Chapter Thirty-Six: The Black Dragon
Mogan had heard early on about the existence of mood potions and the fact that their application was very widespread.
It's just that he never felt like he needed to use it.
The cloud scale leaf is an essential ingredient in most potions with a "promoting" effect, and as a member of the plant material, it has relatively rare medicinal properties, and also has a different and stable property than most magical animal materials.
The efficacy of the leaf leaf extract is derived from the water leaf insect. It is a special magical creature that can concretize the emotions of other creatures, and it can change color with the "emotional environment", and its own survival will be affected, so it is quite fragile and not easy to breed artificially.
Rather than simply strengthening or weakening emotions, the most basic mood potions are usually just tools to help people temporarily maintain their desired state, which can be improved by the injection of magic or the addition of different condiments.
And to achieve different effects, it is natural to need different follow-up treatments and secondary activation in the "basic pack" of the potion.
This is the subtle but very different difference between a "potion" and a "potion". While not all potions require this boost, there are times when it is less risky to use the former to prevent the caster from being unskilled and ruining the material.
But Mogan didn't have to worry about that.
"What type of emotions do you want?" Lucifer asked, "You can judge the best choice according to your method of activating Dragon Burn." ”
In the eyes of those who are in control and are not afraid of failure, it is of course easier and faster to deal with magic than adding condiments, which is widely considered to be more secure.
Mogan pondered for a moment.
"Let's get excited."
This is where most emotional potions end up coming in handy, and according to Mogan's understanding in his previous life, they are something akin to stimulants.
But for people on the Magic Continent, the usefulness of "doping" is not in competition.
The reason is similar to the tsunami passively caused by the mermaid Austin, and the magical innate abilities of some people or anomalous races require a certain degree of emotional threshold to be urged, not if you want it, but you can rely on external assistance to achieve it.
Not everyone is like Austin, who is in a state of being angry or close to angry at any time, and the Emotional Potion is the equivalent of triggering this ability, which can be just right to fully exert some passive talents that are not normally available.
This kind of magical talent is not even limited to foreign races, but also exists in a certain group of human races - even if the human race originally had no special magical talents, only attribute tendencies, it would also have this kind of gift because of the special nature of some innate bloodlines.
Lucifer nodded, and Mogan's attention couldn't help but be a little more focused.
It wasn't that he was looking forward to drinking the potion...... Rather, he also knew that when the Emotional Potion was cast in a spell, in addition to reciting the corresponding spell, the caster also needed to maintain more or less the same emotional state as the target's emotion.
This is due to the fact that it is necessary to cater to the basic nature of the leaf worm egg extract, and no matter how powerful a mage is, he is not exempt from vulgarity.
The emotions that need happiness can recall the happy past, and the emotions that need grief may be able to commemorate the deceased loved ones.
And hyperactivity is more or less related to interests, hobbies and other elements. As a businessman who personally intervenes with potential clients, Mogan has a good grasp of "doing what he likes", and has long evolved to grasp any opportunity almost instinctively.
It's a kind of professionalism.
Then Mogan saw Lucifer pick up a spell book from his shelf.
His Majesty looked at the contents of the book, his eyes faint, but very focused.
He's certainly not "making a cheat sheet".
Soon, a significant amount of mana was applied to the potion, and a little clear tartrazine appeared in the originally clear and transparent potion. This is an indicative effect of the associated color development of the leaf insects, and when the color becomes uniform, it proves that all conditions have been met.
…… That's it.
The ability to read and learn on their own is perhaps one of the incomprehensible traits of some geniuses.
Although Mogan was often praised as a brilliant and intelligent person since he was a child, learning was only an essential task for him to achieve his goals, and it was far from "enjoyment".
"I'll find a hidden place first." Mogan consciously pushed the door open
Seeing Lucifer scoop out a part of the liquid in his hand and put it in an anti-demon flask, Mogan was also very conscious.
If you want to try to use Dragon Flame, of course, you have to turn into a dragon yourself, and naturally you can't risk damaging your own residence.
With his familiarity with the topography of the previous day's research, Mogan quickly found the flat land on the top of a high mountain, stopped, and looked back at Lucifer with great sincerity.
"It's dangerous, maybe you can use some spells to cover your whereabouts?"
Lucifer immediately understood what he meant, and he first beckoned Mogan to take a few steps back, then reached out and drew a circle in the air.
The magic seemed to follow the convention, gathering into a circle of light, and staggering within a foot in front of him. As Lucifer recited the incantation, the small circle, which was originally only half a foot in diameter, suddenly became larger, and its shape changed, slowly moving, from the angle of vertical to the ground to parallel to the ground, and finally according to the general shape of the clearing, it was set on the ground in front of the two of them.
The brilliance flickered.
Mo Gan could vaguely see that the "ring" in front of him seemed to rise an extremely irregular light mask, the top of which was dozens of meters high, and the outline was still the boundary of the clearing, but it quickly disappeared again, as if it was just an illusion.
After this operation, the grass in front of him seemed to be completely unchanged from before, but Lucifer explained.
"This area now looks to outsiders exactly the same as before, and it won't change for a long time, it's a transfiguration."
Mogan knew it without explanation, because he had heard of the existence of this illusion, but he really couldn't find the actual spell record.
The effects of Transfiguration are usually perfect, and the principle is rather peculiar.
It is equivalent to first obscuring the view of the outside to the inside, and independently conjuring the outline of all internal objects from scratch in the original position, retaining their physical properties, and being able to make basic responses to changes in the outside world, but it is not actually the original appearance of this time.
Compared to invisibility or transfiguration, this is more magical, more efficient, and more durable, and unlike illusions. It's just a simple replay of the internal change for a period of time, and it can be easily debunked after a long time due to the differences between inside and outside.
In this scenario, Transfiguration is less likely to be detected by the outside world, making it the best choice.
The two walked into the barrier.
It was only at the moment of entry that Mogan perceived the perception that was not there before and after entering, and could distinguish the subtle differences between the interior and the exterior, between the real thing and the illusion.
"I can teach you if you need to." Lucifer probably sensed his thoughts, and gave an additional explanation, "This kind of spell is an advanced spell, and the kingdom's outer libraries will not include specific contents, at most they will only record the general situation. Because he didn't want ordinary mages to learn beyond the ranks, he would instead go off the rails and harm himself. ”
Mo Gan sighed slightly, only to feel that the arrow was on the string, and he had to send it.
This time it didn't require precise control, but a complete transformation, which was so easy for him that he didn't even need to close his eyes anymore.
Compared to him, who is more accustomed to the dragon body, he doesn't care about the clothes when he is in human form, either he breaks them, or he thinks about them and gets them on the ground, and he can't find a mother who can't be transformed into a temporary one, after all, Mo Gan is still a human who cares about the neatness of his clothes and pays more attention to his appearance.
Mogan found a rock and placed it on a relatively clean rock surface as a temporary replacement for his clothes.
After walking some distance, he knelt on one knee on a relatively solid soil, half-crouched on the ground, and raised his head to silently recite the rune that he had repeated countless times when he was a child—and took the time to perform a small transposition.
A faint cyclone rises above the surface, and the condensed and colliding entities turn into gray-black clouds, obscuring most of the view.
However, between the smoke and the covering, you can still faintly see the transformation of limbs, the growth of black scales, the appearance of scale claws, and the gradual formation of dragon wings......
A moment later.
In the enchantment where only two people could see with their own eyes, the color of the smoke gradually lightened, gradually revealing the true face of the dragon.
The mountain breeze has returned, the grass and trees have drifted away from the cyclone that has not yet subsided, and the sunset has faded on the horizon.
The smoke cleared, and the black dragon stood on the spot.
There is no roar of the clouds, no vibration like a drum, no resonance of mountains and rivers, and some are just a black dragon.
The edges of the black dragon horns and scale claws are almost matte, not as black as the scales, but they have a different dull texture.
The dragon stood still, its eyes glittering with gilt light that was hard to ignore, and the color of the scales around its eyes seemed to be affected.
The dragon's body is tall and toned, well-proportioned and long, and there are extremely sharp claws attached to it, but because of the dull luster, the color is fierce and inward, and it does not show the edge. The dragon's tail, which is as tall as several adults, is entrenched behind, and although it is still and does not move, no one can dimestimate the terrifying power contained in it.
The moonlight sowed on the black scales around the body as always, but it could only cross an inconspicuous light-colored outer film, which did not cause any fundamental color change, but added a mysterious and rich temperament.
Coupled with such a calm posture, the mighty and quiet black dragon is like a primitive statue from ancient times.