Magus: Rise of the Darkness Empress

Weiss, Elise and Peria found themselves in front of a dilapidated castle. This was ruin that was their main target for this time’s expedition.

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After the meeting with Mathius in the evening, Weiss had went to the temple of Celestial Maiden and had exchanged a few viles of the most common medicine made from the Earth Overturning Great monster material for money.

But even just that little bit was enough. Just for these few viles, Weiss was given a total of six large holy coins. So they were equivalent to sixty holy coins. This was actually way more than what Weiss was expecting.

The reason for this gain was her own excellence. Weiss had managed to utilise almost all the parts of the monster perfectly and had created medicine from it. But that was an impossible thing for other apothecaries to do.

They would have a much lower success rate and they would also waste a lot of materials in the process. That was why the rarity of a completed medicine was much higher than just the materials itself.

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Using that extra money, Weiss had paid Mathius the next day and had brought a few magical items from him.

All the magical items that Mathius had with him were extremely cheap and common in the magus world. But in this World, they all were valuable and mysterious items that could not be found anywhere else.

Most of them were also limited in uses. The more valuable ones needed a person’s own mana to use them, so only the magus and the magus apprentices were capable of doing so.

As for the items that he sold here, they all had something like a mana storage in them. So even the common people were able to use them. But after a few uses, the mana in them would be gone and the item would become useless.

So even though these items were useless for a magus apprentice, they were extremely useful to Weiss as she currently was a manaless person too. So she had immediately bought a few of the more useful magical items by spending a total of 17 holy coins.

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After that they had left the city. Mathius had told her a way to contract him, so Weiss was not very worried. As she still had more than 3 years to make her preparations, Weiss had a lot of things to do.

Even though her true objective of learning about the magus world had been fulfilled, Weiss still wanted to check out the ruin. And now that she was equipped with magical items, her confidence in sucessfully checking that place out was even higher.

After that, the ladies did not face anymore trouble on the road and soon reached their destination, the city of Lemarta.

There all of them acted as regular visitors and entered the city while hiding their identity as Knights. As both Weiss and Elise was good at hiding their aura, so it was very simple for them.

As for Peria, Weiss had given her one of the magic items for concealing her aura that she had gotten from count Falgur. So with that item, Peria was also able to make herself to look like just a low level apprentice knight.

After getting a room in an inn of the city, the ladies had first checked out of the night market. But as they were unable to find anything good enough their to attract their attention, this trip turned out to be a massive waste of time.

So the very next day, they had went to check out the blacksmithing district. And this place actually turned out to be quite good.

Other than weapons made with high quality metals Weiss was surprised to see that some of the shops even had artifacts for sell.

This really showed how advanced this city was in terms of Blacksmithing. So her desire to steal a blacksmith from here increased even more. But all of that could only be done after she and the ladies were back from the ruins.

So for the time bring, Weiss only focused on buying artifact grade weapons for all three of them. This was a very simple to way to increase their current strength.

As for the cost, these artifact weapons were quite a bit cheaper than the magical ones. So with her current amount of funds, Weiss had no trouble buying a lot of them.

She got three swords for everyone, a pair of daggers for Elise, a bow and 20 special arrows for herself, a hammer for no one particular and three spears for everyone too as it was also a very universal and useful weapon like the sword.

After this, all the ladies were feeling more than ready to take on the ruins but there was still one more thing that Weiss wanted to do before going to the ruin.

So she went before Peria and gave her a vile filled with a green liquid. This was a new medicine that Weiss had developed and it should increase the chance of a sucessful life core formation by almost 30 percent. So Weiss wanted Peria to test the effectiveness of this medicine out while trying to break through to the realm of a knight.

Peria immediately became serious and nodded her head. She was just one step away from becoming a knight but she was always unable take this step in fear of failure and death.

But now that Weiss had given her a miraculous medicine to assist her and was also present beside her to support and protect her during the core formation process, there was no reason for her to feel scared anymore.

With this determination in her mind, Peria started the core formation process. Weiss and Elise stayed in the room to keep an eye on her.

Peria needed more time to complete this process than Elise and she would have needed even more time without the support of the new medicine that Weiss had given her.

So after about half a days time had passed, Peria was finally done with her ascension. There were a few times when her condition had became a little unstable but fortunately, Peria had managed to go through all those situations with her own strength without needing Elise’s or Weiss’s assistance.

For that reason, the foundation that she had managed to build for herself was a strong one and she had hope for further advancements in the path of the knight.

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So all three of the ladies who were standing before the castle ruin were official Knights. And all of them also had artifacts on them.

Now finally, these fully equipped ladies were ready perfectly for taking on the dangerous ruin.