Chapter 279 It's Time
Alex did some tests with the dark crystal, starting from the system appraisal, which described the crystal as an energy container with no other info, while the appraisal from the Red gem was a bit more specific, describing the crystal as a Law essence collecter.
Alex tried infusing the crystal with mana to get some form of reaction, but no matter the mana he used, it was all devoured without any trace, and with no intention of consuming it, he stored it back into his inventory.
Alex then contacted Alden and set up a meeting with him in the capital city, Nova, and after meeting him, he gave him the fire element source crystal before asking him about the task he gave him.
Alex had asked Alden to check on the situation of Twilight Embers School and who was involved, and he had not contacted or received any form of info from him since then, which made him believe that things weren't developing as smoothly as he had hoped.
Alden looked hesitant at first before he started taking, telling how, at first, things developed without any issue with him locating the two individuals backing the Agostino Bernardo family and The Death Traders mercenary group.
It was Alden maternal uncle who was backing the Death Traders, and convincing him to back down was easy, but the one behind the Agostino Bernardo family was "Lorenzo" the head of the Girardo Trupiano family, one of the two most influential branch family.
Alden didn't go into details, but he told him that one thing led to another, and eventually, the Italian Mafia main Family (Famiglia Donatelli) head got involved, forcing him to involve his father.
Ultimately, it was agreed that both families would leave the Twilight Embers School to the Shadow Oblivion Organization.
While the Gedeon Family wanted nothing in return, the Donatelli family was not so generous, and the compensation they wanted in return was hefty, to say the least.
The Donatelli family wanted to become a substantial shareholder in the Shadow Oblivion Organization, and they were willing to pay ten times the premium of what AI-Zero would evaluate it at in any form the organization would desire.
A substantial shareholder means 10%, and agreeing to sell any shares meant that Alex would first need to make his organization public and then disclose things he wanted that his organization owned, from materialistic value to informational and connectional value to Zero, for him to make an evaluation.
After twelve hours of work, Alex completed the third major Artery, and after a short break, he drank the two potions again and started to work on replicating the final pathways of the blood vessels.
After thirty-nine hours in total, Alex completed his mana veins, and even though he was mentally exhausted at the end of the session, he was thrilled with his work as he did without even the slightest of failure.
Alex didn't linger any longer in the ancient world, logged out minutes after the session ended, and then went straight to sleep.
Alex, having awakened, Alex's physique was getting better and better day after day as it got refined from impurities and strength with mana.
So before awakening, Alex would sleep for 6 to 8 hours, depending on how burnt up he was, but now he barely needed 4 to 5 hours max before he was in his peak mental and physical state and less if he was not mentally exhausted.
After waking up, Alex spent some time circulating his mana to slowly refine his heart, as it was still too early in the morning and, after a few hours, to have breakfast with the family.
After breakfast, Alex went straight to his room and returned to the ancient world with the goal of going back to the Malefis Domain to not only set the teleportation locations for the domain entry tokens but to consume the Evolution fruit.
After becoming a Ruler, Alex was given two gifts, and he decided to natural law energy stored inside it that he could use after reaching the Elemental Ruler Rank to swiftly progress his understanding of use them to the fullest to gain the best early benefits.
The first gift was the Dawn Tree, which had the purest form of natural law energy stored inside it that he could use after reaching the Elemental Ruler Rank to swiftly progress his understanding of the law.
However, he also needed that law energy to use his second gift, which was a magical fruit of his choice, and he decided to possibly make a stupid decision by going all in and picking the wildest fruit that used the entirety of law energy.
Alex picked the Evolution Fruit over the safer option of the Ancient Bloodline fruit simply because of the wild difference in the benefits it could provide.
Now, it was finally time to see if he would regret wasting a grand opportunity or would get rewarded for his courage.
