Chapter 381
Chapter 381 Putting Things Back into Order
The magic fairies were at a distinct disadvantage in this negotiation!
It was unavoidable. These magical energies were merely one of the ways by which the adepts maintained the daily functions of the tower. Even if the magic altar was shut down and the adept’s tower deactivated, the adepts wouldn’t suffer. The only real harm to the adepts was the lack of an energy reserve that they could draw upon in times of crisis.
However, the magic fairies had no other choice.
After all, they were nature spirits that had been born in environments of high magical energy concentration. The magical energy was extremely crucial to fairies like the air was for humans. It was not an element that they could do without. They would be severely affected if the magical energies in the energy hall fell below critical levels.
An ordinary energy room didn’t produce the conditions to allow for magic fairies to come into existence.
That was because of the nature of energy pools and their function within an adept’s tower. Every so often, the crystals formed from the dense concentration of magical energy would be drawn from the pools and used to fill the treasuries of the adepts. It was an important economic source for an adept’s tower!
It was rare for an adept’s tower to be abandoned and sealed for 1,700 years like the Tower of Fate.
The magic fairies even miraculously repaired the damaged doors and structures when they flew past them.
Alice and the other three left the energy room and found their way back above.
All the corridors were brightly lit now. The floors were as clean as if they were new, and all the doors and facilities were in perfect working condition. These little fairies seemed to have the magical ability to transmute even stone to gold. A thousand years of dust and waste were all blown out of the tower wherever they went. Even the areas covered in magical vines and thorns were cleared up and returned to how they had looked before.
Even the shelves and racks collapsing from old age reverted to their original state under the effect of the fairies’ mysterious and wonderful powers. A library open to all apprentice witches had been restored in the blink of an eye.
The squad of magic fairies quickly flew out of the library once they had finished there. They immediately flew towards the magical labs next.
Alice and the others looked on in shock.
The most skilled at their work were specialists after all!
The magic fairies were famed as the greatest magical butlers and companions in the entire universe. This skill was thoroughly demonstrated by all they had done in the mere minutes since they had left the energy room. Even though the fairies had locked up nine million magical crystals worth of assets for their services, all four adepts believed this to be a good trade!
At least three of them were smiling. As for Sofia? Her face was turning even darker by the second. The fires of anger in her heart were stoked whenever she saw these midgets dashing all around her!
Her! A berserker witch with a magic-resistant Physique, reduced to a… Sofia wanted to go berserk every time she thought of the events that had transpired in the energy room. She wished to smash everything to pieces.
Alice pulled Snowlotus and Sofia to a side and had a heart-to-heart talk while the fairies were busy cleaning up the tower.
“You have clans and relatives behind you. I can understand that!” Alice patiently started, “However, right now, you are part of our Witches of Fate. As sisters, I won’t ever force you into an awkward position or make you do things you are unwilling to. However, you two must also manage your relations with the various clans well.”
Snowlotus and Sofia naturally knew what to do now that Alice had brought the matter before them.
As vice leaders of the Witches of Fate, they shared the burden and mission of restoring the glory of the Witches of Fate.
Alice gave them part of the tower’s control authority, and the three gathered together to discuss their future plans. Soon, the three witches had already divided the most pressing tasks between them.
Alice was going to focus on understanding the structure and secrets of the Tower. She was also going to do a count of all the damaged and destroyed facilities, and check if she could recover them. Snowlotus was responsible for clearing out the storeroom and the treasuries in search of any materials and resources that they could still use. The probability was low, but the stones and metals used for repairing the tower might not have been wholly corroded away by time.
These resources were all things that they desperately and urgently required!
Naturally, as an ‘ally’ of Alice, Greem had to help however he could.
The knowledge of statue constructs that he had mastered over the past few years immediately came into use. The magic fairies placed the shattered pieces of the statue constructs they had collected from all over the tower in a large hall. Greem worked there day and night as he tried to put together some functional golems to help with the work.
The magic fairies were only clearing up and tidying the tower after all. Their magical tricks might be useful for fixing up some of the more ordinary objects, but they weren’t very useful when applied to the magical objects and facilities.
Each golem that Greem managed to repair was additional free labor. The clearing up of the massive ruins upstairs couldn’t be accomplished without their help.
Sofia, on the other hand, collected a hundred thousand magical crystals from the energy room and rapidly left the Tower.
A large group of apprentices would arrive at the Tower of Fate in two days. Their arrival meant that the Tower needed to be in working condition. It needed to be able to fulfill the daily activities and needs of a hundred people. Their meals, studies, training, and their lives.
The adepts could directly consume elementium water drawn from the water elementium plane, but the apprentice witches had no such ability. Drinking elementium water on a regular basis was very likely to upset the balance of elementium in their bodies.
The Tower of Fate badly needed replenishment of food, water, magical materials, and all sorts of other resources.
As the only leaders of the Witches of Fate, the three of them were incredibly busy!