After Saine advanced to become a True Spirit Magician, the Land of Ashes bustled with activity for quite some time.
But no feast lasted forever. After a period of celebration and social engagements, everyone returned to the course of their original lives.
Construction of the Ash True Spirit Tower was formally placed on the agenda in the second year after Saine emerged from seclusion.
As many as several hundred thousand magicians of Level 1 and above would participate in the construction of Saine's True Spirit Tower.
By conservative estimates, the construction cost of a True Spirit Tower would not be less than ten billion.
Back when Saine had just advanced to Level 4, he had once been greatly troubled by a Holy Tower loan of ten or twenty million.
Now that times had changed, it was quite moving to look back on it.
The True Spirit Tower would be built upon the foundation of Saine's Ash Holy Tower.
Moreover, Saine had already learned from the Guardian of Summer that because his advancement to Level 7 had brought prosperity to the regions surrounding the Land of Ashes—
The territory of the Land of Ashes would continue expanding over the next two thousand years.
A broader territory meant the emergence of more Plane Nodes, and it also signified that more and more Holy Towers and Knights' Halls would join the Land of Ashes.
Apart from expanding the territory under his own control, Saine would next turn his gaze toward the South Coast.
As a relatively independent medium-sized power within the Wizard World, the South Coast had nearly twenty Holy Towers standing there all along, along with an even greater number of Knights' Halls scattered throughout.
In terms of development history, the South Coast was far older than the Land of Ashes where