The Runic Alchemist

Damian opened a waygate to Toph—he had left the guy to be taken care of by his many attendants in the stone keep. Jason, the cubby golem, was also with Toph. The officials and nobles of Dawnstar quickly moved to keep the Faerunian prisoners secure. Damian just built a sturdy wooden building with separate cells embedded with mana-draining and weakening steel runic interior plates. His Dust to Iron skill was used to the fullest.

For Hellstorm and Lily of Ruin, the stone prison cells of the city were good enough. He ordered the knight commander in charge to take special care of these two—even with his steel cuffs, there was a possibility of their causing disturbance. Damian did use his Divine Seeker spell on Hellstorm, but for a pugilist the spell was useless. His cell he specially modified to have increased gravity—so she wouldn’t be eager to use her strength too much.

Damian thought about going to Sam and the others but then cancelled that thought. He wasn’t going to run Sanctuary alone—he had to trust them to do their assigned tasks or this would never work. So Damian, having free time on hand, decided to make some improvements in the Sanctuary land.

The officials he had tasked with gathering the raw ingredients for liquid mana generators had already stored enough for him to do some mana-heavy tasks. For the people of the city, he had been gone to fight the invaders—Damian took a few officials with him who had been serving Einar for decades now and used the waygate to arrive in the lake village.

He didn’t interact with the villagers though, and flew up with the officials—he held the four people with his big mana hands. He wanted to see all of the villages and towns present in the Sanctuary land with his own eyes. He made a whole circle above the entire Sanctuary land with the officials with him—they informed him about each village and town, who managed it, how much population it had, and what incident—if there had been any—had happened there. For each village and town they visited, Damian took four or five IDs of the well-placed trees. He did not meet with any knights or nobles in charge of the land, but he didn’t put effort into hiding from the common people who spotted them either. He had one of the officials write down the names of villages and towns with the IDs he had collected.

With this, he could visit any village at any time. When doing this, Damian also checked out some towns and villages ideal for him to place a waygate. They already had a list of available dungeons in the region, so he ignored the various dungeons. The dungeons had to be the places he installed a waygate to.

He could make a dual-access steel waygate with two set destinations: the capital city and the nearest big town. He had some ideas to make it secure and would need to think of even more so it wouldn’t get misused. Well, each opening of a waygate required over 200,000 points’ worth of mana, so without his liquid mana a transcendent would have to empty himself or herself fully to activate it. He could completely remove that element too if he trained some people for the job or assigned the lords and knights of each region to have the authority to open the waygates once or twice every week.

Then he would also have to think of anti-theft measurements. All countries would try to get their hands on it once they saw the improved trade and transportation efficiency with the use of waygates. The bandits and monsters attacking travellers on the road would also become a thing of yesterday.

The villages and towns he had seen also needed to have strong walls and other necessary infrastructure built soon.

With access to any dungeon from any corner of the Sanctuary, they could help build stronger talent and get the monster material industry going. It was a stupid thing to have dungeons private for all the nobles who ruled the area—one family getting access to one dungeon and hundreds and thousands having access to the dungeon would change both food and material-related issues with ease.

As a government, however, Damian would not let anyone take the dungeon materials out of the Sanctuary land—he would trade with other countries if they were interested and could give something valuable in return, but only through official channels. Even the private traders would have to share their profits with the Sanctuary, and dungeon materials would be banned from transporting through the waygates so everyone would choose to sell those only to the Sanctuary for convenience’s sake. Outright banning it would only result in people trying to smuggle it.

The other countries could not give access to their dungeons to the civilians because dungeons were their strength—without that, their families wouldn’t be strong enough to keep others in line. But if Damian centralized all power and removed the feudalism altogether—by building one strong governing body with only the strongest and sharpest minds at the top—they could use the dungeon like an infinite resource hack and get their land to a height of prosperity no country on this continent might have even seen before.

Damian had many ideas and he was excited to try all of them. This tour of his, however, he had to cut short when he sensed Sam targeting him for a waygate access. He cancelled Sam’s access and finished up with the village he had arrived at. The rest would have to wait—he gathered the IDs and then used a waygate to go back to the Sanctuary city and opened a waygate to Sam.

He decided to first go there and see for himself before opening a giant waygate and letting everyone in.

When he entered the waygate with Toph, Jacob, and a few of the officials who were with him, the scorched-up land was the first thing that caught their attention.

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