Heightening

In this campaign, Huo Ling reaped a massive amount of resources and magic stones.

This enormous windfall instantly eased the financial strain he had been under.

Although for a Legendary mage, no amount of resources or magic stones was ever enough.

This batch of resources would at least ensure that Huo Ling would not have to worry about money for some time.

This time, he decided to fully build up his mage tower, raising it to the highest level currently possible—ten floors.

Now that he had money, Huo Ling naturally became far more generous in constructing his mage tower. Materials he had previously been reluctant to use were now all put to use, raising the tower's construction cost considerably.

But that was no problem. To the current Huo Ling, this expense was a mere trifle.

Not much time had passed since the last time the mage tower had been built up to seven floors, yet Plains City was once again purchasing materials on a grand scale to continue raising it.

This left quite a few people watching Huo Ling rooted to the spot in stunned disbelief.

A mage tower was not cabbage; it was not something that could simply be built whenever one wished.

Each floor of a mage tower required at least five billion magic stones' worth of resources. If high-quality materials were used, six or seven billion per floor was perfectly normal.

Two years ago, Huo Ling had just built three floors, and that was considered normal.

After all, Huo Ling earned quite a bit of money. Whether it was standardized equipment, fully organized legions, or Legendary equipment sold at his auctions—

All of those could indeed earn Huo Ling plenty of magic stones. Building three floors of a mage tower was just barely manageable.

But what was