ALL NOVEL Chapter 82 Going out for the first time
The days in the ivory tower are quiet and orderly, and the days flow quickly in a regular schedule.
Two years have passed since taking over the poison order. (Note ①)
On this Sunday, it was still dark, the morning fog was thick, and a small half of the moon hung low in the sky.
In a luxurious hotel in Starry Night City.
Xia Zuo opened his eyes and woke up, staring sideways at the person beside the pillow, caressing Anru'er's hair, admiring the gradually plump and graceful figure.
Anru'er felt her lover's gentle caress, snuggled into her lover's arms, and muttered vaguely, "Don't let me sleep for a while, I'm so tired."
Xiazuo Mosuo Anruer's little head stared at the exquisite patterns on the ceiling in a daze.
With the help of the Poison Alchemist identity bonus, the upgrade speed is stable.
After properly deploying the poison refining arrangements, the poison refining orders were completed smoothly and points accumulated quickly.
It is that the basic toxins required for some poisons are consumed very quickly, but the speed of replenishing the inventory obviously cannot keep up, resulting in some orders having to be temporarily shelved.
Fortunately, the supply problem of basic toxins only affected a small number of orders, and the vast majority of orders were not restricted by the shortage of raw materials.
In the past two years, Xia Zuo has been staying in the academy to refine poisons to complete orders and develop new poisons. He has no time to accommodate elements and has made little progress in his spell power.
Although the refined powder formula for the interference poison was developed, there was no time or energy to refine it.
At the cost of this, thousands of points and a large number of free attribute points were obtained.
As for the research progress of elemental toxins, it can only be described as very slow.
All toxin identification methods can only give back very vague results on elemental toxins.
It's like... someone put a thick protective shell on the elemental toxin, so that the appraiser can never accurately identify the true poisonous effect.
Therefore, after Xia Zuo focused on gaining experience and earning points, he made little progress in poison alchemy.
Anruer has made a lot of progress.
She has completed the introductory level of functional pharmacy and is about to be promoted to the proficient level.
In about half a year, after mastering the proficiency level content of Functional Potion, she can learn the next alchemy.
The relationship between the two also progressed further, and they finally had in-depth communication.
The "Castle Code" does not say that students must stay in the school during weekends.
After Xia Zuo confirmed with Dim, he would spend the night with Anruer in this hotel every weekend.
Days like this are really intoxicating.
However, there will always be waves.
After completing an important order last week, Xia Zuo received the delivery task assigned by Beatrice for the first time.
He wanted to personally help the mage stationed in the northern part of Yenan Province to transport a batch of urgently needed expensive poisons.
Beatrice added another request.
Although Xia Zuo has learned many spells, he does not yet have the Life Alchemy Stone, so he must remain secretive when operating outside.
If you find someone with malicious intentions, it is best to leave it to the guards or soldiers of the city defense army to deal with it, and try to avoid directly joining the fight.
When Xia Zuo learned about this transportation mission, his first reaction was to shirk it, but he still took it.
no way.
The points given are too many.
This task alone will give you 270 points. It’s worth three regular poison refining orders.
Moreover, if you use the wind technique to travel from Starry Night City to the northern city of Yenan Province, it theoretically only takes about 7 days.
Even if I am delayed by something on the road, the round trip will take up to 20 days, with an average of 13 points a day, which is definitely a big deal.
When the carriage was traveling in the wild, it was difficult for the packhorse to drag the heavy carriage up the hillside, so it had to avoid the mountain when it encountered it. In addition, water cannot flow into the carriage, so the carriage must walk across a bridge when encountering a river.
Tivanas's popular technique is much more convenient.
Xia Zuo borrowed the map of the Starry Night Kingdom from Beatrice and planned a route that would save time and earn extra money.
He planned the hotel where he would arrive each night. During the day, while rushing to the destination every day, I wandered in the wild and inaccessible places.
After confirming that he had accepted the task, Xia Zuo spent a week and last night coaxing his girlfriend to stop worrying about the temporary separation.
"I'm leaving." Xia Zuo came back to his senses and patted An Ru'er on the back.
"Well" Anruer made a coquettish sound like a murmur, then stretched out, put her thighs on her boyfriend, rubbed her eyes and said, "Okay~ let's get up."
"I will leave early and come back early." Xia Zuo pinched the other party's delicate face.
"Yes. Please be safe on the road. I'll wait for you to come back at the school." An Ru'er hugged her boyfriend's neck and whispered in her ear reluctantly.
…
The sun is rising.
In a stable near the gate of Starry Night City, the sound of sweeping came from the depths of the stable's front hall, moving towards the upper-hung window of the wall.
The stable girl opened the window, and a breeze blew past her head, ruffling her hair and drifting into the hall.
The female worker took a deep breath and became more energetic in the refreshing morning breeze. She turned around and picked up the broom by the wall, continuing to sweep the floor.
Not far behind the female worker, the fat stable owner sat at the counter and directed the guys to work.
A blackboard was hung on the wall of the front room with today's coach ride written in chalk.
Travelers buy tickets for the next day in advance at the stables, and when the time comes, they board the public carriage with their tickets.
In terms of travel arrangements, provincial councils have unified regulations.
Inter-provincial carriages connect provincial capitals. Intercity horse-drawn carriages travel between cities. Urban and rural horse-drawn carriages connected cities and their surrounding villages. There are no public carriages between villages.
The public carriages that leave in the early morning are all inter-provincial carriages.
Today's first carriage departs from Starry Night City and heads to Yenan City, the capital of Yenan Province.
"Dang Dang Dang~"
The bell in the front hall rang.
The stable owner shouted to the passengers waiting in the front hall to line up, undergo routine inspections and have their tickets checked.
Travelers carrying luggage passed through the doorway deep in the front hall and came to the sedan carriage in the backyard, looking for their seats according to the serial number on the ticket.
A gust of breeze drifted past the people queuing up and penetrated the half-open carriage window.
After a while, the carriage was filled with passengers. The driver waved his whip and drove the packhorse out of the stable backyard, through the gate of Starry Night City, and then galloped southward along the wide trade road.
The carriage drove through a river hundreds of meters wide, left the territory of Starry Night City, and entered the dense forests of the mountains. The speed of the carriage dropped sharply.
The breeze drifted out of the car window, penetrated into the woods on the roadside, and drifted to the hills not far away.
On the top of an unknown low mountain, Xia Zuo's figure appeared in a swirling breeze.
This trip was to complete the transportation mission, so Beatrice temporarily provided an alchemy bag with 2 cubic meters of storage space inside.
[Item name] Alchemy pocket
[Prop Type] Rare Object Alchemy Product
[Props level] Expert level
[Props Quality] Completeness 100%, perfect
[Characteristics of props] Storage of items, no prop transfer function
[Space size] 2 cubic meters
[Props Effect]
Only use your left or right hand to pick up and put in props.
The poison to be transported was sealed in a metal box and placed in an alchemy bag.
In addition, necessities such as satiety potions, water supply potions, defecation potions, and other functional potions, as well as luggage packages containing a change of clothes, are also placed in the alchemy bag.
The only thing Xia Zuo had to do was to identify the direction, not to get lost in the wild, follow the predetermined route, and smoothly put the poison into the hands of an old acquaintance.
It was senior Mars who met Xia Zuo in West City, a city in the northern part of Yenan Province.
Xia Zuo looked at the forest, sea, mountains and rivers, and with a thought in mind, he called up his character template and clicked on the plus sign next to [Vitality].
【Vitality】28+10→38
【HP】90+40→130
[Basic blood return speed]
24 o'clock/hour
[Free Attribute Points] 45-10→35
After adding the 10th free attribute point, the basic blood return speed is just slightly more than the fluttering speed of the wind movement. As long as you don't hit the reverse gust head on, the 24 points/hour blood return speed is enough.
Xia Zuo stopped in time and kept the remaining 35 free attribute points as backup.
He took out his compass and checked the direction. He turned into a gas cloud again and shuttled through the woods, drifting towards the south of the night.
Completing poison refining tasks isn't the only way to earn points.
The elemental concrete subjects of the academy require the use of a large number of uninhibited elements.
The resident mage in each town or city will use a prop called the Far View Orb to observe the situation in his stronghold.
Once unruly elements are discovered near the stronghold, the resident mage will ask his assistant to use the elemental confinement bottle to contain the unruly elements.
The mage assistant swept away the unruly elements near the stronghold, but could not take care of the unruly elements deep in the forest.
Within the scope of the kingdom, all unruly elements that can be encountered must be small elements. The larger unruly elements are hidden deep in the wilderness outside the kingdom.
Ordinary mage servants don't know how to do magic, and they basically won't go deep into the woods. Not to mention the resident mage, who must stay in the castle at all times to control the Yuanwang Orb surveillance point.
Xia Zuo planned a less traveled route and tried his luck to catch a few small unruly elements.
After flying continuously for two hours, he found a shady hill to rest.
The color of the surrounding trees has gradually become mostly white, and the number of artificially planted brown trees has decreased sharply.
Just when Xia Zuo was lamenting that the scenery in the forest was the same and the journey was boring, his eyes were attracted by the crown of a big tree.
He flew around the canopy and determined that there was an unruly element of cyan light hidden under the cover of the leaves.
Judging from the color of the light, it is a wind elemental.
But the specific characteristics are not clear.
Xia Zuo has not yet learned the [Eye of Kolas] meditation method, nor has he exchanged a single eye for observing elemental patterns.
All he knew was that he would be caught.
Turn in a small unruly element to get 20 points! You can keep it for yourself, the school is not forced to turn it over.
Air clouds slowly approach the tree canopy, and a gentle breeze stirs the leaves. The unruly elements beneath the leaves are suspended quietly.
It's dangerous to hold onto a tree trunk and transform back into human form. There are twigs on the trunk of the tree. When the outside changes back, there will be an extra twig in the body, which will cause big trouble. Climbing a tree to the canopy will disturb the unruly elements.
Xia Zuo thought for a moment and came up with an idea.
He floated higher into the tree canopy, facing the unruly elements below and locked onto the space around his target.
Remove the wind technique.
His figure emerged in mid-air and quickly fell to the ground under the influence of gravity.
"Hands of the Wind."
He used [Spell Instinct] to release a palm-shaped airflow, firmly grasping the leaves around the unruly element, and dropped the leaves with him.
"Tivanas Wind Technique."
The moment before approaching the ground, Xia Zuo paused and transformed into a gas cloud form again.
The hands of the wind holding the leaves dissipated, and the leaves fell to the ground. A small point of light flew out from the falling leaves, trying to float high into the sky and hide in the canopy again.
Remove the wind technique.
Xia Zuo used the air cloud form to avoid falling damage. He stepped firmly on the ground with both feet and raised his hand to release the palm-shaped air flow again.
The small cyan light spot was bound by the invisible air, and was dragged bit by bit towards the figure below.
Xia Zuo jumped up high, waved his right hand upward, grabbed the small spot of light, and then pulled out a small glass bottle from the alchemy pocket under his robe.
Open the bottle cork, align the palm of your right hand with the mouth of the bottle and press it, then close the cork, and a small cyan light spot will appear in the glass bottle.
The message from Goldfinger came to my mind:
"Successfully using the Hand of Wind and the portable elemental confinement bottle to seal a small wind element will reward you with 20 experience points, 0.02 agility points, 0.02 strength points, and a small amount of mental and trace perception attribute values."
"???" Xia Zuo was stunned after reading the message.
Using the Hand of Wind to catch unruly elements will actually reward you with strength and agility attributes!
Mental and perception rewards should come from [Spell Training].
The strength and agility bonuses are related to the special features of the Hand of Wind spell.
Xia Zuo happily put away the elemental confinement bottle, grinned, looked at the leaves on the ground contentedly, and read the Hand of Wind's spell template in his mind.
[Spell Name] Hand of Wind
[Spell type] Auxiliary type, control type
[Spell Level] Trick
[Related Traits] Wind: Floating
[Spell Power] The current maximum power is 27 points (2+20+5)
[Spell Description 1] Affected by the Cyclone Brooch, the spell power is increased by 20 points.
[Spell Description 2] This spell will be affected by the body's [Strength] and [Agility]. Every 1 point of strength increases 1 point of power. For every 2 points of agility, 1 point is increased to power.
[Spell Effect]
When this spell is cast, a hand-shaped stream of air is summoned. The maximum weight the air current can carry is half the spell's power.
The power of the Hand of Wind is related to strength and agility.
Xia Zuo discovered this unique place when he used the spell scroll to instill this spell into his mind.
In the past two years, he has controlled many things with the Hand of Wind, but has only received experience, spirit, and perception bonuses.
It now appears that only more difficult spellcasting operations can trigger the bonuses to strength and agility.
The reward information this time reminded Xia Zuo of something.
In the class where he used the spell scroll to instill the Hand of Wind into his mind, he once asked Beatrice if there were many spells similar to the Hand of Wind, and the spell effects would be related to the physical quality.
Beatrice showed a mysterious smile and did not explain much. She only said that she would know when she was promoted to an official mage.
Xia Zuo speculated at that time that the Warriors Guild used the breathing method to enter the meditation method, and after possessing strong physical fitness, he changed his profession to a mage. This must have deep meaning.
There must be melee mages in this world.
Xia Zuo put away his thoughts and found a shady place to rest for a while.
Half an hour later, he took out his compass to identify the direction, then transformed into a gas cloud and set off again.
It's approaching evening.
Xia Zuo successfully arrived at the planned town.
Wearing a hood that obscured his face, he walked through the bustling hotel lobby, talked to the boss, and put down a handful of copper coins as payment for his stay.
In the hotel room. Xia Zuo took out two sets of trip wire bell props and placed them next to the door panel and window sill respectively.
He lay on the soft couch, adjusted the position of the pillow, and reviewed in his mind the rewards he had received for using the Wind Movement technique today:
"I have used Tivanas Wind Movement for about 6 hours today. The average spell power is 20 points, and I will be rewarded with 72 experience points. I will also be rewarded with some mental and perception attribute values."
I float for 6 hours every day, and I must have at least 2,000 experience points in a month.
If we only use the efficiency of experience acquisition as a criterion, this is the fastest way to obtain experience.
Xia Zuo thought for a while, drank the diluted concentration potion, and entered deep meditation.
In the early morning of the next day, at dawn, he set out on his journey again.
…
Day 7 of traveling through mountains and rivers to Mae Nam Province.
Xia Zuo entered the territory of Yenan Province yesterday morning.
He followed the nearest route and drifted straight to the village north of West City, where someone was waiting to be picked up.
At noon.
Smoke rose in the sky not far away, and Xia Zuo drifted toward the village for more than ten minutes.
Mars' figure appeared on the other side of a small river.
He was holding a two-handed staff and leaning against the tree trunk. Like all mages who like to keep a low profile, he covered his face with a hood with a low brim.
A breeze blew across the grass in front of Mars, and the blue light cloud stopped in front of him, and instantly transformed into a man wearing a black hood.
"Senior Mars, long time no see." Xia Zuo lifted his hood and greeted with a smile.
Mars looks changed a lot.
The lines on his face have become tougher, and he is much more mature than when he left school two years ago. The long pale blond hair was shortened into a short hair, the body became much thicker, and the two sleeves faintly outlined the muscles of the arms.
The whole person looks handsome and capable.
Mars seemed to be startled by the sudden arrival of the figure, and a surprised look appeared on his originally calm face, which was no longer as elegant as before.
"Xia Zuo, is the talent spell you obtained from the master-level elemental bottle Wind Movement? No wonder it came so fast!"
Mars' eyes flashed with excitement. After touching Xia Zuo's right shoulder to say hello, he circled around the other person and said, "Change again, change again, this is the first time I have seen Feng Xingshu with my own eyes."
Xia Zuo laughed dumbly. It seemed that Beatrice had not told Mars or anyone else about his gifted spells in the past two years.
"Okay, just take a look." Xia Zuo calmed down and thought for a second, then his figure faded and turned into a cloud of gas.
"It's really amazing. It's indeed a high-level spell."
Mars stretched out his hand to touch the flowing azure cloud, but immediately realized something was wrong, and took back his hand with an apologetic smile.
Xia Zuo lifted the spell, turned into a human form, and asked: "What about you, senior, what innate spells have you learned?"
A hint of embarrassment appeared on Mars' heroic face, he raised the two-handed staff in his hand and said:
"Uh... a rather different kind of spell. Two years ago, when I first obtained the innate spell, my mentor, Professor Bethel, said that I had to practice two-handed wand combat in order to exert the effects of this innate spell. .So now I carry this staff with me wherever I go."
What do you need to practice first? Two-handed wand fighting?
Xia Zuo blinked curiously.
Mars was all too familiar with the searching look in his junior's eyes. Although the two hadn't seen each other for a long time, he could still feel the desire for knowledge.
"Okay. Let me show you."
Mars put away the smile on his face and instantly entered a shallow state of meditation. He calmly lifted the staff and then knocked it on the ground with a "dong" sound.
He finished casting the spell and regained his smile, pointed to the bushes not far behind the two of them, and said confidently:
"In that bush, there are three very dark stones. No more, no less, exactly three."
Xia Zuo was amazed and ran over. He opened the bushes and counted. There were indeed three black stones.
"This is a shock wave spell. My spell power is not enough. For the time being, it only has the effect of detection." Mars explained at the side.
The shock wave... hits the ground, sending out waves in all directions, and then using the feedback of the waves to distinguish the surrounding things.
interesting.
Xia Zuo thought for a moment, then asked in confusion: "But, what does this have to do with fighting skills?"
"Uh" Mars was stunned, then waved his hands to change the subject, "You will understand this later. Let's go to West Town first."
Xia Zuo looked at him suspiciously, and his eyes fell on the two-handed staff in the other person's hand.
This is a staff made of thick rattan, with a dark green color throughout. The head of the staff is as thick as a hammer head, and the tail of the staff is as thin as a needle. The top-heavy appearance looks particularly suitable for swinging and smashing enemies.
"Oh, this is the thick vine staff. It was a gift from my mentor after I completed my first meditation."
Mars made an introduction and stretched out his hand forward, "Let's go. I've arranged the carriage. Let's set off now. We will arrive at the castle in West City in the evening."
Xia Zuo scratched the back of his head.
He half-thought of handing over the delivered poison to the other party and spending the rest of the time searching for unruly elements to make some extra money before returning to school.
But he and Mars hadn't seen each other for two years, and he really wanted to know what the job of a resident mage's assistant was like...
Xia Zuo hesitated for a second, then boarded the carriage at Mars's warm invitation.
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