Abe the Wizard

Another law-defying wizard had the next wizard in line teleported in front of the flash spirit flower. This was when Abel was starting to wake up. He was finally starting to get a sense of what the flash spirit flowers actually looked like. He was standing in front of the flash spirit flower as its fragrance influenced his soul. He was also starting to see a dim light. It was almost as if he was hallucinating. He felt like the flash spirit flower might be the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It was no wonder they said it was the most beautiful flower throughout the entire central continent. It might appear differently in different individuals’ eyes, but it would always be conceived as the most attractive thing there was.

After Abel woke up, he decided to look at the flash spirit flower again, this time from afar. He noticed that the flower had twelve white, slim petals in total. There was a thin, long whisker that curled up like some vine plant on the top. Tiny sparks of electricity could be seen conducted through it.

There was a yellow flower stamen that was surrounded by the petals. There was some liquid pouring out of the flower. It was strange seeing such a colorful thing when everything else in charcoal black. The Land of Lightning Fall was mostly ashes, so the flower actually stood out more due to the contrasting visual.

One after another, the guests were brought to and away from the flash spirit flower. While some of them were law-defying wizards themselves, they sank into the influence of the flash spirit flower as they went back. Same for Wizard Hiram. As he finally got his chance, he was brought to the flower to wait for ten minutes. That was how long it took for the flower to re-open itself.

Wizard Hiram waited, but he noticed the lightning clan wizard in front of him look disappointed. That same wizard bowed to Wizard Hal before he disappeared. It seemed like the flower was not going to produce any more essence. Actually, it was starting to wither away very quickly. The flower itself was withering very quickly, and as the flower was completely withered away, the branches themselves were starting to lose vitality. Abel could notice something bred out of it, though. It’s almost like the flash spirit flower was trying to give birth to something from his perspective.

Wizard Hal teleported to the front of the withering flower. He reached out his hands as carefully as he could to search among the flowers. A look of joy quickly appeared on his face as he put the item he found into his own portal bag. Following that, eight lightning clan wizards brought their guests to the place where the teleportation circle was. The process was very abrupt. They didn’t even spare the time to treat the guests to some water.

Wizard Hal snapped a look at Wizard Karmens, “The flower watching is over, everyone! Please, head back to your original place.”

Wizard Karmens threw a helpless look between Wizard Hal and Abel. Without saying anything, he brought Wizard Hiram into the teleportation and left the scene. The other law-defying wizards did the same. Now, it was just Abel that was at the original spot. Wizard Hal waved his hands to say goodbye as each of them disappeared under white light. Even Wizard Field wasn’t planning on staying.

“How about you come to my place and have some tea, Master Bennett?”

Wizard Hal made an inviting gesture as he placed his hand on Abel’s shoulder. Without waiting too long for a response, the two of them teleported away from the surface of the Land of Lightning Fall. He was wrapping his power of the Will over Abel as it was happening, which was technically not the most polite thing to do, but Abel decided to go along as he was the guest here.

After several “instantaneous movements,” they appeared at a guest meeting room where the decorations were in traditional royal fashion.

Wizard Hal chuckled for a bit as he saw the way Abel was looking around, “I came from a family of earls, Master Bennett. I’ve come to like this type of decoration after being educated in the ways of noblemen.”

Abel smiled in response, “Well, I like this decoration too, Wizard Hal!”

“Good to hear that, Master Bennett. As you’ve probably guessed already, I’ve invited over here because I wanted to ask a favor from you.”

“Oh, sure! We’ve become friends the moment you invite me over to watch flowers, Wizard Hal! Please, what is it you want to ask of me?”

Wizard Hal went ahead, “As you know, Master Bennett, there are a total of three law-defying wizards in the lightning clan. While I just became one recently, one was in shutdown, and another, Wizard Merton, just five years left to his life expectancy. If you can make one “flash spirit life-prolonging potion” for Wizard Merton, the entire lightning clan will forever be in your debt.”

Abel was confused, “Debt? Well, Wizard Hal, don’t put it that way! I’ll be happy to help brewing potions for the lightning clan whenever I can! Just bring the necessary ingredients to my workshop! There’s no need to get me all the way over here.”

Wizard Hal responded as he took out two dark seeds from his portal bag, “The seeds were the main ingredients of the potion. Wizard Merton mentioned this to me. If there was just one seed from the flash spirit flower, he told me that he was as good as dead. Luckily the number of seeds we collected this time were two.”

Abel understood what Wizard Hal was trying to say immediately. As rare as the seed was, there was no way to guarantee a successful brew. Two were safer than one. That was the simple logic in this.

Abel thought before he spoke, “I’ll do what I can, Wizard Hal, but I know about the success rate of this potion.”

Abel’s got his priorities fairly quickly. He must do whatever he could to save the law-defying wizard of the lightning clan. The lightning clan was a new home to him, and he had to make sure that his new home was as safe as it could be. He was going to save potions for Wizard Morton, Wizard Dunn, and all the wizards in the third squad, but he did have many potions stored in his stock. The stuff was quite precious to other people, but to him, that’s not really a problem since the entire dark world was open for him to gain whatever amount of resources he wanted. He could get as many “life-prolonging potions” as he wanted, and frankly, that was probably even more effective than the lightning variation of the “life-prolonging potion.” There was also the golden quality he had, which could increase one’s years by sixty. That was not as good as the “blood of the beastly god,” but in terms of ease to access and total quantity, his golden quality potions would also be the preferred option.

Wizard Hal was very pleased with what he heard, “Don’t worry about the cost of the ingredients, Master Bennett! Thank you so much! The lightning clan will pay whatever the expense is as long as you agree to do the brew.”

Abel suddenly spoke, “Can I see Wizard Merton for a moment, Wizard Hal?”

Wizard Hal seemed to be in a rush, “Of course! I’ll get him over immediately!”

Without even a minute, he brought an old man with death qi all over his body inside the guest meeting room.

WIzard Merton spoke in a powerless yet humble voice, “Thank you so much for taking care of me, Master Bennett.”

Abel proceeded to the topic at hand, “If I may be blunt, Wizard Merton. You’re physically the oldest wizard I’ve seen. Why don’t you consider transforming with a mechanical body?”

Wizard Merton responded calmly, “Not all law-defying wizards can accept being inside a mechanical body. As you may already know, Master Bennett, there are all sorts of ways to prolong one’s lifespan in the world, but they all have their limitations. Your training is weakened. Your chance of promoting becomes limited. I don’t think that’s what I want to get into if that’s the cost of having to trap myself in a state that’s neither dead nor alive.”

Wizard Hal added, “From my understanding, almost all the methods to prolong one’s lifespan would be followed by some resistance from the body of the host. The spiritual pain alone has the potential of destroying the sanity of a law-defying wizard. We of the lightning clan respect the choices of what the wizards want, but we hold a strong stance on not supporting methods that will induce an excruciating amount of traumatic pain.”

Abel couldn’t agree more as he heard this. He thought about Wizard Malon and the piles of dump he lived in. It was almost like the concept of humanity was already out of context. It was especially hard for him to imagine because he could brew any number of potions he wanted. he would always appear like a newborn baby in the presence of any other wizards. Of course, it was something that caused a lot of jealousy from the other wizards.

Wizard Merton smiled as he looked towards Abel, “Of course, Master Bennett wouldn’t have to worry about lifespan, I imagine.”

Abel tried to change the subject before things got personal, “If I may ask, Wizard Hal, can you hand me the recipe for the flash spirit life-prolonging potion?”

Wizard Hal took a parchment paper out, “Of course, Master Bennett.”

Abel couldn’t tell how old this paper was, but there must be some years behind it. Anyways, he could see that there were a total of 150 different ingredients being featured. This was among the hardest one to brew out of all the master level potions there was. 150 ingredients. It was enough to make an entire branch run out of stock, actually. The most troubling part would have to be the main ingredient, but that was already taken care of.

Despite how hard it was to actually create this potion, Abel couldn’t help but admire just how brilliant the master would’ve been. The concept of using the flash spirit flower seed to expand one’s life force was genius enough alone and to amplify that effect with the combination of different ingredients and with such complexity. He knew how good he was at brewing potions, but he knew for a fact that he was nowhere near in terms of understanding of how the ingredients worked with each other. For him, it was not knowledge that got him to where his current level was. His ability to make very precise maneuvers with the ingredients at hand to get him to become the best potion master there was.

Back to the subject. He read that the “flash spirit life-prolonging potion” could extend one’s lifespan for about fifty years. This was the best recipe he had ever seen. Again, the main issue would have to be the flash spirit flower speed. He couldn’t get another one by now. It would take five hundred years to bloom again, and even then, the survival rate of the seeds would not be that high at all.

Abel said quietly, “Can you get me a potion-lab ready, Wizard Hal? Get all the ingredients ready. I need a perfectly quiet environment.”

Wizard Hal made an inviting gesture, “It’s already ready, Master Bennett. It’s right here. Rest assured. I’ve got the seclusion circle ready. You won’t have to worry that anyone was going to interrupt your work.”

‘Sure.”

Abel decided to say something as he walked towards the door, “Well, Wizard Merton, I’d like to charge you .”

It was funny hearing this, actually. Abel was a surgeon about to decide whether his patient was about to die or not, but he was already thinking about the payment since he knew that the surgery was going to work out regardless. It was arrogant, but it made Wizard Merton laugh out as he became more relaxed.

Wizard Merton chuckled for a bit, “Don’t worry about it! I’ve been fighting battles my entire life! I’ve got some storage rooms of war trophies if you want to pick some things you’d like.”

Abel walked into a potion lab that he prepared. There was a set of alchemy tools and a line of ingredients that was laid out very neatly. Most of the ingredients were at least master level or above, and they were quite different from the ones he’d pick out himself. This actually made things a bit harder, but he was impressed enough just by the fact that the lightning clan could get all 150 ingredients in one place.

Yes, there wouldn’t be a second portion if he failed. Some of the rare ingredients were just available in the vast majority of places. The lightning clan actually had to steal these from other people. By the way, it didn’t matter how complex these ingredients were and how many types there were. Once the world stone fragment switch was open, all that really mattered was the procedures and not the number of things he had to process.

Once he was done putting everything in, he called out the word “sublimation” as he saw a rainbow light coming out. Finally, he retained the blue quality potion in his hands, and the blue light remained on top of the potion.