Warlock Apprentice

Phantom Island. Outside the locked-up area of Sorcerer’s Garden.

A silver-haired old man wielded an alchemy cane and placed various prepared materials inside the alchemy array drawn underground. His mana flowed in the alchemy attempt, causing changes in every element around the place. Under the old man’s work, the Sorcerer’s Garden slowly materialized and began to release an ancient aura.

Sunders stood behind the old man in a polite manner. As far as strength was considered, the old man was weaker than him. However, as a master alchemist from Floating Mech City, ‘Moon Silver’ Kusino fully deserved respect.

There were very few master alchemists in the south. Kusino had existed longer than Jellal. His title “Moon Silver” did not sound so powerful compared to Jellal “The Mythril Innovator”. However, in actual fact, Kusino was previously called the “Moon Silver Dominator” for his absolute mastery at manipulating an alchemy material called the moon silver. Later, the old man thought this title was a mouthful, so he changed it to “Moon Silver” instead.

Kusino, a master alchemist, who came to help Sunders built his Sorcerer’s Garden at the cost of a great fortune.

The garden already began to take shape after two months of effort. Something vague could now be seen in there across the occasional openings on the misty barrier.

Sunders had really high hopes toward his Sorcerer’s Garden. He wondered what kind of law would come into being. To prevent random stragglers from peeking into his secret, he had been guarding the construction point day and night.

He woke up later and resumed his “mind overdrive” again. Angor did not intend to rest at all. He devoted every single waking second in his calculations. Even when he was eating or dumping, data still flowed in front of his eyes without pausing.

Time flew by rapidly.

His limit of using “mind overdrive” increased to one hour, thus doubling his efficiency.

The second coordinate was figured out by Angor after another month. The world had welcomed a new year and entered the Month of Resuscitation.

When checking his calendar unintentionally, Angor noticed he missed his birthday in Month of Freezing Earth. He had turned 15 without realizing it.

The boy did not mind much. This was not Padt Manor, where his brother and his mentor would celebrate for him. No one in this strange Fey Continent knew or cared about his birthday.

As the Month of Resuscitation approached the end, Angor finally gained the third coordinate.

He used his spirit power as a blade, and made the third slash, bringing a flash of light in his mind.

Getting a feel of the three shining surfaces in his mind space, Angor smiled in content.

He had exhausted his spirit. Instead of falling asleep, he pushed on and recorded the information of the three surfaces into his hologram tablet. Combined with everything he worked out so far, Angor ordered the system to calculate the remaining four surfaces on its own.

After typing everything he needed on the keyboard, a message popped up on the desktop: [Beginning calculation. Estimated time: 504 hours 43 minutes 51 seconds.]

Angor sighed in relief when he saw the countdown decreasing slowly but steadily.

Twenty-one days…

Even with the hologram tablet’s superior computing, he still needed 21 days. A human brain would probably need forever. No wonder the locator method was lost in history. No apprentices had so much time in their lives to waste on.

Angor stretched himself and left the hologram to its own job. He went back to his bedroom to sleep. The boy had not been using a soft bed in months, and he felt a bit uncomfortable when finally doing so. But his spirit was too fatigued to mind such a thing. Soon, the boy fell into a sweet slumber.