Chapter 502 - The Legend of the One (1/2)

Chapter 502: The Legend of the One-Eyed King (1)

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

Link waved a hand at the five mixed demon children around him and pointed at the woods nearby. As he was not familiar with the local language, Link activated a Level-0 Suggestion spell.

“Go!”

The children straightened up and walked over to where Link had pointed. Gretel too stood at a safe distance from him.

Link found a flat surface in the woods after walking around it for a bit. He let out a burst of Dragon Power, and a white spatial ripple spread out in all four directions from his body.

The trees around him were all felled in an instant.

As the trees fell one after the other, the air was filled with a swarm of scaled-down versions of Link’s Vacuum Blades. The translucent magical razors raced towards the trees and began shaving off their leaves and branches till the trees lay completely naked on the ground.

As the spatial distortions raged on in the area, the clean logs fell in neat piles back on the ground. Link then dried them all up with a brilliant red blaze. The ground around him was now leveled and ready for construction.

He then let his Dragon Power flow into the earth. Three seconds later, he flicked both his wrists up and whispered, “Rise…”

A brown-greyish dirt castle began taking form. At the same time, a blue-white circle of light had appeared five feet in the air. As the dirt rose through the circle, it was instantly transformed into hard, polished stone.

This was simply a Level-4 Dirt-to-Stone spell. Its main function was to turn ordinary dirt into magical runestone, but Link had taken the spell to another level.

What he had sculpted with such a simple spell was nothing short of a miracle.

The mixed demon children standing in the distance looked on at Link’s work, utterly dumbfounded. Some of them were left speechless, their eyes wide like saucers. A few seemed to have forgotten that they still had their grimy little thumbs in their mouths, while others let their jaws gape open, thin slivers of saliva falling from the corners of their mouths.

In no more than five minutes, a 50-foot-tall, 40 cubic feet castle now stood majestically before them. Surrounding the castle was a great wall, on which wooden doors mounted with runes were set.

The castle’s general structure was now complete, but its details remained far from complete. Looking at the shoddy creation before him, Link felt his compulsion to magically smooth out all its imperfections acting up.

He activated Void Walk and began flying around the wall in circles.

He began carving out embellishments across the castle walls and the walls inside and outside the castle. He then proceeded to lay out the floors and set up the castle’s furniture and wooden window frames with the piles of dry logs outside.

Ten minutes later, after making ten rounds around the castle, Link was finally done with the whole castle. The castle’s details and furniture inside it were all sculpted with an exquisiteness that was contrasted splendidly by the building’s overall simplistic style.

Link landed on the dirt ground within the castle. With a push from his hand, the dirt ground was instantly transformed into a flat surface composed of jade tiles.

Link walked forth, and the jade-green surface began snaking forward. When he exited the castle walls, a smooth green path continued extending outward beneath the forest’s shade.

The path continued spreading out a hundred feet away from the castle grounds until it finally reached the Red Dragon Queen. Link smiled at her. He held out a hand and bowed to her.

“Your Highness, your palace is ready for you.”

Gretel smiled back. “If word of you using your enchantment skills for such a menial task gets out, you’ll probably be the laughing stock of the magical world.”

Despite what she had said, Gretel was impressed with Link’s handiwork. She strolled along the jade-tiled path towards the dazzling castle.

The mixed demon children beside her stared at Link with fearful eyes.

When Link turned towards them, some of the children imitated the deferential posture their elders had assumed back then, prostrating themselves before him and not daring to make direct eye contact with Link. However, they continued gossiping excitedly among themselves. Even though Link did not understand a word from them, he could clearly sense their amazement.

Link did not immediately let the children stand up. Instead, he listened to their ramblings for a few minutes, trying to make sense of some of their words. He then spoke to them, “Stand up now, and follow me.”

Saying this, Link headed for the castle after Gretel.

The children seemed to understand what Link had said. Pausing for a moment, they rose back to their feet and timidly followed Link to the castle.

As they were still children, they did not have much self-restraint. After walking for a while, they had completely forgotten their deference towards Link and began chittering among themselves again.

Link did not stop them and listened intently to them, trying to learn the mixed demons’ tongue from their excited chatter.

When they reached the entrance of the castle, Link who had been eavesdropping on the children’s conversation all this time, now had a better understanding of their language.

Stopping at the doorway, he turned and pointed at the children. Points of light containing a Cleansing spell and an Enchantment spell floated from his finger towards them.

The Cleansing spell cleansed them of all dirt on their bodies, whereas the Enchantment spell transformed the rags that they were wearing into beautiful sets of clothing.

Without waiting for the children to finish marveling at their new clothes, Link pointed at Gretel, who was admiring the elegant furniture in the castle’s great hall. He said to them, “She, queen, mistress. Obey mistress’ orders, understand?”