Chronicles of the True Wizard

Chapter 182 - Book 86

With everything he had to do in the city itself complete, it was time for Felix to set off on his journey north, towards The Lodge. His planned route was The Lodge, then east to Snowvale and Trelas on the same continent. If any of the anchors had degraded or the portals failed for some other reason, he would minimize how far he had to fly.

After that he would open a portal to Orselle then head east to Coastwatch and finally Sprouts. They weren't sure about Lav'Gur just yet as their whole situation was still a little up in the air but, Felix hoped Noah would have a plan by the time he finished with the others. If not, he was confident they could all figure it out by then.

He started by flying up into the mountains, far enough from the city that he was confident they weren't in danger then he repurposed his portal spell form to point towards The Lodge's temporary anchor. Once complete, he channeled mana into the mold which he knew had minimal flaws right up until, nothing happened.

His mana stopped funneling into it entirely and reabsorbed what he could then sighed.

I guess this means the anchors already degraded.

Yeah or were otherwise destroyed.

What do you mean?

If the city leaders didn't trust you enough to protect them or were cautious and threw the anchor far outside of their city…

Shit. It would be like a natural treasure with the amount of Starmetal I used to make them.

Exactly.

So some random creature probably gnawed them to bits.

If the city leaders didn't fully trust you.

Damn.

You could estimate the distance and open a portal in their direction?

That's… wouldn't that cost more than my entire mana pool?

Close to it.

Flying it is I guess.

Felix quickly morphed and tried the portal to each of the different temporary city anchors but found that none of them seemed to function. With that settled, he flew up into the air and shot off towards The Lodge.

It took him almost two days to fly through the forest and make it to The Lodge up north. He though about flying over the forest but figured that would be boring so instead he flew directly through it.

Not only did he get in a lot of practice flying as he had to weave his way through the trees, but Felix also hunted as he flew. He only bothered killing creatures at around level 200 or so. Any lower and they weren't worth the experience or even the stats from harvesting and any higher and it would be a waste of time for him to kill it. He did plan on going out and

Felix sighed at another person who had not gotten the proper explanation, "Portals, any interest?"

Otto smiled and nodded, "Yes. Very much so. We have far more food than we can handle and we need more people to sell it all to."

Felix smiled, "Perfect, I know Atalus at least is interested. I have schematics so you can open your own portals to the other cities too, if you'd like."

Otto shrugged, "Even just the one would be perfect for us but I won't say no to more. I'll have some of my more magically inclined citizens take a look."

"Sounds good."

Otto had Felix place the anchor just outside of the city center then offered him a meal in return. He was inclined to refuse just so he could get back sooner but Otto convinced him when he told Felix about the effects.

After just a few short minutes of cooking, Otto served Felix a large meat roast with cooked vegetables and some unidentifiable grain. It was one of the best meals Felix had ever tasted in his life and he wasted no time scarfing it down.

As soon as he had taken his first bite, Felix noticed the effects. Otto had said they would take about 10 minutes to kick in but Felix was very aware of his own body. As he swallowed each bite, the food dissolved far faster than any other food Felix had eaten and it immediately started to energize the cells it affected.

Instead of directly giving energy to them, it seemed to have an effect where it caused them to speed up their movements slightly. It created a lot more internal body heat and Felix even had to cool himself down but looking at his status sheet, it had also increased his agility by about 10%.

Otto said the buff should last for a few hours then it would gradually wear off. Felix thanked him for the food then opened a portal back to Atalus.

Walking over to the portal terminal they had set up, Felix found that Henry had already completed everything he needed to do so Felix opened the portals from Atalus to the other cities. He opened them one by one with about an hour between so he could make sure everything was stable. He also checked on his massive mana collection arrays and found that they seemed to be working as expected.

Maintaining the portals ended up taking far more mana than Felix had expected but luckily, he had made the mana collection arrays have enough headroom that they would be able to sustain them. The overall redundancy would be reduced, but it was still functional and the whole system would still survive if two of the arrays were damaged.

Felix gave all the information to Noah while they watched a small trickle of people pass through the portals to and from Atalus. Some cities like Trelas, had a large amount of people coming in, other's like Coastwatch barely had any.

While Felix was away, Noah and Will had set up the foundation for an official police force, rather than Noah just directing people to deal with the random crimes that occurred. Their hope was that it would help with any unsavory visitors that came through the portals. Alan had also officially started as Spymaster but Noah didn't give Felix any other details while they were standing out in the open.

With all of that done, Felix headed back to Trelas through the portal to complete the last errand he had agreed to. It took him half a day to finish designing and creating a permanent setup for pulling air from Orselle into Trelas.

He had to wait a day or so for Henry to finish making another permanent portal base and mana collection array to power it. In the meantime he practiced his spell formation and toyed around with his Persona body.

He was planning on looking into mana channels more seriously now that he had a practice body he didn't care too much about screwing up with. Worst case scenario, he could just remake it. He only managed to complete some initial designs and very basic tests though with different forms of tissue. Through his experimentation, he quickly realized that he was going to need to find a creature with mana channels so he could replicate their tissue because he was having no success.

Once it was complete, Felix picked up the finished product from Henry and set it up in Trelas. The ventilation system didn't help the entire city much but it did provide nice warm air to a large area in the middle of Trelas where Jack said he was going to put a park. After Felix finished that, he headed back to Atalus and met up with Noah and the initial council of Trenus.

The first council was going to consist of Noah, Amelia, Benjamin, Will, Alan, Henry, and a few more individuals Noah had hand picked to represent different areas of the city. It was a large council and theoretically, their positions would become more concrete later on.

For now, Will was the police captain, Alan the spymaster, Amelia the head builder, Noah the city planner. Everyone else's roles or titles were still to be determined. Benjamin was going to be an ambassador of sorts and interface with the other cities to keep things amicable. The exact specifics of his role though were still not entirely laid out.

Felix officially handed over the ownership of the city to the council. He was considered an honorary member of the council for as long as he was on the planet but it was really just a formality.

They talked a bit about initial plans for the city and what they needed to do now that the portals were all open but Felix didn't really pay any attention. He was completely distracted trying to figure out a way to manually modify and enhance his brain.

Nothing had changed and he was still unwilling to modify the cells too much, but he had a couple ideas he wanted to pursue. Unfortunately, he didn't have a great way to test them because his Persona's brain was essentially inert. It just received signals from his own brain and translated them.

Once the council meeting was done, Felix gifted Will his earrings that he still had but realized he had no use for. Will was police captain though and using them to interrogate people sounded like the perfect use case. He then flew himself far out of the city and opened a portal back to his continent.

He quickly found, using his soul bond, Nova and Endycor hunting together in the forest. He didn't disturb them at all but he did offer Endycor the continent. He wasn't sure how The System would present the screen to them but they immediately accepted so he assumed it was understandable. He checked his map and sure enough, the continent's name changed to Endycor's Demesne. With that done, Felix had no more ties to the planet in any way and was free to leave at any time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .