Following his teacher into the core room of the tower, Halumi looked around curiously. She had been staying at the Magician Academy, but she had never entered such an important place. It was not until today that her teacher was given the responsibility of a guardian and had her own magic tower. Only then did she have the opportunity to witness the extremely mysterious place that ordinary people and apprentices said.
But for Lin, who is a teacher, this is also the first time. Although he had already learned how to operate most of the functions, this was the first time he had touched the real thing.
But before getting familiar with the various operations, there's one important thing to do. Lin came to the console of the magic tower and pressed his right hand on the center position. The mark on the back of his hand echoed the magic array and floated in mid-air in front of him. The upright mercury energy pool connected to the alien plane started to fluctuate like a huge mirror. Output wave after wave of energy, completely awakening everything in the magic tower. Now, the Tower of the Great Sage has truly awakened.
Place the special magic stone that you have prepared for a long time in the center of the console, the core of the magic circle, and the programming carved in the magic stone quickly takes over all functions of the tower.
High-level magic towers have tower spirits, just like the world before time travel, so-called artificial intelligence butlers. However, as a historic building with a history of a thousand years, the Tower of the Great Sage does not have such advanced technology. All functions of the Magic Tower require detailed operations and orders from the tower owner.
And these thousand years have not passed in vain. Countless successors have already invented countless technologies for similar situations to allow magicians to inherit and master the magic tower faster and become the new tower owner. Lin referred to the technology left by his ancestors and the data of the Great Sage's Tower, combined with his own knowledge before time travel, and made the simplest set of programming to control the magic tower, just like writing a driver for computer hardware. That way.
That's right, before time travel, as a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy, I had to write all the special computer programs myself. In addition, I had no wife or son, so I could only rely on watching Love (Xinqing) (Yunli) and making movies by myself. It's easy to be a magic programmer in a different world despite being a sweaty nerd.
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Putting aside the feeling of not knowing whether to be proud or depressed, Lin activated the temperature monitoring function inside the magic tower and made it into a technology similar to thermal imaging. With the three-dimensional view of the inside of the tower, he quickly saw clearly that there were still uninvited guests in the magic tower.
The body temperature of the newly deceased goblin has not completely dissipated, so it clearly appears on the picture formed by the energy pool. But compared with living goblins, there are still obvious differences. It was on the east side of the first floor, a room with a damaged structure. Although it was difficult to get in and out when observing before, it does not mean that it is impossible to hide there.
Three smaller hotspots, perhaps larvae of goblins. Lin thought so. Judging from the number of this group, there are no female captives and no food reserves. Based on the conditions observed before, they probably escaped from other places. It's a pity that most of the rooms are closed magic towers, which are not very good places to stay.
"Halumi." Calling the girl who was still looking curiously, Lin straightened her robe and said, "Go and help Kaya move things in. Next, we need to organize the tower into a livable condition, and we need to busy."
"Yes, teacher." The blond girl responded, then walked briskly to find her companion who was similar in age.
As for the remaining goblins, Lin decided to take care of it himself. On the one hand, the Magic Tower has just taken over, and there are many things that only I can do. Instructing the girl to deal with the remaining enemies, she had to crawl through the narrow hole in the wall to enter the hiding room, and she only had to open the door.
After turning on all the lights in the magic tower, Lin walked downstairs and opened the door that was originally closed. The three goblins, who were neither newborns nor yet adults, hugged each other and hid in the corner of the bright room.
Seeing the coming person, the most basic survival instinct of living things made the three little goblins show expressions of fear and begging for mercy. It is undeniable that no matter how ferocious and ugly a creature is, it is still quite cute in early childhood. Lin smiled kindly, and then released a fireball, directly burning the little doll into ashes. Next, he had to deal with the rest of the corpses and collect the loot, so he didn't have much time to care about the goblin baby.
It's not that the magicians in this world don't know how to throw fireballs, it's just that the efficiency of throwing fireballs is not as good as that of their own Buffer. However, when one fireball can solve everything, and there will be no other battles in the future, one fireball will still be much faster than adding a set of auxiliary magic and going up to fight melee. In a word: efficiency comes first.
Strip slain goblins of valuable items. Perhaps the most valuable thing is the bone filled with magical energy. Lin then used the Light Object Technique to gather all the corpses into a room specially used for casting utensils. The energy pool of the magic tower was completely revived, and the furnace in the casting room also ignited with blazing flames.
Throw all the dead goblins into the blue flames ignited with the purest magical energy. Almost as soon as it came into contact with the flames, the body vaporized and disappeared, leaving not even ashes. After cleaning up everything, Lin controlled it with his seal to keep the fire at a minimum, so that it wouldn't go out completely and wouldn't require full power.
Except for the foundry room on the first floor, the damaged room where the little goblin used to hide was quite empty, but there were two holes on the floor that were quite conspicuous. It seems that it can be used as a warehouse.
There are also several long tables in another room, with several large stoves built on the wall. It seems that it was converted into a dining room and kitchen by the previous owner of the tower. On the contrary, there is a moving planet map on the wall, which clearly shows the status of the star system in this world.
The sun star is in the center, like the Earth's sun. The planet where this world is located is located in the fourth orbit and is called Midi. In addition, there are five planets, a total of six planets make up this star system. The planet map on the wall shows the current positions of each planet. It is also the only layout of the Tower of the Great Sage that has been truly preserved from thousands of years ago. The remaining original items had long been taken away, dismantled, or even given to the Magicians Association by the previous tower owners. This picture can be preserved only because the picture, mechanism and wall are integrated, and this wall is an important load-bearing component of the magic tower and cannot be demolished.
The last room contains a few scattered weapon racks and human-shaped wooden racks of armor. But only a few rusty wooden handles and iron gun heads were left standing on the racks.
Of the eight rooms on the second floor of the Magic Tower, one room on the east side completely disappeared, the two on the left and right were seriously damaged, and the two adjacent ones were also damaged, leaving only three intact.
One is a library without books. If the tower owner dies, the things here will be taken away by people from the Magician Association; or if the tower owner voluntarily gives up the right to guard the tower and leaves, most of the books here will be brought and stored by himself. , so of course I will take it away.
The remaining two are meditation rooms with different functions, each focusing on magical power.
Two of them were damaged, and one could be seen to be furnished for living, but it was probably just a small dormitory provided by the previous tower owner for apprentices. The other room looked like a research room, but apart from a few rickety cabinets and a few large, decayed tables, there was nothing else.
The two badly damaged ones were used as balcony gardens, filled with flowers and birds. However, no one has cleaned it up for a long time, and now it is overgrown with vines and weeds. Without using a cane to sweep down the miscanthus that is about as tall as a person, there is still no place to stand.
There are three rooms on the third floor. The room on the east side is also damaged. It seems that the previous tower owner used it as a utility room. The core chamber is blessed and protected by special powers, so it remains intact. Another intact room is the ritual room, where Jufan summons creatures from other planes and practices destructive magic. Therefore, the ritual room is equipped with a barrier, and the protection of the structure is comparable to that of the core room.
As a tower owner, the main scope of activities must be the highest level of the magic tower. All rest, sleep, eating, and research are all done in the core room. Most of the rooms on the lower floor are provided for apprentices or to store things that are not temporarily used by the tower owner.
The topmost platform is equipped with the most important facility of each magic tower, an attack magic circle. Each tower is different, and this Tower of the Great Sage is equipped with a light bomb attack array, with an effective attack range of X ten days and a maximum attack range of XXX ten days. Changed to earth units, it can be roughly understood as follows: the effective attack range is 10 kilometers and the maximum range is 30 kilometers.
In addition to providing residence and research for magicians, all magic towers in the Lost World have the most important task of guarding the local area, limiting the growth and nuisance of wild creatures, warcraft, and uncivilized ethnic groups, and protecting the survival and development of the civilized world.
Therefore, in order to ensure that magicians have this awareness, although the magic tower can be owned by private individuals, it is not allowed to be inherited. When the tower owner dies or leaves, the ownership of the tower is transferred to the association, and the association selects the next qualified person.
Of course, not everyone is willing to give up a powerful and expensive magic tower. More than five hundred years ago, a student of the Dharma Saint claimed the right to inherit the Tower of the Great Sage after his teacher passed away. The association formed a multi-district coalition force, and together they attacked the Tower of the Great Sage and killed all the magicians and apprentices who tried to resist.
The huge hole on the second floor of the Tower of the Great Sage is the relic of the battle at that time. None of the succeeding tower owners carried out repairs. It's not to alert future generations or anything like that, it's purely because magic materials are extremely expensive.
Generally, after a certain period of time, the magic acting on a material will dissipate, or even cause the material itself to be annihilated. Only magical materials can permanently transform the appearance of the plastic, carve the magic circle, and even increase the strength exponentially with the blessing of energy.
Materials with such characteristics are of course not readily available, but rather rare. Scarcity means high price. How high is the price? The vast majority of magicians make nothing but spend their entire lives, and can only afford to build one floor. Those who know how to manage money can build a second floor. The standard for a magic tower is three to five floors, depending on the identity and energy level of the first tower owner.
In other words, most of the owners of magic towers on the mainland today accept the entrustment of the Magician Association and inherit the existing magic towers. Either it was passed down by masters and apprentices for several generations, and they spent more than a hundred years of savings to build it. Of course, using state-level financial resources to assist in the construction of magic towers is also the main source of new towers.
