Chapter 105 - Chapter 105: Chapter 101 Harvest and Sacrifice (2/2)

If she really could reach that level, even with a cursed body that had its disabilities and without her own family, she would fully qualify to stand by his side.

Vanessa stole a glance at Chris who stood silently in the corner.

To her surprise, she found that Chris was also staring at her with a blank expression. In an instant, her face turned crimson, and she dared not look in that direction anymore.

Irene quietly observed the subtle exchanges between the youth and the young girl but said nothing.

Although both thought they had hidden their feelings well, as their elder, she had long known the thoughts of Chris and Vanessa.

Vanessa was right in her thinking; as long as she possessed enough power, the Fischer family was willing to accept her as Chris’s wife.

If Vanessa never reached that level, Irene would prefer for Chris to marry a daughter from a viscount family, bringing more resources and better bloodlines to the family.

Once Chris broke through to the 3rd Rank, he would have the qualification to marry into a viscount family.

Byrne was the head of one branch of the Fischer family, while Irene was the Dawn Church’s sole priest, technically holding a status even above Byrne’s.

She led several core members to the basement, where everyone knelt before the sacred object, and then, with due reverence, Irene presented the “Banishing Lightning” to start the new ritual.

Karl calmly looked at the new food.

It was a Treasure class mysterious rare artifact, possessing even more Spiritual Power than the other Treasure class artifacts he had absorbed before, and was considered quite good even among its counterparts.

By now, he was certain that the transparent bottle had originally been at least Forbidden class.

“Indeed, Treasure class mysterious artifacts have a flavor. This time it tastes like beef broth, not only fully replenishing the Spirituality I spent due to mental communication but also granting me even more.”

The signs of the third Seal loosening became even more apparent!

After the “Banishing Lightning” was completely devoured, it transformed into a silver-white rune shaped like a lightning bolt.

Karl fell into deep thought, pondering a crucial decision.

Should he deconstruct it into rune essence for the nourishment of other runes, or should he grant the activation right to Darren who still had no runes?

Even if he turned it into rune essence, he wouldn’t be able to evolve any current runes directly.

Because both “transcend” and “Iron Wall” were already spirit runes, their evolution to the next stage required a great deal, and “Healing,” with its strong foundation, also had a significant demand simply for the evolution to a spirit rune.

Yet granting it to Darren, a child of merely seven, would also be pointless for now.

In the end, Karl decided to deconstruct the Lightning rune into pieces of rune essence and poured all the rune essence he had extracted from Collectible class items gathered over the years into the “Healing” rune.

Its evolution into a spirit rune rapidly advanced significantly.

Whereas the “Healing” rune originally required thirty ordinary rune’s essences to evolve into a spirit rune, now it needed only fifteen.

“At least a visible pie in the sky is the most likely result to be obtained in the coming years, but it’s uncertain what kind of power the ‘Healing’ will transform into after its evolution.”

Karl soon witnessed the Fischer family members begin their regular post-battle review, summarizing the mistakes and experiences from the fight, and Irene even had Vanessa take down the notes.

The good practice brought by Byrne’s personality was instilling in the whole Fischer family the importance of experience and review. After each training drill and actual combat, they would collectively brainstorm on how to perform better next time.

Even though they achieved great success in the latest battle, the Fischer family did not become arrogant or complacent.

The Fischer family was making modest progress now. Although still very weak and treading carefully, they had at least formed a rudimentary framework of a family that could grow much stronger.

What surprised Karl a bit was that Erik, who usually didn’t talk much and was somewhat antisocial, could not stop contributing during the review phase.

“I think the greatest advantage of the Fischer family lies in that we can grasp the enemy’s intelligence in advance. This time we knew the enemy was a Summoner type Spellcaster, so we decided to employ decapitation tactics immediately,” he said.

“Another point is that we can constantly lock onto the enemy’s position with Secret Ear and Tracking Senses, whereas our opponents have no way to grasp or even be aware of Young Master Chris’s presence,” he added.

“Although individually we are nowhere as strong as that Minotaur, we could use ordinary people to delay it while we combine our forces to strike at the enemy’s critical weaknesses,” he continued.

Everyone agreed with Erik’s insights, as the results of this battle were nearly perfect, in stark contrast to the ordeal with the Spawn of the Abyss, where the enemy’s Extraordinary Exponent completely controlled the pace of the fight.

The most crucial point was that they had been sufficiently prepared in advance, having already secured half the victory before the battle even started.

If it wasn’t a defensive battle on their ground, but an ambush in unfamiliar territory, the members of the Fischer family could have been annihilated by the enemy.

Archibald suddenly looked down and said:

“These past years, I’ve actually been complaining in my heart that Mr. Byrne was too strict during our training and that the post-fight reviews were almost maddening. Now I understand that I was the one who was wrong.”

A few days later, Byrne and Theo returned.

After hearing the whole account of the events, his expression changed dramatically.

“So who exactly leaked my whereabouts?”