Douala is located on the western border of Holke, and further west is the Duchy of Patrick.

The Duchy of Patrick is the fief of His Royal Highness Randall, the golden lion, and if you go back in history, it can be traced back to decades ago, when Randall's father, Archduke Ferdinand, was still alive.

This Archduke Ferdinand was the elder brother of the old king, also born to the same mother, and had a priority in the succession to the throne. It stands to reason that the Archduke Ferdinand should have inherited the throne, but the Grand Duke thought that he had no talent for governing the country, so he offered to abdicate and give up the throne to his younger brother Edgar, the elder brother of the current regent Cynthia, the old king who had just died at the beginning of the year.

The old king Edgar was grateful for his brother's righteous act of giving up the throne, and reciprocated the favor, and also made a statement, excluding public opinion when the principality had not been divided for nearly a hundred years, and gave a piece of northern territory to his brother Archduke Ferdinand, which is now the Duchy of Patrick.

“...... No prince can match the talents of His Royal Highness Randall, so we all know the name of the Golden Lion, and who knows what the names of those three princes are?

A drunk, apparently overdrunk, blushed, stomped on the high stool in front of him, holding a large glass of ale in the other, and shouted loudly.

"So I think it's really fitting that the throne will be integrated by His Royal Highness Randall! I think the old king also inherited the throne from the old duke, and now it is natural to return the throne to the old duke's son!"

As the red-faced drunk man's words fell, the surroundings immediately resounded.

"Good!"

"Well said!"

"That's what I thought too!"

"Old Hank, you can talk less, and be careful to wait a little while Charles will come and pull you back to talk. ”......

Norman sat in his position and watched it all.

Following his gaze, he could see that it was a dimly lit tavern, the door was blocked by a thick curtain, there were almost no windows on the walls around it, and the only two small windows were close to the bar, but they were not fully opened, but they were only propped up with sticks, revealing two fist-wide gaps, ventilated, and not much light came in from that side, and it was now winter in the northland, and the sunlight was greatly reduced, it was very weak, and more lighting still came from those inferior paraffin waxes inside the tavern.

The two wide gaps obviously do not have a good ventilation effect, and the paraffin wax lit for lighting in the tavern always exudes a bad smell, and the air in the tavern is a little bad, especially since the tavern has a large population, and the smell of alcohol and breath is mixed, and most of the people here do not seem to have the habit of bathing frequently......

Well, this complex taste of five tastes is really not something that the upper class can bear.

Take Pirno, for example.

This gentleman was born in a declining aristocratic family, and he has never suffered much since he was a child, because of his outstanding talent, he became a famous painter when he grew up, and his life in high society was quite nourishing. Soon after, he was granted residency in Jebel Dana, and since then he has lived in the wonderful city of Jebel Dana.

This made Pirno couldn't help frowning, but seeing that the respected Sage Lord was calm, he was too embarrassed to say anything, so he could only sit stiffly, and he didn't dare to drink the cloudy ale mixed with some unknown solids in his hand.

Compared with Pirno, Chen Qinghe and Ji Ruoxi are much better.

Although the makeup had obscured their true complexions, and it was impossible to see the subtle facial expressions on their faces, it was easy to see from the eyes that the two dragons did not show any special disgust for the scene in front of them.

According to Lancelot, "Humans are just a bunch of bugs anyway, and there is no difference between the king of bugs and the commoners of bugs".

This is what Lancelot jokingly described when he analyzed the psychology of these two dragons to Norman.

As for Norman, it was even more discolored: a few months ago, it was all the fantasies that he could sketch up about high society for the son of a peasant, and where could he be so disgusted as Pirnault?

Instead, he was watching with interest what was happening in front of him.

Although this is still the Holker Domain, the people here seem to have a special affection for His Royal Highness the Lord of the Duchy of Patrick next door, and even began to wave the flag for the golden lion.

“...... In addition to showing that the golden lion does have the talent and reputation to contact, from the perspective of social behavior, this is also inseparable from the geographical environment here. ”

"This is close to the Duchy of Patrick, if you want to lead Patrick from Holke, most people will choose to pass through here, if Randall becomes king, it is likely that he will take great care of his former territory, and it is possible to move the capital. But in any case, as long as Randall becomes king, Patrick will be able to develop better, and at that time, this area, as a transportation artery connecting Patrick, will naturally be more prosperous, and the people here will be able to benefit more from it......"

Lancelot chattered and analyzed Norman in his heart, which was the fundamental reason why Norman quickly transformed from an ignorant villager to the elite of the kingdom in a few months, and that was based on the Templar Knights' teaching of him all the time - normal people have very little time to study, and they mainly focus on specific project subjects, and there is even less time to learn knowledge such as social analysis, and the growth progress is naturally incomparable to Norman.

Norman, on the other hand, listened to Lancelot's words and thought about his own thoughts.

After leaving the Capital of the Arts, they headed west, preparing to travel to the Northlands via the Duchy of Patrick, but the Normans were not idle along the way.

The first problem he had to solve was the production of the magic pool.

He had experience in using the magic pool, and he was particularly insecure in the absence of the magic pool, so as soon as he left the radius of the city of the city of the art city, he immediately jumped up and down to make another magic pool, so when he arrived at the first town they arrived at after leaving the art capital, he hurried around to ask about the relevant materials, but the result was disappointing.

The materials needed for Mana Pool 1.0 are very expensive, and that's it, money, with his current ability, he can still find a way to solve it, but the problem is that those materials are not only expensive, but also very rare, he asked all the blacksmith shops and grocery stores in that town, and he couldn't find even a single material.

Scarcity is precious, and the words that Lancelot once taught him are well represented here.

By the time he reached the second city, the situation had not improved much, and although he could not find any materials as in that town, he had only found one of them in one shop in the whole city, and the price was very expensive, and it was sold in Quintalan as a currency.

It's not enough at all, and it's still so small......

The shopkeeper may have seen the clues from the materials reported by Norman, or he may have been simply kind, and he did not despise him because of the appearance of the Norman country woman, but gave Norman some reliable advice.

"You can try your luck in Jebel Dana, if there is any place in the entire Holke Territory and even the entire kingdom that can provide the materials you need, then I think there is only Jebel Danner besides Santa Vita. ”

Norman laughed bitterly when he heard this: he had just come out of Jebel Dana, how could he go back? It was even more impossible to go to Santa Vita, where it was estimated that there was a fierce fight for the throne, and he, the Sage, was so sick in his brain that he would run over to join the troubled waters at this time?

Could it be that this magic pool will never be able to be made again? Is it just a beautiful dream?

In this desperate time, it was his strongest backing, the Knights Templar, who jumped out.

"According to our analysis, the reinvention of Magic Pool 1.0 is unlikely. ”

Lancelot gave Norman a punch and then a sweet date, "But Magic Pool 2.0 is in the works, and if it succeeds, the materials needed will be free from the previous shackles." ”

This sentence lifted Norman's spirits - there is no need for those rare materials in the Magic Pool 2.0!

But immediately he raised his doubts: "Don't you have no way to get the materials?"

I think it was for this reason that the Knights Templar asked him to ask Delvik for help.

Lancelot explains: "In the days when you were experimenting with Magic Pool 1.0, you might have seen a Magic Pool 1.0, but for us, the results were much more than that. ”

"Through your experiments in the past few days, we have obtained data on the properties of many materials in your world, enriching our database, which has made the production of Magic Pool 2.0 possible. We are currently conducting material fabrication and experimental simulations on the data of these materials, and in this regard, the successful empirical data of Magic Pool 1.0 will be the standard for our basic judgment......"

Anyway, after listening to Norman for a long time, he made a summary of Lancelot's words: To put it simply, the Knights Templar now have the ability to experiment with themselves to make magic pools, of course, they can only provide the most likely plan, whether it can be achieved or not depends on the results of the actual experiment on Norman's side at that time.

And the biggest difference between this magic pool 2.0 and magic pool 1.0 is probably the difference in materials. The Knights Templar took into account the availability of materials as much as possible during the development process, so that Pool 2.0 could be put into production as much as possible.

The matter of the magic pool could only be put on hold for the time being, and another thing followed.

Tears of Cenarius.

The potion in Chen Qinghe and Ji Ruoxi's bodies always has to be solved, and Norman and they have also continued to collect relevant materials along the way, but the potion that can have an effect on the dragon clan is obviously not a big commodity, and the materials needed for the antidote are also very rare, even if they are crazy to buy and buy along the way, so far they have only collected half of the materials needed for the antidote.

In other words, from leaving Jebel Danner to the present, Norman has not done any of the two most important things, and the only thing worth gratifying on this journey is his mental recovery.

Under the rapid healing of the healing chapter, Norman's mental power has now recovered to more than half of his heyday!

Although his current mental power can only be divided into 16 points, it has been a few days since he recovered to 16 parts of his spirit power, and with the current momentum, Norman feels that it will not be long before he can recover to the state of 32 parts of spirit power.

And the healing chapter is not only as simple as restoring his mental power, but also seems to have changed his mental power.

Norman's measurement of his mental power has always been measured by "portions" or "strips", such as 4, 8, 16, and 32, but after the recovery of the healing chapter, he found that in addition to measuring mental power in this "quantitative" way, there is also a "qualitative" measurement.

Although his current spiritual power is only 16, Norman can clearly feel that the strength of each of his current spiritual powers is much stronger than the previous 32 spiritual power hours and the strength of each spiritual power, and in terms of the total amount, his current spiritual power is not too much worse than the previous 32 spiritual power periods.

In other words, by the time he was able to divide his spiritual power into 32 again, his total spiritual power would greatly exceed that of his previous heyday.

Norman thinks this can be described as a computer processor in the Earth world that Lancelot often tells him: he used to be a 32-core, single-core processor with a vibration frequency of 3 billion vibrations per second, and now he is a 16-core, single-core processor with a vibration frequency of 4.5 billion vibrations per second. If it continues like this, it will become a 32-core, single-core 4.5 billion vibrations per second, although the number of cores has not changed, but the overall performance has been greatly enhanced.

The healing chapter has continuously made his mental power recover quickly, and his mental power has been greatly tempered in the process, which is much more effective than his simple way of relying on the barrage of sailors in the live broadcast room to hone his mental power, which makes Norman a little itchy, thinking that he is looking for a chance to do this again? Compared to hard work to hone his mental power, this is much faster, but the process is too dangerous.

Thanks to the rapid recovery of his mental strength, Norman looked at the people in front of him while thinking about what had happened in the recent days.

The reason they're here now is to get some news and see if they can make some money — yes, they're out of money.

Along the way, in order to buy the materials needed for the antidote to the tears of Cenarius, the two dragons and Pirno have already spent all the money, but they still have a long way to go, and they have to keep buying materials in the middle, and if the magic pool 2.0 is successfully developed, they will also need money to buy materials, so a few of them went to the tavern to listen to the news, after all, in every city, the tavern has always been the most information-rich and open place.

The crowd in front of them was bragging, and there wasn't a lot of effective information, but at this moment, I don't know who said something intentionally or unintentionally, and Norman heard it.