Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 2385: Upstart Tower of Despair

How should I put it... Although nouveau riche is a not very polite way of saying it, the Tower of Despair really does look like that.

You could say that the Black Mystery Tower is struggling to survive despite not having that much capital, but even if they could use the inner tower area to support all the official mages, they wouldn't really do that.

It is even more impossible to build a secondary tower for these vassal-type mages between the three main towers.

The Black Mystery Tower has not remained unchanged, but they would rather use the middle area to grow black taro than allow magic towers to be built on the central magic circle.

Even if these magic towers are just superficial and cannot draw energy from the main magic circle.

After all, as long as there is an element pool near the node, it will definitely affect the reaction speed of the main magic circle.

No matter how slow or small it is, it exists!
Therefore, if Hill had not entered the Black Mystery Tower directly as Gilbert, no matter how skilled he was, he would not have been able to enter the key area between the three main towers without being noticed.

The most ordinary-looking place among them, which can be entered by anyone, is actually the most defensive place in the Black Tower: the Great Library.

This is what makes the Black Mystery Tower difficult to deal with. As long as the three main towers are fully fired up, the defense of the central area will not be worse than that of the Soul Main Tower... In other words, the place that houses apprentices and knowledge is the safest.

Only if the three main towers are destroyed... they truly rise and fall together... the apprentices will then face the wind, frost, snow and rain of the outside world.

That's why Hill has always had such a good impression of the Black Mystery Tower.

Knowing that the future of the Magic Tower lies in the apprentices and actually protecting these apprentices are two different things.

Just like the tunnels he dug, although Ruth did not say anything, the three tower masters actually knew about it. They just believed that Gilbert would not do anything wrong. Moreover, after all, Ruth had been monitoring Gilbert's affairs, and the other two tower masters also knew it.

But these sub-towers of the Tower of Despair...

Hill could feel the chaos at a glance.

No matter how sophisticated and complex their main magic circle is, it is impossible for it to be completely unaffected.

Hill originally thought that the external secret passages that Simo was muttering about were all controlled by manpower and might be traps, and he had made sufficient preparations... But if this was the case, it didn't seem to be fake.

After all, the tower spirits in this world are not like Trahil, and cannot flexibly deal with some imperfections in the marginal materials.

The reason why Hill allowed Russell to build his own magic tower in accordance with the mainstream magic towers in the multiverse was because he couldn't leave Trahill's tower spirit core in this world.

The reason why the Trahil Tower Spirit can be condensed so easily, and the intermediate Tower Spirit can inherently possess sufficient wisdom and spirituality, is all due to the activity of Trahil itself.

The reason why mages from other worlds use various gems as energy crystals instead of elemental crystals like Trasil is not because they don't want to, but because they simply don't have the ability to do so.

If they want elemental crystals, they can only look for them in the elemental world.

It was Trahil's weird and peculiar elemental vitality, as well as the unique pressure caused by the deviation of the laws, that turned the elemental crystal into a gem mine.

Although Hill's tower spirit is inherently much stronger because of its own existence...but the spiritual reaction of an ordinary intermediate tower spirit is already at the level of a large magic tower in other worlds.

But tower spirits like Trahil are not without shortcomings. They require not only sufficient energy reactions, but also certain spiritual reactions that are difficult to sense.

Moreover, the Trahiltal spirit can slowly increase its strength and intelligence over time.

Although Toril may not be as lively as Trahil, this world also has its own unique spiritual response.

Plus, Aglaia of the Hill possesses Toril's most essential spiritual beings: the goblins.

Therefore, Hill's tower spirit who stayed in Toril can still make himself better and better.

But a lifeless place like this world is the worst place for even the tower spirits who awakened in Trahil.

If it was a pure puppet without any feelings or thoughts of its own, then Hill certainly wouldn't have to worry about whether the machine was willing or not.

But the tower spirits are not.

Especially the tower spirits created by Hill. Even low-level tower spirits may flash with spiritual light and awaken themselves at some moment in the long years... How could he do such a wicked thing?

Therefore, Hill would never mention the matter of Talling in this world.

Every world has its own choice. Only now did Hill deeply understand this point... Even if they are in the multiverse, different worlds cannot be faced with the same face.

When I was immature, I thought that as long as I didn’t change, there was no point in caring about what others said.

Now, Hill understands that true respect and care should be shown to different people based on their circumstances.

In fact, although the tower spirits of these magic towers have relatively poor autonomous capabilities, as long as their network cables are long enough and there is no interference, these tower spirits are still quite useful.

At most, a high-level wizard is needed to be the boss, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many tower masters and deputy tower masters in this world.

Hill shook his head slightly.

He thought of the refugee camp town of Defense Tower.

Although due to various factors, these descendants of mages living in family settlements are not as high-level as the magic tower, one can clearly feel the living style in the form of magic arrays in their small manors.

No matter how much the magic circles in the fantasy world are modified, their basic forms are limited. Even if someone can distort the connecting lines into strange shapes, a great wizard like Hill can still easily see through them.

No wonder the Tower of Despair has become the target of so many evil forces... Those who can transform their beautiful and strong homes into the current urban villages in such a cruel environment in this world are definitely not tough at all. They will probably be hooked with a little benefit.

Moreover, it was obvious that the Tower of Despair had no real intention of confronting the Tower of Thea.

He may even have surrendered secretly.

Otherwise, how could the Tower of Despair think that it would be okay even if there were some minor problems with its own magic tower?

Normally, shouldn't we be fully prepared to guard against foreign invasion?

Think about it, not to mention the defense tower that was directly killed, there are so many Xia Tower spies in the Black Mystery Tower alone!
No matter how strictly the Tower of Despair is managed, Hill doesn't believe that no one can enter the inner circle.

Judging from the situation before him, the devils of the Tower of Thea would surely understand it at a glance... Oh, that's right, it is precisely because they know that the Tower of Despair, which is nominally the leader of the ten magic towers and always leads other magic towers to fight against the Tower of Thea, has actually lost its spirit long ago and can be killed at any time, that the devils can be so leisurely.

The reason why Gracia dares to play so extravagantly is probably because she feels that this world has long been in the devil's pocket.

Really... Hill sighed softly.

Sure enough, when you find a wormhole on an apple, the inside of the apple is already riddled with holes.

Hill slowly revised his original plan in his mind, and was very pleased to see the crystal flowers slowly blooming as the group of undead chased the mages of the Tower of Despair who were fleeing madly and could not defeat them as they passed by a certain courtyard.

Although this proves that a certain undead who sneaked in earlier has died... No wonder the mage from the Tower of Despair rushed over so late, it turns out that he discovered the others first.

But it also proved that Hill's flash of inspiration at the time was correct... There might be spores floating everywhere in the air of the Tower of Despair that are invisible to the naked eye.

He has always been bothered by certain legends about the "Fruit of Wisdom".

How could plants, or even artificial mushrooms that could never awaken their consciousness, possibly understand where the light of kindness was shining?
Judgment is not something it should have.

But if the spores are everywhere, and they can just take root and grow in a certain place where fixed conditions are met, then everything can be explained.

Mrs. Fungus, this is really a rip-off!
All of Talona's efforts were in vain for that person.

If the crystal flower potion does not start to work, it will only sprinkle a crystal water light in the air and then slowly disappear into the air... If nothing stimulates it within three months, the essence inside will directly turn into real water.

However, if there is something in the air that will cause a purification reaction, the crystal flower essence will rely on its ability to devour and purify at the same time to strengthen itself.

Once this crystal clear, frost-like existence is formed, it will begin to expand outward... until there is no more fuel, and then it will slowly disappear and turn into water.

Given the state of these undead... To be honest, Hill almost didn't want to watch the images on the giant screen.

It is estimated that the mages who remain in the Tower of Despair are being forced to grow too fast.

Although his intelligence and magic power are no worse than those of a real eight-ring wizard, his fighting ability is really weird.

Aislin is considered to be a good fighter in front of these guys.

In other words, they didn't encounter an elite team among the undead, otherwise they would have died long ago. How could they be running around in circles with the undead like they are now!
Although these undead creatures are somewhat problematic, they are not all the type that cannot be aimed or hit.

Moreover, perhaps because they were the ones who had been fleeing frantically before, these dozens of undead became more and more excited as the fight went on.

If there hadn't been a few sudden loud explosions that reminded them that they still had a mission to perform, these undead would probably have chased them to the ends of the earth.

However, their sudden change of direction made the great wizard who used the group of eight-ring mages as bait not know what to do for a moment, and he could only stand in the shadows in a daze.

(End of this chapter)