The Tales of Draconic Warlock

There it is standing straight reaching the sky.

What I found is a tower. There were no buildings in this realm, at least not in the path I took and I covered most of the Inner and Core regions. The outer region was mapped long ago by the students who enter the realm every year. There was almost nothing to map in the outer region.

No buildings were found even in the Inner areas that some students were lucky to explore. This was one of the things about this realm that baffled the scholars across the kingdom.

Other secret realms have buildings even in the outer regions. Of course, not all buildings were intact when they were discovered but traces of their existence were found but not in this realm.

I believe this Tower might be the only building in this realm.

Whatever secrets the realm has, I believe this tower would give the answers.

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"The Tower of Trials"

Hmm, what was that supposed to mean?

Would the tower test the entrants?

Wait, that's not what I should concentrate on. When I saw the tower and arrived at the entrance, I saw that there were letters carved on the entrance. It was a language unknown to me, so I didn't know what they were saying but now I can understand them. How?

Is there an auto-translate function that was added to this tower?

No, the words didn't change but I understood them as if they were written in the common language. This is what they speak in the kingdom and it is called Common Language, as it is the most spoken language in many human kingdoms and empires.

Even other races can understand this much better than other languages. So these races when they interact with humans use the common language as most humans don't understand those foreign race languages.

What I always wondered was how lazy was the person who named it. They just named it Common because it was the most used one. Did they think that they would become idiots if they used their brain cells to name the language, I wonder.

If I meet anyone from Earth by chance, then they would laugh at the name.

I have seen such occurrences in some novels and such but those are supposed to be fiction. This is real life and in real life, things had to have particular names.

Aah, it doesn't matter anyway. What I should concentrate on was the tower.

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There are only three days, no less than three days before the portal to leave this realm appears. After that, I need to reach it in two days or else I will be stuck forever here. It happened before.

There were instances in the past, where some students couldn't make it to the portal exit and got stuck in the realm. At that time many tried to open the portal to the realm but couldn't.

The families of the students and the staff hoped that they could survive until next year when the portal would open but their hopes turned into ashes. They were never able to survive the year and most likely ended up as food for the monsters.

Though I am capable of surviving here for a year, I am not capable of surviving what comes after the year, the wrath of my mother.

So I should complete whatever the tower puts me through in these five days or else I would be stuck here for a year. Though the monsters are no threat to me, they would offer not much as I can't level up until I rank up.

The EXP gained would be saved but there is a limitation to how much can be stored.

There are no facilities here either that can improve my skill levels. If I get struct here, I have to waste a year worth's of time and in that year many things will change. Moreover, as I would be stuck at the peak of Tier-4 without being promoted to Tier-5 many of my plans would have to be changed.

In addition to these, there are a few people that I needed to take care of.

First, there is my fiance, Elisha, and her lover, William. Then there is that idiot, Dorian.

In addition to those, there is also that unknown who placed the demon summoning ritual in the library. Whoever that was, they should have thought that someone ignorant would perform the ritual out of curiosity and disaster would strike the Frostwolf family and even the entirety of Winter City.

I don't know whether that is a member of the family or did an outsider found a way to enter and place that.

The list doesn't end with this. Those elders tried to assassinate me but failed. I am surprised that they didn't make any moves after that, especially after what happened at the city gate more than a year ago, which involved my cousin and Dorian.

They are probably afraid to do such a thing when I am at the academy. So the third year would probably be the best time for them to strike me. So I need to get rid of those bastards and that has to be done in a perfect way.

There are many things to do and if I miss out on that, it would be quite problematic.

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It's time to see what secrets it has and stop thinking about it. It is just a waste of time.

"Inari, Asya, return to the pet space. I don't know whether we would be together or the tower would treat us as separate contestants and put us in a different space", I said to them.

I read many novels where even two people who are a team would assessed differently. I don't know whether they can survive whatever trials await or not.

Those two understood my concerns and entered the pet space without question.

Now I can enter the tower and see what I can gain from it.

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Hmm, it looks pretty basic.

The surroundings are white in color, just as the assessment rooms described in some of the stories that I read.

"Okay, I am here. What's the test?" I shouted out loudly hoping that the assessment would start quickly so that I could leave quickly.