Please be my partner.

When Melen heard the number of twenty bottles, he was not only excited, but also surprised.

Just as he was about to call it a day and agree directly, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him. After a moment's contemplation, he asked, "Mr. Henry, do all pharmacists like you get the pet growth potion formulas from the Beastmaster Alliance?"

Henry was a little puzzled, but it wasn't a secret, so he immediately replied, "That's mostly true. It's not ruled out that some pharmacists have developed similar formulas. However, as far as I know, the Beastmaster Alliance's formula is the most effective of all similar potions."

After hearing this answer, Mellen relaxed. He had grasped the key.

According to Henry, there was a word that could describe the Beastmaster Alliance's behavior in his previous life, and that was... monopoly!

As we all know, monopoly can generate huge profits!

The price of pet growth potion in the Beast Tamer Alliance is 50 gold coins.

You know, this is the price after monopoly!

Then, conversely, its actual cost may be only one-third, one-fifth, or even one-tenth of this price!

If we consider it from the perspective of maximizing profits, the cost price of a bottle of pet growth potion might be only 5 gold coins?

Twenty bottles for only 100 gold coins?!

There is no antitrust law in this world!

So, although twenty bottles of pet growth potion are not a small amount, it is still...

"not enough!"

Mellen looked at Henry calmly, emphasizing these two words.

Henry said angrily, "Mr. Mellen, are you too greedy?! Twenty bottles of pet growth potion are worth 1000 gold coins! And you actually say it's not enough?!"

Mellen's expression remained calm. After Henry finished speaking, he slowly said, "Mr. Henry, why are you acting like this? I don't mean to raise the price."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, then said in a meaningful tone, "I think we all know the actual value of pet growth potions!"

Henry's expression froze, and then he became a little embarrassed, but he also understood Mellen's true intention and said, "Okay, okay, smart boy, tell me, how can I get your pet to cooperate with my experiment?"

Mellen smiled and said, "Actually, what I want is very simple, Mr. Henry. In addition to twenty bottles of pet growth potion, I only need one more condition."

Henry asked nervously, "What is it?!"

Melen smiled and said, "Your... friendship!"

Chapter 70 Attack and Kill

"Mr. Henry, I'll take my leave now. I'll come back in three days."

At the door of Henry's house, Mellen said goodbye to Mr. Henry with a smile on his face and walked away slowly.

He had not originally intended to ask for a high price for Henry's invitation to do an experiment. After all, he was not planning to make a one-time deal. He was sure that he would need Henry, the pharmacist, in many ways in the future.

Maintaining a good relationship between both parties and making the other party owe you a small favor psychologically is the long-term solution.

Because Henry needed to organize today's experimental data and use it to prepare a new rage potion, which would take about three days, they agreed to conduct a new potion experiment three days later.

It was almost dusk, and Melen was thinking about a serious question...

Should I walk back to the college and have dinner on the way?

Or should we take a carriage and have dinner after returning to the academy?

Mellen walked and looked around, hoping to find a restaurant that could help him make up his mind.

Unfortunately, he hadn't found the person he liked when he was about to leave Horton District.

Just as he was about to hire a carriage, a sudden chill came over his heart.

He instinctively turned his head to look in a certain direction and saw a blurry figure in a cloak staring at him in the shadows at the street corner.

As Melen saw the other person, he felt the chill in his heart suddenly surge, as if it was going to freeze him.

Danger?

Someone is going to attack me!

why? !

These thoughts flashed through my mind at the same time.

His pupils suddenly contracted and he forced his body to adapt to the darkness. At this moment, Melen saw clearly that the cloak the man was wearing was similar to the one he wore when he wiped out the cultists yesterday afternoon.

The threat of life and death made Mellen's mind work to the extreme. He almost subconsciously reached into his waist pocket, took out something, squeezed it hard, and then threw it out.

The next moment, the object in the air suddenly exploded. At the same time, a sharp scream that was enough to make ordinary people faint and could be clearly heard even through a thousand meters resounded throughout the entire area.

The glass of nearby houses burst and shattered under the sound.

This is exactly the disposable witchcraft prop that Melen bought before...The Screaming Box!

Its actual effect is not worth mentioning, but the noise it can create is enough to attract the attention of all patrolling police officers nearby, as well as any powerful people in the kingdom that may exist.

The cloaked man in the shadows, originally playful, had turned into anger. He felt like he was being played by his prey.

The figure flashed blurrily, leaving the shadows and appearing not far in front of Mellen.

"Woof!~"

Spike had already reacted, standing in front of Mellen, roaring, and entering a full-scale fighting stance...

【Life Force】Activated!

【Blood and Flesh Explosion】 is activated!

【Bone Armor】Armor!

The claws swept towards the cloaked man with great force.

But what made them change color was that the latter simply stretched out a hand and blocked Spike's attack.

Through the gap, Melen saw the cloaked man looking at him with cold eyes and a finger extended.

A red light flashed on the finger, and then shot towards him like lightning.

Mellen's face changed drastically. He quickly clicked the buttons on his cuffs, and two lines of protection appeared around him almost instantly.

The next moment, a red light came to him and transformed into a ghost with a skeleton upper body, holding a huge sickle, and a lower body made of misty fog. It chopped at him with the sickle.

Because of the obstruction of the protective stance and Mellen's own dodging, the attack almost grazed his neck, but also left a huge wound on his left shoulder.

"Woo woof!~"

When Xiao Honglian saw her master being injured so badly, anger, fear and other emotions filled her mind.

It felt extremely guilty, thinking that it had failed to protect its owner.

Under the influence of these emotions, its body began to twist and deform to a certain extent.

If Melen looked at Little Red Lotus's attribute panel at this moment, he would have discovered that the '???' in the original racial skill was flashing wildly, as if some kind of change was about to occur.

But in the end, as if there were some kind of limit, everything was calmed down.

Xiao Honglian first used her ability to control blood to stop Mellen's bleeding, and then began to deal with the sickle ghost.

Melen just glanced at it and then looked away.

Even though the threat of the sickle ghost was right in front of him, he no longer paid attention to it. Firstly, he believed in Xiao Honglian, and secondly, whether he could survive this sudden attack today depended on how long the battlefield on the other side could be delayed.

"Woof!~"

Feeling the boy's will, Spike roared again, and a blood-colored mist rose from his body into the sky, forming a huge blood-colored mist dog in mid-air.

After a heavy and low roar, the blood mist dog returned to Spike's body in an instant, causing its breath to rise steadily.

[Totem is coming]!

This is not over yet. The active ability of [Soul Interaction] was fully activated by Mellen. His spirit surged and turned into a tangible weight like a tsunami, blessing Spike.

Even though Mellen had been strengthened by the meal at the Gourmet Association, it would still cost a considerable price to allow Spike to enter a new form.

But, how could he consider anything else at this moment?!

What we should think about now is how to survive!

However, because it was a forced action, it would take some time for Spike to completely transform into a new and unknown form.

At this time, the aura around Spike was rising, distorting the air. From the outside, only a vague silhouette like lines could be seen. Only his blood-red eyes released ferocity and cruelty, like a demon crawling out of hell, hideous and terrifying.

It sounds slow, but it actually happens in an instant.

The cloaked man looked at Spike, who seemed to be evolving. Although he was somewhat interested, he did not intend to delay any longer to avoid complications.

Since a casual attack failed to kill the target, he might as well do it himself!

A red light flashed in the cloaked man's eyes, and a ghost wearing knight armor appeared behind him, then took a step forward and overlapped with him.

Suddenly, the cloaked man changed his appearance and turned into a knight wearing armor and holding a spear.

He rushed up and stabbed Spike, leaving a huge wound on his body.

Jump and cut to make the wound into a cross.

Faced with an opponent who possessed such overwhelming advantages in both strength and agility, Spike couldn't even fight for his life.

Just as the Cloaked Man was about to take out Spike with a lunge, three restraining ropes shot towards him from different angles, trying to restrain him.

Although he cut them all off with a simple swing of his spear, it did block the attack and gave Spike a chance to breathe.

At this time, the cloaked man did not continue to attack, but looked up into the distance, then retracted his gaze and stared at Mellen coldly.

The next moment, the knight's attire on the cloaked man fell away, and at the same time, dozens of black hands stretched out from the shadows behind him, wrapped him up, and then dragged him into the shadows.

He seemed to sink into some sticky liquid and disappeared.

Chapter 71 Anger

The attacker's sudden departure made Melen confused and uncertain. He did not stop the [Soul Interaction] immediately, but he paused for a while.

He looked in the direction the cloaked man had looked before he left, and saw a blurry shadow coming towards him at a very fast speed.

"Boom!~"

A monster three meters tall, six meters long, with a lizard-like head, four legs, a tail covered with barbs, and covered with thick scales fell to the ground.

Sitting on the monster was a young man wearing a police officer's uniform and a blue cloak draped over his back.

The young man was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with a handsome face and eyes as sharp as an eagle.

He turned his head and looked at the survivor in the field...Melen.

Mellen had already released his Soul Interaction status when the young man arrived. Suppressing the dizziness in his head, he quickly said, "I'm a student at the Kingdom Mystic Academy and a temporary investigator for the Special Affairs Bureau. The person who just attacked me seems to be a cultist!"

Hearing Mellen introduce himself, the young man's expression softened a little. He nodded and said, "Don't worry, fellow student. No matter who the attacker is, he will pay the price!"

Then, he looked at his mount and said, "Gu Ge, can you find it?"

"Gulu!"

The mount, Gu Ge, seemed to have found some clues. It suddenly jumped up and took the young man into the air. After just a few leaps, it disappeared from Mellen's sight.

Mellen's eyes flashed. He was no longer the ignorant newbie he used to be. He naturally understood the meaning and importance of being a knight.

In the Kingdom Mystic Academy, if you ask what the strongest profession is, you will get a variety of answers.

But if you ask, what is the most important profession for humans, the answer must be... [Knight]!

[Knight], since ancient times, has been the most suitable extraordinary profession for human beings, without a doubt.

It may even be the first extraordinary profession created by mankind.

When the spiritual tide surged, the [Knight] was just one of many human professions, with strong ones and weak ones, and did not seem to be that special.

But when the spiritual tide recedes, the [Wizards] who possess the power to destroy heaven and earth can only be trapped and die in the wizard tower, [Hunters] can no longer call upon their animal companions, and [Druids] sleep peacefully in nature...

Only [Knight], because of its unique method of promotion, can still enable humans to achieve extraordinary achievements after hard training!

During the extraordinary and inconspicuous years, [Knights] not only did not withdraw from the stage of history, but instead flourished with the tide of the times and actively adapted to the external environment.

Just think about it, in an era without extraordinary people, those knights who can run a hundred meters in two or three seconds after unleashing their [life force] and who, after wearing a full set of knight armor, are like war fortresses, will be so crushed when facing ordinary people.

This is also the fundamental reason why the royal families and nobles of various countries attach great importance to the orthodox [Knight] professional inheritance and hold it tightly in their hands!

These thoughts flashed through his mind, and Mellen forced himself to cheer up and came to Spike.

At this time, the dog had several huge wounds on its body. After the explosive state was released, it could only fall to the ground powerlessly and could not move.