Chapter 536 - Profit beyond Ones Imagination (1/2)

Chapter 536: Profit beyond One’s Imagination

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

The medicine that Eliard gave Evelina worked really well. A few hours after taking it, she had recovered much of her strength and was able to walk herself.

But her body was still weak. Lazy to walk on her own, she allowed Eliard to carry her all the way.

The three of them were headed north. Link had activated his Void Walk to hasten their journey. In half an hour, they managed to arrive outside Full Moon City.

Once they landed, the three of them then entered the city.

Evelina looked around. She noticed that everything was still in order. There did not seem to be any sign of chaos. She then gave Link a perplexed look as he walked on in front of them.

Link felt her gaze and chuckled. “The second stage of your plan was almost perfect. The only problem was that the Ethereal Warriors had been too slow to carry it out. When I got here, they still hadn’t arrived in the city.”

“What about the king?” asked Evelina. She had noticed that the wanted posters plastered around the city had been torn down. This meant that the king had been taken care of.

Link smiled and took out a pale yellow crystal. He tossed it up and down in his hand, then threw it to Eliard. “Catch. Let her have a look at it.”

Evelina looked carefully at the crystal held up by Eliard in front of her eyes.

The crystal somewhat resembled a piece of amber, and a cotton-like substance swirled abundantly inside it. She held out her hand and touched it. It was smooth and warm to the touch, and it did not feel sharp or angular like other gemstones. At the same time, she sensed a familiar aura coming from it.

“This is…” She turned to Link, still uncertain.

“You guessed it. The Ethereals that you’ve brought in are now inside the crystal. In it, they can neither live nor die.”

The Soul Crystal was a unique item. It could store souls in a way similar to pendrives back on earth. Any file stored in a pendrive would be preserved as it was, a dead thing removed from all external influences. The file would only be subject to change via user input once it was extracted from the pendrive and run on a computer.

The Soul Crystal was a pendrive of sorts, while the possessed victims were the computers infected by the Ethereals. Once they were stored within a Soul Crystal, the Ethereals remained a dead thing inside it.

These “dead things” possessed peculiar properties. Their sophisticated structures contained a large number of rune groupings. By infusing one’s power into the crystal with the right technique, one could reactivate these rune groupings and draw out the Ethereal’s power.

In other words, the Ethereal Crystal was a magical item with an immediate effect.

Evelina swallowed. She eyed Link incredulously and asked, “They are living beings capable of speech and thought, and you’re storing them like mere objects. Aren’t you afraid their guardians will have an issue with such abuse?”

Link laughed out loud. “I neither bought them like merchandise nor slaughtered them like mere sheep. They got what they deserved. Why shouldn’t I have my way with them? It’s not my fault their essences have such useful properties.”

Eliard listened on to all this, confused. He asked, “Link, what are you two talking about? Evelina, who’s capable of speech and thought? And what’s this talk about guardians?”

Evelina looked at the crystal in Eliard’s hand, still finding the whole thing difficult to accept. She then explained to Eliard, “Link stored the souls of the Ethereals inside this crystal, turning them into a piece of magical equipment.”

Eliard was shocked upon hearing her explanation. If he had heard of this before, he would have leaped up in protest. However, right now, his mentality had undergone a major upheaval.

He observed the crystal carefully in his hand. He then asked Link, “How useful is this?”

Link replied, “Ethereals possess unique powers inside their souls. For instance, by imbuing your power into it with the right technique, the Ethereal Crystal that you’re holding now will be able to produce Level-10 Earth Power.”

Eliard’s eyes brightened up. His mind was able to immediately grasp what Link was saying. He then said, “By that logic, does that mean any ordinary Magician will be able to summon out Legendary power with any magical equipment forged with this crystal as its base?

Link nodded in agreement. “Exactly, and its conversion efficiency is extremely high. Around a hundred apprentices would be able to muster a Level-10 attack with their combined Mana. On the other hand, only 20 Magicians above Level-5 would be needed for such an attack.”