Surviving The Fourth Calamity

Chapter 236: Chapter 52: The First Legendary of Hill Valley_2

The elemental advancement path is singular, which turned out to be a good thing at this moment.

”Christoval!” a high-pitched voice echoed in Hill’s Mental Sea, ”My name!”

Hill congratulated the newly born Elemental Lord with joy.

However, he merely thanked Hill hurriedly before rushing off towards Korenden.

Christoval, taking hold of Korenden, went straight back to the Elemental Realm through the rift.

Hill sighed. He could already feel the elements of his domain, calling friends and companions, heading back to the Elemental Realm to join in the excitement.

Only the Water Elemental Chief remembered to inform Hill, ”Don’t worry, they won’t fight for a year.”

Hill knew that his Earth Elemental Chief had been feeling frustrated for some time, but he truly hadn’t expected that he would advance to Legendary so quickly.

Even if it was due to Fran stirring the world’s rules, that was still incredibly fast!

No sooner had the defensive magic barrier of Hill’s Domain been lowered than Fran arrived with Adrian.

”Grandfather,” Hill hurried to the balcony of his study to welcome them, ”I’ve caused you trouble.”

”This is nothing,” Fran shook his head, ”as long as your place is safe.”

”Having the teacher stand outside is the only way to keep those two Legends in check,” Adrian said with a cold sneer, ”With two, they think they can withstand the teacher. How foolish. The teacher was thinking about intervening when you attracted that legendary lord out, and they backed off. Those who came later were just observing your domain.”

Hill shook his head, ”What could that reveal? Korenden put on a strong aura to deter others, and most elements and magical beasts have gone into hiding.”

”The Elves’ relentless pursuit of you has aroused a lot of curiosity,” Fran smiled as he sat down, ”Normally, one can only watch safely from a distance, but many took this opportunity to come and satisfy their curiosity.”

”But if you really lacked strength, then they might have gone from onlookers to robbers,” Adrian added.

”Alright,” Hill shrugged his shoulders, ”at least it was a false alarm. Just troubled you, Grandfather.”

”What trouble? Now that there’s a Legendary Element staying in your territory, I can also rest assured,” Fran replied.

”Grandfather, will there be a celebration for the Legendary promotion?” Hill asked curiously.

”No,” Fran answered coldly, ”I don’t like such troublesome affairs.”

”That’s fine. It should have been me who came to deliver it,” said Hill as he raised his hand to present his gift, ”I extend my congratulations on your advancement to Legendary!”

Fran happily received the small box from Hill’s hand. Clearly, Hill had believed that his grandfather would soon advance to Legendary and had prepared the gift well in advance.

Adrian watched enviously as Fran shook his head and reached out to open the gleaming, jewel-encrusted box.

He was amused to see that Hill had given him an Alchemy Hut fashioned into a tower.

Fran examined it carefully: The material seemed to be a Legendary Conch Shell obtained from a Demigod Sea Beast, likely a cone snail.

The tower, small and translucent silver, was beautifully engraved by Hill.

Fran, intrigued, flew outside and enlarged the tower.

Gazing upon the towering White Tower over thirty meters tall, Adrian exclaimed, ”A shell from a Legendary Sea Beast!”

Generally, nobody would maximize an Alchemy Hut to its largest form, as that would use too much Magical Power.

But even in its Junior form, it already stood over thirty meters, and its final form must surely be taller than Hill’s Magic Tower.

Once Fran used his Magical Power to activate the hut, he became its sole master.

After setting Adrian and Hill as authorized users, Fran stepped forward and pushed open the great door.

”Tsk tsk,” Adrian remarked in amazement, ”You’ve built a High-Level Magic Tower for the teacher!”

If there were any differences from Fran’s Magic Tower, it was that it was a tad more ornate.

A Crystal Ball appeared before Fran, the core controller of the tower.

He was very satisfied as he took a Magic Tower core out of his ring and placed it inside.

”Slater,” Fran named the middle-aged butler Tower Spirit with simplicity.

Fran looked up at the nine-level tower with satisfaction, listening to the Tower Spirit report on the internal facilities; he waved his hand, shooing the two eavesdroppers away, ”I’ll look by myself, you two go out.”

Adrian, dragging a surprised Hill, left.

”Teacher wants to venture into the starry sky someday,” Adrian said, patting Hill’s head, ”I didn’t expect you to notice it too.”

Hill nodded, ”As soon as I got this conch shell, I felt it was prepared for grandpa.”

”The Alchemy Hut teacher prepared for himself doesn’t even have half the innate defensive power of this one,” Adrian said, satisfied, caressing the tower’s surface, ”Worthy of their reputation, even a Demigod Sea Turtle can’t bite through these shellfish. Although it was unfortunate for the turtle, for us, it’s like a boon we couldn’t even find if we wanted to.”

”I didn’t prepare many things,” Hill nodded, ”I think grandfather should be most familiar with his own Magic Tower. There are also many types of puppets he’s accustomed to using. I just prepared some for his daily life.”

There was also a branch cut from the Crystal Flower. Hill snipped off four or five branches, but only this one survived.

Hill smiled to himself, thinking that grandpa would see it when he reached the top floor.

”This Demon invasion is probably going to end soon,” Adrian suddenly sighed, ”I might have to go to King’s Academy.”

”Hadn’t the decision been made already?” Hill didn’t understand why Adrian seemed hesitant again.

”His Majesty the King, I don’t know why he’s so free,” Adrian said with a stern face, ”I submitted a nominal application to the academy, with the purpose clearly stated: to find suitable students among the graduates. I also mentioned that I’d bring a Mage experienced in teaching from the tower. I don’t know how he came to review that application.”

Hill looked at Adrian curiously. What does William want to do?

”He asked me to become the head of the Alchemy Sub-branch, for at least ten years,” Adrian said, with a twist of his mouth, ”and he directly communicated with teacher about it.”

Clearly, Fran had been persuaded, and Hill couldn’t help but laugh.

”His Majesty the King seems to want a lot of alchemists to set up factories.

And teacher really wants to know how the King plans to deal with the excess production if those large factories are built in abundance,” Adrian shook his head, ”I didn’t quite get it, but teacher said humans aren’t so numerous, and other countries might not tolerate it.”

Indeed, a wise person could easily foresee the outcome of overproduction.

Hill thought about it and felt with his economic sense he would only see a tangled mess. Just like Fran, he would wait and see what William’s approach would be.

Besides, considering the current level of the Alchemy Academy, to witness the end result would take decades, wouldn’t it?

Hill just laughed, which meant at least until the conclusion was seen, Fran wouldn’t leave this world for the stars beyond.

”Where’s your Legendary Elemental Spirit?” Adrian walked to the fountain edge, looking at Hill, ”Why are there so many Purification Divine Arts here?”

”It’s gone back to the Elemental Realm to play,” Hill thought for a moment, ”It has to go back and see old friends, tell them it’s become a lord now, right?”

”And it’s gone to fight with that previous Legendary Lord, isn’t it?” Adrian spoke, exasperated, ”Who doesn’t know Elementals! They aren’t humans!”

”Elementals need face too!” Hill said with a laugh, ”There are many Magical Beasts here, and I worry the Abyss breath might affect them, so I cast some Divine Arts whenever I have time.”

Adrian nodded, ”The early end to this Demon invasion is good, otherwise if it coincided with the autumn beast tide, that would be troublesome!”

”Beast tide, that’s a good thing now, isn’t it?” Hill asked, tilting his head, ”The energy of the Undead Tribe is too plentiful.”

”It is plentiful,” Adrian admitted with a sly smile, ”Have you seen the patterns on the plains outside?”

Hill sighed and shook his head, ”I thought they wouldn’t choose too bizarre ones. Seems I underestimated them.”

”There are pretty ones, you can see for yourself,” Adrian laughed several times, ”But the peculiar ones, even if not abundant, are enough to attract all the attention, right? I totally ignored the pretty ones.”

Hill smiled helplessly. He wasn’t too keen on seeing the peculiar kind, always feeling like it could disrupt something.

Then he waved his hand in the distance.

Alice and Merkel were waking up, charging out of their cave towards Hill.