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Chapter 222

Looking at how the morning started Ajax would have assumed that the positive or negative reaction to his discovery would be the biggest change he would see in his interaction with his fellow students. Well it turns out that said statement was a little more than half right.

That is to say that as Ajax walked down the street beside Benedict and Rick he was quickly made aware of another massive change in his position when it came to nobility, one that he hadn’t taken into consideration w...

Chapter 221

The following morning Ajax was no closer to the design of a sigil for his new house and to be honest he wasn’t even inclined to try his hand at it. Despite the training he had as an architect back on Earth he knew that creativity was not his strong suit. Therefore before Ajax left along with most everyone else from the family he had a request to make after breakfast.

“Hey, dad.” Ajax said as he put away the last of the plates. “Can I leave the house sigil design to you, creativi...

Chapter 220

While Kate and Tom were being welcomed slowly both Alana and Judy were having a hard time keeping up. They had spent most of their trip making plans of how establishing their temporary headquarters would go once they finally arrived but the age old saying kept true. No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

All of the other merchant organizations had kicked their interference into high gear. Under most circumstances a new face trying to make their way in the capital would provide t...

Chapter 219

While Ajax, Silvia and Sam were busy trying to get a handle on the mess that was the relationship the rest of the family would have with Ajax’s grandparents, everyone else was busy receiving their welcome into the capital.

Kate’s welcome was by far one of the most welcoming any commoner had ever received when first arriving in the capital. While the Healing Union was under the control of the royal family in all but name, that fact wasn’t a well known fact for the common people. Th...

Chapter 218

A/N : Bit of a longer chapter today, but I didn't want to draw it out into two chapters and still wanted to cover a few aspects from this P.O.V

Silvia P.O.V.

Waking up in the foreign room felt weird and the feeling didn’t change regardless of how often I had gone through it in the last year. As I stretched out my arms I could feel Sam still asleep next to me. Yesterday had been a long day that went even longer with the welcoming party. I was so tired that I didn...

Chapter 217

On the way back the entire family was gathered around Ajax as they intently listened to how he spent his time in the capital. As all of them listened to everything that he had gone through they congratulated him on all that he had already managed to achieve. All of them had been left speechless as the idea that the title he was gifted would most likely be upgraded into a ducal title in a decade but overall this was a great opportunity for the family.

Judy and Alana were especially happy...

Chapter 216

Ajax spent the rest of the day burning through his mana and stamina before heading back home and making the final preparations for his family. According to the schedual they were following they should arrive sometime towards tomorrow evening and Ajax was planning to head out early in the morning to meet them on the way and join them for the last leg of the journey.

While the training he didn’t didn’t take all that much focus Ajax was concentrated more on what his new noble title wou...

Chapter 215

As Ajax got up the next morning he quickly made his way towards the Academy, according to his grandparents his family would arrive sometime tomorrow afternoon or evening so he had already discussed with both professor Silvertongue as well Balthazar to get some free time. Both Professor Silvertongue and Balthazar were very understanding of the situation, as such the former made sure not to set up a dungeon delve for Ajax in this cycle and even allowed him to miss the class scheduled delve in t...

Chapter 214

Ajax P.O.V

The last seven days had blurred together as I pushed myself to stay awake working deep into the night every day making sure that I had all I needed to publish the discovery in my name and ensure I would get the rewards for doing so. The biggest obstacle to this was the simple fact that we were in the school day part of the cycle so half of my day was spent in class learning or in the training yard.

My main helper throughout all this was Balthazar, the old man had sped u...

Chapter 213

Ajax had only read the contents of the letter late at night after he had just finished emptying his mana into the trees on his plot of land so he decided to sleep on it and deal with the upcoming rush in the morning, not only that he also knew that he needed the time to calm down a little before he did something rash.

The next morning Ajax quickly dropped by the woodworker who made his beehives and ordered quite a few beds be made and delivered to his two sister houses, afterall the onl...

Chapter 212

Silvia P.O.V.

We were all done packing and by the end we had more than a few of the wagons from the caravan filled up just with the things from all of the things we had decided to take from our personal homes. The rest of the wagons were of course filled up with everything else Alana and Judy decided to take with them in hopes of turning a big profit in the capital.

This made the news we had gotten two days ago a very messy affair to celebrate and would turn our first few years in...

Chapter 211

For the last few months Ajax started to settle in with his new routine as well as his time at the academy. One thing he wasn’t too happy about, but that he could understand, was that he wouldn’t always have a dungeon delve during his free period of every cycle. He did however get two more delves with the crafting team.

During these delves he learnt that his strongarming of the Silvertongue house hadn’t gone quite as well as he had expected. Because Nina was going to be focused on ...

Chapter 210

A/N : Happy fourth of July to all of you!

For the first time in a while Ajax felt his muscle strain under the weight on his back, the oddest part of the feeling was that the ground wasn’t sinking beneath his feet. As someone who studied architecture back on earth the foundation was an extremely important part of a building yet somehow it seemed the ground here wasn’t affected by extreme weight.

This came as a shocking surprise to him since he had seen large cr...

Chapter 209

All in all the delve seemed like it would be particularly barren, the only truly worthwhile things gained being the experience and equipment that they collected from the previous floor. Ajax however wasn’t content with that, mostly because he had sensed a particular lack of magic inside the lava pond and he wanted to know what was there. There was only one issue, he couldn’t exactly dive in the magma to get it.

After explaining the issue to Trevor the man got the mages to go on a sm...

Chapter 208

Ajax P.O.V

For once everyone had gotten a good night’s sleep and I felt refreshed as I got up and started getting ready. Since we knew which direction the salamanders were going to be coming from we formed a small moat in that direction and covered it with some rocks, inside the moat we had placed all of the poison sacks we had collected from the scorpions. Ideally we would have tossed the poison sacks at the salamanders but that presented too much of a risk as having one rupture duri...

Chapter 207

The furnace salamanders were waddling out of the lava but their speed took a severe hit as they finally clawed their way up the rocky edge. From there their round forms didn’t allow them to make fast enough progress so the team managed to put enough distance between themselves as to disengage before either side managed to get a blow off. The mages simply took a moment to raise an earth wall before they also retreated quickly.

“What rotten luck. Not only do we get an environmental fl...

Chapter 206

Out of the entire team of young talents the healer was the one most shocked to see Ajax go to heal the bear. He was busy but now that he finished with the skull fracture nobody else had any lethal wounds, there were some crippling wounds that he will be taking care of for the rest of the night and a good chunk of tomorrow but there was no way he could ignore something like this.

Most healing magic was either buried in a deep vault of a noble family or under the protection of the Healing...

Chapter 205

Fighting on the eighth floor of the Goldmine was completely different to the other times Ajax had been in the dungeon. The closest he could get to it was when he first started going into the dungeon back in Lessis, but even then The Collectors had a bigger level and skill lead compared to the creatures that showed up, now however most of the party was on the low level range for entering this floor and they were pushing their skills to make up the difference.

The biggest thing Ajax notic...

Chapter 204

Ajax was forced to make a very difficult decision. On the one hand he could try and warn the team about the magma mana he felt when he siphoned the arch and this would most like lead to a much safer run if they were to take a different arch. On the other hand revealing something like this wasn’t something to be done on a whim. In the first place it would basically be outing that he had a Legendary skill as Rare skills weren’t hard to find when u had a kingdom’s worth of people and none ...

Chapter 203

One of the biggest new things Ajax had found out in his days of relaxation was the mana limit the trees that had been planted on his patch of land had. All matter had a mana limit, some had it higher than others and living beings were dependent on their growth not only their species. The other big difference between organic and inorganic matter was that organic could be filled to its current upper limit in seconds with a strong enough source whereas doing so with inorganic matter wasn’t pos...

Chapter 202

By the time the whole floor was clear Ajax had managed to finish brewing over two hundred potions of restoration and a total of twenty batches of Bait. Out of all those creations Ten batches of Bait were even of inferior quality and the rest were failures, though that had more to do with the fact that he was substituting ingredients so that he would only use herbs found on the first floor of the dungeon. As for the regular potion he managed to create one hundred and forty of inferior quality,...

Chapter 201

Prince Xavier P.O.V

The first two days had gone well but quite as well as I had originally planned. About 80% of the monsters on the floor had already been killed by now and it came down to who would be able to hunt down those that remained. Most importantly however it seemed that half of the griffins were still alive somehow, simply flying above and choosing not to engage. If I could get two of them I’d be pleased but it wouldn’t be easy.

Goldmancer seems just as crafty as he...

Chapter 200

Benedict Steelblade P.O.V

All five groups were keeping their distance from one another as they huddled together going over their plan once again. This competition was going to be the first point of contention for class ranking. While this year wouldn’t be the most impactful, all the high nobles came from different backgrounds it will still affect the noble landscape.

Worse of all is that everyone had a somewhat decent chance to win. Out of their entire class the stand out strong...

Chapter 199

The research into [Curse slash] took a deep toll on Ajax’s stamina and most of his mana was spent on training with the mage instructor on controlling his intent and what remained after that was put into his plants.

On the upside his plants had already taken deep roots and some bushes were already starting to grow, it might only be a couple more months until all of them would start sporting flowers and his bees could get to work.

As for his research into the curse mana Ajax still...

Chapter 198

Evelyn of the Forth P.O.V

As much as I may personally hate admitting it there were some things where experience trumped all. The ability to spot potential and opportunities was one of them and despite some of my personal opinions one the walking relic Balthazar had gained a lot of experience in his nearly four millennia of living.

I was the second youngest leader of the royal squads, not only that but the only one younger than me was the leader of the tenth and he was a lot weaker...

Chapter 197

While Ajax was shocked at the implications he also realized that most of the power presented from this discovery wasn’t something that could be used by most mages as it required a level of scientific knowledge they would have access to. The second part was that the power bestowed by such means might also not be as strong as he first suspected it might be.

One of the first things he tested once he got strong enough was throwing a stone and hitting it like a baseball with a bat. The rea...

Chapter 196

“Dungeon crafting?” Professor Vilethorn raised an eyebrow in surprise. “Well that’s quite the leap from our last lesson, what prompted the change?”

“Need” Ajax answered. He also continued when he saw the gaze that invited him to. “The cost of the potions I will need in the future is something I most likely can’t afford. But if I am able to make them inside the dungeon using the abundance of materials in there that changes things.”

“It takes a lot of time and ...

Chapter 195

Ajax spent his last few free days getting used to working with his new alchemy equipment as well as tending to his plants by infusing them with mana. From the looks of it his first batch of honey should be ready around the same time that his first year at the Academy ends and they all go on their two month long school break.

As for the alchemy equipment it was all very high grade. It would be if he needed to pay three hundred and fifty gold even after the biggest discount they could giv...

Chapter 194

Aurora P.O.V

The day had already been full of ups and downs but from the tone of Ajax’s last words it seems we weren’t finished just yet. The boy was clearly full of surprises, his level and the fact that he knew so much about my [Analyze], it was an epic inspection skill mostly dedicated towards items than people but this was a first for me. The biggest issue was that I didn’t feel any resistance, whatever skill he had that had let him know about my own skill wasn’t strong enou...

Chapter 193

A/N : Sorry for the later and later publishing's as of late and the slow/no responses. My position at work is kind of gone so I am in training for the new position (Hurray for not getting fired due to downsizing) This does mean that for a little while longer I will be going to the office instead of working from home. The commute + learning the new job has left me with less time than I usually have. Hopefully I'll be back working from home by the end of next week.

Ajax h...