Don't call me evil god

Chapter 246 Gail Franklin
In the new Hui calendar year 997, August 8st was Tuyao day.

The last night before the Hunting Moon arrives.

Unlike those who went to the border for various reasons, Gail Franklin did the opposite and sneaked back into the kingdom alone, returning to his hometown of Raventown before nightfall.

Raven Town is a relatively famous town in Ceylon Territory.

There are also many villages and farmlands near the town.

However, the crops grown here are not ordinary ones.

But various strange magical materials.

For example, several materials are required to make magic scrolls:
Moonflower, madder, and silverleaf.

These special magical materials can also be obtained through planting, but they have strict requirements on the environment, so they can only grow in a few areas.

Raven Town is a rather special area in the Ceylon Territory.

The merchants in the town mostly sell and purchase various magical materials, and provide preliminary processing of these materials.

Blank magic scrolls to be copied;

Magical pigments;
Potions with special effects;
These things are the best-selling and most mainstream products in Raven Town.

Gale's grandfather, Baron Franklin, is a potion master. Unlike Hugo, who is a half-baked potion master, Baron Franklin's potion-making skills are among the best in Ceylon.

The process of making potions is quite magical.

In addition to the various raw materials that are precisely blended and the materials that are added according to the steps, the most important point is the divine magic that is essential before the potion can be formed.

The magic cast by the voodoo god Sethe must be released on the semi-finished potion at a specific time to finally refine it into a potion with the corresponding effect.

If this key condition is missing, even if exactly the same materials are added, the final product may just be a pot of terrible product that smells terrible and even has a polluted odor.

The raw materials used to make potions can be described as varied.

Various magical materials are considered normal, and the distorted materials of monsters are also common;
There are also strange ingredients like poisonous mushrooms and old shoe heels that would normally turn the finished product into a pot of poison.

But with the blessing of the God of Voodoo, these things can finally be refined into various magic potions with miraculous effects.

The most popular [Angry Heart Potion] among adventurers is for trainee warriors who are stuck at the threshold of controlling anger. If they drink a bottle at the critical moment, they will have a chance to break through to the first-level warrior.

Among its necessary ingredients is something very strange:

Salamander droppings.

The fresher the better, the best effect is when it is just pulled out.

Large potion shops in places like the capital of Reyak would even hire people to keep a few fire lizards in captivity and brew potions based on the time they excrete.

Apart from the potions that have been published and recorded in the Voodoo Book, whose recipes are available for reference, the real money-making ones are the secret recipes that are exclusively developed.

This recipe not only includes the raw materials, but also the nodes in the steps at which divine arts must be used to finally complete the refining.

The emergence of each new potion formula may mean hundreds or thousands of attempts and tests, as well as the loss of a large amount of materials.

The overall level of the potion shops in Ceylon Territory is definitely not as good as those in the prosperous royal capital. Most of the shops sell the common potions published in the Voodoo Book. Due to the limitation of materials, the common potions are sometimes out of stock.

The name of the potion shop opened by Baron Franklin in Raven Town is easy to remember, it is called "Three-Eyed Raven Potion Store".

Baron Franklin, who is over 60 years old this year and is Gail's grandfather, is actually a bit unprofessional in his potion business.

He was originally a level 1 warrior. After being canonized by the king and awarded a manor, Baron Franklin first became Gale's father and then a grandfather.

Gail's father is also a warrior, but at the age of 38, he is still at the level 2 stage and it is hard to say whether he can be promoted to level 3 in the future.

Not to mention Gale Franklin himself.

Faced with the problem of no one inheriting the noble title, Gail's grandfather was not worried at all. He even did not want his descendants to inherit the title.

Because Grandpa Gale has been running the potion shop very successfully in the past ten years.

Other nobles rely on the income from their manors and do almost nothing, and can earn about 20 gold coins a year;
The Franklin family's Three-Eyed Raven potion store alone can bring in nearly 40 gold in profit every year!
Even if the younger generation is not ambitious and cannot inherit the title, the worst that can happen is that they can continue the potion business and their life will not be too bad!
Some barons even had to negotiate with him in a nice manner, asking if they could get discounts on their potions.

Gail's grandfather was blessed by the voodoo god Sethe;
Gale's father also received the blessing, and at least when it was passed down to his father's generation, the potion shop was still able to operate.

The problem mainly lies with Gale.

His family members kept telling him that it didn't matter whether he inherited the noble title and the manor or not, the important thing was the potion shop.

As long as the business is well managed, the income will not be much worse than that of an ordinary baron, and life may even be better.

And there is no need to worry about being drafted into the King's Army and sent to the front lines during the monster red tide.

But Gale could see the "problem" in his family's potion shop.

Whether it was Gale's grandfather or father, the only potions they could make were those that were published in the voodoo book.

Researching new potion recipes?
After spending dozens of gold coins, it can't even make a splash!
I don't have the background to do research.

Gale had noticed.

Although his own potion shop has good revenue, it lacks core competitiveness.

These ordinary potions sold well in the past few years because the several old potion masters who mastered voodoo magic near Ceylon had grown old and some had retired or passed away.

The market happened to be in a period of transition, and a demand gap appeared.

The situation is similar to what Gail predicted. In recent years, with the emergence of new potion masters who master voodoo magic, competition has become fierce, demand has become saturated, and his own potions have begun to sell poorly.

Income began to decline.

In the long run, the situation will probably get worse.

That's why Gail ran to Greenport.

He wanted to find new sales channels for his potion shop, or other ways to change the current situation.

For example, becoming a level 3 mage.

There are certain things in common between wizards and potion makers. High-level wizards will find it easier to perceive the "proper" material ratios and steps in potion making.

After returning to Ceylon with Pete, Gale has not been home for some time because he discovered a new possibility.

The Church of Seeking Knowledge...seems to have a way to solve the problem of unsold potions at home!

He found a new way to sell his potions.

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(End of this chapter)