Chapter 34: Magic Tower

Chapter 34: Magic Tower

Suye was immersed in the joy of learning when the bell signaling the end of class did not break this happiness, but Teacher Niedern's voice did.

"Suye, come with me."

Once again, Suye became the focus of the class, and Hutton and others once more burst into malicious laughter.

Suye glanced at Hutton and found him still grinning, fearless and unrepentant.

"His attitude is problematic..." Suye thought as he followed Niedern out.

Niedern continued walking, even entering a small grove, and Suye had no idea what he intended to do, so he could only follow.

After a while, Niedern finally turned around.

"Do you know why I called you here?" Niedern’s expression was incredibly serious.

"Teacher, rest assured, I won't be late tomorrow! This time, it wasn’t because I was slacking off; I was truly late due to studying," Suye said with an equally serious expression.

The seriousness on Niedern's face gradually melted away. "You really don't know?"

Suye had a bad feeling. The implication of these words didn’t seem right.

"You're already a magic apprentice!" Niedern said irritably, guessing from Suye's expression that he had misunderstood.

The books were clear: after the first entry into the divine light, one would only absorb part of its power, resulting in partial physical enhancement.

Only after long-term cultivation could one advance to become a magic apprentice or a warrior apprentice, generating mana or divine power.

Although people often mocked Holt for being slow, having trained for five years without becoming an apprentice, in reality, even if all of Greece trained every day, at most one percent could become a warrior apprentice or a magic apprentice within five years.

Most people took over a decade or even longer to achieve their first advancement.

There were those who advanced to magic apprentices upon their first contact with the divine light, but they either had exceptional talent or had undergone extensive training and accumulation.

Suye had a clear understanding of himself and always believed he was ordinary. He had studied magic for just a day... no, only one meditation session. How could he directly become a magic apprentice? He wasn’t a genius.

Having figured this out, Suye firmly shook his head. "Teacher, you must have made a mistake. If even I can advance to a magic apprentice after one meditation session, are the others fools?"

Niedern was left speechless for a moment before saying, "Did you not read Chapter Two of Meditation?"

"I only previewed Chapter One," Suye replied.

Niedern explained, "After each advancement, we emit some aura for several hours, which only someone of a higher rank can sense. So, I can confirm that you have advanced to a magic apprentice.

Chapter Two clearly states that after the first entry into the divine light, one should quickly perform a second meditation. If you haven’t advanced to a magic apprentice, you will directly enter the divine light. If you have advanced, you will find yourself in a vague, unreal building, like a dream, as if through a translucent veil."

"That place is our Greek mages' Magic Tower. Of course, the Magic Tower isn’t illusory; it’s just that your level is too low. Even I cannot see it clearly. It is said that only mages who reach the highest level of meditation can see it clearly. That level is introspection, meaning the ability to observe the Magic Tower from within."

Suye thought to himself, introspection? It seemed different from his understanding. Introspection could mean observing one’s inner self or true self, but in the magical world, it referred to observing the Magic Tower from within?

Niedern continued, "Next, you will perform the second meditation. However, since you are too weak, don’t focus on the Magic Tower, as you won’t be able to see it clearly no matter how hard you try. Just know that you now have a Magic Tower and have become a magic apprentice, and then exit."

"Here?" Suye looked around.

"Here." Niedern waved his right hand, and a thick blanket slowly appeared, floating half a meter above the ground.

The blanket was about an inch thick, adorned with vibrant patterns. Despite the colors being somewhat garish, the elegant designs and symmetry gave it an artistic beauty.

"Is this the Persian mages’ flying carpet?" Suye asked curiously, touching it and finding it as soft as any ordinary blanket.

"No, it’s just a simple magical item that serves as a bed. Sit on it," Niedern instructed.

Suye glanced down at his muddy and grass-stained feet, feeling helpless.

"Don’t worry, magical items aren’t afraid of dirt," Niedern lifted a similarly dirty foot.

"Thank you, Teacher!" Suye sat on the flying carpet and began meditating immediately.

Since it was just a quick meditation, Suye did not use the time-consuming scanning method but focused on his breathing, quickly entering the state of introspection.

It took him only a minute.

Niedern stared at Suye, dumbfounded, his eyes filled with indescribable emotions, as if all the colors of the flying carpet had been infused into them.

He hadn’t expected that despite Suye’s poor grades, he was a meditation prodigy.

While he didn’t know the exact level of Suye’s current meditation, entering such a deep state so quickly was already at the level of a Gold Mage.

This meant that although Suye lacked other talents, he had at least the potential of a Saint Domain in meditation.

"This kid..." A faint smile played on Niedern’s lips.

Outside, Niedern was lost in thought, while inside the mental realm, Suye was also stunned.

After entering deep meditation, Suye indeed found himself in the Magic Tower, as Teacher Niedern had said.

But Niedern had only been half-right.

Because Suye found the building he was in not only clear but exceptionally detailed, allowing him to see the texture of the floor and the unevenness of the rocks on the walls, even feeling the slight chill within the Magic Tower.

"What is this? Did I come to the wrong place? Did I intrude into someone else’s Magic Tower?"

Suye observed the Magic Tower in disbelief.

Unlike the tower he had imagined, this so-called Magic Tower appeared to be a circular room, roughly thirty meters in diameter, very spacious.

However, upon closer inspection, the black granite floor of the house is not circular but a regular polygon, and it’s hard to count how many sides it has.

The white marble walls are not curved or a single flat surface but composed of countless isosceles trapezoids that are wider at the bottom and narrower at the top.

Overall, the structure is thicker at the bottom and thinner at the top, indeed resembling a tower, but there is only one level.

Above this tower, there is no dome, but a smaller regular polygon skylight. Above the skylight, a dense beam of pure white divine light descends, within which red, gold, and gray specks of light dance.

The divine light falls directly into the center of the room in the Magic Tower.

There, a one-meter-tall sapling stands.

The sapling is entirely like black crystal, but its surface is adorned with numerous yellow, red, blue, and white dots.

It has only one branch and one black crystal leaf.

Strangely, the sapling has four roots, each partially above the ground and neatly aligned toward the four cardinal directions—north, south, east, and west—in colors of yellow, red, blue, and white respectively.

Suye vaguely senses that each root penetrates deep into the Magic Tower, drawing power from an unknown space.