Chapter 471: al Talk
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
During dinner, Toya kept bugging Angor with pretended protests in order to force Angor into crafting sothing. Toya used all available thods for a kid, including yelling, crying, and acting cute, yet Angor simply maintained his table manners of a gentleman and remained completely quiet.
Toya was far from being a gentleman. He loved talking during his al. Since Angor would not entertain him, he turned to speak to Yeliya instead.
Toya mostly talked about his childish ideas and ambitions, which might seem boring to any outsider. But Yeliya listened to him with her gentle smile while she answered Toya’s questions patiently. There was one ti Mithra grew irritated with Toya’s blabbering and asked the boy to stop talking, only to receive a painful ear-pinch from his wife.
Both Yeliya and Mithra were renowned and powerful wizards in this world, yet Angor felt the warmth and harmony of a family. It was both pleasant and comforting.
Suddenly, Toya ntioned another na, which surprised Angor a bit.
“Hey, Granny Yeliya, I want to ask, why did you stop yesterday?” Toya seed unhappy about sothing.
“Yesterday? Oh, you saw...”
“Princess Shan! I saw her at Champagne Road. One of those cult guys were bullying her. I asked Dodo to help, but you dragged back!”
Yeliya giggled. “Angor was there. You don’t have to join the ss and make it ssier.”
Angor looked between Yeliya and Toya.
“Toya and Shan?” Angor recalled what he saw on the little girl. Shan looked around the age of six or seven. There was a pair of goat horn-like braids on her hair, a tribal style breast tube, animal hide skirt, paint on her cheeks, and a necklace made from wolf fangs...
Then he looked at Toya, also about the age of six. He had dark skin, a feather headband, and a leather skirt with similar colorful paintings.
These two looked so alike. Did they co from the sa tribe or sothing?
“What’s it do to with Mister Angor? Luckily there was Princess Shan’s friend who ca to help, otherwise, that an-looking man would have killed her!” Toya yelled.
“It wasn’t her friend who saved her, but soone else. Hey, he’s right in front of you.” Yeliya smiled.
“You were there, Miss Yeliya?” Angor asked.
“Correct. And nicely done, Angor. I see you truly are Sunders’ student. That signature illusion of yours is quite a sight to behold.”
Toya realized what they were talking about and widened his eyes. “It was Mister Angor who trapped the bad guy in the mist?”
Angor nodded. “That ‘Princess Shan’ ca from Brute Cavern, the sa place where I ca from, by the way.”
He said this to tell others that he offered help as a “colleague”, but the true reason for his decision was Nausica. Still, he wasn’t going to tell them anything about Nausica for now, which would probably make the whole matter complicated.
“Ah, so that’s why you didn’t let do anything, granny. So Mister Angor was with them!”
“Did you and Shan used to live in the sa tribe?” Angor asked out of curiosity.
“Yeah! Princess Shan is the daughter of our chieftain, but she left us a long ti ago. The last ti I saw her was during our clan festival three years ago.”
While talking about Shan, Toya lowered his head and blushed a little, which was rare to see on the naughty boy.
Angor rembered what Nausica told him—Shan was actually older than Nausica herself, which ant... over 30. But Toya was a kid, both outside and inside.
Of course, wizards usually didn’t mind the difference in ages. Still, Angor found it funny that Toya was having a lover’s attitude toward soone at such a young age.
“But why did Supre Cult break their own rules? Princess Shan completed her registration before, and they still went after her,” Toya asked.
Angor also wanted to know about this.
Usually, Yeliya would use vague words to muddle through such a question because Toya’s tiny brain couldn’t comprehend so of the shady business among different organizations. But when she saw Angor casting a curious glance her way, she decided to tell the truth.
“Even soone like those ‘Mayhem Doers’ are divided into conservatives and extremists. While the conservatives admit their ‘registration’, the extremists do not. The latter will almost insist on eliminating all foreign beings regardless of their origin. The young cultist you saw yesterday was such an extremist. Also, he talked to you afterward, right?” Yeliya looked at Angor.
Angor nodded. “I had so magic plants on that I bought from soone. He sensed them and ca to warm of staying away from foreign creatures.”
“You see, this is a typical extremist. They’ll bother you for the slightest sll of foreign presence,” Yeliya explained to Toya patiently.
“That’s... so pushy.” Toya scowled.
Mithra, who had been enjoying his al, spoke up, “To hell with them. They only go after weak ones whose ho has been conquered by a plane fusion. If a more powerful being cos from another world, they’ll turn tail faster than anyone else. Do you rember when the grand demon called Fallen Sun showed up in the south and burned everything to ash within 15 days? The Supre Cult never made a sound about it. They probably hid sowhere to change their wet pants.
“They’re openly harassing people now because of so other funny business...” Mithra sighed. It seed there was sothing he didn’t want to reveal.
Yeliya also looked down a little.
Fearing that the al would get too awkward, Angor tried to start another topic by asking, “Is there a way to hide foreign aura from the cultists?”
Angor would like to learn how to save soone from being hard by the world’s consciousness, but he couldn’t ask sothing too obvious at the mont. Therefore, he asked the other question he wanted to know most. He urgently needed sothing to conceal the presence of Jon or his Alien Eye.
“Yeah, can we do sothing about Gank so that Princess Shan doesn’t get stalked by any cultist again?” Toya also asked.
“Ohh, I see you love her. You even know the na of her servant!” Yeliya joked.
“I-I don’t-love-I just, honor her.” Toya was giving out silly smiles again.
Yeliya covered her mouth and didn’t comnt.
“There are ways to hide a foreign object or creature. One of the easiest is putting it inside a space storage or your personal dinsion, such as a Sorcerer’s Garden,” said Mithra.
“But I don’t think Shan has any of those.”
Angor frowned. He couldn’t place the Alien Eye into his bracelet for so reason.
“And if you don’t have those items, you can try mixing the foreign aura with sothing else to hide or even eliminate it. There are spells, potions of the hides of special monsters to help with that.” Mithra looked at Angor’s wrist. “Your magic array... Infinite Reticence, right?”
Angor nodded.
“It weakens your presence in other people’s view. In other words, it covers your own aura to a certain extent, am I right?”
Angor suddenly felt enlightened about sothing.
“Of course, it’s better if you know proper magic arrays specifically designed for hiding soone’s aura. Otherwise, you can use Perpetual Rune to keep sothing in a fixed state so that its aura does not get out easily. Of course, it won’t work as effective as magic arrays.”
A Perpetual Rune was usually used to keep sothing in good condition for a long ti, such as how magazines always enchant their papers in such a way so that their published materials wouldn’t rot away even after thousands of years.
With Mithra’s reminder, Angor realized he had been blindly looking for a solution elsewhere when he already had one. There was more than one magic arrays that could help!
He kept thinking of finding a special box or sothing to keep the Alien Eye safe and neglected his own skills.
...
When dinner was done, Angor returned to join Mithra as they discussed the chanical arm. Previously, his plan had many flaws and missing spots beyond his knowledge. After the competition of wits between the two alchemists, he slowly learned what he needed.
By the ti Angor left Elixir Hut on the next day, he had already established a comprehensive construction plan in his mind. Mithra, as a true master alchemist, did an easy job perfecting his unfinished theories while also providing ingenious suggestions.
The old man even ca up with an outer design both favored by and convenient for ladies.
Still, not everything they talked about was agreed upon. There were several points denied by Angor in the end, even though he knew that Mithra was only trying to improve the final product.
For instance, Mithra insisted that they should use so precious materials and apply complex rules, but Angor decided not to accept that.
While talking, Mithra sowhat forgot that Angor was only an apprentice who couldn’t process high-level materials yet. Besides, it was only several days until the Purification Garden would open for entry, and Angor didn’t have enough ti to pick up new skills.
Angor was going to make this arm to help Nausica survive better in the coming challenge. As for more advanced techniques... he always had ti to do so later.
After Angor left on his own, Mithra also prepared sothing and stepped out of the door and went into the city, albeit in a different direction.
Angor was heading back to the main city district, while Mithra went to the lower side of the city where the core facility—the Research Departnt—was located.
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