773. Chapter 773 Promotion

Advancement

Over the next five days, aside from his twice-daily training sessions, David spent all his remaining time inscribing patterns throughout the castle. By the end of the fifth day, he had finally completed the castle's pattern inscriptions.

That was equivalent to having a hundred Alchemy Grandmasters working simultaneously. If ordinary alchemists and Alchemy Masters had been hired instead, the task might have dragged on for years.

Not to mention the waste of materials. Even Alchemy Masters could fail during the inscription process, and every failure meant losing the alchemical materials used. In severe cases, even the building materials had to be replaced.

The castles of some nobles had been gradually perfected through the efforts of several generations. It was exceedingly rare for someone like David to accomplish everything in one stroke and achieve the pinnacle of perfection.

Of course, this castle built from radiant goldstone was still merely an empty shell. The most important part of a noble castle was its interior furnishings. That ancient sense of history, those decorations passed down through countless generations—those were the true foundations of nobility.

David had long since made plans for the decorations. He took a huge pile of various ornaments from his space Pendant.

There were transparent, carved crystals for the windows, replacing ordinary glass; curtains embroidered with legendary tales, their threads made from precious and rare materials; wall tiles infused with special materials during firing, exquisitely crafted; all sorts of furniture made from exceptionally valuable wood and crafted by master artisans; antiques passed down for thousands of years; ornaments and sculptures worth millions of God's Gold Coins; and more.

Most of these had been plundered by David from the Barry Family castle, while some were spoils he had acquired elsewhere.

Though the Barry Family was not an exceptionally powerful family,