Chapter 156 - Scrapped Dragon’s Eye? (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Matthias’ psychological endurance seemed to have improved a lot; was it because he had spent a few days lying down? Lin Li was treading all over his face with his provocations, but he had swallowed it all down. Apart from his increasingly unsightly face, he had no intention of doing anything at all.

Lin Li was more or less surprised by it. He wanted to continue provoking him, forcing him into a duel with Orrin…

However, he let it go at that. Such a trifle was not enough to affect Lin Li’s mood. For the next few days, he was cooped up in the Omniscient Tower, reading with relish with a thick stack of books everyday.

But, unlike his two teammates, Lin Li had never gone above the third floor of the Omniscient Tower over the past few days. He had been cramming with a group of young mages, holding either books on basic skills or basic theories, perplexing his two teammates.

Mason really couldn’t figure out what this guy was really thinking. He was clearly at the peak of Magic Shooters, but he wouldn’t go above the tenth floor to learn the more powerful spells. On the contrary, he was nestled on the first and second floor everyday, reading these apprentice-level books with great interest. What kind of mentality was it?

“Can apprentices.h.i.+p be addictive?”

In the face of such question, Lin Li did not know how to explain for a while.

His situation was too special—it took him less than half a year to go from an apprentice to a Magic Shooter. Even if Lin Li was strongly gifted, it would inevitably leave some drawbacks. It was like travelling—if you were in a hurry, you would always miss some roadside scenery. That was the case for Lin Li now. Because his progress was so fast, he had missed a lot of things.

He knew the principle of spell-casting and its techniques, but when it came to the most detailed places, Lin Li would immediately expose his shortcomings. It had nothing to do with talent nor diligence, it was simply because he lacked adequate personal experience.

Such was magic—apart from talent and diligence, patience and time were also needed.

Even for the worst mage, as long as he was willing to try 10,000,000 times, he’d naturally grasp every detail of a spell.

What Lin Li lacked now was precisely this kind of details.

Fortunately, he had gained the right to enter and exit the Omniscient Tower freely. What the largest magic treasure house in the whole of Felan Kingdom had the most were reading notes describing such details.

Almost as soon as he got these reading notes, Lin Li realized that this was what he needed most…

For the next few days, he immersed himself in these reading notes almost every day. It took him nearly ten days to go through the first to the third floor of the Omniscient Tower. In the same time, Mason had copied ten high-level spells, and Orrin had broken through the limit to reach the rank of a level-12 Magic Shooter.

But, Lin Li didn’t think he was wasting his time. On the contrary, he thought it meaningful, for he could clearly feel that he was making rapid progress every day.

He seemed to find the answers to a lot of questions he did not understand, and what gave him the answers was often a t.i.ttle-tattle on the reading notes. The person who wrote these reading notes might be a famous gifted mage in Anril, or a mage apprentice who could not break through level-five all his life. When they wrote these reading notes, they might not even think that it could provide an answer to some questions.

But, when Lin Li saw these reading notes, there was always a feeling of sudden enlightenment as if he had found a thread in a mess; with a light stroke, he had untangled numerous knots.

This feeling of being suddenly enlightened caused Lin Li to be immersed in pleasant reading all the time.

It wasn’t until the tenth day that Lin Li suddenly remembered he still had a lot to do…

That morning, instead of going to the Omniscient Tower with his two teammates, he left the guild hall, and went to the equipment store on the corner.

“Good morning, Boss.”

“Good morning, good morning. I didn’t expect to see you again so soon, Mr Mage.” The boss obviously remembered Lin Li. For any businessman, they’d perhaps not forget a big spender who once spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins in his store. Moreover, this big spender was such a unique one…

“Boss, can I ask, has the person who sold those two pieces of equipment been here recently?”

“Once.” The middle-aged boss nodded his head. He remembered it very well. After all, the deal impressed him deeply. After carefully recalling, the middle-aged boss continued, “It seems like 15 days ago, when he came to collect the money. I’ve asked him to go to the Guild of Magic to look for you. Why did he not look for you?”

“No wonder…” Lin Li counted the days; ten days ago, he was in the Shadowglen, completing his trial mission. It would be strange if the seller could find him at that time.

It was a pity—he had finally found a clue, but it was lost due to a coincidence.

Without the Fire Salamandrid skin, it would not be so easy to go to the Fire Plume Ridge to gather the black lotus.

Surely it couldn’t be… that he really had to use the black dragon skin?

Fire immunity was not a problem at all if the black dragon skin was used. After all, it was what the Dragon of Destruction left behind. He could wear it to Fire Plume Ridge after a simple treatment process.

But, the problem was that Lin Li hated to use it. The black dragon skin was no less valuable than the black lotus; perhaps there was no one who could make the black dragon skin into an armor so casually. Lin Li wanted to never use that batch of black dragon skin before he came up with a perfect treatment process.

“Oh, right.” Just when Lin Li was vacillating, the middle-aged boss suddenly said, “He seemed to have said that he will come again in a few days, and then he will send two other pieces of equipment to me to be put up for sale.”

“Oh?” Hearing this, Lin Li hurriedly asked, “When?”

The middle-aged boss thought for a moment before he replied affirmatively, “The day after tomorrow.”

“Thank you so much…” Lin Li was relieved. After thanking the middle-aged boss, he asked, “Oh yes, boss, do you help in smelting ore here?”

What Lin Li wanted to smelt were precisely the Eternal Adamantine in the Ring of Endless Storm.

It was not because he couldn’t smelt it himself. As a master of mineral veins, smelting ore was the most basic skill. But, it was unlike pharmaceutics, where he could make a few beakers or test tubes and could control his mana accurately such that he could concoct many potions even in the wild.

Smelting required some professional equipment, including blast furnace, hot air stoves, and so on, which was enough to make Lin Li’s head pound. He was living in the Alanna Guild of Magic at present. If he really were to get a large number of professional equipment, then not to mention that it would frighten other mages, perhaps even Aldwin would be alarmed.

“Smelting ore? Surely not in the store, but I have a smelting workshop in the north of the city. If you can trust me, you can give me the ore. When I have finished the smelting, you can come back and get it.”

“Okay, I’ll bring you the ore later,” Lin Li agreed very coolly. He had nothing to worry about with this regular businessman. Others could consign hundreds of thousands of worth in equipment here. To some extent, it could also prove the credibility of the middle-aged boss.

“By the way, Boss, the ore I want to smelt may be more troublesome. You can charge a higher price, but you must guarantee the quality of smelting.”

“May I know what ore are you planning to smelt?”

“This is it…” Lin Li reached into his pocket and fumbled in it. He pulled out a piece of Eternal Adamantine that he had long prepared.

“This…” The middle-aged owner took the ore in his hand and looked at it carefully for a long time before he asked with great difficulty, “This… Isn’t it Eternal Adamantine?

“Yes, it’s Eternal Adamantine.”

The middle-aged boss probably had never handled such expensive ore before. The hand that was holding the ore was trembling a little. After hesitation, he finally bit his teeth, and said, “Okay, you can bring the ore here in the afternoon. I’ll start work this afternoon. You can pick it up tomorrow. As for the price …” The middle-aged boss said in one breath, and thought again.

“… I usually collect 1,000 gold coins for each time I run the furnace, but this is really… it’s really too precious, so my risk is relatively high. I tell you what, I will collect 3,000 gold coins from you, okay?”

“No problem.”

“By the way, Mr Mage, how many Eternal Adamantine do you have in your hands?”

“About two carriages.”

“…”

Before leaving, Lin Li seemed to hear a clatter. It sounded as if someone had fallen down…

After coming out of the equipment store, Lin Li went directly to the Alanna Garage, where he hired two carriages, and then took them around the city of Alanna. Finally, he found a quiet place, opened the Ring of Endless Storm, and poured the Eternal Adamantine down on the ground.

After that, it was loaded and transported off. It took a whole morning for Lin Li to complete this trip.

He handed 3,000 gold coins to the middle-aged boss, and then watched him transport the two cars of Eternal Adamantine to the north of the city. Lin Li finally breathed a long sigh; this morning was really troublesome…