
After introducing Red to the other residents, Rigel immediately prepared a Cave that would become a nest or home for Red. Because there is no cave big enough to accommodate Red, Rigel decided to make it as well as a secret room that will be in the cave Red and be in his care directly.
Red repeatedly gives his praise because Rigel can do whatever he wants very easily and efficiently. To form the cave, Rigel collected large quantities of Mana and formed a giant drill that melted the hard rock walls and made the cave comfortable in residence.
"Hahaha, looking at your power this is why I feel confident you can defeat that bastard Dragon, Rigel." Red bared his sharp fangs to Rigel.
"The width and area of this cave is twice as large as your body, allowing you to move without hitting this stone wall."
If Rigel makes a cavern of mediocre size with Red's body, he has fears Red will hit a rock wall and roll a boulder from the top of a mountain into town. If that happens then damage and fatalities are inevitable. Rigel has also prepared some precautionary measures such as creating an iron wall that can hold at least a few large chunks of rock.
"It's good, but I don't understand why you put so many pieces of magic metal and made a pretty magnificent place at the end of my cave." Red stared into the dark cave.
"For this chunk of magic metal, I want them to eat the Dragon aura you exude and make their quality improve and be able to make good weapons. Surely I must find a great blacksmith if I want to make a great weapon."
Magic metals are the basic ingredients for making great weapons that have spiritual power. There are three levels of metal, ranging from ordinary quality, rare quality and the highest quality is God quality. Low-quality metal is usually used to make low-quality weapons commonly used by royal soldiers. A weapon of inferior quality was faster to disintegrate, after killing at least three people, the sword would be blunt and easily destroyed.
Rare grade metals are usually used to make rare tier weapons that will not blunt easily. Even if the sword is slightly damaged it can be repaired without decreasing the quality of the sword. Usually this kind of metal is often made as Armor because of its very strong resistance. However, rare-level metals were not without flaws, weapons made from these metals could also be destroyed if faced with a powerful attack. For example, the breath of the larvae belonging to Red that can melt Rare Tier weapons. For the record, rare-level metals cannot be used to make Iceland, which is a magic item and not combat equipment such as swords and armor.
Lastly, the God-level Metal was the strongest magic metal in this world. Usually this type of metal can be found with areas that have large magic and have eaten the magic for a long time. The god-level magic metal was almost invincible, not just from its quality and durability alone. But this metal can also provide very great strength. Examples include the Holy Sword of Excalibur and the Sword of Kusanagi. Two Tier God weapons that possessed terrifying power.
It is not known exactly what kind of magic is consumed by the magic metal that forms the sword Excalibur, but it can be guessed that it concerns the light and power of fairies. For Kusanagi's own sword, it was obvious that he had consumed Hydra's energy for hundreds of years and its power was no less formidable than Excalibur.
"Not only did it make me a mountain guard, but you also took advantage by letting the magic metal eat my magic energy leaking? Hahaha, you are indeed an interesting human being, Hero boy. Then, how do you explain the place at the end of this cave?" Red looked back at Rigel curiously.
There is only one way to get in and out and if someone wants to enter it, they will face Red first. It can be considered that this room is important and Rigel does not want others to know the existence of this place with a certain purpose.
"Yes, you'll find out later when I find her. Right now I'm still trying to trace his whereabouts with the help of a little spirit." Rigel refuses to tell Red. After all, this had not necessarily gone as smoothly as he had hoped.
Rigel had talked about it with Sylph before that Rigel asked for a little out of hand to look for something that went away in the last moments before Rigel obliterated the entire Tortoise section. Sylph herself agreed with that and asked the little Spirit to look for her.
"Although it's a little annoying because I can't figure it out, but fine. Sooner or later I'll find out, right?" Red slowly lay down in the cave as he continued to stare at Rigel.
"Yes, it just takes time. Then, my business here is done, I will resign because there are many things to deal with. Ah, and also, if you're starving, go look for monsters and don't eat my people." Rigel said as he moved away from the cave where Red was.
"Yes, no need to worry. I'll just sleep for now." Red slowly closed his eyes and fell asleep.
One work was done, but a thousand more waited as if they were pulling swords from one path. In view of his circumstances, the other Heroes seemed to have no problems whatsoever in his work because none of them contacted Rigel. Even if the communication tool that connected them was destroyed, Rigel would have instantly noticed it.
"The Hero Group from Britannia seems to have nothing to do. It might be a good idea to have them start the journey to Vulcan Mountain first to save time while the others begin their preparations." Rigel muttered to himself as he walked down the mountain and through the trees.
Although he could easily go using teleportation, the reason Rigel chose to walk was to give him time to think calmly. Whatever happens, the plan must not fail and must be prepared as best as possible.
"There's certainly a possibility that Takatsumi might attack Takumi and Yuri on the way, but he won't be that stupid to make myself and the other Heroes his enemies."
Surely if it was Rigel he wouldn't have done something so stupid. Suppose Takumi and Yuri were killed at the hands of Takatsumi, the other Heroes would not stay silent and would definitely miss Phoenix to kill Takatsumi. A deer will not remain silent when it finds itself being hunted. There is nothing more difficult than killing a fully alert target.
So the choice was already sealed and he certainly knew very well that it would be difficult to escape and hide from Rigel who had the power of the 21st century in his hands..
"Well, I don't think it hurts to do it. Just in case, I'll have Sylph monitor them." Rigel muttered and started accessing the small Radio in his ear to contact Takumi.
"Yeah, what's up Rigel?" Quickly Rigel's call was answered by Takumi.
"I want you, Yuri and Takatsumi to go first to the Vulcan mountain range and add it as a teleportation point. Then, never try to find the existence of the Phoenix, even to look around also do not. Go back to Britannia after adding it as a teleportation point and wait until my preparations are done."
If only Takumi and the others tried to see Phoenix for a while, Rigel's biggest concern was that the Phoenix was going berserk and they had to defeat him with immature preparations. If so, the entire set of plans that Rigel had prepared would have been destroyed so easily.
"What did Rigel say, Takumi?" Takumi turned his head and found Yuri approaching him curiously, as well as Takatsumi.
"He told us to go to Vulcan Mountain to add that place as a teleportation point in order to shorten the time. He also warned us not to try to approach the Phoenix even just to look around is not allowed. I think he's worried the Phoenix will go berserk if we get close to him."
It certainly makes sense not to try to get into a bear's nest that hasn't started hibernation. Takumi certainly understood what kind of repercussions would occur if the Phoenix were to go berserk before the preparations were completed. The loss of life and destruction of the territory will not be inevitable. Not to mention, out of all the powers that be, fire was the most troublesome.
High temperatures can make humans lose more fluids and even lead to death. For that reason, the existence of a heat energy resistant robe is needed in this battle. But the material needed seems not to have been collected so that Rigel takes more time.
"Well, it makes sense to save time." Takatsumi said as he placed his right hand on his waist.
"Initially I thought Rigel had prepared something that could get us to go there in an instant. But it seems he also has limits on where he can go." Yuri.
"Of course Rigel has things he can't do. It is our duty as Heroes to complement each other's shortcomings. Let's start our preparations. This trip seems to be long." Takumi let out a smile that looked tired but also happy.
It had been quite a while for him not to start venturing into various places so Takumi was a little looking forward to this trip. At least Takumi has time to refresh his mind and himself from all the events that exist. He also has to keep playing a role where he doesn't know anything and still guess what happened between Rigel and Takatsumi until the time comes.
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After contacting Takumi and asking him to go to Vulcan Mountain, Rigel also contacted Sylph through the little Spirit who was in the Region forest and had Sylph watch over Takumi and the others through the nature Spirit. Sylph herself did not mind that, if this was about reawakening Priscilla, then she would not hesitate to extend her hand.
In addition, Sylph also still has an unpaid debt to Rigel and he must be as good as possible to help Rigel to pay off the debt.
While walking down the mountain, Rigel could see from a distance that the team assigned to search for Salamander's skin had returned from their duties. Rigel used his left eye that could function like a long-range binocular to see the expressions on the soldiers' faces.
"Given their faces, it seems that the mission was a success and their numbers are still the same as I remember. I thought it would take a little longer, but it was unexpected that they were finished this quickly. I think I should praise them."
There was no reason for Rigel to walk again, he used teleportation to return to the Region quickly. Arriving in the throne room, Rigel found Asoka was busy looking at documents that might be related to the requests for trade cooperation from several famous traders from around the country.
"It seems heavy, yes to be a King." Rigel.
Hearing a familiar voice piercing through his ears, Asoka lethargicly and visibly tiredly looked at Rigel who was approaching him.
Asoka has black eyelids because it has not slept or rested for some time. He himself looked chaotic and Rigel barely saw Asoka currently having authority as King.
"so. Since the Region is still a relatively new country, there are so many outside trade requests and I have to check their background one by one. I seem to understand now the reason you don't want to be King is because you think it's going to be like this, yeah." Asoka smiled tiredly with her tired eyes.
"I'm not interested in sitting down and ruling anyway. Tidy yourself up Asoka, the team you sent to collect Salamander's skin will arrive."
Rigel took the stamina recovery potion from the inventory and gave it to Asoka to recover a bit of her stamina.
"Thank you," Asoka drank the potion Rigel gave her and tidied up the messy documents afterwards.
It was not long after the leader of the team of people looking for Salamander skin entered the room without the need to clean himself up. It was clearly visible from the armor attached to his armor that looked slightly crushed. The soldier saluted and bowed while giving his report.
"Report! We have completed our task to search for the Salamander skins and managed to secure 20 Salamander skins. There were no casualties from this mission, after running out of supplies we decided to return so as not to be able to collect more of these, please forgive us!" The soldier looked frustrated at not being able to get more Salamander skins.
Rigel himself has no particular request on how much skin Salamander he needs. At least 12 skins alone should be enough since only Heroes will follow the fight against this disastrous Monster.
"What can I do if so. Your decision as a leader is right because it does not force yourself to get more, good work soldiers! I am so grateful to you and your friends. Express my gratitude to them as well." Rigel replaced Asoka to praise the beaming warrior for being praised by Rigel.
"Ba-good! I'll definitely tell you!"
The Salamander's skin has been recovered and the day of the Phoenix's conquest and the day of vengeance will come soon.