Commanding Wind and Cloud

Chapter 572: Becoming an Official Rune Master

Mage Union! Soon, all the demons realized that only the Central Mage Union and the Central Mercenary Union hadn’t handed over power to Master Feijing.

No one was feeling more pain than the president of the Central Mage Union. The fact that all other central unions were willing to give control to this mixed-blood was enough to prove the value this mixed-blood could bring to them.

However, this mixed-blood didn’t have any spiritual energy! Even though the president of the Central Mage Union wanted to invite this mixed-blood to join, he couldn’t find an excuse.

This situation was awkward for the Central Mage Union.

The mages could ignore pretty much all other unions, but they couldn’t ignore the Central Rune Union. Almost all of the mages’ items such as their wands, rings, robes were created by Rune Masters!

The Runes Masters could survive without the mages; they could still make empowered weapons and Magic Conductors for warriors. However, mages couldn’t live without Rune Masters. Without the top-tier items, their power would decrease substantially.

Although the Rune Masters wouldn’t stop servicing the mages because the Central Mage Union didn’t favor Jiliu Feijing, no one could be sure that wouldn’t change in the future.

If Jiliu Feijing himself felt like he was ignored by the Central Mage Union and decided to raise the price on the mages, the accumulated effect of that would be catastrophic.

Who was Jiliu Feijing? A mixed-blood with some of the Lucifer Bloodline! What were the Lucifer Demons known for? Their arrogance!

If Jiliu Feijing felt like he was ignored by the Central Mage Union, no one knew what would happen.

…

Soon, the forces who were curious to know if Jiliu Feijing would be participating in the Royal Competition in front of the Demon King received an answer; they were informed that Jiliu Feijing who had control of multiple Central Unions would be participating the competition as the retinue of Lucifer Lucy.

This news stirred up all kinds of reactions and all the princes and princesses who were participating in this competition felt a headache.

If Jiliu Feijing was only the president of one Central Union, they wouldn’t care. In order to display their strength in front of the Demon King, they would be willing to beat up anyone in front of them. Worst case scenario, they would just give their opponent a big gift afterward. After all, their statuses weren’t lower than a president of a Central Union.

However, this Jiliu Fejing already had control over four Central Unions, and the fifth Central Warrior Union would be his in a short while as well. In this case, even the Crown Prince couldn’t act arrogantly in front of this mixed-blood, let alone ordinary princes and princesses.

The combined strength of Jiliu Feijing was just too powerful!

The princes and princesses had to really consider the next step; if they really beat this mixed-blood, the relationship couldn’t be simply saved by some gifts.

For a moment, all these princes and princesses were trying to meet up with Jiliu Feijing; they wanted to prearrange something, so it won’t be awkward if Jiliu Feijing encountered their retinues in the competition.

However, they soon realized that they couldn’t find this Master Feijing. There was news about him here and it indicated that he was still alive; otherwise, they could have thought that he had evaporated from this world.

“For the last few days, except for the Royal Family, almost every demon force has tried to reach out to Qian Jin. I heard that the other two Ultimate Bloodline Families couldn’t hold still anymore; they have sent demons to reach out as well.”

With a dry straw on his lips, Duren Burg chewed on it as he leaned against a wall and murmured, “Not sure what comrade is doing. Every time he comes back, he would lock himself in the room and didn’t want to be disturbed.”

Endless World.

Qian Jin stood in front of Akenash’s workshop and scratched his head. Ever since he started learning about runes, this teacher of his told him multiple times that he should do more research after he comprehended the basics. The idea that following someone else’s path won’t lead to anything significant was hammered into Qian Jin’s mind.

Qian Jin had been trying to study the runes he saw in the underground hall for two days intensively, but he wasn’t able to get anywhere despite his red eyes and aching head.

Over the past two days, he realized that extracting the essence from the Heart of Lucifer wasn’t something he could do yet. Although he could act mighty in front of Lucifer Serage, he could only fool the Crown Prince without getting real progress.

“I can’t do it! I can’t!” Qian Jin stood in front of Akenash with a painful expression.

“Teacher…”

“You can’t figure something out again?” Akenash said to him without looking up, “Go read some more books.”

Qian Jin smiled bitterly and didn’t say anything back. Instead, he started to engrave the runes on that biggest standing coffin onto the sand in the sandbox that was used for practice.

Akenash didn’t pay much attention to Qian Jin at first, but she froze a little when she saw what Qian Jin was drawing with her peripheral vision. A bit of surprise appeared in her calm eyes.

“This… a bunch of coffins?”

“Yeah.”

Qian Jin nodded, he wasn’t surprised. Only the people who knew Akenash well would know how great she was at the art of runes. She would know about a magic array or a Magic Conductor just by looking at the outer edges.

“You want to extract the stuff stored in them?”

Akenash asked casually and Qian Jin nodded without holding anything back.

“Did you encounter an Undead?”

“Yeah.”

“You killed it?”

“Yeah.”

Akenash nodded and said, “Got to be more careful.”

Qian Jin wanted to ask some questions regarding the Undead, but he thought back to how this teacher would immediately shut her mouth after hearing questions about the Undead and decided not to.

“There is a diagram on the shelf,” Akenash pointed at one bookshelf as she was looking at a complex magic array and thinking of something.

Qian Jin quickly found the diagram. After opening it up, he realized that he still underestimated the complexity of the project. The diagram was huge! It was very difficult if he wanted to build a small model.

“Go to Akenash again?” Qian Jin shook his head. Completing a project on his own was a valuable experience. If he went to his teachers every time he encountered a problem, his growth would be greatly limited.

If he wanted to make a smaller model, it meant that the force structure of the magic arrays would change. Qian Jin sat in front of this diagram for a whole day and he only started to try to create the small model the next day.

In the next two days, explosions occurred regularly in Akenash’s workshop and Qian Jin got kicked out of Endless World regularly as well.

Even though he had the Wind and Cloud Golden Body and the Ultra-Fake Soul, he still got killed in Endless World many times. Now, Qian Jin had a better understanding of why there were so few Rune Masters! This profession wasn’t any less dangerous than Mystic Pharmaceuticals!

“If this happened in the real world… the practitioner would die immediately…” he thought.

Rune Masters, Pharmacy Masters, Mystic Pharmacy Master… all these professions required practitioners to have a ton of resources and a lot of luck to not be killed.

From the experience of the last two days, Qian Jin had to admit that Akenash was loaded! If he ran these experiments in the Central Rune Union, the Central Rune Union might have gone bankrupt!

If there weren’t enough resources for a practitioner to run experiments, and the practitioner had to slowly reflect on his experiences, then it would be hard for this practitioner to become a grandmaster even if he or she had a lot of talent.

Resources! The lack of resources limited the number of Rune Masters, Pharmacy Masters, and Mystic Pharmacy Masters there could be on this continent.

Holding the final product in his hands, Qian Jin closed his eyes and reflected on how he succeeded again and again.

This was what Akenash taught him, he had to reflect on the process that led to the success immediately.

“If someone doesn’t even know how he or she succeeded, then he or she would fail the next time for sure.”

Qian Jin would never forget what Akenash told him.

Undergoing hours of reflection wasn’t easier than creating the runes hands-on.

“Player Qian Jin, your Rune Experiences increased. You now acquired the title [Rune Master]…”

The mechanical and emotionless voice suddenly sounded by Qian Jin’s ear. When he opened his eyes, his vision blurred as the second notification sounded, “Your play time for the day is up…”

Qian Jin sat up on his bed and recalled what had happened. He became a real Rune Master unexpectedly and he was no longer a noob in this field. If he didn’t try to make that complicated Magic Conductor, he wouldn’t have known that his skill in terms of runes had increased so much.

“It is time to make that Magic Conductor in real life!” Qian Jin put away that mage hat and walked out of his room. After he took a good look at the Warrior Weapons in his comrades’ hands, he sighed and thought, “If I try to steal that metal sphere, who would know if we would get stuck between a rock and a hard place? If we are going to do that, we would be in danger. Better Warrior Weapons would increase our chance of survival! After that competition, I will try to drag the time out and reforge items for my friends and comrades.”