Wizard Tower

Biodata

Structure and Access

• A Wizard Tower can be internally as vast as a city and contain portals to numerous small worlds, despite its outward appearance. Low-level apprentice quarters are comparatively austere, resembling a medieval stone castle. 1
• Oakmi Wizard Tower’s first three floors are assigned to Low-level, Intermediate, and Advanced Apprentices respectively; each has its own shops, library, and teaching area. 3
• The fourth floor and above are reserved for Formal Wizards, from Level 1 through Level 9. 51
• Wizards cannot ordinarily travel to floors below their own rank. This separation is a defensive measure intended to prevent invasions by evil gods and other powerful outside enemies. 226
• Level 3 Wizards may relocate to the sixth floor, where allocated spaces can connect to small demiplanes and accommodate a private mansion. 675
• The seventh floor is an Archmage-exclusive demiplane space containing private castles and Void Corridor Bridges connected to personal residences. 812

Apprentice Floors

Administration and Training

• The Tower’s apprentice education incorporates the seven major inheritances of the Seven Towers Alliance: curse marks, bloodlines, necromancy, elements, alchemy, astrology, and summoning. 5
• Public knowledge is free to Intermediate Apprentices, but access to spell inheritance, body modification, advanced materials, and higher facilities depends on advancement, contracts, merits, or mentor arrangements. 5 16 225
• Tower Clearing Day removes apprentices who fail to reach Intermediate Apprentice status; they are sent to a concentration camp and then transported back to the Mortal World. 3
• Intermediate Apprentices are tested monthly on Will Rune progress. Failing to manifest a new rune across three consecutive tests results in mandatory tasks. 5
• Apprentices who attain sufficient progress may enter a mentor’s inheritance sequence, receiving complete Magecraft or alchemy inheritance and resources for Mage Body Modification in exchange for a binding Tower contract. 16
• The Alliance’s wider system uses the seven Wizard Towers as “Ancestor Towers,” concentrating basic resources, quests, and advancement opportunities into a continuous pipeline for producing new wizards. 717

Facilities and Services

• Official Tower shops are operated by the Seven Towers Alliance and sell authenticated items crafted by Formal Wizards; stock is replenished through teleportation arrays or subspace delivery. 40
• Markets on apprentice floors primarily sell self-made goods. They are less expensive than official goods but offer no assured quality. 40
• Returning wizards may obtain temporary accommodation inside independent spaces with living quarters, alchemy rooms, training rooms, and ghost servants. 225
• Permanent ownership of such a residence, converted into a Wizard Mansion with its own Summoning Portal, requires qualification as an Advanced Wizard. 225
• Tower-based facilities may provide equipment repair and customization, material appraisal, library privileges, skill learning, and other logistical services. 810
• The Tower serves as a protected refuge: returnees can recover from injuries and reduce the threat of prophecies, curses, tracking marks, and pursuit by hostile powers. 225

Defense and Military Function

• A Wizard Tower is designed to isolate its interior from external threats through separated spatial layers and rank-based access restrictions. 226
• Towers serve not only as research facilities but also as major combat and command units. In planar warfare, their strategic role is typically that of a flagship command post or rear-area stabilizing force rather than a direct frontline weapon. 810
• A properly operated Tower can deploy troops and equipment immediately after arrival, avoiding the slower process of establishing a conventional outpost camp. 815
• The scale and complexity of Tower operations require coordinated departments; failed cooperation and disorder can reduce even a powerful Tower to ineffective scrap. 810
• In battle, Mage Towers can maintain powerful energy shields by drawing upon ley line energy and celestial essence, and may employ high-level spells such as the ninth-ring Eye of Power. 800

Tower Spirits and Automation

• A Tower Spirit is an intelligent control entity associated with a Wizard Tower. Roy’s study of a captured Tower Spirit revealed that one could be a mutated intelligent body carrying a “Fear” consciousness. 700
• Tower Spirits can assist with battlefield deduction, communications, internal data management, and operational coordination. One estimated a 73% probability that Roy had returned with reinforcements during the conflict around Knight Royal City. 415
• Tower Spirits may also be a security risk: Roy identified the original Tower Spirit as the greatest embedded listening and tracking device within a captured Tower. 810
• Sailen serves as the Tower Spirit of the Nihebul Wizard Tower and supports its transition toward full intelligent automation. 805 813
• The Nihebul Tower’s planned structure is divided into four major systems: Administration, Military, Academics, and Logistics, with Sailen directly assisting Roy, Athedia, Furia, and Nisha in governance. 813

Notable Towers

Oakmi Wizard Tower

• Roy begins his life as an apprentice at Oakmi Wizard Tower, where he initially faces expulsion if he cannot advance beyond the Low-level Apprentice stage. 1 3
• Oakmi controls the Chalk Country and treats it as an experimental zone and later as a training ground for apprentices. 485 661
• The Tower suffered heavy personnel losses after a Forbidden Experiment destroyed a Small World within it, killing apprentices and wizards alike. 2 19
• Its upper floors remain relatively quiet because many Formal Wizards are scattered across different planes and worlds. 225

Nihebul Wizard Tower

• The Nihebul Wizard Tower is a captured Mage Tower that Roy and his faction reorganize for wizard use. 809 813
• Its alchemy facilities draw directly upon the Tower’s Source of Magic Power and retain Arcane Empire asset tags and laboratory regulations. 809
• Its workshops produce alchemical goods in ordered assembly lines, from reconnaissance Demon Eyes and Arcane Beasts to staffs, rings, agents, scrolls, and gems. 814
• The Tower is projected to house thousands of apprentices and approximately three hundred Level 1 Wizards, including rotation, logistics, and intern personnel. 810

Relationships

• Seven Towers Alliance — The Alliance operates the Tower system, controls its resource distribution, and sets advancement, merit, residence, and mission policies. 5 225 640
• Roy — Began as an Oakmi apprentice, later returned repeatedly as a Formal Wizard and eventually gained sixth- and seventh-floor access through advancement. 1 225 675 812
• Frosv — Roy’s mentor; arranged Tower recuperation periods, materials, missions, and advancement-related opportunities for him. 321 600
• Sailen — Tower Spirit associated with the Nihebul Wizard Tower; assists in its control, reorganization, communications, and automation. 805 813
• Red Skirt Ghost — Tower servant and guide who handles arrivals, residences, and access procedures for returning wizards. 225 675

Story Role

• Roy first enters the Tower as a failing Low-level Apprentice threatened with deportation to the Mortal World. 1 3
• Its apprenticeship system drives his initial cultivation, alchemy work, acquisition of Magecraft, and progression through Intermediate, Advanced, and Elite Apprentice stages. 3 19 68
• After becoming a Formal Wizard, Roy uses the Tower as a sanctuary, trading center, research site, and source of materials unavailable in lower-magic worlds. 225 398
• As Roy rises in rank, the Tower becomes the site of his advancement into Senior Personnel, his recruitment into higher Alliance arrangements, and his eventual Archmage-level residence. 675 676 812
• Captured Mage Towers later become templates for Roy’s own infrastructure: fortified bases combining research, production, administration, military deployment, and intelligent control. 809 810 813