Chapter 241 Feast (2/2)

"I can see that," said Aldrich Casimir seemed to not be a man to hold any prejudices He had an open mind all the time, always ready to pick out the best deals for himself, and that had been his downfall

Or rise, depending on how a partnershi+p with Aldrich was viewed

"But iestion, I fear, will ree of separation between vocal introduction of the hypnotic effect and direct ingestion into the body"

"I only really need to know one thing: will it be effective?" said Aldrich

"It will But the specificities of the effectiveness will change," said Fler'gan "Even with ten eyeflowers, I fear that the potion, when activated, will only grant you perhaps five seconds of strong suggestive capability

Beyond those precious few seconds, the effectiveness ane considerably"

"I see So I really only get one sentence to convince the hearing" Aldrich thought about this for a second Hewere powerful Alters, though he sincerely doubted it

Generally speaking, only B rank supes and above started to have high enough AC concentrations where they could start to reliably ward offpowers

Aldrich sincerely doubted most of the pen and paper wielders that h AC count to resist the hypnotic suggestion

It was the time that hurt Aldrich theadded a considerable layer of challenge

"A suggestion, O Elder," said Fler'gan

"He for coestion to a ti its power in a srows exponentiallye e ean

"Interesting So if I estion can becoer?" said Aldrich

"That is so If the eh, the effect can becoly introduced into the body," said Fler'gan "A thing to note In my experience, I have observed that 'positive' eative' eh certainly, both can work"

"Go ahead and an," said Aldrich "I can ith that"

"Understood, O Elder" Fler'gan's mouth tentacles curled up in reverence "May fortune favor your future endeavors"

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"Feast! Feast!" Volantis's voice boo hall

Aldrich found hiular table packed to the bririlled meats, braised meats, pickled meats, meat prepared in ways that Aldrich did not even know - all of it sat upon the table, just waiting for hungry etable dishes, plates of fruit, and sweet looking breads, jellies, and other confections

"Devour to your heart's content!" the Death Lord declared frorand chef, was a hout all lands for his divine skill in the culinary arts When he heard that ere to have a feast for the first ti, he was quite overjoyed

I assure you, he will not disappoint!"

"I alad you are back" Valera smiled at Aldrich from a seat beside hi Aldrich's suit well

"Right," said Aldrich soht about what his troops had accomplished for the day

In the first trial quest, they had harvested six eyeflowers already As Aldrich had hoped, the Geist claih if the Geist had not had a friendly relationshi+p with the other creatures, Crow alone would have done nothing

Aldrich wanted the leader of his est a them all The Geist seemed relatively well suited towards the role

Okeanos had coh the second trial quest, and for his troubles, Aldrich had obtained the corpse of a Gigant Worm and spellbooks

But er, sand seal, and a genie The genie co rehly depowered to the point she had no wish conjuring power, but over tih power to create a hich would be invaluable

The hierophant's finger, Aldrich had hopes that he could ask the Death Lord to try and raise The hierophant was an iend as said to have the ability to call down the stars the entire lands withthat as an undead would no doubt ht near unquestionable

The sand seal was useful too, as it granted Aldrich a strong defensive h since it was iet useful once he established a more permanent base