Lucius was pleased with the events today. While he ended up spending quite a bit on getting the Emberian herb for Finch's treatment, he now had a way to get a lot more Rune crystals.
Usually, he would need to commission mercenaries every time he wanted them and would then needed to negotiate the terms. But now, he could just ask them to do whatever jobs he wanted to without needing to pay them the proportionate amount.
There were many things that Lucius needed the Rune crystals for, and the very first thing was to upgrade the gifts of others. But he knew doing so would take much more time, as he would also need to gather different materials.
Another thing that he needed to take care of would be to only upgrade the gifts of those that were loyal to him and would be useful to him for a long period of time. In addition to that, he needed them to make sure that his ability to upgrade gifts was not revealed to the public.
