"As expected, Olen is using an Arcane Imprint to monitor the Stitched Monster.
And that Arcane Imprint must be hidden deep within the heart!"
After confirming the news, Roy couldn't help but feel relieved.
Fortunately, he had the presence of mind to suggest sharing the spoils with Raymond!
Following the usual line of thought, one might have used a Blackening Potion to dissolve the Stitched Monster and then attempted to extract Magic Stones from its Wizardry Energy.
However, wary of Olen and lacking the proper tools, it would have been difficult to carry out such a time-consuming and labor-intensive operation in the wilderness.
Thus, he chose to make a deal with Raymond.
"Raymond didn't know the peculiarities beforehand and wouldn't be able to process the heart immediately, so he might end up getting stuck.
No, I need to hurry back to avoid getting splattered with blood!"
To avoid running into Olen and his group and getting killed on the way, Roy deliberately took a detour, avoiding the more dangerous areas.
Traveling day and night, he finally made it back safely.
Lying on his bed at home, Roy let out a long sigh of relief and truly relaxed.
He rested well and didn't start taking stock of his gains until the next morning.
A "Preservation Art," a "Spirit Communication Art"...
These were insights he had extracted from the belongings of two intermediate apprentices.
However, these were not Inherited Sorceries but rather minor spells more inclined towards practical applications.
After Spiritual Materialization, they were easy to learn and could only be considered trivial gains.
Various bone powders, potions, and the like, he didn't quite understand and wasn't interested in.
What truly deserved attention was the Necromantic Life Absorption Technique given by Raymond, as well as a windfall of 7500 Magic Stones!
"That guy really is loaded..."
Thinking of this, Roy couldn't help but smile.
There was no rush to practice the Necromantic Life Absorption Technique; he could take his time with it later.
What he was considering now was something else.
Spending this windfall!
...
Not long after, Roy arrived at the tower's shop, ready to purchase a Storage Wizardry Artifact!
He had been coveting such an item for a long time and never thought he would be able to fulfill this wish ahead of schedule.
"Esteemed sir, are you in need of a Storage Wizardry Artifact?"
The shop's attendant apprentice approached, speaking with respect.
"Indeed," Roy nodded.
The attendant apprentice said, "The Storage Wizardry Artifacts we sell, including Dimensional Pouches and Spatial Rings, are all spatial tools that can connect to other dimensions, allowing the storage and retrieval of items using Mental Strength.
Among them, Spatial Rings are more advanced and convenient than Dimensional Pouches, and we highly recommend purchasing one."
Roy nodded silently.
His original plan was to buy a Dimensional Pouch if he hadn't saved enough Magic Stones by December, settling for the second best.
Such items have limitations in capacity and weight and cannot prevent items from decaying.
But if he had enough Magic Stones, of course, a Spatial Ring would be more convenient and practical.
It offers additional features that Dimensional Pouches lack, such as shockproofing, preservation, and mental control.
The lowest-tier Spatial Ring is worth over 10,000 Magic Stones, and just the feature of mental control alone can enable weapon switching, convenient potion drinking, continuous throwing, and more, making it an essential magical tool for noble Spellcasters on their travels.
Take dealing with the Stitched Monster, for example. If cost were no object, preparing a large number of Alchemy Bombs inside could potentially blow it to pieces.
After the event, one could also collect the remains and recycle them as miscellaneous items.
But without such convenient tools, one could only sigh in despair.
Unlike most people who would choose to buy directly, Roy decided to take a middle path, leveraging his strengths to craft it himself.
The apprentice clerk, unaware of Roy's intentions, took out a plain copper ring from the shelf: "This is an entry-level spatial ring with 555, totaling 125 space slots, roughly equivalent to 125 cubic feet in volume, priced at 16,000 Magic Stones..."
"As expected!"
Roy had already inquired about this, so he wasn't surprised.
"Buying the finished product is still too expensive."
"Our store offers free engraving services for decorative patterns and small Wizard Arrays."
The apprentice clerk, not wanting to miss this big deal, quickly added.
"No need, I'll do it myself!
Moreover, I only need the blank initial product; I can handle all the subsequent processing and crafting myself. How much would that cost?"
"Well, that would only be 12,000..."
The apprentice clerk was somewhat surprised and subtly reminded him.
"But the difficulty of processing is still extremely high at the apprentice stage.
If... if there's an accident, it would be a waste of money."
Spatial rings are considered special items, which actually restricts their use to advanced apprentices who have achieved Spiritual Materialization.
If using them is already this challenging, the difficulty of crafting them is even more so.
But Roy didn't care about that.
With his [Proficient] talent, except for tasks like cutting spatial materials that are beyond the apprentice stage, he could handle all the subsequent processing and crafting himself.
Saving thousands of Magic Stones in one go, why not?
In addition, he planned to take this opportunity to design a personal Arcane Imprint.
Such a thing has endless uses; it's essential for locking and unlocking spatial rings, and can also be used for positioning and mental control connections.
It can even add many convenient functions, greatly expanding usability.
These are all valuable Alchemy experiences!
...
Roy returned to his residence, threw himself onto the bed, and comfortably reclined, starting to manipulate Wizardry Energy with his Mental Strength, getting busy.
As expected, the Black Iron-level talent [Proficient] silently operated, playing its role.
Roy immediately got the hang of it, feeling an inexplicable sense of self-taught mastery.
After a long while...
"Success!"
Roy exhaled a long breath of relief with a hint of joy, then held up the ancient bronze ring, examining it carefully under the magical light in the room.
On the ring's surface, a rune etched by Wizardry Energy formed the Willpower Rune Fehu ().
Its meaning includes livestock, movable property, destructive power, etc., and is also seen as a symbol of wealth.
Its phonetic spelling "" encircles the entire ring, with an outer decorative bronze metal band and numerous small incantations inside, forming a complex array.
Roy used his Mental Strength to communicate with the Wizard Array inside the ring, setting the spell as a standard Wizard language command.
Translated, it means "Open Sesame"!
The deeper level of complete control authority was achieved by using Mental Strength to outline the corresponding rune within, similar to the manifestation method of Willpower Runes.
Roy followed the "user manual" that came with the store and engraved his own password.
This could not be deciphered by spells like "Thought Detection" that read surface-level thoughts. In
stead, it required a certain rational logic to deduce and judge in order to successfully reproduce it.
The Wizardry Artifact itself also had the ability to discern soul consciousness, enabling individual binding.
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