CHAPTER 19
PARADISE GARDEN
When these uninvited guests had welcomed themselves into the county’s mansion, Delimira and Ezekiel were searching for the alleged thieves like madmen. All eyes were on the royal escorts who now moved to a high-class inn in the market area of Edenberg. And as Vanessa had told Hans, they were waiting for the thieves to come clean and even take the reward for handing over the document to them.
Similarly, not far from them, the Sylvetor family had made their temporary home in some merchant’s mansion. They were also waiting for the thieves to choose them. The reward for the stolen document was increasing like an ongoing bid, going from 1 million to now three million gold. It pulled many known and unknown faces into the goose chase.
However, Hans was living his life in quiet. No one was there to disturb him. He didn’t have to go to the dwarves and bear their nonsense anymore. He only needed one companion, his new Book of Power.
He was reading it again to see if he missed something. The first page still had the method for gaining solar energy.
“Photonise - A way for charging myself and my spells with the sun’s power.”
“VeganBind upgrade - making explosions on break. It’s even stronger after fusing with day seed.”
“SeedBullet, or should I say Blastbullets now. SeedBullets with explosive damage. I needed this.”
“I even have a brand-new version called LongShot, just like its name, a long-range penetrative spell. I still need to test its range, but it’s confirmed to have 500m for now.”
“Landmine - I need to be careful using this since the royal escort experienced this firsthand.”
“Hehehe.” He grinned, thinking about his new attacks and looking at the bright sun. He absorbed those rays as if he was breathing air. His entire body encompassed a sunny hue, and he lifted himself with the ‘Blessing of Wind’ pendant. “Let’s enjoy a little,” he yelled and began to encircle their mansion with top speed. He wasn’t just enjoying the exhilaration but was finding a sweet spot in equalising his absorption and exhaustion of the sun’s energy. “Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!” He continued his playful act until he got the result and happily sat down.
He also found a downside to his new solar power apart from the obvious that it became dud after sunset. He needed water and a lot of it. The use of Solar energy left him dehydrated so he was carrying several water pouches in his space belt named Knapbinder.
Hans’s eyes were searching for anyone whom he could test his progress, but Aldrich was away monitoring the tense situation between the royal and ducal households. Sierra was busy in the office with Vanessa, and Delimira was searching for thieves with the Devildom people.
“Hmmm… fine. I’ll learn something extra then.” He skimmed the pages and found a new chapter titled ParadiseGarden. “Interesting.” He mumbled and began to read.
Decrypting…
Ever seen Lady Sierra’s Immortal Sanctuary? A place, as long as you are there, you can’t die. Sounds overpowered, right? Because it is. If she wants to save someone, even ancients will have a hard time killing them.
Similar to that, you can create a sanctuary of your own. I called it Paradise Garden. As long as you keep it steady, the surrounding of yours will turn into a holy land of no exhaustion, neither mana nor stamina. It could even close the wounds.
Sure, Lady Sierra's Immortal Sanctuary is a very powerful support spell, but hers only provides infinite health regeneration. Yours, on the other hand, not only heals but also restores lost aura/mana and energy in a snap. Sounds intimidating, right? But it's actually pretty straightforward.
Picture it like an upgraded SilvaOrtus. You soak up solar energy, which then flows through you, revitalising anyone nearby. You've felt that energy surge when you photonise. However, others can't handle it directly. By channeling it through you, it transforms into vitality, supercharging stamina and natural healing. Its not mana you are using, its sheer life force.
There's this rare, five-star herb called ‘Inception-Rega.' When keep close to heart, It absorbs nature's mana and transfers compatible elements to the heart. Like an artificial mana heart for both mages and knights. Powerful mana users use this to boost their disciples, but finding it isn't easy as this is a five star magic herb.
However, including it in your ‘Paradise garden’ will give it mana-regeneration powers, fulfilling my spell's vision."
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Hans read how to perform this spell in detail and closed the book. “Yeah its quite easy. I just’ve to be a sitting duck, waiting to be slaughtered…But it will help if I have allies around me… I’m a prince so it could happen… at least lets try it.”
As mentioned in the method, Hans had a perfect vine variant for transference purpose. He remembered how Chris called him a mosquito because he sucked all of his energy out. “Lets start.”
Few Hours has passed since he started. “The heck this is straightforward father. Try doing this.” Hans gasped, he was almost spent and charred by keep photonising himself. Since the dusk was approaching he had mere half an hour to finish it. However, his madness didn’t gone unnoticed since many of the house servant’s had encircled him to see what their young lord, no Prince Parv now, was going to pull.
Breathing in deep, Hans stood determined, “Its now or never” he said to himself and rooted his legs firmly into the earth, connecting with the rich soil beneath him. As he did, tiny tendrils of verdant green begin to unfurl from the ground, weaving and winding their way around his feet.
These delicate vines as fine as threads, pulse with a subtle energy, drawing power from the glowing Hans himself. With each passing moment, they grew stronger, branching outwards in a dance of vitality.
The servant’s had seen a lot of things by just being the part of Edenberg household but Hans was never the one who ran out of surprises. The whole backyard now was glowing with the same light as Hans, like a dawning sun has appeared before them.
Soon that tendrils approached them like a slithering snakes and gently touched their skins. They felt an electrifying, as a surge of vitality coursed through their veins. Hans could feel it too, as he was absorbing the sun’s energy, the energy was also sucked away as it was transforming into vitality and transmuting into the servants.
He felt as conduit, a power pack for anyone around him. “This is not bad.” Hans mumbled as he closed the spell. He found the spell irrelevant because he always fought alone not knowing this spell will become his goto signature in the future.
He quickly left the backyard and it turned normal. The servant’s were so surprised that they even forgot to greet him. They all stood stunned and Hans thought it was some side effect so he hurried inside and so no one could blame him. But when he left, some one spoke, my legs, my limp is gone. What happened?”
“Another responded, my scar is gone.”
“I worked whole day. I felt I could die any moment but now, I think, I can work whole night too—”
“Look at this bastard. After whole day of slaving away. He still wants to work.”
They all bickered comparing what changed in them, but all nodded when someone mentioned a point, “Imperials are not ordinary humans but descendants of god itself.”
Unaware of the amazed feeling of servants, Hans came to his dining room, which was devoid of house members. No one was here to break bread with him. He wanted to ask about a five-star herb. But only Hodges was there for him to listen. But Hans knew what sort of expression this old butler would make if he mentioned a five-star herb, which could tantamount to a few hundred thousand gold easily.
A few more days passed since he began to use ParadiseGarden. The servants kept requesting him daily for the spell, and he found no cause to reject them. They were offering themselves as test subjects; how could he deny them?
Finally, his regular summoning of ParadiseGarden spell caught Sierra’s attention as Hodges kept pestering her to take a look once. He was proud at his young lord helping the house servants reliving their stress and exhaustion. He wanted to show off and had practically dragged her ladyship out of the office.
As she saw the exhaustion evaporating from others, she touched the wavy glowing tendrils and it stuck to her hand, gently circling around her beautiful white hand. Hans was quite relaxed at this point but soon he found his energy pouring into a broken vase. No matter how much he absorbed from sun, all went like a poof. He turned to look at the source of his troubles and found his grandma softly chuckling at him.
“Grandma!” Hans said confused.
“Vitality. Its quite nice to be on receiving end for once. Well done Hans.”
It was the first time Hans heard her praise like this. It wasn’t like she never praised him, but he never found her so surprised like this. It was like everything he did before was something she expected him to do, but not this. He wanted to relish in the moment, but his equivalency with input and output was quite disturbed. If that continued, soon he’d look like a skeleton.
“Grandma… can you let go…I might die—”
“Oh, sorry, child. It’s just felt so good. My exhaustion is almost gone. Thank you.” She kept chuckling, but Hans felt like he was on his last straws. Taking a deep breath, he began photonising again, and his vigour returned in a few minutes.
“Damn it. I think I might really die if I use ParadiseGarden on a few powerful people.” Hans was deep in thought, forgetting that Sierra ran on divine mana, which was another term for vitality. So she naturally needed far more to refill herself. He was in deep thought and didn’t sense her coming beside him.
“Hans, my dear. Are you okay?”
“Ah, yes. I need practice. Next time, I can re-energise you completely.” He nodded confidently. Before he thought of this spell as something he’d not master completely. However, just seeing Sierra that happy resolved him to focus on this spell more than anything.
“How amazed she’d be if I can regenerate mana too. I should let it be a surprise.” Hans threw out the idea of asking for inception-rega plant. He thought it would be more meaningful if he could procure it himself and amaze her even more.
After that, Hans discovered the ideal candidate for ParadiseGarden. Daily as the dusk approached, Sierra descended, and he put all his effort into energising her completely. Yet, there was always a bit left undone. Still, bit by bit, he was closing the gap.
Just like this his holidays were coming to the end but the nonsensical cold war between Grimgar royals and Sylvetor remained in Edenberg. It was time it became irritating to Hans and now he was set to do something about it.
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