Mage And Wolf
Chapter 299

Chapter 299: Chapter 299

Price Ivan forcefully collects his assistant from me, prying her fingers free from my robes as she resists.

"Just ten more minutes boss. No five, just give me five minutes and I’ll let go on my own I swear." The fluffy little vampire insists.

"Enough. You’re working. Focus. Now, since we’ve gotten rid of the annoying humans, can we please get back to business? I came here because we needed a follower of the Black Dragon. We’ve got a Vampire Elder suffering from a curse that stops them from absorbing energy, but vampires don’t use Demonic energy for their life force and our doctors are stumped."

"I’ll go. I care very little about Lycan games and even less about Titan weddings." One of the Black Avatars offers and Prince Ivan smiles.

"Thank you. I’ll make sure your remuneration is more than generous." Prince Ivan says, bowing his head to the Avatar before opening a portal and walking though, leaving the fluffy Vampire rushing to catch up with the pair before it closes.

"Poor thing, must be hard living in the Demon Realm." Steve says, watching her go. She didn’t actually seem too hard done by, just overworked as Prince Ivan’s assistant. Being surrounded by predators here was probably the most stressful part of her week.

Beta John and his Assistants now have the portal back to the Lycans home village in the Divine Plane open, and are ushering everyone through. Most of the Beastkin and shape shifter former slaves that have come with us for lack of a home looked terrified to begin with, but the complete pack of Mortal Realm energy to cultivate is starting to make them panic.

"Everyone relax a moment. I know you’re cut off from cultivation energy again, but it’s because of your lower cultivation levels. See, I’m fine, because I’m at the Immortal Realm stage of cultivation and can use the energy here. I’ve developed pills that will help you cultivate new forms of energy, so you can function normally here as well. You won’t be restricted the way you were before."

It helps a little bit coming from me, but once I start passing out the few energy optimization pills I have left, extremely low strength ones suitable for mortals in the Divine Plane, the mood immediately lightens.

"I’ll have to make them more of those before we go. Do I still have time?" I ask Beta John, who is surveying the group to make sure all the right people get through.

"Yeah, you’ve got twelve hours before we need to go. If that’s enough time to make the pills, go ahead."

"Do we have any pill makers with us here? I could use the extra hands making the mortals pills to let them cultivate." I call out and a number of cultivators come forward. Most of them are very weak, having spent the majority of their lives in Deimos, but three other than the local Lycans are suitable to make the Energy Optimization Pills.

I write them all out the recipes and hand them the ingredients plus a basic cauldron from the collection of random items on my inventory. That just leaves us short two cauldrons. Steve has anticipated my needs, bringing four cauldrons over and then running off to fill the orders for more ingredients to replace we what we were using.

"Alright, focus everyone. These pills don’t need to be high density, those who know how to split pills can split them to their maximum numbers. Give the higher density ones to stronger cultivators, or the energy levels here will just overwhelm the Foundation and Fortification Realm sorts."

That’s all the instructions I give them before getting to work, my unusual Blade Flame that I use for Alchemy lighting up my lucky Drake Skull cauldron in blue and black flames. The recipe doesn’t take too long, only a couple hours, but the others are seriously out of practice and the Lycans aren’t used to making something so low grade.

Fortunately the ingredients aren’t rare or hard to come by, in the Divine Plane most of them double as common weeds.

Dozens of small explosions and plumes of smoke have taken place before I finish my second batch, now having a total of 256 minimal quality, barely grade 1 pills. I passed them over to Steve, who has formed a line of eager cultivators that have been waiting for the Lycan Alchemists to finish their second batch.

To prevent problems, he has told them to just open their mouth, while he flicks a pill in, a method that he’s enjoying way too much. Despite the appearance, it’s effective, the line of eager cultivators is cleared in minutes, just in time for one of the freed alchemists, a relatively young werewolf man in the early Core Formation Realm, to finish up with his first batch.

"Sorry for the delay, but I’ve finally gotten back in the groove again." He laughs, handing over thirty two grade 1 pills. They’re stronger than the ones I make, about double effectiveness, so Steve gives them out to stronger cultivators, ones close to being able to access the Immortal Energy floating around this Plane on their own.

With the group of them working, I can finally catch a nap and cultivate before the game. I have a lot to think about, and not nearly enough time to do the thinking. With so many new things happening, including the accidental zombies and the changes in the Underworld Realm through the Soul Shrine, there’s no way I’ll get it all comprehended tonight, I’ll be lucky to even begin to scratch the surface.

The Lycans seem to understand my problem, leaving me to cultivate until only 5 minutes before its time to leave. The bride approved my plan to go in the vanguard and disable as many paralysis fields and shadow Grenades as I possibly could so that he strike team could follow me before anyone could organize to stop them, so I am escorted over to the vanguard force with six other female Lycans.

They also added a contingency plan, the pack is going to raise a ruckus near the border and draw as many of the Groom’s pack outside as they possibly can before we arrive. Not with a fight, they’re going to start a bush party near the pack border and try to lure everyone there.

The idea is that the other Alpha will think that we’re trying to work around him and trick his son into accepting the bond right there on the spot without conditions. It’s not unheard of, in fact between Lycans it is the more common way to do things. The game is mostly for other species, reluctant brides and those who really enjoy a good hunt.