Chapter 62: Chapter 60: The Prestige of the Seven Towers Alliance
A high-risk cleanup mission.
The mortality rate exceeded 50%. These missions usually involved cleaning up the ss from out-of-control experints or retrieving important materials from collapsing planar fragnts.
The consequences for failing to accept a mission by the deadline were far from pleasant.
Allen’s expression grew grim. He turned off the terminal, stood up, and swiftly swept the textbooks he had just been about to read from his desk into his Space Ring.
The next mont, the tal door to his dorm opened, and he was already on his way out.
Outside the black tower, a Night Wing III Hoverboard appeared silently beneath his feet. It transford into a streak of black light, skimming close to the ground as it sped toward the academy’s central area.
「Administrative Center Tower.」
The mission hall was on the first floor of the tower. He had passed by it several tis, but this was his first ti entering.
Even before he got close, a roar of voices washed over him.
Hundreds of apprentices stood in the hall, which was as wide as a public square.
Several huge Magic Light Curtains floated on the walls on either side, mission information scrolling slowly across them.
Apprentices gathered in small groups before the huge Magic Light Curtains, carefully examining the displayed missions.
Allen approached a Magic Light Curtain tagged "Advanced Apprentice Zone—Mandatory Missions."
The apprentices standing nearby were, like him, all Advanced Apprentices who had just received the system notification from the administrative center.
"Are you kidding ? Are these the only missions left? Go to the Sinking Dream Swamp and collect a hundred stalks of Crying Grass? That area is swarming with Soul-Devouring Frogs! One touch and your Spiritual Power will be in disarray for half the day!"
A man in the robes of the Witchcraft School said, exasperated.
"That’s still better than ’Assisting in the maintenance of the Magic Power suppression nodes on the Path of Burning’!"
Soone nearby imdiately retorted, "To put it bluntly, that mission is just being live bait for the Fire Lizards in the Magma Grand Canyon. The reward is only three hundred Magic Stones—not even enough to buy two decent Burn Healing Potions!"
"How is that mission to hunt the Crystal Shell Burrowing Insect still up? It’s been posted for almost a month. A four-person team? Isn’t that a total rip-off? How are you supposed to split such a tiny reward? A team took the sa mission last year, and their leader was even a third-year Advanced Apprentice. And what happened? Three were seriously injured, and one was nearly buried alive. They didn’t even manage to chip off a single piece of the insect’s shell."
Complaints, argunts, and curses rose and fell in waves.
Allen should have been like all the other new students, starting with risk-free, low-level tasks like weeding the Magic Potion Garden or feeding Herbivorous Magical Beasts to gradually adapt to the cruelty of the Wizarding World.
But his "grade-skipping" had caused him to completely miss the newbie protection period, throwing him directly into the "final exam" for Advanced Apprentices.
If he had cultivated a bit slower, or if he had accepted the annual mandatory mission for junior apprentices earlier, he wouldn’t have run into this "stroke of luck."
His straightforward approach had backfired, leaving him stuck. Now, he could only bite the bullet and face it.
He didn’t push into the crowded throng. Instead, he found a relatively quiet corner and looked up at the enormous Magic Light Curtain.
On the light curtain, the mission list was already sparse, with fewer than twenty options remaining.
The high-quality missions with generous rewards and clear risks had long since been snatched up by the well-prepared and well-inford apprentices.
What remained were the tricky "trash" missions that nobody else wanted.
Allen issued a command in his mind: ’DSeek, retrieve data on all remaining missions.’
[Command received. Comncing data retrieval...]
A virtual screen, visible only to him, quietly unfolded on his retina.
Every piece of mission information from the light curtain was broken down into countless data streams, flooding into the depths of his consciousness.
’Cross-reference the databases. Prioritize analysis of the following:
One: The habits, weaknesses, and assessed combat effectiveness of the Magical Beasts involved in the mission objectives.
Two: The geographical environnt and associated resources of the mission area.
Three: The market price fluctuation curve of the mission’s deliverables over the past six months.
Four: Filter for the option with the highest return on investnt.’
[Analysis model constructing... Correlating databases: Panorama of All Things Living, Magical Materials Market Weekly Report, First Ring Belt Environntal Survey Report...]
「The Panorama Corridor Plane.」
This was the exclusive teaching and research plane belonging to the Seven Towers Alliance, officially managed by the organization in its entirety. It was a ticulously planned super-laboratory and training ground—partially "tad," yet still retaining sufficient primordial mysteries.
It was not naturally ford. Legend held that several thousand years ago, a number of Moonlight Mages had joined forces, "cutting out" the most valuable terrains from various different planes and then stitching them together and solidifying them with supre power.
The entire plane had an irregular, concentric structure. The closer to the center, the safer and more orderly it was. The closer to the periphery, the more primitive and dangerous, but it also held more precious knowledge and resources.
At the very center of the plane, the seven great towers stood majestically, forming a circular academy city. The environnt there had been completely transford, with a pleasant climate and stable Magic Power.
Beyond that was the First Ring Belt: the Ring of Practice. It was a vast area surrounding the academy zone, divided into various standardized ecosystems.
For example, the Path of Burning was a controllable grand canyon with flowing lava. Many Magical Beasts lived on the inner walls on both sides of the canyon, which was rich in basic fire-elental materials and materials from fire-type Magical Beasts. It was a place for apprentices of the Witchcraft School to study elental reactions and collect samples.
The Silent Forest: A Magic Forest where the trees glowed faintly and whispered. It was ho to a large number of Magical Creatures and plants, and was where apprentices from the Cyan Secret Realm and the Ten Thousand Binding White Tower studied ecology and potential contracted partners year-round.
There was also the Thundering Mountain Range, perpetually shrouded in storm clouds, used for studying teorological Witchcraft and collecting Thunder Attribute Ore.
The Sinking Dream Swamp, forever filled with a faint mist that could slightly interfere with one’s mind, was ho to all sorts of strange creatures. It was where Heart Image Tower Apprentices conducted their primary anti-interference ditation and cultivation practices.
Adjacent to that was the Second Ring Belt: the Ring of Inquiry. This was a zone of anomalous laws where the physical or magical laws had been subjected to a permanent, slight "distortion," used for advanced research and adaptation training.
An example was the Elental Silence Zone, where Magic Power was extrely inert, multiplying the difficulty of spellcasting.
The outermost layer was the Third Ring Belt: the Ring of Secrecy. This was a Secret Realm and Relic Area, preserving the original secret realms and ancient relics that ca with the "cut-out" planes. It was the primary target for exploration and research for Advanced Apprentices and Official Wizards.
The Panorama Corridor Plane was rich in resources, allowing one to acquire almost all common materials, from basic to top-tier, without needing to undertake dangerous planar travel.
Furthermore, its diverse scenery—from vast plains and enormous mountain ranges to extre environnts and zones with anomalous laws—provided the most suitable locations for all avenues of basic research and study.
When Allen first read the introduction to the Panorama Corridor in the new student guide, he was deeply stunned by the sheer grandiosity of the Advanced Wizards. It felt just like his first ti seeing Hyrule Land in a ga in his past life.
All he could say was that the ho of the Seven Towers Alliance truly lived up to its reputation as the Wizard’s Highest Academy. It was so prestigious; to be able to study here, he would have no regrets in this life.
Just then, a system notification chid. DSeek had also completed its data analysis and presented its conclusion:
[Mission locked: Hunt the Crystal Shell Burrowing Insect in the Silent Forest.]
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