Chapter 47: Fangs of a Viper, Part 2

Chapter 47: Fangs of a Viper, Part 2

"Adelard my son, you are finally here. Lord Green Fang was just telling me the next phase of the plan, but it seems that we have to fix a little issue first." The city Lord spoke first and explained a few things to his son.

Lord Green Fang nodded, not saying anything. He was a middle-aged man, dressed in dark green leather armor, over which was draped a cloak of an even darker green color. His face had average proportions, but his eyes had a sinister luster. He stood up with hands behind his back and stepped to look through the window.

"I will not waste any unnecessary words. Recently, my men were searching for the one that ruined our plan last time. We were sure he came here, to Geldern. However, we were unable to locate him until recently, and even that happened by chance," Lord Green Fang spoke in a deep voice.

"He masked himself well and he perfectly blended between the common folk. Luckily he was arrogant enough to keep the weapon he stole, and keep it on display for all to see. A team of undercover Scales bumped into him in the market, but unfortunately, they didn't get any useful information out of him," the green-cloaked man continued.

"Long story short, we now know that he is part of the Warrior's Guild, so he poses even more of a threat. We can't have any loose ends. I want your men to track him and observe him for now."

The old Lord Egott frowned when he heard that. He was currently trying to keep a low profile and not give the Guild anything to use against him.

He tried to respectfully turn down the request, "Lord Green Fang, it's not that I would want to refuse your request, it's just that I'm in a tough spot at the moment. People of the city don't like me anymore and the Guild is actively trying to get rid of me."

"If they find out we are trying to do something to one of theirs they will definitely use it as an excuse to arouse the ire of the people and use them to banish me from the city as they almost did once before," Egott Serrell laid out all of his grievances on the table. He really didn't dare go against the Guild, since he already suffered at their hands once.

Lord Green Fang scoffed at him and said, "I only need you to pay attention to a single person from the shadows. If you can't even do that, what use are you to the Blood Sun Viper sect? We never considered this small city to be of much value either. We could just as easily replace you with some other noble family."

Now both the father and son became nervous. It was indeed true that they could be quickly replaced. They already lost the authority in the city and Egott Serrell was a city Lord in name only, nothing else.

Egott got a pained expression on his face when he gave in and asked, "Then we will do our best to carry out your request. Might I ask who are we stalking this time?" This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Green Fang snorted and said, "Hmph, it's good that you decided to cooperate. I think your son would be perfect to oversee this task since he is a member of the Guild. Even if just in name. The fellow I am referring to is quite young. His name is Gerald, he is about twenty and has short brown hair, and his height is about"

The first thing he tried to do, was to inject his own Mana inside Earth Crystals he got from wolves.

For some reason, he was unable to do so, unless he only used the Earth attribute of Mana. His complete Mana profile was, after all, a mixture of all Elements so it was rejected by the crystals.

He also noticed that the crystals regenerated Mana on their own, although really slowly. After a full day of observation, he concluded that the crystal regenerated about 1 LIS per day. It was an absurdly slow process and for the Earth Crystals, that meant two to three days since they had a low capacity for Mana.

"Good, now my Mana problems are almost solved. Now I can use Earth Crystals to fuel my Earth spells.

He also tested the Fire Crystals on the sword and came to a similar conclusion. The gems only accepted Fire attributed Mana and the recharge rate was just marginally better than Earth Crystals. Gerald figured that each crystal would need somewhere around two to three weeks to fully recharge.

"There is probably some unknown factor that recharges Mana faster when a creature is alive. Too bad I have no idea what that isor if it even works that way," he murmured.

Now that he had a much greater Mana capital, he could afford to cast some higher rank spells, at least Earth and Fire kind. The rest of his internal Man could be saved for Wind magic or the Unmoving Boulder defensive Combat Art.

With optimal usage of the Greater Mana Potion, it could be active for somewhere around twenty to thirty minutes.

That extra defense gave him much more confidence in staying safe against enemies that were around his level of strength.

"I need to get my hands on some medium-grade spells to be officially considered a Spellcaster. Too bad my Elemental Codex only contains the simple novice spells. They are good, no doubt about that, but I need something stronger just in case."

Gerald jumped on the bed and closed his eyes, going in deep contemplation. He tried to search his memories for something useful, especially video games.

On the surface, it might seem like a bad idea, but video games were a great source of inspiration. Even if he couldn't just copy a spell, he could, however, take the idea or form of a spell and bring it to the real world.