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

Chapter 26. Shopping Again, Sea Dolphin

"You have desires, what are you yearning for?"

Kroya said it directly: "I can hear you, so naturally I can help you too."

For a moment, Muyou Qufeng was confused, but she immediately understood what Kroya meant and excitedly asked, "You...you can also modify me?"

It came right up to us.

The smooth, jade-like vine gently rested on Kroya's wrist. The strange touch, mixed with the pure wood magic it released, was truly delightful.

"Master, Master, I have never been able to help the lady guard her mage tower, so I want to... help you monitor the castle."

"If I have enough magic, I can grow to cover the entire castle. Do you have any way to help me?"

As Kroya listened to it, an idea formed in his mind—mages do indeed have ways to monitor their territory, using a combination of magic arrays and monitoring magic eyes to form a complex array.

It allows mages to monitor the entire territory without leaving their homes.

He does indeed have this idea now and plans to gradually renovate the castle, setting up some magic arrays and restrictions.

A fully-fledged mage territory may even have a series of formations such as spatial locking arrays, magic energy detection arrays, and spatial transfer arrays.

Of course, the current Kroa certainly can't do that.

However, the magic of the Surveillance Eye is very suitable for the Wood Curved Vine. As long as it can reach, it can transmit images back in real time.

Since the Woody Vine itself is a magical beast, it also saves Kroya the trouble of setting up arrays and laying out magic channels.

Most importantly... it possesses near-human intelligence.

With a little training, it can handle ordinary, complicated, and trivial matters, and when necessary, it can replace Kroya in conveying his will, like a megaphone—and its voice is quite suitable.

That leaves only one question.

The Eye of Surveillance is not simply constructed from magic; it requires an "eye crystal" as a medium and support for casting spells.

As far as he knew, the quality of those eye crystals varied, and the price naturally varied as well. The cheapest ones could be bought in a stack of twelve crystals for five.

Valuable... enough to make legendary mages fight tooth and nail.

Buying the cheapest one is of course affordable, but the problem is how to install it on the vine? He remembered that the description of the Astral Spirit Imprint Technique mentioned "materials are needed to assist in cultivation when necessary".

But how do you cultivate it?

He pondered for a moment, then took out the Holy Spring Merchant Guild's magic crystal card from the side and began to inject magic power into it, while also preparing five drops of Water Essence.

Regardless, let's buy the eye crystals first, and while we're at it, let's see how much this Aqua Essence can sell for.

Theoretically speaking, this should also belong to the sea creatures, right?

"Holy Spring, Deep Blue Holy Spring! Holy Spring that leads to an endless and boundless world, answer me!"

Under the infusion of magic power and the chanting of incantations, the Holy Spring emblem on the surface of the Magic Crystal Card quickly formed an illusory three-dimensional Holy Spring, and Kroya threw in a drop of Water Essence without hesitation.

After a short while, nothing appeared inside, but a sophisticated female voice rang out—

"Dear Level 1 Member, you have submitted a drop of Pure Water Essence, which is expected to be exchanged for ten Magic Crystals."

Would you like to exchange for magic crystals?

"..."

It even has a voice chat function now! Is it because I'm already a Level 1 member?

But wait... ten?

One drop equals ten magic crystals?

When Kroya recalled the fifteen drops that the Woody Vine King had just eaten, she felt her heart bleed—the original owner had worked so hard for so long and only managed to save up twenty drops!

He immediately calculated the number of magic crystals he could exchange. He had ninety-nine drops at first, gave one drop to the Solid Magic Hanging Bottle Grass, and fed fifteen drops to the Woody Curved Vine King.

In addition, forty-six drops need to be given to the mermaid.

That means there are 37 drops left.

If all of them were exchanged for magic crystals, a total of 370 magic crystals could be obtained!

This is a huge amount; it's enough to buy a level three general spell manual, or even a slightly more advanced beginner's alchemy guide...

You can also purchase a large number of magical beasts and magical plants.

If you buy the materials, you could even build a basic mage tower smart magic circle—of course, you'd need someone to provide the magic circle diagram.

The sudden windfall caused him to hesitate for a moment, but he quickly calmed down.

We absolutely cannot sell all of the Water Essence.

He planned to keep ten drops and sell the rest for money, because it was still unclear whether the mermaid would give him more Water Crystals immediately.

Moreover, this essence can help magical beasts and magical plants grow.

Selling 27 drops would yield 270 magic crystals, which is more than enough.

As for what to buy... he had already decided—he wanted to buy magical plants or magical beasts that could develop the economy and snowball.

With his cheat-like abilities, he can easily modify those magical plants and beasts into entirely new mutants.

What makes the most money?

That's a magic potion, of course!

Some magical beasts and magical plants produce materials that can be used to make magical potions. Thanks to the fact that the original owner often talked about this kind of thing with people when he was in the capital, he also knew a few kinds.

And the environment most suitable for Hanjiao Island is...

He immediately added the remaining twenty-seven drops of Water Essence, then picked up a pen and paper to write down a list, and finally threw it into the spring.

Kroya hasn't learned the magic to change his voice yet, so communicating with pen and paper is still the best option—he still uses the writing habits from his previous life.

After a brief period of silence, the spring spout erupted with a jet of water.

This time, inside there was not only an elegant wooden box, a book, and two scrolls, but also two huge, pink dolphins.

The dolphin was sleeping, enveloped in bubbles of water. Its pink skin reflected a clear light, and it looked no different from an ordinary dolphin except for its color.

But this thing is indeed a level two magical beast, and a very special one at that, a sea spirit dolphin that can collect "sea spirit pearls" in the sea.

The Sea Spirit Pearl can cultivate a pure water elemental magical plant, namely the Sea Spirit Mushroom, which can then be used to make magical potions, making it a complete industrial chain.

If it weren't for the mysterious Holy Spring Merchant Guild, it wouldn't be easy to specifically purchase one male and one female sea dolphin.

Most Warcraft merchants are unwilling to sell female Warcraft that can breed.

It's understandable to think that way. If you buy them and raise them yourself, what will happen to the other people?

"Ah, this is so convenient. We can have the goods delivered to our door without leaving home. Otherwise, it would be a nightmare to buy materials in this desolate place."

Kroya nodded with satisfaction, confirming that everything he had bought was indeed correct—a box of eye crystals and a complimentary monitoring array, a "Beginner's Guide to Water-Based Potion Alchemy," and sea spirit dolphins and their master-servant contracts.

This is the advantage of the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce; as long as you're willing to pay, they can even arrange the contract for you.

After he finished his inspection, the voice from the Holy Spring came again: "Honorable guest, due to your provision of precious sea creature materials, your membership points will be calculated twice."

The current number of points is 540.

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

After he finished speaking, the Holy Spring gradually calmed down and returned to its original crystal card, lying on the ground.

Kroya stepped forward, picked up the card and put it away. He planned to first settle the sea spirit dolphin, and then begin to apply a new mark to the Woody Vine King.

Thank you to 735611 and Youxian Sansheng for the monthly tickets, and to all the other big shots for the recommendation tickets. We're going to be on the test recommendation list tomorrow, so please give us some reading support, it really means a lot to me.

I am so grateful to everyone!

(End of this chapter)