Chapter 406
Chapter 406 Activating the Tower
According to the control crystal, the core array resided on the fourth level.
There were five surface levels to the tower and two underground levels, making for a total of seven levels.
The two underground levels were the energy room and the resource warehouse respectively. This layout was typical for most adept’s towers.
The first level functioned as the dwellings of the apprentices, the arcane hall, the library, the academic hall, and the dining area.
The second level had a magical garden, a breeding room, an incubation chamber, a small laboratory, and a magic practice range.
The third level contained the sealing room, the book storage, the golem factory, the alchemy lab, and the scroll crafting chamber.
Teleportation Array: One hundred thousand magical crystals.
Detection Room: Seventy thousand magical crystals.
Greater Magic Practice Range: Eighty thousand magical crystals.
Room of Bindings: (Small) Four thousand magical crystals | (Medium) Twenty thousand magical crystals | (Large) Fifty thousand magical crystals.
Sealing Room: Thirty thousand magical crystals.
Pool of Purification: Twenty thousand magical crystals.
Large Omnipurpose Alchemy Lab: One hundred and thirty thousand magical crystals. (Includes a complete set of tools and facilities)
Golem Factory: Forty thousand magical crystals. (Can only be used for the creation and repair of adept-level magical statue constructs)
Scroll Crafting Chamber: Three thousand magical crystals. (Includes all tools)
Enchantment Lab: Seven thousand magical crystals.
Alchemical Slave: (Adept-level) Twenty thousand magical crystals | (Apprentice-level) Eight hundred magical crystals.
Voodoo Beast: (Adept-level) Sixteen thousand magical crystals | (Apprentice-level) Six hundred magical crystals.
Magical Garden Servant: Flower Fairy (Two hundred magical crystals/creature) | Genie (One hundred and seventy magical crystals/creature).
Tower Slave (Strength-type): Minotaur (Twenty magical crystals/creature) | Quilboar (Eight magical crystals/creature) | Ogre (Twenty-five magical crystals/creature) | Dragonspawn (Forty magical crystals/creature).
Tower Slave (Specialized): Halfling Gourmet (Three hundred magical crystals/creature) | Dwarven Smith (One hundred and twenty magical crystals/creature) | Grass Fairy ([Female] Seven hundred magical crystals/creature | [Male] Six hundred magical crystals/creature) | Siren Apprentice (One thousand seven hundred magical crystals/creature).
The parchment wasn’t large, but its contents were plentiful. Most of the things listed here were necessary for the operation of an adept’s tower. However, Greem felt his head ache when he read through the prices listed behind each item.
If he were a veteran adept that had lived for a hundred years, he would at least have some capital on hand. Unfortunately, he was not. He was just an ordinary adept that had been fighting tooth and claw to make his bucket of gold. In fact, it hadn’t been that long since he had bid farewell to his label as a newly advanced adept.
As for savings; He had spent most of the resources and magical crystals he had obtained during the last planar on Alice and her Battle of Fate. He could barely squeeze out thirty to forty thousand magical crystals if he counted everything he had. This amount was clearly insufficient if he wanted to complete the tower’s functions. It was barely enough for Greem to get the tower running.
It wasn’t as if Greem had no valuable items on hand. As long as he was willing to part with his last spacestone, every financial problem he had would be solved.
The problem was that he just wasn’t willing to!
Thus, after a lengthy negotiation with Adept Eugene, Greem paid for a small fire altar in the hall on the first floor. He then bought some tools and facilities for the alchemy lab, the golem factory, the scroll creation chamber, and several other places. He also purchased some magical seeds for the garden.
Apart from these basic amenities, Greem also bought two halfling gourmets, two dwarven smiths, and two fairies.
He had no choice! He and Gargamel had to live here from now on. They couldn’t possibly be expected to go out hunting on their own for every meal! That was why purchasing food and daily consumables and leaving them to these slaves to manage was the best course of action!
Meanwhile, the role of the tower guards fell upon the eleven manticores.
Once the Silver Union adepts had swiftly constructed the fire altar, Greem immediately placed the Fire Lord’s Scepter that he had no use for on the platform. This way, he could summon up to five fire elementals from the altar on a daily basis. These elementals could serve as his servants that helped in the operation of the tower.
Over time, this labyrinthine underground tunnel network would become dominated by fire elementium. This development would substantially increase the security of the tower. Greem would also be able to summon even more fire elementals to serve as free labor. Of course he chose to construct a fire altar first!