Dagger

"The Visergoroth Eater is a plant monster. I"ve had read about how ferocious it is. I hope these armors would last." Dorothy examined the equipment.

"Once we soak them in a fortifying liquid, they"ll be hard as steel but still keep the lightness of a leather." Allen replied.

"The effect of that liquid will only last for a few hours." Dorothy replied.

"A few hours should be enough." He replied while unsheating a sword, "I also found an enchanted sword. It is Minor-Inferior grade." He slid the sword back to its sheat and placed it on the counter.

"Sadly, you won"t be able to utilize it into its full potential. Once we leave the protection orb"s boundary we can"t use our internal energy." She replied and calmly added, "Those old seniors, even if I"m just a junior, they are not going to hear the end of this for creating this torturous illusion."

"I"m only using it for its durability and sharpness. I"m sure that the monster won"t be that powerful." Allen replied to Dorothy"s first remark.

Why was he sure that this monster they would be facing won"t be too powerful? It was because when they battled against the other ones in the previous pages, they did so while their internal energy and mana were thoroughly suppressed, and because if the beasts had more powerful strengths, they won"t even be able to last longer against them.

"Why did you even keep answering until to the last page?" He asked in response to her second comment.

"I will take all the points I can get to win this round." She replied.

"Mhm." Allen nodded.

"Can you help me soak all of these…" Her sentence didn"t end yet when Allen left the building without warning.

Dorothy gazed at the equipment messily stacked on the floor. A frown appeared on her deadpan face, "He left me with all of these things."

"Allen Morgan… you really can make somebody annoyed at you." Shaking her head, she stopped the urge of destroying the equipment on the floor.

...

Returning back to the alchemy shop, Allen saw the organized equipment on one side of the shop while jars of pills and bottles of elixirs where neatly placed on top of the counter.

Meanwhile, the Minor-Inferior graded sword was leaning on the counter.

Dorothy came out of the door beside the counter and glanced at Allen, "I already soaked the equipment in the fortifying liquid I concocted."

"Mhm." Allen nodded. He approached the sword and asked her, "Did you also soak the sword?"

"No, enchanted objects can"t be temporarily enhanced." Dorothy replied.

"I didn"t know." Allen then inspected the concocted objects on the counter.

"Quite unlikely for a genius like you." She commented. She knew that Allen was hailed as a very talented alchemist. Even hearing from Ikkleshan his deeds and concoctions that were on par with Gavin, who was also known a young genius throughout the high-ranking alchemists in the kingdom.

Taking in another breath, she didn"t dabble any longer about that topic and asked, "What were you doing when you left?"

"I checked the protection orb on how long would it still last. I can say we still have about a few hours." Allen replied.

"Did you also concoct a weapon enhancing liquid?" Allen asked.

"Yes." She nodded then landed a glimpse at the sword, "Now, I know why you wanted me to concoct that."

She then added, "It"s one of those liquids on top of the counter. It has a gray color."

Allen searched for the gray colored liquid until he found one. He noticed that there were only a few drops of it stored inside a tiny transparent bottle.

"This could be sufficient enough to enhance the sword." He brought up the sword along with the liquid then sat cross-legged on the floor.

Meanwhile, Dorothy picked up her leather equipment then entered the door beside the counter to change clothes.

Shortly after, she came out of the door wearing the leather armor almost everywhere on her body, even so, the armor didn"t the decrease the gracefulness of the shape of her body.

She then wore her alchemist robe over the armor then looked over at Allen who was dripping out all the weapon enhancing liquid on the Minor-Inferior sword.

As he finished trickling down all the liquid from the container, the sword hummed then the liquid immediately sank into the weapon.

An audible clanging came from inside the sword, when that sound subsided, a quiet boom was emitted by the weapon.

In the eyes of Dorothy, the sword"s aura became stronger and livelier than before.

"It became a Major-Inferior sword that fast?" Although not showing on her face, she was genuinely curious, "You seem to be greatly experienced when it comes to enhancing weapons."

Upgrading a weapon through Liquid Alchemy wasn"t that simple as one would think in the first place.

The alchemists, not only had to concoct "weapon enhancing liquids" in a delicate manner, but if they themselves wanted their enchanted weapon be improved, then they also must know how to direct the said liquid"s energy all throughout the selected weapon so that the improvement won"t be unbalanced.

And if an enchanted weapon after its promotion of grade was unbalanced, the channeling of energies into the weapon would also be in a disequilibrium throughout its whole structure, further resulting into flaws during attacks and further resulting into more flaws which would lead to the weapon shattering or the death of the wielder.

"I have an enchanted sword. I already enhanced it for a lot of time." Allen stood up and sheated back the sword. He placed the sword in a leaning position on the wall.

"Okay." She made a nod, "I"ll sort out the potions here."

While Dorothy wasn"t looking, he took out a folded brand new shirt from the pocket of his alchemist robe. Then removed his robe.

Allen wore his new batch of upper garment, and after doing so he approached the armors at the corner of the room and he began wearing the upper body armor, belt, knee protectors, and boots which were all made from leather.

He approached the counter and strapped some jar of pills and vials on his belt then said to Dorothy beside him, "Go get your pills and potions."

However, Dorothy didn"t respond and was only still on her position.

Seeing she wasn"t responding, Allen glanced at her face and saw an indifferent gaping expression.

He glanced over to the direction where Dorothy"s eyes were looking at and he determined she was looking over a window.

If one would look closely, the part of the window where she was looking reflected the same exact spot where Allen was standing earlier.

"h.e.l.lo?" Allen waved his hand, in front of Dorothy.

"Oh." She snapped out of her stupor. She scratched her head, "Let"s go before the protection orb loses power."

She then approached the door and was about to open it when she heard Allen"s voice.

"You forgot your pills and potions." Allen pointed over the remaining items on the table.

...

Going out of the store, the two of them were all set and ready to battle the Visergoroth Eater.

"While you were travelling around the city to get the armors, by any chance have you found the way out of the city?" Dorothy asked.

"No." Allen replied.

"Let"s go climb the walls instead." She said while looking to a random direction and pointed. "I"ll take a guess that this is the shortest way to exit the city."

However, Allen continued, "I said no, because there is no way out of here."

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