It was already eight o'clock when I returned to St. Teresa's Square with the cat. Mia was walking around happily because she was back home. She liked this place as much as Shad did.
Shade did not rest either. Instead, he took out the jumping learning materials of the thaumaturgy Ragley that he had obtained last week, and placed them on the desk in the study together with the bundle of weather vane blue grass that he had obtained from Coldwater Port City. There were a total of twelve blades in this bundle.
Although the weathervane bluegrass is also a herb, it looks more like a fern. The part that can be used for Shade's magic is only about one-fifth of the plant.
He simply used scissors to process two of them, cut off the useful parts, and carved a long string of ancient spells that meant to guide directions on the surface of the plant by piercing it with a fine needle.
This process is very harmful to the eyes, as the light quality of gas lamps is far inferior to the lights at home.
After finally finishing the plant like embroidery, he walked out the window to look at the rainy night sky. After making sure there were no special astrological signs tonight, he drew the curtains, locked the cat out, and turned off the gas lamp on the side wall of the study, leaving only the gas lamp on the tabletop.
According to the method of learning thaumaturgy given by Professor Garcia, first grind the obsidian into stone chips and mix them with the leg bone powder of the Haas hound. After finely grinding, soak the powder with a mixture of one's own blood and water.
Wait for the color of the powder to change from black to white, place the powder in a metal container, and heat it from below with a match until the water evaporates completely.
After these troublesome steps, grind the warm powder mixture again, and after it cools to room temperature, carefully cover it on the treated blue surface of the weathervane.
The key is to cover the letters that have been pierced with a needle.
Xia De took a deep breath, closed his eyes and calmed his mind. He placed the tray with these things on the corner of the table, first chanted the spell he had just stabbed, and then blew hard. As the powder spread in the closed study, the remains of the corroded blue grass were revealed.
He gritted his teeth and ate the powdery grass. Before the dust in the air had completely settled, Shade took out another blue grass. Casting magic required materials, which was a diluent for the extract of weather vane blue grass.
He didn't have the tools to make the extract, so he could only pinch out some juice and then put it on the tip of his tongue.
To be honest, it was difficult for Shade to compare which one tasted weirder, the powder or the plant juice, but it was definitely better than the frog material.
Looking at the slightly empty study, he took a step forward with excitement, and then his figure disappeared beside the desk and appeared in front of the closed door.
The distance of the magic is 10 feet (about 3.14 meters), but Shade can feel that his limit is definitely more than that. The effect of the "Divine Afterglow" state on this magic is to increase the maximum distance of space movement. The increase is about twice, which means that Shade's maximum movement range should be about 10 meters.
But for a more accurate experiment, you need to wait for an hour. Professor Garcia has warned that this magic can only be used once an hour, otherwise it is very easy to attract strange things.
Of course, this was just a warning from the professor. If Shade didn't care about safety and had enough spirit, he could use Ragley's jump as walking. But an hour's interval was too long. If he could find a way to ensure the safety of space movement, he wouldn't have to worry. But if such a thing really existed, Shade would definitely not be able to afford it.
"But this magic is simpler than I thought."
Turning around and looking behind me, the whole process just now was no different from an ordinary step.
It was just that at the moment when the body suddenly appeared, there was a strange feeling of imbalance. But this feeling would not affect the battle, and it would be fine after a few more times of adaptation.
What difficulties do you think you will encounter
She asked softly in his ear.
"For example... because of lack of experience, only part of the body achieved space jump, thus causing the body to be separated?"
Shade guessed jokingly.
If this magic was so dangerous, the professor at Saint Byron would not have recommended that you choose it.
The material for casting the thaumaturgy Raglai's Leap is a diluent of the extract of weathervane blue grass, but the material is not required when using it. Instead, after applying some diluent of standard concentration to the tip of the tongue, the thaumaturgy can be used at any time within twenty minutes.
This kind of diluent cannot be made by simply adding water. It requires a ring sorcerer who specializes in preparing potions to make it, otherwise a lot of materials will be wasted.
So Shad only tried a few times tonight and planned to ask Priest Augustus to help deal with the grass tomorrow.
By the way, you can also ask the priest to help identify other miscellaneous items brought back from Coldwater Port. As for the origin of these things, just say that you met a ring warlock who wanted to leave Tobesk in the near future in the black market, so you bought a bunch of unknown things at a low price.
"Coldwater Harbor City is indeed the most important trade transit point between the New World and the Old World. Even this kind of precious material can be found here."
When he opened the door and calmed down the cat that kept scratching the door, Shade sighed in his heart. However, he would not go to Coldwater Port again in the near future. Although he did not leave too many traces at the scene of Jason Drall's death, he still had to avoid the limelight.
"The most important thing is to break into the ruins in three days."
He looked out the window at the night view:
"In order to prevent the worst from happening, we must make multiple preparations. I'll try to save as much as possible. I can probably buy some good things with the gold pounds I have."
Time was very tight, so after waking up on Tuesday morning, the first thing I did was to eat, and the second thing was to wash yesterday's clothes to ensure that I had clean clothes to wear when I went out.
Then he went out, took a carriage to Tobesk Post Office, and sent an urgent letter to Miss Carina, asking if he could visit her in the afternoon. Then he went to visit Father Augustus and gave him the weathervane blue grass to deal with.
"Where did you get these plants from? The price of weathervane bluegrass on the local black market is 10 pounds per strand, at least 10 pounds. And it's normal to have no news for several months after posting a delivery order."
Because it was not difficult to make plant extracts, the priest took Shad directly to the underground studio he rented. The plants themselves were expensive, but after the extract was diluted, each root could obtain at least 100 drops of liquid.
These liquids are enough to support Shade's use for a whole year. It's not because he expects Shade to use magic frequently, but because both the diluent and the plants themselves will slowly deteriorate, which is unavoidable.