Chapter 93 (1/2)

Chapter 93: Give Me Ten Days

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The next morning, Derek announced that Link would be in charge of magic scroll production with a gleeful look on his face.

He had climbed slightly higher in rank ever since he officially became a Level-3 Magician. Link had also displayed his talent in writing magic scrolls. Even Warwick, who was going to leave the Mage Tower, also suggested appointing Link as his successor.

Therefore, even with some objections on the ground, the appointment was relatively smooth sailing.

Warwick then handed over all his responsibilities to Link.

As Warwick explained the duties, Link realized two benefits that he would receive.

The first was a list of contacts he would be getting. He would be able to directly liaise with the magic scroll merchants without going through a third party. This would be extremely helpful in his future plans to earn more gold coins.

Secondly, he would be responsible for the purchase of raw materials in the creation of magic scrolls. This included the entire Mage Tower ranging from basic to high-level quality materials! Official Magicians were usually too prideful to concern themselves with errands like this. Hence, they often let trusted Magicians of lower status handle the job.

From these lists, Link could obtain a great deal of information about the Mage Tower.

After Warwick was done with the explanation, Link sat down and started reviewing the Mage Tower’s previous purchases. They were recorded in great detail in a thick notebook.

He perused through the pages and found what he was looking for within minutes.

Warwick bought 30 Taric cow leather for a total of three times in the past 50 days. This type of leather was only used in the creation of magic scrolls Level-5 and above. However, the amount of Taric cow leather the Mage Tower was purchasing was nowhere near normal.

High-level magic scrolls required huge amounts of magic power and were extremely difficult to produce. A Level-6 Magician could only create one scroll a month. There was thus no need to purchase 30 of them every month.

If they were indeed used to create magic scrolls, there would be an insane number of high-level magic scrolls in Bale’s Mage Tower. However, Bale clearly did not have the energy and time to create these scrolls.

Then why did Bale order so much Taric cow leather? Warwick might be clueless but Link was certain he knew what was going on.

The production of Taric cow leather took place in the Taric plains to the West. The leather came from a magical beast indigenous to the area. It was only termed as cow leather simply because of its looks, and had, in fact, no connection to cows.

These magical beasts had an affinity to water and were resistant to both droughts and floods. Their skin was mainly used to create high-quality scroll paper, though a certain substance could also be extracted from their skin. However, the latter was not known to many people and was rarely used.

This substance was known as Death Glue; it was widely used in undead magic to glue the different body parts together.

Despite the fact that Taric cow leather was already processed by alchemy, Death Glue could still be extracted from it!

He could only determine that Bale was experimenting with dark magic when he saw the Dormant Forest Spirit Root in Derek’s room. However, with this evidence, he could narrow it down even further to determine that it was undead magic that Bale was experimenting with!

“Bale, do you really wish to attain immortality! What an idiot!” Link gently closed the book and sneered.

The only way to become immortal was to become a god! Any other path would inevitably result in the annihilation of your soul.

That was, unless the war between dark and light ended in favor of the dark side and the world fell into the control of the Dark Gods. Only then would Necromancers have a chance to shine.

Bale clearly did not have the liberty of time to wait until then. He also could not tell what the future held. To think that he would abandon everything and walk on the path of darkness, much less trying to cover up his tracks with such juvenile tactics! How foolish!

Link tidied up his desk before informing Matt “I will be going out for an hour.”

“Got it,” Matt replied.

After all, they were not slaves and were allowed to freely move around the academy.

Link was careful. In order to not raise suspicion, he first brought the notebook back to his own room and hid it in his dimensional pendant. He then walked out of the Mage Tower barehanded and made a few rounds around the common square before stopping right in front of Herrera’s Mage Tower.

He was granted a visit ten minutes later.

“I have found the evidence.”