The hall on the first floor of the Tower of the Great Sage was completely enclosed. The light from the lighting fixtures on the wall spread across every corner, illuminating the room as if it were daytime. The five inspectors could not even see their own shadows. The black energy lingering around his body seemed to have subsided slightly due to the bright environment.
But other than that, there was no action. It was like a tiger that was baring its fangs and claws, but it only showed its fangs and hadn't pounced yet. Even so, the deep hostility from the tower owner made it difficult for the inspectors.
One of them asked the person who sent the magic missile and said, "I thought our trip was just to contact and negotiate with the tower owner. We never said we were going to take action."
"If we want to negotiate, we must first capture the person and then negotiate. Whatever conditions we want, we will get whatever conditions we want. You also know that the predicament facing Cadiz District today is entirely caused by this person. He must personally take charge of the aftermath and calm everyone's anger."
"Difficulty? Anger? Only your family suffered losses. I did not agree. I want to upgrade this action to the level of attacking a tower. A magic tower with an owner."
"So what if he has a master? He is just a rookie who has been here for less than a year. Apart from designing some magic that others can't understand, what other achievements does he have worth mentioning? What's more, he didn't meet us in person, so This is the first time I have encountered such disrespectful behavior. I feel it is necessary to take him back and re-instruct him on etiquette."
"If I had come forward in person, I wouldn't have been beaten to the ground by you right now. If you want to intimidate others, don't allow others to respond."
"Hmph. What's the use of talking about this now? The other party has already retracted into its shell like a tortoise. Even our escape route has been blocked,──" The inspector who spoke pointed to the closed door of the magic tower. "──There are only two options left. One is to break open the door and return without success; the other is to go to the core room, capture him, and take him back to the association. What do you think?"
The speaker glanced at the crowd. Apart from those who originally opposed him, he seemed to want to make some suggestions. Others remained silent, staring at the central circular stairwell and other locations where magic circle nodes might be arranged.
Another person said knowingly: "The tower owner doesn't seem to want to take action."
"No! This is just proof that he can't do anything to us. We have already analyzed the various arrangements of this dilapidated magic tower clearly from the data, and there is no way to threaten us. In less than a year, he has been able to What he can do with the rearrangement is to patch up the hole in the wall, add a circular staircase to the wall, and at most set up some mechanisms to kill ordinary people. Is it possible that you, who expect to be recognized by the great magician, will be afraid? Such an antique?"
"No, I just don't like being used by you. This time when I go back, I will apply for a team transfer."
"Whatever you want, but remember to do your best this time, otherwise if you go back, I will report the matter and you will suffer."
The leader shouted impatiently and said, "It's useless to talk more. Now that we've started to take action, don't think about other things. Capture the person as soon as possible. I don't want to stay in someone else's magic tower for too long." He pointed at the magician who attacked first and said, "Koos, you are the one who started this matter. You will be the vanguard."
"Hmph, they are a bunch of cowards. I am enough to deal with such blind rookies."
After mocking his companions, the magician named Koos strode forward. Long before entering the tower, everyone had prepared their auxiliary magic. What we have to do now is to break through the traps in the magic tower one by one, attack the third floor, and capture the guy who deserves to be killed by a thousand cuts.
Koos raised his hand, and the thumb ring emitted a fierce spiritual light, followed by another magic missile that hit the central stairwell. This is with a temptation in mind. According to the original information about the Tower of the Great Sage, the central circular staircase was not covered. Nowadays, this rookie may just use ordinary stone to make the stairwell. Then blasting open the earthen wall and using flying skills to attack the third floor would be the best choice.
However, the wall of the stairwell did not collapse as expected, but instead flashed with dense magical energy channels, which effectively defended against the power of magic missiles.
Immediately afterwards, a blue beam of light thinner than a little finger emitted from the wall of the stairwell, connected to the wall of the hall, about waist height, and slowly swept towards everyone.
It was a trap that he had never seen before, but Koos was extremely confident in the effect of his Stoneskin Technique. It had a defensive power comparable to that of steel, far beyond the effects of the apprentices.
If you wait for magic attacks, even if you stand tall and let the opponent bombard you, you can't hurt yourself. It was as if this beam of light swept past the waist without any hindrance, and there was no...
The black robe that was broken into two parts and the wrist that fell to the ground shocked the other four people. The blood spraying out from the waist in all directions showed the fate of the Koos magician. The rest of the people crouched down quickly, not daring to touch the blue beam of light again.
When the beam of light swept across the hall, it disappeared. In less than a breath, a second beam of light was produced, which was at ankle height and swept over with the same path and speed.
The four people who have already drawn attention will certainly not be exposed to this unknown trap again. He lifted his feet slightly and took a step to dodge this attack. But Koos, who had fallen to the ground, did not have such a blessing. He twisted his body and upper arms in panic, trying to escape the second sweep, but in vain. The blue beam cut his chest and back in half, and a large amount of blood and organs were scattered all over the floor. And he couldn't die any more.
Without waiting for instructions, the remaining people immediately cast spells, traps, and powerful destructive magic. Try to stop the magic tower trap. However, the third beam that followed, about the height of the neck, did not want everyone to be able to recite the incantation with peace of mind.
The interrupted destructive magic cannot be cast smoothly. But breaking the curse and breaking the trap have no effect. At this time, everyone was already slightly regretting the fact that they were deceived by the dead into attacking the tower. At this time, the fourth beam of light swept over, again at waist height.
Following the trajectory of the beam sweep, everyone retreated to gain time and space. Some people are planning to negotiate peace with the tower owner; others are carefully observing the surroundings, trying to find the center of the trap and destroy it in one fell swoop. This kind of trap with only three changes and endless cycles, as long as you know it, you can no longer hurt people. But to break it is another matter.
His mind was spinning, but before he could reach a conclusion, the beam of light that swept towards his waist suddenly changed. It turns into two diagonal beams connecting the ceiling and floor, with different directions, intersecting to form an X-shaped beam.
In this extremely stupid change, the inspectors simultaneously flashed towards the X-shaped gap, no longer retreating, and planned to let the beam sweep through. Before other thoughts could arise, the large X shape suddenly extended countless parallel blue beams of light, crisscrossing them and weaving into a dense network. The most terrible thing is that there is also a beam net behind him, sweeping from the opposite direction.
Just as they were closing, the four magicians who were accustomed to fighting on the battlefield used their own defensive magic. Shield, light shield, summoned golem, any door. But all this was either too late or unable to stop the two beam nets from closing.
The light network criss-crossed and circled the hall before disappearing. But the four inspectors stood still. After a while, net-like marks appeared on the body, and the body was cut into countless small pieces before being scattered on the ground.
The three people watching the surveillance screen in the core room. The two apprentices still couldn't adapt to this level of bloody scenes and covered their eyes in fear. Lin, on the other hand, looked at his results with indifference. This trap is a replica of the infamous laser tunnel in the first episode of the movie version of Castle Evil.
Speaking of recent research, the wavelength measurement of the spectrum has not been studied yet, but a method to increase the power of bright light, that is, the joules of energy contained, was unexpectedly discovered. Simply put, Lin realized a magical version of the laser. Unfortunately, that cannot be exerted by human power and mana capacity, and can only be achieved with the help of the energy pool of the magic tower.
Only then did he try to modify the Tower of the Great Sage, and someone came to his door to make experimental materials for him.
In terms of results, it can only be regarded as unsatisfactory. Lin, who is also a magician, knew very well that he would kill a team of inspectors so easily. This was bullying the other party because they had not seen the information on this type of trap, and therefore were unable to defend or destroy it in a targeted manner.
Just like in the movie, hackers are used to invade the computer and stop the operation of the laser channel. Lin himself could think of several ways to break the laser trap he had set.
To perfect it, you need to think about the combination of different traps and arrange them into a series of traps. And the magic circle nodes should be better hidden, instead of being stupidly deployed on every wall, ceiling and floor of the hall.
If someone destroys any part of it, it's like clearing a fire lane for refuge. No matter how high the power of the laser beam is, it is useless if it cannot scan people.
However, there is no rush to think about these improvement methods. There is another important thing at the moment. This is the reason why this group of inspectors from the Cadiz District Branch came here in anger.
After shutting down the first-level defense system of the Great Sage's Tower and returning it to a normal alert state, Lin sent two apprentices to clean up the debris on the first floor. He himself opened the forum page and recalled the administrator password that he had never used before.
Originally, I planned to use administrator rights to enter the post that could not be opened to see what the content said. However, the administrator password has not been used for a long time... It should be said that it has not been used since it was created, and I can't recall it for a while. Furthermore, the content of the post may not be clear at all, and the person reading it has to guess and think about it before they can figure out the original meaning. It is better to find someone who understands directly.
For the magicians, the Magician Association can only be regarded as a loose structure, barely uniting everyone with interests. Inspectors will only respond to acts of serious evil or acts that seriously infringe upon the common interests of magicians. Some trivial things, such as murder, arson, rape and robbery, could not cause these ghosts to worry.
Even though the matter on the table this time is from the inspector team from Cadiz District, Lin believes that the president of Xijia District Branch, Chengguo Eaton, will definitely pay attention to it.
It's like two gangs who are living in peace and harmony. If the boss of the gang next door suddenly sends out his top horseman, how could the boss not inquire about the information and understand the cause and effect? If the gang next door was targeting me, I still foolishly thought it had nothing to do with me and didn't make any arrangements. When death is imminent, he will only get a comment of 'well deserved'.
Even so, Lin also sent a message to the old man's magic tower energy pool. But the superior old man had no idea whether he would remember such a small role and even took the time to respond.
