Chapter 1330: Chapter 1330
Chapter 1330: Utopia (Part 2)
“There is no civilization that lasts forever, Saleen… Master,” Heinreiz said .
Saleen was only able to hang his head low and accept the lesson . That was a notable saying among mages, and one that he should not have forgotten .
He lifted his head moments later and said, “There is no civilization that will last forever, but we mages keep striving for eternity, nonetheless . There wouldn’t be the likes of Holy Rock City and Alchemy City otherwise . Master, well… Regardless, I’m rich now, so just take it as me wanting to help fulfill Lex’s ideals . ”
“Ideals?” Heinreiz asked .
“Yeah, aren’t there bards singing about utopias?” Saleen asked . “I want to help make the Bitterwater Prefecture into a utopia . ”
Heinreiz laughed .
“I don’t find it funny,” Saleen said in a serious tone .
“It is funny, but it’d be interesting to do them precisely because such things are funny,” Heinreiz said . “Alright, Lex isn’t around, and she told me to watch over the city . I only ask of you of one thing: don’t wreck the city walls at the north . That is Lex’s favorite place . ”
Saleen slightly blushed in embarrassment . He knew that he had always been heavy-handed when it came to modifying cities, like some upstart who had just gotten rich overnight .
The front walls of Bitterwater Prefecture was one of the most beautiful architectures that Saleen had ever seen . The buildings within the city were also stunningly beautiful . The city did not look like one that mages would have lived in at all . It looked like some kind of center of art .
Saleen nodded in agreement . Building a city was not something that could be done within days . The lightning puppets’ combat capacity was enhanced by over 100 times when they were remade into lightning warriors . However, that came at a cost of losing their construction abilities . The original puppets were capable of being used for large-scale labor .
All the parts on those puppets had been able to be used for construction . The lightning warriors, on the other hand, were made specifically for killing and nothing else .
Saleen organized a massive lecture event right before Heinreiz’s tower . It was not a speech event of the nobles but one of mages imparting knowledge . All the mages who joined the Bitterwater Prefecture’s viscount’s office had the right to participate in the lecture .
His lecture went on for one day . Most of it involved answering questions from the mages . The lecture became something the people of the prefecture remembered for ages to come because there were over 100 mages who advanced right there and then . Those mages had gathered enough magic chords . All they lacked was a chance of gaining higher understanding of magical powers .
Saleen gave them that opportunity and laid out advancement magic arrays on the fly, supplying them with huge amounts of magic nuclei . That made the mages extremely grateful .
Most mages found it difficult to accumulate enough magic nuclei for advancement . While mages were generally rich, with the mainland being at war everywhere, the prices of magic nucleus skyrocketed . Even the wealthy mages were unable to get through the situation without struggles .
Saleen made his speech for real after imparting magic knowledge . The topic of the speech was none other than “Utopia . ” He did not get very long-winded . Instead, he gave the mages an interesting lesson using matters happening around them .
Alchemy City was no longer the heaven that mages sought . Metatrin City was being put to the test by a constant state of war . Mages did not exist to fight wars, yet they were now compelled to research day and night ways to kill people just to survive . The notion of a mage unable to fight was worthless was wrong .
Saleen illustrated his vision of a utopia . In one such nation, a mage’s mission was to make the lives of everyone more comfortable . Mages would no longer need to fight for a living . They were to return to their very nature as mages, learning about the truth of the world .
During his speech, he said, “That was the first saying I learned when I first formed my magic chords, and I knew right there and then that it was the truth . Our world requires exploration . The mission of a mage is not to fight wars!”
Saleen’s words evoked massive responses among the mages . Most mages did not get into magic-learning to fight wars . They chose to walk the path of a mage because they had personally witnessed the mystical side of magic .
However, a mage’s journey was an unusually arduous one . One needed immense persistence to continue walking on that path . Persistence alone was not enough . One needed to form magic chords before one could truly be called a mage . Magic chords were not something achievable by everyone .
The nation illustrated by Saleen was one in which most people could learn magical knowledge . Even if they were unable to become mages, they could experience the beauty of magic . He did not deny the significance of mages in fighting wars .
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He came to a conclusion through his analysis that it was war that fueled magic’s progress . For example, the Cleaning spell . It was originally just a spell for wiping off dirt and was low level . In war scenarios, it could be used to help the injured, maintain large-scale equipment, and so on .
The Cleaning spell developed due to being specific needs for it . Thus, a level zero magic became a spell that could be advanced to level one . Before anyone realized it, a level one Cleaning spell became something that could clean huge rooms within moments, creating magic arrays that enabled those rooms to be kept clean forever .
Mages could make life better, as long as one had money . The Bitterwater Prefecture was one such example . The city had a beautiful environment . Before the mages came, the place was unable to even sustain peasants who labored in the fields .
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 .
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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 .
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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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