On the map of the southern mining area, Lance learned that Hot Springs Valley was not a special name for a canyon famous for its hot springs, but rather a general term for a number of continuous, dense canyons distributed in the northwest of the southern mining area.

These canyons have a peculiar topography that is directly connected to the lava underground, probably because of their proximity to the abyss, and the strata are relatively thin.

This special environment has created a unique advantage for the hot spring valley, where hot springs are almost everywhere, and the valley is filled with water vapor all year round.

Most of these demonized hot springs cannot be soaked directly, otherwise there is a chance that they will be contaminated by chaotic magic, but after treatment, they become a good place for shamans to recuperate, heal, and even meditate.

While the Eastern Council was vigorously building the southern mining area, it also developed a number of witchcraft hot springs in the Hot Springs Valley for wizards.

Rejecting the gracious invitation of the wizard guarding the entrance, Lance began to wander around the southern mines alone.

In addition to the large number of laborers and slaves in the mines, there are the most wizards.

These wizards are all here for the facilities of the Hot Spring Valley, and a few are in need of some special ores, and they go directly to the southern mining area to try their luck. After all, a permit to access the southern mining area is much cheaper than some rare ores.

It was already late at night, and Lance didn't immediately look for news about the mysterious fruit, but chose a hot spring inn with better decoration to stay in.

The service at the inn was attentive, especially given that Reims was in possession of the warrant of the Speaker of the Eastern Council. The store manager sent a female wizard apprentice to serve Lance.

Lance didn't refuse, because he needed a lot of information, and it would be a hassle to ask around without a local. And there's no tavern or anything well-informed.

If you can get some news from the mouth of this female apprentice, it will also save a lot of energy.

......

"Knock knock!"

Half an hour after checking in, there was a knock at the door.

Lance quickly closed the book he was reading and said, "Come in." ”

"Hello adults, the private hot spring you booked has been purified, and our store manager has built yì you enter the pool within three hours. If the five-hour deadline has passed, the freshly purified water can easily fall into a slightly polluted situation again. ”

The person who came was the female apprentice who was in charge of serving Reims. He also remembered that her name was supposed to be Isha.

Lance nodded. He put away his books casually, and under Isa's service, he simply changed his clothes and went to the hot spring area.

The witchcraft springs of the Marseille Line have always been famous in the wizarding world across the continent. It's just that Lance didn't think of it before. Now that it's happened. Naturally, you can't miss it. And it happened to take this opportunity to take advantage of this maid's mouth to put a cliché from the mouth.

Isha led Lance through strange doors to the deepest part of an open-air canyon.

In the process of walking. Lance could feel the magic and magic in the place—not a common thing, you know.

If the spell factor in a place is more active, this is normal, because the spell factor is not magic, it is just a small microsubstance with a magical base. In many parts of the world, there can be a lot of magic factor, but magic is another thing entirely.

Mana itself is made up of witchcraft elements, but its properties are very different from witchcraft elements. It is highly aggressive, active, and infectious.

In addition to wizards with strong spiritual power, ordinary animals and even humans, because their mental power is not enough to control magic power, once they touch the magic emitted by some demonized items, it is easy to fall into a demonized state.

For example, when Lance had just crossed into this world, the frost demons he killed when he rescued Poirot's team were one of the demonic products. This demonized creature is not congenitally demonized, but acquired by the influence of some special items and demonized. The shadow particles emitted by the Arcane Ring are only one type of spell factor, and only the magic power within the items it releases regularly is the source of demonization.

If a place has a lot of magic in the air, it must be a very scary place.

If someone with insufficient mental strength approaches this place, there are only two possibilities - to be injured by the burst of magic, or simply to be demonized, lose their minds, and become a chaotic creature dominated by magic.

At this time, Lance finally realized why the owner and the maids of the hot spring inn were at least apprentices to wizards. Because ordinary people simply can't do this job.

And the reason why the magical hot spring valley appears in the southern mining area is also because of the connection with the abyss - you know, magic itself is a representative of the power of chaos, and as for the abyss, it is obviously synonymous with chaos.

The close relationship between the two sides is difficult to explain in simple words, and even some legendary wizards have not understood the rules.

......

In the deepest part of the hot spring inn, a clean pool loomed in front of Lance.

Isha respectfully pulled back the thin curtain and motioned for Lance to enter.

Lance walked in and found it to be a pool of boiling water. The color of the pool water is slightly dark brown, and what is surprising is that unlike the large amount of magic floating in the air, as soon as he walks into the room of this pool, Lance can only feel a large amount of magic factor, but he can't feel the slightest bit of magic power.

"It turns out that's what they call purification. It is to remove the chaotic magic from the air and water, leaving only the rich and pure magic factor. ”

Lance enters the pool and feels the medium-high water temperature.

Although the water in this pool is boiling, it is obvious that the boiling point of the water in the pond has dropped sharply because of the addition of some special medicinal herbs. In fact, according to the fox's feedback, the temperature in the pool is about 40 degrees, and it is impossible for ordinary water to boil.

With Isha's introduction, Lance understood why he did this. The constant circulation of boiling and injecting water in the pond maintains a very high concentration of spell factors in the pond water, thus providing the best environment for wizards.

In such an environment, whether it is rejuvenation or meditation, the effect is very significant.

Lance made a rough estimate and meditated in the witchcraft hot springs every day, although he absorbed ordinary spell factors, but his efficiency was almost catching up with Lance's efficiency in using the Eternal Bottle.

You must know that the compatibility of shadow particles with Lance is extremely high, equivalent to the level of a quasi-genius!

In other words, if a wizard with very ordinary qualifications can meditate in the witchcraft hot springs all the time, his meditation efficiency will not be worse than that of those so-called geniuses!

That's the power of resources!

However, Lance also realized that this cultivation method was undoubtedly very extravagant. According to the tariff of fifty magic stones per hour in the witchcraft hot spring, ten hours of cultivation a day is five hundred magic stones, and in a month, the magic stones used in cultivation alone will exceed fifteen thousand.

It's only been a month, and if you want to use the witchcraft hot springs day and night, you don't know how much wealth you need to be able to afford to squander.

Thinking of this, Lance also sighed a little: he was still very lucky, although his physique was not sensitive to most witchcraft factors, but fortunately, he got the Eternal Vial.

The shadow particles provided by the Eternal Bottle put him on the same starting line as those geniuses, rather than watching them throw themselves farther and farther away during the wizard's long journey.

......

After learning about the specific effects of the witchcraft hot springs, Lance lost interest in the novelty.

Until the effect of the Eternal Bottle was lost, there was no need for him to use such an extravagant cultivation method.

And he hadn't forgotten the real purpose of coming to this place.

"Isha, I heard that there are some weirdos living near your hot spring valley, can you tell me about them?"

Lance asked.

Isha tilted her head in a thin towel and said, "Are you asking the Drews, the weirdos who live in the dark woods all day long, but have strange abilities?"

Langston's eyes lit up: "It's them, I'm still very interested in strange things." ”

Isa held her chin, "It seems that every guest who comes here is very interested in the Drews, and you are no exception. Actually, I don't know much about the Drews. I only know that the big men in the council have some agreements with them, and some other gossip, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”

......

In the days that followed, Lance spent the days wandering around a small wizarding colony called Hot Springs Town, and at night enjoying the witchcraft hot springs at one hot spring inn.

After a few days, Lance had come to know a certain amount of the mysterious fruit that Mark Forty-Seven had mentioned.

And the Drews in Isha's mouth are the owners of this mysterious fruit - others understand it this way, but the Drus themselves do not see it that way.

In fact, according to what Lance has learned, the Drews are a strange race, very similar to humans, but with a very different language and culture. They live in a large canyon in the southeast of Hot Springs Valley, which is so vast that there is even a dark forest in it.

The Drus worship a plant that resembles a palm tree in appearance, but is considered a god by the Drews. They call it Anzura.

And the fruit that Anzura produces regularly every year is regarded by the Drews as a gift from the gods.

According to the grapevine, once an ordinary person takes Anzura, he or she can greatly improve his body and gain one or even two supernatural abilities - and these abilities have nothing to do with witchcraft.

It is also said that the Eastern Council signed an agreement with the Drews, the general effect of which was that the Drus would sell half of the annual Anzura to the Eastern Council at a high price in exchange for the protection of the Eastern Council. (To be continued......)