Extraordinary Voyage-Chapter 612 - 538: Wizard Tower and Next Strategic Plan

Looking up, that towering high tower stands on a carefully developed flat stone platform halfway up the mountain.

Entirely composed of hard light gray granite, from the tower base to the pointed top, its total height reaches thirty meters. Its very essence is solid and heavy, but coupled with the pointed arch door and external bundled pillars, it exudes a light, ethereal flying sensation.

Most peculiar is a layer of 'something' like dark green lichen that has already covered most of the wizard's tower's walls. Despite its recent construction, it looks as if it's been there for years.

Amidst the lush trees on the mountainside, it resembles a gigantic verdant tree, indescribably immense.

Tap.. Tap.. Tap..

Aiven, dressed in a simple white shirt, hands in pockets of long pants, stepped along the granite path carved out through the wild forest, his shiny boots making him seem as if he were strolling through the Governor's mansion's backyard garden.

Yet the crisp echoes of his footsteps disturbed a presence within the forest.

Perhaps influenced by the local climate and the active magic element, the pine forest at the foot of the tower is far more towering and lush than its northern cold temperate counterparts, with a greater diversity of species.

The coniferous species, various and ancient, some worthy of being called ancient living fossils.

So the forest appears particularly dark and humid.

Noticing Aiven's arrival, it seems as if countless pairs of eyes suddenly opened from the darkness, staring unblinkingly at this visitor.

But upon realizing who it was, they quickly vanished, allowing Aiven to ascend to the halfway mountain platform, smoothly arriving at the wizard's tower door.

Only standing close does one discover that the towering high tower's surface has no signs of stone masonry, seamless as if a giant tree grew directly from the mountain rock.

Indeed, this tower was not constructed brick by brick, but rather granted temporary vitality to the granite mountain body by 'Activated Spiritual Light', forming a unified whole!

Needless to say, unexpectedly obtaining that 'Bronze Talisman' also has a highly favorable interaction between Kukulkan's [Life Authority] and the 'Life Tree School'.

Aiven, somewhat itching, merely utilized an insignificant trace of its power, yet it greatly enhanced his 'Activated Spiritual Light', far surpassing the limits of the [Superlimit Ceremony: Activation of Skillful Hands].

Controlling this massive mountain body in just half an hour to organically grow a seven-story above ground and two-story underground large tower in one go. The missing portions of the granite mountains actually became the wizard tower's raw materials.

Shown to people, it could certainly be called a miracle.

However.

After experimenting once, Aiven decided never to use this talisman unless absolutely necessary.

Despite feeling as if she controlled the world when using it, it was akin to honey mixed with arsenic; the more frequently used, the deeper the 'poisoning'.

When the poison manifests, possibly before one realizes it, the soul has already transformed into the shape of Kukulkan. Then one's body, territory, title, school, wizard tower...even family would no longer belong to oneself.

So after use, Aiven immediately threw it into the deepest part of the [Shadow Secret Vault].

Normally, a wizard tower should be a colossal witchcraft creation of building grade.

Its appearance is actually unimportant; it could resemble a steel tower in the witchcraft garden like Principal Princeton or a noble castle like Marchioness Nymph.

Any wizard tower initially is mere mortal matter; later modifications are key to its qualitative transformation.

Just like this traditional wizard tower belonging to the 'Vitalist School', after constructing the basic floor platform, it requires huge extraordinary resources to add various witchcraft traits and enchantment effects, to gain all sorts of marvelous and powerful functions.

During the tower's construction, Aiven also realized the [Whole Body Activation Technique] renamed as [Living Ship Spirit Technique] in the inheritance secret scroll 'Flesh Sacrifice' volume four.

Originally, it should have been used to build Great Wizard's towers, inspiring [Tower Spirit] instead of [Ship Spirit].

Yet, this being the heart of Aiven's territory, there is currently no need to worry about large-scale external enemy invasions; it suffices as a mere research site, leaving the rest to be gradually perfected.

While pondering, Aiven reached the tower's pointed arch doorway.

Here stood two activated guards similar to Olivia's Silver Knight, powered by fixed magic element nodes, costing only one-fourth of a Silver Knight, currently in statue status, not activated.

About to push the door to enter the tower.

Cries—

Two large horned carvings with nearly five-meter wingspans flew from afar, gray-black upper bodies and white lower bodies, sharp beaks and claws gleaming coldly.

After circling above the wizard's tower, they flew again in another direction, serving as the tower's aerial vigil force, also the school's eyes and ears.

Among ordinary creatures, horned eagles are one of the largest birds of prey in the New Continent, transformed into absolute aerial sovereigns after Angie conducted the artificial demonization ritual.

During this demonization ceremony, Aiven was pleasantly surprised to find 'Moonstone' was equally effective; although the success of demonized creatures wasn't solely dependent on spirituality, its success rate notably increased.