Chapter 26 Gaining Fame (2/2)
The Alchemist's eyes rolled back and responded with an annoyed voice ”Again with the price's wedding?! I thought you would have forgotten about that by now Haven't I sent you a chest of gold!?”
”That wasn't even worth a fourth of the price of the present! You! Lousy Alchemist” He then turned away and refused to comment further
A few quiet minutes went by as the two sipped tea in silence
”Seriously The kid is a prodigy in everything that regardsfor him?” The Master at Arms said seriously
The old Alchemist smiled wryly and said ”That kid cultivated from the early rank 2 to the peak of rank 3, and learned how to use stone skin in a single night” He then sipped his tea, and added ”He is a spiritual cultivation prodigy as well hoe solve this?”
The Master at Arm's eyes widened in shock when he heards the words of the old Alche the mouthful of tea he had in his mouth
The old Alche at the content of his tea cup, he said ”A talent corpse has no future for now let's hope he isn't dead”
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Back to the large cavern underneath the Sinleah's Mountain Range, Daniel had found a way to leave froolem after the other and order theive up the earth essence's control, so that they would turn into inanimate solid constructions
After a bit of trial and error, and a few heavy falls against the solid rock, he ed to reach only six meters below the hole on the roof of th cave
”I canto look down A fall like that wouldn't have killed a rank 4 beast, and probably not even the new and improved him, but there were no doubts that he would break a few bones if he did Plus, there were no lakes underneath to grant hi point than stone
He took a few deep breaths, and after e leap upwrads The stone and earth's stairs iht
If one were to look fro inside it, then disappearing the next moment Daniel hadn't rab a protruding stone with the tip of his fingers, and avoid a painful fall He then clied to roll out of the ainst the edge of the chasm, he took a few deep breath and shook the tension off his shoulders He then got back up on his feet, and started walking towards the base cauard was sitting quietly next to the wooden signs at the edge of the base camp His eyes were half closed, as he was in the process of falling asleep His large greatsas laying on the side of his right leg, and was about to slip and fall on the ground
Before the guard could e to fall asleep, a dark silhouette, which see the base cauard even finished opening his eyes, he grabbed his weapon and sprung up on his feet He then shouted ”WHO'S THERE?”
The silhouette drew closer
The guard started to get nervous, so it shouted once again ”WHO IS TH-” but before he could finish, he realized that the silhouette belonged to a young ot, theman's body was thin but well defined, and his skin was completely covered in dirt His clothes were in tatters, the only parts that weren't ruined were his belt, on which a longsword hanged on the side, and a leather strap wrapped around his left thigh, which contained a set of sheathed throwing knives
Various guards on patrol heard the sudden screams, and approached the entrance of the canyons They then joined the first guard, and stood next to hi man, was of course, Daniel
Daniel approached step after step, noticing the guards crowding the entrance of the canyon What Daniel didn't knoas that he had become kind of famous lately
Apparently, an unknown party of hunters had coround with one of theirThe party confirmed the presence of more than one rank 4 beast within the canyon, and had also requested the head hunter to send a searching party to look for the lost otten paid for the inforst that group, was a youngher relationshi+p with the current leader of the Golden Cauldron, was granted the help they had asked for This group was Daniel's hunting party, and the young e, was none other than Yala
Daniel kept approaching in front of the surprised looks of the crowd of guards, which after he got close enough, noticed the monstrous head of the Commander Steel-back Scorpion in his hand