Winter has completely passed. New green leaves have grown on the tops of the sycamore trees by the roadside, and the weeping willows by the river have also started to lift their catkins, giving the aristocratic district of the royal capital a hint of spring, which forms a sharp contrast with the gray and brown color of the opposite bank.
The day for the king to confer the magic tower has finally arrived. Ever since the king was injured by life energy in the disgraceful incident on New Year's Day, his health seems to have deteriorated a lot. He has not appeared in public for a long time since that day. The day for everyone in the school to be conferred land has been delayed. The land that was supposed to be obtained after the spring break has been delayed until nearly two months later.
However, the king's health seemed to have improved in recent days, and he had been out handling official business for three or four consecutive days. The date for conferring the title of Black Mountain Master was also set three days ago.
Three carriages drove through the streets of the aristocratic district in the bright sunshine and headed towards the palace.
Although the establishment of a new magic tower was a very important matter for the magic world and the kingdom, the common people of this era, even the small nobles and small merchants, neither knew nor cared about such things. Everything in the city was running as usual.
"I thought there would at least be some colorful flags and slogans or something. There are only a few magic towers in the kingdom. It should be a big event if we join today." Xiao Chen said.
"Do we need a row of knights to lead the way in front of the carriage?" Luo Ling asked back.
"Why didn't you think of it earlier? We could have forced the king to make a grand display in the basement of the market that day." Xiao Chen joked.
A gust of wind blew, carrying willow catkins into the car window. Xiao Chen took a look at the catkins, and they just stood still outside the window, shaking in the breeze but unable to come in.
"Yesterday, we heard news about the Glacier Walker Celia from the north. It is said that she has been practicing in seclusion for the past year, and no one in the empire has seen her. It seems that there is no hope over there. But even if she is here, she may not be interested in what we have." Luo Ling said.
"Even if she is not interested in knowledge, at worst we still have the holy books. For example, the value of the 'Spirit Gathering Book' is not less than that of the Heart of Ice and Snow."
"Didn't you notice that many great magicians who knew about it avoided the holy books? The king did the same thing that day. He had no interest in the Soul Gathering Book. These things may seem insignificant, but to be frank, they are hot potatoes. Once they are discovered by the Temple of Nature, no one will be able to explain themselves." Luo Ling looked out the window at the palace that was getting closer and closer. "These people are very smart. They urged us to stand in front from a distance."
"If we don't do this, we won't have a chance." Xiao Chen smiled, "Otherwise, how can they support us to cut off a piece of land with an invisible magic tower?"
A moment later, the carriage, led by a knight, drove into the area where the palace was located. After passing through a gate, there was a long ramp behind it, which went up the mountain and led directly to the towering palace castle.
The palace looks particularly majestic when viewed from close up, like a giant standing on the mountains, overlooking the entire city.
Everyone from the office got off the car at the castle gate, and then followed a few servants into one of the three holy places in the royal capital.
The castle was built with huge yellow stones. The outer wall was seven or eight stories high. It was composed of a tower, a wall, and a podium. There was a circle of battlements on top, and towers in several corners. The towers were covered with runes. It was unknown whether they were used for attack or defense. When the wall extended to the bottom, it was directly connected to the rock behind the castle. There was a long bridge with four arches on one of the podiums, connecting to the Royal Magic Tower not far away.
The main gate of the palace was four or five meters wide and ** meters high. A dozen tall warriors stood solemnly around it. Xiao Chen followed the attendant into the doorway, and his mental power felt a sense of oppression. He whispered, "There is indeed a magic array here that suppresses mental power."
"Yeah, I felt it too. My mental power seemed to be trapped in water, and the distance it worked over was much shorter," Luo Ling said.
"My mental magic can only work within a distance of two or three meters here." Xiao Chen said, "I heard that only by wearing special magic props can this inhibition be eliminated."
The castle's exterior was tough and rough, but the interior was much more refined. Xiao Chen and the others walked into the lobby and found that the floor was paved with red and white marble, the walls were painted a clean white, and there were murals and statues decorated at intervals.
The meeting hall where the king sat was on the second floor of the main building of the castle. They crossed a front garden, went up the stairs from a side corridor, and arrived directly at the door of the meeting hall.
The guard pushed open the door of the meeting room, revealing a hall that was larger than three basketball courts combined. Light shone in through a row of narrow window panes and fell on the smooth floor, making the room very bright.
There were many people standing in small groups inside, talking, letting the noisy sounds spread out.
"Master Xiao Chen, Master Luo Ling, Master Li Jia, Master Liu Pengfei, Master Xiao Mu, and other masters from the Tower of China have arrived." The duty officer in the conference hall had already checked the list and announced the names of the high-level and mid-level mages.
Xiao Chen and Luo Ling were already wearing the March Badge of a high-level mage. They had experienced many adventures and fierce battles before, and just as Master Kona said, they soon succeeded in breaking through to the high level. This time, they did not encounter the so-called bottleneck of cultivation, and it could be said that it was a natural process.
Xiao Chen now gradually understood that the essence of cultivation is learning and training. When you have accumulated enough experience and have reached a certain level of strength, it is natural to move to the next level. It is like an exam. A poor student will naturally be terrified and tremble, but a top student can easily pass it.
Li Jia, Liu Pengfei and Xiao Mu were given the double moon badge. Liu Pengfei had frequent contacts with Princess Laura in the month after the assessment, and had a special encounter. He successfully advanced to the intermediate level before the canonization. After Ye Zi and the other two, two more people in the office also successfully concentrated their minds and became low-level mages. Two high-level, three middle-level and five beginners can hold up quite a scene even in the capital.
The Chinese Tower was the final name Xiao Chen and his team decided to give the school. Since there was a Chinese Pavilion at the World Expo, it was not strange to call it the Chinese Tower. It could express homesickness to our own people, but it would appear mysterious to outsiders.
When Xiao Chen and his group walked into the hall, people who heard the name turned around and looked at today's protagonist.
There were already nearly a hundred guests in the hall. Half of them were great nobles and administrative officials of the kingdom, a small half were magicians from the Royal Magic Tower and the Kingdom Magic Association, some were priests from the Temple of Nature, and the rest were envoys from other countries.
Xiao Chen took a quick look and found that many people he was familiar with were already here.