Chapter 163
As the proxy of the Black Mage Tower, overseeing the tower’s trials was separate from the fact that he had to face the tower’s trials anyway.
Upon turning fifteen, he gained the ability to project thermal energy onto the Shadow Lord’s avatar, based on his black, red, and blue magic. Dale’s current growth trajectory was beyond even the title of the empire’s greatest genius. Yet, watching the battle between the Immortal Lord and the Black Lord that day, he realized something profoundly painful.
He was ridiculously inadequate.
He had to become stronger.
Even if one somehow managed to acquire enough power to stand toe-to-toe with those extraordinary strongmen, what they displayed that day was nothing short of a miracle—one that made even those formidable foes seem like children squabbling.
The very existence of the monarchs who ruled this empire, and furthermore, the true power they possessed.
No, what those two Saxons displayed that day was not even their full power. Yet even that level of psychological warfare was a realm Dail could never dare to approach.
Officially standing at the pinnacle of the continent are the Five Magicians, the masters of the Five-Colored Magic Towers. But how many more unknown powerhouses exist beyond them, like the Immortal Engineer Frederick of the ‘Shadow Magic Tower’?
Take, for instance, the former Black Mage Tower Lord and Saxon family head now under the Immortal Engineer’s command… much like the Eldritch.
