Chapter 12: Making Money.
After Zagan's little duel, he got very hungry so he left Annabelle on the training grounds and went on ahead to eat his breakfast.
"Arnold, what should I have for breakfast today?", Zagan asked.
"I believe something light and green would be best for your highness, considering the fact that you are still growing.", Arnold replied.
"Hmm. Bring me what you described to my room. I don't have the energy to talk with any of my family members today.", Zagan commanded.
"As you wish, your highness.", Arnold replied and left Zagan's side to go to the nearest kitchen, which was quite far away from Zagan's room.
The Crimson palace had at least 100 kitchens, as the palace was so big. Bringing food from one kitchen to a room that's on the other side of the palace would take at least 20 minutes, and the food will get cold. There are magic items that keep that from happening, but the food no longer stays fresh, and loses its aroma.
After a few minutes of walking, Zagan made his way back to his room.
'*Sigh... now that Annabelle's out of the way, I can now focus more on the maters on hand. And that is money. I need a filthy amount of money if I want my future plans to work. And for that, I already know a few methods by which I can get the money.', Leon thought.
'There should be an undiscovered dungeon a few hours away from the crimson palace. If I can monopolize that dungeon, I'll get myself a huge chunk of money. Its not gonna be enough, but I can use that money, flip some items from auctions and gather more money. I need a steady income, after all.'
The dungeon Leon is thinking about is situated a few hours north-west from the imperial capital. Its located in a forest neighboring the 'Vierrn' City. The dungeon is occupied by a high-level demon. The name of that dungeon was 'Lost Gate' dungeon. The name was because the dungeon had lost its connection to the demon world, or in other words, the 'Rift' connecting the dungeon to the demon world was broken and it was abandoned by Asmodeus.
'If that dungeon is still unlooted, there should also be some very good artifacts there.', Leon thought.
If the artifacts are good, he should be able to sell them to Annabelle's family. After all, they're a family whose whole business is selling artifacts.
'Also, now that I have Zagan's body, and his personality, the demon's annoying debuffs and mind-type magic won't work. With the help of the Demilich and Caster's blessing, I should be able to defeat it...', Zagan thought.
Currently, with Caster's blessing and the Demilich, Zagan's firepower was equivalent to a 6th circle mage. Combine that with some buff potions, and Leon's got himself a monstrous mage.
'Right. Potions. I need to have potions if I want to stand a chance against that demon.'
Even then, Zagan's firepower would only be equivalent to a 7th circle mage, while the demon is an 8th circle mage and has a 'Rage Mode' which temporarily gives it the power of a 9th circle.
The demon was still a lot weaker than the adult Zagan, though.
'The difference in firepower shouldn't be too much of a problem. I know its attack patterns after all.', Leon concluded.
'Its decided then. I'll get myself the potions I need and go to the dungeon next week.'
In the meantime, Arnold had come back from the kitchen.
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"Arnold, I'm planning to go to the Sorcery Tower today. Can I do that?", Zagan asked.
"Yes, you can, your highness. I'll call the escort right away, your highness.", Arnold Replied.
'I want the best possible potions for the dungeon raid. And, the alchemist that will make those potions is currently struggling with her research and financial circumstances. I can invest in her and later when she becomes famous, I can then reap my profits. I can also make her work directly under me in the future too... haha! two birds, one stone.', Leon thought.
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After Zagan was done eating, he got up, wore his mage's armor. It was never a good idea to go into the sorcery tower without your armor. Not because of assassination attempts, but because the mages and alchemists there always do some kinds of experiments whenever they get free time, and if you're unlucky, you might get caught in some random fool's failed experiment's by product, which is often times, an explosion.
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Zagan reached the Sorcery tower in under an hour. The Tower was at least as big as a 40-floor tall building. It was made out of GrayStone, a type of building material which was similar to cement, but much lighter and stronger.
There were intricate designs and a lot of flags of different colors hanging from the sides of the tower. They were the flags of the factions in the tower. Each faction had different fields of study. There was the 'Fire', 'Wind', 'Water', 'Earth' factions who did research on their respective elemental magics. There were also the 'Teleportation' and 'Gravity' factions, but they were quite small in size as there was not much to research and invent. The others were the 'Dark Magic' and 'Light Magic' factions, who did research on those elements. Alchemists and Runesmiths didn't have a specific faction, as their studies often times included all kinds of magic.
Most of the common spells and 'Spell Templates' in the world was created by this Tower's mages and sorcerers.
'It feels so weird to be here in real life right now...', Leon thought as he recalled the quest where the player had to massacre the residents inside the tower as they had all been brainwashed and were being used by the demons.
'Losing the Sorcery Tower will be a very big hit to the entirety of humanity, and even the other races.', Leon thought.
'Well, that won't happen, as the Sorcery tower will be protected by me... I absolutely need the mages and alchemists here. They will be my precious pawns in the battlefield, after all...'
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