"There's always something unimaginably interesting in the sea, and I remember there was a little octopus in the tide pools on the beach, and if you yelled at them, they would turn white immediately. Lo and behold, this is the color. ”

Gersang pulled out a small piece of white paint from the color palette on the table with his fingers, rubbed it with his index finger and thumb, and dipped it in some water to spread evenly. He then pressed these two fingers against the newly purchased papyrus and drew a white pattern.

Magenta extracted from cochineal, bone snail purple extracted from shellfish, ultramarine blue obtained by washing lapis lazuli with wax, frankincense, turpentine and pine tar, and alkaline solution...... One pigment after another was put into use.

Half an hourglass has passed, and under the careful depiction of Gelsan, a magnificent "painting" leaps onto the papyrus. He fastened the painting to the wall as a wooden peg, shortening the process of drying.

Once it had dried completely, the elderly camel shaman began to chant a spell that summoned the elements, casting spells on every line and piece of the rendered pattern.

Standing on the side, the proud Shuangfeng carefully watched every step of his teacher's operation - Gelsang was not a lover of calligraphy and painting, and after so much effort, the picture he made was actually the prototype of an "elemental summoning circle".

In the island world, the development of spells is still in a relatively primitive stage. According to the school, most of the spellcasters in this plane have spells from the spell school of spells, and shamans who can communicate and summon elemental power are the main ones.

The key to being qualified to pass on the way of the shaman lies in the ability to communicate with the elemental spirits. Many apprentices spend their entire lives studying and are only able to summon a faint flame – not enough for cooking, let alone against enemies.

In the process of constantly exploring the experience, the shaman master who has accumulated a lot of lessons will prepare the "Elemental Summoning Circle" for his disciples to enlighten them, so as to increase the possibility of succession success.

They need to cut open trees that have been growing for at least 100 years, make planks out of their cores, and then spread paraffin evenly on them.

The pattern is then carved into the solidified paraffin wax little by little with a gold rod, and the pigments extracted from ores, plants, and living organisms are used to color and polish it.

Finally, you need to recite a spell to add a special spell to the "Elemental Summoning Circle".

The whole process has strict time requirements, if it takes too long, the elemental activity of various raw materials will be greatly reduced, and the magic circle made will not have the function of assisting in communicating with elemental spirits.

In this way, the already cumbersome process becomes more difficult again - even a skilled shaman cannot guarantee that the ritual circle he has spent a lot of effort to produce will be 100% effective.

"Teacher," the young camel nobleman asked, slightly surprised, taking the sparkling papyrus from Gersan, "do you want me to use this now...... to complete the initiation ritual?"

Gersang nodded, though using papyrus as a medium was much simpler than using the traditional process, but the time spent on staying focused for nearly an hourglass still made the old camel man feel a little tired.

"Hurry up and give it a try, try to communicate with the elemental spirits according to the way I taught you to visualize—"

His words were only half spoken, and the rest was not necessary to explain to an apprentice. In fact, with Gersan's knowledge, he immediately discovered the great value of this product after seeing papyrus.

Drawing the "Elemental Summoning Circle" is only a preliminary attempt, if it can be properly used, in fact, not only the inheritance of the shamanic way, but also any other knowledge can be used as a cheap carrier, written and recorded, and popularized on a large scale.

According to his teacher's words, Proud Twin Peaks immediately began to visualize the "Elemental Summoning Development" on the papyrus in his hand. The smooth process was a bit unexpected to Kelsang:

As time passed, the fine sand on the soles of the camel apprentice's feet slowly gathered together, gradually covering his broad toes, and gradually climbing along the calves;

Smoke rose from the place where his finger touched the papyrus, and circles of charred black traces appeared on the surface of the paper, but the apprentice's finger was unharmed;

On the papyrus, the white pigment taken from some kind of octopus bodily fluid becomes wet again, and the white lines connect the parts that the fingers touch, and there seems to be an electric current passing through it, making a "crackling" sound.

Gersan's speculation was confirmed, and papyrus did indeed have a unique value. Moreover, the reason that has been proven so far and can be used as a carrier of the Shaman's initiation ritual circle can make the upper nobles of the camel empire flock to it.

"Who the hell is that floating raft man?"

"What is the connection between the papyrus, or the prophecy of that man and the elemental spirits?"

"Isn't it the right time to report these discoveries to the Twin Peaks?"

With the success of the experiment, Gelsang found that he now had a series of problems that needed to be solved urgently.

Unlike this Bactrian camel nobleman, our protagonist, the young blue dragon Quis, is very excited at this time.

He took the camel gold coins he had exchanged for papyrus paper and traded them with the camel merchants in the market, wanting to investigate the purchasing power of gold in the camel empire of the island world.

To his delight, this precious metal, which is highly valued in the ash world, is even more "cheap" than he expected.

For example, if you buy wood from a camel merchant for three gold coins, you only need five silver kates to buy wood of the same material, weight, and volume at Medici - if you consider the weight, the purchasing power of the camel gold coins is not even as good as that of silver kate.

Even if there is a certain upfront cost for interdimensional trade, the difference in price can generate high profits.

Not to mention that in addition to papyrus products, Quest has many options: for example, the sky-high price of "madman armor" can be sold in Nome, and the floating monster can be quantified......

Once the commercial tentacles of the "Scales of Eternal Order" are extended to this plane, then it is almost certain that they can obtain massive excess profits.

However, as the saying goes, "when the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels" - the reverse is also true, while grabbing a lot of benefits, it will certainly gradually face more and more competition, and eventually it is very likely that it will need to resort to force to settle the dispute.

In addition to the benthic devilfish that he has already fought against, the "imaginary enemies" that Quest needs to envision also include the primordial gods of the island world.

And the strongest of them is the "camel god" of the camel empire.

Belligerent or cooperative?

For the young blue dragon, this is a difficult matter to decide, but the real choice is not in his own hands.

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Sogou