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Chapter 538 – A small price to pay

🕑 Added 2025-12-03 07:01:17 +0000 UTC

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Mad Dessert

Thanks!

Steph

Not really, Percy can just build a really large effigy

R. Maxwell Steele

Guild needs to prioritize hiring all the pure affinity mana users so they can have direct access to pure mana for crystalization.

Dove

Agreed. Freddy isn't a fighter and I can't imagine what he'd even use lightning or a composite affinity for. But, I am *positive* that Freddy wouldn't be getting the lightning affinity unless PathofPen had a specific plan for him, so I'm perfectly content to wait for that plan to come to fruition. Do we even know what Freddy's first affinity is? I don't remember it ever being mentioned. It seems he's going to have a reluctant, but possibly vital role in this story at some point.

Codered999

They don't know where she is right now and she's doing a better job of disguising herself than Percy did.

Michael

He doesnt need to placate every House, just 30%. Especially that rich House that bought all his Dew the first time, they will happily ally for a stronger tap. I miss Nesha, cant Baldie or LoW go get her real quick?

Leo

I wish I could binge the next 50 chapters, I love world building!

Leo

Nesha, cousin and second familiar plus three people in the room apart him. They are one short if he has five uses.

Zachary T Pruckowski

Wait, Percy’s considering giving up his pure affinity? Or is there a third person outside the room he was going to give Lightning to?

ThoMiCroN

So Percy will finally be able to make physical clones from regrowing his own flesh ?

ThoMiCroN

Percy may have to teach to make spherical cauldrons, and the role of pressure in the temperatures of the reactions.

Jonathan Wood

Your math is wrong in that the Thirsty Valley is only 20-40 times faster not 200 iirc. He also only needs 20000 years so averaging it out at 30 times faster puts it in the ballpark of 166.66… years Additionally that would require keeping the princess he has alive and healthy enough to produce for that long and we already know that without the gods intervention that the princess wasn’t in good shape. Not to mention the Princess as she is probably can’t make enough jelly to sustain more than one or two people at her current grade.

MinE

Well it doesn't drain a normal mage's vitality, so I'm guessing it would just absorb his mana as he converts it normally.

Tomer Yud

love this book!

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Also. If you try to give a second core to archibald. Will he just get his life mana sucked to death? Cause the second core SUCC and doesn't care. Like would a red life mage die from it if he was alone with no shrooms?

Tomer Yud

for me its perfect in the morning with my coffee!

Jason Oniemola

The only move Machaon can make is taking anyone that would side with him into the thirsty valley. Royal jelly + cyan paste in accelerated time (50000÷4÷200=62.5years) and they could become demigods before Percy's next natural promotion. It could make him too useful to kill outright but still serve as a whetstone for Percy.

Tomer Yud

well Freddy dosent show any inclination that he is interested too much in cultivation so wasting precious resources like the lighting affinity might not be the best move.

Tomer Yud

who to what

MinE

I assume 1. since the second is too rare. Plus no one knows about it besides Percy and the Hive, and potentially the Alchemists. Either that or its relatively common knowledge, but no one dare try and steal it besides one obvious exception.

PathOfPen

cyan paste is just crushing the crystalized pure mana and mixing it with water, like Hemarakah's people did in the world with floating cats. It doubles a core's recovery if used right after a cleansing session, but Percy had to work it into the Aurora Dew's recipe to make it work 3x as fast, because it's more effective on fresh injuries, so the best way is to have it act at the same time as the nectar. The next time I edit this chapter I'll probably add a paragraph somewhere to remind people since it's been several hundred chapters

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

The main problem with this novel is that I want to go to sleep earlier and progress my way there. So I'm aiming for 1am rn. But because this release at 2am, I always wait for the new chapter.

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

When you said people will eventually get pissed at the knowledge there is something better. Do you mean Aurora Dew, Or Aurora Dew + Royal Jelly? As In 1. Aurora Dew > Regular. Or 2. RJAD > AD?