After the new master was confirmed, the Three-Colored Tower's radiance expanded to the point where it could be seen from several streets nearby.
The light cleansed the entire mage tower from top to bottom, including the stargazing platform (divination room), library, arcane garden, magic golem storage, mutated creature research lab, mystical creature dungeon, summoning room, elemental pool, servant area, and so on. As more and more rooms lit up on the map, my will reached every corner of the tower.
Even though I was only touching the control center, my vision was able to jump between every floor of the mage tower. As long as I wanted to, my commands and voice could be transmitted to any location.
"The seventeenth floor of the main tower and the twelfth floor of the two auxiliary towers have all been self-inspected. The third floor of the main tower and the seventh floor of the second auxiliary tower must be repaired. The other floors are in good condition. The energy pools have all been activated, and the magic golems will complete their self-inspection. They will begin cleaning and repairing the mage tower. It is estimated that after three days of comprehensive maintenance, more than 90% of the floors will be ready for daily use. "
The tower spirit Garden's voice echoed in my ears. Aso was indeed an old mage with a great background. It seemed that the dormant Three-Colored Tower was in excellent condition. It would be ready to be used again after some cleaning.
The magic golem warehouse was now open. Soon, those incredibly strong and tireless giants would walk out and become the best free porters and cleaners. At my command, the summoning room was already summoning mages who would listen to my commands.
Those magical creatures from the other world were diligent and smart. They only needed to pay a certain amount of mana regularly, and they would be the best servants for the mages. If it weren't for the fact that they could only survive in the mage tower, where the mana was concentrated, the mages wouldn't even need other human servants.
"Master Roland, the library has been activated. Your pet cat is requesting to enter. Do you approve?"
"… No wonder she disappeared in the blink of an eye. She's never been so hardworking when she's working. Toss her into the water elemental pool. Let her enter after she cleans up and cleans up. "
The silly cat angrily rebuked me through our mental connection. Just as the steward Garden finished her own self-inspection report, the "head of security" Meteor also finished his inspection.
"Due to years of disrepair and many other reasons (including the test we just went through), some defensive spells and magic traps have lost their effectiveness. The mage tower's defensive capabilities are only at 47% of its peak. I've already prepared a list of supplies. But … "
Considering that the Cloud Tower was still relatively safe for the time being, I decided to put this list of zeros aside for now. Of course, the most important thing was that I had other plans for the mage tower.
"… The Three-Colored Tower's core Twin Tower Spirits support system is working well, and its mana reserves are excellent. Should I try?"
"No, I'm a decent person, I won't ask you out! The consequences are too severe for me to bear. "
Although the Three-Colored Tower Spirit Meteor seemed to be joking, I now had yet another ace up my sleeve since I could still use the Three-Colored Tower's core forbidden spell.
"Oh right, this is for you. First, list out the funds and materials. If you have all the materials, start the transformation."
"… The blueprint for the Mobile Cloud Tower? Isn't it already lost? "
That's right, this was the mage tower design that I had chosen — the Cloud Tower type mage tower. This was also how the Mage City was named. However, the archmages' Cloud Tower was only a city, while my Cloud Tower was a mega mage tower that could travel through the clouds and solidify the surrounding water vapor into a tangible territory.
I wouldn't be able to use a fixed cannon tower more than a few times in my lifetime, and it would be a waste to leave the battle-type Three-Colored Tower in a safe city like this. I was destined to have endless troubles in the future, and a mobile mage tower was the best choice for me. I had already obtained the technology to create the Cloud Tower. Although the various materials were difficult to find, I would one day be able to collect them all. The biggest problem was a stable energy source.
If I wanted the mage tower to float in the air for a long period of time, it would be impossible for it to be used on the battlefield. In that case, I would need to store up enough energy to fly for at least two months, which would naturally consume an astronomical amount of energy.
This was originally the most difficult problem to solve. I had originally planned to find a group of Four Elemental Swordcasters and other magic job classes to work for me as manpower batteries. However, this problem was solved far more easily than I had expected.
Since the Salo's Crystal could even carry a floating city, a Cloud Tower wouldn't be a problem at all.
Of course, just looking at the resources and funds required to construct the Cloud Tower made me feel dizzy. Not to mention, I wasn't intending to simply copy the Cloud Tower. Instead, I intended to learn the technology thoroughly and then modify it onto the Three-Colored Tower, while simultaneously retaining the advantages of both mage towers … Although this sounded like wishful thinking, since the Cloud Tower Spirit didn't directly reject my proposal, it should be possible.
"Although it'll be quite difficult, it's not completely impossible."
"Yep. After a while, I'll help you all level up, and I'll also introduce a new friend, 007. With his addition, your knowledge will at least double. With the knowledge of two Undead Emperors, you'll no longer be the Three-Colored Tower's twin tower spirits, but the Three Wise Ones!"
The Cloud Tower needed to control the wind elemental energy in its surroundings, so a built-in wind elemental pool was necessary. In that case, a supporting tower spirit would also be necessary. If I didn't intend to remove the water elemental pool and fire elemental pool for simple modifications, then I would need to add a new tower spirit.
It would be far too much of a waste to leave the Cloud Tower Spirit in my hometown to rust. Forget about leaving my memories underground, but all the knowledge I'd obtained over the past three hundred years of traveling around the world could be added to the Cloud Tower's knowledge reserves … Yep, although theoretically speaking, the Cloud Tower Spirit would obey the new master's control, it was just like how a new general manager would often appear in a company with a new boss. It was completely understandable that a completely loyal subordinate would appear in the new boss.
"The Three Wise Ones? That sounds excellent. That'll be our collective name from now on. "
From now on, not only did I finally have a proper Cloud Tower, the Great Industrial Party also had a proper research center. Previously, it would have been possible to borrow other mages' laboratories for ordinary magical research, or to rent other mages' shops for engineering and alchemy research. However, this would have been fine for ordinary mages, but for Emblematic Truths level mages, it would be quite unsightly for them to do this for so long. They would basically be nothing more than a shell company filled with bad assets. They wouldn't even have a stable headquarters.
Of course, reputation wasn't the most important issue. Just like how the various equipment in the Cloud Tower would help with scientific research, many magical research wouldn't be possible without the magical equipment and special rooms in the Cloud Tower. For example, the abnormal creature research room would be able to evolve ten times faster than normal, and most of the mutations would be beneficial. It would be especially easy to breed new species. Not only would the summoning room's spatial structure be suitable for dimensional summoning, the walls would also be engraved with spatial, control, contract, and other magic arrays. This would make it easier for the summoner to control the summoned. Even if the summoner summoned a hell dragon, they could treat it like an inferno lizard.
The most direct way to increase efficiency would be through the simplest of experiments. In the Cloud Tower, a simple command would be able to have the Cloud Tower Spirit prepare a table for you, set up your experiment equipment, and place your experiment materials on the table. The Cloud Tower Spirit would also record the process and results of the experiment. If you made a mistake, you could even use the Cloud Tower Spirit's recorded memories to review the mistake. This would greatly reduce the research time, allowing mages to avoid wasting large amounts of time and energy on trivial matters, and speeding up the cycle of the next experiment.
And Thorn Garden was developing new technologies and products every day. It was time to find a suitable laboratory for those overly energetic engineers and alchemists to build an Explosive Room (Indestructible!) to test the power of spells. This would be quite suitable for the energetic gnome engineers to use as a research room (explosion room). Thorn Garden wouldn't have to worry about being complained that it was too noisy or that it would be blown up into the sky one day.
Of course, it was still doubtful whether or not this modification would succeed and how long it would take. It would also require a tremendous amount of magical materials that were priceless, so I could only take things slowly.
But right now, I had even more important things to do.
"How is it? What did the archmages say? "
The moment I left the Three-Colored Tower, I sent the information about the Salo's Crystal to the archmages. I also sent the Cloud Tower Spirit's memories of Aso personally installing the "Destruction Cannon". Of course, I also sent the Salo's Crystal as evidence.
Cohen acted as my messenger, so he also brought the archmages' reactions and feedback.
"… Some people immediately went berserk and wanted to fight the undead to the death. Most mages were quite calm, but when their own lives were in danger, nobody would be able to remain calm. Their 'calmness' is actually quite strange. It's likely that they're just hiding their anger in their hearts. They're already furious at the undead."
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