Of course, if Hill really wanted to make this Mage Tower entirely his own, it was not beyond his abilities.
It simply was not worth it yet.
The resources needed to escape Asmodeus's notice completely gave even Hill pause... In terms of monetary value, they might not be particularly expensive, but some of them were materials Hill would never actively seek out.
The Will of Nature had never demanded that Hill refrain from using anything taken from magical animals.
But Hill could perceive the lingering resentment of living creatures, and his keen senses made it impossible for him to touch animal remains that carried such resentment.
Ordinary animals, however intelligent they seemed, would generally have their almost weightless souls dissipate the instant they died, provided they had not been tortured to death... Nothing remained in their flesh and bones.
Only a torturous death would cause a soul on the verge of dissipating to merge with resentment and create a ghost or similar monster, but even those were mostly formed from the animal's lingering obsessions before death.
Intelligent magical creatures, however, were different.
Their souls might not be as heavy as human souls, but they still had weight.
And so their hatred would forever linger in their bodies, even in a single nail.
How could Hill, who could sense that pain and struggle, possibly keep such things near him?
Thus, the similar items he possessed had all come from magical creatures who had sold themselves before reaching the natural end of their lives, for the sake of certain descendants.
They would no longer feel pain after death anyway, so they might as well give themselves up for their useless offspring.
Although Hill did not deliberately collect such things, he would still buy them if he happened across them.
After all, biological