Chapter 808 – 808. Calamity Assault (5)
The enemy elder shouted in a fit of rage.
Even the other wizards, including Trev, showed skeptical reactions to the Blue Tower’s speculation, although they did not show such a violent reaction.
A nine-digit wizard may have fostered and brought about this confusion.
Because it was a story that could not be easily accepted.
None of the magicians on the continent have ever stepped into the nine-digit realm, and it is unknown whether such a realm itself exists, a non-existent realm.
For magicians seeking a higher realm, stories like dreams or contradictions that wanted to deny their existence existed in the minds of magicians.
Because, even if it exists, it would be impossible for oneself to even step into that state.
It is more like a servile heart that wants to believe that there is no such bar.
It was none other than the red elder who showed the ugly jealousy the most.
“Are you trying to confuse the meeting in the Mage Tower with such baseless remarks?”
“It’s not entirely unfounded.”
Aden calmly accepted the glaring gaze of the enemy elder and replied.
“You believe that story now?”
“It was the result of analysis by Trev and the wizards of the Blue Tower, and I also thought it was a story with a good chance.”
If it had been an unlikely story, Aden would not have mentioned the existence of a wizard who stepped into the unknown state of nine digits here.
“… What a disappointment. You, too, are not suitable for the position of the Blue Elder.”
The enemy elder withdrew his angry eyes.
And the emotions in those eyes were pathetic and foolish.
She denied Aden, saying that she couldn’t understand how a mage could say such absurd things.
“Enemy Elder! What are you saying to the elder!”
The wizards of the Blue Tower, including Trev, shouted at the Red Elder at the remarks of the Red Elder who openly ignored them.
Normally, it was polite to not get involved in conversations between elders, but they couldn’t stand the remarks of the enemy elder who openly ignored their leader.
They usually held back their remarks that seemed to disrespect Aden, but this time, they clearly crossed the line.
“No matter how much you say that you are the enemy elder, what you are saying right now is… !”
[Things are going back to shit.]
It was when the wizards of the blue tower were about to scuffle with the wizards of the red tower.
The meeting hall of the Mage Tower, which had been noisy with quarrels, was filled with silence at the sound of a woman’s voice resounding from somewhere.
Many of the wizards in the Mage Tower knew this voice.
However, instead of speaking loudly, I looked around at the sound that seemed to resonate somewhere.
“What? Where…”
As one wizard was wandering around unable to find the owner of the voice, he confirmed that most of the other wizards’ eyes were focused on one place, and he also turned his head in that direction.
It was where Erin was.
[This seat is not the market floor everywhere, so you can afford to have a leisurely quarrel?]
The owner of the voice was Illyana, as the wizards thought.
“…”
Hearing Illyana’s voice, the wizards looked bewildered.
She was not here because she was speaking directly from within her little crystal ball that Erin was holding.
Seeing the communication crystal ball itself for the first time, wizards were quite taken aback.
Illyana continued her words as if to awaken the spirits of the wizards who had been wondering and curious about how such an artifact could exist.
[Red inspiration. I told you before Stop harassing our inspiration. Is it that difficult?]
“… Tsk.”
The red elder did not answer Illyana’s question, but turned her head away and clicked her tongue.
[If you want to deny it, bring a valid reason. At least, the wizards of the blue tower provided evidence while doing a proper analysis. Or, in his own experience, isn’t that the basis for his pride that he cannot admit that a state higher than himself exists?]
“Be careful with your words! Witch! How can you be so stupid… !”
This time, one of the higher digit wizards on the enemy tower side shouted in a fit of rage.
Illyana’s provocation was effective for them, who hated losing their position and being humiliated by her.
[Ha, baby.]
But Illyana let out a small sigh and called out to Erin.
“Yes. Miss Illyana.”
[That. Can you make me shut up?]
“Yes!”
Erin jumped from her seat and stood up.
Stepping on the table of her large round table and leaping with fearsome leg strength, she flew through the air.
It was an instant to arrive at the wizard on the other side.
“Huh!”
Seeing Erin, the red mage held her breath, as if she hadn’t known that it would come right in front of her.
I was surprised and pulled her body back, but Erin’s hand immediately grabbed the red mage’s collar and squeezed it.
Cooong!
“Keugh!?”
As I pulled it with all my strength and hit it on the table, the red mage’s head collided violently with the round table.
“… !”
“What is this!?”
“What barbarism… !”
Other nearby red mages glared at her Erinn’s merciless violence in amazement.
The red wizards around her tried to grab Erin’s arm to help her colleague, who was making her head slam into the table.
Erin immediately let her magic flow and stared around her.
“Suck!?”
The red magicians who felt the magic of Erinn on their skin made her body tremble and stiffen.
As she personally experienced her hostile emotions flowing from her, her rigid body did not move.
It was such a tidy yet terrifying power, an aura that made her skin grow chicken and choke her breath.
It was Erin’s warning.
Her warning that if she puts her hand on her own body even a little, she will never let go.
Wizards who could not use magic were just ordinary humans with average human physical abilities.
Even men, no one here can subdue her Erin with brute force.
Even if it is an eight-digit wizard who is at the peak among wizards.
[Why? Angry and disintegrating?]
Before long, Erin heard Illyana’s voice from the crystal ball she was holding.
[You are the one who denied the analysis results and speculations of the Blue Tower without any basis or fact. I don’t think so. Red inspiration?]
“…”
When Illyana asked her openly, she didn’t answer as an enemy elder.
He only had tendons sprouting from his forehead and gnashing his teeth, and he was glaring at Erinn’s crystal ball, where he could hear Illyana’s voice, as if he would break it at any moment.
[I’m very busy taking care of my husband’s body right now, so I can’t keep up with him for a long time. So I hope you don’t procrastinate the meeting unnecessarily and proceed quickly.]
“…”
No one disputed Illyana’s words.
She is known as the most outstanding wizard among the eight-digit wizards, and even though she is the same eight-digit wizard, it is rumored that she is at a higher level than the Red Elder.
Perhaps there is no magician greater than Illyana in this continent of Arcena.
In addition to that, Erin’s physical fear using physical strength completely dominated the atmosphere in the conference room.
[Inspiration.]
“… Okay.”
Illyana, who completely took control of the atmosphere, continued the conversation, and Aden responded to her call with a wry smile.
[So, there is a nine-figure wizard on the other side who really has vast magical powers that can break the defense barrier of the Mage Tower city and maintain dispel magic over a wide area of the city. Is that the worst assumption?]
“… Right.”
Aden nodded her head and winked at Treves.
Trev, who understood the meaning of continuing the explanation, immediately opened his mouth.
On a large blackboard, he drew a cross-section of the mage tower city seen from the side, and then drew a round semicircle on top of it.
“Probably the cause is an artifact located in the sky right in the center of the city.”
The wizards of the Mage Tower, who confirmed that something was marked by drawing a round circle at the end of the semicircle and at the top, all showed dubious expressions.
“There was something like that at the top of the very center of the barrier?”
“… Didn’t you see anything?”
Even the tallest building in the city, the Mage Tower, couldn’t see it, so the wizards couldn’t find the existence of the artifact that covered this barrier.
“This is a story based on Erinn-sama’s story.”
Erinn was the first to discover the cause of the sealing barrier that no wizard had noticed.
“… Did you see that?”
She said that she had seen with her own two eyes the height and distance that could not be seen with the naked eye, so it was only natural for her to be dubious, but there were also those who supported Erin’s story.
“I think it is creditworthy.”
It was Nera who quietly raised her hand to support Erin’s story.
“Her senses are a little special.”
It is not enough to simply explain that she can see and hear farther than other people, but her sense of erin is special compared to ordinary people.
Also, Erin was the first to recognize the powerful magic attack to break the defense barrier in advance.
[So she’s saying that if you destroy that artifact, you’ll be able to break the sealing barrier that covered the entire city as well?]
“Our guess is… That’s right.”
Trev nodded cautiously.
[Is that so? Was it that difficult to listen to this story?]
“…”
Hearing Illyana’s ridicule, most of the wizards in the Red Tower shut their mouths and turned their heads away to avoid looking at them.
All of them, who had ignored the blue tower until now, were sticking to their silence.
There was not a single person who would object to Illyana, who possessed all of her skills as a mage, the great achievement of succeeding in producing the Philosopher’s Stone or the highest level magic stone, and her honor and status.
Even the head of the Red Tower, the Red Elder, was just expressing his crushing pride as he blushed.
[Then you know the cause, and you know the solution. Should I move now?]
“Um…”
At Illyana’s words, the wizards in the meeting nodded in unison.
If the current situation where the magic was sealed continues, it is certain that things in the future will get worse and worse.
No one noticed that isolating the city of the Mage Tower from the outside and sealing the magic was the cornerstone for attacking the Mage Tower.
“Is there any way?”
“I’ll have to find it.”
Inevitably, all the wizards gathered their opinions and started discussing a solution.
However, the external enemies could not stand still in such a situation.
“It’s a big deal!”
Unsurprisingly, an urgent voice came to the conference room where an important meeting was taking place, delivering good news.
“The raid has begun again!”
“This… !”
The opponent didn’t seem to have any leeway until the Mage Tower found a way to release the magic seal.
