I had a good time with a pretty lady I thought to myself.

"Come see me at the cafeteria" My legs started walking towards the cafeteria before he finished his sentence.

I'm never gonna make an area of effect control ring as long as I live!

The anger inside me caused by my free will caused me to make such a promise.

I arrived at the cafeteria to see cannon man eating. He was joined by a straw hat-wearing older man.

When I sat down I decided to sit down in front of the cannon man after all he is my rival.

"You sure stirred up a storm, did you know that only one cup of hundred-year dragon wine is produced a year?" Said the man opposite me.

"No nut I do recall you saying that you would support my food and drinks," I replied while I eyed their platters of food.

They seemed to be eating some kind of bird eggs. I wonder how old they were and of what species. I really needed a ring to appraise things.

The straw hat-wearing man looked up at me he had black eyes that somehow held a lot of definition.

"Young man the owner of the wine shop is a personal friend of mine. To repay him your going to have to make him a ring worth one and a half years of wine."

I checked my arm and saw that the number was 1,430. Wow, that wine really had put my ability into overdrive.

"So you have enough to pay them back, and you can even make a ring for the girl that helped you. I suggest you make the rings very specific so the cost will be lower and they will have a greater effect."

Straw hat man said to me, but at this point, I knew he was grand elder.

Nobody else had the qualifications to eat those shiny eggs.

"If you haven't already figured it out I am the Grand Elder. I have one ability ring even though my body is very strong."

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I wondered, "are you one of those geniuses that only invest in strength growing rings. And use techniques they make up to fight mana users?"

He seemed to find that funny as he pushed his plate over to me "the last egg is yours to eat, its a hundred-year-old grey hawk egg. It should improve your eyesight."

"Grand Elder is really too generous," I said

"Did you know that I only have one ability ring?"

I almost choked.

The strongest person in the outpost only had one ability ring. It must be a grade above even legendary.

"Your having wild thoughts right? But young man this is what it is."

Relearn Escape~ All other ability rings are broken down and converted into escape techniques and learned by the user's body.

The world had gone mad I thought too myself.

The two top experts and pillars of humanity consisted of a control freak and a looter.

"Now that this is all settled I would like to see you craft a ring for the vineyard." Grand Elder said

We traveled toward the library cellar is what I was gonna call it.

When we got to the heartbeast safe there were a lot of new resources.

Apparently, Grand Elder was very proficient when It came too looting and restocked anything under 1k years fairly often.

I picked up three different pieces and made my way to the crafting chest.

As soon as we got there the door was locked behind me and Grand Elder stood with his hands clasped behind his back in front of the door.

I figured out that the type of heart beast part you used and how old it was changed the effectiveness of the ability ring.

I put in a pice of a thousand year old heartbeast I didn't know what it was but Elder told me it was from a group of heartbeasts that crafted.

I poured 1k of mana into the chest while thinking about adding mana to the process of brewing dragon wine.

When I looked back I expected elder to get the ring out of the chest.

But he just stood there staring.

So I got the ring out and checked what it did.

Mana Dragon Wine~Add mana to the process of crafting Dragon Wine too double its effectiveness

I was too good I thought too myself this would count as paying them back and some. The idea to make the conditions more specific to increase the effectiveness was a genius one.

Next, I put in a 300-year-old prism butterfly.

I thought about the quick graceful movements the butterfly would make through the air. I then infused 250 mana into the chest.

When I reached in to grab the ring, I saw it had no color but just a carved image of a butterfly.

Butterfly moments~ Can move gracefully like a butterfly once every five minutes as long as your in the winery

The last thing I did was make a normal ring using a rabbit foot.

Bounce~Move five feet in a jump

I planned to give that one to elder so I could see how his ability ring worked for a reference.