Wizard: Starting from Escape from the Thorn Garden

Chapter 108 The Design of the Wizard Tower

Kate stood atop the floating hill designated as the base of the tower, her gaze sharp as she swept over the land that would become the foundation of her future.

The hill itself has a unique texture and is a secondary node in the network of ancient trees that revitalize the evergreen barrier. It naturally gathers a powerful yet gentle life energy. The earth veins are stable and closely integrated with the spatial base, making it an excellent place to build a wizard's tower.

He closed his eyes, and the "Heart of Reincarnation" in his mind slowly rotated, with silver-blue, emerald green, and gray-dark colors intertwining.

The cold analytical flow of the Seed of Origin, the vast knowledge bestowed by the Sage of Life, Master Liria's alchemical notes, the insights gained from the trials, and the information from the walled city blueprints provided by Archmage Horn, began to collide, deduce, and merge wildly.

An unprecedented blueprint for a wizard's tower, perfectly aligned with his own path, is gradually becoming clearer and more complete in his consciousness.

Core Design Concepts: Symbiosis, Circulation, Transformation, Growth

Design Principles:

1. Manifestation of Rules: The three major rules of life, death, and space contained in the "Heart of Reincarnation" are materialized and functionalized through architectural structures, rune arrays, energy circuits, and other means.

2. Dynamic balance: The tower itself becomes a huge energy circulation system, realizing the controllable transformation and utilization of life and death energy, and the adaptive adjustment of the spatial structure.

3. High integration: It highly integrates functions such as residence, research, defense, cultivation, summoning (symbiotic cultivation), and resource production (workshop) to form a self-sufficient and continuously upgradeable fortress.

4. Safety Redundancy: A multi-layered and multi-type protection system is set up to address the potential high-intensity death energy impact, mental pollution, physical siege, and spatial interference in the Undead War.

5. Growth Potential: The tower structure, core magic array, and energy source all have reserved upgrade interfaces to ensure that they can evolve in sync with Kate's increasing strength.

Overall structural planning:

I. Foundation and Energy Core Layer (Underground Structure)

This is the absolute core and power source of the Wizard Tower, and also the most complex and resource-intensive part of its design.

1. Core Chamber of the Life Forge:

Location: Deepest part of the hill's veins, directly connected to the main root system of the revitalized ancient tree network.

Core: The World Tree Core Fragment is embedded in the center of a specially crafted "Eternal Life" magic circle, serving as the absolute core for absorbing and transforming life energy. The magic circle is constructed of mithril, adamantite, and life crystals, and inscribed with ancient life runes bestowed by Master Elune.

Features:

Efficient Absorption: Extracts massive amounts of life energy from the earth's veins, which is then purified and amplified by fragments of the World Tree Core, transforming it into the purest high-level life essence energy.

Energy Distribution: Life energy is delivered to the entire tower through the main energy channel, with priority given to the growth of the "Seed of Life", the symbiotic nursery, the apothecary, the treatment room, etc.

Stable tower base: The abundant life energy permeates the tower base, making it more closely integrated with the earth's veins, resisting earthquakes and energy impacts, and even slowly repairing damage to the tower structure.

Advantages: It provides an almost inexhaustible supply of extremely high-quality life energy, serving as a powerful support for the life aspect of the "Heart of Reincarnation" and the cornerstone of all life-related research and applications. Its stability far surpasses that of ordinary elemental pools.

2. Virtual Anchored Base Plate:

Location: Surrounding the outer edge of the Furnace of Life, deep within the bedrock of hills and spatial layers.

Core: The spatial crystal is shattered and mixed with a large amount of Void Stone powder and magical metals that stabilize spatial properties, then cast into a massive composite base. The base is inscribed with complex sets of runes for "Spatial Stabilization," "Coordinate Concealment," and "Dimensional Barrier."

Features:

Absolutely stable: It powerfully anchors the tower in the space it occupies, resisting spatial tearing, distortion, and teleportation interference. This keeps the tower firmly in place even amidst spatial turbulence.

Energy Conduction: Provides the best energy conduction environment and support for spatial magic arrays and sorcery, such as spatial blinking, teleportation arrays, and spatial folding expansion.

Future Expansion: The base has reserved interfaces that can be connected to more powerful spatial artifacts in the future, and even attempt to upgrade or demiplane parts of the tower.

Advantages: It provides unparalleled spatial stability, which is a powerful guarantee for Kate to exert her spatial abilities and is also the key to why the tower defense system is difficult to break through from the spatial level.

3. Undead Conversion Well:

Location: Adjacent to the life furnace, strictly separated by multiple layers of protection.

Core: A deep, well-like structure, its inner walls constructed of energy-absorbing obsidian, magic-resistant metal, and soul-forbidden runes. The bottom of the well contains complex multi-layered decomposition, purification, and transformation arrays. The core utilizes a trace of the [Heart of the Dead].

The aura of rules and the death control techniques inherited from the Neossa lineage.

Features:

Safe handling: Put the remains of hunted or collected undead, death crystals, contaminated soul fire, etc. into it.

The magic circle will break it down into primordial death energy, fragments of inert souls, and basic material components.

Energy transformation: Some of the decomposed death energy, after being highly purified and neutralized, can be transported to specific areas for limited use; most of the unusable energy is channeled deep into the earth's veins to dissipate naturally or used to reinforce the seal.

Material recycling: The extracted bone, metal and other basic materials can be used to repair puppets or to create specific undead items.

Isolation from Pollution: Extremely strong isolation ensures that the aura of death and soul pollution will not leak out and affect the main tower.

Advantages: It enables the harmless and resource-based treatment of dangerous undead materials, making it an essential facility for dealing with undead wars. It solves the problem of environmental pollution caused by the accumulation of death energy and can even turn waste into treasure.

II. Main Structure of the Tower (Above Ground)

The tower will adopt a spiraling conical structure, connected by a central energy well and spiraling staircases or transmission platforms, symbolizing the circulation and sublimation of energy.

Material: The main structure uses an alloy of [activated granite] and [necromantic iron], possessing both extremely high physical strength and...

Energy affinity and magic resistance. The outer layer is covered with adaptive runic armor that can adjust the energy reflection/absorption rate according to the environment.

Outer defense:

Composite Protective Array: It is composed of three layers: "Life Barrier" (draws energy from the Life Furnace for continuous repair), "Spatial Lock" (distorts perception and interferes with locking), and "Withering Field" (weak, passively erodes the life force of approaching undead). It maintains low power operation in normal times, and turns on full power when encountering enemies.

Elemental Resistance Enchantment: Provides specific enhancement against common elemental attacks such as fire, frost, acid, and lightning.

Physical defense: The tower walls are extremely thick, with key areas containing rapidly regenerating Stone Skin spell arrays.

III. Internal Functional Zoning:

1. Bottom Floor (Levels 1-3): Fortress and Workshop Area, Hall and Reception Area: Serves as a meeting place, quest posting area, and internal defense hub. Features concealed defensive arrays and rapid-response golems.

Integrated Workshop: A large, expanded space, divided into:

Pharmaceutical Laboratory: Undertakes the production of high-end pharmaceuticals for Qing Teng Workshop, equipped with the most advanced purification, extraction and synthesis equipment, and assisted by Taling.

Alchemy Golem Workshop: Used to repair and upgrade the Shadow of Thorns, with the aim of creating more powerful combat or engineering golems in the future.

Between Enchantment and Runes: Perform equipment enchanting, scroll copying, and rune drawing.

Material warehouse: A large, foldable warehouse for storing raw materials, finished products, and spare materials in a categorized manner.

Defense focus: It has the strongest physical defense and is the first line of defense against frontal attacks.

2. Middle Layer (Layers 4-6): Research and Development Area Life Laboratory: Focused on the rules of life, cultivation of magical plants (roots of immortality, new types of magical plants), advanced healing techniques, and analysis of the origin of life. The environment is filled with a high concentration of life energy and has an independent life energy regulation system.

The Chamber of Death and the Undead Analysis: A highly isolated area with sound-absorbing and soul-absorbing materials embedded in the walls. Used for the safe research of the rules of death, the structure of the undead, soul fragments, curses, and the annihilation knowledge inherited from Nexus. Equipped with the most powerful internal sealing and purification system.

Space Workshop: Used for practicing space spells, crafting space equipment, maintaining space facilities within the tower, and researching space runes. The spatial structure is relatively active yet stable.

Library and Knowledge Corridor: Stores all the knowledge Kate has acquired (given by the Sage of Life, harvested from trials, etc.).

Purchase/redemption), access to the Evergreen Barrier database (limited access). Meditation rooms are available.

Symbiote Nurturing Garden (Large Spatial Expansion): Simulates various environments (forest, shade, water, rocky terrain), providing an optimal growth and training ground for Bloodvine, Golden Thorn, Floating Flower, Moonshadow, and potentially new symbiotes to be tamed in the future. Energy supply comes directly from the Life Forge and specifically transformed energy.

3. Upper Levels (Floors 7-9): Core and Private Areas. Core Meditation Room (Tower Top): Located at the very top of the tower, where energy is most concentrated. Directly overlooking the Life Furnace Light Well and the energy flow of the Void Foundation. This is where the "Heart of Reincarnation" resonates most strongly with the Wizard Tower. The walls are inscribed with auxiliary runes for the [Life Origin Star Chart] meditation method and spatial stabilization runes. It is the best place for deep meditation, understanding of rules, and breaking through bottlenecks.

Main Control Room: The core of the tower spirit, monitoring the energy flow, magic array operation, and external environment of the entire tower. Kate can have complete control of the tower from here.

Residence and Observatory: A comfortable living area with an observation deck overlooking the entire Evergreen Barrier and into the distance, offering excellent views and facilitating the observation of celestial phenomena and energy flows.

Emergency Teleportation Room: Equipped with a public teleportation array directly connected to Evergreen Barrier and several private teleportation arrays with preset hidden coordinates, for emergencies.

4. Energy Cycle System:

Life side: Life furnace → main energy channel → life demand points at each level (nursery, laboratory, treatment room, etc.) → circulation and return (carrying waste energy and dissipated energy) → after purification, part is returned to the furnace, and part is introduced into the conversion well or discharged.

Death Side: Conversion Well → Limited Purified Death Energy → Dedicated Pipeline → Death Research Lab, Blood-Eating Vine Area

A strictly closed-loop system is in place, with the final waste energy either discharged underground or used to reinforce the seal.

Spatial side: Void base plate → Spatial stabilizing force field covers the entire tower and provides independent power supply for each spatial array.

Central Regulation: A strand of computational power is separated from the Seed of Origin to assist the Tower Spirit in monitoring the three major energy flows, ensuring balance and preventing conflicts.

IV. Tower Spirit and Intelligent Control: The core of the Tower Spirit is planned to capture or create a pure elemental spirit, or use a highly purified ancient contracted intelligent creature's soul core, and fuse it with the main control array. The core program will be personally written by Kate, incorporating some of the logic and database of the Seed of Origin.

Responsibilities include: daily maintenance, energy scheduling, environmental regulation, alarm response, basic research assistance, reception and guidance, and manipulating low-level puppets for repair and cleaning.

Advantages: Frees up Kate, allowing him to focus on self-improvement and research. The absolute loyalty and efficiency of the Tower Spirits are indispensable to large wizard towers.

Kate slowly opened her eyes, and in them seemed to be a shimmering phantom of the entire tower. This plan had almost exhausted all of his current knowledge and imagination.

He took a deep breath and transmitted this extremely detailed design blueprint through his mental power to the chief architect sent by the High Wizard of Horn—a dwarf rune master named Stoneheart—and the deacon of the Hand of Life in charge of resource allocation.

Master Stoneheart received the sphere of spiritual energy, immersed himself in it for a moment, then suddenly looked up, his wrinkled face filled with shock and fervor: "Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! The recycling of life and death? The symbiosis of the spatial foundation and the ley line furnace? This—this is simply a work of art! The ultimate fusion of engineering and magical art! Lady Kate, to have participated in the construction of this tower is the greatest honor of my life, Stoneheart Anvil!"

The resource steward quickly calculated the list, his expression shifting from excitement to seriousness, and finally to a wry smile: "Lord Kate, your design is absolutely perfect. However, the resource requirements—especially the fragments of the World Tree Core, space crystals, large quantities of Nether Iron and activated granite, and the rare materials needed to construct those core magic arrays—even with the full support of the Hand of Life and your points, it will take at least a year and a half to two years and a massive amount of contribution points to gradually gather enough resources to build the main framework. The internal functional areas and improvements will require at least another year."

Kate remained calm; he had anticipated this.

A legendary wizard's tower is not something that can be built overnight.

"It's alright," Kate said. "First, we'll build the foundation and the main structure and basic defenses of the core layer. Then, the core research lab, followed by the symbiote breeding farm, workshop area, and other internal facilities. Allocate resources accordingly to ensure the quality and progress of the core layer. I can wait."

He has plenty of time. He can solidify his environment, deeply understand the rules, master his newly acquired powers, continue improving the "Concentration Vine Potion" to earn resources, and perhaps even participate in some barrier missions—he has much to do before the tower is completed.

The "Tower of Reincarnation," destined to stand as an evergreen barrier and perhaps even soar through the stars in the future, will lay its first foundation stone today.

Kate seemed to already see that in the not-too-distant future, a majestic tower flowing with the light of life, anchored in the pulse of space, and radiating the subtle aura of reincarnation, would become his strongest aid in exploring truth and moving towards eternity. And this tower, like himself, would be unique and possess boundless potential.