Wizard Earl

However, the fire-attribute enchanted items that Crocia Fire Coral can be used to create are either too difficult for wizards to craft or too useless. As a result, Crocia Fire Coral, despite being high-end, is very unpopular and has always been in an awkward situation of being valuable but unavailable in the wizarding world, with very few transactions.

Isabella's donation of one hundred pieces of Croatian fire coral is roughly equivalent to the amount of fire coral collected in the Gulf of Croatia over three years!

As a first-level wizard and core member of the Boateng family, Prince Boateng knew very well the purpose behind the secret society sending such a large quantity of high-end, obscure alchemical materials to the Boateng family. It was a test. However, even knowing this was a test, for the sake of the Boateng family, he had no choice but to take the bait, albeit with bitterness in his heart.

Prince Boateng's elder brother, the current head of the Boateng family, the second-level wizard Cabio Boateng, was ambushed by a mysterious figure three years ago. Although Cabio Boateng defeated the powerful enemy and escaped the ambush, he was caught off guard and struck by the enemy's dying counterattack, suffering a highly sinister poison called Taro!

"The Demon Poison Taro has no effect on Carpio Boateng under normal circumstances, but it will flare up every full moon, causing Carpio Boateng to suffer from unbearable itching all over his body, and it also devours Carpio Boateng's life essence! For the past three years, Carpio Boateng has suffered greatly from the poison, and he can only exert half of his strength. The Boateng family has tried all kinds of treatments, but there has been no improvement."

"To free Carpio Boateng from Taro's torment, the desperate Boateng family paid a heavy price, enlisting the help of Mox, the renowned apothecary of the Odin Empire. His reputation lived up to its name; Mox was indeed extremely skilled, and a few potions alleviated the pain of Taro's poison in Carpio Boateng!"

"Although Cabio Boateng's pain has lessened considerably, Mox also admitted that there is no other way to completely cure the Taro poison in Cabio Boateng's body except to extract the essence from the Croatian fire coral and refine it into an antidote for Cabio Boateng to take!"

"If extracting the essence only requires a few pieces of Croatian fire coral, then given the power of the Boateng family, even if Croatian fire coral is scarce and obscure, it wouldn't take long to obtain it. But Mox insists that extracting the essence to refine the potion requires at least two hundred pieces of Croatian fire coral!"

Two hundred pieces of Croatian fire coral represent almost five years' worth of production of Croatian fire coral in the Gulf of Croatia!

Even with the power of the Boateng family, it would be almost impossible to collect so many Croatian fire corals in a short period of time. Moreover, most importantly, within the Boateng family, Kabio Boateng is not only the head of the family but also the strongest fighter after the family's patriarch.

As a newly emerging power in the Odin Empire, the Boateng family has been developing rapidly for more than a decade, relying on the resources brought by fugitives who fled to West Ham. However, with the growth of the Boateng family, they have undoubtedly begun to affect the original interest structure of the Odin Empire.

Although the Boateng family has tried their best to be very restrained and amicable, minimizing their aggression and avoiding conflict, the pie is only so big. If you get some, I won't get any; if you take a bigger bite, I'll take a smaller bite.

Therefore, the Boateng family still faced hostility. The major powers of the Odin Empire tried every means to suppress the Boateng family. Fortunately, in order to demonstrate the stability of the Odin Empire, the royal family of the Odin Empire did not allow these major powers to openly deal with the Boateng family.

However, these major forces continued their clandestine schemes one after another without ever stopping. Seeing this situation, the Boateng family had some guesses about who was instigating the mysterious person who ambushed Cabio Boateng, but unfortunately, they lacked concrete evidence. In addition, the situation was beyond their control, so they could only swallow their anger.

If people were to learn that Carbio Boateng was suffering from the demonic poison Taro, enduring immense torment and severely weakened, the consequences of such a dire situation would be unimaginable. This would be especially true for those forces already hostile to the Boateng family; if they learned of this, they would undoubtedly become restless and might even launch a ruthless attack.

Even if the Boateng family doesn't suffer annihilation, it will inevitably be severely weakened, and its rise will be interrupted. Therefore, the news of Cabio Boateng's poisoning is being kept strictly confidential even within the Boateng family. Only a few core members and the apothecary Mox know about it. Cabio Boateng himself is using the excuse of seclusion and ascetic training to avoid meeting anyone as much as possible, minimizing the possibility of others finding out about his poisoning.

Croatian fire coral is a very rare and high-end fire-attribute alchemical material. Its trading volume is extremely limited across the entire Byzantine continent. If the Boateng family were to collect it extensively to cure Kabio Boateng of the Taro Demon Poison, even their careful actions would attract attention. If an investigation were conducted, it's highly likely that Kabio Boateng's condition due to the Taro Demon Poison would be discovered!

Therefore, in order to avoid attracting attention and being discovered that Kabio Boateng was poisoned by Taro and needed to extract the essence of Croatian fire coral to make a potion to cure the poison, the Boateng family decided that they could not collect it on a large scale in the market, but could only collect it anonymously on a small scale. In this way, although the secrecy was improved, the efficiency was greatly reduced. It took three years to collect eighty pieces of Croatian fire coral.

Today, Isabella, representing the Secret Society and the Royal Faction, presented him with such a large quantity of the extremely rare alchemical material, Croatian Fire Coral. Clearly, the Royal Faction may not yet know that Kabio Boateng is suffering from the Taro Demon Poison, but they have already noticed that the Boateng family is secretly collecting Croatian Fire Coral!

Therefore, the significance of the gift that Isabella gave was not only about the Croatian fire coral itself, but also about demonstrating her strength to them: our secret society already knows about your Boateng family's secret collection of Croatian fire coral!