Chapter 155 - Hello Again

Another year passed quickly.

Everything is suspiciously calm.. it can only be described as the calm before the storm

The big moves and the mobilization of the armies of the Duchy of Alton and the Duchy of Bradley were very clear and attracted the attention of the entire kingdom there, but no one succeeded in understanding what was happening... only rumors flying about an imminent huge war kept everyone in a state of anticipation

The return of the elders of the Burton family from the new lands and their sudden disappearance behind the closed doors did not go unnoticed either.. the city became full of nobles and spies, and what happened was easily monitored.

Since the return of those elders and for more than a year now, no one has seen them.. except for the young saint Billy and Patriarch Brain who would appear every now and then to sign a paper or visit the army site, before disappearing again.

Even the auctioneer is a saint of the Bradley family and he is sometimes helped by Mila Bradley when a problem arises.. a huge financial institution of this size that no one from the Burton family supervises!

All aside, The Duchy of Evren has been actually the most active one this year...

After the Burtons ignored their threats to close the border with their new lands and continued to prevent them from auctions, they went crazy, and even closed the border between them and the Duchy of Alton as well to make Duke Raymond Alton pressure the Burtons to accept his terms... but to no avail.

They sent envoys to the Burton family. They were ready to go back to the original 10% and forget about the 15% increase, but no one was received by their envoys... 

They sat with old knights of level 12 and then left with their faces burning with humiliation and anger.

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As for Robin, after completing the foundation modification technique and repairing the law techniques that were used by the family elders, he went back to what he was doing before...

Moving between the Grand Library, assisting the rune masters, giving lectures at the Academy during the day... and researching at night.

It would not be an exaggeration if Robin said he had read more than a quarter of the grand library by now, although the Burton family library was by no means the largest of its kind, his general knowledge has increased dramatically

As for the Rune Masters, their number currently reached 221 even without the 50 Inscription Masters who went to the new lands!

However, the year saw a noticeable drop in the number of applicants to work for the Burton family, especially after Robin announced that he only needed young men with strong souls and stopped hiring older knights.

Although their large number has assured the needed talismans could be completed before the war began, Robin was even more busy helping them.

This is because Billy took almost all of the gold reserve from the family on his last trip to the new lands and left the Burtons treasury nearly empty.

So aside from the talismans that are sold monthly at the auctions, he started selling other products to fill this money deficit, such as... Empty thoughts conveying scrolls!

But these scrolls were further modified to emit a slight glow on a seal over them as long as their content was still intact, and if someone read it, the glow would be nullified and it would turn into a normal scroll...

Messages between the high class nobles and each other and the transmission of important information and written contracts were always fraught with danger, and a scroll like this assures that the message had not been opened before and that it really reached its destination would save them from journeys of their own to exchange any kind of written information, so Robin started selling this kind of empty scroll for 5,000 gold coins each.

He also started selling the thoughts conveying Technique itself within a single-use scroll, at 30,000 gold per one!

After it is transferred to the person's mind directly, he will not be able to teach it to anyone else easily, unless he is a researcher himself and can rewrite everything from the beginning and teach it to whomever he wants.. 

even if this happened, it will take years, and Robin will have achieved the desired profit from it by then and found something else to sell.

This technique was a miracle for this world and its deserved price is much higher than this, but because he sold it at this price for one person, the royal family alone bought 30 scrolls for nearly a million gold coins to give them to their high-ranking princes and elders!

Profits from these two products In addition to a marked increase in sales of the one-slot oath tablets, the family treasury was finally revived... even after paying the Royal Family 2 million gold coins for the war horses.

As for at night, he would return to his research, specifically research on the major heavenly law of life.

But even after full research and after the development of his eyes, he couldn't fully reveal it for a year now, he expected to find difficulties on his way towards one of the most difficult master laws, but this simply went beyond his guesswork...

*Life* is not something like Fire that can be seen or like Darkness that can be specified... It is something that exists in all beings without a doubt, but you cannot point at it and say that this is the law of life

Humans, plants and animals are alive.. but what makes them alive? What makes them lose this quality later? was it the heartbeat.. mental activity.. the soul..?!

During the year Robin tried to go out on his own for a few weeks at once when he felt he was about to make a big breakthrough, but in the end, nothing happened...

he actually grabbed a few keys to the law after all these attempts, but every time he tried to go after one of them he would find the path blocked

According to his current estimation, he needs at least 10 additional years to complete the first grade technique of this stubborn law...

But today, while he was alone trying to find solutions to the law as usual, a bright light shone in the room

Strands of light began emerging from Robin's head and forming in front of him two meters away in a human form, everything took less than a second.

Finally, the humanoid figure opened his eyes and grinned, "Hello boy~"