Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 409 Feathered Serpent Pavilion
The Quetzalcoatl branch in the Land of Six Towers is located in the White Dragon Street, a trading street at a height of 10km above the White Dragon Tower No. 2.

White Dragon Street is located in the center of White Dragon Tower. It is like a miniature street with shops on both sides and an extremely narrow road in the middle.

Commercial trade in the Six Towers region is not developed, and its scale is much smaller than that of the Southeast Corner Region.

Even in Bailong Street, which is the main trading market, there are not many shops, and their scale is limited.

This is mainly because the number of wizards with spending power in the Six Towers Land is limited.

Many resources in the Land of Six Towers cannot be obtained through purchase; they can only be distributed within the family.

Alicia and Locke arrived in front of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion. She didn't need to mobilize troops; she simply surrounded the shop first.

After all, the entire White Dragon Street is inside the White Dragon Tower. She can use the White Dragon Badge at any time to mobilize the elemental fission well of the White Dragon Tower, attracting magnificent magical energy to suppress any wizards here who are hostile to her.

The plaque of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion is black.

Above it is a badge of a magical creature that resembles neither a dragon, nor a snake, nor a bird. The shop's interior features spatial magic from the Conjuration School, and is equipped with spatial expansion spells, making the interior space extremely large.

Inside the shop, rows of cabinets displaying potion ingredients stand side by side.

The ground was paved with cold obsidian.

Meanwhile, in the center of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion is a circular weather control device that regulates the temperature and humidity throughout the pavilion.

Each potion-making material cabinet is also quite sophisticated, being a high-end storage cabinet. Each individual storage compartment is a small magical tide concentration gradient control device, allowing for the setting of the magical tide concentration gradient within a single compartment.

This is to ensure that these precious potion ingredients are not stored improperly.

From the depths of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion emerged a non-human wizard draped in a black wizard's robe; he was a half-dragon.

He looked like an upright dragon-man with lizard-man features on his face. He had little expression, teeth bigger than a normal human's finger, and a half-dragon-man lizard tail.

The half-dragon's eyes were cold. "Welcome to the Feathered Serpent Pavilion, both potion makers. We have precious potion ingredients and recipes here. The Feathered Serpent Pavilion does not sell any potions; we only buy specific potions. We are a simple shop that only sells potion ingredients and recipes."

Alicia nodded and said, "These are the half-dragons from the Feathered Serpent Pavilion. The shops in the Feathered Serpent Pavilion all over the world are all run by these half-dragons."

Locke nodded slightly. There are many origins for the half-dragons, but according to the knowledge of bloodline he read in the library of the Six Towers, contrary to common sense, the blood relationship between half-dragons and dragons is actually very distant, while their blood relationship with humans is very close.

The progenitor of the half-dragons should be human. According to the bloodline wizards of the Six Towers, it is very likely that the bloodline of a human was once contaminated by some kind of diluted dragon blood. That dragon blood, which was full of strong corrosive properties, contaminated the blood essence of the half-dragon ancestors, resulting in the emergence of the half-dragon race, a strange and terrifying race.

The blood of the half-dragons is red, but it is ice-cold and has no temperature at all.

This is a cold-blooded race with little emotion, but they are incredibly trustworthy, and there are very few records of half-dragons breaking their promises.

Alicia asked the half-dragon for a list of potion recipes. Locke looked at it and realized that this place was indeed a shop specializing in selling potion recipes. It had a great many recipes for first-level potions, including eleven of the most difficult potion recipes.

Locke noticed, however, that the half-dragon seemed aloof and rarely spoke unless necessary.

Like a magic puppet at work.

Locke asked doubtfully, "The Feathered Serpent Pavilion doesn't sell finished potions, but it does buy them. So, does it also buy potion recipes?" The half-dragon wizard replied indifferently, "Yes. But we only buy recipes for high-quality potions that are at least level one."

“We warmly welcome excellent potion recipes.”

Alicia explained to Locke, "The Feathered Serpent Pavilion is a place that specifically serves potion makers, which is why it doesn't sell potions. However, if there are excellent potion recipes, the Feathered Serpent Pavilion would be happy to accept them."

"The most interesting thing about the Feathered Serpent Pavilion is that it changes its list of first-level potion recipes every month."

Seeing Locke's questioning look, Alicia smiled and said, "The Feathered Serpent Pavilion operates in various wizarding territories. By growing alongside potion makers, they have accumulated a large number of potion recipes, especially first and second-level potions. If all the recipe ingredients were made public, some effective potion recipes would become obsolete due to the availability of better alternatives. Some potions in certain areas would go unstudied. Therefore, the Feathered Serpent Pavilion updates its potion recipe list every month in each wizarding territory."

"To ensure that some potion masters can always learn from the excellent formulas they possess."

Alicia said, "The way the Feathered Serpent Pavilion exchanges recipes is by exchanging recipes for recipes, because it's impossible to buy recipes from potion makers with ordinary magic stones. Therefore, the Feathered Serpent Pavilion can exchange an excellent recipe for an excellent recipe of the same level."

"Some potion makers would think it's worth it."

"Of course, the premise is that the formulas exchanged are formulas that the Feathered Serpent Pavilion does not have, or at least not in this wizarding land."

Locke looked thoughtful. The Feathered Serpent Pavilion was clearly established for potion masters, and even had the intention of promoting some outstanding potion masters.

Locke began searching the potion list, and sure enough, among the eleven most difficult potion recipes, he found his target—the Sun Potion.

The Sun Potion—the most difficult potion in the first stage of the quest—requires the combined use of thirty-three different magical flames, and the control of the heat involved is so complex that it is difficult to comprehend.

Even if three experienced first-level potion masters worked together to prepare it, it would be very difficult to succeed.

In comparison, the materials for the Sun Potion are only of average value, with only the core material, Sun Okra, and the secondary material, Sunstone, being relatively precious; the other materials are just average.

Both of these materials are available at the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

One sunflower costs 30,000 magic stones, and one sunstone costs 5,000 magic stones.

The recipe for the Sun Potion, however, requires an equivalent recipe in exchange.

Locke paused for a moment while reading the description of the Sun Potion. Based on his understanding of the Sun Potion, this potion would give the wizard a special fire elemental constitution, allowing him to obtain a portion of the Sun's primal force.

This trait will accelerate the formation of your golden two-headed dragon.

He estimated that once he consumed one bottle of the Sun Potion, he could fully complete the rudimentary form of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon. The Golden Two-Headed Dragon was a dragon that would reach at least the second ring upon adulthood, making this his second path, a route that offered the potential to become a second-ring wizard.

Dragons do not need to rely on advanced meditation techniques or special resources of a medium-sized world to grow.

After all, once a true dragon reaches adulthood, it is equivalent to a second-level dragon.

Dragons have complex bloodlines, are diverse in species, and have a complete evolutionary path. Many magical creatures that are merely flying dragons, giant dragons, or pseudo-dragons are not included in this category.

Of course, a wizard who only possesses the bloodline of a golden two-headed dragon cannot simply become a second-circle wizard, but this can at least bring him closer to the second circle.

(End of this chapter)