The holy city of Estali. Although it is called a 'city', it is not protected by a city wall. Compared with the scope of defense that needs to be protected, this place will definitely make military figures all over the world sneer at it. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is full of loopholes.
But...no one really dares to attack here.
Because Estari has a unique wonder-level building. Six five-story magic towers were built in a six-pointed star formation. This is not to mention the magic towers that individual magicians have built sporadically in the city.
Wulian City in the Xijia District of the Southwest Peninsula has a similar tower building. It has a five-story tower as the center and four four-story towers divided into the southeast, northwest and four directions, connected by empty bridges. But in terms of magic effectiveness, each tower belongs to an independent individual and is not related to each other.
But the six five-story towers of Estali belong to a single entity. When magic is released in the form of a magic circle, its power is not just multiplied. The magic circle composed of six five-story magic towers will make everyone who tries to attack Estali despair.
But this six-pointed star array magic tower is not the reason why Estali has become the center of magicians' beliefs and thoughts. It is because there is a building here that can be said to be the most important building in the entire land - the Great Library. Initially, all historical materials and documents that survived the dark ages were collected here, or any carrier used to convey messages and record events.
Moreover, even if each branch of the Magician Association does not hand over the knowledge of the magicians within its scope and actively copies it to other branches, each local branch will regularly send a copy of the transcript to the big library of the Holy City. There will even be some taboo magic and spells sent, all knowledge that should not be spread but is valuable to preserve.
Some non-formal magical knowledge, such as the undecipherable magician's notes, or the notes left by famous great magicians that can be interpreted and copied, will also enter the collection of the Great Library.
And gradually, the books and carriers sent were not limited to magic-related knowledge. There are poems, scripts, history books, and various insights, such as agricultural administration, smelting, forging, etc.
It can be said that the great library of the holy city of Estali is not only a treasure house of knowledge, but also regarded as the last seed of civilization. It is the consensus of all emperors and kings that the disputes between all the kingdoms in Lost Land do not involve the Holy City. If someone dares to violate the taboo, the masters who regard themselves as the inheritors of knowledge will let the noble masters know how terrible intellectuals are.
This place is different from Earth. "A scholar's rebellion will last three years" does not apply to the confused masters.
If knowledge is raised to the level of belief, the magicians living in Estali will definitely be fanatics. Therefore, even though the Dharma Masters do not praise the name of Enki, the Lord of Knowledge, the Holy City is still protected by that god. This is also unique among all fans.
Other than that, the location of the Magicians Association branch is almost insulated from the church of gods, even the gods representing the eight powers. This is really because Buddhist practitioners too often say blasphemous remarks and even do relevant research.
It's like someone once analyzed the cursed power. If his research results were made public, all the Spiritual Churches in the land would probably put him at the top of their wanted lists, without exception.
Precisely because so much emphasis is placed on 'knowledge' here, the Holy City has also become an opportunity for magicians, even though the strength of magical knowledge has squeezed out the development of other types of knowledge. People with real talent may rely on taking on apprentices in exchange for what they need, or they may take on some difficult commissions that ordinary people cannot imagine, and earn a reward that can easily last a year for doing something.
Sometimes the person to whom knowledge is imparted is not necessarily a magic apprentice who knows nothing. Magicians also exchange knowledge with each other, for a fee of course. And knowledge is protected. Not everyone can learn something from others and then teach it to others and charge fees.
In other words, this place is similar to the earth protected by patent law. As long as you have one or two attractive skills, you basically have no worries about food and clothing.
Of course, it is inevitable to learn something secretly. But as long as no profit is made openly, no one knows who has learned from whom. However, as long as a little bit of flaws is exposed, Midi is not like Earth, which has to go to court to file a patent lawsuit. Midi has too many ways to make people tell the truth. Once you use it, it becomes clear who is right and who is wrong.
When it comes to making judgments about right and wrong, dharma masters rarely care about family background. Of course, people who really want to cause trouble will not drag the matter to the point where a notary must come forward to arbitrate. Everything that can be solved must have been solved before that.
But just like Earth's confessional, the use of this type of magic is quite dangerous for the person being casted. Becoming an idiot or becoming disabled is the best outcome.
According to the most commonly used method of a certain lich, after killing a person, he directly interrogates the soul to ensure that he will not and cannot lie, unless the deceased's knowledge of a certain matter was wrong from the beginning. But, if it is unjust... a moment of silence. Hot search
Since there are so many outstanding magicians gathered here, it will naturally attract some lords and organizational forces from various places who hope to recruit these outstanding talents, or people who admire them and voluntarily follow or learn magic knowledge. As well as providing services to magicians and people with needs other than magic.
Most of these people who come here to make a living bring their families or start a family here, and the magicians themselves may also start families. In the end, Estali became the largest city in the world in terms of population. Within the Gwana Empire, the only city of the same level as Estali is the capital of the empire - Light Lion City.
The reason why it can attract so many people is that, in addition to being the most important holy land for magicians, another major reason is also because of the strength of the Gwana Empire itself.
Facing natural threats requires adventurers or mercenaries to deal with them in other places; but within the empire, each lord has a local legion, there are reserve legions in places directly under the emperor, and regular legions are stationed in important hub cities. The official force is enough to protect his people, and of course there is no room for adventurers and mercenaries.
Since there is no room for movement, such people naturally go to where they are needed. Soldiers will choose to join the army or leave the empire to develop. In addition to the first two choices, most of the magicians gathered in the holy city closest to them to look for any possible opportunities.
The above are the most widely circulated news about the Holy City of Estali. They are very credible and make this city a place that many people yearn for. Not only magicians, but countless ordinary people also hope to find opportunities.
However, when actually seeing this city, someone's understanding of the world that they thought they had seen is still too poor.
Looking down from the heights where the Sid is located, the six rumored five-story magic towers are not just arranged in a hexagram formation. They are built on six hilly highlands, guarding the great library located in the basin terrain.
The shape and distribution of the mountains formed a perfect magic circle, which made someone wonder that perhaps this place was not a natural terrain, but a modified one.
The great library in the basin is not a single building, but a complex of buildings. There is another argument for this.
The predecessor of the Great Library actually existed in the past older than Fin's Dark Ages. A group of people who call themselves bookkeepers secretly collected knowledge in the past and used various methods to protect it. They even went through the dark ages and lingered in corners just to preserve these priceless treasures.
There are rumors that among the four brave men who defeated the Demon King in the past, the great sage Atoli was born as a bookkeeper. So after the Demon King was defeated, he returned to this place and established the Brotherhood of Magicians, which was also the prototype of the Magician Association.
The first five-story magic tower built was the initial power to protect the magicians who gathered here. Of course, the existence of the Great Library was also disclosed and included in the sanctuary. Under the plan of the great sage Atoli, the power of this magician gradually grew. Eventually, the Magician's Guild was established. At the same time, there are organizations such as the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary Guild that do not belong to any country.
A big factor in the power of magicians comes from the knowledge collected in the Great Library. Based on old knowledge, magicians constantly create newer, more powerful, or more useful magic. The progress of civilization is driven by these achievements. The role of the Great Library is to make knowledge available to the public for free, while also using the power of magicians to collect more knowledge.
But the collected knowledge must have a place to store it, and someone must sort it out and take care of it. However, the inherited arrogance of the bookkeepers has become an obstacle to promoting these works.
The most practical problem is the need to add a library. However, building a house requires land, and the land around the Great Library has been occupied to build houses for bookkeepers and powerful magicians. Of course, the reason at the beginning was to facilitate the management of these people, or to read the books in the big library. No one expected that such convenience would become a constraint on the future expansion of the library.
Faced with such a problem, the magician and the magician communicated and discussed to solve it, but the bookkeeper's stubbornness was not so easy to deal with. They believe that they, who have been working hard to protect knowledge for countless generations since then, have the right to decide on the affairs of the Great Library. Even they had a lot of criticism and obstructed in every possible way some miscellaneous books from entering the big library.
At that time, the bookkeepers were divided into two factions. The minority wanted to maintain the status quo. The other majority, however, hopes to continue allowing magicians to collect knowledge, but is unwilling to make the collection of the Great Library public. At least the attitude towards bookkeepers and outsiders must be separated, so that the big library can form a closed atmosphere similar to a floating island.
In other words, they want to monopolize all this, but the magicians must continue to provide their services and supplies, and this does not mean that the two parties will cut off contact. As long as you wait until they are satisfied, you may be able to reluctantly give some time to the magicians so that they can enter the big library to read.
However, one night, this contradiction broke out into a conflict. The bookkeepers were completely bloodbathed, and countless ancient families were cut off from their bloodlines.
With the power of the five-story magic tower, it has survived the dark ages, and the ancient inheritance with its mission cannot withstand the Magician Association led by the six Dharma Saints, and the most powerful war weapons of the contemporary era. Only the Dharma Saint level can truly Take control of the magic tower with three energy pools, chanting deadly magic to them.
