Carriages were already slow for foundation experts, so Liam saw the trip toward the tournament's location as nothing more than a stroll.
Still, since Grace was handling the logistics, Liam didn't even bother thinking about the matter. Also, the slow travel by carriage offered some advantages.
Liam could spend his time meditating, smoking, studying his Master's inheritance, and dealing with another project worth pursuing during peaceful times.
The more reliant on the rank 2 venom Liam's concoctions became, the more of it he needed to be immediately available. He now had the Cloud Pills, the needles and arrows, the watered-down poison for blackmail, and the powder for the Alchemical Refinement that used it, and its applications were bound to increase.
As quickly as Liam's venom glands refilled themselves, that pace barely kept up with his needs, and things would worsen, so he started stockpiling it when he had no immediate use for it.
