Ch.101The Green Tower Isolation Incident (1)

[“I don’t know what to talk about now that I’ve actually opened this”]

[“Back then we just complained and gossiped lol”]

Most users were overcome with a strange nostalgia as they browsed the forum.

For them, this forum was paradise itself.

For some, it could be called a refuge, while for others, it was a space for communication—the original purpose of sharing hobbies.

Everyone might have had different reasons for using this place, but the joy they felt while using it was the same for all.

The despair they felt when their only paradise—where they could act freely, away from the old elves—was taken away was beyond description.

So naturally, they couldn’t help but be happy to have it back.

If they could reminisce about the past and use the forum according to its original purpose, a world where everyone was happy would be complete.

Surely, that would have been the case.

The closed forum.

And the young elves who discovered that the forum was completely closed no longer hesitated.

They began to pour out all the stories they hadn’t been able to tell.

[Why the Blood Tower Master is a water rocket.fact]

[Current status of old fogeys lol.jpg]

[Just sent an old fogey to die in the mountains. Ask me anything.]

At first, they were cautious.

Although the forum was closed, there was no guarantee that mages from other towers couldn’t see this forum at all, so if they brought up sensitive topics and got beaten up, there would be no way out.

But after a post by one administrator, things started to change strangely.

[Hey, the Blood Tower Master got blocked while trying to log in? lolololol]

A title impossible not to click.

Surprisingly, the content included a photo that matched the title perfectly.

[Hey, the Blood Tower Master got blocked while trying to log in? lolololol] – AP Myomyok

(SuperGeniusTruePrettyBloodMage has been banned. Reason: Blood Mage)

Holy shit we’re fucked lololololololol

Even the super admin got banned lolololololololololol

Comments

– What? She got banned?

ㄴ Yep lololol

ㄴㄴ Holy shit lol this is hilarious lololololol

– Wait, if even the super admin can’t get in, does that mean only young elves from the Green Tower can access this?

ㄴ Old fogeys can get in too, obviously…

ㄴㄴ But they don’t want to log in lol

ㄴㄴㄴ That’s true lol

ㄴㄴㄴ Will they really not?

ㄴㄴㄴㄴ We’re going to set an age restriction anyway, so if they’re upset they can just lie about their identity lol

ㄴㄴㄴㄴㄴ Upvote lololol

– Yaraehyang: Oh, I didn’t expect this

ㄴ Gay lolololololol

ㄴ Green Tower Master is gay lololololololololol

ㄴ We’re in trouble lol

– Didn’t she basically create the function and then get banned by it? Does the Blood Tower Master have a sense of humor? lolololololololololol

ㄴ But the Blood Tower Master didn’t create TowerInside, right? Wouldn’t there be someone else who adds functions?

ㄴㄴ Is that so?

ㄴㄴㄴ Come to think of it, there’s no way the Blood Tower Master could modify TowerInside…

That’s right.

Even they didn’t think the Blood Tower Master would have added these functions.

The only person capable of such things would be Eterna, who could be said to have mastered magic.

But then again, they thought about it.

If it were Eterna, she wouldn’t have created a forum that even she couldn’t see, and this thought confused them.

From the beginning, this was a forum where all kinds of people mixed together, so you never knew what conversations might take place.

There was always the possibility that posts slandering Eterna might appear, and setting things up this way was essentially declaring that she didn’t care even if such things were posted.

So they didn’t believe it.

However, it also seemed strange to think that Midir could add these functions.

Most of the magic Midir had shown so far was limited to blood magic.

For such a Tower Master to suddenly use magic to manipulate TowerInside seemed absurd to them.

And the same was true for Seria.

She had never seen Midir use any magic other than blood magic, so she didn’t think she had done anything.

And using blood magic to fix TowerInside was equally nonsensical.

Anyway…

– Yaraehyang: What do we do?

ㄴ What

ㄴ Do you really not know?

ㄴ Green Tower Master is gay lololol

Surprisingly, Seria had also only recently encountered this function, so she naturally didn’t know how to fix it.

She couldn’t just lift the ban and risk making a mistake that would give them an opportunity to counterattack.

So all they could do was…

– Just don’t worry about it lol They’ll figure it out~lol

After all, the problem was on Eterna and the Blood Tower Master’s side.

It had nothing to do with them.

‘Will it be okay?’

Seria was briefly worried, but this was a forum they had reclaimed after a long time.

She too couldn’t shake off the feeling of welcome and anticipation, so she decided to ignore it.

She immediately set it to ban all users in the older age range by elf standards and began to enjoy the forum she had entered after a long time.

Among elves, if you wanted to block the older ones, it was enough to prevent those above the rank of senior mage from entering.

And so, in less than a few hours, the situation that had been carelessly set in motion became irreversibly twisted.

[…Won’t we be in big trouble if this gets discovered…?]

Before long, the state of the forum’s top posts had become something that would be difficult to show to anyone.

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.

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“Ah…”

Seria looked down at the forum with a dazed expression.

It had always been the case that extremists ruined things, but this incident was particularly severe.

The forum was divided between those who thought they were justified in doing this much considering what they had endured until now, and those who thought this was going too far regardless.

It was fortunate that there were at least some who thought this was going too far, but for Seria, it wasn’t easy to take sides.

‘This isn’t the Green Tower forum I wanted…’

At first, she too had let loose and enjoyed the forum to the fullest, happy to have reclaimed the Green Tower forum.

Every time she chatted with users she hadn’t seen in a long time, memories of those days would come flooding back.

Sometimes they would gossip about annoying masters or high-ranking mages, or share what was happening where.

She had good memories of exchanging information and having a good time talking about various things.

But…

[Why Eterna is a water rocket (long post)]

[We should just burn all those elder bastards lol]

[You can tell the Green Tower is about to collapse just by looking at this situation lol]

Seria, who had been looking down at the forum with a troubled expression, let out a deep sigh.

She had made a big decision to start this, but now even the young elves couldn’t unite among themselves.

If she had known this would happen, she should have observed the situation more carefully and acted more cautiously.

There was an even bigger problem remaining.

If she hadn’t caused this incident, there would have been no need to update the system, and this wouldn’t have happened.

This incident occurred because she had asked Midir to create a function that could ban only old elves.

Midir probably hadn’t anticipated this situation either, but…

‘I can’t ask for a rollback either…’

Going back to the past was even more nonsensical.

But leaving things as they were and showing the current state of the Green Tower was also unacceptable.

Seria didn’t want the extremists to be punished.

Like her, they were simply people who had been leaning on the forum, only to have even that taken away by the older generation.

She didn’t think they were wrong to be angry.

She just felt sorry for them.

Anyway… that’s why she had to act directly.

Elves caught between the older and younger generations might already consider the Green Tower forum hopeless after seeing its state.

There were as many people who didn’t use the forum as there were active users.

‘It will probably be fixed soon…’

If Eterna fixed it directly, it would be done by dawn at the latest, even if the process was slow.

Before then, it would be best to calm the situation and delete all the extreme posts.

She might face some criticism, but if she did this, a world where no one gets hurt would be complete.

‘Good.’

Once she decided what to do, she needed to act immediately.

Seria was about to write an announcement and delete the posts one by one, but,

– What’s wrong with the Green Tower forum?

“Ah.”

Seria froze on the spot as she checked the message from Midir.

Seria thought.

We’re fucked.