Of course, he chose to add an extra eye. Before that, he needed to modify the spot between his eyebrows to make a place for the Demon Eye transplant.

At the same time, after the modification was complete, he would need to set up a layer of protection to avoid being influenced by the Evil God’s power. This layer of protection would also need to be easily controllable, so that when Isaac became powerful enough, he could lure the Evil God over!

There was a lot to do, but not much he could actually do. There were just too many Demon Eye abilities, and Isaac thought all of them were pretty good...

Things like the Petrifying Demon Eye, the Gravity Demon Eye, the Freezing Demon Eye, the Transforming Demon Eye, the Hypnotic Demon Eye, the Pregnancy Demon Eye, the Gender Transformation Demon Eye...

They were all pretty decent Demon Eyes!

Their combat potential was off the charts!

So...

’Damn it, more choices?!’

Looking at the Demon Eye encyclopedia he’d borrowed from his big sister, Isaac was a little speechless. Fortunately, many of the Demon Eyes in it weren’t easy to obtain. Some were even banned because they had to be harvested from Witches!

Of course, some Demon Eyes were relatively easy to acquire. For example, there was a type called the Demon’s Eye. This was an artificial Demon Eye that required extracting a corresponding Concept from the flesh and blood of a Demon. After transplantation, the user would gain the ability to dominate Demons and inflict Demonization on other creatures. It was one of the core abilities of the Demon Dominator school.

Another example was the Freezing Demon Eye, which could immobilize any living being or object within the line of sight that had a lower rank or less Magic Power than the user. It was a very common biological Demon Eye.

The so-called biological Demon Eyes were different from those like the Demon’s Eye, which were created eyeballs. Biological Demon Eyes were mostly transplanted from living creatures. Some were very precious, while others were quite common.

Interestingly, unlike artificial Demon Eyes, the rarity of a biological Demon Eye wasn’t determined by the strength of its ability, but by the rarity of the creature that carried it.

Some biological Demon Eyes were very powerful, but if the Demons that carried them could be artificially bred or could regrow them, they were relatively easy to obtain. On the other hand, if the Demon was hard to find and couldn’t be bred in captivity, then even if the ability was mediocre, the eye would be very rare and correspondingly more expensive!

The Freezing Demon Eye that Isaac was currently looking at, for instance, was a regenerative biological Demon Eye. Even more interestingly, it was one of the few transplantable Witch Demon Eyes!

With the rise of the Witch Country, transplanting a Witch’s Demon Eye had been outlawed. Any offenders would be hunted down and killed by the combined forces of the Witch Country and the Truth Association!

But the world of Magic was just that miraculous!

In the Magic Realm, there was a certain type of Witch whose regenerative abilities were so powerful that even their Demon Eyes could grow back!

And so, these Witches—who would sell even their own underwear and saliva for money—got into the business of selling their own Demon Eyes...

After all, the things were practically zero-cost!

’What? Need money to recover from injuries?’

’Ever heard of Healing Magic?’

In short, led by this group of bizarre Witches, some of the more mediocre Witch Demon Eyes began to flow into the market...

Unfortunately, while it made for an interesting read, Isaac wasn’t interested in such a weak Demon Eye. Theoretically, any Demon Eye could gain incredible power if it was Enhanced enough.

But relatively speaking, Isaac still wanted to find one with a higher starting point. That would make Enhancing it more motivating, and it would be more fitting for his status!

So...

’I’ll just have to keep looking...’

And so, Isaac’s life fell into a routine again. He spent his days playing games of Justice Knight versus Evil Sorcerer with his two little nephews, reading the newspaper, and searching for a Demon Eye. It was all very leisurely.

Time flew by during this leisurely period, and soon, the day of the banquet arrived!

On this day, the Barrier that enveloped all of Solomon Castle began to shrink, until it only protected the castle’s rear courtyard where his family lived. At the same time, the other parts of the castle were slightly expanded by Cheryl using Space Magic.

She had created a hall inside the castle the size of a soccer field, and its decorations were incredibly luxurious!

It wasn’t just luxurious for Solomon; it was luxurious even for a Count!

But this was understandable. After all, she was a Grand Arcanist, a noble Mage. Not every Earl Clan could produce a Grand Arcanist.

Forget Grand Arcanists; there were few Counts in the Empire’s history who had even produced a High-level Mage. The few that existed were unorthodox types like Legendary Mages or Witches.

Firstly, although the Arcanist system was already quite mature, it was still a new power system and had only begun to absorb new blood on a large scale in recent decades. Secondly, the Arcanist system was relatively complete and rigid. To go far on this path, one needed talent, wealth, and luck in equal measure—not one could be lacking!

Not everyone had Gaia’s all-or-nothing courage, nor was everyone as talented as Cheryl.

So, it wasn’t a big deal if the banquet’s standards were a bit extravagant.

In the words of the Royal Uncle, "After suffering for a lifetime, can’t we enjoy ourselves a little?"

Besides, if the scale wasn’t large enough, it wouldn’t be able to accommodate so many people.

Faced with this emerging noble family that boasted three Advanced experts in a single household, basically every prominent noble in the Empire had sent someone to offer congratulations.

After all, Solomon currently had Gaia, Caesar, and Cheryl as their high-end combatants. Among them, Gaia was a Miracle Knight rumored to be on the verge of breaking through to Tier Four. And if Cheryl consolidated her power for another two years, she would have almost no match among High-level Knights.

As for low-end combat strength, meaning their army...

This was originally Solomon’s weak point. After all, wealth was finite; if you spent it here, you couldn’t spend it there. Thus, Solomon’s army had never been large, basically just maintained at a level sufficient to defend their borders. They hadn’t expanded it in many years.

Never mind compared to the entire Empire, even among Counts, their military was one of the weaker ones. But...

No one had expected an Isaac to pop out of nowhere, capable of summoning over two thousand Great Sword Ghosts with his Flesh Magic!

In terms of legion-level combat strength, they had instantly leaped to the super-first-class level in the Empire!

In an Extraordinary World like this, as long as there were no problems with combat strength, there wouldn’t be problems in other areas. Not to mention, their high-end combatants included a Grand Arcanist—a Grand Arcanist specializing in Alchemy, at that. Her production capacity was also first-class in the Empire.

Barring any accidents, Solomon was destined to become a great noble family of the Empire. If they didn’t try to curry favor now, they might not get another chance...

As for the conflict between Princess Philo and Isaac...

How could a spat between children possibly affect the relationships between adults?

Besides, the Terra Royal Family themselves had sent people to attend the banquet, so the other nobles had even less reason to be concerned.

Therefore, on the day of the banquet, carriages visiting Solomon Castle streamed in from morning till night without a pause!

Cheryl even had to create a large pocket of space just for parking carriages. They were just shy of needing a Teleportation Array to get to the banquet hall!

The pomp and circumstance were, one might say, quite grand!

「Night, Solomon Castle.」

Amid the lively banquet, Isaac wandered through the hall alone, his eyes scanning the crowd. He had just spotted several familiar faces, like his second brother Remington’s fiancée—a widow before she was even married—the blond girl from the island, and the young man from the Norman Clan...

But after circling several times, Isaac still hadn’t found the person he was most interested in: Princess Philo...

After a few more laps, Isaac finally found the people from the Terra Royal Family. They were currently chatting and laughing with Gaia, Caesar, Cheryl, and his now-widowed second sister-in-law. The scene looked incredibly harmonious.

"Tsk~"

Unfortunately, Isaac didn’t see Princess Philo among them either. She obviously hadn’t come to the banquet, which disappointed him slightly. ’I was hoping to tag her with a magic sigil for tracking...’

’So much for that plan...’

’Looks like I’ll have to go back to the old-fashioned way and build my own intelligence network...’

’Seems that after I get back, I can try letting the Saint Master devour the Dimensional Demon God’s power...’