Chapter Ninety-Five: Where the Fountain Is
The extraction process of potions, in essence, is to refine and extract a complete 'essentia model' from the extraordinary organs of these magical beasts, and it is no wonder that Mr. Hilliard said that no matter how big the material is, it will not be redundant, because the larger the potion material, the more complete the model, and the less parts need to be made up the day after tomorrow.
"What looks like liquid gold is actually more expensive than gold."
Staring at the golden crystal fluid in the bottle, Ian couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "No...... How can gold be compared to it? ”
A first-level potion requires at least two or three copies of Warcraft materials, while a pair of Warcraft materials requires more than a hundred, or even more than two hundred.
In other words, in addition to the lowest-level inheritance of 'Wave Breaker', a general potion material would add up to about 400 to 600 thalers.
And the Sand Armor Apprentice, as the highest inheritance, only needs two potion materials, just because Ian used the totem main material at the peak of the second energy level.
If it is a normal first-level demonic beast, it usually needs five kinds, in other words, the 'raw materials' alone will require eight hundred thalers to start, and the highest may need more than fifteen hundred thalers, which is twice as much as the ordinary inheritance.
Not to mention that the potion recipe of the Immovable Fortress series is a priceless treasure, and the alchemist who can concoct this complex potion is equally expensive.
An ordinary fisherman in Harrison Harbor can earn about a dozen thalers a year if he counts the fish for nothing, and his uncle Orsna, if he counts the subsidy, is just over twenty thalers.
That is, colluding with the natives, reselling materials, and accepting bribes, so as to save so much money and sleeping powder.
Of course, Port Harrison is located in the frontier region, and the value of Thaler is somewhat deformed...... But according to the teacher, even in the capital of the central provinces of the empire, a decent clerk's job is more than 90 hundred thalers a year, and the workers are even less, only 60 thalers.
Potion materials alone would require close to ten years of the full salary of an ordinary worker—not to mention the more expensive correct potion recipes, the alchemist's concoction remuneration that is almost equal to the price of the material, the cost of pre-adaptation training to adapt to potions, the price of the virtual source species, the teacher's salary, and possible failure.
If you want to cultivate a first-level transcendent, you need at least four thousand five hundred thalers or more!
This has to be if it doesn't fail, and if you fail to recuperate and new potions, the cost may be approaching seven thousand thalers.
The more you fail, the more it costs.
But even four thousand five hundred thalers are already heavier than him!
"This vial is made up of silver Teller coins that weigh more than me...... Because it is a top-level inheritance like a sand armor apprentice, it may be several times heavier! ”
Let's not talk about Ian's emotion at this time.
At this moment, Hilliard had already begun to extract the essemp structure in the crystal bone of the reef-devouring sea otter.
The old knight's eyes lit up with silver streamers again, and a circle of pale golden essentia light lit up in his hands, which intertwined with the silver-blue arcs of the surrounding psionic field, forming a spherical halo arc between his palms.
In this way, wisps of silvery-white essentia seeped out of the crystal bone in the center of the halo and condensed into a phase substance similar to the essentia crystalline fluid in the crystal bottle.
In the Foresight Horizon, the pure blue essentia was refined, and the original dark blue crystal bone became pure white, no longer a sublimation material, just an ordinary metal-containing spine.
This situation made Ian can't help but look sideways—this hand is very much like what Elder Pud once said, 'made without equipment'.
Theoretically, it is a technique that can only be used by a strong person who is both an alchemy master and a sublimator above the third level...... But here's the problem, Hilliard's original strength must have been above the third level, but he was really not very proficient in alchemy...... Well, it's basically only at the junior high school level.
However, now, Hilliard's technique of manipulating essentia to refine without equipment is extremely skillful, and it is simply incredible!
"Did you hide a hand...... Or have you ever played a trick on people before, but you haven't learned systematic alchemy? ”
He muttered softly, and Ian knew why Hilliard chose to go to the cliff.
Although the psionic field here is grand, it is unusually stable, even Hilliard, a sublimator who is not good at thunder, can steadily attract the power of the field, induce thunder, and assist him in refining the materials of the demonic beasts.
"Well, it's about to be completed, the potion of the sand armor apprentice is not difficult to make, you actually will, it's just an ordinary extraction process, but there is no professional alchemy equipment at the moment, for the sake of quality, so I can only do it myself."
Placing the silvery-white essentia fluid into the crystal bottle, Hilliard used his own essentia to promote the flow of essentia in the bottle to merge, and he nodded to Ian solemnly: "Prepare, remember to use the 'source' to accept, don't really drink it into your stomach." ”
"I understand." Ian nodded slightly.
In addition to the essic structure, the materials of potions usually contain a large number of toxic and non-toxic inorganic materials, from heavy metals to various stones, not to mention all kinds of strange herbs and messy materials, which are impossible for ordinary people's stomachs to absorb.
Therefore, if you want to take potions safely, you must activate the 'muscular stomach' that the Terrans have.
Or rather, 'the source'.
Ian has eaten so many Warcraft materials recently, so he has naturally activated his muscles and stomach, opened the so-called 'Essentia Spring', and can take potions at any time.
At this moment, the potion in the crystal bottle in Hilliard's hand had been smelted.
The fusion of gold and silver essentia turned out to be a pale white translucent crystalline fluid, into which Hilliard had already placed pure silicon as an adjunct and Fertile Leaf powder, which gave the potion a strange sense of inorganic matter.
However, on this pale white crystalline fluid, there were faint light golden inscription lines emerging, and in Ian's foresight, he could see a large number of essentia chips floating in the liquid, condensing one inscription after another, and connecting a huge sublimation structure.
Like a hill standing still in a storm.
And that's the core of the 'Sand Armor Apprentice' potion!
"Drink."
Hilliard handed the pale white gold-veined potion to Ian, who looked a little tired, but his eyes were bright, and he looked at Ian expectantly: "This is the best potion that can be made in the current situation, and I have not had a few masterpieces like this in my life. ”
"Ian, my student, it's definitely worthy of your talent."
"Teacher, I'll do the best I can."
Ian also seriously stretched out his hands and took the crystal bottle from his teacher's hand, he stared at the strange potions in the bottle that were constantly spinning and churning, rising with inscriptions, and then smiled: "It's so interesting." ”
Ian always said that, and he always felt a heartfelt yearning and curiosity about everything.
So, with surging anticipation, he lifted the bottle and drank it to his mouth.
The cold, heavy liquid poured down the throat and into the second stomach like ice.
Immediately after, a stream of hot magma ignited in Ian's body!