Chapter 23 – I Will Raise an Objection (1)

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?From now on, the Mage Tower regular conference will resume.?

The symbol of South Korea, the Mage Tower.

Not just for the purpose of using the portal.

I had decided to properly stop by sometime.

The reason was simple.

‘There isn’t a [Skill] but ?Magic? there.’

Like the portal.

Since there is magic that can properly utilize Granfel’s talent.

But a regular conference.

Setting aside the 10-year gap.

Though I’m mainly using magic now.

My class has always been Demon Hunter.

‘What’s a regular conference anyway?’

Naturally, how the society of Mages rolls.

I couldn’t help but lack that information.

However, it didn’t matter.

“I was just about to stop by, this turned out well.”

It’s not like I have the personality to hesitate anywhere I go, right?

Even if it’s the unfamiliar Mage Tower.

Like a model on a runway.

I could intuitively feel that I would be able to walk around confidently.

A regular conference.

I don’t know what I could gain there, but it certainly wouldn’t be a loss.

?His innate magical talent was at a level where he could mimic passable magic just by looking at it.?

Count Ascura.

Rank 4, Jesse Heinness.

Now that I realized my shortcomings watching those two.

I am not in a position to be picky about cold rice or warm rice.

“I should get ready.”

From now on.

It probably meant it wouldn’t be strange if the regular conference started anytime.

A personality that lives and dies by formality and procedure.

To such me, being late was an absolutely unacceptable act.

I immediately started preparing to go to the Mage Tower.

Well, even if I call it preparing.

Clatter-

“Procrastinating is a bad habit.”

Though there was nothing else but doing the dishes.

*

Mage Tower.

Adept Mage, Klee pulled down her robe.

It was to hide her excited expression.

‘My heart is pounding!’

After the Mage Tower was summoned to the adventurers’ world.

Focusing on identifying the cause of that.

Thanks to that, the Mage Tower hadn’t been running properly.

To think the regular conference would resume in the midst of that.

Since it was a decision of the higher-ups including the Tower Master, she, merely an Adept Mage, couldn’t know the reasoning.

‘Did they figure something out? I’m looking forward to it.’

However, she was also a Mage of the Mage Tower.

Because genuine exploration of magic was the top priority.

She couldn’t help but look forward to the regular conference.

The role Klee took on today was as a guide for adventurers, specifically the invited adventurers.

It wasn’t particularly difficult work.

‘Everyone knows enough to know, after all.’

It’s a whopping regular conference of the Mage Tower.

It meant it was a conference where one had to be at least an Adept Mage, and even then, only those who had completed thorough verification could present their research findings.

Naturally, not just anyone could be invited.

“But the Mage Tower is especially crowded today.”

On the stairs embroidering the empty air.

Klee looked at the crowd gathered in front of the portal.

The vast majority were adventurers.

I hate it being noisy but.

It couldn’t be helped.

“Well, they say the Yusra Islands were discovered.”

Yusra Islands.

That name also appeared several times in old magic-related books.

Saying it was an incredibly wealthy kingdom in the past or something.

“I hope they brought back some decent magic tools.”

The legendary treasure island.

However, wasn’t Klee a Mage of the Mage Tower?

It was natural for her interest to be directed toward magic tools rather than gold and silver treasures.

Anyway, it was about time for the regular conference to start.

“As expected, there really isn’t much to do.”

It’s all thanks to the illusion magic, right?

Klee lightly shrugged her shoulders.

Players couldn’t see her like that.

As mentioned, it was thanks to the illusion magic cast on the Mage Tower on the day of the regular conference.

The Mage Tower’s regular conference.

The results presented are as outstanding as its reputation.

Maintaining secrecy regarding that was essential.

This was also the reason why only those invited could attend the conference.

‘Because without an invitation, no one, let alone me, would be able to easily notice these stairs and climb them.’

Of course, there was a special rule regarding that.

If there was someone who saw through this illusion magic.

A rule stating they could observe the regular conference even without an invitation.

But wasn’t it a rule that might as well not exist?

‘It’s the Tower Master’s illusion magic, no less!’

Because it made no sense that someone who reached such a level wouldn’t be invited to the conference.

More strength entered Klee’s shoulders.

Making her feel like she had become a great Mage for no reason.

“They probably won’t hear my voice either.”

Let’s talk to myself a lot on such an occasion.

The desolate Mage Tower.

Because sometimes she felt like cobwebs were forming in her mouth.

Tap-

It was then.

“?”

The sound of shoe heels.

To be precise, it was the sound of climbing the stairs.

Klee, wearing her robe, tilted her head.

‘All the invited adventurers should have attended?’

Including Jesse Heinness.

She had guided the invited adventurers to the place where the conference was held.

More than anything, since Klee herself was in charge of guiding them, she couldn’t be wrong.

Then, who in the world could that man be?

‘I might know if I see his face.’

Because he might not be an adventurer.

Klee slightly pulled back her robe and looked at the man.

Silver hair.

Black eyes.

And a long trailing coat?

No, just looking at his outfit, it was certain he was an adventurer.

Klee, who had been relaxed, began to panic.

‘W-was there some kind of mistake?!’

Did I misread the invitee list?!

Klee took out the parchment from inside her robe and checked.

“But there are no newly added adventurers?!”

Then who in the world could that person be?

The man spoke to such Klee.

“I wish to observe the conference.”

“C-could you show me the invitation for that?”

“It’s regrettable, but I do not possess such a thing.”

“Y-yeeeesss?!”

Wait a minute, that made no sense.

Climbing the stairs without an invitation and talking to me?

Because that was tantamount to saying he had seen through the illusion magic!

Klee continuously shook her head inwardly.

‘Even so, there’s no way he accurately saw through the fact that it’s illusion magic.’

That’s right, it’s something chanted by none other than the Tower Master.

“More importantly, it is a splendid illusion magic.”

“H-heeeek?!”

Klee was astonished once again.

Splendid illusion magic, he says.

Isn’t this man not only seeing through the Tower Master’s illusion magic but evaluating it?

“Indeed, it is worthy of praise.”

Th-the Tower Master is worthy of praise?

‘Y-you’re joking, right?’

Klee looked at the man who had suddenly approached right up to her nose.

An infinitely serious expressionless face.

A gaze that seemed to look down upon her, no, everything.

From there, she could be certain.

That this wasn’t a joke at all.

‘A figure like this among adventurers?’

Why did someone like this only now?

A development she hadn’t expected in the slightest.

The panicked Klee’s world spun round and round.

However, she had to do what she had to do.

Klee barely managed to continue speaking.

“I will guide you to the location according to regulations.”

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.

.

Indeed, is this what they call the regular conference of the Mage Tower?

The entrance process alone is no joke!

I marveled while climbing the stairs.

‘Illusion magic. However, it’s not a simple illusion.’

Tap-

As you can see.

Because I could step on and climb the stairs myself.

Just what incredible level of ?Magic? this is.

Without Granfel’s setting of being a rare talent.

I absolutely wouldn’t have realized it.

That can be seen just from the words that popped out of my mouth.

“Indeed, it is worthy of praise.”

It was the highest praise among praises, that.

It would be sorry to these stairs to even compare it with Jesse’s [Divine Punishment].

However, that was always a problem of magic power.

I roughly calculated inwardly.

‘If my magic power reaches around 1,000.’

Wouldn’t I be able to wield it similarly though?

Because the moment I saw it.

Search, Interference, Manifestation.

I had accurately figured out the structure of this illusion magic.

Of course, although the ridiculous premise of having one thousand magic power was attached.

‘It means I need to be around level 1,000, right?’

However, there was no disappointment.

Because the regular conference had just begun.

I followed behind the robe that had been twitching since earlier.

‘I might be able to supplement my weakness at the conference.’

Embracing such expectations.

*

Crystal Hall.

It was a space inside the Mage Tower where the regular conference was held.

Its vast size made it hard to believe it was inside the Mage Tower.

The floor, walls, ceiling.

Even the observation seats.

This space, where everything was made of crystal, seemed to further double the mystery of magic.

But even that only lasts a day or two.

“It’s boring.”

Jesse Heinness voiced her dissatisfaction in a small voice.

At that, her pointed hat bobbed up and down.

-Disciple. Do not doze off at least during the conference.

“I’ll try my best. Yaaaaawn-”

-You must endure at least until Marcelo’s turn!

Nagging from the pointed hat master.

This too only works for a day or two before she acts scared.

Jesse retorted in a sleepy voice.

“Honestly, even if I listen, I don’t really understand.”

Even if it’s called magic, it was just a skill.

A skill that activates just by acquiring it, consuming magic power, and shouting.

But what Search, Interference, or whatever.

Why were they explaining it in such difficult words?

“If it wasn’t a quest, I would have skipped it.”

Although Jesse was called a Mage among Mages among Players.

Even for her, the level of the Mage Tower was too high and overwhelming to keep up with.

They just didn’t interfere.

The level of the Mage Tower and such Mage Tower Mages was enough to call them the strongest in Arcana without lacking.

Jesse stretched broadly.

“Until Marcelo. That’s what you said, right?”

Marcelo.

She knew exactly who he was.

Because Jesse had frequented the Mage Tower while carrying out Mage class quests.

Excluding the Tower Master and the Elders.

Because it was Marcelo, the Chief Mage called the real power of the Mage Tower.

“The real genius is probably over there, not me.”

Genius.

One of the numerous titles calling Jesse Heinness.

However, Jesse didn’t like that nickname.

What kind of genius couldn’t properly understand a single presentation at a conference?

Though she was flipping through all sorts of skill books and magic books every day.

It wasn’t easy to acquire unfamiliar knowledge.

-The concept is just different. A day will come when you understand.

The moment the pointed hat bobbed as if comforting her.

Marcelo’s presentation, which she had been waiting for, finally began.

Long legs.

A gaunt face.

Prominent cheekbones thanks to that.

Crystal Hall.

The man standing in the center.

Marcelo began to lay out his research results so far.

“The Mage Tower was summoned to the adventurers’ world for some reason. In fact, it isn’t just the Mage Tower. This will only be the beginning. Because worldview interference is happening even at this moment.”

Worldview interference.

That’s what the Mage Tower called the new updates.

Jesse, who had been listening quietly, had her eyes sparkle.

“It will probably take a lot of time and focus to uncover the reason. However, the Mage Tower will not give up. I hope today’s presentation becomes the signal flare for that.”

The presentation title was Fusion.

Fitting that grandiose title, the content was also shocking.

“Science. It is a new concept existing in the adventurers’ world. I saw potential in that science. The potential to further develop magic, that is.”

To think he’d mention science.

Jesse was startled.

Aren’t magic and science incapable of coexisting?

Because she had that kind of prejudice without realizing it.

In that sense, Marcelo was definitely a genius starting from that idea.

He was also an excellent presenter.

Science.

Because as soon as a familiar concept came out, Players including Jesse got engrossed in the presentation.

“However, the approach to that fusion must be cautious. Because harmonizing two completely different concepts, putting aside whether it’s easy or difficult, we don’t know what variables it will bring.”

Marcelo said that and.

Manifested magic.

A sphere of flame blooming from his palm.

One could notice.

That that was an advanced magic where magic and science were fused.

“Of course, I will have to ask for the adventurers’ cooperation in the process, though.”

At that sound, the Players murmured.

“What, doesn’t that mean he’s giving a quest?”

“Wow man, it was worth enduring the boredom. Really!”

“You know how precious quests are these days!”

Regardless of the small commotion.

Marcelo continued speaking.

“Then I’ll take questions lastly.”

Silence-

Who would dare ask a question?

Both the Mages of the Mage Tower and the Players.

There were no questions worth throwing to Marcelo.

Since magic and science.

It’s natural to lack an understanding of two completely different concepts.

Raise-

“?”

Wait?

Jesse doubted her eyes.

Someone raised their hand.

Then they spoke.

“May I raise an objection?”

The dignity oozing from that tone.

To Jesse, it was a voice she could never forget.

“The really fascinating magic! No, Mr. Lee Ho-yeol!”

Right, the one who raised an objection was Ho-yeol.

Ho-yeol’s and Marcelo’s gazes collided in mid-air.

As Marcelo nodded his head, Ho-yeol asked.

“I think there are unnecessary elements present in your exploration process. What do you think, Chief Mage Marcelo?”

“!!!”

At this rate, isn’t it like an interrogation?

And directed at the real power of the Mage Tower, the Chief Mage at that.

The atmosphere that froze in an instant.

However, for some reason.

Marcelo’s reaction was unusual.