Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 567 The Chief's New Prison
It is twelve meters high and looks like it was carved from a single huge stone. On the base of the obelisk are five large characters "Spark Monument" engraved, but the area above the obelisk is blank.

Dawson followed Harvey down from the alchemy wheel and stood in front of him in silence... Compared to the statue of the Heart of Mystery at the headquarters of the Alayeh Federation, which was blessed with a magical glow effect, this obelisk was obviously much more ancient and simple.

There is a kind of profound and silent beauty...

What really amazed him... was the towering building that had just been completed behind the obelisk. It was nearly a hundred meters high as far as the eye could see, and countless multi-legged alchemical beasts were climbing on the top, replacing the original manpower to complete the final roof-sealing work.

Several airships hovering a hundred meters in the air were systematically transporting the final decorations on the top of the building under the command of ground personnel. It took only half an hour to completely fill in the last piece of the puzzle of the entire magnificent building.

A middle-aged man with a short and stocky build and a plain face, wearing a funny round iron helmet, trotted up to Harvey and Dawson... The hem and collar of his brown uniform were covered with unseemly dust and stains. Only the black iron badge on his chest was still brand new and shining, and there was an empty ribbon button next to the place where the badge was hung.

Dawson couldn't help but squint his eyes, looking at the mortal in front of him with interest. He had no magical fluctuations at all - a mortal who attached great importance to honor.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Construction has lived up to your expectations. The first phase of the building construction has been officially completed ahead of schedule. The second phase of the project will begin immediately after the spring plowing!"

Haru bowed and proudly showed off his achievements and results in his loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

Harvey nodded with satisfaction and casually asked, "Has the interior of Building One also been completed at the same time?"

"The construction team cleared the site and evacuated yesterday. All interior decoration, lighting and HVAC are in place!" Haru's report was concise and intuitive. After giving a few words, he led his subordinates away without any delay.

Dawson chuckled and teased, "Your followers don't seem to be planning to ask you for a reward right away. This building, comparable in scale to the Legendary Mage Tower, must have taken a long time to build...it must have cost the entire city a considerable amount of resources and financial resources, right?"

If the leader of the construction work were in Alayeh, he would be rewarded with an upgrade from the Mage Lord - a blood awakening ceremony performed by him personally.

Harvey looked at Dawson in surprise and said slowly, "Ask for a reward? I pay them generous salaries and allowances. Those who have made outstanding contributions will also receive special awards at the year-end commendation meeting... What else do you want?"

He casually pointed at the towering single building before him and said casually, "This sixteen-story building is only the first phase of construction, which began last winter. There are still phases two and three to go. I'm afraid it won't be fully completed until the first anniversary of my coronation."

What? Last winter?

Dawson was stunned and opened his mouth dryly, "You built the hundred-meter-high Babel Mage Tower from scratch last winter? Just relying on these mortals and a group of alchemical creations?"

Fadun stood behind the two of them, looking a little embarrassed. He leaned forward and whispered, "Chief... they have a brand new alchemical product, something called concrete..." The Legendary Chief took two steps back, looked up again, and struggled to squeeze out a sentence, "Earth? Isn't this a tower built of stone? Is it a brand new magical material never before discovered in the North?"

He closed his eyes, still concentrating in despair. His vast and boundless mental energy silently swept across the entire construction site. He then frowned and opened his eyes. "Bullshit! Aside from the two energy-gathering arrays you set up at the bottom and top of the building, I haven't sensed any magical fluctuations. There's not a single trace of magical energy escaping from the entire building itself, and there are no traces of runes carved into the exterior walls or interior!"

Harvey felt he couldn't explain it to this old man with such old-fashioned thinking. He could only shrug helplessly and say, "Concrete isn't a magical substance. Just think of it as an alchemical compound... Not everything incomprehensible is magical. Mortals can use their own hands to create wonders that rival the might of magic."

After saying that, he pulled Dawson, who didn't act like a chief but kept mumbling, and walked quickly into the building.

"This building was originally intended to house the families of soldiers with outstanding contributions and combat exploits in the Northern Army... If you, Sarath, and Sir Gallagher hadn't insisted on joining my new federation, I wouldn't have rushed them to complete the project by the start of spring."

Harvey didn't feel flattered when three legendary spellcasters wanted to join the new spellcasting organization in the North as individuals... Instead, he felt that they were being unreasonable. It would be impolite to refuse, but if he agreed, he had to take their identities into consideration - he had to provide them with a place to stay that matched their status, right?
This newly completed building can be used as the future office building of the "Northern Federation", which does not disgrace the identity of the legendary chief.

Dawson understood immediately, a satisfied look on his wrinkled face. He pointed shrewdly at the sky and the ground, "Two energy-gathering arrays, are they for future experiments for Sarath and me? Not bad, not bad... I've long been interested in this kind of energy instrument you developed. If the one you sent to Alayeh wasn't needed to keep Sarath alive, I would have dismantled it and studied it thoroughly!"

"No!" Harvey refused decisively. "The energy arrays on the roof and underground of the building were specially made for Lord Sarath. They cannot be moved or dismantled in the slightest..."

While shaking his head, he asked his personal guard to deliver a magic stone that could record images, projecting the huge construction drawings onto the flat stone ground.

"Please note that the entire Federation Building's future magical power supply will depend on the transmission of these two energy-gathering arrays connecting heaven and earth. Furthermore, if Lord Sarath wants to move freely within Spark City, he will also need to rely on the wireless magical energy transmission of the energy-gathering arrays to keep his body constantly drawing immense amounts of energy from the magic network."

In short, Harvey used the three forms of transformation characteristics of magic to cleverly move the energy transmission pipelines directly across the space barrier and set them up in the magic network, so that they only appear in the form of energy nodes in the real world. With the help of magic floating programming technology, they can shuttle between the two worlds at all times, realizing never-ending energy transportation.

With this Federation Building as the signal base station, the entire Spark City is shrouded in the magical "wireless network coverage"!
"This way, Lord Sarath will no longer complain about me setting up a cage for him and imprisoning him in the darkness beneath the mines... After activating the Heaven and Earth Energy Array and bringing him from Alayeh, he should be satisfied with his new [cell]."

Harvey continued to explain, and couldn't help but show a satisfied expression on his face.

But he didn't notice... the legendary Chief Dawson and the head of the Federation's Magical Affairs Department, McCaughlin, who were standing beside him... Their expressions changed from confusion to shock and surprise... and finally their faces were filled with confusion and helplessness.

(End of this chapter)