Chapter 400: Chapter 175: Activating the Ring

“Hey! Mr. Vio, you’re back! What should I do now!”

In the Alchemy Shop, seeing Anvis’ figure appear at the doorway, Landon’s gaze lit up as if he had seen a savior.

“Hmm, hello? Nice to meet you, who might this lovely miss be?”

Gazing at the young girl inside the shop, Anvis feigned ignorance.

“It’s me, Landon, Lord Vio! After drinking that potion, my body turned into this! Also, this is your necklace; I drank both potions while exploring the ruins.”

Seeing Anvis’ reaction, Landon was stunned for a moment, and then his face instantly fell, weakly handing back the necklace to Anvis.

“Landon…? Oh! I see now!”

Nonchalantly tossing the necklace back into the drawer, Anvis paused deliberately in his words, then clapped his hand to his forehead with a grossly exaggerated expression of realization, and circled around Landon as if inspecting a piece of art.

“How is it, the effect of the Disguise Potion is not bad, right?”

“I think it’s a bit too good, Lord Vio. When I came back, even though I didn’t encounter any enemies, a group of mercenaries surrounded me and even tried to touch my…”

Saying this, Landon himself found the scene somewhat embarrassing to discuss.

“Anyway, what should I do now to remove the disguise effect from my body?”

“Wait for fourteen hours, the potion’s effect will disappear automatically. I have already told you this, there is no other way.”

Anvis shrugged his shoulders, then suddenly spoke with a bit of mischief.

“Also, Landon, do you know? The real effect of that potion is to transform you into the appearance you subconsciously desire.”

“Eh!?”

At this statement from Anvis, both Landon and Leia were completely stunned. The next instant, Leia’s look towards Landon changed a bit.

“No, no way! I have never wished to become a girl!”

Landon waved his hands frantically, his whole person becoming somewhat chaotic.

“Hahaha, I know it’s hard for you to accept this reality. Actually, I was just kidding. That potion has a random transformation effect.”

Anvis laughed cheerily, then suddenly changed his statement.

“How about it, do you feel more relaxed now?”

“Really? You’re not just consoling me, right?”

“Alright, let’s change the topic now, little Landon, did any business come by the shop while I was away?”

Instead of answering the young boy’s question, Anvis suddenly shifted the topic.

Having no choice, Landon, with a glum face, started reporting the specific business dealings to Anvis.

“Okay, Mr. Braun from Silver Sparrow West Street, number twenty-three, has ordered two bottles of Screaming Owl Potion, Mrs. Mary has ordered a bottle of Fire Dragon Potion, and also… the Supreme Starry Sky King needs two sets of Miniature Life Potion.”

As he mentioned the last person, Landon had a strange expression on his face.

“I understand, I will send the required potions later.”

After listening to Landon’s report, Anvis nodded his head, waved his hand to close the door, and simultaneously a sign reading ‘Closed’ automatically flew up, hanging on the handle between the two doors.

“Since you’ve used the Disguise Potion, I presume you have had some findings in the ruins? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care about what you found there.

For these ancient ruins that limit entry to individuals based on their level, I have some understanding too. Being restricted to unofficial professionals only implies that there are only low-ranking artifacts inside.”

Waving his hand to stop Landon, who was about to say something, Anvis’s figure slowly disappeared into the back room, leaving behind only his silhouette.

“It just so happens that I have some matters to handle, so let’s close the shop early today. You can now return to your room and study what you’ve obtained at your leisure.”

As he left, Anvis was also pondering Landon’s transformation.

He could feel a special power within Landon, slowly improving his magical talent and continuously enhancing his constitution as well.

Regarding this, he had some guesses—it was either due to that strange black talisman that had disappeared or an extraordinary encounter he had gained in the ruins.

Between the two, Anvis was more inclined to believe it was the effect of the former. After all, as a Child of Destiny, having some Golden Fingers was essential.

Also, in Anvis’s observations, although the Power of Destiny inside Landon had been dormant for a while, it was now showing signs of activity again, seemingly about to erupt once more.

This time, unlike the previous few, it was a release of the Power of Destiny after a brief suppression, which might lead to a crisis even more troublesome than before.

Returning to his temporary lab, Anvis took out Fidels’ Ring and the completed Artificial Bloodline.

With the key bloodline, activating Fidels’ Ring was simple—just let the ring come into contact with the bloodline.

Following the procedure from his memory, Anvis dropped the ring into a bottle filled with purple liquid.

With a flash of faint light, the ring, which originally appeared as an ordinary item, suddenly emitted a subtle magic fluctuation.

A special sensation came from an incredibly distant location.

However, it seemed that the location of the treasure was still within the territory of the Yiter Federation.

As Anvis activated the ring, Landon was in his room tallying up the gains from his trip to the ruins, while also considering which goods to use as payment for Anvis’s potions.

“For the Life Recovery Potion, one piece of ghost gold and two pieces of Star Trace Iron should suffice. But the value of that Disguise Potion is unclear… maybe I should also add those two pieces of mithril?”

Calculating the value of the resources, Landon unconsciously muttered to himself.

“That thing is definitely not worth two pieces of mithril, adding the smaller of those two pieces of mithril should be enough.”

At that moment, an elderly voice suddenly echoed out of nowhere in Landon’s Spirit Sea.

“Is that so?”

Hearing this voice, Landon showed no surprise.

“However, since Master Vio has kindly sheltered us for so many days and agreed to treat my sister’s crystallization illness for free, even if I pay a bit more, it’s only right.”

When Landon first heard this voice during the trial in the ruins, he indeed was startled, but now he has grown accustomed to it.

According to the voice, it too was once a High Rank Professional, but due to being conspired against by enemies, its physical body perished, leaving only some remnants of consciousness which survived by being carried into the chaotic currents of space, thus escaping.

Having drifted in the space currents for too long, this remnant consciousness unavoidably fell into a slumber. Only awakened today by Landon’s relentless and vigorous will, did it finally come to consciousness.

Although he is a rational Mage, and Landon’s own Spellcaster talent is rather ordinary, he still decided to take Landon as his apprentice.

“Alright, as you wish, but I must remind you, when my consciousness awakens again, my former enemies might have sensed it, and they are probably on their way here now.”