Two days later when Angor had reached the Old Earth, he suddenly recalled Freud mentioning his Ocean Tuner but forgot to ask how Freud heard about it.
Even so, letting his new creation known by others wasn’t exactly a bad thing. Maybe it was one of the mermaids who got the message out.
He put this matter behind his mind and went to Yamei Province.
He saw many refugees along the way, who appeared a lot more peaceful compared to before. Apparently, Tavier’s victory at Moonwater City greatly soothed all troubled minds around the Goldspink Empire. If they could win a fight, they could win the war.
Brulee, however, stayed in a low spirit probably because it feared that Eureka would blame it for not bringing back enough potions. Though this was hardly Brulee’s fault. It was Eureka herself who agreed to accept raw materials.
Angor tried to cheer Brulee up since he was in a good mood. “Miss Eureka will forgive you if you tell her the truth. I’m sure of it.”
Brulee rolled its eyes. “How about you give me a little help?”
“Help? What can I do?”
Brulee grew excited when Angor did not say no immediately. “You got a Demeter! Just give it to my master and tell her that the Ashen Traders used the Demeter as her compensation!”
Angor gave Brulee a blank stare.
“I thought you’re a smarter bird than that. I mean, all the materials she bought added together were still cheaper than the Demeter, so no, I’ll not do such a thing.”
“But—” Brulee lifted its wings to protest.
“No buts. I spent my own money to get the Demeter. Why would I give her to someone else?”
“Aren’t you trying to get friendly with my master? I’ll help you with it if you agree!”
“This is a big misunderstanding. I never planned to be Miss Eureka’s friend. Just stop. I can’t oppose your master, but I’m more than capable of dealing with you.”
Now he felt bad. He should’ve never considered comforting the stupid owl.
As soon as they arrived at Padt Manor, Angor went to the stilt house and dumped all the items in front of Eureka.
At first, Eureka was rather delightful when Angor returned so fast. But slowly, her smile turned into a frown, and eventually, she gave Brulee an angry glare.
“What’s going on?” Eureka spoke in a plain voice that seemed to contain her great rage.
“I-I didn’t do anything! It was that Beals...” Brulee explained their previous trade with the Ashen Traders while trembling badly.
To Angor’s surprise, apart from explaining the facts, Brulee mentioned lots of irrelevant matters to divert Eureka’s attention, such as how the valuable Demeter was presented to Angor and how the Ashen Traders acted strangely cooperative in front of him.
Angor couldn’t help cursing the owl deep in his mind. Eureka would hear about the Demeter sooner or later, but it was a whole different matter when Brulee set him up like this.
“You bought yourself a Demeter?” Unfortunately, Eureka was successfully swayed from the main subject.
Angor threw Brulee a fierce look before he nodded politely. “Yes. Leon is about to enter an apprenticeship soon. A Demeter can improve the primal mana in the area and will help him meditate better.”
Eureka fully knew the merits of having a Demeter. She used to look for one but without earning enough money for it.
Now that she was constantly on the run with the Goman King constantly chasing her, she no longer wanted a Demeter as badly.
Compared to the Demeter...
“Brulee told me that the ‘Whale Hunter’ was rather fond of you. Care to tell me why?”
“Whale Hunter?” Angor was ready to be forced to show the Demeter to Eureka, but Eureka asked him something he didn’t know.
“The leader of Ashen Traders, Beals, is also called the ‘Whale Hunter’. A crafty bastard who’s pretty good at going after opportunities.”
“He’s fond of me? I don’t know. I only heard about this name for the first time.” Angor glanced at Brulee, who had been playing dead next to Eureka. “Ask Brulee if you don’t believe me.”
Eureka did so and made sure Angor wasn’t hiding anything.
“A Demeter is far from cheap. How did you afford it?”
“I can do alchemy.”
...
A moment later, Angor left Eureka’s place with a complicated mindset.
Eureka didn’t believe him at all when he said he could earn money by selling alchemy items. Then he explained that he once joined Sunders and hunted down a wizard-level monster, and he sold the monster parts for big money.
Eureka took his words this time.
Both of the excuses were true. The magical vine he brought back from Witch’s Town earned him about 60,000 magic crystals in the end, which was enough to pay for the Demeter.
Eureka didn’t ask to look at the Demeter and simply let him go. They’d be spending more time at Padt Manor, so she had more chances for it later.
Angor planned to “plant” the Demeter at Padt Manor as soon as he could so that he didn’t have to lock the weeping creature in his bracelet for too long. But he decided to wait until tomorrow so that he could discuss it with Leon first.
It was midnight right now. After being away from Padt Manor for four days, he grew a little worried about Jon’s condition, so he quickly went to the ice room to check.
Jon looked fine. It seemed the Vitalizer could stabilize him at least for now. With the help of the Dream Weaver, Jon didn’t look as painful in his sleep as before.
Angor used Dream Walk again to look at Jon’s dream.
It seemed Jon had taken his family to Padt Manor and settled down to enjoy a peaceful life, about which Angor was glad to see.
There was one problem though. Inside the current dream, Jon deliberately married his daughter, Muey, to Angor.
And it definitely didn’t look proper since both Muey and Angor were children in Jon’s memory.
A little embarrassed, Angor canceled his cantrip and left the dream. At least Jon was having fun. At this rate, Freud’s new idea might be worth trying.
After giving the Dream Weaver another drop of Akeso’s blood, he stepped out of the ice room.
His next task was to go back to his bedroom and check the small illusion compartment he left here.
It was still intact, which meant no one came to his room while he was away.
With a flicker of mind, he lifted the illusion and revealed the Soft Larva nest hidden inside. It seemed several larva eggs had successfully hatched in these days. But to his disappointment, they were all common Soft Larvae that didn’t have much value.
As for the “odd one” he separated from the others...
It was still an egg. He left lots of Akeso’s blood for it before leaving, and the egg had consumed it all, which was pretty impressive.
“Is it bigger than before? I should keep tabs on it from now on...”
A night had passed.
In the early morning, Leon heard about Angor’s return from Auri and immediately came to his room, mainly to make sure that Angor wasn’t in any trouble.
As he planned, Angor was going to tell his brother about the Demeter.