The Amber Sword

TL: So I have more bad news, I am still behind by at least 2 assignments. I’ll be updating 1 chapter of the Amber Sword and Strategy (1 day or so), then the next update will be on 14 or 15 Feb. By then I should be able to clear everything and updates should resume as per normal (hopefully with chapters that were not updated during my absence).

Chapter 47 – Babasha

Brendel commanded the gargoyle to release them, and Ciel and him fell onto the soft meadow in the area. They were in a silent forest of a mountain peak, and what entered their line of sight was a crooked wooden house like a house from the slums. It was two storey high, and there were rays of yellow light from candlesticks pouring out from the gaps of the wooden planks.

“My lord, is this the place that you where you can ‘lvup’?” Ciel rubbed his sore wrist from the gargoyle’s grip as he carefully studied the house before him. His face was full of serious suspicion: “I do not wish to question you my lord, but no matter how I look at it, this place looks similar to the witches’ houses in Bunoxone.”

“You are not wrong, there is a witch currently residing in this house.”

“Oh, the witches do indeed have a way to raise the powers temporarily.”

“No, that temporary power is not sufficient.”

“Then my lord’s goal is spiritual magic? It is indeed a power that can be used under emergencies. But my lord, these spirits are difficult to control, and even though I can think of several ways to deceive them, I have never tried them out—”

Ciel was completely impressed with his lord at this moment, and even felt that he was becoming more of an enigma.

Babasha felt she had fallen into a bottomless abyss. The young man in front of her actually knew what was useful on her shelf, and the other items were full of evil curses.

When Ciel opened the box he yelled in delight: “These are element crystals. My lord if you take some time to absorb them you can use the elements directly.”

But Brendel shook his head. He simply went over and picked up the dusty reagents and asked: “Do you know what these are?”

Babasha also looked up puzzledly. Even she did know what they contained. She was able to feel that was a mana ripple from the reagents at her level, so she had kept it for decades and there was a thick layer of dust on it.

Some reagents are poisonous or if the method to use them was wrong, it would also be fatal. Magic was a powerful, mysterious and dangerous thing.

Ciel took a while at to look at it, but he shook his head.

“This is a mana potion, how can you not even recognize this?” Brendel wiped away the dust with a little dissatisfaction, revealing the pale blue liquid.

“”Impossible!”” Babasha and Ciel were shocked.

“What are you surprised for, aren’t they just mana potion? I want to ask you now, this three mana potions’ effectiveness can raise your mana pool four times. Discounting the change in your powers, what is your wizard rank after having four times the mana pool?”

“A middle ranked wizard.” Ciel replied in a hoarse voice.

“Therefore, this is one of the targets I was talking about. Consider yourself as a middle-ranked wizard even before you use the potions, although the truth is you’re still an apprentice, understand?”

Ciel nodded subconsciously.

[That’s a mana potion, even called as the ‘Wizard’s Gold’! This item was created using high alchemical skills, and it is as hard as making a holy potion. I only saw these potions in scrolls, but my lord is just throwing them at me without a second thought?]

Brendel took the lambskin scroll taken from the shelf: “There is an Arte scribed into the scroll here. The air around the sword’s edges would become sharp after using the technique. It is also one of the methods. Do you understand what I mean by ‘lvup’ now?” (TL: Arte = Ougi = skill = ability, you get what I mean)

“Learning a skill isn’t something that is done within a day, my lord. Is there any point in looking at it just before—”

Ciel immediately refuted, but he saw Brendel glancing at the scroll and then discarding it instantly. As the scroll fell onto the ground with a rustling sound, the latter stood there blankly for a few seconds. Then suddenly he swung his sword at the door. With a cracking sound, the door split into two and flew outwards ten over meters before falling onto the ground.

Ciel’s mouth hung there as if his jaw was about to drop to the ground.

Brendel furrowed his brows. Just learning the skill took 153 TP. This was not even a subclass’s skill, but the amount of points required to learn it was just ridiculous. The prerequisite to get this intermediate sword skill without a scroll was level 25, and the amount of XP spent was going to be impossible for him right now.

But he definitely considered it to be worthy of the points. There were only ten over intermediate skills he learned in his previous life, and half of them came from his own profession. He had nearly gotten this scroll back then, but because of his bad luck he missed the opportunity to get it.

Regardless of the next action in his plan, this technique was necessary to get.

He lowered his sword and looked back at Babasha: “I’m borrowing these things for a while, are you fine with it?”

Rather than borrowing them, it was more like robbing. But this witch was not something of a good person either, so he did not feel guilty about it. But with a simple line, Babasha knelt onto the floor with a thudding sound, lowering her forehead until it touched the ground and said:

“The black prophecy said, only the Dragon of Darkness is able to see all the secrets of a witch. All methods that are used before are nothing than mere tricks. The ancestor of Miirna, you have returned—”

This time Brendel and Ciel were stunned.