Chapter 1960 A Sudden Rise in Fame <TOC> Chapter 1962 Restoration Complete
Translator: SumTLMan
The process of concocting blood ink isn’t complicated in itself; the complexity lies in how to purify the quality of the blood ink and increase the yield of the final vaporized energy. Just these two steps alone might consist of more than a hundred sub-steps, and the better you do, the more steps there are.
However, Angel doesn’t need to concern himself with too high a quality. Lower-quality blood ink is barely usable, though it demands lower tolerance in rune inscription. As for increasing yield, he cares even less. He’s not earning his living from blood ink; as long as he has enough to repair runes, it’s fine.
By skipping the most cumbersome steps of blood ink concoction, Angel’s refining speed becomes incredibly fast.
Two hours later, the laboratory is shrouded in mist due to the blood ink concoction.
Gurgle, gurgle——
Massive amounts of steam erupt from the small chimney of the magic energy decomposition machine, carrying a strong, fishy smell, indicating Angel hasn’t put much effort into removing impurities. Meanwhile, an illusory mirage of a lava-clad fire eel faintly emerges in the steam, showing that Angel hasn’t perfectly captured the energy, allowing some extraordinary properties to escape.
Despite this, from the spout——referred to as a ‘faucet’, of the decomposition machine, thick, murky liquid still drips down. This liquid is the blood ink of the Fin-tail Fire Eel’s heart.
Angel takes out a standard experimental glass bottle, inscribed with a constant rune, and fills it with the blood ink.
In the end, he fills two large bottles.
To a rune wizard, the heart of a single Fin-tail Fire Eel yielding two bottles of blood ink would probably be infuriating, not to mention that it only took two hours, indicating how many steps were skipped in the process, a true waste of resources.
But for Angel, it’s inconsequential. He’s wealthy and unconcerned.
Even if it hadn’t taken some time to integrate the third-party solvent with the blood ink, he estimated that he could have finished in just an hour and a half.
Because in his view, one bottle was actually enough; having two was a profit.
After the blood ink was refined, Angel didn’t immediately proceed to repair the rune. Instead, he took out a yellowed musk deer parchment and a rune carving pen with an acceleration feature to conduct a little experiment.
Dipping the pen in blood ink, he quickly drew a rune symbol representing “faint light” on the musk deer parchment.
As the rune symbol took shape, the parchment seemed to soak up a layer of ethereal moonlight, then, like being consumed by cold fire, slowly disintegrated into white light points and eventually vanished.
Angel did this to test the effectiveness of the Fin-tail Fire Eel heart’s blood ink.
Musk deer parchment is generally used for carrying functional runes, but its capacity for “faint light” with elemental properties is much lower. However, the parchment could still manage non-fire blood ink-drawn “faint light.” With fire blood ink, the parchment’s capacity would diminish progressively with the ink’s power level.
The Fin-tail Fire Eel heart blood ink is a type of fire blood ink. Although the effect of the blood ink refined by Angel was average, overall, it still fell within the rated range of the previous brain whale forehead blood ink.
Satisfied with the final test result, Angel concluded: “The quality has reached medium; although it’s on the lower end of medium, it’s more than enough for rune repair.”
After the test, Angel headed towards the ruins’ grand entrance with two large bottles full of blood ink.
Now it was time to repair the runes on the door.
However, just as Angel arrived at the door, ready to begin the repair, a continuous ‘thud, thud, thud’ echoed through the silent space.
Meanwhile, a faint glow began to flicker in Angel’s pocket.
The source of the shimmering light was a silver gear-shaped button, and the “thump, thump, thump” sound it emitted, needless to say, was definitely from the mini signal tower within…
Ten minutes later, Angel reinstalled the mini signal tower back into the button space.
This time, the person contacting him via the signal tower was not Witch Maya, but the Director of the Research Institute, Muse. The primary person he was looking for was not Angel but Lord Rhine. The matter at hand, of course, was the response plan for the Bud Cult.
According to Muse, the Observer from the Crown Star Church has already sent some information about the Bud Cult. It’s confirmed that the followers of the Bud are not limited to Paradova of the Gloriosa Kingdom; from the future visions observed, traces of the Bud followers have appeared in several regions.
Among them, there are traces of the Bud in over a dozen countries on the Feran Continent, though this is considered few; the vast majority are overseas, including a small island filled with aboriginal people that has already been infiltrated by the Bud.
However, similar to the situation in Paradova, the Bud Cult’s approach to infiltrating the Southern Region begins with targeting ordinary people.
So far, except for Alana, who was inadvertently affected, almost no transcendents have been influenced by the Bud Cult. The reach of its followers has not yet truly touched the transcendent world.
Of course, some transcendents might have accidentally encountered followers of the Bud, but given their nature of non-interference in mundane affairs, it’s likely they won’t pay much attention to such a cult.
If the current rate of development continues, it might take decades, or even a century, before they can truly affect the transcendent world.
But once even the transcendent world is influenced by the Bud, their momentum will be unstoppable.
Fortunately, luck wasn’t too bad.
The lord of Sky Mechanical City——Rosen, one of the top figures in the Southern Region’s pyramid, suffered an attack from the Arrow of the Vanquished. This made all wizards realize one thing: the Bud Cult is not a sickly cat; it’s a growing cub who’s teething. Although its influence in the Wizarding World of the Southern Region isn’t much now, if left unchecked, its future could be terribly formidable.
Moreover, they’ve discovered the Bud Cult’s layout in the Southern Region ahead of time, providing them with numerous pre-emptive strategies.
If the Bud Cult is allowed to expand its faith, it will surely become like a persistent parasite, difficult to completely eradicate. But now it’s different. While the Bud Cult is quietly expanding its power early on, they can easily eliminate it without leaving any troubles behind.
Therefore, after receiving the news from the Observer, Director Muse hastily contacted Angel, hoping to convey this matter to Rhine.
If all the major wizard organizations in the Southern Region unite, they can surely uproot the Bud Cult from the Southern Region!
Angel, of course, is pleased with this development.
Because once the Southern Region’s wizard organizations and the Bud Cult truly go to war, whether or not the Bud Cult is completely eradicated, Angel will gradually disappear from their sight.
So, upon receiving this news, Angel wasted no time. He immediately conveyed the message to Lord Rhine through Tree Spirit’s avatar in front of the ruin gate.
Chapter 1960 A Sudden Rise in Fame <TOC> Chapter 1962 Restoration Complete