Grand Opening!
"It is a small step for me-" I said and looked at the crowd in front of me. "But a big one for people!" I opened the door of a 33-floor cylindric building.
It has been more than a month since I declared my decision to open Information Trove. The news exploded in the city in one night, and in a week in the kingdom. Everything said on that night was unprecedented. Thus, they created a deafening effect on the ears heard of them.
Body Tempering Potion, aka, Impurity Cleansing Bathwater, was a legendary medicine that could only be found in the secret realms before. But now, with Information Trove, that medicine's formula could be found in the newly created organization. And all one had to pay was information.
Of course, it wasn't that easy, and people know of it. Such a legendary medicine formula couldn't be bought with random knowledge. The corresponding level of information was at least a dozen of cultivation technique above the Rare level or a few Epic level skill manual, which was expensive.
In this one month, many people came to the 'my door' and tried to flatter me. Most of them wanted to know the price of the legendary manual, but all of them left empty-handed.
The building has 33 floors, corresponding to 33 ranks of information. The legendary manual I am giving away is level 15, and if there is anyone who can afford, the manual for Impurity Cleansing Ointment is level 25. But these are because of their rareness. If the same organization were to working in outer space, these two medicines would be level 5 at most.
I was really excited to get all those secret skills powerhouses of this City even the world were keeping away from everybody. Matching the elements would be close to impossible, but there was insight in even a stone, so studying the skills of other elements would help me to create similar skills in my elements.
To avoid giving away my secret base, because I had tons of followers lately, I rent another building to stay not far away from the Alchemist Association. I could leave under the shade of my Combo Element and see my girls from time to time.
Girls were doing fine in this one month. They already settled in their school and started to level up really quickly. The school was good at teaching with all subjects, so, all three of them progressed tremendously.
In this one month, I wasn't sitting still either. I cracked the secret of my new Combo Element and learned how to use it effectively.
[Combo Element: Eternal Shade
Level: 11
Description: What is eternal? Is the universe Eternal, or is God Eternal? None of them are, but your shades are.]
Through my combo element, I can place shades anywhere I want that never vanishes. At first, I wasn't clear of its uses, but when I tried to use the skill with my Shadow Element, I was successful. It means, through the eternal shade, I can always create Shadow blades, or use other Shadow Elements skills.
After leveling up to 11, Shadow and Eternity Elements also got second skills.
[Shadow Element
Level:11
Description: A shadow is a dark area where light from a light source is blocked by an opaque object.
Techniques;
Shadow Blade: Creates blade through mana in form of a blade. Its length, thickness, and strength are dependent on the element's level, and mana supplied.
Shadow Clone: Can create one or more clones through shadow. Clone can only be in the shape of a shadow. After the clone is created, it will still look like a shadow. It cannot help you learn techniques faster. Its strength and cast time are dependent on the element's level, and mana supplied.]
[Eternity Element
Level:11
Description: Time independent.
Techniques;
Stay longer for me, please: By willing your mana to anything will fade away, you can make it exist for longer. Mana consumption depends on the thing you want to keep in the material world.
Stay away, forever: You can keep things away from the material world, forever. You cannot banish them, but already banished things cannot return, forever. FOREVEERR!]
Eternity Elements skill still required further testing because, at this stage, I had no idea how they worked, but they sounded strong. The second Shadow skill, on the other hand, looked useful. It wasn't saying a person shadow, so I tested it with a sword in hand, and I was able to create shadow support forming in my other hand. Its strength, when supplied significant mana, was stronger than the original sword itself.
Creating a living being through shadow required more mana than lifeless objects. Another important point was that when I cast the skill on other creatures' shadows that were hostile to me, the shadows would also attack me.
I learned it in a hard way when I was fighting with some shady characters. It wasn't all peaceful last month. There were many people who wanted to get the manuals in a 'more direct way' than exchanging with information. Of course, they had to be 'handled.' By handling them I earned quite a few useful cores at level 11 and above. Especially assassins hired to kill me were mastered at killing or shadow arts were godsent. I almost wanted them to want to kill me more, so I could gain more.
Unfortunately though, after clearing a few waves, they stopped sending more. They must have thought, my master is protecting me.