To reach the next floor, there wasn't a staircase.
Instead, Elios had to wait in front of a small building that was connected to the wall.
There, a person checked his badge and then told him about the next process, before letting him wait in front of a door.
'Is this an elevator?!' Elios was surprised and wanted to inspect it in every way, but he didn't have the means.
At least the elevator was wooden and the door was actually just a bunch of vines bound together. This was more acceptable than a modern elevator.
'Well… when I first entered the tower, I wasn't even able to see its height, nor its width, but from the simple class, I know that the real tower is only 150 meter high and has a diameter of around 50 meters.
This isn't particularly large, actually, most sky scrapers are larger.
But when you stand in front of it, the subtle illusion of reaching the sky and encompassing the world will really form – this is not a real illusion cast, but a conceptual power that comes from the spatial expansion of the tower.
In reality, like most towers, this tower has nine floors. The expanded space makes each floor seem like a small village or town, so it's not surprising that the subtle illusion is formed…'
Elios remembered the classes' content while he was waiting.
At one point, the vines loosened and the door was open. The space on the other side was rather large, enough for over ten people to fit in at the same time.
"Third floor" Elios said after entering, to no one in particular.
Still, without any sound, the door was closed and he saw movement –
That's right, he saw it, he didn't feel anything. The ride was extremely smooth, if he didn't see the walls move, he wouldn't have thought they were moving.
'This is a huge security risk, what if someone accidentally touches the walls in this fast movement?' he was curious about this, then again, people weren't stupid and only apprentices who knew a few things could use it.
When he entered the tower, they seemed to use a spell that directly brought them to the second floor.
In fact, he has never been on the first floor, but he heard that the first floor was the market of all wizards in the tower's territory.
Apprentices and formal wizards would visit this market alike.
Of course for higher wizards, this market might not be attractive, so most of the time, it was only a market for apprentices.
A few minutes passed until Elios saw the elevator stop. This made him wonder… how large was the wizard tower really?
It took so long just to move up one floor. This meant that each floor was likely extremely tall too.
'There was artificial light and even an artificial sky… now that I think of it, why did I accept it just as is? How could it be normal for a real sky to exist in a tower?!'
The door had already opened but he was too stunned to move.
An older man came forward to see what was happening. When he saw a young man too stunned to move or speak, he smiled.
"Come on young man, other people also have to use the Magical Platform!"
Elios was still slightly dazed but nodded and left the room. Behind him, the door had already closed, but he wasn't sure whether it was an automatic closure or if someone had already called it.
The older man looked at Elios and explained with a smile "Haha, young man, you must have taken the Platform for the first time!
Well, it is my responsibility to explain such things, but I thought the first ones to pop up would be in a month!
Actually, it's not difficult to understand. Most towers were built like this – the first floor is a market, the second floor is a general use floor split into many different categories, among which is the living area for newly recruited students.
The third floor is the living area of apprentices, the fourth floor is the great library, the fifth is the lower laboratory area, the sixth is the higher laboratory area, the seventh floor is the living area of formal wizards, the eight floor is the living area of senior members of the tower, and the ninth area is the living area of the tower master, as well as a core security area for many important matters.
Aside from the upper floors, we also have underground floors, three of them. The first underground floor is the storage room, the second is the garden and a few other resource facilities, and finally, the third underground floor is the experiment area.
Sometimes, a tower has more floors, but most of the time, the expansion is underground, not aboveground.
For example, we have a breeding area below the garden, so the experiment area is the fourth underground floor, not the third.
As for the reason you suddenly felt stunned after leaving the second floor, it's because there is a great illusion formation surrounding the student area, blocking it off from other floors and even other areas of the second floor.
The illusion is not only visually, but also one that influences the mind.
It subtly changes a person's perception of the outside world – every student will subtly feel like they are in a small town to learn at a school.
Of course the illusion isn't strong and isn't supposed to influence you students. The moment you leave the second floor, you will realise this.
Most of the time, it takes a little longer. Your perception for space is high it seems!
Although the formation is one of illusion, it creates a small world where everyone inside will instinctively ignore the fact that they are in a tower.
Even if someone tells you about the tower, you will accept this fact but not question why the sky above you is just like that of outside!
Well, illusions like this generally don't work on apprentices after one point, so we don't have any of these illusions in the tower.
With a higher mental power, apprentices usually don't feel caged just because they are in a large enclosed space.
Now that you have the badge, you can also leave the tower and move around as you want, so many dangers that exist for students disappear when one becomes an apprentice!"