Different drugs have different effects. For example, the drug called the "Hero" series. You can let the soldier with a broken arm continue to fight without changing his face. And some can hallucinate, such as the mushroom series. Awakening potions are very effective for warfare. It can make the person who uses it stronger, more enduring, more flexible, more perceptive, more intelligent, and more charismatic. It's a game-changer. So there are adventurers and soldiers who do not hesitate to use it at critical moments. After all, defeating the enemy in front of you is more crucial, and addiction or something is a matter for the future. Without it, being torn apart by an ogre is not an addictive problem, but the adventure is over. Whether it's a warrior, or a barbarian, or a ranger wanderer, or a mage, or a priest, or a warlock, using it will help. And after using a lot of awakening potions, people will be very focused on one thing. There are even mages who use it to help them with their own research - of course he is very careful with the dosage and variety - it is a hooligan not to talk about the dosage. If the dose is large, of course, he can't study anything, but the right dose can make him more focused on research - but this is related to the awakening agent is also a general term, some changes in the alchemist's skills can make it have different effects, and some are more addictive, just to make people feel refreshed. Others can be used to treat schizophrenia.

Different drugs come from different sources. "Hero" this drug comes from plants. The fruit of the poppy is cut, and the white *** that flows out is the famous "poppy milk". A very famous panacea. And refining it is a "sleeping god" drug. Refined, to the extreme, it is a "hero" drug. Addiction and potency have also increased along the way. However, it requires careful manipulation by an alchemist or mage. "Heroes" require natural plants and post-processing, both of which are indispensable. Therefore, the cost is also very high.

The psychedelic family of drugs comes from a wide range of sources. For example, licking certain special species of toads can give people wonderful hallucinations. Or a thrilling trip, or a knife to wipe your neck, or you may die directly due to poisoning. Even dogs lick toads to keep themselves cool. Mushrooms, on the other hand, are a very traditional psychedelic drug. Some tribes don't know how to make wine, so they use this mushroom to cool it. In addition, hallucinogenic mushrooms are traditionally used by shamans and have mana. Berserker mushrooms, which are created in the Nordics, are also related to hallucinogenic mushrooms. The disgusting part is that the active ingredients in hallucinogenic mushrooms can be reused. After eating it, there is this active ingredient in the urine that is excreted. When addicts are cool, they will prepare a jar and drink urine in it to continue to cool. In some tribes, shamans eat mushrooms themselves and have others drink their own urine during rituals. The most famous psychedelic drugs were originally just a plant that could be used to weave linen or spin thread, make ropes, weave fishing nets and make paper, but they were carefully selected and cultivated in high content. In addition, some drugs are effective against specific organisms. For example, catnip. In fact, it is a feline-specific drug that makes cats hallucinate. It is also effective against large cats such as tiger lynx, and can be used to assist in taming animals.

And the awakening agent. It originated from jute. The main thing is to be carefully blended by an alchemist. According to the specific processing technology and content, it has different effects. For example, some formulas can be modified to make medicines that can treat asthma, sleep disorders (narcolepsy) and hyperactivity, refresh and prevent fatigue. It can also amplify its effects and make it an addictive drug. Even drugs for therapeutic purposes can be addictive. Therefore, like "poppy milk", it needs to be used with caution, like dancing on the tip of a knife.

Because of the harm, all kinds of drugs have been strongly attacked by various good organizations. Rulers, on the other hand, fight drugs on the basis of social stability and to prevent the poisoning of labor – but even good organizations use drugs as drugs. For example, the famous healing agent for wounds, which is commonly used in adventures known as the "Red Bottle", contains "poppy milk". Of course, these are also used by various rulers. All in all, it is to grasp the normative, legal by yourself. And for a powerful blow beyond their control.

So, naturally, this brings windfall profits. Because the use of awakening agents in large doses can bring powerful pleasure. Therefore, there are quite a few wealthy people who prefer it. The use of a small dose of Awakening Agent can improve combat effectiveness, which is why it is favored by gangsters. One of the disadvantages of awakening potions is that they bring hallucinations. There have been countries that have also used a large number of awakening potions for their troops. As a result, there is a Legendary-level warrior (because he is a Legendary-level warrior, he uses more Awakening Potions.) Enough awakening potion to directly poison 20 ordinary people to make him cool enough) The hallucinations he developed after using a large amount of awakening potions led him to slaughter one-sixth of the royal family in the palace. And other fighters who use awakening potions often have all kinds of problems, and there are enough warriors who have the illusion of being chased and killed, enough to publish a book, so that they will naturally use violence to "protect themselves", and by the time they wake up, they may have caused a catastrophe. And mages who use awakening potions are even worse. At first they may only use small doses to refresh themselves and temporarily increase their intelligence. But soon they will use it more and more. Until one day, he casts a spell in a hallucination and causes an arcane accident - blowing himself up or turning an entire room into a puddle of sludge, etc. Therefore, countries often do not use awakening agents casually. However, the gangsters, of course, don't care about these problems. A nervous thug is also better than a junk thug who can't beat the enemy. Therefore, in the underground society, the awakening agent naturally has a criminal color.

Profiteering, crime. Taken together, this means a powerful element of violence. The alchemy of the northerners was not very clever in the first place. Even if the harm of the awakening agent has not been widely discovered, the northern army did not use the awakening agent much in the relatively widespread era. Not to mention remote villages like distilled spirits. It was definitely not made up by themselves.

In other words, if you are on the side of the awakening agent, deal with that matter. So Martin and his party had to deal with more than just a village of wild Northland warriors - it was the kind that used the Awakening Potion so that ordinary warriors could partially imitate the berserkers. But it also includes a gangster with a certain level of power and level. There may be a criminal mage who plays with insidious arcane magic, there may be a bizarre assassin who dances with a dagger and teleports and jumps in the shadows, or there may be a rag thug who has been driven crazy by a large dose of awakening potion and has his whole body cut by himself.

If it is said that the Northland warriors are still relatively direct and reckless, they can be tough or set up advanced. Then those gangsters who lick blood on the tip of the knife, confront various justice organizations, and also swallow and kill each other, are undoubtedly more insidious and difficult to deal with. Originally, there were few mages in the north, and the other party might just be a witch or wizard from the north, or even a wandering shaman from the east, and a priest of the gods of the north. At least in terms of the power of the caster, it is not enough to compare with Shirley, a top student of the Arcane Academy. However, to be able to create an awakening potion must be operated by someone who is proficient in alchemy, and it may be that the arcanist of the alchemy school is in charge here. It undoubtedly complicates the issue. In fact, compared to a meat grinder-like berserker, a mage may be much less combative. But the biggest problem that mages bring is uncertainty. You don't know what kind of chaos a mage can cause. Sometimes it's just a little trouble, and sometimes it's fatal.

Awakening agents can be an important source of funding, so they will inevitably be protected.

But in the Northlands, in winter, it is obviously not a good choice to fight against a group of powerful winter wolves that can raise wolf children. It's almost like giving people the choice of whether to swim in the crocodile pool or go to the shark beach.

Given Martin these two options, Holkey turned and walked back to the house. One of his lieutenants was left to explain to Martin in detail the location of the hostile stockade or the general area of activity of the winter wolves. This is undoubtedly also a negotiating tool. Put pressure on Martin's side.

Martin stood under the walls of their village, listening to each other's introductions. Sophia, on the other hand, stood there in her helmet and armor, and she didn't know how to move, except for occasionally moving her body to keep her sharpness from being affected by the freeze. Silent, but reassuring.

Finally, the negotiation is completed. Martin handed the footman a note as agreed, and after that, as long as the footman took the note to the Northern army fortress, the commander would naturally give him the gold that Martin had deposited there. The merchant bowed, and then walked cautiously towards the village. Martin watched as he was ushered in—or rather, by some strong men—after some negotiations.

Obviously, it is impossible for the other party to let them in. So you can see the curling smoke though. But Martin's party could only set up tents. Camping in the wilderness. This made Zarie complain, she was the most afraid of the cold, and the one who was most indifferent to Martin's adventure.

At night, everyone took turns keeping vigil. When it was Martin's turn to be on duty, he was keenly aware that several targets were creeping in.

He secretly woke everyone up. Unexpectedly, the other party made a sound: "We have no malice." ”

Martin, of course, doesn't trust the other side casually. However, through Chuye's psionic energy and Shirley's arcane detection, it was found that there were indeed no more people approaching. And the attitude of the other party is really to come over and communicate. So he asked the other party to come only one person, take off his weapons and armor.

The other party came with such a big grin. He was a blonde and blue-eyed man, full of muscles. It's comparable to the berserker of the Northland squad before. It's obviously a hard stubble. Martin recognized that it was one of the deputy chiefs he had approached earlier.

"I'm here for no other purpose. The other party said directly, "What you want to know, the whereabouts of the treasure that Holkey snatched back then." I know that too. I can tell you, but I have one condition, and it's up to you to say yes or not. ”

————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— huhuhu, I have been more depressed in the unit recently, and there are some people who are good at intrigue, beating me with a black gun and squeezing me out。 It's annoying to these things. I decided that since that was the case, I would devote more energy to writing.

Speaking of which, when you read this book, you paid attention to it, and I also wrote a lot of novellas, and some of them were posted on the forum. I'm going to try to make some of them longer, and I'm done. Of course, the book will continue to be updated, and even speed up the progress.

My life is very withdrawn. Recently, however, I have been trying to expand my communication more offline. Let's see if it succeeds or doesn't. People still can't live too much in their own world, after all, social animals.

"In the Name of the People", which has recently become popular, I am ordering myself to watch it. Although the progress of the look is slow. There's a lot of stuff in it that I'm going to learn. You can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to defend people. Some can be dispensed with, but you need to understand.

In terms of animation, I really don't watch it anymore. "Animal Friends" doesn't feel very interesting? Or because I didn't chase it? Now I'm chasing "Legend of Sword Wind" and "Monster Guardian". To be honest, I feel that it's not a good thing to watch too many anime at my age. However, it is possible to write an otaku essay later. Can't be too outdated. In fact, I don't read many online novels now.

There is such a thing. Mushroom said, Tsukihime and FATE separated, parallel world. I'll just hehe. Many people sarcastically said, "It's just Marvel Japan, and then a reboot of Meizizi". However, I noticed something wrong much earlier. In fact, in addition to Moon World, DND, Star Wars is the same. A lot of people are obsessed with these things, arguing about their premises. I used to think that it would be a waste of time to be too engaged. Because of the things being argued, maybe the creators themselves are not as serious as you! There are a lot of books in it, contradictions, and bugs. In fact, I spent a certain amount of time indulging in this kind of dead house obsession, and then it felt more and more wrong. Look at DND again, version 5 or something, the settings that so many people regarded as classics before have all flown around. And after Star Wars Mickey Mouse inserted it, the old canon was directly invalidated...... Don't those addicts feel trampled on?