Angel decided to make a music box on a temporary basis.
Seeing Toby’s pleading expression made him unconsciously think of Gloria. Because he was hiding her whereabouts from Toby, he felt a little ashamed. He simply gave into Toby whims and wants to get a promise from him in exchange for a music box. He needs to first swallow a promise in order to maintain Toby’s present life.
Toby doesn’t know what a “music box” was. But he knew that Angel would perform alchemy, so his eyes were immediately filled with antic.i.p.ation and joy. He can’t even wait to push his normally most cherished echo flowers onto Angel.
Angel came to the laboratory with two echo flowers.
It was unknown to Angel whether music boxes exist in other places, but in the Canary Empire, there have always been aristocratic products of handicrafts for the musical arts. Although the products are limited to backward technology. And the musical scales played were too harsh and monotonous. But they are complete musical scales which are very popular amongst the aristocracy.
Angel once had a music box that Jon gave him on his fifth birthday. The melody played in it was the happy birthday song. As a child, Angel loved the song and played it over and over again. But when he went to Watford to listen to a maestro’s concert, he was a little dismissive of the simple musical scales of the music box.
However, it has to be said. Even though the monotonous metal picks of the music box is a bit harsh. It is still an indelible memory of Angel’s childhood. Looking back now, even though the concert was certainly a big event, but the simple melodious music from his music box was the best memory of that time.
When Angel makes the music box for Toby. He wants to restore the full range of musical scales perfectly. Meaning he didn’t want the final product to become a monotonous musical scale with only a few octaves. Choosing the echo flowers as the main materials will help implement his ideas.
However, the alchemy books he obtained do not include music boxes, which are not considered part of the alchemy profession. The only blueprint for music boxes is from Jon’s 3D blueprints stored in the Holographic Tablet. Angel does not intend making the more traditional music boxes. Therefore, he must modify and recreate the blueprints.
How to use the echo flower in the music box. Or how to avoid the defects that come from echo flower recordings. These are all problems he needs to find a way to solve it.
Beyond that, Angel actually has a bit of ambition.
When he eventually makes the music boxes, even if it is on a temporary basis, he also wants to do his best. Although the function of a music box is singular, he wants to incorporate some spells to expand its uses.
He has only melted and forged alchemy weapons before, and has not touched on other types of alchemy items…The music box is his attempt at something new. It is also a stepping stone to expand his mind and let him go further on the path of alchemy.
It can not only make Toby happy but also exercise his alchemy craftsmanship. Why shouldn’t he do it?
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Angel didn’t decide to start making the music boxes immediately. He still had many other things to do as he watched his one and a half month period pa.s.sing by. When the news of the Purification Garden spreads, the hidden experts will swarm into Sky Tower, making it even harder for him to reach the top. Therefore, his main focus now is still on climbing the tower. Only, before he went to sleep every night, he took out his alchemy books to study the characteristics of echo flowers. He did so in order to select the most appropriate materials to draw a blueprint for the music box.
His recent days have been very full and enriching.
A week later, Angel advanced to the fifth floor.
These days, even if he wins through using his rogue tactics, his combat experience has been getting richer. He has gained his own judgment on how to avoid injury. He has learned how to release magic accurately, when to rush in for an attack and when to back off when attacked. Even if he is a little immature in his tactics, the journey of thousands of miles begins with a single step. As long as he acc.u.mulates more experience, a quant.i.tative change will eventually happen.
At present, Angel has not lost a single match, but the promotion to a higher floor is still too slow for him.
If Housekeeper Goode is right, the news of the Purification Garden will spread in less than a month. And he still happens to only be on the fifth floor.
Sky Tower has 15 floors, and he still has a full 10 floors before he reaches the top. According to the rate of floor promotion these days, it is obvious there is no way for him to reach the top floor before the news spreads.
How can he improve his tower climbing speed? This is what Angel was thinking about recently.
Shorten the battle time with other contestants? When Angel faced his opponent in battle. Almost every match lasted only five minutes. So no matter how short his matches were, it would not increase his efficiency by very much.
In fact, the gap between the matches was too long. This was the thing dragging down his tower climbing speed.
At the end of each match, if he wants to continue battling, Sky Tower will give each contestant a half an hour to prepare for their next match. For others, this is a very thoughtful design. But for Angel, this half an hour lag time for preparation is the key to dragging his tower climbing speed down.
On the day when Angel climbed to the fifth floor. He asked the staff member at the drawing area if there was any way to shorten the wait time. Preferably it was better to not wait and go on directly to the next arena to fight.
The staff member was clearly stunned by Angel’s request. It was the first time he had received such a request in all his years of working in Sky Tower.
“Sir Milk Baron, these are the rules from the Sky Tower Management Office, and we cannot change them for you.” When the staff member said these words, they looked at Angel with a touch of suspicion in their eyes. Is this Milk Baron short of money? Or does he like abusing his opponents? Is that why he wants to fight his matches sooner? However, the staff member inquired about Angel’s information and found none of his opponents were killed or even injured, which is an extremely rare occurrence in the Sky Tower Arena.
If those were not the reason, then what could it be? Does he want to reach the 15th floor at the top very quickly? Going step-by-step will always lead up to the top. What’s the rush?
The staff member obviously did not know anything about the Purification Garden. Sky Tower had no other benefit than being able to get tickets to fight in Infinity Battle Tower. Many people even deliberately suppressed their levels to avoid being tortured to death by the perverts at the top. They came to Sky Tower either for money or for combat experience, and there was no need to go to the top and die at their opponents’ hands.
Unless… Angel is a fighting fanatic who is unafraid of death? Thinking of this possibility, the staff member looked at Angel with a little more respect in their eyes. There were many fighting fanatics in Sky Tower. Many of the contestants on the last three floors were fighting fanatics, but most of them were Blood Branch Wizard Apprentices. A Non-Blood Branch fighting fanatic was extremely rare.
“Is there really nothing you can do about it?” Angel’s eyes flashed with disappointment.
Seeing Angel’s expression of disappointment, the staff member felt more certain that the other party was a fighting fanatic. Sky Tower is very fond of fighting fanatics. As long as there are fighting fanatics, they are not afraid no one will come to watch a match.
The staff member thought for a moment: “Well, you can go to the management office and ask the director, Melanctha. If she agrees, then there will be no problems with the request.”
After thanking the staff member, Angel went down from the fifth floor to the first floor.
The Sky Tower Management Office is on the first floor, and the place where Angel first registered was in the Management Office.
When he went to the Management Office, Angel asked the staff member about Melanctha. After explaining what he had come for, the staff member also seemed to misunderstand Angel as a fighting fanatic. They left Angel to wait in the Management Office to look for Melanctha.
After a while, someone pushed open the door to the Management Office.
Angel followed the sound of the opening door. The person who stood at the entrance was a middle-aged woman dressed in a tight black uniform with her head held high and a serious-looking expression.
The middle-aged woman was stunned when she saw Angel. Angel’s reaction was similar to hers.
“h.e.l.lo, I’m Melanctha.Yada, director of the Sky Tower Management Office.” The ident.i.ty of the middle-aged woman was obvious. The original serious expression on her face was replaced by a faint smile as she walked in front of Angel to greet him.
This middle-aged woman, whom Angel has seen before, was in the drawing area on the first floor. She is responsible for registering and recording the results of the drawing box. Angel always thought she was a field worker, but she turned out to be the director of the Sky Tower Management Office.
“Director Melanctha, I…”
“Sir Milk Baron, I know.” Melanctha seems to smile very little at people. Her mouth is slightly smiling now, but it also abruptly stopped: “Many people are paying attention to you. It has been a long time since we met a compet.i.tor whose promotion speed is as fast as yours.”
Angel listened with some embarra.s.sment. He advanced through by relying on rogue tactics. In fact, he is still more than a little uncomfortable doing so.
Melanctha seemed to see Angel’s embarra.s.sment through his black robe, and instead of making pleasantries, she got straight to the point: “I heard my men say you wanted to Shorten the Gap between consecutive matches?”
Angel nodded, “Is that alright?”
Instead of answering whether it was possible or not, Melanctha asked with great interest: “I am actually very curious, why do you want to do this? If it is to make money. You, sir, can use your weapon to pick up a task in the mission hall and finish them very quickly. As for them calling you a fighting fanatic…” Melanctha paused, seemingly knowing Angel very well and said with certainty: “I don’t believe it.”
“So sir, can you tell me why?”
Melanctha’s eyes were full of curiosity.
Angel thought for a moment to consider his response, “I want to reach the top soon.”
A thought flashed across Melanctha’s face as she smiled, “Oh, do you want to reach the top in a month?”
Angel did not tell Melanctha about his one-month period, but Melanctha directly gave him the exact timeframe. It was clear Melanctha was well aware of the opening of the Purification Garden.
Angel replied: “Yes.”
Melanctha: “Then I understand, are you climbing for the sake of the Purification Garden?”
“That’s right.” Angel also admitted.
Melanctha nodded and did not say whether she could or could not do it. She just looked at Angel and smiled, “I didn’t expect you to be so well informed.” Then, Melanctha added: “But I can tell you that it is very difficult for you to push to the top and reach the 15th floor through the alchemy weapon on your wrist. The last three levels of contestants will have strength beyond your imagination. You may even be presented with the danger of death.”
Angel did not express his opinion on this subject, but snorted in his heart: “I have a secret weapon.”
Melanctha stopped at this point and didn’t ask whether Angel had any other secrets. Since he was determined to compete and go to the Purification Garden, she would not talk more about it.
“That’s ok, I can give you a gap time of 5 minutes. However, I would like to remind you that once you change it. Even if you reach the last three floors, you will still have only 5 minutes before you decide to fight your next match. Are you sure you want to change it?”
Angel said without hesitation: “Yes!”