in understanding.
In fact, it was for a similar reason that Erin first tried to act separately from Eunhyeon and Illyana.
She wondered who the master who taught Illyana magic was, but she thought that the encounter she would solve after meeting for the first time in about 10 years was not something she could get involved in.
‘Actually, there are things I got out of because I thought it would be boring…’
Even Erin herself may not be aware that this is her real intention.
‘Well, will it be okay?’
Erin didn’t think Eunhyeon and Illyana’s conversation with the elder would be short anyway.
There was a guide just in time, so let’s look around the Mage Tower for a bit more as a tourist, Erin thought.
“Then may I ask you a favor?”
“It is an honour.”
Treves smiled and bowed his head.
Although it is said to be the first floor, even that one floor alone was enormous.
“The first floor of the Mage Tower is also the floor where the most people live among the floors of the Mage Tower.”
A space where the gatekeepers who manage the entrance of the Mage Tower live, and a workshop where various magical artifacts are produced, researched, and experimented.
And on the first floor, there are rooms and restaurants used by wizards residing there.
“The restaurant is very spacious.”
“There is a restaurant this size, on each floor.”
“Omg… Really?”
Erin asked in surprise.
At this scale, she wondered if she could accommodate the entire staff of the Magic Tower, but to think that a restaurant of this size was installed on each floor.
I didn’t think it was too extravagant.
“And as you go upstairs, the number of facilities available increases, as do the rooms you live in and the quality of meals you can eat.”
The higher you go upstairs, the simpler things like soup and bread that commoners eat as their staple food are nowhere to be found, and you can eat as much luxurious food as you want, like steak.
“… Awesome”
After hearing Treve’s explanation, Erin muttered involuntarily.
Now that she thinks about it, she recalled her old memories when her older brother, Erwin, was studying magic, and she was torn between joining the Mage Tower and the Magus Wizards.
At that time, Erwin didn’t show her as much as possible so as not to make Erin pay attention to her, but in Erin’s eyes, she couldn’t help but see her brother’s efforts.
The reason why Erwin gave up his life in the Mage Tower and joined the Magus Wizards was that the distance between her house and this place was also a problem, but it was because she needed to save money to run away from her father and raise her Erin alone.
Erin knew very well how wonderful it was that she could continue to enjoy such a luxurious life, since she had lived as a commoner rather than an aristocrat when she was young.
‘… Fool. I’ll just go into the Mage Tower without hesitation.’
Maybe she made use of that magician’s talent, and she might have been living in this mage tower with a lot of pride.
Erin pursed her lips as her Elvin’s face flashed into her mind for a moment.
“Why is that?”
Her treve tilted her head as if Erin’s expression on her face was strange as she murmured in her mind about her own brother.
“Oh, nothing. Lol.”
Erin struggled to laugh and gloss over her story.
“Anyway, it’s really luxurious. Does a place called the Magic Tower have that much money?”
“Because the existence of a wizard is the existence that makes it possible.”
Treve proudly responded to Erin’s response to her.
As one of the members of this mage tower, he seemed to be very proud of being a part of it.
Magic is the ability to interfere with the providence and flow of the world by using her own magic power and her spells.
The wizards who use that ability are literally the ones who lead the providence and flow of the world.
It actually creates fire in the air, pours out spray, shakes the ground, and sweeps the wind.
Miracles that are completely impossible for ordinary people are possible for magicians.
“Of course, this is the opinion of wizards who extremely praise magic…”
“You say you’re not Trev-sama?”
“I want to deny half of it, but I can’t deny half of it. After all, I am a wizard, and I live a life devoted to and researching magic.”
Treves scratched his head shyly.
He did not believe that all providence in this world could be manipulated freely with magic alone.
An illusion that can never be reached.
However, I really enjoyed the process of digging into the process, taking one step at a time, and trying to get even a little closer to that illusion.
“Trev-sama is a ‘wizard’ by nature.”
In Erin’s eyes, Trev was just a young man who really liked magic.
“Haha, this is embarrassing.”
As if he didn’t know what to do with the direct praise, Trev let out an embarrassing laugh.
“What is that over there?”
Erin changed the topic and pointed to a place.
It was a room with an open door at the end of the hallway.
“Fifteen thousand… !? Nonsense!”
Haha! What are you like Get out of the way right now!”
“Ohhhhh! 27,000 came out!”
For some reason, the sound coming from the room was very disturbing.
Erin, whose senses are more sensitive than others, discovered and pointed to the commotion first.
I was worried about what he was doing that made it so noisy.
“Um… Well. Would you like to visit?”
“Yes.”
Erin followed her treve into her tumultuous room with her steps.
The closer she got to her room, the louder she got.
“Oh my… Medical charge!”
“Haha! This is why the blue tower wizards can’t! I want it because all of them are sloppy… !”
“Keugh… !”
A voice of disbelief and bewilderment, a voice that looks down on others with a triumphant attitude, and a voice that swallows saliva as if resentful.
When he saw Durrett, a young wizard in a blue robe, in the room, Trev frowned.
“You… ? What are you doing here?”
“Omg!?”
The young wizards in blue robes looked back in amazement and looked frightened when they saw Trev.
“T-Trev-sama!?”
“Hey, how is this… !?”
“Oh? Who is this?”
Breaking through the crowd of frightened blue-robed wizards, a man appeared and spoke to Trev.
The man in the red robe raised one corner of his mouth meanly and looked at Treves.
“The ‘direct disciple’ of the high-ranking elder. Aren’t you Trev Sinen?”
“…”
Trev frowned at the sarcastic tone of the red robe wizard.
Ignoring his sarcastic face-to-face, I shifted my gaze to the blue-robed wizards of the same organization.
“You. What are you doing here?”
“That, that…”
At Trev’s cold questioning, the blue-robed wizards hesitantly avoided their gaze.
That attitude is foolish, like a son who is caught by his parents.
“Ah? Ignore?”
The red-robed wizard, who couldn’t accept the fact that he had been neatly ignored, put on a dumbfounded expression.
Trev gave orders to the blue robe wizards without hesitation.
“Come back to your original position. Where is the time to flirt?”
“Sorry, sorry… !”
“No. No! Even if you go, make sure to pay the bill before you go!”
A large number of red robe wizards blocked the path of the blue robe wizards who hurriedly left the room.
As if they were close friends, they wrapped their arms around each other and made a circle with the tips of the index and thumb fingers on one hand.
Trev gritted his teeth at the poor attitude of asking him to give him money.
“… A calculation?”
“Haha! We were playing a simple game with the wizards of the Blue Tower for a while.”
“…”
“Do you know what this is?”
The red robe wizard put his arm around the blue robe wizard’s shoulder and stretched out his other hand to Trev.
In his hand was a crystal ball tinged with red.
“This time, it’s an artifact created by one of our enemy tower wizards, and it’s an artifact that quantifies the total amount of magic the wizard has. They call it ‘Scouter’.”
“… So?”
“I was competing with the wizards of the Blue Tower. Whose magical power is stronger?”
For a magician, the total amount of magical power is like a measure of strength for a warrior, indicating how developed their muscular strength is.
Of course, it is also the most basic information to gauge his level.
“By the way! Your blue tower wizards are only a pitiful figure, less than half of ours! Fuhahaha!”
The impression of the blue robe wizards who were openly insulted was distorted.
“Don’t cheat! These motherfuckers! In this naive bet, which was unfair from the beginning, while deliberately mixing high-ranking wizards… !”
The wizards in blue robes in this position are all low-ranking wizards.
On the other hand, among the group of wizards in red robes, there were several high-ranking wizards with high level of magical power.
The lower digit wizards in blue robes were too inexperienced to notice that.
It was clear from the start that the game was unfair, but the spilled water could not be picked up.
“Under! I don’t even want to hear the loser’s excuses. Don’t you know that whatever you say at the end of the game is just an excuse? Or not…”
The red-robed wizard smiled meanly at Trev, who was clenching his fists and grinding his teeth.
“Would a disciple under the direct leadership of our great Elder Chung pay for the game fees of the losers and juniors instead?”
“Kuk-kuk.”
When Trev, who had reached the limit of his patience after seeing him giggling at the wizards of the Blue Tower, tried to raise his voice.
“This bastard… !”
“How are you using this?”
“Hmm?”
“Uh… ?”
So naturally, Erin stepped into the middle of the wizards.
Without distinction between red and blue, everyone was at a loss for words with blank expressions on their faces.
‘When… ?’
The reason is that Erin’s intrusion was so calm and natural, and her beautiful appearance robbed her gaze.
So naturally, Erin snatched a crystal ball called ‘Scouter’ from the hand of the red robe wizard and infused her magic into ‘Scouter’.
Ugh
Seeing the response of the scouter vibrating with a strange resonant sound, the red robe wizard belatedly came to his senses.
“Hey, hey! Whoever wants my artifact… !”
“No. For a moment… ! The numbers… !?”
Another red robe wizard stopped the action of the red robe wizard who urgently tried to steal the scouter.
It was because the scouter’s reaction in Erin’s hand was unusual.
The number of crystal balls started to rise at a steep rate.
“Twenty thousand. No, 40,000… !?”
It didn’t stop there, and the number in the front digit didn’t stop even after seeing 8.
“It’s 1.17 million… !?”
The astonished voices of the young wizards combined with the scouter’s condition.
Dismissed! Paperweight!
It started to vibrate with strange sparks, and gradually cracked as the number far exceeded 240,000.
Blasphemy!
Finally, the Scouter split in half and shattered.
“Oh, this can’t be… !”
However, like the reaction of the surrounding wizards who were shocked, Erin was also embarrassed.
‘This isn’t it… Why does this break so easily!?’
Later, Erin realized that she had made a mistake.
“Oh, it was a big deal. If I had an accident, I would be scolded by Hyuni…”
