Surprising Even Breathing

42 – Is there any reason for this to exist?

I understood why the area near the aisle was so crowded.

People were waiting in line because they had to pass through that tunnel-like magic checkpoint.

“Why did you install the wall? Why are only those with high magic power allowed inside?”

I asked Chase, watching from a distance the people who were aung daung to pass through the checkpoint.

Because of that, the process of visiting the Magic Tower became more difficult.

“The ostensible reason is safety. They say that only those with high magical power and clear identities should be allowed inside so that the precious assets of the Mage Tower will not be stolen.”

Certainly, if they were classified in that way, most people would be filtered out before going to the high-end area where the magic tower is located.

Since only a very few people with high magical power need to be identified, it will be easier to maintain security.

“If that is the ostensible reason, what is the real reason? do you know?”

There must be a reason why Chase expressed the justification of asset protection inside the Mage Tower as a superficial reason.

“The real reason is obvious. The high-ranking wizards and archmages who can operate in the high-level area will not even allow access to the mage tower to those who lack magical power. It means that all the assets inside are theirs.”

The mage tower originally had no owner.

Explorers found a tower that corresponds to an ancient site, and wizards investigated it and stayed there.

This place is mainly for mages, so as time goes by, it has been called the Mage’s Tower, abbreviated as the Mage’s Tower.

As such, it has long been the home of wizards, and the Mage Tower, which all wizards gathered together to develop and develop, has now been turned into a space monopolized by a small number of high-ranking wizards with a wall built.

“So you’re saying I can’t go in? Sounds like the Mage Tower has been owned by a group of high-ranking wizards?”

“yes. Well, there’s no way that Demesis-sama lacks magic. There is no problem passing through the magic checkpoint, but identification is very difficult. Demesis-nim, it’s not a personal visit, but we’re going together as a companion of the Yuren Merchant, so the intermediate area will be the limit.”

When I visited the Mage Tower, I was treated as a member of the Yuren Merchant Merchant.

If Yuren’s Merchant is allowed to go to the intermediate area, I can only go to the intermediate area.

“Sorry. I really wanted to see the Magic Tower.”

I put a hand on my forehead and looked at the checkpoint.

Since the magic tower was so famous, I wanted to look inside at least once.

I’ve read a lot about the Mage Tower in books.

But that magic wall seems to filter me out too.

“Wasn’t the Mage Tower originally a place that welcomed all wizards and visitors without distinction? I think I saw it that way in the book.”

grumbled in a low voice.

I felt betrayed because the description in the book was different from the reality.

“So there was a lot of backlash even among the wizards. The Mage Tower is not a space for specific wizards, so why divide people arbitrarily? The representative of those who insisted on this was Flora, the wizard of the warrior party.”

“Oh, Flora?”

A name I knew came out and I nodded.

The members of the warrior party were so famous on the continent that even I remembered their names.

“Yes, he strongly opposed the installation of the Magic Wall, saying that the Mage Tower was originally a place where people could only study magic without distinguishing between people. The reality is like this. Flora-sama was expelled from the Magic Association, and the wall was finally installed.”

Was there such a secret story?

It was a pretty interesting story.

As expected, it’s convenient to ask about things you don’t know because you take Chase with you.

I continued to look at the wall as I listened to Chase’s explanation.

To divide people with things like this and try to stop me too.

It doesn’t seem like the right thing to do.

*

Anyway, since that was the rule of the Mage Tower, I followed the procedure set by them.

I walked to the magic checkpoint.

“I am Demesis, the second prince of the Drake Kingdom who is traveling with the Yuren Merchant. Can I pass through here?”

A wizard who had set up a table at the checkpoint and was checking the list of passers-by.

Seeing the terrifying dragon wearing a gray cloak and covering his face with a hood, he flinched and shook his head.

“Yes, four?”

I was startled and couldn’t understand what I was saying.

Take a look around to see where this person appeared.

In front of the magic checkpoint, which was quiet unlike before.

All the people who were so crowded ran away from me.

Around me were only the dragons I was taking with me and the members of the Yuren Merchant Corps, including Chase.

Even they were far away from me, so the wizard at the checkpoint seemed to be alone with me.

“Sorry, sorry, sorry! Who, who did you say you were?”

The wizard hurriedly got down from the chair he was sitting on and knelt down.

I was so scared that I couldn’t understand what I said earlier.

In return for violating me, his whole body was shaking as if his heart was hurting.

“I am Demesis, the second prince of the Drake Kingdom. I asked if I could pass through here since I came with the members of Yuren Merchant.”

I explained to him again.

“Yes, Sat, go through! please pass! Feel free to pass!”

He pressed his forehead to the ground and begged me to pass.

Like everyone else, I stopped looking at the prostrate wizard and walked to the magic checkpoint.

Tumble.

Jijijing, pajajak.

Passeuk, babababak.

The magic circle at the checkpoint that was scanning my magic power is broken.

I had to send the mana for exploration and infiltrate it in order for the inspection to take place, but as soon as the mana was connected to me, it was cut off and destroyed.

In the end, even the magic circle installed at the magic checkpoint was overloaded and broke down.

“This is not my fault, it must be your lack of competence. How can you test people with a magic circle like this when you can’t stand the tester’s magical power?”

I spoke to the wizard who activated the magic circle at the checkpoint.

“Yes, that makes sense!”

He puts his head to the ground and admits I’m right.

The magic checkpoint stopped functioning properly, but that didn’t matter.

If you disobey my will, I feel like I will be stamped and killed right away. How can I argue with you?

That’s how I entered the beginner’s section.

I couldn’t go by carriage, so it took a long time to walk.

The magic wall was blocking even the horses pulling the wagon from entering, claiming that they lacked magic power.

It’s a visit to the magic tower with a lot of uncomfortable things.

“Chasey. Do I have to go all the way to the intermediate section to ask about the Infinity Ring?”

“yes! No, that’s right!”

Seeing the wizards who slam their heads into the ground in front of me and the magic circle at the magic checkpoint that was out of order, she answered with a nervous tone, as if she realized how strong and terrifying I was.

I watched Chase like that and trudged to the intermediate area.

There were fewer buildings in the beginner area than in the general area.

Since it was a space where only those with a certain level of magical power could enter, the number of people and buildings significantly decreased.

A wall separating the beginner and intermediate sections.

I stared at the wizard in front of the new magic checkpoint.

“D-Go in!”

He also bows at a right angle at the waist.

*

Pazu, that is, fall out.

The magic circle at the magic checkpoint was also destroyed.

It was funny that people’s magical powers were tested and classified with only this.

I was entering the middle class like that.

“Ah!”

Chase, who had been following him well, was thrown away by the intangible magic.

“What, why can’t you come in?”

I looked at Chase, who was standing right in the beginner area.

“That, that’s…”

Chase bowed his head with a face that had turned red from guilt, resentment and humiliation.

“Actually, I can’t get into the intermediate section.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have mid-level mana.”

Her dark blue hair flowed down her face, hiding her face in shadow.

Her voice was low, as if drowned in sorrow, but it was broken and indistinct.

After passing through the checkpoint and arriving at the Intermediate Area, I looked back at Chase in the Beginner Area.

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Selina is moving into the intermediate section with a smile.

And some members of the Yuren Merchants pass through the checkpoint and adapt to the magic of the middle section.

Of course, the dragons I brought with me easily set foot in the intermediate section.

However, Chase stopped there with other members of the Yuren Corps.

“Isn’t that an intermediate level of magic?”

“yes. Yes, actually, the magical power I possess is really small. The beginner area is the limit. I wanted to go deeper this time, but I guess I can’t. I’m sorry, Demesis.”

Round glasses that flow down the bridge of the nose. Her face is obscured by her bangs, and only a dejected voice comes to me.

Chase bowed and added a few words.

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“What needs to be done inside should be told to other members of the Yuren Merchant, not me. I will be waiting here.”

Due to the effect of the magic wall, she couldn’t go any further.

I twitched my eyebrows.

This wall separated Chase from me.

At least, I’ve been talking to her a lot lately, and she told me that she was close to me, and I liked asking her about things, but this wall just opened up our distance again.

“Yes, Demesis. Cow, I’m sorry, but we have to stay in the intermediate area and wait for the wizards to come. That’s the new rule of the Mage Tower. The promised visitor has to wait for the wizard to come out.”

Arriving at the intermediate area, a member of the Yuren Merchant Corps conveyed his intention through Yongin, who escorted me.

Even if you have a business, you have to wait in this intermediate area until the wizard comes.

That’s the way to deal with the wizards of the Mage Tower these days.

Since they are members of the Yuren Merchant Merchants who frequently trade with them, the process has been simplified a lot, but it is much more difficult to meet them in the first place.

It usually takes 2-3 months to make a formal reservation.

Just like the first time the Mage Tower told me to wait that long.

What the hell are they doing to make such a troublesome and cumbersome process?

Are wizards great enough to do this to others?

It wasn’t. The wizards of the Mage Tower I saw on the way to this place through the checkpoint were no different from other ordinary people.

They reacted the same way when they saw me, and in front of me, they seemed to have the same talent as other people.

What is so special, why do you act like such a special existence?

I decided to check it out with my own hands.

I turned around and went to the beginner area where Chase was.

“Ah, Demesis. Why, why did you come back?”

I looked at her in bewilderment, then approached the magic that stopped her.

The magic of the magic wall works by being closely connected like a net.

The magic power of this one point is connected to the entire magic wall dividing the beginner and intermediate areas, and that wall is also connected to the rest of the walls dividing the intermediate and advanced areas, and the general and beginner areas.

I seized the net of magical power and began to analyze all the magical patterns and connection structures connected to it.

Kulleong.

By grabbing a part of the magic web and shaking it, the entire magic formed by the walls moved.

I checked it with my own eyes and felt the flow of magic power that connected my hand.

“What, what are you doing?”

Chase asked me with her head raised and her glasses raised.

Even she noticed this flow and vibration.

“Dragonian Prince, if you touch that magical power, you will be in trouble!”

The wizards who were guarding the mage tower rushed over.

A face so urgent and terrified that it restrained me.

When he noticed that I was touching the magic of the wall, he freaked out.

“How does it happen?”

I asked in a low voice.

“Anyone who tries to break the magic of the wall will be automatically attacked by the Magic Tower’s defense magic circle! If you do it wrong, you risk serious injury!”

“Yes, I said that this magic wall was for defense in the first place. It exists for the safety of the Magic Tower. But, can this wall really defend me? If I can’t guarantee your safety at all, why does this even exist?”

When I asked the reason for the wall’s existence, the mages looked puzzled.