Mage Tower

After being recognized by the gatekeeper, Fran was taken away by several mages who arrived, right before Dorian's shocked eyes.

Faced with Dorian's questioning gaze, she scratched her head and said nothing.

She didn't hide her School of thought from Dorian, and even Dorian himself didn't think there was anything wrong with Fran's School being the Forge School.

He thought the Forge School was a relatively low-profile School, not as well-known as the Elemental School. He didn't realize that the Forge School was a newly established School, with only Fran as a true Formal Mage member.

After this incident, Fran felt that Dorian must have guessed her identity, otherwise no one would have come to greet her.

She looked at the monk leading the way and asked:

Where are we going?

A mage in a black robe turned to her and said:

"It was our Society President who instructed us to take you to see Society President immediately the moment we found you."

"You're a bit late; you should have arrived before the riot started."

Fran remembered that Harbos had mentioned knowing the Society President of the Northern Lands Society President.

Fran's arrival at the Northern Lands Society shouldn't have been such a grand affair, but her mentor did something extraordinary.

Judging from that report, you can tell how much my mentor has done.

The author of that report started by targeting the former Chief of the Elemental School, which was practically fanning the flames of the Elemental School.

In the middle, the text focuses on introducing the Northern Lands Society, without explicitly stating what other School are like.

However, those in the know can almost immediately conclude that this report satirizes and criticizes the monopolization of research results and the setting of high barriers to entry among various academic societies.

Furthermore, Fran didn't know whether Harbos's Paper had been published in the Northern Lands Society or elsewhere, but she was certain that the fact that it was published in the Northern Lands Society was a big problem.

First of all, the Northern Lands Society is an organization that is ostracized by many other societies within the Alliance, yet Harbos still submits articles to it, which is truly a provocation to those societies.

Furthermore, the findings of this Paper clearly belong to the Elemental School; just hearing the name of the Paper, Fran felt that it Paper to the Elemental School.

Under these circumstances, Fran could easily imagine the huge uproar this report would cause.

Not only Harbos, but also Fran, Elan in the City of Apprentices, and those apprentices belonging to the Forge School, are probably all at the center of the vortex.

Under these circumstances, it's not surprising that Fran was immediately welcomed away by these mages after arriving at the Northern Lands Society.

She had heard from Dorian that many mages from the Alliance had gone to the Northern Lands Society after seeing this report.

When those mages who had reservations about the Paper arrived at the Northern Lands Society, upon learning that she was a disciple of that Harbos, they had no choice but to seek her out for an 'academic exchange'...

Therefore, it's not surprising that the Society President specifically arranged for someone to take him to the Society President immediately after finding him.

Harbos and this Society President must have some close relationship, otherwise Harbos wouldn't have sent himself here.

Fran followed the mages through the wide streets. The houses here seemed to have a unique deep red color due to the peculiar mud and sand used as building materials.

The entire street was similar to the buildings Fran had seen in the Alliance, suggesting that the mages who came here must have directly referenced the Alliance's architectural style when building their houses.

After the mages led Fran across the street, Fran saw a giant tower about fifty meters high standing in the center of a square.

The tower appeared rather small in comparison to the furnace, which was hundreds of meters high, so Fran hadn't noticed it before.

The giant tower was grayish-yellow, with a half-hand on top. On the hand was a pattern of flowing sand, which Fran recognized as the symbol of the Alchemy School.

This suggests that the Society President who founded the Northern Lands Society came from the Alchemy School, and that most of the initial members may have been Alchemy School.

Below the School's emblem is a pattern composed of overlapping snowflakes, which Fran recognizes as the emblem of the Northern Lands Society.

There were many makeshift houses in the square, covered with cloth, and Fran could sense various magical fluctuations emanating from inside.

Fran looked curiously at the small houses covered in cloth, while a mage beside her explained:

"That's a temporary place requisitioned by some mages from the Mage Tower; they're conducting experiments here."

Space inside the Mage Tower is limited, and many newly arrived mages are unable to apply for space inside the tower, so they can only come to this plaza.

"The Mage Tower." Fran pondered the name of this colossal tower.

As a building directly associated with mages, the functions it provides are naturally all related to mages.

In the ancient times before the Alliance was established, the Mage Tower was the key location for most magical activities.

At that time, the Mage Tower not only provided mage education for apprentices, but also allowed mages to freely explore, create, or modify spells.

At the same time, the Mage Tower must also have strong defensive capabilities to resist attacks from other Profession or other mages.

However, after the Alliance was established, the educational and defensive functions of the Mage Tower were greatly weakened.

The training of apprentice monks could be moved to densely populated areas, where education would be more suitable.

For external defense, there are the Battle Mage Corps under the Alliance, as well as Floating City that can be moved at any time, which are sufficient to deal with attacks from other forces.

So now, the only function of the Mage Tower is to allow mages to explore spells.

After the function was reduced, the cost of the Mage Tower also decreased, allowing more Mage Tower to be built within the Alliance.

In theory, as long as you are a mage, even First Order Mage like Fran, you can build Mage Tower Mage Tower spending money.

After all, while the Alliance may block knowledge, it does not block the circulation of various materials or the sale of such Spell Apparatus.

However, the definition of "wealthy" is quite high. Even someone as wealthy as Fran, who is far richer than most First Order Mage, could only build Mage Tower with about one-third of its functions being relatively complete.

Only mages of rank three and above have the financial resources to construct Mage Tower with various unique functions.