Half an hour later, they reached Okland. After separating from the three mercenary groups, Lin Yun, the three Merlin cousins, and Xiuban found a carriage to rush to the Merlin Family Manor.
They were half an hour late, so they naturally didn't know what had happened not long ago. The Thousand Souls Sacrifice had been discovered by the powerhouses of the Cloud Tower and the Black Tower, and they were seriously injured before fleeing back to the Charlotte Family.
Not long after, the group returned to the Merlin Family Manor.
After a simple rest, the exhausted Draconic Beastman didn't care about the feelings of the people next to him and slept soundly.
"Oh right, Cousin William, did Faleau and the others come to Okland?" Lin Yun suddenly recalled this important matter. After discovering the Natural Demiplane's qualitative change in the Aurij Mountain Range, he had William contact Faleau in the distant Thousand Sails City, but he didn't know whether Faleau had arrived in Okland or not.
"Faleau arrived in Okland half a month ago, but we weren't there at the time, so Faleau didn't come to the Merlin Family Manor and stayed somewhere else." William Merlin promptly nodded. After putting down the cup of water, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and quickly wrote something with runes. With a burst of mana, it turned into countless rays of light and dissipated in the air. "If nothing unexpected happens, they should arrive at the Merlin Family Manor in half an hour."
After a while, Lin Yun, William Merlin, Ross Merlin, and Leon Merlin walked out of the manor together. Their group was very eye-catching as they walked through the manor. Ross and Leon were the two geniuses of the younger generation, they were very famous even in Okland. The only one who could stand shoulder to shoulder with them was Aube Merlin. Unfortunately, the Elder Council three months ago thoroughly ruined Aube Merlin's magic path.
If nothing unexpected happened, the next head of the Merlin Family would be either Leon Merlin or Ross Merlin.
Normally, every time a potential candidate for the family head returned to the manor, there would be a group of people trying to curry favor with him. However, this time, no one went up to speak to him. In fact, no one dared to stay within a hundred meters of him.
Seeing this situation, Leon Merlin and Ross Merlin couldn't help recalling the Elder Council three months ago. Cousin Mafa was really fierce, killing three and crippling one. Now that three months had passed, Cousin Mafa's reputation in the Merlin Family hadn't diminished at all.
The four youths waited outside the manor, and soon, ten carriages with the insignia of the Gilded Rose appeared in the distance. The carriage at the front stopped and a young silhouette came out. He recognized Lin Yun's group with a glance and walked over with large strides. "Boss Merlin, Cousin …"
A vein throbbed on William Merlin's forehead. He hadn't expected that after a year, that scoundrel Faleau would still act as if he had taken the wrong medicine. He kept calling him cousin, it was too ear-piercing.
The members of the Gilded Rose's mercenary group got off the carriages one after another. A total of fifty people, not one missing, stood behind Faleau.
A year ago, they were the worst batch of people in the Merlin Family and would never have the chance to become Great Mages. After being sent to Thousand Sails City by the Merlin Family, they met the current Boss Merlin and their fates changed. In less than a year, they already had the power of a Great Mage.
In the Merlin Family, the Great Mage realm was something they could only dream of.
But after arriving at Thousand Sails City, their dreams actually came true.
They left the Merlin Family with the worst talent in magic, but after a year, they returned as Great Mages.
This was truly ironic.
They clearly understood that this was all thanks to the young mage in front of them.
"Faleau, how are the alchemy formulas going?" Before leaving Thousand Sails City, Lin Yun had arranged some alchemy formulas for Faleau, and half a year had passed in a flash.
To be honest, he was very satisfied with Faleau.
When Faleau first came to the Gilded Rose, he had planned to let Faleau manage the technical work and make him the Chief Alchemist. But Faleau had never disappointed him. During his time in Thousand Sails City, after accepting that batch of Alchemists from the Alchemy Union, the Gilded Rose crazily expanded and eventually monopolized the entire eastern alchemy market. Faleau had a lot of credit for that.
And in the half a year since he left Thousand Sails City, the Gilded Rose had been well managed by Faleau and was still rapidly expanding, creating a huge amount of wealth every day.
Although Faleau wasn't a genius Alchemist, he was a qualified and outstanding Alchemist. Lin Yun valued Faleau's diligence and eagerness to learn. In Thousand Sails City, he would often see Faleau staying in the laboratory until midnight. In order to solve a difficult problem, he would even spend the night trying to figure it out.
In his eyes, Faleau's future achievements wouldn't be inferior to those so-called genius Alchemists. He might even leave them far behind.
This time, he had Faleau lead the mercenary group to Okland in order to strengthen the mercenary group. That mercenary group's power clearly couldn't keep up with the crazy expansion of the Gilded Rose.
Fifty Great Mages were far from enough for the current Gilded Rose.
"Boss, I haven't finished it yet …" Faleau's smiling face suddenly stiffened as he awkwardly said, "Of the thirteen formulas you left behind, only ten have been completed …"
"Not bad …"
Lin Yun only smiled and didn't say anything. In fact, it wasn't easy for him to praise someone like "not bad". Faleau's progress had actually surprised him. The thirteen formulas he had left behind before leaving Thousand Sails City were progressively more difficult, and even the simplest of them involved a large amount of Master Alchemist knowledge. For Faleau to be able to calculate ten in half a year showed that he had made great progress and was one step away from becoming a Master Alchemist. It would take at most a month or two for him to become a true Master Alchemist.
He wasn't a genius, but his achievements were a lot better than the vast majority of geniuses. Faleau was only in his twenties. Even some of the major forces of Okland, which of those Master Alchemists in their twenties or thirties didn't use expensive alchemy materials to become Master Alchemists?
Just like the Merlin Family's Aube Merlin, who spent a large amount of wealth to become a Master Alchemist in his thirties.
But Faleau relied on his own efforts.
Naturally, this had a lot to do with Lin Yun's guidance.
As one of the first few people to come into contact with Lin Yun, Faleau naturally understood his boss's temperament. He also knew the weight of the words "not bad", so he only smiled and didn't say anything.
His current achievements were outrageous. Before joining the Gilded Rose, he had only been a talented Alchemist in the Black Horn Auction House. But after coming in contact with that young mage, everything changed. In just over a year, he went from an Alchemist to a Master Alchemist. No one would dare to believe it if they heard about it.
Over a year ago, before he met the young boss, becoming a Great Alchemist was already his lifelong pursuit. But now, it felt like a dream. It wouldn't take long before he became a true Master Alchemist.
He clearly understood that this was all thanks to the young boss, so he had always been grateful and did his best to manage the technical side of the Gilded Rose.
Faleau then gave a simple report of the Gilded Rose's recent developments as well as the problems they encountered to Lin Yun. The huge alchemy system of the Gilded Rose had already taken shape. Even if Faleau left for a few months, he wouldn't be affected, not to mention that the old butler was there.
"Hey, did you find something …"
Leon Merlin, who was standing on the side, suddenly had a bad expression. He looked at those fifty Great Mages with disbelief.
"Found what?" Ross Merlin was thinking about something when he was suddenly interrupted by Leon Merlin. His tone was somewhat impatient, and he didn't even look at Leon Merlin.
The trip to the Tulan Mountain Range had made his relationship with Leon Merlin even worse.
A few months ago, when they were preparing to go to the Tulan Mountain Range, that damned Leon Merlin had shamelessly insisted on going with them. Moreover, when he explained the reason, he had even slandered him a few times. Ross Merlin clearly remembered these matters. Naturally, this wasn't the main reason for the bad relationship between the two. After all, among the three geniuses of the Merlin Family, Ross Merlin was known as the strongest.
But after coming out of the illusion, Leon Merlin, who had fused with nine Arcane Rings, seemed to have become a lot stronger. In the beginning, Ross Merlin had the upper hand, but on the way back to Okland, Ross Merlin suddenly discovered that he wasn't Leon Merlin's match.
This wasn't much …
The most important thing was that Leon Merlin kept provoking him, and he ended up being defeated several times.
"Look at the strength of these people …" Normally, Leon Merlin wouldn't take the initiative to talk to Ross Merlin. The two of them were the most likely candidates for the next Patriarch, and it could be said that they would be rivals for the next two decades. But Leon Merlin had clearly lost his composure.
"Great Mage, what's wrong?" Ross Merlin glanced at Leon Merlin and casually said. In his eyes, his cousin's Gilded Rose forming a mercenary group of fifty Great Mages was a matter of course, so there was nothing to be surprised about.
"These people left our Merlin Family a year ago. They are the ones with the worst talent in magic. They were only 5th Rank Mages when they went to Thousand Sails City …" Leon Merlin paled as he looked at that group of Great Mages in a daze. He truly didn't dare to believe it.
Leon Merlin had been in contact with a lot of information in the Merlin Family, including the conditions that his cousin had raised in Thousand Sails City. The Merlin Family had sent fifty Great Mages to Thousand Sails City, and he even recognized a few of them. He recognized them as soon as they got off the carriage.
No more, no less than fifty Great Mages!
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