Inside the Adventurer's Guild.
President Bortkin took out an exquisite wooden box, opened it, and on the red cushion lay four Adamantite plates with a strong metallic texture and a faint blue-green luster.
Adamantite Plates!
They were made entirely from Adamantite , a high-grade metal material that has an affinity for magic and a hardness exceeding that of Orichalcum and Mythril. The material itself was extremely valuable.
"I hope Leader Minori can leave the 'Gold' ranked 'Free Will' plates in our Adventurer's Guild."
President Bortkin held the wooden box with both hands, his face solemn and emotional, and bowed deeply to Minori. Every movement was full of ceremony.
Facing the expectant gazes of countless adventurers around him.
"I understand."
Minori looked at President Bortkin, who was over 50 years old with some grey hair at his temples, and sighed softly.
He placed the two Gold ranked plates on the tray that the female attendant from the Adventurer's Guild had been holding.
"Strange, Captain usually doesn't wear gloves." Enri stood to the side, looking at Minori's hands, which were wearing light-colored gloves, with some confusion.
"It is an honor for our Holy Kingdom's Adventurer's Guild to be able to keep the 'Free Will' plates."
Seeing this scene, President Bortkin became even more emotional, his face beaming with a brilliant smile.
According to the Adventurer's Guild regulations, adventurers do not necessarily have to return their plates to the Guild after leveling up and changing them.
These plates also hold some commemorative significance for adventurers.
"Is that a 'Adamantite' plate? It's my first time seeing one."
"I heard that a small piece of that material is worth over 500 gold coins. These four Adamantite plates are worth... hiss, 2000 gold coins."
"Hmph! How can such things be measured in money?"
"Too bad, 'Free Will' isn't an adventurer from our Holy Kingdom, but from the Kingdom."
"I heard they already have a Adamantite adventurer team called 'Red Drop'."
"...!!!"
"Amazing, so the Kingdom already has two Adamantite ranked teams."
Intense discussions and fervent emotions filled the Adventurer's Guild. The adventurers were excited to witness this scene.
To be able to personally witness the birth of a Adamantite ranked adventurer team, for all adventurers, how could it not be a kind of luck!
Many adventurer teams even fantasized about becoming Adamantite ranked adventurers themselves, attracting widespread attention like 'Free Will' before them.
Minori picked up the four Adamantite plates from the red cushion in the wooden box. They felt slightly heavy, and the name of the 'Free Will' team was engraved on the front.
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He didn't recognize the words, but it didn't prevent him from guessing.
"Four of them, huh."
"I thought there would be two."
Minori muttered to himself.
The information he registered with the Adventurer's Guild actually only included two people, or rather, one person and one dog.
Although Enri and the Verdant Witch were considered members of 'Free Will' in the eyes of outsiders, in reality, according to the formal procedure, the true registered members of 'Free Will' were only two: Minori and Kuro.
"That's fine too."
Minori thought to himself and said to President Bortkin:
"There's a banquet at the VIP Building. It sounds like a celebration banquet, and I assume President Bortkin was also invited."
"Indeed, to be honest, I'm not very interested in such banquets." President Bortkin reluctantly moved his eyes away from the Gold ranked plates, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes smoothing out considerably.
"Since Leader Minori and Miss Enri also plan to attend, as the president of the Adventurer's Guild, I naturally won't be absent."
President Bortkin spoke with gentlemanly respect, then suddenly thought of something, his eyes shifting:
"I heard that nobles of all sizes from Kalinsha will attend, and perhaps even foreign nobles."
When he said the words "foreign nobles," President Bortkin's voice was noticeably lowered and emphasized.
"Then I shall take my leave." Minori understood, responded gently, and left the Adventurer's Guild with Enri.
The adventurers on both sides became more reverent and also more fervent in their emotions and gazes. Some even shouted for autographs.
Huh?
Minori's mouth twisted slightly, and he quickened his pace.
Indeed, in the future, he needed to spend some time learning the writing system of this world. He was currently relying entirely on "Interpretation Magic" to navigate the realm of semi-illiteracy.
After personally seeing Minori and Enri off, President Bortkin immediately rushed back to the Adventurer's Guild, ignoring the confused gazes of the adventurers.
"Put the original Gold ranked 'Free Will' plates in the most conspicuous place in the Guild!"
"Yes!"
"Put them on the wall directly opposite the main entrance, hang them there, with transparent glass decoration."
"What? You don't have any?"
"Go buy some immediately and have the craftsmen make them!" President Bortkin exclaimed excitedly.
With the plates left by the Adamantite ranked 'Free Will' hanging here, the Adventurer's Guild, which had a low sense of presence, would definitely improve!
The carriage moved forward—
Kuro controlled the bone chains, pulling the carriage, and began to head towards the VIP Building.
As for the so-called banquet.
Minori was equally uninterested. According to his previous way of doing things, after the Hill Incident was resolved, it would be time to leave the Holy Kingdom.
However, because of the "Fusion Potion."
He needed to handle it properly, and in the Hill Incident, he ultimately helped the demi-humans and stopped Kelart, which was bound to have some impact.
"'Fusion Potion,' Abelion Hills, demi-humans." Minori's eyes flickered slightly.
'Free Will' might need to fade out for a while. He needed to take some actions in secret, and also focus on the most important matter of leveling up.
While thinking.
Minori casually raised his arms and took off the light-colored gloves he was wearing. Pale blue magic surged out and injected into the gloves.
Gloves made of ordinary material simply couldn't withstand the power of magic.
His palms shook.
The two gloves turned into dust in his hands!
Minori clenched his fists and extended them out of the carriage window. He opened his palms, and the fine glove dust flew from his fingertips, dissipating into the air.
"Captain?"
Enri's light brown pupils were full of confusion and doubt.
Minori's fingertips moved slightly, feeling the cool evening breeze blowing between his fingers, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
"In magic, there is a magic called 'Object Location,' and many similar detection spells. Through an object, one can pinpoint the location of the user."
Minori spoke as he took out a Adamantite plate he had received from President Bortkin and handed it to Enri:
"Of course, there are certain conditions required for this, such as something the locator has carried for a long time."
"As an adventurer, if an enemy could locate your position through an object on you and set traps without your knowledge to launch targeted attacks, you would be in an extremely dangerous situation."
How could Minori not be prepared for an item like an adventurer's plate, which was clearly linked to him?
Upon hearing this, Enri's face suddenly became tense, and she immediately understood why the Captain had worn gloves.
He wanted to completely sever the connection with the 'Gold' plates!
Huh?
That didn't seem right either.
Enri seemed to have discovered something, opened her mouth, but then wondered if she was overthinking things.
"Are you thinking that temporarily isolating it with gloves doesn't make much sense?"
Seeing the conflicted look on Enri's face, Minori smiled and withdrew his hand that had been extended out of the carriage:
"Because those 'Gold' plates are fake."
"I troubled a craftsman last night to temporarily make them. Gold is a relatively soft material, much easier to craft than Adamantite."
From beginning to end.
Minori had never actually touched the two 'Gold' plates given to the Adventurer's Guild. Even the craftsman he temporarily found was done through "Charm."
If someone were to truly try to locate him through the 'Gold' plates in the future, they would only be located at an ordinary craftsman in "Kalinsha."
Detection and counter-detection were inherently a game of intelligence and information!
"If someone really does that in the future, it can indirectly provide some information."
This thought flashed through Minori's mind.
Of course, normal detection magic cannot locate items that have been away from the original user for too long.
However, this did not prevent Minori from being prepared. After all, the magic he knew was only a minority. Even if high-level magic couldn't do it, what about some Super-Tier magic?
Especially the most unique "Wish Upon a Star."
"I understand!" Enri nodded seriously, tightly clutching the Adamantite plate in her hands, her heart filled with excitement and happiness.
She had never been exposed to this kind of knowledge before, and now that the Captain told her, it meant he acknowledged her.
VIP Building.
Located in the center of the city, it was built very grandly. Although this city was a fortress city, it was also the only city in the Holy Kingdom that was a necessary passage for communication with the outside world.
Coupled with the fact that "Kalinsha" was a direct territory of the Holy King's family, the VIP Building naturally became a place to entertain nobles or important figures from other countries.
At this moment!
It was already evening.
The VIP Building was brightly lit. The perpetual lights on the walls and ceiling emitted a soft glow, illuminating the hall brightly.
Neatly dressed attendants shuttled back and forth in the hall, carrying food and wine glasses.
Gentlemen and ladies in formal attire were either dancing in the center of the hall, conversing in low voices, or drinking silently.
There were also people wearing armor and carrying weapons, their movements accompanied by the constant clinking of metal.
This was not a normal banquet; it should be considered a "celebration banquet," celebrating the resolution of the undead crisis in the hills.
That's right!
Most of the people present were surviving members of the Paladin Order and the Priest Order. There were also some nobles and important figures from "Kalinsha" in attendance.
Facing this disaster that had caused the loss of many comrades, although everyone was at the banquet, their mood and spirits were not very high.
This banquet came rather suddenly.
Enri sat in a corner, her gaze sweeping over the people at the banquet. She picked up a piece of fruit and took a bite; she was indeed a bit hungry.
Delicious!
The Captain was not at the banquet but had left with Captain Remedios.
Just as she finished a bite of fruit, someone else came over, and Enri could only reluctantly get up to deal with them.
She had already hidden in the corner...
"Enri, are you bored? How about we have a fight?" A rough voice sounded from the front, full of eager excitement.
"Mr. Orlando."
Enri saw the muscular, shaggy-bearded man walking towards her.
Adamantite raised his thick arm and swung it, his eyes full of anticipation.
"Well, I can't use that kind of strength right now, Mr. Orlando."
Enri refused. Many people at the banquet had inquired, and she had followed the Captain's instructions and said it was due to a natural anomaly.
"What a shame."
Orlando stared intently at Enri, who had no muscle definition and showed no signs of training, and shook his head in disappointment.
"Mr. Pabel, is he alright?" Enri asked softly.
"Don't worry, he's a strong man."
Orlando grinned, but there was still a hint of seriousness in his eyes.
"Oh."
Enri felt that Mr. Pabel must be very sad.
After all, his wife had died on the battlefield, which reminded her of something the Captain had mentioned earlier about "fate."
And at this moment.
On the upper floor of the banquet hall, in a luxuriously decorated room.
Kelartand Remedios, one curious and the other expressionless, looked at the 6 vials of potion on the table.
"This is what you called the 'Fusion Potion'." Kelart's eyes sparkled with brilliance.
Her return to "Kalinsha" this time was with the permission of Her Majesty the Holy Queen, who had given her considerable authority in this matter.
"These three bottles are the 'Fusion Potion.' I've already introduced the general effects earlier. There is a certain degree of danger."
Minori spoke calmly, then pointed to the other three bottles containing red transparent liquid:
"And these three bottles contain the blood of demi-humans, which are the materials used to refine the 'Fusion Potion'."
Upon hearing this.
Kelart's eyes showed surprise.
This precious potion, and the other party was actually revealing the materials used to refine it?
She had originally planned how to figure out the materials for the potion, and had already considered paying a hefty price for it.
"You will definitely try to research the potions you take. This is inevitable and not difficult to guess."
Minori chuckled and spread his hands, his gaze meeting Kelart's:
"I'll provide the materials directly to you. You can try to make the 'Fusion Potion' yourselves. If you can make it, then congratulations."
"If you can't make it, then we can continue our discussion, instead of doing useless probing like now."
Kelart's surprised expression was fleeting. The corners of her narrow eyes lifted, and she smiled sinisterly: "Heh, heh."
"Leader Minori is so confident, it seems you are certain that our Holy Kingdom cannot make it."
Minori did not speak, which in itself represented a response.
"Bang!" A sound rang out!
"Hey! Is the matter of stopping the elimination of the demi-humans just going to be left at that?" Remedios saw Minori and Kelart talking and laughing and slammed the table forcefully.
Kelart remained silent, her gaze fixed on the three vials containing demi-human blood, lost in thought.
"It seems Captain Remedios doesn't understand." Minori said lightly.
"What do you mean?" Remedios said angrily.
"I am an alchemist, an alchemist who is skilled in using demi-human blood to refine potions."
As Minori spoke, his gentle expression disappeared, and he said coldly: "This is my purpose and reason!"