He felt something solid inside him shatter completely.
Brand-new power surged through every limb and bone.
A second-rank knight.
He had made it.
Su Li clenched his fist.
His strength was now at least three times what it had been at the peak of the first rank.
Aether was no longer an intangible current of air, but had turned into a viscous liquid, clinging stubbornly to the surface of his bones.
He turned to glance at the two women on the bed.
Saina turned over,...
They had not woken up.
The Family Group mechanism had triggered.
He had broken through to the second rank.
As members bound to the Family Group, Saina and Elena's strength was forcibly elevated by the system.
Two waves of pure second-rank aether radiated from their bodies.
Su Li grinned.
One bottle of potion had created three second-rank knights.
Downstairs.
At the inn's counter.
The goblin innkeeper was bent over a tattered ledger, calculating the day's takings.
He held a quill pen, swiftly writing a string of numbers across the parchment.
His oversized head bobbed as he calculated, utterly absorbed.
On the wall behind the counter hung a strange contraption.
A half-meter-long transparent crystal tube filled with red mercury, connected at the bottom to an intricate brass base.
This was an alchemical instrument uniformly issued by the Goblin Chamber of Commerce.
It was specially used to test the aether fluctuations in the surrounding area.
The Free City-State Alliance was chaotic. Anyone running an inn had to know what level of guests were staying in their establishment, so they could prepare for trouble in advance.
The red mercury rested low in the tube, indicating that the area was filled with nothing but insignificant commoners.
Suddenly.
The brass gears in the crystal tube's base began spinning rapidly.