Chương 96: Magic Tide

Li Qinwu shouted at the base of the Mage Tower for a good while, but there was no movement whatsoever inside the Mage Tower. He tilted his head toward a soldier and said, "Go grab a mage apprentice!" The soldier turned and left, returning a short while later dangling a chubby mage apprentice. Li Qinwu grabbed this mage apprentice by the waist, lifted him high up, and threatened the Mage Tower once again.

"Old timer! If you fucking don't come down and surrender right now, I'm going to perform eating a pig in one bite for you!" After saying that, he blew off the little fat boy's hat in one breath, opened his large mouth, and pretended to bite down, causing the little fat boy to wail loudly. Li Qinwu didn't use any force, taking a bite right on the little fat boy's head, but immediately felt something wasn't right; it was oily. He hurriedly moved his mouth away.

"You little brat, how long has it been since you washed your hair! How can it be so smelly!!" The little fat boy wept to the point where tears and snot flowed straight down, and a massive snot bubble even hung beneath his nose. That snot bubble blew larger and larger, larger and larger, until it went pop and burst. Li Qinwu directly gagged in his heart; with this look, even if he were a child-eating monster, he couldn't swallow him!

Just as he was thinking, with a bang, the door to the first floor of the Mage Tower was forcefully pushed open from the inside. The old man mage stood at the doorway with a face full of fury, pointing right at Li Qinwu's nose and shouting abuses: "Damn Goblin, let go of that child! I have already submitted to arrest, you are satisfied now, right!" Li Qinwu smiled, placed the little fat boy on the ground, and slapped him on the butt, sending the little fat boy running off crying wa-wa-wa.

He waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed up, binding the old man mage firmly with iron chains. The old man mage shouted, "Gentler, gentler, you uneducated monsters, this old man is 70 years old this year, are you going to strangle me to death!" Following this, he glared at Li Qinwu.

"Goblin, what do you want to do with me?" Li Qinwu chuckled.

"That will have to depend on your attitude!" The old man mage looked toward Miss Hana beside Li Qinwu.

"Be like her? Betraying humanity to serve you, this Goblin!" Miss Hana's face filled with shame, and she shrank a bit behind Li Qinwu. Li Qinwu extended his index finger, condensing a small flame on his hand, and set the old man mage's large beard on fire.

"Ah! Fire, fire!!" The old man mage blew hu-hu-hu at the fire on his beard, blowing the fire out in a few breaths, but his beard was also burned black in one section.

"You..." He wanted to break out into loud curses, but Li Qinwu condensed another flame, and he didn't dare make a sound anymore; his love for his own beard was not inferior to that of a dwarf. Seeing that he didn't dare act rashly, Li Qinwu extinguished the flame and mocked, "Old man, why speak with such thorns? Don't the mages of your Mage Guild also provide magical services to elves, dwarves, beastmen, and even giant dragons? Aren't they all foreign races?

How is it that it's unacceptable for our Union to invite Miss Hana to be a magical consultant, while it's perfectly fine for you to act as consultants for other foreign races? Such double standards?" This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.

"How can that be the same? You pack of Goblins!!" the old man mage retorted in anger. Li Qinwu spread his hands.

"See, our disagreement lies right here. You think we are weak, contemptible monsters that can be killed at any time, so you dispatched a hero party, completely disregarding everything to rush into our territory, wanting to destroy the Union. But in reality, the Union was not as fragile as you imagined; the Union instead killed the invaders, and the Union's army has even fought its way here to demand an explanation for the attack the Union suffered. Old man, your misunderstanding of us runs very deep!"

The old man mage still wanted to say something mocking, but Li Qinwu didn't give him the chance, stuffing the cloth normally used to wipe blood off his greatsword into his mouth.

"Rest assured, old man, we will use blades, swords, guns, and cannons to emit sounds you can understand, letting you re-learn what the Union is. Bring him down and lock him up; have two squads watch him, and if he makes any unusual movement, shoot him dead directly! Everyone else, rest on the spot for 5 hours, eat, and replenish your physical strength!"

Having fought continuously for so long, and having fought a fire once, the soldiers were exhausted to their limits; if they forced combat further, their morale would be completely emptied. Right now, the time was around 6: 00 PM; letting the soldiers sleep until night would not only allow them to recover their physical strength but also take advantage of humanity's poor vision at night to catch them completely off guard by killing them.

After arranging the rest and the guard duty, Li Qinwu and Miss Hana walked into the Mage Tower together. He raised his head to look, his face also filled with shock, only to see a mass of extremely complex metal components extending from the base of the tower to the top of the tower. Tens of thousands of gears and components whose uses could not be understood formed a slender, column-like metal object, encased inside the stone magic tower. Miss Hana explained, "This is the Magic Tide Observation Instrument.

It is forged from highly sensitive enchanted metal, together with magical script carved onto the metal, making it a device that is exceptionally sensitive to the magic tide, capable of effectively monitoring the magic tide's flow." Li Qinwu asked, "What exactly is the magic tide? What use is monitoring that thing?" Miss Hana continued to explain.

"The magic power in our world is flowing; when the flowing magic power gathers together, it produces a magic tide, similar to monsoons. Observing the magic tide, for one thing, is to study the laws of the world's operation, letting people better understand the laws of our world's operation, which is the most cutting-edge academic research. Another thing is to conduct the carving of magical script.

Magic factors are a kind of invisible but everywhere-existent thing; these magic factors will pass through matter, pass through the human body, but they are harmless, almost never causing direct destruction to the material world. However, the magic tide will cause a massive amount of magic factors to run wild; this still poses no hazard to the material world, but for the work of carving magical script, it will cause destructive damage.

For example, a staff—this is the most common magic amplification and output equipment; wanting to carve magical script onto a staff requires it to be carried out under an environment where the magic tide is stable. Otherwise, the carved magical script will be washed into scrap by the magic factors." Li Qinwu's face was full of novelty; this world was truly wonderful, to actually have natural phenomena like magic factors and magic tides.

He decided that once productivity rose in the future, he must heavily invest in scientific research; such an interesting world had to be thoroughly explored! He looked toward the Magic Tide Observation Instrument and asked once more.

"Miss Hana, do you know how to use this equipment? Can it be dismantled and taken away?"

"It is possible, Lord. Every mage must intern inside a mage tower during their apprentice phase, among which learning how to use the mage tower, dismantling, maintenance, and upkeep are required courses; if one fails, they cannot get credits and cannot advance to lecturer." To mention in passing, Miss Hana's position in the Mage Guild was an apprentice, but according to her own description, she could already have participated in the lecturer advancement exam.

However, because of the matter regarding Young Master Lance's family, she was affected, did not participate in the advancement exam, and could only be exiled in the status of a mage apprentice—this was the thing she was most unwilling about. Li Qinwu had Miss Hana stay here to dismantle the Mage Tower, and he would give her personnel to help; this work had to be completed as quickly as possible, and the Magic Tide Observation Instrument would be the device taken away with the highest priority.

The 5 hours passed very quickly. The soldiers had consumed a large amount of magic beast meat and had also snoozed for 5 hours; their physical strength had recovered a lot, possessing at least 70% of the combat capability they had when in optimal condition. Coupled with the fact that it was now nighttime, and the dark night weakened humanity's field of vision, the advantage lay with him.

Li Qinwu led the soldiers and rushed toward the Temple of the Goddess of Life—an organization that absolutely had to be destroyed.