LOOKING FOR CAULDRONS IN AN ALIEN WORLD
LOOKING FOR CAULDRONS IN AN ALIEN WORLD
"Rings of Growth"
Magic vines were conjured from me that went through Boris' magical net toward him, entangling him, pushing him high in the air.
The audience and also Boris were all stunned by the magical vines that grasped him, trapping him like a helpless animal with no means of escape.
"There is a difference between your net and my conjured vines", I told Boris who was now entangled by my vines.
"What is the difference?" those who witnessed our fight asked me although Boris couldn't say a word.
"While your net can trap me, it does nothing besides that. My vines can trap and strangle you at the same time", I informed Boris as my vines strangled him.
There was no way Boris could escape from my tough vines while he was being trapped. At the same time, the vines were also constricting and strangling him with the force of my templar magic.
"Vines of Constriction"
"Do you yield?" I shouted out to Boris who was gasping for breath.
"I...I surren..der", Boris replied with a feint sound before I released him from my magical vines.
"Noten family wins"
Amelia and Hugo quickly came to help me out of the nets from Boris and congratulated me on my victory.
"Can I keep the Gauntlet of Earthquake?" I asked Amelia.
"I'll give you a discount for it", Amelia replied to me with a smile.
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After obtaining a Hunting License from Antenne Town Hall, Amelia organized a Hunting Team under Caelum, the new Master Hunter of the Noten family.
My father Kechum was busy too as he was in charge of making all the traps and ropes for the hunters.
Caelum's team couldn't hunt powerful creatures in Slowan village because they had few gears on them. With the support of the Noten family, Caelum's team now have the best weapons and armor that could capture or kill even Venus tiered creatures.
After a month, Noten's hunter team started to bear results as we managed to hunt many Mercury and even Venus Tiered creatures from the Antenne forest next to the town.
The Noten family hired my Potion and Poisons teacher as a consultant to manage our newly set up Apothecary, specializing in making gathering incense.
Although the setup was successful the yields from the Apothecary were meager.
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"Is there a way to increase the yields from the Apothecary?", I asked Madam Bettywise.
"I'm afraid not, because the cauldrons we have couldn't withstand high magical heats, so the yields are reduced and the effectiveness as well but that is the same across the industry. We just don't have good enough cauldrons in Nymera kingdom", Madam Bettywise told us and complained.
Madam Mettywise's mention of cauldron reminded me of something.
"Have you heard of an Oritell Cauldron?" I asked her.
"Nope I've never heard about such a cauldron before", she replied to me.
In my previous life, there were also Apothecaries there. These apothecaries wanted good and strong cauldrons that could withstand immense heat.
At that time, my previous life had a venture with the best smiths and artisans in his world and we made steel cauldrons that could withstand immense heat and definitely more heat than the fire put into the cooking of potions.
"What are you suggesting Orion?" Amelia asked me after hearing about my interests in cauldrons.
"I don't know if the cauldron is still available", I replied to her.
"Available, where? I'll send a caravan to purchase as many of those cauldrons that we need", Amelia told us.
"It's not easy getting there", I replied to her.
"There isn't a place in Nymera that I've never been to tell me", Hugo asked me and bragged.
"It's in another world, through a magic portal", I replied to him, and he quickly became silent.
"Is there such a thing as magic portals? I thought those only exist in the advance kingdoms on the hinterland", Hugo asked me after a short pause.
"There is and we can make a trip to Pallantium. We may have some luck over there", I told Amelia.
"Where is Pallantium?" Amelia asked me.
"Pallantium is another world that could only be reached through a magic portal, and they have advanced Apothecary magic in that world. We can travel there to source for advanced Apothecary equipment", I told Amelia.
"If there really is such a place as Pallantium, I would come with you too", Madam Bettywise told us.
"Of course, we need you to source the ingredients that we need", I replied to her.
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It took a short time to set up an expedition team and we reached the Sacred Garden of Pallantium in about two weeks. But the Sacred Garden was on a mountain cliff that was inaccessible to the flat ground.
We built long rope ladders that could climb down the cliff on the Sacred Garden and from there we followed a map in my mind. I've been to this place before in my previous life and those memories were intact in me.
"How do you even know about this world if nobody has ever come over here?" Hugo asked me.
"I've been told by my Conjurer Master, he travels far and wide", I replied to him the only plausible reason that he could accept.
"Why do I feel like I've lost weight although my belly didn't seem to get any smaller?" Hugo asked me.
"There is magic in this world that makes us faster and stronger", I replied to him, the easiest explanation that he could accept.
In reality, Pallantium was another world, another planetary body actually.
The gravity here was far weaker than in the world of the Ten-Kingdoms, so moving around here was a breeze for us because we felt so light. We could even outrun horses in this world if we exerted ourselves.
This was one of the interplanetary worlds that my previous life journeyed to before and the memories of him in this world were rushing back to me.
It didn't take long for us to reach Tanner city, the city that my previous life did business in before. He sold many Oritell cauldrons to the shops in this city and I hoped to find one or two of them that remains.
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