Chapter 59: Build Your Own Mage Tower
The passage of the Mage's Lower Ring exam has brought several new privileges to Orondo. Of all these privileges, Orondo cares about only one thing - he can finally have his own mage tower.
What is Mage Tower?
If you take it literally, it is a tower owned by the mage.
But as all mages know, a mage tower is more than just a mage tower. It is the small world controlled by the mage himself, the anchor point of the mage in the material world, the harbor of refuge, and the hotbed of rest!
The small fortress laboratory that Orondo had before was not a mage tower at all.
Originally a trainee dormitory, this building looks exactly like a small human castle fortress, and it was built from the very beginning without thinking about adding many arcane elements.
So no matter how much it is transformed, it will not be able to become a mage's mage tower.
And the reason why Dalaran gave it to Orondo completely was because he had received the Ribbon of Supreme Wisdom of Kenrito three times in a row, and he had made outstanding contributions to arcane scholarship.
And because before Orondo took ownership of it, whenever a trainee or mage wanted to enter, he would remember that he had something urgent to do when he arrived at the door, and left in a hurry. No one but Orondo could get into this place.
Dalaran is not mentally retarded, and over time he naturally discovered this. After sending a mage to investigate, he got clues that the Guardian might be staying inside, and finally gave it to Orondo.
Orondo picked up a large building in Violet Academy, which was unbelievable in a place like Dalaran where every inch of land was at a premium.
But in any case, for reasons that were not considered in the first place, Orondo's small fortress could not become his mage tower.
Now, after passing the mage lower ring exam, Orondo has become a high-level mage.
Naturally, he officially had access to the scholarship and rights related to Dalaran and the Mage Tower.
After becoming a high-level mage, there are two ways for Mage Dalaran to have his own mage tower.
One is to apply to the Kenrito Council for ownership of an unused mage tower.
It has been more than 2,000 years since Dalaran was founded, and the number of mages that appeared in 2,000 years can crush the entire population of Quel'Thalas. However, human mages have a shorter lifespan, and can live up to a hundred years without special circumstances.
For those mages who have no heirs in Dalaran, their Mage Tower in Dalaran will be automatically repossessed by Kenrito after their death.
After thousands of years of accumulation, Dalaran has no shortage of ready-made masterless mage towers. After an ordinary mage is promoted to a high-level mage, he has the right to apply to the Kenrito Council for access to an ownerless mage tower.
Like the six members of the six-member council, the six largest mage towers in Nadararan, they are actually all good things inherited from their predecessors.
Orondo, who has just become a high-level mage, has good and bad choices if he chooses this path.
The advantage is that he doesn't need to spend a dime, he can get a rough embryo of a mage tower, and he only needs to add a little more money to decorate and add many magic devices, and he can live in it directly.
The disadvantage is that this kind of ownerless mage tower, the valuable and useful guy province inside must have been moved by Kenrito officials a long time ago, and only those who can't move will stay here.
So all you can get is a blank, and it won't be easy to redecorate and add magic devices, formations, facilities, etc. later.
And this kind of ownerless mage tower is basically an ordinary commodity that has been picked up by the predecessors. If you want to get the good goods, it is impossible without a certain number of contacts and resources.
In addition to this method of directly inheriting the Masterless Mage Tower, after becoming an official high-level mage, the second way to have your own mage tower is to build it yourself.
Dalaran will give a plot of land to the mage who applies to build his own mage tower, and then give a sum of money and construction resources to support the mage to build his own mage tower by himself.
This approach is also good and bad compared to the previous one.
The advantage is that the self-built mage tower knows the roots, and you can play how you want, and you can build it how you want.
The downside is ...... A mage tower, even the most rudimentary mage tower, is expensive enough to discourage most high-level mages!
There is no doubt that Orondo chose the second option, building his own mage tower.
He knows that it will cost a lot of money, a lot of resources, and a lot of manpower.
However, it is much better than inheriting those ordinary goods and junk goods.
That's why I laughed so happily when I heard Nellas Elam report that the third issue of "The Secret of Sephorosa" sold more than 18,000 copies!
He patted his friend on the shoulder and said loudly to the sales general manager he had paid for: "Well done! Elan, you have made a lot of money for me, and you have also earned a lot of money for yourself! ”
The first issue of "The Secret of Sephorosa" sold only 6,000 copies of the monthly magazine because there were no advertisements or notices, which was the number that Neras Elam had later sold when he hired him as sales director.
When the second issue began to be published, Orondo had the idea of going to the mages to sell as a child of the great nobles of Neras Elam and a mage, and to have the first owls, who had gradually begun to tame, go around looking for mages to spread small advertisements, and finally increased the sales to the original sales of the "Kenrito Monthly".
Earned a lot of money.
Neras Elan smiled, stroked his hair, and said, "Of course, I have a credit for this. But you're the big reason why the monthly magazine sells well! The name of Sephorosa is known to everyone in Kenrito! ”
Orondo smiled reservedly.
He is very short of money now, because in addition to the consumption of daily research, there is a bottomless pit that builds his own mage tower!
The Magic Shop and the Secret of Sephorosa are his two major sources of funding, and he can't pay too much attention to it.
Compared to these two industries, the small territory in the middle of the Hillsbrad Hills is really not very important at the moment.
Looking at Nalas Elam, and some of the information given by the Eye of Truth about him in the original plot, Orondo thought of a new way to make money.
"Elan, I heard that you have decided on the path of a mage who majores in summoning and minors in enhancement and energy shaping, right?" After thinking about it, Orondo asked his friend.
"That's right, I'm gifted at summoning, and that's what both my mentor and the court archmage of Stormwind said." Elan admitted.
"Let's go!" Orondo grabbed him and said to him. "Go to your lab. I had an idea to modify the water element so that it could be turned into sparkling wine. ”