Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy

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The woman nodded and lifted her mask to eat the first pill.
She waited for a while and then ate the second one.
After she was done with both, she shook her head.

The young man didn’t even have it in him to feel dejected as another pill didn’t work to cure her poison.
At this point, the young man was feeling desperate.

“Should we… just go back?” he asked, but of course, there was no answer.
The woman couldn’t hear him at all after all.

The young man thought for a bit and quickly shook his head.
“I can’t go back.
Not after…”

Since going back to his father wasn’t an option, he wondered if he should go find the King of this continent.
‘How do I possibly talk with someone so high profile as the king? I would have to reveal my own identity.
I can’t possibly do that,’ he thought.

That wasn’t a choice either.

In the end, the young man had nothing else he could do.
He held the woman’s hand and spoke, “Don’t worry, I’ll fix this somehow.
I will take you back and heal you, even if that means I will have to stand up to father.
Don’t worry.”

The woman stroked his head while he sat there wondering how long it will be in the future before their lives would finally return back to some form of normality again.

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“Are you sure these numbers are not common spirit stones? There’s no way it could be True spirit stones, right?” he asked.

“That’s the correct number, your highness,” the elder that had brought him the information said.

“How can 5 thousand people cost us this many spirit stones for just a year?” Alex asked.

“Ahem,” the elder coughed a little.
“That’s monthly, not yearly.”

“What?!” Alex’s eyes went wide when he heard that.
“This can’t possibly be monthly.”

“I am afraid it is, your majesty,” the elder said.
“1000 of those would be Saint realm cultivators after all, with the remaining 4000 being no less than a True King realm cultivator.”

“Even then,” Alex said.
“These numbers sound simply absurd.
I mean, 800 Million Spirit stones per month?”

“That is the requirement if we want to have a well-maintained army, your majesty,” the elder said.

Alex scratched his head as he read through the numbers that made up everything.

“Salary, housing, training, talismans, formations, pills, weapons, clothing,” he read through it all.
“There’s just so much.
Is there no way to reduce these numbers?”

“There… is a way, but it is going to cost us a lot initially while being beneficial in the long run,” the elder said.

“What is it?” Alex asked excitedly.

“You see, since most of the cost comes from stuff like pills and talismans, instead of buying them from somewhere, how about establishing royal institutes whose main purpose would be to make these items,” the elder said.
“If we get too many, we can even turn it into an actual business, bringing in some income.”

“I see,” Alex said.
“That’s not a bad idea, but it is going to cost us a bit early on, huh?”

“That’s right, your Majesty,” the elder said.

Alex fell into some thought.
“Establishing those institutes does feel like the best way of going about this issue, but then, we have to hire them too, don’t we? That’s another hassle,” he said.

The elder said nothing and let Alex speak out his thoughts for the moment.

“We can exclude salary, housing, and clothing for the time being as there’s no need to change them exactly.”

“We can even remove weapons for the time being as well since a weapon isn’t necessarily something that can be considered monthly.
Once they get one, there would be no reason to change it so quickly.”

“As for training, that is one place we cannot slack off at all, so the cost there remains.”

“So, pills, formations, and talismans are the only thing we can save cost on, isn’t it?” Alex thought.
“Very well, it sounds like creating an institute for it is the best way to go about it.”

“It does,” the elder said.
“So, should I tally up the costs for these institutes as well?”

“Yes, please do so,” Alex said.
“Also, you can start spreading the message that the royal family is looking to hire Alchemists, Talisman makers, and Formation designers.
We will be hiring them no matter what in the end, so we might as well get started.”

“Yes, your Majesty,” the elder said.

“Also,” Alex continued.
“Just to make it more enticing to the ones that might not want to join, tell them that the ones that join will gain monthly tutelage from me.
That should help make the bigger names want to join as well.”

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