264 Chapter 182: What to do now?
"Let's sail!"
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Closing his cabin door, Alger blew out a soft sigh as he walked to his chair and sat down.
Placing the container which was the same size as his head on the table, Alger looked at it with a complicated look.
He opened a drawer and from it took out a bottle and a mug, uncorking the bottle with a loud Pop Alger poured the brown liquid into his mug.
Recorking the bottle, he set it down on the table and grabbing his mug he took a deep drink.
Feeling the rum go down his throat, Alger put his cup down and sighed again.
He then took out a yellowish piece of paper from his pocket and looked at it.
-Melee Scholar Potion Formula-
He reread the formula on the paper a few more times before placing it on top of the container.
After that, he also took out from his pocket several yellowish papers with strange symbols on them.
Counting everything again, Alger heaved a pleased sigh and couldn't help but smile.
'20 pages... I'm sure Mr. Fool will be quite pleased by this.'
Looking down at the container, the smile on Alger's face disappeared and was replaced by a flat expression.
'Chariot just asked if I could get the formula for Conspirator... It's not my fault it wasn't at the Auction, besides I got one of the formulas he wanted so he can't claim anything from me.' Alger thought unimportantly as he stuffed the diary pages into his pocket.
Later he would keep them in a more suitable place, now he had to deliver this to Chariot.
Grabbing the container and the paper with the formula, Alger placed them in front of an altar that he had used earlier to summon Chariot's messenger.
Lighting the single candle on the altar, Alger prayed.
I!" he said in Ancient Hermes.
"I summon on my name" he changed to Hermes.
"The Special Spirit that wanders through the upper realm;
The Trustworthy Spirit who is friendly to humans;
The Companion Spirit of Chariot"
As soon as he finished the last line, he felt how the temperature in the room decreased.
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"Thanks again Chicho" Adryan said with a small smile as he handed the giant a chocolate bar.
The woman just nodded roughly as she grabbed the bar, Chicho looked at the bar for a few seconds and then looked at the redhead carefully.
'Hey... Don't look at me like that, I can't always give you that chocolate. That would be spoiling you!' Adryan thought with the corners of his mouth quivering slightly.
"That chocolate is quite special, if I gave it to you every time you deliver a letter you would get bored of it and you don't want that, right Chicho?" Adryan defended himself with his sly tongue, then added with a questioning tone.
"You don't want that delicious chocolate to lose its magic, do you?"
Chicho looked at him attentively with her gray eyes, deep in thought.
After a few seconds, she nodded, feeling that what the redhead was saying made sense.
Adryan's smile grew slightly at this but he controlled himself and nodded.
"That would be all Chicho, if I need your help again I will call on you."
Chicho nodded slightly, and with calm movements, she unwrapped the chocolate and began to eat it while she entered the door of bones.
When the door of bones disintegrated, Flora took the opportunity to speak, her tone amused and full of curiosity.
"Did you see the chocolate stain on her face? How long do you think it will take her to realize it's there?"
"Not much, maybe when she gets to wherever her house is she'll find out. Although I hope she will not be upset that I didn't tell her it was there." Adryan said scratching his head not sure if it was a good idea or not.
He had used a lot of iron will not to point out the stain and provoke his messenger a little.
Flora snorted and Adryan could imagine the woman rolling her eyes as she did so.
"Come on at least give me a number. I say 2 days."
Adryan smiled as he shook his head.
"Well, I say 15 minutes or maybe 20. It depends if she has a mirror in her house or some friendly spirit tells her about her problem."
"That's a good point..." Flora murmured under her breath in agreement.
"One hour."
Adryan chuckled at this before looking at the container on the table next to the yellowed paper. Next to these was the same bag he had sent, only much smaller.
'There must be the change...' he thought feeling a small pain in his chest.
The bag was still a bit big and this meant that Alger hadn't been able to get everything he asked for.
Walking over to the table and grabbing the paper, he opened it and read it.
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-Melee Scholar Potion Formula-
Main ingredients.
*Grounded Knuckles of the Magenta Lizard
*The 4 legs of the Jumping Horned Toad.
Supplementary ingredients.
* 70 milliliters of purified water.
*15 grams of oxidized iron.
*10 small drops of the saliva of the Jumping Horned Toad.
* 5 grams of Zync.
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Seeing that the note ended there, Adryan sighed softly before putting the note in his pocket.
"At least I kept what I promised to Charlotte..." the redhead muttered but he couldn't help but feel disappointed.
'Now I only have the meeting of the Hermits of Fate and Bakerland...' the redhead thought heavily as he looked at the worn wall of the office.
If the Hermits of Fate failed, he would have to hunt down Bakerland to obtain the formula.
Sighing slightly, he looked at the container on the table and an idea floated into his mind.
"I can always make advance by consuming the main ingredients..." he muttered, considering the idea for a moment.
"I WILL NEVER ALLOW IT!" Flora screamed so loudly that it stunned Adryan for a moment.
"What the hell Flora?!" the redhead groaned holding his head.
Flora snarled angrily and snapped.
"Do you want to kill yourself?! If you consume the main ingredients without the supplementary ones, the most likely case is that you will die or lose control!"
Adryan could hear the concern in Flora's tone and sight a little embarrassed.
"Sorry about that Flora, it was just a momentary idea, nothing more. You know how careful I am and you know that I would never try something as crazy as that." the redhead defended himself.
"You better be Adryan." Flora grunted and then fell silent but Adryan could hear her muttering things under her breath.
"Stupid tomato head. Who do you think you are to even think of that as an option? You fucking asshole. Scaring me like that..."
'Now I feel kind of bad...' Adryan thought as he scratched his head.
Flora's reaction made sense since his idea was practically a Russian roulette with a pump shotgun.
Consuming the main ingredients without the supplementary ingredients would almost certainly cause him to lose control or die.
Either because of the remaining consciousness in the ingredients that weren't suppressed or because of the damage it would do to him...
There were many possible ways to die and none was painless.
Sighing, Adryan decided to speak to Flora later to apologize and turned his attention back to the container.
Placing his hand on the lid and lifting it, breaking the wall of spirituality it had, he was able to see the Sphinx's brain.
In a jar that a puppy could easily dig into, floating in a greenish liquid was a large purple brain.
This brain didn't look normal. It had multiple bumps all over it and black veins that seemed to throb every second as if it was still alive.
A desire to consume this brain slightly dazed the redhead who shook his head as he closed the container.
Releasing a small sigh, he gently patted the container.
"You were hard to get but now you're mine."
Grabbing the container, after reapplying the wall of spirituality, Adryan carefully placed it on the altar he had prepared earlier.
Kneeling before it, Adryan clasped his hands, and bowing his head, he prayed.
"The Scarlet Monarch that burns depravity..."
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Monday, 3 p.m.
Above the gray fog, in the great hall of the giants, two crimson flashes and a torrent of crimson flames appeared.
Appearing in her seat, Audrey turned happily to greet the figure covered in a gray fog as was almost custom but something new stopped her.
Alger also noticed this something...
Adryan also notice it and this caused a sharp smile to grow on his face.
'Looks like my worries were in vain~'
Before anyone could say or do anything, Mr. Fool's voice echoed through the Divine Hall.
"This is our new member code name..." Klein took about 2 seconds to give a little drama.
"Sun."
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First of all, I apologize for disappearing for almost a week and not posting any trails.
The exams came back stronger than ever and they left me devastated, I barely had energy for anything and I barely finished them on Friday.
I took the weekend to rest.
The chapters are back and I really apologize for what I did and also forgive me for worrying you.
