Chapter 145: Tower in the Clouds

During the holidays, Augustus was alone at Julius Manor, which was also relaxing, but recently there was a very important thing to start working on, which was simply to build a mage tower.

For a mage, the mage's mage tower is his home, his sanctuary, his research center, and his fortress. It is no exaggeration to say that a true mage tower is no less tightly constructed and powerful than a perfectly built city defense system.

The Mage Tower consists of a conical rock base and a mage standing on top, which deals powerful area splash damage to target units on the ground and in the air. Mage Towers, like Muggles' so-called defensive batteries, are adept at attacking groups of troops. However, one of the things that makes the Mage Tower superior to the mortar is that it doesn't miss the damage it can deal and has the ability to deal ground-to-air. And there are no blind spots.

Such a fortress with both offense and defense, as well as a laboratory that can store a large amount of arcane equipment, is indeed indispensable, and it also includes the mage's spell book and magic items, which can be a good place to keep. As a legendary mage who once stepped into the divine realm with one foot, Augustus has built mage towers all over the empire, of course, in this world, what Augustus is preparing to build is not a fixed point mage tower, in short, this is an air fortress, which can be called a tower in the clouds.

Through powerful elemental magic, the tower is built to float in the air, mainly by using magic to strengthen the water vapor in the clouds to bear the weight of the tower. Such a tower would look like any other cloud on the ground, but anyone who cares will notice that the cloud has never moved. The Air Fortress has several distinct advantages over the average Mage Tower. First of all, it can accompany mages on various trips, and its mobility is excellent, but in addition, it is difficult for those mage's enemies to organize a large army to attack the mage tower, and it is almost impossible for those who do not have the ability to fly to get close to it. What's more, the Tower in the Clouds doesn't need to worry about things on the ground affecting here. Mages can conduct research in isolation and peace of mind.

For Augustus, the last tower in the clouds that accompanied him through countless times can be called absolutely perfect in all aspects, and its construction cost alone is not less than the price of more than a dozen imperial palaces combined, of course, compared with these ordinary buildings, there is really no comparison.

To build a tower in the clouds, the lowest level mage must reach the magic level of the Grand Magister, as the tower in the clouds requires a strong amount of qi elemental power. To maintain the mana reserve of its work, and to build a magic array for the entire energy supply system, it is necessary to have excellent indicators.

As a material for the Tower in the Clouds, any flying creature can be used to build the Tower in the Clouds, and the Air Elemental can also help create solid clouds or other flying structures to support the Tower. Building a tower in the clouds requires a construction team of 25 medium-sized flying creatures or 10 large or taller flying creatures, and the team must have 5 gas elementals of any size.

In order to save construction time, in addition to buying a large number of magic materials, Augustus went to the dark forests of southern England to capture doves, eagle-headed winged horse-like beasts, Finks and other large air elemental creatures. At least one-third of the time during construction is to direct these creatures in action. The rest of the work is to recruit the air elemental help in the air elemental plane to find lighter and more durable materials to build the ground for the mage tower.

As a movable air fortress, the Tower in the Clouds is built using the principle of the wind element, and to some extent it moves quite fast, even if it is a simple flight speed, it is simply easier to surpass the Muggle Realm aircraft, and its fastest speed can reach three times the speed of sound.

In terms of detailing, the construction process of the corridor and the room is the same. All living areas have a ceiling height of 10 feet. For every 5 feet of height, the cost increases by 25%. For Augustus, ten feet was about the right amount of footage, and there was no need to continue to spend more money.

On the door locks, Augustus used arcane methods to bless the air locks, small mechanical compartments that allow you to enter from one medium - such as water - to another - such as air. With the mechanical air lock, you can enter your mage tower from under the water without having to worry about getting the lower levels of the tower full of water. To put it simply, the tower in the clouds can be used as a means of transportation not only in the land and air, but also in the water.

Other trivial projects, such as strengthening the thickness of walls, setting up iron gates, trap doors, all require arcane shaping spells, and naturally, there are soundproof panels between each room, and the principle is to put padding on the walls of the room so that sound cannot pass through.

The Mage Tower is more than just bedrooms, kitchens, and other ordinary rooms like that. There are also special rooms for mages.

For example, according to his personal hobbies, Augustus preferred the Arcane Garden, which was mainly built for alchemy and botany, such a garden is equivalent to a small ecosystem, which allows the mage to grow a variety of plants in different environments only in his own home. The environment in which the plants grow is a small surround sun built by Augustus through magical energy, and with artificial sunlight, any plant that can be accommodated in such a room can grow here very well.

Other special rooms, including the blasting room, the library, the discovery room, the sealing room, and the workshop, are relatively large and expensive.

There is also a demon restraint room dedicated to imprisoning various alien creatures, this room is designed to imprison special creatures captured by mages, and it includes a pentagram made of mythril and inlaid on the floor. Any creature trying to break this pattern needs to break at least part of the pentagram line. Mithril is 1/4 inch thick, with 15 hardness and 7 HP.

The design and construction of the Tower in the Clouds is completely in accordance with the configuration of the most formal magic tower in the Atlas, if it weren't for the fact that many materials are relatively difficult to find in the wizarding world, a mage tower with the most formal specifications would be released soon.

At the end of the month, the construction was completed. As a level 6 mage tower in the clouds, its appearance is as crystal clear, the color is dark purple, towering above the clouds, like a god overlooking all beings, in the era of lack of faith, the tower above the sky, more like the heaven to judge the world, standing above all beings, walking between the nine heavens.