Imperial Crown

According to normal growth efficiency, the Bigen Green Peach would have had to wait until next year to mature, but under the eyes of truth, the first batch of fruits have already been produced in advance.

Although there is a high wall, you can smell the charming sweet fragrance dozens of meters outside the wall.

After opening the door and walking into the courtyard, Raven's eyes narrowed slightly.

The conventional green peach is as short as a potted plant, but the one here has turned into a small tree that can reach the height of a person's shoulders, with plump fruits hanging on the branches, almost bending the branches.

Due to the infusion of the two elements of life and blood, the colors of the fruits produced by the Big Root Green Peach are also distinct. Half are green like jade, and the other half are deep red like blood, all exuding their own luster.

"Lord Baron, I'm here!" Bucky walked into the courtyard, closed the door, and placed a box of various tools on the ground.

Magic plants have their own unique needs from planting to harvesting.

Take the green peach as an example. If you want to harvest regular fruits, you must use a wooden sickle, but for dark black fruits, you must use metal, and the technique must be delicate. You must not break the peel, otherwise it will Greatly diminish the medicinal properties.

For the first time collecting, Raven of course asked Bucky, an experienced alchemist, to give a demonstration. After all, no matter how well it is recorded in the book, reading it a hundred times is not as good as practicing it once.

Then Bucky, who had just straightened up, was stunned.

He was like a gold digger who had been chasing gold all his life. If the green peach plant last time was gold nugget, which made him think he would never see it again in his life, then this time it was like he had plunged into the vault. Similar!

"So many!?" Bucky's hands were shaking.

"Can you handle it alone?" Raven asked.

Raven's words were originally meant to ask if he needed help, but Bucky interpreted them as trying to manipulate him, and immediately nodded: "Yes, yes!"

With that said, he rushed forward like a bull seeing the red cloth.

"Be careful, don't break it." Raven ordered.

These words made Bucky calm down somewhat. He took a deep breath, put his fingers on the fruit, and waved the small wooden sickle. The palm-sized green fruit rolled into the palm of his hand, making him stunned for a moment: "This is……?"

Raven was a little surprised: "What happened?"

"Weird thing, weird thing..." Bucky frowned and raised the green peach in front of Raven: "Logically speaking, when the green peach matures, it should be as soft as syrup, but you see, now This way, it’s so tough!”

Hearing this, Raven poked with his hand.

If ripe green peach feels like a baby's face, this one feels like hard bamboo.

But looking through the eyes of truth, this fruit is rich in life elements, so there is nothing wrong with it!

"Is that so?" Bucky smacked his lips: "Baron, I have a guess, but I need to peel it off before I can verify it. I don't know if you..."

Although green peaches are common, not many can grow to this level. If they were to be sold, they would be worth at least five gold coins, so Bucky would carefully seek Raven's opinion.

Raven understood his scruples and said, "Then peel it open and take a look. One piece of fruit is nothing."

After hearing this, Bucky finally felt relieved. He first wiped off the lint on it with his fingers, and then used a wooden knife to gently cut out a herringbone.

The peel was peeled off, and the texture of the pulp was like that of a kiwi fruit, with gum-like juice flowing out from the edge and fixed next to the opening.

Bucky's eyes lit up, and he suddenly pulled out a sharp short knife from his waist, and cut a wound on his wrist without any explanation.

Without waiting for Raven to ask, Bucky put the green peach to his mouth, and with just a slight squeeze, the juice and peach flesh were sucked into his mouth: "Well... it's so delicious!"

Then, he raised his wrist: "Lord Baron, look!"

Raven's pupils shrank because the scars on Bucky's wrist were shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

This fruit actually has such an obvious effect in healing injuries!

Bucky praised: "Lord Baron, you are blessed by the gods to be talented in growing magic plants! I have only seen green peaches of this quality in books. They also have a name - Beacon." precious!"

"Beacon?" Raven raised his eyebrows, feeling that this name was not serious.

"Yes, it's Beacon Peach!" Bucky said with passion in his eyes: "Normally, Beacon Green Peach needs to be combined with other magic plants to extract healing potions, but at this level, it can be used to refine treatments. Potions are such a waste!”

"Now, its real value is that it can be used to refine the 'primary recovery potion'!"

Although the primary restoration potion is only a first-level magic potion, its effect is quite amazing - it can treat limited limb defects, such as a missing ear and two missing teeth.

As for broken fingers, blind eyes, etc., nothing can be done.

Bucky looked at Raven and suddenly bowed: "Lord Baron, I have a request that may not be appropriate."

This move made Raven a little surprised: "What request?"

"I hope you can sell me all these green peaches!" Bucky gritted his teeth: "I am willing to pay eight gold coins for each fruit!"

In this era, oral problems are very common. Elderly nobles generally have bad teeth, and this is especially true for wealthy businessmen.

And the primary recovery potion can give people a good set of teeth - Bucky has a deep understanding of the torture of toothache. He is over 70 years old this year, and there are only a few good teeth in his mouth.

It doesn't hurt or cause illness, but it hurts!

If this potion is really developed and produced stably, Bucky will definitely become a guest of honor for many nobles and wealthy businessmen!

Raven did not agree immediately.

In fact, he had his own plan for how to deal with this batch of pecans.

The first batch has three different uses.

Part of it will be sent to the Wallace Hotel to see if new dishes can be developed.

Part of it will be transported to the monster breeding farm to feed the Capybara to observe whether it will have any additional effect on the growth of monsters.

The last part, he plans to use it to refine a therapeutic potion to initially recover some costs.

In fact, these are not his ultimate goals for growing pecans, but there is no way, the new factory has not been built yet, and the pecans themselves are not resistant to storage.

When the factory is built and put into production, Raven will use the green peaches to shock the entire Nord Province!

And this proposal of Baki can be said to give Raven a way to immediately recover the cost.

Seeing that Raven didn't respond for a long time, Bucky slowly raised the price: "Eight gold coins won't work, then nine gold coins... or ten gold coins?"

"It can't be higher, Baron!"

Raven came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't say no, but these 100 jasmine peaches have 270 or 80 fruits, can you really eat them?"

Bucky nodded immediately: "Yes!"

"Okay, then 10 gold coins each, I can sell you all this batch." Raven shook his finger: "But I want 50% of the profit from the primary recovery potion you make later!"

"This..." Bucky heard this, thought again and again, gritted his teeth: "Just listen to Baron Raven!"

While speaking, Bucky's heart was bleeding. He had to hand over 2,700 to 800 gold coins in one breath, which was all the wealth he had saved in Mon'en City for decades!

In order to make this money, he added water to the potion, sold expired potions, and bought stolen goods at a low price. He did everything, but now all of it was squeezed out by Raven.

It hurts!

But when he thought of the bright future of refining the primary recovery potion, Bucky immediately gathered his spirits and began to harvest the green pecans.

A total of 281 fruits were harvested, placed in a wooden box, neatly arranged, and very beautiful!

Then there were the 100 black pecans. Bucky didn't plan to buy them, but it didn't prevent him from picking them.

As for the function of these black fruits, Raven was going to deal with them according to the three steps mentioned above.

Bucky is also a man in his seventies. Although he is an alchemist and has taken some potions that can enhance his physical fitness, after working hard for half a day, his movements are still a little stiff, and his efficiency has begun to slow down.

At this moment, a buzzing sound came. Bucky looked up and saw a black mass of insects flying towards him. Bucky was so scared that he quickly retreated.

Then, a fist-sized insect was crawling on the green peach!

The huge compound eyes were metallic in color, and the two antennae on the top of the head were like reeds. Under the locust-like chestnut face, there was a mantis-like triangular mouthparts, and more than a dozen antennae protruded, which was disgusting and terrifying.

Its chest was orange-yellow, and its back was covered with fine hair. Three pairs of long limbs were hooked on the branches. The waist was too slender. Behind it was a huge green abdominal sac, which looked like a wasp. The spikes on the tail were thick, short and sharp, as if cast in steel!

At this moment, this strange insect was lying on the green peach plant, greedily eating the purple-black fruit, and disdaining the green fruit that had been picked on the ground.

"Locust-headed bees!"

"It's actually a locust-headed bee!!"

These two sentences came out of Buggy and Raven's mouths almost at the same time, but their attitudes were completely different.

Buckgy's words were filled with fear, while Raven had an unexpected smile on his face.

The magic potion that can awaken a person to become a magician has an important raw material, which is the honey of this second-level monster locust-headed bee.

Locust-headed bees are almost impossible to raise, so the honey is also expensive. One ounce, that is, 30 milliliters, costs more than 340 gold coins, and the average price per milliliter is about 11 gold coins!

Unexpectedly, it was attracted by the ripe pecans!

Raven waved his hand slowly, signaling Buggy not to move - locust-headed bees are not carnivorous insects and have no interest in human flesh and blood, but if they are disturbed from collecting honey and eating, they will be attacked to the death!

Buckgy, who has deeply cultivated alchemy, obviously also knows the habits of this insect very well, and silently counts the number of these monsters.

One, two, three...

He didn't dare to move too much, but just the ones he saw so far were nearly a hundred!

For a second-level monster, this was a large swarm of locust bees, which meant that there must be magic plants nearby that allowed them to collect nectar stably, so that they could grow to such a size!

Raven was very patient. Losing some pecans was nothing, because they would grow again anyway. But if he missed this locust bee, he would never find it again!

Time passed, the sun rose to the middle of the sky, and then gradually set. After five or six hours, the group of locust-headed bees ate so much that their bellies became round and round, and their green bellies turned black. Then they staggered and flew away to the northwest.

That was the direction of the Bloody Highlands!

When the group of locust-headed bees flew farther, Raven whistled, and with a whistle, Xiaobai flapped its wings and landed in the yard. Raven rode on Xiaobai's back: "Bucky, help me collect the rest, and inform old Gordon that I'm going out for a few days!"

Before Bucky agreed, Raven had already ridden Xiaobai and flew high into the sky!

In the blink of an eye, five days passed, and Raven arrived at the Bloody Highlands.

In fact, if you really just want to reach the Bloody Highlands, with Xiaobai's speed, it will take at least one day, but the flight trajectory of locust-headed bees is not a straight line. They always fly to a place, stay for a while, and then take off again.

This is not a waste of time. Wild magic plants grow wherever the locust bees stay. If they were not leading the way, perhaps no one would find the traces of these magic plants within a hundred years.

Raven also made a fortune by following the locust bees. He got two first-level magic plants and one second-level magic plant seeds. In addition, he stopped at several oases to replenish some supplies.

On this day, Raven was chasing the locust bees. Just after passing a hill, he felt something was wrong.

The sound of horse hooves sounded like thunder!

Not far away, a group of horse thieves were whistling in groups, like a group of ants gathered together, scaring the locust bees to fly around.

In the middle of this group of horse thieves, several horse thieves suddenly ignited fighting spirits, and they all pulled up their longbows and aimed at Raven!

Raven's heart tightened, and he pulled the reins suddenly. Xiaobai understood and suddenly rose!

But... it was too late!

Purple, blue, and red, three arrows wrapped in three colors of fighting spirit cut through the sky, rising like fireworks.

Raven pulled out his staff, tapped his fingers lightly, and uttered a syllable. The dragon locust wood staff flashed with light, and a wind curtain woven by a storm wrapped around Xiaobai!

This is exactly the second-level magic that Raven had stored in the staff in advance, the storm shield!

Xiaobai flapped his wings and dodged the feather arrows wrapped in purple and red fighting spirit. The blue fighting spirit feather arrows flew over, but were suddenly blown up by the blue wind curtain woven by the storm!

As long as he rose another hundred meters, he would be able to completely escape the range of these horse thieves!

However, at this moment, the group of horse thieves split from it, and a crossbow cart appeared in Raven's field of vision!

Almost instantly, the crossbow cart adjusted its angle and locked onto Xiaobai. A horse thief grinned and knocked down the crossbow cart's expansion!

The giant crossbow as thick as a human arm broke through the atmosphere, tore through the defense, and suddenly nailed into Xiaobai's chest!

The next moment, the sound of breaking air came.

Blood was splattered, feathers were broken, and Xiaobai's figure fell in the air.

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