Drawing Cards in the Middle Ages to Rise in Ranks-Chapter 354 - 43: Friends

In the secret room of the Empire Library.

Anna’s eyes held a kind of astounding surprise and bewilderment, even though she already knew that Losa’s extraordinary system was different from the wizard system, this method of artifact refining was still too mind-boggling.

"I don’t know how it’s done either."

Losa closed his palms, the scorching heat in the room gradually faded, and the cross sword turned back into a sharply defined ruby.

Anna watched his fluid operation, her expression clearly saying—Losa, still claiming you can’t refine artifacts?

She turned around with a light hum: "Forget it if you don’t want to say."

Losa showed a wry smile on his face, he really didn’t know how the system achieved it.

He also understood the shock in Anna’s heart.

Creating a treasure, the array patterns and spell models are usually fixed, the result generally doesn’t differ much from the design unless it’s an experiment.

In Anna’s vision, the dragon core treasure could be an inlay to add a certain degree of flame enchantment and enhancement to Losa’s existing equipment.

That’s all.

It’s already quite remarkable for extraordinary creations to have such an effect.

A treasure that can allow ordinary people to match top extraordinary individuals is either a rare divine artifact or a magic artifact that consumes life with each use.

Yet it became something unexpected.

Anna didn’t continue questioning, the secrets of the extraordinary world are too many, those who don’t know how to restrain their curiosity have long since perished.

"Let’s go, I’ll give you a tour of the great library, which serves as our Levant Wizard Association headquarters, only wizards recognized by me can set foot here."

"Thanks."

"You should thank me."

Anna raised an eyebrow: "For a wizard like me, managing a myriad of tasks, time is very precious, taking a day specially to craft a treasure and show you around the library is quite a rare deed."

Losa knew she was joking, but still said: "Indeed, it’s hard work."

Constantinople is the center of Christendom; Anna oversees all extraordinary affairs in the city, truly managing a myriad of tasks.

Anna pushed the room door, without visible action, the previously moved bookshelf covered the door again.

Losa asked: "How deep is your water pool with the Sea Dragon, is it constructed using some spatial folding technique?"

Anna smiled and told him: "It’s a transformation I made using a space teleportation array here, the place the pool connects to is actually the Golden Horn Bay, if it weren’t for Nikou’s aura being too terrifying to marine life, you could even see schools of fish here."

Seeing Losa’s surprise, impressed expression, she boasted a little: "Though my attainment in space magic isn’t profound, at least I’ve entered the realm."

Losa pondered for a moment, estimating it like following a formula, showing a smile: "Ms. Anna is truly wise and brilliant, I think the Levant Wizard Association under Chairwoman Anna’s leadership will surely prosper and become the largest wizard gathering in the world."

"You have insight!"

Anna was satisfied with Losa’s flattery.

"Ms. Anna, with your insight, where does my current power rank among wizards?"

Anna thought for a moment, then said: "Just from what you did just now, you’d be considered quite good even among advanced wizards; unfortunately, you don’t seem to last long."

Losa awkwardly said: "It’s because I’m still recovering from a serious injury."

At present, Losa could only rely on completing the "Bathe in Dragon Blood" milestone to enhance his strength.

After reaching level 25, killing ordinary soldiers yields very little experience, and rising each level, the attribute points gained are honestly quite scant.

In the combat record world, Losa killing Jin Kingdom soldiers didn’t yield any experience because the combat record world is virtual, as for why he could bathe in dragon blood...

Losa guessed, the so-called bathing in dragon blood wasn’t about drawing power from enemy corpses, but more like duplicating a design blueprint, self-researching.

Previously killing fusion monsters, Losa had not even approached this creature, let alone "bathing."

The volcanic divinity in the dragon core treasure didn’t suffer any loss after Losa completed the "King of Volcanoes" milestone, equivalent to Losa gaining two shares.

Losa considered for a moment, thinking that for Jeanne, going elite would have the biggest improvement for him, so he asked: "I’m short on money recently, is there any way to earn quickly?"

"Of course there is, just that you may not want to do it—like handling those ghouls that Li Yena deals with, one trip can earn a hundred gold coins or so."

Losa frowned slightly.

Thinking that this wage compared to the Eastern Empire’s wealth is really not much.

Moreover, to be realistic, these ghouls are at the bottom level of the extraordinary world’s demons, well-equipped soldiers with weapons made of demon-blocking gold, if planned well, can easily chase and kill them.

Calculating like this, a hundred or so gold coins isn’t equivalent to the fee for a wizard of Li Yena’s level to act once.

"If it’s too little, then do something big, like leading troops to recover the Sicily military district."

Losa was slightly startled.

This ties in too deeply with the Eastern Empire.

Though being a mercenary leader to the Germanic nobles isn’t anything rare, it’s still seen as being "abandoned by the Heavenly Lord," described as infamous without exaggeration.

Mercenaries lack loyalty, afraid of facing strong rivals on the battlefield, rather than fighting enemies, they prefer to plunder the countryside, massacre civilians, burn villages for easy work.

Which counts as causing damage to the enemy, is reasonable in the employer’s eyes, and brings enough profit for themselves.

For example, the Apennine City-States widely use Apennine mercenaries; they’ve even formed a tacit agreement not to kill each other intensively on the battlefield.

Losa, as King Charles, detested those marauding mercenary gangs in France.

Not to mention getting involved in this war might drag him into conflicts between the German Emperor and His Holiness the Pope.

If he’s not careful and gets excommunicated by the Pope, the legitimacy of his authority over his territories might be questioned.

"No, I hope to return to my territory soon, far from a Sicilian expedition that would take at least a few months."

Anna turned back, giving him a deep look: "Losa, as I said before, I can’t see through you. I always sense a kind of arrogance in you."

"Arrogance?"

Losa found it a bit absurd.

He always observed etiquette.

Deep down, he didn’t possess that kind of attitude of being a transmigrator with a system, arrogantly looking down on this world’s "natives."

He knew full well that without the system, he’d probably still be struggling for a piece of barren territory.

"Yes, you’re very arrogant." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Anna reiterated seriously.

"Where do you see that from?"

"From when you rejected my proposal, it’s like you never doubted building a state as large as the Eastern Empire—even for a long-lived extraordinary individual, it’s a very difficult task."

Losa thought for a while, it seemed true.

Because I have hacks.

"You’re on a wide road yet always choose a narrow path, isn’t that arrogance?"