Chapter 50 - The Truth (2/2)
Being bombarded with a shocking fact one after the other, the two were left speechless as Dane said, ”Give me the crystal.”
Mira, who grabbed the crystal from Artan, absentmindedly gave it to Dane, to which Dane looked at it from all angles.
After a few seconds of scrutinizing, Dane couldn't but say in shock, ”You're right, the red dot that represents the Spiritas is gone.”
At this moment in time, Artan and Mira finally processed the information they got from Dane and kept their mouths shut for the time being as Dane was seriously examining the crystal.
A few seconds later, Dane noticed something off and said, ”Wait... that's not right. Although the Spiritas is gone in the crystal, I can still sense it.” He then scrutinized the crystal one more time and finally found the thing he was looking for. ”Aha!”
Hearing this come out from Dane's mouth, Mira and Artan knew at first glance that they forgot something.
”W-What did you find...V-Venerable High Mage D-Dane?” Mira, being the one to break the ice, asked.
Dane, who finally realized the mistakes of the two, looked at the two with a serious glance and said, ”The Spiritas isn't gone.”
”Eh? How could that be?” Artan couldn't help but blurt out. ”I double checked it every time I looked at the crystal! I looked at it from every ang...le...” As Artan was still talking, Dane rotated the crystal 90 degrees, letting Artan and Mira seeing a blinking red dot on the tip of the crystal.
”This dot must have been covered by your fingers hence you didn't see it,” Dane couldn't help but sigh as he replied. Not long after, he placed the crystal on a nearby desk and grabbed a small pouch, to which he gave to Mira and Artan.
”You've already exert a lot of effort into capturing the Spiritas. Although you failed in capturing it, I won't let you leave empty-handed. Within that bag is 500 gold coins.”
Even though the amount of gold they received was one-tenth of what was promised, Artan and Mira bowed respectfully towards Dane and said a few words of gratitude before leaving the Arcana Tower and parting their own ways.
As for Dane, he looked at the crystal that had a blinking red dot on its tip and sighed. He lied his head down on the desk as he muttered, ”If I try and capture the Spiritas myself, I would of course become successful in doing so, but if my presence were to be gone for a small bit within the Seraph Kingdom, the Eighth Prince would lose his standing and perhaps lose his right to fight for the throne.”
”If I don't, the weapon that the Eighth Prince can wield would only be a Magic grade weapon at most if infused with my magic.”
”What should I do...” Dane was at a crossroads in terms of what to do. Not long after, a flame of firm determination appeared in his eyes as he used the crystal he used to contact Prince Vanadir and Artan to contact another person he knew.
”Hello? Is Jihan there? Tell him that I want the highest quality wood of the Wind element as fast as possible.”
”Oh. I'm talking to him right now? Well hey, it's Dane. Anyways, you've heard what I wanted right?”
”What am I going to use it for? I'm going to infuse it with magic and craft a weapon with it?”
”Eh? You want to buy the finished product from me? Impossible. That weapon will be used for another purpose.”
”Alright. Contact me if you have the goods prepared, okay?”
Putting the crystal down that was known by many people as the Communication Crystal, Dane let out a sigh and muttered, ”If that Spiritas was used as the main material for the weapon, it would definitely make the weapon an Evolving Weapon and even perhaps reach a grade beyond Myth.”
Putting this weapon problem to the back of his head, Dane placed the crystal he used to track the Spiritas under the desk and decided to create a special Wind element spell for the weapon that was going to be used by Prince Vanadir in the future.