The Runic Alchemist

Chapter 729: Ten Waygates Installed

“Your dungeons are ready, where do you want it?” Damian got straight to the point.

It had been a long day of work—his body may be as strong as ever, but his mind was bored and slightly tired. He needed a change of scenery soon.

“Already? Thank you for making this your priority—we won’t forget the favor,” Lazrin said with the first genuine smile on her face that Damian had ever seen.

“Yeah, don’t mind it,” Damian dismissed it, but then, remembering her name, he added, “Was Demon King your..”

“Yes,” Lazrin confirmed. “He was my husband—it was a marriage of convenience. Kalin was not always seen as a worthy warrior with his strange esper powers that manipulated dead animals and golem bodies. He wasn’t one of the seven dukes—but my brother was. He is one of the three you have imprisoned. His name is Morak.

When one day Kalin arrived on this land riding atop the Chaos Dragon, no duke was strong enough to resist, so they made him the Demon King. My family is a direct descendant of the Chaos God. We have ruled the strongest dukedom of the seven for years. This used to be the capital of the united kingdom of Malveria before the Land-Breaker severed us from the mainland.

To legitimize Kalin’s claim to the throne of the Demon King, my brother and I decided I should get married to him. It has been sixty years since.”

“You had the Chaos Dragon for sixty years?” Damian asked, surprised.

“Yes. Everything happened because we had one sure way to reach the mainland—for at least the Transcendents.”

“You should have used the dragon to find new land instead of going back. So much wasted effort.”

Lazrin stared at him, looking away when she realized what she was doing.

“What?” Damian asked.

“That was exactly what I wanted to do to solve our lack of resource issues. Kalin was obsessed though—he could only see revenge. To be honest, that was the only thing uniting all seven dukes.”

“Well, let’s finish the setup so your people can start from tomorrow,” Damian said, moving along.

Lazrin, after thinking for a while, had him place the ten big and thick steel hexagonal waygate point devices at the edge of the island overlooking the sea. So even if some other duke’s army tried to reach it, there would be a whole city between the gates of the capital and the ten waygate points. Besides, the place had enough space to install more waygate points in the future.

Damian had already informed his old attendant to ready two units of Sanctuary’s soldiers for the long-distance duty for a couple of days, bringing food and all the essentials along with them for themselves.

He had called them while he was setting up the ten dungeon waygate points. Damian made them a wooden house for staying, along with a high wooden wall surrounding the waygates, with only one large gate for access. So it would be easier for them to keep watch over the waygate points and note each person who enters and leaves.

Damian was planning to bring a lot more soldiers, along with some officials, to keep watch over the daily dungeon diving activities of the demons and provide spatial storage when the demons enter the dungeon and take it back when they leave. Which demon brought what dungeon loot would also be recorded, along with everything else. Damian wanted proper records of everything so there wouldn’t be any unfair distributions later on.

After a brief discussion with Lazrin, they had decided on using the records to give her people 20% of their earned loot back. The spatial storages provided by the Sanctuary would be given on entry. Lazrin would activate the waygates and send them to the dungeon point, which would also have some Sanctuary officials to instruct people on how to reach the dungeon and come back—also to supervise the whole thing.

These supervisors would change on a daily basis to prevent any misdealings from happening. Once the team came back from the dungeon with full spatial storages, they would give those back to the officials who would record which demon it belonged to. They would receive a unique token after doing so. The monster corpses would be sent directly to Lazrin, who could arrange the butchering, mana stone collection, and all that. Damian was not much interested in those.

Lazrin even said to him she would give extra rewards to the demons who brought valuable loot back, and a share in the food and materials they brought back. That was her thing though—Damian only cared about his system working as it should.

That list of items would first be cleared of all the basic items, and only the valuable dungeon relics and materials list would finally be sent to the Sanctum. Damian himself, or others, would decide which among them was okay enough to enter the list of items that Lazrin could claim her 20% from.

Then the demons with a token who filed the report of their experience could receive their spatial storages back—from under which only the valuable items would be taken by the Sanctuary. Half of the basic materials and other basic items would be returned to the demon who earned them. Damian could also send some officials who could write down oral reports for the demons who couldn’t read and write.

From there it was up to Lazrin what system she wanted to give entry to her demons in the dungeons.

“Let me show you how it works,” Damian offered.

The wormhole and dungeon stuff he could do tomorrow—showing Lazrin her part shouldn’t take long.

“Okay,” she replied, following behind him to the first 10-feet-tall hexagonal thick steel waygate device.

“They need at least 200,000 points worth of mana to work for once,” Damian said and saw her face getting worried. “But it has the function of gathering mana from the surroundings. That will take nearly thirty hours though—so instead, you can just use many First Rankers and Second Rankers to release their mana near it, and the recharge will happen sooner.”

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