Chapter 503 - Legend of the One (2/2)

After finishing everything, Link flew back to the castle.

“Dinner time!”

As he spoke, Link waved his hand. Dozens of elegant plates appeared on the long dining table in the castle. They were filled with food that looked delicious, all made by Link.

Gretel brought the children over. She sat into the main seat and tasted Link’s creation. Her eyes brightened and glanced at him, satisfied. Smiling, she said, “Mm, not bad. Keep working hard.”

Link smiled wryly. It felt like he’d doomed himself. However, he only had to wait until Gretel’s power recovered. He didn’t have to go for that long.

Turning to the children, Gretel said, “Kids, eat up.”

The five kids had been eyeing the food for a while. They wanted to just pounce onto the food, but with Link present, they didn’t dare go too wild. They had to use the utensils and eat the delicious food bit by bit. They looked very careful.

Link also ate some food. It was a small snack for him. When everyone was done eating, he used a cleaning spell to clean everything. Then he finally went to a quiet room in the top level of the castle to study the meteorite.

The meteorite was dark purple and was room temperature to the touch. When he tapped it, it buzzed softly. It was very strange.

Link cast a small Void Destruction fireball; it exploded on the surface of the meteorite. After the flames disappeared, the meteorite remained unchanged. Even the temperature didn’t change.

An interesting rock, but what’s the maximum temperature you can withstand?

If it really could be used as a buffer, Link estimated that it must be able to withstand at least a Level-20 attack to create a sufficient buffer for the singularity explosion.

Level-20 was god-level power. Link couldn’t do it by himself, but he could use a magic seal to demonstrate it. Of course, the magic seal would be complicated and consume many materials.

This was necessary to experiment though. Link put away the meteorite and took out all sorts of material. He started constructing the high-level magic seal in the room.

It was very, very difficult to create a Level-20 magic seal when he was at Level-11. Link put in everything he knew while using up all the precious material he had. After spending five days, he finally created a large magic seal.

It took up most of the room. It contained more than 10,000 rune wheels, all sorts of techniques, all the magical knowledge Link had, and the thin piece of time.

Link placed the meteorite onto the experiment rune and then started feeding Dragon Power to the magic seal.

He couldn’t accomplish it so easily. In reality, the magic seal would consolidate his Level-11 power to Level-20. Even if he wanted a shred of Level-20 power, Link needed to add in a tremendous amount of Dragon Power.

Link kept inputting power. One hour, two hours, three… At ten hours, the large magic seal was still unresponsive. The only change was that the runes were a bit brighter.

I need at least two million Legendary Dragon Power points to get a bit of Level-20 power. I hope no accidents happen.

If the magic seal failed, and all that Dragon Power exploded at once, the castle would be demolished. That would suck.

The only good thing was that Gretel had taken the kids to pick medicinal herbs and weren’t inside the castle. Link could experiment without concern.

This magic seal required two million Dragon Power points. However, this didn’t mean that a shred of Level-20 power would equal two million Dragon Power points.

In reality, a true Level-20 figure would think that this magic seal was extremely crude. A lot of power was wasted during the entire process. Link himself estimated that 99.9% of power was wasted. Only 0.1% of Dragon Power would be converted into Level-20 power.

Link sighed. In the end, I’m still not knowledgeable enough.

After resting, he continued feeding in power for another five hours. When the five hours were close to an end, a tiny—almost insignificant—bit of power appeared at the end of the magic seal.

The power seemed solid and was as thin as a needle. It was white and not very bright, but glancing at it, it felt piercing to the eye. Link didn’t dare to look for long. He quickly averted his eyes.

This bit of power was scattering as soon as it appeared. From Link’s estimates, if it scattered one centimeter, it would completely degrade into regular power. This kind of power was useless in a battle; it could only be used for experiments.

It streaked across the meteorite. Then with a poof, the dark purple meteorite collapsed into a bunch of bubbling purple liquid. It couldn’t resist the Level-20 power at all.

Link was greatly disappointed.

The meteorite wasn’t strong enough at all. It was so far away, but this was the strongest material Link had. He couldn’t replace it, so he had to improve it.

How? Alchemy and enchantments were the only options.

If he wanted alchemy, he’d have to ask Gretel, but she hadn’t recovered yet… This was a bottleneck. Link thought some more and decided to find Gretel. He would help her recover first.

He had given Gretel a tracking rune, so he just teleported over. With a few flashes of light, he was beside Gretel.

She was in a forest a few miles away. When Link reached her, she was staring at a huge footprint.

Seeing Link come, Gretel said, “The footprint is fresh. From the looks of things, this guest is at least 300 tons. It’s even bigger than a Mountain Giant.”

Link glanced over. The footprint was about two feet deep, 15 feet long, and six feet wide. There were two toes, and the two footprints were around 60 feet apart.

“Indeed very big. Should we go look?” Link asked.

Gretel shook her head quickly. “I don’t want to keep you back. You go… Here, I drew all the herbs I need. If you see them along the way, take them for me. The more, the better.”

Link took the paper and skimmed it. The drawings were very realistic and detailed. It also came with specimens.

“I understand. Be careful while I go check it out.”