For a mage of Punk's skill level, constructing a residence from the ground wasn't a challenging task. Initially, he used a spell to smooth out the uneven ground and then cultivated some magically influenced plants to serve as the framework of the house. By applying a durability enchantment, this wooden structure became as sturdy as steel.
Next, he pasted a large amount of soil onto the wall using mage hand and then used a spell to make the soft soil walls into solid rock walls.
But only with these, this six-meter-high tower would just be an ordinary high tower (in Pheren, a stone tower over five meters can be called a high tower, even though five meters was not actually high), If it was only used for living, then it was more than enough, but Punk wanted it to be also an experimental lab with a certain defensive ability, so there were still a few steps that need to be completed.
Punk was holding a small piece of yellow gem. Most Gems in the multidimensional universe, almost 90% of them had the corresponding element affinity, as they were formed when large numbers of elements with different attributes gathered in a small space.
In addition, in this universe, high temperature and high pressure were not enough to overcome the solid molecular forces to form gems, so they could only be produced by the etheric element.
Punk took out this particular gem to summon an earth elemental. But It was a little hard as it was for the first time he used this elemental summoning spell, and the complex characteristics of an official-level spell made it even harder, so Punk struggled a little to build the elemental's model inside his mind palace.
Despite using the gem as spell-casting material, the elemental he summoned had certain deformities. It resembled Popeye from Earth's cartoons to some extent. Its upper body was massive, but the lower body appeared to have stunted growth, short and small. With this peculiar appearance and its somewhat unsteady figure, it made people laugh..
Punk was a little disappointed looking at the summoned limping earth elemental. Although he knew that as a newly promoted official mage, it could be said to be an outstanding achievement, especially when he cast an unpracticed brand new official-level spell, but Punk was still very dissatisfied with this kind of rubbish. In a battle, something that could be easily toppled over even by a stick would be entirely useless.
"Forget it. I should have expected that the difficulty of an official-level spell will be far greater than that of a trainee-level spell. This thing can at least be used as a construction tool."
Although he could no longer experience the pleasure of learning new spells in a flash...at least repeated spell exercises would help him analyze the spell structure thoroughly, which, if looked at from the perspective of long-term development, he wouldn't really suffer any losses.
"I wonder how difficult and complicated the legendary spells would be...!"
Punk decided not to think about the future too much and focus on building his own house at present, so to make sure he didn't have to spend the night in the carriage.
He ordered this cumbersome and silly earth elemental to touch the tower lightly. Punk intended to let the earth elemental transform the entire tower's rocks into good quality granite, as granite was not only more durable but also easy to enchant. The white texture of granite was also much more beautiful to look at than ordinary rocks; after all, this was the place where he would live for a long time. So making the environment more beautiful and comfortable was almost necessary.
However, the earth elemental's virtual soul seemed to be unable to understand the complicated command such as the slight touch, and the clumsy earth elemental, hearing Punk's command, attached its whole body to the wall. The fragile stone tower wall was immediately cracked.
Punk fought the temptation to destroy it with a fireball and instead gave a precise command, aiming to prevent the tower from being knocked down by the earth elemental he had summoned for the construction.
Although summoning could certainly create an absolutely obedient helper, he had to admit that its drawbacks were also undeniable.
One should know that a natural earth elemental of the earth elemental's plane had high intelligence, unlike Punk's summoned that's IQ was even inferior to that of a gorilla.
If One think about it calmly, it seemed reasonable, as if summoning could completely solve the labor problem, then all the mages, instead of being busy creating alchemy puppets and spending money in buying slaves, wouldn't just summon at will.
Punk found that the only fortunate thing about this "Popeye" earth elemental was that it had remarkable talent in the "Rock Transformation" spells.
In Punk's view, the brown-yellow walls of the stone tower began to slowly transform into solid white granite by the earth elemental, just like ink dripping into clear water, the white textured rock spread quickly in the entire tower's body. As the transformation happened in one go, the entire tower looked like as if it was carved out of a whole piece of granite. The tower was now emitting a soft white light, and with the intricate texture on the walls, it looked very beautiful under the sunlight!
Now only some final touches were left, such as drawing a 250 square meter area outside the white tower as a yard and then spawning high thorns as fences and finally placing the advanced experimental tools bought from the mage union in an empty room of the tower.
Punk also didn't forget to set up various magic traps at the doors to prevent the invasion of thieves...
After a full day of busywork, many treasured materials were used up; and in this process, sometimes even Punk's fast mana recovery speed actually could not keep up with the consumption as too many low-level spells had to be used. But, no matter how the process was, pleasant or tedious, the construction of the tower was finally completed.
As dusk crept in, Casa and Mira completed the day's journey, and they were about to say goodbye to Pheren's surface world for a while. The working townspeople returned home to enjoy the rare relaxation after working while also discussing the "big events" of the day.
On the hillside that nobody dared to get close to stand a white tower, Punk observed that the tower was finished. He promptly sent away the "embarrassing" earth elemental and used spells to clear away the grass and dirt on the ground.
Now, with the brightness of the sunset, a white tower came into view. There were mysterious runes looming on the tower, as multiple arrays were superimposed and staggered in every corner of the tower. Now, this tower not only possessed the ability to defend against magic missiles but also had alarms and spell formations for counter-attacks. So, the tower that Punk had invested a lot of time and money in could finally be called a base!
"Let's call it..."White Tower."
Punk, who was not keen on names, just added an adjective to the color of the building and considered it as its name.
"Now it's time to start my long-awaited experiments."
Punk brought out the "Walker's Guide to Making Flesh Golems" and, as he skimmed through it, he approached the White Tower. Even though the tower was dark without any lights, Punk couldn't contain his excitement and wanted to read the book thoroughly right away.