Two sky-blue Crystal Cluster Golems helped Mage Edmund open the thick door to the lab, and the lab's owner beckoned Barrett to follow him.

Barrett had heard that the alchemy laboratory was an extremely private and secret place for mages, almost never allowing strangers to enter casually, and its importance was second only to the core furnace of the magic tower. Of course, for mages who don't have magic towers, the laboratory naturally comes first.

But this Edmund mage was quite generous enough to lead him directly in.

Barrett led his mount and strode forward, revealing a wide hallway. The walls on both sides of the corridor depict all kinds of strange creatures: dragons such as five-colored dragons and metal dragons, monsters such as multi-headed snake lizards and purple insects, and various magical beasts such as petrified cows, winter wolves, and thunder lizards.

The ceiling of the corridor is a magical pattern like veins of leaves, and at the nodes of those lines, there are many dark blue diamond-shaped crystals. Occasionally, a spar would suddenly sparkle, and then a drawing of a creature closest to the sparkling hedron would change shape.

Only then did Barrett realize that the creature patterns on the walls on both sides were changing from moment to moment. Some creatures are killed, dismembered, and devoured by others, while others grow old and die, and new life is born on the bone-like corpses......

Walking through the hallway, Barrett found herself in a room full of test tubes. Wooden shelves on the surrounding walls hold a wide variety of magical materials: the eyes of a petrified lizard, the feathers of a pengbird, the bodily fluids of a ooze monster, and even the whip of a red dragon......

Barrett didn't recognize the stout cylindrical thing at the top of the cabinet, only because all magic materials were labeled, and that thing was no exception.

There was also a young female mage in a purple robe in the room, squeezing a huge eyeball in her hand with the mage's hand. She kneaded it repeatedly, trying to get all the liquid in her eyes to flow into the test tube in front of her.

"Hey, my good Sally, have you eaten?" asked Mage Edmund to the mage.

"Fried reef fish, which Dean brought back. The mage replied without looking up, "And seaweed salad and beetroot." ”

"Next time I'll ask him to bring you some sea crabs, which taste great with asparagus. Master Edmund said, "By the way, do you want to eat Loraine's eggs?"

"I don't want to. The female mage replied stiffly.

"Forget it. Edmund shrugged his shoulders and turned to Barrett and introduced, "This is Sally, my apprentice. She will help your mount with the Bloodline Awakening Ritual. Rest assured, she is more experienced in this area than I am. She once made a cute and harmless little rabbit awaken through blood, and had the ability to spit dragon breath, and God knows what this thing did. He pointed to the cylindrical object at the top of the cabinet.

The female mage looked at Barrett with a blank face, and with a wave of her hand, the large eyeball, which had been drained of liquid, flew straight into the trash can. She turned around and walked over to the shelf with the many test tubes, made a cursory of them, then picked up a turquoise flask and handed it to Barrett.

"Uh, do I drink it or do I drink it?" asked our barbarian adventurer subconsciously.

The mage named Sally looked at him like an idiot, "Guess. ”

"A mount for you. Mage Edmund couldn't stand it anymore and personally stepped forward to relieve Barritt, "Unless you also want to perform the Bloodline Awakening Ritual." Well, do you want to try it? Actually, some of us humans are indeed from the Dragonborn, but they don't know it. ”

“...... Is this thing dangerous?" Barrett asked softly, looking at the turquoise potion in his hand.

He had heard that the second highest peak on the continent, 'Annabul Peak', near his hometown, had once been home to the White Dragon. On the summit where the snow never recedes, there were dozens of white dragons.

In Nord folklore, the white dragons often raided human villages and plundered livestock. Of course, it's not impossible if one of the adult white dragons used Transfiguration and something happened.

"Well, animals aren't dangerous. It's just that we haven't experimented on humans yet, and if you want to try it, we're more than welcome!In the meantime, I can give you a spider-eating egg for free, plus a parenting guide and a special saddle!How, it's quite a bargain!" Mage Edmund said excitedly. And the indifferent expression of the young female mage next to her also suddenly became enthusiastic, like a lovely person who has seen a gold coin.

"Forget it, I'm just asking. "Barrett doesn't want to be a test subject for an unknown agent. He raised his hand to lift the carrot's horse face and poured the potion into its mouth.

The latter turned his head to Barrett to express his displeasure, and after drinking the potion, he gradually began to become irritable. It kept digging and hissing, and it couldn't be used by Barrett no matter how much he scolded and tugged at the reins.

At this time, the female mage Sally suddenly put her hand on the bridge of the 'carrot's nose, and the latter was quiet for a moment, and then followed the female mage very obediently, and walked towards the other room.

"Let's just wait here. Edmund said to Barritt, "When Sally opened the alchemy circle, she didn't want anyone to watch. ”

"So, how long do you have to wait?"

"It's not too long, a glass of wine is enough. Master Edmund took out a bottle of red wine from the spatial ring, took out two empty test tubes from the shelf, and poured Barrett half a test tube of wine.

Are you sure this thing is clean?" Barrett held the test tube containing the wine, his face a little hesitant. He hesitated for a long time, but finally took a careful sip at the signal of Master Edmund's "glass".

"Are you an adventurer?" Mage Edmund took a sip of wine and chatted casually with Barrett.

"Yes. "I've been in this business for almost twenty years. ”

"Oh, that's been a long time, so you must be pretty good. "Actually, I used to be an adventurer for a while, and I was a merchant in a grocery store. I'm much more competent as an adventurer than a businessman. Yes, the other adventurers called me 'Edmund the Monster Summoner' back then, because I was always surrounded by many monsters, and I rarely took it upon myself to fight in battle. Those little friends of mine can easily take down the enemy!" he said triumphantly.

Mage Edmund chatted with Barrett about his past as an adventurer, and the incident that happened when he was a child that led him to love raising monsters.

I don't know how long it took, but the door to the other room was suddenly pushed open, and the female mage Sally walked in alone.

"Where's my mount?" Barrett asked, confused.

The female mage looked at Barrett with a blank expression, and after two heartbeats, she suddenly said, "Behind you." ”

Behind me?Barrett turned to look, but didn't find anything. But just as he was about to ask again, a huge and strong dark black steed, accompanied by smoke and flames, suddenly appeared in front of him.

Flames encircled the horse's iron hooves, and the sulphur-smelling smoke lingered around it, making its tall figure loom in the smoke. The golden eyes seemed to be smoldering with charcoal, radiating heat outwards, and through the layers of black smoke, they looked directly at Barrett angrily.

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