Of course Zoro didn't know about Thor's subsequent behavior in the restaurant.
Boom~
Boom~
At this time, he was standing on the stairs leading to the third floor of the castle, and a closed door blocked his way up.
After knocking twice, the door in front of me, which looked no different from a wooden door, unexpectedly made a heavy metal sound.
This is a high-quality wood that is not easily ignited by fire, has a hardness comparable to steel, but is much lighter than steel - black hardwood.
Although black wood is not a very rare wood in the mountainous Eastern Province, it does not grow everywhere like ordinary wood. It only grows in areas with relatively rich magic power.
However, the magic-rich places in the mountains and forests are all occupied by powerful monsters. This has resulted in the price of black hardwood remaining high. The mature black hardwood is cut down and widely used in various special fields.
Click~
With excitement, Zoro took out the key from his pocket and opened the door of the laboratory.
"Oral area!"
Directly in front of me was a stench that was even worse than the famous canned herrings on Blue Star.
without any precautions……
No worries at all...
Zoro just took a big sip very naturally.
With just such a breath, he almost vomited out the breakfast he had just eaten.
Bang ~
Zoro didn't let go of the doorknob and closed the door heavily again.
This set of quick and concise movements was Zoro's instinctive reaction while holding his breath.
After holding his breath for a while, just when he could no longer hold on, he slowly exhaled the waste in his chest, and then carefully tried to take in a small mouthful of "fresh" air.
Unfortunately, the air circulation in the closed castle is not that fast, and there is still a bit of the odor coming from the laboratory in the air, but it is a little lighter than before.
Seeing that the smell "from above" had not completely dissipated after waiting for a long time, Zoro took a deep breath of the slightly smelly air, as if he was facing a cave where a powerful monster lived.
He closed his breath, quickly opened the door to the alchemy room, and then ran directly to the window closest to him in the laboratory.
But as Zoro went deeper into the laboratory, the smell inside became stronger, like a place where an old witch brewed poison.
"Sister Cao Legedi, are you refining medicine or stewing durian in the microwave?" Zoro couldn't help but complain.
He quickly came to the window opposite the laboratory door, gently pushed the wooden window outward, and what he saw was a quiet and peaceful scenery.
The green hills, the sparse golden wheat, and the turbid seawater mixed with sand. Although any one of them taken individually is very inconspicuous and ordinary, the combination of the three shows a kind of
The beauty of harmony.
Standing on the third floor of the castle, Sauron could clearly picture the territories to the east in his mind.
"Is this the current situation in another world?"
Although the golden waves of wheat were relatively thin, they still made him feel a little comfortable as they rose and fell under the blowing of the sea breeze.
In the distance beyond the waves of wheat is an unplanned, muddy seawall and tidal flat. At this time, several children from serf families in the territory were digging out the mud, seemingly looking for something.
However, beneath this tranquility is hidden a powerful force that can destroy it at any time - Warcraft.
Under the blowing of the sea breeze, the smell in the room had become much thinner, and the remaining slight odor was within the acceptable range for him.
Zoro then turned around and began to carefully look at this very large "huge" laboratory, which was almost three to four hundred square meters.
Although the area is huge, most of the space inside is filled with bookshelves filled with books. The bookshelves are specially customized and are directly pressed against the ceiling, which makes him feel like he is in a small library.
Bookshelves with regular shapes are placed neatly and orderly on the walls, walkways and load-bearing columns in the laboratory.
Although Sauron had not carefully counted them, he estimated that there should be thousands or even tens of thousands of books in them, all of which were collected by his father or ancestors.
According to his understanding, books in other worlds are extremely expensive. In addition to the high cost of materials for making books, the owners of knowledge also strictly limit the flow of their knowledge to the people at the bottom. It can be said that this room in front of him is comparable to a small library.
How valuable is the laboratory value?
After the third floor, which was originally just a utility room, was transformed into a laboratory, the predecessor moved all the books hidden in the family treasure house in the basement here in order to facilitate access to information.
It's a pity that the predecessor has never touched these books except for occasionally looking up some information about magic medicine. It can be said that the decorative significance is greater than the practical significance.
On the special table made of black solid wood, there are various measuring cups, distilling bottles, crucibles, stirring sticks and other alchemy props made of special materials.
Regardless of the size, there are about twenty or thirty props after careful counting. However, this is only a basic set of medicine refining equipment, but it cost most of the savings in the previous territory, more than a hundred gold coins.
These more than one hundred gold coins are undoubtedly a huge amount of money even for the current Barony of Isis.
In the Arathor Empire, in addition to gold coins, there are also two currencies: silver coins and copper coins. They are made of ordinary gold, silver, and copper mixed with special magical materials, smelted and pressed, and are not easy to wear or be counterfeited.
The currency follows a one-hundred-to-one exchange system. One hundred copper coins can be exchanged for one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins can be exchanged for one gold coin. These one hundred gold coins are equivalent to one million Blue Star coins. According to actual conditions,
The price may be even higher.
However, compared to the gold coins and silver coins that are only circulated for large-scale transactions, copper coins are the currency widely circulated by the lower classes of the Arathor Empire.
There was no running water in this era. To clean the medicine refining tools, water was manually transported to the laboratory. Looking at the dried bucket and the purple-black juice remaining in the beaker, Zoro knew the stench in the room.
Where did the root come from?
This is a recovery potion whose predecessor failed to be refined. It is a low-level magic potion made from the starlight mushroom containing magic power as the main ingredient, combined with eighteen kinds of materials containing rich nutrients, and finally extracted and condensed.
It can effectively eliminate fatigue in the body of the user and quickly restore the user's physical strength. It is often used by ability users to exercise and quickly restore physical strength during or after battles.
Unfortunately, the success rate of potion refining has always been shockingly low in the other world. The most difficult problem lies in processing various magic materials.
Including the manufacture of equipment that contains magic power, a slight deviation may cause the entire magic material to be damaged and lose its original magical effect.
Zoro began to shuttle among the bookshelves again, reaching out and gently touching the spines of the books.
"General History of the Arathor Empire", "Ancient Legends", "Geographical Analysis of the Continent", "Is there any other continent in this world", "Basic Notes on Potion Synthesis", "Analysis of the Attributes of Magic", "Warcraft Illustrated Book - Regular Edition"
”, “Encyclopedia of Magical Plants” and other various books.
From the history of the empire to the local customs of various places, from the basic application of magic to the analysis of practical application of magic, there are also the experience notes of the ancestors of the Isis family.
It can be said that except for some unique books that cannot be purchased, all books available on the market can be found here.
Looking at these books, Sauron instantly realized that the greatest treasure of the Isis family was probably these books!
Although the Isis family is only a small baron, its existence is not comparable to that of the emerging nobles who have been there for decades.
There is no tradition of hereditary nobility in the Arathor Empire. As long as those with abilities reach a certain level, they can apply to become a nobility and obtain a fief.
Due to the threat of Warcraft, there is no shortage of land in this era. Instead, there are often noble territories destroyed by Warcraft.
If there are no ability users among the descendants of the nobles for three consecutive generations, the noble fiefs and titles obtained by the ancestors of the ability users will be deprived of them.
And the speed at which ability users can make money is not comparable to that of farming. The price of any ordinary magic material is calculated in units of gold and silver coins.
Sauron also figured out why Isis, as a well-established fiefdom baron, only had a little over a hundred gold coins in savings.
Finally, he returned to the experimental table and picked up Feng Bao's exquisite book on the table. The cover was tanned with the thick skin of a monster he didn't know. What kind of creature it was? Sauron didn't know what kind of creature it was based on the lack of knowledge of his predecessor.
Didn't admit it.
When you open the book called "Basic Formulas", you will see first a liner page with exquisite pictures related to potions, and then the title page.
Because the entire book is made of magic-rich materials from Warcraft, it still looks brand new even after decades.
It’s no wonder that it’s so expensive, even as expensive as some rare magic materials.