Xia Ran only found out the next day that Lord Balguf had sent someone to look for him yesterday, but it was not an important matter, the main thing was to tell him that the court mage had special treatment, and the food and lodging could be in the Longxiao Palace.

Even if it's temporary, it won't be discounted...... But he politely declined.

First, the food committee of Skyrim has not developed much, and it is still relatively primitive, and I have seen it at the banquet yesterday, what apple pie, green onion bread, steamed mud crab legs......

The relatively good charcoal-grilled lamb chops, boiled beef, etc., are simply a waste of ingredients, and it can only be said that Xia Ran is not a glutton, and he does not have any strange skills of "God's Tongue", so he can only conclude that they are at least salt.

Second, because of a conversation with the temporary head yesterday, he also felt that he really needed to watch out for Ms. Whispering, even if he clocked in to work in Longxiao Palace during the day, if he also lived in Longxiao Palace at night......

It was difficult to get people to walk around there twenty-four hours a day, and if it wasn't really unorthodox and inconvenient, he even wanted to ask Lord Barguf to work from home, and it was nothing wrong anyway.

It was precisely because of the accommodation conditions that it was not very attractive, so he didn't take it to heart at all.

Lord Barguf didn't bother either, so neither side delved into the matter.

Xia Ran came to the palace mage's workshop, here he visited once yesterday, it was originally the side hall of Longxiao Palace, but it was renovated, there is a not too advanced office, behind it are the alchemy laboratory, the enchantment laboratory and the library room.

This is also different from some of his impressions, but it doesn't matter.

As a court mage, his daily task now is to perform alchemy and make some kind of special potion, mainly researched by the previous Farenga, for the purpose of quickly ripening crops......

In addition to letting Xia Ran know that Fa Renjia was indeed qualified as a court mage, he also had a deeper understanding of the reality of this world. This kind of alchemy recipe, which has nothing to do with the protagonist's attributes, skills, equipment, etc., will not appear in the game at all......

Moreover, the formula of Farenjia is very rigorous, probably optimized and adjusted many times, and the materials used are relatively common things.

The most important thing is that what Xia Ran was worried about did not happen, that is, the formula explains in great detail the order in which each ingredient is added, the interval between times, and the clear amount.

It's not like some cheat recipes, which always teach people to "add ×× in moderation and "add ×× a little"...... It's just confusing, who knows how much your "moderate" and "little" is, can't you give a standard value for reference?!

As long as he mastered the basic skills, he could make alchemical potions.

Therefore, after hesitating, Xia Ran still put the two D-level causal crystals obtained from the previous dragon slaying into them, and strengthened the two auxiliary skills of "Alchemy" and "Enchantment...... After all, if you want to pretend to be a court mage next, it's better to behave as well as possible in line with the personality, and let that beautiful misunderstanding continue.

Magic skills can still be cultivated slowly, after all, even in the Longxiao Palace, there are basically no people who know magic in particular, Fa Renjia has always disappeared, and basically no one can see what he is doing.

But if the most basic magical crafts are completely unskilled and have to be learned from scratch, then it is really too conspicuous...... Therefore, these necessary inputs cannot be saved.

As for the debts owed, there will always be a way, for example, the dragon's blood has not been sold yet.

There were still a lot of alchemy potions that Fa Renjia had refined before, so there was no hurry, but Xia Ran still spent two days refining a large number of these related elixirs very hard—not only to cope with daily tasks, but also to better familiarize himself with new skills and increase his proficiency.

No one knew that his alchemy had just been strengthened, and he was proficient as soon as he got started, and they all felt that his skills in this area were quite exquisite, that is, when he tried it on the first day, because it was a new formula, he failed more than ten times one after another.

This is completely acceptable, and after that, it is basically a hundred trials, refining one bottle and succeeding one bottle.

So no one noticed anything wrong, and Lord Barguf was also satisfied, feeling that at least during the time that Farenga had no time to take care of him, the new court mage's professional ability was still very qualified.

In this way, because of his willingness to invest in the early stage, Xia Ran spent two days to grasp his job responsibilities very well, and he performed quite well, and no one could find any faults.

But he didn't let up there, but continued to delve into other commonly used alchemy formulas, such as healing, disease resistance, detoxification, etc., and also tried to master some common enchantment formulas-

This is not difficult, his intelligence is particularly high, and he can do it without forgetting; The mental power is also very strong, and I can better grasp the details when doing this kind of delicate work...... In addition, the commonly used alchemy recipes or enchantment formulas are all very basic.

Moreover, the enhanced mastery level skills are the biggest guarantee, and it can be said that as long as there is a standard formula to refer to, there will be very few failures.

Anyway, in less than a week, he was already able to make sure that he could handle most of the situations. After that, the process of using Farenga's library to improve and recharge for self-learning began.

That court mage's background may not be as good as the entire organization of Winterhold Academy, but he is also backed by the relatively prosperous and wealthy Xue Manling in the sky, so the various codex scrolls, book notes, etc. in the library are all very useful things for Xia Ran.

Basic, Advanced, Advanced...... There is a wide variety of magical knowledge divided into different factions.

Besides, Xia Ran is not greedy, and is still strictly specialized in illusion and summoning. Of course, he also looked at the discourse on magic of the destruction system, and prepared to teach himself the fireball technique or something...... That's right, just preparing to learn a fireball technique.

After all, the previous temporary team had already set off, leaving Snowman City for the rest of Skyrim Province. They're ready to complete their own mission objectives, and the Dragon Sacrifice Staff with its own fireball spell has been returned.

Xia Ran had to make amends in this regard, without a staff with its own skill, if he wanted to release the fireball technique, he could only master this skill himself.

In this way, in the enrichment of being busy day by day, about half a month has passed-

On the surface, it seems that Xia Ran has not made much progress, but he has systematically made up for his magic knowledge through Fa Renjia's collection of books and notes, and has made up for his missing basic parts well.

At the same time, he has mastered hundreds of alchemy formulas and enchantment formulas, although there is no particularly high-level secret one, as long as a person is willing to spend time, money and energy, it is not difficult to collect, but the point is that he is completely prostitute.

Even the materials don't need to be bought at his own expense, there are directly a warehouse full of materials for him to brush up on his proficiency, as long as the number of finished products is passable, then it is very simple to deliberately create a few failure records, and taste a few bottles of potions or related materials.

Longxiao Palace is simply a paradise, Xia Ran has never found that studying is such a pleasant thing, there is no need to worry about anything, everything is prepared for him.

I feel like I'm like a sponge, I don't need to think about other problems at all, I just keep absorbing knowledge and improving my level.

And this time was also very peaceful, there were no dragons attacking the city, and there was no Whispering Lady targeting, everything went so smoothly......

This also made him completely relieved -

What kind of crow's mouth, poisonous milk and the like, it's nonsense at all, and the previous times are just pure coincidences!

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"What the illusion department needs to purchase is insight, endurance, battle summoning, invisibility, ......"

"The summoning department needs to purchase three spell books to summon the Flame Attendant, the Frost Attendant and the Storm Attendant, and the Flame Demon Pet may also be able to consider it, but it's a pity that the Demon is not summoned......"

"As for the destruction system, let's buy a fireball technique first, the others don't need it for the time being, and I only have so much money, so I'm going to brush up on the task next......"

In the evening of that day, Xia Ran was wearing a mask and sitting in the mage workshop in the side hall of Longxiao Palace, writing and drawing on a piece of parchment with the corresponding words, and making a plan to buy a spell book based on his existing money.

Fa Renjia left a lot of spell books, which were available from various factions, but Xia Ran couldn't use them directly, and he didn't want to take risks.

Anyway, it's something that can be bought directly with money, and he can't do more meaningless things, and the guards steal from themselves or something, and it's not good to say it, he still plans to give money honestly, and then take the corresponding spell book.

These spell books were carefully selected by him, because he felt that they were of great use to himself, and they could be matched to make the ability system more self-consistent and complete, and to deal with more situations......

As for those advanced spells such as berserk techniques, pacification techniques, and chaos techniques, they were originally extended from the most basic anger techniques, calming techniques, etc., and the principles were similar. Xia Ran was somewhat confident that he would comprehend these advanced spells on his own through the recent evil supplements, so he didn't plan to obtain them by purchasing spell books.

The reason why he bought the spell book now is because in Farenga's collection, he has already read the book notes on summoning and illusion during this time, and he is ready to go out and brush up on side quests to earn points and crystals.

He didn't plan to stay here as a court mage forever, but he intended to continue his original goal-

Go to Winterhold College to immerse yourself in your studies.

Register all the spell books he wants to buy, and then take out the corresponding number of gold coins, Xia Ran was originally going to leave like this, but after thinking about it, he still took those spell books to Provantus, the head of the palace, to confirm again.

He would rather be cautious than leave any flaws in his own right.

Longxiao Palace was a little quiet this evening, and I didn't know where the lord and the others went, Xia Ran walked around a few times and didn't see anyone, so he asked a few guards, but he didn't get a definite answer.

His current identity can walk in the Longxiao Palace, but he has always tried to avoid it in the past, so he doesn't know much about this ancient and huge castle.

Standing in front of the entrance of the stairs leading to the living quarters, Xia Ran hesitated, unsure whether he wanted to go up.

And at this time, there was a sound of footsteps coming from above, and the figure of a gorgeously dressed boy appeared above, he was about to go down, and after seeing Xia Ran, he immediately frowned in disgust:

"Another homeless man with nothing to do? Running to lick the soles of my father's shoes? ”

"Your father...... Are you the child of Lord Barguf? Xia Ran couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, this seems to be a bear child who has not been beaten by society.

"Of course it's that stupid pig, or who else could it be!" The boy's pale face showed a hint of contempt and hatred, "Someday, I will tear his face apart, and it is better for him to never come near me." ”

Xia Ran restrained his smile and narrowed his eyes slightly: "I think it's better for a little child not to say such things." ”

It seems that it's not just the category of bear children, is there a problem with Lord Balguf's family education, how to teach this kind of thing?

"Don't be a kid, I know so much more than you do!" The boy was furious, "My father doesn't know anything about me, but I know more than he can imagine!" ”

"Oh, that's amazing, but how do you know so many things......" Xia Ran said casually and perfunctorily.

He hates this kind of person very much, he can't beat him, but he still owes such a beating.

"Hmph, this castle is very old, many places are unknown, I don't know how long it hasn't been cared for, and it hides a lot of secrets......" The boy raised his head as if showing off, "I peeked and eavesdropped through those places, and I met Lady Whispering." ”

“…… Whispering Lady? Xia Ran's expression changed slightly, wait, why is this name directly involved?

"She wouldn't tell me her name, but when I peeked through the keyhole of that door in the basement, she talked to me behind the door and told me more secrets......"

The boy said very angrily, staring at Xia Ran with a hateful look, it seemed that Xia Ran's existence reminded him of something very angry, so he couldn't control saying such words-

"But I couldn't open the door, and it was opened by a homeless man like you, but the lady was gone...... Damn it! I know you homeless people can't trust it! ”