Chapter 155 -: 154 Invincible path treasure.
"Here take this...." Without warning, the Lone King flicked his tiny wrist and tossed a paper scroll straight at Julius and Rosalina.
Julius reached out fast and caught it.
The scroll had that old brownish shine, with edges torn just a little.
It smelled like ancient paper, the kind that had sat forgotten for centuries. Clearly very old.
"What’s this?" Julius asked as he slowly unrolled it.
The boy didn’t wait. He kept talking in his squeaky voice.
"It’s the formula you will use to refine me into a treasure. It will be hard because you are not from the alchemy path. And it’s a very complex formula."
"One that can create a celestial grade treasure..." he explained, sounding almost proud of how annoying it was going to be.
"Celestial grade?" Rosalina’s face changed colors.
She leaned in quick and grabbed one side of the scroll.
Julius did the same. For a second they just stared at each other, eyes wide with shock.
But behind that shock, pure excitement sparkled in both their looks. They couldn’t hide it.
They turned their eyes back to the paper.
Lines and lines of complex formulas covered it, full of endless equations and theorems all smashed together into one giant mess.
To hold everything in place, there was the treasure refining fire plus materials from different paths.
’This is a celestial grade treasure formula...’ Julius thought.
His mind started racing like crazy. Rosalina’s face showed she was thinking the exact same thing.
Their shocked expressions made total sense.
In the whole novel, celestial grade treasures were so rare and powerful that only two had ever shown up.
One was the Great Sanachi’s soul flame. The other was something Crypian got from the 101 Treasure Tower.
Sure, plenty of formulas existed, but almost nobody could actually refine them.
The materials were insanely rare, and most had gone extinct anyway. Julius couldn’t hold back but ask...
"How can we even refine a celestial grade treasure?" he asked, half-laughing, half-groaning.
The Lone King snapped his fingers. The bright blue treasure refining flame vanished from his palm in an instant.
He clasped his small hands behind his back, looking like a tiny professor about to give a lecture, and spoke slowly.
"It will be difficult," he admitted with a shrug. "You two have zero experience in refining treasures. I can see that clearly."
Julius and Rosalina both nodded. Yeah, no point pretending.
They had never touched alchemy in their lives. Not even a low-grade treasure. They were simply too privileged for that kind of messy work.
Rosalina already carried her best treasure, a supreme grade sword named Mary.
Julius could have grabbed anything from his family’s massive vault, but he had never cared much for using treasures.
The only one he kept was a supreme grade saving treasure his mother had forced on him.
She had made it herself. He still had no idea how it worked, but he carried it just in case.
"But no matter what treasure you use," the Lone King continued, cutting into Julius’s thoughts, "there is only a one percent chance of success for anyone who tries to refine this."
He stepped back, reached out, and tapped the bookshelves around them with one small finger.
The moment he touched the wood, everything changed.
The shelves shimmered like a curtain being pulled away.
In place of books and scrolls, rare materials appeared, piles and piles of them glowing with the auras of different paths.
Julius and Rosalina stood in stunned silence, eyes wide as they looked around.
These materials had been right in front of them the whole time, yet they had seen nothing but normal books until now.
’What kind of illusion is this...?’ Rosalina thought, shocked.
She had the famous rose petal eyes, said to be masters of illusions, but even she had felt nothing. Not a single ripple.
"There are enough materials here for one hundred and one tries," the Lone King said cheerfully.
He stepped forward again and stopped right in front of them, smiling like a kid who had just shared his favorite toy.
"Even if you fail, there’s plenty left for you to keep trying until you succeed!" He then thought for a moment, then spoke again slowly.
"Only one of you should do the refining. That way the success rate stays as high as possible." He pointed his small finger straight at Julius.
"Preferably you. It will take a long time and it will be exhausting, but when you finish... a celestial grade treasure will be born."
Julius and Rosalina glanced at each other and gave a quick nod.
It was actually perfect. Julius would handle the refining while Rosalina kept watch. They agreed without a word.
"Then where should we start?" Julius asked, turning back to the boy.
The Lone King nodded and took one small step.
The moment his foot stopped, a rectangular platform rose smoothly from the floor right under him.
It was about one and a half meters long, one meter wide, and half a meter high, simple, clean, and ready.
"This is the treasure refining platform," the boy said. "It will help you the whole time."
Julius stepped onto it. The surface felt strangely steady under his boots.
"Whenever the formula calls for a material," the Lone King explained, standing beside the platform, "just reach out your hand and will it. The right amount of the right material will appear in your palm."
Julius stared down at the old scroll in his hands, reading the formula carefully.
It was a total mess of different paths mixed together, time, space, divination, light, earth, wind, and who knows what else.
Without the clear descriptions next to every line, he wouldn’t have understood a single thing.
Even with the notes, it still looked like a madman’s puzzle.
He kept reading, then finally asked the question burning in his mind.
"What path will the treasure be once it’s refined?" If it only held memories, it would still be valuable... but if it also had attack power or defense...
He looked at the boy with hopeful eyes.
The Lone King stared back, clearly noticing the excitement. A small chuckle escaped his lips.
"It’s an invincible path celestial grade treasure!"