Imperial Crown.

Chapter 179: Mage Potion Recipe

Annuo's outfit is different today.

She wore a purple crystal crown on her head, with sparkling purple light scattered like starlight, complementing the crystal head chain on her forehead.

Under the full forehead, her clear eyes are deep and charming, yet they seem to be shrouded in a hazy mist, making it difficult to capture her mood.

A brown cloak hangs behind her, with complicated magic patterns appearing from time to time on the cloak, making her look even more mysterious and elegant.

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

Anno is not a person who can settle down. Although he has his own room in the castle, he often disappears and then reappears at unknown times.

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

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

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

Although Raven was eventually chosen, there were actually six nobles that Annuo had planned to invest in, and she had conducted detailed investigations on each of them.

Only ten months have passed since Raven became a magician.

This speed of promotion is really rare.

"It seems that your talent in magic is not inferior to your gifts as a noble."

"It was just luck." Raven smiled, not trying to hide his pride: "Sorry, wait a moment."

With that, Raven turned around and placed the tray on the shelf on the table.

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

Raven took out a wooden shovel and cut the soil.

The amazing thing is that when the soil is cut, the roots of the pecans shrink back like squid tentacles and curl up into a ball without suffering any damage.

This is almost a unique state of vitality for wild magic plants, which is impossible to see in an artificial cultivation environment. If the old guys in the Mage Guild who specialize in magic plants are present, they will definitely regard it as a treasure.

An Nuo is neither an old man nor a magician, but she is also aware of the preciousness of this magic plant. Taking out just one of them is enough to make many magicians and alchemists struggle, but Raven has more than a dozen trays here!

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

Raven shook his head. "It would be a shame to sell such good raw materials. I decided to use them myself."

An Nuo frowned slightly: "You also know alchemy?"

Originally, Raven meant to wait for these magic plants to mature, process them, and then sell them to nobles and wealthy businessmen. However, from what Annuo said, he misunderstood that Raven wanted 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'm just getting started."

An Nuo nodded slowly: "In that case, I just happen to have a gift for you."

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

The scroll is about one foot long, and defects caused by time can be seen on the edges. It is obvious that it is not an ordinary item.

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

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

"The recipes for the mage awakening potion are available from level one to level three." Annuo said.

Raven's movements suddenly froze. He retracted his palm and looked at An Nuo: "Why?"

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

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

To be able to come up with something like this, one can imagine how difficult it was for Annuo to accomplish this.

"College." An Nuo said.

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

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

The land there is relatively fertile, and originally there were dozens of serfs living there. Now they have been moved out and the area is completely sealed off. Even if Annuo casts forbidden spells in there, the outside world will not notice.

"We'll also need your help with the subsequent construction." An Nuo 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 how it is..." Raven suddenly realized.

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

From overall design, material selection, manpower management, engineering planning to specific construction, it would be difficult for Annuo to handle it all by itself without a professional team.

And An Nuo is obviously not the kind of person who would tire himself with mundane affairs.

This is treating Raven as a contractor.

That knight's territory is as large as 3.7 square kilometers. Although Annuo's standards are simple, the simpler they are, the more difficult it is to achieve. It is normal to invest tens or even hundreds of millions of gold coins and spend several years or even more than ten years.

But even so, it is still unequal.

Raven believed that if Annor gave it to any king, he could exchange it for a earldom.

"This scroll is too valuable." Raven rubbed his chin. "Why do you have to exchange it for it?"

An Nuo smiled meaningfully: "Just think of it as fate."

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

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

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

This is a big step in helping him realize his ambitions!

Obtaining the formula for the Mage Awakening Potion broke the monopoly of the Mage Guild, which meant that Raven could now bypass the Mage Guild and run his own magician group!
Even a first-level magician can use mud, mist or wind wall spells to change the battlefield environment.

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

Since the Mages 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 magic products of his own!
Magic is the primary productive force in this world.

A new door has opened in front of Raven!

Seeing Raven accept the scroll, An Nuo smiled and said, "Then, the construction of the academy will be left 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. And that was indeed the case.

As soon as Anno left, Raven took a deep breath and opened the scroll. Immediately, dense elven text appeared in front of him.

If Raven had not learned the basics of alchemy from Buggy, he probably would not have understood it at all. Even if he had learned it, there were still many terms that Raven could not understand.

This is normal. After all, this scroll is too old. Many of the terms on it have been renamed or simply no longer exist in the current alchemy system.

Raven had no intention of asking Bucky.

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

A common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade.

If any information is leaked out, you would be playing with your own life.

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

The Mage Awakening Potion, whose official name is "Magic Forging Potion", uses different materials depending on its tier. The most basic first-tier potion requires five raw materials, the second-tier requires seven, and the third-tier requires as many as eleven.

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

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

However, the energy contained in the magic potion itself is not much. Instead, the power of the potion is used to squeeze the potential of the user, allowing them to awaken their inherent talents and abilities.

These two are like the martial arts and immortal ways in the novels about cultivating immortals. Anyone can practice martial arts, but to practice immortal ways one must have spiritual roots.

“No wonder there are so few magicians on the continent.” Raven said to himself, “Talent cannot be acquired by simply piling up resources.”

With the formula, Raven could no longer suppress the urge to make the potion. He opened the Deep Blue platform and first bought a copy of "Alchemy Overview" for 1,327 gold coins.

According to the introduction, this book details the history of alchemy from its birth to the present day, as well as explanations of the technical 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 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 of time, even if they are a little more expensive.

If they were all purchased on the Deep Blue Platform, it would be tantamount to telling the Mage Guild that Raven had mastered the formula for the magic-making potion.

Finally, Congyun Jinju appeared on the deep blue interface. The moment he saw the number, Raven almost spat out blood on the screen!
"Robbery?!"

The price of a third-level magic plant usually ranges from six hundred to one thousand three hundred gold coins, and the price of its seeds is not much different.

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

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

And just one of its seeds costs 14,907 gold coins!

Not only that, there is a parenthesis after the seed with the word (2) written on it.

Still limited sale!
You know, after all the spending, Raven only had more than 20,000 gold coins left. Including the book, if he bought it, he would only have more than 7,000 gold coins left.

During this moment of hesitation, the number behind it changes (1).

At this time, Deep Blue also "kindly" popped up a reminder:
"The production of Congyun kumquat seeds is not stable, so it is difficult to determine the replenishment time."

This is simply forcing people to place orders quickly.

"Trickster!"

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

After shutting down the Deep Blue Platform, Raven began to transfer the magic seedlings that he had cultivated. "Just wait until I refine the magic potion. One day, I will bankrupt your platform!"

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

The land where magic plants can be grown is called "magic field", which is short for "magic field", and the cost of creating it is not cheap.

First of all, to plant magic plants with different attributes, it is necessary to crush the magic cores of the corresponding attributes in the magic field to increase the content of the corresponding elements.

Moreover, planting cannot begin immediately after the magic core is crushed. One must wait for at least a week to allow the elements in the magic core to fully penetrate into the soil. Otherwise, the overly concentrated elements may damage the roots of the magic plants, which is commonly known as "root burn."

Secondly, after crushing the magic core, a magic circle called "Maggiewater" must be set up 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 ridges are divided into three parts, one big and two small. The big one is the magic field with fire attribute, and the two small ones, one is with life attribute and the other is with blood attribute, corresponding to two different branches of green peaches.

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 enter the soil, the magic plants wrapping around the mage's hands, and the magic plants dying with a bang.

Perhaps it was because Raven had already extracted the essence of the corrupted souls in the magic field in advance.

After the planting was completed, Raven looked at the green plants in the yard and smiled with satisfaction, but it was not over yet.

Next, the final step of planting the magic plant is to be carried out.

Raven took out his staff and chanted a spell softly.

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

Slowly, the originally clear sky became overcast, and a shadow covered the courtyard.

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

The wind suddenly picked up.

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

The rain was not dense, covering only the courtyard and the surroundings, falling on Raven and lightly wetting his clothes.

The smell of earth permeated the air.

Outside the yard, the weeds on the ground suddenly began to grow wildly. Originally only as high as the instep, they grew visibly larger, and in just a few minutes, they grew to waist-high!
In comparison, the growth rate of the magic plants is not that significant, but they are becoming more and more vigorous, with straight branches and lush leaves. Even laymen can see at a glance that they are growing well.

Ten minutes later, the dark cloud that only covered the courtyard dissipated, and Raven breathed a sigh of relief: "This kind of continuously guided second-level magic is still a bit difficult to perform."

"It seems that I have to hurry up with my meditation and magic core absorption, so that I can advance to the third level as soon as possible."

As he spoke, his gaze returned to the Demonic Field.

He was already looking forward to the sight of these magic plants turning into gold coins and returning to his pocket.

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(End of this chapter)