Chapter 114 - Sword Sage of the Storm
At the thought of all that this spell might bring, Lin Li tightened his grip on it in spite of himself.
“How about that, kid? This is worth the help you’ve given us, right?”
Lin Li nodded profusely. “Worth it, worth it…”
Although Macklin’s iron forging skills were bad, he knew how to strike while the iron was hot. As soon as he saw how fascinated Lin Li was with the spell, the old fellow took advantage of the situation and added, “How about doing us another favor?”
“What is it?”
“Help us forge a magical weapon!”
“This…” There was some hesitation on Lin Li’s face. Magical weapons were not difficult to forge; anyway, these two old fellows didn’t have strict requirements. He could just make them any two weapons that carried magical attributes. But Lin Li constantly had the feeling that this matter was not something of the ordinary; there was an eerie feeling to it from the very start.
All of this… was merely a coincidence!
It was just too much of a coincidence…
The two guilds found the relic almost concurrently. They had both looked for clues from books, and discovered where the key was buried at the same time.
The leaders of the two guilds were both wise men. After the misunderstanding was cleared, things became much simpler. The two guilds soon reached an agreement to kill the Lord of Inferno together, and everything would wait until the key was dug out.
Although the Lord of Inferno was at a powerful rank of level-22, were Alanna’s two major guilds an ordinary force? Together, there was more than a dozen people who had broken through level-18 in the two guilds. After battling for a whole day and night, even a power like the Lord of Inferno did not manage to escape the fate of losing its life…
With the fall of the Lord of Inferno, the ownership of the key was naturally to be put on the agenda.
There was immediately a huge rift between the two forces who had once fought side by side.
In order to get the other half of the key in the other party’s hand, the two guilds had each offered an earth-shaking price without any prior consultation.
At the end of the negotiation, the Adventurers Guild even suggested that half of its revenue would be allocated to the Guild of Magic in the next ten years!
But in front of Osric’s mausoleum, the power of money was insignificant.
Thus, the negotiation entered a stalemate.
Finally, the Sword Sage of the Storm, who believed in force, made a suggestion.
The leaders of the two guilds would fight a fair duel, and the one who won the duel would have the right to use the key, while the one who failed would receive a small portion of the benefits from the High Elf relic as compensation.
To be honest, this was a perfect solution.
However, a bizarre scene unfolded before them when it was implemented.
The two fellows, both level-21, completely tied with each other. They had fought for two days and two nights. In the end, one ran out of mana, and the other one ran out of stamina; both fainted on the ring at the same time…
It was like walking into a dead end when things got to this point.
Fortunately… someone had reminded them.
Besides being level-21 powerhouses, one was a Master of Inscription, and the other was a Master of Forging.