Now, he should be on the second floor of the arcane tower, which was the apprentice library building. If he continued going up, the third and fourth floors should be complete floors, especially the third floor. Generally speaking, this floor should be the warehouse where the owner of the arcane tower stored some of the more expensive materials.
Even a little bit of the arcanist's warehouse would be enough to be exchanged for money and smash a great noble to death!
But if he continued going up, who knew what dangers there would be!
What about going down?
It would not be safe, and might even be more dangerous.
It was not difficult to see from the broken copper and iron near the teleportation portal that the Benedict family should have already explored this floor and ended in failure.
If he went down now, how could he explain that he was safe and sound, and how could he explain that the things on this floor had gone there? Once he went down safely, even an idiot would know that he had secrets on him …
Using Qiankun Pagoda to deal with low-intelligence things like the golems was of course no problem, but if it was used against humans, it would be very easy for people to see through it.
As for sneaking out, there were now a large number of mages and priests from the Benedict Exploration Committee on the first floor of the arcane tower. With priests with keen senses, it would be wishful thinking to sneak out of the arcane tower.
Although going up was dangerous, it was very likely that the danger would still come from the golems, and it turned out that Qiankun Pagoda could deal with them.
So, in fact, Feng Chou had no choice now. He could only go up and see if he could teleport from the fourth floor's teleportation portal to the incomplete fifth floor.
Thinking of this, Feng Chou no longer hesitated. He took down Qiankun Pagoda and placed it on the teleportation portal, then entered the Qiankun Pagoda himself.
After the first upgrade, Qiankun Pagoda was already equivalent to an all-element advanced mage apprentice. Although it could only cast level-zero spells, it was enough to activate the teleportation portal.
A burst of light flashed, and Qiankun Pagoda disappeared from the teleportation portal.
The third floor of the arcane tower was a hall very similar to the second floor. It was also a circular hall, and there were more than a dozen doors around it. In front of each door, there was also a golden-red golem guarding it.
When the teleportation portal in the center of the hall on the third floor lit up, fifteen golems woke up at the same time and stood up from their squatting positions. Their eyes made of gems all looked at the teleportation portal.
When Qiankun Pagoda was teleported over, the eyes of these golems dimmed and they sat down again.
Feng Chou's gaze in Qiankun Pagoda immediately fell on the door behind the golems.
On the lintel of the gates, respectively, "Of the Metal warehouse", "Of the Of the Material", "Of the Of the Material", "Of the Of the material material Of the Material", "Of the material Of the material", "Of the material material material of the abyss", "Of the material material of the material of the heavens" …
There were a total of fifteen warehouses in different categories.
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After dealing with the golems, Feng Chou began to open the warehouses one by one.
He found that the warehouses here were all filled with black steel, arcane copper, mid-level magical beast leather and bones, mid-level magical wood, and other most commonly used low-level and mid-level magical materials.
The unit price of these things was not very high, and Feng Chou could afford to use them, but the quantity of these things was shocking. In the metal warehouse, there were more than ten tons of black steel alone.
Feng Chou directly used the method of opening a portal under the material boxes. It took less than an hour to move all the thousands of large boxes in the fifteen warehouses.
After looting the third floor, Feng Chou did not hesitate to go up to the fourth floor this time.
The layout of the fourth floor was completely different from the second and third floors. On this floor, the teleportation portal was located in a wide circular corridor.
The corridor was surrounded by four square walls, and inside the corridor was a giant pillar with a diameter of more than thirty meters. Therefore, this circular corridor had an irregular shape with an inner circle and an outer square. The teleportation portal was located in a corner of the corridor.
On the giant pillar directly opposite the teleportation portal, there was a metal door. In front of the door stood two golems that were not the same as the ones he had seen before. These golems looked more like humans. They were tall and sturdy, and completely lacked the clumsiness of ordinary golems. They also had two broad-bladed swords on their backs.
In addition, the color of these golems was also different from before. They had a dark gold luster with a faint blue glow, giving them a mysterious and beautiful feeling.
The activation of the teleportation portal awakened the golems. They turned their heads and stared at Qiankun Pagoda, who had suddenly appeared in the teleportation portal, and ignored him.
On the outer walls on both sides of the teleportation portal, there were also two doors, and in front of each door was a similar golem.
Above these two doors, Feng Chou saw two different symbols.
As a mage, Feng Chou could not be more familiar with these two symbols. In magic, these two symbols represented 'fire' and 'wind'. They were in fact symbolic patterns simplified from the most basic magic circuit model of wind and fire.
Even if Qiankun Pagoda could not scan it, Feng Chou knew that on the other side of the corridor, on the two walls that Qiankun Pagoda could not scan, there should be symbols of 'water' and 'earth'.
The four elemental pools!
Elemental pools were extremely complex alchemical devices that could connect the prime material plane and the elemental plane. They could also absorb pure elemental energy from the elemental plane and store it.
An arcane tower was like a giant alchemical item that required a huge amount of energy to maintain. Even a hundred Spell of Permanence would not be enough to provide such a large amount of energy.
However, if multiple Spell of Permanence were gathered together and absorbed the energy in the environment at the same time, it would be enough to drain an entire area of magic energy, forming a dead magic area. Once the energy in the environment was drained, there would not be enough time to replenish the energy in further areas, and Spell of Permanence would naturally lose its effect.
As for using magical gems to maintain energy, that was a luxury that even the richest arcanists would not dare to dream of. The production of magical gems in the entire world was not enough to support the operation of a few mage towers.
The only energy that could sustain a mage tower was the elemental pool.
The four elemental pools continuously extracted pure and abundant elemental energy from the four elemental planes.
This pure energy passed through the energy core of the mage tower, and together with the positive and negative energy extracted from the positive and negative energy plane by the positive and negative energy pool, it could be reconciled into energy of any nature, providing a reliable source of energy for the huge daily consumption of the mage tower.
If the four elemental pools were outside the corridor, then what was inside the giant pillar in the middle of the corridor?
A name that made Feng Chou's scalp go numb suddenly appeared in his mind: "Elemental Furnace".
Elemental Furnace was a terrifying alchemical device that could cause the four elements to produce a reaction similar to nuclear fusion. It only needed a small amount of the four elements to produce an enormous amount of energy that was tens of thousands of times greater.
The arcanists of the Arcane Empire were able to raise their arcane towers high in the sky precisely because of the enormous energy produced by the elemental furnace.
Extremely excited, Feng Chou could not wait to use the same trick again, luring the dark gold golem into the tower.
This time, Feng Chou discovered something different. After the dark gold golem entered the tower, it actually froze for a moment before being taken away by a ray of golden light.
Qiankun Pagoda told Feng Chou that this golem was much stronger than the golden-red ones from before, so much so that it was a little difficult for him to suppress it.