A dimensional crystal lapis blue punch. The punch wasn’t a solid matter. It wasn’t a crystal elemental power.
It just appeared ethereal with a micro-glassy crystal texture that made it look dimensionally mysterious.
This punch struck Almond’s Unveiled Catastrophe—the overpowering destructive void slash and…
*Crack…Shatter!*
The catastrophic slash was shattered like a glass shattered by an elephant’s stomp.
“Damn, this too?!” Almond clicked his tongue. “The power of your Sorcery Breaker is crazy.”
“You brat…” Admiral Rudra wiped the sweat off his forehead. “You made me go serious with that shit. I have more stats and mastery in everything, so of course, I can shatter that attack too, that was given in my view, but this attack of yours is fucking crazy.”
“And your stat stealing power on top of that…yeah, I know now exactly how to plan our game board.”
Almond laughed, “Well, I’m glad to make you serious, even for a short time.”
Admiral Rudra snorted, “I’ll have to up my game, or you’ll surpass me soon. Don’t worry, I’m getting my specialized class to Legendary rank before the Battlefield opens. My entire focus is on that.”
“What?! That’s cheating!”
“Cheating, my ass,” Admiral Rudra rolled his eyes. “Don’t you ever say that word in front of me, you brat. Your progress and classes are basically like cheating.”
“Cough…I acknowledge that.”
…
Admiral Rudra didn’t stay for long and left on his private jet after taking it out of his storage ring.
It was almost 10 PM now, and Natalia had also returned from the League of Firefly guild.
Lily had woken up an hour ago and was chilling at the moment, waiting for Almond, so the trio could eat once Natalia and Alfred finished cooking with the delicious and high-quality stuff Admiral Rudra gave them.
After the trio finished eating, they couldn’t just continue to relax.
Tomorrow was the party, so they didn’t want to enter any deep training or use items like Advanced Skill scrolls, insight stones, elemental imprint, or elemental insight slab, which could send them into training for a day or more.
They planned to begin the full dive training session after tomorrow’s party.
As such, Lily and Natalia began training to increase the level of their Mana techniques since their stats had increased, and they could progress further.
Almond, on the other hand, contacted Roken to find out about his blacksmithing status.
The good news was that Roken’s full focus on blacksmithing helped him a lot.
Roken told him that he was at an important phase of making a major breakthrough in his Runic Blacksmith items, and it was related to his specialty of the class, the Runes.
Almond sent him 10 million gold coins directly even though Roken didn’t ask for any, but Almond knew that this path required money to progress faster because materials to experiment on didn’t come free.
Roken gratefully accepted that and became more fired up, vowing to make the breakthrough soon and surprising Almond.
Cutting off the call, Almond thought while smiling, ‘That’s right. If you can use your Runic Enchantments on my spirit items, our items will become more powerful!’
Almond was aware of crazy products created by top families, particularly the Patel family and Smith family. Their items were more like one-time use and accessories, weapons, and such individualist items.
They were powerful, no doubt, way more than his because they had entire research teams and resources to make fundamental progress.
But he could create items with sets! The equipments! No other blacksmith had created sets as powerful as his, not to mention that only he could currently craft legendary items in a sense.
Admiral Rudra had told him about the artifacts as well and how they had become a source of great knowledge and research, but he wasn’t in the same market.
Almond aimed to become an exclusive supplier that could only produce a limited amount of items, and all of them depended on him to make them continue to exist.
‘But before spreading this to others, I will gear up my spirits,’ Almond’s eyes glinted. ‘If I have an army of strong subordinates completely loyal to me, I’d have more protection from nefarious eyes.’
‘Admiral will make sure I get to participate in S-rank dungeons for spirits. Farming dungeons won’t take long, but I only have seven days for now until the meeting and monthly event that will start, and then seven days more until the Battlefield of the Mightiest starts.’ Experience tales at empire
‘I have to make priorities.’
Almond looked at the list of important items that could make him powerful by training.
— Insight Stone x 2 (two others given to Lily and Natalia)
— Elemental Insight Selection Slab x 1
— Elemental Imprint Selection Box (L) x 1
— Growth type skill from Advanced skill scroll: Whispering Knowledge.
— Growth type skill from Advanced skill scroll: Waves of Frostheart Ocean.
— Growth type skill from Advanced skill scroll: Chrono Pulse of Radiant Heart.
— Unfettered Blade Mayhem Weapon Art Token.
Since Admiral was here, Almond had already opened his MVP chest to show him some stuff.
From it, he got the following items, including the Elemental Imprint Selection Box (L).
— 3 x Random Legendary Ore Materials.
— 3 x Random Legendary Herbs.
— Legendary-rank Gear Set (High-tier).
— 1 x Legendary Clay Slab Box (High-tier).
— 1 x Instant Learning Role-based Skill Selection Box (SSS).
— 5 x Grand Abyss Labyrinth Roulette Tickets.
‘Since I already opened the MVP here, I can open the 20 Labyrinth tickets in the party. That’d be more fun given the randomness of it and a chance to get something wonderful.’
‘Now, to prioritize what to learn….’ Almond knew what he had to do.
‘The most important one is Unfettered Blade Mayhem Weapon Art. The next most important that will boost my power are the Elemental Insight Selection Slab and Elemental Imprint Selection Box (L).
‘I have to make a choice now,’ Almond opened the Elemental Insight Selection Slab.
This slab could give him five options of elements, and he could select one to get an insight into it. There was a 0.01% chance to get Exotic Element as well, but he didn’t want it right now anyway since he wouldn’t be able to learn it anytime soon.
[Elemental Insight Selection Slab]
-Details: Each option of element here is a variant one, but whether you can acquire the variant version’s source within 24 hours depends on the user.
— Ice of Burning Blizzard —
— Sand of Vibrant Wave —
— Stone of Dancing Mirage —
— Wind of Lunar Tide —
— Flame of Velvet Spark —
‘I have to think ahead if I want to decide what to choose from this…’