After his birthday, Liszt took stock of the gifts brought by the guests. Aside from the unexpected pot of Green Ingot Elf Bugs from his grandmother, most of the other gifts were various resources. The Count and his wife had sent a batch of valuable jade, while Levis and his wife had given ten jin of lead metal.
Lead metal was used for magic resistance—mixing it into equipment could increase resistance to magic power.
Thus, lead metal was highly valuable, an excellent supplementary material for forging armor and weapons.
In fact, every kind of metal possessed properties related to magic power, as detailed in a magic book called Observational Notes on Metals and Magic.
Iron possessed excellent magic-power conduction properties, copper possessed excellent magic-power adhesion properties, silver possessed excellent magic-power condensation properties, and gold possessed excellent magic-power amplification properties...
Of course, compared to those slight magical properties, the greater value of gold, silver, and copper lay in their circulation as currency.
"The total value of these gifts only came to two-thirds of what the birthday banquet cost. Just as I knew, celebrating birthdays is a losing business." Tossing aside the ledger, Liszt could not be bothered to keep reading. He left the castle, mounted Loki, and flew toward Seaview Villa beneath the setting sun.
The sea demon A Ke had not gone out. She was comparing experiments recorded in magic books as she crafted magic equipment.
At the stage of a Grand Magician, research into magic power had fully shifted toward magic arrays. The height of a Grand Magician's strength depended on the depth of their understanding of magic arrays. In this regard, A Ke could be called extraordinarily gifted; her progress was advancing by leaps and bounds, astonishing to behold.
She had already completely mastered the two advanced spells,