Gregory teleported to the Grand Exchange, and bought the aforementioned materials, as well as 200 marble blocks. In addition, he bought several thousand runes of every type for his new apprentices to train with. Teleporting back, he gave the materials needed to Eric, and the others helped him. Gregory himself used the marble blocks and fused them together to build fifty portals on the middle floor. While everyone was busily working, Saradomin suddenly appeared.
“Hello Gregory. I see you have collected your assistants. I am very pleased.”
Seeing the look of absolute astonishment, awe, and alarm in the faces of all his friends, Gregory introduced them. “Saradomin, this is Eric, Julia, Martin, Sarah, John, Lia, Sylvia, Robert, Mark, Victoria, Bob, Kevin, Amanda, Mathew, David, Pat, Dan, and Walter.”
“Very nice to meet you all, and for our cause I am going to imbue you all with the powers you will need to learn magic very quickly. I need to talk to Gregory, so do not mind my presence and continue working.” The group slowly, and reluctantly dispersed, going back to their occupations.
“Gregory, I have something I have meant to speak to you about. You need to learn how to use a weapon. A sword. Magic is very effective in weapons such as that if you use it properly. When you think about it, magic has to break through the flesh of the victim before it can truly damage, and that spends some of the force of it. If you charge a powerful sword with your magic, and then slice the weapon into the flesh of your adversary, it is ten times as deadly, because the magic can flow straight into the unprotected areas of the enemy’s body.”
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