How could there not be?
I can hit you, but you can't hit me. In the end, you can only listen to me obediently. Not to mention the full power of strategic magic, which could destroy a country or massacre a city, just the Tower Master harassing various places from time to time depending on his mood, was something that no lord could tolerate.
Any forces that tried to resist would be attacked by the Magic Tower the moment the army gathered and would be annihilated. In this world, there was no army that could gather in an area beyond CC (200 kilometers) and then cross this range in one breath to attack the Tower of the Great Sage.
The complete version of the Arcane Eye would bring the Tower of the Great Sage … No! It should be said that it would bring the meaning of all the Magic Towers in the mysterious land. Whether it was the President's student, Chuck Weiss, the Great Mage Grimwin, or even the other mages present, all understood that this era would usher in a wave of change.
The Magic Tower under their feet was the starting point of all of this. And what would that unremarkable mage in the past represent in this era? Some of the more old-fashioned mages, or mages who relied more on the power of the family behind them, spontaneously felt a sense of fear. Some of the more radical young people were excited because they could stand at the beginning of this wave.
However, although no one said it out loud, everyone knew in their hearts that it was no wonder that someone wanted to kill this mage. Because it was too scary. What he would bring might not necessarily be something that was beneficial to everyone. Just like everything that was displayed in front of them.
However, the former Tower Master was oblivious to all the malice. Just like what he did in the past on Earth, he closed himself in the ivory tower and immersed himself in the two-dimensional world. Perhaps there were no anime, movies, or video games in the mysterious land, but he still focused his mind on the starry sky in the dark night and the Magic Tower's programming code, his ears not paying attention to the outside world.
For him, having seen the filth on campus, cyber bullying, and all kinds of defamation and rumors, those rumors were nothing to a homebody who could enjoy himself.
But one thing he didn't expect was that all the dissatisfaction in this world would turn into real murderous intent. Perhaps it couldn't hurt him directly when he was hiding in the Magic Tower, but this time, the act of secretly opening the Abyss Gate was a concrete manifestation of this murderous intent.
In the following days, Lin only focused on the amendments proposed by Chuck Weiss. He made the final improvements to the Magic Tower that he had lived in for several years.
More and more Magicians were summoned to the Tower of the Great Sage. The tension of war gradually became the mainstream atmosphere. None of the mages who had seen the Gate of the Abyss with their own eyes had a pleasant expression.
No one could easily deal with the threat from the demons. Some people were silently preparing to save their lives, but more people, under the guidance of certain people, blamed all the fault on the person who had handed over the Tower Master's duties.
Perhaps Marco Lin ignored all the comments from the Internet, but his self-restraint and resistance to pressure made it impossible for him to ignore the sarcastic remarks and even vicious attacks around him. And after the news of his departure was exposed, all of this became worse, and they even took their anger out on two young acolytes.
He still lived in the Magic Tower with his two young apprentices and Fen. The four of them squeezed into the boudoir that the acolytes used to live in. It was hard to say whether this was a wronged or happy harem state, but because of the modification and addition of functions in the Magic Tower's program, Marco Lin carried on without sleep or rest.
And without the knowledge of others, Fen also used the terminal interface in the room to help Lin with his work.
It was also because it was difficult to define the time of use of the terminal interface that Chuck Weiss simply agreed to let Lin live in the Magic Tower. His two little disciples, as well as a very beautiful female companion who looked like she could only be a vase, lived in the same house.
Before preparing for the war against the Abyss, some of the less important rules could be ignored. After all, if there were too many requirements, and they lost the final war, everything would be in vain.
As for the four of them squeezing into a room, it was considered a good treatment in the Tower of the Great Sage now. The other rooms that did not have special functions were full of people living in them. And most of the originally comfortable furniture had been dismantled for firewood or other items that could be used in the war.
If not for the fact that they did not know what to do with the hot spring pool on the open-air platform on the second floor, it would have been left in its original state. Otherwise, it might have been completely dismantled and then covered with bed boards for some mages to rest in.
Those who would live in the Magic Tower were not famous mages or great mages.
Considering the power of the Tower Master in the Magic Tower, many mages with status and wealth had marked out a territory outside the Magic Tower and set up their own luxurious tents. It was precisely because many people did this that those mages who did not have much wealth and power were driven into the Magic Tower to sleep on the large bunks.
As long as there were more people, the mind would also become active. All kinds of unknown crooked thoughts were surging in places that people could not see like undercurrents.
The core room of the Magic Tower was the most important place, and Chuck Weiss did not allow anyone to come and go. Even Lin's improvement work was holed up in the room on the second floor.
But Chuck still had a few friends to help him. In addition to helping the Tower Master, the most important thing was to understand the operating methods of these functions as much as possible according to the instructions sent by Lin, and to make the fastest possible response in the future war.
These people all had access to the core room. And also out of trust, Chuck Weiss did not restrict these people too much; he would give the same level of access to the others that he had.
But this trust did not always bring good results.
One night, after a busy day, everyone was sleeping soundly. And also because the platform on the third floor was not accessible, and the outside of the Magic Tower was full of people and tents, Lin had no choice but to give up stargazing and recording during this period of time. After a whole day of coding, he fell directly on the bed and died the moment he touched the pillow. He slept like a log on the bed.
At this time, someone entered the core room and sat in front of the control panel. With a few days of research and practice, he quickly found the image of the blacklist setting.
The black and white list of the Tower of the Great Sage was not a setting with any authority, it was simply a list of whether the Tower would target or not.
If placed on the white list, the automatic attack program would determine that the people on the white list would be ignored. Just like when the noble alliance attacked the Tower, the residents of the small town outside the Tower, the people of the Kingdom of Franks' Revival Army, and the young people who betrayed Her Royal Highness.
The reason they survived the light bomb attack was not that the Arcane Eye was powerful enough to distinguish between friend and foe, but at most that group of people were listed on the white list, so they were ignored. Otherwise, those traitors would not have been able to save their lives from the strategic magic that was so powerful that it made people despair.
The blacklist was slightly more complicated. It was divided into two levels. The highest level of the blacklist was to kill on sight. The second level would only send a message to the Tower Master after observing the target. After that, the Tower Master would make the decision on what to do.
The one who snuck in secretly found out through some channels that were not on the surface that there was a considerable reward, the purpose of which was to eliminate the original Tower Master of the Tower of the Great Sage. Wasn't this the best opportunity?
And the wonderful thing was that the original Tower Master was now in 'someone else's' Tower. As long as it became an established fact, his good friend would not hold him accountable for an insignificant little Mage who had no family background and no support from any forces.
In addition, letting that Mage die in this Magic Tower that he had built with his own hands, which was already incomprehensible, would be a piece of anecdote. Maybe his name would be sung by bards for a while. The man who had such delusions turned on the surveillance screen of the original Tower Master's room.
In order to fight against the invasion of the Abyss, the Tower of the Great Sage would undoubtedly become the frontline of the frontlines. All kinds of protective measures in the Tower were strengthened, including the rooms that originally had no surveillance. Under Chuck Weiss' request, the relevant magic facilities were also set up.
The only exception was the original ritual room that Chuck had changed into his residence. That room was full of all kinds of protective enchantments, which also cut off many of the Magic Tower's internal functions. It was precisely because the current Tower Master had locked himself in that sealed room that the man dared to sneak into the nuclear room to cause trouble.
He rudely put the four people who were resting in the surveillance screen into the blacklist of the Magic Tower's must-kill targets, waiting for the tower's defensive magic to actually work. From the original Tower Master's explanation, everyone was dumbfounded. But because there were no subjects to experiment with, no one had seen the actual effect of the magic.
Now that the Tower Master had personally become the experimental target and let everyone see what the internal defensive capabilities of the Magic Tower were all about, it could be considered his last contribution to everyone.
But … why was there no reaction at all after he put the people on the blacklist? According to the instructions provided by the original Tower Master, when he put the targets on the surveillance screen into the blacklist, there would be a confirmation option to avoid the situation of mistakenly selecting the targets. But he did not see any confirmation requirements in the operation just now, so the man followed the steps and tried again.
This time, there was a reaction on the screen, but it was not as expected, where the Magic Tower's trap was activated and the targets were killed in their sleep. Instead, a message popped up: "Attention, the people on the whitelist by mistake have been blacklisted!"
The man laughed self-deprecatingly. It was not at all surprising that the Tower Master would add his own people to the whitelist. This could be considered his own negligence. He opened the whitelist and searched. It was just as easy to remove people from the list or add them to the list. The problem was that there were hundreds of names on the whitelist, but there was no name of the original Tower Master. Was this a misjudgment?
The man once again put the targets on the surveillance screen into the blacklist list. This time, the Magic Tower's preset program reacted very quickly. A blue beam of light shot straight down from the ceiling of the nuclear room, penetrating the man's entire body from the forehead. At the same time, it spiraled a few times in a clockwise direction, cutting the living person open like a Swiss roll.
Silent, breathless.
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