Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

The weather had been great a few days later. The sunlight was out, and the Bay Law Palace was looking as grand as ever. All the important festivals and activities were out, and the flags that would only be hung on important occasions were hung everywhere. Unlike most days, all the elves that lived inside Bay Law City had proud looks on their faces.

They knew about how Master Bennett became Grandmaster Bennett. He was reaching the highest level the potion masters for the past several thousand years. That was the level of the legendary. It could even be said that within the entire line heritage of the potions masters, only Abel’s rune was found to be the rune of a grandmaster. There was no other information for the reference of anyone in the same rank.

Of course, for the promotion ceremony taking place today, there would always be a large number of Wizard Union members. Technically, the location was chosen to be the elven royal palace, but it was really the Wizard Union that was organizing everything. Large numbers of red-cloaked wizards were all over the royal palace. Their job was to keep the order in place.

In the sky that was above the royal palace, a total of ten sky ships had crest flags hung over them. On the one hand, it was to demonstrate the power of the elves. On the other hand, it was to intimidate anyone who might have ulterior motives. This was a good chance for the elves to demonstrate their strength, too. The elves had too often been keeping to themselves and not to the outside world. There weren’t really other non-elves in most elven cities. Now that there was really a chance to prove themselves, the elves made sure to show their power by sending twenty big druids in public, ten of which were from the Goddess Temple.

Wizard Hume of the resource department asked, “Um, Druid Joseph, when do you think Grandmaster Bennett’s going to be here?”

This was the day that he was representing the Wizard Union to host this promotion ceremony. The time was about nine. There were going to be some important guests coming over, although Grandmaster Bennett was not showing up as the host.

Druid Joseph wasn’t that confident, either, “About that Wizard Hume, Grandmaster Benentt’s inside the alchemy room since morning. He should’ve known about today.”

Wizard Hume shook his head, “I think you should contact him now.”

It should be a given that Grandmaster Bennett would know that his own promotion ceremony was taking place. Grandmaster Bennett should’ve treated that as something very important, so no one would really expect him to do anything today.

Druid Joseph responded as he headed to the contact circle, “Yes! Wait here, Wizard Hume.”

Right now, Abel was still inside the alchemy lab to harvest his fruits of becoming a grandmaster alchemist. He was brewing multiple dozen shares of potions at the same time. He was bringing all the finished ones inside the crystal bottle to finish his brew.

The research spirit’s voice was sent over, “Master, your follower, Druid Joseph, is just waiting for you to attend. He’s waiting inside Bay Law Royal Palace right now,a dn the guests are just coming over!”

Abel really forgot, “Today’s the day of the ceremony?”

He had too much fun inside the dark world and the central continent recently. Inside the dark world, with the addition of Knight Wale, his fighting methods’ becoming a lot more versatile, and the speed at which he was sweeping the hell creatures was also getting a lot faster. On the central continent, now that he became a grandmaster alchemist, he’s just going to take his time learning how to master a new brewing technique. Because of that, he’s pretty much forgotten about anything else. If it wasn’t for the remainder of the research spirit, he might’ve just forgotten that the promotion ceremony was even taking place.

Abel looked at the costume he was wearing. This was an elven robe. The quality was fine, but if he was wearing this to attend the promotion ceremony, most people wouldn’t think that he was paying any due respect to the guests. It wouldn’t look for him, so he went out of his alchemy lab and used short-distance teleportation to the changing room. As soon as he was there, he saw a brand new set of an elven suit in front of him.

Butler Meyer must have prepared this for him, Abel thought. He might’ve forgotten about the ceremony completely, but Butler Meyer was preparing the last few days just so the tailors could complete this one costume. Abel smiled as he realized just how well Butler Meyer was taking care of him. Even if there were a large number of guests coming every day, the golden castle would still continue to run the same as always. Abel went ahead and placed his elven suit into his divine portal bag. Then, with the instant changing effect of his portal item, he changed his elven robe into the elven suit. After that, his figure appeared on top of the large-sized teleportation circle that was inside the underground basement. In a flash of the white light, he left the golden castle.

Wizard Hume got a lot more relaxed when he saw Abel showing up, “You’re finally here, Grandmaster Bennett!”

As a matter of fact, if Abel wasn’t coming over, things would’ve been a lot more difficult. Four sky ships escorting one golden skyship were just approaching them. The dwarven king was just coming over to them, and if Abel was still not here, that would not look good for anyone.

From the flags that were hung, it could be told that it was the skyship of the dwarven Royal Palace. The dwarves were doing their bit to show their respect to Bay Law City. In return, the four skyships that Bay Law City had also gone up. They were doing their bit to welcome each other.

As a custom of the central continent, the dwarven king was not supposed to arrive at the destination with the teleportation circle. Instead, he would go to the nearest city to change to a chariot, such that he was arriving in a method that everyone could see and welcome. Given how strong the dwarves were now, obviously, they would have the skyships doing the arrival part nowadays.

Abel took it as a gesture to show him respect. As the golden sky ship slowly lowered itself, Abel, Wizard Hume, Queen Luisa, and a few big Druids went over. The one that was coming out of the golden skyship was Gunther, the dwarven king. He had a crown on his head and a few dwarven law-defying wizards walking behind him.

Abel smiled and bowed, “Majesty Gunther! Welcome!”

Gunther greeted with a bow, “Great Grandmaster Bennett, it is of my utmost honour to attend this ceremony!”

The title was “great” for Abel. Abel was literally the most important person on the central continent now. As the dwarves had always had a great relationship with him, the dwarven king was attending in person today to reinforce this bond between them. According to the records of the dwarves, grandmaster alchemists would have the ability to fix super-sized war machines for the dwarves, which were crucial to their kind’s survival.

The war machine was actually a last resort for the dwarves to fight against the Nation of God. Not just that, grandmaster alchemists could also provide a lot of technical support to the dwarves, especially when it was about ancient technologies. Among the ancient techniques of the dwarves, the biggest problem had always been that only the very finest specialists could be in charge of many of the crucial technologies. So far, the dwarves had been making a very significant amount of progress in learning the ancient technologies. That was really just when they were developing the mechanism of defensive technologies and not so much for the war machines.

Even for a war machine like the skyship, the most that it could do was to transport whoever’s inside. It did not possess a lot of attacking capabilities. Even to this stage, the most that could be equipped was just catapults and catapults.

King Gunther and Queen Luisa just had their formal greetings. As a matter of fact, the dwarven king had a higher status than Queen Luisa. While Queen Luisa was below the Sainte, the dwarven king was the highest figure in the dwarven world.

Right now, the wizards of the Wizard Union and the druids of the elves were just bringing King Gunther and a few dwarven law-defying wizards inside the hallroom. Abel couldn’t be with the dwarven king since he was still busy treating the other important guests. There were not a lot of these really “important” guests, but they’ve already made reservations to the Wizard Union before their arrival. As arranged with the Wizard Union, they were supposed to have quite some time with Abel before he was leaving to see someone else.

As soon as it was the dwarven king’s turn, which was marked by his arrival into the hallroom, one heavy sky sparrow and one hundred sphinxes came in as well. It was clear that this belonged to the orcs of the Crazy Heart Valley. The only ones that came to welcome them were Abel and Wizard Union. Needless to say, the elves were not going to get close to these orcs. On the central continent, the elves had always been antagonizing each other. The elven druids were in charge of natural energy, while the orc priests were known to harness the power of the dead, which was thought to be the opposing force to the power of mother earth. Although the Wizard Union had always been in the middle to keep a war between the elves and the orcs from happening, it should not need to be said that the two would never see eye to eye.

If Abel hadn’t become a grandmaster alchemist this time, the orcs would’ve never been inside the royal city of the elves. When the sky sparrow landed on the plaza of the royal palace, the elves were far enough as they threw a very disdainful look towards the orcs that were coming down. They were doing this, especially towards the archpriests. The sphinxes didn’t really make a landing and were just staying afloat. Even they knew that this place didn’t welcome them.

As for Abel, he had his own sky sparrow in the sky right now. He also didn’t have a real hate for the orcs. He was a druid, but he also knew how to channel the death qi of the orc priest. In his view, neither the orcs nor the druids were supposed to represent evil. The two were just representatives of two ends of a spectrum. He knew this since he did merge natural energy and death qi before. During most of the time, this strange mixture would appear neutral, possessing neither the mildness of the natural energy nor the violence of the death qi.

Anyways, the first to get down the sky sparrow was a black-robed crowned lion-man. Behind him were several archpriests.

Wizard Hume reminded, “This is Beast Emperor Gallatin, Grandmaster Bennett!”

Abel did remember hearing that name. This was the strongest orc among the two orc empires on the central continent. While, it should just be one orc empire, as the other one was pretty much composed over ordinary herbivore orcs. While Abel never really interacted much with the Crazy Heart Valley before, he did have a few contacts with the archpriest. It could be said that the beast emperor was giving him the utmost respect by coming over here today.

Abel smiled and bowed, “Welcome, Great Beast Emperor!”

Emperor Gallatin was much louder than the other races, “You sound like a very honest man to me, Great Grandmaster Bennett! I don’t have a lot of elven friends, but I don’t mind knowing you!”

Abel brought Emperor Gallatin inside the royal palace. There were a lot of guests coming inside the hallroom. All of them were coming on their own through the teleportation circle. They didn’t need Abel to come on his own. As a matter of fact, Abel didn’t have to greet the beast emperor and the dwarven king on his own. He was just doing it because he didn’t want to cause any drama that might’ve troubled the Wizard Union.

Abel turned to Wizard Hume after he got Emperor Gallatin in, “You need me to see someone else in?”

To be honest, Abel preferred spending more time brewing potions in his alchemy lab.

Wizard Hume smiled, “You don’t have to see them all on your own, Grandmaster Bennett. Most of them are just here through the teleportation circle. The legendary wizards mentioned that they would be coming at the last moment. They didn’t want to ruin the atmosphere by coming too early. By the way, you still need to welcome Lady Sainte on time.”

Abel was starting to understand why Wizard Hume was smiling. Everyone knew what his relationship with the Sainte was like.

A bit later, the few legendary wizards came to attend the promotion ceremony. Abel was starting to understand that the legendary wizards didn’t want to take up all the attention. They wanted Abel to be the main focus of today.