A bottle.
An alchemical storage bottle engraved with runes.
Through its translucent glass, he could see pale-red Elemental Crystals piled to the brim.
"Elemental Crystals?"
Ian drew a sharp breath.
He took it out and checked. There were a full hundred units of Elemental Crystals inside.
"A hundred?"
Ian's mouth twitched.
Even at the Academy's internal price of thirty thousand contribution points per unit, they were worth three million contribution points.
With the privileges he had once held, he could have exchanged for two units a month. It would have taken him fifty months.
It was nearly as much as all the Elemental Crystals he had absorbed throughout the First Ring.
"And I got them just like that?"
Ian was certain now.
This Wizard must have looted a resource vault. There was no other way he could have obtained so much.
Who would have thought he would bring it out, only for Ian to reap the benefits?
"With these resources, I probably have most of what I need to complete the Four Symbols Furnace, with some left over for my cultivation in the Mid Second Ring."
Ian let out a breath.
Whatever knowledge he studied, it would ultimately serve to complete the Four Symbols Furnace.
And completing a Transcendent Organ
required more than Master Level ability. It also required the right resources.
He needed materials.
Elemental Crystals were essential too.
He had planned to look for another way to obtain them later, or earn them through some greater achievement.
But now,
most of that worry was gone.
The only drawback was that most of these Elemental Crystals had an affinity closer to fire.
If he wanted to use them to cultivate a new Transcendent Organ, he would be better off exchanging them for wind-aspected ones when the time came.
Elemental