Terra Nova Online: Rise of The Strongest Player

Chapter 386: Leo's Recap (1)

Chapter 386: Leo’s Recap (1)

( Leo’s POV )

The individual who had seen the largest shift happen in his gaming career in the past two months was none other than Leo.

It all began with a letter which invited the presumed ‘Master’ alchemist Leo Skyshard to the Royal Palace, which Leo blatantly declined simply because he found the travel to be too inconvenient.

However, for some reason, the Emperor mistook this attitude of his as the pride of a great craftsman who was at no-one’s beck and call and silently began to woo him with offers of wealth and honor.

In his second letter, the Emperor offered to make him a Viscount of a County that was only a short 80 kilometers distance from the Capital City StrongHaven and was one of the most prosperous Counties of the entire Empire.

Had Leo not already set-up his factories in Crest-Hill Barony, he would have perhaps accepted this offer and moved, however, with his personal attachment to the Crest-Hill Barony now, he declined the Emperor’s offer yet again, but somehow it only played into the misunderstanding deepening, as a Chain Quest was triggered.

[ Chain Quest Notification :- The Emperor has deployed two Virex Corps agents to monitor your activities now and has mistook you to be a great alchemy expert.

Lean into the role of being a hidden expert and shock the entire Empire with your creations.

Quest Description – For the first stage of this quest, come up with a new unseen before product for the market, which gives new wind to the rumors of you being a master alchemist amongst the masses.

Time limit – 45 days.

Quest Rewards – Potion Formula for ‘Anti-Aging’ Cream ]

Because of his denial to meet the Emperor, Leo was given a chain quest to create a new groundbreaking product in the next 45 days, which forced him to consult with Ben and get back to the drawing board on what to create.

In reality, neither himself nor Ben were actually Alchemists and hence when he told Ben about his need to create a new formula, for a moment Ben was flabbergasted by the demand.

“Boy…. You are asking too much off me lately…. I’m already having my hands full from training your stupid army.

I can’t believe how slow these soldiers are at learning the basics of warfare…..

Anyways, coming up with new products, I’m definitely no alchemist” Ben reasoned, however, under Leo’s intense begging, eventually the old man gave-in as he tried to jog his memory on every potion secret formula that his father ever taught him since he was a kid.

Amongst these formulas, there was one unique formula which used the stem of a specific wildflower to create a gas that contained anesthetic properties and it was this property of that particular flower that Leo started to tinker with to create a new line of sleeping pills.

In his head, he was trying to make a product that would help one sleep faster, however, when he actually managed to make a solid pill, mixing the flower stem powder to other materials that helped with fast absorption of the pill into the bloodstream, he ended up creating a pill that suppressed pain receptors in the body.

Instead of becoming a pill that helped one sleep, he ended up inventing a pill that allowed a warrior to not feel pain at all for a certain duration, and just like that a great product was born.

Labeled as the ‘Immortal Pill’, Leo pitched the product as something that would make warriors feel like immortals incapable of feeling pain, and then waited to see the bloodbath begin amongst the major business groups having their offices in Berkshire Town, as this was the exact moment they all had been waiting for.

What followed was a great bidding war, where the Black Tortoise Group eventually secured the rights to sell the pill exclusively, with them providing Leo with a 60% profit split and an astronomical fee of 1 million gold coins, to secure the exclusive selling rights for the product.

Luckily for Leo, it only took 5 days for him to come up with the new product with Ben’s help and by the end of the month it had already hit the markets across the Empire, becoming an overnight sensation.

Placed in the signature ‘Created by Leo Skyshard’ bottles throughout the Empire, the drug created a lot of buzz, with the Black Tortoise Group selling it at an astronomical profit margin of 1000% per bottle.

The drug cost them less than 3 silver coins to manufacture, yet they sold it for 30 gold coins a bottle and it still sold like hotcakes, with doctors, berserkers, warriors all lining up to buy it.

The product became an emergency back-up that every adventurer must have before venturing into a dungeon, and was soon seen as a necessity within adventurer circles, just like a basic healing potion.

[ Chain Quest Notification:- Congratulations player ‘Leo Skyshard’ on completing the first stage of the Chain Quest.

Distributing Rewards… ]

[ Chain Quest Two :- The Entire Empire is now buzzing with anticipation about the true caliber of ‘Leo Skyshard’ the alleged ‘Master’ alchemist, so this is the right time to strike while the iron is hot.

Quest Description :- The anti-aging cream is a product that can make or break entire business empires.

Create and market the Anti-Aging cream in such a way that the prestige of Leo Skyshard as the greatest alchemist alive becomes an irrefutable fact within the Empire.

Quest Duration :- 3 months

Quest Rewards :- ( ???? ) potion formula, +Actor Class progression ]

With the success of his immortal pills, Leo triggered the second part of his chain quest, which tilted heavily into his actor class’s theme of ‘Fake it till you make it’.

In reality, he was no alchemist.

He did not have any knowledge about how one could study the properties of individual materials or how new products could really be created.

However, with the system helping him play the role of a big-boss, he was now poised to become a legendary figure within the world of Terra Nova, however, this time he was not content with just that.

After playing the game for over a year and watching the Actor class information pack which showed him the story of some demon king, Leo realized that he needed to play the long-game and connect his individual acts for a larger goal.

No longer was he content with being labeled as just a ‘Master Alchemist’, as lately, he found his appetite enlarging for more.