To the north of White City stood a highland detached from all the urban districts. It was tightly protected by an additional ring of walls. Tarus's most elite guards and strongest mage corps had sworn on their lives to stand watch around the highland for generations. A permanent anti-air field had operated above it for three centuries. Whether a dragon or a tiny bird, nothing could fly over the highland. On the ground, only a main road extending from the Royal District led to the highland's entrance. Such rigorous defenses existed solely to protect one thing: the foundation of every Order Kingdom, the Tower of Sunscorching.
The towering structure stood proudly on the plateau. It was grander than any other building in White City, and even the top of Golden Rose Palace only reached halfway up the Tower of Sunscorching. Its white tower body was built from the purest enchanted moonstone, its surface engraved with ancient runes that only Sanctuary scholars could fully interpret. Blue and golden crystals were embedded in the outer walls according to some pattern. The powerful energy field they formed saturated the land around the entire highland with magic. At the top of this streamlined White Tower, three enormous white crystals constantly revolved around the "Sun Flame Crystal" at the spire, spreading the powerful Order power from within the tower into the sky day and night.
Unlike the other sacred artifacts of Order, the Tower of Sunscorching did not release such a powerful and obvious pillar of light. In fact, aside from a ring of faint radiance, this sacred and mighty tower emitted no additional light at all. The Tower of Sunscorching was not used to illuminate the Order Barrier. Its primary functions were to serve as the energy redistribution center and divine power hub for