The first floor of the Mage Tower is a huge square with various dummy models erected in it. When Merlin led Claire through, he also introduced them to Claire.
"This is a place to test some new and less powerful spells. Some mages will come here to test out new spells when they develop them. Those dummies are not ordinary dummies. They can feed back spell attack data so that the mages can better adjust their spells."
"In addition to the spell testing ground here, there is also a blasting room on the third floor, which is made of hard alloy and can test some highly destructive spells."
Claire glanced at it with envy again. After he returned, he also gave a set to the students in Magic School. Although they did not have the strength to develop new spells, it was still quite good to use them to experiment with their own spells.
Give yourself a set, and now it's time for you to study your own spell system.
Following Merlin up the stone stairs to the fifth floor, the lower floors are filled with the most basic facilities as well as some Archmage's rooms and exclusive laboratories. After reaching the fifth floor, due to the shape of Mage Tower, the space here is no longer as large as the first floor, and there are no various magic facilities placed outside.
"Pa!" Merlin pushed open a door, and then led Claire in, but he didn't go very deep, he just stood at the edge of the door and looked inside.
Claire's eyes lit up again as soon as he entered. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary door, but when he opened it, there was something different inside. The first thing Claire felt when he saw it was that he felt like he was in a tropical botanical garden.
"It's Spatial Folding again, it's already double folded, and the space inside is not small." Claire sighed in his heart. This double folding technology is much more difficult than single folding. It is not a question of opening up a space inside at all. This involves the stability of different spaces embedded in each other. Once it cannot be maintained and collapses, the power is enough to flatten a hill.
"Look at this, I designed it all myself." Merlin said with some pride, "This is an independent ecosystem, with various rare varieties of Magic Plant in it. I have also divided it into zones so that plants of whatever growing environment can survive here. And I also spent a lot of money to hire someone to get a time-accelerating magic circle, and those Magic Plants grow dozens of times faster inside than outside."
After hearing Merlin say this, Claire took a closer look at the changes in the plants inside, and found out the clues. The flow of time inside was much faster than outside.
"Let's go, let's take you to see other good things." Merlin turned around and walked out.
Claire looked at it reluctantly for a few times, and then followed him out. He had said the word envy in his heart too many times, and it turned into jealousy when he said it again.
Continuing to go up, Merlin showed Claire several rooms that are double folded spaces, and the space inside is equally huge.
There is Containment Room, which houses all kinds of monsters. Those monsters are the subjects used by mages for experiments, and they do not need to be replenished from the outside every month. Those monsters have a special breeding plan, so they can continue to harm their descendants.
There is also Training Room that can adjust the time flow rate. It is originally intended to help the mages inside to advance. However, the mages inside are not very interested in cultivation, so the most common use now is to rush to make some urgently needed Magic Material. For example, some Magic Potion's first-hand medicines need to be left for a period of time, so they put them inside. Also, during the forging process, it was discovered that a certain Magic Alloy was missing, and those forging mages would also go in and rush out the materials they needed.
There is also the most basic library for those mages to check information when doing research. After Claire took a simple glance, he found that the things inside were much richer than Magic Academy's library.
There is also Tool Room, which is most exciting to Claire. There are all kinds of alchemy supporting tools in it, whether it is forging, inscriptions, enchantments, potions, you can find production tools from low-level to the most advanced.
Claire even saw a potion refining tool created by Pure Crystal. Pure Crystal can stably refine rare magic materials that fluctuate violently during the Magic Potion process. It is good to be able to put down some Pure Crystal powder when making potions, but that is a set of tools made by Pure Crystal. If that set of tools falls into your hands, the success rate of making Claire potions can directly increase by at least 35%.
After looking at it for a few times, Claire withdrew his gaze. He couldn't look at it any more. If he looked at it any longer, he would steal his heart.
Claire also met many mages along the way, most of them were mages that Merlin said lived here, but there were also some Archmage-level official members of Mage Tower. As Merlin takes Claire up, the higher the level of mages he encounters becomes higher. After reaching the tenth floor, Claire basically sees mages at the level of Archmage. However, mages at this level are also rare, and those who see them usually rush to another location.
Merlin took Claire to visit some main areas, such as the dining area, rest area, etc. After reading it, Claire believed what Merlin said when he first came in. There is everything here, and there is no need to go out.
Indeed, a perfect closed-loop system has been formed inside. There is a stable energy input from Magic Crystal underground, there is a special breeding place for food, and water is directly connected to the water plane and transported there. Basic living needs can be met. The most important thing is that you can do research, experiment and improve your own ideas here. Claire feels that he can stay here for ten or eight years without leaving.
"Archmage Merlin, I would like to ask, how much Gold Coins did you spend to build this Mage Tower?" Claire is already very excited. He still has a Gold Coins worth four to five billion in his hand. Even if he doesn't make it so fierce, a simplified version is enough.
Seeing the working environment here, and remembering that I work in a basement, Claire feels more and more that I must give myself the entire Mage Tower. I don't have to guard against enemies, so the money to build such facilities inside is probably not much.
"How much does it cost? I haven't calculated it carefully when you ask me suddenly. I just slowly added things to it and built it up. Let me think about it."
"The construction materials of Mage Tower cost more than 100 million, and the magic weapons for attack and defense outside add up to more than 300 million. The space inside is superimposed and I didn't spend much money on it. The facilities and equipment in the laboratory, And their construction costs were also given to more than one billion. There was also Time Acceleration Array in the botanical garden, which cost 200 million. I remember this very clearly. Later I learned that the guy actually cheated me of 30 million Gold Coins..."
"If all of them were added up, it would be more than 1.4 billion."
Claire:...
Farewell! Sorry to bother you, I shouldn't ask.
"Oh." Merlin patted his head and remembered something again, "The flowers are all Silver Dragon Coins, so if converted, there will be tens of billions of Gold Coins."
Claire: "..."
Isn't the money I spent even enough to lay the foundation?