The Witch's Wandering Alchemist's Diary

One gold coin is equal to one thousand copper coins, but this exchange rate fluctuates. In some places, one thousand copper coins cannot even be exchanged for one gold coin.

Gold coins are the most commonly used currency by mages and various nobles. If you want to buy something from a mage, you need to use gold coins.

You want to use copper coins? They won't accept them.

Farin had the most insight, as most of his family's annual tax revenue came from wheat and peas.

However, wheat and peas lose value if stored for too long. Moreover, these things are not easily exchanged for silver or gold coins; they can only be exchanged for ores.

Then, the ore was exchanged for silver coins, and then the gold coins were exchanged for silver coins.

The price is ridiculously low.

A bottle of potion costs ten gold coins, and a farmer can't even earn ten gold coins in a year.

"This can be considered a dead-end profession."

Many apprentice monks think this way.

But Dwight just gave them a look; there might not be one in a hundred thousand alchemists who could do that.

Don't panic, it's all a scam.

Once you truly become an alchemist, you'll know how to cry and beg for mercy.

The initial costs are high, the experiments involve toxic gases and are highly dangerous, and the results depend entirely on luck.

Dwight gave his apprentices a look.

—This is the carrot hanging in front of the donkey. It's because it's a terrible profession that this tempting carrot appears, just to make you fall into it.

Dwight uncorked the bottle and took a small sip.

A rich, sweet aroma, carrying magical power, flowed into his body, and his eyes lit up slightly.

"Lord Lou Le, we are willing to provide the materials. All we need is ten mana potions every seven days."

"Can."

Lou Le yawned, realizing he had just gotten a huge amount of material for free.

Hehe, he should thank us.

"So, what kind of materials do you need, Your Excellency Lou Le?"

Dwight spoke somewhat nervously.

The other apprentice monks understood what their teacher meant.

I want to learn from them!

A new recipe, requiring only the knowledge of which herbs are used, is enough to fetch a high price.

But will Lord Lou Le say it out loud?

They will definitely reveal it, because we need to provide materials. If we don't even know what materials to provide, how can we provide them?

"Dream Beetroot, Water Flower, Twisting Grass".

Lou Le didn't care. She knew that the group of mages in front of her wanted to steal her skills, but she didn't care.

The difficulty lies not in the ingredients, but in the mixing technique.

Unless they can replicate Lou Le's mixing method exactly, they will absolutely be unable to make mana potions.

"Dream Beetroot? Oh, it's Dream Beetroot."

Dwight said thoughtfully, "These kinds of things are usually cultivated by nobles as entertainment items, but I never thought they could be used to make magic potions."

Lou Le neither confirmed nor denied this, only saying, "But you can't make magic potions just by relying on Dream Beetroot; you need other things too."

Is it a creeping vine? Or a water lily?

A question mark popped into Dwight's mind. For alchemical potions, having an extra ingredient required several times the effort to experiment with.

Lou Le certainly wouldn't give away his things to others for nothing, even if they couldn't replicate them.

So she smiled and said, "Master Dwight, although I am a first-circle mage, I am not very good at teaching students yet."

Dwight understood instantly, and he smiled and said, "Master Loule, I have some small insights into educating students. I can lend them to you free of charge."

As he spoke, he waved to Farin.

"Go and bring over the scrolls for the mage apprentices to learn ten zero-level spells. Give them to Mage Lou Le, and may he be able to train even more apprentices."

Dwight smiled.

These ten spells were all commonplace; the only troublesome part was writing them down on the parchment scrolls. To him, they weren't anything particularly valuable.

Lou Le smiled and waited until Farin brought ten reels before telling Dwight the recipe.

"You need more Dream Beetroot, as it's the main ingredient for making Mana Potions. You also need more Twigweed, because it's needed for both Mana Potions and Frost Potions. As for Water Blossom, you can use less, as it's only needed for Frost Potions."

With that, she left, carrying the scroll and a bag of gold coins.

Dwight immediately became excited and looked at Farin, saying, "Farin, you should be able to use the noble channels to import more Dream Beets from other cities, right?"

Farin certainly knew what a huge opportunity this was.

The magic potions that cost ten gold coins each, obtained from Master Lou Le, can be resold for twenty, or even thirty in some impoverished areas without alchemists, like the former Ghostwood Town!

After all, Farin really did buy a mana potion for thirty gold coins!

"Yes, teacher!" Farin said; "Dream Beet prefers to grow in damp, magically rich areas. Among the nearby towns, only the swamp forest town, which is farther from us, grows these to provide for the nobles to consume. However, the journey there, even one way, takes at least half a month."

"Half a month is fine too," Dwight said. "If your father is willing, he can get involved."

The gold coins he currently possesses, well, they're not enough; at least not as many as Baron Castor of Ghostwood Town.

Farin nodded emphatically, indicating that he would definitely inform his father.

This is a great opportunity!

When Lou Le returned home, he casually tossed his money bag onto the table.

As for the spell scrolls, they were simply tossed onto the bed.

"Zero-ring spells are not bad either; at least they can make up for some of my spell list."

Lou Le muttered to himself, otherwise he would be very likely to be exposed during the dungeon battle later.

She picked them up one by one and examined them.

[Activate Rope], [Weak Mage Armor], [Frost Ray], [Fire Arrow], [Druid's Plant Nourishment], [Item Repair], [Soil Shaping], [Acid Splash], [Felt Contract], [Suppress Injuries].

There are ten zero-ring spells in total, each with its own function.

However, as the most classic combination of Animated Rope, Lesser Mage Armor, and Frost Ray, this is a typical control-oriented spell combination.

Fire Arrow deals too much damage and can easily kill people. However, it's somewhat inconvenient for mages who often use spells to punish others.

Moreover, in places like forests, it can easily cause fires, leading to self-inflicted consequences.

The Druid's Plant Nourishment Technique, which Lou Le likes to call a universal fertilizer, can make a plant grow strong and shorten its maturation time.

As for item repair, it means restoring small items to their original, undamaged state. Lou Le thought "soil shaping" meant changing the state of the soil.

But what I didn't expect was that it would change the structure of the soil, allowing one cubic meter of soil to be moved at a time to any location within a ten-meter radius.

The acid splash is quite effective at breaking through a warrior's armor.

【Fellowship Contract】 requires you to subdue an animal and then use a contract to turn it into your own pet.

As for [Suppress Injuries], once cast, it can immediately suppress all of a person's injuries, but it will not heal them, nor will it make them worse.

Depending on the severity of the injury, its use may lead to weakness, coma, or other consequences.