Chapter 221: 221
Draco and Riveting Night spent the rest of the day working on their General Aspect Transformation, as well as continuous practice . Now that Draco had activated all of his Inheritances to large degrees, he felt much stronger .
It wasn't the same as gaining a new passive skill or level up . It was more intrinsic and much closer . The powerup he got from learning subjective magic paled to the powerup he got from activating his Inheritances .
Even though he had yet to actually learn any techniques for the other two, their passive benefits alone made him stronger overall .
It was similar to the Super Saiyan transformation from Draco's favorite evergreen anime Dragon Ball Z . The transformation was a modifier technique that raised the base power level by 50 .
If the individual in question had a base power level of 100, and his enemy was at 50,000, his transformation would only send him to 5,000, which still put him far below his enemy .
However, if the fellow was able to train in some time-speed up chamber for 1,000 years, his base power level would rise from 100 to 1,000 . As such, when he transformed, he would have 50,000 as his power level, putting him on par with his enemy .
The theory was similar here . Subjective magic could be likened to the modifier transformation technique, in that it raised Draco's combat efficiency by a certain amount externally .
Once it consumed enough energy, it would cease to work and would 'switch off' . However, the bloodline activation was a natural boost of one's base power, which could not be removed or switched off .
Most importantly, the subjective magic technique was strengthened by his bloodline activation, but his bloodline activation was not affected by subjective magic .
(Author's Note: a bit of an immersion breaking comparison, but the aptest . And yes, DBZ survived WW3 and is still relatively popular in the future . )
By the time the sun was about to set, Draco had somewhat gotten used to his bloodline's increased presence . It felt like he was slowly becoming more and more whole, and it was an intoxicating feeling .
He now understood why bloodline descendants revered their own bloodline and tended to take it as the only path forward, neglecting their own progress .
It was too easy to rely on such power, because it was of your blood and body . It tricked you into thinking it was your own power, making you forget that it is the genetic leftover of your progenitor .
It was like an heirloom weapon which you were granted upon birth, where even if you trained with it each and every day, nothing could change the fact that it had been crafted to the specifications of someone else who could use it much more proficiently .
Even Loving Aunt and everyone else in the various Lineages didn't consider it . After all, no matter how powerful a level they might have reached, in their hearts they felt like their relatively low purities meant that they could never surpass their progenitor .
Only monsters like Draco and Eva, who were literally just clones of their progenitors, could achieve such a feat .
Draco was even better off than Eva slightly, because, in both lives, he had attained pinnacle power through just himself . Eva had relied on a mixture of her bloodline and her own skills, so while it made her better at controlling her bloodline, Draco had the advantage of eternal adaptability .
Later in the evening, Draco got serious . He took out Pair Dadeni once again and began crafting All-sight and Angel's Kiss potions like he was possessed by a devil .
3 hours… 6 hours… 12 hours… 1 day… 3 days…
Draco went on a crafting spree for three days before going to sleep for a bit . It wasn't that he was drop-dead tired like before since his enhanced body and mind gave him enough stamina to go on for a week .
However, everything had to be done in moderation . Draco even logged out and slept in the real world after talking with Eva who 'coincidentally' logged out at the same time .
They slept in each other's arms, and more than 10 hours passed before they woke up . This equated to 40 hours in the game, which was about a day and a half gone .
So, counting Draco's time spent crafting and his time spent resting in the real world, over 4 and a half days had passed . From 68 days remaining, there were 63 days to go until the first player auction .
Draco resumed crafting in this manner, spending another 3 days working on the two potions with trying new recipes or even mixing up his portfolio .
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During this time, he went down to the cellar to retrieve his fermented beer that was ready for the final stage .
This was the bottling stage, where the beer was moved from the cask into prepared bottles using a very specific method in order to ensure the objective quality of the liquor .
Draco met Carlo in the brewery, and the fellow grunted him a greeting . On his shoulder were two whole casks of beer that looked like they weighed a ton, yet he handled them with ease .
Draco inspected the fellow with his Eyes of Caelo and was intrigued to find that he had some barbarian blood in his body . That would certainly explain the fixation with liquor and the insane strength .
Draco shook his head and focused on his own matters . Before he began the bottling, he went on to carefully cleanse everything: bottles, bottle filler, bottle caps, bottling bucket, and any transfer hoses used .
He specifically used a bottle brush on the bottles he planned to transfer the beer into . Carlo had shown him the whole process of bottling last time, so he just had to repeat the steps .
Draco then boiled his priming sugar in water . This would help settle the beer when it was transferred, so it wasn't a process that could be skipped .
Upon reaching a boil, Draco checked to see if it dissolved and then nodded when the water had become a solution .
He was supposed to let it cool, but he didn't want to waste too much time, so he directly double-cast a wind spell and an ice one, both of them in the misc category .
The wind was basically just a light breeze and the ice one was a form of mist . They merged externally to form a breeze that could freeze anything, and Draco used a bit of his Control to mix it with the solution .
After it cooled to his satisfaction, he directly added it to the bottling bucket .
Now, it was time to transfer the beer . Draco siphoned the beer out of the fermenter that had housed it during its 2-week fermentation straight into the bottling bucket .
Following Carlo's advice from last time, he made sure to leave as much sediment in the fermenter as possible . Mixed with the priming sugar, these sediments settled rather quickly and the attractive smell of beer began to float around the room .
After taking a hefty sniff and sighing in pleasure, Draco filled the bottles with the liquor .
To do this, one had to attach bottle filler to the hose (which he had cleaned earlier), then the hose to bottling bucket spigot .
After that, one had to open the bottling bucket spigot (which was like a tap) then push the bottle filler to the bottom of the bottle .
It was actually a simple and straightforward process if one knew what to do and had the necessary tools and equipment to do it .
It was naturally advisable to fill each bottle right to the top . This was so that when the bottle filler was removed, it would leave the perfect amount of space at the top of the bottle .
After this, Draco was pretty much done . All he had to do was to cap the bottles with the caps he had prepared a long time ago, with the help of a bottle capper .
Now that the bottles were filled and sealed, the beer-making process was effectively complete .
All Draco needed to do now was to store the bottles at room temperature for roughly two weeks . This was to give the beer time to carbonate .
After this period passed, he would still need to refrigerate the beer, then it would be ready for consumption!
His cask of beer had granted him 100 bottles of liquor . He could either sell them or save them for himself, but since Draco didn't use Aether Crystals, the beer would basically just become a very well-made Common Rank item .
Brewing wasn't a mystical Tradeskill . No, it was exceedingly common . Many taverns and inns already had their own suppliers for beer and very few would be willing to buy Common beer .
However, with his name attached to it, many shops would naturally clamor to buy his stuff . Even if the beer tasted like rat's piss, they would still force it down the throats of their customers if it meant that they could get into the good books of the rising Lord Draco .
However, Draco wasn't interested in pursuing a career in Brewery . He was a swordsman and a magician foremost, so his fate lay with combat, battle, and war .
After the brewing was done, Draco worked on another brew straight away, with the very same recipe . However, this time he used ground Aether Crystals as his hops, and the mixture that came out was truly intriguing .
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