The tower spirits left swiftly.
It seemed they had already made these plans when Soren last explored the middle and upper floors of the Arcane Tower.
For some reason, these tower spirits could not leave the Arcane Tower, so they had been waiting for Soren all along. If Soren refused to grant them freedom, they might truly fight him to mutual destruction. Only superior alchemical constructed life could likely endure spending thousands of years in the same place. Any other intelligent beings would probably have gone mad long ago. Watching the tower spirits immediately open a portal to the Outer Planes and leave, the Fallen Witch looked as though she wanted to say something, but ultimately remained silent.
A compromise had been unavoidable, but at least Soren had planted the seed of a connection to Mechanus.
"Activate the mythal!"
"Connect the Elemental Pool!"
"Open the demiplane passage!"
Now that he had obtained the highest access privileges to the Arcane Tower, Soren immediately activated the entire mythal.
The mythal required enormous amounts of energy. The Arcane Tower's Elemental Pool alone could not sustain it, only activate it briefly at best. After activating the mythal, Soren immediately told Goria, "Establish an energy transfer channel."
"Find a way to feed the [Elemental Furnace]'s energy into the Arcane Tower."
Goria and the Fallen Witch understood that this was their most important task at present, and immediately nodded and prepared to leave. The others were all wizards, and their curiosity led them to follow the two women downstairs. Only the High Priest remained. As a psion, she had little interest in arcane matters.
"My Lord."
"Now that we possess the Arcane Tower, Port Nyanzaru has the strength to confront other deities head-on."
The High Priest surveyed everything before her and slowly said, "However..."
"In my