Chapter 562: Element Tower, Your God of Magic Has Returned!

Chapter 562: The Elemental Tower, Your Archmage Has Returned!

"The Elemental Tower."

Li Wei spoke the destination.

Victor activated the spatial teleportation array and sent Li Wei to the Elemental Tower.

After nearly a year, Li Wei returned once more to the Elemental Tower.

Buzz!

A pillar of light appeared on the teleportation plaza of the Elemental Tower.

The light pillar gradually faded.

Li Wei stepped out from within.

He glanced around and discovered that the teleportation plaza, originally situated on the ground, now floated in the sky.

Two floating islands hovered in midair—one large, one small.

The larger one was the Elemental Tower itself; the smaller one was the teleportation plaza where Li Wei currently stood.

To prevent enemies from directly invading through the teleportation arrays, the Elemental Tower had always kept its teleportation platforms separate from the main structure.

Now, facing the undead disturbances within the ancient battlefield and the resulting undead apocalypse, they had no choice but to raise the previously ground-based teleportation plaza into the air—to avoid it being destroyed by the undead.

Standing upon the teleportation plaza, Li Wei gazed at the much larger floating island not far away.

At the center of the floating island stood an enormous mage tower.

On the upper levels of the tower, four pillars extended outward from the outer walls, each bearing a flag representing one of the four elements: earth, water, wind, and fire.

At the very top were two semicircular arches standing apart, supporting a blue orb of light.

That was the Elemental Tower's ultimate strategic weapon.

It was already in a semi-activated state.

This meant the Elemental Tower was ready for battle at any moment.

Li Wei walked to the edge of the teleportation plaza and found defensive magical arrays blocking his exit.

Below, the undead were everywhere visible.

The defensive mages were there to protect the mages on the teleportation plaza.

At this moment, the Elemental Tower seemed unaware of the arrival of a legendary mage.

Using a narrow path connecting the teleportation plaza to the floating city, Li Wei passed through the defensive arrays and came before the Elemental Tower.

He looked up at the towering structure before him, his emotions complex.

Last time, he had been forced to leave the Elemental Tower.

The Church of Light demanded that the Elemental Tower hand him over.

Under pressure, the Elemental Tower had no choice but to deliver Li Wei to the Church of Light.

Li Wei could understand the decision made by the higher-ups of the Elemental Tower.

Understanding did not mean forgiveness.

Forgiveness was impossible.

Li Wei hadn't come back to forgive the Elemental Tower's leadership.

He had come for something greater.

Something the Elemental Tower possessed.

Solar Radiance.

In Li Wei's eyes, it was a supernatural force embodying naturally occurring elemental fusion laws.

Elemental fusion originated from nuclear fusion.

The sun constantly undergoes violent nuclear fusion.

Solar Radiance came from the sun.

By analyzing, understanding, and comprehending Solar Radiance, one could grasp the rules of elemental fusion within the sun's core.

In Li Wei's view, the ultimate evolution of elemental fusion pointed toward the sun.

Igniting a star, transforming it into a burning sun.

But even the sun was not the end point of evolution.

Beyond the sun lay red giants, supernovas, white dwarfs... and ultimately black holes capable of warping time and space.

This path offered immense potential for growth.

Reaching the level of a black hole meant nothing—not even time or space—could escape.

Different paths led to the same destination.

Any power, when pushed to its extreme, became terrifyingly formidable.

Besides this, Li Wei also desired other things.

Such as the vast collection of spells accumulated over many years within the Elemental Tower.

And the forbidden incantations known only to the Elemental Tower.

As Li Wei approached the entrance of the Elemental Tower, he encountered a familiar face.

With a smile, he greeted, "Hey, Hobis, long time no see."

Hearing someone call his name, Hobis instinctively turned around.

The instant he saw Li Wei, he froze in place.

"Li... Li Wei!"

Just as the name escaped his lips, Hobis quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

He hurriedly walked up to Li Wei and pulled him aside to a nearby corner.

Looking nervously at Li Wei, Hobis said, "Why are you still at the Elemental Tower?"

Li Wei asked, "Half a year has passed already. The storm should have blown over long ago."

Hobis replied, "True enough, but your sudden disappearance last time caused the Elemental Tower's leadership to suffer a major setback in front of the Church of Light. They've expelled you from the Elemental Tower."

"They've publicly claimed you defected and left on your own accord, stating everything you've done since then has nothing to do with the Elemental Tower."

All of this was merely the official stance taken by the Elemental Tower's leadership.

Those below held their own thoughts.

Hobis didn't care how the Elemental Tower slandered Li Wei.

In his opinion, Li Wei was an excellent scholar—if only he could remain forever in the Hall of Truth.

The upper echelons of the Elemental Tower were all fools, actually forcing away such a brilliant scholar.

In this regard, opinions within the Hall of Truth were relatively unified.

Especially among those scholars of the Hall of Truth who had interacted with Levi, worked alongside him.

They all believed it was a great pity that Levi had been expelled from the Elemental Tower.

It was the Elemental Tower's loss.

Those outsiders who were unaware of the situation, mages unfamiliar with Levi, naturally held a different attitude.

They believed the announcements issued by the Elemental Tower, viewing Levi as a criminal of the Elemental Tower.

Slandering him in every way possible.

Anyway, all the unfortunate incidents that had occurred in the Elemental Tower over the years were somehow connected to Levi.

All of them were his doing behind the scenes.

Ask anyone, and they would say that Levi, expelled from the Elemental Tower, was the mastermind behind it all.

The common mages and the public knew nothing of the actual circumstances.

Nor could the upper levels of the Elemental Tower possibly offer an explanation.

Levi chuckled and said, "This is truly heartless."

He had at least brought the Elemental Tower a first-place victory in the League of the Five Premier Mage Towers.

Allowing the Elemental Tower to wash away the frustration of perennially being third, achieving the rare honor of reaching the top for once.

For the Elemental Tower, this was not merely a matter of reputation, but also brought many tangible benefits.

Resources from the Imperial Mage Association were also distributed based on rankings in the mage league competitions.

By claiming first place, the Elemental Tower received at least ten percent more resources than in previous years.

For such a massive Elemental Tower, even just a ten percent increase represented an unimaginably huge sum.

At the very least, it was worth several hundred million gold coins.

He originally knew nothing about these matters.

Just recently, when Victor escorted him out of the Spatial Tower, complaining that he had caused the Spatial Tower to lose resources worth several hundred million gold coins.

Only then did Levi realize that the League of the Five Premier Mage Towers involved resource distribution among the premier mage towers.

Hobis quickly said, "So, before anyone discovers you're here, hurry and leave the Elemental Tower."

Levi replied, "Running away won't solve the problem."

"I've returned to resolve this issue."

The reason the Elemental Tower abandoned Levi and decided to hand him over to the Church of the Light was simple.

Because in the eyes of most senior members of the Elemental Tower, the cost versus benefit of protecting Levi and offending the Church of the Light was severely mismatched.

Put bluntly, defending Levi would offend the Church of the Light.

In the view of most high-ranking officials of the Elemental Tower, it wasn't worth it.

Fourth-rank Archmage Levi held no sway in the eyes of the Elemental Tower's senior leadership.

However, Legendary Mage Levi was not someone the Elemental Tower's senior officials could afford to ignore.

Seeing that he couldn't dissuade Levi, who was walking toward the Elemental Tower, Hobis hurriedly took out a communication crystal to contact his uncle, Fongrides.

Fongrides was the head of the Solar Research Group of the Hall of Truth.

A top professor-level scholar of the Hall of Truth.

When Levi got into trouble, it was Fongrides who went around persuading the Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Hall of Truth to speak up for Levi.

"Uncle, Levi has returned!"

These few words caused Fongrides, who was attending an important meeting, to abandon everything and walk out of the meeting immediately.

"I have urgent business now. Postpone this meeting until tomorrow," Fongrides declared, then turned and left the conference room.

Rushing outside, he asked Hobis what exactly had happened while hurrying along.

How could Levi suddenly return?

Hobis quickly told Fongrides everything he knew.

When Fongrides learned that Levi was actually going to confront the senior leadership of the Elemental Tower for an explanation,

he slapped his forehead, realizing things were about to go badly.

Fongrides stopped in his tracks and turned toward the room of the Hall of Truth's chairman.

This time, they absolutely had to protect Levi.

Levi walked from the first floor to the seventh floor of the Elemental Tower without encountering any obstruction.

It wasn't until the elder guarding the interdimensional teleportation array on the seventh floor recognized Levi.

The elder looked at Levi with shock and suspicion, "You are... Magister Levi?"

Levi looked at the somewhat familiar but nameless guard elder before him.

He smiled and said, "Yes, I am Levi. I've returned specifically to visit the various councilors of the Elemental Tower."

After his initial surprise, the elder said, "You've been expelled from the Elemental Tower and shouldn't be here."

As he spoke, he moved to restrain Levi.

Suddenly, the elder found himself unable to move, completely unable to cast spells.

The surrounding magical elements had all fallen silent.

"A Domain!?"

The elder stared at Levi in shock.

Although Domains were rare, the Elemental Tower was not lacking in archmages who possessed them.

But a Domain capable of directly suppressing him to the point of complete immobility—

He had never seen such a thing.

After all, he was a sixth-rank High Archmage.

Looking at Levi, the elder immediately felt that his strength was unfathomable.

"How is this possible?"

Levi's actions triggered the warning formation on the seventh floor of the Elemental Tower.

Soon, several elders of the Elemental Tower came to the seventh floor for support.

"What happened?"

As they entered the seventh floor, they discovered they had lost control over the magical elements in their surroundings.

The magical elements within their bodies were also suppressed to the point of immobility.

They were completely unable to cast spells.

They stared in astonishment at the figure standing within the seventh-floor hall.

"Who are you?"

Li Wei glanced at the crowd, too lazy to explain, and released the aura of a legendary mage.

Buzz!

In an instant, everyone felt the oppressive might of formidable magical power.

A sense of dread gripped their hearts.

"A legendary mage!"

All eyes were fixed on Li Wei in shock.

No one could understand why a legendary mage had suddenly appeared within the Elemental Tower causing chaos.

Soon, the presence of the legendary mage alarmed the upper echelons of the Elemental Tower.

All members of the high council of the Elemental Tower were legendary mages themselves.

Two councilors appeared on the seventh floor.

"Who are you? Even if you're a legendary mage, you cannot run rampant within the Elemental Tower!"

Many among the Elemental Tower's leadership knew of Li Wei.

However, only a few had actually seen Li Wei in person.

To legendary-level mages who stood at the pinnacle of the Elemental Tower,

it was already inconceivable that a meeting would be convened for a mere fourth-rank archmage.

Let alone personally investigating such a person.

Li Wei looked at the two men and discovered that their magical power was actually weaker than his own.

They were quite old,

yet remained merely novice legendary mages.

Their hopes of breaking through to higher levels of legend were virtually nonexistent.

He said, "I am Li Wei. Bring forth those truly in charge of the Elemental Tower."

"Li Wei?"

Upon hearing this name, the two legendary mages were initially bewildered—they had never heard of a powerful legendary mage named Li Wei.

One of them suddenly realized something and looked at Li Wei with suspicion. "Could you be that Li Wei who was expelled from the Elemental Tower?"

When he spoke these words, he himself found it unbelievable.

But he could only recall one person by the name of Li Wei.

The elder suppressed by Li Wei immediately shouted loudly, "That's him! That's him!"

The legendary mages looked at Li Wei in disbelief.

"How is this possible? Wasn't he just a fourth-rank mage? How could he have become a legendary mage?"

"Li Wei? Why have you returned?"

A figure appeared on the seventh floor.

Seeing this, the previous two legendary mages quickly called out, "Lord Windchaser!"

One of the highest seats on the Elemental Tower Council—Windchaser.

The Elemental Tower's strongest wind-elemental mage.

A top-tier legendary mage.

Li Wei turned to look at Windchaser, sensing his formidable power.

Windchaser gazed at Li Wei with an expression of surprise. "How did you become a legendary mage?"

Li Wei chuckled and said, "Is that so surprising?"

"My becoming a legendary mage was, after all, within your expectations."

Windchaser's eyes narrowed slightly.

The Elemental Tower's leadership had indeed held great hopes for Li Wei becoming a legendary mage.

His potential had been abundantly clear.

Unfortunately, Li Wei had offended forces he should not have provoked.

The Elemental Tower had many individuals with the potential to become legendary mages.

Most members of the Purple Class possessed this potential.

Therefore, the Elemental Tower's leadership had not placed excessive importance on Li Wei's potential.

Potential was potential.

For Li Wei to become a legendary mage, who knew how many years of cultivation lay ahead.

He might meet with some accident along the way and perish prematurely.

Windchaser was also deeply shocked, finding it unbelievable.

Li Wei had actually become a legendary mage so quickly.

This rate of growth was utterly absurd.

Windchaser recalled someone—a long time ago, there had been another person within the Elemental Tower whose strength increased at an extraordinary pace.

Far surpassing ordinary people, abnormal in every way.

Later investigation revealed that person had been possessed by a higher-ranking mage.

That individual was not originally a mage of the Elemental Tower, but rather a student sent by the Illusion Spirit Tower for exchange study.

Upon discovering his true identity, the Elemental Tower had expelled him back to the Illusion Spirit Tower.

Afterward, that person had left the Illusion Spirit Tower and disappeared without a trace.

Perhaps the Illusion Spirit Tower knew where he had gone.

The Elemental Tower had not followed up on this matter and thus knew little of its subsequent developments.

Windchaser stared intently at Li Wei, perceiving whether his aura showed any abnormalities.

Had someone possessed his body?

Windchaser fixed his gaze upon Li Wei and said, "Who are you? Why have you possessed Li Wei's body to cause trouble at the Elemental Tower?"

Hearing this, Li Wei laughed.

"Haha, you're thinking too complicatedly. I am myself—I haven't been possessed."

Returning to the main point.

Li Wei hadn't come back specifically to cause trouble.

He stated his demand: "I want to become a councilor of the Elemental Tower."

Upon hearing these words, everyone stared at Li Wei in shock, thinking: This man has lost his mind.

Did he think the position of councillor in the Elemental Tower was something he could simply claim for himself?

Even if he were a legendary mage, such a title did not grant him unrestricted access.

The Windchaser was about to refuse outright when a voice whispered in his ear—none other than that of the Elemental Tower's deputy master.

After a brief moment, the Windchaser fixed his gaze upon Li Wei and spoke: "Very well. Regardless of whether you are truly Li Wei or not, since you wish to join the Elemental Tower, we shall extend to you an opportunity."

(End of Chapter)