If it was just a night of sleeplessness, then it would be no problem as Claude's eighteen-year-old body could fully bear it. But Claude used up his magic power one night by casting Featherfall, which also made him extremely sleepy, so he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he fell on the carpet in the pharmacy laboratory. He didn't wake up until there was a knock on the door for a long time. come over. .seven
Rubbing his face, Claude stood up and opened the door. Outside the door stood Ericson, Viricero and Sioli. Looking at the sky, it was already evening, and Claude slept almost all day long.
"What are you doing? Why did you come out and open the door after so long? We thought something had happened to you and were ready to break in." Erikson said.
"It's okay. I've been testing potions all morning. I wanted to take a rest in the afternoon. I didn't expect to fall asleep and sleep so deeply. If you hadn't knocked on the door, maybe I wouldn't wake up until the evening." Claude stretched out his voice. He replied lazily.
"Director Claude, I will go back if nothing happens. By the way, I have brought all the branches piled up on the other side of the creek ashore. When they are dry, I will drag them back and use them as firewood." Sioli said next to him, Clod Only then did De realize that he was holding four long-tail saury fish.
Claude nodded, and Sioli thanked Erikson and Verricro twice before leaving.
"Why are you here?" Claude asked, picking up the cold kettle on the tea table and drinking half of it for himself.
"We came back in the afternoon and heard that Uncle Peg said that you were late last night because the carriage wheel fell off on the mountain road. He also went to the lakeside to look for us, but didn't find us before going back. So we decided to come and see you, and take a look at you by the way. Let's get some grilled fish here. By the way, I brought a block net last night. I was lucky. When I got up the net in the morning, I found that I caught about twenty long-tailed saury, and I brought half of it to you.
I just met Sioli and gave him four. He told us that you had been in the pharmaceutical laboratory for a whole day and you didn't come out, and asked people not to disturb you. By the way, have you made any potion? "Erickson asked curiously. They already knew that Claude was learning pharmacy knowledge from Madam Maria.
"No, learning pharmacy knowledge is not that simple. Up to now, I am only relatively confident in some simple medicinal material processing. This is because the medicinal material processing machines and testing equipment equipped in Madam Maria's pharmacy laboratory are relatively complete and advanced. Because. I once tried to refine and synthesize primary healing potions, but unfortunately they all failed. None of them were qualified... "
Claude sighed and said, "Let's go to my cabin. Let's make a delicious meal tonight."
Erikson and Verrico came in a carriage. It seemed that they had borrowed the delivery carriage belonging to Mrs. Verin, the fishnet maker next to the pier. There was also a large fish basket and a small fish basket on the car. Barrel of rye. Verricro took the fish basket off the carriage, gave the rye barrel to Claude, and then drove the carriage to the stables.
Claude yelled a few words from behind, asking Verricro to unload the carriage and add some food to the packhorse pulling the cart, so as not to be nagged by Mrs. Verin next door for making their packhorse still hungry and fat after returning. . Verricro raised his hand to indicate that he heard.
Ericson consciously carried the fish basket to the stream to deal with the long-tailed swordfish. Claude thought for a while and went to the residence of the Sioli couple. He gave them two riaso and asked him to send two roosters. , this price is a bit more expensive than the market price. So when Sioli came over with two roosters, he also brought a basket of eggs, about fifteen or six, so Claude gave him another bottle of ganache, and Sioli went back happily.
Claude made Erikson his favorite grilled chicken wings in the evening. He ate three of them by himself, and the remaining one was eaten by Viricolo. In addition to providing four chicken wings from the two roosters at the Sioli Chicken Farm, Claude made the rest into white-chopped chicken and braised chicken nuggets. Much to his delight, in the end Ericson drank about half a barrel of rye by himself, and was driven away in a drunken carriage by Verricro.
After sending Erikson and Vericro away, Claude packed his things and took a shower. He checked the meditation space and found that his magic power in the hexagram had only been restored to a small half, and his mental power was due to being asleep. I recovered very quickly and no longer felt sleepy. It seems that you have to be more careful in the future and not consume all your own magic power. Drawing the magic talisman structure of Featherfall Technique out of thin air and casting it continuously like yesterday will consume too much magic power.
A quick estimate shows that the Featherfall spell cast by Claude last night plus a long-range arrow protection, which is about ten spells, has completely consumed his own magic power. On the contrary, if he were to cast magic arrows that had the magic talisman structure carved into the hexagram space, Claude could cast forty or fifty in one go. Even if it was the ball of light in the magic book he carried with him, Claude could cast more than twenty of them. It can be seen from this that it is uneconomical to draw the magic array structure out of thin air and cast the magic power consumed.
So Claude only thought about it for a moment and decided not to set up the alchemy magic array tonight. Although all the magic materials are ready, his own magic power is only less than half, and his mental strength is not in the best condition. Under such circumstances, Claude has no confidence in constructing the setting of the alchemy magic array perfectly, having invested so much. of capital, Claude did not want to waste those precious magic materials because of his mistakes.
Claude plans to draw the magic array structures of the two spells, Featherfall and Remote Arrow Protection, into his magic book at night, so that the time to cast these two spells in the future will not only be shortened, but also reduced by more than half. consumption of magic power. Then go to the platform on the second floor to practice meditation at night to speed up the recovery of your own magic power. By tomorrow night, I can use my best mental state and sufficient magic power to set up the alchemy magic array.
The next day was Monday, and Claude drove his carriage to school. After a day of wandering around, he returned to the forest farm for a patrol. He chatted patiently with the Sioli and his wife for a while, helped them with some things, and then returned to his cabin to make some food. Claude began Consider where to place this alchemical magic talisman array.
Originally, it was the best choice to place the alchemy magic array in the potion laboratory, but Claude considered that the potion laboratory did not belong to him, but to Lady Maria. I heard from Mrs. Maria that every summer she would bring a few students or her relatives to the forest farm to spend a leisurely time. One is to escape the heat, and the other is to cleanse yourself so that you can stay in the pharmaceutical laboratory and do your favorite experiments without being disturbed by others.
In addition, several of Mrs. Maria's relatives sometimes come to the forest farm on a whim, and they also have the right to enter the pharmaceutical laboratory. This was also one of the reasons why Claude was hesitant. He set up the alchemy magic talisman array in the potion laboratory. If someone bumped into it, he might be exposed as a magician.
Then apart from the pharmaceutical testing room, the only option left is this double-story cabin. Madam Maria has already written a letter, allowing Claude to live in this cabin, and it is a promise that it does not matter how long he stays. In a sense, this cabin has become Claude's private residence, and even Lady Maria is not allowed to break in without his permission.
However, if Claude sets up the alchemical magic talisman array in the cabin, then he will have to clean up a room.
Because it has been rebuilt, the current cabin is completely different from the original cabin. It is said that this is the designer's fault. Lady Maria's father, Baron Alpheus Normanly, who was canonized as a hereditary baron by Stirling IX, wanted to rebuild the cabin where his father, the old forester, lived. , or a wooden shed to commemorate his father.
But the designer who designed the white villa in the forest farm mistakenly thought that the respected Baron Alpheus wanted to experience the original forest farm scenery and use wood to build a forest cabin for leisure and vacation. So after tearing down the dilapidated wooden shed, he carefully designed and built the current two-story cabin. As a result, Baron Alpheus was disappointed and couldn't get angry, so he could only hold his nose and acquiesced, but from then on Leave this cabin empty and ignore it...
For Claude, this cabin is very close to his heart. When Mrs. Maria took him to see the cabin, he fell in love with it at first sight. So as soon as Mrs. Maria left, she couldn't wait to move in.
This small wooden house was not built directly on the ground, but about half a meter above the ground. Below it were dozens of wooden support columns with a width of more than half a foot in diameter. Except for the bathroom, the drainage pipe leads directly to the ground. From the outside, the cabin appears to be made entirely of logs, but once inside, you realize that the roughness and primitiveness are just the exterior. The walls and floors of each room inside are made of expensive creamy yellow oak boards.
In addition to the kitchen, bathroom and hall, there are two rooms on the first floor of the cabin. There are only two rooms and a bathroom on the second floor. From the overall layout, the cabin is suitable for a family of four.
After Claude moved into the cabin, he only tidied up a room on the second floor as the master bedroom. The only things he usually used on the first floor were the kitchen and the hall. The hall was often used by him as a dining room to entertain his friends here. meal. But now it seems that Claude has to clear out the two vacant rooms on the first floor to create a room where he can set up the alchemy magic array.
In fact, the two vacant rooms on the first floor can be arranged as a study, a reception room, or a guest room and a servant's room. Claude made a choice and began to clean the innermost room on the first floor.
After cleaning the room, Claude suddenly discovered a very serious problem, that is, the room was empty without any furniture. And if he wanted to decorate the room where he would place the alchemical magic talisman, he would also need to buy some furniture and two light-blocking curtains. Because when he was experimenting with alchemical magic at night, he had to use the spell of the Pearl of Light to illuminate.
But if the room was too bright, it would easily make people suspicious. He had to buy blackout curtains to cover the windows and the entrance door to prevent people from peeping. When Madam Maria was here, she could cast the Pearl of Light to illuminate, and no one dared to ask. But if Claude casts the Pearl of Light now, he suspects that tomorrow the Sioli couple will be able to spread the news that he is a magician to everyone in White Deer Town.
Although the two couples behaved submissively in front of him and were usually very polite and obedient, Claude knew in his heart that the Sioli couple were not very convinced of him in their hearts. Especially when I knew that his monthly salary was almost equal to the sum of the two of them, I felt a little unwilling. I was eager to find some fault with him so that I could snitch on him behind his back. It was only because Claude was highly valued by Madam Maria. I had to endure it secretly.
Claude needs a heavy solid wood square table, one meter by one meter, as well as a desk and chair to record his experience in doing alchemical magic experiments. He also needs to buy a long bookshelf-shaped closet. , preferably with a door, used to place test materials and finished products. There are also notebooks, empty glass bottles, or crystal stones. After the alchemy magic array is set up, you can use the crystal stones to make crystal bottles.
Master Landers said in his diary that the magic potions produced by refining the alchemy magic talisman are best placed in crystal bottles to maintain their best magic effects, so he just started making them in the magic tower. Nearly a thousand crystal bottles are made, at least fifty or sixty are made a day...