The workshop was divided into two rooms, the outer one was divided into four or five rooms, and in each room there was a young man, some were chanting words into a bottle, and some seemed to be resting, and when he saw Alec walk in, he nodded his head and said hello. Alec returned the salute one by one.

At the back, there is a thick iron door blocking it, and you can't see what is inside. But on the door is a beautiful lettering: The work laboratory of the magician Sackville and his assistant Alec. Please do not trespass, violators will be responsible for the consequences.

Romon glanced at Alec in front of him and thought: It seems that this person is very valued by magicians. Moreover, it seems that this Sackville master still has a bit of the weird cold humor of the scientific researchers in his previous life.

Alec led the two of them to the house behind them. At the door, he stopped, looked back at the two people behind him, and said solemnly: "In front is my teacher Sackville's laboratory, I ask you not to disturb anything in the room because of curiosity after entering, as the saying goes, curiosity kills cats." Showing curiosity in a magician's laboratory would most likely result in his own death. ”

Romon spread his hands and said with a smile, "A more dangerous place than the druid's natural greenhouse is the mage's laboratory. ”

Fezia also smiled: "A qualified businessman, he knows how to control his curiosity. ”

Alec nodded, pushed open the iron door, revealing a staircase leading down to the crowd. It seems that the magician built his laboratory underground.

The three of them walked down, and at the same time the iron door closed automatically, and a little light lit up overhead in the originally dark corridor. Romon then saw that at the end of the stairs, there was another iron door, and the words on it read: Old friends don't need to knock on the door.

Alec pushed the door open in front, and the three of them finally entered Sackville's lab.

Romon looked around carefully, the size of the room was about the same as the one outside, and the whole house was roughly divided into four areas:

In the northwest corner, there are many utensils on the long table, and the modernly educated Romon can roughly distinguish their function from the shape of the vessels, such as balances and measuring cups for weighing doses, sealing utensils for storing special items, utensils for distillation, utensils for heating, utensils for cutting, and so on.

In the southwest corner, there are some herbs and medicinal ores stacked in different categories, Luo Meng roughly identifies them, probably the herbs can distinguish more than ten kinds, while the medicinal ores can only recognize a few.

On the desk to the northeast, there were some parchment rolls scattered around, as well as several quills inserted in inkwells and placed outside.

To the southeast were two beds, and it looked like the magician and his disciples sometimes slept in the workshop.

At this moment, Mr. Sackville, a fifth-level magician, was sitting at his desk, frowning and looking at something.

"Teacher. Alec stepped forward and called out respectfully.

The magician Sackville was a balding old man who was not tall, with a flattened square face, thick eyebrows, and a long beard, all snow-white. When the old man reads a book, he will unconsciously stroke his beard.

Sackville didn't look up, and let out a "hmm" in his nose: "Jacob's business is over?"

Alec smiled wryly and said, "That's really an uneasy child, and he used the Palm of Flame just now. ”

Sackville looked up, "Oh? what's going on?"

Alec told the story of the story, and introduced Fezia and Romon by the way.

The old mage shook his head: "Dandy is an old friend of mine. But this disciple of his is really not very successful. I'll write to Dandy and Baron Ibi to deal with this matter. ”

Then he looked at Fezia, "Your father Barnel is a good man, but he is too small to do business with people like us. You're going to have to work hard!"

Fezia immediately said gratefully: "Master, I will work hard, hoping that one day I will be qualified to serve you." ”

The old mage waved his hand, glanced at Romón, and said to Fezia, "This is the young man whom Barn recommended to me? Well, I'll test you a few questions, and if you can pass it, I'll do it. ”

Luo Meng bowed to the old mage: "Please ask the master to ask questions." ”

The old mage scratched his head: "First of all, what is the basic principle of alchemy potion?"

Luo Meng recalled for a moment and replied affirmatively: "The use of the curing agent to temporarily store the spell, this is the basic principle of the alchemy potion. ”

Sackville nodded: "Second question, do you know how to prepare the curing agent of the alchemy elixir of the healing potion?"

"I've learned one, but I've never done it. Romon replied. Although when he was in Rika Town, he studied and worked with Apothecary Anson and also made potions, but ordinary potions and alchemical potions are completely different concepts.

"Oh, which?" Sackville's brow twitched.

"The standard blending method of druids for the treatment of minor injuries is as follows: night moon grass picked on the night of a full moon, which is immediately soaked in wine for juice, blue stone, soaked and polished into powder with rainwater, and ......" Romon thought for a moment, and then spoke fluently the answers he knew.

Sackville nodded repeatedly, and when Romon finished speaking, he asked again, "One last question, the correct time to use the hardener and the casting state that should be chosen. ”

Romon frowned, he was not a druid who had been systematically studied, fortunately, because the manufacture of healing potions was the biggest source of wealth for low-level spellcasters, so at that time, he had also consulted relevant information in the temple library in the town, and consulted with the pharmacist Anson and Druidjiefa about it, recalling the words confided in the book and the two of them, Romon sorted out his thoughts and replied: " The first problem: after the curing agent is successfully formulated, its live surname index is constantly changing, once the live surname index of the curing agent drops to zero, it marks the failure of the curing agent and needs to be reformulated. However, the change law of the live surname index of different curing agents is different, in principle, the time when the live surname of the curing agent is the highest should be selected for enchantment. The second question: the creation of alchemical potions and magical items, in the process of casting spells is called enchantment, the spells and gestures used in enchantment casting are different from normal casting, in the case of the healing potion of minor injuries that I know, for example, it should be ...... in the process of holding the spell"

Romon went through everything he knew in as much detail as he could.

After listening to this, Sackville smiled and said, "Young man, you passed my exam. Now I want to talk about your treatment and the requirements of the job. If you don't like it or have a special request, you can ask for it after I'm done. ”

"Yes, Master. Romon replied respectfully.

Sackville stroked his long snow-white beard and said, "You must know that the general medicine for treating minor injuries, such as the one you know, has a medicinal effect of one month, and the price is 1 gold coin. The potion I prepared has a potion that lasts for up to 45 days, and the price of this potion is 2 gold. As for the total price of curing agent materials, the kind you know, the market price generally fluctuates around 2 silver coins, but considering that not every time a qualified agent can be successfully prepared, the cost price of the material alone is higher than 2 silver. The cost of the hardener formula I use is lower than the formula you know, and the cost price is about 1 silver. So, this is how your work is paid. You should complete a qualified flask every day, and I will give you 7 silver as the price of casting the spell, and then I will allow you a chance to fail once a day, but for each time you exceed, I will charge you 1 silver to compensate me for the curing agent material fee. Finally, if you can complete three vials of Minor Healing Potions per day, I'll give you an extra 5 silver as a reward. As for room and board, you'll get a small room, and a free lunch. Oh, and I forgot the most important perk of working here, that every week, you can sit in on my lectures, but you can't ask questions or talk. As for my request, the curing agent received cannot be taken out of the workshop, and the expired waste must also be returned. Do you understand?"

Hearing this, Luo Meng nodded seriously: "Master, you are a generous person. I am willing to serve you. ”

"So. Let's make a magical contract. The deadline is one month, and after one month, we will decide whether to renew or not according to the situation. Sackville smiled and took out two parchment rolls from the drawer of his desk.

Romon took it, in duplicate, and carefully read the terms above, roughly as Sackville said, and in more detail it stipulated the handling of the terms that did not meet the requirements of the terms. At the bottom, Sackville has pre-signed his name. Romon felt that there was no problem, so he took up the pen and signed his names separately.

The old mage took the contract, smiled even more kindly, and said to Alec, "Alec, take Romon to his room and his workshop, well, and, show him how to mix potions." Romong, you have to keep in mind that you have a total of three chances to watch Alec's potion for free, again only by watching and not asking. In the future, if you want to watch Alec mix potions, Alec will charge a fee, about 5 silver each time. Also, I don't think you're going to be reckless enough to break into a magician's lab, are you?"

Romon bent down and bowed: "Master Sackville, I understand. Then he retreated with Alec.

The three of them went up the dimly lit staircase and returned to the workshop outside.

"Master Alec, Romon will take your care in the future. After coming out, Fezia said with a smile.

Alec patted Romon on the shoulder: "No problem, I think he's a clever lad." ”

"Thank you so much, this time we came in a hurry, and the caravan is about to return to Rikatown, so I can only invite you to the House of Offa for a drink next time. ”

Romon pricked up his ears and listened to the conversation between the two, what Fizia called the "House of Arcanes", which he had also heard from adventurers when he was in Rika Town, that this was a hotel attached to the Spellcasters' Association of Aps, and the basic service was to ask for the gold bags of the casters of the mages, that is, if someone wanted to find a caster to do something, they would choose the "House of Arcanes" to invite the mages for a drink. Of course, the mages also have their own in-house bar, which is not for ordinary people to enter.

"Although he is a spellcaster, as a druid, he must wait for the fifth level before he is qualified to enter, and now in a place like this, he still can't enter!" Luo Meng thought so, but he was not the slightest bit indignant, with the support of Shennongjiao, he was full of confidence in the future.

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