Reincarnated One Last Time

Chapter 78: Mage Tower War.

 

Aurora Gem Mage Tower, Roderick, the patriarch of the mage tower, frowned after reading the report. The Mysterious Tower is the same as him from the non-noble faction. However, The Mysterious Tower's strengths have been declining for hundreds of years since they don’t have a master mage.

 

Breaking through to master rank is hard, even with resources and knowledge. Because everyone's understanding is different. In the end, everything depends on luck and talent.

 

If the Mysterious Tower is strong or has potential, a member of the non-noble faction will lend them a hand. But for everything related to mutual interest, they might need to sacrifice their mana stone mine or other resources to ask for help. Nevertheless, giving away their mana stone mine will lead them to collapse sooner. Either way, the non-noble faction will not make a move and will rather conserve their strength.

 

Roderick had a complicated feeling because the Mysterious Tower was still a member of the non-noble faction. In the future, the Aurora Gem mage tower might have the same fate when all of its master ranks die when their lifespans end.

 

After a while, there is a knock on the door, and a female mage enters with a letter. Kelsey is already on her way to adept rank, thanks to Levi.

 

Patriarch, this is a letter from the secret messenger."

 

After reading the letter, Roderick spoke. "Gather five mages that are off duty and ask them to come and see me."

 

"Yes, Patriarch." Kelsey leaves the room.

 

The letter comes from a non-noble faction leader. They are required to send some mages as a pretense, and if their lives are in danger, they can retreat or surrender.

 

The mage nation had developed technology to contact people at far distances. However, they soon found out that people could intercept the communication to spy on them. Since then, they have used letters that are being guarded by secret messengers to send confidential information.

 

Although they manage to prevent long-distance communication from being intercepted, people still don’t fully trust it, and they can use a flying airship that is faster than a bird to send the letter.

 

Roderick suddenly remembered Philip and had a headache. Because his children are coming home for a holiday soon. Explaining this to them will be complicated; he is too soft when it comes to his family. That’s why, when he found out about his illegitimate son, he took him in rather than give him some money to keep him quiet.

 

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A few days later, something is happening in the Qraso City underworld. A new criminal organization suddenly appears and wipes out several small and medium gangs in the city.

 

The Bronze Spider Gang is one of the largest groups in the city. The reason they are powerful is because they had two leaders at the peak of adept rank. Both of them are husband and wife; the wife is a warrior, and the husband is a mage.

 

Their story is interesting because, according to rumor, the wife, who at that time worked as a mercenary, kidnaps her husband while on an escort mission. His husband, or client at that time, is a shy young man, and the wife falls in love with him.

 

However, today, both of them might die.

 

Leader, we are surrounded by the gangs in Qraso City. Join forces to attack us!"

 

"Calm down." A middle-aged woman with a burly body spoke. If Levi is here, he might recognize the woman. Because she is the escort leader, Levi helps protect the red sand desert from the bandits.

 

 

As soon as she spoke, the large door burst open, and many people entered the large hall.

 

Surrender, or you will die!"

 

"Old Jon, how dare you attack me, you, you, and you?" The burly woman pointed her finger at each man and woman who were the leaders of underworld gangs. All of them feel ashamed because she helped them before.

 

"Big sis, we are sorry. Either we die from your hand or poison."

 

"What poisons you?"

 

"It's me." A black-masked man comes out of the shadow. The gang leaders trembled because they had been tortured before consuming the poison.

 

"Who are you?"

 

"I give you a chance; become my subordinate. You only need to follow my instructions; other than that, you can do whatever you want."

 

Without answering, the burly woman unsheathed her sword and prepared to fight.

 

"I advise you to take my offer because if you attack, something bad is going to happen to your husband."

 

"What have you done?"

 

"Don’t worry, your husband is still alive. But you know his condition; anything can happen."

 

The burly woman calms down but is still wary of the masked man. A few years ago, she and her husband had a bad luck encounter with a demon cult follower. Before the cult follower dies, he takes out a frog statue with multiple eyes, but nothing happens.

 

At first, they think nothing about it after killing the demon cult follower, but soon her husband becomes sick. Although it’s not life-threatening, his body is getting weaker each day.

 

They had hired a physician and alchemist to check, but they couldn’t do anything about it. She even brought her husband to the red sand desert to find a shaman to cure him, but he failed. The only clue that she had was that his husband had been cursed.

 

"What do you want?" The burly woman is ready to attack; her aura and pressure even make the weaker people can’t breathe.

 

"As I say, just follow my order, and I might be able to help you, husband." The black-mask man is also ready to fight.

 

"I surrender!" The burly woman quickly throws her weapon away.

 

The sudden change of behavior shocks everyone, including Levi.

 

A few hours later, the black-mask man checks the burly woman's husband's condition. Her husband had been cursed, and to remove it, they needed to find someone who specialized in curses or light magic. But a light mage is rare.

 

Levi recognizes the burly woman but doesn’t say anything about it; her name is Laura, and her sickly husband is named Brian. She explains what happened to her husband.

 

The curse is weakening Brian's body. Levi can’t destroy the curse because he doesn’t know any light spells. However, the vampirism book had information about a curse. There is another way to remove the curse by transferring it to another object or person.

 

He's never tested it before, so he doesn’t know if it's going to work or not. Levi looks around the room.

 

"Can I use that cloth doll?" Near the bed, many cloth dolls belong to Laura or Brian.

 

"Yes, you can." Said Laura. The cloth doll was made by Brian while he was sick.

 

Levi takes the cloth doll and puts it on top of Brian's chest. One of the requirements to use this technique is that the user must have a dark element in his or her body. Fortunately, Levi had it; a dark tendril came out of Levi's hand and burrowed into the man's body.

 

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Brian screams in pain like his innards are being pulled out of his body.

 

Seeing that Laura almost stops Levi but manages to hold back, After a while, the dark tendril warped a black miasma and put it inside the cloth doll.

 

The cloth doll turns gloomy and smiles sinisterly. Levi quickly makes the doll disappear by putting it inside the spatial storage.

 

The frog statue with multiple eyes used by the demon cult follower must not be simple. The only reason Brian still survives is because of his peak adept mage strength.

 

Brian's pale face became normal again. Levi sighs inwardly because he is already prepared to kill them if Brian dies after the curse transfer. Since this is his first time using this technique,

 

Laura, seeing that, hugs her husband and thanks Levi many times.

 

Wait, what is your name and organization?" Asked Laura while crying.

 

"My name is... Dr. Jekyll and the organization named The Faceless."

 

"What about the poison?" Laura remembered the poison that she had consumed before coming here.

 

"Don’t worry, you just need to consume an antidote later." Levi lies; the poison is fake. There is a poison from the Tianxia World martial art unorthodox faction that requires the victim to eat an antidote each month or year to survive.

 

The problem is that the materials and poisonous herbs can’t be found in this world. He doesn’t have time to do research and experiment. In the end, Levi made the fake poison by using normal grass that had been mushed together and dried to create a small ball.

 

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The Mysterious Tower existed even before the founding of the mage nation. They join together with the mages to destroy the previous kingdom. However, now its reputation has fallen because of the death of the last master mage. Thanks to the numerous resources that they had, The Mysterious Tower has lasted until now.

 

"Damn, the Arcane Tower!" An elderly man in his sixties slams his hand on the table. He is the patriarch of the Mysterious Tower. For the past decades, the Arcane Tower has done many things covertly or in the open to take over The Mysterious Tower's resources. Nevertheless, the Arcane Tower failed.

 

Although The Mysterious Tower doesn’t have a master mage, their foundation is strong. Unless the Arcane Tower master rank made a move, it was impossible to win against them.

 

Now what they had feared has come true: the mage tower war.

 

"Patriarch, what should we do?"

 

"Don’t worry, I sent a message to the non-noble and neutral faction for help."

 

"Patriarch. We are in trouble!"

 

"Calm down; tell me what happened."

 

"Most of the workers and mages in the mage tower had deserted!"

 

"Stop them from leaving; someone must have told them about the mage tower war."