I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means

Kane Mansion.

In the past few days, Lis had led a rather busy life. By day, he would go to the First Magic Workshop to practice all sorts of new ideas in the laboratory, and he would seek advice from Mr. Stephens whenever he encountered a problem.

After returning to the mansion, he would learn assassin skills with Joyce and Ashley, his time arranged completely full.

Not only had he made progress in his arcane research, but even his assassin skills, which had long been neglected, were rapidly being honed.

Lis learned new skills at an incredibly fast pace. Thanks to his solid foundation, he could master some of the simpler assassin skills after only a few demonstrations by Joyce.

As for some more special skills, like "Invisibility" and "Stealth," Lis gradually got the hang of them after pondering them for a while.

Eventually, Joyce even started giving Lis extra coaching, teaching him some high-level skills from the assassin series. Due to Lis having the assassin profession specialty "Shadow Crown," he could barely master them, although it was exceedingly strenuous to apply them normally in combat.

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Ashley, witnessing Lis's exaggerated speed of progress, was somewhat dumbfounded. It felt to her as if Lis, a Mage, was learning assassin skills even faster than she did.

Old Jack, on the other hand, was not surprised at all and was comforting Ashley.

In his eyes, the fact that Lis had two Legendary strongmen at his back was incredible.

If Lis were to tell the King all about this now, King Feis wouldn't hesitate to bestow a title and reward upon Lis unless he wasn't a fit leader of the Kingdom.

Even if Lis now wished to become a Sealed Noble with his own territory, the King would agree.

What's so odd about such a person being a bit of a genius, a bit special?

In the mansion, aside from learning the related knowledge and skills of the assassin profession from Joyce, Lis would occasionally seek out Risa.

Although Risa appeared somewhat shy, her hood pulled tight, she was still willing to talk with Lis.

Thus, Lis also clarified the whereabouts of Risa and Mr. Stephens in the period before.

It turned out that "Judgement Flame" had taken Risa on a trip to the Four Elements Plane, and in each Element Plane, he had slain a Gold High Order Elemental Lord to strengthen Risa's inner Element Origin and fortify her connection with the Element Plane.

No wonder the aura of the Four Elements around Risa had become so much stronger, concentrated enough that even Lis had noticed it.

Mr. Stephens was indeed one of the most formidable Humans, capable of carrying someone through Different Planes and even "stealing" from others.

You see, Legendary Elemental Giant Spirits are rare elsewhere, but there are quite a few in the Four Elements Plane; it's just that they seldom have the chance to come to the Main World, that's all.

Risa had also spelled out the path of development that Fran had arranged for her to Lis, and one could only say that this Legendary Mage's vision was truly unique. It was indeed the most suitable path for her.

As for the difficulties after breaking through to Legendary status, Lis didn't think they were much of a problem.

After all, the vast majority of professions never even get the chance to touch the threshold of the Legendary Domain in their lifetimes. Risa's Talent was already defying the heavens, and the bottleneck of Legend wasn't much of a difficulty for her.

Once she broke through to Legendary status, there would be plenty of time to search for ways to continue progressing; there was no need to fret over such matters in advance.

While Lis was persistently learning and training day after day, Mora brought him some good news.

"You mean the preliminary preparations are all done?"

Lis, sitting on the sofa in the living room and stretching lazily, said to Mora.

He had just been at Joyce's, undergoing specialized training for flexibility, and was indeed feeling a bit sore.

"Yes, the Guild's shop has been set up properly, and the staff have also been arranged. We started operating ahead of schedule."

"I notified you when we opened, but you said you were too busy to come," Mora added, leaning back on the sofa and rubbing his temples. Recently, he had been extremely busy. He had to make all the decisions for the Guild, while Lis and Bernie were entirely hands-off and uninvolved.

"Already begun operating?"

It was true that Lis hadn't been paying attention. Giving advice was one thing, but the specific affairs of the Guild were better left to Mora, the professional.

"I remember Bernie hasn't brought out the finished products yet, what are you selling now?"

"Merchandise from the Radiant United Commerce that I got for a low price."

Mora said with a matter-of-fact tone, being a bona fide merchant, one wouldn't pass up on a good deal.

Lis shook his head helplessly; he hadn't expected Mora to be so straightforward, but he reckoned that Duke Hade and the others probably wouldn't mind these details.

"Alright, as long as you know what you're doing."

Since Lis had entrusted these matters to Mora, he naturally wouldn't interfere too much.

"You can count on me; this is just for a quick fix in the early stages. It will be better once we have our own merchandise."

Mora said confidently, aware of the limits.

After all, he was just leveraging the situation for now, aiming to get the guild up and running as soon as possible. How much money he made at this stage wasn't important.

These small profits at hand weren't a concern to Mora; the chance to make big money was yet to come.

"By the way, I've arranged everything you asked for last time, and the location is near the Lower City District."

"Since you didn't have any special requirements, and the place is vast, I went ahead and bought the whole plot."

Mora drank a sip of black tea as he spoke; these were all trivial expenses. The total cost didn't even reach the expenditure for a prime location shop on Feis Street, and that too he had acquired at a friendly price from the Feis Guild.

Mora guessed that if it were not for taking Lis's face into account, the price might have been half again as much.

"Would you like to go have a look?"

Mora asked, as he was quite attentive to the arrangements made by Lis.

"Where in the Lower City District?"

Lis pondered for a moment and decided he had better take a look, as it was a matter concerning the players' scheme of profiting from newcomers.

"Koln Street in the Lower City District. Following your request, I found a place pretty close to Gedo Street."

Lis nodded; this too was his specification, considering most players, upon entering this world, would be active around the Gedo Street in the Lower City District.

"Then let's go. I'm free now, so let's check it out together."

Lis got up, ready to instruct Bender to prepare the carriage.

Mora hastily stopped Lis and said irritably:

"You've forgotten something important!"

"What's that?"

Lis asked, somewhat puzzled, and took the time to reflect thoroughly.

"The name of the guild! If you, the boss, don't decide, our guild can't even put up a sign."

"You're not telling me you haven't thought of one yet!"

Mora looked at Lis with a skeptical gaze. During this time, cooperating with other guilds had been inconvenient because they hadn't settled on a name.

"Uh..."

Lis really hadn't thought about it, but suddenly he saw a flock of white doves flying outside the window.

"How about we call it the White Dove Chamber of Commerce, bringing new peace to the world?"