Chapter 343 – The Tower Master’s Humiliation #2

“Lord of the Magic Tower, we have arrived at the Ninggard Lab.”

As I waited near the Obelisk, a luxurious carriage with the design of the Magic Tower appeared in front of me.
Hearing a loud voice from inside the carriage, it seemed that the owner of the tower was riding.

James and Earl Harold were talking.
Judging from the occasional coughing sound, it seemed that Father Franz was also in the carriage.

“It seems to me that there is a very huge tower built. Didn’t the research institute really complete the obelisk?”
“You’re saying something funny. It’s impossible to build an obelisk in just six days. Orichalcum, which is used as the core material of the obelisk, cannot be converted. Even in our Magic Tower, we spend billions of dollars in budget every year for holy magic fusion experiments. I mean.”
“Are you getting good results with your budget?”
“It’s failing every time, but it’s getting better little by little. If there is an organization that succeeded in the first successful holy magic fusion experiment, it would be our Mage Tower.”

Unlike Count Harold, who looked out the window, James wasn’t even looking out.
It was a fact that I learned during the meeting, but the owner of the mage named James was a very stubborn old man.

‘Didn’t I get a call from Delia that the obelisk was completed?’

James must have heard the news of the completion and visited the laboratory.
But even when he heard the news, he didn’t seem to believe that the obelisk had been completed.

James’ voice came back from inside the carriage.

“I can still see the tower? It’s huge.”
“Even if there is a tower, it probably doesn’t contain important contents. I’m talking about Orichalcum. Without Orichalcum, it’s not an obelisk, it’s just an ordinary tower.”

Father Franz spoke to James, who was shouting vigorously.
Judging by how they speak casually, the two seem to be close friends.

“I hate to say this, James, but I think the time has come to give in to your stubbornness.”
“What?”

Father Franz was looking out of the carriage window at the obelisk.
An obelisk covered with Orichalcum and exuding holy energy.

“When I was young, I studied celestial civilization as a priest. At that time, I had the picture of the obelisk clearly engraved in my head. The platinum-colored tower exuding holy energy…”
“Gee, what are you talking about?”
“I didn’t expect to see the splendid legacy of the gods before I die.”

Father Franz’s expression was touched with emotion.
It was like seeing a celestial building that could be called a sanctuary for church members right in front of my eyes.

“That’s an obelisk! It’s an obelisk made of Orichalcum.”

James’ reaction to Father Franz’s voice was tinged with embarrassment.

“Bah, the obelisk is right? It can’t be!”
“Go outside and see for yourself.”
“It’s no use trying to fool me, Franz.”

Thud!

James, the owner of the tower, finally kicked the carriage door and walked out.
Following James, Count Harold and Father Franz also appeared in front of the laboratory.

“What the hell are you kidding…!”

The moment James saw the obelisk made of Orichalcum, he stopped talking.
He froze with his mouth open.

“Five…?”

James’ body shuddered in shock.
I was so shocked that my old body couldn’t handle the shock.

“Oriharkooooon!!”

The metal coating the pillars of the obelisk was undoubtedly Orichalcum.
There was no way James, who had studied celestial civilizations, would not recognize Orichalcum.

James had a frightened expression on his face.
It was because, according to the standards of the Magic Tower, it was a divine metal that could not exist on earth.

“It’s a real Orichalcum. You reproduced the obelisk you saw in the blueprint! Could it be that you really created an Orichalcum?”

It was kind of hard to see the old man talking to himself.
I approached James and gave him an answer.

“That’s right, Lord of the Mage Tower. This is Orichalcum, which I and the lab staff created together. It was filthy difficult to conduct the Holy Magic Convergence Experiment. It would have been easier if the wizards of the Mage Tower had cooperated. It’s a pity that I couldn’t cooperate with the Mage Tower.”

My words, which flowed like a rapid-fire cannon, were studded with thorns.
It was James who openly dismissed me as a wandering wizard at the meeting.
When I see that old man, I can’t help but get angry again.

“… Uh, what kind of old man is he?”
“Well, who is it?”

Despite being openly shot, James didn’t say anything to me.

The Mage Tower spends billions of dollars in budget to conduct holy magic fusion experiments.
An experiment that had never been successful, even when money was poured into it, was succeeded by a wandering wizard here now.

James, who turned his words around, eventually bowed his head to me and apologized.

“Sorry, Luke!

The Master of the Magic Tower bowed his head!
For wizards, the mage tower, which is a symbol of power, bowed its head.
Even when receiving an apology at a meeting, he never made a gesture of bowing his head.

‘You must be curious about how we proceeded with the holy magic fusion experiment.’

This is because I want to know how the experiment was conducted.
If Orichalcum was secured, numerous legacies of the heavens could be reproduced, and the performance of the artifacts developed in the Mage Tower could be greatly improved.
It wasn’t that famous magic associations were eager to experiment with holy magic fusion for no reason.

The wizards of Ninggard who conducted the experiment together did not interact with the outside world.
The nuns who helped with the experiment don’t know much about magic.

So, I’m the only one who can ask a question here.
Even if you are the owner of the Magic Tower, you have no choice but to keep an eye on it.

“Hey, I’m shameless, but can I ask you one question?”
“What is it?”
“How the hell did the holy magic fusion experiment proceed? I want to hear how you fused holy magic and created Orichalcum in only six days.”

James gulped and looked at me.

“I wonder how you did the experiment?”
“Of course, as the owner of the Mage Tower, wouldn’t you be curious? Even if you didn’t tell me, I have nothing to say…”
“I will teach you.”

Hearing my words, James opened his eyes wide.

Rattle!

I guess I didn’t know that shaking my hands could really teach me.
Anyone who sees it will know that he has epilepsy.

“First of all, prepare Ninggard’s energy fusion reactor. Among the reactors that exist on the continent, it seems to have the most superior performance.”
“That, and what else…? Reactors are also in our Mage Tower.”
“Next, we need to secure a mage who can handle telekinesis of the great magic rank. We experimented with increasing the pressure inside the reactor with telekinesis.”

From this point on, James’ expression began to become more and more absurd.

“The telekinesis of the great magic rank…? Where in the world is there a wizard who can handle such a rare great magic? It is rare to find someone who manifests such a simple telekinesis as great magic. Would you like to make?”

It can be said that there are very few wizards who can use telekinesis as great magic.
It is a great magic that can be acquired only once in a lifetime, but what kind of wizard would want telekinesis, which is just a catch skill, as great magic?
Fixer Glem is a very special case.

“Our experiment doesn’t end here. Let’s not stop talking.”
“Okay.”

I silenced James and explained the most important thing of all.

“It’s not the end of bringing a mage who can handle high-output telekinesis. Most importantly, that mage must apply pressure to the inside of the reactor without stopping even for a second. You have to release telekinesis continuously for 120 hours, What if I lose my concentration halfway through?”

Suppose the wizard fails to control his telekinesis.
At that moment, the reactor is destroyed and a catastrophe occurs in the laboratory.
There will be an explosion accident and all together will be reduced to ashes.

James didn’t know that either.

“The reactor will be damaged. It means that the telekinesis power with strong enough output to cause a fusion reaction will lose its direction and run out of control.”
“You know me well.”
“So that means you had a telekinesis with superhuman strength. Not only possesses a rare great magic, but also a wizard who can precisely control telekinesis for 120 hours. Magical power is not the problem. Can you use great magic without stopping? Your brain will burn while maintaining a high level of concentration.”

Hearing my explanation, James let out a devastated laugh.

“Heh heh, that wizard has gone beyond the human realm! You’re not going to say that’s you, are you?”
“You’re right.”
“Ah…”

I pointed my finger at myself.

“That’s me.”

At that moment, silence fell between us.
James, the owner of the mage tower, couldn’t take his eyes off me.

Even if you heard the experiment plan, it was impossible to fuse the holy magic among the wizards of the Mage Tower.
Because there won’t be a Wiseman like me there.

If it wasn’t for the invasion of the Demon King’s army tomorrow, we could have talked a little longer.
James muttered with a distraught expression.

“…Is that enough to be a candidate for the Archmage?”