Kroya chose a valley just inside Reef Island as the place to settle Baron Kermoyer and his men. It covered roughly four or five mu of land and was thoroughly barren.
There was little vegetation and no spring, so no one lived there at all.
But it was far from the residents' homes and had only one entrance and exit. He felt it could not have been more suitable.
What he planned to do... was use magic to create a "treatment facility" large enough to hold Baron Kermoyer and his subordinates.
A Third-Level Mage with twice the magic vortexes.
In terms of magical power, that should have been enough.
"Let's begin."
After taking a deep breath, Kroya pressed both hands downward and cast his magical power into the earth. Two colors of magical power spread from his palms into the ground like ripples.
Before long, they covered roughly half a mu.
Orange and red magical power intertwined, leveling the ground while raising earth and stone.
Under the influence of his magic, the uneven ground seemed to turn into a mire, gradually smoothing out.
At the same time, walls grew from the earth, rising and curving at a visible pace. Following the blueprint formed by Kroya's mental power, they would eventually meet overhead, forming a building shaped like a tightly closed lotus bud.
He was not deliberately showing off. He had simply felt like doing it, and it would help him control his mental power, so he treated it as practice.
If he wanted to do it, he should do it.
Besides, wasn't the point of mastering magic to do what he wanted? By experimenting with complex buildings in unusual shapes now, he could expand his castle and build a Mage Tower later.
He would gradually reshape the entire island to