Roy's loot package was filled with materials during the trip to the Smirk Mine—eyeballs, tongues, ears of the evil ghost family... viscera, various organs and tissues, hundreds of them.
Except for more than a dozen green mutants, which must be kept for themselves, used to prepare herbal medicines, and nails and teeth to be polished into arrows, everything else must be shot.
Change it to money and make room by the way.
Elland, as an affiliated principality of Temeria, has merchants from all over the country, dealing in various commodities, and many of them are willing to purchase monster materials.
But the price is more demanding.
If a businessman sees that the seller is a layman, he will definitely be treated as fat and slaughtered at the price. But the witcher Letso lived eighty years and was experienced in selling trophies.
He has a unique negotiating strategy. Concise and efficient - when he finds anyone who is interested in buying, he will quote a price, and then stare at the person with a pair of amber, cold and ruthless eyes, waiting for the other party to bargain without saying a word.
Under normal circumstances, the merchant will take the initiative to increase his chips after being stared at by him for five seconds, and after half a minute, the merchant will quote a price that satisfies him.
The witcher's limping legs, tall and burly body, sharp eyes, and shiny bald head alone can speak ten hundred words of saliva to ordinary people.
Roy is also very surprised. When the will attribute stacks up, does he have such a powerful deterrent as him? Make the crafty merchant surrender without saying a word.
A total of five merchants have reached a deal, and all the eyes, tongues, ears, and most of the internal organs of the evil spirits have been sold for a huge sum of two hundred crowns...
The money has not been warmed up in the purse, and has been used to purchase a large amount of alchemy materials.
Because the potion, sword oil, and alchemy bombs were all used up, the two had suffered enough in the mine tunnel. Now that they finally saw the sun again, their first task was naturally to replenish the alchemy props.
A big purchase.
It contains herbs such as bales fruit, celandine, and flea, special materials such as phosphorus, sulfur, and saltpeter, and alcohol such as Mahakam spirits, cherry wine, and mandala wine.
The two shopped around again and found the most professional and time-honored blacksmith shop in the city. On the premise of providing evil ghost claws and teeth, they customized 100 special crossbow arrows at the price of 20 copper coins. This kind of crossbow has stronger penetrating power and lighter weight than ordinary iron arrows, and the arrow has a slight toxin originating from evil spirits, and its power is much greater than that of ordinary arrows.
Letho also left the steel sword and dagger at the blacksmith's shop to be polished and repaired, another expense.
As for Guvisher, although it has experienced several battles in the Smirk Mine, the sword produced by the goblin is not so easy to wear and tear, and the blade is still smooth and delicate enough to blow hair and break hair.
Besides, they were not at ease to hand over the sword to strangers.
As the end of the purchase.
The witcher master and apprentice made two sets of gray cowhide armor, one large and one small, as well as knee-length boots, tailored in the ready-to-wear shop. After all, you can't wear thin linen pants and cloth shoes all the time, and you don't have the slightest defense. , the movement is also inconvenient.
None of these things are cheap.
When the sun sets in the west, the city of Errand is covered in orange light.
Roy, who spent a day in the market, street, and shops, calculated all the expenses and income, and the whole person was taken aback. In just one day, they not only spent 200 kronor for selling materials, but also posted more than 100 kronor. Crown.
Almost half of a normal person's income was spent.
"Spending money like water... A witcher is really a high-risk, high-income, and high-consumption job!"
Now they only have more than 100 crowns left on them. Even if they don't go to drink and find women, this money is too short, at most enough to live in a big city like Errand for a month.
"Lesso, should we take a few commissions and earn some living expenses?" The teenager looked at the witcher expectantly. His job conditions were only the last magic creature, and then he could wait for the green grass trial with peace of mind. .
And after following the other party on the road, he hasn't browsed the tasks from the notice board seriously, and he is also full of yearning for that place. How can he be called a qualified witcher without taking off the tasks from the notice board
"My legs will probably take half a month to heal, and I'll talk about the commission later." The witcher looked at him with constricted pupils, as if he could see through him, "Also, kid, you are in Smile. Haven't killed enough in the Erke mine?"
"Life should pay attention to movement and stillness, and you will honestly learn alchemy with me in the next few days..." The witcher said his plan without retort, "When the alchemy path is complete, let's go to the temple if the alchemy is complete. ."
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Still like Edsberg, the witcher rented a house with a kitchen in the city, called Roy to work together, and spent a long time transforming it into a simple alchemy room.
When everything was completed, the familiar iron pot, clay bowl, distiller, blower, and medicine pestle reappeared in sight. The teenager felt dizzy for a while, as if he had returned to the dark days when he opened his eyes to alchemy and closed his eyes to sleep. .
But there is a strange longing in his heart, longing for that small and exquisite potion that has been refined through countless hardships, the great sense of achievement.
All this urged him to pick up the wok and casserole. Be a happy...
"Review the calendula potion..." The witcher asked suddenly while he was thinking, "Oralize the potion formula and steps."
"Two ounces of dried calendula, one ounce of nettle, added to the stone mortar..." Roy blurted out, and the entire formula seemed to be engraved into his soul, which would never be forgotten.
"Not bad, nearly a month has passed, and I still remember it so clearly." The witcher expressed his approval, "Now start practicing and see how much your technique has deteriorated..."
Roy's body moved uncontrollably - from behind, he looked like a senior chef.
Put a bag of marigolds and nettles on the platform on the right, weigh out a certain amount with a scale, put them in a stone mortar in turn, mash and grind them with a pestle...
When the clock finished a quarter of an hour, the medicinal liquid in the pot had not boiled, and a faint fragrance was faintly emitted.
Roy turned off the fire immediately, held the handle of the iron pot and poured the medicinal liquid into the oval earthen pot.
The witcher took the potion, shook it, and said in surprise, "Little devil, are you alchemy in your dream? Not only did you not lose your skills for a month, but you became better?"
"It should be the effect of the blood of the sun," the young man pondered, "it enhances my control over my body."
The 1 point of agility in the elf talent is not for nothing.
"This is a pleasant surprise! You barely made your apprenticeship with the calendula potion. Next, practice making the second potion," the witcher paused. "To be precise, it is a poison, which was used in the Smirk mine. ."
"Paralyzing poison?"
"You're right, but it's not the simplified version at the time, but the full version with more complex and detailed steps that can paralyze the whole body... It's better to die."
The boy's eyes lit up immediately. After seeing the power of this poison in the mine road, he has been obsessed with it.
In some specific occasions, poison is more practical than sword oil and bombs.
The witcher immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him, "Before this, I need your guarantee, not to the point of last resort, not to abuse poison, no matter what method, now and in the future, can you guarantee?"
"What do you mean by abuse?"
"Using poison to assassinate, harm irrelevant people, etc." Lesso recalled those unbearable years, his eyes sighed, "For a long time in the past, the Snake School went astray, focusing on poisons over potions, and was the same as the Cat School. Accepting the commission of assassination, the method is even more vile and vicious, leading to the school's notoriety..."
"Each new apprentice will be required to keep a pet, cat, dog, etc. Before the end of the training, the instructor will let them kill their animal companions who have cultivated feelings for several years in order to exercise their cruel and ruthless character. "
A hint of surprise flashed on Roy's face. Since he followed the witcher on the road, he had never received training in this area, and he had no idea that the Snake Pie would have such a past.
At the same time, he was fortunate in his heart. Fortunately, he did not join the Viper School of the past. He didn't want to be a Virgin, and he hated the inhuman murderer.
"you also… "
"That's right... Facts have proved that the school's strategy in the past was wrong, and it has withered to the point where it is now." The witcher suddenly looked shocked and emphasized, "Once the power is abused, it is like 'overwhelming water,' and inevitably it will go to an extreme. … If you make a mistake with poison, as a guide, I will take you back to Wisgerd to correct it.”
He accentuated on correcting the word.
Roy's heart jumped, and he said solemnly, "Then I swear, with the reputation of the Snake Sect witcher, I will never use poison to kill innocent people indiscriminately, otherwise..."
"However, Letho..." Roy thought of what this guy did in the future, stared at the witcher's face and turned his voice, "If, suppose one day, you must use poison to assassinate, in order to revive the Viper School, you Will you compromise?"
"It depends on who is assassinating."
"Like the emperor?"
"What are you pretending to be?" The witcher's face became stern and he refused to answer. "This is the end of the assassination topic. Now that you have made a promise, let's continue learning... Remember the simplified recipe?"
"The aggregate grass is crushed, the rube grass is pressed out of the juice, the aconitum is chopped..."
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In the next few days, in addition to eating and the necessary rest for meditation, under the supervision of the witcher, Roy kept refining the paralyzing poison like crazy. On the third day, I finally succeeded in refining the first dose...
And at that moment, the template shook, and a new skill was born—
Alchemy lv1: A manufacturing technology that includes sword oil, potions, decoctions, special poisons, magic bombs and other fields. You are still a beginner, and you have mastered: Calendula Elixir, Paralyzing Poison.
Roy couldn't help but waved his fist excitedly,
"Lesso, does the Snake Pie have any other poisons?"
"I'll teach you later... Now make five paralysis poisons and five calendula potions, put them in the space bag for later use, and then help me make magic potions and bombs..."
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