Reincarnated Mage with Inferior Eyes: Breezing through the Future as an Oppressed Ex-Hero Volume 5 Part 1 by Yusura Kankitsu

Author:Yusura Kankitsu
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2

The Mechanical Clock Tower

That very weekend, I found myself at the Chronos headquarters, carrying the business card that Emerson had given me. The eastern district of the royal capital, which was known for its numerous factories, was an unfamiliar area for students like us.

“Wh-Whoa...” Eliza said, looking up. “So this is Chronos’s headquarters...”

“This clock tower is huge...” Noel agreed.

They were both staring up in wonder at the clock tower that stretched up into the heavens. Good grief. Eliza makes sense, but I’m still surprised that Noel wanted to come as well.

“Abel... Thanks for inviting me,” Eliza said sheepishly.

“I’m so happy to be able to go out with you,” Noel said.

Well, I guess it’s all okay if they’re both happy. I can’t say I understand their desire to waste their precious weekend on a tour, though. I might have underestimated how big of an organization Chronos is to the people of this time.

“You don’t have to thank me. If anything, you should thank that guy.”

Now that I think about it, Emerson saying that I could bring friends might’ve been a strategic move on his part. By getting the people around me involved, he increased the possibility of me coming here. What a sly move.

“By the way, I don’t see any kind of entrance... How are we supposed to get in?” Eliza asked.

The design of the Mechanical Clock Tower was very different from that of the surrounding buildings. The exposed clockwork clicked loudly as it powered the hands of the clock. To anyone who didn’t know any better, they might have assumed that this was simply a strangely designed clock tower.

“Have you not noticed, Eliza? The entrance is right there,” Noel said.

She was right. We were standing right in front of the entrance. The trick was the strange design of this building—anyone who wasn’t skilled with magecraft would probably never find the entrance, no matter how long they looked.

“Well, let’s go inside, I guess,” I said.

“Come on, Eliza,” Noel urged her.

“H-Huh?” Eliza still didn’t seem to know what was going on, and was standing still with a blank expression on her face.

In the meantime, both Noel and I approached the side of the clock tower. Though there wasn’t too big of a difference between Eliza and Noel’s strengths, Noel was much better when it came to observation.

“Huh? I-I passed through the wall?!”

It seemed that Eliza had finally noticed how it worked. From what I could tell, the clock tower had a security system that employed Optical Illusion Magecraft. It was programmed to change the entrance at random each day, on the hour, in order to keep unwanted guests out. It was as if the building itself was teasing visitors by saying that if you couldn’t see through this level of magecraft, you didn’t even have the right to enter it.

Now then, upon entering, there’s a downwards spiral staircase. It looks like they constructed this building to have a very deep underground portion to it. It was possible that the overall size of the Mechanical Clock Tower was much bigger than I’d initially expected.

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