Chapter 12: Tranquil Boots
The manager of the Sky Imperium Palace was a little surprised to see me. He politely greeted Lucas and handed him a panel. In it there was a list of treasures and a short description along with it.
"Some of the treasures aren't readily available and if young master is interested in any of them we will quickly arrange it to be delivered.
Aunt Jane gave him a quick glance and said to the manager.
"Earlier I saw a life seed, I want that."
The manager thought for a while and took a pale orange coloured Tablet and fumbled with it.
"Ah, yes we have 3 of them, from a Black Hawk, Nether Spirit and a Red Sea Flawka which one of them would you require?"
"Is there any natural formed one?" Aunt Jane contemplated for a moment before asking.
The manager gave a bitter smile, "If there was one, it would have been auctioned, right now we don't have a natural life seed at this store."
A Life seed was produced by strong lifeforms having high enough vitality and life span, higher the power there are more chances to form a life seed. Even human beings when advance to Maxim a life seed is naturally formed inside their body. Extracting life seed from others without their explicit permission is impossible, but there are still various life forms from which life seed can be extracted after their death.
The most important use of Life Seed is to supplement life essence and in some special circumstances a life speed can even lengthen the lifespan by a limited amount. In the hand of a Master level Alchemists life seeds can be converted as a supreme potion in healing medicines.
From a long time ago Necromancers started their research on Life and Death, they have already made sufficient achievements in their field of study. Artificial Life seeds are an example. Artificial Life Seed can be obtained from a Necromancer, they use some sort of spell to extract the life of a creature at near death state and create a life seed.
But using those life seed in cultivation require some supplementary potions. And if the purification is not done properly it may inadvertently cause harm.
Hesitating for a moment the manager took a box from the shelf. "I have a life seed from the Nether Wyvern Spirit, it is made by a Death Mage, I was going to auction this but recently due to Master Merlin's help we could acquire a good item, so please let me show my thanks. I'm sure this life seed is utmost purified."
Jane showed a doubtful look on her face.
Lucas inwardly grumbled. 'If you want to say thanks, why don't you just gift it.'
The manager showed a polite smile and introduced the life seed.
"I know that you may doubt the accuracy of the information, No Death Mage will waste their time in refining a Life Seed since it is basically useless to them. But some time ago Carmen from the Creed Family came by and was interested in one of the items that was going to be auctioned and used this Life Seed as the item for payment."
Aunt Jane's eye twinkled, "So this Life Seed was refined by Alex Creed?"
"According to them. Yes" Manager nodded.
Lucas at first didn't understand the significance of an item refined by a Death Mage, but soon the System cleared it up.
A Death Mage is a Mage of Maxim Level that studies the way of Necromancy. A simpler term would be an Advance class of Necromancer.
The items refined by a Death Mage are expensive and are usually packed with highly concentrated and purified Death Essence or Life Essence.
These items are highly sought for since Death Mage profession was scarce to begin with. But no matter how great a Death Mage's refinement was, a Life Seed is still a Life seed and cannot compare to a Naturally formed Life Seed.
Narrowing her eyes Aunt Jane looked at the manager and asked. "A item that was soon to be auctioned but now you are giving it to the Arsln Family."
Lucas was not able to understand the hidden meanings in their conversations, he had too little information on him.
After receiving the Life Seed Aunt Jane looked at Lucas.
"So have you selected?"
With the system's help Lucas was able to quickly grasp the entire catalog and immediately said.
"I want the Tranquil boots."
Tranquil Boot: A failed product of Rune Master Pablo, derives a minuscule of energy of earth and restores the vigor.
Additional Effect : Silent Steps.
The Manager beamed a brilliant smile.
"Great selection Young Master Lucas, even though it is said to be a failed product, it is still peak among the Black Grade items in this Sky Imperium Palace."
Jane nodded her head in satisfaction.
"Bill it at Merlin, he will take care of the accounts."
After receving the items they departed, while leaving Lucas looked for Ray and Lily but they weren't seen.
While getting into the car,
[Ding! Detected Lunar Shell Crystal related information.]
Lucas promptly whipped his head in the direction system indicated. A pair of men was seen walking, there wasn't anything special about them, they looked typical mercenary. He immediately informed the System to make full use of Scan.
Aunt Jane called over Lucas.
"Aren't you getting in?"
Hesitating for a second, Lucas stepped inside the vehicle.
"Is something wrong." Aunt Jane asked doubtfully.
"No, it's nothing."
Lucas once again went through the system. System had noted their conversation and was replaying it inside Lucas's mind.
"Where is that bastard hiding? I am already out of patience."
"Is there any use in searching for him. He must have already sold the herb to the auction house. Even though the news haven't been confirmed but captain said there is 80% chance he have sold it and now is looking for an opportuninty to flee. From the start when the news leaked, he wouldn't be able to get away with the treasure"
"If so what use-, Oh! I get it now."
"Even if he sold it, he must have a got a good price for it and he have many treasures including Lunar Shel-"
"Shut it. If you want to talk much use the secret transmission method."
"Oh, sorry my bad."
Lucas looked pensive, from the conversation between the two, it's most likely that they are talking about the Pseudo Unreal Flower that have been sold to Sky Imperium Palace and they are attracting the crowd through it. Fedrick must have been trying to flee now since most people have stopped trying to look for him.
Most unexpected fact was that they didn't know that Lunar Shell Crystal have been sold.
Did nobody found about it. No Saddik knows, so someone should still be aware of it. Or did he had more than one Lunar Shell Crystal.
Why doesn't no one seem to inquire about Realm Crystal? I know that Realm Crystal is famous but why isn't no one seem to mention about Realm Crystal, did someone acquire it earlier from Fedrick or did no one linked up these items.
Lucas was really close to truth. Realm Crystal is famous and also its use but 99% don't know the materials needed to construct Realm Relay Device. Even if they knew, they wouldn't link it easily. It was only due to system's tremendous capability of System Library that he could guess about realm crystal.
Unknowingly time passed, as Lucas was in deep thoughts and Jane didn't disturb him. After sorting his mind he glanced at his Aunt Jane, his aunt smiled back at him.
"Aunt that manager said that people from Creed family traded items instead of money, Why is it so? I don't think they are that poor."
Aunt Jane laughed with a bright and gentle smile.
"So that's what you were thinking about."
Still laughing she shook her head.
"After a couple of days a treasure is going to be auctioned and many would want it. So the VIP seats are granted to only those who presented valuable items for trade or auction. Creed family is an Ancient Trueline Family similar to Arsln Family. At the time of auction if they didn't even have a VIP seat, they won't be able to walk with their head high."
After some moments, the car arrived at Lucas's home. Aunt Jane grabbed his hand.
"I know your choice for the college, getting into will not be troublesome but that place is dangerous, you have to be strong there. So cultivation should be your priority." After giving Lucas a deep look, Aunt Jane left.
Dangerous?
Shaking his head with a light smile Lucas proceed to enter his house.
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Next morning.
Lucas let out a deep breath. His upper body was completely bare and some dark sticky liquid was all over his body. With a laugh Lucas stood up and ran to shower. He was brimming with energy.
Lucas spend his last night in complete meditation. The Purple Sheen Grass given by Uncle Ivan was consumed by Lucas last night. This time he didn't actively used Assimilation. Until now whenever Lucas consumed a potion or any herb, System will immediately use Assimilation and about 90% is absorbed or assimilated deep inside his bloodline and bones. Overtime the effects will gradually show.
But right now he needed to be in optimum condition, so the passive assimilation was used to regain the fully optimized condition.
After a shower Lucas cooled down, getting dressed Lucas checked his status in his mind.
Name: Lucas Arsln
Strength:0.9
Constitution:1.5
Flexibility:0.8
Mana:4.9
[Average adult - 1]
Cultivation:Mage: Purification Stage
Cultivation:Warrior: Sensing Stage
Bloodline: World Dominion Datura - High Level
"System how do you calculate these attributes?"
Rows of information displayed in front of Lucas.
[Ding! Constitution : Includes Endurance, Stamina, Quality of the Body, Resistance to abnormal conditions and adaptability.
Strength : Includes Explosive Force, Toughness and Strain bearing.
Flexibility : Includes Resilience, Mobility and Agility.
Mana : Amount of mana inside the body.]
Lucas carefully reflected upon his actions, his open strong point is his family and a Maxim level Grandfather. His secret card is the system, something others should never know.
"I need to find out what system is but it is doubtful that anytime near I will learn about it. Now my priority should be in to find out the limit of the system, only then I can safely execute my plans."
Scanning becomes formidable as his senses expand and get more powerful. In case of Scan my senses are my limit, yesterday the vision of the chaotic storm is most likely a side effect due to spiking my senses.
Analyzing becomes formidable as long as I have more and more information, and if there is a limit it would most likely be the gap in information and processing speed.
Assimilation haven't shown any remarkable function till now but it is most plausible that assimilation going to be the best. The limit of Assimilation should be my body. No matter how good assimilation is, if my body's constitution wasn't par it will be useless.
Right now there are two methods to increase my overall ability, they are Library and Life Seed.
According to Aunt Jane the Life Seed is extremely useful for my martial cultivation of [True Life Origin Scripture] with Assimilation i can easily increase my cultivation and next the Library, i have to increase my accumulation of knowledge.
"Mm, Library it is!" Deciding the destination Lucas without delay increased his pace and swiftly reached library.
The Library was huge, according to the librarian there are almost 100,000 books in the library. The Library had almost everything from trivial to even some secret information.
But to read those secret type books there was need to get authorization from the Librarian Albert Arsln. To be able to read the cultivation related books you need a certain level of cultivation, some information if known earlier it may not only help but may cause significant harm. Other need authorization from core level members.
Genuine core secrets of the continents and family can only be found in the secret library in the core area, and it was only accessible to elders and above. Other people needed special permission or significant contributions.
Many knowledge including some intermediate knowledge related to specific profession could be accessed by Lucas. Lucas current goal related to Library was to enrich his system library. This was a tedious process of taking each book and flipping through them.
As Lucas was thinking about the amount of time he was going to spend in the Library, someone called out to him.
"Hey little genius."
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