Chapter 5: Magic String Potion (Part 1)
The golden text records the formula of Magic String Potion in a very detailed manner, with a total of 72 basic materials, each of which is the detailed attributes of the material marked at the end of the recipe. At the end of the recipe, the author left a sentence that made Salin a little wary.
"The magic string potion can transform the body of the magic apprentice and form special magic strings. However, this method that goes against nature will make the magic apprentice pay an unpredictable price. I remind those who see this passage that what you pay will exceed what you get."
What you give will exceed what you get!
Unpredictable price...
Salin hesitated. He sincerely admired the author of this book and could not ignore the warning left by the author.
What price will you pay?
Death? Impossible.
If any magic potion poses danger to the user, the inventor of the formula will make detailed notes later. For example, if the elderly cannot take it, the low-level mage cannot take it, or if the heart is injured, the like, or if the side effects can be caused by magic potion, there will be a final notation.
If it weren't for the threat of death, what would it be? The author reminded in a very cautious tone that Salin couldn't figure out what the cost was so serious that it could match the formation of a magic string.
Salin couldn't understand what the author was hinting at all. He closed the book, silently recited the names of the seventy-two materials, and estimated the approximate prices.
The cheapest material is only one silver coin, and the most expensive material is only two hundred gold coins. It takes roughly one thousand gold coins to get a piece of magic string potion. Salin's gold coins are less than three pieces of medicine material, and the formula does not mention the success rate of magic string potion. According to ordinary rules, the success rate of this kind of medicine will be very low, with a maximum of less than 10%.
The success rate of configuring magic potions has nothing to do with luck, the most important thing is experience and mental power. Salin has enough mental power, so he has very little experience. He only learned three months of magic potions knowledge, and the success rate of magic potions that are easy to make is only about half.
That is just a material worth one gold coin, and it can be accepted whether it succeeds or not. The magic string potion is different. If you fail at one time, you will lose one thousand gold coins.
Since Salin discovered this recipe, he had never thought of giving up. He could not forget the days of poverty in the past, nor could he forget the incident when he was imprisoned and almost died. If Jason had not arrived, he would have died in prison. Jason would not have appeared every time. If he wanted to live well, he had to have his own strength.
Becoming a real magician is the only way that Salin knows. But he cannot waste it without limits. Jason does not give him pocket money. If you want to obtain materials for magic potions, you must find a way to make money. Where can you make money?
Rogue, Deka!
Salin's eyes lit up and it was him. If a thief wants to commit a crime, various potions are essential. Regular equipment stores will not sell dangerous potions. If you want to obtain the magic potions that the thief needs, you must have a magician familiar with the thief and be willing to help. Salin smiled, and it seems that it is not a bad thing to know a thief.
A week later, when Salin entered the city, he left a message from the owner of the equipment store, asking for a man named Dika. Half a month later, he contacted the young thief.
This time Dika didn't ask anything, just waiting for Salin to express her intentions. He can't joke with the magician. Last time Salin's message was transferred to the thief leader, and the thief leader immediately gave up his plan to win over Salin.
"I have magic potions for sale." Salin didn't go around the corner.
"Okay, I'll accept it." Dika agreed happily.
"I don't believe your leader. Is there any way to kill him?" Salin's second sentence scared Deka.
"Sarin, absolutely not. They have more than twenty people." Dika was anxious.
"Last time you talked about the secret room, I went back to check the book. This is an ancient industry habit. I think you will gather together on the last day of the week. I have a poison that will definitely die if you encounter it. I will give you a week to consider it. If you are willing to do it, you will be the thief leader of Ceylon City in the future."
Salin left with his huge skin with a smile.
Can Dika reject his advice? If he refuses, he has to report Salin to the leader. In that case, he may face the wrath of the magician.
Deka really did not dare to reject Salin's suggestion. A month later, soldiers from the City Guard Department discovered the thief's corpse in the secret room. A total of twenty-four people died of extreme poison.
This was Salin's first murder. It was not his own actions, but his poison.
The forged magic string potion formula is indeed easy to use, and those who are in the middle will die immediately. Salin was also secretly shocked. He must be careful of this method in the future, otherwise he will be in danger of his life if he is negligent.
After dealing with the foreign thieves, Deka quickly organized the local teenage thieves. Salin's magic potion had a stable sales, and the gold coins grew day by day. In a year, Salin made a total of three thousand gold coins.
Ceylon City does not have such a large market. Deka is very smart. Salin's potions are customized by him to target the needs of thieves. Except for the part he used, most of them were sold to other places. It took him only half a year to form a stable sales channel. The nearby thieves gangs knew that Ceylon City sold special potions, and Deka also made some money from it.
After accumulating more than 5,000 gold coins, Salin's level of making potions has also improved by leaps and bounds. His level has finally reached a level 3 magic apprentice, who can cast 5 level 0 magic in succession, and at the same time, he has mastered 7 level 0 magic—reading technique, detection of poisons, acid sputtering, flame burning, elemental integration, magic alarm, magic detection.
After recuperation, Salin's body became much stronger. Although he looked a little thin, in fact, he could walk vigorously with a skin weighing hundreds of pounds on his back. Every week, he had to go to the city to purchase, and Jason always filled the huge skin.
As the plan approaches the final stage bit by bit, Salin has already collected three pairs of magic string potions. Out of the merchant's smart inheritance, Salin has not spent all the gold coins. What if it succeeds the first few times?
In the first week of June, the weather was stuffy and people's skin was always sweating. Salin just turned fifteen years old, so he decided to start making magic string potion. Salin was a little nervous and even wanted to kneel down to pray, but unfortunately he had no faith.
Although the priests of the Holy Church always said that the temporary grace would not be partial, Salin did not believe this in his bones. It would be easier for the Skochenya to give up their pride than to let Qin Yins give up their pride.
Salin pulled out his box from under the bed and took out the family badge. The things left by his father were basically sold, and only this one was left by his side.
The black metal badge is shield-shaped, the size of a palm, and it is very thick. The dark green magic pattern means that this family is unique. There was a big magician who once designed badges for this family. Anyone who imitates this badge is equivalent to challenging the dignity of the magician.
This meaning was only understood by Salin after he followed Jason.
The badge has a thumb thickness, and at the center, it is a lightning-shaped deep mark. This deep mark destroys the integrity of the magic pattern, making Salin unable to infer who the magician who designed the badge was.
There was once a great magician serving the Metattering family. What kind of glory is this!
"Father, bless me to become a powerful magician, too." Salin stroked the badge and felt the uneven secret patterns on it. It was another set of magic patterns, which were also destroyed by the lightning-shaped deep mark in the center of the badge.
babble?
Salin suddenly discovered that a faint blue light flashed through the lightning-shaped deep mark. He rubbed his eyes, but the blue color disappeared.
What is this? Is it a magic mark? My family has declined so much. Even if there was a magic mark at the beginning, it would have disappeared long ago.
Salin was a little worried. The more books he read, the more he understood how broad and profound the magic world was. Similarly, this was also a world full of dangers. If he was not careful, he would be crushed to pieces and would never be restored.
Salin subconsciously cast a magical detection on the badge.
The hazy light covers the badge in Salin's hand, and time seems to have stopped instantly. Salin was frightened to find that the magic detection skills suddenly stopped, just like a person falling down on a cliff, and suddenly hovering there when he was halfway through.
I'm afraid this pause would not have even had a frame of time. If Salin had not begun to master the instantaneous principle of magic and his mental power was meticulous, he would not have discovered this pause at all.
Then the magic light shrouded in the badge was absorbed into the badge in a shorter time, and the power of the element rushed towards the lightning-shaped deep marks in the center of the badge. The elemental power mobilized by a level 0 magic was not enough to absorb it like this. Salin felt that the hand holding the badge was as cold as snow, and the elemental power, mental power, and qi and blood in his body were all pulled away at this moment.
When the building was gone, Salin's body turned into an empty shell. His eyes lost their spirit, his vitality was extinguished, and his heart stopped beating.
Salin felt like he was trapped in the darkness, surrounded by nothingness, no color, no sound, no smell, nothing, and everything from birth to fifteen years old seemed to have disappeared.
Is this death? Salin had the only thought left, but it was the purest reaction of life when facing death.
Salin's body fell backwards and fell on the floor. In the center of the badge in his hand, in the deep lightning-shaped marks, a blue light appeared again, and a thin and unseen lightning penetrated Salin's body and headed straight for Salin's heart.
Salin's heart had stopped beating, but at this moment it was thrust violently by the current, and the blood was squeezed into the whole body by the violent compression force.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Salin's body came alive, his perception recovered at the same time, and the void around him disappeared. Salin's body bounced violently from the floor, almost hitting the ceiling, and then fell heavily.
The fall caused bleeding from his mouth and nose, which were purple and had lumps.
Salin was indescribable pain. While his body was regaining perception, all negative states came to his body. Weakness, pain, cold, burning...
Chapter completed!