Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 129: 129-The Boy Will Be Safe With Us

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For the past few days, all Prestige Academy’s monitoring room saw was chaos, confusion, and nerves sky high. Today was no different. In fact, it was a lot worse. Far much worse. “How in the world are we yet to have anything?” Im Ilseong asked, his voice a rumble in the monitoring room. Everyone present shook under the weight of his words. They had never seen him this angry before, and he didn’t like it any less than they did. But things couldn’t keep on carrying this way. It had been three days already. “We found no problems with the monitoring system, headmaster,” said one of the technical assistants present in the room. “There really are no bugs, and the development code hasn’t been tampered with in any way. Everything reads perfectly, just like the other Towers.” Im Ilseong had heard those words many times already. But he couldn’t just sit back and do nothing. And that was why he had asked for Kim Hyeonki’s help. The Consortium Guild were well versed in the operations of systems and data relating to simulations of dungeons and Towers. The young Mage, Kang Do-Won, had come to oversee the matter on behalf of Kim Hyeonki, and the crew he had brought with him were currently in the server room, scouring through the various sources and code they could come across, while Im Ilseong breathed down fiercely on the members of Prestige Academy’s technical team to prove at least useful. He really hoped the Consortium could help. He had made a promise to Merlin’s parents that he would watch no harm come to the boy. And, now, this? Why? He couldn’t understand. “This is the second time it has happened, isn’t it?” Im Ilseong murmured, technically to himself, but his words made their way into Jung Seoyeon’s ears. “The second time, headmaster,” Jung Seoyeon replied, standing almost unnoticeably beside him. “How is it possible that all the measures we took to prevent this from happening again have failed?” Im Ilseong’s brows furrowed, his eyes placed on the centermost screen of the countless in the monitoring room. Unlike the others, which showed the exploits of the students in the Tower, it had no visuals. Only the words ‘lost signal’ were visible on it. “This is absurd.” The doors of the monitoring room came open, drawing Im Ilseong’s attention. Kang Do-Won strode in, and behind him were three Mages of the Consortium Guild all dressed in their blue vest. Their presence, though, didn’t fill Im Ilseong with the relief he so desperately sought. They were meant to have found a way past the portal into the Tower. If they hadn’t, then that meant that they had been repelled by it too. “How is that possible?” Im Ilseong muttered. In all his years, he had never experienced something like this. They had modeled the portals of the simulations based on the data they had extracted from dungeon and Tower portals when they were open. They had not put in the code for when it shuts itself out to outsiders. And that proved true for all the other Towers assigned in the simulation except Merlin’s. “We tried everything we could, headmaster,” said Kang Do-Won. “We have no way in. The portal repels us, just as it did you.” Im Ilseong took a deep breath and exhaled, calming himself. Being flustered wouldn’t do any good in this situation. But it was not like being coolheaded did as well. He had tried everything he could and even sought out help from external sources, and, yet, it all remained the same. What exactly was happening? “I heard this is the second time this has happened,” Kang Do-Won said as he walked forward to stand beside the headmaster and Jung Seoyeon. He glanced at them and they only stared back, not disputing his words. “That is true, then, I suppose?” Im Ilseong sighed. “It is.” “And the boy, Merlin, was involved the first time as well?” Im Ilseong remained silent, so Jung Seoyeon spoke on his behalf. “Yes,” she said. “It was during his physical assessment. The simulation itself went haywire, and I was unable to shut it down. This, despite being so