Episode 205: An Old Bet -2-
The top of the tower looks at me.
He looks at me with emotionless eyes, like glass beads.
A common gaze among level 8 superhumans.
Eyes that pierce through even the soul.
I looked at the rooftop terrace calmly.
Me too, level 7.
Although it’s not level 8 yet, it’s past the point where you’re overwhelmed by the atmosphere.
As we were having this silent conversation, the responsible wizard suddenly coughed in vain.
“Hmm, ahem! Wouldn’t it be nice to get some advice?”
also.
He’s always a friendly wizard to me.
“Why?”
“We can do it together!”
“You are responsible. You are not insecure, are you? We only trust you!”
“Yes! After all, you are the one who created the solar flame. You can even create the polarity fire with more than enough!”
“That’s it… … Heh heh heh.”
One day, the responsible wizard succeeds in implementing the polarization.
So, he makes his granddaughter, an SSR character from the Sun Tower, debut with the Extreme Flower equipped.
The problem is that this happened 10 years later in this world’s time.
The world is turning rapidly.
As we focus on developing the polarity, the Sun Tower inevitably ends up being left as an outsider in the early episodes.
That won’t do.
No, it can’t be done.
The Sun Tower must come into the world.
So, I have to lend an arm to the old father’s sect.
“It’s the pinnacle… … .”
The magician Matapju stops thinking deeply and looks back at the responsible magician.
“Priest. How long do you think it will take to fully realize the ultimate goal?”
“That’s it… … .”
“Be honest with me.”
“You have to give me at least three years.”
“3 years?”
“3 years!”
The elders jumped up.
The responsible wizard took one look at me and shouted at me loudly.
“Isn’t this originally a magic that was studied for 20 years? The goal was to complete it before I die, while the Lord of the Tower is still in office. It would have taken at least 10 more years. But with the cooperation of the Sword Master, it was reduced to 3 years. If I hadn’t obtained the Black Flame data, I wouldn’t have even grasped the concept.”
“Even so, it’s been three years.”
“A day feels like a year… … .”
“No, how can it take that long when you take 10% of the budget for the rooftop?”
“Then, let us, our respected Level 7 elders, try it.”
A calm and composed remark.
The elders turned their heads slightly.
There is a world of difference between using magic in real life and researching the creation of magic.
Although he was a level 6 wizard, the wizard in charge was the best magic creator in the Sun Tower.
Matapju smiled faintly.
“Three years… … Well, yeah. I expected that much. It was always written like that in the monthly reports.”
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
“I’m sorry. I remember what happened last year. You were running around saying that you had dramatically shortened the research on the polarization. In fact, you’ve made significant progress. Isn’t that the ultimate magic of our magic tower? It’s truly an incredible feat to have completed such magic in a few years, let alone decades.”
The gaze shifts to me.
“Yes… … You, Geomseong. Can you help us in the culmination of our magic tower?”
“Yes.”
“If it really helps you realize the ultimate goal, then yes, it wouldn’t be difficult to grant your wish. Just like with the Phoenix Flame Art last time, and with the skills and potential you showed in this bet, if you can solve the ultimate goal, it wouldn’t be a loss even if our Magic Tower sheds some blood. Don’t you think so? What do you think?”
The top priest swept away the elders.
The eyes are burning like torches.
The unspoken pressure to reject objections.
The elders bowed their heads in agreement.
“That’s true.”
“It may be a bit excessive, but if you approach it from the perspective of improving relations, I don’t think it’s a bad thing.”
“I agree with that, but only if it contributes significantly to the development of the polarization.”
“I think so too. It’s not enough to bring it forward by just a few months.”
The gaze that had been scanning the elders returns to me.
“Let’s do this. Six months. How is it?”
“Six months?”
“Successfully implement the ultimate goal within 6 months. With a total score of 750 or more. Then I will gladly support you with all my might. Let’s make a magic oath at the Magic Tower level. Not in my personal capacity.”
I smiled broadly.
It’s a success.
But you still see me here and there.
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“Let’s do it for a month.”
“Huh?”
“We will successfully implement the polarization within one month.”
“You… you’re not joking, are you?”
“Me? In front of the Lord of the Tower? I am in my right mind. I am not crazy.”
Is there anything that can be done about the special solar fire of Matapju?
Even if you mobilize the highest level, the difference between level 7 and level 8 is huge.
Level 7 is the ultimate level.
The highest level a human can reach.
Level 8 is transcendence.
In fact, it is not human.
I think he’s half-divine. He may not be a demigod or an archangel, but he’s at the level of an angel.
“Instead, I would like you to remove the gold seal you had engraved on me.”
“What taboo?”
“It’s a magic oath. It says that the sunfire cannot be used, cannot leak, and cannot be copied. You can leave the leaking and copying as they are, but I would like you to lift the prohibition on use. Only then can I properly participate in the implementation of the polarization.”
“hmm!”
In fact, if you try to solve it, you have to solve everything.
Since the oaths are bound together, it is impossible to break even one of the three.
After thinking it over for a moment, Matapju accepted obediently.
“Okay. Let’s do that.”
“Your Majesty!”
“But, it’s for the purpose of implementing the extreme. If you fail to implement the extreme within a month, I’ll put the ban back on. I’ll add a few more things. Is that okay?”
“Very well. However, the Tower Lord and the other magicians must cooperate as much as possible.”
“Of course! What’s the big deal if you can achieve the polarization within a month? But if you fail, you’ll have to be prepared.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
failure?
I didn’t even think about it.
Even if I fail, it is impossible for the Matapju to treat me like a slave.
Because I have connections too.
The connections are the Eastern Army, Geumoh Group, Thor Church, and Gaia Church.
I immediately broke the magic oath and went to the laboratory.
It would be fine to just have a responsible wizard, but the magic tower master and elders follow along.
I wonder how this will be resolved.
First, I heard a brief explanation about polarization.
“Jigeukhwa is made up of only the best magic.”
The responsible wizard snapped his fingers.
Hundreds of magical icons appear.
“The base is Sunfire. Here, we mixed in all of our tower’s higher-level magics, such as Flame Bomb, Fire Dragon Cannon, Meteor Shower, Flame Tornado, and Flame Giant.”
That shouldn’t be the case, right?
The responsible wizard waves his hand widely.
Then the magic icons were erased.
“They were all wrong choices. I couldn’t even implement magic. No matter what catalyst I used or what kind of magic I added, I couldn’t stabilize it. It all just exploded. The research didn’t progress until last year, after Black Flame was demonstrated by Master Geomseong.”
The black flame icon appeared.
The responsible wizard combined the sunfire and black flame icons into one.
Then the two magics rippled and combined, then separated, repeatedly.
Inject some magic into it.
It finally stabilized and turned into one flame.
“Now we’ve taken it to the next level. Black Flame and Sunfire were compatible, but they didn’t match. Something was missing. So we added a new magic.”
Hellfire.
If you combine the sunfire, black flame, and hellfire, it will explode right away.
Things changed after the fourth spell was introduced.
Seven colorful, cute fireworks were dancing and twinkling.
“It’s elementalization. With the application of elementalization, the sunfire and hellfire have finally stabilized. It still consumes a lot of mana and takes a long time to cast, but it has taken on a magical form.”
“Is this the right stage?”
“Yes, Lord. However, it is difficult to maintain a balance between Black Flame and Spiritualization. If you raise Black Flame, Spiritualization will become weaker and more unstable, and if you weaken Black Flame, Sunfire and Hellfire will react in a negative way and magic will run wild.”
That’s probably it.
Black flame is an attribute that essentially comes from an evil deity.
If there is a flame that is easy to swallow like a spirit flower, it will try to eat it right away.
The highest flower is the one that is balanced by the heavenly flower and the chaotic flower.
“You need to remove the black salt.”
“You want me to take out the black flame? That’s a bit disappointing… … There are many fire magics in the world, but there are few magics as cruel as the black flame.”
The responsible wizard is properly hooked on the black flame.
But it is not good for implementing polarization.
In the first place, Black Flame is a trait close to the priest class.
It’s far from the extreme of the wizard class restrictions.
“Please put in the holy fire instead.”
“Holy fire? I’ve already tried it… … .”
“And add naturalization to maximize the holy fire and repulsion. Naturalization is better than magic.”
“Huh?”
“It will definitely explode due to the recoil. The key is to condense the magical power as much as possible and make it explode at the desired time. You can control that by injecting Dragon Flame.”
“Huh huh?”
The more I spoke, the bigger the wizard in charge’s eyes became.
“Okay, just a moment! Let me do the math!”
Choaack!
The magic keyboard unfolds.
A tenkeyless keyboard appears with several keys stacked in 360 degrees.
The responsible wizard who starts knocking on it.
The magic bullets that were flying out of my waving hands were roughly typing on the keyboard.
All lab monitors are switched to the responsibility of the wizard.
The green letters were going up like crazy.
Would it be like that if an artificial intelligence, not a person, coded it?
0’s and 1’s are printed infinitely, and strange patterns and magic letters appear and disappear repeatedly.
“This, this!”
The responsible wizard screamed.
“This will work! This will really work!”
“what?”
The elders are murmuring.
“The solution was that simple?”
“Is it okay if I apply for naturalization?”
“Dragon King Flame? I tried that five years ago and discarded it because it didn’t work!”
“Didn’t you say you had to choose between Hellfire and Dragon Flame? You said it would go wild!”
“That’s right! If you use Seonghwa, Gwihwa, and Jeongryeolhwa, a complex reaction will occur!”
“Look at the graph! The six magical opposing forces are perfectly balanced!”
“Just get the casting time and explosion time right and you’re done. This is the ultimate magic!”
The elders are going crazy.
Some people laugh in vain, while others tap dance, saying that the end of misfortune is the beginning of happiness.
“you…….”
Only Matapju had a complicated expression on his face.
“Where on earth did you get this knowledge?”
You’re quick-witted.
But we can’t talk about the original world.
If you play games or something, you’ll be treated like a crazy person.
If you take it for granted, it’ll be even more of a headache.
So I took the second best option.
“I learned it through my body.”
He raised one finger.
[Black salt]
Black flames burn like the tongue of an evil spirit.
In an instant, the gaze of the magician changes as if stabbing someone.
Of course.
Because I just used the trait change in front of the magic tower.
Following the index finger, he spread out his middle finger, ring finger, little finger, and thumb in that order.
Each time, a fire of a different color burns.
In the middle is a blazing sun flame.
The tip of the ring finger is a blood-red hellfire.
A blue dragon flame that blooms like a coiled coil.
A white celestial flower wrapped around the thumb.
Finally, a bizarre chaos unfolded in the center of the palm.
And the merger.
Even though I didn’t equip the Supreme trait, the six flames combined and turned golden.
“This is my highest good.”
“her…….”
“That’s really amazing.”
“How did you come up with the idea to put them together?”
“I didn’t think about it.”
I saw it and copied it.
“I collected them because they looked good, and I tried them out together. There are many other lights, but these six felt right to me as soon as I saw them.”
“That’s right.”
“Is that a warrior’s intuition?”
“The warrior sent from heaven is different.”
“This would have been absolutely impossible for an ordinary warrior.”
“Could it be that you got inspiration while overcoming a fever? Black salt is also a product of overcoming a fever.”
“Maybe so.”
“Isn’t he the warrior of God who met Thor and Gaia? Maybe he got inspiration from there.”
“surely.”
While everyone else was talking about whatever they wanted, only Matapju kept his mouth shut.
An expression of deep thought.
An ominous atmosphere.
The elders belatedly realize that something is strange and keep their mouths shut.
The responsible wizard carefully called out to the magician.
“Lord of the Tower?”
“Speak, priest. I am listening.”
“The basic configuration is complete. Based on the calculations, if you use the existing formula with six magic materials and make a few improvements, you can quickly implement the ultimate transformation.”
“What is the expected power?”
“I will display it on the screen.”
[Destruction power] 300 [Range] 300 [Horsepower consumption] 50
[Casting Time] 50 [Difficulty] 50 [Total] 750
Don’t underestimate the total score of 750.
The most important destructive power and range are 300.
The ability to cast a spell three times stronger than Sunfire from a distance, safely behind you.
It’s literally a bamboo spear.
This one shot will destroy even the fire dragon and the phoenix.
“It’s perfect!”
“Finally, finally… … .”
“That will be realized while I am alive… … .”
“Hahaha! Those Glacier Tower guys’ faces are worth seeing!”
“It is time to shed the name of the Four Great Towers. Now, we should change our name to the Sun Tower, or rather, the Extreme Tower! Among the towers, only our tower will remain, and among the four great powers, the legions, conglomerates, and religious orders will disappear, leaving only the Tower!”
“ha ha ha!”
“Hehehehe!”
“Wooheehee!”
Elders laughing frivolously.
I laughed along too.
Without letting down your guard inwardly.
Even though everyone was laughing, Matapju didn’t have a single smile on his face.
“Geumseong. Come talk to me alone.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Go to the office of the rooftop baron.
There is not a single trace of smile on his usually carefree face.
He doesn’t even offer me a cup of coffee that he used to serve me.
Instead, as soon as I sat down, he came rushing in.
“What on earth are you?”
