Through the Energy Research Institute's teleportation array, Rowan teleported to the underground palace beneath Waning Glacier, accompanied by Skevyn.
This underground energy complex was the Research Tower's largest expenditure since the start of the year.
Considering production safety in the Industrial Zone, Rowan and the Guardian Council had decided to relocate large-scale energy experiments deep inside the mountains to reduce potential hazards.
As for the complex's name, Rowan had not borrowed any of those technological-sounding names from science fiction. Instead, in keeping with their magical civilization, he named the underground research institute the Guardian Temple.
The Guardian Temple lay inside the Waning Glacier mountain range, where the peaks remained snow-covered year-round and visitors were rare. Aside from a few herb merchants who had ventured here, it could be called a land of deathly silence, with mountains stretching endlessly and no living creatures moving among them.
The Guardian Temple had three levels. The first was a residential area equipped with a full range of amenities: dormitories, dining halls, entertainment venues, dessert shops, supermarkets, and more. The mages and enchanters working here could use work points to purchase food, clothing, and daily necessities.
As for why they did not use gold coins, Rowan had issued a directive through Comecon: all employees working within the governing apparatus would receive eighty percent of their wages in work points rather than gold coins.
In commercial centers and supermarkets across Kul Tiras, work points served as a new currency. This internal trial of a token system might seem redundant, but anyone with a discerning eye understood that Rowan was severing the connection between employees of the governing apparatus and gold coins.
Gold coins served the public, while work points supplied Council Hall employees. Reducing monetary interaction between the two groups would eliminate as much corruption arising