138 Part 1 (1/2)

Even though the flooring of the field in front of the magic tower had been made out of granite, the temperature was not low and there was no trace of chill to it. Lex did not bring out the tent and everyone rested on the floor. Sika had laid down for less than an hour before she sat up and began looking around.

”Sika, what’s up?” Saleen asked.

Sika’s face was red as she pressed her mouth against Saleen’s ears, saying as softly as she could, ”My… stomach isn’t feeling well.”

Saleen felt a tinge of embarrassment. Both he and Lex were mages who could reduce their bowel movements as much as possible. Three days was easy for them, and at most, they would experience a decrease in physical strength. Sika, on the other hand, could not. Her natural self-control must have been amazing to have been able to last until now.

However, this had caused some inconvenience. Defecating in front of the magic tower? That seemed disrespectful to the owner of the magic tower, and who knew what it would cause. However, such things could not be controlled and Saleen used a finger to point to the other side of the magic tower, saying, ”Go to the other side and stick close to the forest. Do not enter it, or else you will not be able to come out.”

Lex suddenly opened her eyes and said, ”Sika, I will follow you.”

Sika nodded in gratitude. If she had known that going up the hill would be so much trouble, she would have stayed at the foot of the hill. Lex had a great amount of army resources with her and taking care of her bowel problems would not be a problem.

The four of them rested for ten hours before Lex and Saleen began to discuss where they would enter the magic tower from.

”From this side.” Saleen pointed at the door in front. It had a large symbol on it that represented the element of water. Saleen was most familiar with Water Magic and his affinity with water elements surpassed even that of grand mages. Entering from here would likely be less dangerous.

”Yes. Sika, Nailisi, do not go too far. Stay within five steps of us.” As Lex finished speaking, she was the first to walk towards the door.

The style of the magic tower was not considered to be too ancient, as the Fourth Dynasty had been within the past few thousands of years. The ruins from the Fourth Dynasty were everywhere in the mainland and there were still magic towers from that era. Lex’s research on magic towers had obviously been much better than Saleen’s, and even though Saleen had a great deal of knowledge in his brain, he hardly had a thorough understanding of them. Most of his knowledge had come through pure memorization.

Lex walked to the front of the door and raised her hand. Just as she was about to touch the magic symbol, the wooden door slid open from two sides. Lex jumped in shock and quickly retracted her hand. She had used her body to shield Saleen and was already prepared to release an Ice Plate Armor spell.

Lex was able to release perception magic too, but there could not have been any living things within this magic tower. It was impossibly difficult for an empty tower to continually maintain revolving magic arrays. It did not matter if there were magic nuclei or special gemstones. They would all be expended sooner or later.

Hence, Lex had dared to test her luck. Especially after navigating through Pan’s Maze, she had become even more certain that the mage within the tower had passed away. Otherwise, had things been under the control of a mage, they would not have made their way through in only three days.

Nothing appeared from within the doors. There were no spells, nor puppets, nor strange magic beasts.

Saleen poked out his head from behind Lex and looked at the interior of the magic tower. He did not see anything either. The space behind the door was empty and had a feeling of emptiness to it.

This was a magic test!

Saleen and Lex did not know whether to laugh or cry. The master of this magic tower had actually been a proud and heartless person in their own mind. They were someone who had dared to build a magic tower ten stories tall to provoke the gods, and yet they had left a test at the entrance of the magic tower for others to solve. If a person could not solve it, he or she would never be able to enter the magic tower. If a person did manage to solve it, he or she would gain the mage’s approval.

They must have been a relatively gentle mage who had been fond of interaction. However, this was on the condition that a person needed to be a true mage and speak the same language as them.

This did not mean that the magic test was safe. There were no emotions when it came to magic, and if one did not solve this puzzle, there was a possibility of dying at the entrance of the tower.

How? Nothing could be seen beyond the door. There were no signs of magic arrays or magic symbols. There was not even any end in sight. They could not see the floor or the ceiling. This was a question that was unsolvable. The only thing that Saleen and Lex could discern was that it was a magic test related to water elements.

”Can we use the god’s ring to solve this?” Saleen walked out from behind Lex. Lex had been shielding him from the front, and he felt ashamed of that. Despite the difference in their grades, he was also a mage, and yet, he had needed another mage to use their body to protect him.

”No. If we use the powers of the god’s ring again, we will never make it back to the Myers Mainland again.” Lex immediately refused Saleen’s preposition. The god’s ring had already used up more than half of its powers in reflecting god’s punishment and needed a year to return to normal. If they used it again, it was likely that it would be destroyed, and if that happened, no one on the Myers Mainland would be able to find the coordinates for this interdimensional space no matter how hard they tried.