Above The Sky
Chapter 160 - 160 149 Someone Can't Fly Who Is It

160: Chapter 149 Someone Can’t Fly, Who Is It?

(2/4) 160: Chapter 149 Someone Can’t Fly, Who Is It?

(2/4) Ian’s fundamental inheritance was the prestigious True Form, the “Unyielding Fortress,” which directly reached the Fifth Energy Level.

This was an inheritance geared towards protective knights, with a tough body, powerful defense, and almost inexhaustible stamina.

It had impressive combat power early on and was very comprehensive.

In the later stages, it could even shake the earth and mountains, a single sword strike could carve out cliffs and ravines, aptly named the Sword of Cliff.

But if Ian were to evaluate it himself…

the Unyielding Fortress was indeed strong, but…

It was slightly cumbersome.

To put it in another way, it was some sort of land god-beast that couldn’t fly!

Would you say it’s strong?

Extremely strong!

But just like this god-beast, the Unyielding Fortress inheritance…

— could not fly.

Ian was well aware of why the Unyielding Fortress had such superior advantages and such major flaws.

After all, his teacher, Hiliard, was a ‘Royal Guardian Knight.’

And his titles from the past were even more impressive: ‘Empire’s First Knight,’ ‘The Immortal City,’ and ‘Emperor’s Shield.’

Just looking at the professional title and epithets would tell you what kind of role and status he had…

he didn’t need to be well-rounded.

A knight guarding the emperor, does he need mobility?

If he really wanted to project combat power, there would be other Sublimators to carry him into battle, or even a group to fly him there.

What he needed to do, was to use the most expensive and rarest Ancient Dragon materials to max out his basic attack, defense, and skills— as long as he stood by his emperor’s side, he would be unbeatable!

What use were enemy tracking or aerial pursuits?

They were utterly insignificant.

He only needed to act as a shield to protect his target.

His weaknesses could be compensated by others.

Not to mention, on the Terra Continent, the emperors and monarchs of different nations were certainly top-tier powerhouses; and Emperor Inaga, whom Hiliard once served, was even famous for his unprecedented powerful Spirit Energy.

Together, these two could truly be called the strongest duo of the age.

But now, not to mention that Ian didn’t have an emperor to provide the legacy bond bonus for this inheritance…

Even if he considered his brother, Alan, to be the protection target, he didn’t have a whole Royal Guard Corps to assist him.

Therefore, the Unyielding Fortress inheritance transformed from an extraordinary, almost invincible protective legacy into one with extremely great advantages and disadvantages.

This clearly did not meet the needs of the young man.

But fortunately, Ian was not Hiliard, who needed to suppress the Ice Prison Calamity Ash.

With the Silver Chip, which could imprint a second inheritance’s Origin Structure, he could compensate for his own weaknesses.

That is, the True Form of the ‘Wave Singer’, which theoretically wasn’t very powerful and was merely considered ‘remote sea support’, only showing some combat strength in water.

The True Form of the Wave Singer actually didn’t have much to say for it; all it did was use sound waves to control water flow.

In water, it could help Ian control currents, compensating for the lack of any mobility enhancement from the Unyielding Fortress.

Not to mention, the Sand Armor Apprentice, normally expected to sink immediately upon entering water, could be pushed by the Wave Singer, transforming into a heavy-armored projectile that could move freely underwater.

Using the physical quality and defense of the Sand Armor Apprentice, as well as the full thrusts from the Wave Singer in the sea, Ian was not afraid of any natural disaster other than a great storm—in ordinary storms, the depths of hundreds of meters he could dive into were unbothered.

However.

The true significance of the Wave Singer’s enhancement was that Ian could use it as a stepping stone to switch to the ‘Fairy Bloodline’ at the Second Energy Level, gaining a certain degree of hovering and flying ability!

Yes, over the past four years, Ian had thought long and hard, and finally decided to use ‘Fairy Bloodline’ as the progression route for his future alternate inheritance.

And he, with the help of Foresight View and the silver core chip, had found a safe and feasible fairy magic potion formula.

Although it sounded incredible…

in simple terms, it mainly relied on Alan.

“This magic potion formula will definitely be used by Alan in the future!”

Every time Ian, using the fairy potion formula left by Hiliard, optimized it for his own special circumstances, he would drag the clueless Alan into his alchemy workshop, letting the boy drink juice and wait while Ian occasionally held up a magic potion formula diagram to compare against him.

Alan naturally didn’t mind, after all, his brother would make something delicious at night, blissfully unaware that he had become a tool for the Prophet’s foresight-driven law research.

“Blue…

blue…

red…

Hmm, it seems that this approach won’t work, it’s indeed too aggressive.”

The magic potion formulas Hiliard knew were mostly of a higher power level, lacking the lower-level ‘stepping stones.’

The required materials were also mostly of an extremely rare category.

Not to mention, his formulas hadn’t been updated in decades; no matter how advanced they once were, they couldn’t keep up with the times.

In a word, while strength might not be an issue, there definitely wasn’t cost-effectiveness.

With his professional alchemy knowledge, Ian roughly could deduce the lower-level formula requirements from the high-level inheritance formulas left by his teacher, but they were mostly just of ‘white’ or even ‘gray’ grade.

In other words, they could barely be enough for progression, anything more was unthinkable, for fear of direct aberration.

Ian’s physical strength was not infinite, and calculating the exact proportions for magic potion formulas was very complex, often only attempting seven or eight times a day, with most attempts ending in failure, only able to accumulate experience.

But after three years of relentless effort, he had managed to deduce the complete enhanced formulas for the first and second power levels of the Fairy Bloodline, laying a solid foundation for Alan’s future.

Moreover, he had also modified his True Form of the Wave Singer as much as possible to reduce conflict and backlash, waiting for the future transition to the Fairy Bloodline.

Now, Ian had integrated the two inheritances thoroughly, able to switch seamlessly, and even summon both simultaneously for short periods.

And thanks to the Ancient Dragon Heart Core’s capacity for storing Origin Quality, he had also accumulated an Origin reserve many times that of his peers at the same level.

If it were not for the necessity of keeping his status as a Sand Armor Apprentice hidden, Ian could confidently declare that he was absolutely the strongest among those at the First Energy Level.

And he was only a step away from the Second Energy Level, solely because he had not yet gathered all the magical medicine ingredients.

“Speaking of which, if I really can establish a relationship with the Platinum Iridium Workshop this time, the magic medicine ingredient channel might just be solved.”

Thinking of this, Ian couldn’t help but nod, “It’s just too difficult to collect various Earth Attribute magical beast materials in coastal areas—since I can’t kill that old crocodragon in a short time, I have to think of another method.”

At this moment, he had already arrived at the inner part of the dock’s fish market.

The fish market at the docks was still the same, although the development of the past four years had made Harrison Port grow, it wasn’t to the extent that the place to buy vegetables had completely transformed.

Soon, Ian found his way expertly to the area belonging to the White Chamber Fleet, where, without any surprises, Senan would be playing cards with a few old buddies in the afternoon.

But something unexpected happened—Ian did not see Senan there.

Instead, to the astounded youth’s surprise, he saw his brother’s figure!

The white-haired, pointy-eared boy of the White Folks was being led by a figure, meandering slowly through the fish market, seemingly truly there to buy groceries.

And the one leading the boy by the hand was also a familiar face Ian knew very well.

“Fiscal Officer Lamar?”

Ian’s brows furrowed slightly, he was somewhat baffled, “What is he doing here?”

“And taking my brother to buy fish?”