Chapter 135. Journey to Sanhae (3)
‘What is this?’
It was a sensation difficult to express precisely.
The aura felt from that massive slum called Kowloon Walled City, that is.
It wasn't because of the atmosphere or external heterogeneity.
It was sothing more intrinsic.
A certain sothing emanating from that massive structure called Kowloon Walled City.......
“The plane will be landing soon. Passengers, please fasten your seatbelts.”
Following the announcent, Riman fastened his seatbelt.
The plane, lowering its altitude, soon landed on the runway.
Kai Tak International Airport.
This airport was also one that had disappeared in 1998 in the place where Riman lived in his previous life.
But in this world, it remained an airport still in use, having undergone expansions and renovations.
After landing and entry were quickly finished like that.
“Hoooo......”
Standing in the middle of the airport, Riman took a deep breath.
Exotic air filled his lungs.
Unfamiliar slls tickling his nasal cavity.
As the sll touching the tip of his nose changed, the reality that he had co to a foreign country finally hit ho.
“Now then, to go to Sanhae Magic Tower, where should I go.......”
Just at that mont when he was about to step outside the airport.
STOP.
Riman suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Because he detected a movent approaching exactly towards him.
Riman spoke without even looking that way.
“What is it?”
“I ca to pick you up, Mr. Leman White.”
Riman turned his head to look at him.
A man wearing glasses and black clothes was standing there.
What the man was wearing looked like a black suit at a glance.
But the width of the sleeves was generous to call it a suit, and the silhouette was slightly different too.
Clothes where traditional Chinese attire and a suit were exquisitely crossed over.
Riman knew which organization's uniform those clothes were.
“...Did you co from Sanhae?”
“Yes. The Headmaster ordered
to escort Mr. Leman.”
“.......”
Riman's eyes looking at the man narrowed.
This scene right now, at a glance, was a scene of escorting a guest with utmost care.
But with just a little thought, one could tell it was strange.
Riman had conveyed through Kyle that he was going to Sanhae.
But he hadn't conveyed ‘when’ he was coming to Hong Kong.
Even this flight itself was decided by Pyo Seok-jung yesterday.
Yet this man ca out to et him as soon as Riman arrived at the airport.
When Riman would arrive here, which flight he would use, which gate he would co out of.
It ant they knew all that information in advance.
From the mont he headed for Hong Kong, Riman's whereabouts were being thoroughly tracked by Sanhae.
‘Openly saying, you are in the palm of our hand, huh.’
This was a kind of subtle pressure.
Pressure that drives the opponent into tension without a single harsh word.
It was one of the thods Sanhae commonly used.
“Then, this way.”
So Riman followed as the man escorted him for now.
The parking lot outside the airport.
The man stopped in front of an empty space.
Then he placed his fingertips on the temple of his glasses.
Watching that appearance, Riman said.
“Those are nice glasses.”
“Yes?”
“Fras made from turtle shell, right? Probably you are using them as a summoning catalyst for turtle-type summoned beasts.”
Hearing Riman's words, the man's eyes trembled slightly.
“How did you know that.......”
The man was flustered.
‘He recognized these glasses? How?!’
Because without doing anything yet, his specialty magic and main item were all seen through.
‘...Not an ordinary person.’
Looking at Riman with eyes containing slight tension, the man spoke.
“...You have quite deep knowledge in magic.”
“Haha, even so, could I compare to those from formal Magic Towers?”
Displaying modesty he didn't an, Riman watched what the wizard in front of him was doing.
The man touched his fingertips to his glasses again.
Mana seeped into the glasses along his fingertips, and the glasses newly wove the mana into a certain wavelength and spread it into the space.
That wavelength was itself a signal calling for the summoned beast.
Using the glasses as a catalyst, the man summoned his beast like that.
SCREECH......!
Space distorted and sothing appeared on the empty ground.
A giant sea turtle appeared where the man's gaze landed.
A turtle larger than any sea turtle existing on Earth.
Its neck was long like a soft-shelled turtle, and its tail was elongated like a snake.
Its shell was wide and flat enough for ten adult n to lie down on.
And on top of that flat shell, a large palanquin that people could ride was placed.
A wooden palanquin decorated with a splendid Chinese aesthetic.
Riman knew the na of this summoned beast.
This was a subspecies of the Black Tortoise (Hyunmoo), an imaginary creature appearing in East Asian folklore.
“It's an Sub-Black Tortoise (Ah-Hyunmoo). A cool summoned beast.”
“......!”
The man was startled.
Because he didn't expect Riman to guess the na of this summoned beast exactly.
‘This person... shouldn't have a Magic Tower of origin?!’
Of course, Riman only lacked a Magic Tower of origin, but he had gained learning from the Sanhae Magic Tower.
Using Wong Chen's code, he had accessed Sanhae Magic Tower's virtual library and secretly obtained various magic knowledge.
“Th, for now... please get on.”
Riman and the man climbed into the palanquin placed on the Sub-Black Tortoise's back.
Inside the palanquin, comfortable seats were installed facing each other.
When boarding was complete, the Sub-Black Tortoise flew up into the sky.
WHOOSH......-
Cutting through the void like underwater, the Sub-Black Tortoise began to swim through the sky.
Just as Riman was thinking the ride wasn't bad, at that ti.
The man was looking at Riman and falling into a single doubt.
‘What is that snake?’
The man's gaze was fixed on Saya.
A black and large snake.
But it had horns and legs.
As far as the man knew, there was only one such creature.
Dragon.
But he couldn't possibly judge it as a dragon.
For a high-ranking summoned beast like a dragon, just maintaining the summon puts a trendous burden on the caster.
Therefore, the standard was to summon and use it only when absolutely necessary and then dismiss the summon.
But.......
‘How is he maintaining the summon continuously?’
It was also difficult to see it as a synthetic creature commonly seen in the city center.
Because although faint, mana was clearly felt.
‘What on earth is it?’
The most rational thod the man could take here was just asking.
However, the man did not ask and only repeated thoughts.
It was because of pride.
Earlier, Riman saw through his magic with just one glance.
But he couldn't do the sa.
This situation itself hurt his pride, so he couldn't bring himself to ask.
So he only racked his brain endlessly.
‘Did he capture and ta a demonic beast similar to a dragon? No, there is no precedent for taming demonic beasts. Or... did he perhaps succeed in
a dragon?’
But the man soon shook his head.
‘No way. Even the Headmaster failed at Super-Summoning. There is no way a re unofficial wizard like that succeeded in Super-Summoning.’
Super-Summoning (Cho-hwan).
Magic that calls the original of an otherworld creature itself to this side.
Just by the description, it was a technique that seed no different from summoning.
But Super-Summoning was a superior technique to summoning.
Strictly speaking, the summoning magic wizards use currently was not bringing the otherworld creature itself.
It was projecting a materialized representation of the otherworld creature onto this world using mana.
Put simply, the true nature of summoning magic was creating a copy of the otherworld creature in this world using mana.
Therefore, mana was consud even to maintain the summoned beast.
However, Super-Summoning was bringing the original itself, not a copy of the targeted creature or spirit, to this world.
Therefore, one could fully utilize the summoned beast's power, and there was no need to consu mana to maintain it.
In other words, Super-Summoning was a perfect upward compatibility of summoning.
But correspondingly, the difficulty of Super-Summoning transcended imagination.
Because its success cases could be counted on one hand in the long history of magic.
So the ultimate goal of most wizards using summoning magic was Super-Summoning.
Thus, he couldn't think that Riman would have perford Super-Summoning.
‘Then how on earth did this happen.......’
While his internal deductions continued endlessly like that.
The Sub-Black Tortoise lowered its altitude and settled on the ground.
Finally, they had arrived.
“Welco to Sanhae Magic Tower, Mr. Leman.”
Riman and the man got out of the palanquin.
Riman looked around with slightly expectant eyes.
Although he had co several tis in the ga, it was the inner courtyard of Sanhae that he was stepping into for the first ti in reality.
The scenery faced like that did not disappoint Riman.
‘Oh.......’
Magnificently built Chinese-style buildings in traditional forms filled the view everywhere.
And strange rocks and statues located here and there, well-maintained trees.
Plus automatic dolls busily moving between buildings.
It was a scenery that gave the illusion of having entered another world.
This was exactly one of the world's three great Magic Towers and the headquarters of ‘Outer Arts’ magic, Sanhae Magic Tower.
Riman could finally feel vividly that he had truly entered the world of magic.
“This way.”
Riman moved following the man.
The two moved toward the center of Sanhae Magic Tower.
In the center of Sanhae, the most gigantic structure among all buildings was located there.
That was Sanhae's Main Hall.
The center of Sanhae, and the place where the mana flowing throughout the entire Sanhae grounds intersected.
So from the highest spire of the Main Hall, high-density mana was rising faintly toward the sky.
Just like a heat haze.
Therefore, viewing this building from afar gave the feeling that a transparent pillar was soaring high into the sky above the spire.
This was exactly the reason why the na ‘Magic Tower’ was attached to magic schools.
Because all three great Magic Towers shared this characteristic.
RUMBLE.......
Soon the door of the Main Hall opened.
Behind the heavy door, a massive cavity looked down coldly at the visitors.
Crossing that cavity and passing through a hallway, the two entered a certain room.
It was a large round room.
And in the middle of the room, a single wooden chair was placed.
An interior suspicious to anyone's eyes.
But the man nonchalantly recomnded sitting on that chair.
“If you wait here for a mont, the Headmaster will co.”
“...Sure.”
THUD.
Leaving only those words, the man went out of the room.
Left alone, Riman brushed the chair once with his hand.
[Detection]
WHIRRR......-
Even scanning with detection magic, there were no particular peculiarities about the chair.
Riman sat on the chair.
“Hmm.......”
Sitting on the chair, he looked around inside the room.
There were no windows, and the ceiling was high.
But what stood out most were dozens of decorations placed along the walls.
‘Are they clay dolls (Toyong)?’
Dolls made of earth, clay dolls.
The clay dolls here were all life-sized dolls identical to human size.
Without exception, they were equipped with weapons like swords, spears, and shields.
‘...Why did they bring such things here?’
It was a strange room.
Just wide, with no furniture, so its use couldn't be guessed.
The only feature was just these clay dolls.
‘Hmm.’
PING!
Riman unfolded [Detection] once again.
And only then could he know.
What the use of this room, and those clay dolls, was.
‘...Look at these things.’
The corners of Riman's mouth twitched.
At the sa ti, black energy began to seep out from the ring Riman wore.
anwhile, the Headmaster was watching this scene from his room through a monitor.
“Is this the person? The one called Leman White?”
“That is correct.”
“The setting is all finished, right?”
“Yes. They are all clay dolls inscribed with Grade 2 or higher automatic combat formulas.”
“Good.”
The Headmaster nodded and said.
“Then let's start... Wait a minute.”
Watching the monitor, the Headmaster's eyes widened.
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