Chapter 134: The Origin of [Fake Death Potion]
In the entire history of the ancient Azeroth Continent, there had never been a single king that had publicly announced the law to his or her citizens.
For a long time, only n.o.bles were qualified to know the law. The written law was never disclosed to the public. The royal and n.o.bles had unanimously agreed that the law should be kept a mystery to the public so that it would have a stronger deterring effect. If civilians also knew the law, they might cause trouble and chaos. The law would also lose its purpose of maintaining the image of n.o.bles and the deterring effect on the civilians. Most of the time, civilians would only know that they had done something illegal and would face punishments after they went past the line. These types of legal concepts and norms helped the n.o.bles maintain their status and the strict hierarchy system. This also caused a lot of misunderstandings around the law and created n.o.ble privileges.
The fact that Fei casted copper warrior statues and wrote down the law was the first time someone had done so on the Azeroth Continent.
For a few days, people surrounded the Warrior Codex Statue. Everyone was carefully reading the codex and the laws; some parents didn"t understand the writing, but they proudly brought their kids who were enrolled at Chambord Civil and Military Academy, and the kids read and explained the laws to their parents.
Laughter and surprised chatter sounded among the crowds.
The legal system and laws were very complete and included a variety of things; they were beyond people"s imaginations. They touched on almost everything that might occur in the kingdom. This codex was like an unprecedented legal system. Even the eldest princess Tanasha, who decided to stay in Chambord temporarily for some reason, came to the twelve Warrior Codex Statues and read every single law written on them. She ordered her servants to carefully copy this codex.
"This is a set of law of the saints… King Alexander of Chambord could be considered a saint just by this set of laws!"
The sigh and murmur that the eldest princess subconsciously made when she was extremely shocked was overheard by someone, and it quickly spread around Chambord. Although a lot of people didn"t understand the true underlying meaning of this set of laws, the high appraisal from the Empire"s [G.o.ddess of Intelligence] had hyped up the reputation of King Alexander among the citizens. Many people started to address their king as "Saint King Alexander."
To Fei, this was only the beginning.
After borrowing ideas from his previous life such as Saint Seiya, Urban Management Team and Jinyi Guards to perfect the military system, the Three Sector Six Department structure to perfect the civil executive system, and the Leges Duodecim Tabularum, the origin of the legal system for Ancient Rome to perfect the legal system, Fei had painted a magnificent and beautiful design on white paper. In terms of the structure and system, Chambord was way ahead of the super powerful empires on this continent.
Of course, Fei was glad that Chambord was small and simple, like a piece of white paper. If he was in a huge bureaucratic empire, he would be faced with a huge amount of opposition. It would be impossible to complete these series of reforms in a short time; he might not even be able complete it in the long run.
After everything was done, Fei"s focus went back onto the strength of Chambord as a whole.
Five days after the battle of the peak of Eastern mountain.
Priest Zola and Luciano brought along some energy training scrolls and magic scrolls as they came to the King"s Palace to see Fei. For the last couple of days, they had heard some of the things that had happened on the peak of Eastern mountain. They sweated buckets when they heard it; if Fei didn"t warn them and told them not to go on the peak of Eastern mountain, they probably would have been buried underground with all the other corpses. Now, they felt a sense of gratefulness on top of fear towards Fei, so they worked even faster. In less than ten days, they gathered a dozen energy training scrolls and magic scrolls and placed them in front of Fei.
Fei was satisfied with the speed of execution of the two; he gave them some "carrots" and let them go.
There were 10 energy training scrolls; they were all under two-star rank, but they covered all five attributes. There were five magic scrolls, but they didn"t cover all the attributes. These were enough for Chambord Civil and Military Academy to use for now. Fei used a quill pen and created one sheep leather ma.n.u.script for each scroll and commanded his personal guard Torres to deliver them to the library at the academy for the students and teachers to use.
Fei had one set of energy training scrolls in his hand as he looked at the sky.
He had tried to training using the energy training scrolls and magic scrolls increase his personal strength, but after a series of tests, the results were disappointing. He found out through the series of tests that he was not talented at using energy or magic at all; in fact, his body was very different from other people on this continent. His body couldn’t store energy or magic.
From the power structure on Azeroth Continent, people could create warrior energy and magic energy through the process of training for warriors and meditation for mages. But to Fei, when he was training or meditating, he would generate warrior and magic energy, but as soon as he stopped, the warrior and magic energy that he created would instantly disappear and could not be found, just like it was playing hide and seek with him.
This situation forced Fei to ditch the training for warrior and magic energy.
He decided to use the Diablo World to improve himself.
He put the energy training scroll and magic scroll into his storage s.p.a.ce as he entered the Diablo World.
He chose Barbarian Mode and went to Priestess Akara.
For the last couple of days, Fei was used to going to Akara to learn about the theory of mysterious potion and scroll creation. One of three legendary Miraculous Skill 【Learn】, started to show its effect. Fei was very talented at learning these kinds of things, which Akara was very surprised by. However, the king had brought his clumsy personality from his previous life to the Diablo World. He frequently forgot to add important ingredients, engraved the wrong magic patterns onto scrolls, and messed up the creation process. All of these resulted in violent explosions that occurred in 【Rogue Encampment】, and the beautiful rogues saw Akara who had dirt on her face chasing after Fei with a broom in her hand.
However, Fei made significant progress.
Until now, Fei had mastered the process of creating 【Healing Potions】 and 【Mana Potions】.
Studying the theory was very boring, and time pa.s.sed by slowly.
As the daily half-hour studying time was about to finish, Fei took out a bottle of pink potion. This potion was named [Fake Death Potion] by Fei. [Fake Death Potion] was the most important item that carried Chambord through the whole disaster; it was the reason why people like Angela and Lampard could fake their deaths and fool both Paris and the eldest princess.
"Is this the mutated potion that you were talking about?"
Akara carefully observed the bottle of mysterious pink potion; she was very intrigued. She took the cap off of the bottle, slightly smelled it, and swirled it. She placed one drop of the potion onto her hand, and rubbed it using her finger. After a while, she shook her head as she said, "This is a brand new potion… can you tell me in detail how you made this potion? Don"t leave any details out."
Fei told her the process of how he made the [Fake Death Potion].
"So, you were originally trying to make some 【Healing Potions】, but the same formula created something completely different in your world?" Akara had a hard time believing it. "Did you use the wrong formula again?" Akara wasn"t very confident in Fei"s memorization.
"Impossible…" Fei disagreed. "I clearly used the formula that you taught me and made more than 20 potions, and all of them had mutated…" Fei said as he shook his head. "Therefore, I suspect that the formula was correct, but the raw ingredients between the two worlds are a bit different… Eh, the materials that I used were all from my world, so that might be the reason for the mutation."
"What? You"re saying that the Promising World has the raw materials for making potions as well?" People from 【Rogue Encampment】 liked to call Azeroth Continent as the Promising World. After hearing Fei"s reasoning, Akara was shocked. "Mister Fei, you never told me that before."
"I discovered that by accident." Fei rubbed his nose as he said, "Too many things occurred in the last couple of days, and I didn"t have the chance to tell you." After he said that, he took out the energy training scrolls and magic scrolls from his storage s.p.a.ce and gave them to Akara. "These scrolls are used by the people from the Promising World to increase their strength. They call them warrior energy and magic energy. They might give you some hints and clues."
At this moment –
"Ahahahahaha, I got it! I finally got it! So it"s like this… Hahahaha, this is very interesting…" A high pitched scream suddenly sounded from afar. Fei and Akara turned around and saw white-beard old man Cain rushing to them as if he got with the woman of his dreams. As soon as he saw Fei, he grabbed Fei"s hand as if he wanted to get an appraisal. He took out a few magic armors and laughed. "Mister Fei, I got it, I finally got it. This is how these magic engravings and patterns function… Hahahaha, looks at these armors…"
Fei took a good look.
He realized that the armors in Cain"s hand were very familiar; they looked like the armors that he stripped from the silver-masked knight who was the commander of the black armored troop. However, the color and the magic fluctuation of the armors were completely different. They were no longer like the magic items from Azeroth Continent, but rather like the familiar magic items from the Diablo World.
Chapter 135: Prophecy and magic item set
Fei was excited. "You… you finally finished identifying this set of armor?"
Cain threw the almost complete set of magic armor to Fei as he laughed. "That"s right, it has been identified… I also made some adjustments to the magic arrays on them. Even if the creator of the set of armor was standing here, he or she wouldn"t be able to tell that this is something that they created… I have to say, this set of armor is very mystical. The way that the magic array is engraved onto the armor and the way that the magic array functions are both very interesting. It really opened my eyes… However, I can tell that the principles of the magic array and engraving methods are very similar to the ones in this world… Mister Fei, I think I have accidently discovered a gate to a new type of magic. If I can open this gate, we might obtain the power that can make the G.o.ds shiver!"
After hearing Cain"s exaggerated words, Fei thought of something. He pa.s.sed two the scrolls that he was going to give to Akara to Cain as he said, "Look at this. Can you discover something from these?"
"This…"
Cain grabbed the magic scrolls from Fei in confusion. He opened one scroll up and looked at it. After a few stares, he was excited. Like a hungry wolf who had spotted a fat sheep, he shouted, "Aha, G.o.d, so it"s like this… Like I said… Oh, genius design… This is an unimaginable structure for magic swirls and amplification… Oh my, this works?… Ohhhhhh, I see, so it was like this… man, these have some genius thoughts."
After a series of crazy, unclear sighs, Cain ditched Fei completely and walked towards his own tent with the magic scrolls like a mad scientist. He left Fei with one sentence, "With these scrolls, I can evolve my new theories. Aha, I think I might be able to help you to open that strange storage ring…"
This old man was like a wind; he came fast and left fast.
Fei could only shake his head and watch Cain go.
At 【Rogue Encampment】, Both Cain and Akara had a profound knowledge base for history and magic; they were both perfect professors in Fei"s mind. Due to the difference in the magic system between the Diablo World and Azeroth Continent, Fei didn"t execute a lot of plans that he had. If old Cain could really decipher the magic principles of Azeroth Continent, Fei would be able to put a lot of his plans into action.
"I want to go to the Promising World to make some potions. Let Elena go with me!"
Priestess Akara was very curious about the fact of mutating potions when they were created on Azeroth Continent. Just like Cain, this master of potion and scroll creations also discovered a new way of potion creation. If she was lucky enough, she thought that she could also create a new series of potions.
Fei didn"t hesitate at all.
He put the armor into his storage s.p.a.ce, used the miraculous skill 【Summon】 and opened up a portal. Akara and Elena were sent to Chambord Kingdom; with the a.s.sistance of Angela, the big black dog, and some of the smart kids from the academy, they climbed up the mountains that surrounded Chambord. There were numerous plants and medical herbs. As if she discovered a new continent, Akara started to test every possible combination of ingredients.
Fei on the other hand returned to the Diablo World.
He exited [Barbarian Mode] and chose [Sorcerer Mode] instead on the big 3D screen. His sorcerer was the only character that hadn"t completed all the quests from 【Rogue Encampment】; however, there were only two quests left. In the next three hours, as long as he completed the quests 【The Forgotten Tower】 and 【Sisters to the Slaughter】, he would pa.s.s through Act I 【Rogue Encampment】 with all seven cla.s.ses. The mysterious reward that he would get would be here soon as well.
Killing and leveling up began.
Two hours later.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"
A deep, sorrow, and unwilling roar sounded in the deepest location in the 【Catacombs】 on the 【Tamoe Highland】. The roar was so loud that it resonated through the entire 【Rogue Encampment】. After the roar, the female demon Andariel died beside Fei"s feet for the seventh time. The red blood soaked the stones in the bas.e.m.e.nt, and violent rumbling tore the ground apart. Huge flames enveloped Andariel"s corpse, and the surrounding demons and monsters cried as they were burnt to ashes.
It was the seventh time that Fei saw the tear sliding down Andariel"s beautiful face.
What kind of tear was that!
The crystal tear was filled with indulging glory and falling, beauty and desperation, loyalty and betrayal, giving and taking, blood and tears, fire and swords, jealousy and hatred… as well as the tragic love that wasn"t accepted by this world. Fei had fallen into a strange state. All a sudden, an ancient and moving emotion jumped out of this tear, and like a vivid roaring soul, it immediately invaded Fei"s consciousness.
Fei"s expression changed.
This was an unexpected changed.
For the last six times when he killed the fallen Andariel, this didn"t occur. Fei couldn"t dodge or resist this sudden change on the spiritual level. It invaded Fei"s entire conscious, and something magical happened in the next second –
Many scenes appeared in front of Fei, as if he was watching a realistic 3D movie –
A poor little girl who lost both of her parents was walking on a moor alone. But as she was about to die from hunger and exhaustion, a kind priest took her in. From that moment on, this poor little girl lived in the monastery on the Tamoe Highland. She was like an ugly duckling; she did most dirty and tiring ch.o.r.es just to earn a meal. As time pa.s.sed by, this ugly duckling turned into a beautiful white swan unexpectedly. Even the most devoted priest would lose focus because of one of her smiles. Soon, the girl"s name was pa.s.sed around the continent; she became a G.o.ddess in every man"s mind, and the target of jealousy in every woman"s mind.
The monastery used her beauty to grow its strength by getting more support, and soon became the most important force on the heaven"s side of the battle against h.e.l.l.
In an important event hosted by the monastery, hundreds of thousands of men came to Tamoe Highland from all around the continent just to see her face. When she appeared on the high stage, numerous men cheered, but one man who was in a red cloak turned around and walked away… she remembered that man.
Then, an unfortunate event happened.
During a praying session, the oil lamp fell off of the ceiling and hit the girl"s face, and her eyes were burnt by the hot oil. Due to the jealousy from the nuns towards her beauty, the treatment was delayed… she became disfigured. What happened next took her by surprise. After losing her beauty, she had become the laughing stock of the continent. She lost the value that she was able to bring to the monastery, and she had to do the dirtiest, most tiring, and even demoralizing ch.o.r.es again to survive. She lived in shame. Even the lowest, dirtiest mercenary would laugh at her. "Look, this ugly one was the most beautiful woman on the continent…"
Just to prevent people from seeing the ugly scars on her face, she begged a blacksmith to make her an iron mask.
From that moment on, the former most beautiful women had to wear the black iron mask and live like a dog in shame… Until one day, a man in a red cloak appeared in front of her.
"You are Andariel?" he asked in surprise.
She was stunned. "How could this man recognize me with this mask on my face?" she thought.
"Your eyes are still beautiful as always!"
What a simple answer. Tears immediately filled the girl"s heart. Beauty? What a familiar yet strange word. When was the last time someone complimented her this way? "So my eyes are still beautiful…"
"Do you want to restore your beauty?" the man asked.
"Yeah… But how? Can you?" The girl had a bitter smile on her face.
"Of course I can." The man unveiled himself from the cloak. He let loose a little bit of his force and the ground started to shake. "Because I"m Diablo – the Lord of Terror!"
The girl was shocked… However, she slowly put herself together when she was facing the Lord of Terror who only existed in legends.
Then, the girl restored her beauty, and she had a strong demonic force. She used her beauty and power to control the monastery and turned it into a paradise for demons, the frontline of h.e.l.l. She got everything that she lost and became the female demon who was feared by everyone.
Yes, she was in love with the Lord of Terror.
However, that man didn"t love her back; he was deeply in love with his wife who had pa.s.sed away.
For him, the girl who had restored her beauty had taken back the glory, blame, and blood…. She also learnt a vicious technique to become very strong just for the purpose of helping that man in the fight against heaven.
The girl"s name was Andariel.
The last 【Flower of Rogue】, the one before Elena.
Fei had witnessed the complete journey that the former 【Flower of Rogue】 Andariel went through and the love between her and the Lord of Terror as a bystander. This was a very mystical and spiritual ride. For a moment, as if Fei was connected to Andariel, he completely felt the emotional journey that the former 【Flower of Rogue】 went on. There was helplessness, powerlessness, anger, hatred, sorrow, regret… until the end, Fei sighed as he thought, "Was she wrong? Was this woman who went through such tragic events wrong?"
This was fate.
Fei was a little sympathetic towards the woman who he had killed seven times.
As Fei was contemplating, something mysterious occurred again. All the scenes in front of him shattered into pieces like a broken mirror, and slowly reformed into a beautiful woman who could take breath out of almost any man. Like a G.o.ddess, she appeared in front of Fei – Fei recognized her; she was Andariel, who had her beauty restored and not yet learnt the vicious technique. At this moment, she was so beautiful that people didn"t dare look at her straight in the face; she was definitely the most beautiful woman Fei had ever seen.
"Accept my gift, and protect your lover. Every 【Flower of Rogue】 will experience unprecedented suffering. Young warrior, a great disaster is coming. If you still believe in love, please protect her, and don"t let her go through what I did!"
After she said that, she waved her arms and a black light enveloped her body. Soon, she disappeared. At the location where she was at, a set of fascinating magic armor filled with unbelievable magic powers appeared.
Fei was shocked.
This was a complete set of magic items.
The complete set of magic items wasn"t missing any parts, and it was at its most powerful stage.
Beside the magic armor, there was a black iron mask; it was the mask that Andariel begged the blacksmith to make for her to cover up her ugliness.