Yes, a desperate situation.
With the loss of the Mage Tower's defense core, the vulnerability of Snowbird Port was completely exposed.
Snowbird Port had been visited by the Vegetable Basket Pirate Crew. The city suffered heavy losses, and the City Lord's Mansion was blown to smithereens, but on the other hand, the rest of Snowbird Port still held a massive amount of wealth that had not been looted.
We must rebuild the Mage Tower as soon as possible!! Snowbird Port City Lord shouted inwardly.
Building a Mage Tower could be a long-term project, or it could not. The key was simply having the funds in place.
Building a Mage Tower in two or three days was hardly possible. But one week was entirely feasible. Because this was the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, a nation with top-tier alchemy technology across the entire Prime Plane.
Snowbird Port City Lord estimated that gathering half the strength of the Alchemy Guild would allow a new Mage Tower to be erected within a week.
Even if the new Mage Tower were cruder than the old one, it was definitely better than having none at all.
Having a Mage Tower or not made a qualitative difference.
The problem is money! Snowbird Port City Lord immediately pinpointed the crucial crux of the matter.
The City Lord's Mansion had blown up, and all the money inside was gone.
The treasury stored last month's tax revenue, his own personal money, and so on.
To be precise, only the gold coins were lost; the silver and copper coins are still there.
It was just that all these silver and copper coins had melted together from the explosion, or turned into tiny metal specks dotting the ruins in the aftermath.
Snowbird Port City Lord had already ordered his men to recover them.