Chapter 840: 840

Chapter 840: Underground Space (Three in one)

Abel put the high-level gem mine aside . He did not explore the magic tower . Instead, he began to look around .

This place was huge, and the old man did not waste it . There were countless valuable herbs exclusive in a mana dense environment growing on the ground .

Even Abel would need it if he wanted to purchase them from the elves alchemy union .

It seemed like the old man had spent a lot of effort on this place . One needed to alter a land drastically to mass-produce those high-level herbs . It was impossible without corresponding knowledge .

Agriculture knowledge needed to be inherited, just like rune cards and magic circle making . They were the lifesavers of wizards .

Although growing herbs might bring profit, they were hard to take care of . You needed to invest alot of magic resources .

The second was safety . If another wizard realized the value of the herbs, they could steal them .

Last was a mana dense environment . Mana was normally only produced in magic towers, and they were not enough to grow herbs .

A land like this would need a giant mana gathering circle and large amounts of gems to ignite them .

However, those things weren’t a problem underground . Illumination circles illuminated the whole place, and safety was the least they should be concerned about .

The high-level gem mine supported the mana environment . Its energy was almost endless .

Although Abel still hadn’t broken the magic tower’s defense in the center, he already saw everything as his .

“Commander spirit, can you take over the spirit of this magic tower?” Abel asked .

“Headmaster . Too many protection circles surround it . I can not invade it!” The commander spirit replied .

Abel glanced at the magic tower and took out the old man’s portal bag . There were no identity cards, which made everything even harder .

Since the commander spirit could not invade the magic tower’s spirit, how could he break its defense?

There were only 2 ways of breaking the defense of a magic tower . One was to attack until all the magic tower’s energy was drained, but since this was supported by seemingly endless energy, it was not really an option .

Also, Abel didn’t want to damage the magic tower too badly . It could be very nice to put it in his magic circle outside of Harry Castle .

If a magic tower was damaged too badly, it might be unrepairable .

“What a hassle!” Abel mumbled .

“Johnson, come out!” Abel tapped his chest with his monster ring, and a black hole emerged .

Johnson stepped out and did a bow .

“Johnson, careful where you step . The herbs here are costly . If you damage them, I will take it from your resources!” Abel pointed at the grass on the ground .

Johnson gazed at the tightly spread herbs on the ground and its giant metal feet . It tilted its head and thought for a bit . Afterward, its body began to shift from a human form to a spider with 8 long legs .

The holy armor on its body automatically retracted into its bracelet .

Johnson’s spider legs let it walk freely without stepping on the herbs .

“Johnson, see if you can dig up this magic tower!” Abel commanded .

Johnson arrived in front of the magic tower . It was 18 stories high, 2 stories higher than the one tower Spirit Flora was in . Its shape-shifted again and spread its iron balls around the magic tower .

The 8 legs of that spider turned into 16 legs, and they grabbed ahold of the magic tower along with the iron balls .

When Johnson began to use force, the ear-piercing sound of metal grinding erupted .

If those iron balls were made out of condensed iron, they would be damaged under this force .

However, despite Johnson’s tremendous force, it was still lacking when it came to lifting an 18 stories magic tower .

Luckily the old man was dead . This magic tower could only defend, not attack, which was why Johnson was still safe after all of this .

It was the normal behavior of a magic tower after losing its owner . Attacking took a lot of energy, which would dramatically reduce the defense of a magic tower, and the defense was the main priority after losing the owner .

Abel saw that Johnson having a hard time, so he summoned the 400 little war puppets from his ring . Each of those things was powered by a perfect gem .

The 400 little war puppets wrapped around the magic tower, the ones closest to Johnson held on to its body while the ones far away held each othersarms . Therefore Johnson remained as the center force .

“Johnson, again!” Abel said after the commander spirit had organized the puppets .

Luckily he had the commander spirit . If he didn’t, those puppets could complicate things .

Johnson began to unleash its force again . That ear-piercing emerged once again from Johnson and the puppets .

As the force intensified, the 18 stories magic tower began to shake left and right .

“Headmaster, I have successfully connected with the spirit of this magic tower . Invasion in progress!” The commander spirit suddenly notified Abel while Johnson was still pulling on the magic tower .

This was because when the magic tower was shaking left and right, a small gap was exposed in its defense . Although the gap was so small no human or animal could go in, it was enough for the commander spirit .

The commander spirit was one of the most advanced spirits Abel had . He urged Johnson and the puppets to maintain their position and try to increase the gap .

“Headmaster, the invasion was successful . I have now taken over the spirit of that magic tower . The protection circles are now defused!” After a minute, the commander spirit replied .

A magic tower without defense circles was like a city without guards .

Abel suddenly felt his heart drop . “Johnson, stop!” He yelled .

Since the tower was in his control, they were his assets . Any damage to the magic tower would be his loss .

Johnson shrugged its shoulders like a human and asked to return to the monster ring . It no longer wanted to dwell any longer . It was not as precise as those war puppets with the control of the commander’s spirit . He would eventually damage the valuable herbs if he continued to stay .

Abel opened the portal, and Johnson returned to the monster ring . Afterward, the 400 little war puppets returned to the Varaya’s ring .

Ever since he got that Holy Varaya’s ring, he could carry around large amounts of war machines with him .

If those puppets were more effective against hell creatures and could withstand the corrosion of hell, he would love to bring them to the Dark World .

Under the guidance of the commander spirit’s guidance, the first floor swung open . Abel stepped in, and it was the most advanced magic tower he had ever seen .

The first thing he felt was the density of mana . It was almost neck to neck with the Dark World . It was denser than any magic tower Abel saw in the Holy Continent .

There were no giant mana gathering circles in this place, only countless small ones on the surface of the tower . It seemed like the old man had done that for his herbs outside . For a kingdom, a giant mana gathering circle was impossible to obtain .

There was a giant teleportation circle in the center of the first floor . Abel was shocked . Those things were not cheap, but it made sense considering the old man’s status .

A giant teleportation circle was very useful to Abel . This way, the royal palace could connect to Harry castle or other long distance teleportation circle . He no longer needed to transfer .

He connected with the giant teleportation circle with his power of will . There was no data regarding this teleportation circle, which meant it was an illegal one in the wizard world . The wizard union could not connect with it or spot it .

This could be troubling, but there were also many benefits . If Abel just used it to teleport to his teleportation circle, the wizard union would not be able to notice .

He connected this teleportation circle with the one he had outside of the Harry castle magic tower through his power of the will . He then retracted and continued to explore .

There were 50 wooden boxes neatly laid out on the floor . They were all decorated with gold, so you could just guess how expensive the things inside might be .

However, Abel was disappointed when he broke them open . They were filled with intermediate gems of all kinds . Still, the number was beyond impressive .

Abel had no use for intermediate gems . He had unlimited amounts of them anyway .

He recalled the treasury of the royal palace . Its wealth was shocking, but its wizard resource, on the other hand, was lacking . Suddenly he realized, those resources were all stored here!

It made sense . This was the safest place anyway .

Abel had claimed the throne for 6 months, and he had only discovered this place .

“Let’s save those gems for my wizards!” Abel gazed at those 50 boxes .

That was all for the first floor . There was no lounge or office like a normal magic tower .

He climbed up a wooden staircase filled with embroidery and arrived at the second floor . Maybe this magic tower was made for storing wizard resources and wizard training . There were countless little mana gathering circles pasted across every inch of the walls, the floor, and the stairs .

It seemed like the old man was crazy for mana .

The second floor was also filled with large amounts of wizard resources, including potions, gems, and all kinds of valuables, just like a giant wizard inventory .

Things only started to change until the 16th floor . It was an office . There were rows of neatly organized luxury bookshelves tightly packed with books .

They were all divided carefully .

They included books about Fire wizards, ice wizards, and lightning wizards . They took up almost one-third of the room .

Abel also saw some books about druids . Although there were only 10 of them, they were the secrets of elves .

Abel had undergone Druid training . He looked through those books, and almost everything there is to know was included . The only thing lacking was that they did not expand on the special seed required for their enlightenment .

Abel then noticed the books about knights . There were thousands of special techniques . No need to speculate where they came from . They were most likely stolen from countless knights’ families throughout the years .

Those secret techniques were very useful to the kingdom . If anyone wanted to learn, a negotiation could be hard .

Afterward, Abel notices the books about wizard inheritance . It included Magic pattern drawing, rune card making, and magic circle . There were even some about alchemy . As long as a wizard specialized in one type of inheritance, he would be able to have the skills to keep him alive in the wizard world .

The amounts of stuff gathered by a thousand-year-old kingdom was scary, and they were fully on display in these bookshelves . They basically had everything .

Abel arrived at the corner of the room and spotted a bookshelf with thousands of books without any tags . However, he was caught off guard for a moment when he saw the title of those books .

They were about priests . Abel had killed countless priests, but he had never gotten a full set of their spell patterns . These books had every spell he could think of as well as a detailed explanation .

The ones about spells only took up a small portion of those thousand books . All the other ones were the research documentation of priests .

What were the priests researching?

Abel could almost imagine it . Dead bodies, torture, all kinds of horrific scenes . This was how the skeleton resurrection spell was done .

Afterward, he pulled the priest’s spell books in his Varaya’s ring and left the floor with confusion .

He was shocked again when he arrived on the 17th floor . It was just like hell . There were human parts and organs stored in giant crystal glass . He smelled the horrific smell of rotten flesh and herbs .

Abel passed through those crystal glasses and came across an alchemy bench, or more like a surgery bench .

There was a turn apart rotten corpse on the bench giving out a horrific smell . Maybe the old man was doing some research before he left, and he did not put away his stuff properly .

Human research!

Abel felt a chill running down his spine . A kingdom was supporting a rank 18 wizard, and he was doing human research deemed illegal by the wizard union in this magic tower .

This would not be a surprise if it were happening in the orc empire, but this was the human world .

Abel noticed a magic robe thrown to the grown by the side of the bench, so he scanned the corpse with his power of the will . From its characteristic, this corpse most likely belonged to a wizard .

The old man was researching a wizard’s body?

Abel was confused; the old man had resources, why would he do something like this?

Abel didn’t know the old man before entering his magic tower, but now he had gotten a brief idea . He was a wizard crazy for training .

A magic tower underground had almost cut off any connection with the outer world . Wizards had a high tolerance to loneliness, but something like this was too much for most .

The old man would not do any unnecessary thing, so why was he researching a wizard’s dead body . It was too bad that the old man was already dead .

Just when Abel felt the urge to sigh, he noticed a lambskin parchment by the side of the bench .

He snatched the parchment . It was a hundred years old wizard experiment . The goal was immortality .

He advanced on orc priests’ research to obtain a substance that replaced one’s body to achieve immortality .

“Crazy!” Abel wanted to burn the parchment immediately, but something stopped him . Although these records were filled with the stink of blood, it was the first detailed documentation on a wizard body . Abel had never heard of most of that information .

After a bit of hesitation, he put the parchment in his ring . Afterward, he threw out a fireball towards the corpse on the bench and burned it clean .

This explained why there were so many books on the 16th floor, especially about orc priests . If the old man had more time, he might have made progress .

Abel was not interested in continuing the research, at least not at the moment . He was still young . All he had was time . Maybe he would pick up that knowledge again when he reached the age of the old man .

He left the 17th floor . When he arrived at the 18th floor, all he saw were luxurious articles of clothing and art pieces plastered on the wall . The floor was covered in sheep fur, and the furniture were the ones of the royals .

This was the most lively place of the tower . There was a cup of water on a small table and countless luxurious pieces of jewelry on a large table .

Maybe the old man had decorated this place like the common world to keep himself from going fully insane .

The old man did not have any wizard followers . He had decorated everything by himself .

The lonely still had hobbies, and the old man’s hobby was the luxuries of the common world .

Abel walked into a room on the side and found the core of this magic tower’s spirit .

Since its owner was dead and the commander spirit had taken control, Abel could easily be recognized as the new owner .

The tower began to glow, and a voice emerged like it had just woken up from a long sleep “Master, tower spirit is here to serve you!”

Abel quickly swapped out the intermediate gems in the magic tower’s energy box into top quality ones . It was his habit since he couldn’t use it anywhere else .

“Tower spiral ignite all the magic circles!” Abel added .

“Yes, master!” Afterward, the sound of energy running through filled the magic tower . It was reborn once again .

A magic tower with a dead owner was like a tomb, burying its owner’s wealth until eternity .

The magic circle of a magic tower would only reignite once it had a new owner . Suddenly, the magic tower was lit up . Even the dim illumination circles began to work their magic .

Abel felt like the magic tower had become a part of him . He could clearly sense every magic circle within it, even the small numbers that Johnson damaged .

His senses were amplified a few times all of a sudden . The entire underground space, as well as the garden above, emerged in front of his eyes . He then zoomed out to the palace and then the entire Denan City .

“It’s a giant protection circle!” Abel mumbled .

What Abel was seeing was the giant protection circle of Denan City . It was not ignited when Abel entered Denan City, and most royals never heard about it .

Abel sighed as he looked through the circle . Although it was only a normal giant protection circle with a good amount of defense and attack, it could fight off almost any elite wizard with a rank 18 wizard surveilling in an 18 stories magic tower underground .

Just imagine, if a wizard invaded Denan City, this giant protection circle could quickly lockdown that wizard and limit his ability to move in a flash .

Afterward, the old man could utilize his magic tower to amplify his spell and land upon the wizard through the giant protection circle .

“It’s the perfect protection system!” Abel sighed .

Abel knew the kingdom’s final card was underground, but he was not expecting it to be so powerful . This could not only attack anyone in the city, but it could also spy on anyone in the city without a protection circle .

A person who took over this place could perfectly see anything that was happening in Denan City . Maybe this was the actual reason the old man had set up this giant protection circle .

“Tower spirit, how do I take care of those herbs outside?” Abel looked outside and felt a little confused .

The old man took care of those herbs all by himself, but if Abel were to do the same, he wouldn’t have any time left for training . He was not planning to keep this place free from all wizard followers anyway .

“Master, will you allow me to use puppets?” The tower spirit asked .

“Yes, I’ll give you the permission to use puppets!” Abel replied .

After Abel said his words, a cabinet in the operation was triggered, and its doors slowly swung open . 2 human shape puppets walked out from within .

These puppets were extremely simple compared to Abel’s little war puppets . They only had some simple mechanics, and the tower spirit fully controlled them . They probably couldn’t even stand if they went beyond the magic tower .

Maybe you could think of those puppets as the body of the tower spirit .

In a flash of white light, those 2 puppets disappeared and reappeared outside . Soon, they began to work without holding back .

Those herbs had been growing for a long time without anyone taking care of them . Although it wouldn’t affect their power, a clean up was long overdue .

Abel knew these herbs were the main income of the old man . A valuable herb could exchange potions even money couldn’t buy in the Wizard union .

However, all of those herbs were now Abel’s resources . No one’s alchemy was better than him in the Holy Continent anyway .

This tower spirit had been set to grow herbs automatically, making it a level more valuable again .

However, a perfectionist like Abel just couldn’t accept those ugly puppets, so he took out 4 little war puppets from the Varaya’s ring and gave them to the tower spirit .

Simultaneously, he installed 10 lightning spirals on the 18th floor of the magic tower, so this tower could have the attack of an elite wizard even when no elite wizard was around .

All he needed to do was to send a few trusted wizards here, and the entire Denan city would be under the attack range of those lightning spirals .

Afterward, Abel left and went back to where Steward Burbridge was waiting .

“Steward Burbridge, pass down the order that no one can talk about and enter this place . It is the secret of the kingdom!” Abel lowered his voice .

“Yes, your majesty!” Steward Burbridge bowed without question,

After Abel placed 5 more lightning spirals at the entrance, he placed Steward Burbridge’s hand on his shoulder and flashed out of the underground structure .

Steward Burbridge had seen the power of those spirals from the military parade . They had stunned the Holy Continent, so he understood what Abel meant by not letting anyone enter .

Abel didn’t know if there was anyone in the Kingdom who knew about this entrance . Greed might bring the worse out of people, but with those lightning spirals, no one would come out alive .

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