1330 Utopia Part 2 (2/2)

Magic turned a place like Bitterwater Prefecture into something like a paradise. Mages created transparent rooms, enabling vegetables to be planted in huge rooms without any regard for seasons.

The cycle of sunlight and darkness was mimicked in the rooms, allowing them to produce harvest over a dozen times throughout the year.

That was only the side of things. All other facets of life with magic had seeped into life in Bitterwater Prefecture. There was simply no corner that magic was unable to reach, no status quo that magic was unable to change.

The mages of Bitterwater Prefecture had two roles: living and combat, the latter of which was a smaller role. Mages did not take up combat because they liked fighting. Most were simply thrust into the role without a choice.

Saleen was not there simply to prattle. The reason for him to be at Bitterwater Prefecture was to make the place like a hedgehog one could not simply touch. He had to do so in a way that would not significantly change the appearance of the city. It was very difficult for someone else but easy for him.

His method of doing so was to build a magic net. Magic nets had no effect on true mages. If there were to be any effects worth mentioning, it was that it made it easier for mages to accumulate elemental powers while being inside the magic net's vicinity.

It was equal to taking a bit of power from the magic net. It differed from the magic tower since the magic net was unable to refuse power being taken.

Saleen was not doing it to please anyone in particular. Other than to fulfill Lex's ideals, he had other reasons for doing so. Things across the mainland were getting increasingly shaky. All manners of portals leading to other planes were being opened, and peculiar creatures were invading the mainland. Humans needed a safe place.

That psychological need was incredibly massive. If Saleen were to only build a place meant to be for pure defense, it would have attracted countless people seeking refuge. It was not to say that those people were useless It was just that they were tired of all of the fighting.

If those people were to be left to their own devices, many would have been forced by fate to go into battlefields. Some might have ended up as Saleen's enemies. The way Saleen did it was akin to having a safe haven in the middle of the mainland, allowing humanity as a whole to recuperate.

There would have been many exceptionally talented people emerging from that place, and Saleen would have no need for them to do battle. He needed only their minds to build a powerful magic civilization.

In Saleen's perspective, he did not need those mages to research killing weapons. Crafting essential items for everyday living would have sufficed. He was naturally able to find valuable things from the thought patterns that fueled the creations those items.

He would have gained ample enchanters for deduction work and develop new magic spells, as well as new weapons. Those enchanters would not have been capable of creation themselves, yet they would be given the chance to learn by analogy. In a certain sense, the utopia could provide Saleen with immense combat capacity.

The construction project was massive, yet Saleen hardly affected everyday life in Bitterwater Prefecture. He had Nailisi summon demons and the Winged Skull summon spirits. All of the construction began underground.

Saleen was targeted for assassination in Daliang City, which left a lasting impression on him. As such, the underground side of the prefecture was re-laid with layers of defensive magic arrays. He learned how Alchemy City did it.

All underground magic arrays were being constructed between the layers of thick, heavy rock materials. Those magic arrays were connected to the city's magic net. The construction of the magic net was different from how he did it in the past. Saleen gathered the center of the magic net together and built them into a tower. The tower's materials were gained from the treasures left behind by the goddess.

A section of thundercloud wood was over 320 feet long. Thundercloud wood was a high-level material from the giant plane, which was capable of reaching heights up to 3,200 feet. If they were not cut down, those trees could even shoot out of the clouds. They were also immune to lightning.

Tall thundercloud wood was naturally thick. Saleen simply took to burying part of the section underground and melded it with the magic net using Water Flame. The part that was sticking out of the ground was being fashioned into a tower bit by bit.

The tower was made completely out of wood materials but was as strong as steel. The tower was over 390 feet tall and had 18 floors. That place served as the center of the Bitterwater Prefecture's magic net.

The first spell Saleen loaded into the magic net was his own Icicle spell. While the spell was incapable of casting electrical charge, it was unusually sharp due to having lightning magic patterns. That also made the spell immune to temperatures from fire type magic.

The spell Saleen loaded into the magic net was a compound magic. A powerful enchanter could have conjured 1,200 icicles for attack at the same time.

There were no decorations made to the tower. Saleen left that to those who would inherit the place. Externally, that tower looked to be little more than a place for recreation among the group of palaces, yet the thundercloud wood Saleen had processed enabled it to withstand high level magic attacks. He did so without having to put up any magic shields.

The expenditure on materials for constructing that tower alone would have bankrupted most mages in their world. Saleen also made a self-deprecating joke about him being an upstart. No one else would have been so extravagant with their construction just so to conceal the violent nature of the tower. He could have simply used metals to build it, which would have been just as sturdy and cheaper.

Then again, doing so lacked artistic flair to it.

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