Chapter 176 - Irrefutable Evidence
Chris
After Vincent's procedure and recovery were finished, it was Rachel's turn to undergo the process. She was met with a similar amount of fanfare as with Vincent, if a little bit more. The Spirit Fire was already placed and roaring inside the building, the only thing different was that the Molten Metal was missing.
She wasn't going the same route as Vincent with The Molten Smith body and chose a different technique called the Conflagration Body. It would boost the explosiveness of her Fire and also deepen her already strong Fire affinity. She did say something about eventually upgrading her Affinity to something stronger, but unfortunately for her, most of her points from the tutorial were spent on other things.
She didn't have enough to buy the things she did plus a treasure to upgrade her affinity. That didn't mean it was impossible, just that it would take a while and wouldn't be as easy as consuming a treasure like I did.
With both of them going through the Body Refining Process, it marked a good start to our City's advancement. Not only them, but other people started to take their first steps on the Paths of Power as well. Some comprehended Laws and others did their own versions of Body Refining. None formed an Anchor yet, leaving Jonathan and I the only ones to achieve the feat.
All in all, Spring kicked off a growth like we hadn't seen.
If only it could have stayed that way. Our days of solitude were now over.
I shifted in my seat as the time stretched on, waiting for the meeting to start. While it was usually Council meetings that would take place in this room, it was arranged for a different reason today.
The furniture was hastily adjusted and replaced where necessary, the walls were decorated with the things we had available and rugs were placed down.
Where it used to be a bare-bones stone room, it looked more welcoming now that Abigail threw up some decor.
The fur rug under my feet wasn't from something I had killed myself and was of a lower level E-ranked beast, much to my displeasure, but it wasn't all that bad. Having something I personally killed would be better when meeting a foreign delegation but we made do.
Yes, a foreign delegation was the reason for all the activity taking place inside the castle.