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Northwest of Alteon.
A giant city of clustered buildings was overwhelming the space from afar.
It was huge.
This giant mass, which occupied more than half of the northwest, was a society and a planned small city running on its own rules.
The Magic Tower.
It was a collective term for the entire city, which resembled a single architectural structure formed widely around the central Magic Tower where magicians existed as the ruling class.
For players, merchants trading forbidden goods here, or back-alley trash who harassed people while avoiding the eyes of magicians.
‘And I heard that missions to assassinate the magicians who joined hands with such trash were mainly assigned.’
The ruler of this place was the Magic Tower Master.
Although he was evaluated as managing the Magic Tower rationally.
Behind the scenes, the setting was that he perpetrated all kinds of unethical research, such as human experimentation, solely for the reason of the development of magic.
Seo-jun climbed up the wall.
And he headed toward the center, jumping across the rooftops of buildings that surrounded the low-built tower.
In the center, there was a giant tower built by stacking white bricks layer upon layer.
Although it could not be compared in height to buildings in the real world, when viewed solely by land area, it was similar to or wider than most buildings.
Seeing that many people were entering and exiting the large entrance, which easily seemed to be three meters high, Seo-jun came down from the rooftop and joined the crowd.
“Now, let's go assassinate.”
- Assassination X Destruction O
- Infiltrating the Magic Tower (while walking through the front gate) - hahaha this is the stuff
- Seo-jun-nim, you did know about the Magic Tower, right?
About the Magic Tower.
Seo-jun deliberately kept only the basic settings and did not delve into the detailed parts.
Although it would have been good to preview through external sites, or to dig out the settings by collecting various information as he proceeded with the game.
After all, he did not aim for such a safe broadcast.
“No? This was my first time seeing the Magic Tower, though? I mean, wasn't it enough to just go up to the top?”
- Kya, today again was just mindless head-bashing *shivers*
- This was why I watched the broadcast.
- The Magic Tower seemed like it would be a bit hard?
Seo-jun entered the Magic Tower, blending into the crowd just like that.
“Well. Let's just try it for now.”
Indeed, the interior was spacious and had a high, open atmosphere, just as seen from the outside.
Seo-jun looked around.
People wearing long-sleeved robes occasionally came into view.
“Were those NPCs magicians? There were far fewer of them than I had thought.”
Then, were most of them ordinary people?
- Magicians had to obviously be rare.
- To begin with, the first, second, and third floors of the tower were like a marketplace concept. So it was extremely wide and there were many ordinary people. From the fourth floor was the real thing.
- Do you want to pickpocket?
“I didn't pickpocket.”
Seo-jun cut them off firmly and examined the interior in detail to go to the next floor.
The center of the second and third floors was hollowed out, giving a sense of openness, and the shops were attached to the walls.
It was just like.
“A shopping mall?”
Of course, it was a structure like a complexly tangled anthill rather than that, but if viewed by stripping away all but the core parts, it was reminiscent of a commonly imagined shopping mall.
- hahaha
- It was similar, indeed.
- There were also schools and libraries!
In many ways, it seemed like a fascinating place.
Seo-jun was able to find a circular staircase leading from the first to the third floor and climbed up to the third floor.
And then.
He discovered an NPC who appeared to be a magician wearing a hood and followed him.
The NPC headed somewhere, weaving through the complex third-floor passages that resembled an anthill.
As Seo-jun followed him, he got the feeling that the ground was gradually getting higher.
And at some point, people no longer appeared around him.
The NPC entered the other side of a door guarded by two guards, and Seo-jun stopped for a moment.
He thought this was the door leading to the fourth floor, but because he could not be sure, he looked at the chat window.
If it was flooded with 'hahaha', it meant Seo-jun had come to the wrong place, and if not, it meant Seo-jun had come to the right place.
Fortunately, it seemed he had come to the right place.
“Hmm. Guards again?”
- Those guys were just a piece of cake now lol
- Should I destroy the weapon? Should I parry?
- Let's beat them up quickly
“Yes.”
Seo-jun approached them.
“This was a restricted area...”
Subduing the two with light parries, Seo-jun opened a fairly large iron door.
And the moment he took a step inside.
Seo-jun's body froze.
*Whoosh.*
“You were an intruder. Too bad for you.”
From afar, someone launched a fireball generated above their palm toward Seo-jun.
An instinctive movement tried to guide Seo-jun's body, but it did not budge at all.
Seeing that there was a tingling sensation like when static electricity was generated, it was probably a state of paralysis.
‘Did I have to get hit like this?’
At that moment, the paralysis wore off.
And the magic had already approached close by.
Fortunately, thanks to his outstanding reaction speed, the moment the paralysis wore off, he threw his body to the side immediately and avoided the fireball.
“Crazy... I seriously thought I was going to die.”
- Someone actually survived this?
- Reaction speed was insane hahaha
- Ah, we could have added the first death of the season.
- I knew I could trust you!
- It was obvious you didn't study about the Magic Tower tsk tsk
“Phew.”
Seo-jun let out a sigh of relief and began to guard his surroundings.
This was because it could be troublesome if the situation from a moment ago recurred.
*Whoosh.*
“You were lucky. Then, what about this?”
From the opposite side of the vast lobby, the magician generated a fireball in each hand and launched them.
But this time, there was no restraint applied to Seo-jun's body.
‘Hmm, should I approach while dodging?’
No. There was a mission.
Seo-jun used the skill, Weakness Detection.
This was because it would be good to see the lines of weakness of magic in order to face the Magic Tower Master.
The background inverted in an instant.
And the fireball that burned more fiercely within that field of vision.
A solid line drawn on the fireball came into view.
Seo-jun smiled and sliced the two rapidly flying fireballs in half at once.
“Wow, magic really had lines of weakness too.”
I didn't expect this, though.
In addition, because magic was an unfamiliar field to Seo-jun, he could not get a grasp on the shape of the lines of weakness at all.
- Oh, magic was also split
- Did I seriously have to get Weakness Detection? The skill was so fucking cool hahaha
- It was cool because he did that with the streamer's face, don't be mistaken
Seo-jun smiled and rushed at the magician.
Four additional fireballs flew in, but in a state where the weakness was already detected, they could not cause any damage to Seo-jun.
“Argh.”
The magician's health pool was small.
Unlike melee NPCs who required damage to be dealt multiple times if a parry was not made, even for minor mobs, it was different.
“There was this kind of fun. Was this the fourth floor? I had come to the right place, right?”
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
“Hmm, then why did I stop earlier?”
- Shh.
- Quiet.
- Stop!
- No spoilers
“No, this wasn't a spoiler, but...”
- Shh,
- Shh.
- Shit.
How could not a single person tell him?
Seo-jun watched the constantly rising chat without missing anything, but there was no chat that told him the correct answer.
“Sigh, it was petty, so I wouldn't ask.”
Probably.
He must have opened the door or stepped on something wrong.
For now, deducing this much was the best he could do.
‘In the end, I had to go to the next floor.’
The top of the Magic Tower was the eighth floor.
Seo-jun looked around the fourth floor to go to the next floor.
Various miscellaneous items.
And laboratories decorated in diverse atmospheres within a wider passage than expected.
And the magicians in the laboratories who did not even pay attention to Seo-jun and were immersed in their own work.
This was truly the real Magic Tower, different from the first, second, and third floors.
“Hmm, even so, I was an intruder, but I couldn't tolerate being treated like this.”
Seo-jun deliberately went to the side of a focusing magician and struck something like a flask with his sword.
- What? hahaha
- The level of his personality hahaha
- His way of thinking was different from ours.
- ???: I was saying I would just pretend not to know, but why was he being like this
“Y-You? Were you an intruder?”
“As expected. He reacted.”
Seo-jun poked the researching magician with the intention of examining the magic a bit more.
As soon as the magician discovered Seo-jun, he activated the magic circle engraved on the back of his hand.
He instantly moved toward the entrance of the room, distancing himself from Seo-jun, and then launched a spell.
“Oh, teleportation.”
An ice arrow was generated in midair and flew in.
Seo-jun used Weakness Detection once more to check the lines of weakness of the magic.
The cooldown of Weakness Detection was one minute.
Seo-jun checked the lines of weakness of the ice arrow and slashed it just like that.
He still did not get the hang of it.
Seo-jun waited quietly with the intention of checking more.
However, the magician could not launch any more magic.
“What was it? Was he being careful because this was a laboratory?”
- Yeah, no.
- That was a good imagination hahaha
- Info) Teleportation consumed an enormous amount of mana. He was just exhausted.
Seo-jun checked the chat and put on an embarrassed expression.
No wonder he had looked particularly strained.
Seo-jun dealt with that magician and examined other rooms.
In addition to ice arrows and fireballs, he checked the lines of weakness of various magic, such as magic that bound using plants or rose rocks to trap.
In fact, they were NPCs that he could defeat even without the lines of weakness.
‘Since in this game, the lines of weakness were an additional element.’
However,
Thinking of the Ruler Richard, to whom damage was not dealt at all until his armor was destroyed, he thought that the lines of weakness might be necessary.
If he had not known the lines of weakness, he would have tried aiming to wear out all the durability by hitting him for about ten hours, or looked for other methods, but didn't he end it in an instant thanks to the lines of weakness?
Seo-jun was preparing precisely for that point.
This was because, for some reason, he had an intuition that the person who set the mission was the real creator.
‘He wouldn't have attached such a condition for no reason.’
Thinking so, Seo-jun went up the stairs to the fifth floor.
“I finally found it. I mean, why did I have to search for the stairs to the next floor separately?”
- That way, people looked around the fourth floor without skipping it hahaha
- Ah lol Magicians could just use the teleportation device (for real)
- The stairs were for emergency use.
“No, if it was for emergency use, they had to be connected unconditionally. What if they couldn't find where the stairs were while evacuating and couldn't evacuate?”
- That was so true
- Were you listening, developer?
- The stairs were for aesthetic use.
- Don't try to understand the magicians' sensibility.
“Well. A key wasn't necessary, though.”
After coming up to the fifth floor, Seo-jun discovered the same iron door and opened it.
Seo-jun discovered a guard and a magician standing behind the door.
However, for some reason, even after discovering Seo-jun, they were only waiting inside.
The guard drew his sword and raised his shield, and the magician generated a spell on his hand, but that was all.
“Look at these guys?”
- hahaha
- Did he notice?
- This floor was physical confusion *shivers*
- Indeed?
Seo-jun discovered the chat of a single person who could not tolerate not speaking of what they knew.
“Ah. Was it confusion this time? I mean, did I get a debuff if I entered inside there? Were they waiting for that?”
- Ah!
- He noticed.
- Who was that in the chat
- So tactless hahaha
“Thank you. Since it was already exposed, tell me some more.”
Seo-jun collected information while reading the chats that told him straightforwardly.
It was said that there were two paths to go to the top of the Magic Tower: the outer wall and the internal passage.
“Ah, so they cast a debuff on each floor, but climbing up only the outer wall to avoid this didn't work because the alarm magic rang. And the fifth floor was confusion.”
To use the internal passage, one had to receive the debuff.
The fourth floor was the temporary paralysis he experienced.
The fifth floor was the physical confusion where the left and right senses were reversed.
The sixth floor was the slowing down, deceleration.
The seventh floor was the darkness that stole one's vision.
- Yes. So while climbing the outer wall, they stopped by the interior of the fourth and sixth floors in the middle.
- There was no answer for the darkness debuff. Let's just avoid that.
- There was also no answer for confusion
- Let's just climb the outer wall
- Surely you weren't saying you were going to climb the outer wall, right?
“Really now. Had I ever been scared and infiltrated? I didn't do that kind of assassination.”
- To begin with, that was not assassination lolol this was driving me crazy
- Yes, this was the stuff.
- Kya!
Seo-jun walked into the interior of the fifth floor, picturing the reversed left and right senses in his mind.