Chapter 1151: Attempting
Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Wizard Dolan drank his juice and smiled, “Grandmaster Bennett, as long as we have your consent, no one will have anything to do with Wizard Abel!”
Someone was already going after Abel’s stone giant when he laid it out. Now that he was a grandmaster alchemist, things were becoming much, much easier for him to handle this kind of unnecessary trouble.
Abel replied with a smile, “Understood, Wizard Dolan.”
Wizard Dolan smiled and asked, “Right. Would you blame me if I’m took charge over everything happening in the promotion ceremony?”
Wizard Dolan already prepared the honorary elder badge when he came. As long as Abel could be promoted to become a grandmaster alchemist, he would’ve had to be the one to become the elder. The Wizard Union had to keep him within their system in a sense. This was crucial to them keeping their authority on the central continent. Because of this, Wizard Dolan had to go in advance to help host the promotion ceremony for Abel. Now that he was saying it out right now, he was just trying to find a way to apologize how he might’ve been too brash for Abel’s likings.
Abel seemed to understand, “I thank you for your help, Wizard Dolan. Actually, I’ve never hosted this promotion ceremony.”
As a matter of fact, Abel never made considerations regarding this. He didn’t think that the promotion should be something that would come so naturally. He didn’t even think that it was necessary, in a sense. However, he didn’t really understand what it was that grandmaster alchemists could do. It would be understandable for him to underestimate the role of a grandmaster alchemist in general. As for the records of the grandmaster alchemist, they would only exist in some of the confidential information of the major groups. He wouldn’t have the chance to look them up himself.
Wizard Dolan continued and asked, “Whenever you are free, Grandmaster Bennet. We’ll be commencing the promotion ceremony.”
Abel considered and spoke to him, “Five days later, I suppose. I’ll have to get familiar with my own abilities first.”
Wizard Dolan asked again, “It’s agreed, then. Five days later, there shouldn’t be that much s.p.a.ce inside the golden castle. Would you pick the Bay Law Palace or the Wizard Union Headquarters?”
Abel thought about his elven ident.i.ty, “Bay Law City Palace is a better choice.”
It’s to do with reciprocating the help the elves had provided him. The reason that Wizard Dolan said five days later had really a lot to do with his own thoughts. On the one hand, Abel really needed to get familiar with his grandmaster alchemist’s ability. On the other hand, it should just take about one or two hands for the bone card to recover completely. For the bone card to recover on its own, Abel waited for about half a year. He’s had a lot of expectations for the contract item of a legendary sacred knight. As for the promotion ceremony, if it wasn’t to calm everyone down, Abel would’ve never bothered having such a pointless ceremony.
For now, the five legendary wizards were leaving. Of course, they all had their synthesized (twice) water spirit fruit juices when they left. Before they left, they would also have their food inside the small dining room. Most of the other guests had already left, but some of the ones that made their reservations to eat remained. Abel didn’t bother with them. Instead, he went to Butler Meyer in his study.
Butler Meyer was very excited, of course. Before, he was just a butler in charge of a mansion in the outskirts, but ever since he’s been on Abel’s side, he’s been going up in terms of his status. Right now, he was the most important butler to the entire elven race. He was in charge of a lot of things inside the elven royal palace. While other butlers were dealing with n.o.blemen, he was literally spending all day interacting with some of the most influential people of this world. He was a legend in his own sense basically. Today, that fact was reconfirmed given how his record was filled with the names of the presents that were sent from everywhere in the world.
Butler Meyer brought the book over, “This is the present list for today, Master. Please have a look yourself.”
Abel smiled and took it over, “You’ve had a busy day.”
Abel was shocked when he opened the book. There were so many more presents than usual. For example, the elven Royal Palace was sending an entire bottle of the life elixir and a royal garden that was outside of Bay Law City. For the Wizard Union, it was even more direct. They were sending 2000 low-tier light stones over. Some of the legendary wizards were also sending light stone covers. The Wizard Union must’ve paid extra attention to what it was that he wanted.
Abel was even more pleased with the dwarves, “They got me 15 battle forts!”
Very quickly, however, he felt very disappointed. If the battle forts could be sent earlier, they might have increased in quality.
Abel shook his head, “Ha, maybe I’m too greedy.”
The price of the battle forts had been going way up ever since he made it public that he was in demand for it. Before, the battle forts were just an item for collection, but now, it was a crucial resource that could be traded in exchange for his potions. Given how few the forts were, it had only been several months since he’s been making purchases.
As for the other gifts, Abel didn’t bother to look. He was just trying to activate the battle fort so that it could be reinforced within the defense of the golden fort. He wanted to reinforce the starlight defensive circle. In the backyard of the golden castle, he could see that the dwarves were already sending the battle forts over. He didn’t get to see a complete set, and that kind of made him disappointed. The Fire Tooh Battle Fort was his only complete set at the moment, while the others were basically supplementary pieces that could be added into the starlight defensive circle.
Abel fields the energy slots of the battle fort with top-level gemstones. After that, he used the battle command spirit and had his name written in it. Every time he activated one battle fort, he would add another battle fort into his divine portal bag. With the one that he received recently, there would be about 23 in total. It would take him several hours to be finished with all of them. Most of the time, the forts would be using their spirits for self-repairing when they were awakened.
Following that, Abel teleported himself onto the starlight defensive large circle. The addition of the battle fort would elevate the defense.
Abel stood up the circle and ordered, “Circle spirit! Bring the setup blueprint to me!’
The circle spirit’s voice came over, “Yes, Master!”
Abel could see a visualized image of the starlight circle. Among the many stars that were ill.u.s.trated, there were twenty that were sparkling in green. Those were the fixed joints of the battle fort. Among the others, 23 seemed extremely clear. Those were the battles he was setting up today. What he needed to do next was to pinpoint these spots and activate the forts onto them.
With the help of the divine portal bag, the job became a lot easier. In just five minutes, Abel was placing the 23 battle forts onto the positions.
Abel ordered, “Activate the circle,!”
The circle spirit did so and revealed stars throughout the starlight defensive large circle. Even the sunlight was not bright enough to cover all of this. The 20 starlights were increased to 43, and that indicated to Abel that the defensive power of the golden castle was now, truly, the best on the central continent.
After doing all of this, Abel returned to the master’s building. He was heading inside the alchemy room. He didn’t go ahead and began the brew immediately. Before this, he needed to see what was going on with the honorary elder of the Wizard Union. He went ahead and placed the badge onto the alchemy table circle. The circle was connected to the same system as what the Wizard Union used to a.s.sign missions and exchange points. Before this, he was always using his potion master badge to do this.
A screen was displayed on the alchemy table. It was unlike anything he’s seen before. All the words were gold. The content was also very different. Inside were requirements for the trade. The one’s trading were all rank 24 or 25 advanced wizards. Abel had heard of some of them. Some of them he hadn’t. For example, he did see something that Wizard Dolan put up. It was about trading 10000 low-tier light stones for a “life-prolonging potion.” The ingredients would be provided by Wizard Dolan himself. The light stones would be given in full sum regardless of whether the craft was a success or not.
Abel was finally starting to under it when he saw that the requirement was “grandmaster potionmaster.” He remembered Wizard Dolan telling him that he was free to turn down anyone’s request, and this must be what this meant. The Wizard Union was using the system to a.s.sign missions. What he needed to do was to do it. If he didn’t want to, he didn’t have to care. Of course, the 10000 light stones was definitely a huge incentive.
As a matter of fact, Abel couldn’t really refuse 10000 light stones. He’s got too much to ask for it. He would be very satisfied to earn extra, of course. Now that he’s earned the full respect of the Wizard Union, he was definitely not going to back away from this.
Funnily enough, still, the mission was for grandmaster potion masters. Abel was the only one in the entire world. Abel thought that it was funny, but he didn’t accept it right away. He had much more important things to do at the moment. He had plenty of time in the future. Of course, he was still very curious about the life-prolonging potions. At least he’s never seen the name of the potion while he was still inside the Potionmaster’s Guild.
For a potion like the life-prolonging, it was truly bizarre that Wizard Dolan was willing to pay 10000 low-tier light stones for it. The life-prolonging potion was not supposed to be a regular potion, but something worth 10000 low-tier sacred knights. Even the frontline couldn’t always guarantee that number. Most of the time, it was only several hundred soldiers acting in one small formation.
Abel shook his head, “I’ll accept it first, then consider.”
Abel then saw that there were two other missions that required the help of the grandmaster potion masters. The legendary wizards were already waiting for him to help them out. He could even see that the payment and the missions were literally the same.
Abel took the badge of the alchemy table. He turned off the screen and brought out a natural breathing ingredient. The natural breathing ingredient was for the big druids to use. It was meant to be a master-level potion. Now that the elves were producing their own ingredients, the monthly portions were now all gathered into his hands, while the other three potion masters would only take missions that were specific to their preferences. Abel was not wasting any of the ingredients he got, and while he was already receiving fewer spares than the others, he was still capable of saving up more than the other ones.
For the “natural breathing,” the usual brew success rate was one out of five. The elves had to leave all the ingredients for Abel to handle. Because breathing was so important to the elves, most of the herbs grown inside the herb garden were meant for it. They were also the best for big druid training, so the more “natural breathing” there was, the faster the big druids would elevate their powers.
By the way, this was the first time that Abel brewed the master-level potion after he became a grandmaster. When he picked up the ingredients, he could see that all the ingredients in front of him were affected by his grandmaster’s rune. The ingredients continued to react inside his alchemy bottle. The more ingredients he added, the less he needed to use any special specials. However, under the influence of the grandmaster’s rune, the change was really starting to change on their own. He started to notice after adding the last ingredients. It had only been ten minutes so far, but before, it’d only take two hours for him to brew the master-level potion.
As the seven lights rose up. All that remained was the golden light. Abel didn’t use any of his special abilities like the Horadric Cube, the synthesized water, or the activation of his world stone fragment. Just like this, he received a golden quality bottle of “natural breathing.”