Chapter 41: Mana that is never enough

Eating, sleeping, reading, studying......

For the next few days, Zuo Si stayed in his room at the "Happy Hour" hotel, living a life of not leaving the door.

Except for the next day, when he took Harette to meet with his cronies, and then discussed the ransom face to face, he never moved his nest again.

After all, Zuo Si was originally a very "homely" person who could endure loneliness.

Even when he was in the Tower of the Floating City, he could do it for a full month or two, without talking or communicating with anyone except the necromancer Archmage, Asta.

Rather than the boring social and apprenticeship intrigues, he prefers to devote his precious time and energy to learning and studying esoteric magical knowledge.

Because the continuous acquisition of this knowledge that can be transformed into wealth and power at any time makes it have an inexplicable sense of addiction and satisfaction.

In particular, the unique arcane spell casting system and magic net of the Faren Continent, which are currently being studied, can almost perfectly make up for the current shortcomings and deficiencies of itself.

Coupled with the wide variety of spells in the arcane spellcasting system, it is far more interesting than the previous creator class, which could only study magic rituals and make magic items, strange objects and potions.

In addition, you can also use the massive knowledge collected in the tower of the floating city to compare and reference.

And through continuous in-depth study, Zuo Si found that the difference between the magic systems of the two worlds was much smaller than he imagined.

While many spells with the same or similar names have slightly different structures due to the casting environment, the principle and essence are pretty much the same.

On the basis of [Mage] and the research results of another magical civilization, he can delete and modify the known advanced professions to create a new and more suitable arcane spell casting profession.

It's like the advanced arcane classes such as the Red Mage, the Ultra Enchanter, the Arcane Follower, the Archmage, and so on.

"Hmm...... Why don't I use [Mimic] to get a LV5 mage first. Otherwise, you won't have any practical experience just learning theory all day. Zuo Si touched his chin and muttered.

With the ability of the [Thinking Library] to remember, he had already memorized all the magic books he had bought.

If you simulate it now, the maximum limit of the mage class should be LV10 or LV11, which will be enough for a long time in the future.

But the problem is that mimicry means having to have an extra big mana eater.

He had also planned to upgrade the Traveling Mage class to LV4 first, and then find an opportunity to complete the task of making his first creature card.

"Alas, nerve-wracking. Mana is always insufficient. I really want to [refine] all the magic items, scrolls, wands, and potions that I can't use for the time being in my satchel. ”

Zuo Si began to move again in his heart, wanting to be a "loser".

After all, there are only so many stable sources of mana at the moment, and if you give this class a little more, other classes can only get a little less.

In addition to extracting energy from various magic items, the only thing left is to obtain more at once by killing various monsters and robbers.

Just as he was staring at the value of his mana pool and hesitating, a sharp knock on the door suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Lord Soth, are you in the room? I'm Pike, a waiter in the lobby on the first floor. Now there's a lady who claims to be your friend and wants to meet you. ”

A familiar voice came through the crack in the door.

Zuo Si was stunned for a moment, and then quickly remembered that a few days ago, he sold the crystalline energy storage device to a female warlock suspected of having the blood of the fire djinn, and immediately put away the "inheritance" and motioned to the soldiers guarding the door to open the door.

The latter understood, took the initiative to get up from his chair, pulled the latch and pushed open the heavy wooden door.

Moment!

Two figures appeared in the doorway.

One of them was naturally the male (anti-harmony) waiter who had just knocked on the door, and the other was the female shopkeeper with a veil and a black cross in the shape of a black cross.

However, the latter was different from the pride and conceit she had shown when they last met, and she now looked manic, and had clearly not slept well in a while.

The moment she saw Zuo Si, the woman directly threw a gold coin to the waiter, and then walked straight into the room unceremoniously, completely ignoring Pike, who was constantly bowing and thanking him, and slammed the door shut.

She even ignored the soldiers on the side, raised the energy storage device in her hand, and asked through gritted teeth, "How did you do it?" ”

"What and how?"

Zuo Si blinked, confused by this inexplicable question.

"How to make it so stable!

You know?

In the past few days, I have failed more than 60 times in a row, and none of them have succeeded.

I've never seen at least two-thirds of the material you're using here.

But it doesn't bother me!

Because I quickly found some alternatives that worked similarly.

But only stability!

It is a key point that cannot be broken through no matter what! ”

When she said this, the woman had no demeanor at all, and she was like a mad maniac.

Especially when it comes to excitement, he directly rips off his veil, revealing a delicate face that is particularly exotic even in Port Carlin.

As Zuo Si had guessed, this female warlock was supposed to be a descendant of humans and fire djinns.

However, considering that almost one-twentieth of the human beings in the entire Karlin Fir region may have a thin fire djinn blood flowing in their bodies.

It is not unacceptable that some warlocks who have awakened the power of the bloodline will have a return to their ancestors.

What's more, people here generally have a relatively high level of acceptance of inhuman races.

Just look at the popularity of domesticated orcs, orcs, kobolds, goblins, gnolls, ogres and trolls in the slave market.

"So...... You admit that you failed to crack it, right? Zuo Si asked bluntly.

Moment!

The woman closed her mouth and fell silent.

yes, she failed.

Paid a pretty heavy price for his arrogance.

In order to create an equally stable energy storage device, more than 100,000 gold coins were invested in materials and gems.

The closest to success so far has managed to maintain less than ten seconds of stability.

Then it exploded with a bang, releasing the lightning energy stored in it, destroying everything around it with impunity.

If it weren't for the magic that protected against energy damage in advance, I am afraid that even people would be seriously injured or even killed.

After a long silence, the woman quickly took a deep breath and said, "Make an offer!" I need the full set of technology to make this energy storage device! ”

But Zuo Si smiled and shook his head: "No, ma'am, I think you made something wrong."

In fact, such an energy storage device could not have been made by a second person other than me.

As mentioned above, do you think that the entire cylindrical crystal is achieved by some kind of transformational magic?

It's made with my unique ability, like this......"

As he spoke, Zuo Si casually grabbed the two empty potion bottles placed on the table and activated the [Shaping] ability.

I saw that the two originally completely independent potion bottles, as if melted under the action of some mysterious power, slowly fused together, and then reshaped into a statue of an adventurer holding a shield and a long sword.

No spells!

No gestures!

And didn't use any casting materials!

The woman was completely stunned by this ability to change the form of matter, and took the glass statue and examined it repeatedly.

It took several minutes for her to realize that the entire statue was so integrated that she could not see even the slightest trace of splicing or stitching.

It's as if this glass statue was fired this way from the beginning.

And even the bubbles contained in the two bottles of the potion disappeared......