CH 137

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“Good morning Celestin.”

“Good morning Sir Zephyrus.”

“How’d it go? It was a little noisy yesterday but did you manage to get it taken care of?”

“Yes. I have successfully completed the first job given to me by Zephyrus. The sale of the Topaz, here you are.”

Bright and early Tuesday morning Celestin had come to give me the winning bid for the item we had put in the auction. He took out his student notebook to transfer the funds and I was immediately a little disappointed. A large back of gold would have been much more aesthetically pleasing. The money for the items sold was normally handed over the next day and Celestin went to pick it up but because of the dungeon run and the commotion afterward I had totally forgotten to go meet Celestin to get the money from him. As such he had come early this morning to hand it over.

“Wow. 3.44 million Mir. That’s a bit more than I was expecting.”

I had expected to get around 3 million but even that I considered to be lucky because, who would use that and what would they use it for?

“Celestin, are you free for a bit?”

“Of course. Even if I wasn’t I would make time for you.”

“There’s no need to go that far. I was just thinking we might be able to see something interesting if you come with me.”

“Then I shall accompany you.”

The two of us headed to Maria’s guild.

“You’re late Zephyrus! I’m tired of waiting!”

“Lady Rana, we haven’t even waited for five minutes.”

“Yeah, what Hannah said.”

By the time I arrived at the guild Rana, Hannah, Ester, and Ciara were already there with Rana already complaining. This child has no patience whatsoever.”

“Oh you brought Celestin over today I see.”

“Yeah I figured I’d let him see the making of the ability ball and how the recipe was decoded.”

If he knows how to do it then we can just leave it to him later. Besides since he is a butler he might get into a predicament later on if there is too much that he is unaware of. So I figured it would be a good idea to let him learn as much as possible, especially since the ability ball is made using a rare skill.

“Good morning everyone, I will be intruding today.”

Celestin was quite graceful in how he greeted them, maybe I should learn how to do that.

“Good morning Celestin. I appreciate all your hard work, it might be a pain being stuck with Zephyrus but do your best.”

“Why would it be a pain?”

I don’t ask for anything really complicated do I? While I was trying to decode what I had just heard Ciara glanced at me. Can someone explain please?

“Well I’m sorry to have kept everyone waiting. Since everyone is here now why don’t we get started?”

Maria grabbed the sleepy girl by the hand and walked her forward….. Was she asleep while standing up? How is she walking?

“This kid is asleep standing up!”

See, even Rana is surprised.

“She does really good work Princess, so please forgive her sleepy appearance.”

Why do I get the feeling that Maria treats this girl like some sort of ability ball making slot machine?

“Alright, I’ll make the ability ball now so let me see the weapon.”

“Okay.”

I received the item bag from Celestin and took out the drop from yesterday.

“Set it on her somewhere.”

She really is treating her like some kind of machine! Maria forced the girl to take the item from me.

“Now, press the button!”

And with that Maria promptly shoved her fingers up the poor girls nose.

“Fugah!”

“Activate Ability ball conversion!”

“《Abiri ba version》”

The sleepy girl jumps for a moment and repeats Maria’s words. Is this really going to work!?

“Nothing happened!”

“Ow!”

Maria had tried so hard to make it work but as I thought it didn’t end up working. So angry she pulled a large paper fan out of her item bag and slapped the poor girl upside the head with it. But on the upside we can now try again with her properly awake this time.

The results of the ability ball conversion were: Dark Javelin Level 5.

We ended up with a normal ability ball with only a single ability but the magic had been upgraded. The former lower level magic Dark shot level 6 had been upgraded to the intermediate magic Dark javelin level 6.

Unfortunately we didn’t get as lucky as we did last time but I’m still looking forward to what the recipe will be.

“So this is ‘Ability ball conversion’ I see, I must study this.”

“You don’t actually have to go that far Celestin.”

We’ll stick a pin in it for now. Something tells me that it wouldn’t be good if he was to use this as a basis for what ability ball conversion was.