638: Chapter 299 Alchemy 638: Chapter 299 Alchemy Upon arriving at the mountain estate, Leon did not rush to the Royal City.
Although it was not yet ti for Oran City to close its gates, it was already dark.
Their group was invited to a banquet by Princess Ines, so they decided to enter the city the next day to join the Avalon team that had already arrived.
The griffins were housed in pre-prepared enclosures by the princess’s servants.
After a brief rest and freshening up, Leon attended the banquet with Olivia and Kovis.
There weren’t many people at the banquet, only a few close aides around the princess, like Agatha, whom Ines introduced one by one.
When she ntioned the man in his thirties at one side of the long table—the mysterious high rchant, Mr.
Rody—Leon felt the na sounded sowhat familiar.
It was only when the princess ntioned that this high rchant, who had sponsored part of the funding and supplies for her father, hailed from Dragon Throat City in Bunelrots County, that Leon recalled his first encounter with Galliard two years ago.
That night, the hoodlums from Dragon Throat City who attempted to kidnap Galliard seed to be acting under “Mr.
Rody’s” orders to retaliate against the minstrel.
Looking at Mr.
Rody once more, Leon surmised that it was no re coincidence of similar nas.
From what he knew from the sheriff of Dragon Throat City back then, there should not be a second high rchant by this na.
Rody also realized sothing, politely and with a smile, he said, “I suppose you must be the Baron who helped send Galliard to prison two years ago…
Pendragon Knight of Selva, right?
Although the vile fellow still escaped from his cell, I believe I still owe you thanks.”
Leon was sowhat surprised that, despite having never t, the other party recognized him.
But then he understood, when they passed through Dragon Throat City years ago, they had not hidden their identities.
Neither Rody’s gang thugs nor the city’s sheriff were unaware of his na.
It wasn’t strange for Rody to find out after the fact.
Besides, Galliard’s two poems had spread the na “Snake Slayer of Selva” across the entire Orland Kingdom.
With the sa na and title prefixed by the place Selva, it was easy for the other party to identify him.
Of course, Leon was indifferent to the high rchant’s worldly manner of speaking, never ntioning his violent intervention to stop the kidnapping.
Though he knew little about the mysterious Master Galliard, he could at least be certain that a poet who selflessly aided Larian and Miss Magrina in eloping and who saved Lady Martha was not so wanton rouge luring married won without reason.
Leon had no intention of delving into Rody’s dostic affairs.
Since the mysterious Galliard had helped his wife escape back then, the matter seed resolved, their disputes none of his concern.
But regarding the incident, whether it was Galliard choosing to intervene or sending hoodlums to kidnap people, neither endeared the high rchant to Leon.
“…It indeed was , no thanks necessary.
I only hope you haven’t since used those scum for kidnapping, Mr.
Rody.
No matter how wealthy you are in Dragon Throat City, you are but a rchant without the right to privately seize and execute others.”
With his current status, Leon had no need for pretenses, bluntly advising the other party.
At the head of the table, Ines was puzzled by Leon’s sharp deanor.
“Did you have a conflict?” Ines asked.
“Not exactly, Your Highness, just a small misunderstanding from the past.” Rody explained to Princess Ines, maintaining a polite smile, “Rest assured, Mr.
Leon, back then I was rely desperate to discover my wife’s whereabouts and resorted to so intense thods.
Now, I am a legitimate city councilor of Dragon Throat City and would never employ such underhanded ans again.”
Leon nodded, saying no more.
Regardless of the truth in his words, Dragon Throat City, as a chartered self-governing city-state, had its own laws, none of his concern, especially since Rody was Ines’s guest.
After the exquisite dinner prepared by Ines, before leaving, Leon heard a “good news” from the princess.
The female bard assassin, wanted for a past attempt to assassinate Lady Adelina, had been caught.
The only pity was that they did not capture her alive; they only recovered her body, leaving it impossible to interrogate the mastermind, whether it truly was the Athias Empire as rumored.
Reportedly, the female poet tried to escape Orland’s borders at the seaport in Bunelrots County when soldiers from Dragon Throat City identified her, but she committed suicide under pressure during a surrounding capture.
This good news would likely elate Lord Eriv if he were still around.
Now, only Wizard t, who once sought to incite war between the Thorny Flower and Gray Wolf clans and whom Canis daily wished to slay personally, remained at large, his whereabouts unknown.
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Resting comfortably at the princess’s estate, the next morning, Leon set out for Oran City with Olivia and Kovis, leaving the inconvenient Death Claw to rest with Ines,
Entering the bustling capital, they saw the streets crowded with the hustle and bustle of people.
The ancient, wide streets were paved with smooth stone slabs that shone with a gentle luster under the test of ti.
Along the noisy streets of carriages and people stood various buildings and shops, different in style yet complenting each other.
As the date of the Knight Tournant hosted by the king approached, the lively scene in the Royal City peaked, with people pouring into the city from all over the kingdom and even neighboring countries, making the bustling streets sowhat crowded.
Last night, Ines ntioned that over a thousand knights had co to participate in the tournant, and registering the knights took up quite a bit of the officials’ ti in charge of organizing the tournant.
Not only because Lydwen III’s call was extensive, with nurous knights participating, but also because only those with knight titles could join the Knight Tournant.
To prevent impostors, the Royal Coat of Arms Institute in Oran City had to verify each participant’s emblem and lineage.
Knights from outside the Orland Kingdom required endorsents from at least three nobles for their title to count.
As judges, the herald officer and royal knights also needed to ticulously inspect the armor and competition weapons brought by each knight to ensure they t standards, to check if anyone tried to cheat or use overly dangerous equipnt.
Penetrating deeper into the city, Leon and his companions t Lokhak, who had been in the Royal City for so days, at the residency near the Great Arena in Oran City;
After confirming that the magic verification device was intact, he did not rush to register or see the king at the palace but first went to visit the Alchemy Guild he was so eager to see.
The Alchemy Guild was located in a peripheral district far from the Royal City center, with royal guards patrolling the periter, making it inaccessible for ordinary civilians.
However, with identity docunts and emblem proof handwritten by Ines, Leon was easily granted passage.
Constructed with dark gray monuntal stones, the guild’s massive brass doors were inscribed with ancient and mysterious words that were incomprehensible to ordinary people.
Leon could read them; they were aphorisms written in the Lorelette Language.
Inside, the structure’s grand hall was vast, with statues of distinguished alchemists throughout the ages neatly arranged at the sides, emanating an air of solemnity.
The alchemy studied by the Orland people was fundantally no different from the early chemical research on Earth in his previous life, both involving the exploration of material transformation and the essence of elents via experints, observation, and the wisdom gleaned from predecessors.
Only, Earth’s alchemy lacked the energy elents and special materials like the magic elent present in this Otherworld’s nature, resulting in limited achievent.
However, in this Otherworld, alchemists achieved far more than their Earth counterparts in corresponding historical periods.
In many places in the Northern Kingdom, even the ordinary urban populace could enjoy daily cleaning products invented through alchemy.
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