Chapter 376 – Epic Mage Tower, A Formidable War Fortress!

At the center of the Land of Red Mist, before the colossal withered giant tree.

The pure white radiance of purification bloomed to its extreme, a white pillar of light tearing through the crimson mist and soaring into the sky, completely enveloping the massive tree.

A segment of the brownish-red tree block cracked and shattered.

Then came the second, third, fourth…

Like collapsing dominoes, the entire Filth Nexus resembling a withered giant tree crumbled with a thunderous roar, the dark red fragments quickly dissipating within the white light.

The dilapidated structure entangled by countless roots also collapsed with a crash as the filthy giant tree vanished.

The crimson mist began to disperse.

The intangible corrosive force rapidly receded, and Sophia let out a sigh of relief. If they had stayed any longer in this Land of Red Mist, it wouldn’t just be about their dwindling supply of Icy Purity Potions—even with an unlimited supply, they couldn’t have endured much longer.

Perhaps in another quarter or half-hour, the erosion of the Filth would have exceeded the threshold, causing them to develop mutation symptoms.

Even now…

Sophia snapped her fingers and conjured a Black Crow.

The Black Crow locked eyes with her.

In the crow’s vision reflected her cold, elegant countenance—shoulder-length black hair, but her dark eyes were speckled with blood spots, like an overworked office drone who hadn’t rested for three days and nights.

This wasn’t a major issue, though.

Sophia was quite familiar with erosion. As long as the erosion level hadn’t crossed the first stage threshold, recovery wouldn’t be too difficult.

When the Filth Nexus under construction completely dissipated and the purifying white light gradually faded away, the heavenly prompt echoed in their ears, and divine radiance descended from the skies above.

Amidst the sprawling brilliance, three treasure orbs materialized before the three individuals.

Two were blue, and one was…

“It’s here! The jackpot!”

Dolai exclaimed.

Sophia understood better how precious Epic Treasures were—she had thoroughly investigated the market prices in Taixuan.

Most veteran Lords, and even some Great Lords, struggled to possess even a single Epic Treasure. Among some powerful factions in the Deep Wilderness, a single Epic artifact served as their ultimate trump card, a foundation to secure their clan’s legacy.

Even their own territory only possessed a few Epic items: the Space Urn, Pure White Feather, Scepter of Heavenly Authority, and the Hall of Heroic Souls!

Within the bestowed radiance, the forms of the treasures gradually became clear, and the prompt would soon announce the grand prize.

Dolai clasped its hands together, praying incessantly, “No Remnant Soul, please no Remnant Soul, goo!”

The logic wasn’t wrong.

For their territory, the least needed item was an Epic Remnant Soul.

But…

Sophia couldn’t help but interject, “Epic Remnant Souls don’t appear alone. They can only be obtained in Epic-level recruitment sites or special recruitment structures… and it’s not exactly obtaining—it’s about directly recruiting if the Remnant Soul acknowledges you.”

Therefore, it was impossible for a Lord to purchase an Epic Remnant Soul and recruit it themselves.

This was more or less common knowledge.

Dolai scratched its head, “Huh, is that so?”

「Prompt: Obtained special crop ‘Icy Purity Fruit Tree (Excellent).’」

「Prompt: Obtained special vehicle ‘X-II Airship (Excellent).’」

「Prompt: Obtained Miracle Blueprint ‘Advanced Mage Tower (Epic).’」The Crimson Mist began to dissipate, but this place had been deeply eroded, with many crimson mist threads still drifting about. The three did not linger long; Dolai grabbed the three treasures and rushed outward.

Soon, the three returned to the back of Sario, who was responsible for the extraction.

This extraction mission was a complete success.

Mu Yuan took the treasures and examined them.

The Icy Purity Fruit Tree was naturally an excellent treasure, ranking high in value and utility even among Outstanding-grade treasures.

Tianyuan Territory already had one such tree, and he wouldn’t mind having another.

Even with treasures like Natural Dew in his territory that could promote plant growth, more Icy Purity Fruit Trees were always welcome.

“Many people consider Icy Purity Potion too expensive, thinking it’s not worth spending a fortune on such consumables, but…”

During the Crimson Mist calamity month, professionals could save on potions when venturing outdoors, but delving into the treacherous Land of Red Mist was absolutely impossible without Icy Purity Potion.

He actually wished the Icy Purity Potion were even more advanced.

As for the ‘X-II Airship,’ it was a medium-sized, Outstanding-grade passenger airship, described as capable of accommodating over a hundred passengers.

Mu Yuan’s home housed a Mechanical Dragon, which possessed considerable speed and combat capabilities.

However, the Mechanical Dragon was slower than Asun in flight, less resilient than Sario in combat, and had limited passenger capacity, so Mu Yuan had left it gathering dust in the Warehouse.

The X-II Airship was even slower, with its maximum speed only equivalent to that of a conventional third-tier creature. Its defensive capabilities were decent, but its offensive power was significantly weaker.

Nevertheless, it had a large passenger capacity.

Whether for transporting people or cargo, the ‘X-II Airship’ was more practical than the Mechanical Dragon.

“One is far too few.”

“On the Taixuan Covenant Platform, blueprints for such vehicles can be exchanged, but they are merely ordinary design documents, devoid of any miraculous power.”

In reality, there weren’t that many Miracle Blueprints.

While Lords couldn’t construct Miracle Buildings through their own abilities alone, many war machines, weapons, vehicles, and tools were painstakingly crafted by technicians studying blueprints through trial and error.

This process could take a considerable amount of time, with significant costs for experimentation, verification, and debugging. Yet, for a territory to grow strong, it inevitably had to tread this path.

“I’ll check the Taixuan Covenant Platform later to see if there are manufacturing documents for this ‘X-II Airship.’ If so, having a sample on hand would make it easier for the territory to produce a second one.”

“In terms of cost, the ‘X-II Airship’ is likely much more expensive than the ‘Mechanical Dragon,’ but the former holds greater value for my Tianyuan Territory.”

Mu Yuan pondered.

Then, with great care, he selected to examine the first Epic blueprint he had obtained since founding his territory.

「Miracle Blueprint · Advanced Mage Tower」

「Grade: Epic」

「Description: When the territory possesses both the ‘Intermediate Mage Tower (Outstanding)’ and ‘Energy Well (Outstanding)’ structures, using this blueprint will combine them to create an ‘Advanced Mage Tower (Epic).’」

The Epic blueprint served as the core of the combination, imbued with profound and miraculous power.

“Fortunately, my territory has these two structures; otherwise, this blueprint would be useless, which would be quite awkward.”

He had one Intermediate Mage Tower, with two more awaiting construction.He possessed two Energy Wells.

After using one, the territory’s energy supply would likely become insufficient again.

…

A day later, Dolai and the others, carrying the precious treasures, returned to Tianyuan Territory.

Mu Yuan eagerly summoned them, and the group entered the Dragon Mound Fertile Soil Realm.

From afar, they could see a white tower over ten meters tall suspended in mid-air, the circular crystal at its peak shimmering with halos of light under the sun.

This was the new Mage Tower Mu Yuan had rushed to construct, its blueprint brought back earlier by Deadbone, Lu Liu, and the others who had returned first.

The old Mage Tower, after all, was a landmark of Tianyuan City, housing numerous experimental equipment Isloria had purchased from outside, as well as her piled-up clothes and daily necessities.

If the old Mage Tower were to be fused, Mu Yuan feared the equipment and items inside would be consumed along with it, and Isloria would surely go on strike.

With a new Epic structure about to be born, most of the generals still in the territory had come to witness the event.

Deadbone came to see if this Epic Mage Tower could further enhance the territory’s stability. After all, Epic structures possessed unfathomable power—the Scepter of Heavenly Authority and the Hall of Heroic Souls had greatly improved the territory’s security. He believed the Epic Mage Tower would surely do the same.

The Mage Tower remained a defensive structure in the same lineage.

Isloria made time to visit despite her busy schedule. No traditional mage could resist the allure of a Mage Tower. Without work pressures, she could stay inside one for months without ever stepping out.

Dolai was the delivery transporter, and it never missed such excitement.

Thus, Bone Two, Bone Three, Sario, Tiff, and other generals also came to join the spectacle.

Mu Yuan stood over a hundred meters away.

Before him were the Intermediate Mage Tower and the Energy Well, which had been relocated at considerable cost.

「Prompt: Use ‘Miracle Blueprint · Advanced Mage Tower (Epic)’?」

「Prompt: Fuse and upgrade using the structures ‘Intermediate Mage Tower’ and ‘Energy Well’?」

「Yes!」

The blueprint in his hand floated up, gradually igniting with purple flames, and burned away entirely within the violet glow.

Vast, unfathomable power of rules spread out.

Among those present, Deadbone and Dolai felt it most keenly. They realized the surrounding space had nearly frozen, while the structures in the distance transformed, combined, and ascended along predetermined trajectories. The entire process was governed by rules—no amount of violent force could disrupt it in the slightest.

It felt like an eternity had passed, yet also as if everyone had merely blinked.

The two structures, the Intermediate Mage Tower and the Energy Well, vanished before them, replaced by a magnificent tower standing tall upon the earth.

The tower soared over a hundred meters high, gleaming with a silvery-white luster under the sun, like a Greatsword thrust upright into the heavens. Its mere presence exuded an intangible, heavy pressure.

Mu Yuan and the others stood at its base, as small as ants.

Not just them—even the distant mountains in the Dragon Mound Fertile Soil Realm, which were taller than the Advanced Mage Tower, seemed dwarfed. The tower became the highest point in this realm; even a giant dozens of meters tall would appear as small as a human when standing beneath it.

Mu Yuan observed the towering structure.

At its peak was a magnificent, enormous prismatic crystal, while the middle and base of the tower were flanked by three and six smaller beacon towers, respectively, guarding its surroundings.This appears to be the guardian of the Mage Tower, as well as its weapon.

「Advanced Mage Tower (Epic)」

「Description: A creation of top-tier mages, it serves as a Holy Land and research base for countless mages, as well as a war fortress capable of suppressing cities and nations.」

「Ability ①: Internal Space. The Advanced Mage Tower contains ten times the space of its external appearance, sufficient to accommodate numerous facilities and personnel.」

「Note: The Advanced Mage Tower comes equipped with basic-level research facilities. For more advanced or non-universal equipment, please procure them separately.」

「Ability ②: Spell Foundation. The Advanced Mage Tower contains a Spell Foundation capable of recording and deconstructing conventional basic and advanced spells, facilitating mages’ learning and research.」

「Ability ③: Spell Amplification. The Advanced Mage Tower features one primary control position and nine secondary artillery positions. Mages stationed in these ten areas receive significant amplification when casting spells.」

「Note: Amplification rates will diminish when a mage’s Rank exceeds a certain threshold.」

「Ability ④: War Throne. The Advanced Mage Tower possesses the abilities of ‘Levitation’, ‘Rapid Flight’, ‘Energy Shield’, and ‘Self-Concealment’, along with three advanced large-scale spells: ‘Super·Magic Missile’, ‘Spell Torrent’, and ‘Void Law Barrier’.」

「Note: For engraving additional large-scale spells, users must conduct their own research.」

「Ability ⑤: Infinite Energy. The Advanced Mage Tower contains a large energy furnace that automatically absorbs natural energy, continuously supplying power to the tower. Typically, no additional Soul Crystals are required. However, when ‘Spell Amplification’ and ‘War Throne’ operate at full capacity, users must provide additional energy.」

To fully utilize the Advanced Mage Tower’s capabilities, it requires at least a dozen or several dozen high-level magic-based professionals to be stationed within.

However, the epic-grade Mage Tower possesses considerable intelligence, allowing Mu Yuan to control it directly through his status as Lord.

“Rise.”

With a slight tremor of the earth, the Mage Tower slowly ascended into the air.

Initially, the Tower’s speed was moderate, but soon it cut through the high sky like a battleship, stirring violent winds.

Intermediate Mage Towers possess flight capability, but their speed is relatively slow, merely allowing the structure to reposition itself when necessary.

As for the Advanced Mage Tower? Mu Yuan couldn’t test its maximum speed.

It requires some time and space to accelerate, which the Dragon Mound Fertile Soil Realm doesn’t provide sufficiently.

However, the Advanced Mage Tower’s full-speed flight likely surpasses the current fastest speed in Tianyuan – ‘Dolai·Flight Mode’.

Previously, he had thought the so-called X-II Airship was impressive, but compared to the Advanced Mage Tower, it was nothing.

Of course, there was never any real comparison to begin with.

“Test the energy shield. Dolai, use… use a lightning skill, focus on breaking through.”

“Okay!”

Dolai extended its hand, a flicker of lightning dancing at its fingertips.

Crack—

The thunder tore through the sky, striking the Mage Tower a kilometer away.

A transparent barrier instantly materialized around the Tower.

As the thunder crashed down, the barrier rippled slightly. Blue lightning arcs spread outward, illuminating the entire surrounding area of the shield.

Dolai continued snapping its fingers, the dancing lightning at its fingertips growing increasingly brilliant.However, no matter how many levels of thunder output, when striking the Mage Tower, it could only cause ripples on the tower’s protective barrier. The ripples were not intense.

At this moment, Dolai split off more than a dozen droplets of condensed liquid, which transformed into steel beads shimmering with a silver-gray luster.

Lightning flickered around the steel beads, and in the next moment, they tore through the sky and shot forward.

“Boom—!”

This was Dolai’s sound effect.

In reality, the electromagnetic cannon’s impact on the Mage Tower remained silent.

One by one, the steel beads hovered in mid-air, as if embedded in the nearly transparent light barrier, with ripples spreading outward from the points of impact.

In the next moment,

Thump~

The steel beads were repelled by the light barrier, thumping as they crashed into the ground.

“That’s enough, that’s enough.”

Seeing that Dolai was about to increase its output further, Mu Yuan quickly called for a stop.

Dolai might not necessarily be able to breach the barrier of the Epic Mage Tower, but the residual shockwaves from its attacks could wreak havoc across most of the Dragon Mound Secret Realm.

Mu Yuan also briefly experimented with the large-scale spell ‘Super·Spell Missile’.

His testing method was—launching the large-scale spell and having Dolai use its Space Devour skill to swallow the giant spell missile with a radius of over twenty meters, thereby determining the spell’s power.

Extremely powerful, enough to threaten Legendary Realm beings.

The destructive power of ‘Super·Spell Missile’ was indeed far inferior to that of the ‘Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon,’ but this spell, along with the other two, had very short cooldowns, allowing for continuous output.

A single ‘Super·Spell Missile’ was equivalent to a Legendary Realm being unleashing its full firepower continuously.

Moreover…

The skills of the Advanced Mage Tower could adjust their output power, and the giant missile with a 20-meter radius was not the limit of this Mage Tower.

“A complete Advanced Mage Tower still requires a sufficient number of spellcasting professionals to be stationed within it.”

“To name just one example, Isloria, utilizing the amplification capabilities of the tower, could likely easily suppress and kill a Legendary Realm being in a one-on-one battle.”

The more purely spellcasting-oriented a professional was, the more compatible they were with the Advanced Mage Tower.

And his Tianyuan Territory also had purely spellcasting professionals. Not Dolai, not Isloria, but Frost, Cold Frost, and others.

Mu Yuan was still unable to test the limits of the Advanced Mage Tower, but its current performance alone was enough to delight him.

Even the Nine-Star General Deadbone commented, “Steady, this is truly steady.”

Indeed, with the Advanced Mage Tower standing guard, the safety coefficient of the entire Tianyuan Territory would undoubtedly skyrocket by hundreds of percentage points.

If he had possessed such a treasure during the recent defense of Tianyuan City, he wouldn’t have needed to wait for the right moment so riskily. He could have simply let the Advanced Mage Tower transform into a War Fortress and annihilate the endless waves of monsters and the Legendary Realm beings.

Its capabilities were born for war.

It could attack, defend, and suppress everything.

Isloria couldn’t wait to step inside the tower to study and uncover all its secrets.

The use of the Mage Tower was also closely related to the safety coefficient of Tianyuan Territory. Thinking of this, Mu Yuan approved Isloria’s request for leave, allowing her to use at most half of her Incarnations to tinker with and study this Epic Tower.

“Speaking of which, Isloria’s Starlight Avatar can exist permanently and possesses considerable combat power itself. Doesn’t that mean…”

Normally, it would require an entire team working together to fully unleash the capabilities of an Advanced Mage Tower.But it seemed that with Isloria alone, he was more than enough.

…

South of the Great Domain, a region sealed off by violent energy.

“Screech—”

A pale blue giant bird tore through the tidal waves of energy, flying out from the deepest part of the dangerous zone.

Standing steadily on the bird’s back were several figures.

“We’re here, we’re here! This time we’ve definitely found the right place!”

“It closely matches Shen Linglong’s description. I’m also certain we just passed through a spatial tunnel. This is probably another Great Domain. Who would have thought that an entrance to another domain exists in the central part of the Twilight Plains, and it’s not far from our Taixuan Territory.”

Minister Qin was also somewhat surprised.

The flight speed of the Legendary Realm Wind King’s Wings was extremely fast, but initially, they hadn’t located the correct target danger zone.

After all, the wilderness was vast and lacked reference points.

The information he had obtained came secondhand from Shen Linglong’s subordinates, which inevitably contained some discrepancies.

They had explored four similarly appearing danger zones before arriving here.

“But if not for deliberately exploring, it might have taken years, even decades, before any pioneers could discover such a Great Domain.”

Minister Qin patted the Wind King’s Wings.

The Wind King’s Wings sped northward at top speed.

Shen Linglong hadn’t sent any messages back for two or three days, and Tianyuan hadn’t appeared in Han Yue’s Secret Realm these past few days, including his subordinates.

Thinking of this, Minister Qin couldn’t help but feel somewhat worried.

He could only hope that fortune favors the blessed.

“Old Qin, there’s no need to worry. Lord Tianyuan has already survived in this region for several months. If he can endure months, a mere few days shouldn’t be a problem,”

said the Crushed Rock Lord.

But the last message from Shen Linglong indicated that the situation in Tianyuan City was extremely dire, already under the most direct threat from a Monster Overlord.

Tianyuan City was exposed to the gaze of an Overlord!

Tianyuan City might even erupt into large-scale war with an Overlord at any moment!

But how could a small territory like Tianyuan City, established for only a year, have the capability to face an Overlord force directly?

Even the weakest Overlord is still an Overlord.

The Wind King’s Wings flew at full speed, easily leaving ordinary flying monsters behind in an instant. However, high-level flying monsters and flocks of flying monsters were rarely encountered.

The Legendary monsters they had been guarding against were nowhere to be seen.

It was important to note that the Wind King’s Wings, flying at full speed with surging energy, stood out conspicuously in the eyes of monster Legends.

The Crushed Rock Lord said, “Perhaps this region isn’t as perilous as we imagined?”

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