Imperial Crown

When the potion flowed into his mouth, Petty felt a burning sensation.

This dryness flowed down her throat into her stomach, spread out from her stomach to her limbs, and then condensed inward from her limbs, rushing upwards and straight into her head!

She began to hear whispers. She couldn't tell what language they were in or what they meant. She just felt a splitting headache!

In front of Raven, she didn't want to be rude, she just gritted her teeth and firmly suppressed the scream that was about to be exhaled from her mouth, but her body began to tremble uncontrollably, her hands were twisted together, and veins popped out on the back of her hands.

Just when the pain reached its limit, she felt something explode in her mind, and then an inexplicable power was born in her body.

Patty slowly opened his eyes, feeling that the whole world had changed subtly.

She could see Raven's body shimmering with a faint blue light, she could see the energy flowing in the magic lamps on the ceiling, and she could also see tiny light spots floating in the air.

When her breathing slowly subsided, Raven asked softly: "How do you feel?"

"It's...wonderful!" Petty swallowed a gulp of saliva and told all his feelings: "Lord Baron, what's wrong with me?"

Raven raised a smile: "This is a good thing."

In fact, Raven doesn't have much choice of personnel, except for those personal soldiers who have not yet become extraordinary, namely Petty, Old Gordon, Fiona, and Denise, who is currently far away in Munn City.

He was actually prepared that no one could become a magician, but he didn't expect that he succeeded with Petty!

Walking to Petty, Raven whispered: "You learn from me and take your time."

Petty nodded and began to imitate Raven's words and movements.

She tried all four types: earth, water, fire, and wind. Raven also took her to try a variety of basic syllables that evoke elements, but no matter which one, there was no response.

Raven sighed with some regret: "I'm afraid, you can only be an alchemist."

Magicians focus on talent, and being able to successfully awaken is undoubtedly lucky, but Petty is the most unlucky of all the lucky ones - her affinity for all elements is extremely bad, which can be said to be 0.

Therefore, although she has magic power, she cannot release even the most basic magic; although she can meditate, her efficiency in assimilating magic elements is not as good as 1% of that of a normal mage.

This is a common problem among all alchemists, and it is also the difference between alchemists and true magicians.

In fact, it is not impossible for alchemists to improve their ranks - they can use magic crystals to expand their magic pool, but this consumption is too great. From the first level to the second level, at least thousands of magic crystals are consumed. It costs tens of thousands of gold coins, and may not guarantee a successful breakthrough.

Therefore, the vast majority of alchemists in history only have the first level.

"What do you mean...alchemist...master?" Petty was stunned for a moment, then smiled happily: "I am an alchemist!?"

Unlike Raven, in Petty's view, alchemists are a very popular and mysterious profession, no less than magicians.

When she was a child, she heard that there once was an alchemist in Eagle Castle. Although he did not have a fief, he lived a wealthy and nourishing life, and had a high status. Even Baron Donald respected him.

Unfortunately, with the decline of the Griffith family, the alchemist also left.

Seeing her happy look, Raven smiled slightly in his heart.

He judged others by himself, thinking that Petty would be disappointed, but now it seems that he has misunderstood.

After the joy, Petty looked a little uneasy, pursed his lips and said: "Baron..."

"What's wrong?" Raven asked.

"...If I become an alchemist, can I continue to serve you?"

Everything Patty has comes from Raven.

If it weren't for Raven, she might have been reduced to a member of the Crystal Palace and wouldn't even be able to enter the Crystal Palace.

Instead of being like now, as Raven's personal maid, you can get a salary of 9 gold coins every year.

It's good to be an alchemist, but if you leave Raven, it won't be worth the gain.

Lord Baron is very considerate.

"This is a bit difficult..." Raven shook his head, and seeing Petty's face getting worse and worse, he said: "I'm lying to you, of course you have the job of personal maid, I'm not used to having others."

"But you have to take some time every day to learn the basics of alchemy. When the new castle is built, there will be an independent alchemy workshop. I will teach you in detail then."

Patty then relaxed his brows and was very excited.

Next, Raven's life returned to its previous state. He meditated every day, used magic core to strengthen his magic power, and practiced magic. However, he would not overstress himself and would relax when he needed to.

If Raven learned anything from this separation, it was that

Cherish the present and cherish the people in front of you.

But this does not mean that Raven has given up or given up.

He continues to plan his future, not only the improvement of personal strength, but also the construction of territory and army, as well as the driving force of all this-economic development.

In the blink of an eye, another three months have passed, and the time has come to the end of September.

The most unbearable heat has long passed, and the crops in the fields have been harvested. Seasonal vegetables with a shorter maturity period have been planted, and they are green and lovely.

Unlike ordinary crops, magic plants have their own growth rules.

With the transplantation of the last batch of 2,000 seeds, the original courtyard where magic plants were planted also expanded.

Fortunately, Raven had left a margin at the beginning of the design, so it didn't take much time to complete the reconstruction.

Now this batch of 2,000 pecans have entered the mature picking stage. Based on the consideration of the sales channel, Raven used all the magic plants strengthened by the life magic core.

Each fruit has the quality of pecan treasure, emitting green light, and from a distance, it looks like a green cloud floating on the ground.

If Raven picked this scale by himself, he would probably break his waist.

After thinking about it, he finally gave this task to the orphans in the orphanage.

He explained and demonstrated the key points of harvesting pecans to them, and then let them disperse into the magic plant field.

The first 200 pecans were picked by Raven and Petie.

This was the first time Petie had practiced something related to magic in three months, so she seemed quite excited.

She changed into a long coarse cloth dress suitable for activities in the fields, with her hair tied up, and her eyes sparkled with excitement.

Her slender arms carried a basket, revealing her white wrists. As she moved, her skirt lifted the grass on the ground, like a swaying morning glory.

Patty was already beautiful. After taking the magic potion, although she failed to become a magician, she still had a unique temperament.

This attracted the attention of the young boys in the orphanage. One by one, they looked for opportunities to get close to her, and their eyes kept falling on her.

After all, in the orphanage, they saw either cold-faced nannies or little girls who had not grown up every day. Patty, a beauty who was transitioning from a girl to a queen, was really attractive.

Raven didn't care much about this. It was normal for a hot-blooded child to like to look at a big sister.

However, when Raven appeared, especially when he was seen by Hoyaz, Banks, and Rhino Lennon, they immediately saluted and pulled their friends next to them to disperse quickly.

Are you kidding? They can also look at the woman of Lord Baron?

"Lord Baron, come and take a look!" Petty suddenly shouted.

Raven came closer after hearing this.

The pecan green peach strengthened by Raven can produce the first batch of fruits about 3 months after planting, but the yield of this batch is low. Only about 2-3 fruits can be harvested from one plant, and the current 2,000 plants are like this.

In another year, it will mature again, and this time the fruits will be much more, at least 5 or 6 per plant, and as many as 9-10, and the medicinal properties will be stronger, just like the batch that Raven is picking now.

This speed and yield are not low.

Generally speaking, as a second-level magic plant, a pecan green peach will take 4 to 5 years to mature each time after the first fruiting.

Now it can mature so quickly, thanks to the help of the Eye of Truth.

"Baron, come and see!" Petty held a pecan in his hand, looking a little flustered: "Did I do something wrong?"

"It's a bit strange indeed." Raven said with a click of his tongue, taking the fruit in his hand.

Conventional pecans are the size of a child's fist, all green, covered with fluff, and soft to the touch. If you pick them with a little more force, they will rot.

But this fruit, not only has no fluff on the surface, but is as smooth as a mirror, and the texture is quite solid.

Most importantly, the cut stem actually oozes out blood-like red juice, and it smells bloody.

However, after opening the Eye of Truth, Raven discovered that the life force contained in this fruit is at least twice as high as that of ordinary fruits, and the quality is also a level higher!

"Interesting..." Lei smacked his lips: "Pay more attention, I will work with you to pack these special ones separately."

"Okay!" Petty nodded in agreement.

There were 200 pecans planted first, 100 of which were strengthened with life elements and the other 100 were strengthened with blood elements. The fruits of the two were also one green and one black.

After picking them, Raven found that about half of the fruits strengthened with life elements had undergone wonderful changes, while those strengthened with blood elements were still the same as before.

After picking, Raven returned to the secret room and took out a copy of "Middles Magic Ingredients Encyclopedia" to read and check carefully.

Even in the part about pecans, there was no relevant record at all. I kept reading it until the third-level part, and then I found something very similar.

It was something called "Life Essence", the origin of which was unknown. It had an excellent therapeutic effect on external injuries, and the effect was not inferior to the third-level therapeutic potion.

Although the graphics were very similar to these mutated fruits, they were not classified as magic plants, but magic minerals.

"Strange..." Raven thought about it and gave Sikoret a few instructions.

The black cat rolled his eyes at Raven, jumped out of the door and disappeared.

Soon, William arrived in the secret room.

His arm had fully recovered.

"Master!" William saluted with his hand on his chest.

Raven smiled gently: "Bear it, don't cry out in pain."

"Huh?"

A few minutes later, William looked at his hand chopped off at the wrist on the table with a sad face, wanting to cry but unable to.

Raven picked up a mutant fruit and handed it to him: "Okay, eat it."

William swallowed it in one gulp.

The body structure of vampires is different from that of ordinary people, and many medicines that can heal injuries have no effect on them.

But when the fruit is swallowed, the sour and sweet juice bursts in the mouth and immediately turns into surging life energy.

On his broken wrist, bones grow little by little, first covered with a layer of flesh membrane, and then blood vessels begin to grow in it, and around the blood vessels, muscles begin to grow.

In just five minutes, he has a brand new palm.

William rubbed his eyes red, but still couldn't believe the reality he saw.

The vitality of the blood clan is strong, and it is true that they can regenerate broken limbs, but that requires blood energy.

To grow a palm again, not only does it consume the blood energy produced by at least five ordinary people, but it also takes at least half a month!

But under the effect of this fruit, not only does it not consume its own blood energy, but the remaining life energy is also slowly converted into blood energy!

"It's... incredible!" William repeatedly looked at his newly grown palm: "Master! This kind of life essence is a specialty of the elves. For ordinary people, even if the intestines flow out, they can be quickly cured. I have only heard of it in legends. Where did you get it from!?"

Raven nodded slowly, with a hint of realization in his eyes.

With sufficient life elements, the peony can evolve into the peony treasure, and the peony treasure can evolve into the life essence!

Just then, the door of the secret room opened and An Nuo walked in.

She was still wearing a brown cloak, took off the cloak, revealing the holy and noble face like a sculpture.

"Life essence?" A trace of surprise appeared on An Nuo's face: "You can actually cultivate the peony to this level."

"And you have been promoted to the third level in such a short time. It's amazing."

When William saw An Nuo, he was like a mouse seeing a cat. He immediately shrank respectfully beside him, fearing that An Nuo would notice him.

That power is too terrifying!

Raven asked, "Do you know that the green peach can evolve into the essence of life?"

"The first plant in the world is the World Tree, which is the ancestor of all plants." Anno said calmly, "It is not only the most sacred totem of the elves, but also gave birth to countless seeds, evolving all magic plants and plants."

"And the green peach is the most direct descendant of the World Tree. If it is cultivated properly, it can return to its ancestor and grow into a third-level essence of life, a fifth-level drop maple, and even a seventh-level tree of life."

Raven is very familiar with the tree of life, which is the raw material of his staff.

The roots and trunks are fifth-level materials, the leaves are sixth-level materials, and the core is seventh-level materials.

Anno continued, "Maybe you can cultivate a tree of life or even a real world tree in the future."

"Is this a prophecy?" Raven asked.

"No, it's just an expectation." Anno smiled, "I came to you this time because I heard that you have cultivated a batch of flying horned eagles?"

"Yes." Raven nodded.

Now, the 272 horned eagles have basically been strengthened by him. If it weren't for the lack of personnel training, he would have had a whole flying squadron.

Speaking of which, there are still 59 strengthened horned eagle eggs, and it is unknown when they will be hatched.

An Nuo asked: "Can you give me a batch? I don't need too many, just 5 will be fine."

Raven said: "Can I ask why?"

An Nuo did not hide this.

The construction progress of the academy is improving visibly, and An Nuo has been looking for her own students all over the world during this period.

She herself is fine, but it is a bit difficult to bring back the people she likes, and her magic pet Xiao Mo can't fly.

So she came to Raven to ask for a batch of horned eagles.

Raven would certainly not refuse this. There are only 5 horned eagles, and their value is worthless compared to the formula of the magic potion.

After getting Raven's promise, An Nuo left.

That night, Raven sent someone to transport the picked pecans to the factory in Xuefeng Town.

The next morning, as the deliveryman came to report, a piece of good news reached Raven's ears: the new factory finally completely overcame the technical difficulties, and the quality and output have stabilized.

"It's finally time."

Raven sighed, habitually took out the feather pen that Lux gave him, then put it away, replaced it with an ordinary pen, took out a piece of parchment and started writing.

He was writing a letter.

The content of the letter was simple - Raven Ota Griffith, willing to marry Miss Nancy of the Fox family.

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