Dimensional Descent

Leonel smiled and scratched his head awkwardly.

"Now that you mention it, I'm not really sure what the purpose of this tower is. Could you explain it to me?"

Leonel and Lionus walked into the first floor of the tower. In truth, Leonel wanted to preface his question with a bit more, but he was a bit stunned by what he saw.

The room follow the same rounded shape as the tower outside. It was quite spacious and quiet. Despite the large size, there were only a handful of people here, but they were all crowded around the same thing.

In the center of the first floor, there was a large, floating crystal. It was easily three meters in diameter and seemed to slowly spin without any support. It hung perfectly in the air and radiated a dull light.

"Ah, right, you're still unfamiliar with some things." Lionus didn't seem to mind.

Though the small number of mages within the tower all looked toward the new arrivals and were stunned by their identities, seemingly used to this, Lionus continued to speak at a leisurely pace.

"The Mage Art Tower is a place that houses all of the Magic Arts Camelot has accumulated. As long as it was once conceived by a mage of our Kingdom, then it will be here. However, the matters here aren't so simple either.

"It's clear how valuable such a place is, so it's not a location that can be casually entered, nor is it possible to even if you were simply allowed to roam freely.

"There are only three ways to be allowed to enter this tower. The first way is the typical single entry once a year. For each year you graduate or enter in the Academy, you're allowed one entry."

Leonel nodded. He realized now why the surrounding space was so empty. This wasn't normal enrollment times, so those who should have entered their first years along with him had already long since come.

"The second way is by gaining Military Achievements and the last way is by becoming a Childe of the Elements. Should you accomplish the last one, you would be allowed unlimited entries to the Mage Art Tower and can travel up as far as your Spirit Pressure allows."

"Childe of the Elements?" Leonel asked in confusion.

"A Childe of the Elements has the same privileges as a Holy Son.

that crystal ball up there? It's able to test for Crystallization Affinity. When someone's affinity touches upon a certain standard, they will be designated a Childe. In fact, it could be said that the only advantage a Holy

the Light Element is so powerful, even a Holy Son with a low

so it's like

he was quite curious. If the Light Element was so powerful with low affinity, what was it like with high affinity?

his affinity was exceptionally high. After all, this was

that Official Mage

curious question toward

touched on it a bit." Mary responded. "How high one can climb the Mage Art Tower depends on what one's Spirit Pressure can take. Each successive floor comes with a stronger pressure. This pressure is good for

you."

since I've seen someone take the Crystallization Affinity

"Sure!"

eager to do so since the beginning, so he had no

toward the floating crystal. At that moment, there was

possible to increase affinity through meditation and comprehension. In addition, after having breakthroughs in Spirit Pressure, affinity naturally increases as well. However, the higher one's starting base affinity, the more potential for growth

was all to say that it wasn't a surprise to find a person testing themselves once again. This affinity test was actually also a good gauge of how far one could climb the tower. Though resisting the Spirit

would sometimes test their affinities before they climbed the tower so that they didn't push themselves too hard and cause irreparable injury to their

suddenly swayed nervously. When he had come here today, the last thing

his nervousness. Wouldn't

a deep breath, he pressed his

WENG!

crystal began to emit

dependent on the radiance of the light. It the light projects a foot out from the surface of the crystal, it meets the minimum requirement to enter the Mage Academy —