The white square tower was Lost Town's only unique ability. Once Lost Town gained a master, the defensive magic array that had previously enveloped it was dispelled, and it no longer launched beam attacks within a 100-yard radius. However, silver divine runes appeared on the tower's surface—runes that hadn't been there before—emanating a faint aura of pressure.
As Shi Feng approached the tower's main entrance, a translucent system screen materialized before his eyes. It was the tower's introduction panel.
Tower of Transcendence — a training tower created by an ancient civilization. It consists of three floors, each with progressively higher training intensity. Only by completing the training on all three floors can one be considered a qualified Transcendent.
Unlocking the first floor's training seal requires 10,000 Magic Crystals, with a daily maintenance cost of 500 Magic Crystals. A maximum of 100 people may train simultaneously.
Unlocking the second floor's training seal requires 100,000 Magic Crystals, with a daily maintenance cost of 5,000 Magic Crystals. A maximum of 50 people may train simultaneously.
Unlocking the third floor's training seal requires 1,000,000 Magic Crystals, with a daily maintenance cost of 20,000 Magic Crystals. A maximum of 10 people may train simultaneously.
"So there really is a cost," Shi Feng muttered, reading the tower's description with a bitter smile.
He had known that all the major supreme powers had to pay a price to use Lost Town's abilities after acquiring it, but he hadn't expected the price for his Lost Town to be this steep.
The first floor's training was manageable—500 Magic Crystals per day was nothing, equivalent to five Magic Crystals per person per day.
But the second floor's unlock cost was ten times higher, and the daily upkeep jumped by ten times as well. That kind of expense would drive even first-rate guilds insane, especially since the number of trainees was cut in half, meaning each person would cost 100 Magic Crystals per day.
As for the third floor, even a supreme guild's leaders would turn green.
Just the one million Magic Crystals needed to unlock it would take who knew how long to accumulate, let alone the 20,000 Magic Crystals required per day of use. That terrifying expenditure was for only ten people—a cost so absurd that even current supreme guilds probably wouldn't dare attempt it, since it would mean each person cost 2,000 Magic Crystals per day. The word "terrifying" hardly did it justice.
But after some thought, Shi Feng figured it made sense.
If a few hundred Magic Crystals were all it took to train freely, then whoever controlled this Lost Town would be truly invincible. The core of any guild lay in the number and quality of its expert players. Having such a training facility alone was already invaluable, and being able to produce large numbers of top-tier experts at a relatively modest cost meant no guild would stand a chance.
After all, even though supreme guilds possessed the complete inheritance of the Realm of Subtlety, activating their training programs came with strict limits on the number of participants. They had to carefully select only those with exceptional talent, because the cost was simply too high to do otherwise.
"Looks like I can only open the first floor for now," Shi Feng concluded. He clicked to unlock the first floor's training seal.
Although Zero Wing's current stockpile of Magic Crystals wasn't enough to open the second floor, the first floor's training was more than sufficient for the guild right now. After all, aside from himself, not a single member of Zero Wing had even reached the introductory stage of the Realm of Reason.
By the time a significant number of members had entered the introductory stage, Zero Wing would surely have accumulated enough Magic Crystals to unlock the second floor's seal.
The moment Shi Feng clicked, 10,000 Magic Crystals vanished from his inventory, and the Tower of Transcendence suddenly transformed.
The previously silent and unremarkable tower seemed to awaken. The divine runes on its surface blazed to life, and the surrounding mana began surging wildly toward the tower. More and more runes lit up across its surface, their influence expanding ever further.
From the tower's immediate vicinity, it gradually spread across all of Lost Town, then extended thousands of yards beyond. The mana being drawn in grew ever more vast.
"What an incredible torrent of mana! Could this be Lost Town's true power?" Shi Feng stared at the dazzling flow of energy forming in the sky, stunned.
Standing beside the tower, he could clearly feel the ambient mana density skyrocketing.
In just a short while, the mana density had already reached levels comparable to the Stone Forest Town that possessed a Mana Tower—and it was still climbing within the ever-growing torrent of mana.