Forty-three people. This was the result of Lin's personal count early in the morning. Considering that some of them might be gifted and could stay in the poisonous fog for a whole night without dying, after purifying the air on the first floor, he was responsible for the last hit and the head count.
However, the rope in the warehouse was not enough, so his two apprentices simply went into the forest to find vines and tied several strands into one. They tied the hands, feet, and necks of different lengths. Finally, more than forty corpses were hung on the outer wall of the magic tower.
Looking at the wall that occupied almost the entire intact part of the tower, with a total of forty-six miserable corpses, Marco Lin was not worried at all about whether or not there would be a plague.
Because he saw the vultures and some carnivorous birds having a delicious feast, and there were even bird-type magical beasts in the forest that quickly picked up a person and flew away. Lin suspected that in this remote place, these exposed corpses would not have a chance to rot.
Lin looked in the direction of the village. He did not know if the village could still stand in this desolate place after losing more than forty people. However, these people had only themselves to blame, and there was nothing to sympathize with. Besides, from the beginning when he decided to develop in the Tower of the Great Sage, he did not consider the village as a helper and did not include it in the plan. Whether or not the village was destroyed was not in Lin's consideration.
The threat from the village came to an end for the time being. After days of peace, the renovation of the magic tower and the interior layout were completed. Everything was finally back on track.
The more troublesome thing was the bathroom design that was not available in the maze world. Having lived without a toilet for more than ten years, Lin was so depressed that he wanted to kill himself. Now that he had the conditions, he was determined to build it. The faucet was directly connected to the plane of water elements, and the showerhead for showers had an additional heating magic array.
The major project was the burying of the sewage pipes. In order to hide the pipes in the wall, even the energy channels were replanned and rearranged. In particular, the burying of the septic tank. If it were not for the fact that feces and urine had other uses in this world, Lin would have simply connected it to another plane and dumped it on some unlucky guy.
The dining room and kitchen on the first floor were the first room to be organized outside the core room. Lin also set up an additional refrigerator with a freezing magic array. All the meat, in addition to pickling, was finally stored in a refrigerated place.
The reason why he did not treat the refrigerator as a commodity in the maze world was that the cost of maintaining it was unimaginably high. Even the noble families could not afford it. Coming to the Tower of the Great Sage to settle down was also supported by the semi-permanent energy pool. Marco Lin did not even dare to think about it before...
To build a basic energy pool, it would be enough for the nobles to hire a small team of hunters to go out hunting every day for three to five hundred years without stopping. Just based on the price alone, it was obvious that it was hopeless.
If he wanted to sell it to another Tower Master, All mages had their own methods of preserving food. The most brutal method was to set up a Time Stop Magic Array, so that vegetables and fruits would always be preserved at the moment they were picked. Looking at the data and the cost of the materials needed to set up the magic array, Lin directly ignored all unrealistic ideas.
The weapons room, however, was filled up after the wooden shelves were nailed up. Most importantly, it was filled with weapons of various sizes for the three of them. . When they went out, in addition to the main weapon, some backup, long-range weapons and tools to deal with special situations had to be prepared. Sometimes, they relied on these rarely used things to save their lives.
But since they were living in the Magic Tower, there was no need to carry all these things with them. For example, a crossbow that was even taller than his two apprentices, a flying claw for climbing, a two-handed sword, and a green dragon crescent blade that Lin had made for some unknown reason. However, everyone who had seen it despised it so much that they were confused. After oiling and maintenance, they were all put in the weapons room.
The more special one was the anti-magic dagger that was seized. It was placed in a conspicuous position on the short weapon rack. Although anti-magic weapons were not rare, they were not special weapons that could be found everywhere. Apart from the fact that the materials used were different from ordinary magical weapons, the runes engraved on them were also worth researching. So, Lin kept it.
There were a few more iron ingots in the corner of the forging room. There were also leather armor after the metal buckles were removed. These were the magical beasts and goblins that were killed on the way to the Tower of the Great Sage, as well as the spoils of war that were contributed by the invaders of the village. Since there were no other needs for the time being, and there was no use for the crude weapons and armors, all of them were melted down.
The remaining warehouse was piled with rice, wheat, and other miscellaneous items that were sent by the caravan not long ago.
On the second floor, there were seven rooms that had been repaired and a platform that was half covered by rain.
The library was emptied. Because there were not many books, they were directly placed in the nuclear room, on the bookshelf next to Lin's bed. There were only two big tables and two stools in the laboratory at the moment. The mortar that was used to make herbs when they were out on adventures was placed in the center of one of the tables.
The room shared by the two girls was well decorated according to their wishes. The bed, small cupboard, and wardrobe were all set for each of them. Only the dressing mirror was shared by the two of them.
Kayado made a shelf with all kinds of strange specimens that were collected. There were dead frogs, lizards, bats that were said to be the claws of demons, candlesticks with skulls, and a handful of unknown dried flowers. Looking at the collection, Lin felt that this little disciple had more potential to be a mage than herself.
Hallumi, on the other hand, made a few potted plants. There were pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, man-eating flowers that had not yet grown up, and even a mandrake plant. It was very girlish to like flowers and plants, but to like flowers and plants like this … As a teacher, she was speechless.
The two meditation rooms were carefully arranged by the master and disciples. The reason why there were so many meditation rooms was not for each of the two disciples to have one for themselves. It was purely related to the magical principles of the maze world.
When he first transmigrated, Marco Lin was very unaccustomed to many of the common sense of the maze world. Magic was not based on the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, nor the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. It was based on the eight powers.
Knowledge, power, authority, faith, wealth, dexterity, perception, and mystery. There were also the corresponding eight gods.
Magic was the accumulation of the power of these eight powers, and the combination of them through a medium to display supernatural power.
The meditation room was a space to speed up the accumulation of these eight powers.
He had spent most of his savings to rebuild the two meditation rooms, and each of them had their own functions. One was a quiet room made of magic stones and special pigments mixed with magical materials. There was a magic array set up, and special candles would be lit when it was used. Meditating in it could greatly increase the power of knowledge and faith. It could also slightly increase perception and mystery.
The other room mainly used special incense and chimes that rang on their own. Combined with a special dance, it could greatly increase power and wealth. It could also slightly increase authority, dexterity, and mystery. This dance was similar to the Tai Chi Tai Chi that Uncle Lin practiced in the park on Earth. It was a slow and smooth dance, and with the incense and wind chimes, one would enter a state of selflessness in meditation to increase one's power.
Both meditation rooms had altars of the eight gods, as well as their favorite offerings. However, this did not mean that the magicians of the maze world had to have faith. Just like the AD&D novels that Lin read on Earth, the Goddess of Magic built a magic net, and the magicians cast spells through it. However, they did not necessarily have to believe in Mystra.
The same was true in the maze world. The eight powers of the eight gods. The magicians used these powers to create magic, but they did not necessarily have to believe in all eight gods or any one of them. Faith in the maze world had very strict requirements, including joining a religion, being baptized, praying, and so on. This was because the gods were real. The miracles that were performed from time to time were not like those that the magicians on Earth used to deceive people.
As for the offerings in front of the altars in the meditation room, it was more like a trade between the magicians. I use your power to cast spells, so I offer your favorite offerings as the price. However, this did not mean that it would rise to the level of faith.
Apart from this, there were many other ways to arrange the meditation rooms, each with different effects. However, considering the cost, Lin could only choose the two most popular meditation rooms. There were also two empty rooms on the second floor. Including the empty library, there were three rooms in total. Perhaps in the future, they could be used to arrange the third, fourth, and fifth meditation rooms.
As for the ritual room on the third floor, it was temporarily shelved after the remnants of the magic circle that had lost its effect were removed. Since it was still useless, Lin was not in a hurry to fix it.
A corner of the core room became Lin's living area. Generally speaking, the magicians who were tower masters would live in separate rooms from the core room. The common point was that both rooms were located on the top floor of the Magic Tower. However, considering the practical use and the humble dream that he had before he transmigrated to this world, it was a wonderful thing to have a bed next to him when he was busy working. Therefore, Lin did not hesitate to place the bed in the core room.
After some modifications, the control panel changed from the original complicated magic circle and crystal ball to the futuristic technology in science fiction movies.
As for the mercury mirror energy pool that was floating in the air and facing the control panel, it was officially known as the Atoli Source Pool. There were no changes.
Firstly, Lin had no clue about the modification of the energy pool, nor did he need it, so he did not make any changes. Secondly, the energy pool could be used for thousands of years without diminishing. Its technology was also used in this era. Not only was its stability confirmed, but it was also enough to be used as a medium for most kinds of magic. With all these advantages, it was not an exaggeration to call it the most valuable part of the Tower of the Great Sage.
As for that "Atoli," he was the builder of this Magic Tower, one of the members of the team of heroes that ended the Dark Age a thousand years ago, and the Great Sage Atoli, the origin of the tower's name. It was said that he was also one of the founders of the Society of Sorcerers and the promoter of modern magic technology and development. He also had various reputations that could not be recorded.
How much of it was credible was a matter of opinion. At least, after the era of the explosion of knowledge and the countless examples of ancestors who liked to tamper with history, how much of this kind of legend or history in black and white was really thought-provoking.
The last open space that had been modified into a platform would be the focus of Lin's future research. Setting up the astronomical telescope that he had built himself and setting up all kinds of measuring scales, Lin looked at the vast starry sky and the two satellites in the dark night.
One of the satellites was like the moon on Earth, it would be round and uneven. The difference was that it was close to dark red and was also very large. This meant that the Maze World under his feet was very large, or that the satellite was very close to the surface.
The other satellite was black but had a green halo that did not change with time, as if it was a big eye in the sky that was staring at the world. It was hard to imagine such an astronomical phenomenon without seeing it with one's own eyes.
However, the magnificent Milky Way beyond the two satellites was the real target of his research. Astronomy was not only Lin's education before he transmigrated, it was also his interest. After coming to the Maze World, it seemed to have become a different lifelong ambition.
In the 12 years of living experience, the phenomena and substances that Lin observed, without the interference of supernatural forces, that is, magic, were surprisingly similar to what could be observed and discovered on Earth.
On a certain night when he looked up at the starry sky, he couldn't help but imagine whether the Earth was in the starry sky – or to be precise, the Earth's sun was one of them. When such a fairytale-like thought flashed through his mind, it seemed to take root and deeply imprinted in Lin's mind.
If he could locate the Earth's sun, does that mean that he could use teleportation magic to return to his hometown that he yearned for day and night?
But before that, Lin still had a lot of difficulties to overcome. For example, in the core room, there was a line of messages in red letters on the energy pool:
In a few days, a team of inspectors will be dispatched to investigate a large number of murders in the villages under their jurisdiction.
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