"I will retire to my workshop for a bit, so I can prepare the more intricate parts of the core spells for the new building. Please, enjoy yourselves, and I will see you at dinner." Karl informed the group.
Tian briefly considered following him, so Karl could help him advance. But if he left, who knew what design choices would be approved?
That was how Karl found himself sitting in a hammock at the beach, carving runes into elemental stones, while Button napped on him in dragon form.
He wasn’t moving, and that made him fair game.
The slight motion of the hammock as Karl worked made it sway like a tree branch, perfect for a Forest Dragon to sleep.
He had already finished three stones for the shops in the new arena. Everything other than the Alliance trade house. That would have to be manned by Alliance members so that they could add and remove items from the store’s inventory.
He briefly considered moving on to the hard part, but decided on finishing the plinth first. He could adapt it to make the core for the arena, with [Randomize] to choose the challengers and a full suite of Golem spells to create them.
Then an application of [Chaotic Zone] to turn the whole thing into a form of instance, so the illusion wouldn’t collapse when damaged.
That would have to be isolated to the arena area so that it didn’t interfere with the food shops.
Who knew what it would do to a baking recipe.
Probably nothing good.
Once the arena plinth was finished, and all its layers assembled, Karl put a bottom cap on it, and mentally checked in on the others, to see how the planning was going.
They had a final design made, intended to look like a colosseum, with plinths surrounding a stadium shaped upper bowl. Under normal circumstances, that would be the actual arena. But in this case, it was less than a quarter of the size of the actual arena, and the design was actually a careful deception to make audience members not realize that they were in an illusion.
Only those with good spatial awareness would easily realize that the dimensions were impossible.
However, there had been alterations made to the plan. There would be far more vendor stall styled shops within the arena area itself, mobile vendors selling snacks in the stands, and a small hotel to be created with a separate illusionary domain within the upper boxes of the stadium.
In all, there would be hundreds of thousands of runes worth of work for him to do.
If Karl hadn’t mastered [Earth manipulation] to such a high degree, thanks to Tian’s affinity, he would have had to write them all by hand, and it would have taken months. However, as the building was designed, he could cover everything with runes once they were past the outer pillars.
That would barely be enough space for him to create everything that they wanted.
Even better, none of the guests under Immortal Rank would be able to see through the illusions to find the Rune work hidden underneath. The more mystery that he could keep around the construction technique, the better.
[Don’t be so down about the work. It’s going to be spectacular once we’re finished.] Tian consoled him.
Karl frowned. "Is that even something that I can fix?"
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