I’m the only magic tower owner Chapter 191

Only I Am the Magic Tower Chapter 191

“Do you know why it is difficult for wizards to reach the next level of magic?”

Royst asked a question.

“This is because the more a process is added, the more the magic circle’s ecosystem becomes extremely distorted.”

“I understand.”

If the 1st process magic is just a barren field with nothing in it.

The 3rd process magic is a dense jungle where countless animals and plants live together.

6th Process Magic is a city where people live in society.

The 3rd process magic is to the extent of operating the ecosystem in a way that strictly returns to the logic of the law of the fittest.

The 6th process magic requires numerous elements such as law, economy, national defense, welfare, collection, etc. for human survival, and an exquisite balance must be established to prevent these elements from colliding. That’s roughly the difference in difficulty.

Fortunately, however, wizards these days, including me, no longer need to start from scratch to create their own ecosystem.

The first wizard and his disciples were so capable that the most reasonable guidelines for forming the ecosystem were established. All we have to do is follow it, create a framework, and add flesh to it to create our own personality.

Still, even if there are guidelines, I can’t help but feel like hell if I ask someone who used to play around making jungles to make a city.

“The minimum time it takes for a 5th process wizard to learn 6th process magic is 5 years.”

Royst spreads out five fingers and suddenly becomes dizzy.

“That’s also the standard for wizards in the Magic Tower, where only the elite of the elite gather. Most ordinary wizards either take 30 or 40 years or give up on the 6th process.”

“ah……”

“Of course, you don’t have to make that face. The magic tower lord is special.”

Royst stared at me with a faceless face hidden behind a hood.

“Why is there a 6th floor trial? One of the significances of this trial is to make new magic tower owners learn the 6th floor magic during the remaining time.”

“Well, thank you.”

There is no time. There’s no telling what Frost might be doing out there.

You need to reach step 6 as quickly as possible and save Hongyul.

“Then let’s begin.”

Royst and I stood facing each other.

“Are you familiar with the theory of Process 6?”

“Sure.”

I know this because I have seen the essence of magic. The core of the 6th process is the ‘joining method’. A technology that combines three processes into one and allows them to be used quickly, like two-process magic.

So, the biggest advantage of the 6th process magic is the ‘fastest casting speed’ and ‘instant effect’.

“Personally, I tried it a few times, but I couldn’t figure it out just by looking at the book.”

“I guess so. I’ll tell you now.”

When Royst opened his arms, countless magic circles unfolded.

“Take out your magic circle, Kim Yu-shin.”

* * *

“Huh! Hah!”

I placed my hands on my knees and continued to breathe heavily. Royst, who was standing with magic circles floating in the air, looked down the barrier.

“Good job. You were just in time.”

The mountain of monsters I destroyed was restored in about 12 hours. At the same time, this is also the time it took for me to take Royist’s classes.

“Do you now have a feel for the ‘joining method’ that is the basis of the 6th process?”

“yes!”

This person’s class was more intense than it looked.

He laid dozens of layers of sensory amplification magic circles under my feet and then had me unfold the first stage magic circle. Then, he randomly connected his magic circles and joined them together.

‘Get used to it.’

Royst said so.

When my magic circle is combined with Loist’s magic circle, in 99% of cases, the ownership of the magic circle is transferred to Loist.

He continued to make me feel that strange sense of detachment. Then, progress was made step by step to the joining of the 2nd process and the 3rd process.

I experienced the convergence of ecosystems unexpectedly. After that, Royst allowed me to try the joining method using only my magic circle.

‘Repeat until you get the feeling you felt at that time.’

I tried splicing in various ways.

It was my first time taking a class like this. There is no theory or explanation. Just find something that makes you feel good.

It feels like inserting thousands of keys into one lock and turning it.

Then, something suddenly occurred to me. I felt something similar to the feeling of loss that Royst talked about, as if something was strangely being taken away from me.

‘It’s that feeling. ‘Get used to it.’

I repeated the joining method until I became accustomed to this feeling.

‘You are trying to make the ecosystem too perfect and interfere with it one by one. The moment two ecosystems meet and fuse, think of it leaving your hands. Do not try to change the heterogeneous and inconvenient things that change during the fusion process. ‘Contemplate with patience.’

After spending so much time training, I succeeded 8 out of 10 times. I finally succeeded in learning how to join.

“I can’t believe it.”

Royst said.

“Although you are benefiting from your trials, your talent is definitely exceptional.”

I gasped and lifted my head.

“What kind of talent is it?”

“The talent to copy and copy something that already exists.”

… … Is this a compliment or an insult?

“In particular, his tenacity in not wanting to let go of something he had missed was admirable.”

“Okay, thank you.”

“Come here. Now I will teach you magic.”

I approached Royst, and he placed his hand on my forehead. As he quietly chanted a spell, a uniquely shaped magic circle appeared beneath his feet.

“What is the attribute of your major magic?”

“I don’t even have a specialty. I am an elemental master who uses all four attributes: fire, ice, wind, and earth.”

“Wow, what a special case.”

“And if there’s one more thing…”

I met his eyes and answered.

“It’s dark magic.”

“…….”

Royst suddenly became quiet, as if he was at a loss for words.

For the first time, I felt regretful that I could not read the black darkness behind the hood and the expression on his face. He took his hand off my forehead.

“How did you obtain dark magic?”

“I learned it naturally while clearing the 3rd floor trial.”

“Third floor trial… There was no such thing as dark magic when I took on the third floor trial.”

His voice wavered.

“As each generation passes, the trials of the magic tower are transformed and improved to reflect the will of each magic tower owner. I don’t know who planted it, but the intentions are quite bad.”

“……yes?”

Royst looked straight at me.

“This is my advice as a senior. I recommend sealing away dark magic.”

What does this mean all of a sudden?

“I don’t understand what you’re saying. Dark magic is now an indispensable main skill for me. Thanks to it, I have overcome many crises.”

Royst walked unsteadily and stared at the city on the other side. He then sighed deeply.

“Actually, my major is also dark.”

His voice was extremely empty.

“Whether or not to use dark magic is up to you. But you better be careful.”

Royst looked at the village immersed in darkness and opened his mouth.

“What do you think about the people of this city?”

“Huh? Ah, something’s a little strange.”

At first, they seemed like people who had been defeated by a disaster and had fallen into despair and lost the will to live.

Then, when they saw me causing mana, people from the entire city rushed to me like crazy. It even licked up the magic I used for attack.

Even though blood continues to flow from his body.

“It’s my first time in this world, so I just assumed that people who live here are like that and moved on.”

“Hehe, that can’t be possible. They were originally lively and ordinary people.”

“But how did it happen that we ended up in such a disaster?”

“That’s right. We were struck by a disaster. They are no longer human.”

My shoulders trembled.

“What you mean by not being human is…”

“It would be better to call it something between undead and monsters.”

“…Oh my god. What kind of disaster have we encountered?”

“Calamity Loist.”

He said calmly.

“I made them like that.”

“……!”

Royst continued his story in a calm tone.

It is said that the planet ‘Ancor de Antirs’ is in crisis after being attacked by a cataclysm.

Humanity has lost game after game. Renowned kingdoms fell in the blink of an eye, and the world collapsed like dominoes at an incredibly fast pace.

So Royst decided to protect at least this city where the magic tower is located. Royst and his administrators worked together to build a massive wall to protect the city, and they were the only ones left to survive in this northern region.

However, it occurred to me that it was only a brief respite, and that everyone would eventually die.

So Royst made a second decision.

It was decided to develop a magic that would turn those in the city who cannot feel mana, that is, non-awakened people, into awakened people.

In theory, this magic was only possible with dark magic.

Dark magic is a power used not by humans, but by an ancient race that existed in the Dark Ages. According to literature, it is said that all ancient races were wizards.

Royst planned to inject dark magic into the human body and turn it into an ‘ancient race’.

The experiment was successful.

Ordinary humans were artificially awakened. They were able to feel mana and became powerful enough to fight monsters. Roist planned to give the monsters a big blow by turning the entire city’s population into wizards.

However, after some time had passed, serious side effects were discovered from the procedure.

People who were immersed in black magic slowly collapsed mentally and mutated their bodies. Even though I couldn’t feel mana, I felt pathological mana depletion. Their rationality has completely collapsed, and they have suddenly become no different from monsters.

This terrible disaster became a virus and spread around the world like a plague, and even the Southern Continent, which was holding up well against the monster front, was hit directly by the virus and fell to the monsters.

Yes. The thing that destroyed this world.

It was the magic tower lord Royst himself.

‘That means… … ‘

Royst was not protecting humanity here for 11 years. He was just protecting his failed experiment.

I feel a little sorry for it.

The pain and guilt must have been so great that he called himself a disaster.

“It is your decision to continue using dark magic, but keep this one thing in mind. There are definitely side effects and risks with any type of dark magic, so be careful about using them until you fully understand them.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

Royst looked at me.

“You said you are an elemental master, so I will give you flame-type magic.”

He placed his hand on my forehead again.

The magic circle below him glowed.

Oooooh!

An indescribable amount of knowledge and information floods into your head. It wasn’t as painful as when I first became a magic tower owner, but I couldn’t help but feel strange.

After the information transfer was over, Royst took his hand off my forehead. I stumbled and leaned against the wall.

“You have reached a new level. Now, in theory, you should be able to use the 6th process flame-type magic ‘Flame Tauros’. Everything else is up to you.”

“……Oh oh.”

It was as if the magic had been hammered directly into my head, just as I was able to use Anton’s necklace to create a water curtain.

“Well, but… if you’re going to do this, there’s no need to provide such training, right?”

“It takes training to get a feel for things. These are things that mental knowledge cannot provide.”

“Oh, I see.”

In addition to the 6th process of flame system that I decided to teach, I also had some unusual magic theories in my mind. I’m not sure what this is yet.

Anyway, I cleared the magic tower lord’s ordeal and learned new magic. Now all my business in this world is over.

“huh?”

My body became blurry. As seen in Anton’s diary, he is slowly disappearing from this world.

“Now let’s go.”

Royst looked at me.

He was clutching his chest. Something looks uncomfortable.

“What I want to tell you more than anything is that just because you are a magic tower lord, you don’t have to handle everything on your own. That’s called arrogance. If you are overly arrogant, the same situation as mine may happen in your world.”

“yes.”

“……but what.”

“……?”

Suddenly, an eerie feeling ran down the back of my neck.

“If you really want to do it, there’s nothing you can do.”

In the darkness inside the hood, crazy red eyeballs flash.

He snaps his fingers. I feel like a switch flips on in my head and dark magic unfolds.

“you……!”

Among them, there is the very magic that destroyed this planet.

Royst laughs excitedly. My body is becoming more and more blurred, trying to disappear from the world. Then his hood is pulled back.

The face inside the hood is a piece of minced meat with no eyes, nose, or mouth. Words were flowing out of the magic circle attached to his mouth.

“Even if I disappear, my research will last forever.”

Your voice is cold. The intonation also became faster.

He seems like a completely different person.

“Yes, actually, I was the one who put dark magic in the trials on the third floor. I hope you can continue my madness. If you are you, you can turn all the humans in the world into Awakened ones. No, to be exact, the Titans, an ancient race that surpasses the Awakened ones. by.”

“……!”

“I’m just trying to help you. Think carefully.”

He waved his finger. Before I knew it, the flesh had disappeared and only bones remained, like a skeleton.

“There is no way to prevent the disaster unless humanity becomes Titans. When you feel that way, use the magic I taught you.”

A hole appeared in Royst’s flesh and a long tear appeared on the side.

It seems as if a person is grinning.

“You will be able to complete my research.”

“You! Why did you do this…!”

But I didn’t hear an answer. With Royst’s last words, my vision blinked.

[You have cleared the first trial.]

[Move to the next world.]

fantasy,