Arianell on Zick's lap looked at the people walking around her. The fresh air filled with the pleasant scent of the flowers brushed past her nose. Relaxation brushed off her body making her loosen up, it wasn't unpleasant to experience something new every once in a while.
Zick looked at the clear sky with a blank look: 'Arianell's natural element is space just like Yuriel, so should I take her to a place where space element is abundant?'
There was only one place Zick knew where space element materials formed naturally. This information came from the novel and it was located in the middle continent.
'I can take her to that place sometime in the future. It would have been enjoyable for her if we went to an amusement park, but unfortunately, such a thing doesn't exist in this world.'
'This flower garden is more attractive to families and couples to come to relax and enjoy.'
At that moment, Zick felt someone walking toward him. Not one, but dozens of people were slowly moving toward them.
"Umh...Kuuh, how can someone be so cute?! Do you want to eat some cream toast?" A young girl offered a toast with a smile to Arianell.
Looking at the toast with a blank look for a second, Arianell turned towards the flower, fully ignoring the young woman before her.
The young woman made a heartbroken expression at once seeing this reaction.
Just then another woman jumped from the crowd: "Then, then how about some fresh Antreil fruit?!"
This woman was left heartbroken too seeing Arianell not interested.
Another person offered a skewer but was similarly ignored by Arianell.
"But why? I saw her eating some skewers a while ago."
Zick looked at all these blankly, how people came offering something and returned with a heartbroken look.
'....Now that I think about it, kids of her age like sweet things. Hmm....' Zick got up holding Arianell in his left arm, he too ignored the people who came to attract Arianell's attention.
With Zick's wide perception, he found the stall he was looking for immediately. An ice cream stall.
Zick didn't bother asking Arianell, he just brought two ice creams of Jelstel flavour, which was similar to strawberry flavour from the earth.
"Here." Zick handed over a cup to Arianell in his arms.
Instantly, a bright smile blossomed on Arianell's face as she took the ice cream.
The people from afar,
"Ah, so she liked ice cream..."
"Kids of her age like to eat such things, how could I have forgotten?"
Zick started moving to the other areas of the flower garden. He visited all the main areas, like mirror lake, or the platinum oak tree.
Arianell enjoyed seeing this new thing, there were even some spirits that appeared and flew around them.
Everywhere they went, many people's attention was attracted to Zick and Arianell.
After roaming around for a while, they visited everything they could visit.
"Let's go back shall we?" Zick said while looking at the sun which was already in the middle of the sky.
Using the teleportation circle in the inn, Zick and Arianell appeared within the secret lab. He was sure to make it so that the magic circle vanishes after a second.
After an hour,
Sitting on the seat in the observation room, Zick looked at the experiment that was being performed in the lab through the glass window.
Arianell in Zick's lap was trying to eat the jello before her. She picked up the jello from her chopsticks but it escaped into the bowl again.
Angrily, she directly poked into the jello, and slowly lifted it, but after coming out of the bowl, it separated into two sections and fell.
Anrianell's mind froze at that moment with the chopstick motionless in midair.
"...." Arianell with a blank look stayed silent.
Seeing Arianell staring blankly at the jello, Zick's eyes squinted.
'What the hell is wrong with that butler? Giving a child a chopstick...That golem's intelligence is below humans so it could not think this far...Still seeing chopsticks is rare.'
In truth, The butler golem worked according to the manual, jello in this world is eaten with chopsticks, and it was kind of a tradition.
Zick wasn't well-versed in using chopsticks either, thus he used magic to levitate the jello from the bowl.
Arianell's blank eyes were filled with liveliness at once, with a bright smile she ate the jello which floated before her mouth.
Zick looked towards the research lab before him. There was a bed right in the middle of the research room. And Aeiron lay on a bed with Multiple blood tubes on him.
Aeiron's value in Zick's eyes was higher than all the others right now. Because, the blessing of the sun god could be used to perform the sealing technique that he inherited from Fuiren, the giant hero's memory.
Of course, with the complete blessing of the sun god, a very strong demonic sword would have been created, but it was not as appealing as the sealing technique.
Hence, Zick didn't lay his finger on the blessing within Aeiron. What he was currently doing was — trying to extract the potential from his body!
This experiment was performed by Yuriel herself.
The result of the experiment was — only 10℅ of Aeiron's total potential could be extracted. Any more than that and he might die.
Zick felt that he could use this potential to strengthen himself. If he could, he would have liked to rinse Aeiron of his whole potential.
'Everything does not go the way a person wills, I can only accept this result and move on like always.' Zick thought before looking at Aeiron closely.
Blood was slowly being extracted through the tubes, entering the devices around Aeiron. Then that blood was again sent back to him, but it looked a little dull as if it had lost its vitality.
This process went on for a while before the devices came to a stop. The limit that Yuriel set had been triggered.
On closer look, Aeiron appeared a little sick with pale skin and even shuddered randomly.
Yuriel appeared before the device and took out a test tube filled with shining red blood. She then vanished and reappeared beside Zick, handing over the test tube.
"Good work, Yuriel," Zick spoke with his attention drawn by the test tube.
A smile was drowned out by Yuriel hearing Zick's praise. Their relationship had also become something that could not be easily broken.
Zick drank the blood in the test tube with no hesitation. Giving the test tube to Yuriel, he concentrated on the hot energy moving within his body.
This energy vanished after a second, fully absorbed by Zick's body, causing him to purse his lips.
'I still have a long way to go before I reach a peak master rank. If I try normally, with my potential I should be able to reach it within a year. And to break through to grandmaster rank, around five to six years is needed.' Zick calculated seriously.
Taking a deep breath, Zick looked at Yuriel while continuing to feed Arianell: "Has the creation of the fortress been completed?"
A smile appeared on his face automatically.
"It has been completed as per your order, the main core is also made by the Summit grade mana crystal."
The smile on Zick's face grew by a level: "That's good."
A fortress, it was a fortress just in name. It was actually a flying city-like structure. It could continue to create golems and fix any damage caused to them.
But that wasn't the only ability of this fortress, its destructive might was so strong that half of the kingdom could be destroyed with a single strike from its main cannon.
Hundreds of more functions are also installed in it, making it indestructible.
There was also a function that helped it collect dead bodies, there was a capsule used to make biological golems within it.
Veurin had also grown to the point that she could control multiple peak-rank corpses. Zick would talk to her sometime and even assign her some mission to take in some fresh air.
"Be ready to launch it within two days," Zick said and moved to the control center.
Arianell in his arms had a sleepy look. Zick seeing this put her on the bed immediately.
Sitting on the seat in the control center, Zick's eyes turned cold.
"Report the result of the experiment code-named biological enhancement."
The lab genie materialized beside him immediately
[Result: The test subject died. Cause, rejection of different blood cells and energy.]
This experiment used the same capsule to create the biological golem but instead of creation, its function changed to strengthening the body.
Zick's eye moved to the screen with a thoughtful light passing through it.
"Put in some more resources in finding the solution to it, and tell me the result of the experiment code-named- wraith."
Genies' transparent body flickered before it answered: [Result: successful.]
Zick's head tilted to the side with a little satisfaction appearing on his face.
"Mass produce them and continue to look for its evolved form," Zick said dismissing the genie.
Instead, he called Yuriel this time.
"Install the newly created wraith devices all over the golem fortress."
.....
In the Darton's palace.
Time went by Swiftly. Everyone lived in it with peace while improving themselves.
But even after a few days, Zick didn't appear like he usually did. A week went by and there was still no sign of him anymore.
This was not normal, Zick would always inform them if he was going away for a long time.
Varine, Seveleen, and the wolfmen cubs gathered.
Varine was the first to speak: "Did something happen to sir Zick?" There was a tinge of worry in her voice as she spoke with a blank face.
The cat tapped Varine's palm: "That human is still alive so don't worry. I feel the presence of the contract between us, so he must be just stuck in some place."
This calmed them down, but the very next day, Levienel appeared before them with bad news.
"The whole Eastern continent is currently being invaded by golems, Mister Zick is trying to help out the kingdoms and empire currently. So he sent me to tell you all to not worry."
Seveleen had a grave expression upon hearing this: " Is there any kind of danger to Mister Zick's life."
Levienel nodded her head: "All the alchemy towers were destroyed and both the neokelt kingdom and Leweisert kingdom have been fully destroyed."
"Huh....."
"Eh...."
"....."