Chapter 503: Discussion

Chapter 503: Discussion

As soon as Ning reached the Tower, he immediately went to nd Waxil, the

head of this city's tower.

"Oh Terran, you're back," Waxil said. "I hope your 2 days o were useful."

"Yes, brother Waxil. You have no idea," Ning told him. "I have come to consult

something with you, do you have some time?"

"Uh, I'm free for the hour. What is it?" Waxil asked.

Ning took out a small bead of glass and placed it on the table in front of Waxil.

The bead was about the size of 2 centimeters in diameter and was completely

transparent.

Waxil looked at the glass bead for a few seconds with questions on his head.

"What's this?" he asked.

"Just wait a minute, brother Waxil," Ning said and sat on the chair to wait for

the minute to pass.

Waxil was curious as to what the genius of his tower was making him look at.

'Did he bring back a souvenir from wherever he went in the last 2 days?' he

wondered.

As he watched, the bead slowly changed color to reveal that it wasn't

completely transparent, nor was it fully made of glass.

The bead was hollow with the glass only making about a quarter of a centimeter

in thickness, leaving the inside hollow to be a centimeter and a half in diameter.

And the color it was changing to... was purple. Waxil's eyes narrowed and he got

closer to look at the bead, while simultaneously staying so far away that he

didn't accidentally nudge it and disrupt whatever it was going.

"You can touch it," Ning said and picked the bead up before tossing it towards

Waxil.

Waxil caught the bead and looked at it closely with wide eyes. "This looks

like..." he couldn't bring him to say it. There was no way that was possible at all.

Ning, however, knew it was possible and decided to nish his words, "yes. That

is Aether. The purest form of it."

Ning saw no need to make the distinction between the liquid and the energy yet

the people of this world had come to assume the liquid itself as the energy.

"You found this?" Waxil asked.

"Better," Ning said. "I made this."

Waxil's eyes went wide. Someone had actually made Aether. "Are you sure

you're not lying?" Waxil asked.

Ning chuckled a little. "I would let you break that to prove that it's real, but

there is another method," Ning said. "You have an absorption technique too,

right brother Waxil?" he asked.

Waxil nodded. As a Head of the tower, he had received an absorption technique

the day he took over the position about 20 years ago.

"Use it," Ning said.

Waxil nodded and used the technique, but suddenly he realized that he couldn't

absorb any Aether at all.

"What... what's going on?" Waxil looked surprised.

"To explain what is happening, I will have to explain what Aether is," Ning

said. Waxil stayed quiet and listened.

In just a matter of a minute, Waxil felt his whole world had turned upside

down, and everything he had learned until now had been a lie.

His mouth hung wide open in shock as he asked, "Then what we are collecting

is not Aether?"

"No, it is Aether, but the Aether needs a vessel to stay in your body. Also, when

you have to use Aether, you may have noticed that your Aether boils, this

loosens the bond between the water and the mineral, and makes the Aether in

them easier to use."

"You can go on thinking that Aether liquid is just Aether and nothing will

change. However, if you were to want to start making these, then you better

understand the theory behind it," Ning said.

Waxil's eyes moved around aimlessly as he was less focused on looking at

things and more focused on thinking.

"So, here's the main reason I made this for," Ning started explaining. He

explained how this would help keep Aether users from drawing in more Aether

while they are in a public location.

This could also be used to removed Aether from people whose rank was lower

than Aether King.

A dierent Aether concentration would have to be used for ones that were

strong than that, but making such changes was easy.

"So? What should I do?" Ning asked. "How should I mass-produce it? Should I

even mass-produce it? Do I reveal this piece of information to the world? Is

such a thing may be a bad idea? Can it be misused? Should I be earning money

from it?"

Ning asked a lot of questions in his mind that he wasn't condent he could

come up with the right solution himself.

Waxil thought for a moment and said, "I don't think I have the knowledge,

capability, or even authority to give you suggestions on what to do."

"Oh, then what should I do?" Ning asked.

"Keep this thing hidden. Don't let anyone know it exists for now. I will contact

the headquarters and tell them about this. I'm sure they will send someone

with more ability in this in just a few days," Waxil said.

Ning thought to himself and nodded. "Let's do that. For now, I will go and set

up this bead in the jail downstairs. Hopefully, the range won't hamper the

ocers upstairs," he said.

Waxil nodded and let Ning go. Then, he picked up the phone and called the

headquarters.

Ning left the room and took the stairs to the underground prison. The prison

wasn't very large, but there were many people in there. Some of them were

going to die very soon as well.

Ning walked to the center of the room and already noticed a massive lack of

Aether from the surrounding. Just having the Aether liquid out for a

considerable amount of time had already drawn out the Aether in this place.

He ew up to the ceiling, hidden from the prisoners, and placed the bead in a

small hole he quickly carved out.

Once the bead was there, he left.