Chapter 2556: Crystallization

"The destination of our expedition is related to the Noah family? You mean that the Black Count has known about this for a long time, so he asked Vai to join us... That's not right, Vai was invited by me. Yes. Could it be that Earl Black noticed something temporarily?"

Doakes talked to himself for a long time, but he made himself confused.

"Whether the Black Earl knows that the door behind the door is related to the Noah family, or whether it was a temporary decision, I don't speculate. I'm just reminding you about this. Even if Vai is your friend, don't do anything during this expedition. Trust him so much.”

Doakes nodded solemnly: "I understand."

After all, Vai is still a member of the Noah clan, and he still has the nose of the Black Earl, so his actions will inevitably be directed by the Black Earl. Therefore, Angel's reminder is very necessary.

"Now that you know it may be related to the Noah family, you still decided to let Vai follow?" Doakes asked with some confusion. If it were him, he would have canceled the operation.

Angel: "Why not? After all, it may be the territory of the Noah family, and maybe there is still a place where Vai is needed."

What Angel said was a good reason, but Doakes still felt that the risk was a bit high.

Doakes's worries were not without reason, but he didn't know that Angel himself also had a trump card. Just being a fan of Earl can stop the Black Earl's nose. As long as the Black Earl doesn't come in person, there won't be any big problem.

Even if the Black Earl comes in person, Angel still has the backup from the Field of Dreams, so Angel doesn't care about this risk.

Besides, Angel is actually only moderately interested in the "treasure" or "interests" behind the wall in reality. What he cares more about is the wall in Naraku City in the Nightmare Realm.

There may be some good things in reality, but Angel believes that the most precious treasure must still be in the nightmare world.

Precisely because he restrained his desires and only regarded research as the theme of this exploration, he would not care about anything else.

"Then...then I'll go back and tell Vai the news and bring him over to see you." Doakes thought for a moment, but still chose to believe Angel.

Angel said noncommittally: "It's okay to meet again when we leave. Or are you ready now and ready to leave?"

Doakes: "I've made all the preparations I need to make, and Kal-El is almost there too."

Angel glanced at the clock on the table and calculated the time for his meditation: "Then let's set off in three hours."

Doakes nodded, turned and walked to the door.

When he was about to leave, Doakes said softly: "I will find an opportunity to test whether Vai knows that the destination is related to the Noah family."

Angel: "Whatever you want, but the Black Earl's nose is sharper than you think, and it's very possible that he can smell your purpose."

Doakes chuckled softly: "Don't underestimate me. I may be a little behind wizards like you in the grand scheme of things, but I believe I can handle these small things more beautifully than you, ensuring that there are no traces."

Angel smiled and said nothing, but watched Doakes' figure slowly disappearing into the distance.

After Doakes left, Kael slowly walked in with hesitation.

"We will set off in three hours. If you are not ready yet, you'd better prepare now." Angel's voice reached Kael's ears.

Kael hurriedly said: "Master Doakes has told me, I am ready."

"Then you come in, are you looking for me for something?" Angel then raised his head and looked at Kael.

Kael hesitated for a moment and then said: "Sir, this exploration of the ruins came very suddenly. I wonder if you can give me some... suggestions."

Angel took a deep look at Kael. Kael had much more experience in exploring ruins than he did, but he came to ask him for advice. Obviously, this advice was not related to exploring ruins, but how should he handle himself during the whole process?

After all, except for Kael, the entire team is either a formal wizard or an apprentice with wizard-level abilities.

Looking at Kael's expectant eyes, Angel was silent for a moment and then said: "There is only one thing you need to do, restraint."

"Restraint?" Kael pondered the word.

"Whether it's physical actions or mental impulses, you must exercise restraint."

"Also, if you want to gain benefits, it's best not to touch other stakeholders. Especially Vai, his background is unusual, and his purpose may not be simple."

After all, the blueprints and refining materials were provided by Kael. Angel thought about it and revealed a little information to him.

Kael nodded thoughtfully: "I understand this. My biggest interest in exploring the ruins is just research. If I can get something, it's good. If I can't get it, I won't force it."

"That's the best thing you can think of." Angel confirmed.

Kael probably understood what he had to do, and he bowed to Angel: "Then I'll take my leave first."

Angel coughed at this time, and Kael looked at him in confusion.

But Angel stretched out his finger and pointed at the dagger on the table.

Kael said with a look of understanding: "It's better to keep it in your hands. If I hold it, I'm afraid of losing it."

After finishing speaking, Kael thought he was amused and winked, indicating that he understood what Angel meant and would definitely be careful about Vai.

Angel said angrily: "Who told you this? I mean, the refining task is over, shouldn't you say something? Your mentor didn't tell you the rules in the letter?"

Kael was startled, then thought of his mentor's instructions in the letter, and nodded quickly: "I understand, I will go find the mentor's note now."

Angel didn't understand why Kael used "search" at first, until he saw Kael walking towards a small pile of garbage in a corner of the cave, and he finally understood.

Just like when he was looking for the Skinner box, Kael began to rummage through the pile of miscellaneous items crazily.

All kinds of things were thrown into the sky by him.

Angel watched the scene in front of him silently, and at the same time added a label to Kael: sloppy.

Dangross, on the other hand, was observing the various props flying down from the sky with excitement. It would be great if he found another bottle of quenching concentrated liquid.

Unfortunately, there was no quenching liquid, but Dangros captured a fiery red gem.

Angel took a look at it and thought it was a flame gem at first. Such things can be seen everywhere in the Fire Land in the Tidal Realm. Dangros might be holding it because he missed his hometown.

But upon closer inspection, I realized something was wrong. This fiery red gem was actually the crystallization of a plane-growing fragment.

Plane breeding fragments are materials of the space system. They usually appear in large quantities when attached planes are generated. Occasionally, there is a chance to obtain them when the plane passage is opened. It is involved in most space-related alchemy. Generally speaking, it is not precious. It is generally sold in alchemy shops opened by official wizards.

But what was mentioned above was plane-growing fragments, and this one is plane-growing crystals, which is different.

It usually takes five breeding fragments to condense into one crystal. Judging from the size of this crystal, it takes at least ten crystals to condense.

Although the effects are similar, the value is much different, because condensing fragments is a special technique that only space wizards can master.

This piece of crystal can even be auctioned in the early stages of an ordinary auction, which shows that its value is already quite high.

Dangros seemed to like this gem very much. He kept stroking it with his face, that is, with his palms, just like a human sucking a cat.

However, no matter how much Dangros likes it, he cannot just take it for himself.

This thing is not as valuable as the quenching liquid, and it is very inappropriate to take it casually.

Angel was about to severely criticize Dangros to make him realize his mistake, but at this moment, Kael came over and looked at Dangros curiously: "Do you like this?"

Dangelos nodded fiercely while holding the gem.

Kael smiled and said nonchalantly: "Since you like it, I'll give it to you."

Angel didn't care how excited Dangros was at this moment, and said quickly: "The plane breeding crystal is useless to it, you should put it away."

Kael quickly waved his hand: "No, no, no."

Seeing Kael's insistence, Angel frowned and sighed: "Then I'd better buy it and give it to you according to the market price."

The reason why he is unwilling to accept Kal-El's things for nothing is simple: in the eyes of outsiders, Dangros is Angel's elemental partner, that is, Angel's property. Giving something to Dangoros for free, in other words, giving it to Angel for free, to put it mildly. This is equivalent to Angel owing a favor for nothing.

Angel likes others to owe him favors, but he doesn't like to owe others favors himself. What's more, it's not like he can't afford plane breeding crystals.

Kael didn't understand the twists and turns in Angel's heart. When he saw that Angel wanted to give the magic crystal, he quickly said: "It doesn't matter, this is a discarded crystal. When the teacher synthesized it, he happened to be distracted and something went wrong. It’s no longer useful.”

"It's just because it's been discarded that it's worthless." When Kael said this, he touched his head in embarrassment: "I brought it here because I wanted to put it in the store to deceive some people who don't know how to do it."

"Anyway, it's just a discarded crystal. If it likes it, it doesn't matter if it's a gift." After Kael finished speaking, he added: "If it's valuable, I'll definitely take the money."

After hearing what Kael said, Angel once again set his sights on the crystal.

"Show me." Under Dangros's extremely reluctant expression, the crystal reached Angel's hands.

When Angel held it in his hand, he felt a burning sensation, which was obviously different from the touch of plane-growing crystals.

After careful investigation, he discovered that this plane-growing crystal contained a large amount of fire elements mixed with it. In other words, this is a mixture of fire elements and space elements.

"Why is there fire element in it?" Angel asked doubtfully.

Kael: "I haven't learned to synthesize crystals yet, so I don't know the specific situation, but I guess that the instructor may have made a mistake in the step that requires flame control. The flames got in, and the result became like this. Nondescript situation.”

Angel didn't know exactly how to create such a weird thing, but he now understood why Dangros liked it. The fire element in it was quite surging. It was estimated that the flames used in Aesos' refining at that time were definitely It was spit out by a super-high-level flame creature, and it might even be some kind of special fire source.

Angel played with it for a while, but couldn't think of any use for it, and finally handed it back to Dangros.

Then Angel took out a small bag of magic crystals and handed it to Kael.

In Kael's eyes full of rejection and doubt, Angel said: "It is also a very strange thing that the space element can reach a perfect balance with the fire element. I will go back and study it, maybe I can find some inspiration for related topics. So, it is better for me to buy it."

Kael hesitated for a moment, but still put it away. Although he thought the crystal was useless, Angel said that this crystal could be used to find inspiration for research topics, so it was meaningful to use its value.

Dangros was so excited after getting the new crystal, it can be seen from its terrible finger dance.

Angel felt really embarrassed, so he picked up Dangros and put it on the hook of the Dark Night Shelter to fix it. Then he looked at Kael, or rather, at the stack of notes in Kael's hand.

Kael saw Angel's gaze and quickly handed the notes to Angel.

There were a total of six notes, which felt very thick in his hand. The first three were made of parchment, which was very thick and had frayed edges, which showed that they had been used for many years.

As for the last three volumes of notes, they were made of pulp paper, white and clean, which surprised Angel.

Kael: "The first three volumes are the notes of the mentor's practice when he was an apprentice, and the last three volumes are my own notes, which also have interpretations and supplements to the mentor's notes."

Angel took out the last three volumes of notes and saw that Kael's name was indeed written on them.

Angel frowned slightly, a little entangled, because there was no Kael's notes in the task reward. However, Kael said that there were some supplements in it, which made Angel a little excited.

Perhaps seeing Angel's hesitation, Kael explained: "Although the mentor only wrote his own notes as a reward in the letter, the value of the mentor's notes for unlocking the blueprints and refining the dagger far exceeded that of the mentor's notes. I also know that my notes are not worth much, but I hope you don't mind if I can make up for it."

Angel did not speak, but flipped through Isos' notes and then flipped through Kael's notes.

Although he just flipped through it casually, compared to Aesop's records, which were so brief that they were outrageous because of the limited space on the parchment, Kael's detailed and straightforward text made Angel more satisfied.

In the end, Angel was reluctant to retreat and nodded: "In that case, I will accept it."

Kael bowed deeply: "It is my honor to help you, sir."

Angel thought for a while: "I also have some understanding of spatial knowledge, but my foundation is slightly weak. During this period, if you have any questions, you can also ask me."

Angel got the knowledge gift package of the Dalmatian, which can be used at this time.

Kael knew that Angel knew spatial knowledge, but he had no idea how strong it was. But since Angel said so, he was not prepared to be polite. He himself was a very pure person who was obsessed with research and was full of desire for the pursuit of knowledge. He had already started to think about what questions to ask.

After Kael left, Angel put away the notebook, and then told Dangros not to smoke too much, and then entered into meditation.

It was not until three hours later that Angel opened his eyes.