Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1960: Chapter 1961: Fin-Tailed Fire Eel

The procedure for refining Blood Ink is actually not complicated. What’s complicated is how to purify the quality of the Blood Ink and increase the final evaporation yield. Just these two steps may have over a hundred subdivisions, and the better you do, the more steps there will be.

However, Angel doesn’t need to worry about high quality; low-quality is barely usable too. It’s just that when using it, the margin for error in carving Magic Patterns is lower. As for increasing the yield, he doesn’t care either; he’s not making money from Blood Ink, so the amount is irrelevant as long as it’s enough to repair Magic Patterns.

By ignoring the two most cumbersome steps in refining Blood Ink, Angel’s speed in refining became rapid.

Two hours later, the laboratory was already shrouded in mist due to refining Blood Ink.

Glug glug glug—

A large amount of steam spewed from the small chimney of the Mana Dissolution Machine, carrying a strong fishy smell, showing Angel didn’t put much effort into removing impurities. Also, within the steam, a faint illusion of a Fire Eel cloaked in Magma was visible, indicating Angel hadn’t achieved perfection in fixing the energy level, letting some transcendent traits scattered.

Nevertheless, the spout of the Dissolution Machine—”the faucet,” still dripped down thick, turbid liquid. This liquid was the heart-blood Blood Ink of the Finned Fire Eel.

Angel took out a standard experimental Colored Glaze bottle and put the Blood Ink into a bottle with a Constant Magic Pattern etched on it.

Ultimately, filled two large bottles.

For a Magic Rune Mage, to refine two bottles of Blood Ink from a single Finned Fire Eel heart is infuriating. Moreover, it only took two hours, showing how many steps were saved during refining, akin to wasting heavenly treasure.

But Angel didn’t care. He’s wealthy and unbothered.

If he hadn’t spent some time merging the third-party coalescence solvent with the Blood Ink, he could finish in just an hour and a half.

In his opinion, one bottle was enough; two bottles were a bonus.

After the Blood Ink refining was complete, Angel didn’t directly proceed to repair Magic Patterns but instead took out a piece of yellowed Musk Deer Skin Paper and a Magic Pattern Engraving Pen with accelerated carving, experimenting a bit.

The engraving pen dipped in Blood Ink quickly drew a Magic Pattern symbol representing ”Twilight” on the Musk Deer Skin Paper.

When the Magic Pattern symbol was completed, the Musk Deer Skin Paper seemed to be soaked in a layer of pale moonlight, then the paper appeared to be burned by Cold Fire, slowly decomposing into white light spots, eventually disappearing.

The reason Angel did this was to test the effect of the Finned Fire Eel heart-blood Blood Ink.

Musk Deer Skin Paper usually carries Functional Magic Patterns, but its carrying capacity for elemental ”Twilight” decreases significantly. Yet, a non-Fire Element Blood Ink drawn ”Twilight” could still be barely sustained by Musk Deer Skin Paper. But for Fire Element Blood Ink, the carrying capacity of the paper decreases sequentially along with the Blood Ink’s energy level.

Finned Fire Eel heart-blood Blood Ink is categorized as Fire Element Blood Ink. Although Angel’s refining results are average, overall, it’s still in the rated range of Forebrain of Brain Whale front-blood Blood Ink.

The final test result made Angel quite satisfied: ”The quality reached medium grade, although medium-low, but more than sufficient for Magic Pattern repair.”

After the test, Angel picked up two full bottles of Blood Ink and headed towards the relic’s door.

Now is the time to repair the Magic Patterns on the door.

However, just as Angel reached the door and was ready to enter the repair state, a continuous ”thud thud thud” sound echoed through the spectral space.

At the same time, a faint glow started flashing in Angel’s pants pocket.

The light flashing was from the silver gear button, and the sound ”thud thud thud”—not surprisingly—came from the Mini Signal Tower within the button...

Ten minutes later, Angel reinstalled the Mini Signal Tower back into the button’s space.

This time, the person contacting him through the Signal Tower was not Maya Witch but Muse, the dean of the Research and Development Institute.

The purpose of this contact was not primarily Angel, but Lord Reine. The reason, of course, was the response plan against the Budding Sect.

According to Muse, the Observer at Crown Star Church has sent some information about the Budding Sect, confirming that the Budding believers aren’t limited to Yirong City Paradow City. Even in the future scenes seen by the observer group, there were signs of Budding believers appearing in many areas.

Several countries on Flourish Continent showed Budding traces, although relatively few; the majority were overseas, with one primitive-populated island even being infiltrated by the Budding.

Similar to the situation in Paradow City, the Budding Sect’s method of infiltrating Southern Domain still starts by targeting ordinary people.

So far, except for Irene accidentally affected, almost no Transcendent has been influenced by the Budding Sect. Its believers’ radiation hasn’t truly touched the Extraordinary World.

Of course, maybe some Transcendents have accidentally discovered Budding believers, but due to their non-interference with mortals’ nature, they probably won’t pay attention to such sects.

Given the current development speed, maybe only dozens of years later, or even centuries later, could they truly affect the Extraordinary World.

Yet once the Extraordinary World is affected by the Budding, its momentum will be unstoppable.

Fortunately, luck is still on their side.

The City Lord of Sky Mechanical City, a top figure at the Southern Domain’s pyramid peak—Rosen, suffered an attack from the Arrow of the Defeated, making all Wizards realize one thing: the Budding Sect is no weakling; it’s a young tiger growing milk teeth. Although in the Southern Domain Wizards’ Realm, their power is currently unremarkable, if allowed to develop, the future will be terrifying.

Moreover, they discovered the Budding believers’ layout in Southern Domain early, giving them plenty of preemptive response plans.

If they let the Budding Sect expand its faith range, the future will surely be as stubborn as a Tibial Maggot, hard to completely eradicate. But now it’s different; in the early stages, while the Budding Sect is silently expanding its power, they can easily eradicate and obliterate it without leaving any future troubles.

That’s why, after receiving the information from the Observer, Muse contacted Angel in a hurry, hoping to convey the matter to Reine.

As long as the Southern Domain’s major Witcher Organizations unite now, they can definitely uproot Budding from Southern Domain!

Angel is undoubtedly pleased about this.

Because once Southern Domain’s major Witcher Organizations truly go to war with Budding, whether or not they eventually eradicate Budding, Angel will slowly vanish from Budding’s sight.

Therefore, upon receiving this message, Angel wasted no time in transmitting it to Lord Reine through the Tree Spirit Avatar at the relic’s door.