Imperial Crown

Annuo's outfit today is different.

She wears a purple crystal crown on her head, and the purple light is scattered like stars, which complements the crystal head chain on her forehead.

Under her full forehead, her clear eyes are deep and charming, but they seem to be hazy and misty, making it difficult to capture her mood.

A brown cloak hangs behind her, and on the cloak, complex magic patterns appear from time to time, making her more mysterious and elegant.

Raven was not very surprised by Anuo's sudden visit.

Anuo is not a person who can settle down. Although he has his own room in the castle, he still disappears frequently and then appears again at an unknown time.

At first, everyone in the castle was a little strange about this, but gradually they got used to it.

"Come in and talk." Raven walked into the secret room, and Anuo followed behind.

Seeing the badge on Raven's chest, An Nuo raised her eyebrows: "Second level?"

Although she finally chose Raven, there were actually six nobles that An Nuo expected to invest in, and she had also conducted detailed investigations on each of them.

It has only been ten months since Raven became a magician.

This speed of promotion is really rare.

"It seems that your talent in the path of magic is not inferior to your endowment as a noble."

"It's just luck." Raven smiled, not hiding his pride: "Sorry, wait a moment."

As he said, Raven turned around and put the tray on the shelf on the table.

The tray is very deep, about three inches of soil, and the densely planted pecan seedlings have begun to take shape, one by one, breathing soft green fluorescence.

Raven took out a wooden shovel and cut the soil.

The magical thing is that when the soil is cut, the roots of the pecan will shrink back like squid tentacles, hugging together, and will not be damaged at all.

This is almost a unique state of vitality of wild magic plants. It is impossible to see it in an artificial cultivation environment. If the old man who specializes in magic plants in the Mage Guild is present, he will definitely regard it as a treasure.

Annuo is not an old man or a mage, but she also knows the preciousness of this magic plant. Taking out any one plant is enough to make many mages and alchemists break their heads, but Raven has a dozen trays here!

She watched Raven's actions quietly, and waited until Raven had processed them almost, then she spoke: "Your magic plants are very good, are you going to sell them to the Mage Guild?"

Raven shook his head: "Such good raw materials, it would be a pity to sell them, I decided to use them myself."

Annuo frowned slightly: "You also know alchemy?"

Originally, Raven meant to wait for these magic plants to mature, and then sell them to nobles and wealthy businessmen after processing, but from what Annuo said, he misunderstood that Raven was going to use these magic plants to make magic potions.

The details were a bit difficult to explain, and the ultimate goal was to exchange money, so Raven did not correct him, but continued with the topic: "I've just started."

Annuo nodded slowly: "In that case, I have a gift for you."

A faint blue light flashed between her slender fingers, and an ancient scroll appeared in her hand.

The scroll was about one foot long, and the edges could still be seen to be damaged by time. It was obvious that it was not an ordinary product.

With a flick of his finger, the scroll fell on the table in front of Raven.

"What is this?" Raven reached out to take it.

"The formula for the Mage Awakening Potion, from the first to the third level." Annuo said.

Raven's movements froze, he retracted his palm and looked at Annuo: "Why?"

The Mage Awakening Potion is monopolized by the Mage Guild, and the inventory within the Church of Light also comes from the Mage Guild.

The preciousness of this formula is like a photolithography machine, and it cannot be overemphasized.

Being able to come up with something like this, one can imagine how difficult Annuo's request was.

"College," Annuo said.

"Hasn't the territory been planned?" Raven was a little confused.

The knight territory that Annuo needed had been determined and divided, and it was in a valley in the northeast of Xuefeng Territory.

The land there was quite fertile, and there were originally dozens of serfs settled there, but now they have been moved out and completely blocked. Even if Annuo played forbidden spells in it, the outside world would not notice.

"Your help is also needed for the subsequent construction." Annuo said: "My only requirement is that it must meet the standards of a college that can be passed down for a thousand years."

"Oh, so that's the case..." Raven suddenly realized.

That's right, building an academy from scratch is even more difficult and tedious than building Raven's new castle.

Overall design, material selection, manpower management, engineering planning, and specific construction, without a professional team, it would be difficult for Annuo to handle it alone.

And Annuo is obviously not the kind of person who would let himself be tired of mundane affairs.

This is treating Raven as a contractor.

That knight territory is 3.7 square kilometers. Although Anno's standard is simple, the simpler it is, the harder it is to achieve. It is normal to invest tens or even millions of gold coins and spend several years or even more than ten years.

But even so, it is still unequal.

Raven believes that if Anno gives it to any king, he can exchange it for an earldom.

"The value of this scroll is too high." Raven rubbed his chin: "Why do you have to use it to exchange?"

Anno's smile is meaningful: "Just think of it as fate."

This was an ambiguous statement, not a reliable reason, which reminded Raven of a sentence.

The gift given by fate had already been secretly marked with a price.

After thinking it over again and again, Raven still held the scroll in his hand.

This was a big step to help him realize his ambition!

Obtaining the formula of the Mage Awakening Potion broke the monopoly of the Mage Guild, which meant that Raven could bypass the Mage Guild and run his own magician group from now on!

Even a first-level magician could use mud, mist or wind wall to change the battlefield environment.

What's more, refining magic potions, carving magic arrays, and making enchanted equipment and props are all jobs that only magicians can do!

Since the Mage Guild can create temperature control arrays, magic lamps, magic elevators, and even platforms like Deep Blue, then Raven can also lead a team of magicians to create his own magic products!

Magic is the world's first productive force.

A new door has opened in front of Raven!

Seeing Raven accept the scroll, An Nuo smiled: "Then, the construction of the academy will be handed over to you."

"Don't worry, I will arrange it." Raven said.

An Nuo nodded and turned to leave, because she could see that Raven couldn't wait any longer.

This was indeed the case.

As soon as An Nuo left, Raven took a deep breath and opened the scroll, and immediately a dense Elvish text appeared in front of him.

If Raven hadn't learned the basic knowledge of alchemy from Baki, he probably wouldn't understand it at all. Even if he had learned it, there were still many terms that Raven couldn't understand.

This was normal, after all, this scroll was too old, and many of the terms on it had other names, or simply no longer existed in the current alchemy system.

Raven had no intention of asking Baki at all.

The fact that he had mastered the magician awakening potion was top secret, just like the Eye of Truth, and could not be known by anyone.

A man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure.

If any information is leaked, it would be a joke on your life.

So Raven decided to understand the part he could understand first.

The magician awakening potion, whose official name is "magic casting potion", has different materials depending on the rank. The most basic first-level potion requires five raw materials, the second-level potion requires seven, and the third-level potion requires as many as eleven.

And its working principle is also completely different from the God-given potion.

Although he did not master the formula of the God-given potion, Raven had observed the awakening process of Volaf and others. The God-given potion was forcibly infused into the human body and ignited the seeds of life in the body. It was a creation process from nothing to something.

However, the magic casting potion itself does not contain much energy. Instead, it uses the power of the potion to squeeze the potential of the user, so that he can awaken the talents and abilities he already has.

These two are like the martial arts and immortality in the immortal cultivation novels. Everyone can practice martial arts, but the immortality must have spiritual roots.

"No wonder there are so few magicians on the continent." Raven said to himself: "Talent cannot be piled up by piling up resources."

With the formula, Raven's desire to refine potions could no longer be suppressed. He opened the Deep Blue Platform and first bought a book "Alchemy Overview" for 1,327 gold coins.

According to the introduction, this book details the process of alchemy from its birth to the present, as well as the explanation of the special terms in each stage.

Then Raven thought for a while and finally typed the term "Congyun Kumquat" in the search bar.

Congyun Kumquat is a third-level magic plant and the main raw material for magic potions from level one to level three. In addition, it can also be used to refine "purification potions" to restore magic power and "golden suspension potions" to improve meditation efficiency.

As for other raw materials, Raven plans to slowly purchase them through other channels during this period, even if they are a little more expensive.

If all of them are purchased on the Deep Blue Platform, it is tantamount to telling the Mage Guild that Raven has mastered the formula of magic potions.

Finally, the Congyun Kumquat appeared on the dark blue interface. The moment he saw the number, Raven almost spat out a mouthful of blood on the screen!

"Robbery!?"

The price of a third-level magic plant is usually between 600 and 1,300 gold coins, and the price of the seeds is not much different.

Due to its own special characteristics, the fruits of the Congyun Kumquat are divided into inferior, medium and superior grades, corresponding to the first, second and third levels respectively.

The first-level fruit is worth 633 gold coins, the second-level is 1,509 gold coins, and the third-level is as high as 3,869 gold coins.

And its seeds, just one, cost 14,907 gold coins!

Not only that, there is a bracket after the seed, which says (2).

It is still limited to sale!

You know, after all the previous spending, Raven only has more than 20,000 gold coins left. Counting the book, if he buys it, he will only have more than 7,000 gold coins left.

During this moment of hesitation, the number behind changed to (1).

At this time, Shenlan also "kindly" popped up a reminder:

"The production of Congyun Kumquat seeds is not stable, so it is difficult to determine the restocking time."

This is simply forcing people to place orders quickly.

"Swindler!"

Raven gritted his teeth and finally chose to confirm the purchase with pain, and spent more than a hundred gold coins to buy an additional third-level magic core with void attributes.

After closing the Deep Blue Platform, Raven began to transfer the cultivated magic plant seedlings: "Just wait, when I refine the magic potion, one day I will put this profiteer platform of yours out of business!"

Magic plants cannot be planted in ordinary farmland. Raven had already ordered someone to build a small courtyard next to the castle as a planting place for magic plants.

The land where magic plants can be grown is called "Magic Field", which is the abbreviation of "Magic Field", and it costs a lot to build.

First of all, to plant magic plants with different attributes, you need to crush the magic cores of corresponding attributes in the magic field to increase the corresponding element content.

Moreover, planting cannot be started immediately after the magic core is crushed. You must wait for at least a week to allow the elements in the magic core to fully penetrate into the soil. Otherwise, too strong elements may damage the root system of the magic plant, which is commonly known as "burning roots".

Secondly, after crushing the magic core, a magic circle called "Magiwater" must be arranged around the magic field to lock the elements in the magic field and make the magic power in the magic field more abundant.

After this, you can plant magic plants.

Now the field is divided into three parts, one big and two small. The big one is the magic field with fire attribute, and the two smaller ones are one with life attribute and the other with blood attribute, corresponding to two different branches of Bi. Root green peach.

When Raven transplanted the magic plant seedlings one by one, he did not encounter the troubles that other mages often encountered when planting magic plants - such as the magic plants shrinking and refusing to go into the ground, the magic plants getting entangled in the hands of the mage, and the magic plants clinging to the magic plants. The plant died with a bang.

Maybe it's because Raven had already extracted the rotten soul essence from the magic field beforehand.

After the planting was completed, Raven looked at the green plants in the yard and showed a satisfied smile, but it was not finished yet.

Next, there is the final step of planting the magic plants.

Raven took out the staff and chanted the incantation slightly.

As the voice sounded, traces of light blue magic flowed out of Raven's body and rose into the sky, like smoke.

Slowly, the originally sunny sky turned cloudy, and a shadow enveloped the small courtyard.

The staff turned in Raven's hand, and the clouds in the sky seemed to be disturbed and turned into a funnel shape.

The wind suddenly picked up.

Then, dense raindrops were squeezed out of the clouds and fell on the earth.

The rain was not dense, it only enveloped the courtyard and surrounding areas, falling on Raven's body and lightly moistening his clothes.

The smell of earth filled the air.

Outside the courtyard, the weeds on the ground suddenly began to grow crazily. They were originally only as high as the instep, but they grew visibly to the naked eye. In just a few minutes, they grew to waist-deep!

In contrast, the growth rate of the magic plants is not that significant, but they are getting stronger and stronger. Each plant has straight branches and lush leaves. Even a layman can tell at a glance that they are growing well.

Ten minutes later, the dark clouds that only shrouded the small courtyard dispersed, and Raven also breathed a sigh of relief: "This kind of second-level magic that is continuously guided is still a bit difficult to cast."

"It seems that we should also hurry up on meditation and magic core absorption, and strive to advance to the third level as soon as possible."

As he said that, his eyes returned to the magic field.

He has begun to look forward to seeing these magic plants turn into gold coins and return to his pocket.

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