Chapter 407 - Meeting Up Again (1/2)

Seraph Kingdom, within Verdant Breeze Town.

A day has passed since Argentum obtained news from the real-time information network he and the others had created, telling him that Aurus, also known by others as The Great Calamity, has made a move on a city called Nachthexen. At the moment, he was currently helping Delmann and Valstra out in the main three development plans they had for the town. Compared to before, the state of the town right now could be considered a far cry from how it was.

Thinking that it would allow resources to be moved faster, the streets of the town had been repaved with better material, allowing the roads to handle more wear and tear. Not only that, but the streetlights that barely lit up the town while at night had been replaced with streetlights that put out more brightness, and on top of that, used less money to operate. Overall, the citizens of the town thought it was a worthy investment.

As for the town's defenses, the barrier that Felix and the mages bargained over had finally been erected around the town, allowing it to block the attacks of a Rank 5 class holder without a problem. Initially, the barrier was only going to be able to block the attacks of a Rank 3 class holder since they had less money, but with the donation of Torvas's Rank 9 Mana Stone, they went all out, starting the protection level at Rank 5 and enhancing it to higher ranks. Right now, it had been enhanced to the point where it could stall a Rank 6 class holder for a couple of minutes.

The three main development plans for the town, on the other hand, had been modified multiple times over the course of Argentum becoming the leader of the town as they made sure that the final states of the plans would allow them to accommodate at least thrice the amount of people that were currently in town. Nevertheless, almost all of the people in town had basic access to the parts of the development plans that were built. People had more or less constant access to water right from the comfort of their home, their town was producing around half of the food they needed, reducing the need for imported food, and lastly, the houses people lived in had been more or less renovated to take on a slightly modern style, allowing people to look at their town with a breath of fresh air.

Other than the Tempest Regiment, which was still in the process of being trained and polished, the school, wherein Felix and the others were still finding people that were willing to teach there, and the plan to make the town focused on blacksmithing, wherein people were still finding more varieties of ore veins, Verdant Breeze Town was proceeding smoothly with its various plans.

While talking about what part of the town they should focus on next, a person Argentum appointed to manage the real-time information network instead of Valstra hastily headed to where he was, his expression incredibly urgent. Seeing the urgent expression on the man's face, Argentum excused himself from the two beforehand as he asked the man, ”What news have you received?”

The man, who was slightly surprised to see their leader appear in front of him all of a sudden, could not help but gasp for air for a bit before responding, ”Sir…Argentum…we've received…urgent news…”

Eventually, the man finally caught his breath, allowing him to explain the news he had received in great detail. ”Although the news has only arrived now, we've received news that after The Great Calamity had destroyed the city of Nachthexen, he also destroyed the city of Silver Hoof and Vallachia, both cities also being led by Rank 7 class holders just like Nachthexen.”

”How long has it been since The Great Calamity destroyed the last city?” Argentum asked in response, taking note that the news he might receive would probably be delayed, thinking that Aurus would make sure to not spread the news of his destruction of settlements. After going silent for a bit, the man replied, ”Well, you could say that it has almost been a whole day since it happened, Sir Argentum?”

”Do we have any idea on his whereabouts?” Argentum said after that, to which the man slowly shook his head. ”Although our team focused on finding his traces tried to search for him, since The Great Calamity has access to a great movement skill, it's not that easy to do so. Unfortunately, we haven't found his traces even after searching the possible places for a whole day.”

'Since there's no new news about him, I guess he's doing something in the meantime, just like what he did before attacking Nachthexen City,' Argentum thought to himself, though he wasn't sure if Aurus was intentionally delaying his attacks between settlements to catch the inhabitants in those settlements off guard. If only he knew that Aurus was taking breaks to digest the improvements he had made from destroying those cities, then he would have probably done other moves.

After allowing the person manning the real-time information network to return to his station, Argentum could not help but ponder over the man's words for a bit as he made his way back to where Delmann and Valstra were. 'After we've tracked that the settlements he's aiming for gradually get larger, then it wouldn't be a surprise if his next target would be the provinces.'

'Unfortunately for him, he doesn't know that the Seraph royal family has announced for all of the people in the provinces to make their way to the kingdom in preparation for him,' he continued, recalling how he had been surprised by the move the royal family did. However, it made his deductions quicker as he said to himself, ”That only leaves the last target as the kingdom, then.”

As he thought about the final target Aurus was going to try and destroy, Argentum could not help but think about something else as an idea popped up in his head, still thinking of ways to allow Aurus to regain his sanity. With that in mind, he told Delmann and Valstra that he might be away for a day, to which the two did not care anymore as they were used to him leaving quite often by now.

Assured that the town would still continue to improve while he was away, he disabled [False Visage of the Animate] and activated all of his movement speed boosting skills and spells to head towards the Flame Spirit Inheritance. While heading to the inheritance, he went ahead and circulated a bit of the energy in his body to form a connection with one of the beings that signed a Spirit Contract with him, specifically Eleanor.

”Hey, Eleanor. You there?” he asked as he continued to trek tens of meters with one step. In response, the voice of a woman replied, asking him, ”Yeah. What's up?”

”Is Herellia still there?” he said in response, to which Eleanor replied, ”Let me check.”

After a few seconds of silence, she told him, ”Yeah, she's still here. No, wait. You didn't even tell me that she could leave. Anyways, why are you asking whether she's here or not?”

”Well…” As he replied to her question, Argentum could not help but let out an awkward chuckle. ”I was planning on letting her move out of the inheritance.”

”Oh. Makes sense.” Surprisingly, Eleanor wasn't against the idea. ”After all, it has been over half a month or so since you brought her here…or has it already been a month? Either way, it's time for her to make use of the things she learned from me.”

”Alright. Talk to you later when I'm there,” Argentum said in response to her words before cutting off the connection between them.

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