Chapter 332: Cracking It, Erga and Alberto's Surprise, Academy Rewards!
"Finally got the hang of it."
In the brightly lit laboratory, Ian looked with slight excitement at a piece of material laid out on the experimental table.
It was as large as a door panel, its surface etched with line after line of runes.
But upon closer inspection, whether it was the flow of energy or the standardization and strength of the runes, all of it was rather mediocre.
It could be called an inferior product.
The real Alchemy Puppets would never use such stuff.
"But making it means I've already gotten started. I can improve it through the panel."
Ian's eyes flickered.
Next came frenzied practice, until he raised it to Master Level, then improved his talent.
He needed to earn enough contribution points.
He had not forgotten that his goal was to obtain that precious second-ring material.
"Only then can I advance to the early second ring."
Ian murmured.
Although his teacher had said he would help him search for it, Ian understood how difficult it was to find something suitable.
If he missed this chance—
It might delay him for a very long time.
He could not afford to wait.
It was not only because of the Crimson Eye, but also because of that vein in the White Stone Mountains.
That was practically a ticking time bomb.
Ian's intuition told him that it was only a matter of time before the entire White Stone Territory discovered it.
And when that time came, what would await the White Stone Territory?
Ian's throat bobbed, and his scalp went numb.
After all, in Veridian Forest, what now seemed to him to be merely a medium-sized first-ring resource site had already driven the School to that extent.
War!
It was the