The Runic Alchemist - Chapter 781: A Squire’s Journey Back to Her Master 2
Chapter 781: A Squire’s Journey Back to Her Master 2
Lumi was invited to the villa along with her family after the short question-answer session ended with the beautiful transcendent.
She wasn’t anyone Lumi knew. Out of the five Sanctuary third rankers, only Lady Souldealer was a stranger to her. There was no need to ask. For a second, Lumi thought maybe older Lady Einar, but then the long, flowing, blonde hair dissipated the thought.
’I wonder what the older Lady Einar and Princess Evrin look like..’
Lady Souldealer asked them to wait as she sent a message through one of the guards. After giving the small piece of paper, the gorgeous Lady sat down behind a desk. Lumi and her father exchanged glances, not sure what to do. Lady Souldealer had activated some strange runic device or spell, and it looked like she was touching the status-like thing. How could that be possible?
’Oh, it’s one of those things people were using in the town.’
It was the most interesting thing Lumi had seen since she had entered this packed town; it wasn’t the only thing, though. The high walls, light blue statues placed every few streets that released pure water at just one push of a lever, the advanced public washrooms Lumi had heard about even in her old town, these were all things that made her wonder just how many things Damian had made in just little over a month.
Just as she was thinking this, a picture came into her mind: a towering, enormous runic steel giant that could break mountains with a single punch.
If he could make that in less than a year, when there was a serious lack of steel or dungeon materials, what could the brilliant creator build in a few years with all the world’s resources at his hand?
It made her wonder if choosing the mage path for herself was really a good decision or not. She had always loved the runic arrays and all the structured rules they had, using which brilliant runesmiths made wonderful runic tools. Damian, however, had even taken a step forward and made the runic tools available for even mundane humans using his liquid mana.
Lumi remembered clearly all those conversations Sam, Evrin, Sariel, and others had whenever Damian was not around. Especially after the Pigman War, they all knew how powerful Damian was, but seeing just how easily he could create thousands and thousands of insanely powerful weapons and giant runic machines was just something else. She remembered the line Sam had said back then,
’I would choose to fight that demon lord over Damian anytime, just thinking about that bastard as an opponent gives me chills.’
After a few seconds, Lady Souldealer closed the strange status window and asked Lumi some more questions. Some very personal questions that Lumi was surprised to hear from a stranger’s mouth. Lumi answered everything truthfully and waited patiently as the third ranker got busy with her own work, ignoring Lumi and her father.
Some ten minutes later, the guard from earlier returned. A Sanctum official was with him. Lady Souldealer finally looked up,
“Give this girl and her family a Sanctum ID. Inform her how to reach Snactuary city.”
The Snactum official was surprised, but even more surprised were Lumi and her father. She had thought she would have to do a lot of convincing for them to send a message on behalf of her to one of the people she knew from the dungeon. Then she would have to stay in the town for some time to get the response. How did it happen so fast?
“You… talked with him?” Lumi asked without thinking much and then immediately regretted it. Her father also tightened his grip on her shoulder.
No matter how close she was to the Lord Keeper, disrespecting a transcendent was no joke at all. Thankfully, however, Lady Souldealer didn’t seem to mind her question. She stopped them from frantically bowing in apology and looked at Lumi with amusement in her eyes.
“What did you mean by I talked to him?” The lady asked.
Lumi hastily replied, “The questions were too personal, and I think I saw my lady writing on the new runic tool? I am not sure about the working of the new runic tool I just saw today. I sincerely apologize for my rude question.” Then, with a smile on her face, Lumi added, “I did once hear him mutter something about making a fast communication device.”
“He did, huh? Back then?”
Lumi nodded.
Lady Souldealer nodded slightly, gesturing for her and others to leave. But before Lumi could step out of the highly decorated room, she heard her name being called,
“Luminisha,”
Her eyes met with the alluring lady.
“After settling in the Sanctuary, come find me in the Sanctum. I might have something of interest to you.”
With a mind full of a jumble of thoughts, Lumi mindlessly nodded and followed behind the officials. Still, a smile lingered on her face. She will finally get to meet all of them again. Wonder what that dumber, junior Sunblade was doing.
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[Runic lab, Sanctum building, Damian’s POV.]
Damian closed the receiver window with a faint smile on his face.
At least one of them had returned. Damian had expected some of them to come back by now. Lumi was on top of that list. With the academy starting soon, it would be nice for Lucian and others if there were a few familiar faces around.
Kamisen, Evante, and others, he wasn’t sure if they would come find him as well; he indeed needed more people he could put to work in Sanctum. The person he could use the most was actually someone who would understand some of his theories and projects. Like Vidalia, Sariel, and Reize.
Damian sighed, finally placed the spell in the heated metal, and stepped back along with Jacob.
The high-speed flying vessel was not a simple thing to make at all. In his designs, it had hundreds of runic parts working in perfect synergy with each other. Damian did not want to limit himself at all in this project, so he used full Sacrium to build the slim and angular fighter jet.
It would be a lie if he said this wasn’t the project he had put more brainpower than necessary into, making it an overkill runic machine. He had enjoyed every single second of it.
