The Undying Magician - Book 5 - Chapter 57
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Nathan
Year 2851 | Month 8 | Day 26
To my surprise, I find the ship heading to a large hangar built right on top of the large hill that the Undying Caverns are built into. Albeit further back behind where the base for the tower clearly is. And inside of that hangar, I see a lot of people.
Everyone who works directly under me, their own higher up subordinates, my family and friends, and even Juan and the skeleton. They’re all just waiting for the ship to land in the hangar.
Hmm.
It’s good to see that my parents and friends are doing well. Not to mention the others in charge of the Undying Caverns while I was gone.
Or I guess in charge of it in general? Seeing as I don’t do much governing even when I’m here…
Anyway, the ship lands and I find myself just jumping off over the side instead of going down the actual exit to the ship like the others. Eventually landing on my feet without any issues thanks to my vampire-enhanced physique.
And the moment I arrive? Everyone immediately either kneels or bows from amongst my subordinates, leaving just my friends, family, and two mentors standing around with amused expressions on their faces.
I ignore their amusement as I address the people kneeling and bowing, “You’ve all done well in my absence. I will be going over the exact reports of everything that’s happened since leaving soon and will address everyone at a later date. Once the war is officially over.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
I feel slightly startled by the mass chant that’s pretty much declared by every single one of my subordinates despite the actual king being over there.
They really did forget that I’m technically a prince and not a king, didn’t they?
Then again, the skeleton actually looks pleased about it.
How I’m able to tell that when he has no face? It’s the same reason I could tell he was amused earlier.
He tends to sway in place when he’s pleased, and he sways and taps his finger when he’s amused.
I don’t know why.
Maybe it’s way of expressing things without a face?
No idea.
Regardless, after addressing the subordinates, I turn to my family and friends, only to find my two mentors nodding their heads in what looks like satisfaction before they leave without another word. Likely having been checking my progress in magic this entire time and nothing more.
And now that they’ve checked, they have no more reason to speak to me.
We kept up to date with everything over the course of my trip after all, and none of us are incredibly close or anything like that.
Just mentors and student.
With one being an asshole skeleton.
Anyway, my family and I proceed to head into a nearby building for privacy before I hug both of my parents. Startling them with the fact that I’m initiating physical contact.
Neither of them are displeased by it though. In fact, they show great joy.
Both at my openness to touch now, and the fact that I’m showing signs of returning to my old self. Before all of the trauma.
Even I know that I’ve been a lot happier over the past few months now that I’m not being hunted all the time.
It’s nice.
Of course, I know I won’t likely ever return to how I was before. My common sense and ethics and all that have completely shattered and there’s no repairing that.
Nor do I care about trying.
I begin to catch up with my parents about what they’ve been up to. At which point I learn they’ve actually taken to working with Claire, helping manage the Undying Caverns for me.
Meanwhile my friends are all working as enforcers here now. With all of them having decided at some point to fully settle in my territory instead of their own. Despite the war pretty much unofficially being over now.
As for my mentors? They just helped protect the place along with some hidden enforcers the Magic Tower left here for that very reason.
Overall though, there haven’t really been many issues since I left. Mostly because no one wants to mess with me anymore.
Even the remaining nobles of the Kingdom of the Fallen have shut the hell up at this point. Despite having previously planned at the start of the war to go back to attacking me again by the end of it.
They’ve even fully submitted to my rule.
So they’re not problems anymore.
After getting the reports on everything, I go ahead and go over the design plans for the Magic Tower.
The Tower of Eternity.
Which end up being quite a bit more complicated than I expected.
Who would’ve thought it’d be so difficult to design a massive magical tower?
There’s my lab, the number of floors, the general shape, what mana will be used to fuel the tower, the core of the tower, what my throne room at the top of the tower will look like since all Magic Towers have them, my suite of rooms for where I’ll be living, and the different sectors of the Magic Tower. All of which need to be made based on my opinion.
It’s a major hassle, but I also know that it’s necessary.
I’m not going to let them make a mess of my Magic Tower’s creation after all.
It’ll be my home soon enough.
And I want it to be perfect.
I also design multiple floors beneath my personal suite for family and friends. Each lavishly decorated for them.
That said, I don’t personalize any of their rooms except for my parents. Mostly because I don’t know if any of my friends will live there permanently or not. And if they don’t, then their rooms would make for good guest rooms.
As for the lower floors? The first twenty or so floors are meant for the public. They’ll have various different markets to buy things from, with their exclusivity increasing the higher up the floor. Locking people out based on various factors I’m not going to personally bother deciding on.
The next forty floors are meant for even more markets along with private facilities for those who are members of my Magic Tower. Things marked as benefits of joining my Magic Tower.
Then the next twenty floors are for residential areas. Specifically those meant for members of the tower itself.
And after that it’s the residential areas meant for VIPs and for my friends and family, followed at last by throne room, and my suite of rooms above my throne room.
As for the exact design of most of it? I don’t care as long as it follows that basic design.
Of course, I do still doublecheck everything just to be sure. Before they start working on building it.
But there don’t seem to be any problems when I do. So I finally give my approval.
After which they start working on building it.
The process by which they do so surprises me a little though. Mostly because it’s almost entirely done through magic. With very little manual labor involved.
And thanks to that, the construction team and Crimson tell me that the construction will only take a few months to complete.
Which is, in all honesty, shocking. Considering it’s a tower spanning over a hundred floors with magic running through it.
Not that I’m complaining.
The sooner the better.
Anyway, time to go to that meeting Claire told me about to make a few laws.
