Struggle in the Steam Age

Through a series of paintings, games and small videos in the previous life. Lawrence has also seen many magic towers in the minds of ordinary people. At the same time, his previous adventures in the haunted coal mine also allowed him to see the magic towers in this world. It's just that when he walked into a regular magic tower in operation today, he realized that the real magic tower was far beyond his imagination.

At least compared to the temporarily dug magic tower that people imagined in previous lives and encountered before, the area inside the magic tower belonging to the Huguang City Magic Association was beyond Lawrence's imagination. The tower itself looked huge from the outside, but when he stood in the lobby on the first floor of the tower, he found that the space inside was larger than it looked from the outside.

"Space expansion magic is also used in this kind of place? It's too extravagant." Lawrence murmured softly. In front of him was a space larger than the small square at the entrance of Far Harbor University. In the middle of this space is an extremely eye-catching fountain.

In the circular water pool of the fountain stands a group of pure gold statues, which are larger than real people. Standing in the middle is a middle-aged mage wearing a black robe and holding a crystal wand inlaid on his head. Surrounding him are female warriors in heavy armor, dwarves holding axes in both hands, An elf with a bow and arrow on his back, a dwarf sitting on the shoulders of a robot puppet, and a centaur druid in buckskin.

They stared vigilantly in a certain direction like the middle-aged mage, as if they were ready to fight at any time. And glistening jets of water shot from the glistening jets of their weapons, setting off a melodious ding-ding-dong-dong in the pool below. At the same time, some palm-sized blue crystal fragments slowly revolve around these sculptures like planets revolving around stars.

There are a large number of people coming and going on the entire floor of the magic tower. Most of these people are staff here, and most of them are spellcasters. In addition, there are many people who come here to do business and study through the examination permit. Here they can learn magic, do magic experiments or accept various tasks.

Following the instructions of the staff at the entrance just now, Lawrence walked around the pool and walked straight forward until he reached the place against the wall of the hall.

What appeared in front of him at this time were alcoves on the wall. These alcoves were as tall as a person, and each of them had a person-high crystal filling the alcoves to the brim.

Some of the crystals have already been used before, and there is a transparent barrier around them to separate them from the outside world. Through this barrier, you can see these people pressing their hands on the crystal, closing their eyes and moving their lips, as if communicating with the crystal. Seeing this, Lawrence also walked to an empty crystal and stretched out his hand to touch the crystal.

"Hello, visitor. Is there anything I can do to help you?" When Lawrence's hands first touched the crystal, a barrier descended from the ceiling to separate it from the surrounding environment, and then an ethereal female voice suddenly came from all directions It came, a bit like the electronic voice in the machine. He knew that this was the Tower Spirit of the Magic Tower.

"I need to exchange for the training of the champion of the black iron class competition among the nations of the New World." Lawrence first expressed his admiration for the powerful artificial intelligence in this magical world, and then calmed down and said his request.

"Training for the champions of the black iron level competition among the countries of the New World, searching...found." After waiting for a second or two, Ta Ling replied. "Please take your card to the second floor of the main tower of the Magic Tower from the second staircase on the east side, and then follow the signs to the training center."

After figuring out how to act, Lawrence let go of the crystal with his hands, and after the surrounding barrier disappeared, he went directly to a corridor on the second floor of the Magic Tower following the path Ta Ling told him just now.

The good news is that the various signs in the magic tower are very obvious. Guided by these road signs, Lawrence quickly came to a door at the end of the corridor. This door was made of metal with extremely complicated magic patterns on it. Ryan could feel that the door itself was a powerful alchemy product. In terms of anti-theft level, only the door of the underground treasure house of St. Gutenberg Cathedral could be compared with it.

At the door of this metal gate, there are two guards wearing heavy armor and carrying magic-breaking weapons, holding long shields and long-handled knives. In such a small environment, these fighters with superior defensive power obviously have some advantages over spellcasters.

According to the information he had just obtained, Lawrence took out his own card and stuffed it into a groove on the door. Soon the patterns on the door came alive, and after a low metallic hum, the heavy door opened.

"Welcome, Mr. Lawrence August." A dark blue gas puppet that looked like a book charm floated over, and said in a tone with a metallic trill. Obviously, when Lawrence swiped his card, the Qi element in the room had already learned his identity when he came back.

"Excuse me, is this a place for professional training?" Lawrence looked at the space in front of him suspiciously. According to his thinking, this is either an office responsible for arranging his next training goals, or a large-scale training base. Instead of an empty house the size of a basketball court like now, there is just an oval transparent crystal egg as tall as a person placed obliquely in the center of this space.

"Yes, this is of course a place for spellcaster training." The gas puppet emitting blue light said in a low voice, "Of course, because the most advanced magic technology is adopted here, it is somewhat different from previous training— —”

Through the explanation of the gas puppet, Lawrence finally understood what it was. To put it bluntly, the so-called new vocational training method. The result of a not-so-successful experiment by the local Magic Society

Five years ago, a mage who studied the soul came up with a quick learning method. That is to develop a special method based on the memory infusion spells of some extraordinary people, and use various extraordinary methods to build a virtual world for people's souls to access it for learning.

After five years of research and experiments, with the joint efforts of the Mage Association, the Church of Knowledge, the Church of the God of Suffering and the federal government, they successfully produced such a magic machine. Unfortunately, when the machine was built, it was discovered that such a thing did not have much practical value.

On the one hand, the cost of this machine is too expensive, whether it is the cost itself or the cost of use. Not to mention that the core of this thing uses one of the most advanced collections of the Magic Association: the legendary brain of the mind flayer.

At the same time, as raw materials, there is also a container for this dangerous item obtained by the Church of the God of Suffering through a large-scale sacrifice. Every time it is used alone, it will consume various extraordinary resources worth at least 10,000 yuan. If you rely on this to train ordinary people, you won't even be able to get back your books.

On the other hand, after it was made, it was discovered that the use of such things could not be used as one wished: each use lasted for three days, and then it needed to be cooled for the next seven days. In addition, the most important thing is that the upper limit of the strength of the people that this machine can train is professional level.

Two reasons finally lead to this thing like a chicken rib, tasteless to eat, and a pity to throw away. In the end, in desperation, the Magic Association simply regarded this thing as a prize for young people, rewarding those young transcendents who showed some advantages despite their inexperience.

After listening to the introduction, Lawrence had to admire the imagination of people in this world. Because he felt that this was very similar to the holographic game played in the nutrition cabin that he saw in the novels of his previous life.

"Then I'm going to enter that crystal ball next, right?" After figuring out what was going on, Lawrence pointed to the crystal egg in the center of the room and asked the gas puppet next to it.