Chapter 108 - Chapter 108: Chapter 104 Feigned Surrender (1/2)

Chapter 108: Chapter 104 Feigned Surrender

The Fischer family had already sent someone with a large number of gifts, preparing for negotiations with the Kesse family. The most suitable negotiator would have been Byrne, but he always felt that if he went, he might not return, so in the end, he had no choice but to let Baron Leander speak for him in the peace talks.

Byrne also wrote a letter, filling it with as many obsequious words as possible, which could be described as the extreme in fawning.

He claimed that the Fischer family truly lacked the capacity to manage Ourde Village and could only trouble the Kesse family to take over its administration.

They voluntarily offered all the resources within the range of Ourde Village to Baron Kesse for safekeeping.

With the covert support of Viscount Garcia, the Kesse family had always been arrogant in the land of the four towns, and they were also unaware that the Fischer family had found the Lion clan to serve as a deeply entrenched backer.

They would naturally assume that the Fischer family had been thoroughly overwhelmed by fear and terror.

Next, the Kesse family would certainly greedily find a way to encroach upon Nasir Town.

But that would not be something accomplished immediately; the Fischer family could use every means possible to delay for a few months, exchanging various monetary gifts and flattering words in return for precious time.

As long as a few months passed and Chris successfully stepped onto the 3rd Rank of the Path of Tranquility, then the plan to annihilate the Kesse family would be immediately put into motion.

The only request they made was the hope that the Kesse family would release Theo’s son back to them.

Unexpectedly, after receiving all the gifts, the Kesse family rejected the Fischer’s only request.

They were willing to accept the subservience of the Fischer family and then immediately sent their people to Ourde Village, where those individuals became the new managers of the village.

The Fischer family did more than just send a batch of gifts to the Kesse family; they immediately began preparing a second batch of expensive gifts.

After all, those extraordinary materials, Gold Coins, and alchemical tools were just for the Kesse family to store for a few months, and the likes of Byrne and the others didn’t much mind the interim loss.

Only Irene, seeing the funds on the account diminish, was confused and her heart constantly bled, often sighing and lamenting.

In the precious time they had bought, the Fischer family entered into a phase of preparation for war.

Byrne began to use his “Deconstructive Perspective” ability to focus on analyzing the specific material compositions of the two types of masks from the Alchemy Council.

He discovered that the material for the white mask was very complex and each of the alchemy materials was highly valuable, while the components of the lower-quality dark gold mask were much cheaper.

Byrne started to attempt to create alchemical tools that could act as a “shielding” effect.

In fact, he had been trying for several years to create an alchemical potion capable of altering one’s facial features, but without success.

Now, with the capability of “Deconstructive Perspective”, Byrne could instantly reverse-engineer all the materials inside the mask, which could be considered a stroke of divine inspiration.

Karl quietly observed all the movements of the Fischer family, hoping things would go smoothly.

If they didn’t proceed well enough, he knew Irene was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.

At that point, Karl would not refuse to offer a prayer, fulfilling Irene’s wish to destroy the Kesse family and accompany her through the final leg of her short life.

He had recently discovered that the dismantled Mysterious rare artifact hadn’t completely disappeared but remained as a faint shadow in the depths of his soul.

Simply put, all the runes within the Mysterious rare artifacts could be broken down into rune essence, and in fact, that rune essence could also be reassembled into the original runes.

However, runes are like extremely intricate building blocks.

Dismantling them is easy, but trying to piece them back together perfectly is excruciatingly difficult.

“Although it will be very tedious and complex to reassemble, it is ultimately a pleasant discovery.”

Karl was still happy, since in the future he could recklessly dismantle the essence of runes without feeling the loss and waste of the original runes disappearing.

If a rune’s evolved new effects and the matching Fischer family member didn’t get along, he could dismantle that rune and reassemble it into a previously dismantled rune to replace it.

For example, the Consecution ability of “Iron Wall” was currently not very compatible with Chris.

He pondered that one day, he might dismantle “Iron Wall” and give Chris a different rune.

The replacement rune might be one that had been obtained but dismantled, or perhaps a new rune acquired in the future.

“In short, the various combinations of runes will be very flexible, and one need not be afraid of mismatches or dissatisfaction with newly evolved effects.”

The only issue is that while dismantling runes is easy, reassembling them is incredibly difficult.

Reconstructing runes would take a very long time; otherwise, he would have considered immediately replacing Chris’s “Iron Wall” with “Lightning Expulsion” or “Tainted Blood”.

But Karl, being extremely bored, also felt that it would be rather amusing.

“Chris, have you finished writing?”

In the alchemy workshop of the Fischer family manor, Chris silently wrote down his discoveries about the specific route to the 3rd Rank advancement, as Byrne had requested.

“You’ve actually discovered two routes?” Byrne was a bit surprised after reading what he had written.

Having finished writing, Chris set down the feather pen, nodded, and said nothing.

In actuality, he had accidentally discovered that in two different circumstances, Spirituality begun to stir suddenly, showing signs of boiling.

The first instance was assassination.

As long as he killed someone without being detected, he could initiate the autonomous stirring of his Spirituality.