What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 15.15. Holy Spring Merchant Guild and Solid Demon Hanging Bottle Grass

While Rob and the others waited anxiously.

Kroya emerged from the sea shortly afterward, holding a beautiful seashell with intricate magical runes on its surface.

It's clearly a special magical artifact.

"Master, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, let's go back."

Rob rushed forward to help Chloe up, but she shook her head and refused, her eyes filled with obvious emotion.

This merfolk are really rich and powerful!

After hearing Kroya's calculation that it would cost approximately five hundred level-one magic crystals, the mermaid archmage immediately took out a spatial artifact and handed it to him.

That is, that seashell.

Inside were six pearls produced by the level-five magical beast, the Sea-Swallowing Clam. Each pearl could be exchanged for one hundred level-one magic crystals at any merchant guild that sold mage supplies.

Six of them would be six hundred level-one magic crystals.

Needless to say, the extra pearl and the shell itself were essentially her reward to Kroya—and she was also very generous in letting Kroya take a bunch of Water Crystals.

They also stated that if half of the quantity could be refined into Water Essence, the rest would be generously given to Kroa as a gift.

They're really rich. You have to understand that the original owner worked so hard for so long to save up just one box of twenty level-one magic crystals.

As for the Water Crystal...

According to the description on the parchment, he should be able to learn some special water magic through the water crystal, and also enrich his knowledge.

For a monk, knowledge is everything!

To be honest, Kroya really hopes there will be more of these big dog owners.

As for saving face?

Hmm... He decided to ignore it for now until he was fully developed, and then get his revenge.

He insisted on installing a water-themed aquarium to keep the mermaid inside as an ornamental fish!

cough cough.

In short, with enough resources and a deposit already received, this matter must be handled immediately, otherwise, things will get complicated if the mermaid goes berserk.

Fortunately, the original owner had worked in the Royal Capital Mage Association and knew how to contact the Chamber of Commerce.

We just need to try it out and see if this method works.

I've only heard of it, but I've never tried it myself.

So Kroya immediately led everyone back to the castle, and then went into the laboratory alone, where he found a clean parchment.

Concentrate your mind and enter a meditative state, while simultaneously capturing the thirsty sea algae to provide yourself with magical and spiritual energy.

On it, strange patterns resembling the waves of a spring were drawn, and different emblems were painted on the four corners of the parchment.

At the very center is a spring that looks like it's bubbling up water.

After successfully drawing these patterns, he reluctantly took out two magic crystals and placed them on the spring water in the center of the parchment.

He gathered magic between his lips and chanted the incantation: "Holy Spring, Deep Blue Holy Spring! Holy Spring that leads to the boundless and infinite world, never run dry, answer me!"

His magic and the magic crystal began to resonate.

One of the magic crystals slowly dissolved, and blue light flowed across the patterns of the parchment spring, quickly staining it completely into a mysterious deep blue.

Then a magical scene unfolded—

A tiny stream of water actually began to flow from the spring, slowly accumulating and gathering to form a real spring.

It was as if some mysterious force in the air shaped it.

Seeing this, Kroya quickly put the parchment, which was already filled with information, into the box, and then threw in six pearls.

The holy spring, which looked to be only the size of a jar, was like a bottomless abyss, swallowing the parchment and pearls without making a ripple.

"The Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce seems even more high-end and sophisticated than the Mage Association?"

He muttered to himself, looking at the holy spring vent formed by magic, his eyes filled with obvious curiosity. He had learned this thing from the Mage Association.

It is said that by using this method, as long as the Holy Spring vent is successfully summoned, all the materials one wants can be purchased in any corner of the human realm of the main plane.

Of course, there will be a small extra charge.

However, compared to being able to buy the materials they need at any time, this small cost is not a big deal at all, and many great mages are lifetime members of the Holy Spring Merchant Guild.

"Could this be some kind of exquisite spatial technique? But with such a small amount of materials, how can the entire world open spatial portals... can the consumption really keep up?"

Or was it constructed using some kind of divine artifact?

He pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

Speculation is just speculation. It's something that even so many great mages in the Mage Association couldn't figure out, so he was just making wild guesses.

It was at this moment that the holy spring suddenly started gushing water, spraying out a bunch of test tubes and bottles like a real fountain.

There was also a crystal-clear card.

The surface was engraved with the Holy Spring pattern of the Holy Spring Merchant Guild, and the material appeared to be magic crystal. Upon picking it up, a sound emanated from within—

"Honorable guest, due to your provision of precious sea creature materials, you have been specially promoted to Level 1 member. You can use this card to summon the Holy Spring Geyser."

Happy shopping! We hope you can quickly advance to a higher membership level.

More rare materials will be made available to you.

The voice is a very intellectual and elegant female voice; just listening to it makes you feel as if you can see an intellectual female mage wearing glasses.

After the sound disappeared, the parchment and the magic crystal burned to ashes, which meant that Kroya had paid an extra one magic crystal for these materials.

"A first-level member of the Holy Spring Merchant Guild? Is it because they desperately need materials from the sea creatures?"

Kroya played with the crystal card for a moment, then put it away and didn't pay much attention to it anymore. After this purchase, he didn't know when the second transaction would be.

"Water-soluble solution, golden marrow brush, luminous zigzag line..."

He carefully inspected them and found that the materials were of good quality; although not top-tier, they were of above-average quality.

In addition to the materials for constructing the Seven Luminaries Divine Law Array, he also purchased the seeds of a magical plant.

This is a second-tier magical plant called the Solid Magic Bottle Grass. Once it grows, it will produce a bottle that can hold any liquid potion.

Once it's inside, the liquid's potency won't be lost. If kept for a long time, it can even have the amazing effect of increasing its potency.

For mages who frequently need to refine various solutions and then draw magic arrays, it is almost indispensable—of course, mainly because he can't afford test tubes made of solidified crystals, so he can only use this thing as a substitute.

"This must be it, let me see." He picked up the crystal box containing the seeds of the Solidified Vase Grass—inside was a seed that looked like a walnut.

One costs twenty magic crystals.

Honestly, this price is really expensive, but I can't not buy it. I'm just hoping for a little surprise.

If it's really good and feasible... then keep buying it.

As his gaze swept over the area, a notification suddenly sounded—

[A suitable plant for Celestial Imprint has been discovered: Solidified Vaseweed. Please activate the Imprint spell to examine the plant's Celestial body and perform the spell imprint.]

Kroya was overjoyed; this was exactly what he had been waiting for!

A magical plant that can be imprinted!

(End of this chapter)