Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Legend of the Moonlight Elixir
Listening to Veronica's words, Lawson and Anne looked at each other and were speechless for a while.
After a while, Anne asked, "I know a lot of dark magic masters, maybe they can do it, right?" ”
Veronica scoffed, "Master of the Dark Arts? If you're talking about the mortals who dig graves in search of ancient magic, but don't know much about it. Then I must tell you, if Lawson wants to rely on these people to remove the blood seal magic, there are two results, one is that it was lifted by mistake. The second is that Rosen was tossed by them and lost his life. The most unfortunate thing is that the second outcome is 10,000 times more likely to happen than the first! ”
"You're lying!" Anne couldn't accept the result.
Veronica spread her hands: "Why should I lie?" I've sworn to keep Lawson safe, and if he carries the Bloodmark Magic, it's a big problem for me. I wish he could undo the magic. ”
Rosen's heart was cold when he heard this, and he asked, "Bloodmark magic can attract vampires in addition to it?" Are there any other effects on my body? ”
"Yes, it has a big impact." Veronica sighed, watching a hint of pity appear in Rosen's gaze.
Rosen's heart became more and more uneasy: "You tell me more and more specifically. ”
Veronica let out a long sigh and said, "As far as I know, over time, the blood seal magic will slowly eat away at the sorcerer's sanity. Eventually, you will become a slave to the undead and will be willing to do anything for him. ”
Anne hurriedly said, "But Viken is dead." ”
"Then you will become an aimless, wandering walking corpse in the wilderness, and you will be driven by instinct to attack any living creature that is visible until you are killed."
Both Rosen and Anne were silent.
For Rosen, he has believed Veronica's words ninety percent, he has been in this world for more than a month, and he has read some famous magic books, and knows that most of the power of magicians comes from chemical changes, and chemistry is nothing more than a trick to combine atoms.
As for the blood seal magic on his body, he confirmed that it was a subatomic level of power.
The cognitive level of the two sides is at least 4 orders of magnitude different. If those human magicians do not have a systematic knowledge system, it is basically impossible to overcome this huge cognitive gap by mistake.
Because he saw the gap, Rosen felt that the road ahead was dark.
Anne still didn't give up, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "How long does this process take?" ”
"If you let it develop, it will only take about a month. But you haven't had a seizure yet, so I'm guessing you're using a low-grade exorcism, right? ”
"Yes." Rosen nodded in acknowledgement.
"No wonder. Low-grade exorcisms can indeed greatly slow down the effects of blood seal magic, and if you continue to take them, you can drag on for a year, but during this year, you will have a very painful life..... Rosen, I think you already know that, right? ”
Hearing this, Anne looked at Rosen blankly, uncontrollable, and tears flowed from her eyes.
"Ah~~~~" Lawson scratched his hair frantically and asked unwillingly, "Veronica, you must have a way to help me alleviate the effects of magic, right?" ”
Veronica was silent.
When Anne saw her like this, she said angrily, "Why don't you speak? Are you looking forward to his death, you can be relieved soon, aren't you? ”
Veronica glanced at Anne and shook her head, "My oath is to protect Rosen until he dies of old age." Even if he loses his mind, I will still protect his life, and the lifespan of a blood slave is no different from that of an ordinary person. Do you think I'd be willing to guard a madman? ”
Rosen saw a hint in Veronica's attitude: "You should have a way to help me." ”
Veronica nodded slightly: "I do know of a better medicine than a low-grade exorcism, but the material of this medicine is very rare, and money can't buy it......."
Rosen interrupted with a wave of his hand: "What is it called?" What materials are needed? Let's hear it. ”
Veronica recalled carefully and spoke: "It's called Saint Tirande, also called Moonlight Elixir." As you can tell from the name, this is an elixir discovered by chance by an alchemist named Tirande more than 500 years ago. Its refining method is very simple, and it is exactly the same as the low-level exorcism, the only difference is that the silver powder in it is replaced with the extremely rare mythril powder. ”
"Mithril?" Anne let out a low sigh, she had had a glimmer of hope before, but when she heard the word Mithril, there was real despair in her eyes.
"What's the situation?" Rosen was a little confused.
In the game, he uses all his own weapons to refine them, mainly made of steel, aluminum, and rare metals, and has never touched anything like Mithril at all, but judging by Annie's performance, this thing seems to be very precious.
Anne had tears in her eyes and her voice choked: "Mithril, the metal that the legendary gods used to craft weapons, is very, very rare...... Veronica was right. It's not something that money can buy, no amount of money can buy it. ”
"That's it~"
Lawson does not believe in evil, there are more than 90 kinds of naturally occurring elements in the periodic table, and there are more than a dozen synthetic ones. As a master of material physics, he not only knows the periodic table of elements, but also most of the elemental elements and simple compounds, Rosen has had direct contact. Can this so-called Mithril still run out of the periodic table?
"Tell me, what does Mithril look like?" Rosen asked.
Anne shook her head: "I've only heard legends, but I've never seen them. ”
"Veronica?"
Veronica thought about it carefully, and said with some uncertainty: "About 200 months...... Well, more than 200 years ago, a friend of mine got a thumb-sized piece of Mithril and she showed it to me. As I remember, the thing was silvery-white, about half as light as iron, but it was so hard that it didn't rust and the flames couldn't melt it. ”
"Anything else?" Rosen asked.
Veronica shook her head: "No, I just looked at it a few times, and it's been so long that my memory is a little blurry." However, I vividly remember the touch, and if I could touch Mithril again, I would definitely recognize it. ”
"Silvery-white, about half as light as iron, very hard, not easy to rust, and has an extremely high melting point...... "Rosen had a vague idea of a possible target in his mind.
After a few seconds of silence, he suddenly got up, walked to the back of the carriage rack, pulled out a box, opened it, fumbled in it for a while, and then took out a fist-sized gray-white metal circle.
He walked back with the metal block and handed it to Veronica, "Like this thing?" ”
"What is this?" Veronica was taken aback, she looked at the metal block carefully, the more she looked at it, the more surprised she became, and finally, she lost her voice and said, "Could it be Viken's skull?" ”
"It's the unlucky one." Rosen doesn't deny it either.
Veronica was shocked: "Although I already knew that Viken was killed by you, I didn't expect that you would be able to burn the skulls of the undead like this...... However, it is not unusual for Viken's greedy and stupid character to end up in this end. ”
"You seem to have a problem with Viken?" Rosenci said.
"It's not just me, most of the higher beings think so. Unable to control his desires, Viken became addicted to blood, creating terror among mortals, causing countless hunters to find trouble with the undead, and even I was often harassed by hunters and could not be cleaned. Forget it, don't mention these, just this skull...... It does feel a bit like Mithril, but the color is wrong, the Mithril I've seen is silvery white, and the surface is shiny and beautiful. ”
"Oh~ Maybe there's Mithril in it?" Rosen guessed.
Veronica pinched Viken's skull hard, and the skull suddenly made a 'creaking' sound, and when Veronica let go of her hand, two clear fingerprints appeared where her fingers had pinched it.
Anne was taken aback: "What a strong force! ”
She also tried to pinch Viken's skull, but the skull didn't move at all, leaving no trace.
Veronica shook her head: "This is already my limit. Rosen, this skull is very hard, far more than steel, and maybe it really contains Mithril. But, how do you get Mithril out of it? ”
"Hey, I'll try."
Rosen retrieved Viken's skull from Veronica's hand, tossed it up and down, and asked, "If I really find Mithril and refine the Moonlight Elixir, how much time can I delay?" ”
Veronica shook her head, "I don't know. ”
"Well, how do you say that?"
"After refining the moonlight elixir, alchemist Tirande successfully helped a blood slave who had lost his mind to come to his senses, but he had too little medicine at hand, and the blood slave fell into madness again after a few months, and never recovered."
Rosen thought thoughtfully: "If the record is true, it can help the crazy blood slave to regain his senses, it seems that the medicinal effect of the moonlight elixir is much stronger than that of low-grade exorcism....... Either way, I still have a year to go, maybe I'm lucky enough to find Mithril, or maybe Vickon has Mithril in his skull? ”
Veronica nodded slowly: "I hope that it would be a pity for someone like you to become a madman." ”
It can be seen that she does not have much hope.