Compared with the majestic and bizarre Spirit Realm Bell Tower or the Tower of Stars, Anthony's Wizard Tower looked much plainer. Though it was also quite mysterious, the tower was less than half the size of the Spirit Realm Bell Tower and had a more "practical" style. Its drab exterior and several spires lacking any distinct lines made it look little different from an ordinary castle bell tower. The only unusual thing about it was that the entire tower was shaped like a strangely designed "fork." The lower half was a straight cylinder, while the upper half split into several somewhat thinner tower sections, each with its own independent spire. This made it look extremely unstable—despite the fact that it was actually incomparably sturdy.
Apart from those bizarre spires, the entire Wizard Tower had nothing special about it. But its plain appearance did not mean the place was simple. Anthony's Wizard Tower had been built from massive gray-white rocks, with metal made from a mixture of Mithril and other magic metals poured between them. Those metals were worth nearly enough to purchase any small kingdom on the continent, yet the tower had stood here for a century, and no one had ever dared lay a hand on it.
Oh, in fact, someone had tried once. Those people were now buried beneath Grandia's enormous wooden walls, nourishing the forests of the Elf Kingdom.
The old mage had not used priceless rare metals as mortar simply to indulge in extravagance. In fact, the magic metal poured into the cracks between the rocks gave the Wizard Tower an enormous mana conductivity rate, allowing it to transmit its master's power with extreme efficiency while also facilitating many of Anthony's daily magical studies. Before becoming an inspector, Anthony had first been a powerful and learned