Volume 1: Chapter 4: The Pharmacist Who Fails to Know His Own Value
In fact, when it comes to shock, most of the people present must be better than him.
The elemental spirits that appear in the form of legendary creatures are well-known and second only to the elemental elven kings. It is an existence that can only be summoned by the lucky ones who are born with the gift of elves or the magic saints whose strength has reached the legendary level or above. Of course, there is also a certain chance of overstepping the summon if you are willing to spend blood, but you have to remember that the premise is that you have a blood capital, and there is still a chance of consequences, which means that it may also be empty.
Can... But who would have thought that someone could get the favor of two elemental spirits at the same time... Oh, it's three, it's ..... Could this aurora bird be... A light elemental spirit that only the purest minds can summon, right?
Everyone feels as if they are being re-educated in elemental science, and it is the kind of immersive and substantive feeling, rather than the superficiality, perfunctory and empty of the pictures.
But the most touching of this is undoubtedly Rem and Elizabeth, they don't just see this, they have received super higher education and profound knowledge, so that they both see each other's surprises in each other's eyes.
The Thracian bud fruit is a fruit coagulated by the element of light from the Holy Light Wood, covered with a hard shell, and is the base material for any intermediate potion with healing properties. Therefore, it is widely cultivated, but in addition to the hard shell, there is an innate, very large amount of astringent juice inside. The residue of astringent will not only make the taste of the medicine worse, but also reduce the efficacy of the drug.
Of course, there are other basic materials that can be used to replace the Thracian bud fruit, but the Thracian bud fruit is the cheapest and easiest to get by. And as long as the apothecary's ability is high enough, he can borrow the power of the elemental spirit to remove astringency, and the final potion made is much better than other substitute materials, so the boy has always used Thracian bud fruit to refine potions.
After all, the previous memories were full of overstretched poverty, and it was a last resort.
But others don't think so, thinking that this helpless move is another kind of self-breakthrough innovation, a hint of talent.
"Cut~ turned out to be excellent quality... Ahem~"
When the elixir fused into crystal droplets filled the medicine bottle like a fine spring, the concentration of the surrounding magical elements suddenly decreased, and the elemental spirit also disappeared in an instant. Only the liquid with a glimmer as bright as a star shimmered in the bottle with dazzling ripples.
Unlike Elizabeth, who was shocked and surprised, the boy was shocked and more of a self-deprecation of a blind cat encountering a dead mouse. Who said that this was the first time in his life that he had refined a potion of excellent quality, and it was in such a wild environment... This can only be said to be a fluke, and there is really no reasonable explanation for it.
Usually, the quality of potions is divided into seven levels - entry, ordinary, extraordinary, superior, superior, excellent, and perfect. Of course, the first two belong to the normalization of the public, that is to say, it only proves that you have the qualifications for refining, and the medicinal effect is naturally average. The middle three belong to the hall, and each level of ascension is a chasm for the pharmacist, representing a higher realm. The effects of natural medicine are immediate. As for the last two, one is unattainable, and the other is almost equivalent to legend. That's the ultimate goal that all pharmacists dream of and work tirelessly for. It belongs to a monumental existence, and as for the medicinal effect, who knows who uses it. How could it be that these people can recognize it now.
"Huh?! ~No way.. Ahem, it looks like... It's possible... Hey! - It's really a great quality potion! ”
From the moment she had just begun, Elizabeth had fallen into an all-round obsession with the potion in the bottle, without hesitating to twist her neck, and then muttered to herself, and finally developed into an octave exclamation.
Stuffed into the cork engraved with magic patterns, the young man looked at the eldest lady in front of him who had covered her mouth and sneered with a rather complicated look. sighed in his heart (isn't it just a fluke to refine an excellent quality potion, why do you have to be so distrustful, and surprised)
"Give, I can only say that it is your luck~"
"It's... How does this work? No~"
Like a hot potato, the potion bottle that was stuffed into the palm of Aurelia's right hand by the teenager again.... Hey? Who snatched it for whom?!
"Really, Aurelia just isn't being frank!"
Rem gripped the potion bottle tightly with both hands and embedded it deep in the harvest valley on his chest, as if he said that he could not give it to anyone else, but there was a heartfelt smile on his face.
"Master Saint, I am ashamed of your kindness on behalf of Aurelia. At the same time, as the eldest daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, the first duke of the Kingdom of Tasmailia, I warmly invite you to my new territory, and I will give you the highest standard of hospitality to match. ”
Elizabeth's magic earrings came to Rem again, and as a well-educated aristocratic child, she naturally understood it, in addition to sending out an invitation decently, she even naturally seemed to be slightly coquettish in front of her parents.
"I wonder if we have this honor? Little girl, I'm looking forward to repaying you for everything you've done to us, can't you?! ~”
"This...."
The common sense in his memory made the boy hesitate.
On this continent, the status of the apothecary is significantly lower than that of the healing mage. After all, the latter uses mana to accelerate the body's own self-recovery ability, and it can be observed with the naked eye for trauma and other conditions, which is an immediate effect. The effect of the medicine is much less satisfactory, and the taste needs to be improved. In addition, the healing magic of others has the blessing that can last for a while, which is enough to throw the opponent out of a dozen streets.
You must know that in the subconscious of this body, he is just a low-level pharmacist who barely maintains food and clothing, and he can't even make up the cost of assessing intermediate pharmacists. How dare you expect so much?!
The other party is the eldest daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, the first duke of the Kingdom of Tasmailia.
The duke, that is the apex of the aristocracy under one person. In addition to the vast, self-governing territory, it is also... Well, it's simply a miniature version of the kingdom. A high-level healing mage may not be able to become its exclusive chief mage staff, and a low-level pharmacist can even be an ordinary apothecary... Hey~ If you don't want to be hired, you won't live in a hut built by the master outside the forest.
"Master Saint, we invite you with 120,000 sincerity. Of course, if you have any other requirements, as long as we can do it, we will never refuse! ”
Rem didn't want to give up this chance to save the eldest lady's fate.
"Yes, Master Saint, no matter how you have to give the little girl a thin face to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, and please accept this golden crystal card!"
Golden Crystal Card?!
The young man looked at the purple-gold magic card presented by Elizabeth's hands, and suddenly looked confused.
The previous owner of this body came into contact with the highest unit of currency, up to the silver coin. Gold coins are things that have been seen but never owned. As for this purple-gold magic card... I haven't heard of it yet. Of course, the other mind will not have this thing in his memory. It's not hard to understand if it's a credit card, a check, a money order, or something, but this....
"This is a continent-wide exchange, as long as the order of the entered magic pattern array is in order, the one hundred dragon pattern coins in the card can be withdrawn at any time."
"Dragon Pattern Coins?! Or a hundred, this ..... What should I do now.....
According to the perception of the owner of this body, one dragon pattern coin = 10 platinum coins = 100 gold coins = 1000 large silver coins. And the biggest savings he has in his life is to save the life of a mercenary big sister in time in the misty forest, and get the largest income in history for this - a large silver coin (although it was later spent for the purchase of medicinal materials, this big silver coin was still held in his hand for a year, and the torture of competing with various temptations during this period was simply purgatory).
You must know that for a teenager who usually only has large and small copper coins in his pocket and occasionally holds small silver coins, this dragon pattern coin is simply undreamable. It's also because the master has enough books in his collection, and he has also popularized currency science to him, otherwise who knows this kind of existence at the top of the currency? It's really too far away from ordinary people, just like the stars, but you can't play with it from a distance.
If we compare the memories of the two according to the cognition of the mind body that controls this body, the price of goods in this world is roughly the same as in Japan. In other words, if a small copper coin is equivalent to a 10 yen coin, this dragon pattern coin is a bill of exchange of 10 million yuan. And 100 is a billion, so no matter what world it is, it's a huge amount of money, okay?!
"If the Holy Master is not satisfied, the little girl will naturally try her best to make up the difference after arriving at the territory, please rest assured~"
Seeing that the boy was in a state of confusion in thought, Elizabeth carefully guessed the other party's thoughts.
"No... It's not like that! This... This... It's too much~"
After the young man came back to his senses almost excitedly, the hands that had been subconsciously stretched forward quickly withdrew like an electric shock, and rubbed them wantonly on the herb apron around his waist to hide the panic in his heart.
"Master Saint is too humble, this excellent potion alone is not comparable to a hundred dragon pattern coins, not to mention that you have reached out to help before, this little bit of heart is really meager, how can you be so humble?!"
"It's too much, it's really too much. That one... I can only accept a large silver coin at most~"
The young man dodged sideways to dodge the golden crystal card handed over again, but after seeing that the other party still had a tendency to 'not give up until the goal is achieved', he reckoned enough courage and timidly put forward what he thought was a larger amount of offer.
"A big silver coin?! ——」
Everyone present was stunned, and most of the eyes that looked at the young man were full of puzzlement, but more of them were incredulous, as if they had heard the most incredible joke.
If there had not been the collapse of monsters that affected the entire continent more than two hundred years ago, if there had not been so many cities falling and so many elites of all races falling in that tragic battle for survival, then there would not have been a fault in the current magical civilization. Of course, the destruction of war does not stop there, the mottling and decay of magical elements, the change of some geological landforms, the appearance of various ruins and labyrinths, and the frequent occurrence of climate and natural disasters have set civilization back more than a few centuries.
It's like the talented black lan-toothed wolf, the reason why the existence of the boy was not discovered. It's not just as simple as being in the upper hand, you must know that the wolf clan's sense of smell is more than ten times that of humans, even if the grass skirt on the young man's body is indispensable, it can't erase the credit of the few magic arrays he used before.
"Through the Forest" is a magic circle that makes it easy for people to move around the forest, so that people will not be hindered by branches and bushes. It is a relatively simple small magic build. And "breath blocking" is literally the same as the meaning, it can mask the breath and magic power, making it more difficult for people to be perceived and captured by monsters with their instinctive talents. When this is used in conjunction with "Confusion", it can basically escape most of the tracking and monsters. These are the techniques that skilled hunters generally possessed in the previous era, and they were not considered skills. It is a self-training technique that trains and adjusts one's physical characteristics in harmony with the forest environment, plus a little magic skill to apply the law.
However, to this day, these simple auxiliary magic arrays, which were once well-known, have long been annihilated by the outbreak of monster collapse, and even if they may still exist, they are regarded as treasures by various countries and are known as the heritage of ancient civilizations. Not to mention that some of them were lost two hundred years ago.
Although the construction of a magic array requires the quality of the materials depending on the effect, anyone can use the effect as long as it is drawn with ink that dissolves the powder of the magic stone. However, if the graphics are not perfect, the magic circle will not be activated, and the outer circle drawn will not be able to exert the correct effect as long as it is slightly skewed.
No matter how carefully you draw it, after all, it is drawn by hand, and there will always be a crooked drawing that will not play its original effect. So many times, as long as the magic array can exert half of the effect, thank God. On the other hand, the books that record the magic circle are also handwritten "manuscripts", which are not necessarily accurate enough to become textbook models. There is no such thing as a trick that can be copied and copied, so like the one used by the teenager, it can be replaced by other skills and magic, or it can be done through training, and it can be built just by borrowing the surrounding elements, and this level of magic array will naturally be slowly lost.
In fact, this is the result of the poor people being forced to exercise in order to survive in the monster forest, but it is better than practical and simple, and its effect is even far beyond some special magic arrays.
As for the 'Refining Space', a realm that was only accessible to extremely talented pharmacists at that time, it probably only exists in the world's memory "Records of Civilization".
This is also the main reason why the teenager is befriended by Rem and Elizabeth. If the value of a bottle of an excellent quality intermediate potion is not worth ten Dragon Pattern Coins, then a pharmacist who has the talent of "Refining Space" and can easily refine an excellent quality potion is definitely not worth a mere hundred, thousand, or ten thousand Dragon Pattern Coins, but an absolute treasure!
"Miss, the magic cores of those tooth wolves are here."
The retainers, who hurried from a distance, bowed respectfully to the knightly salute, presented the small leather bags tightly tied with both hands, and asked again in a low voice: "Are the corpses of those toothed wolves incinerated on the spot?!" ”
"Don't, don't, don't! That's meat! ——”
The sudden sound made everyone stunned again.