Leo and his party wore black robes.
They were prepared in advance from the time they came here, but since they even covered their faces with hats, at first glance, they weren’t much different from warlocks.
-Kikkik
In that state, Leo opened the door of the Black Tower and entered.
The first floor was decorated like a bar, and several warlocks were quietly drinking.
They looked at Leo as they entered and said.
“what. Hey little ones. Why are you coming in when it’s not even shift time yet?”
“These bastards are gone. There was a time when I was on guard for 15 hours a day, but are you already crawling in because you’re bored?”
They spit profanity and gave off a scary atmosphere.
Leo stood still.
The warlocks giggled.
“Hey Philip. were you scared? If you go back even now, I’ll treat you like standing on guard for six more hours.”
“… … .”
“Ugh. Does this bastard really want to go behind? How dare you ignore me?”
Seeing Leo not answering, the warlock shouted out loud.
At that time, Leo raised his head.
Through the robe’s hat, silver eyes were revealed at first glance.
“uh? Who are you, not Phillip… .”
-Hook!
The will was there.
A large piece of ice gushed from the warlock’s chest.
He died instantly because his heart was pierced in one shot.
The rest of the warlocks were startled and tried to get up, but it was too late.
Suddenly, the summoned blades of wind broke through him.
-Chack!
– Chop!
It was the magic performed by Vivian, who opened the door and followed.
Selize, who came in after that, also neatly cut down one of the warlocks nearby.
“I think this is enough for the first floor.”
After dealing with all the enemies, Leo said.
Vivian shrugged.
“The plan to enter disguised as a warlock worked perfectly. What’s great?”
“What about this much?”
“Actually, I wondered why I brought the black robes, but there was a reason for everything.”
Killing the guards and quietly dismantling the barrier, things couldn’t have been this easy.
“Let’s go up as unnoticed as possible. If possible, I would like to go to the place where the bad guy is.”
“Perhaps he is the head of the tower here. It’s obvious they’ll be on the top floor, but the warlocks in the Black Tower aren’t stupid, so it’ll be difficult to go quietly to the end.”
Leo shrugged.
* * *
The height of the Black Tower varies from tower to tower.
Usually, towers with many good warlocks were taller, but the Grenok School had as many as 10 floors.
In this world where building technology was not so developed, there were only a handful of black towers this tall.
And… , Leo and the others were already on the stairs going up to the 8th floor.
“Aren’t these guys stupid? How could they not know that their comrades are dying like this?”
Vivian murmured as if it were absurd.
Leo felt the same way.
“I guess it’s because they’re the ones who have their personal play cut to the bone.”
It wasn’t too difficult to get to this point.
Like the first floor, the 2nd floor was a place where many warlocks gathered and rested, but the majority were 1st or 2nd class wizards.
At that level, he didn’t even have time to scream in front of Leo’s party.
I quietly took care of the 2nd floor, but I thought in my heart that it would be difficult from the 3rd floor… .
‘Rather, it was easier from the third floor.’
From the 3rd floor, there was a private laboratory for wizards.
They locked themselves in their rooms, never coming out even when there was a fuss outside about what they were doing.
Even when Leo opened the door to some rooms, he didn’t notice because he was so focused.
That’s why I was able to come up to this point quickly without much fighting.
“let’s go. I don’t think there will be anything special here either.”
He went up to the 8th floor like that, but Leo’s prediction was wrong.
“… Hut.”
“intruder!?”
On the eighth floor were two warlocks.
Unlike before, the entire floor was a single laboratory, and after studying for a while, they ran into Leo and his party who opened the door and came in.
Even though they were wearing robes, their appearance was different from the warlocks, so they noticed at a glance that Leo and his party were intruders.
“Uh, how could an intruder come up here… ?”
“cloud! Don’t be fooled and prepare to face it!”
“Oh, okay, Aaron!”
A fat warlock named Cloud raised his wand high.
As befits the guys who use such a large laboratory, these guys were all 5th class mages.
“I will deal with that guy.”
said Vivian, looking at the warlock named Cloud.
Naturally, Leo and Celise faced Aaron, the other warlock next to them.
– Dig!
As soon as the opponent was decided, Celise kicked off the ground and ran out.
“Article!? bloke. I know how to let you approach me quietly!”
Aaron started casting while watching Celise come running.
Black smoke rose from his hands, and what looked like a bunch of tentacles protruded.
“Selize!”
[Ice structure – Full plate mail – Anti-magic defense]
Leo created an ice armor that covered Celise’s body.
One of the changes that occurred after becoming a 5th class was a change in the ice structure.
I was able to give a little more detail to the magic, but a magic circle was drawn on the ice armor.
If the ice structure formula before was simply to create objects, now it is possible to add magical effects.
Exploding ice swords, ice armor engraved with magic defense spells, and more.
The number of uses has increased.
– Quaang!
Selize trusts the armor Leo made for her and takes Aaron’s attack as it is.
“Kuh… .”
The shock wasn’t completely gone.
Since he received the magic of a 5th class mage, it was only natural that even a sword expert knight would be shaken.
But nonetheless, she took a step forward.
The armor Leo had made for him was shattered and destroyed, but in return he gained more access.
And the moment the distance between the knight and the wizard decreased, the game was no different from the end.
Selize swung the sword exactly as she had swung it tens of thousands of times.
-Chack!
“Aagh!”
Aaron, who had been cut by the blazing sword, screamed.
Like a wizard, he had a few spells to protect his body, but it wasn’t enough to withstand Selize’s swordsmanship at close range.
Rather, it was luck that the upper and lower bodies were not separated and survived.
It was up to Leo to close the opportunity Celise created.
[Ice Light]
The ice light extending from Leo’s ten fingers tormented Aaron.
“Ouch… .”
His name is a 5th-class mage, and even in that state, Aaron defended against Leo’s magic.
Because the power wasn’t that strong, it was possible to block it somehow.
Soon, however, something disappointing happened.
[Waving Ice – Ice Throne]
Leo’s mouth opened as he fired ice lights nonstop.
“This, double chanting!?”
Aaron opened his eyes wide.
double gallows.
In other words multicasting.
Magic is a battle of talent every moment.
Of course, there was a difference in talent even among 5th-class mages, but only a few talented 5th-class mages could use two or more magics at the same time.
Of course, Aaron had also heard of it, but it was the first time seeing it in person.
And the impression I got was terrifying.
To use magic at the same time, there was no choice but to gain an overwhelming advantage in battles between the same wizards.
In the midst of constant checks, huge thorns of ice protruding from the ground attacked him.
– Kwajijik!
“Cheuk… .”
I tried to twist my body somehow to avoid it, but I was pierced all over my body.
-Chack!
In that gap, Selise’s sword cut the guy’s throat.
It was a futile end for a 5th class wizard.
Of course, his colleague, Cloud, was more terrible.
“it’s over?”
It’s not too late for Leo and Celise, but Vivian had already dealt with it.
No matter what happened to Cloud, the corpse was not intact.
Leo shrugged.
“yes. Let’s go up again.”
* * *
The ninth floor was empty.
At first I thought it was a trap, but nothing really existed.
“Why is no one here? Like the 8th floor, the entire floor looks like a laboratory.”
“There were two guys down there. Maybe one of them was the one who used the ninth floor?”
“ah. I guess so.”
Vivian nodded as if she understood.
It seems that two 5th class warlocks were conducting cooperative research.
Thanks to that, Leo and the others were able to set foot on the stairs to the 10th floor without any hindrance.
There was a door at the end of the stairs, but it was being protected by a strong barrier.
“Ugh. Wouldn’t this be easy to break through? It is a barrier made so that it cannot come out from the inside and cannot be opened from the outside.”
That’s what Vivian said.
No matter how much this is outside the forest, it was a barrier that even Vivian, who had only shown an overwhelming figure until now, felt solid.
“Come to think of it, when I was killing the black magicians below, at first glance, ‘Is the tower lord still living in seclusion?’ I said, ‘Why are you quiet when the situation is like this!’ You heard the same thing.”
Leo and Celise also nodded at Vivian’s words.
I didn’t pay much attention to them because they were screaming while dying, but it must have been a long time since I haven’t seen the top owner.
“Because he must have been injured fighting me before. Maybe you’re recovering from that?”
“It has been almost a year. Was it that serious of an injury?”
“It’s not like that… , I don’t know.”
Vivian shrugged.
Leo stepped forward.
“Well, you’ll understand when you go in.”
strong barrier?
Leo was convinced when he came this far.
‘No matter how great the barrier is, is it greater than the barrier that covers the fairy forest?’
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Quite a few barriers and magic circles could not maintain their shape in front of Leo.
Leo analyzed the barrier pattern with his eyes narrowed.
It was quite complex, but I got the gist of it shortly after.
All that was left was to detour through the gap and release it naturally.
– Ugh!
“done.”
Leo backed off.
The barrier blocking the door completely disappeared.
“Wow… , Looking at it again, you are really… .”
Vivian shook her head as if she didn’t understand.
The second time I watched it, I couldn’t figure out how to do it.
-Kik!
Leo opened the door and entered.
That moment.
– Woe!
– Kwajik!
A large beast’s mouth appeared from the ground and swallowed Leo.
“Ha ha ha! Catch one first!”
Then came a thick male voice.
“Stupid bastard. How did you enter here defenselessly after fighting so riotously downstairs?”
The man giggled and laughed at Leo.
“It was eaten by the Behemoth, so there will be no corpse left!”
However, at that moment.
“yes? Is the name of the one you just summoned Behemoth?”
“Yes… what!? how alive… ?”
The man was startled and looked to the side.
There, Leo was grinning when he appeared.
The man hurriedly spread his magic to Leo’s place.
But before the magic worked, Leo disappeared.
[fairy walk]
She moved by folding the space with the fairy steps she learned from Vivian!
And he reappeared behind the man.
– Kwajik!
A spear of ice pierced the man.