Nameless King

After Wain's words about creating the Alchemists Guild, everyone had similar thoughts. Frigus wanted to train soldiers, Reto to start his own school, and Sarras to conduct experiments, so Nicole was the last to decide her wish.

'Wain says that after removing the barriers a lot of people will come here, right?' Nicole inwardly muttered with a sly smile, 'In that case, I can create an arena in my territory! None of my monsters want to fight me lately, that's not interesting at all! But, if a lot of people come to my area, everything will change!

While everyone was mulling over plans for the future, Edena had already approached the entrance to one of the greenhouses in the laboratory. The entrance was the same technological door as the one on the storage, only much larger.

"Damn, why is this door so tall? What is it, ten meters?" Wain asked with a confused expression, "Are you growing plants in there or storing nuclear weapons?"

"Hah, you know that against anyone above Second Chronicle, nukes are practically useless." Edena grinned as she waved her hand, "Do you think I would waste so much space on something so useless?"

With those words, Edena touched the massive door, opening it and revealing one of the greenhouses. Immediately a powerful flood of different scents burst forth as if from the most beautiful flowers in the world.

"What the hell...?" Wain muttered as his eyes went wide.

There were several levels ahead, each one a meter thick. On the levels grew thousands of yellow flowers with several massive petals. Between the flowers were small rows where skeletons could walk to water the plants and monitor their condition.

"Damn...I thought I was just going to see a beautiful garden, but you took a more pragmatic approach." Wain said with a bitter smile on his face, "How many flowers are there?"

"Hmm... About twenty or thirty thousand, I'm not sure, but as long as it's enough to make potions then I'm not too worried about it." Edena replied with a thoughtful look as she touched her lower lip.

"Shit... That's quite a lot." Reto said with a dazed expression, "By the way, Edena, you have a greenhouse for grapes, right?"

"Sure. Those grapes that originally grew on your property are incredibly useful, I really can't overestimate their qualities." Edena nodded, "Lui Bu and I had more trouble getting those grapes to grow under those conditions, but in the end, we managed, albeit with a few restrictions."

"Hmm? What kind of restrictions?" Reto asked as he tilted his head.

"In normal greenhouses where most plants, fruits or crystals grow, there are definitely more than ten thousand ones, that's the minimum, but for special cases like royal grapes it's a little different." Edena said with a complicated expression, "I mean, the royal grape greenhouse is just as big, but only three hundred units grow there. I think you realize that's pretty small."

Reto nodded, was silent for a while, and then asked, "Isn't there any way to improve that figure? Maybe the right special conditions or fertilizer? Anything at all?"

Reto was directly interested in having as many royal grapes grow as possible because in his territory he gets one unit every few days which wasn't enough to continually enjoy delicious wine.

Edena shook her head, "That's impossible now. The royal grapes need a lot of energy from the environment as well as space to grow. Perhaps after this Void moves to the Fifth Chronicle, things will change and we can increase the quantity."

"Sure." Wain said as he put his hand on Edena's shoulder, "You have no idea how much more energy there will be. The increase will be tenfold, maybe even more."

"Dozens of times...?" Elegan muttered in disbelief, "Isn't that too much? I mean... With that much energy, we could all easily go to the Demigod Stage!"

"Yeah. If you do it right, you'll become much stronger. You just don't realize yet that the difference between Fourth Chronicle Void and Fifth Chronicle Void is as big as the Fourth Chronicle creature and Fifth Chronicle one. Remember how much stronger you've become since evolution, the same thing will happen now." Wain said calmly as if it was all obvious before moving on.

"Let's go. Edena, you showed me the storage and the greenhouse, now it's time to see the factory, isn't it?" Wain turned as a sly smile appeared on his face.

Edena nodded with a serious expression.

The factory was quite far away since on the way to it they passed through many storages and greenhouses until they reached a large gate.

Edena opened it with a light touch and again they smelled a strong scent, but not of herbs, but of potions.

"Well, well, I was prepared to see something massive, but this exceeded my expectations." Wain muttered with a slight smirk looking ahead.

In the vast room that was so large you could barely see the back walls, hundreds of monsters were working simultaneously. In the center were many massive cauldrons of various liquids as a few monsters methodically stirred them while others were constantly adding new ingredients.

Each group of monsters had its own leader who knew how to prepare the potion they needed and oversaw the process.

Resources for the cauldron came from many minecarts that moved along dozens of rails. Monsters would move the ingredients they needed and carry them to the cauldrons to start brewing potions, then other monsters would pour out some of the liquid through a special tap and distribute it to the flasks.

All these potions were sent to the storages so that hundreds of monsters could get them afterward, and they became stronger every day because of it.

"Hah, that's really incredible." Wain grinned, "I couldn't even imagine that my Void would ever have something like this, but here it is. Our monsters probably get the most resources than in other Voids. Hopefully, they'll defend their territory when the barriers come down."