A while later, Gerald went to get his silver bracelets. He didn’t have to wait as they were already finished and prepared for him to pick them up. The price was already paid when he ordered them, so he just had to ask and they were given to him.

Gerald put on the bracelets and observed them. The blacksmith was really good and fast at this kind of work. They both had five Earth Crystals embedded in them, so they each contained 10 MP. It was a great improvement for him since he could now cast Earth spells while having his hands free to do other stuff.

Next, he went to check on his new armor. It should be already finished or soon to be. He went directly to the craftsman’s shop, and as soon as he stepped, in he saw it. A freshly made leather armor made exactly as he requested.

A middle-aged man came to greet Gerald and proudly presented his latest creation.

The armor was made of many moving parts and the whole body would be completely hidden behind multiple layers of leather. The armor had many reinforced leather plates, held together by small pieces of metal.

It even came with a nice helmet that had a layer of iron between two layers of leather. If you didn’t feel the weight of the helmet, you would think it was only made of leather.

Gerald was immediately satisfied by the appearance. It was almost exactly as he imagined it. It was only better than that and not worse. There was only a single detail missing, and that was the emblem of the Black Onyx.

He took out a piece of paper and requested it to be copied onto the front plates of the armor. After a few words, the middle-aged man understood completely what it was that Gerald wanted. The price for such meticulous work, with attention to detail, was quite high and time-consuming.

Gerald didn’t mind and even paid extra so the armor could be completed the same day. When he received a gold coin, the master was quite happy to oblige.

Gerald decided to wait in his room for the next five to ten hours for his armor to be completed. He had a few things to do, so it was no big deal. Ne decided to make a whole bunch of potions.

Especially the Mana Potions quickly depleted since he was often using them for training. He decided to make a few more, alongside Swiftness Potions.

He had a plan to try and sell some Swiftness Potions in the Capital. They had many capable alchemists there and there had to be someone that would recognize their value. He himself used them quite often and they really came in handy the last time.

He would be, no doubt, dead if he didn’t have Swiftness Potions when fighting against the Hobgoblin. Physically he was no match for him, and even with magic, he had difficulties taking him down.

The only advantage he had in this world was his knowledge and his resistance to poison. And he couldn’t even take full credit for that.

His knowledge came from centuries of scientific discoveries and so did his poison immunity. As civilizations advanced, there was more and more waste getting produced. People on Earth were no different.

Scientists gave many solutions on how to stop polluting and even clean up the planet, but that would cost money. A lot of money. And who would pay that? Nobody wanted to take that responsibility.

Instead, they decided to pretend the problems didn’t exist. It went fine for a while until people started dropping dead from either air or water pollution. Microplastics even started threatening the health of those at the top. Even they couldn't escape the invisible enemy.

Luckily for them, the advancements in nanotechnology and robotics allowed for the creation of something called Nanites.

These Nanites, microscopic machines, could be used to clean the planet and the problems of pollution would be solved. But then again, that would take money. A lot of money.

Instead, the geniuses of mega-corporations partnered up with the government and came up with an even ‘better’ idea.

Instead of releasing the Nanites into the environment to clean, they decided to inject them directly into people. They would then be dormant until some harmful substance entered the body. They would then collect it, disable it, or throw it out.

There were many ways of doing that. It all depended on where the substance was, if it was a wound, it would get expelled on the spot. Otherwise, they would either deposit it in the colon, the bladder or if the poison or some other harmful substance was ingested or inhaled, people would either cough it out, puke it out, or a combination of both.

The solution was less than perfect. Wherever the air was polluted, people would constantly be coughing and sneezing. Where water was polluted, they would usually have diarrhea or worse. But those at the top didn’t care. As long as they could make a profit and remain in power, they would do anything.

That way the problem of people dying was eventually solved and they even made a good bit of money while doing so. The Nanites had to be replenished every ten years and they were mandatory if you wanted to live in certain places.

Gerald’s family was quite well of and they all got the Nanites injected, including Gerald. Too bad that happened about seven years ago. He had another three years of complete poison and microbial immunity.

Of course, the Nanites wouldn’t immediately stop working after that. It’s just that they would slowly start breaking down and each year after that, the number of Nanites in his body would get approximately halved and in an extra five years the Nanites would be too few to protect him.

He had a good five to eight years before his god-like immunity completely disappeared.