Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Time passed, and it was finally the day that the brewery was ready. 

Lucius had gotten the news last night that the workers had finished up all of their work and the only thing that was left was the naming ceremony. In the past few days, Lucius had just worked on the plans that he already had going.

Though it mostly encompassed of him studying and testing out the hell energy with the Bore Shrews. That's right, Lucius had gotten two more bore shrews later on that he had trained in the same way as the first one.

He was currently standing in front of the cage and looked at them.

"The size difference between them is definitely distinguishing," Lucius said as he observed the three beasts.

The first bore shrew that he had trained with hell energy was the largest in size and was about three times the size of a normal bore shrew. The other two were about twice the size of a normal bore shrew.

Lucius didn't know if there would be an additional difference in the bore shrews, thus he gave all of them equal amounts of hell energy. He even went so far as to not feeding the first bore shrew to make sure that they had all gotten the same amount of hell energy.

"This is fascinating… despite the same amount of resources spent, the results are quite different," Lucius said as he rubbed his chin in intrigue.

Lucius had known that there could be a genetic difference that influenced this, but he didn't know how to factor in the existence of gifts and Aether into that. He had plenty of evidence that hell energy reacted with Aether and could have a violent effect.

Thus, there should definitely be implications of it that he could not perceive as of now. But he knew they would be quite important in the long term and he would need more subjects to test them out with.

"Hmm… will need to put a reward for more Bore Shrews," Lucius muttered to himself when he heard a knock on the door.

~knock~ knock~

Lucius unlocked the door and saw Kiana standing in front of him with an excited expression on her face.

"Are you going to miss out on the opening of the brewery? Come on, even if the owner is supposed to be Alessa, we still need to be there to officiate it." Kiana said.

Because the on the paper owner of the Brewery was Alessa, the count could not go there as it would attract a lot of attention. Thus instead of that, Lucius was going to go there as a guest of honor, that had been invited by the supposed new noble.

Of course, the fact that this was actually a brewery was going to be kept beneath the wraps for as long as possible and this was mere formalities that Lucius and the rest were doing. If it were up to Lucius he would have had them start the work right away, but of course, the people here were a bit superstitious.

Especially the workers that they had recruited after a long period of verification that would be working at the brewery. These people needed to be loyal and tested for that. Thus, Lucius and the others needed to ensure that they were pleased to work there.

To the workers, if a building or any workplace was not officiated and named, it would bring bad luck. The name of goddess Etara needed to be invoked as well, to ensure the well being of the business.

So if a little bit of time spent at the brewery for a ceremony was what was needed from Lucius, he would do it gladly. Besides, he wanted to take a final look at the brewery's condition as well.

"Ah, yes. Let's head out, shall we?" Lucius said with a smile and left the lab with Kiana.

The two of them got into a carriage and directly headed to the site of the brewery. There were no unusual activities in the city as of now, and no one knew that the brewery was now fully complete.

The walls that were now complete were doing their function very well, and no one dared to come near it after the guards had arrested those that loitered around it. Lucius gazed at the long wall from the distance that completely hid the existence of the brewery within it with acknowledgment.

"Those masons did good work on the wall. I can barely see any gaps in the stones and it's as if it is a solid wall made from one rock." Lucius commented.

"Mmhmm, we were lucky to get those two to work on it." Kiana replied.

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The carriage finally came to a stop in front of the entrance of the brewery and the guards looked at it with sharp gazes. Once Lucius and Kiana got down though, they lowered their gazes.

"Welcome, Young Lord Asher!" The guards greeted them and opened the gate so that they could enter.

Lucius gave them a simple nod and entered the compound, looking around everywhere.

He could see the second gate on the right side of the compound. This gate was currently locked and was not in use. It was made while keeping the future expansion of the brewery in mind. Lucius not only wanted there to be a brewery here, he also wanted for them to add a field of Carom fruits in the future.

This would make it so that the entire brewery was self sufficient and would not have to depend on the import of Carom fruits from other producers. This was to ensure people stayed in the blind for as long as possible.

"Just from the first look, it seems good." Kiana said after seeing it all as well.

This was the first time she was seeing it since the building was commissioned and she had never come to check up on its progress with Lucius as it often clashed with her other tasks.