Volume 3 Takeoff Chapter 361 Mage Tower
In the next few days, Levi did not go out for adventure immediately, but stayed in Thorn Town.
Not only to strengthen the defense of Thorn Town and wait for the Church of Waukeen to build the Mage Tower, but also to make good use of the divinity given to him by Lilith.
The divinity contains not only her power, but also a lot of knowledge, which are not something he can grasp immediately.
At the same time, he also needed to spend time studying the many magic spells he had copied down before.
The results were indeed remarkable. Maybe it was because of that divinity, but his learning speed was much faster than when he was in school. He had already thoroughly mastered all the magic of copying.
At the same time, he also realized two new abilities from the fields and priesthood mastered by Lilith.
One is the dispel magic in the magic field. Although it has the same name as the tier-3 magic, it is derived from her divine power and is far more effective. It can be completely considered as tier-5 magic.
Another is the divine apparition in the realm of honor.
This is a halo-type skill. Once activated, all friendly forces within a 10-meter radius centered on him will be protected, and all enemy forces trying to attack them will have a chance of being deterred.
If the enemy's strength is insufficient, they will not be able to launch any attacks in the next few seconds and can only choose to retreat or stand still.
After Levi's experiments, with his current strength, basically enemies of level 0-2 have no chance of launching attacks on him. He has about a 20% success rate against enemies of level 3, and it is basically .
It can be said that if he could have mastered this ability in advance, he probably would not have been besieged by countless phantoms before.
In addition, he could also say with great confidence that all the chosen heroes and ninety-nine percent of the indigenous people definitely did not possess more knowledge than he did.
This will be especially useful when you fight enemies from the Abyss or Baator later.
However, the Moon Bow Goddess has not given him a reward yet. She would definitely not go back on her word because of this. The biggest possibility is that she found more things in that demiplane, so she does not have the energy to reply to Levi for the time being.
During this period, Donna, Elegy and others took time out to return to Pigherd Town and participate in the activities held by the big crocodile Sobek.
But probably because it has become routine, the consumption of monsters and rewards has greatly increased, so their standards have also dropped a lot.
This made them, who had run over excitedly at first, soon return with a little disappointment.
Levi couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that Sobek just wanted to have fun.
After all, as a god, when he sees battles below the legendary level, no matter whether the opponent is level 15 or level 5, it is probably just a fight between noobs, there is not much difference, so he naturally saves money if he can.
While Zhou Miyin and his subordinates were guarding Thorn Town, they also cooperated with the Church of Waukeen to encircle and suppress the thieves of the Church of Mask.
During this process, Zhang San and Shudun also put in a lot of effort. The combat effectiveness of the Mask Church has never been its strong point, so despite their relatively weak strength, they were able to achieve good results.
At the same time, they, together with the three Amazon sisters, captured several surrounding villages.
Now that Silver Town has been recaptured by the Church of Woking, it is time for the village that originally belonged to the Church of Cyric to make some changes, so as to further encircle and suppress the remaining forces of the other side and prevent them from rising again.
Under Levi's orders, the Sigmar Church, which patrolled the sewers and some hidden corners every day, and the knights from Bretonnia also made considerable gains.
They attacked the enemies who tried to sneak in one after another, killing at least fifty or sixty thieves, as well as twice the number of vampires and other undead.
It seems that after the complete destruction of the Xirik Church here, the vampires immediately found their next home.
But unfortunately, there are only two families left out of the 13 families, and they can't pose much of a threat to Thorn Town.
Levi naturally gave some rewards to the knights for their contributions.
He gave a portion of the wealth to the Church of Sigmar and allowed them to preach in several nearby villages. This was undoubtedly a very good reward for them.
All the knights of Batto were given some war horses, so they were no longer forced to become foot knights.
It would be easier for them to continue staying in Thorn Town, repaying Levi and working to earn money, or to embark on a new adventure.
However, when Levi saw those excited knights, his mood was very subtle.
He really wanted to know, when they learned that the Lady of the Lake they believed in was actually an elf goddess, would they feel deceived? And how would they react?
After all, the entire Kingdom of Batto, all the nobles, all the knights, are all loyal followers of Lilith. They have been instilled with the knight's creed such as loyalty and honor since childhood.
Now Lilith has played such a big game and has kept it secret for thousands of years. Unless she has sufficient reasons, it will be difficult to end it in the end.
However, if Lilith had not been there, the Knight Kingdom might not have been able to truly establish itself.
If there had not been the Holy Grail Knights who were created because of her blessing, it would not have been able to continue to enjoy its reputation despite the rampant evil races and forces.
Although there was a little bit of deception, her help to the Knight Kingdom was undoubtedly very, very huge. Even the effort and strength she invested far exceeded that to the High Elves.
It is said that the most common Holy Grail Knights are basically heroic units above level 15. After thousands of years of blessing, how much power will this cumulatively cost her?
At the same time, Levi also hired Black Finger of the Church of Doom to hunt down the thieves of the Church of Mask.
Although the Black Fingers are not good people, it is just right to use money to incite them to fight each other, and at the same time express one's goodwill to the Church of Doom.
Anyway, he is not short of money now.
One reason was that after he wiped out those demons, he obtained a large amount of Battobi iron, and after selling it to the Church of Woking, he got a lot of gold coins.
In addition, in order to make up for the aftermath of the assassination, Della and the Church of Woking showed sufficient sincerity.
It took less than two days for her to claim that she had successfully cracked the space ring of that dead guy Zef, and it happened to contain a large number of gems, magic materials, and a magic book that recorded the dissociation technique.
As for whether the system was cracked or not, both of them knew it clearly, but Levi did receive the other party's goodwill.
Once used, he immediately mastered this 6th-level powerful magic that could kill people, destroy corpses, and destroy most magical items.
At the same time, she also stated that their Church of Woking was willing to bear 50% of the cost of building the Mage Tower, and would do its best to help Levi develop business and trade in Thorn Town.
As a result, Levi suddenly had a lot more money on hand.
At the same time, the wars in the surrounding areas were becoming more and more intense. In the sea, believers and subordinates of many gods were fighting. It was said that due to frequent wars, the sea water in many places was dyed red or blue.
The Dragon Prince also led the High Elves to prepare for war, and the Lightforged and others joined them, but they did not confront the Dark Elves because of the battle in the sea. Even if the Dark Elves wanted to start a war, it would be impossible for the time being.
No matter whether it is the dragon ship unique to the high elves or the black ark of the dark elves, they are still not good enough in front of the real gods.
The Dragon Prince was mainly on the lookout for ogres.
Because more ogres began to emerge in the mountains, even many Zhendan caravans were forced to temporarily stop in places like Black Castle and Ashridge Town.
Rumor has it that in the mountains, four famous ogre lords are fighting each other.
The Golden Tooth Tyrant - Greysu, the Cannibal - Gogfargo, the Ripper - Prague, the Slayer - Scrag...
The four ogres are all powerful heroes of legendary level.
Even though their individual strengths and forces vary, a battle of this scale might alarm even the Zhendan Empire and lead to action.
The Dragon Prince naturally cannot be ignored either.
He might be able to defeat any ogre in a duel , but once he joined the battle, due to the nature of ogres, he was more likely to be beaten by the opponent.
So for now he can only deploy a large army on the border, and then continue to sit back and wait for the war to take a turn the better, or for the other side to decide the outcome on their own.
There was no movement in the Underdark. The Sun Knight, Thousand Thieves, Cai Jin and others joined forces, and with the support of the dwarves and shield dwarves, they were able to make rapid progress, if not defeat them from all sides.
With Ostak City and Blood of Glory as their centers, they have currently occupied nearly 20 villages of varying sizes, and their power is growing rapidly.
Unfortunately, they have not been able to capture any town yet. It's not entirely because they are not strong enough, but more because the evil alien races around them are showing a tendency to unite.
In order to avoid further provoking each other and to find a better opportunity, they remained silent for a while.
The melee between the greenskins, beastmen and ratmen in the West is still going on and is getting more and more intense. As a result, Chen Zhui is unable to contact Levi very effectively, and they can only exchange information on the forum.
But what makes Levi feel strange is that Chen Cone of the End Times has not found any information about the Wood Elves and the Moon Oracle until now. It is estimated that they might be hiding in the dark, watching the fight between the two tigers.
And today marks the moment when the Mage Tower in Thorn Town is truly completed.
Surrounded by many of his subordinates, Levi walked quickly towards a stone building that did not look gorgeous in the center of the town.
It is about 30 meters high and has seven floors above ground.
The top layer is a positive energy pool, which can absorb positive energy from other planes. Angels and the three celestial races will not only feel very comfortable in it, but their strength will also be correspondingly enhanced.
In addition to storing energy for later use, it can also condense some light-attributed elemental crystals, gems, etc. every week. It can be said that with it, it is equivalent to a stable resource-based God-given building.
The sixth layer is the channel for the four elements of earth, fire, water and wind. The principles and uses are roughly the same as the positive energy pool. The only difference is that their properties are different. Levi can also summon the four elements through them.
In addition, the energy drawn from each element channel can also be used for other matters.
For example, fire can be used for forging or grilling, earth can be used to grow plants, water can be used for bathing, wind can be used to adjust the temperature, and so on.
Yes, many of the magic spells cast by wizards are designed to free their hands and feet, for the sake of convenience, effort saving, and comfort.
This integrated wizard tower has pushed these aspects to their limits.
The fifth floor is specifically used for setting up magic barriers. It can set up multiple different barriers at the same time, but currently there are only anti-invisibility barriers and camp detection barriers. This is to prevent enemies from sneaking into the Mage Tower, and it is also the standard configuration of the Mage Tower.
And the flame magic barrier he obtained from the demons.
It is not used normally, but once an emergency occurs, the Mage Tower will mobilize all stored energy to activate a powerful barrier to weaken the opponent's magic, arrows and other attacks.
Depending on the needs, he can freely control whether it only covers the Mage Tower or the entire Thorn Town.
However, the larger the coverage area, the more energy is consumed. As of now, even if the Mage Tower stores several months' energy, it may only be able to last for an hour or so after covering the entire town.
But if we only cover the Mage Tower, it would be easy to last for ten days or so.
If Levi obtains a no-fly, no-teleport or other protective barrier in the future, he can also place it here, but the energy consumption will also increase significantly.
The fourth floor is a magic laboratory and library. Levi plans to fill it with some books in the future and then open it to magic units such as old wizard Tess, Sally, Alyssa, Janet, and even spellbreaker Nochon, or Yaling Qiufeng.
Let them improve their knowledge and abilities through continuous learning.
Normally, the old wizard can also create magic scrolls, brew potions, or make dragon tooth soldiers, etc.
Since he can mobilize the energy stored in the Mage Tower, his success rate and efficiency will be greatly enhanced.
Of course, if Cindy, Donna and others are interested, they can also move freely in the Mage Tower.
Unfortunately, Levi felt that the Mage Tower might not be of much use to them. For ordinary priests, their power mostly came directly from gods. It cannot be said that their own practice or learning was completely useless, but it often yielded half the result with twice the effort.
Cindy's class is a variation of a combat priest, and aside from her innate psionic powers, there is not much else to learn or improve about priest-like abilities.
Donna might be better. Larui's Silver Girl can also use spells, which is somewhat similar to a druid, but unfortunately she is not a studious person.
As for warrior types like Elegy, you can also come and read books to broaden your horizons.
However, Levi thinks this possibility is not high. Even when there is no war, Elegy will drag warriors such as Alduin to the martial arts field to fight together, constantly accumulating combat experience, improving her combat skills, and so on.
At the same time, this layer also enhances the sound insulation and fire extinguishing effects, etc., to prevent any accidents from happening in the magic experiment or being easily detected by the outside world.
The third floor is the magic garden, which is mainly prepared for druids like Janet and Nar. They can cultivate various plants here, and the environment here is also suitable for various animals to survive.
Donna and her other big cats can also be temporarily housed here.
Similarly, this place can also be used to grow various vegetables and grains.
Theoretically, if the owner of the Mage Tower wanted, he could stay in the Mage Tower for decades without going out, because he could truly be self-sufficient.
The second floor is the meeting room, guest rooms, etc. When Levi is in Thorn Town in the future, he, Cindy, Donna and others will live here.
Since there is a constant temperature system in the Mage Tower, it can be adjusted at any time according to personal needs. It also has dust-free and sterilization effects. It is definitely much more comfortable than living in a tavern.
The first floor is an armory and warehouse, which can be used to store various resources. However, most of them are not so important. The really valuable parts will still be placed in each space ring.
The underground first floor is a pool of negative energy. Although Levi currently has no one under his command who specializes in using dark or necromancy magic, this aspect is still indispensable for a wizard tower.
Moreover, Levi felt that it would not be wasted. Whether it was Lucia, who had become a stable teammate, or Maltis, who he had certain expectations for, they could obviously make full use of it.
The second underground floor is the prison, summoning array and confinement array.
Levi had previously mastered the Alien World Alliance and the Secondary Alien World Alliance, which had the effect of making an alliance with some alien world beings and fighting side by side from then on.
There is also a similar magic, namely the Oath of Another World and the Lesser Oath of Another World.
As the name suggests, he can summon some alien beings, and then use the power of magic to force them to obey his orders without their consent.
The Sun Knight had helped him acquire these two kinds of magic, and he had already learned and mastered them.
From then on, with the help of the power of the Mage Tower and the negative energy pool, he could summon some evil creatures that he could not have summoned before.
The most common ones are of course demons, devils, undead creatures, and even in Eastern countries such as Zhendan, Nibon and Inda, there are many types and numbers of monsters.
Of course, Levi summoned them not to drive them, but to understand the strengths and weaknesses of more types of enemies, as well as their habits and so on.
Because of the existence of the confinement array, they can't do anything after they come. You can study them and gain some knowledge, then kill them for experience points and make good use of them.
It can also be used to train some subordinates who have high potential but currently have relatively low strength, such as Yaling-Qiufeng and so on.
If you come across a rare species, you can temporarily detain it in prison.
And he doesn't have to worry about encountering a powerful enemy that he cannot resist, because the creatures summoned by these two types of magic have an upper limit to their strength.
The secondary alien oath can only summon 5th-level soldiers at most. Even in a head-on battle, with Levi's current strength, he can easily defeat a dozen.
The confinement array can further weaken the opponent's power. In addition, when he is in the wizard tower, his mana limit, mana recovery speed, magic attack range, release speed, magic power and many other aspects will have a fundamental leap, so he has nothing to worry about.
Of course, there will also be soundproofing facilities here to prevent the screams of the demons before their death from affecting the residents of the town.
As for the third underground floor at the bottom, Levi planned to place the construct here.
As a wizard's tower, it certainly needs many servants powered by magic to clean, keep alert, carry supplies, fight when encountering enemies, and do other things within their ability.
But Levi does not have the ability to make them alone now. He has not learned the relevant magic, so he will first purchase some through the Church of Waukeen.
Not those heavy and clumsy rock golems, but some more delicate, often hollow metal golems.
Even their appearance may not be entirely human-shaped. Some may be brooms used for cleaning, some may be long swords used to attack enemies, and so on.
Levi thought that when he had time in the future, he would slowly make up for what he lacked.
At the same time, this is also to guard against possible aliens and enemies underground.
Although according to the reconnaissance of the Church of Waukeen, the many great wizards who built the Wizard Tower, and Levi's own people, there are no entrances to the Underdark underground or nearby in Thorn Town.
There was pure solid earth and rock underneath the Thorn Town, and the area below and around the Mage Tower had been specially strengthened by magic. There wasn't even a sewer, so even if there was any garbage, it could be swallowed up by the negative energy pool, but he still had to be on guard.
Because the threat of the Mask Church has not been completely eliminated, those thieves are also quite rich.
Even though their main enemy at the moment is the Church of Waukeen, if one day they suddenly have a brain cramp and insist on coming to the Mage Tower to cause trouble at a huge cost, those constructs will definitely teach them an unforgettable lesson, or at least serve as a warning.
In addition, the entire wizard tower is equipped with protective magic from the inside out, and ordinary fossils turning into mud will have no effect on it.
Because of the constant supply of energy from the elemental channel, it can also perform self-repair to a certain extent.
As for constant temperature, windproof and dust-free, these are the most basic functions of all mage towers.
This is the Wizard Tower. It is not a regular building. It is the center for controlling magic and can also be an independent military fortress.
However, there is one last step, which is to use a magic scroll to cast a powerful variant magic for the entire wizard tower, giving the wizard tower independent wisdom.
Once the spell is successfully cast, it will have many abilities such as opening doors, closing windows, deploying constructs to serve relevant personnel, mobilizing magical energy to cooperate with the wizard in experiments, and even setting magic traps.
This is also the greatest goodwill that the Church of Waukeen has expressed to Levi and the Kingdom of Caledor, because this mutant magic comes from the 9th-level magic - Construct Activation.
It is conceivable how much power and wealth it takes to make it into a magic scroll. It is not even something that can be bought with money alone.
Because those who can cast this magic must be a wizard of at least level 18, and those who can make it into a scroll are basically wizards of legendary level.
There is no need for an ordinary wizard to perform this trick, but in order to achieve perfection and to make up for the previous relationship with Levi, the Church of Waukeen resolutely made this decision.
It was precisely because of this action of theirs that they completely won Levi's forgiveness and trust.
Who wouldn't want to be friends with such a rich man? Besides, they didn't have any conflict of interest.
Under the gaze of everyone, Levi activated the magic scroll, but there was a flash of light and nothing special happened. However, a cute loli voice sounded in Levi's heart.
"Master, the tower spirit is on standby, please give me your orders~"
Levi smiled immediately. With the tower spirit, once any stranger entered the wizard tower, even if he didn't notice it, it would immediately issue an alarm and even take relevant actions.
Even if he goes out , it can drive the guards of the Mage Tower and even Zhou Miyin and Janet from Tongzhou to come to the rescue.
This is why this magic requires the use of a scroll.
Because once the spell is cast, the caster will become the master of the tower spirit and the mage tower, and no mage will be willing to use someone else's hands in such a critical place.
Feeling the energy flowing rapidly in the Mage Tower, Archmage Sylvie couldn't help but sigh. An ordinary Archmage might have to accumulate wealth for decades and build for several months before completing a Mage Tower, and they still don't have this last step.
But now with the full support of the Church of Woking, they have successfully completed all of this in just a few days. It is really touching.
Even as a great wizard, he still cannot be free in many aspects. Perhaps a powerful person at the legendary level can get many improvements?
Levi didn't have time to pay attention to him, because there were more than one great wizard present.
In order to speed up the construction of the Mage Tower and to fill the gap between them as quickly as possible, Della and the Church of Woking mobilized 4 great wizards this time.
He was still planning to obtain more magic from the other party instead of focusing on this great wizard who had been almost drained by him.
Yes, in these few days, he had successfully drained the opponent's resources. At the cost of a large amount of gold coins, he copied many kinds of magic.
There are three tier 4 items, namely Ice Wall, Greater Invisibility (the invisibility effect will not be removed even if attacking or being attacked), and Dalamar's Lightning Javelin (which causes physical and lightning damage, 1 javelin every 5 levels).
These three are not particularly rare magics, but they are still a small supplement for Levi.
Next are two 5th-level magic spells, the Expulsion Spell that can expel alien creatures or summon creatures, and the Freezing Mist Spell that Levi values more.
The effect of Freezing Mist is similar to that of Ice Storm, except that it looks different and places more emphasis on slowing rather than attacking, while also obscuring the enemy's vision.
But unfortunately, almost all mist-like magic has an unavoidable flaw, which is that it will be blown away by wind magic such as wind magic.
After figuring this out, Levi couldn't help but sigh. The other party's level was just too high, and the spells he actually mastered were far inferior to his own. No wonder he would work for the Church of Waukeen.
No wonder he previously thought that as a wizard, he couldn't blindly pursue high-lethality magic, because even if he wanted to pursue it, he didn't have it!
If a head-on conflict really happened, even though Cindy's level was much lower than his, she still had a great chance of defeating him.
Apart from anything else, it would be difficult for him to deal with her powerful angels. Given their speed, it would be difficult for him to cast the expulsion spell.
Unfortunately, these new wizards were obviously not poor people. They politely and tactfully declined Levi's hints. Levi could only let it go temporarily with great regret.
After exchanging a few more polite words with Della and reiterating their agreement to help each other, she left with everyone else.
Some members of the Mask Church were indeed wiped out recently, but the high-ranking members among them were like rats, and no trace of them has been found so far, and she is still continuing with this matter.
The previous actions of the three churches of Bane, Cyric and Mask have had a great impact on the trade in Silver Town and the reputation of their Woking Church.
They must use the other party's blood and death as revenge to restore the merchants' confidence and to warn future generations not to offend the Church of Woking again.
Levi saw them off for a while, and when he saw the great wizard Sylvie also leaving silently, he did not try to keep them.
Although he hopes to have such a special priest under his command, it is not necessary to have him. This is also a two-way choice.
Now that the matter of the Mage Tower has been resolved, what he is really concerned about is when the Moon Bow Goddess will reward him, as well as the intelligence from the Bane Church and Maltis.
They have been on guard at the border for several days. They can't stay there forever, right?
