Chapter 432: Stage Lock 2
The gates connecting Magic Towers looked completely different from the tower gates we usually used.
The wide floor wasn't stone but metal, engraved with magic circles meticulously carved by artisans with hammers and chisels. The massive magic circle, large enough to consume an entire tower floor, was filled with what looked like expensive magical dye.
That wasn't all - columns inscribed with irregularly flashing runes stood like temple pillars, and overhead a strange sphere that looked straight out of an 80s sci-fi movie hummed as it rotated its constituent rings.
"Mages are amazing, no matter how many times I see this."
"So this is what Magic Tower gates look like."
"I saw it during the Season 2 tutorial but still can't get used to it. Doesn't it feel like the game genre suddenly switches to sci-fi here? Like that spinning thing's about to open a hell gate with demons crawling out."
"Alisa Friedrich's party, total of 26 people, correct?"
Unlike the simple doorframe gates that just teleported you through the middle, this Magic Tower gate screamed expensive complexity. As we admired it, a mage approached with clicking footsteps.
A woman with tightly bound purple hair and glasses - exactly what you'd picture for a pretty mage - walked toward us, her heels clicking on the metal floor.