Following her teacher into the heart chamber of the tower core, Hallumi looked around curiously. She had always stayed in the Mage Academy and had never entered such an important place. Until today, when her teacher was given the responsibility of the guardian and had his own Magic Tower, she finally had the chance to see the mysterious place that was talked about by ordinary people and apprentices.
But for Lin, as a teacher, this was also the first time. Although he had already learned how to operate most of the functions, it was still his first time touching the real thing.
But before familiarizing himself with the various functions, there was one more important thing to do. Lin came to the control panel of the Magic Tower and pressed his right hand on the center position. The mark on the back of his hand resonated with the magic array and floated in front of him, connecting to the other plane. The mercury energy pool that stood upright like a giant mirror began to ripple, releasing wave after wave of energy, completely awakening everything in the Magic Tower. Now, the Tower of the Great Sage was truly awakened.
He placed the special magic stone that he had prepared for a long time in the center of the control panel, the core of the magic array, and the programming engraved in the magic stone quickly took over all the functions of the tower.
High-level Magic Towers had tower spirits, like the so-called artificial intelligence butler in the world before transmigration. However, the Tower of the Great Sage was a thousand-year-old building, and it did not have such advanced technology. All the functions of the Magic Tower required the tower master to carefully control and command it.
And these thousand years did not pass in vain. Countless successors had already invented countless technologies to allow mages to inherit and control the Magic Tower faster and become the new tower master. Lin referred to the technology left behind by his ancestors, as well as the data of the Great Sage's Tower. Combined with his knowledge from before he transmigrated, he came up with a set of the simplest programming to control the Magic Tower, just like writing a driver program for computer hardware.
That's right. Before transmigration, as a double doctorate holder in physics and astronomy, he had written all the special computer programs himself. Plus, he had no wife or son, and could only rely on his love (heart) (cloud power) to make his own movies. It was easy for him to be a magic programmer in the other world.
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Putting aside his feelings of pride and depression, Lin activated the internal temperature monitoring function of the Magic Tower and created a thermal imaging technology. Together with the three-dimensional image of the Magic Tower, he quickly saw the uninvited guests in the Magic Tower.
The body temperature of the goblin that had just died had not completely dissipated, so it appeared very clearly on the image formed by the energy pool. However, compared to living Goblins, there was still an obvious difference. It was a damaged room on the east side of the first floor. Although it was difficult to enter and exit from that place, it did not mean that it was impossible to hide there.
There were three smaller hot spots. Perhaps they were Goblin larvae. Lin thought. Judging from the number of people in this group, there were no female captives, nor did they have any stored food. Furthermore, based on the situation they had observed earlier, they had probably escaped from somewhere else. Unfortunately, most of the rooms in the Magic Tower were sealed off, which was not a good place to stay.
"Halloumi." Calling out to the girl who was still looking around curiously, Lin straightened his robes and said, "Go help Kaya move the things in. Next, we have to tidy up the pagoda until it's habitable. There's still work to be done. "
"Yes, Teacher." The blonde girl answered and then walked briskly to find her companions who were similar in age.
As for the remaining goblins, Lin decided to deal with them himself. On the one hand, he had just taken over the Magic Tower, and there were many things that only he could do. If he told the girl to deal with the remaining enemies, she would have to climb through the narrow hole in the wall to enter the room where they were hiding, and all he had to do was open the door.
Turning on all the lights in the Magic Tower, Lin walked down to the first floor and opened the door that was originally sealed. The three goblins who were not newly born and had not yet reached adulthood hugged each other and hid in the corner of the bright room, trembling.
Seeing the person who came, the most basic survival instinct of living creatures made the three little goblins show expressions of fear and begging for mercy. It was undeniable that even the most ferocious and ugly creatures were quite cute in their infancy. Lin smiled amiably. Then, he released a fireball spell, which directly burned the huddled child into ashes. Next, he had to deal with the rest of the corpses and collect the spoils of war. He did not have much time to care about the goblin infants.
It was not that the Mages of this world did not know how to cast Fireballs, but the efficiency of casting Fireballs was not as good as his own Buffer. However, when a Fireball could finish everything and there would not be any more battles after that, a Fireball would still be much faster than a body full of auxiliary spells and melee combat. In short, efficiency was paramount.
Lin Sheng stripped the valuable items from the dead goblins. The most valuable thing was probably the Bone Bud that was suffused with magic waves. Lin then cast a Lightness spell and gathered all the corpses into the room that was specially used for casting artifacts. The energy pool of the Magic Tower was completely restored, and the furnace in the casting room was also ignited with raging flames.
He threw all the dead goblins into the blue flames that were ignited with the purest magic energy. Almost at the moment when they came into contact with the flames, the corpses vaporized and disappeared, not even leaving ashes behind. After cleaning up everything, Lin controlled the flames with his mark and kept the flames of the furnace to a minimum level so that they would not be completely extinguished, and there was no need to fire at full power.
On the first floor, apart from the casting room, the damaged room where the little goblins had been hiding was quite empty, but there were two rather conspicuous holes in the floor. It seemed that they could be used as a warehouse.
There was also a room with a few long tables and a few large stoves built by the wall. It seemed that it had been converted into a dining room and kitchen by some unknown tower owner. On the other hand, there was a moving planet map on the wall that clearly showed the situation of the star system of this world.
The solar star was in the center, like the sun of Earth. The planet where this world was located was in the fourth orbit, known as the Lost Land. There were also five planets, a total of six planets that formed this star system. The planet map on the wall showed the current position of each planet. It was also the only layout of the Tower of the Great Sage that had truly been preserved from a thousand years ago. The rest of the original items had long been taken away by the previous tower owner, dismantled, or even handed over to the Society of Sorcerers. This map could be preserved only because the map, the mechanism, and the wall were one, and this wall was an important load-bearing component of the Magic Tower, so it could not be removed.
The last room had a few scattered weapon racks and human-shaped wooden racks of armor. However, only a few rusty wooden handles and iron spearheads were left standing on the racks.
There were eight rooms on the second floor of the Magic Tower. The room on the east side had completely disappeared, the two on the left and right were seriously damaged, and the two closer were also damaged, leaving only three intact.
One was the library with no books. When the tower owner died, the things here would be taken away by the Society of Sorcerers; or the tower owner voluntarily gave up the right to guard the tower and left. Most of the books here were stored by themselves, so of course, they would also be taken away.
The remaining two were meditation rooms with different functions, and each had its own emphasis on magic power.
Two of the rooms were damaged, and one of the rooms looked like it was used for living, but it was probably just a small dormitory that the previous tower owner provided for the apprentices. The other room looked like a research room, but other than a few crumbling cabinets and a few rotting tables, there was nothing else.
The two rooms that were seriously damaged were used as a balcony garden, with flowers and birds. However, no one had tidied it for a long time, and now it was overgrown with vines and weeds. If one did not use a staff to sweep the weeds that were about the same height as a person, one would not be able to find a place to rest.
There were three rooms on the third floor. The room on the east side was also damaged, and it seemed that the previous tower owner used it as a storage room. The nuclear chamber was protected by a special power, so it was intact as before. The other room was the ritual room, where all the summoning of creatures from other planes and the practice of destructive magic were done. Therefore, the ritual room was equipped with a barrier, and the protection of the structure was comparable to that of the nuclear chamber.
And as the tower owner, the main area of activity must be the highest floor of the magic tower. All the rest, sleep, eat, and research were done in the nuclear chamber. Most of the rooms on the lower floors were provided for the apprentices to use, or to store things that the tower owner did not need for the time being.
The platform on the top floor was equipped with the most important facility of every magic tower, an attack magic array. Every tower was different, and this Tower of the Great Sage was equipped with a light bomb attack array, which had an effective attack range of X days, and a maximum attack range of XXX days. In terms of Earth units, it could be roughly understood like this: an effective attack range of 10 kilometers, and a maximum attack range of 30 kilometers.
All the magic towers in the maze world, other than providing residences and research for mages, had the most important task of guarding the place, limiting the growth and disturbance of wild creatures, magical beasts, and uncivilized races, and protecting the survival and development of the civilized world.
Therefore, in order to ensure that mages had such awareness, although magic towers could be privately owned, they were not allowed to be inherited. When the tower owner died or left, the ownership of the tower would be handed over to the Association, and the Association would then select the next successor.
Of course, not everyone was willing to give up a powerful and expensive magic tower. More than five hundred years ago, a student of a Warlock Saint claimed the right to inherit the Tower of the Great Sage after his teacher passed away. The Association formed a coalition of branches and attacked the Tower of the Great Sage together, killing all the mages and apprentices who tried to resist.
The huge hole on the second floor of the Tower of the Great Sage was a remnant of the battle at that time. None of the succeeding Pagoda Masters did anything to repair it. It was not to warn the future generations, but purely because magic materials were expensive.
Generally, after a certain period of time, the magic applied to the materials would dissipate, and even the materials themselves would be annihilated. Only magic materials could be permanently modified by Molding and engraved with magic arrays. With the support of energy, the toughness of magic materials would increase exponentially.
Materials with such characteristics were, of course, not something that could be found easily, but were rather rare. Scarcity meant that the price was high. How high was the price? Most mages only earned money in their lifetime, and probably could only afford one floor. Those who were better at managing money could build up to the second floor. The standard of a magic tower was three to five floors, depending on the status and power level of the first tower owner.
In other words, most of the owners of magic towers on the continent were entrusted by the Society of Sorcerers to inherit the existing magic tower. Or they were passed down through generations of masters and apprentices, and built with more than a hundred years of savings. Of course, the main source of the new tower was the financial support of the national level to help build a magic tower.
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