After ending his communication with Rose, Saine tidied up the laboratory before returning to his research.
Before Saine felt much time had passed, he received word that the Level-4 Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor had already been captured alive and brought back.
The Wizard Alliance was fair, and Notoze, the level-5 creature who had captured the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor, had also been quite decent about it.
In the end, Saine and the others spent less than two million Magic Coins to redeem the living Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor.
That figure was far below the value of a Level-4 lifeform, let alone a living one.
Saine was temporarily too occupied to deal with it, so he notified Angle to receive it.
Saine had no interest in what horrors the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor would face after returning to the tiger's den.
He only knew that he would soon obtain another cluster of the Bone Phosphorus Flame Emperor's Source Fire, along with other body parts or high-grade materials from it.
It was also upon receiving this news that Saine reconsidered the mission Mane the knight had mentioned to him.
Regarding this supposedly high-risk, high-reward Hidden Mission, Saine had not told anyone else, nor had he sought the opinions of those around him.
He had to walk his own road, and what his future ultimately became was also Saine's own choice.
He could hardly run to Luluenman like a child and ask whether he should accept this mission.
And how was Luluenman supposed to answer?
That day, after completing an experiment at hand, Saine did not throw himself back into his endless research plans. Instead, quite unusually, he strolled through his own Holy Tower.
The Ash Holy Tower was divided into upper, middle, and lower sections. At present, the areas open to