The cold wind howled over the walls and towers on the wilderness, carrying sharp whistles between the temporary barracks. Blue-and-gold Imperial Flags snapped atop towering flagpoles as technicians and combat engineers headed for their posts along the roads between the camps. Ahead of them, a massive hexagonal prism-shaped facility had begun to take shape.
The Magic Obelisk temporarily supplying power to the construction camp stood at the end of the road. A Hom Crystal rotated in midair, casting a steady, gentle blue glow. Within the range of the magical field, various types of construction machinery started up one after another. Camil drifted out of a nearby building and looked up at the hexagonal prism ahead—the base was a reinforced concrete foundation as large as a barn, while the upper prism gleamed with the cold luster of iron-gray metal. Pale blue lines of light were embedded in its icy outer walls, and higher up, crystal devices floated around the structure along with the still-unsealed top section.
Today's welding work had already begun. Dazzling streams of light burst between the steel frames and metal panels at the top of the prism, while technicians wearing engineering Magic Guide Terminals methodically completed the encasement of the power pillar—a vertical alloy device that ran through the entire facility, composed of numerous layered rune arrays and mechanical adjustment shafts. In essence, it was a more precise and specialized Power Spine. It served as the heart of the entire facility, delivering pure, calibrated Arcane Energy to the focusing unit at the very top while synchronizing with the other two Energy Towers near the portal.
This was the Pure Arcane Energy Source designed by Camil. It was not merely an enlarged version of his laboratory model. To support the most audacious "Gate" operation in mortal history, Camil had