Imperial Crown.

Chapter 175 Demonic Plant Transformation

This time, Raven ordered two kinds of magic plants, namely "Red Mist Fruit" and "Green Root Peach", both of which are first-level magic plants. Since he ordered 200 seeds of each, he also gave two adult samples of each type as a gift.

It has to be said that every time Raven sees the magical creations of this world, he feels torn - the exquisiteness of the magical creations and the low productivity on the continent are simply two different worlds.

This is the consequence of monopoly.

But Raven had no intention of breaking this monopoly, at least not until he had sufficient ability, because that would mean confronting the entire magician community.

Putting aside his wandering thoughts, Raven returned his attention to the magic plant.

The four samples were placed in four glass boxes, which were sealed tightly. Holes for air exchange were opened in the corners to ensure that they would not be damaged by bumps and would not die from lack of oxygen.

Red Mist Fruit is a shrub that is short and dense, with grayish-green branches and short, oval purple leaves. On the branches grow red fruits the size of a small fingernail, which are plump and round, emitting a faint red light and forming a misty red mist, which is also the origin of its name.

But no matter how Raven looked at it, he felt that this thing looked like fresh wolfberry.

Then there is the green peach, which looks very much like a common bonsai or potted plant, with roots twisted and tied in the pot, appearing an emerald green color, while the trunk is dark and old, and the leaves on the branches are shaped like scales. When you push aside the layers of leaves, you can see walnut-sized ripe green fruits, shaped like peaches and covered with fine hairs.

"Tsk."

When Raven saw the appearance of this thing, he couldn't help but secrete saliva. He smacked his lips and thought of the big green apricots he had eaten in his previous life. They were so sour!

There are hundreds of types of first-level magic plants. Raven chose these two, of course with a clear goal in mind.

The first is the red mist fruit, which is one of the raw materials for therapeutic medicines. After drying and crushing its fruit, it can be brewed into the famous "red mist fragrant tea". It not only has a unique flavor, but drinking a cup of it can make people full of energy and greatly shorten sleep time. It can be called the "functional beverage" of this era.

As for the pecan and green peach, it is one of the auxiliary ingredients of the "Fighting Spirit Potion", which can replenish the knight's fighting spirit.

If an ordinary person takes the fruit of the pecan peach, one pill can provide the energy needed for three days. It is an excellent marching ration. It is a pity that it will quickly rot and become ineffective after leaving the mother body.

Both of these magical plants can be sold to ordinary people.

The red mist fruit can be sold to nobles who live a life of luxury, wealthy businessmen who indulge in pleasure, and the middle class in big cities who have a little money but want to keep up with the trend. Improving energy and restoring spirits can be made into a necessity.

It's like a worker who buys his own coffee at work.

As long as the storage problem of pecan peaches is solved, they can be sold to the nobles on a large scale.

Wars are fought with logistics.

Take Raven's previous example. He planned a six-month march with only thirty-something personal guards, but brought more than two hundred pack horses, and more than half of them were for the food and fodder needed by the pack horses themselves.

If there were a large number of pecans, the logistical pressure would be greatly reduced. The food that originally required a hundred people to transport would now only require a dozen people.

As a first-level magic plant, the speed of maturity is not much different. The Red Mist Fruit is a perennial herb. After being planted, it will mature in half a year and produce a batch of fruits every two to three months. The total life cycle is about four to six years.

Although the pecan peach looks small, it is a real woody plant. It has very strict requirements on the environment and a growing period of nine months. The advantage is that once it grows up, it can produce new fruits every month, and if it is not destroyed by natural disasters or man-made disasters, it can grow for at least a hundred years. The longer it grows, the more fruits it will produce.

Although Raven thought he was not stupid, his intelligence was not much higher than others. If he just planted the magic plants step by step, even if he opened up a market, it would soon be snatched away by peers with stronger capital.

We must find ways to come up with new ideas!

His eyebrows raised slightly as a thought came to Raven's mind.

Since magical beasts can be strengthened, can we try magical plants as well?
Thinking of this, a silver light bloomed in Raven's eyes, and the Eye of Truth quietly opened.

This was the first time Raven observed the demonic plant with the Eye of Truth.

Like magical beasts, magical plants also have natural magical energy in their bodies.

If there are differences, the energy in the body of a magical beast has places where it gathers. For example, for the Hippogryph, one place is the magic core, and the other is the pair of secondary wings.

The energy within the demonic plant is constantly flowing in a specific way, forming a cycle in itself.

Taking the red mist fruit as an example, Raven could see that it used its roots to absorb elements from the soil and transported them to the fruit through the branches. The fruit then intercepted the fire elements it needed, and the remaining energy flowed out, with part of it remaining in the branches and the other part being transmitted back to the soil.

The same is true for pecan peaches, the difference is that the fruits of pecan peaches retain more life elements.

As he watched, Raven noticed a detail, that is, the red mist fruit had been producing fluctuations with a very fixed frequency, but if you capture it carefully, it seems to have disappeared.

Raven rubbed his temples, his eyes fixed on the fruit, trying to peek into the secret within.

At this moment, the operation of the Eye of Truth exceeded a certain limit.

The edge of his vision gradually dimmed, and the only thing Raven could see clearly was the fruit. After that, the fruit also disappeared, leaving only chaos.

Perhaps Raven will never forget this scene.

Beside him was a boundless sea of ​​dirty blood. That was the power of the blood curse. The sea of ​​blood was churning, and there seemed to be a huge monster hidden underneath it. It was alive and breathing, and every breath would cause a huge tide.

The blood turned into steam, and Raven felt his eyes slowly becoming dry. When he moved them, they seemed to be stuck with blood. His vision turned scarlet, and then gradually turned into darkness, as if it was going to pollute his eyes completely.

His eyes were completely stained with blood, and even showed signs of melting.

At this moment, the mental power stored behind his eyebrows suddenly surged, as if breaking through some barrier and pouring into Raven's eyes!
click -

There were a few tiny noises. If one looked from the outside, one could clearly see traces of ice cracks appearing on Raven's pupils, which were mysterious and horrifying.

The crack extended, and the silver-white spiritual power flowed through it, connecting with the golden light bursting out from the ice cracks. The blood color was washed away bit by bit, making his eyes clear again.

Golden light shone through, outlining mysterious runes on Raven's pupils. If Lux was here, she would be able to recognize at a glance that those were not ordinary words, but a sacred book that only gods could use!
Any life that sees it, whether intelligent or not, will immediately understand its meaning.

At this moment, the divine book jumping in Raven's eyes means -

truth!

Raven only felt his eyes burning, as if he was Monkey King falling into an alchemy furnace, and tears kept flowing down. But in this strange itching and pain, Raven could clearly feel that some new power was being born!

The Eye of Truth... is evolving?

But why?
Raven had never delved into the origin of the Eye of Truth, but judging from its performance just now, the Eye of Truth had a very profound connection with the blood curse.

Was it the deepening of the blood curse that stimulated the transformation of the Eye of Truth, or was it because of the existence of the Eye of Truth that he was able to activate the power of the curse?

The stinging sensation soon disappeared. Raven buried his doubts in his heart and blinked his eyes. More than half of his mental strength had disappeared. Now it was slowly recovering with the support of the magic vortex, and the world in front of him was different.

If the Eye of Truth was a magnifying glass before, it has now become an astronomical telescope, which can not only see traces of energy flow, but also see details that were previously unobservable.

For example, the red mist fruit in front of him, Raven could clearly see that the energy flowing in the trunk of the plant was mixed with traces of the essence of the corrupt soul, and even the fruit was no exception!
"Oh, I thought..."

If you want to plant magic plants, you can't just find a piece of land. Each kind of magic plant has its own preferred elements, so magic cores will be used to fertilize the fields. Before this, Raven was still wondering, wouldn't the essence of corrupt souls in the magic cores pollute the fields?
It now seems that pollution is bound to exist, but it is difficult to detect.

Raven's eyes fell on the red mist fruit again. The fluctuations became clearer and clearer. The Eye of Truth guided his mental power and sorted out these fluctuations bit by bit into something Raven could understand.

Word!

“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!!”

The words kept jumping around, as if the demon plant was speaking.

This was really beyond Raven's expectations. He rubbed his eyes and found that the text had not changed. His gaze moved to the green peach next to him.

The text that pops up next to the green peach is different:
"Sour! Sour! Sour!"

Raven scratched his chin, a flash of realization coming to his mind.

This is the first function of the Eye of Truth after evolution, which is the ability to observe subtle emotional fluctuations and present them in a form that one can understand.

The Eyes of Truth is to display text, if it is the Ears of Truth, it is probably the sound, if it is the Tongue of Truth...

Licking?

In his previous life, Raven had seen some very eye-catching videos and articles that mentioned that plants also have feelings and emotions, but at that time Raven did not believe it. He just thought it was a kind of curious marketing and a conspiracy of vegetarians.

I didn't expect it to be true.

Moreover, even with the most sophisticated instruments in the past, it was impossible to draw a systematic conclusion, but the Eye of Truth was able to distinguish them clearly.

No wonder it is called truth and it is not an exaggeration.

Raven was a little proud. If he wrote his discovery into a paper and published it in Deep Blue, it would probably shock all the magicians!

I wonder if any magic academy would invite me to be a visiting professor?
The thought flashed through his mind, and Raven would not expose his Eye of Truth just for the sake of false reputation.

The emotions expressed by Red Mist Fruit and Green Peaches are both negative, but what they have in common is that they both contain the essence of corrupted souls.

Take it out and try it?
Raven had never tried to extract the essence of corrupt souls from a living creature, so he paid full attention and condensed his mental power into tweezers. He went deep into the red mist fruit plant, pinched the trace of corrupt soul essence and guided it outwards.

This process went smoother than Raven had expected. It was as if the magic plant itself was cooperating with Raven. The trace of corrupt soul essence was hardly pulled out but squeezed out by the magic plant itself!
When the last bit of the essence of the corrupt soul was extracted, the red mist fruit plant shook as if it had enjoyed a full range of massage services, and it grew visibly stronger.

The fluctuations on the red mist fruit also changed, becoming relaxed and comfortable, but also a little hungry:

"Fire~fire~fire~"

Obviously, the red mist fruit wants more fire elements.

Raven felt a little painful for a moment when he took out a first-level fire magic core from his belt.

The price of a Red Mist Fruit was between six and eleven silver coins. There were only more than thirty Red Mist Fruits in total from these two plants, which were worth a little more than three gold coins. The market price of a first-level magic core was between three and five gold coins.

No profit!
But it was an experiment after all. Raven gritted his teeth, crushed the magic core, and directed the escaping flame energy to one of the red mist fruits, preparing to do a control experiment.

When energy was poured into it, the red mist fruit plant, which was only one foot tall, grew to one and a half feet tall as if it had been blown by air. The purple leaves also turned fiery red, and the fruits hanging on the branches began to grow. Originally only the size of a little fingernail, they gradually expanded to the size of a grape, and the color was so red that it looked like it was burning!
Looking at the one next to it, if Raven hadn't seen them being sent here together, he would have thought that they were two completely different magical plants.

Moreover, less than one tenth of the energy in a magic core has been used!

After absorbing the remaining energy into his body, Raven did the same to the green peach next to him. It also showed its desire:

"Meat~meat~meat~"

In the scope of mysticism, "flesh" can be interpreted in two ways: one is the life element, and the other is the bloody element, both of which are directly related to flesh and blood.

Raven weighed the options carefully and decided to try each one.

Through the strengthening of different elements, the two green peaches underwent completely different changes.

The plant infused with the elements of life grew stronger, growing from a potted plant into a dwarf tree. The fruit also became extremely moist and ripe, as if it would burst at any time. It was as translucent as a green jade sculpture, and you could smell the rich aroma with just a slight sniff.

The pecans that were infused with the bloody element underwent a strange transformation. They lay directly on the ground like a vine, and their leaves became black and soft like rotten bananas. Only the fruit changed from the size of a walnut to the size of a fist, and was shiny black, looking like both a mangosteen and a black plum.

At this time, including the Red Mist Fruit, the three mature magic plants no longer had any words appearing, but observing them, Raven could feel the satisfaction emanating from each of them.

It seems like everything was successful?
Raven wasn't sure at the moment, and he didn't want to try the medicine on himself.

God knows what the consequences will be if you eat it.

Fortunately, there are professionals in the territory.

Raven opened the door of the secret room and gave a few instructions. Not long after, a skinny old man came into the secret room. It was the alchemist Bucky whom Raven had "invited" from Mon'en City.

He had never had a good impression of Raven, and this was especially true after he came to Eagle Town.

Even though Raven treated him well and did not touch his savings, he even built an alchemy shop specifically for him in Eagle Town.

Because he was somewhat jealous of Raven.

The so-called alchemist is actually a magician who is unable to enter the door.

They have awakened their magical talents and are able to meditate and accumulate magic power, but they are unable to cast even the lowest level of magic and can only use their sensitivity to magic power to make potions.

It's like buying a car but not having a driver's license, which is the same as the eunuch.

But Raven, who was a gangster that Buggy grew up with, suddenly transformed himself into not only a baron, but also a magician!
This is simply a blasphemy to the image of a wizard in his mind!
So when he was summoned by Volaf, he made up his mind that no matter what Raven asked him, he must behave properly and let Raven know - even if your magic power is increasing rapidly and you are already a second-level magician, you still have to respect the old seniors because everyone has their own expertise!

As a result, as soon as he entered the door, his eyes were fixed on the enhanced red mist fruit without blinking.

Raven waved his hand in front of his eyes. "Bucky?"

“Ah!” Buggy finally came to his senses and tried to lift the shelf: “Baron Raven, did you invite me here to see this red mist fruit?”

Raven nodded: "I used a little trick, and the red mist fruit became like this. Do you think it can still be used?"

According to Buggy's expectation, he should refuse at this time and let Raven give him the gold coins, but he has been in this business for decades and has never seen such a perfectly grown red mist fruit!
It was like a gourmet seeing delicious food, a pervert seeing a beautiful woman, or Brother Kun seeing basketball. They were simply unable to suppress their inner excitement.

His legs involuntarily walked forward, observed carefully, held it with both hands, and praised repeatedly: "Great, great! The condition of this red mist fruit is simply perfect! Look at the leaves, look at the fruit, God... is this grown from the blood of a giant dragon?"

"Lord Raven, may I take one off and examine it carefully?"

Raven smiled and said, "Please."

Buggy carefully picked a fruit, first took out a magnifying glass to carefully observe the patterns on it, then took a deep sniff, and then put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter: "Perfect...too perfect!!"

"It doesn't have the astringent and strange taste of ordinary red fog fruit. The energy it contains is very strong. If it is used to refine a healing potion, the effect can be increased by at least 50%!"

What Raven was most concerned about was not this: "What if it is made into 'Red Mist Fragrant Tea'?"

"That's such a waste!" Buggy was a little excited: "Even the Mage Guild would pay a high price for this quality of Red Mist Fruit!"

"But... if it is made into Red Mist Fragrance Tea, then similar products on the market will be rubbish compared to it. It will cost at least one gold coin, no, three gold coins per cup!"

This enhanced red mist fruit produced a total of twenty-six fruits. If sold at three gold coins each, it would be sold for seventy-eight gold coins.

And the cost is only one tenth of a fire attribute magic core!

One fire magic core could be exchanged for seven hundred and eighty gold coins, and this did not include its subsequent growth cycle!

Raven's face showed joy, as if he saw a bright future: "Look at these two again!"

Baki was still immersed in the red mist fruit, and was somewhat impatient when he heard this, but when he saw the two green peaches, he was so surprised that he almost jumped up: "Baron Raven, Magician Raven, where did you get so many top-quality fruits!?"

"Especially this mutant! You can only come across it once in a while!"

Can it be encountered but not sought after?

Raven looked a little strange. This kind of thing, if you give me one bloody magic core, I can make ten!
From Buggy's narration, Raven learned that the medicinal properties of the pecan strengthened with the life magic core were greatly enhanced. If used directly, it can ensure that a person will not feel hungry for five days.

The so-called "mutant" strengthened with the bloody magic core can not only be used to prepare the Bloody Knight's upgrade potion, but is also one of the main raw materials for the God-given potion. The price of each one is more than a hundred gold coins, and there is no market for it!

In his excitement, Buggy even forgot the purpose of his visit and took the initiative to beg Raven to sell these magical plants to him at a high price.

Although Buggy doesn't know how to make divine potions, if he can use these magical plants to make high-quality potions, he will definitely become famous in the alchemist circle!

Bucky Alchemist! It all sounds so wonderful.

This made Raven laugh and cry, and finally he told Buggy that he could provide these things to him, but the condition was that he must teach Raven alchemy.

Buggy agreed without hesitation, then left happily holding the three magic plants.

Raven didn't rush to ask Buggy about alchemy, but turned around and continued to study the magic plants.

After detailed observation, Raven discovered that perhaps because of the problem with the mother plant, even the seeds of the magic plant were full of the essence of corrupt souls. After extracting them, the activity of these seeds was obviously much higher, and they also released their own demand fluctuations.

For the next period of time, Raven stayed in the secret room almost tirelessly. Every time he completed the demand for these seeds, he could see their changes visibly with the naked eye.

From soil to water source to magic concentration, the requirements of the two magic plants are different at each stage. Raven recorded them clearly so that when he is not around, others can complete these processes step by step.

Apart from extracting the essence of the corrupted soul, there is no step that requires Raven to do it himself.

In the blink of an eye, eight days had passed. The seeds had already been planted in a tray full of soil. Now they had begun to take root and sprout, and had grown the first batch of leaves!
"It's done!" Raven pursed his lips, feeling relieved and happy.

According to the information on Deep Blue, it takes at least a month for a first-level magic plant to germinate from planting, but now, in just eight days, both types of magic plants have sprouted.

In other words, after extracting the essence of the corrupt soul and cultivating it strictly according to its needs, its growth rate increased by more than three times!
The Red Mist fruit takes less than two months to mature, and then bears fruit once a month.

It takes about three months for pecans to mature, and they can be harvested every month.

Taking the red mist fruit as an example, the profit of each plant per month is about eighty gold coins. Two hundred fruits means a profit of sixteen thousand gold coins!
What is a money tree? This is a money tree!

Raven muttered to himself happily: "Magic is indeed the primary productive force in this world!"

The next thing to do is to choose a piece of land, transplant these magic plants there, and find someone to take care of them.

There is no need to rush this step, just complete it within ten days.

Raven yawned, went back to his bedroom, and fell asleep.

When Raven looked in the mirror the next day, he smiled at himself.

Before entering the secret room, he was Chen Kun, and after coming out, he turned into Hu Jun.

While he was shaving, Petty pushed open the door and walked in timidly: "Baron, two visiting cards have been delivered."

Raven was stunned for a moment. Now was the peak period of reconstruction for the Nord Province. The nobles were all busy licking their wounds and redeveloping. He wondered who would still have the mind to visit him?
"read."

Patty nodded and read the contents of the visiting card.

The formats are all similar. Stripping away all the nonsense, the basic purpose is also similar, which is to have the priority supply rights of granite marble.

After all, the supply of granite is limited and it cannot be bought with money. It has almost become a symbol of status. Now at Denise's place, the reservations for granite have been scheduled until next year. It's not that many people have come to Raven for help, but he has rejected them all.

But this time, the name of the letter writer made Raven more interested.

They are Hyde, the newly promoted Viscount of the Slater family and the youngest son of Earl Tyrone, and Guldan, the eldest son of Earl Montreal and the heir of the Fox family.

The time is five days later.

"Haha, it's true that someone will give you a pillow just when you want to sleep."

Raven smiled and scraped off the foam on his chin, then turned around and pinched Petty's face:
"You are my lucky star!"

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(End of this chapter)