Pillar of Yita

And that Alchemist obviously couldn’t understand this joke, but at least he knew some related rumors. After all, the community was most eager to praise these so-called feats of surpassing levels— and as one of the top ten guilds in the country, Ragnarok clearly has this qualification.

He couldn’t help but nod in awe, looking at these people, a complicated emotion mixing envy, dissatisfaction, and a bit of schadenfreude rose in his heart. What he was secretly pleased about was that at least these people should be able to help him get his revenge.

The young man naturally gave up the idea of finding more people.

After all, the other party’s words were not without reason, what time would people over level 20 in the guild have to deal with him? And the helpers he could find, those around level 10, were really nothing more than just passable.

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Under the help of the Big Cat People, Fang Hong was fastening the new Magic Guided Reactor.

Of course, he had no idea that the Alchemist he inadvertently offended was preparing to bring members of the Elite Corps of Ragnarok, ranked fifth among the top ten guilds in the country, to trouble him—of course, it was just the branch in the First World.

But for ordinary people, it was enough to make their hearts race. Even Fang Hong himself, if he heard this news, would probably have to ponder carefully whether he should lay low for a while.

After all, it is Ragnarok, ’RO’, with several star players he was very familiar with, and he was more than impressed with this guild, not to mention the country’s number one warrior Odin was also one of the guild’s chairmen.

Odin was one of his favorite Invokers.

However, though Fang Hong had some alertness in his heart, he only assumed that some members of the guild with the ’black flame emblem’ were coming, at most along with members of the Dragonfire Guild or even the City Defense Force.

And the City Defense Force should not dare to openly attack Invokers without reason, as that would cause a dispute with Stargate Port. Due to the prior agreement between the military and Colin Ishurian, no local noble, no matter how daring, would dare to unilaterally provoke a war.

Unless these people completely disregarded the Royal Household and Stargate Port.

But Fang Hong felt that this possibility was unlikely; the Southern Alliance was not about to be lawless.

That was one of the reasons he chose to sign a task agreement with that Baron. With an agreement in hand, as long as he didn’t breach it, the other party wouldn’t have an easy time framing them.

Because although Lady Roman charged quite a bit, what was most commendable about this goddess was that she got things done for the money— with the Scales above, she would naturally prove everything for them.

As long as they didn’t openly clash with Dulun, Fang Hong could ignore the rest. Although there were a lot of City Defense Force troops stationed at Tulip Fortress, they couldn’t all swarm out, and if they sent one or two squads of soldiers around level 10, even with a Knight Captain, they wouldn’t be hard to deal with.

Besides, Ash Woods is so vast; if he can’t fight them, he can still hide, can’t he?

Fang Hong indeed seriously considered this possibility, even naming it grandly: as a Captain, he had to consider all aspects of his plan, calculating defeat before victory.

But Princess Hilveld of Silver Weslan ruthlessly exposed this falsehood and pointed out that Mr. Greyrock, being such a large target, couldn’t possibly hide in such barren grounds as Ash Woods.

”Which is to say,” she calmly replied, ”It’s just ’cowardice’.

Fang Hong felt embarrassed and blushed as he crossed off this plan from his list.

This caused a round of laughter from the others.

After this little episode, everyone reached a consensus—in essence, they needed to prepare for combat, as otherwise, these people might become a persistent trouble.

In Eteliria, strength is the primary attribute; as the Big Cat People said, the life of an adventurer is accompanied by clashes of swords and blades.

Hilveld looked at the distant forest, just as the rumors described, beyond Tulip Fortress, closer to Ash Woods, the trees grew sparser and sparser. It seemed that Nikopolas’s blood had cursed the land, ensuring nothing would grow for centuries.

In the distance was only a vast expanse of snow, occasionally a bizarre tree stump standing alone in the snow.

She watched for a moment before turning back.

On the deck, Fang Hong was fastening the last metal latch on the Magic Guided Reactor, then looked around at this brand-new reactor. It was a modification from the design he bought from Golande, originally lacking some materials. Still, after dispatching Mountain Kou Ke at their Masongke Creek base, he earned enough points to exchange for rare materials at the local Adventurers’ Guild.

Only then could this Magic Guided Reactor be born.

After installing the β-shaped Crystal, it was significantly different from the original design, making it hard to use the original design name for this reactor. In fact, the system had prompted him to input a design name:

’Please enter the design name for the new Magic Guided Reactor—’

This was, in fact, his second time gaining naming rights for a magic device he created himself, after the ’Sword Hong’. Even last time, when he completed a legendary work, the system automatically assigned the name.

Fang Hong couldn’t help but get excited, thinking he had to choose a memorable name for this rare opportunity:

”I’ll call it Ade AEβ Magic Guided Reactor.”

Using his ID, it held a lot of significance.

Fang Hong thought the name was pretty good and turned back, wanting to hear others’ opinions.

But the deck was silent.

Only Gita, her face flushed, barely managed to say in a small voice: ”It’s a... a very good name, Brother Ade.”

Tianlan couldn’t help but roll her eyes, and said seriously to the latter:

”Promise me, don’t be a simp, Gita—”

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