《Arcane Mage》


 Chapter 1

    As the sun set, the campus of the Kranbang Public University of Magic (abbreviated as KranMagic University) grew quiet. Only in a few ancient castles did flickering magical lamps still shine, illuminating the offices of the teachers.


    A night patrolman, carrying a lantern with a cow''s eye lens, wandered up and down the corridors of the college''s grand museum, muttering incessantly. He was obviously dissatisfied with the temporary addition to his night patrol duties.


    Half a month ago, teachers and students from the Archaeology Department of KranMagic University discovered and opened a secret chamber at the ancient Kranburg site at the foot of the Seawall Mountains in Kranbang, Jiralago Continent. Inside, they found a piece of eternal ice left over from the Dawn Era. Encased within the ice was an ancient humanoid creature whose features were indistinct. This discovery shook the academic community across the Star Continent.


    However, current magical technology could not guarantee that the ancient frozen remains inside would not decompose quickly after forcibly melting the eternal ice. Therefore, the eternal ice was temporarily placed in KranMagic University''s Grand Museum of Ancient Artifacts, pending further study by scholars from the seven continents of the Star Continent before a decision could be made.


    This decision caused great headaches for the night patrolmen of KranMagic University. The college''s Security Department had to urgently devise a patrol plan, requiring the night patrolmen to rotate throughout the night to ensure the safety of this precious eternal ice.


    Yet, the night patrolmen, who earned meager salaries, could not understand who would be interested in a large block of ice measuring 5 meters in length, 4 meters in width, and 3 meters in height.


    Even if some foolish thief were curious about this huge block of ice, how could they possibly move such a massive object weighing dozens of tons?


    Only scholars who spend their days in laboratories or libraries would consider this large block of ice a treasure, right?


    Perhaps some curious students might want to take some ice back to make a bowl of ancient shaved ice, but it was said that eternal ice was harder than steel. Forget about using an ice shaver to get ice shards; even the sharpest knife couldn''t cut it. Was it really necessary to arrange so many people to guard it?


    Of course, the school leaders could not comprehend the frustration of the night patrolmen. They probably believed that only by doing so could the school demonstrate its importance attached to this academic exchange and its respect for scholars from the seven continents.


    Oh well, tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the autumn main moon''s rise according to "The Book of Lyan," and also the school festival celebrating the 200th anniversary of "University of Science and Magic." Yet, Uncle Sam has to set up stages, sweep auditoriums, and decorate venues, running around like a headless chicken. And now, I have to guard this huge block of ice; how unlucky can I get!This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    As he walked, Sam muttered to himself, "Honestly, I''ll talk to those bureaucrats tomorrow. This job is too tiring for such little pay; I quit! But maybe I should wait until the end of the month to collect my salary first; otherwise, they''ll definitely deduct half a month''s wages. This time, I''m really determined to quit; nobody can stop me!"


    He kept repeating this decision he''d been talking about for over a decade while shining his cow-eye lantern on the huge block of ice.


    This "eternal ice" was truly beautiful, with a hint of blue in its snow-white glow, shimmering under the light like a gemstone.


    Too bad it''s just a block of ice. If it were a gemstone, Sam could secretly chip off a small piece to sell for some money and then head to the "Fisherman''s Bride" tavern for a few drinks of saltwater-diluted seaweed ale.


    "Tick! Tick! Tick..."


    Suddenly, a faint sound echoed through the vast museum hall, interrupting Sam''s complaints. He stopped, listened intently, found nothing, shook his head, and prepared to leave this eerie place filled with quirky items.


    "Tick! Tick! Tick..."


    Sam had taken a few steps when he stopped again, abruptly turned around, shone his lantern, and shouted loudly, "Who''s there? Come out! You kids, this isn''t a place for your treasure hunts!"


    But the museum was empty. The characters in the ancient portrait oil paintings on the walls seemed to mock Sam''s fuss with eerie smiles.


    Sam swallowed hard, his lantern shaking in his hand. Every historic college has its horror legends, and "University of Science and Magic" is no exception.


    For instance, the midnight scholars in the neighboring grand library, the ghostly parties in the auditorium, the bloody operating tables in the anatomy lab, the male student with student ID 1683 in the women''s restroom on the east end of the second floor of the Identification Department, and the twenty-three suicidal lovers'' spirits said to hang from a paulownia tree a thousand years old...


    You ask why the number is odd for a "suicidal lover" scenario?


    It''s said that a female apprentice from the Necromancy Department, betrayed by her senior and rival, killed them both and hung them on the paulownia tree. Then, using a coffin nail and her own tongue, she hung herself up too. How she managed to hammer the coffin nail through her tongue while hanging in mid-air is something only the undead know!


    Forget it, none of this matters...


    "Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick!"


    The sound grew faster, like the splashing of blood, sending shivers down one''s spine. Sam told himself they were just legends, but his mind couldn''t help conjuring up various terrifying images.


    His hands trembled violently, causing the lantern light to sway wildly. By accident, it shone on the eternal ice, and a blurred human face seemed to flash across its surface!


    "Ah..."


    Sam screamed in terror and fell to the ground, sitting on his butt. Warm liquid flowed down his trousers, leaving a strange stain on the black-and-white marble floor. Yes, he was scared to the point of wetting himself!


    With courage he didn''t know where it came from, Sam got down on the ground and crawled out of the grand museum swiftly, not forgetting to grab the cow-eye lantern that gave him a slight sense of reassurance as he left.


    Sam tumbled and crawled his way out of the grand museum, with the sound of blood dripping onto the floor echoing in his ears, as if it were just behind him, getting closer and closer!


    Terrified out of his wits, Sam screamed loudly and ran wildly through the empty campus, shouting for other night watchmen to rescue him. However, not a single person was around, despite the night watch team supposedly consisting of over a dozen people!


    "They must all be killed by the Eternal Ice Ghosts! I''m the only one left... I''m the only one left..."


    Driven by sheer terror, Sam lost all sense of reason and fled the academy in a mad dash. It was said that he never showed up again afterward.

 Chapter 2

    The next day, the other night watchmen learned about what happened the previous night. They said a couple secretly dating on campus turned pale with fright, claiming they had seen a "one-eyed wailing banshee" near the Great Museum devouring Sam, the night watchman!


    The couple also described the "one-eyed wailing banshee" in detail: She had an eye as big as a cow''s eye lantern shade on her face, capable of emitting a terrifying light that could melt people!


    Even more astonishingly, a precious piece of "Eternal Ice" was also missing, and there was a pool of strange liquid on the museum floor. After analyzing it, a professor from the Alchemy Department said the liquid belonged to Sam!


    This made the couple''s story seem plausible. They speculated that the "one-eyed wailing banshee" might be an ancient creature frozen in the "Eternal Ice," which escaped in the middle of the night and ate Sam!


    Although Sam was just an ordinary night watchman, his incident affected a significant event at the University of Science and Magic: the Magic Academic Symposium of the Seven Continents, originally scheduled to be held during the 200th anniversary school festival, had to be canceled due to the loss of the "Eternal Ice." This was the biggest embarrassment for the University of Science and Magic since its founding!


    To save face, the university quickly changed the content of the symposium to focus on studying "Ancient Korlanburg" and exploring related literature. At the same time, the university instructed the couple who saw the banshee to keep quiet and severely punished the security department of the college, even dismissing the minister who had arranged his relatives into the security department.


    However, "silencing" does not mean the university killed them to keep the secret. Soon, a new horror story spread among the students of the University of Science and Magic: the wailing banshee of the Great Museum...


    Actually, there was another secret behind this incident: shortly after Sam fled, a moonlight beam happened to shine on the piece of "Eternal Ice"!


    The "Eternal Ice," which was supposed to never melt, began to melt rapidly that autumn under the cool moonlight. The "tick-tock" sound was made by the water dripping from the melting "Eternal Ice."


    The scene shifts to the night of the incident.


    Jialan feels a power surging within him, emanating from "The Book of Lian." It rouses him from his icy slumber.


    He slowly opens his eyes, a hint of blue light flickering in his dark pupils, then climbs to his feet, his bones cracking audibly.


    He twists his stiff neck, hearing the crisp sound of bones popping, and Jialan hums comfortably.


    "Where am I?"


    He looks around and finds that the familiar bookshelves have transformed into cluttered racks, and the room''s appearance has changed.


    "I remember I was organizing the shelves in the reading room?"


    Jialan frowns and ponders for a moment, gradually recalling some events. He suddenly jolts awake, intending to shout loudly but only emitting a low "Uh..." sound.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    "Damn! I sound like an old zombie."


    He swallows, lubricating his dry throat, and looks down to find himself lying on a marble table resembling an altar.


    "Was I used as a sacrifice?"


    He surveys his surroundings, pitch black with not even a torch or illuminating staff in sight. Only a faint blue moonlight seeps through the octagonal window on the ceiling, illuminating him and bringing a hint of warmth to his body.


    Within the moonlight, numerous tiny light points drift like dust, resembling small creatures in the deep sea. They gather like sheer veils, circling around him like a goblin before settling on his chest.


    Hanging from Jialan''s chest is a light blue crystal pendant, his administrator''s "Catalog Stone," capable of opening the doors to the three million book chambers in the Kraneburg Library.


    "Did the Catalog Stone wake me up?"


    Jialan extends his long but pale fingers, intending to cast a "Light Dance" spell to illuminate the area, but his mind feels empty, his eyes twitching, and his body swaying.


    He has to lower his hand, abandoning the idea of casting a "Levitating Disk" spell. Instead, he climbs down the marble table with his stiff body. Although the table is only one and a half meters high, Jialan feels safer climbing down like a zombie.


    Why not cast a "Levitating Disk" to create a step?


    The power within his body is as dry as a parched land. He couldn''t even cast a zero-tier "Light" spell earlier, let alone a first-tier "Levitating Disk" spell.


    Although he finds it strange that the owner of this room has placed a bunch of useless items on shelves meant for antiques, he thinks he shouldn''t judge or touch anything that seems harmless.


    Who knows if there are magical traps protecting the owner''s treasures? Taking anything casually could cause big trouble, even though he senses no magical fluctuations.


    He exits the uncomfortable "storeroom," navigating through the dimly lit hall and open door. Jialan thinks the owner left in a hurry, otherwise, they wouldn''t have forgotten to close the door, and there are suspicious water stains on the ground.


    Stepping outside, Jialan finds himself in a vast complex of buildings. It resembles an academy, as he smells the scent of books, and the layout of the buildings is familiar to him.


    He notices a lit stone fortress nearby and ponders. Despite numerous questions, he decides not to disturb anyone as dawn approaches.


    He believes this is an academy, so the lit place must belong to a teaching mage. Only they cherish time so much, staying up late at night to study magic and teaching students during the day.


    The emotions of the mages often fluctuate with the progress of their research. In the dead of night, when all is silent, is the most intense moment of their studies. If you disturb a mage at this time, you might get blown away by their "Augmented Arcane Missile," though that would be considered mild; if you happen to mess up their experiment, the mage, in a fit of anger, might insist on a magical duel with you, and then you''d be in big trouble.


    For Jialan, the darkness before dawn is nothing, for he possesses the power of the book of Lian, known as his "Fated Moon." His eyes have the special effect of the "Eye of Lian," more powerful than "Darkvision" and mightier than "Arcane Eye."


    Jialan''s eyes glowed with a faint blue light, and he quickly found a place to rest and wait for dawn¡ªa wooden chair by the college square. However, the chair was already wet with dew.


    Jialan wanted to wave his hand and cast a "Minor Drying Spell" to dry the chair. But just as he was about to finish casting the spell, he suddenly remembered that he had run out of arcane energy and couldn''t cast any spells at all.


    To Jialan''s surprise, a blob of white light suddenly appeared from his hand and landed on the wet chair. Then, the chair emitted a "hissing" sound, and the water marks quickly evaporated, with the chair also crackling loudly.


    Looking at the chair, which seemed to have been dried too much and cracked, Jialan didn''t know what to say. He looked at his hand, then checked his depleted arcane energy within his body; there wasn''t a trace of it left.


    He looked up at the crescent-shaped "Book Lian" that was only visible as a sliver in the sky and wondered silently: Did you lend me your power?


    However, "Book Lian" had already completed its overnight watch and was slowly disappearing into the brightening sky, leaving only a faint "smile" behind.


    Unable to try again, Jialan had no choice but to sit reluctantly on the chair, which was at least somewhat dry, and ponder: Am I only able to cast spells with the power of Book Lian at night?

 Chapter 3

    Jia Lan sat on the bench blankly, his mind in a mess, and he didn''t notice that the morning dew had wet his dark blue wizard robe again. This robe is very powerful, and can perform small magics such as reading, interpreting, copying, repairing, cleaning, and organizing books at any time.


    Jia Lan began to wonder: "Where am I? How did I get here?"


    He suddenly remembered: "Oh, yes, I was organizing the bookshelves in the library, but the arcane tide suddenly came. I was so scared that I didn''t have time to run, and I was frozen by the fireproof magic circle "Ice Coffin"..."


    "What happened at that time? Why was the arcane tide so fierce? Could it be that some great god-level wizard in the wizard tower failed to test the spell? But I was frozen here, so why did I run to this strange place?"


    If the wizard''s experiment went wrong and the library''s protective magic circle was activated, the rescuers should arrive soon.


    But looking at his current body, it seems that he has been frozen for a long time, and even his teacher praised his powerful arcane energy. It''s almost exhausted.  Under normal circumstances, the consumption of arcane energy is very slow.


    Even if there is no meditation or conditioning, it will take decades or even hundreds of years for the body to decline to this extent.


    Not to mention that he is in the "Ice Coffin". This spell is said to "freeze even time". The body should be motionless inside, and the consumption of arcane energy should be slower!


    So, he has been frozen in the "Ice Coffin" for at least a hundred years!


    Jia Lan was shocked. How could this be possible? He was frozen, and where were the rescuers? Why didn''t they take care of him and let him freeze for so long?


    Also, his teacher couldn''t ignore his only disciple and let him become a lump of ice that would never melt, right?


    Suddenly, Jia Lan thought of a scary possibility: "Could it be... Could it be that the arcane tide destroyed everything outside? I survived in the ''Ice Coffin''?"


    "No, no, no! Impossible! My teacher is a great 13th-level great arcane mage! He can escape in an instant using ''Phase Gate'', ''Transfer to Another World'' or ''Advanced Teleportation''!"


    Jia Lan would never believe that his teacher, who had worked as a librarian in the library for thousands of years, would die because of an experiment.


    "Unless the entire Eberron world is destroyed!"


    Jia Lan thought so, but was immediately scared by himself.


    "No, no, no! ''Book Ryan'' is still hanging in the sky, and everyone is living well. How could the world be destroyed? What can destroy the world? Something must have gone wrong!"


    Jia Lan shook his head vigorously, trying to forget that terrible idea: "For example, I was frozen by the ''Ice Coffin'', and my body was too fragile. The teacher was afraid that I would be hurt when thawing, so he had to let me stay in the ice and wait for it to melt by itself..."Stolen novel; please report.


    "But I heard that the ice frozen by the ''Ice Coffin'' has never melted naturally except by magic?"


    Jia Lan looked down at the "Catalog Stone" of the administrator of the "Kolanburg Library" on his chest. He just saw the ice melt under the moonlight of "Book Ryan" with his own eyes. This is amazing.


    If moonlight can solve the "Ice Coffin", then this spell would not be so popular, and it has never been heard in history that moonlight can solve it.


    The melting of ice must have something to do with moonlight, but it is definitely not the main reason.


    Jia Lan decided to wait until dawn to look for clues. He held the "Catalog Stone" on his chest tightly. This "key" to enter the library''s collection room seemed to have changed. It was just absorbing the moonlight of "Book Ryan".


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, picked up the light blue diamond crystal and looked at it carefully. The "Catalog Stone" is the treasure of the "Kolanburg Library", but it should not store mana.


    The "Catalog Stone" flashed blue light, and the secret runes inside could be seen, but it seemed to have something more... a lot of small light spots like stars?


    Jia Lan shook his head. He didn''t understand this, maybe only the teacher knew.


    After dawn, Jia Lan looked around and was surprised to find that he was still near Kolanburg. The "Gem Cape" at the other end of the "Sea Wall Mountains" was already bright!


    Looking at the "Gem Cape" glittering, Jia Lan squatted down, dipped his fingers in dew, and calculated the position.


    "Looking at the light of the ''Gem Cape'', I should be about 30¡ã west of it, not the 15¡ã of the library... After all the calculations, I seem to be in the ''Cape Forest''?"


    Jia Lan looked at the water marks on the ground in disbelief. Isn''t the "Cape Forest" a wetland connected to the mangroves? When did it become a city?


    Jia Lan looked around in confusion: "Did someone save me and bring me here? Where is this? The new campus of the library? Why haven''t I seen it?"


    But he soon understood that if he really arrived a hundred years later, it would not be strange for the "Cape Forest" to become a city!


    Jia Lan sat on the bench and started thinking again. The current situation does not look good.


    After he figured out where he was, he felt even more uneasy. He felt that he might have been frozen in the "Ice Coffin" for longer than he thought, more than the hundred years he had guessed before.


    Why?


    Just look at this mangrove city. It used to be very prosperous, but now it has become like this. Look at those old castles, which are covered with moss and vines and look very old.


    Jia Lan really couldn''t imagine what kind of bad environment could make a castle less than a hundred years old become so shabby. In most cases, the passage of time cannot be stopped by magic.

 Chapter 4

    As the sky gradually turned pale, Jia Lan could tell at a glance that these ancient buildings had existed for at least five hundred years with his archaeological knowledge!


    If he had only been frozen for a hundred years, the mangrove castle built during this hundred years should not have been so dilapidated. Moreover, as an academy, there must be someone here who is responsible for maintaining and repairing these valuable castles.


    But for Jia Lan, a hundred years or five hundred years makes little difference. He and his relatives and friends are not long-lived races. Whether it was a hundred years or five hundred years, his circle of life had already changed a lot. Not to mention now, it is simply a completely unfamiliar era.


    Thinking of the hall full of what he thought was "junk", and then thinking of the marble platform where he lay when he woke up, Jia Lan suddenly realized that his "identity" before waking up might be like the "junk" people of this era see, all rare "exhibits".


    This not-so-good "identity" reminded him of the "Northern Ice Thistle" that he had dissected out of the ice under the guidance of his teacher.


    If the magicians of this era knew that he crawled out of the "eternal ice" displayed as an antique, Jia Lan felt that his fate might be worse than the "Northern Ice Thistle" he dissected with his own hands.


    Never underestimate the curiosity and thirst for knowledge of magicians!


    Jia Lan silently reminded himself that this saying circulated among the dwarf scholars of "Zilago" was very true. If he revealed that he crawled out of the "eternal ice", he would not only have to consider his own safety, but also have to worry about how to compensate the academy, that is, the owner of the utility room, for the "eternal ice" as an antique.


    He might even be regarded as a liar or a thief, because he could not explain why the "eternal ice" that had not melted for thousands of years would melt under the moonlight. Just like the truly valuable amber, the value is not in the amber itself, but in the worms wrapped inside, where can he find a "thing" wrapped in "eternal ice" to compensate others?


    "Sorry! I didn''t mean to destroy your college''s collection, but I have to keep this a secret to save my life..." Jia Lan muttered to himself, and suddenly found that his throat seemed to be able to make sounds. Perhaps it was the dew in the morning, and the moist air made his throat feel more comfortable. He coughed twice, and the recovery of his throat reminded him to check his body. After being frozen for so long, other organs besides his throat might have problems. He closed his eyes and used meditation to check his body with his mental power. Fortunately, "Eternal Ice" protected him very well. Except for being a little weak, his organs were still very healthy, and even time did not leave any traces on him. This "Ice Coffin" is really worthy of its reputation, and it can even freeze time.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.


    Wait!


    Where is the guy who has been making noise in his head?


    Jia Lan suddenly found that his soul was too "quiet", and the alien soul disappeared!


    Back then, he was the youngest genius magician in the "Kolanburg Library". Unfortunately, in an alien summoning ceremony hosted by his teacher, he volunteered to be a test subject, but the experiment failed, and a mysterious alien soul appeared in his body.


    Because of the interference of this alien soul, although he has doubled his mental power and photographic memory, because of the conflict of consciousness between the two souls in his body, he can''t cast spells above level 1 that require high "concentration". So, he went from being a genius envied by everyone to being ridiculed as a "dual soul".


    Because there are two souls in conflict in his body, Jia Lan can''t learn high-level spells. Therefore, he can only change from a magician to a theorist who studies arcane knowledge in the guilt and regret of his teacher.


    However, with the advantage of two souls, his mental power is twice that of a magician of the same level, and his strong mental power makes his memory super strong.  This made Jia Lan praised by the great arcane mages of the "Kolanburg Library" as a "genius scholar" and a "living catalog stone".


    He can clearly remember the catalogs of various documents stored in up to three million book rooms in the "Kolanburg Library", so his theoretical knowledge is unmatched in the field of arcane magic. Even his teacher is ashamed of himself.


    Therefore, he can replace his teacher in charge of the "Catalog Stone" of the "Kolanburg Library" as a scholar who can hardly cast spells, and regain people''s respect in the field of arcane academics. No one will look down on him because he can only cast 0-level spells and a small number of 1-level spells.


    Now, there is often a voice in his mind, sometimes speaking in an incomprehensible language, and sometimes shouting wildly, like a crazy alien.


    However, he has become accustomed to thinking in a noisy environment, and is no longer disturbed by this voice. But why did this guy suddenly disappear?


    For Jia Lan, this is really great news! If this voice really disappears, then he can start learning spells again and become a magician again!


    Jia Lan felt a little nervous. He quietly used his mental power to check his soul, fearing that the madman was just joking with him and hiding, and then jump out to scare him when he was too happy, and then make fun of him with his unique "wahahahaha..." crazy laughter.

 Chapter 5

    No! No! No! It''s really gone! Jia Lan''s heart was suddenly filled with joy.


    Indeed, an alien soul that has never learned the method of meditation and is still trapped in a body that already has a master has no way to enhance its power in any way.


    After hundreds of years, or even hundreds of years, its soul power will become weaker and weaker until it can no longer stay awake and slowly disappears in time and space.


    Although some people say that "the soul is immortal", this is only for some powerful souls. An ordinary soul, once it leaves the body, will soon disappear without a trace.


    Because this alien soul parasitizes in Jia Lan''s body, it can not disappear immediately after the summoning ceremony.


    However, because it is trapped in this body, its soul power cannot be enhanced, and it can only maintain the same soul strength as a normal person, and can only exist for a hundred years at most.


    For some reason, Jia Lan suddenly felt a little sad. After all, this annoying alien soul is his only "companion" of the same generation.


    Now, even it is gone. Does it mean that he is the only one left in the world, and still belongs to that era in his memory?


    He feels that he is incompatible with this era.


    An inexplicable sense of loneliness made Jia Lan feel a little lost. But when he felt another existence, he almost jumped up!


    "Is it still there?"


    Jia Lan''s mood is very complicated now, and he doesn''t know whether to be happy or annoyed. It''s like hearing the news that a troublesome friend has passed away.


    When it was still there, Jia Lan hated it and even hated it. Whenever it messed up Jia Lan''s mind, Jia Lan wanted to strangle it to death.


    However, when it was really gone, Jia Lan felt sad and reluctant, and was worried that when attending its funeral, this naughty friend suddenly jumped out of the coffin and laughed and told everyone that it was just a joke.


    If there really was a friend who dared to do this, Jia Lan felt that he would definitely stuff it back into the coffin and bury it with soil by himself!


    Jia Lan gently touched the invisible existence, it was light and fluttering, without the "weight" that a soul should have.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    It seems that this friend really no longer exists. But why would there be an almost disappeared "soul shell" left, so that if you don''t pay attention, even Jia Lan himself didn''t notice it?


    This situation has exceeded Jia Lan''s knowledge of the soul. In order to avoid hidden dangers, Jia Lan carefully explored with his consciousness.


    However, just as he was pushing his consciousness deep into the "empty soul shell", the originally "light" shell suddenly closed like a mousetrap, and fiercely "bite" off a large piece of Jia Lan''s consciousness!


    "Bang!"


    Jia Lan''s body fell heavily to the ground like a piece of wood...


    "Hey! Hey? Classmate!? You''ll get sick if you sleep here!"


    After an unknown amount of time, a girl in a light blue wizard robe gently shook Jia Lan''s shoulder and woke him up from his deep sleep.


    Jia Lan took a lot of effort to open his eyes, and he didn''t seem to be fully awake yet. He stared blankly at the girl in front of him.


    Everything around him was shaking, and the sound became unclear, like a devil dancing and a beast roaring, which was scary.


    This wasn''t actually a trap, but it did make Jia Lan feel like his heart was torn in two.


    When Jia Lan recovered from his panic, he received a message from a strange friend. This friend was a soul from another world, the other soul that originally lived in his body:


    "Hey, landlord brother, is it okay for me to call you that?


    If you see this message, please accept the sincere greetings from me, the "tenant"!


    I don''t know which bastard brought me here, and I don''t know why we have to share a body, but it''s really none of my business!


    According to the rules of time travelers, now that I''m here, shouldn''t you give up your position?


    I was thinking about getting stronger quickly, becoming a great hero, a great king, marrying a little princess, and reaching the pinnacle of life. Thinking about these, I was quite excited.


    But you didn''t give up your position, and I couldn''t occupy your body, which made me very worried! What''s worse is that our consciousness is in this body, and I can''t understand what''s going on.


    Later, I also thought about it. Maybe I''m here to help you and help you realize those dreams. Are you a little excited too?


    But the problem is that we can''t communicate. Only then did I realize how important it is to know foreign languages!


    I tried to tell you the names of the things you saw and wanted to teach you a foreign language, but you didn''t seem to notice my presence at all. This is so strange!


    You may be curious, why don''t I learn your "foreign language"?


    Actually, I tried, but your language is too difficult! Especially the kind of gibberish you often say, which is completely different from what you usually say!


    What makes me even more frustrated is that you can speak more than a dozen languages! Are you a translator?


    I failed the foreign language make-up exam eight times, which is really stressful!


    After a long time, I accepted the reality again... Wait, why did I say "again"?


    One day, you were frozen by a large piece of ice, and I thought you were... dead. So I think you should not be the protagonist.


    In the state of soul, I don''t know the time anymore. Logically, I won''t feel bored, but watching you sleep every day is really boring!


    I don''t know if you can wake up, but I think I can''t hold on any longer. This feeling of loneliness is too uncomfortable. I may not be able to go back, so I decided to dissipate myself, that is, "commit suicide." "

 Chapter 6

    I''m about to commit suicide, but I''m not willing to leave like this. Before I disappear, I think I have to leave some traces, such as leaving a mark of "I''ve been here" in your head.


    So, I left something for you. If you wake up one day and see this memory by chance, remember to live well for me!


    Okay, I''m leaving! Don''t miss me! Goodbye! Oh, no, it should be goodbye forever!


    By the way, I have to tell you that I may be the most unlucky time traveler in history.


    Also, I''ve always wanted to say that you only know how to stay with books all day, maybe you will be a virgin until you die!


    I really don''t want to leave without doing anything...


    That, can I regret it...


    After reading this, Jia Lan was silent for a long time. He was quite surprised. He didn''t expect this alien soul to be so smart, and it didn''t sound like a bad person.


    Because he was afraid that it had the ability to control people''s hearts, Jia Lan ignored it when it was chattering in alien language. Thinking about it now, he regretted missing the opportunity to chat with alien creatures.


    This alien creature is pretty good. It tried so hard to communicate with Jia Lan, which touched Jia Lan and made him feel its loneliness for a long time.


    It is quite optimistic. Although it disappeared in the end, it maintained a positive attitude throughout the whole process. The reason why it is desperate is that it can''t see any hope.


    Jia Lan doesn''t know when it disappeared. Judging from the information he left, it should be during the time when he was frozen.


    It''s a pity that it didn''t last a little longer. The alien language it spoke should be the [secret language] used by spellcasters.


    This is a kind of "professional language", like the [holy inscription language] of the priests, the [druid language] of the druids, etc., which can''t be understood without learning.


    Each spellcaster''s [secret language] is different. In addition to the [secret language], Jia Lan also knows thirteen [national languages], twenty-eight [racial languages], and many [professional languages]. It''s hard to distinguish so many languages ??mixed together.


    This alien soul doesn''t seem to be very good at languages, so it can''t learn the languages ??that Jia Lan knows from daily conversations. Jia Lan is very sorry for its departure.


    But his own situation was not good either... Well, he liked the word "die" used by the alien soul. The message it left behind contained many words that Jia Lan could not understand, making it difficult for him to understand.


    However, before the alien soul disappeared, it left Jia Lan a great gift, or a huge legacy. That was the knowledge and memory of the alien world it was in.The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    If he had time, he could learn slowly. But not now, because a girl kept shaking his body, making it difficult for him to concentrate. Moreover, he had just been seriously injured...


    I don''t know how the alien soul did it, it used its "empty soul shell" to tear Jia Lan''s consciousness in half, but it didn''t destroy it.


    This made him feel like he had become two people! It was strange to have two consciousnesses at the same time. Both consciousnesses were independent, but closely connected. The most amazing thing was that both consciousnesses were himself, and he could even talk to himself...


    "Classmate! Are you okay? Should I send you to the infirmary?" The girl nervously waved her hand in front of Jia Lan''s eyes, interrupting his thoughts.


    He came back to his senses and looked around blankly. The originally empty academy is now full of people. They should be students of the academy. They are happily decorating the venue and pulling up banners and ribbons.


    "Congratulations on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the "Kolanbang Public Magic University"!"


    Fortunately, the common language of Khorvale is used here, unlike that unlucky alien soul who can''t understand the text of this era.


    Jia Lan blinked and looked at the girl who woke him up. She has curly chestnut hair, wheat-colored skin, a perky nose, and some freckles on her face. She is really cute.


    Although Jia Lan felt a little tired, he still tried to smile and said to the girl: "Thank you! I''m fine, I accidentally fell asleep..."


    The girl breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and looked at Jia Lan, who was a little haggard, and felt a little distressed. Jia Lan was wearing a wrinkled dark blue robe, and his hair was messy, and he looked really listless.


    "Are you a senior from the Komo University?" The girl sat down next to Jia Lan and asked curiously, pointing at his robe.


    Jia Lan noticed that the girl seemed a little nervous, and then looked at the ordinary light blue robe on her body. It didn''t look like a magical dress with any magical effects, just an ordinary robe.


    Jia Lan wanted to say no, but he rolled his eyes and asked in return: "I... I''m not a student here yet, what about you?"


    "Ah! Then you must be a freshman this year? Then we are classmates! Hello! My name is Alan! Alan Hogg! Sixteen years old, a freshman of the 1714th class of Komo University. What''s your name?" The girl laughed happily, but looked at Jia Lan''s black hair and black eyes with a little confusion, "But you seem to be older than me, I thought you were a senior, especially you were wearing a dark blue robe. Also, where are you from? Your hair and eye color are rare!"

 Chapter 7

    "Hi, I''m Jia Lan. I''m not young anymore. The color of my hair and eyes is because I have the bloodline of Donglu..." Jia Lan smiled and gave a simple answer to Alan''s question, but didn''t tell her her last name. Instead, she changed the subject: "Why is wearing a dark blue robe considered a senior?"


    "Don''t you know? At Komo University, the grade can be seen from the color of the robe and the appearance of the badge." Alan widened her round eyes, looking very cute. She explained: "Light blue, sky blue, and ice blue are lower grades; indigo, azure blue, and deep blue are middle grades; azure, dark blue, and dark blue are upper grades; each color is divided into one, two, and three grades. The last sapphire blue is the exclusive color of the graduating class!"


    "The darker the color, the higher the grade of the senior. As for me... well, I''m a freshman." She pointed to the light blue robe on her body, and suddenly pulled the hem of her skirt a little embarrassedly.


    Blinking her eyes, she said, "Galan, this should be your own clothes, right? The dark blue is the representative color of the ninth grade seniors. You have to wear the robes that match your grade in school. You can''t wear them randomly, otherwise you will be misunderstood! It will be bad if the seniors see you!"


    [What an interesting girl.] Jialan smiled in her heart, thinking that she might be able to get some useful information from her.


    According to what Alan said, she took a look at the young people who were already busy in the college square, and found that although they were all blue, the color was different in depth.


    The reason why this Kolanbang Public Magic University chose blue as its representative color may be because of the main autumn month "Book Ryan".


    "Book Ryan" is the smallest moon in the Eberron world, emitting light blue moonlight. When it is brightest at night, you can clearly see the mountains on the moon, and the shape is like words on the pages of a book.


    In addition, "Book Ryan" has the magical effect of enhancing learning, memory, creativity and thinking.  Spellcasters, scholars, researchers, as well as dancers, musicians, poets, etc., can all find inspiration from the pale blue moonlight of "Booklean".


    On the continent of Khorvaire where they stand, "Booklean" is the symbol of all academic institutions, but no institution dares to say that "Booklean" is unique to them.


    Even the three most famous academic centers in Khorvaire: the city of Kolanburg in the Kingdom of Zilargo, the Kolanburg Library with twelve super-large affiliated colleges; the city of Sarn in the Kingdom of Breland, the Morgrave College known as the "Ten Thousand Towers City"; the city of Felhaven in the Kingdom of Aundair, the Royal Academy of Venann known as the "Kingdom of Offa"; do not dare to take "Booklean" for themselves.


    This Kolan State Public Magic University is just using the moonlight of "Booklean" to play a small edge ball.


    Jia Lan noticed that some students of the University of Komo had a crescent-shaped badge on their chests. But the waxing and waning of the crescent moon varies for different grades: for lower grades it is the "waning moon", for middle grades it is the "half moon", and for higher grades it is the "waxing moon".Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    In the shadow of the gap of the crescent of the badge, there are patterns of one, two, and three books stacked together and the school year number, which are used to distinguish the level and identity of students. After all, not everyone can distinguish the different shades of blue.


    Jia Lan did not see the "full moon", but guessed that the graduating students should wear the full moon badge, which symbolizes the completion of learning and the upcoming graduation.


    Jia Lan turned around and subconsciously looked at Alan''s chest. His somewhat rude behavior made the girl shrink her shoulders a little shyly, and said embarrassedly: "I just got the admission letter from the University of Science and Technology, and I haven''t officially reported yet, so I haven''t received the badge yet."


    Seeing that Jia Lan was a little surprised, the girl explained: "Don''t you know? As long as you have a recommendation letter from any noble in your hometown, you can take the entrance examination during the one-week school festival of the University of Science and Technology. If you pass, you can enter the University of Science and Technology to study magic."


    Hearing this, Jia Lan''s heart moved, and he asked tentatively: "Alan, is it easy to get a recommendation letter from your hometown?"


    Alan was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while, seemed a little embarrassed, and said a little inferior: "I... My father is the steward of the Wheat Stem Village affiliated to the Graystone Town near the city of Talandor, and works for the family of Master Mapdoler, the ''quasi-eighth-class knight''. So... So my father served Master Mapdoler for free for three years in exchange for this recommendation..."


    No matter how good Jia Lan''s memory is, he was confused by the complicated relationships that Alan said, but he finally understood it. That "quasi-eighth-class knight" Master Mapdoler, who sounds awesome, actually just paid for the title of "honorary lord". He is nothing, he doesn''t even have a fief, he is just a small country gentleman.


    But then again, "honorary lord" is still a nobleman after all, and even such a small nobleman has the right to recommend. It seems that the admission requirements of "Kolanbang Public Magic University" are too low!


    Jia Lan is a little puzzled. When did the knowledge of arcane magic begin to be opened to ordinary people? Is it to find folk masters? Or is it just a means of making money?


    You know, in Jia Lan''s time, there was a saying that "in the world of arcane magic, the poor stand aside!" Although it is a bit cruel, it also shows that the growth of a mage requires a lot of money, and ordinary people can''t afford it at all.


    Jia Lan asked Alan carefully: "Alan, are you confident that you can pass the entrance exam?"


    "I don''t know yet," Alan said, "I heard that the exam has two parts, the first part tests magic theory knowledge, and the second part tests elemental talent. The theoretical exam only requires five silver gilms, but the elemental talent test requires five gold talans. If the talent is tested and the admission is obtained, you can apply for a loan from the school..."


    Alan said a little worriedly: "My father gave me all his savings. If the talent cannot be tested, I''m afraid... I''m afraid..."

 Chapter 8

    "Don''t worry!" Jia Lan comforted, "As long as you are willing to work hard, everyone can become a great person that people admire."


    Learning magic does require some talent, but more importantly, "hard work" and "concentration". Just like the teacher said: "Attitude is the most important!"


    The teacher''s words gave him a lot of inspiration. Although he lost the opportunity to become a more advanced magician, with the encouragement of his teacher, he changed his career to become a researcher and scholar, and also became an assistant lecturer at the Affiliated College of Kolanburg Library, although he did not cast spells.


    Imagination, creativity, and the accumulation of knowledge are the keys to the success of a magician. Talent and qualifications can only determine how high you can go, but not your depth.


    Wait!


    Jia Lan suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked away from the young man who was preparing for the "Kolanbang Public Magic University 200th Anniversary School Festival" in the college square, frowned, and then asked gently: "Alan, can I see your recommendation letter?"


    "Oh... OK."


    Although a little confused, Alan still took out the recommendation letter that she thought was extremely precious from her leather schoolbag.


    Jia Lan took a quick look at the recommendation letter written on parchment. This kind of paper is very cheap and common. Judging from the fact that the "quasi-eighth-class knight" Master Mapdoler was reluctant to use even slightly better paper, the importance of this recommendation letter may not be as great as imagined. It is more of a symbolic recommendation and identity proof.


    It seems that if you want to enter the magic university, the more important thing is the "entrance examination". In the "entrance examination", the theoretical knowledge test is just a formality to see how much knowledge the freshmen have mastered so as to teach them according to their aptitude.


    And the final "element talent test" is the key to determining whether the freshmen can become students of the magic university!


    The knowledge system of this era is different from that of Jia Lan. Because even the knowledgeable Jia Lan does not understand what the relationship is between becoming a magician and elements? What is the relationship between mastering the use of elements and talent?Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    Jia Lan shook his head in confusion. Is it too hasty for the magic university to judge whether students are qualified to become magicians based only on the "element sub-school" of the "transmutation department"?


    In other words, does the magic university only teach the major of the "transmutation department"? Only recruit students who study the "elemental sub-school"? This is too strange!


    Moreover, Jia Lan discovered that some of the words in the field of magic used by Alan when speaking were different from those he knew.


    For example, she called "magician, robe" "magician, magic robe", and the name of this magic university was directly called "Magic University". The spellcasters that Jia Lan was familiar with were "arcane mages, arcane robes", abbreviated as "magicians, robes", and had nothing to do with "demons" or "devils".


    In Jia Lan''s era, the only spellcasters who could be related to "magic" were probably those warlocks who belonged to the "evil camp" and had "magic blood".


    But the spellcasting ability of these magic warlocks depends entirely on their own "bloodline inheritance" to awaken. How can they have time to learn knowledge? Not to mention expecting those guys with chaotic natures to stay in the academy and study obediently.


    However, Jia Lan was a little uncertain. Judging from the fact that the Magic University values ??"talent", it seems to have something to do with warlocks who rely on blood talent... Is the Magic University a warlock academy?


    Jia Lan, who felt it was ridiculous, shook his head with a smile. This was too ridiculous!


    Although both wizards and warlocks are called "casters", and people even call the spells they use "arcane", the spells they master are completely two completely different fields and two completely different systems.


    Although there were people in Jia Lan''s era who practiced both spells at the same time, to say that warlocks who rely on talent would waste time sitting down to study magic knowledge is like saying that sows can climb trees.


    Seeing Jia Lan shaking his head with a smile, Alan asked nervously: "What''s wrong? Is there anything wrong with my recommendation letter?" She was worried that the stingy Master Mapdoler had deceived her simple father and gave her a fake recommendation letter.


    "No, it''s okay."


    Jia Lan smiled and looked at the words on the recommendation letter again. Fortunately, the words used in this era have not changed much, but there are some new words he doesn''t understand yet.


    For example, the address written on the recommendation letter:


    Star Continent - Zilargo Continent - Kolan State - Talandor - Limestone Town - Wheat Stem Village.


    Jia Lan knew the three words "Zilago, Kolan, and Talandor". "Zilago" is a country on the Khorvare continent, called the Kingdom of Zilargo, "Kolan" should refer to Kolan Castle, and "Talandor" is a small town about 300 kilometers away from Kolan Castle.


    Jia Lan is not sure about "Limestone Town" and "Wheat Stem Village", but if he has been sleeping for hundreds of years, it is normal for the place names to change.


    But what about "Star Continent - Zilargo Continent - Kolan State"?


    When did the Khorvare continent change its name to Star Continent? When did the Kingdom of Zilargo become a continent? When did Kolan Castle become a state?


    Even if the place names change with the changes in history, this change is too big.

 Chapter 9

    Jia Lan recently discovered that his memory was different from reality, and he was very worried, so he casually asked Alan: "Hey, Alan, do you know which year of the Dawn Calendar this year is?"


    "Dawn Calendar? What calendar is this?" Alan looked confused.


    "I only know that this year is the 1714th year of the Apocalypse Calendar. Is the Dawn Calendar part of the exam? Oh no, I have no idea!" Alan said nervously.


    Jia Lan was stunned when he heard it. He remembered that when he was sealed, it was still the 2014th year of the Dawn Calendar! Could it be that even the calendar has been changed?


    In other words, from the 2014th year of the Dawn Calendar to the present, at least a few hundred years have passed, and he has no idea how many years there are between the two calendars!


    Wait! Apocalypse? In the common language, this word sometimes refers to "revelation from heaven" and sometimes symbolizes "doomsday"! Could it be that the doomsday that destroyed the entire world really caused him to be sealed?


    Jia Lan''s face turned pale, and he had no idea what happened that day.


    "Don''t worry about the Dawn Calendar, it''s an ancient calendar, and the entrance exam shouldn''t test such ancient content... But I guess the entrance exam may test some basic geography and history. After all, we are just freshmen, and we won''t be tested on too difficult professional knowledge." Jia Lan forced himself to be calm and smiled at Alan.


    "Or, tell me what you know about geography and history, maybe I can help you supplement your knowledge and consolidate your memory."


    Alan has also been reviewing recently. Hearing Jia Lan say this, she was relieved and began to tell Jia Lan about the geography and history she knew:


    More than 1,700 years ago, the world experienced a terrible doomsday disaster. A major earthquake destroyed civilization, and human society returned to the primitive clan era. That dark and chaotic history was called the Dark Apocalypse Era.


    Then came:


    From the first year of the Apocalypse to the 3rd century - the Clan Age, clans frequently fought for resources, and small clans were either eliminated or merged;


    From the 4th century to the 8th century of the Apocalypse - the Tribal Age, many clans united to form tribes;


    From the 9th century to the 10th century of the Apocalypse - the Chiefdom Age, tribes united again to form chiefdom regimes;


    From the 11th century to the 12th century of the Apocalypse - the City-State Age, some large chiefdoms occupying the remains of cities from the old era began to establish city-state kingdoms, entering the era of "one city, one country";


    From the 13th century to the 14th century of the Apocalypse - the Federation Age, city-state kingdoms used force to threaten small forces to submit, and the civilized order began to recover, forming a social organization of "Federation of Cities", formulating laws and rules, and the social form gradually stabilized;


    From the 15th century of the Apocalypse to the 17th century - the Renaissance Age, starting from the 15th century of the Apocalypse, civilization began to recover and entered the Renaissance Age of rapid development, and the Federation of Nations began archaeological research, trying to restore the civilization before the Great Destruction Age;This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    Apocalypse 17th century to present...


    As for geography, Alan said that the continent they were on was originally a complete piece of land, but the great destruction blew it into seven continents and countless islands, so it is now called the Star Continent.


    For example, the northwest of the original Khorvale continent has now become the Northwest Continent of the Star Continent; the southwest has become the Southwest Continent; the north has become the North Continent; the south has become the South Continent; the eastern dwarf gathering place, Moro Territory, has now become the Eastern Islands; the northeast and the central have merged into the Northeast Continent; the southeast has merged into the Southeast Continent.


    And the former first power, the Kingdom of Breland, was right in the center of the earth vein explosion, and its territory was blown to pieces, and the remaining part became the Middle Continent.


    "It''s really broken..." Jia Lan''s eyes became dull when he heard the news. But Alan didn''t notice and continued to recite seriously: "Now, civilization is mainly concentrated in the North Continent, South Continent, Northeast Continent, Southeast Continent, the west of the Central Continent and the Eastern Islands. There are also people living in the southeast of Northwest Continent, but the number is relatively small. This is the geographical pattern of the seven continents of the Star Continent."


    After reciting it in one breath, Alan breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Jia Lan expectantly: "Am I reciting it correctly?"


    Jia Lan smiled and nodded, giving affirmation.


    "Hey, good news! The entrance examination will not start until the end of the school festival, and we still have a whole day to prepare." The school festival will last for seven days, and there will be an opening ceremony and a welcome party after the end, and then we will be divided into classes according to the scores of the entrance examination and the elemental talent test!


    The girl smiled happily, with a few drops of sweat hanging on the tip of her nose. She clenched her fists and placed them in front of her chest, shaking them with excitement and nervousness: "Oh, I''m so nervous! I don''t know which major I will be assigned to... By the way, Jia Lan, which major do you want to apply for?"


    "Major? Oh, I haven''t decided yet!" Jia Lan replied with a smile, "Besides, it seems that the majors in "Komo University" are not chosen casually. You have to listen to the school''s arrangements based on the results of the entrance examination and the evaluation results, right?"


    "In fact, it''s not that you can''t choose at all. The school will give us some suggestions based on the results and evaluation levels, but except for the five main majors of ''wind, wood, water, fire, and earth'', which must be selected according to the talent evaluation, other auxiliary majors can be selected by yourself." Alan explained seriously, not noticing that Jia Lan was trying to trick her.


    "The learning atmosphere in "Techmagic University" is still very free. It is not based on academic years, but on credits. If you have enough credits, you can apply for an upgrade, but if you can''t get enough credits, you may not be able to advance to the upper grades, or even graduate!"


    Jia Lan was stunned again, "Wind, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth"? What kind of magic school is this?


    I remember that the magic schools taught in school should be "Protection, Spell, Prophecy, Enchantment, Transfiguration, Illusion, Necromancer, Transmutation, Universal", right?


    From the literal meaning, "Wind, Water, Fire, Earth" seem to be elemental magic in the Transfiguration system, but it feels incomplete.

 Chapter 10

    In Jia Lan''s understanding, [Energy] includes "air, water, fire, earth, acid (corrosion), cold, lightning, force field, sound waves, light, darkness" and so on.


    "Wind", Jia Lan thinks it means "air", but what is "wood"? Is it a variant of "natural magic" made by those druids who like nature?


    Jia Lan is a little confused. Now everyone seems to be studying spells such as [Elemental Sub-School], but is this too one-sided? The elements of nature are not just these "basic models", there are also more advanced ones, and there are also complex "combination models".


    Take "Science and Magic University" for example, it specializes in studying elements, but why does it only focus on "wind, water, fire, earth" and forget "cold, lightning, force field, sound waves"? Isn''t this teaching a "lame wizard"!


    Jia Lan was confused and had to ask: "Besides the main subjects, what other courses does the [auxiliary department] have?"


    Alan began to count: "There are so many, [linguistics], [identification], [archaeology], [pharmacy], [esoteric medicine], [alchemy], [enchantment], [heraldry], [runeology], [sculpture], [totemology], [array], [astrology], [mathematics]..."


    Alan couldn''t count them all and had to nod: "Anyway, there are a lot! But unless you have no talent in the main subject and are assigned to the [auxiliary department] which does not require high talent, the main subject credits generally account for 60£¥, and the [auxiliary department] credits for randomly choosing four courses only account for 40£¥."


    Jia Lan was not discouraged and asked again: "Does the "Science and Magic University" teach ''cold, lightning, force field, sound waves'' and other... uh... magic?"


    Alan was stunned: "You are talking about ''Ice System'' and ''Electric System'', right? Those are advanced courses that can only be learned by formal magicians. We apprentices are not even apprentice magicians, how can we possibly get in touch with them?"


    When Jia Lan heard this, he felt that his worldview was about to collapse. The knowledge system of this era was too different from what he knew. It was incomplete and messy.


    After asking for a long time, Jia Lan finally figured out the level of "magicians" in this era.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    From the lowest "magic apprentice, apprentice magician", to the "primary, intermediate, and advanced" formal magicians, to "grand magician, wizard, grand wizard", and then "magician, grand magician".


    Alan said that there are a few "sages and great sages" above the grand magician, as well as the legendary "saints and gods of law", which should be the "super powerful" and "legendary" levels of this era, right?


    Jia Lan was silent for a while. He found that what he learned was completely out of touch with this era and he had to learn it all over again to catch up. This ruined his original plan to sneak into the library of "KoMo University" to look up information.


    It seems that he has to stay here for a while, learn things well, and then look up the matter of the Great Destruction, otherwise he may not be able to move forward in this era!


    But in this way, he has to find a way to get a letter of recommendation from "KoMo University" before he can take the exam, and tuition is also a big problem... He is penniless now!


    Just for the exam and talent test, he has to pay the academy five gold Talan and five silver Jim, and the tuition is even more expensive if he passes the exam. Jia Lan knows that no matter which era, things related to "knowledge" and "magic" are very expensive.


    Although he doesn''t quite understand the money of this era, judging from the names, "Gold Talan, Silver Jim, Copper Danding" should be similar to the "gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins" of their time.


    It seems that this era has not yet used convenient "universal currency".


    If money is only circulated in one place, it means that the financial environment is not good. If the financial environment is not good, it means that it is difficult for him to raise enough tuition in a short time.


    Jia Lan began to worry. He used to be a noble. Although he had no actual "territory", he had a [viscount] salary from [Kolan Castle] every month, which was enough for him to spend.


    Moreover, the "Kolan Castle Library" would give a lot of money to people doing research projects every quarter. He was also a librarian, so he didn''t have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation.


    The registration period for "Komo University" was only seven days. If you missed it, you would have to wait until next year. Now he was suddenly asked to pay tuition, which was really difficult for him.


    "Jia Lan, don''t you want to go out for a walk? I heard that in addition to the performances at the school festival, there is also an annual magic market outside, selling all kinds of strange things. I came here specifically to see the school festival!"


    Just as he was worrying, Alan suddenly became excited: "It''s a pity that the school festival doesn''t seem to be ready yet. There may be performances and recruitment meetings tomorrow... But the magic market should be open, let''s go and have a look together?"


    Alan and Jia Lan had been chatting for so long. Both of them were new here, so they became familiar with each other and warmly invited him to go to the market together.


    "Go to the market? Uh, but I don''t have money..."

 Chapter 11

    Alan looked at Jialan''s wrinkled robe with sympathy, and then said: "You haven''t found a place to live yet? How about I take you to the hotel where I live? Although it''s a little small and a little old, it only costs two silver jims a day. There is still a week before school starts. You will get sick if you sleep on the bench all the time!"


    "Don''t worry! I can lend you a gold talan and five silver jims first, and you can pay me back after school starts. By then, we can be assigned to dormitories and apply for student loans, so we don''t have to worry about having no place to live!"


    Seeing that Jialan was a little surprised, the kind Alan smiled and continued: "I can also introduce you to the tavern where I work part-time. You can earn three silver jims a day, and there are two meals! It can save a lot of money and it will be no problem to hold on until school starts!"


    Jialan smiled bitterly. In fact, he lacked more than just accommodation fees.


    He rolled his eyes and suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, let''s go to the magic market and have a look!"


    Since it''s a "magic market", spell materials can definitely be bought there, right? Maybe he can use his skills to earn tuition fees in seven days!


    Although there is a saying in the world of arcane magic that "poor people should not touch magic", because learning magic costs a lot of money and resources.


    But in Jialan''s era, although the profession of wizard is always short of money, it is also one of the richest people in the world. After all, things related to spells are always associated with "expensive".


    The two decided to go to the market and walked along the avenue of paulownia trees in the college, leaving the classmates who were busy arranging "Komag University" and walked towards the "magic market" outside the college.


    [Kolanbang] is a peninsula with an area of ??about 26,000 square kilometers, about 100 kilometers away from [Kolanburg] in Jialan''s era.


    However, Alan told Jialan that [Kolanburg] had become a ruin in the great earthquake more than 1,700 years ago, and the oldest city in the [Kingdom of Zilargo] no longer exists. The Cape Forest, which was originally just a mangrove forest, has now become a new center of civilization.


    Although the earthquake buried the previous civilization underground, the survivors still inherited some of the legacy of the previous civilization, so [Kolanbang] became one of the famous academic centers in the "new world".


    [Kolan City], with "Kolanbang Public Magic University" as its core, is a typical college city. There is no government army here, but because there are many magicians, it is very safe and no one dares to make trouble.


    [Kolan City] has two management systems, one in the college and one outside the college, both of which want to use the resources of "Kolan University".


    [Kolan City] is in the middle of [Cape Peninsula], close to the sea, so there are many private research laboratories and commercial organizations. Although [Kolan State] is not as good as [Tolan State] in business and its resources are not as good as [Zoran State], it has many magic specialties, so it has attracted many professional guilds and mercenary groups to build branches here.


    There are more than 1.7 million people here, most of whom live near [Kolan City] and [Kolan Port] as "outer cities". Because there are many races here and there is no government management, the public security is a bit chaotic. But because there are magicians from "Komo University", everyone still dare not be too arrogant.


    Jia Lan and Alan are "outsiders" and dare not go to the outer city with poor public security, so they only went to the magic business district outside the college where the public security is relatively good.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    "Oh my God! What are these smoking things?"


    As soon as he left the quiet college area and entered the market, Jia Lan was stunned by the endless flow of vehicles on the streets of [Kolan City]. All kinds of strange machines were driving around on the street, making "Baga! Baga!" sounds, and there were noisy voices. The air was filled with white steam and smoke, as well as the smell of coal ash, which made Jia Lan unable to adapt to it all of a sudden.


    Seeing Jia Lan curiously looking at the cars, Alan smiled and said, "These steam locomotives made by the Goblin Chamber of Commerce are amazing, right? I was also shocked when I saw them for the first time! I heard that only rich people can afford such a horseless car."


    "Goblin steam locomotive? Has the high goblin civilization revived again?"


    Jia Lan remembered that the [Kingdom of Zirago] was the site of the ancient high goblin civilization [Dakkan Goblin Empire]. Perhaps the high goblin civilization really revived on this land.


    Before Jia Lan recovered from his surprise, a round aircraft like a giant olive suddenly appeared in the sky, which shocked him again. Looking at the Kolan Port ship dock in the distance, you can still see many aircraft slowly rising and landing.


    Alan walked for a long time before she found that Jialan hadn''t caught up. She looked back, then hopped back, looked up at the flying machine in the sky, and asked Jialan curiously: "Jialan, haven''t you seen the dwarf airship? This is the most famous flying tool in our Zirako Continent... Oh, you said you are from Donglu, don''t you have this in the Eastern Islands?"


    Jialan retracted her dazed eyes and smiled awkwardly, but didn''t know how to answer. The "Eastern Land" he said was not the same as the Eastern Islands she said. He could only say: "In my hometown, such flying machines are indeed rare..."


    Can they be rare?


    The only flying machines Jialan has seen are floating towers and floating cities. However, those huge floating buildings are not as flexible and convenient as these flying machines.


    Jialan tried to stop thinking about these novel things and walked into the bustling market with Alan. He was deeply shocked by the new technology of this era.


    It turned out that although it had experienced a great destruction and a break in civilization, this era was not as backward as he thought. On the basis of the original, people have developed new magical technologies and have their own unique civilization characteristics.


    In some aspects, some technologies of this era even surpass those of the previous ones. In Jia Lan''s era, except for the ancient teleportation arrays left over from the ancient times, there was no such convenient means of transportation as "Goblin Steam Locomotive" and "Dwarf Airship".


    While chatting with Alan, Jia Lan observed the environment of this era. There are still "old-fashioned" means of transportation such as carriages and various beasts of burden on the road, and most people still walk or ride horses.


    In other words, those magical "Goblin Steam Locomotive" and "Dwarf Airship" are still luxury goods for the rich, and ordinary people have not used them yet. This shows that the new technology of this era is still in its infancy and has not yet been popularized in the lives of ordinary people.


    Judging from the current situation, the civilization rupture caused by the Great Destruction has prevented the knowledge of people in this era from returning to its previous height. However, on the basis of existing knowledge, they have developed new things by themselves, and they are getting more and more powerful. In the future, maybe a knowledge system with its own characteristics that is different from the past can be formed.


    Jia Lan, who originally looked down on the fact that Komo University only taught those incomplete and error-ridden elemental sub-schools, no longer dared to look down on them. He began to respect the mages, scholars, and researchers of this era.

 Chapter 12

    Walking down the street, you will find that this is a melting pot where various races live in harmony.


    Along the way, you can not only see humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes and halflings, which were common in the past, but also orcs, trolls, goblins, kobolds, beastmen, as well as scaled people, sea people, and various half-humans, sub-humans, humanoids and their subspecies!


    These people from different races, whether they are creatures considered to be "evil camps" or inferior races that are considered ignorant and primitive, live together in harmony.


    In this era, there seems to be no so-called "camp barriers" or "racial discrimination", and everyone is full of respect and tolerance for their own culture.


    Although Jia Lan felt that all this was a bit strange, he had to admit that this harmonious atmosphere made him feel very comfortable.


    He saw a strong orc, who looked scary, but was working hard to carry the goods, and then smiled honestly and took the reward from the goblin boss.


    He also saw a half-werewolf driver, pulling a rickshaw quickly, politely sending an elf lady to the shopping street and helping her get off the car... Such a scene would not have been possible in Jia Lan''s era!


    This is a strange, but pretty good era!


    Jia Lan looked at everything around him with a smile on his face. He followed a happy girl who was jumping and hopping, and strolled in the lively market.


    When they came to a small vendor, Jia Lan suddenly stopped and looked at the goods on the stall in surprise.


    It was a pile of dried branches of blood mistletoe, which is one of the important materials for making hemostatic ointment.


    Although this is not rare, it should not be mixed with some wild fruits and sold on the stall!


    Jia Lan remembered that in the Adventurer''s Guild, a small blood mistletoe vine cost two silver coins, and the hemostatic ointment made from it was sold for one gold coin per small can! And on this stall, there was a pile of thick blood mistletoe vines, which looked at least ten years old!


    Jia Lan blinked, thinking that if he could buy these blood mistletoe vines and make hemostatic ointments to sell, he should be able to raise enough money for tuition! So, he squatted in front of the stall and pretended to look through the goods casually. This is just the periphery of the market. There are no formal shops and stalls. The vendors just spread a piece of animal skin or linen on the ground and put their goods on it. The vendor was wearing a tattered linen clothes, his face was full of wrinkles, and his eyes were a little cloudy. Seeing Jia Lan squatting, he immediately showed a flattering and fearful smile, obviously hoping that Jia Lan would buy his things.


    Jia Lan found that, apart from the blood mistletoe, the stall only sold some ordinary wild fruits.


    This puzzled him a little, because the blood mistletoe tasted bitter and could not be mistaken for fruit.


    So how did the farmer get these blood mistletoe vines? Did he find them by accident, or did he not know the plant at all, but just saw that its blood-red juice was very special, so he picked it to try his luck?


    After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, those mysterious magicians are always interested in strange stones, weird bugs and poisonous plants.This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.


    Jia Lan picked up a blood mistletoe vine and looked at it, and found that it was already very dry, which made him a little regretful.


    Fresh blood mistletoe vines are most suitable for making medicine. Although the medicinal properties will not be lost after drying, it will be more troublesome to process.


    At this time, Alan squatted down curiously and looked at the blood mistletoe in Jialan''s hand: "Jialan, do you want to buy the cardamom vine?"


    Alan came from the countryside and was not interested in these wild fruits. She was just curious why Jialan was interested in this cardamom vine.


    "You said this blood-red vine is called cardamom vine?" Jialan looked at her in surprise. The girl smiled and said, "Yes! In our village, we call it ''pigeon blood vine''. Sometimes the aunts in the village will pick some to dye the cloth. Of course, it has some other uses, you see..."


    As she said, Alan picked up a blood mistletoe vine, wiped it on the cross section with saliva, and then applied it to her lips. Suddenly, her lips were stained with a layer of beautiful purple-red, making her look more attractive.


    "... In fact, it can also be used to paint nails! But you still need some resin."


    The girl gently licked her lips, which were as soft as petals, and then stretched out her dyed fingers to show Jialan.


    Jialan was stunned for a moment, thinking: What did Alan just say? She actually used "blood mistletoe" to dye cloth? Isn''t this too wasteful?


    Moreover, when Jia Lan was in the "Kolanburg Library", he rarely came into contact with women, so he didn''t know that "blood mistletoe" could also be used to paint lips and nails.


    "Is this kind of "pigeon blood vine" a lot?" Jia Lan asked in confusion.


    He couldn''t believe it. Although "blood mistletoe" was not rare, it shouldn''t be so much that it could be used to dye cloth, right?


    The farmer who was setting up the stall smiled and took off his worn straw hat, put it on his chest, and enthusiastically promoted his goods: "Sir, although pigeon blood vine is common, it does not grow here in the "Cape Peninsula". It can only be found in the dense forest above the halfway point of the "Sea Wall Mountains". These are the old vines I specially picked, and the color is particularly strong. Do you want to buy some?"


    "Very common?" Jia Lan muttered, and suddenly realized a problem: this is not his original era. Perhaps people of this era do not know the medicinal value of "blood mistletoe vine". Large-scale picking has caused it to become scarce. After more than a thousand years of no one caring about it, the number has become even smaller...


    Thinking of this, Jia Lan swallowed his saliva, turned to the girl and said: "Alan, can you lend me some money first? I think I can make something with these pigeon blood vines."


    "Make something? Do you mean to extract rhodamine for dyeing?" Alan asked puzzled.


    Jia Lan was penniless and could only try his best to persuade this "God of Wealth" to invest: "Yes, maybe I can make some cosmetics, such as lipstick and eye shadow..."


    The girl asked curiously: "Cosmetics? Lipstick? Eye shadow? What is that?"


    In order to prevent the farmer from taking the opportunity to raise the price, Jia Lan casually said some new words, and even he was stunned. He didn''t know why he made up these words that he had never heard of.


    But the girl didn''t care. While taking money out of her pocket, she asked: "Do you need a lot of pigeon blood vines to extract rhodamine?"

 Chapter 13

    Jia Lan nodded quickly: "Of course the more money the better! I will definitely pay you back!"


    "Oh, it''s okay!" The girl smiled and took out two silver coins from her pocket and handed them to the farmer, which disappointed Jia Lan.


    But he thought about it again. The girl was not rich and was not familiar with him, but she offered to lend him money and was willing to pay more to help him buy things. She was really kind and simple. How could he ask for too much?


    Jia Lan thought, when did he start to rely on women''s money?


    He looked at the blood mistletoe in his hand. Judging from the age, it was at least ten years old, and the thickness and length were just right. It should be able to extract the materials for three bottles of medicine. Although his pharmacy skills are not yet superb, there is at least a 50£¥ success rate, and at least two bottles of hemostatic ointment can be made!


    Even if a bottle of ointment is only sold for two silver coins, it can make four silver coins!


    Seeing that no one is interested in the blood mistletoe vine on the stall, it should be that the locals don''t need this kind of "pigeon blood vine". The magic market lasts for seven days. If the farmer is not in a hurry to leave, it won''t be too late to come to him to buy more when he has money.


    Jia Lan was about to ask the farmer how to find him if he wanted to buy more "pigeon blood vine", but was surprised to find that after the farmer took the two silver coins, he actually put the pile of "pigeon blood vine" into a sack, and took a lot of fresh blueberries and fruits from the donkey cart to give to the girl!


    Jia Lan widened his eyes, pointed at the bag of "pigeon blood vine" and said: "Do these "pigeon blood vines" cost two silver coins?" He wanted to say "Only two silver coins are enough?", and almost let it slip.


    Seeing Jia Lan''s surprised face, the farmer thought that he thought the price was too high, and hurriedly said nervously: "I''m sorry, Mr. Magician, the market has just started, and I haven''t sold other fruits yet, so I don''t have change for you... Can I give you some more fruits as compensation?"


    As he said that, he turned around and wanted to get more fruits. Alan gently pulled Jia Lan''s sleeve and whispered: "Colan City does not produce pigeon blood vines locally, so the price is slightly higher than in the mountains. Such a large pile only needs two silver coins, which is not expensive! And the uncle also gave us a lot of blueberries!"


    The girl''s pure eyes seemed to say "You are too stingy!", making Jia Lan waved to the farmer who was packing fruits and said with a smile: "No, I mean, we still have to go to the market to go shopping, and it''s inconvenient to carry such a big bag of things. Can you help us send it to the hotel?"


    "Of course! As you wish, Mr. Magician!" The farmer bowed repeatedly with a smile.


    Jia Lan didn''t have a place to live yet, so the things could only be sent to the hotel where Alan lived first. Watching a little boy carrying a heavy bag running towards a nearby inn, Jia Lan tentatively asked the farmer: "Do you still have this pigeon blood vine? If I need more, where should I find you?"You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    "Ah! Sir! There are a lot of this pigeon blood vine in the mountains near our Luanshi Village. Although there are fewer old ones, there are quite a few young ones!" The farmer said in surprise: "I just tried to bring some this time to see if there are any housewives in the city who need it for dyeing. So I still have some dried pigeon blood vine at home. I will stay at the market until tomorrow afternoon to sell these fruits. If you need more, I can deliver it to you the day after tomorrow morning!"


    Because there are special cloth dyes and cosmetics shops in big cities, pigeon blood vine, which is troublesome to use and has a dark color, is not popular in cities. Only the peasant women in remote mountain villages will collect this natural dye to save money.


    After Jia Lan and Farmer Bit made an agreement, he breathed a sigh of relief, said goodbye to Farmer Bit, and went to the market with Alan.


    To be honest, if he didn''t have to go to the pharmacy to buy some auxiliary materials and utensils, Jia Lan would not be in the mood to go to the market at all. He never thought that he would care so much about this cheap medicinal material worth only a few silver coins.


    However, before walking a few dozen meters, Jia Lan couldn''t walk anymore. His eyes were fixed on the goods on another street stall, and he shouted in his heart: "Oh my God! Is that indigo ore? The colorant of camouflage cold cream? I must have seen it wrong..."


    "Hey, what''s that next to it? Flashing stone? That''s an important material for flash powder!"


    "What else is here? The honeycomb of the double-needle bee? This era is too crazy. They buy the honeycomb of the double-needle bee for honey!"


    Along the way, Jia Lan''s eyes were almost bleeding. Just by walking around the outer street stall area of ??the magic market, he found more than a dozen materials that were not rare in his era, but should never be sold on the street stalls, but should be placed in the magic material store and priced in gold coins!


    Jia Lan was really itchy in her heart, and she wanted to buy all the good things on the stalls, but she didn''t have a penny. So, she walked around the edge of the market, found a pharmacy at random, and asked Alan to borrow money to buy some commonly used ingredients and a set of simple tools, and then took the girl to the "super cheap" hotel that Alan mentioned.


    In fact, the "super cheap" hotel that Alan mentioned is not like a regular hotel at all.


    This hotel doesn''t even have a name. It''s just a small B&B where residents of Kolan City rent out empty rooms to foreign tourists to make some extra money when there are many guests at home during festivals or holidays.


    But Jialan likes this B&B with a small courtyard very much. Although the room is small, it is very clean and comfortable to live in. The owners of the B&B are a very kind middle-aged couple and a daughter who is about the same age as Alan. Maybe this is why Alan chose this place.


    The rooms in the small courtyard are not big, and the two rooms together are only about ten square meters. There is also a simple toilet made of wooden boards in the corner of the yard. It looks clean and has no odor.


    On the other side of the courtyard, there is a small pool with a small wooden barrel hanging next to it. It is very convenient to draw water from the pool, and the water is also very cool.


    Because this place is on the Cape Peninsula, there is a lot of groundwater, so sometimes the ground is a little wet. So the foundations of the houses here are built very high, and they also use multiple layers of moisture-proof materials, so the rooms are particularly dry.


    The owner of this B&B is a typical middle-class family. The husband has a stable job and income, although not much, it is enough to make the family warm. The wife also takes care of the family wholeheartedly. Her most important job every day is to wait at the door for her husband to come back from get off work at the dock, and to search for the last copper coin in his pocket to prevent him from spending money in the tavern.

 Chapter 14

    The Browns were very happy when Jialan came, because they could rent out the empty little room and earn two more silver coins a day. Their house and yard were small and simple, so few outsiders were willing to live there.


    As for those outsiders who came alone, those who had money stayed in big hotels, and those who had no money stayed under the eaves of other people''s houses for one night, such as farmers who came from the village to attend the market.


    The two daughters of the Browns hid behind their parents, looking at the young magician with curiosity and a little fear. But when Jialan looked at them, they lowered their heads shyly.


    The fat Aunt Brown greeted Jialan and Alan loudly, and tidied up the empty room that was usually cleaned up, and laid a soft straw bed and a khaki coarse linen sheet for him.


    There was only a wooden bed, a small wooden table, a stool without a backrest and a small wooden cabinet in the room, nothing else. But Jia Lan was very satisfied. This place reminded him of the single dormitory he lived in at the Kolanburg Library, although he spent most of his time in the library or the laboratory.


    "By the way! Little Emma! Just now a little boy brought a sack and said it was what you bought at the market. I put it on the clothes drying stand in the yard! Also, tonight''s dinner has salty bean soup and roasted bananas with bread. You will definitely like it!"


    Aunt Brown was nagging but very kind. The two silver coins per day accommodation fee of the B&B includes a simple breakfast and a dinner that is not rich but filling, which is actually what the B&B owner eats every day.


    Jia Lan smiled and thanked Aunt Brown, took out the "pigeon blood vine" from the sack, put it on the clothes drying stand in the yard, and carefully checked the quality of these parasitic vines one by one.


    After looking at sixty-eight roots, Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction. The quality is very good, and the farmer''s bit is very dry and not moldy.


    "Emma! Is he an apprentice magician? He looks so young!"


    The three girls gathered together, talking in a low voice while watching the busy young magicians in the yard. "Emma" is Alan''s nickname, and anyone who knows her can call her that.


    "No, Jialan and I are both freshmen preparing to take the entrance examination for the 1714th class of Komo University!"If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    Alan was very simple and easily told Jialan''s story. She smiled and said, "He is from the East Land, so he looks older. Black hair and black eyes are rare in our South Land, right?"


    Jialan was once known as "the youngest genius magician in the Kolanburg Library", but because of an accident in the spell experiment, he lost the opportunity to become a high-level magician. But he is born with a strong sense of perception, so even without paying special attention, he can hear the girls'' whispers. Hearing Alan say that "East Land" and "old age" are related, he was a little speechless.


    Seeing Jialan busy, the girls looked at him curiously. Alan looked at Jialan''s back, then looked back at the sisters who were very interested in the mysterious magician, smiled and took their hands and said, "Jialan is very kind, let''s go over and take a look!"


    The simple girls were a little panicked, but their curiosity made them unable to control their steps, and they were half-pushed and half-pushed by the lively Alan to the clothes drying platform.


    "Jialan, are you preparing to extract the purple red pigment for dyeing?"


    Lying next to the clothes drying platform, Alan supported her upper body with her slender arms like a kitten, staring at Jialan''s hands with bright eyes, and said enviously: "You actually already know the knowledge of pharmacy!?"


    Jialan looked at the three curious girls and smiled gently: "It''s just some simple medicinal material processing skills... Well, if you want to learn, I can teach you! It''s very simple!"


    "Really!?"


    In this world, whether it is text, knowledge, craftsmanship, or special skills, they are precious treasures for civilians, but they are difficult to obtain. For civilians who can''t afford tuition, no one will waste time teaching them.


    So, when Jia Lan said he was willing to teach them the craft of processing medicinal materials in pharmacy, the three girls cried out in surprise. For Alan, as long as she passed the entrance examination, she could become a freshman at Komo University. The more she learned in advance, the greater the chance of passing the exam.


    For the Brown sisters, who were just ordinary civilian girls, once they learned the craft of processing medicinal materials, whether they worked in a pharmacy or a medicinal material store in Kolan City, or became a pharmacist assistant, it was possible to change their fate.


    It was easy for Jia Lan to teach three girls who were like blank sheets of paper.


    Although he only had a first-level spellcasting level, he had many titles, such as researcher, scholar, etc., which made him a theoretical knowledge lecturer for many first- and second-level primary mages, and even third- and fourth-level intermediate mages. His profound knowledge won the respect of many primary and intermediate mages in the academy.


    At the same time, he was also the most famous spell experiment assistant in the Kolan Castle Library. His experience of following his legendary master arcane teacher to do various high-end arcane experiments for many years has made many high-level mages compete to invite him to participate in their spell experiments.


    An experienced experimental assistant can not only save a lot of experimental time and shorten the experimental process, but also greatly increase the success rate of the experiment!

 Chapter 15

    Chapter 15


    To be honest, although Jia Lan knew how to process all the materials in "Pharmacy", he rarely did these simple preliminary processing by himself.


    After all, the time of a spellcaster is precious, and there is no need to waste it on simple tasks that do not require too much skill and only require proficiency. These tasks are naturally done by apprentices and junior mages.


    He asked the three girls to wash the "Blood Mistletoe Vine" with clean groundwater, and then he went to the room to take out the "Pharmacy" processing tools and auxiliary materials he bought, and prepared to start processing.


    However, because of insufficient money, Jia Lan could not afford a professional alchemy tool set, which would cost at least 500 gold talans. He could not even afford a medical processing tool set of 50 gold talans.


    He could only sigh at the tools of extremely poor quality, such as the potion preparation vessel set, medical balance, and smokeless heating furnace, which he could not afford.


    In the end, he had to shamelessly borrow two gold talans from the girl and went to the pharmacy to buy a broken rocker hand grinder. These were all the tools he could use now.


    Looking at this worn-out rocker hand grinder, Jia Lan remembered that he used to not take good care of the experimental tools. He threw away the fine tools with a little flaw. Now, he felt that he might be "cursed" by those tools.


    The girls quickly washed the "pigeon blood vine" and came over. This job was similar to washing vegetables.


    However, because it was related to "magic", the girls took it very seriously. They used a cow hair brush to brush each "pigeon blood vine" more than three times, and changed the water to wash it three times. As a result, the brown outer skin of the pigeon blood vine was brushed off, revealing the purple-red color inside.


    "Well! Wash it very clean! Good job!" In order to encourage the girls, Jia Lan praised them, which made them laugh happily.


    "Jia Lan... uh... teacher?" Perhaps because of encouragement, the elder sister of the Brown sisters, Garth Brown, blushed and asked Jia Lan whether she wanted to wipe or dry the "pigeon blood vine".


    Perhaps because of Jia Lan''s temperament or his confident look, the girls unconsciously regarded him as a teacher and looked at him with respect.


    Alan felt a little strange, because in the morning they were freshmen of "Common University" and had equal status. But now, she felt that Jia Lan seemed to have changed.


    However, people who master knowledge are worthy of respect. Alan soon forgot her doubts and forgot that Jia Lan borrowed all the money from her.


    This may be because Jia Lan has been an assistant lecturer for many years, teaching middle-level mages who are older and stronger than him, so he has a kind of awe-inspiring temperament.


    In addition, he is a [Scholar], with a refined scholar temperament; he is a "magic noble" with the title of [Viscount], with an elegant aristocratic temperament; he is also a spellcaster, with a confident and mysterious temperament. Coupled with his gentle personality, these temperaments mixed together make him particularly charming.


    The three girls were quickly attracted by him. Of course, this feeling of being affected by charm does not mean that the girls fall in love with Jia Lan. However, they will obey his orders unconsciously.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    Jia Si Li''s question surprised Jia Lan a little, and he smiled and nodded: "Good question! But we don''t need to be so troublesome!"


    Jia Lan likes the girl''s love of learning and diligence, especially her ability to draw inferences from one example, which makes him think that this girl is a good student.


    The thirst for knowledge is very important for the caster. Even if the talent is not good, as long as there is this learning attitude, you will definitely achieve something.


    Jia Lan''s praise made Jia Si Li''s wheat-colored face flushed.


    She has never learned this knowledge, and now she is a little excited by her sister''s envious eyes. Sweat beads appear on the tip of her nose, shining in the sun. At this moment, she is really beautiful.


    For others, it may be just washing the pigeon blood vine casually and asking if they want to process the materials again. This is really quite common.


    But Garth Brown has never received such praise and affirmation in the past ten years. This little encouragement made her more motivated to study, and her self-confidence was also enhanced, making her feel less humble. From this perspective, Jia Lan is really a good "teacher".


    Seeing that the girls love to learn so much, Jia Lan was very happy. He planned to teach them more whenever he had the chance. For him, this was just a matter of convenience, but for these three ordinary girls, it might be a good opportunity to change their fate.


    Jia Lan looked at the basket of wet blood mistletoe vines. Usually, he used some small spells to solve life problems, and subconsciously wanted to cast a spell to make the vines dry quickly. But as soon as he raised his hand, he remembered that his mana had not recovered yet.


    He frowned and used his spiritual power to feel his body. He found that after being sealed for more than 1,700 years, his mana was as exhausted as a desert, but after resting for a morning, it was a little better.


    To describe it, his original mana was like the sea, which was as dry as the desert in the morning. Now, it was like the sand in the desert, which started to get a little damp. Jia Lan was not disappointed, but very happy, because this was much better than he imagined!


    Although he was unable to use spells higher than the first level due to his dual soul status, this did not prevent him from learning about magic and absorbing magic from space through meditation to enhance his own source of magic.


    Because of his long-term meditation and the advantages of being a dual-soul person, his mana source growth rate, capacity, and mental power improvement speed and strength are twice that of others! This is not compared with those who have no mana talent, but with those who can be called "geniuses" in the "Kolanburg Library"!


    Jia Lan himself was also known as the "youngest spellcaster genius", much stronger than those "ordinary geniuses". In this way, the "double" effect was that the young Jia Lan was identified by the teacher, and his source of mana and mental strength were very strong!


    Although he can only use first-level spells now, his mana source capacity and mental strength are already equivalent to the level of a seventh-level archmage, and his improvement speed and future potential are even stronger...

 Chapter 16

    Explanation: In the "pre-civilization" wizard level, the first to second levels are called [beginner level], the third to fourth levels are called [intermediate level], the fifth to sixth levels are called [higher level], the seventh to eighth levels are called [super level], the ninth level is [sub-legendary], and the tenth level and above are [legendary] levels. When a wizard reaches the seventh level, he can be promoted to [grand wizard].


    In the 5,500-year history of "Kolanburg Library", there has never been a high-level wizard under the age of 60. Generally speaking, a wizard who reaches [first level] before the age of 20 is already very talented in arcane magic.


    Similarly, a wizard who reaches [second level] at the age of 30, [third level] at the age of 40, [fourth level] at the age of 50, [fifth level] at the age of 60, [sixth level] at the age of 70, and [seventh level] at the age of 80 can be considered to have a smooth path in arcane magic.


    Most wizards with average talent may stay at the [beginner level] for their entire lives. So in Jia Lan''s era, as long as a wizard was willing to live in any country, he could easily obtain noble status.


    Turning the dry "desert" back into the "sea" is a particularly long and difficult process. Jia Lan had never thought that he could recover to the peak state of the "pre-civilization" so quickly.


    But he did not meditate, nor did he actively absorb the surrounding arcane energy. This "desert" actually "moistened" itself, which surprised him.


    In the morning, he also experienced a terrible "consciousness split", his soul was torn in half, and his mental power was gone all of a sudden, and he was particularly depressed.


    Jia Lan thought it would take a long time to recover the scattered mental power, but he didn''t expect the [arcane energy spring] to recover some so quickly. Although there is still not much arcane energy and the spirit is still not good, it is no problem to use a simple 0-level spell.


    He tried to use a [secondary drying technique] on the [blood mistletoe vine] in a basket, and the medicinal materials soon became very dry, which shocked the three girls next to him.


    Especially Alan, who knows a little bit of magic, his eyes widened and he said enviously: "Jia Lan! What kind of magic is this? Fire control? So amazing! You can do magic before you go to school?"


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, thinking that the cultures of the two civilizations were different, so he didn''t say "weak effect [Secondary Drying Technique]", but just hummed a few times vaguely. [Drying Technique] has nothing to do with the fire element, it just extracts the water from things.


    Jia Lan was in no mood to talk too much with the girls, so he asked them to grind the herbs into powder. He found a sunny place to sit down, closed his eyes and checked his body.


    After a while, Jia Lan sighed and opened his eyes. In general, the situation is not bad. The [Arctic Energy Spring] is slowly recovering without external force. Although it is very slow, it is better than no hope.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.


    The same is true for mental power. Although it is weak, it is almost at the level of a high-level mage apprentice, enough for him to use most of the 0th-level spells. The torn soul has no permanent damage, and it will always be fine if you rest slowly.


    What makes Jia Lan a little strange is that there seem to be a lot of arcane particles in the space of this era, otherwise the [arcane energy spring] in his body would not absorb arcane particles and recover without meditation.


    Jia Lan doesn''t know if this situation is caused by the [catalog stone] on his chest that seems to have "mutated". He can even feel the [catalog stone] against his skin, surging with strong arcane fluctuations, soothing his injured body and slowly improving his physique.


    Unfortunately, his mental strength is too low now, and his perception ability is particularly poor, so he can''t check more details at all, and can only wait until he gets better before studying.


    In general, Jia Lan originally had the ability to cast spells at the first level, but after resolving the "soul conflict", he became a zero-level spellcaster and became an "apprentice".


    Jia Lan shrugged indifferently, he was used to his bad luck. When he was in good condition, he rarely used first-level spells, and most of the time he used zero-level spells because it was more labor-saving and safer.


    Now, he can no longer use spells casually like before.


    Another thing is that Jia Lan felt strange about his soul splitting. Although the soul torn in half was seriously injured, it was like an earthworm that was broken into two parts, with a very strong vitality, and it was slowly recovering.


    The split soul would make him very tired mentally, and he might sleep for a long time in the future.


    Jia Lan was very curious, what would he become if the "two" souls were restored?


    Having two completely independent souls and consciousnesses felt like split personality. But now is not the time to think about these things, let''s take care of the present first!


    Jia Lan stood up and patted the wizard robe on his body. Seeing that it was wrinkled and dirty, he couldn''t help but frowned. He immediately cast a "cleansing spell" on himself, and an almost invisible white light flashed by. He immediately felt much fresher, and his robe became clean as new, and it also exuded a pleasant smell of sunshine.


    Jia Lan shook his head helplessly, thinking that he always relied on spells to solve all problems in the past, and now he couldn''t change this lazy habit for a while. He decided to do more things by hand in the future, otherwise one day he couldn''t cast spells, and he really wouldn''t be able to do anything.


    Just then, he saw three hardworking girls using a worn-out rocker hand grinder to grind out a lot of "blood mistletoe vine" powder. This is a hard job, and they took turns rocking the rocker, all of them were tired and sweating.


    "Well, it''s almost done, stop!"


    Jia Lan was a little surprised to see a full pot of powder. They actually ground all the "blood mistletoe vine" so quickly.


    He originally thought that a ten-year-old "blood mistletoe vine" could make at least three cans of "hemostatic ointment". Now the materials they grinded are enough to make more than 200 cans. Even if the success rate is only 50£¥, he can collect enough tuition in these seven days.


    "I need a small stove, some charcoal, a small clay pot, not too big but clean, never cooked with meat and oil. And a knife, a spoon..."


    Jia Lan said casually, but the Brown sisters looked embarrassed. Sister Anlia Brown whispered: "Jia Lan... uh, no... sir... teacher..."


    "If you like, you can call me ''teacher''."


    Jia Lan smiled and encouraged them: "I can teach you some practical skills."


    In this way, he officially accepted these two civilian girls as "apprentices". As for whether they can become his "students" or even "disciples" in the future, it depends on their talent and hard work.

 Chapter 17

    In Jia Lan''s time, the three words "apprentice", "student" and "disciple" did not refer to the same person. Although they all had a "teacher" who disciplined them, their status was very different in the eyes of the teacher.


    "Apprentice" is like a teacher''s assistant, working under the teacher''s guidance. The teacher will teach them some knowledge needed for the job, but the teacher will not take the initiative to teach them things other than work, and the apprentice has to learn it mainly by himself.


    "Student" is a student taught by the teacher in batches, usually in a place like an academy. Students pay tuition and learn some basic knowledge from the teacher, but the teacher''s unique skills or advanced skills will not be easily told to them.


    "Disciple" is like the teacher''s child. Because the teacher''s energy is limited, there are usually not too many disciples. Disciples do not have to pay tuition to the teacher, but the teacher will take care of their lives, train them well, and let them become their own successors. This relationship is lifelong, sometimes even closer than that of a father and son with blood relations.


    The Brown sisters were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then shouted happily. Then, they felt that they were a little out of control, and hurriedly bowed to Jia Lan in a panic. If the Browns were at home, they might have run to tell their parents the good news.


    Jialan is just a freshman who has not yet enrolled at "Komo University", so what does it matter?


    Even if he is a freshman at "Komo University", he is also a future magician. Not everyone has the opportunity to become their apprentice. Even if you can''t learn mysterious magic, you can learn some skills related to magic, which is enough to make people worry-free for life.


    For civilians like the Brown sisters, there are not many people who can be as lucky as Alan Hogg and persuade a noble to get a recommendation letter.


    In this city of Kolan, how many people want to become apprentices, followers, or even servants of students of "Komo University". Many businessmen are willing to pay to support these students, but they have no chance.


    Moreover, women are at a disadvantage in this regard and are far less popular than male apprentices.


    Suddenly being invited by a future magician, what else can the Brown sisters find picky? Do they still expect real magicians to accept them as apprentices?


    Why are Mr. and Mrs. Brown so warm and kind to Alan, the girl who temporarily lives in their house? Why would they rather leave another room empty than rent it to those annoying people? Is it possible that they are just kind and innocent?


    Seeing Alan smiling and congratulating them, the Brown sisters were happy and surprised, not knowing whether to tell their parents first or serve the new teacher first.


    Jia Lan smiled and comforted them: "Don''t worry, you can tell your parents the news formally at dinner. Wait until they agree, and then decide whether to be my apprentice... Now, help me get something first."


    The Brown sisters ran out in a panic. But the elder sister Jia Sili ran two steps and stopped again, saying awkwardly: "Teacher, I''m sorry! There is no charcoal at home, only firewood. Although there is a clay pot, it is used to make broth. There is a clay pot for water that is relatively clean..."Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    Jia Lan was a little speechless after hearing this. Well! Anyway, the conditions are so bad, it doesn''t matter if it''s a little worse. He nodded. When the sisters brought the simple tools, Jia Lan was a little dumbfounded. The big stove and firewood used for cooking are fine, but the temperature is a little difficult to control. Hemostatic ointment is just an ordinary medicinal material, and does not require too delicate tools.Why are Mr. and Mrs. Brown so warm and kind to Alan, the girl who temporarily lives in their house? Why would they rather leave another room empty than rent it to those annoying people? Is it possible that they are just kind and innocent?


    Seeing Alan smiling and congratulating them, the Brown sisters were happy and surprised, not knowing whether to tell their parents first or serve the new teacher first.


    Jia Lan smiled and comforted them: "Don''t worry, you can tell your parents the news formally at dinner. Wait until they agree, and then decide whether to be my apprentice... Now, help me get something first."


    The Brown sisters ran out in a panic. But the elder sister Jia Sili ran two steps and stopped again, saying awkwardly: "Teacher, I''m sorry! There is no charcoal at home, only firewood. Although there is a clay pot, it is used to make broth. There is a clay pot for water that is relatively clean..."


    Jia Lan was a little speechless after hearing this. Well! Anyway, the conditions are so bad, it doesn''t matter if it''s a little worse. He nodded. When the sisters brought the simple tools, Jia Lan was a little dumbfounded. The big stove and firewood used for cooking are fine, but the temperature is a little difficult to control. Hemostatic ointment is just an ordinary medicinal material, and does not require too delicate tools.


    But what about the big earthenware jar that can hold 20 liters of water?


    Even if he puts all the blood mistletoe vine powder he grinds into it, it won¡¯t be enough, right?


    Which pharmacist would use such a "grand" tool to prepare a potion? Once any detail is not mastered well and leads to failure, the loss will be too great!


    But seeing the pitiful and helpless eyes of the Brown sisters, Jia Lan gritted his teeth and said, who said that a big earthenware jar can¡¯t be used to prepare potions?


    Without a scale or a standard vessel, Jia Lan estimated for a long time, and finally calculated the ratio of powder and auxiliary materials with his relatively rich experience.


    Then, he flicked his fingers, and a blue flame of "spark magic" flew into the hearth filled with firewood and burned quickly.


    A pot... well, it was indeed a pot of water that soon boiled.


    Jia Lan poured a basin of... well, a basin of blood mistletoe vine powder into the soup, and asked the Brown sisters to stir it constantly, and the soup soon turned black and red.


    He kept controlling the heat, adding water, and accurately adding various auxiliary materials according to the heat and cooking time.


    Under his command, Alan kept bringing firewood, sometimes stuffing it into the furnace, and sometimes pulling out burning firewood to reduce the fire. Her pretty little face was soon blackened.


    It took a full three hours. Jia Lan used a large spoon... well, a large spoon to scoop out five purple ointments of different consistencies in five times, and added different amounts of pandan resin as a thickener.


    When everything was done, the four people were exhausted and sweating, and sat on the drying platform, waiting for the five ointments to cool naturally.

 Chapter 18

    Jia Lan felt that this was more stressful than the time when he assisted his teacher in purifying the gastric juice of a black dragon and refining the "Dragon Fire Potion" that could explode at any time.


    Three hours of high concentration and continuous high-speed calculations in the brain exhausted all his mental energy, and he was so tired that he was drowsy at the moment.


    However, the "hemostatic ointment" had not yet been prepared, so he had to grit his teeth and cheer up to check the efficacy of those translucent ointments that were crystal clear and exuded a beautiful violet gem color one by one.


    Fortunately, although the process was very risky, he successfully grasped the 50£¥ chance of success this time. Judging from the sweet fragrance that was so strong that it was almost insoluble and always lingering in the air, this pot of ointment was successful.


    Although the efficacy may have been lost due to the unstable temperature, the "blood mistletoe vine" used was originally ten years old, and the efficacy would not be worse than that of three years old.


    Jia Lan dipped a little ointment with his finger and tasted it, nodded with satisfaction, rolled up his sleeves and picked up a kitchen knife - the kind that housewives often use to cut vegetables - ready to cut his arm to test the effect.


    Generally speaking, this kind of work is done by those unlucky apprentices, but he was always embarrassed to let two new female apprentices do this kind of thing.


    "Jia Lan, is this what you call ''cosmetics''?" Alan curiously dipped a little ointment with his finger, looked at it, and prepared to apply it on his lips.


    Jia Lan, who had just pointed the kitchen knife at his arm, was so scared that he almost cut off his entire arm with one knife, and the Brown sisters, who were staring at the teacher''s every move with wide eyes, screamed.


    Jia Lan thought for a moment, put down the kitchen knife, and said seriously: "In fact, what I used blood mistletoe to prepare is not ''cosmetics'', but a hemostatic ointment for treating external injuries. If the hemostatic effect is good, it can be sold to the pharmacy in exchange for a certain amount of money... In addition, I hope that the fact that blood mistletoe has a hemostatic effect will be kept secret from the outside. Alan, you should also know that our tuition fees have not been settled yet, right?"


    Alan widened his eyes in surprise and looked at the beautiful paste on his fingers in disbelief. He didn''t believe that this thing that looked better than crystal jelly was actually a drug for hemostasis.


    Although the girl was very simple, she also knew the importance of the potion formula, so she nodded and said that she would keep it secret. The Brown sisters swore to the gods without hesitation to show Jia Lan, the teacher, that they would never leak the secret.The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction at the attitude of the two girl apprentices. A primary potion formula that was rotten in his time was worthless to him. If he was not in urgent need of money now, there was actually no need to keep it secret.


    Moreover, if necessary, he can always provide thousands of different potion recipes recorded in a book called "Common Potion Formulas", and the materials used in them come from almost every corner of the entire Khorvaire continent.


    As for the formula leak? Any pharmacist above the middle level can easily identify the ingredients in the ointment. What is really worth keeping secret in the formula is actually the preparation skills, the heat, and the ratio between the main ingredients and the auxiliary ingredients.


    The reason why I told the young apprentices to keep it secret is just to prevent the price of "Blood Mistletoe Vine" from soaring too fast before I earn enough Jintalan, which would embarrass me, a poor wizard.


    "Uh... Teacher... Actually, you don''t have to try it on yourself..." An Liya pointed weakly at the huge kitchen knife that looked dangerous.


    After Jia Lan cast a questioning look, she shyly ran to the corner of the yard, took out a fat old hen from a small shed built with firewood, and brought it to Jia Lan with some heartache but determination: "Teacher, use Lemley to do the experiment!"


    Looking at the kitchen knife in her hand, and then at the old hen that was so fat that she could hardly walk, Jia Lan rubbed her chin, maybe she could add an old hen soup to the dinner menu?


    Lemley seemed to be very old, and the hen''s unique little comb had turned into a dark maroon, so that the pair of black and bright little eyes were full of wisdom. It looked at Jia Lan for a while, and its expression was quite indifferent to seeing through the world and life and death.


    Jia Lan, who had dissected countless animals, beasts, monsters and even alien creatures on the dissection table, naturally would not replace the old hen Lemley because of her indifference.


    As a "ruthless" wizard, Jia Lan didn''t think that cutting himself would make his conscience better than cutting Lemley - if he had a so-called "conscience".


    Originally, Lemley thought that after laying eggs for the Brown family for a lifetime and working hard for them, she should no longer be unlucky enough to appear in the oven or on the plate at this age, and could wait for the return to the Lord''s embrace on a cold winter day. If she was lucky enough, as one of the few chickens that died of old age, she might be lucky enough to be reborn as a noble celestial chicken in the Lord''s kingdom.


    Therefore, the calmness brought to her by her long life allowed her to face the kitchen knife that was "not threatening" to her calmly, and she even mocked the male human in the robe with a graceful and elegant temperament.


    However, when the "male human" picked up a kitchen knife and grabbed one of its legs, the old hen with "wise" eyes finally realized what terrible thing was going to happen, and began to scream and struggle in panic, making it almost impossible for the delicate girl to hold its fat body.


    Fortunately, the male human''s hands were very steady and his movements were very dexterous, just like the hands of an elf bard playing the harp. Before everyone reacted, and even before Lemley felt the pain, five deep and shallow wounds had been cut on its claws covered with thick foot skin.


    The dark chicken blood quickly flowed out, but the flow rate was very slow, like a sticky syrup. Jia Lan suspected that Lemley''s blood lipids were too high, and it would be good for her health to let some blood properly.

 Chapter 19

    The panicked Lemley was quickly smeared with five different ointments of different concentrations and drug contents. The cool feeling on her legs quickly covered up the not-too-serious pain. Lemley, who was put back on the ground, did not flee in panic, but stood on one leg uncontrollably, shivering for a while.


    After a while, Lemley, who did not notice any danger, tilted her head in confusion and looked at her worried little master, and then looked curiously at the five small wounds on her legs that were smeared with "strawberry jam" ointment.


    It didn''t quite understand what happened. Did the little master plan to eat "jam chicken legs" at night? So she pickled herself first?


    Lemley, who had lived for a long time, did not dare to defy fate, and knew that she could not defy it. It trembled and cast a pleading look at its two little masters, hoping that they were just planning to eat "jam chicken legs" at night, not "jam roasted whole chicken". Compared with losing legs, losing life seems to be more difficult for it to accept.


    After waiting for a while, Jia Lan signaled An Liya to pick up Lemli again. Lemli did not resist and let the little master pick her up, because she knew that with her size, she could not escape the little master''s flexible pursuit. It is better to cooperate honestly and suffer less.


    It closed its eyes and felt that the leg that had just been smeared with the "strawberry jam" ointment was pulled out by the male human in a robe. She thought to herself: Is it coming? Are they going to cut off my thigh? Yes? It must be, right? But why don''t they pluck the hair first? Remember that Mistress Brown did this when she slaughtered her parents, brothers and sisters, and several generations of descendants!


    Maybe it''s because the little master is not very good at cooking? Don''t know how to handle broilers?


    Lemli felt that it was her responsibility to remind the little master that even if she became a jam roast chicken, she hoped that she could become a delicious jam roast chicken, instead of being thrown directly into the garbage dump because it was unpalatable. This is her dignity as a chicken!


    However, after waiting for a long time, she did not feel any pain. Lemley was a little confused. Could it be that the male human''s skill was so advanced that he could cut his legs painlessly?Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    He stretched his neck in fear and confusion and looked at his legs. His legs were still there, but the "strawberry jam" applied on his legs had been peeled off, leaving only a small scar of broken skin. Lemley was a little confused. He remembered that he was cut five times, but why was there only one wound?


    Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction. The preparation of [Hemostatic Ointment] was very successful. The five batches of ointment have the qualities of [High Efficiency], [Strong Efficacy], [Special Effect], [Super Efficacy], and [Extreme Efficacy]. In his original era, this was also considered an extremely high-quality medicine.


    This was entirely due to the old [Blood Mistletoe] of this batch. He underestimated their age. Judging from the efficacy, these [Blood Mistletoe] are at least more than thirty years old, not just ten years. In his original era, it was definitely considered an [Elite] quality medicine.


    "Very good! We succeeded! Now, we need to find some jars to put them in!"


    Jia Lan was a little worried. This was not his laboratory, and there was no complete supporting logistics staff to prepare these sundries for him.


    Jia Si Li suggested: "Teacher! Maybe we can go to the pottery store on the corner to buy some spice jars? The price is very cheap, just two copper danding can buy one, like this..."


    She took out a small black pottery jar half the size of a palm from the kitchen at home. Although the shape is a bit clumsy, the size makes Jia Lan very satisfied. With this capacity, a jar of [hemostatic ointment] is just enough to treat a large wound no more than one foot long, or three medium-sized wounds three inches long.


    "Okay! Alan, how much money do you have?"


    Jia Lan shamelessly borrowed money from his "big money sponsor" again. Alan said with a bitter face: "Jialan, I only have eleven gold talans and six silver jims. I can only lend you six silver jims at most, otherwise I won''t even have enough money for the entrance exam."


    "It doesn''t matter! Lend them all to me! I promise that in an hour, we won''t have to worry about tuition fees!"


    Jialan said confidently: "Not just the cost of the exam, but the tuition fees, including yours and mine!"


    "Are you going to help me pay for the tuition?"


    The girl widened her eyes, looked at the ointments in the earthenware, and said hesitantly: "Are you sure these ointments can earn enough for our tuition fees?"


    "I promise!"


    Jialan smiled. Although he is not a full-time pharmacist, he has taught countless high-level pharmacists. Although the knowledge of pharmacy he has mastered is only theoretical, lacking practical and hands-on experience, he still has a grasp of the efficacy of the medicine.


    What''s more, they have "heroically" prepared most of the ointment in the earthenware jar at one time, and the effect of the "clinical trial" is also very good. There is no reason why the ointment used to treat wounds cannot be sold.


    "Okay!" The girl took out five gold Talans from her purse, thought about it, gritted her teeth and handed the entire purse to Jia Lan.

 Chapter 20

    Jia Lan smiled and shook the purse in his hand at the girl: "My dear lady, your "investment" this time will definitely make you feel that it is worth it!"


    Then, he handed the purse to the more cheerful and bold Jia Sili: "Go buy some spice jars!"


    Jia Lan glanced at the jar of ointment and ordered: "About 200 will be enough, but if it sells well, we can buy more tomorrow to make it."


    "Okay, teacher." Jia Sili took the purse happily and ran out quickly. This was the most money she had ever received in her life, which made her very excited.


    Jia Sili came back soon because the pottery shop was not far away. She also brought two shop assistants, who helped carry two large baskets of spice jars filled with hay.


    "Teacher, the dwarf boss of the pottery shop, Old Justin, said that there are only so many left in the shop." Garsley returned the purse to Jia Lan, "But if we need more, he can help us order from the pottery workshop. If the quantity is large, the price can be more favorable!"


    She pointed to two large baskets of spice jars: "There are 236 here. Old Justin only charged me 80£¥ of the money, a total of four gold talans. He said that if the order exceeds 500 at a time, he can only charge 70£¥; if it exceeds 1,000, he can only charge 60£¥."


    Jia Lan carefully checked the spice jars and nodded with satisfaction. He gave each of the two guys a silver jimm as a tip, and then said to them: "Go back and tell your boss that I need a lot of pottery jars, not only this time, but also more than 1,000. So, I will only give him 50£¥ of the price. If he wants to take this order, he has to change to white pottery next time, and the pottery jars must be made more delicate!"


    After speaking, he waved his hand, conjured up a feather pen and a piece of paper, and quickly drew a design of a jar.


    The jar is beautifully shaped, with the emblem of "Book Ryan" printed on the front, which is an abstract, open book, and "Violet Cream" written below the book. The quality level, usage and effect are marked on the back.


    This feather pen that appeared out of thin air is actually a small spell that can conjure some paper and a feather pen without ink. This is a trick that scholars can do.


    But the two guys were frightened by this spell. After Jia Lan handed the pattern to them respectfully, they carefully put it away.


    Jia Lan gave them four more silver jims: "If you are willing to help, this is your reward."


    "I believe that when Boss Justin sees the long-term large order, he will not blame you for taking on some small jobs."


    The two guys hesitated for a moment, and Jia Lan noticed it, smiled, and took out five gold talans to one of the guys: "This is the deposit for the first batch of one thousand spice jars. I will pay the other half after the arrival. I may need other styles of pottery jars in the future, and I will give you the pattern then. Now you send someone back to give the deposit to Boss Justin, and then come back to help me."This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    The two guys were very happy. One of them ran away with the pattern and deposit, and the other stayed to follow his instructions.


    Looking at the time, it was already late, and the night market of the magic market was about to start. If they acted quickly, they could still finish everything before dinner.


    Garth was responsible for applying the ointment into the spice jars, while her sister Anlia was responsible for covering the lids, wiping them clean and placing them in front of Jialan.


    Jialan''s job was to use the secret seal to mark the spice jars with his own mark, which was the design on the pattern he had just given to the clerk. Well, Jialan thought the word "trademark" was very appropriate, it was a unique business mark!


    Alan was responsible for carefully putting the marked "violet ointment" into the bamboo basket, arranging it layer by layer, and then covering it with hay. They moved quickly, and when the clerk who went back to report the news came back, more than 200 jars of ointment had been packed.


    After sorting it out, Jialan asked two clerks to carry the bamboo baskets, and took them and the three excited girls to the magic market where the lights were already on.


    The magic market is now much more lively than in the morning, and it is crowded inside and outside.


    The magic market not only sells magic items and materials, but is also favored because most people in this city do not have magic talent. Moreover, because of the magic market, the flow of people and the liveliness here far exceed other markets in Kolan City.


    Perhaps because most of the magicians in Komo University are night owls, this city built around Komo University only starts to get really lively at dusk.


    This atmosphere makes Jia Lan feel very familiar and friendly. He felt tired because of preparing potions, but here, the fatigue dissipated a lot. Because in his time, the market near Kolan Castle Library was also like this. He still remembers that sometimes he came out at night to buy supper for teachers working in the laboratory.


    The market manager on the roadside has begun to hang lights on the lampposts. Unlike the morning market, the vendors in the night market have to pay an additional "lighting fee" of five copper dandings.


    The stalls under or near the lampposts are the most popular. The shrewd market tax officials will charge these stalls an additional stall fee of one silver jimm.


    The so-called "stall" is actually just a three-foot square ground, spread with a piece of tattered linen or animal skin, and put the goods on it, and it becomes a small stall.

 Chapter 21

    Jia Lan walked into the bustling market. Instead of rushing to the pharmacy, he first strolled around the stalls outside the market. With two baskets of valuable ointments, he felt much more relaxed and began to enjoy this night market, which was much more lively than the morning market, and tried to integrate himself into this era.


    Although he was just strolling around, Jia Lan had already spent a lot of money, so he did not go shopping. Instead, he took out a portable notebook and a feather pen, looked at the goods on the stalls while walking, and asked the girls around him from time to time what the goods were called in this era, and then wrote down the names and prices of the goods he liked, and asked his two girl apprentices to write down the location of the stalls.


    After walking around the periphery of the market, Jia Lan had written down the names and prices of more than a hundred kinds of goods. Although everyone around him was a little confused, Jia Lan was excited.


    In the eyes of ordinary people, these things may be very ordinary, and no one even wants them, but Jia Lan regards them as treasures. Looking at those piles of materials, he felt that they were all shining!


    It turned out that after this era experienced the dark apocalypse disaster more than 1,700 years ago, many civilizations disappeared.  Although civilization began to recover, nature''s resilience is much stronger than humans.


    In Jia Lan''s time, these materials were common but valuable. However, because humans didn''t know how to use them, they became useless things, growing wildly in nature like weeds.


    But for Jia Lan, these things would become big money in his hands! Whether it was used to study magic or do other things, he would never have to worry about money again.


    Walking into the market, he began to see some regular shops, and the types were similar to those of his time, which showed that civilization was still developing.


    Because it was late, Jia Lan was worried that the Browns would be worried if they found out that their daughter was not at home, so he did not continue to visit unrelated shops, but went directly to the pharmacy to check the prices.


    Jia Lan was surprised to find that there were very few types of potions in this era, and even some things that had nothing to do with potions were sold, such as spices, perfumes, and dried fruits. Moreover, most of the potions here were potions, and the prices were still very expensive.


    When he asked about the efficacy of a hemostatic potion, he was shocked!


    A bottle of potion with only a small effect, and no accelerated healing effect, was sold for five silver gins! In his era, potions of the same quality could only be sold for two silver coins at most, and they also had the effect of accelerating healing!


    The price difference was more than doubled!


    Jialan did not see any potions that could treat moderate injuries or above in the pharmacy. After asking, he found out that the potions of this era had very slow hemostasis and recovery effects. Once injured above level three, people usually seek treatment from professions such as water magicians, wood magicians, or holy light priests.


    Note: Levels 1-3 are minor injuries, levels 4-6 are moderate injuries, levels 7-9 are serious injuries, and level 10 is near death.


    Water magicians have good hemostasis effects, wood magicians have long-lasting recovery effects, and holy light priests have the fastest healing effects. These professions are the medical system of this era. And those potions with poor effects, slow recovery, and unclear effects can only be used as auxiliary means.


    It is very costly to ask these magicians to treat. Even if it is a minor injury, they will not easily take action if it is less than five gins.  So once ordinary civilians are injured, they can''t afford to treat them at all. Either they stop bleeding and wait for recovery, or they can only wait to die.


    Although potions are relatively cheap, for those civilians who only earn three silver jims a day and can''t save up ten gold tarans a month, those potions that can only treat minor injuries are also luxury goods.


    Jia Lan has a headache. He doesn''t know how to price his "violet ointment". A bottle of "recovery potion" that he thinks is only "a little useful" costs five silver jims, and this potion can''t even cure minor injuries, and has no continuous treatment effect.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    But the worst of the five ointments he made are all "very useful" quality. If the tools are better, he can even make higher-level ointments!


    In fact, the quality of "very useful" is already good, which is considered to be below average. There are eight quality levels of potions, from low to high: somewhat useful, weak, ordinary, very useful, more than very useful, especially useful, super useful, and best useful.


    In his time, pharmacists priced their own rudimentary medicines at three times the price of the raw materials, which meant one-third cost, one-third labor, and one-third profit.


    Sometimes, because the formula is rare, difficult to make, time-consuming, and there is a possibility of failure, the price will be a little higher, but generally not more than five times the raw materials!


    So how much does the "Violet Cream" he made cost?


    Alan helped him buy sixty-eight thirty-year-old "Blood Mistletoe Vine" and used two silver jims. He made a lot of ointments: one hundred and four cans of "very useful", fifty cans of "very useful or more", thirty cans of "especially useful", twenty cans of "super useful", and ten cans of "best useful". Calculated, the average cost of each can of "Violet Cream" is only one-tenth of a copper danding!


    However, the times are different now, and Jialan will not really sell these ointments at three times the cost. That would be too stupid. If someone gave him a copper danding, he couldn''t even make change. So, he decided to refer to the "recovery potion" sold in the pharmacy to set the price.


    A bottle of "recovery potion" can only be used once, and can only treat minor injuries below level 3, and the effect is "a little useful". And this potion costs five silver jims.


    The bottle of "Very Useful Violet Cream" in his hand is much higher in quality than the "Recovery Potion". Even if the price is doubled, a bottle of "Very Useful Violet Cream" should be sold for four gold talans.


    But a bottle of "Violet Cream" can cure mild injuries and can be used at least three times. That''s 12 gold talans. Moreover, "Violet Cream" can not only cure mild injuries, but also stop bleeding, heal, and have the effect of follow-up treatment. Therefore, it is reasonable to charge three more gold talans.


    In other words, the cheapest of these ointments in his hand must be sold for 15 gold talans to be cost-effective!


    Jia Lan was a little worried. In this era, with everyone''s impression of potions, is there really anyone willing to spend 15 gold talans on a bottle of ointment?


    He shook his head and decided to try it first.


    He chose a potion store that looked the largest in the magic market and walked in. In the store, a dozen people who looked like adventurers or mercenaries were divided into several groups and were picking the potions they needed at the counter. Two or three shop assistants were serving them.


    Seeing Jia Lan and the others come in, one of the shop assistants came up with a smile on his face. He quickly glanced at them, especially seeing the dark blue "identification robe" on Jia Lan, he knew who was the leader.


    In "Kolan City", it is not uncommon to see magicians. Every year, there are more than 3,000 undergraduate freshmen in the "Main Department", and tens of thousands of junior college freshmen in the "Auxiliary Department"!


    In this way, with more and more students every year, the number of students in "Komo University" from the first to the ninth grade may be hundreds of thousands! Among them, the first-year freshmen alone account for more than half!


    The reason why there are so many first-year students is that the school is upgraded according to credits. If the credits are not enough, you can''t be promoted to the next grade.


    Therefore, it is not uncommon to see young magic apprentices playing around in "Kolan City". The residents of "Kolan City" have also become accustomed to dealing with these young magicians. As long as you are respectful and polite to them, they are actually no different from ordinary people.


    However, residents usually only see first and second graders wearing light blue magic robes. There are very few magic apprentices wearing dark magic robes, because they are all quasi-mages.


    Jia Lan did not wear a badge on his chest, but his dark blue magic robe was obviously not simple, so the clerk respected him very much.

 Chapter 22

    The clerk of the pharmacy politely asked the magician Jia Lan: "Welcome to the "Healing Heart Pharmacy", what do you need?"


    Jia Lan smiled and replied: "In addition to buying medicine, do you accept medicine here?"


    The clerk was a little surprised: "Do you want to sell medicine here?"


    "Yes." Jia Lan took out a jar of ointment from the bamboo basket behind him, "This is a new hemostatic ointment I made. I want to let the pharmacist in your store take a look. If you are willing to buy it, please help me estimate the price."


    The clerk was a little embarrassed: "Our store has a fixed pharmacist to cooperate with, and generally does not accept medicine separately."


    Jia Lan was a little surprised to hear this, but still nodded politely: "Excuse me." Then he left the store with his friends. Alan asked a little nervously: "They don''t accept our medicine, what should we do now?"


    Jia Lan comforted her: "Don''t worry, we will go to other stores to have a look."


    However, they went to all the pharmacies in the magic market and got the same answer. Jia Lan began to worry a little, thinking that there might be a unified organization behind these pharmacies to control the market.


    This confused Jia Lan, because he knew that in his time, medicine was a hot-selling commodity, and pharmacies would rush to buy it. But now, they were rejected when they delivered it to the door, which surprised him.


    What worried him more was that this monopoly was not conducive to the growth of new pharmacists. In his time, novice pharmacists could practice their skills by selling medicine to pharmacies, but now, they seemed to be cut off from this path.


    Just as they were thinking about what to do, a sarcastic voice came: "Are you the ones selling medicine everywhere?"


    They turned around and saw a skinny middle-aged man in a gray and white robe, looking at them with two followers.


    Jia Lan asked politely, "Excuse me, who are you?"


    The follower proudly replied, "You don''t even know Lord Rice Dagar of the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild"? How dare you sell medicine casually in Kolan City?"


    Jia Lan asked politely, "Excuse me, what are the rules here? Is there any problem with me selling medicine here?"


    Daggar said arrogantly, "Are you a student of "Komo University"? Didn''t the teacher tell you that it is best to sell medicine in the magic market through our guild? Do you have a "Pharmacist Qualification Certificate"? "


    Jia Lan smiled slightly, "I''m sorry, I have never heard that selling medicine requires a qualification certificate. The teacher never said that it must be approved by the guild. I don''t even know when the market was under the control of the guild?"


    One of Dagar''s followers was angry because of Jia Lan''s attitude and wanted to take action, but was stopped by Dagar.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.


    Jia Lan almost laughed, but the three girls and two ceramic shop assistants behind him were frightened and shrank behind him and dared not say a word.


    From Dagar''s words, he easily analyzed a lot of information.


    First of all, selling potions in the magic market does not necessarily have to go through the so-called "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild".


    Secondly, the so-called "pharmacist qualification certificate" is probably just something that the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild" made up unilaterally.


    Furthermore, the other party stole the concept and misled him, a "foreigner", trying to make him think that the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild" is the authoritative organization of Kolan City, and all pharmacists must obey their management.


    Furthermore, the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild" is only a regional pharmacist organization in Kolan City. It has no power to manage pharmacists at all, nor does it have the power to prohibit other pharmacists from selling potions in the magic market.


    As for the statement that "it is obliged" to prevent "inferior potions" from entering the market, it is just a flattery by the skinny guy in front of him.


    Finally, in the Kolan City area, I am afraid that the most authoritative pharmacy organization is not the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild", but the "Komo University".


    The gestures that Lord Dagar had made from the beginning were probably just a demonstration to Jia Lan, declaring "This is my territory!" With such people, it''s no wonder that the level of potions in Kelan City is so poor. After pretending to stop the followers, Dagar said in a hypocritical "kind" way: "Hey... Saralu! Don''t be so rude! This young man from a foreign land just doesn''t know the rules here..." He stared at Jia Lan with his eyes, which were full of whites and looked like dead fish, and said threateningly: "It doesn''t matter if young people don''t know the rules, but since you have come to our Kelan City Magic Fair, you must abide by our rules here, otherwise it will be bad for everyone if there is a conflict, right?" Faced with the "threat" of this skinny intermediate pharmacist, Jia Lan just smiled indifferently. "Since you, young man, already know the rules, just be careful in the future! I can give you a letter of recommendation, and you can go to the headquarters of our ''Kolan City Pharmacist Guild'' to register for the ''Pharmacist Qualification Certificate''." Seeing that Jia Lan didn''t speak, Dagar thought he had successfully frightened the other party, smiled proudly, and said with the attitude of an elder, "What potion did you bring? I can help you identify it. With my identification letter, I believe that the pharmacy in the magic market will be willing to buy your potion..."


    "Is that so?" Jia Lan glanced at the crowd gathered because of the dispute between the two sides, blinked and smiled, and took out a can of "High-efficiency Violet Ointment" to show it to people: "This is a hemostatic ointment that can be used to apply to external injuries that are no more than one foot long and no more than one centimeter deep. It can effectively stop bleeding and bond the wound within one minute. Used with a medicated bandage, the wound can be effectively healed and recovered within an hour."


    After hearing Jia Lan''s explanation of the efficacy of the medicine, many people who knew some knowledge of medicines exclaimed in disbelief, especially some adventurers and mercenary warriors in the crowd, whose eyes were full of surprise.


    Before Jia Lan finished speaking, Dagar''s face changed, interrupting Jia Lan and scolding: "Nonsense! This is impossible! As an intermediate pharmacist, I have never heard of any medicine that is in paste form... Bring me the medicine!"


    He interrupted Jia Lan hurriedly, but eagerly asked for the medicine, which made the crowd watching on the side realize that this young magician did not seem to have the need to lie in public, because any pharmacist can find several pharmacists who can identify the efficacy of medicines.


    Moreover, this young magician did not look like a person with a problem in his brain. Would he be so stupid as to bring a bunch of fake medicines and cheat a bunch of Jintalan from the pharmacy? The onlookers who had already tasted the taste looked at Dagar with contempt as he hurriedly reached out to grab the ointment jar from the young magician. This guy''s reputation in the magic market was not very good. Did he think that everyone was stupid? So stupid that he used such a poor excuse to cover up the facts?

 Chapter 23

    Seeing that he didn''t dare to directly deny the efficacy of the young magician''s medicine, but found an excuse like "the medicine is not in the form of an ointment", it was obvious that this guy had set his eyes on other people''s medicine again and wanted to take it for himself.


    Dagar stretched out his hand to grab it, but Jia Lan dodged it lightly, then slowly closed the lid, put the medicine into the pocket of his robe, and said with a smile: "Sorry, Mr. Dagar, I don''t think you are qualified to identify my ointment, and I don''t plan to register with the Pharmacist Guild of Kolan City. You''d better get out of the way. I''m going to find another buyer."


    Dagar pounced on nothing, and his face turned green when he heard this. The two followers behind him saw something wrong, and quickly jumped out, shouting with their teeth and claws: "Hey! Didn''t you hear what Lord Dagar said? Hand over the medicine!"


    As they said that, the two followers rushed towards Jia Lan, and one of them wanted to hit him, wanting to knock Jia Lan down and then grab the medicine. At this time, everyone around exclaimed, and the three girls behind Jia Lan screamed in fear.


    However, the follower''s fist did not land on Jia Lan. He stepped on something and suddenly slipped, hitting the back of his head heavily on the ground with a loud noise. People around could hear that this guy must have fainted and it would take several days for him to wake up.


    Before the other follower could get close to Jia Lan, he was surrounded by blue arcs of electricity. He twitched all over, foamed at the mouth and fell down, with smoke coming out of his hair.


    Everyone was stunned. What was going on? They didn''t see Jia Lan do anything, didn''t see him holding a magic wand, didn''t see him making gestures, didn''t see him chanting spells, he didn''t even move!


    The miserable state of the two followers frightened Dagar. He took a few steps back and almost fell down, shouting in horror: "What did you do? How dare you attack the people of the Pharmacist Guild of Kolan City? I am a mid-level pharmacist!"


    Jia Lan secretly complained in his heart, and then spread his hands innocently: "Mr. Dagar, look, I didn''t do anything! Everyone saw that your followers fell down by themselves, and I didn''t touch them! It''s none of my business!"


    Dagar was speechless. Jia Lan shrugged and said politely: "Since the pharmacy here doesn''t accept my medicine, I have to think of other ways. Mr. Dagar, if there is nothing else, I will leave first. Goodbye!"


    "You...you..." Dagar stuttered and couldn''t speak. Jia Lan ignored him, waved to the girls, and walked out of the market. The onlookers looked at Jia Lan in awe and consciously made way.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.


    "Wait!"


    "Please wait! Mr. Magician!"


    "Please wait!"


    When Jia Lan was about to walk out of the crowd, several voices sounded at the same time. Several burly and fierce warriors squeezed out of the crowd and chased Jia Lan. Jia Lan turned around, glanced at them, and his dark eyes narrowed slightly.


    These warriors suddenly felt a creepy sense of danger, and they stopped involuntarily, stopping several meters away from Jia Lan, looking at him with horror.


    Their combat experience told them that if they got closer to the young magician, what awaited them would be a terrible thing.


    Several mercenary leaders took a breath and suddenly felt a chill on their backs, remembering a rumor about magicians: that is, no matter what the circumstances, if you don''t intend to get rid of a magician, then don''t rashly step into the magician''s warning range without his permission, and avoid making any violent actions that may cause misunderstandings, otherwise you will die miserably!


    They were just members of a small mercenary team and had never come into contact with the noble magician, so they knew very little about the magician''s rules and regulations, and almost caused a disaster!


    One of the mercenary leaders was a little stiff, and he saluted the young magician in front of him with a very slow movement, while carefully making sure his hands were as far away from the weapons on his body as possible: "Sorry! Respected magician, we have no ill intentions! Please forgive our rude behavior!"


    Jia Lan''s squinting eyes slowly opened, and he politely returned a strange etiquette that the mercenaries could not understand, and smiled kindly: "Hello! Brave mercenary, what can I do for you?"


    The mercenary leader breathed a sigh of relief and licked his lips that were dry due to nervousness. Damn it! He swore that even when facing a group of dangerous monsters, he had never been so scared even though he had experienced many battles.


    "We are members of the ''Iguana Fang Mercenary Group'', and I am their deputy leader Dif!"


    Dif, the deputy leader of the ''Iguana Fang'', glanced around the other small groups of mercenaries or adventurers. Seeing that they had no intention of speaking, he exchanged a look with several of the leaders with a little satisfaction.


    Although everyone is just a member of a small mercenary group or adventurer team, the rules of the mercenary world still need to be followed. In non-hostile situations, the strongest person usually speaks in the same occasion.


    This is also the reason why Dave first reported the name of the mercenary group and his position. Although the "Iguana Fang" is only a small mercenary group that cannot afford magicians and priests, it is also quite famous among the small teams on the scene, so naturally he came forward to negotiate with the young magician.


    Dave said sincerely, "I just heard that you are interested in selling some healing potions. I wonder if we can have a look?"


    Jia Lan laughed, "You''re welcome. If you are interested in my potions, of course you can. I believe you have heard the effects of the potions when I introduced them just now, so I won''t repeat them! But this is not a good place to talk business. We can find a quiet place to talk slowly."


    "Of course! Of course!"


    Dive said happily, "I know there is a tavern near the market. The kumquat liqueur there is quite good. Why don''t we invite you and your companions to have a drink there?"


    In fact, Dave made another mistake here. It was not a wise move to invite a magician to drink, but Jia Lan didn''t care. Because he himself was not a pure magician, not to mention that he had not yet fully understood the identity of a "magician".

 Chapter 24

    The mercenaries were surrounding Jia Lan and the others and were about to leave when suddenly a harsh voice shouted, "It''s him! He just beat up my men in the market and insulted me! Catch him!"


    Everyone looked back and saw that it was the intermediate pharmacist Dagar who was almost scared to death. He had brought a group of market guards with him. He pointed at Jia Lan triumphantly, and a chubby market tax collector followed behind him.


    Dagar had a high status in the magic market and was responsible for managing the pharmacists in the market. It seemed that he had a good relationship with the tax collector, otherwise he would not have called for help so quickly.


    Although this market belonged to the University of Science and Magic, the tax collector frowned immediately when he saw the color of Jia Lan''s magic robe.


    Dagar jumped and pointed at Jia Lan and shouted, "They are liars! They don''t have the school badge of the University of Science and Technology, and they want to sell fake medicine in the market! As soon as I said I wanted to identify their medicine, they beat my men and tried to escape! Tax Officer Osborn, let the guards catch them!" Tax Officer Osborn looked at the two injured followers, one was unconscious, and the other was still twitching with smoking hair. Osborn was not a fool. He could see that the young man in the dark blue magic robe must be a magician, regardless of whether he was a student of the University of Science and Technology. [Daggar, this idiot! ] In fact, Osborn had long regretted being dragged into the water by Dagar. After seeing this young magician, he cursed in his heart. How could this magician look like a liar? Seeing how confident he was, and not panicking when he saw the tax officer and the guard, it must be Dagar, a guy obsessed with money, who was playing tricks! Osborn has been in the market for many years and is very accurate in judging people. He thinks this young man is not only a magician, but also a noble! No matter how well ordinary people pretend, they don''t have that kind of natural aristocratic temperament. Besides, even if this magician is not a student of the University of Science and Technology, so what? It''s not that the University of Science and Technology has magicians!


    Tax officer Osborn saluted to Jia Lan in a panic: "I''m sorry! Mr. Magician, I am Osborn, the tax officer and manager of the market. Please forgive the poor security of the market. I will handle this matter well, and I hope you don''t leave a bad impression on the market!"


    [This idiot! Don''t let others get involved if you want to die! ]


    Tax officer Osborn wiped his sweat, saluted again, waved his hand and asked the guards to carry the entourage and the still shouting Dagar to leave in a hurry. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    What a joke!


    In this group, in addition to the young magician in the dark blue magic robe, there is another girl who also does not wear the school badge of the University of Science and Technology. She is just a low-level apprentice in a light blue magic robe. Obviously, she can''t be someone who can release advanced magic of the electric or ice system.


    What does this mean?


    This means that this young magician is probably not only a formal magician, but also a very likely ice and lightning dual-element advanced magician! Can a small tax collector like him afford to provoke such a big man?


    In this city of Kolan, even a three-year-old child knows that those who can release advanced spells are definitely powerful beings above formal magicians. Even though this magician looks very young, and the spells he releases seem to be very weak, it cannot be denied that it is indeed the effect of ice and lightning dual-element spells.


    Such a young man has mastered dual-element advanced spells. If you say that there is no powerful force behind him, no one will believe that there is no powerful force behind him.


    Only Dagar, who relied on relationships and bribes to get a mid-level pharmacist identity and flaunt his power, but his head is full of straw bags, would be so stupid as to provoke him to his own death.


    And when he has been very generous to let him go once, he still wants to provoke the market guards for a second revenge and take him to the market guard station? You want to snatch the potion formula from someone else, right?


    So, Osborn, the tax officer, wisely apologized to the young magician decisively and fled the scene quickly, which surprised the people around and Jia Lan and his group.


    "Okay..."


    Jia Lan, who hadn''t said a word from beginning to end, shrugged helplessly and said to Dave: "Are you still going to treat us to a drink? Let''s go quickly? It''s getting late, I hope we can still send the ladies home for dinner!"


    "Uh, okay, respected magician!"


    Dave, who was stunned, didn''t know where Jia Lan came from. Even the tax officer had to come to apologize to him. He immediately lowered his attitude by three levels again, respectfully led the way, and soon found an empty long table in a tavern near the magic market, and invited Jia Lan and others to sit down.


    Jia Lan didn''t really plan to drink kumquat sweet wine. He took out the bottle of sample from his pocket and placed it in front of Di Fu: "This is the violet ointment!" Di Fu carefully took the medicine jar, looked at the crystal purple ointment carefully, and even sniffed it under his nose. He then inserted his little finger into the wine glass in front of him, washed it with wine, and carefully dipped a little ointment into his mouth to taste it. Jia Lan didn''t think that they, the combat professionals, could identify any medicinal effects, but he didn''t stop Di Fu''s behavior. While playing with the wine glass filled with golden sticky wine in his hand, he casually introduced: "In addition to the effects of stopping bleeding, bonding wounds, effective healing within an hour, and rapid recovery within a week that I mentioned before, if you suffer from subcutaneous bruises, fractures, internal organ concussion and other injuries, swallowing and applying it will have a good effect." The mercenaries couldn''t help but let out a small exclamation in surprise. Di Fu asked with shining eyes: "Mr. Magician, can I try it?"

 Chapter 25

    Jia Lan made a "whatever you want" gesture. Dave was a real tough guy. He took out a dagger and cut his arm hard. The wound was half a foot long and half an inch deep. The skin and flesh were turned open, like a terrifying big mouth. Blood gushed out, and the three girls next to him screamed. Dave quickly apologized to the three girls. Then he picked up a little "violet ointment" with his little finger and carefully applied it to the wound. The magical thing is that the blood was immediately blocked by the sticky ointment. When he covered the wound with the ointment, the bleeding stopped completely! The mercenaries present were all stunned. You know, the common "recovery potion" on the market can only make the blood coagulate to form a blood scab to stop bleeding, and it has a slight effect of preventing the wound from festering, but the function is limited to this. Because the "recovery potion" is a liquid, it can only treat small wounds, otherwise the blood can easily wash away the potion and it cannot stop bleeding at all. But "Violet Ointment" can not only stop bleeding quickly, but also seal wounds and prevent blood loss. It is also effective for large wounds. For mercenaries and adventurers who are often injured, this is simply a life-saving straw!


    Div shouted excitedly: "This is the effect of the ''Black Iron Grade'' advanced potion, no! At least the effect of the ''Brass Grade'' primary potion!" He stared at the ointment excitedly, and the other mercenaries also breathed rapidly, staring at the ointment with their eyes.


    They, the combat professionals, especially need this kind of potion that can save lives in adventures. After all, the holy light priests and water and wood magicians called "angels" are simply not affordable for their small mercenary groups.


    Don''t talk about them, even the treatment units of large adventure groups are less than one percent of the team members. It''s good for a large mercenary group to have more than ten healers. In large-scale missions, healers will indeed accompany them, but when they are really needed, it often means that the team will suffer heavy losses.


    Moreover, the number of healers is limited, and their existence is more of a symbol of stabilizing the team and calming people''s hearts. Only the top leaders of the team can enjoy their services. Ordinary mercenaries are not treated by them at all when they are injured.


    Most of the Holy Light priests are members of the Holy Light Church. There are very few non-church priests, and most of the church priests live in the church and rarely go out. There are even fewer priests willing to join the mercenary group.


    Although the healing effect of the Holy Light priests is very good, people who are injured in the adventure often die before they return to the town with the church. Except for the large-scale missions of exterminating evil creatures invited by the official or the lord, they can''t be counted on at all.


    Although water and wood magicians often participate in adventures, few of them really stay in the mercenary group. Because large mercenary groups have to support more than ten magicians, the cost is high, and small and medium-sized mercenary groups can''t afford it at all.


    The magician''s healing ability is just a drop in the bucket for a large number of injured people, and can only rescue the dying. Therefore, the mercenaries can only count on the pharmacist. Although the recovery speed and effect of the potion are not as good as the magician, it is much better than the mercenaries grabbing charcoal ash to stop bleeding themselves.


    However, the mercenary group cannot afford to hire a large number of pharmacists. Pharmacists who are capable of making bronze-level potions or above can make a lot of money no matter where they are. Why should they run around and take risks with the mercenary group? Therefore, the mercenary group can only hire low-level pharmacists at the station to make potions with the medicinal materials collected by the mercenary members when they go on missions. In this way, the mercenary group can get the "Black Iron-level" primary potions at cost price, saving costs; low-level pharmacists can also get medicinal materials for free and improve their pharmaceutical level. However, some expensive and effective potions still have to be purchased from the pharmacy by mercenaries. It was when Dave and his team were purchasing potions at the pharmacy that they met Jia Lan and noticed him.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Seeing that Jia Lan had asked several pharmacy stores but failed to sell the potion, they thought he was a pharmacist apprentice and wanted to invite him to the station as a pharmacist. After all, a small mercenary group like "Iguana''s Tooth" can only afford a pharmacist apprentice.


    But unexpectedly, the conflict between Jia Lan and Dagar accidentally made them discover that the potion in his hand had a strong healing effect, which made them very happy!


    If a pharmacist apprentice who is not a member of the Pharmacist Association but can prepare high-quality potions can be included in the mercenary group, it will undoubtedly play a great role in promoting the development of the mercenary group. Because of this, there was a situation in the market where Di Fu and others rashly called Jia Lan.


    However, Di Fu and others never expected that the potion in Jia Lan''s hand was surprisingly good, far beyond their understanding of potions, which made them very disappointed. Because it is almost impossible for someone who can prepare such a potion to join their mercenary group.


    Undoubtedly, the quality of [Violet Cream] has reached at least the level of [Black Iron Grade] advanced potion, and even approaches the level of [Brass Grade] primary potion, which can only be prepared by an intermediate pharmacist!


    This made Div and the others hesitate. Although this potion is good, it is too good for them. They began to doubt whether they can afford it!


    After all, advanced potions above [Brass Grade] can usually only be bought in large pharmacy stores in big cities, and as for [Silver Grade] master potions, they can only appear in auction houses!


    No matter which one, the price of these potions is not affordable for mercenaries like them who are struggling at the bottom.


    Compared with asking a Holy Light priest or a mage to cast a spell, the price of potions is relatively cheap. For the same injury, it only costs five silver jims to use potions, and the minimum cost of asking a priest to cast a potion will not be less than five gold talans.


    But with the improvement of potion quality, this situation has reversed. Carrying a bottle of potion that can treat serious injuries is like carrying a priest with you, who can save lives at any time. Even if the price is high, it is worth it!


    And [Violet Cream] obviously has such an effect. Div and others are too conservative in their evaluation of this potion. If a regular senior pharmacist were to identify it, I am afraid he would directly give it the evaluation of a high-level potion!


    This level of potion is so expensive that it is hard to buy. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. This is because Jia Lan does not understand the potion market of this era, so he did the stupid thing of selling it in a small pharmacy in the magic market.


    Otherwise, he only needs to find an auction house to get a sky-high auction price. For the mercenaries who lick blood on the knife, no matter how much Jintalan they earn, can it be more precious than their own lives?


    "Respected... respected magician!"


    Div asked cautiously: "Please... please ask, how many gold tarans do you plan to sell this [Violet Cream] for?"


    Jia Lan, who was playing with the wine glass, looked at Div''s nervous expression, and his heart was moved. He smiled calmly: "Then, how many gold tarans are you willing to buy it for?"


    Div swallowed his saliva involuntarily, hesitated for a long time, and then quoted a price: "Two gold tarans... no! Five gold tarans..."


    He really couldn''t make up his mind, because he remembered that he had just applied less than one-fifth of the ointment on the moderate wound on his arm, which means that this bottle of [Violet Cream] is enough to treat five moderate injuries, and even if it is saved a little, it can also treat two or three serious injuries.

 Chapter 26

    The price of "bronze-grade" potions in those large pharmacies is as high as five gold talans, and if you want to buy a large amount, you need to make an advance reservation.


    However, that potion can only be used once, while this can of "violet ointment" can be used three times. It can not only heal moderate injuries, but also bruises, concussions and fractures. Even if it is priced at twenty gold talans, I am afraid that there will be people scrambling to buy it.


    Twenty gold talans?


    Even if the small mercenary group "Iguana Fang", with less than a hundred people in total, is sold, it is still unable to buy too much. What''s the point of buying a few cans?


    Dave was sweating and struggling for a long time. Finally, he said helplessly: "Mr. Magician, we "Iguana Fang" can''t afford to buy such an expensive potion!"


    The mercenaries of other teams looked at each other, silently, and left disappointed. Their team strength is not as good as "Iguana Fang". Even they can''t afford to buy it, let alone them.


    Jia Lan was quite surprised to see the warriors leaving. He didn''t expect that they would leave directly because of the high price of "Violet Cream".


    "I''m sorry to waste your time!"


    Dave looked at the sample he had used, gritted his teeth, and took out a transparent card that was almost the size of his palm: "There are five gold Talans in this mercenary card. You can go to the "Mercenary Guild" on Adventure Street to collect it within a week, and count it as the cost of the part of the potion I used!"


    The mercenary card is an identity card issued by the guild after the mercenaries register with the "Mercenary Guild". It contains the mercenary''s information, such as identity, level, strength, task completion rate, etc. It can also store task bonuses and go to the guild to withdraw at any time.


    When conducting large transactions, mercenaries prefer to use mercenary cards. As long as they know the payment password, they can withdraw money with the card without having to be present.


    After using the mercenary card, you can reapply for a replacement within a week to prevent fraud.


    If the mercenary loses the card, he can go to the guild to report the loss before the money is taken away, and the guild will handle it. However, this situation is relatively rare, because others do not know the payment password, and picking up the card is useless.


    In addition, the Mercenary Guild also issues crystal cards like a bank, which are divided into black iron cards, brass cards, silver cards, gold cards, etc., with a limit ranging from 100 gold talans to 100,000 gold talans.


    However, such cards are not available to ordinary mercenaries, because the Mercenary Guild will charge a 1£¥ production fee for each card, and the card will be invalid after withdrawal.


    Only those large mercenary groups have advanced cards, which can be withdrawn in batches, but at least one million gold talans must be deposited.


    What Di Fu took out was his personal mercenary card, and the amount on the card was used to buy medicine for the team this time.


    "Uh!"


    Jia Lan smiled and shook his head, pushing back the mercenary card that Di Fu handed to him: "No need to give me money, Mr. Di Fu. If you can, just answer a few questions for me."


    Di Fu was quite surprised, hesitated for a long time, awkwardly took back the card, and said guiltily: "Mr. Magician, I''m sorry... Thank you for your generosity! If you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them if I know them!"


    Although it was a little embarrassing, two thousand gold Taran is also a huge sum of money for their "Iguana Tooth". However, because of his temporary preference, he took the medicine without asking the price. If it was in a pharmacy, he would have to pay at least half of the cost.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    Jia Lan waved his hand, telling him not to worry about the trial medicine, and pointed to the sample still in front of him: "Mr. Di Fu, you don''t want to buy the medicine because the price is too expensive?"


    Di Fu nodded.


    Jia Lan asked again: "Then what do you think is a suitable price for my ointment?"


    "Mr. Magician, I know very little about [Pharmacy], so I don''t know the exact price of this medicine, but based on my experience with it and compared with similar medicines in some large chain drugstores, I guess your magical ointment will cost at least five gold talans!"


    Div thought for a moment and added: "Five gold talans is the price of a ''bronze-level'' primary medicine. Considering the special effect and quantity of your medicine, it will be no problem to sell it for fifteen to twenty gold talans..."


    He paused, observing Jia Lan''s expression, and continued: "In the pharmacy, the price of ''bronze-level'' potions is at least five gold talans, so the best way to sell your potion is not to sell it to us mercenaries who are short of money, but to sell it in the big pharmacies on Adventure Street!"


    The price given by Di Fu was far beyond Jia Lan''s expectations. After carefully asking Di Fu about his understanding of potions in this era, Jia Lan pondered for a while, looked up and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, it seems that I am too inexperienced and not suitable to be a businessman."


    Jia Lan pointed to the trial product and said: "This bottle of [violet cream] will be given to Mr. Di Fu as a thank you gift!"


    Di Fu was stunned: "You...you...you are not kidding?"


    Although this bottle of trial product has been used up by him, its value is still not cheap. If he takes it to the pharmacy to sell it, it is equivalent to picking up a sum of gold talans out of thin air, enough for him to perform several missions Commission!


    "Well, it''s just a small gift."


    Jia Lan said gently: "Because I have a private commission, or cooperation, and I want to ask Mr. Div''s "Iguana Tooth" mercenary team for help."


    "You can see that I''m really not good at business." Jia Lan waved his hand helplessly, "So I want you, "Iguana Tooth", to help me sell this ointment. As a reward, I will give you a 5£¥ commission for every bottle of "Violet Ointment" sold."


    When Div heard this, his eyes widened and he began to calculate. But he counted on his fingers for a long time, but he couldn''t figure out how much the 5£¥ commission for a bottle of ointment was, and he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.


    Seeing that he couldn''t figure it out, Jia Lan kindly told him: "For example, if each bottle of ''Violet Cream'' sells for twenty gold talans, then you ''Iguana Tooth'' can get a commission of one gold talan. The more expensive it sells, the more commission you will get!"


    Div glanced at the two large baskets of ointments beside Jia Lan, and estimated that there were at least two hundred bottles in them. He secretly thought that twenty gold talans were just the price of ordinary ''brass-level'' potions, and this ''Violet Cream'' was so effective, maybe it could be sold at a higher price!


    Moreover, the quality and effect of this ointment must be good. Even if it cannot be identified as a ''brass-level'' high-level potion, it is at least a ''brass-level'' medium-level potion. Therefore, the transaction price will definitely not be less than twenty gold talans!


    Div calculated that the commission for a bottle of ointment was one gold talan, and two hundred bottles would be two hundred gold talans! They only need to send the ointment to the auction house. Isn''t this business too good?


    Dave swallowed his saliva and began to imagine that with this commission, their "Iguana Fang" could recruit more people, get better equipment, and upgrade from a small mercenary group to a mid-level mercenary group...


    But Jia Lan changed the subject: "However, this commission is not just the reward for selling medicine. You also saw that just now at the market, the mid-level pharmacist Dagar wanted to buy my prescription."


    Jia Lan looked at Dave who was in a daze and reminded him: "I don''t want to be disturbed, so when signing the agreement, you have to write a confidentiality clause. You may be at risk, such as being targeted by a large mercenary group."


    Dave was scared when he heard it. That''s right, even the ordinary "bronze-level" potion supply source will attract the covetousness of the large mercenary group. Not to mention this novel "violet cream". Once targeted, the best result for "Iguana Fang" is to be swallowed up by others.


    Dave hesitated. Although this business is profitable, the risk is too great. Their ''Iguana Fang'' is just a small mercenary group, and it can''t withstand this pressure at all. But he couldn''t bear to give up.


    Seeing him in trouble, Jia Lan thought about it and suggested: "In fact, we can take this matter to the ''Mercenary Guild'' to register and designate your ''Iguana Fang'' as the agent. Although it is a one-tenth commission, it is safer. You can also pay more commissions and let the ''Mercenary Guild'' protect you."


    Dave thought about it and said with a little distress: "The ''Mercenary Guild'' has had such a precedent, but the commission is as high as two-tenths, or even four-tenths! This..."


    Jia Lan smiled: "Don''t feel sorry for the commissions. This is not a one-time business, but a long-term cooperation. This batch of ointment is just our first cooperation."


    Dave understood that the young magician just needed a "shield" and didn''t necessarily have to have their ''Iguana Fang''. If he wanted, any large mercenary group would rush to take this commission. He didn''t have many choices at all.

 Chapter 27

    Before he was ready to take a huge risk and agree, Jia Lan added: "As a reward, I can send some potions to you "Iguana Fang" regularly. Moreover, I can not only sell potions, but also ask you to buy various materials for me at market prices. You don''t have to tell the "Mercenary Guild" about this part."


    After that, Jia Lan took out a list of hundreds of materials recorded in the magic market and handed it to Dave.


    Dave was stunned for a moment, and then very happy. Because in this way, even if the "Mercenary Guild" took half of the reward, "Iguana Fang" would still make money, because they not only had a stable source of potions, but also made a friend who was at least a mid-level pharmacist.


    Dave couldn''t make the decision on such a big thing, so he sent a companion back to tell the leader and bring a formal mercenary contract.


    While waiting, Jia Lan felt that it was getting late, so he asked Dave to send a mercenary to take the three girls home first and to familiarize themselves with the way, because the potions and materials would be handed over in the house he rented in the future.


    The leader of "Iguana''s Tooth" came very quickly and was very low-key. After all, no one wanted to be robbed of such a good opportunity before signing the contract.


    What surprised Jia Lan a little was that the leader of the mercenaries like Div, who were full of beards and looked fierce, was actually a female swordsman with a strong figure and short red hair!


    "Hello, respected magician, I am Cathy Cornell, the leader of "Iguana''s Tooth"."


    The female swordsman was wearing brown half-leather armor. Although it was well maintained, the traces left by the battle showed that it was very old. This shows that the economic situation of this small mercenary group of less than 100 people is not very good.


    "Hello, Ms. Cornell."


    Jia Lan politely performed the mage''s salute, but no one did it now. The female swordsman was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and returned the mercenary salute.


    She looked less than 30 years old, with healthy and bronze skin and a slightly rough face. She was an experienced old mercenary. This made Jia Lan very satisfied.


    Before Cathy Cornell came, Div told Jia Lan that "Iguana Fang" was inherited by the female swordsman from her father.


    Under the leadership of old Cornell, "Iguana Fang" was once a medium-sized mercenary group with seven or eight hundred people. But after old Cornell died unexpectedly during a mission, because there was no strong leader, many powerful mercenaries left, and the mercenary group almost disbanded.


    In the end, it was the daughter of the leader who originally worked as a clerk, warehouse manager, and financial manager in the team. With a very tough style, she took on the responsibility of the leader alone and restored "Iguana Fang", which only had dozens of old mercenaries left, to its current size.


    Jia Lan was very satisfied with this smart female leader who was good at management and financial management and worked hard to restore the glory of the mercenary group left by her father, as well as this small and weak mercenary group.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    Having ideals and goals means that they will attach great importance to this rare "big order", and their weak strength makes them unable to do anything bad, such as swallowing the reward.


    The situation of "Iguana Fang" is very suitable for Jia Lan, who has nothing now, because he only needs an agent and does not need them to fight too fiercely.


    Since the content of the commission has been roughly agreed upon, the contract signing process went very smoothly. Jia Lan kept one of the three copies of the contract, and the other will be archived in the task archive of the "Mercenary Guild". As for how "Iguana Fang" negotiates the commission ratio with the "Mercenary Guild", it has nothing to do with Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan thought for a moment and said seriously: "Ms. Cornell, I suggest that you open a small shop on Adventure Street if conditions permit."


    The female swordsman who carefully put away the contract was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Jia Lan who made the suggestion in confusion.


    Jia Lan smiled: "Because in the next period of time, I may sell various types of potions and alchemical products through you. Of course, you can understand that I supply you at a price lower than the market price, and then you sell my products to the outside world."


    The female swordsman''s eyes flashed with light. Is this magician the god of wealth sent by God to help "Iguana Fang"?


    If he can provide potions and alchemical products stably, then the profit of a pharmacy or alchemical supply store can be imagined. Even if they only supply "Iguana Fang" at a price slightly lower than the market price, they only need to prepare the store and the clerk, which is simply a stable source of income for them!


    Cathy Cornell has clearly understood the intention of the young magician. For some reason, he didn''t want to show up in public, so he handed the business over to "Iguana''s Tooth" who met by chance.


    All they had to do was to keep the secrets for the young magician as an agent to prevent anyone from disturbing him.


    As a team manager and financial manager, the female swordsman was very smart. She understood that the young magician only needed a disguise to cover up unnecessary troubles for him, and some people to help him deal with trivial matters, not necessarily "Iguana''s Tooth".


    Even if these so-called secrets were exposed, there was no threat to him. Who would be willing to offend a magician who is good at medicine and may even be good at alchemy?


    However, what puzzled Cathy Cornell was that this magician who looked no more than 20 years old could actually prepare "intermediate potions". Is he a pharmacy genius?


    You know, although pharmacy does not require accumulation of strength like magic, it requires a lot of experience.


    Most pharmacists can only stay at the beginner level for their entire lives and it is difficult to break through; only a very small number of talented people have the opportunity to break through to the intermediate level; and those high-level pharmacists who master advanced pharmaceutical technology are no longer something that ordinary people can achieve.


    Moreover, given the age of this magician, it is a bit strange that he can resist the temptation brought by fame and status.


    Jia Lan, who has been observing the expression of the female swordsman, saw her expression of doubt and speculation, smiled slightly, and made a helpless look: "It seems that Ms. Cornell doesn''t seem to believe me."


    The female swordsman was a little panicked and was about to deny it. Although she was a little skeptical, she really needed this commission that was almost delivered to her door. This is too important for "Iguana Fang", which lacks financial resources and cannot accept high-level tasks.


    Jia Lan waved his hand, indicating that he didn''t mind: "Well, since we are going to be partners, we need to build enough trust! Ms. Cornell is doubting how a young apprentice like me can prepare an intermediate potion, right?" The female swordsman was a little embarrassed, but still said bluntly: "I''m sorry, but you just mentioned that you plan to sell alchemical products through us. In addition, according to Dave, you seem to be an advanced magician of ice and lightning, which..."

 Chapter 28

    Jia Lan was indeed troubled by the technological level of this era.


    What he made were only the simplest primary potions, and the utensils he used were only some broken clay pots, old soup spoons and scrapped hand-cranked mills. The only special thing was that he used the extremely precious medicinal materials of his time, which were thirty years old.


    In his time, pharmacists might not even have the interest to name this kind of potion, and simply called it "hemostatic ointment", but now it has been transformed into "violet ointment". In fact, the quality of this potion depends entirely on those medicinal materials, and its production method is extremely simple.


    Jia Lan''s craftsmanship is not outstanding, but the potion he made was mistaken for "intermediate potion", which made him, a layman in pharmacy, feel a little embarrassed. If the teacher knew about it, he would definitely reprimand him severely, and even punish him to recite all the more than 100,000 pharmacy books in the library.


    When he thought of the teacher''s punishment, Jia Lan was so scared that he trembled all over. However, at this moment, he had to make up a lie to make the female swordsman in front of him believe him and prepare for being exposed in the future.


    "You see, I am just an apprentice who is still learning from my teacher. Although I also help make some potions, I can''t make so many by myself, and I can''t guarantee the quality."


    Jia Lan said: "Besides, pharmacy is not my major. I can come up with these new ointments that are still in the research and development stage because..."


    He paused and pretended to be embarrassed: "Next, I hope our partner "Iguana Tooth" can keep it secret for me."


    Cathy Cornell and her mercenaries immediately sat up straight, put their right hands on their chests and swore: "Swear on the honor of mercenaries, we will keep the secret!"


    Two mercenaries even stood up and stood outside the box door to prevent anyone from eavesdropping. Only the leader Cathy and the deputy leader Dave were left.


    Jia Lan nodded and pointed to the samples on the table: "Then I''ll tell you, I''m just an ''agent''. These ointments, as well as the potions and alchemy products that you will sell on your behalf in the future, are all made by my teacher and his laboratory team!"


    The two mercenaries widened their eyes and breathed rapidly, as if they had discovered the secret of a high-level magician!


    "You also know that magic experiments are extremely expensive!"


    Jia Lan secretly wiped his sweat. For him, lying was very stressful, so he had to use the deceptive skills he learned from books.


    "The teacher''s experiment is at a critical moment, but there is a shortage of funds. Investors are unwilling to invest because they have not been able to make a profit."


    "So the teacher had to find a way to raise funds secretly, and he led the laboratory team to secretly make some potions, alchemy, and enchanted items to sell in exchange for materials and funds to continue research."


    "But... you also know that the things in the laboratory belong to the investors. What the teacher and his team did is actually infringing on the interests of investors. Therefore, only I, the agent, can sell these things."


    Jia Lan carefully observed the expressions of the two mercenaries: "It is obvious that I, my teacher, and the researchers in the laboratory do not know how to do business. Mr. Dave has seen it."


    After listening to Jia Lan''s words, Casey and Dave nodded in sudden enlightenment. Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled shyly: "After meeting with Mr. Dave, I considered finding another helper to deal with these things together. The reason for keeping it secret is because I am worried that the news will be leaked to investors and cause trouble for my teacher."The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    Jia Lan blinked and made an expression of "you know". Casey and Dave looked at each other and suddenly became excited. They realized that it was not just a talented young magician who hired them, but a senior magic team! Although they did not know how much money the magician''s teacher needed to conduct experiments, they thought that if they could seize this opportunity and earn money for the mysterious teacher, even if the magic team no longer supplied them in the future, their small mercenary group "Iguana''s Teeth" would be able to rely on this relationship to find a big tree to lean on!


    Cathy Cornell seemed to see a bright road for the rise of "Iguana Tooth". As long as the mysterious teacher and his magic team give them a little chance of wealth, their small mercenary group will benefit greatly!


    Moreover, through this cooperation, they can establish a solid channel and gain the trust of the magic team, and they are likely to become the exclusive agent of the other party!


    Cathy knows that magicians always have many experiments to do. There is more than one magician in this team. Even if this experiment is completed and the team is disbanded, they will definitely continue to carry out new experiments!


    If they can win the trust and friendship of these magicians, will "Iguana Tooth" still worry about not being able to grow and develop?


    As for the reason for confidentiality, Cathy believes that in addition to worrying about investors knowing, it may also be to protect the reputation of magicians. After all, using investors'' equipment and materials to do private work is not good to spread.


    And their small mercenary group was selected as an agent, probably because it is unknown, more inconspicuous than those large mercenary groups, and less likely to be found.


    After learning the whole story, Cathy Cornell felt relieved and promised not to disclose the secret.


    Jia Lan pondered for a moment: "It is impossible to avoid leaking secrets. I have leaked the information of "Violet Cream" at the Magic Fair. The intermediate pharmacist Dagar and the "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild" behind him may track it down. At that time, they will definitely link you to me!"


    "You can tell the "Mercenary Guild" that this is a magician raising funds in secret. But no matter how they track it down, they will stop at you in the end!"


    Jia Lan said seriously: "If it doesn''t work, expose me! But don''t involve my teacher and his magic team!"


    "Mr. Jia Lan, don''t worry! No one will offend a group of magicians for a little benefit!" The female swordsman said confidently, "Leave this matter to us, "Iguana Fang"!"


    Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction and pointed to the two large bamboo baskets next to him: "This is the first batch of potions. Every three days in the future, you send a reliable person to me to pick up the next batch."


    He was not worried that "Iguana Fang" would swallow this batch of valuable ointment. After all, these more than 200 bottles of ointment cost only two silver jims!


    Besides, with the constraints of the mercenary contract, if "Iguana Fang" dares to run away with the money, he will be wanted by the "Mercenary Guild" throughout the continent, which is not worth the loss.


    In addition, Jia Lan did not expect that the "hemostatic ointment" that was worth no more than one gold coin in his era would be so valuable in this era!


    This greatly shortened his original plan to spend some time to raise the high tuition fees of "Komo University". At least, he doesn''t have to worry about how to survive in this era.


    After they discussed some details of the cooperation, Jia Lan handed the first batch of ointments to Casey Cornell. When they parted, Jia Lan remembered to remind them that there were only 100 cans of high-efficiency potions in the bamboo basket, and the other 100 cans were potions that were three or four levels higher than the samples!


    Casey and Dave were almost scared to death!


    Are you kidding!


    The lowest level in these two baskets is "bronze-level" primary potion! What level of pharmacist can prepare potions that are four levels higher than this? Silver advanced potion? High-level pharmacist?


    After Jia Lan left, they nervously gathered all the people of "Iguana Fang" and carefully escorted two baskets of potions back to the "Mercenary Guild". Casey also applied to the deputy deacon of the guild and asked to meet Clark Abigail, the president of the "Mercenary Guild" Coran City Branch, overnight.


    Generally speaking, a small mercenary group like "Iguana Fang" could not meet a big figure like President Abigail. But Casey told the deputy deacon in a tough attitude that this was related to a commissioned task that might be worth more than 10,000 gold talans.


    Casey also took the initiative to pay the guild a 20£¥ commission to obtain the guild''s long-term protection.


    A commissioned task worth more than 10,000 gold talans, 20£¥ of the 5£¥ commission, that is 500 gold talans! And it is a long-term commission, which is not a small task for the "Mercenary Guild" Coran City Branch.


    You know, the commission for a black iron task is only 10 gold talans at the lowest and no more than 100 gold talans at the highest. The guild will only earn no more than 10 gold talans.


    The maximum commission for a bronze mission will not exceed 1,000 gold talans, 10,000 for a silver mission, and 100,000 for a gold mission. The 20£¥ commission offered by "Iguana Fang" is equivalent to the guild''s earnings at the bronze mission level.

 Chapter 29

    The Kolan City branch of the Mercenary Guild rarely receives large-scale high-level tasks due to the influence of the Komo University and the geographical environment. In the long run, the rating of this task commission will not be lower than the silver task, so they attach great importance to it.


    In addition, the deputy deacon and the main deacon have to compete for performance. Casey told the deputy deacon that this task was secretly commissioned by a magician team and designated to be represented by the Iguana Tooth. She also secretly gave the deputy deacon a can of silver-level primary potion, saying that it was a "gift" from the client to the head of the guild.


    When the deputy deacon heard that the potion was worth at least two hundred gold talans, he laughed and immediately sent someone to call President Clark Abigail back from home.


    President Abigail was called back before he was dressed. He was angry, so Casey took out a can of [Extreme Violet Cream] and gave it to him, saying that it had not been identified yet, but it was worth at least five hundred gold talans.


    When President Abigail heard this, she immediately called the guild''s appraiser to appraise the five ointments.


    When the results came out, everyone was shocked. Although the potion marked [High-efficiency Violet Cream] was not as advanced as Casey estimated, it also reached the quality and effect of a bronze-level medium potion.


    Moreover, the appraiser of the "Mercenary Guild" said that because [Violet Cream] has multiple special effects and can treat three moderate injuries, it is conservatively estimated to be a bronze-level medium potion.


    And the jar of [Extreme Violet Cream] that Casey gave to President Abigail was directly identified as a silver-level high-level potion!


    Silver-level potions are high-level potions that can only be prepared by high-level pharmacists. They are not seen on the market at all. They can only be encountered at auctions and cannot be valued at all!


    When President Abigail heard this, her eyes turned green, but soon reason overcame greed. He knew that he must pay attention to the magic team that could prepare silver-level potions.


    Even President Abigail envied Captain Casey of "Iguana''s Tooth". Why would such a mysterious magician team choose such a small mercenary group that is not as strong as a mouse?


    In fact, if Casey did not feel that the impact and pressure of this task were too great and they could not bear it at all, they would not have taken the initiative to ask the guild to increase the commission to obtain protection.


    President Abigail proposed a 40£¥ commission, and Casey readily agreed because she estimated that the other party would ask for 50£¥.


    For each order, the mercenary guild can get a commission of no less than 200 gold talans, and "Iguana''s Tooth" can directly get a commission of more than 300 gold talans!


    But this is still a conservative estimate, and this is just the first order!


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    President Abigail suddenly thought that if the silver potion was sold directly, it would not be cost-effective.


    For the performance of the Mercenary Guild''s Kolan City branch, to live up to the "gift" given to them by the client, and to gain the friendship of this mysterious magician team, President Abigail decided to put the potions on the auction house for auction.


    He sent two silver warriors to the largest auction house on Adventure Street and forcibly kidnapped Lauren Clifford, the president of the Eternal Hammer auction house, to the Mercenary Guild.


    Before President Clifford got angry, President Abigail blocked his anger with the news of a large number of high-level potions.


    When President Clifford heard this, he was shocked and immediately called the most authoritative appraiser of the Eternal Hammer auction house to appraise the value of these potions.


    This batch of potions can be auctioned at the Eternal Hammer, which is under the control of President Clifford. It is beneficial for him and can also earn enough fame for the auction house!


    However, President Clifford is not only interested in the auction handling fee, but also in the makers of these potions.


    Imagine if you have a pharmacist who can make advanced potions, will potions still be scarce?


    In [Kolanbang], advanced potions are rare treasures!


    Let alone [Kolan City], there are not many advanced pharmacists in the entire [Kolanbang] who can prepare silver potions. Adventurers and mercenaries have such a great demand for advanced potions, and they all know it very well.


    If advanced potions are auctioned at the "Eternal Hammer" in [Kolan City], it will definitely attract many high-level warriors to buy them. With more people, sales performance will naturally go up.


    President Clifford thought that when the time comes, he can just pick up a stone at the door and say it is a relic, and it will be snatched away by those wealthy buyers.


    Generally speaking, the auction house charges a 5£¥ auction fee, and the "Mercenary Guild" will also charge 40£¥ of the 5£¥ after the auction house deducts the fee, so it will make much less money!


    This is not okay!


    So when his old friend hinted that he wanted to reduce the handling fee, or take the potion to other auction houses for auction, President Clifford waved his hand impatiently, saying that the handling fee would only be 1£¥ higher, and even the publicity fee would be borne by "Eternal Hammer". As long as he signed a contract, the next potion would be auctioned at "Eternal Hammer".


    Kathy found that the two big men were chatting enthusiastically and forgot about her as the agent, so she had to cough twice to remind them.


    "I''m sorry, my lords!"


    Casey said seriously: "I don''t want to disturb your auction plan, but my client is in urgent need of funds, otherwise he would not have taken out this batch of medicine. I want to know, how long does it take from preparation to auction?"


    President Clifford was stunned for a moment, and thought about it: "If you want the auction to be effective, you have to promote it for at least a month, so that the auctioneers can come from afar. At least it can''t be less than half a month!"


    Casey shook his head: "Impossible! My client only gives a week at most, and he must get the first auction money!"


    "This..."


    President Clifford looked at his old friend in embarrassment: "Clark, can you discuss with the ''client'' and delay some time? If the preparation time is only one week, the final transaction price may be 30£¥ lower!"


    President Abigail looked at Casey helplessly. The leader of the small mercenary group was the direct agent, and he couldn''t interrupt!


    But thinking of the 40£¥ commission out of the 5/1000, President Abigail suddenly had an idea: "Why don''t we advance part of the auction money first? Lauren, how much do you think this batch of potions can be sold for in the end?"


    Clifford said confidently: "The starting price of this batch of potions is more than 10,000 gold talans in total, and the transaction price is still hard to say. You know, when someone is in urgent need of potions, gold talans are worthless!"


    Abigail stroked his beard: "Then you can raise 5,000 gold talans, right?"


    Clifford was stunned for a moment, thought about it: "You mean you pay another 5,000 gold talans?"


    Abigail said confidently: "Yes! If it fails to sell, I will buy this batch of high-grade potions privately. Am I still worried that I can''t sell it?"

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    Clifford believed that President Abigail had been operating in Kelan City for many years and should have a lot of money on hand. By raising funds and using some of the mercenary guild''s task reserves, 5,000 gold talans should be able to be raised smoothly.


    Moreover, as Clark said, how could this batch of high-level potions be unsalable? They even hoped that this batch of potions would fail to sell so that they could buy them directly at the starting price. After all, who would complain about having too much of such a precious thing?


    Especially Clark Abigail, although he is plump now, he was a high-level silver swordsman and the leader of the large silver-level mercenary group "Golden Two-Headed Dragon"! After retirement, he gave the position of leader to his nephew, joined the mercenary guild, and served as the president of the Kelan City branch.


    With the help of Clark, the mercenary guild branch in Kelan City has almost become a retirement home for the "Golden Two-Headed Dragon". Clark arranged the retired disabled and weak mercenaries into the branch, some became staff members, and some became instructors of the mercenary training camp.


    In this way, everyone has a guarantee after retirement, so many people are willing to join the "Golden Two-Headed Dragon", but few are willing to quit. Today, the "Golden Two-Headed Dragon" has been promoted to the most powerful gold-level large mercenary group in Kolanbang!


    If this batch of advanced potions is obtained, the strength of the "Golden Two-Headed Dragon" will definitely increase greatly, and it may even go to open up several high-risk ancient ruins! Compared with the treasures in the ancient ruins, what is 10,000 gold talans? If you dig up an ancient high-level magic item casually, you may make a profit.


    Soon, 5,000 gold talans, a mercenary crystal card worth 5,000 gold talans, a senior VIP card of the "Eternal Hammer" and a senior customer certificate of the "Mercenary Guild" were sent to Casey, the leader of the "Iguana Tooth" mercenary group.


    The two big men didn''t have to worry about this small mercenary group absconding with the money, because in Kelan City, no one could slip away from their noses.


    When Captain Casey saw the box of gold coins in front of him, he had to work hard to keep his hands from shaking. Then he remembered that the client had told him another thing.


    After President Lauren Clifford hurriedly left with two baskets of high-level potions, Casey told the president that he wanted to rent a counter in the Mercenary Guild. Adventure Street is a place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. It is difficult to open a store here, let alone get involved. So he could only ask the president for help.


    Seeing the competitive pressure of the "Adventurer''s Guild", the president agreed without much thought and let "Iguana''s Tooth" set up a row of counters in the hall of the "Mercenary Guild" to sell things, and he didn''t have to pay rent.


    But privately, the president told Casey that he personally wanted a 50£¥ share of the potion, calculated at cost price. This 50£¥ share of the potion, whether it is resold or used by the "Golden Two-Headed Dragon", has nothing to do with Casey.


    Because the "Pharmacist Guild" controls the pharmacists, the "Mercenary Guild", which has a great demand for potions, has always been constrained by the "Pharmacist Guild". Now there is an exclusive potion counter. Although it is unknown how much supply there is, it can finally reduce the control of the "Pharmacist Guild". It is also a great blessing for mercenaries who are in urgent need of potions.


    Therefore, as the president of the "Mercenary Guild", Lord Clark Abigail still solved a big problem for the mercenaries, and it cannot be said that he was completely out of self-interest!


    Although the night in Kelan City is dark, many people are destined to toss and turn tonight... After Jia Lan returned to the Brown family''s B&B, he was unexpectedly welcomed with a very grand welcome.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Knowing that their two daughters had become apprentices of the magician master, the Brown couple were extremely excited. Especially after hearing that this magician master was actually a great pharmacist who could prepare advanced potions, they entertained Jia Lan with an almost pious attitude, which made Jia Lan feel very uncomfortable.


    In the eyes of the Brown family in awe, Jia Lan hurriedly enjoyed a dinner that was not exquisite but very rich for ordinary people. Back in the room that was rearranged and cleaned by Aunt Brown, the bed had been replaced with the cleanest quilt and the softest mattress. As soon as Jia Lan, who was extremely tired, lay down, he couldn''t help groaning in comfort.


    Originally, he should use meditation instead of sleep to repair his damaged soul and mental strength as much as possible. Even if the effect is not good, it is better than doing nothing. However, Jia Lan, who was extremely sleepy, fell into the deepest sleep in less than two breaths after lying down.


    However, what he didn''t know was that after he fell asleep, the "Catalog Stone" on his chest lit up slightly. The light blue moonlight from the "Book of Ryan" projected from the simple wooden window of the B&B was quickly absorbed, making the "Catalog Stone" as bright as the sun!


    But the strange thing is that such a dazzling light has never leaked out, and is only limited to the fist-sized space around the "Catalog Stone". The light gradually turned from light blue to dark blue, and finally almost black, as if even the light had been swallowed up.


    A layer of dark flames gradually spread out from the "Catalog Stone", wrapping Jia Lan''s body, as if it was burning and refining him, but not even a strand of his hair was damaged. It just gradually transformed his hair, skin, flesh, and bones into a crystal-clear dark blue deep substance.


    The elemental particles that were everywhere in the space, as if they had encountered something most terrifying and fearful, scrambled to escape from the room, and quickly spread out in all directions, as if to make room for something!


    Compared with 1,700 years ago, the elemental particles that were abundant and dense to the point of being vast disappeared from this space in the blink of an eye, forming a weird, theoretically impossible element-free space!


    However, the escaping elemental particles had no time to leave this small courtyard, as if they were grabbed by an invisible big hand and could not move, and then began to flow back irresistibly, as if a black hole suddenly appeared in the room, swallowing up the elemental particles between heaven and earth.


    The elemental particles that gathered from all directions, mountains, rivers, land, oceans and skies formed a huge and vast elemental tide, like a tsunami, frantically washing over this inconspicuous and dilapidated courtyard. To be precise, it was washing over a room in the courtyard, but outside the room, it was absolutely empty.


    On this night, all the elements in the place where the "Book of Ryan" could illuminate the entire Star Continent were boiling like ignited kerosene. Those beings who were originally high above trembled in fear in the boiling elements, but no one knew why.


    This night, the boiling elements turned these beings who had eyes and ears into blind and deaf, depriving them of the ability to climb mountains and cross seas.


    This night, all people with elemental abilities, whether they were awake or asleep, were awakened at the same time, and then found to their horror that they had lost all their abilities and turned into ordinary people who could not connect and communicate with the elements, and no element could be found in their bodies.


    This night, countless elemental creatures wailed and roared, shrinking their bodies as much as possible in fear and awe, as if declaring their submission to some invisible existence.


    This night, for a long time in the future, was called the "Night of Boiling Elements" and recorded in history. This night symbolizes the watershed of the world''s transformation to a higher level!


    Because, when the elements boiled over that night, people found that the concentration of elemental particles in the space had increased more than ten times on the original basis, and the purity of the elements also increased exponentially.


    Countless people with elemental abilities were surprised to find that when the elements boiled down, their elemental abilities were greatly improved overnight, and some lucky people even jumped several levels!


    In this night, the world seemed to be opened by a mysterious "key" and a seal called "Annisdora''s Gift Box". Countless "element fountains" gushed out all over the Star Continent, opened countless restrictions in ancient ruins, opened countless passages to secret places, and unsealed countless mysterious creatures that were banned.


    Only some real high-level beings knew that the "rules" of this world seemed to have been forcibly changed overnight. The chain reaction caused by the boiling of elements has even disturbed the crystal wall of the plane, and the vibration of the plane has evolved into countless changes...


    The instigator of all this, however, enjoyed a sweet night without knowing it, and slept for a full sixteen hours before waking up from the unconscious dream.

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    When he opened his eyes and regained consciousness, Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, because he found that the world seemed to have become a little different!


    Some invisible substance in the air flowed like sticky golden honey, exuding an alluring breath, and the space became more transparent and profound, unlike before, it seemed to be covered with a layer of fog.


    Jia Lan didn''t know whether he had changed, or the world had changed, or in other words, both had undergone incomprehensible changes, so there was such a dramatic change that was almost "extreme" and "extreme".


    But where exactly had changed, Jia Lan couldn''t understand it all at once.


    Without the ability to explore the changes in the world, Jia Lan instinctively explored himself, but was shocked to find that his damaged and split soul seemed to have "healed" overnight!


    Although these two independent souls are still as weak as two insignificant fireflies, it is undeniable that the scars on the soul have been healed by some mysterious power overnight.


    The body that had been damaged in the ice for more than a thousand years seemed to have recovered its health, making him feel that he was in great shape and not as exhausted as he was yesterday.


    Jia Lan switched his consciousness between the two "souls" without any hindrance, but found that every time his consciousness entered one "soul", the "consciousness" that originally existed in this soul would switch to the other "soul".


    This feeling was too weird, because he could feel that the other "soul" and the "consciousness" in the soul were also himself, and there was even some indescribable mysterious connection between the two souls and the two consciousnesses.


    Jia Lan, who has been wearing the title of "Dual Soul" for many years, naturally knew that his "name" refers to the foreign soul that accidentally entered his body and formed a companion relationship with his soul. They are independent of each other, but interdependent, and cannot be separated, nor can one of them be eliminated.


    However, the alien soul has annihilated itself. Theoretically, it no longer exists. What remains is just the "shell" of a soul. The core consciousness has long disappeared without a trace.


    And now, because of the accident that happened yesterday, his consciousness was torn into "two parts", which were restored by some mysterious power and became two weak but complete individuals.


    This led to him monopolizing the "shell" of two souls and truly becoming a magical "dual soul". If you have to describe it, it''s like two selves inside and outside a mirror.


    What impact this situation will have on him is still unknown, but Jia Lan thinks that it won''t be too bad.


    Shrugging his shoulders, Jia Lan could only attribute this situation to a miracle or a miracle. Anyway, he couldn''t explain why it happened.


    Just when Jia Lan was a little excited to try whether he had recovered the ability to release and control the arcane without the interference of the alien soul, the voices of the two apprentices he accepted yesterday on impulse, the Brown sisters, came from outside the door.


    "Teacher! Are you awake?"


    The girl''s gentle voice was as soft as if she was afraid of waking him up. Jia Lan smiled slightly. He could tell that this was the voice of Anlia Brown, the younger sister of the Brown sisters.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    The girl was a little introverted and shy, and her voice was not much louder than that of a newborn kitten. If it weren''t for his mental state recovering a lot and his perception ability recovering, it would be difficult to hear what she was saying.


    "What''s the matter? Anlia?"


    While answering, Jia Lan picked up the "Identification Robe" beside the bed and put it on. After shaking it slightly, he activated the constant "cleaning technique" on it, and cleaned the robe and himself.


    "The leader of the "Iguana Fang" mercenary group, Ms. Cathy Cornell and her subordinates, have been waiting for you for a long time..."


    Before the girl finished speaking, Jia Lan had already pushed open the simple wooden door and stepped out of the room, but found that the not-so-large courtyard was already full of people.


    Mr. and Mrs. Brown stood on one side of the door, while their daughters and Alan Hogg, a girl who hoped to become a magician, stood on the other side of the door. In the middle of the yard, Captain Casey and Deputy Captain Dave of "Iguana''s Tooth" led ten mercenaries to wait respectfully.


    Jia Lan smiled and greeted: "Good morning, everyone."


    A group of people hurriedly returned the greeting to Jia Lan. This scene seemed a little too grand, which made Jia Lan very uncomfortable. Mr. and Mrs. Brown hurried to prepare breakfast for him, and Casey also asked his mercenaries to leave, leaving the yard empty.


    Casey, who reported everything that happened last night to Jia Lan, looked a little tired and had some bloodshot eyes, but he was very energetic.


    "...Here are the Eternal Crystal Card and Mercenary Crystal Card worth 10,000 Jintalans. For your convenience, we have also prepared some scattered Jintalans for you."


    Casey respectfully presented a delicate little box, which contained an Eternal Crystal Card, a Mercenary Crystal Card, a "Senior VIP Card" of "Eternal Hammer", and a senior customer certificate of "Mercenary Guild".


    Although money has always been just a number for Jia Lan, he was still a little surprised when he took the box. The wealth in this box is only a part of it. The rest will be delivered to him after the auction.


    It has to be said that an auction that can maximize profits is indeed a good idea. However, Jia Lan never expected that the "hemostatic ointment" he prepared was just a cheap low-level potion in the potion formula he knew. In this era, it is actually qualified for auction.


    Among the people at the scene, except for Casey and Dave, the faces of the three girls and Jia Lan were a little strange. Because apart from them, no one knew that this wealth was actually exchanged for the raw materials of two silver Jims!


    After coughing twice to cover up, Jia Lan took out the two crystal cards from the box and handed them to Casey: "These two crystal cards will be temporarily deposited in the hands of your "Iguana Fang" as the cost of purchasing various items and materials when we cooperate with each other in the future."


    Casey was a little surprised, but didn''t say much. He took it generously and put it in the hidden pocket on his plump chest under the leather armor.


    Jia Lan was very satisfied with Casey''s attitude of doing things without saying much.


    He took out his [portable notebook], copied a list, and handed it to the heroic female swordsman: "In addition to the list of materials from yesterday, I also need five sets of exquisite alchemy tools, a full set of craftsman tool sets required for various industries, ten sets of exquisite medical tools, a complete set of magic laboratory equipment, various workshop workbenches, a large furnace component, two medium-sized furnace components and three small furnace components, as well as various types of crucibles and different types of crystal bottles... Well, the best ones!"


    As one of the few literate mercenaries, Casey took the list and listened to Jia Lan reading out the required items while looking at the list of hundreds of items and nearly a thousand tools and equipment. However, the more she listened, the bigger her eyes widened, and beads of sweat could not help appearing on her smooth forehead.


    Is this magician going to set up a multifunctional high-end laboratory covering all industries, a full-professional workshop, and a large production workshop?


    "Mr. Jia Lan!"


    Kathy finally couldn''t help but interrupt Jia Lan: "Though these things are easier to get in our [Kolan City], it must be said that, regardless of the fact that their total price is at least more than 100,000 gold Tarans, just to place these tools, you may need to rent a courtyard with at least 30 workshops..."


    "Uh!"


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, looked at the items on the list again, and touched his nose awkwardly. He just copied the order based on the tools and equipment arranged in his original laboratory, and that was all, and it was just streamlined again. Some large devices and equipment he couldn''t use for the time being, so naturally he didn''t copy them down.

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    If he planned to rebuild the laboratory according to the original scale, the number of various equipment and devices would be an astonishing number, more than a hundred times more.


    In fact, for these equipment and devices, it was already his most streamlined laboratory layout. After all, his teacher had more than a dozen laboratories under his name, any of which was hundreds of times larger than his original apprentice-level laboratory, and the scale was simply unimaginable.


    However, he seemed to have forgotten that this was no longer the original era. The equipment and devices on these lists were not installed for him by someone just because he copied them down. Faced with such a huge procurement demand, he seemed a little helpless.


    "Okay," he sighed, "then buy me a set of alchemy tools, a set of craftsman tools and a complete set of medical tools. For the other equipment and devices, please ask Ms. Casey to slowly purchase them for me. As for the cost, don''t worry, I believe there will be sufficient funds for us to use soon."


    Hearing this, Ms. Casey nodded slightly. She naturally would not doubt the source of funds for this client. After all, as long as he can continuously provide those magical potions, no matter how much money he wants, he can raise it. However, when she heard Jia Lan''s requirements for the venue, she couldn''t help but frown.


    She carefully read the equipment and device requirements on the list again, and then silently estimated the required space in her mind.


    After a moment, she shook her head helplessly: "Mr. Jia Lan, I''m sorry, I''m afraid that there is no such large venue in Kelan City that you need. Unless you are willing to pay a high price to directly purchase an existing large workshop, but the premise is that someone is willing to sell it."


    Hearing this, Jia Lan''s expression couldn''t help but become solemn. He knew that it was not easy to find such a suitable place, but he decided not to give up: "Then please help me keep an eye out for a suitable place. As for the funding issue, don''t worry, I will raise it as soon as possible."


    Let alone the inner city of "Komo University", even the city of Kelan built around it has long been filled with branches of various professional guilds, mercenary groups, residential areas, large and small chambers of commerce in Hong Kong, bustling commercial areas, private estates, various shops, cargo warehouses and private research laboratories. It seems that every inch of land has been fully utilized, and there is almost no vacant land for building new workshops.


    This news disappointed Captain Jia Lan. He originally thought that he could find a suitable workshop site in Kelan City, but the reality put him in a dilemma. Just as he was lost in thought with a frown on his face, Deputy Captain Div suddenly interrupted and said, "Do we have to look for a place for the workshop in the city?" Captain Jia Lan thought for a moment and then relaxed his frown a little. He replied, "It''s not impossible to consider a place outside the city, but the distance cannot be too far, otherwise it will bring many inconveniences to the operation and management of the workshop. After all, we need to communicate and transport people and materials in the city frequently."Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    After hearing what Deputy Captain Div said, Casey also reacted quickly. He nodded first, indicating that he agreed with Div''s point of view, and then shook his head, with a look of embarrassment on his face. He was obviously thinking about this problem, but he seemed to have some concerns. Seeing this, Captain Jia Lan asked curiously: "Why? Is there no suitable place outside the city?" Casey frowned and said: "I know where Div is talking about, but that place does not meet your requirements. It is located more than 30 kilometers northeast of Kelan City, at the foot of the Gem Cape Peak at the end of the Sea Wall Mountains, on a small hill. The castle group. Although the area is large enough to accommodate our workshops and experimental equipment, it has been abandoned for a long time, and the place is very remote and desolate. There is no population gathering point nearby. The distance is also a bit far. The nearest village and farm are also five kilometers away. Even if you take a carriage, it takes about an hour one way." However, Captain Jia Lan did not show disappointment when he heard this, but instead became interested. He nodded and said thoughtfully: "If it''s only an hour''s drive, it''s not unacceptable. It doesn''t matter if it''s remote and desolate. This way, confidentiality is higher. Secondly, some of the experiments we conduct are also more dangerous. If we put the workshop in a sparsely populated area, we don''t have to worry about affecting the surrounding residents. Why didn''t you recommend it to me? Is the rental price too high?"


    Kathy explained: "The price is okay, but the situation there is a bit complicated. Due to long-term lack of management, most of the buildings in the castle complex are dilapidated and need large-scale repairs and renovations. In addition, there is some controversy over the ownership of the land, and it may take some time and effort to handle the relevant procedures."


    Hearing this, Captain Jia Lan nodded to show his understanding. After thinking for a while, he said, "Although these problems are a bit tricky, they are not unsolvable. We can send someone to investigate the situation first to see what the specific situation is. If it is indeed feasible, we can consider the next plan."


    All mages seem to be born to be solitary creatures who tend to stay at home. They often prefer to practice in seclusion in sparsely populated areas to seek inner peace and concentration.


    And Jia Lan''s preferences are roughly the same. He is quite picky about the choice of venue. A venue must be large enough, remote enough, and quiet. Such a place is undoubtedly very attractive to him.


    "Do you know? That group of castles built at the end of the 12th century [city-state era] has a long history. It has been accumulated for about four hundred years, making it more mysterious.


    The castle group covers a large area. The entire hill and dozens of castle buildings nearby are tightly surrounded by its solid walls. The area is about 100,000 square meters, which can be called a small kingdom."


    Casey shook his head slightly, with a hint of doubt in his tone: "If you plan to rent it, the price may not be very high. After all, ordinary people can''t live in such a place.


    But... it is said that no one has lived in this group of castles for a long time since it was built. Over the past hundreds of years, although dozens of owners have been replaced, no one has ever been able to live in it safely for more than a month!"


    "Why is this?" Casey''s voice was low and mysterious, "I heard that it was because everyone who lived in it suffered misfortune, and there were even several rumors in history that the entire castle mysteriously disappeared. These rumors spread more and more, making people nearby full of fear of the place.


    Because someone once saw an ogre roaming around there, the people nearby called it the ''Ogre Castle'', and speculated that the people in the castle were captured and eaten by the ogres. Do you really plan to rent a place like this?"

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    She hesitated for a moment, frowned slightly and said, "But for such a long time, the castle has been explored by countless adventurers and mercenaries, but nothing unusual has been found.


    Some bold rich people have bought it and spent a lot of money to repair it, intending to use it as a luxurious manor.


    In order to eliminate the possible evil spirits, they also specially invited the priests of the Holy Light Church to conduct large-scale purification, sacrifice and exorcism ceremonies on the castle.


    However, even so, the buyers of the castle eventually had to give up this place for various reasons, and the castle was abandoned again."


    Jia Lan heard this and showed a surprised expression on his face: "It ended in nothing? Those rich people who bought the castle spent so much money to repair the castle, but they just abandoned it again?"


    "That''s why it''s really weird there," Casey sighed, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes, "Those rich people who bought the castle either died unexpectedly, their families went bankrupt, or they encountered difficulties in their business and urgently needed to recover their funds, so they had to sell the castle."


    "Therefore, the castle has more than a dozen nicknames, such as ''Ghost Castle'', ''Ghost Castle'', ''Doom Castle'', ''Disaster Castle'', and so on. It can be said that there are hundreds of versions of horror legends about it in [Kolan State], and each version is creepy."


    Kathy shrugged and continued: "The ownership of the castle now belongs to the largest landlord in [Kolan City], ''Komo University''. However, even a powerful institution like ''Komo University'' sent a large number of magicians to explore the castle, but they could not find any problems there. Over time, the castle was slowly abandoned there and became a taboo place in people''s mouths."


    Jia Lan hugged his arms, rubbed his chin, and fell into deep thought: "It sounds scary. Since the priests of the Holy Light Church have performed a sacrificial ceremony, it means that the castle should have nothing to do with undead creatures. The magician team can''t find the reason, which means that it is not dark creatures and monsters. A large number of adventure teams and mercenary groups have also explored it, which rules out the possibility of wild beasts hiding in it... So, what secrets are hidden in this castle?"


    There is no problem, but anyone who lives in it will encounter misfortune, which is really amazing, as if there is some unknown secret hidden there.


    "Okay! Let''s not consider this issue for the time being..." Jia Lan shook his head helplessly. He knew that in this world full of unknowns, many things were not easy for him to explain.


    However, the castle called "Castle of Doom" made him covetous. "Ms. Casey, please keep an eye on the ''Castle of Doom'' for me. If you can rent it from "Komo University" or simply buy it, please notify me."


    Because he couldn''t find a suitable venue, Jia Lan had to temporarily put aside the idea of ??building a complete laboratory. He knew that such opportunities did not come every day, but he also understood that he couldn''t be impatient.This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    However, the temptation of the "Castle of Doom" was too great for him. There was a large enough area and a quiet enough environment for him to build a large laboratory that could meet all his ideas.


    Jia Lan admitted that he was indeed a little anxious. But if he didn''t set up a large laboratory now, he would definitely do it in the future.


    In this world of arcane - oh no, now it''s the world of magic, everything is much more expensive than ordinary people imagine. He needs a lot of funds to complete his ideas and goals, whether it is to reintegrate into this era or continue on the path of arcane.


    To achieve these goals, he needs a lot of money. The amount of money is definitely an astronomical figure that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.


    He knows that relying on him to slowly prepare potions by hand to sell is far from meeting these needs. Therefore, he needs a large enough venue and a group of assistants to complete all this.


    "Buy... Buy it?" When Jia Lan made this suggestion, Ms. Casey was obviously dumbfounded. She couldn''t understand the thoughts of these magic masters. Do they think that Jintalan is made of copper dandin coated with gold powder?


    In this Kolan City, a house of 60 square meters costs more than 15,000 Jintalan! And the "Doom Castle", although located in a remote and desolate suburb, is an abandoned castle, but the price will not be less than half.


    Maybe because of those horror legends, the price can be discounted by one-third. But even so, a castle group of 100,000 square meters, plus the surrounding land, how many Jintalan would it take to buy it?


    Casey calculated silently in his heart that the price would definitely not be less than 10 million gold talans! Otherwise, would the "Doom Castle" with such a huge area be abandoned there without anyone paying attention?


    Mages, as one of the most calculating groups in the world, have amazing wisdom. However, despite their amazing acumen in the fields of magic and knowledge, they often appear quite dull in money management.


    Most mages only consider money issues when experiments require funds, which is undoubtedly a manifestation of their unique personality.


    Merchants are most willing to deal with mages. Because in their eyes, the money of mages is undoubtedly the easiest to make, because mages never care about the price.


    When mages buy the items they need, they usually don''t waste time bargaining. As long as the items meet their needs, they will buy them without hesitation. This characteristic undoubtedly brings huge business opportunities for merchants.


    This can be seen from the development trajectory of the city of Kolan. Just because of the existence of a "Komo University", this originally unknown town has rapidly developed into a complete city. This phenomenon is common in both the era in which Jia Lan originally lived and the era in which he lives now.


    Take Jia Lan as an example. Although he is in urgent need of money now, he will never haggle with the farmer named "Bit" for the difference of two silver coins.


    In his opinion, it is more cost-effective to allocate a few more bottles of "Violet Cream" instead of wasting precious time on bargaining. Even if this means that the selling price of "Violet Cream" needs to be increased, he doesn''t care. (Change the square brackets to quotation marks because this is the name of the item)


    Therefore, no matter in which era, Jia Lan has no concept of money. In his eyes, there is only a difference between need and need. If necessary, as long as it does not exceed his acceptance range, he will not consider the price at all.


    Of course, this does not mean that mages are fat sheep that are slaughtered by merchants. In fact, most mages are indeed not suitable to be merchants, but this does not mean that they have no resistance to money.


    They simply prefer to devote their energy to the magic and knowledge research they love rather than tedious business transactions.

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    Jia Lan, the young wizard, is quite sensitive to price changes because he needs to run the laboratory for his teacher and purchase various rare materials in person.


    However, although he has a deep understanding of the market, some of his behaviors as a spellcaster are difficult for him to change easily.


    For example, the castle complex that has a special meaning to him, Jia Lan wants to buy it purely because it fits his needs in this era of magic.


    As for the price, it seems that it has never been a problem that needs to be considered too much for him. In his opinion, if he is short of money for the time being, he only needs to cast a few more spells and earn enough money to buy it.


    As for the various horror legends circulating in the "Doom Castle", what does it matter to a wizard like Jia Lan?


    In his time, the profession of spellcaster itself is closely linked to mystery and horror, and is feared and respected by ordinary people who know nothing about the world of arcane magic. The protagonists of most horror legends are evil wizards.


    So, as a wizard who is about to become the protagonist of a horror legend, how could Jia Lan be afraid of those illusory legends?


    For Jia Lan''s various requests, Casey just shrugged helplessly. Who said that this magician master is now the distinguished employer of their "Iguana Fang"?


    Moreover, the more Jintalan this magician master spends, the more profit they "Iguana Fang" can make, so why not do it?


    Since Jia Lan''s demand for various raw materials and tools is quite urgent, Casey can only leave with his subordinates in a hurry to prepare the necessary items for this magician master who has a tendency to "spend money" in her eyes.


    This not only means that the magician master''s pocket will be deflated, but also means when their "Iguana Fang" pocket will be able to swell. You know, in the purchasing contract, it is clearly written that they "Iguana Fang" will collect various materials on the list and then sell them to Jia Lan at the market price.


    Look carefully, it is the market price! What does this mean? This means that they can get a lot of discounts between purchasing and selling.


    And this discount is the valuable reward that the magician master paid to "Iguana Tooth"! This undoubtedly made Casey and her team full of energy, because they knew that as long as they could meet the needs of the magician master, they would get rich rewards.


    Although everyone did not know why the eccentric magician master needed those seemingly insignificant spices, dried fruits and minerals on the list, it was obvious that this was closely related to the task they were about to perform.


    After all, the magician master did not impose any restrictions on the purchase quantity of these materials, which undoubtedly provided them with a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity.


    Although the materials on the list are cheap, the generosity of the magician master undoubtedly opened a door to wealth for them.


    Whether they go to the wild to collect them in person or choose to purchase them directly in the market, as long as they can purchase in large quantities, they can get at least 20£¥ to 50£¥ of the considerable profit.


    This kind of mercenary mission that can easily earn a lot of money without desperately, without bloodshed, or even without going deep into danger is simply a good thing that falls from the sky.


    Of course, although buying directly in the market is simple and quick, the thrifty female swordsman leader knows the ins and outs of it. Once they buy a large amount of a certain material in the market, it will inevitably cause the market price to soar. At that time, it will undoubtedly be even more difficult for them to buy enough materials at a price lower than the market price. Therefore, the female swordsman leader in charge of the team''s finances will never do such a thing that harms others and does not benefit herself.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    So, she decisively decided to send her own mercenary brothers to the production area to collect materials. Although this method can bring greater profits, it also takes more time and energy.


    As soon as Captain Casey returned to the dilapidated courtyard that was used as the base of the "Iguana Fang" mercenary group, he immediately summoned all the mercenary members and began to issue various tasks in a swift and resolute manner. Some were sent to the market to investigate the price of materials, some to collect information about the material production area, some to rent carriages, and some to rent dock warehouses... For a time, nearly a hundred "Iguana Fang" mercenaries scattered like arrows from a string.


    The news that they purchased various materials could not be concealed for a long time, so they had to send people directly to the production area to buy up large quantities of goods and stockpile them before the news spread, and sign a purchase contract with the production area to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to raise the price and make trouble.


    The small mercenary groups near the "Iguana Fang" station were surprised to find that "Iguana Fang" seemed to have received some big task, and the whole group was dispatched, even those old mercenaries who were almost unable to walk and usually stayed in the station to take care of the horses were sent out.


    This move quickly aroused great interest from the surrounding small mercenary groups. They sent spies to inquire about the news everywhere, hoping to get some benefits from it. After all, in this difficult era, who doesn''t want to get a piece of the pie?


    After the departure of Captain Casey and his group, the Brown family''s courtyard quickly returned to its former tranquility. Two young apprentices, Jia Sili and An Liya, stood by, not daring to breathe, and they were still in awe of what had just happened.


    And Alan looked at Jia Lan, a classmate of the same period who had no place to live yesterday and even "fainted from hunger" on the bench of "Komo University" with awe and curiosity.


    Jia Lan smiled and opened a small wooden box left by Captain Casey. There were more than a dozen heavy money bags neatly placed inside, each filled with about a hundred glittering gold talans.


    He picked up a bag and waved to the girls who dared not approach him: "Alan, you can get dividends from your first investment!"


    Alan was stunned when she heard this. She waved her hands repeatedly, her face blushing: "Uh... No, no, no! Jia Lan, you just need to pay back the money I lent you..." She never thought that she could get dividends just by lending Jia Lan some money out of kindness.


    Seeing this, Jia Lan laughed and stuffed the money bag to Alan: "Take it! If you hadn''t lent me money, I wouldn''t have earned so much gold talans. How can an investment not be rewarded!" His tone was firm and warm, making Alan feel his sincerity and kindness.


    Alan held the money bag, at a loss, not knowing whether to put it away or return it to Jia Lan. She had never encountered such a thing before, and she was so anxious that she almost cried.


    Jia Lan ignored her, took out another purse, and handed it to the Browns who had prepared food and stood respectfully in the corner: "These will be my rent for the next period of time!"


    Hearing this, the Browns waved their hands in panic: "No, no, no! Mr. Jia Lan, you have already accepted Garth and Anlia as apprentices, how can we charge you for rent again!" They knew that it was a great gift for them that Garth could accept them.


    Jia Lan thought about it and said: "How about this, I heard from Aunt Brown that Mr. Brown works at the dock. If you are willing, this money will be used as the cost of hiring you. I need you to help deal with some materials. As for the salary, how about two gold talans a day for you and your two daughters?"


    You know, as apprentices, Garth and Anlia do not have to pay tuition to the teacher, but the teacher will not provide them with a salary. At most, providing them with food for two meals a day is already a good treatment.


    Old Brown worked at the dock. Since the work was hard, he could earn about five silver jims a day if he was lucky. When her husband was at work, Aunt Brown would often go to the nearby mill or tavern to help with some simple work such as washing and brushing, but her daily salary would not exceed three silver jims at most. In other words, the total income of the Brown family was only about one gold jims a day.


    And Jia Lan gave their family a salary of two gold jims a day, which was considered a high salary among the civilians in Kolan City! This made the Browns grateful, and they nodded repeatedly, expressing their willingness to work for Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan looked at their grateful expressions, and his heart was full of satisfaction and relief. He knew that his kindness and generosity would win him more friends and respect.

 Chapter 35

    "This is the advance payment for your family''s salary this month!" Jia Lan said as he carefully counted out sixty gold taelans that shone with an attractive luster from his bulging purse and handed them solemnly to Old Brown''s calloused hands.


    Then, he took out the remaining forty gold taelans from his purse and handed them to Aunt Brown who was standing beside him with a smile, "The rest will be used as the advance payment for your food expenses after I hire you!"


    Hearing Jia Lan''s words, the faces of the Brown family instantly bloomed with surprise and joy. Although in essence, these gold coins did not increase by a penny, but just changed the way they said it, for some reason, they felt that such an arrangement seemed easier to accept.


    Aunt Brown couldn''t wait to snatch the heavy sixty gold taelans from Old Brown''s hands, and carefully put them into her bib and hid them as if they were rare treasures, with a smile of satisfaction and gratitude on her face. Then, she turned around and walked quickly to the kitchen, and diligently served Jia Lan the rich breakfast that had been prepared long ago.


    Perhaps because of the change in status, the Brown family and Alan''s attitude towards Jia Lan became much more reserved. They no longer chatted and laughed casually as before, but seemed to be respectful and carefully served their employer.


    Seeing this, Jia Lan did not say anything more. After a simple breakfast, he pointed to the pile of materials and tools sent by the mercenaries during the meal, and began to instruct the Browns to deal with the complicated materials in different categories.


    Jia Lan himself, with Alan and the two sisters of the Brown family, carefully arranged the various tools needed.


    He patiently taught them how to use these tools to prepare potions, from the most basic grinding and mixing to the complex extraction and distillation, and explained every step in detail.


    Of course, Jia Lan would not do some preparation processes that did not require fine mastery and rich experience. After all, his power is limited. If he has to do everything himself, the output of the potion will not be able to increase.


    Alan, a girl from a remote village, naively thought that as long as she paid the examination fee of five gold talans and five silver jims and the talent test fee, she could successfully join the coveted Komo University.


    However, Jia Lan knew that the truth was not so simple. He estimated that the fee was just the cost of the entrance test, and the actual tuition fee was probably far beyond her imagination.


    In order to thank this kind girl who helped him when he was "in trouble", Jia Lan decided to recruit her to join the potion production team in the name of employment. In exchange, he promised to pay the expensive tuition fee for her.


    Through yesterday''s experience, Jia Lan has roughly understood the value of the potion he prepared in this era. After careful consideration, he decided to improve and optimize the potion formula.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    In this era, a high-quality brass-level primary potion can be sold for a high price of five gold talans, and a can of "high-efficiency violet ointment" of the same quality that can treat three moderate injuries can be sold for a staggering twenty gold talans. This undoubtedly brought huge business opportunities and development potential to Jialan''s potion production business.


    However, Jia Lan showed amazing business acumen and made full use of it.


    He cleverly diluted a jar of precious "High-efficiency Violet Cream" into 10 portions. Although this reduced its quality and total amount, the efficacy of each portion was comparable to that of the "Brass-level Primary Potion". What''s even more amazing is that the diluted cream can be sold at a high price of 50 Jintalan.


    But this is just the beginning, Jia Lan did not stop.


    He diluted the 10 portions of "Brass Primary" cream again, miraculously converting it into 50 portions of "Black Iron High-level" cream, and the selling price of these creams was as high as 100 Jintalan.


    Then, he diluted 50 portions of "Black Iron High-level" ointment into 250 portions of "Black Iron Intermediate-level", and then diluted 250 portions of "Black Iron Intermediate-level" ointment into 750 portions of "Black Iron Primary-level", with each portion of ointment sold for 2 and 0.5 gold tarans respectively, with a total sales volume of 375 gold tarans.


    In this way, the value of a can of "High-efficiency Violet Ointment" miraculously increased by more than 18 times in Jia Lan''s hands.


    Although the efficacy of the diluted "Micro-effective Violet Ointment" has been greatly weakened, its quality is slightly better than that of the "Black Iron Primary-level Potion" due to its special hemostatic effect.


    Therefore, even if the price of a bottle of "Micro-effective Violet Ointment" is the same as that of a bottle of "Black Iron Primary-level Recovery Potion", both of which are sold for only five silver gimms, those mercenaries should be able to discern which potion is more cost-effective. After all, for most mercenaries, cost-effectiveness is what they care about most.


    And Jia Lan knows this even better. He keenly noticed that the people who have the greatest demand for potions are not the high-level mercenaries who can afford the "silver-level" potions, but the large number of low-level mercenaries.


    These low-level mercenaries have a lower strength and a higher chance of injury, so the demand for life-saving potions is more urgent.


    From a business perspective, Jia Lan''s choice is undoubtedly wise. He did not blindly pursue high-quality potions, but formulated sales strategies based on market demand.


    Is it more cost-effective to sell a can of "high-efficiency violet cream" worth 20 gold talans, or to sell 750 bottles of "micro-effective violet cream" worth 5 silver jims? The answer is obviously the latter.


    So, Jia Lan decided to focus on the large-scale configuration of "micro-effective violet cream" in the few days before the start of the school of "Komo University".


    Of course, he will not completely give up the production of high-quality violet cream, but will configure a small amount of top-level ones as a gimmick to attract customers.


    In order to ensure the efficiency and quality of potion configuration, Jia Lan has prepared a series of professional tools and equipment.


    Large-capacity potion crucibles, special temperature-controlled furnaces, precision medical scales, time-keeping hourglasses... these tools and equipment undoubtedly provided great convenience for his work.


    He didn''t even need to do it himself. He just had to ask Old Brown to clean and grind the "blood mistletoe vine" into powder, and then Alan would use a medical scale to mix the powder into portions that would fit the capacity of each potion crucible, and then give it to Aunt Brown to throw into the potion crucible to boil. Finally, the Brown sisters were responsible for bottling and sealing, and the whole process was successfully completed.

 Chapter 36

    For the Brown family, who had never been exposed to pharmacy, the recent days were like opening a door to a mysterious world, full of endless surprises and curiosity.


    It turned out that those expensive and mysterious medicines were prepared step by step.


    After gradually learning to use professional tools such as water measuring instruments and hourglasses to control the amount of water and the temperature, the strength of Aunt Brown, an eighth-level housewife, was revealed in an incredibly confident posture.


    "It''s much easier than making dinner!" The fat Aunt Brown exclaimed proudly.


    Although she did not understand the complex matching principles of medicinal properties, temperature, and quantity in pharmacy, this did not prevent her from having a natural sensitivity to the most critical "temperature" in the preparation of medicines.


    In her opinion, boiling ointment is like boiling delicious broth, and the control of temperature is the key to making delicious food.


    This statement full of life wisdom made Jia Lan on the side sweat, but she had to admit that Aunt Brown''s words seemed to be quite reasonable.


    He was amazed at this "wisdom from life" that belonged exclusively to Aunt Brown. In order to make better use of this wisdom, Jia Lan specially drafted a "magic contract" and hired Aunt Brown to become the "exclusive fire control master" of "Lemli Potion Workshop" with a high monthly salary of 100 gold talans.


    Relying on this high income as a powerful weapon, Aunt Brown overthrew the rule of old Brown as the head of the family while signing the confidentiality contract, and successfully usurped the throne to become the head of the Brown family.


    Even before this, she had already mastered the financial power of the Brown family and had the status of an uncrowned master, but at this moment she was undoubtedly more proud and majestic.


    Poor old Brown could only retreat to the second line with grievance and became a handyman under Aunt Brown. Grinding powder, carrying heavy objects, delivering goods and running errands, and other hard-working chores were all assigned to him by Aunt Brown without mercy.


    After teaching them the configuration process, Jia Lan appointed Aunt Brown as the "master" of the "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop", responsible for managing the financial expenditure and task allocation of the workshop.


    He himself got out of it and enjoyed the leisure time with peace of mind. Even the salary of Old Brown was paid by Aunt Brown.


    In fact, Jia Lan didn''t really want to be lazy, but his physical condition was not good recently. He needed at least sixteen hours of sleep a day to stay awake.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.


    Therefore, he had no time to guard this small pharmaceutical workshop all day long. The addition of Aunt Brown undoubtedly brought new vitality and hope to the workshop.


    However, Jia Lan was not worried about the risk that the Brown family might leak the potion formula and processing skills.


    As a "master of arcane theory", although Jia Lan''s arcane strength seemed relatively low, he mastered the methods of establishing many primary contracts, such as [loyalty contract], [confidentiality contract], [sealing contract], etc.


    These contracts can restrict both parties at the soul level. As long as the soul strength of the controlled party cannot exceed that of the party making the contract, they cannot violate the terms of the contract and can only obey the oaths and treaties in the contract.


    Although Jia Lan is not a professional [Spirit Contract Master], he has assisted in many summoning experiments in his teacher''s laboratory in the past years, and often needs to sign contracts with summoned alien creatures.


    Therefore, he is very familiar with and has a deep understanding of the way to make contracts. Now, facing several weak souls, it is easy for him to use these contracts to restrain them.


    When the Brown family was approved to join the "Lemli Potion Workshop", Jia Lan took out five contracts with arcane constraints and asked everyone, including Alan, to sign them.


    These contracts clearly stipulate that when they try to leak the potion formula, they will not be able to tell the secret to others through language, text, and actions.


    In this way, Jia Lan can rest assured that his potion formula and processing skills will not be leaked.


    The so-called "Lemli Potion Workshop" is actually when Jia Lan decided to set up this small potion workshop, he accidentally saw a Lemli proudly patrolling his territory.


    In order to thank this Lemli who dedicated herself to the potion experiment and worked hard, he casually named it "Lemli Potion Workshop". And Lemli became the image spokesperson and mascot of this potion workshop.


    In order to express his gratitude to her, Jia Lan also paid her a monthly Jintalan as naming fee, image usage fee and endorsement fee.


    He even burned the silhouette of Lemley on the potion bottle as a "trademark" to highlight the uniqueness of this potion workshop.


    Since Aunt Brown was officially appointed as the person in charge of "Lemley Potion Workshop", her professionalism has shocked Old Brown, who has lived with her for decades!


    Under her leadership, ten large potion crucibles lined up in a row emit hot steam under the blazing flames. The boiled ointments are constantly lifted down from the temperature-controlled furnace, and the prepared potion crucibles are constantly lifted up.


    This originally simple boiling process actually produced a smooth beauty like flowing clouds and water in Aunt Brown''s hands.


    However, Aunt Brown''s explosive work enthusiasm has brought a lot of trouble to other processes.


    Especially the canning process that the Brown sisters were in charge of. Although the sisters were very skillful, they still caused serious accumulation when facing the pots of ointment sent to them.


    You know, after putting a portion of prepared medicine powder and a large amount of edible resin into a large pot of pot, it only takes an hour of careful stirring to successfully brew a pot of about 200 portions of [Micro-Effect Violet Ointment].


    And judging from Aunt Brown''s ten pots, she can brew six batches of ointment in a day, that is, 1,200 portions (60 pots, 200 portions each)!


    If Jia Lan hadn''t stopped it in time and arranged a reasonable production plan, she would have even intended to start working overnight. In this way, others had to can 12,000 portions of ointment every day, and they were so busy that they had almost no time to rest.

 Chapter 37

    In order to effectively reduce everyone''s burden, Jia Lan tried his best to design and manufacture various practical tools for them during his waking hours every day, aiming to greatly reduce their work pressure.


    These tools include but are not limited to "push-bar canning machine", "link-bar mixer", and "wheel-type leather conveyor belt".


    These seemingly simple tools are actually the products of Jia Lan''s sudden inspiration.


    Although they only use simple wooden structures and lever transmission methods, they miraculously reduce everyone''s work pressure.


    Take the "push-bar canning machine" for example, which is a huge wooden pump barrel with a round wooden board covered with ointment cleverly installed inside.


    By applying pressure through the lever, every time people pull the handle on the barrel, they can accurately squeeze out the ointment from the twenty wooden nozzles under the pump barrel and quickly pour it into a plate of twenty small pottery jars on a wooden tray.


    Then, just by shaking the wheel of the "wheel-type leather conveyor belt" once, the wooden tray placed on the conveyor belt made of leather can be sent to the bottom of the pump barrel for the next round of canning.


    In this way, the work of the Brown family and Alan became much easier. They only needed to cover the small pottery jars on the wooden tray and put them neatly into the wooden box one by one.


    However, this also caused a new problem: the ointment provided by Aunt Brown was seriously insufficient. Most of the time, Old Brown and his friends were idly waiting for Aunt Brown''s ointment to be boiled.


    This made Aunt Brown, who had just enjoyed the authority for a few days, very unhappy. She begged Jia Lan to design a tool for her to speed up the work progress.


    In order to meet Aunt Brown''s requirements, Jia Lan took great pains and finally designed a stirring device composed of a complex mechanism and equipped with ten stirrers - a "link stirrer".


    In this way, Aunt Brown only needs to shake a rope-driven wheel on the device to make ten stirrers rotate at the same time, greatly speeding up the boiling speed of the ointment.


    Aunt Brown was very happy, and she happily asked Jia Lan to add a larger potion crucible for her. In this way, she can boil more ointment at one time.


    In the end, even the work of shaking the wheel was handed over to poor old Brown by Aunt Brown. And she herself only needs to leisurely watch the fire.


    Just these simple tool improvements have increased the output of the small family-run potion workshop "Lemli Potion Workshop" several times at once.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    Ten hot stoves almost filled the entire yard, and the high temperature they emitted almost scorched the wooden hut in the yard. The originally damp ground has now become extremely dry and even cracked.


    It is not summer yet, but Old Lyme has been shirtless early, drinking cold water desperately like a tired old dog, trying to relieve the discomfort caused by the heat.


    Aunt Brown, wearing a linen waistcoat that showed off her plump white arms, patrolled around the hot stoves.


    Then, she would scoop a spoonful of cool water from the small pool in the yard and pour it over her head, instantly becoming refreshed and patrolling her territory again with full energy.


    Ten specially made oversized potion crucibles, each of which can hold 25 kilograms of ointment, can produce an amazing 2,500 bottles of micro-violet ointment per hour.


    Six batches are produced a day, totaling 15,000 bottles of ointment. Such amazing productivity is enough to shock any pharmacist.


    Old dwarf Justin, who once ran a pottery shop, has now completely transformed. He closed his pottery shop, sent four of his men to help in the courtyard, and personally stayed in the pottery workshop, urging them to rush to burn small pottery bottles for ointment.


    This deal is undoubtedly a big business, requiring 15,000 small pottery bottles every day. Although the unit price of each pottery bottle has dropped from one copper Danding to five copper Dandings, there is still a transaction volume of 30 gold Talans a day. Such income is unimaginable for any pottery shop.


    Old Justin knows this very well, and now he only hopes that this deal can be maintained for a long time. Although 20 of the 30 gold talans earned every day had to be paid to more than a dozen pottery workshops, and the rest had to be used to order thin wooden boxes from the wood shop and pay the freight of the carriage shop, the income of no less than 10 gold talans a day had made him and his four partners give up the pottery shop and join the Lemley Pharmacy Workshop as the purchasing and sales supervisor after signing a contract.


    The Lemley Pharmacy Workshop has undergone earth-shaking changes in just seven days. Although the production of medicine is still carried out in the original small courtyard, the courtyards of several neighbors around have been rented by Aunt Brown as warehouses. In these courtyards, the piled-up wooden boxes of medicines with 100 bottles per box have almost been stacked beyond the courtyard wall.


    In order to cope with this rapidly expanding production scale, Aunt Brown also hired neighbors around and signed confidentiality agreements with them to let them serve as workers in various processes, such as porters.


    Such measures not only solved the problem of labor shortage, but also made the production process of the entire pharmacy workshop smoother.


    Jia Lan, the founder of Lemley''s potion workshop, basically no longer manages the affairs of the workshop. In addition to the sixteen hours of sleep every day, he spends most of the remaining eight hours in meditation.


    In seven days, the changes in the Brown family courtyard made him realize that this change was actually due to his "sudden ideas" and "creativity".


    With the recovery of mental strength after a long sleep, Jia Lan began to be able to meditate and gradually shortened his sleep time.


    While meditating, he also began to learn and master the huge knowledge system left to him by the foreign "friend".


    Although Jia Lan did not know whether the knowledge system left by the foreign soul was a deliberate "conspiracy" or a simple "gift" of goodwill, he found that his behavior had been unconsciously affected by the foreign soul and began to undergo some unpredictable changes.


    This change made him feel both surprised and full of expectations, because he knew that this would be a major turning point in his life.

 Chapter 38

    However, the learned and talented arcane mage Jia Lan was unable to resist the mutation effect of the huge and vast foreign knowledge system on him.


    Faced with this foreign knowledge that attracted him like a magnet, he was like a traveler caught in a vortex, unable to extricate himself.


    This knowledge was like a fine wine mixed with poison, exuding a fatal temptation. For Jia Lan, a polymath who had a strong obsessive-compulsive desire for unknown knowledge, this was simply an irresistible temptation.


    He was like a traveler in the desert who was about to die of thirst. Facing the glass of wine with an alluring aroma, even though he knew it contained poison, he still couldn''t suppress his urge to drink it up.


    This foreign knowledge was completely different from the arcane knowledge he mastered, and was called "science" by his foreign friend who had annihilated himself.


    As Jia Lan analyzed it bit by bit, this knowledge was like an invisible force, gradually infecting his soul and memory, quietly changing him.


    Although the infection process was very slow, Jia Lan was horrified and wondered if the alien soul was going to use this method to expel his soul and achieve the purpose of resurrection.


    For a spellcaster, the unknown does not mean "fear", on the contrary, the unknown often symbolizes "temptation". And Jia Lan was deeply attracted by this temptation and could not extricate himself.


    Jia Lan knew that since he could not resist this temptation, he could only slow down the infection and mutation as much as possible before figuring out whether the alien knowledge system was harmful to him.


    However, even if he tried his best to restrain himself from analyzing the alien knowledge, his uncontrolled thoughts would often unconsciously come up with all kinds of weird ideas and thoughts.


    For example, in the past few days, the simple production tools he designed and manufactured were only the simplest and crudest things in the alien knowledge system in his mind, and they were not even the so-called "science" of alien knowledge. However, just such a small change in processing tools and production processes has subverted the potion configuration mode known to Jia Lan, making him feel deeply afraid.


    He dared not imagine how terrible the changes would be if the complete so-called "technology" appeared in this world!


    Although he had let go of the management of "Lemli Potion Workshop", put himself in the perspective of a bystander, and even deliberately stopped putting into practice the various ideas that emerged in his mind, the development of things still began to tilt in a direction he could not predict.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.


    He felt as if he had released an incredible foreign devil, which was frantically devouring the original "laws" of this world and strengthening itself.


    The current potion production process of "Lemli Potion Workshop" has been jokingly called "assembly line" by the souls from foreign lands.


    From the Mercenary Guild to the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, from the Limeli Pharmacy to the Justin Pottery Shop, and then to the dozens of civilian pottery and wood workshops scattered near the civilian area where the Brown family is located, these seemingly unrelated existences seem to be cleverly connected by an invisible clue.


    This invisible connection is called the "industrial chain" by those souls from foreign lands in a playful and accurate tone.


    Although all this is just a very simple prototype of the foreign devil that emerged in his mind and was jokingly called "industrialization" by the foreign souls, the production efficiency it has shown has begun to ruthlessly destroy the original order and rules of this world like a storm.


    Despite the influence of various complex factors such as raw material supply and transportation, under full-load production, the Limeli Pharmacy Workshop can still produce more than 75,000 bottles of [Micro-Effect Violet Cream] at an astonishing speed in just five days, and its low cost is even more astonishing.


    Let''s take a look at the specific composition of these costs: 15,000 small and exquisite pottery bottles only cost 30 gold talans; 150 sturdy and durable thin wooden boxes, each costing about one silver gumm, with a total price of no more than 15 gold talans; about 20 workers worked hard for a day, and their total salary did not exceed 10 gold talans; and the "edible resin additive" needed to prepare the ointment was prepared at an ultra-low price of four copper dandins per kilogram, and 20 bottles of ointment were prepared. The preparation of 15,000 bottles of ointment consumed only 750 kilograms, with a total value of only 30 gold talans.


    As for the several auxiliary materials needed to prepare the ointment, the total cost was only five silver gumm per kilogram, and 15,000 bottles of ointment required only 150 kilograms, with a total value of 75 gold talans.


    What''s even more amazing is that the main ingredient of 300,000 bottles of [Micro-Effect Violet Cream] is only 150 30-year-old [Blood Mistletoe Vine], and the purchase price, including shipping costs, is no more than one gold talan. In this way, the total cost of 15,000 bottles of [Micro-Effect Violet Cream] is only 161 gold talans!


    However, the value of these 15,000 bottles of [Micro-Effect Violet Cream] is so amazing! 5 silver jims per bottle, that''s a full 7,500 gold talans! After [Kolan City] collects one-tenth of the tax, there are 6,750 gold talans left.


    As an intermediary for purchasing materials and selling medicines, the "Iguana Fang" mercenary group has a 5£¥ profit, so what is finally handed over to Jia Lan is a huge profit of 6,412.5 gold talans!


    What can 6,412.5 gold talans do in [Kolan City]? It is enough to buy a small room of 25 square meters, or a small wooden villa of 300 square meters with a garden in the suburbs outside the city.


    However, this is only the income that "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop" brings to Jialan in one day. Imagine if such income lasts for ten days, a month, or even longer, what a fortune it will be!


    What is even more shocking is that all this was produced by a middle-aged woman who was originally just a housewife.


    She created such an amazing miracle with her wisdom and hard work, as well as the invisible "industrial chain".


    In this process, no person with pharmacist qualifications participated, which further demonstrated the advancedness and efficiency of the production process of "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop".

 Chapter 39

    If Jia Lan had not decisively rejected Aunt Brown''s eager request to expand the scale of production and extend the production time, I am afraid that in a short period of time, the entire civilian area would be completely transformed by her into various departments of the potion processing workshop, turning it into a busy and bustling industrial center.


    Since Jia Lan generously decided to give the Brown family one thousandth of the potion income as employment fees, Aunt Brown''s expansion ambitions have expanded rapidly like wildfire.


    Every day, ten potion crucibles produce six batches of potions, which can bring the Brown family an astonishing income of 6.41 gold talans!


    If the production time is extended from the current six hours and six batches of potions to twelve hours and twelve batches of potions, her income will be close to thirteen gold talans; if it is further divided into two shifts and extended to 24 hours a day, she can earn more than twenty-five gold talans a day!


    However, this is only the income from ten potion crucibles.  Aunt Brown has already sketched out a more ambitious blueprint in her mind: What if the number of potion crucibles is increased to 20 or even 100? She seemed to see the scene of Jintalan pouring into the Brown family like water, and the greed and enthusiasm almost swallowed her.


    However, Aunt Brown did not care how much benefit her explosive work enthusiasm would create for the boss Jia Lan. All she cared about was the one thousandth dividend that the Brown family received, that is, how many Jintalan.


    And all these changes were brought about by the "industrialization" in the memory of another soul. It only made its first appearance, and it had already seduced and corrupted an originally simple and kind housewife into an evil workshop owner chasing wealth in just a few days.


    Jia Lan looked at all this, and his heart was full of fear and uneasiness. He knew that if Aunt Brown''s ambition continued to expand, the entire civilian area would fall into endless noise and chaos.


    Therefore, he strictly prohibited Aunt Brown''s plan to expand the scale of production, and even rejected a huge order that Clark Abigail, president of the Mercenary Guild, privately transferred through the Iguana Tooth.


    Captain Casey, who came to transport the potions every day, once sighed at the potential of the Jialan Potion Workshop. Even with the current production scale, it may not take four or five years for this young magician to afford the 100,000-ping ancient castle complex and its affiliated large tracts of land, which are estimated to be worth tens of millions of gold talans.


    However, no matter from which aspect, the potion output of ten potion crucibles is far from meeting the demand for potions by the mercenaries in Kolan City. Not to mention the entire Kolan State, or even the entire Zilago Continent.


    Even if Jialan increases the output by a hundred times, it can only barely meet the demand for potions in the mercenary community in Kolan City.


    However, this young magician stubbornly limited the scale of potion production. His decision confused and puzzled everyone.


    After all, in this world where money is everything, you can''t mess with Jin Talan! However, Jia Lan has his own plans and considerations.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.


    He knows that excessive industrialization will bring endless troubles and consequences, and he will never allow such a thing to happen.


    Although the complaints of Aunt Brown and Captain Casey kept echoing in Jia Lan''s ears, their complaints that they could not increase for their own interests could not shake Jia Lan''s unwavering decision. Jia Lan knew that these voices were just selfish noises and could not change his judgment of the overall situation.


    In Jia Lan''s heart, there is a more important consideration-that is, something called "industrialization", whose potential harm has not been fully revealed.


    Jia Lan knows that if it is unleashed rashly, it may bring unpredictable destructive dangers to the world.


    Therefore, although he knows that his decision may cause some dissatisfaction and controversy, he still sticks to his position and is unwilling to compromise easily.


    However, even though Jia Lan''s decision was so firm, the emergence of "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop" still brought a huge impact to the pharmacy market in Kelan City.


    This emerging pharmacy workshop quickly attracted a large number of consumers with its unique production process and low prices, causing the turnover of pharmacies under the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild to plummet.


    As a huge industry guild, the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild must have a powerful force behind it to support it. Otherwise, how could it survive in this competitive city and successfully monopolize an industry? What''s more, it can also suppress the development of the mercenary guild by controlling the output of medicines, showing the strength and influence of the forces behind it.


    Therefore, with the rise of "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop", a dark tide began to surge between the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild and the Mercenary Guild.


    This dark tide may affect the small family workshop of "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop" at any time, putting it in crisis.


    Behind the headquarters of the Pharmacist Guild of Coran City, in a luxurious manor-style villa on the seashore, a fat old man was smoking a huge pipe and looking at the golden glow cast by the setting sun on the sea.


    His expression was leisurely and contented, as if he was not affected by the outside world. However, when he casually asked about the information about the "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop", he revealed his concern and vigilance about this undercurrent.


    In the shadow of the corner of the house, stood a masked thief in black leather armor. He whispered to the old man that there were almost no useful clues about the information about the "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop".


    This workshop is located in the production workshop in the civilian area. The pharmaceutical process is almost unguarded and is almost openly placed in the open air for processing. What is even more surprising is that the people responsible for preparing the potion are actually a group of housewives who have no foundation in pharmacy.


    Such news made the old man frown, and he began to realize that this undercurrent might be more complicated and difficult than he imagined.

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    The obese old man suddenly turned around without warning, and his fat palm with a fierce force, slapped the thin cheek of Dagar, who was called "Intermediate Pharmacist".


    The four huge gem rings on his fingers were like four sharp daggers, leaving four deep scars on Dagar''s cheeks, which was shocking.


    Under the old man''s beating, Dagar screamed, and the whole person was thrown out like a kite with a broken string. However, he did not dare to hesitate or wail at all, and quickly struggled to get up, and stood back in front of the obese old man with his head down.


    He did not dare to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. The pain made the skin at the corner of his eyes twitch nervously, and his whole body trembled, as if he might fall down at any time.


    The obese old man moved his steps calmly as if nothing had happened, moved his fat body to the sofa, and sat down heavily. The sofa sank deeply under his weight, making a dull sound.


    He picked up the pipe on the wooden coffee table, knocked it on the coffee table, looked around, and the sharp eyes like a vulture instantly stared at Dagar, as if to penetrate him.


    Dagar trembled all over, dared not hesitate at all, and bent over and stretched out his palm.


    The fat old man nodded with satisfaction and poured the embers in the pipe into his palm.


    Dagar clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth, and held the handful of embers tightly in his palm, fearing that any of them would fall on the expensive snow-white long-haired carpet on the ground. The air was filled with a hint of burnt flesh and flesh, which made people want to vomit.


    "There is no need to pay attention to those things that are on the surface..."


    While enjoying the pleasure brought by the tobacco shipped from the East, the fat old man picked up the wine glass on the coffee table and tasted a sip of blood-red wine.


    Suddenly, his face turned furious, and he raised his hand and smashed the half-cup of wine and the wine glass made of a whole piece of crystal on Dagar''s forehead.


    He roared: "You idiot! This is what you did! Pushing a group of senior magicians into the arms of others! Do you know what this means?"


    Dagar curled up like a beaten wild dog, and finally couldn''t bear it anymore and wailed loudly. He begged: "My lord! My lord! Please forgive my fault, it''s none of my business! This is that damn... woo... cough cough! Aw..." However, before he finished speaking, the fat old man had already stuffed the pipe with burning hot tobacco into his mouth.


    The old man ignored the long-haired carpet that was messed up by crystal fragments, red wine and Dagar''s blood. He supported his knees with his palms and stood up to take another crystal glass. After pouring himself a glass of wine, he asked calmly: "Have you found out who has the formula?"


    "According to the various clues available, it seems to be the masterpiece of a great magician in the University of Komo who goes by the alias ''Lemli''!" The black-armored thief said indifferently to what had just happened, "According to the news from the Mercenary Guild, it is said that the experimental team of Master Lemli encountered financial problems, so they sold the potion through an apprentice."


    "According to analysis, they took out this batch of potions and found the pharmacy in the magic market. They should be testing us to seek opportunities for cooperation." The black-armored thief continued, "After all, there are not many forces in the city of Kolan that can afford the cost of a large experimental team. We need to act as soon as possible, otherwise we may lose this important opportunity."Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    He glanced at Dagar, who was shivering in the corner of the sofa like a dead dog, and sneered, and continued, "However, after the other party noticed that the Pharmacist Guild had signs of embezzling their potion formula, they immediately threw themselves into the arms of the Mercenary Guild without hesitation, and launched a low-level potion for large-scale mass production, in order to quickly raise funds and make up for the losses."


    "Find this Master Lemley! Tell him that our "Golden Power Club" is his best partner. Only by joining hands with us can he gain a foothold in this world full of competition and infighting!" The fat old man''s words were filled with unquestionable majesty.


    Then he glanced at Dagar, who was in a mess with blood and blisters in his mouth, and sighed nostalgically, "As for this stupid guy, send him to see my poor Selena! She must miss her dear brother very much. Maybe in another world, they can be reunited again."


    After a moment of stagnation, Dagar, who was curled up on the ground, suddenly jumped up as if driven by an invisible force, and screamed heartbreakingly: "No! No! You can''t do this! I... I still have a chance! I''m still useful!"


    However, his cry did not bring any sympathy or pity, but only strengthened the fat old man''s determination to get rid of him.


    Dagar suddenly turned around and fled frantically from the house, while the black-armored thief bowed respectfully to the fat old man silently, and then slowly disappeared into the shadows in the corner of the house.


    Not long after, a half-terrified scream came from the grass outside the villa, indicating that Dagar''s tragic fate had come to an end.


    On the hillside behind the villa, next to a tombstone engraved with the name "Selena", a new grave with an unmarked tombstone was piled up. This new grave silently tells an unknown grievance and hatred, and also indicates that the change and struggle of power within this family is still continuing.


    The undercurrents and changes in the outside world cannot affect "Master Lemley", a legendary figure in the pharmacy industry.


    Therefore, when the "Komo University" opened, Jia Lan took the income from this period and went to "Komo University" with Alan to take the entrance examination.


    Before temporarily leaving the Brown family, Jia Lan once said that he planned to take his two young apprentices to school for further studies.


    However, the Browns, who had already tasted the sweetness of the pharmaceutical industry, firmly rejected Jia Lan''s proposal on the grounds that they needed the Brown sisters who had mastered the formula of [Violet Cream] to continue to prepare the powder. In this regard, Jia Lan could only express his helplessness and apology to the Brown sisters who were full of desire and resentment.


    In fact, in just seven days, Jia Lan had mastered more than 40,000 gold Talans of wealth. This wealth was not only enough to pay for the tuition and living expenses during the enrollment period of "Komo University", but also enough for Jia Lan to live a rich and comfortable life.


    However, for the Brown family, this was a great opportunity for them to get rid of the civilian class and enter the upper class. They were naturally unwilling to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity easily.


    Moreover, driven by the "Lemli Pharmacy Workshop", a whole "industrial chain" involving pharmaceuticals, sales, logistics and other links has gradually been formed.


    This industry chain not only brought huge profits and status improvement to the Brown family, but also won them the favor and trust of more partners.


    If Jia Lan insisted on closing the "Lemli Potion Workshop", it would probably bring a series of negative reactions and chain reactions.


    In desperation, Jia Lan had to allow the "Lemli Potion Workshop" to continue operating, and he went to the "Komo University" to study.


    He knew that only by constantly improving his knowledge and abilities could he better control his destiny and future.


    September in [Kolan City] is the most lively and prosperous time of the year. Hundreds of thousands of students from different places in the seven continents of [Xingchen Continent], with their desire for knowledge and vision for the future, crowded together in this not-so-large but vibrant city.


    The annual quota of 3,000 undergraduate freshmen in the [Main Department] and more than ten times the number of junior college freshmen in the [Auxiliary Department] of the "Kolan Public Magic University" is already a very large number.


    Not to mention the other students of the ninth grade system and visiting scholars and researchers from all over the world. The total student population alone is as high as hundreds of thousands, making the city extremely lively and bustling in September.

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    Kolan City, a city located on a vast continent, has a local population of only more than 1.7 million, but due to the huge influx of new students every year, the total population of this city has more than doubled.


    These new students come from all directions with their visions and dreams for the future, injecting fresh vitality into the city.


    Most of the students who can study in the magic academy usually come from wealthy families, and their family backgrounds are often quite prominent. This also makes these students often bring several servants and other accompanying personnel with them to take care of their food and daily life.


    In addition, there are also businessmen, mercenaries and other industry personnel attracted by the huge student consumer group of Komo University. They flock to this city to look for business opportunities. These people often rent houses in Kolan City, or simply buy and build a luxurious house outside Kolan City.


    As the years go by, these new buildings have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, making the area of ??Kolan City increase year by year and continue to spread around the city. These buildings have their own characteristics, some are magnificent, some are simple and fashionable, adding a different style to the city.


    However, as students graduate or leave, these buildings gradually become vacant. Some are rented to new tenants, and some are resold to others. This makes the house rental industry in Kolan City particularly developed and has become a major feature of the city.


    The huge campus area makes Komo University more like a small city composed of school campuses than a college. Therefore, the campus of Komo University is called "Kolan Inner City" by the residents of Kolan City, and the area outside the college buildings is called "Kolan Outer City". The division of inner and outer cities makes the city more layered and distinctive.


    As a large college with a student population of hundreds of thousands, Komo University naturally needs a lot of service personnel to maintain the operation of this small city. These service personnel include teachers, administrators, security guards, cleaners and other people from all walks of life, who contribute their own strength to the development of the city. This is also the reason why a city was formed around Komo University.


    Therefore, whenever the school season of KoMo University comes, the student tide caused by the enrollment of new students and the return of old students makes the whole city boil. Students dressed in uniform light blue magic robes, carrying their visions and dreams for the future, rush to the registration office. The whole city is blue, becoming a unique landscape of the city.


    Jialan and Alan, also wearing light blue magic robes without school badges, slowly moved to the registration office of KoMo University with the crowd. They have been trapped in the crowd for more than an hour, but they still seem to be not close to the registration office. The huge crowd is bustling, buzzing like a beehive filled with a million bees.


    The excited freshmen shouted and yelled, and they were looking for people and squeezing with servants to shout loudly, so that people had to raise their voices to let the people around them hear what they said.


    Faced with this chaotic scene, Jialan seemed a little confused. The high degree of popularization of magic knowledge in this era made him a little difficult to accept, and the large number of students in the magic field was too shocking. This was almost impossible in his time.Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.


    The Kolanburg Library is known as one of the three major centers of knowledge and scholarship on the [Continent of Khorvaire]. It is like a shining pearl of knowledge, inlaid on this vast continent.


    Although it has twelve super-large affiliated colleges, surprisingly, the total number of spellcasters in the entire library does not exceed one thousand.


    In the era when Jia Lan lived, the total population of the entire "Kolan Castle" was only more than 17,000 people, which was particularly small compared to the huge scale of "Komo University".


    Speaking of "Komo University", it is simply an ocean of knowledge and a fertile land of magic. It is said that the number of faculty and staff in the school alone has exceeded 30,000, which is simply jaw-dropping. Could it be that in this era, magic knowledge has really been popularized to such an astonishing degree?


    The girl chattered excitedly beside Jia Lan, but unfortunately, Jia Lan did not hear a word. At the crowded registration site, he moved as hard as a snail for nearly two hours before finally squeezing in front of the registration office. There were crowds of people here, and the noise was deafening, as if they were in a noisy ocean.


    Taking out their respective recommendation letters, they carefully handed them to the senior students at the registration office. However, the other party only took a quick glance, and directly stamped the special seal of "Komo University" on the recommendation letters of the two people, handed each of them a piece of parchment, and waved to them to enter the campus through the college gate behind the registration office.


    The two people who squeezed out of the crowd finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just a door separated the noisy noise from the campus. They seemed to have crossed the noisy ocean and came to a quiet harbor.


    Looking at the crowded road outside the school, Jia Lan couldn''t help feeling a little confused. Obviously, except for the registered students, no outsiders were allowed to enter the campus, so why were there so many people with their families crowding outside the school? They were so crowded that it seemed like a grand carnival.


    Even their own students had already entered the campus, and there was no one to be seen. They were still reluctant to leave and gathered in front of the school gate, looking excitedly into the school, waving their arms from time to time, shouting something loudly, hoping to attract the attention of the students who had already entered the campus. Do they really think this is a farewell of life and death?


    Jialan and Alan followed the crowd and entered the campus. Compared with the crowded scene outside the school, the flow of people here seemed much "sparse".


    They headed towards the examination site arranged by "Magic University". As a large number of old students continued to be diverted to different campuses, the remaining people became fewer and fewer.


    However, this "few" is only relative. According to Jialan''s estimation, the remaining newcomers are at least more than 10,000. This is only a small part of the registration this academic year. Fortunately, the campus of "Magic University" is large enough, otherwise it may not be able to accommodate so many eager students.


    Jialan looked at the "recommendation letter" with a stamp in his hand, and felt a little depressed. He originally thought that this recommendation letter would be strictly reviewed, so he spent several days using the skill of [Forged Documents] to carefully copy a recommendation letter with reference to Alan''s recommendation letter that was almost impossible to detect problems. However, it now seems that the so-called "recommendation letter" is just a "ticket" to enter "Magic University", and it has no practical significance at all.


    Picking up the parchment handed to them by the senior who checked the recommendation letter, Jia Lan carefully read the entrance examination notes recorded on it.


    These freshmen - more accurately, these "quasi-freshmen", will take this "admission ticket" to different examination halls to take the so-called "magic theory knowledge test". This test is extremely strict, and this item alone will eliminate more than 50% of the students.

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    After all, the purpose of the famous magic school "KoMo University" is to cultivate future magic masters, not just popularize magic knowledge.


    Therefore, the most basic condition for entering this mysterious school is that you must at least be literate and have a preliminary understanding of the concept of "magic".


    However, in this world, the vast majority of ordinary people struggling at the bottom of society do not have a high literacy rate. For them, being able to read and write their own names and simply read and write letters is already considered knowledgeable. But such a level of knowledge is obviously far from enough for a student who is determined to enter a magic school.


    In the entrance examination of "KoMo University", the "magic theory knowledge test" is only the first step. And the following "element talent test" will ruthlessly eliminate more than 90£¥ of the remaining people.


    Although these eliminated people are not directly rejected by the academy, they are obviously no longer eligible for the main department, so they can only choose to join the auxiliary department to study.


    In this context, Jia Lan and Alan, a pair of good friends, are standing at the entrance of the theoretical examination. The girl Alan clenched her fist nervously, as if to encourage Jialan, or to cheer herself up. After making a "Come on!" gesture, she tightly grasped her "admission ticket", temporarily separated from Jialan, and stepped into different open-air examination rooms.


    Jialan smiled and waved to Alan, who kept looking back, and walked to the examination room assigned to him. At the entrance, he handed over five silver jims to the faculty and received a thick stack of sheepskin test papers, a small bottle of ink and a quill pen. Under the guidance of the invigilator, he quietly entered the open-air examination room, found an empty table at random, sat down, and began to read the questions carefully.


    Unlike the nervous Alan, Jialan did not feel nervous at all. After all, he himself is a "professional theory master".


    Although the "arcane" he is familiar with is somewhat different from the so-called "magic" of this era in concept, the fundamental principles of spells and elemental properties are the same. Therefore, he is full of confidence in this exam.


    In addition, Jia Lan judged from various factors that this so-called "magic theory knowledge test" was just a test to find out the basics, just a formality. No matter what the results were, it would not affect whether one could be admitted.


    Because no matter how well one did in the theoretical test, it would be meaningless if one failed the talent test. Similarly, even if one was illiterate, as long as his magic talent was excellent enough, "Magic University" would not mind spending some time to train him.


    The admission standards of "Magic University" were very strict, and only students between the ages of sixteen and thirty were accepted. People below or above this age group would not be easily admitted by the academy unless they were rare magic geniuses.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    This also meant that students who passed the entrance exam had fifteen years to learn magic knowledge in the academy. If a student stayed in the same school year for three years and failed to be promoted, or failed to become an "apprentice magician" at the age of thirty, he would be persuaded to leave the academy or be issued a certificate of incomplete studies. Their magic road would probably only stay at this level.


    So looking around, although most of the freshmen were around sixteen years old, Jia Lan, who looked "twenty years old" on the outside, was not conspicuous among the freshmen. He even saw an "uncle" who looked at least thirty years old at an examination table not far away. This uncle obviously embarked on this road full of challenges and opportunities with his love and dream for magic.


    In front of Jia Lan was a thick stack of test papers, the contents of which were numerous and complex, like a maze of knowledge. However, this exam did not require candidates to answer every question, but only to fill in as much as they knew.


    However, Jia Lan soon fell into confusion. It was not because the questions on the test paper were too difficult, on the contrary, these questions were easy for Jia Lan, a master of theory. For example, one of the questions was: "What is magic? Please explain it briefly."


    This question may be a difficult problem for beginners, but for Jia Lan, it is simply an entry-level question. However, when Jia Lan was about to write an answer, he found a tricky problem. The question asked about "magic", but what he was familiar with was "arcane". Although there is only one letter difference between the two words, the knowledge systems covered are very different.


    Since Jia Lan woke up, he has learned through various channels that the "magic" of this era is actually derived from the arcane he is familiar with. However, although the two are inextricably linked, their systems do not seem to be exactly the same. The difference of this word cannot be explained clearly in a simple sentence.


    In this era, "magic" seems to refer specifically to everything with so-called "magic power", and its representativeness refers specifically to the ability to control elements. However, for Jia Lan, "elements" are only a small part of the content of the elemental sub-school in the field of arcane knowledge he knows. The evocation school includes the elemental sub-school, but it is not limited to elements. It also includes other more complex and profound school branches.


    Next, another question on the test paper made Jia Lan fall into deep confusion: "What is an element? Please briefly explain your understanding of an element." This question made Jia Lan feel more and more at a loss. From his conversation with Alan, he learned that the so-called "elements" of this era specifically refer to the five "main elements" of "wind, wood, water, fire, and earth". However, for Jia Lan, the concept of "element" is much broader and more complex than this. The "elements" he understands include basic elements such as fire, water, earth, and air, as well as more complex and special elements such as strong acid, lightning, cold, force field, light, darkness, sound waves, and mind. These elements constitute the "inner elements" in the arcane knowledge system he is familiar with, and in addition to these, there are more mysterious and profound "outer elements", "alien elements", "sub-elements", and "mixed elements". What makes Jia Lan most depressed is that among the five "main elements" of this era, there is actually a "wood element"! However, for Jia Lan, the "wood element" is only slightly related to the botanical sub-department of the natural science department, and is not an independent element at all.


    These seemingly simple questions have caused Jia Lan, a master of academic theory with multiple titles such as polymath, researcher, and scholar, to fall into deep confusion and struggle. He frowned, and a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead, obviously distressed by these seemingly simple but actually difficult questions.

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    It took almost twice as long as other freshmen for Jia Lan to finally elaborate on the densely packed questions on the test paper with his own understanding and perseverance.


    This process was undoubtedly a great test of his wisdom and determination. Although the process was difficult, the only consolation was that he had finished all the questions on the thick dozen sheets of parchment without missing any questions.


    This was in sharp contrast to those freshmen who just picked the questions they knew how to do and scribbled a few words before handing in the paper.


    However, what Jia Lan didn''t know was that the grading teachers of the entrance examination of "Komo University" had an unwritten habit.


    In order to reduce the difficulty of grading, questions that candidates did not know could be left blank without being deducted. But once the candidates wrote the answers under the questions, they would take risks. If the answer was correct, it would naturally be extra points; but if the answer was wrong, one point would be deducted from the score already obtained. This scoring mechanism undoubtedly increased the difficulty and uncertainty of the exam.


    Since this test paper has many questions, there is no so-called "full score", but the total score of the candidates is accumulated according to the number of questions they answer.


    The higher the score, the higher the level of the candidate and the more comprehensive the knowledge. However, if the candidate answers 20 questions but gets 10 wrong, it is very likely that he will only get zero points in the end! This strict scoring system discourages many candidates, but Jia Lan stepped into this trap without knowing it.


    If Jia Lan knew something about "Magic University", he might know some tips for taking the entrance exam, and even experienced seniors would remind him of the secret of "don''t pretend to know if you don''t know".


    However, he knew nothing about all this and could only answer all the questions honestly. As for whether the answer is correct, Jia Lan has no confidence.


    Because he does not know enough about the magic knowledge system of this era, he cannot judge whether his answer can be recognized by the teacher who marks the papers.


    However, since he has finished answering the test paper, Jia Lan no longer thinks too much. He knows that this theoretical exam will not affect his final score for admission.


    He didn''t think he was a master of arcane theory, so he was arrogant and thought he could handle this "magic theory knowledge test". In fact, he was well aware of his shortcomings and deficiencies.


    However, the key to the problem is that, whether in this era or in his original era, books, which belong to the field of knowledge, are expensive luxury goods.


    And magic, a knowledge system that has already involved the field of natural mysteries, its knowledge is even more precious and rare. Most magic books are collected in the private library of magicians or kept in magic academic institutions such as "Common Magic University". For ordinary people like Jia Lan, it is not something that can be bought with money.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    Therefore, in just seven days, Jia Lan had no channels to get enough comprehensive magic books to understand the magic knowledge system of this era.


    He could only rely on his own understanding and memory to deal with this exam. Although the result may not be satisfactory, Jia Lan has done his best.


    If you want to read precious magic books, you must first join the legendary "Komo University".


    However, to join this mysterious institution, you must have a certain understanding and mastery of magic knowledge. This is undoubtedly a contradictory and thorny problem for Jia Lan, who has just arrived.


    Faced with such a dilemma, Jia Lan had no choice but to answer the questions reluctantly based on his knowledge of the arcane and his vague understanding of the concept of magic.


    Although his heart was full of uncertainty and uneasiness, he understood that this was the only way for him to enter the world of magic.


    In the process of answering questions, Jia Lan gradually discovered that although "arcane" and "magic" seem to be two completely different systems, their principles have amazing similarities.


    After careful tasting, he even felt that "magic" seemed to be born out of "arcane", combined with some other elements and concepts, and derived a new and unique system. However, despite the innovation of "magic" in form, its foundation has not deviated from the scope of "arcane".


    For example, elements, spells, casting gestures and other elements occupy a pivotal position in both "arcane" and "magic". They are not only the key to casting spells, but also the bridge between the caster and the natural world.


    However, although these elements play an important role in both systems, there are significant differences in their application methods and effects.


    In the process of in-depth exploration, Jia Lan also realized from Alan''s brief description that the power system used by magicians to activate magic is completely different from that of arcane mages!


    The arcane mages release arcane by using the arcane particles that have accumulated over the years in the "arcane energy spring" in their bodies and can be controlled by the arcane mages to attract the "wild" arcane particles in nature, thus forming a spell form.


    The more majestic the "domestic arcane particles" in the arcane mages'' bodies, the larger the "wild arcane particles" that can be attracted. This power system tests not only the control ability of the caster, but also their perception and use of the arcane energy in nature.


    If we want to describe the strength of the arcane master, then we can say that the strength of the arcane master is actually related to the number and proportion of "wild arcane particles" that can be attracted by the "domestic arcane particles" in their bodies.


    Assuming that the number of "domestic arcane particles" contained in the "arcane energy spring" in the body of a zero-level caster (a wizard apprentice) is "1", and the ratio of arcane particles that can be attracted is "1:1", then the number of "domestic arcane particles" contained in the "arcane energy spring" in the body of a first-level caster is "10", and the ratio of "wild arcane particles" that can be attracted is "1:10". By analogy, the spellcasting ability and spell power of high-level arcane masters will become very amazing, enough to shock the entire magic world.


    However, in the magic world that Jia Lan came into contact with, the power system used by magicians is completely different from that of arcane masters. They actually store the elemental energy in nature in their bodies, and then release magic by consuming this elemental energy.


    They call this elemental energy "magic power"! This power system not only tests the magician''s storage capacity, but also tests their control and use of magic power.


    For Jia Lan, this near-suicidal behavior is simply unbelievable. He couldn''t imagine what kind of courage and determination would allow magicians to risk their lives to store and use this dangerous and powerful power.

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    The reason why the arcane masters can take the arcane particles into their bodies for nourishment is that arcane is an extremely unique and precious "energy". It is powerful, yet gentle and stable, like a mysterious force in nature, tailor-made for arcane masters.


    The uniqueness of this energy allows arcane masters to transform arcane particles into a part of themselves through long-term nourishment. This not only improves their physical fitness, but also enhances their body''s toughness and durability, and even guarantees their physical health to a certain extent.


    Historically, the lifespan of high-level arcane masters is often amazing. For example, Jia Lan''s mentor, the 13th-level great arcane master, is a super long-lived person with a lifespan of more than 1,300 years.


    The old man is in very good health, and it seems that it is not difficult for him to live another thousand years. This extraordinary vitality is due to his long-term nourishment and use of arcane particles.


    However, compared with the arcane particles in the body of the arcane master, the elemental particles stored in the magician''s body are completely different. Elemental particles are an extremely violent and unstable energy. They are like wild beasts and may get out of control at any time.


    As far as Jia Lan knows, apart from those spellcasters who intend to transform themselves into elemental creatures, almost no magician would risk storing elemental particles in their bodies.


    Because once the state of elemental particles becomes unstable, these magicians will become walking human bombs, which may cause catastrophic consequences at any time.


    What''s more serious is that elemental particles are highly contagious to non-elemental substances. The elemental energy released when they move violently in the body will infect and assimilate all material particles close to them into similar substances. This is undoubtedly a fatal threat to humans as living beings.


    Imagine that once an organ in the body is elementalized, even if the organism does not die immediately, it will lose the original function of the organ, causing serious damage to the human body.


    For example, the fire elementalization of the stomach sac will cause food to be directly incinerated, the earth elementalization of the gallbladder may cause gallstones, the wood elementalization of the heart may cause heart paralysis, the water elementalization of the large intestine may cause people to defecate uncontrollably when sneezing, and the consequences of the anorectal wind elementalization are even more unimaginable.


    This completely different knowledge system made Jia Lan confused and difficult to accept. However, when he saw the health status of the faculty members of "Komo University", although their physical fitness was generally average, it did not seem to be life-threatening. This made Jia Lan even more unable to understand the huge difference between arcane and elemental particles.


    Jia Lan, whose inherent ideas were completely overturned by a magic theory exam, had a messy mind and was full of various questions. As a scholar and researcher, his instinct made him unable to control himself from thinking about these things. He was still thinking about these questions as he followed the candidates who had also handed in their papers to a large auditorium near the examination room.


    They would take the "elemental talent test" there, but Jia Lan was caught in his own storm of thought and did not realize that he had made a serious mistake when handing in the paper - he did not hand in the "admission ticket" with their identity information and exam number filled in with the test paper like other candidates.


    This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.    Since the importance of this theoretical exam was not high, the invigilator who collected the exam papers was rather careless. He just glanced at it quickly and bound Jia Lan''s exam paper with a pin and put it into a wooden file box, without noticing that Jia Lan''s admission ticket was still lying quietly on his desk.


    There were already a lot of file boxes like this, which only marked the exam sessions, behind the invigilator.


    It can be said that unless there are candidates who are admitted in this exam, most of the exam papers will not even have the opportunity to be corrected.


    The space in the auditorium is quite spacious, and at this moment, rows of long wooden tables are placed in the auditorium.


    Behind each wooden table, there is a faculty member from "Komo University". In front of them, there is a square stone slab engraved with a miniature magic circle, which looks like a prop for "elemental talent test".


    Candidates who took the talent test did not rush into the auditorium all at once, but in a row of offices outside the auditorium, first paid the talent test fee of five gold Tarans, received a test sheet with a number, and then lined up outside the auditorium. According to the guide''s call, candidates entered the auditorium in batches for the test.


    Because the theoretical test took twice as long as others, Jia Lan''s number was already out of the 7,000th place. The voice calling the number at the door of the auditorium just called more than 4,000, and it seemed that he had to wait for a while.


    After looking around for a while, Jia Lan did not see Alan. I think this girl who dreams of entering the magic world should have entered the auditorium for the test. I hope she can realize her wish!


    After a magic theory test, Jia Lan''s confidence is obviously not as strong as before, and he is more and more worried about the upcoming elemental talent test, fearing that he will not pass it.


    He poked his head and eavesdropped on the topics discussed by the candidates waiting to be called, hoping to get some useful information from their gossip.


    Poor him, a former assistant lecturer of the affiliated college of "Kolanburg Library", actually began to worry whether he could pass the entrance examination of "Komo University".


    Before that, he had never considered this issue at all, because he thought it was not a problem.


    After eavesdropping for a while, Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief. According to the candidates, the so-called elemental talent test is actually very simple and does not require the tester to make any preparations.


    Because various elements exist naturally in living organisms, when testing, you only need to press your palm on the "element magic board" to measure the values ??of various elements in the tester''s body, thereby determining the tester''s elemental talent category and strength.


    Although there are many people taking the exam, "Komo University" is obviously very experienced in this kind of scene. A total of one hundred test points were arranged in the auditorium. As candidates were constantly called in, Jia Lan waited for more than an hour before it was his turn.


    Following the guide''s instructions, Jia Lan walked to a vacant tester and sat down, placing his test form in front of the tester who was copying something with his head down.

 Chapter 45

    Put your hand on the [Elemental Magic Board], and then say your name, surname, gender, age, race, hometown, nationality...


    He was too busy, and didn''t even raise his head. He took Jia Lan''s test sheet and asked a bunch of questions quickly. Judging from the ice blue magic robe he was wearing and the waning moon school badge on his chest, he should be a level 3 magic apprentice, that is, a third-year student of "Komo University". But looking at his enrollment time and student number, he was a senior who was five years earlier than this batch of freshmen and enrolled in [Apocalypse Calendar 1709].


    "Jia Lan Cang Edi Machus, male, 20 years old, hometown is Donglu Karatu Taibo..."


    Jia Lan answered while looking at the five-pointed star magic circle engraved on the [Elemental Magic Board], and then put his hand on it.


    This five-pointed star magic circle is nothing special to Jia Lan, just a simple [Five-element superposition conduction array]. He thinks this array is a bit complicated. If he is asked to build it, he can simplify it into a [One-element five-phase array].


    "The person who designed this magic array is too lazy. He simply piled up the arcane runes and array lines together. Although it can also achieve the effect of [five-phase] synchronous conduction, it consumes at least 25 times more energy and wastes more than 5 times the materials!"


    Jia Lan muttered in his heart. When the tester heard Jia Lan''s last name and hometown, he looked up at him in surprise. Seeing Jia Lan''s black hair and black eyes, he was stunned for a moment, muttered a few words in a low voice, and then wrote Jia Lan''s information on the test sheet.


    "Cang Edymachus, this last name is rare, and there is also a holy name... Is this guy a descendant of the nobility? Donglu Karatu Taibot? I haven''t heard of it... Black hair and black eyes... Maybe he is a nationality of a small island country in the Eastern Islands [Lazar Federation]... Just write ''Lazar Islands''..."


    After he filled in Jia Lan''s information, he glanced at the [Element Magic Board] and suddenly showed a surprised look. It turned out that the five metal lines of different colors on the [Element Magic Board] did not react at all.


    Jia Lan was shocked, and he suddenly thought that this [Five-Element Superposition Conduction Array] is used to conduct elemental energy in the human body!The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.


    But although he is now a 0-level spellcaster, his body is full of "arcane" instead of "elements". Maybe the elements that should have been in his body were also driven away by the pure arcane in his [arcane energy spring]. In other words, this thing is useless to him!


    The level 3 magic apprentice in charge of the test was a little stunned. This was obviously beyond his knowledge. How could there be no reaction? Even if a stone was placed on it, the [element magic board] should theoretically have some reaction!


    The level 3 magic apprentice pushed Jia Lan''s hand away and placed his palm on the test board. A light blue line slowly rose along the metal track and finally stopped at the number "37". When he removed his palm, the line disappeared; when he put it on again, the line reappeared.


    "Is this thing not broken?" He said to himself in confusion, then took Jia Lan''s hand and tried to put it on the test board, but the test board did not react. He looked up at Jia Lan, then looked down at the test board, tried again and again, but the test board remained silent.


    "..."


    Faced with this sudden situation, he seemed a little at a loss, so he had to call a passing faculty member to help. After checking Jia Lan''s test sheet, the faculty member frowned and said, "Come with me!"


    He led Jia Lan to the back of the auditorium, where some more advanced-looking test props were placed. Jia Lan tried one by one, but all the props had no reaction.


    After a careful inspection, the faculty member looked at Jia Lan with a "sympathetic" look: "Are you the legendary ''demon-repelling physique''? If so, you can hardly use magic..."


    He looked at Jia Lan, then smiled and comforted: "However, you are not completely without a chance to join the University of Science and Magic. Wait here for a moment, I''ll go and ask for instructions!"


    After that, he hurried away with Jia Lan''s test sheet. Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, and didn''t expect such a thing to happen.


    In fact, on that night when the elements were turbulent, Jia Lan''s physique was tempered by a mysterious force into an absolute "arcane physique". In his original era, this physique without any impurities and only flowing with arcane energy would make many spellcasters envious! Even his 13th-level Great Arcane Mage teacher would be amazed!


    You know, even a legendary Great Arcane Mage like his teacher cannot completely remove the "elemental impurities" in his body. The key to improving the spellcasting ability of arcane mages is to absorb as many arcane particles as possible and expel the elemental particles in the body.


    This pure "arcane physique" that Jia Lan accidentally obtained is almost comparable to the "elemental body" of some elemental creatures. During the spellcasting process, he will hardly encounter any obstacles, and the spellcasting speed, spell effect, and spell power will reach the extreme.


    Jia Lan has deeply experienced this in the process of spellcasting in recent days. However, he never expected that his talent would be regarded as a "magic-repelling physique" that is "insulated" from magic in the eyes of spellcasters of this era.


    It doesn''t sound like a good thing... It seems that his hope of joining the Science and Magic University has become very slim!

 Chapter 46

    Although he failed to join the University of Science and Technology, this did not bring any substantial negative impact to Jia Lan, who had a complete system of arcane knowledge inheritance. After all, with the arcane knowledge deep in his memory, he was fully capable of self-study and even embarked on the path of becoming the arcane master he had always dreamed of.


    However, this also meant that he would lose the opportunity to enter the vast library of the University of Science and Technology, which undoubtedly added a bit of difficulty to his attempt to solve the mystery of the mysterious earth vein explosion 1,700 years ago by consulting the precious books in the library.


    Just as Jia Lan was lost in thought and trying to find other ways to obtain the borrowing rights of the library of the University of Science and Technology, the faculty member who was responsible for the test hurried back and led him to a slightly small but well-arranged small office at the back of the auditorium.


    "Please sit down!" The middle-aged man with a kind smile politely asked Jia Lan to sit behind a slightly quaint desk. He smiled and asked, "Black tea or milk tea? Let me see... Sorry! It seems that only black tea is available here."


    Obviously, this is not his daily office, so he spent some time to find two exquisite teacups and a can of fragrant black tea from a slightly old cabinet in the office.


    After gently putting a little tea in the cup, the clergyman pulled out a delicate yew wood magic wand about one foot long from the depths of the magic robe. He drew an elegant circle slightly, and then gently tapped the two teacups, and saw two groups of pure and flawless water condensed out of thin air, falling into the teacups as lightly as elves. Soon, curling steam rose from the teacups, and the whole room was filled with the mellow aroma of black tea.


    Jia Lan kept a polite smile and watched the wonderful performance of the caster without saying a word. The clergyman''s spellcasting skills were obviously quite skilled, and his control of the elements was even more exquisite.


    Just now, he skillfully used two so-called "magic abilities", which is undoubtedly a very advanced spellcasting skill in the pursuit of single element specialization.


    "I''m sorry! Due to the limited conditions here, there is no milk and sugar to add, so I can only use this simple black tea to entertain you." Pushing a cup of hot black tea gently in front of Jia Lan, the faculty member sat down opposite Jia Lan.


    He smiled and introduced himself: "I am Donaldson, one of the admissions officers of the 1714th class of the University of Science and Technology, and also a substitute teacher for the third-year water element subject."


    Jia Lan wanted to give a mage salute to show respect, but then he thought that his "demon-repelling physique" had been exposed, so he just nodded gently: "Hello, you can call me Jia Lan."


    There was no excessive greetings, no redundant inquiries, and after introducing himself, Jia Lan quietly waited for Donaldson''s explanation.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.


    After all, after he was tested to be "insulated" from magic, the other party specially called him to the office, obviously not just to invite him to taste a cup of black tea. Donaldson couldn''t help but feel a little surprised at Jia Lan''s calmness and composure. As the admissions officer, he had seen countless young people who were lost, frustrated, or even desperate because of poor elemental talents. It was rare for a young man like this one to face reality so calmly after learning that he had a "magic-repelling physique".


    Professor Donaldson slowly picked up the teacup, blew it gently, and then took a sip. He then licked the tea foam on his lips, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes, and smiled at Jia Lan who was sitting opposite him: "Student Jia Lan, judging from your recent performance, I guess you seem to have known in advance that you have the special physique of ''Demon Repelling Physique''?"


    Jia Lan shook his head helplessly, with a bit of confusion in his eyes: "No, actually I don''t know... To be more precise, before you revealed this information to me just now, I knew almost nothing about ''Demon Repelling Physique''."


    He could only answer like this, smiling bitterly in his heart. After all, he couldn''t reveal the truth to this respected faculty member:


    [In fact, I am not an ordinary "magician", but an "arcanist" who masters the power of "arcane". What I rely on is not the traditional "element" energy, but the more profound "arcane" energy. Therefore, the "demon repelling physique" you mentioned has no great impact on me. I sincerely hope that you can allow me to join the University of Science and Magic and continue my arcane research. ]


    However, he could only keep these secrets deep in his heart.


    Professor Donaldson was a little surprised by Jia Lan''s answer. He frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "It''s like this, Jia Lan. According to the elemental talent test standards of our University of Science and Magic, only students with any element value exceeding ''10'' are eligible to enter the main department of this college to study magic knowledge. And if your five-element talent values ??are generally lower than ''5'' but greater than ''0'', then you may only be able to enter the auxiliary department to study alchemy, enchantment and other subjects..."


    He paused slightly, as if he was considering his words so as not to bring too much of a blow to the young student.


    Jia Lan shrugged, and a self-deprecating smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Are you trying to tell me that I am not the material for learning magic, so let me get out as far as possible?"


    Professor Donaldson, who was holding up the teacup to taste tea again, heard the words, and suddenly "puffed" and choked out two sprays from his nose. At the same time, the teacup in his hand also shook violently, and the tea rose up like a fountain. He hurriedly put down the teacup, held the edge of the table and coughed violently, his face instantly turned red.


    "Of course, if you want to inform me that I was not admitted to the University of Science and Technology, then you don''t have to invite me in for tea." Jia Lan continued to speak to himself as if he didn''t see Professor Donaldson''s embarrassed appearance, "Let me guess? Is it because my "demon-repelling physique" is extremely rare in the University of Science and Technology, so you have a strong interest in me and plan to keep me for in-depth research?"


    "Cough cough cough! Jia Lan... classmate... cough cough cough! You... you are so humorous... cough cough cough!" Professor Donaldson coughed so hard that he almost couldn''t breathe, but he was amused by Jia Lan''s words and wanted to laugh. Pain and smile intertwined on his face, forming a rather weird picture.


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, then shrugged helplessly: "Well, even I think I am quite humorous."


    [Oops! ]


    Jia Lan secretly cried out in his heart that something was wrong. [It seems that I am increasingly affected by the memories left by another soul! This sudden sense of humor makes me feel a little at a loss.]

 Chapter 47

    "Oh my god! Jia Lan, you are definitely the most interesting freshman I have ever seen!"


    Donaldson wiped the tea that splashed on his face, panting and laughing, with a strange light flashing in his eyes, "You guessed right, I am indeed very interested in your unique physique, and I want to invite you to stay and participate in some magic experiments..."


    After a while, Donaldson finally recovered. He wiped his face in embarrassment and continued to laugh: "I have to clarify that not all magicians are evil necromancers. You don''t have to worry about being used as a test subject and sliced ??for research. Our Science and Magic Academy has strict moral codes and experimental specifications."


    Jia Lan muttered to himself: [Are necromancers really evil? ] In his time, except for those theocratic countries, the [Necromancy] school was one of the eight important schools on par with the seven major schools of "Protection, Spells, Prophecy, Enchantment, Shaping, Illusion, and Transmutation".


    However, the "necromancer" mentioned by Donaldson seems to refer specifically to the mages who study the [necromancer sub-school] of the [necromancy] school, and does not involve other knowledge contents such as [undead sub-school] and [ghost sub-school].


    Perhaps because they often deal with corpses and skeletons, they are not well understood by the public in this era.


    "Although your elemental talent is indeed not enough to become a magic apprentice," Donaldson changed his tone and became serious, "but given your special physique, if you are willing to stay and cooperate with the academy to conduct some related magic experiments, I think we can provide you with a special opportunity."


    After laughing for a while, Donaldson, as the admissions officer of the 1714 class, extended a sincere invitation to Jia Lan: "I am willing to recruit you to the [Science and Magic Academy] and recommend you to study in any [auxiliary departments] such as [linguistics], [identification], [archaeology], [heraldry], [sculpture], and [totemism]! Although these subjects are not as focused on magic research as the [main department], they also contain endless wisdom and mysteries."


    This is undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for Jia Lan. Since solving the problem of alien souls interfering with spellcasting, he has been determined to become a great arcane master who can ignite the "arcane fire" like his teacher.


    As for whether he can join the [main department] to study the so-called "magic" that he thinks is a mess, he doesn''t really care.


    However, Jia Lan still had doubts in his heart: "I don''t really have the ''demon-repelling physique''. Is it really okay for me to join the [Demon Science Academy] as a ''test subject''?"


    Seeing Jia Lan''s hesitation, Donaldson obviously didn''t want to lose this rare "demon-repelling physique" research subject. He persuaded temptingly: "If you agree, Jia Lan, the college will not only waive your tuition, provide you with accommodation and meals, but also provide you with a generous scholarship. Every time you participate in an experiment, you can get an additional subsidy!"


    In order to dispel Jia Lan''s concerns, Donaldson kindly explained: "Please rest assured, the so-called "demon-repelling experiment" will not harm your life and health. We just need you to cooperate with some simple tests. These tests are designed to explore the special features of your physique and its possible impact on magic."Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.


    Jia Lan heard this and nodded slightly. After thinking for a while, he made a small request: "Although I can''t study in the [main department], I still hope to be able to audit the courses of various departments. In addition, I hope to obtain the reading rights of the college library."


    "As long as you officially become a member of [Komo University] and wear this academic badge that symbolizes identity and honor, you can step into our magnificent library and enjoy the privilege of borrowing books. However, it should be noted that you can only borrow relatively elementary books. This is not only a measure taken by the college to protect precious materials, but also to allow you to absorb knowledge step by step."


    Jia Lan''s request made admissions officer Donaldson slightly stunned. He looked embarrassed, and then continued with a hint of apology in his tone: "Regarding borrowing rights, I must tell you the truth. The library''s borrowing fees are calculated based on the preciousness of the book and the length of borrowing time."


    "As for auditing courses, although the standard courses are already included in the tuition, the special lectures given by magic professors of different levels are charged by class hour, ranging from two gold talans to five gold talans per class hour. There are also special lectures by some high-level magic professors, and one class is as high as twenty gold talans."


    "The academy will not bear this part of the cost for you. If you only want to audit the standard courses, I can apply for an ''auditor'' status for you, so that you can easily integrate into the learning atmosphere. But if you are interested in the special lectures of magic professors, you have to bear the cost yourself."


    Jia Lan heard it and waved his hand quickly, his eyes flashing with a desire for knowledge: "No, no, no! The qualification to audit the standard courses is enough for me. As for the special lectures of magic professors, if I am interested, I will solve the cost myself."


    Then, Jia Lan seemed to realize something and hurriedly added: "The borrowing rights I mentioned actually refer to ''unrestricted reading rights''. You also know that in my case, it is almost impossible to get promoted to a senior grade. If I follow the borrowing rights of the academic year, I simply cannot access too many valuable books. I just hope to learn more about magic, so I hope to borrow some books for senior grades, or even some precious ancient books."


    Jia Lan''s words were full of seriousness and sincerity. He continued: "I have a strong interest in [linguistics], [identification] and [archaeology], and hope to be able to access precious books and volumes in these fields to satisfy my endless pursuit of knowledge."


    Listening to Jia Lan''s explanation, Donaldson looked at him sympathetically. A student with a "magic-repelling physique" is destined not to become a leader in the field of magic.


    Even if he relies on those [auxiliary department] subjects that do not require elemental talent to accumulate enough credits, he cannot graduate successfully from [Magic University]. At most, he can only receive a certificate of completion and some degree certificates of [auxiliary department] subjects.


    However, Donaldson knew that the main purpose of recruiting Jia Lante to [Magic University] was to add a rare "experimental subject" to the magic laboratory of the academy.


    Compared with Jia Lan''s rare and precious "magic-repelling physique", the conditions he proposed were nothing to the academy.


    Moreover, as an educator, Donaldson knew that the passion for knowledge was worth encouraging. For him, the admissions director and third-year substitute teacher, it was not difficult to help Jia Lan realize his wish.


    So, Donaldson nodded, with a hint of relief in his tone: "Okay! I can try to apply for a part-time job in the library for you. In this way, except for a few precious books and files that require special approval from the academy to borrow, other books will be open to you. I hope you can swim in the ocean of knowledge and absorb nutrients to your heart''s content."


    Donaldson actually felt guilty about the decision to recruit Jia Lante to [Magic University].


    He knew that for Jia Lan, who had a "demon-repelling physique", staying at [Demon University] might not be the best choice. He would be more suitable to learn a skill that could support his livelihood in the future, or go to places like [Combat Vocational College] or [Mercenary Guild]''s mercenary training classes.

 Chapter 48

    However, as an academic researcher with a heavy responsibility, Donaldson knew that Jia Lan was a rare test subject, and his existence was of immeasurable value to the scientific research progress of the college and the academic reputation he might obtain.


    Although he was full of guilt, for the sake of the overall situation, he could only go against his conscience and try every possible way to persuade Jia Lan to join [Komo University]. Within his authority, he tried his best to meet Jia Lan''s various requirements as compensation for Jia Lan.


    The two sides finally reached an agreement, and Donaldson personally took Jia Lan to handle a series of cumbersome admission procedures.


    Not only did he win a librarian position in the Great Library for Jia Lan, but he also got him the status of a special recruit and a special auditor, as well as a special researcher identity certificate for the [Komo University] Magic Laboratory. These identities gave Jia Lan more freedom and convenience on campus.


    Not only that, Donaldson also personally handled a generous scholarship of 20 gold talans per month for Jia Lan, which was undoubtedly an affirmation of his talent and potential.


    However, in terms of accommodation, Jia Lan refused the student dormitory arranged by Donaldson for him, and chose the librarian''s rest hut attached to the college''s library.


    Although the hut is a little small, the environment is very quiet, which is convenient for him to read a large number of books in the library at close range, and convenient for the laboratory to temporarily summon him to participate in experiments.


    In this way, Jia Lan transformed himself into a "campus free man" with special audit qualifications, half student, half school worker, and half experimental product, specially recruited by [Komo University].


    Not only can he freely read all books with level 1 to level 9 permissions in the library with his identity as a librarian, but he can also audit all the standard courses of subjects he is interested in from grades 1 to 9 as an auditor. This undoubtedly provides him with an excellent learning and research platform.


    Donaldson also solemnly promised that if Jia Lan can obtain a degree certificate in any [auxiliary department] during his "study", he will do his best to help him get the opportunity to stay in school.


    After everything was settled, Jia Lan looked at the badges on his chest and couldn''t help but feel a little amused.


    Fate is sometimes repetitive. He originally just wanted to get a student status of [KoMo University] so that he could go in and out of the library to check information, but he didn''t expect to become a librarian again in this era.This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    In addition to his status as a researcher and a special auditor, his situation is almost the same as his situation in the "previous era" except for the different times and places!


    After obtaining the "official identity" of this era, Jia Lan has taken the first step to reintegrate into this era.


    No matter what terrible things happened in this world 1,700 years ago, as a "survivor", he must face reality bravely and work hard to survive.


    He looked around and found that it was the time when old students returned to school and new students enrolled. Students were busy with admission procedures, while faculty members were busy handling official business. The large library, which was originally located in a remote corner of [KoMo University], was particularly quiet.


    Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Jia Lan carefully activated the constant [Cleansing Technique] on his [Identification Robe] that was dyed light blue.


    A circle of transparent light with his body as the center swept over, and the librarian''s rest room covered with heavy dust and cobwebs became clean in the blink of an eye. Even the dull and musty smell caused by long periods of no one living there was swept away by the light and excluded from the open doors and windows.


    Jia Lan was not in a hurry to step into the ancient and mysterious library to look up information, but first carefully observed the simple little house.


    The house was simply furnished and dimly lit, but the air was filled with a faint scent of books, which made him take a deep breath.


    Jia Lan knew that this would be his residence for a long time in the future, so he decided to buy some daily necessities to make his little home more cozy and comfortable.


    According to Donaldson, since the death of the last old administrator, no one in the school has been willing to transfer a new administrator.


    First, the position of librarian is extremely low in the University of Komo, with a meager salary and tedious work, just like a gravekeeper in a cemetery, repeating boring tasks day after day.


    Second, this college with a history of hundreds of years also has a creepy horror legend in its library.


    It is said that since the death of the previous generation of old administrators more than a decade ago, a "midnight scholar" who would appear at twelve o''clock in the night has appeared in this huge, gloomy and ancient library.


    Over the years, countless "witnesses" have claimed that they saw lights flickering in the empty library at midnight.


    Some even claimed that they had personally witnessed a translucent, white-bearded old man in a white robe, holding an oil lamp emitting a faint blue light, floating between the bookshelves like a ghost.


    Therefore, no one would appear in the library before nine in the morning and after five in the afternoon.


    However, for Jia Lan, this was a good thing, because he could avoid the crowd and enjoy the large number of books in the library alone, immersed in the ocean of knowledge.


    After a general tour of his future work environment, Jia Lan had a preliminary understanding of the environment here.


    But he suddenly felt that he seemed to have forgotten something. After thinking about it, he remembered that he and Alan had agreed to meet under the huge statue of the founder of the college in front of the college gate at about noon after taking the entrance examination.


    Since Jia Lan spent nearly twice as much time as others in the magic theory exam, and the subsequent elemental talent test had the problem of "magic repelling constitution".


    In addition, he did waste a lot of time in the interview with Donaldson and handling various admission procedures. At this moment, it was past lunch time, around 2 pm, and Jia Lan, who was always punctual, had to rush to the direction of the academy gate.

 Chapter 49

    Komo University, a city-level institution with a long history of 200 years and hundreds of thousands of students, stands on this vast land like a treasure house of knowledge. Its vast area is breathtaking. Even walking on the campus often makes people feel like they are in a maze.


    And the Komo University Library, an academic palace that contains endless wisdom and mysteries, is located in a quiet corner behind the college, far away from the hustle and bustle, quiet and solemn.


    In order to get back to the gate of the college, Jia Lan had to speed up his pace, cross the winding path, cross the historic stone bridge, and finally reach his destination after spending nearly half an hour.


    From a distance, Jia Lan saw the girl sitting quietly on a bench near the statue of the founder of the college. She hugged her knees blankly, her eyes were empty and confused, as if she was thinking about some profound questions, and seemed to be recalling the good times of the past. In the afterglow of the setting sun, her figure seemed particularly lonely and weak, which made people feel pity.


    "Hey! Alan!" Jia Lan greeted from a distance, with a hint of warmth and kindness in her voice.


    This call was like a clear spring, instantly breaking the girl''s meditation. Alan showed a surprised smile, and that smile was as bright and beautiful as the flowers blooming in spring.


    She jumped down from the bench lightly like a deer, and like a cheerful lark, she nimbly passed through the bustling crowd and trotted all the way to Jia Lan''s side.


    "Jia Lan, what took you so long? I''ve been waiting for a long time!" The girl''s words were filled with a hint of blame and coquettishness.


    She took out a piece of dry bread from her leather shoulder bag and handed it to Jia Lan. The bread exuded a faint aroma of wheat and milk, which made people salivate. "We missed lunch time, you must be hungry, right? Fortunately, Aunt Brown prepared some bread and bacon for us when we went out this morning, and a small bottle of milk! I''ve eaten it, these are for you..."


    Jia Lan smiled and took the dry bread and milk handed by the girl, and found a quiet place to sit down.  While tasting this simple but warm food, he listened to the girl''s excited chattering. The girl''s voice was crisp and pleasant, like a mountain stream, making people feel relaxed and happy.


    "I passed the entrance exam!" The girl''s tone was full of pride and joy. However, she then showed a little lost look.


    "Unfortunately, my elemental talent is too poor and too messy. The wind, wood, water, fire, and earth have 1 point each, so I can only study in the junior college of the auxiliary department..." There was a hint of helplessness and regret in her tone.


    "But when filling in the subject intention, I filled in pharmacy. Thank you for teaching me the preparation skills a few days ago..." The girl''s words were full of gratitude and admiration.


    However, when she mentioned the tuition issue, her face showed a sad look again.  "It''s just that the tuition is too expensive. It costs 200 gold talans for one school year, and it doesn''t include food, accommodation, books, management fees, experiment fees, material fees... Some lectures also charge extra fees. If all the money is added up in a year, I''m afraid 500 gold talans won''t be enough..."


    "And I heard that if the junior college students in our auxiliary department don''t accumulate enough credits every year, they have to pay 50£¥ of the tuition fee as "education resource occupation fee" to continue studying. It''s too abominable!" The girl''s tone was filled with anger and injustice.


    She was kind and simple by nature, but a little confused. Faced with these cumbersome fees and regulations, she felt helpless and confused.


    Suddenly, she asked curiously: "What about you, Jia Lan? Your magic skills are so powerful, and you also know pharmacy. You must have been selected as an undergraduate, right?" Her eyes were full of expectation and envy.


    Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.    Hearing Alan''s question, Jia Lan couldn''t help but smile bitterly. It seemed that neither he nor Alan had good luck.


    He had a rare "demon-repelling physique", while Alan had a rare "multi-element physique".


    From the perspective of talent, these two physiques are exactly the two extremes that are least suitable for becoming a magician.


    Due to the unique "exclusivity" of elements, a series of elements with high content will gradually exclude elements with low content from the body, forming an environment suitable for the aggregation of a single element.


    Therefore, there are usually no more than two elemental characteristics in an organism. In this era, this characteristic is called "element affinity".


    Of course, from the perspective of natural probability, there is also a certain probability that two elements in the human body will reach a certain balance and cannot repel each other.


    However, the probability of this happening is very small, about no more than one in ten thousand.


    However, no matter how small the probability is, it is not impossible to happen.


    Therefore, assuming that the probability of "two-system balance" is one in ten thousand, the probability of each additional system will increase tenfold.


    That is to say, the probability of "three-element balance" is as high as one in 100,000, "four-element balance" will reach one in a million, and theoretically, the probability of "five-element balance" will be as high as one in ten million!


    And Alan seems to have encountered this "one in ten million" probability unfortunately, which is no less rare than his "demon-repelling physique".


    Jia Lan estimated that Alan had no idea what his "five-element balance" physique meant.


    Even the third-year senior who did the elemental talent test for her may not be very clear about the meaning of this physique, and let Alan pass the test carelessly.


    Otherwise, Jia Lan might not be the only one who got the status of "little white mouse special enrollment".


    Although he didn''t know much about the magic system of this era, Jia Lan had a deep study of "elements".


    As far as he knew, unless there was the ability to fuse two elements into a "composite element", any two elements would conflict and repel each other, but the degree of conflict and repulsion was different.


    Therefore, let alone a "five-element balance" physique like Alan, even a person with "two-element balance" is not suitable to be a magician who relies on "element energy" to cast magic.


    Because the rejection reaction caused by the imbalance of any element may cause the elements in the caster''s body to be disordered. At the least, he will be seriously injured by the backlash, and at the worst, he will explode and die!


    Of course, it is not ruled out that there are geniuses who can always maintain the balance between elements, such as the legendary "double-element magician".


    However, even if a person who forcibly learns magic under the condition of "two-element balance" can achieve something, it is like tying a noose around his neck and walking on a high-altitude rope. He may die at any time due to an accident.


    After all, there are too many factors that can cause elemental disorder: it may be because of the release of a single-element magic; it may be because of the loss of control of the "magic power" in the body under the influence of the outside world; it may be bombarded by a "repulsive" elemental magic from the enemy in battle; it may even be just because of a sneeze...


    Therefore, people with "multi-element physique" are really not suitable to be magicians.


    On the contrary, those who have poor elemental talents or have no "elemental talents" like Jia Lan are not that dangerous.

 Chapter 50

    Alan''s "five-element balance" physique really surprised Jia Lan, and at the same time, he also had a heavy worry in his heart.


    This innocent and kind girl was the first person to lend him a helping hand when he woke up in this strange era, full of confusion and helplessness.


    That warmth and kindness, like a ray of sunshine in winter, illuminated his way forward.


    However, facing Alan''s eyes full of expectations and longing, Jia Lan fell into a deep contradiction.


    He couldn''t bear to tell this girl who was full of yearning for the magic world and eager to rewrite her fate through her own efforts, this cruel and cold reality.


    He knew that once the truth came out, the innocence and dreams would probably be shattered in an instant, leaving endless despair and haze.


    Frowning slightly, Jia Lan tried to make his expression gentle and relaxed.


    He vaguely avoided Alan''s inquiring gaze and cleverly interrupted: "I also passed the entrance examination! By the way, Alan, have you completed all the admission procedures?" His tone was full of concern and encouragement, as if he was cheering Alan up.


    The simple-minded Alan was immediately diverted. She smiled happily and said, "It''s all done! It''s just that I was worried that you were waiting too long, so I didn''t have time to check the assigned dormitory. Who knew you would come so late!" Her smile was as gorgeous as a flower in spring, which made people feel warm.


    "Well! Then, let''s go to the small market attached to the college and pick out some bedding supplies?" Jia Lan suggested with a smile.


    However, in his heart, he was constantly thinking about how to solve Alan''s "five-element balance" problem.


    In fact, it was not difficult for Jia Lan to solve Alan''s problem. He only needed to inject the pure and incomparable arcane energy in his body into Alan''s body, just like his teacher did for him back then.


    With the power of arcane, which is a higher level of energy than elements, he is fully capable of expelling the thin five elements in Alan''s body, thus fundamentally solving the hidden danger of element disorder.


    However, what makes Jia Lan hesitant is that he is not sure whether the arcane system he has mastered is suitable for the physique of people in this era.


    After all, in his era, he has never seen a large number of elements in people''s bodies.


    Maybe the times are different, and people''s physiques have also changed dramatically with the change of environment.


    If that''s the case, turning Alan from a "magic apprentice" to a "mage apprentice" may actually cause harm to her.


    What''s more, the arcane, which is completely out of touch with the current era, will undoubtedly cause an uproar once it is exposed.


    This will not only have unpredictable effects on Alan and himself, but may even have a subversive impact on the entire era. Such risks and consequences force Jia Lan to be extremely cautious.


    If the elements in Alan''s body were expelled by the arcane energy, and Alan could not master the arcane secrets, wouldn''t it be counterproductive and ruin a girl''s dream of becoming a magician? Such a result is unacceptable to Jia Lan.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it


    Of course, there are ways to ensure Alan''s safety while preserving the elements in her body.


    For example, he knows the "element transformation method" practiced by those alternative mages who transform themselves into elemental creatures.


    However, such a method is too cruel for Alan.


    She will have to abandon her original human identity and become a strange existence of half human and half element.


    This is undoubtedly an unbearable price for a girl in her prime.


    What''s more, such an identity can easily make people regard her as a monster and kill her. Such risks and dangers also make Jia Lan feel extremely entangled and contradictory.


    Then, the only safe way is probably to rely on Jia Lan to use his superb arcane methods to stabilize the various elements in Alan''s body that are ready to move.


    He must carefully use his power to forcibly suppress these elements so that they will not backfire on Alan''s fragile body due to imbalance.


    However, this involves the issue of Jia Lan''s own strength. After all, he is now just a 0-level spellcaster equivalent to the level of "High Mage Apprentice".


    In this world full of strong people, his power is far from being strong.


    Once Alan''s magic power advances by leaps and bounds and exceeds the arcane power he can control, the seal he set may be destroyed. At that time, those elements that have been suppressed for a long time will burst out like wild horses, and the damage caused may be more serious, and the consequences will be unimaginable.


    Jia Lan felt distressed about this, and now he can only silently pray that the girl''s magic talent is not too outstanding.


    Although he also knows that this possibility is not great. After all, no matter what, he is a polymath who once served as an assistant lecturer. He has been struggling on the road of magic for many years. It is not that he is not as fast as a beginner, right?


    When she heard that she was going shopping, the young girl Alan immediately seemed a little impatient. She excitedly dragged Jialan and went straight to the small market attached to the college without waiting for him to slowly finish drinking the milk in his hand.


    When it comes to shopping, women seem to be born with a unique passion and expertise.


    Whether it is the era when Jialan originally lived or the present era, women have shown outstanding talents in negotiation, bargaining, persuasion and valuation.


    Jialan, who originally thought that buying daily necessities was just a simple matter, finally understood this secret deeply after following Alan for three hours.


    With her keen valuation expertise, Alan was like a fish in water in the small market attached to the college.


    She accurately deduced the price of various items close to the cost, and negotiated and negotiated with the shop owners for a long time.


    In the fierce confrontation between the two sides, Alan successfully persuaded the bosses with her wisdom and eloquence, and finally bought all the items they needed at a price of about one-fifth of Jialan''s estimated purchase cost.


    Moreover, she also received a large bag of small commodities of unknown use "generously" given by the bosses.


    When Alan decided to leave the small market, Jialan and the bosses secretly breathed a sigh of relief.


    Women who shop, especially smart and capable women like Alan, are even more terrible than Berserkers who have activated the "violent" skill! Their persistence and perseverance in shopping can often create amazing miracles.


    In this way, Alan counted the few coins left in her purse, and seemed to be very dissatisfied and muttered that the living expenses might not be enough.


    She kept looking back at the fearful shop owners, as if showing off her achievements.


    Jialan looked at Alan''s proud look and secretly wiped a cold sweat.


    It was really hard for him to understand that the two of them only bought two Jintalans and six silver Jims in total. Did they have to spend a full three hours bargaining? It would be great if this time was used to do other things, such as preparing a few pots of precious potions!


    "The remaining Jintalan is not enough to last until the end of the semester!" Alan said with some concern.


    She began to consider the possibility of applying for a student loan. However, Jia Lan immediately suggested: "Well, Alan, I think you''d better not apply for a student loan! I''ll pay your tuition for the time being."


    He knew the shady dealings and traps of this so-called "student loan". Once you apply for a student loan, although you can waive the fees during the study period, it is extremely difficult to repay it, which is equivalent to selling the five to fifteen years after graduation to the college. Such a price is really too high, and it is definitely not worth it.

 Chapter 51

    "How is that possible..." Alan''s expression was a little surprised.


    "Don''t rush to refuse, listen to me. This kind of student loan will have a very high interest rate when it is repaid!"


    Without waiting for the girl with a strong sense of self-esteem to refuse, Jia Lan said in a persuasive manner: "And I can lend you tuition without interest, as long as you return the principal to me after graduation... Are you willing to pay high interest to the college, or are you willing to accept my interest-free loan? Moreover, as one of the "investors" of [Lemli Pharmacy Workshop], you can also enjoy dividends! Don''t worry about not being able to pay it back."


    "But you have already paid me back the money!" Alan said shyly: "No need to give me dividends! I didn''t help much, and you taught me a lot of pharmaceutical skills... If you hadn''t let me work in [Lemli Pharmacy Workshop], I might not be able to get enough tuition..."


    Perhaps thinking of the huge interest mentioned by Jia Lan, the girl hesitated for a moment and said awkwardly: "Then... Jia Lan, please lend me 300 gold talans first! When the college is closed on weekends, I will go to [Lemli Potion Workshop] and work hard... In addition, I will find a few more part-time jobs and should be able to pay you back at the end of the semester!"


    This innocent girl''s estimate of the cost of studying at [Komo University] is really too low!


    Jia Lan, who once served as an assistant lecturer, knows that although the tuition fee for one academic year at [Komo University] is "only" 200 gold talans.


    But in fact, this part of the cost is only the most insignificant part of the entire learning process.


    The real big part is "tuition and miscellaneous fees" such as book fees, experiment fees, material fees, and lecture fees.


    Take "book fees" for example. Although the cost of basic learning materials is included in the tuition, some precious arcane books, spell materials, and especially the experience manuscripts of some high-level mages, are impossible to be open to students for free!


    In Jia Lan''s original era, not to mention buying a spell book directly, the price of copying a 0th-level arcane book by yourself would not be less than 50 gold coins, not to mention higher-level ones.


    Jia Lan is not sure how much it costs to copy books in this era.


    But he has become the new librarian. From the "Administrator''s Manual", he learned that [Komo University Library] also provides this service.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    Considering the price and consumption level of this era, the price must not be too low.


    Books, which symbolize "knowledge", are an expensive luxury. And writing paper and ink are also luxury goods in this era.


    A piece of Alsophila sylvatica paper with a size of only one square meter is worth as much as 4 silver jims. However, it is surprising that such expensive paper can only be cut into 35 standard pages of paper.


    In other words, if you want to bind a standard 100-page book, you will need to spend at least 1 gold talan and 2 silver jims.


    Even if you choose parchment, which is half the price, the price is still high and it is not something that ordinary people can easily afford.


    And the sea ink used for writing, a kind of squid super thick ink that is not easy to fade, even in the city of Kolan, located on the seaside, as one of the production places, a small bottle of 30 grams will not cost less than 8 gold talans.


    To copy a standard 100-page book, at least one or two small bottles are needed, and such a cost is even more staggering.


    This is just the cost price of making a book.


    No wonder some people sigh: "Knowledge is the patent of the nobility", and some people bluntly say: "In the world of magic, please leave, mortals (poor people)!"


    In this context, the 300 gold Talans that Alan "borrowed" from Jia Lan were not enough to last until the end of the semester, and even the cost of copying a few more books was not enough, not to mention the almost unlimited experimental costs and material costs.


    Frequent experiments are indispensable to deeply understand the mysteries of magic.


    It is impossible to really get in touch with the core content of magic with only written theoretical knowledge.


    The materials consumed for an experiment range from hundreds to thousands or even tens of thousands, and there is no way to talk about the cap.


    It can be said that the experience of a spellcaster is completely accumulated by a large amount of gold coins.


    The 300 gold Talans that Alan borrowed are far from meeting such needs.


    However, Jia Lan did not tell the girl about these cruel realities, but just smiled and said: "300 gold talans? Of course! But the dividends from the pharmacy workshop still have to be paid to you, and this part of the loan will be deducted from your dividends! In addition, after school starts, you don''t have to go to the pharmacy workshop, Alan..."


    "Huh? Why? Is there something I did wrong?" The girl clasped her hands nervously, her eyes full of pleading, "I will work hard! I will also seriously learn pharmaceutical skills!"


    For Alan, compared to working in pubs, restaurants and other places, the salary of the pharmacy workshop is much higher, and she can also be exposed to knowledge and skills related to the "Pharmacy" subject she applied for.


    "Don''t worry, it''s not because you didn''t do well that we won''t let you go!" Jia Lan explained with a smile, "It''s just that after school starts, the study tasks will be very heavy, and working part-time may affect your studies. You don''t want to pay the college 50£¥ of the tuition fee for "education resource occupation fee" because you don''t have enough credits in the next school year, right?"


    Alan was a little entangled when he heard this: "But...but..."


    Jia Lan smiled and said: "If you plan to find a part-time job, I can recommend one to you. I have already found a part-time job in the college library, and the salary is very high! And there, you can also get in touch with more books and knowledge, which will be of great help to your study."

 Chapter 52

    Jia Lan slowed down her speech and said to Alan: "You know, I also participated in the pharmaceutical research of the college laboratory. You can help me do the research, so that I can help you apply for a scholarship, and you can also waive some tuition fees, and your knowledge of pharmacy can also be improved!"


    "Really? Really?" Alan widened her eyes and looked at Jia Lan with admiration, "You are so amazing. You found such a good job so quickly! I want to go! I want to go!"


    Jia Lan smiled proudly: "Then from now on, I am your boss! Remember to come to the library to find me after class every day! If you are late, I will deduct your salary!"


    "I promise!" Alan jumped up like a little rabbit, jumping around Jia Lan excitedly, without realizing that Jia Lan had helped her send a lot of things back to the girls'' dormitory.


    After Jialan handed the blanket, quilt, bed sheet and other things to Alan, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her happily running into the dormitory with her things. He shook his tired and sore arms and prepared to carry his things back to the administrator''s lounge next to the library.


    But before he had walked far, he heard Alan hurriedly catching up. She was a little out of breath and her face flushed. She complained: "Why don''t you wait for me?"


    Jialan was stunned for a moment, and Alan took the initiative to take some things from his hand and help him carry them.


    She looked at Jialan and blinked: "Aren''t you going to have dinner? I heard that the spice-roasted antelope legs in the college restaurant are delicious. Let''s go and try them together? I''ll treat you!"


    Jialan looked up at the sky and found that it was time for dinner. He was in a hurry to go back to the library to read and forgot about dinner.


    Seeing Alan''s expectant eyes, Jialan smiled: "Okay!"


    Alan came to Kelan City from the distant Maigeng Village to study. She had no relatives here, only Jialan, a friend of similar age and familiar to her.


    In this unfamiliar environment, she was somewhat dependent on Jialan and always wanted to stay with him.


    Jialan grew up with a teacher, and the people he was familiar with were all middle-aged and elderly spellcasters.


    He had never been relied on by anyone younger than him, and this feeling made him feel both novel and beautiful.


    Jialan smiled gently, patted Alan''s head, took the not-so-heavy things from her hands, and walked towards the library.


    Alan was stunned by Jialan''s intimate actions, but soon blushed, and followed happily, sharing with Jialan all the new things she saw at Kemo University.


    She didn''t realize that when she talked to Jialan, her voice was a little coquettish, just like when she followed the little brother in the village when she was a child.


    [KoMo University] is a huge city-level building with hundreds of thousands of people living in it.


    There are not only daily facilities such as supermarkets and restaurants, but also many places to play, such as pubs, concert halls, and theaters.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    Each college has its own service facilities, especially those distinctive college restaurants, such as the [Fire Demon Barbecue] restaurant of the Fire Magic Branch, which specializes in selling barbecue and is particularly famous. Every time it is meal time, students from other colleges will come to eat.


    But it is not good for the restaurant to be too famous, because [Fire Demon Barbecue] is always crowded and it is difficult to grab a seat.


    When Jia Lan and Alan arrived at the Fire Magic Branch, it was already very late, so there was no seat. They either had to wait for others to finish eating or take it away.


    But the "spice-roasted antelope legs" of [Fire Demon Barbecue] are best eaten while hot. If you take it away, it will not taste good when it is cold. Therefore, many students would rather wait and eat on the spot.


    Jia Lan doesn''t like crowded and noisy places. He wants to take it back to the dormitory to eat. Even if the taste is worse, it is better than squeezing in a crowd.


    But Alan was disappointed to see so many people. She had chosen this place to invite Jialan to dinner. How could she take it home to eat? At Alan''s insistence, Jialan had to wait with her.


    They waited for more than an hour, and Jialan heard Alan''s stomach growling. Finally, it was their turn. Alan happily pulled Jialan to sit down.


    Just then, two young men and women in gorgeous clothes, served by servants, took their seats directly.


    Alan walked to the table and was stunned. She looked at the two men and women who were dressed in luxurious clothes and full of aristocratic atmosphere, and then looked at her ordinary magic robe, and said with a little lack of confidence: "Yes... Sorry... Classmate, this is our seat!"


    Just like a male turkey courting to a woman as proud as a female peacock, a noble young man courted the woman, and at the same time he looked up at Alan and Jialan standing by the table with dissatisfaction, frowned, and even didn''t bother to talk to them, just waved his hand, like chasing two flies.


    Seeing that Alan was at a loss, Jialan pulled her behind him and prepared to speak.


    But at this moment, the servant behind the noble young man suddenly jumped out, stretched out his hand to stop them, and whispered: "You rude and dirty guys! Don''t you see Master Kasmer and the beautiful Miss Mary are having dinner?"


    Jialan heard the servant''s words and felt a little amused. He didn''t expect that he would be called a "rude guy" by a servant. He pointed to the dining table: "You seem to be sitting in the wrong seat. This table is reserved by us."


    The servant looked at Jialan and Alan, his face full of arrogance and ridicule: "Such a high-end place, can people like you come?" As he said, he took out a few silver coins, as if he was going to give them to Jialan.


    But after he secretly glanced at Master Kasmer who was happily talking with Miss Mary, he took back the silver coin, exchanged it for a few copper coins and threw them in front of Jia Lan, waving his hand with disgust, and whispered: "Go away! Go away! Take the reward given by Master Kasmer and buy some black bread! Don''t disturb the distinguished people eating here!" Despite such treatment, Jia Lan still maintained a gentle smile. He walked sideways past the servant and knocked on the dining table politely: "Please make way! This table is our reserved seat. If you want to eat, please line up outside!"

 Chapter 53

    Master Kasmer and Miss Mary looked up in surprise, not understanding how Jia Lan dared to disturb them.


    Seeing that Jia Lan ignored the servant''s "warning", the servant got angry and reached out to push Jia Lan: "You..." But before he touched Jia Lan, his feet were empty and his body swayed and fell down.


    The servant screamed and waved his arms to keep his balance, but stumbled a few steps and grabbed the tablecloth of the table next to him before falling, and overturned the plates on the table, making a loud noise!


    The two female magic apprentices sitting at the next table jumped up in fright, and the soup splashed on their magic robes. They screamed and slapped.


    This attracted the attention of other students in the restaurant. The restaurant suddenly became quiet, and everyone''s eyes were focused on Jia Lan and them.


    "Who are you? Why are you disturbing us to eat?" Master Kasmer stood up angrily. He only realized that Jia Lan was talking now. He had been staring at Miss Mary before.


    Alan was a little scared. She hid behind Jialan, quietly pulled his sleeve, and whispered, "Jialan, let''s go? Let them have the table..." Alan was a commoner girl from the countryside, and she was afraid of nobles.


    Jialan turned around and smiled at her, and said politely, "Mr. Kasmer, you seem to have occupied our table. Do you want to confirm the reservation information?" As he said that, he took out a reservation card given by the restaurant waiter.


    Master Kasmer glanced at Jialan''s reservation card number and angrily shouted at the servant who was getting up, "What''s the matter? Bob! Didn''t you say you had already made a reservation?"


    "I... I..." The servant stammered and didn''t know how to answer.


    He accompanied the young master to school, and it was also his first time to come to this "Fire Demon BBQ" restaurant. How could he know that there were so many people here.


    He didn''t dare to tell the young master the truth, because the young master had finally invited Miss Mary to have dinner together, so he planned to occupy a table.


    In his little head, he couldn''t understand why someone dared to be rude to the young master of the Kasmer family.


    He thought that as long as he announced the name of the Kasmer family, the other party would be scared and run away, just like they did in the city before.


    "They are outsiders! They must be idiots from the countryside! Only these country bumpkins don''t know the reputation of Mr. Kasmer..." The servant Bob looked at the two "ignorant" people with resentful eyes.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    In his small circle, there could not be such a magician who ignored the privileges of the nobility, so he couldn''t understand why the magician in front of him could ignore the rights and status of Mr. Kasmer.


    "This idiot!" Master Kasmer wanted to kick his servant, but so many people in the restaurant were looking at them, he almost wanted to cover his face and run away.


    What''s worse, Miss Mary also stood up with a frown and said coldly: "Kasmer, your servants don''t seem to know manners... I''m sorry, I suddenly feel that it''s not suitable for your invitation, so I''m leaving first!"


    After that, she lifted her skirt, apologized to Jia Lan, then raised her head proudly and left the "Fire Demon BBQ" restaurant like a swan.


    Seeing everyone in the restaurant talking and laughing in a low voice, Master Kasmer''s face turned red like an apple.


    Jia Lan smiled and helped Alan pull out a chair for her to sit down, and then kindly reminded: "Mr. Kasmer, I suggest you punish this disobedient servant later, there are two ladies over there who are very angry..."


    As soon as the elegant Jia Lan appeared, he immediately won the favor of the two innocent female magician apprentices who suffered an unprovoked disaster with his elegant temperament and calm attitude.


    They were originally panicked by the sudden chaos, but Jia Lan''s calmness seemed to bring them a little comfort.


    And Master Kasmer, the instigator, stared at Jia Lan with a resentful look, and his eyes seemed to be burning with anger, but for some reason, he suppressed it.


    He took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then said to the restaurant waiter who had hurried over: "I''m sorry, we caused some confusion. To express my apology, I will pay the bills for these two tables."


    As he said that, he handed a crystal card to the restaurant waiter, bowed slightly to the two female magicians and apologized, and then hurriedly fled from this embarrassing place.


    At this time, the servant Bob, who had been lying on the ground for a long time, played the image of a pitiful unlucky ghost. Seeing that his young master had abandoned him and fled alone, he hurriedly got up from the ground, and even had no time to pat the dust off his body, and hurriedly chased after him, shouting while running: "Young master! Wait for me! Young... Ouch!"


    However, in a corner where no one noticed, Jia Lan''s fingers twitched slightly.


    Unlucky Bob suddenly found that his belt was loose, and his loose pants fell to his knees, tripping him to the ground again.


    He pulled over another tablecloth, and in the chaotic tinkling of the ... While taking the menu handed over by the waiter, Jia Lan smiled and said to Alan: "Alan, you have to remember that you are now a student of the Science and Magic Academy. You have to get used to this change in status and no longer need to bow to the nobles."


    The girl nodded, not quite understanding, and soon attracted her attention to the food on the menu. She pointed to the menu happily and said to the waiter: "I want this! This! And this! Um... and your signature dish ''spice roasted antelope legs'' too! This dessert looks delicious, too. I wonder if it''s expensive?"


    The waiter replied respectfully: "Beautiful lady, please rest assured to enjoy the food. The crystal card left by the gentleman just now has enough credit to use."


    "Ah? Really?" Alan exclaimed in surprise, "Then I want this, this, this, this, this, this..."


    Jia Lan smiled helplessly, wondering if this girl was going to use this method to retaliate against the guy just now? However, looking at her excitement, he also felt happy.

 Chapter 54

    Although the other party left a crystal card as compensation, Jia Lan, who was also a crystal card holder, saw at a glance that it was a "credit card", which could be used for overdraft consumption within a certain credit limit without immediate cash payment.


    Looking at Alan''s ruthless way of ordering, he couldn''t help but mutter to himself: Is Alan planning to completely blow up the credit limit of this credit card?


    However, Jia Lan did not tell the girl in front of him this fact.


    After the sudden shock just now, Alan really needed a refreshing order to appease her frightened mood.


    So, he smiled and sat aside, quietly watching Alan contentedly order the meal she wanted.


    When Alan finally put down his pen, Jialan smiled at the waiter who was watching him and said, "Since Mr. Kasmer left the crystal card as an apology so sincerely, I think he would not mind paying for all the disturbed customers, right? Well, let''s put all the expenses on our table. After all, didn''t Mr. Kasmer just say that he would pay for both of our tables?"


    The waiter''s face turned pale when he heard this, but then he turned around and announced this exciting good news to the customers in the restaurant in a tone that was almost cheering.


    There was silence in the restaurant at first, as if even the air had frozen for one and a third seconds, but then a thunderous cheer broke out: "I wish the generous Mr. Kasmer good health and longevity!"


    Amid the cheers, the customers in the restaurant began to enthusiastically add the food they wanted, not asking for the best, but the most expensive.


    For a while, the restaurant was filled with laughter and the aroma of food.


    For Jia Lan, enjoying a meal with such a lovely girl in such a relaxed atmosphere and a happy mood is undoubtedly a novel experience that he has never experienced before.


    Although he was once a distinguished mage noble with the title of [Viscount], and served as an assistant lecturer in twelve affiliated colleges in [Kolanburg Library], and was himself a respected [Erudiment] and [Researcher], in theory, there was no shortage of people around him who wanted to be friends with him.


    However, in the special serious academic research environment of [Kolanburg Library], the interactions between people often revolve more around academics and experiments, and it is difficult for people to really become "friends" in the conventional sense.


    In particular, the people that Jia Lan often comes into contact with are those middle and high-level mages with white beards and white hair, and the topics they talk about are mostly various complex and profound arcane experimental data.


    In the world of those crazy researchers, the concept of friends does not seem to exist.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    Afternoon tea, Thirteen Countries Chess, Pro Cards, Pole Ball, etc., which are interesting and emotional games for ordinary people, are boring and time-wasting things for them.


    If they are forced to participate in these games to deepen their relationship and enhance their feelings, it is very likely to trigger a high-intensity magic confrontation - for example, using [Detect Thoughts] to judge the opponent''s next move, or using [Strong Creation] to create a card they need to cheat. After being discovered, everyone can use spells such as [Summon Meteorite], [Lightning Ball], [Fire Storm], and [Advanced Explosion] to have a lively melee.


    For primary and intermediate magicians, they may find it interesting to practice those seemingly simple but challenging spells.


    However, for advanced magicians, these spells can no longer satisfy their growing curiosity.


    Can they only get together and do some boring corpse dissection competitions, or summon some alien creatures to conduct meaningless simulated wars?


    This is really terrible. The loser may not accept it and go back to study some taboo spells to try to save face.


    If that were the case, the world would have been ruined by these powerful and ambitious magicians long ago, so why would they have to wait until the catastrophe 1,700 years ago!


    Jia Lan had heard from his teacher that such a thing happened thousands of years ago.


    Two great wizards, who were also old friends for many years, summoned the "Abyss Legion" and the "Hell Legion" at a spell exchange party because of a small bet - three salt olives.


    In just three hours, they destroyed the kingdom where the party was held, until the organizer of the party couldn''t stand it anymore and released the "Dead Scourge" in anger, finally ending this crazy fight.


    However, after the disaster, the kingdom had become unrecognizable and turned into a ruin.


    It is said that before Jia Lan was frozen, the kingdom was still desolate and not even a blade of grass grew.


    Since then, the Arcane Council has stipulated that private spell gatherings of more than three people are not allowed to be held to prevent such disasters from happening again.


    In the twelve affiliated colleges, although Jia Lan can get in touch with some young magicians, including some beautiful girls, as an assistant lecturer, they always look at him with respect and admiration.


    The distance between them is like a gap, and it is basically impossible to become close friends.


    Although Jia Lan is about the same age as them, or even younger, they just can''t play together.


    Therefore, Jia Lan spent most of his childhood in the teacher''s huge and mysterious laboratories.


    He rarely has the opportunity to play and communicate with his peers. The only time he spent time with his peers was because he almost messed up the "Multi-national Mage Apprentice Quality Competition" and was disqualified.


    Therefore, when Jia Lan met the kind and simple Alan, he cherished this pure friendship very much. For him, this friendship is really precious.


    "What a busy day!" After sending Alan back to the dormitory, Jia Lan returned to the rest hut of the big librarian.


    He glanced at the "Book Ryan" with a light blue light in the sky, sighed, and then walked into the dark library.


    However, when Jia Lan said "busy", he didn''t mean how hard his first day of school was.


    On the contrary, compared with his previous days in the "Kolanburg Library", he felt that his current life was as relaxed as a vacation.


    At that time, he had to go to the teacher''s laboratory at night to help with various complex experiments and research, and manage the library and organize books; during the day, he had to go to the Twelve Colleges to teach those young magicians and answer questions. Often there was no time to sleep and rest for several months.


    Although for magicians, with the improvement of mental strength, sleep has become less and less important.


    They can often use "meditation" instead of sleep and rest, thus saving twice or even more time than ordinary people to study and research.


    However, even so, time is always not enough for magicians.


    Because they always have endless things to do and endless knowledge to learn waiting for them to explore and comprehend.

 Chapter 55

    Being in a state of high intensity, tension and busyness for a long time, the extreme mental fatigue is not something that ordinary people can easily bear.


    It is a challenge to the limits of body and mind. Only those casters who truly have an endless pursuit of mysteries can endure the unspeakable hardship and bitterness with firm belief and perseverance.


    However, today, Jia Lan finds himself in a completely different pace of life.


    He is like an ordinary person, busy running around for various trivial things, experiencing those new experiences that he has never been involved in. This freshness and challenge makes him feel both strange and exciting.


    Since the original world has been deeply buried deep underground with the field vein explosion 1,700 years ago, Jia Lan, who has started over in this new era, decided to embrace life with a new attitude and experience this daily life that is completely different from his original environment.


    Perhaps, in this process, he can comprehend some profound philosophy and the truth of life that have been ignored in the past...


    "Snap!" With a crisp snap of fingers, four bright balls of light emerged out of thin air around Jia Lan''s body, like four bright stars lighting up the dark and silent library.


    In this quiet and almost dead environment, the towering bookshelves, the moving escalators, and the uneven reliefs on the circular dome of the library all reflect ghostly light and shadow under the light, adding a bit of mystery and horror.


    No wonder there are all kinds of horror legends in the library! Maybe it is to prevent moisture and insects that materials such as powder are sprinkled, and there is not even a trace of insect chirping inside and outside the library.


    Except for Jia Lan''s footsteps and breathing, it is so quiet here that even his own heartbeat can be clearly heard.


    Such an environment is undoubtedly a great test for ordinary people. Not to mention calming down and reading in such an environment, it is a blessing not to be scared to death.


    However, for Jia Lan, this environment is exactly what he is most familiar with.


    Compared with the three million book rooms of the [Kolanburg Library] that he once managed - those huge book collection spaces that are like the legendary "Gerti Knossos Labyrinth" - this large library with a single floor area of ??only 100,000 square meters is really nothing.


    Waving his hand, four groups of light balls created by [Dancing Lights] rose to the dome. Jia Lan moved his fingers and began his first job in this era - the career of a librarian.


    So, what does a librarian do? Is it just standing behind the counter to register the borrowing and returning information? Of course it''s more than that!


    The work of a librarian involves the classification and induction of books, maintenance, cleaning and sorting... and providing various consulting services to borrowers.


    They need to help borrowers find the books they need in the shortest time, which requires them to be familiar with the titles, numbers, types, general contents and locations of all books within their scope of work.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.


    Only in this way can they provide book information quickly and accurately when someone asks.


    For Jia Lan, who had been in charge of managing three million book collections, this [Science and Magic Library] with a single floor area of ??only 100,000 square meters was really not difficult at all.


    He moved between the bookshelves with ease, completing each work task in an almost artistic manner.


    In the library, rows of neatly arranged bookshelves stand, each row has 10 books, 5 meters wide and 5 meters high.


    A total of 200 rows of bookshelves are divided into several large and small areas in a staggered manner, as if they are a piece of ocean of knowledge, waiting for people to explore.


    Each bookshelf has an amazing capacity, which can store 1,500 books. According to preliminary estimates, the number of books stored on the first floor alone exceeds 3 million, which is amazing.


    Faced with such a huge collection of books, some people may think that it is impossible to manage it by one person alone.


    However, Jia Lan proved this wrong with practical actions. He wore a mysterious [Identification Robe], lightly touched the bookshelf, and activated all the secret effects of the robe.


    Under the effect of the 0th level [Energy Transmutation] spell [Organize Books], the books in the entire library seemed to be given life, flying out of the bookshelves, and "fluttering" up to the curved dome like countless pigeons, forming a spectacular "book cloud".


    Then, Jia Lan waved his palm in the air, and the 0th level [Transmutation] spells [Cleaning] and [Repairing] began to take effect.


    An invisible wind formed in the huge space, like a huge invisible hand, rolling away a lot of dust, making the entire library look brand new.


    The effect of [Repairing] was even more amazing. It restored the minor damage caused by insects and rats on the books to their original state, making these precious books in the best condition.


    The brand new books began to fall down "crackling", automatically returning to the positions they should be in according to certain classifications, numbers, and themes. The whole process was like a wonderful performance.


    After doing all this, Jia Lan clapped his hands with satisfaction. Although there were still several floors upstairs and underground in the library that needed to be sorted, he did not plan to finish all the work in one day.


    Therefore, after sorting out the basic books on the first floor, he walked to the first bookshelf in the first row, ready to start his reading journey.


    As he walked, Jia Lan sat back casually. At this time, an invisible disc about one meter in size flashed, and this force field disc made by [Secondary Floating Disc Technique] supported his body and carried him to fly slowly.


    The force field disc moved slowly, supporting Jia Lan''s body to float at a suitable height, allowing him to easily browse the books on each row of bookshelves.


    With a light wave of his palm, a whole row of nearly a hundred books flew out, and under the effect of [Transportation Technique], they surrounded Jia Lan''s body, as if bright stars were rotating around him.


    Reaching out to take a book, Jia Lan gently stroked the heavy leather cover, but was not in a hurry to open the book.


    He just tapped the cover with his finger, and his special ability [Scholar''s Touch] as a [Scholar] began to take effect.


    The content of the book instantly turned into an invisible stream of text, converging into his mind, as if he had read the book in its entirety.


    Jia Lan closed his eyes, and the [Reading Technique], [Interpretation Technique], [Summarization Technique], and [Analysis Technique] in his mind began to work simultaneously. The text began to be automatically read repeatedly to deepen the impression, and the meaning of the text was also interpreted for him to understand.


    He summarized the key points and analyzed the essential content, so that the knowledge of each book could be quickly absorbed and mastered by him.


    It was not until the first ray of sunlight came in from the window that Jia Lan exhaled, gently closed the book in his hand, and put it back to its original position.


    He glanced at the bookshelf he had already read, and a very strange expression appeared on his face. Perhaps it was because he found some amazing secrets in these books, or perhaps it was because he was excited and a little uneasy about the knowledge he had mastered.


    But no matter what, this night''s reading journey will become an unforgettable experience in his life.

 Chapter 56

    For a whole night, he was immersed in an in-depth exploration of this era, and chose to read detailed information about this era.


    After a night of hard study, he finally understood the environment of this era a little bit and had a preliminary understanding of the overall picture of this world.


    Combined with the "pre-civilization" information he was familiar with, Jia Lan gradually discovered that the era of 1,700 years ago really had no great connection with the current world.


    Those ancient histories, cultures, and technologies seemed to have been washed away by the torrent of time.


    It can even be said that due to the sudden civilization break, the new creatures have gradually developed a civilization system that belongs entirely to them.


    Although they inherited some incomplete pre-civilization knowledge, it was only based on the pre-civilization knowledge, and they made innovations and developments suitable for themselves, rather than simply copying the pre-civilization knowledge.


    Therefore, various knowledge systems have undergone such huge changes. Although they seem chaotic, they happen to conform to certain reasonable laws.


    This cannot be entirely blamed on the scholars of this era who pieced together information. After all, in the previous civilization, knowledge was only in the hands of a very small number of people, and most people knew nothing about those profound studies.


    And the explosion of the earth veins that broke out for unknown reasons became the fuse of the civilization''s demise.


    A large amount of arcane torrents and elemental tides surged out from the cracks between heaven and earth, causing an extinction-level blow to those high-level beings who mastered supernatural powers.


    In this disaster, the higher the level of existence, the greater the impact, but ordinary civilians were not greatly affected because they lacked direct contact with elemental energy.


    The so-called "earth vein explosion" was just one of the reasons for the great destruction.


    According to literature records, with the explosion of the earth veins, a large area of ??animals and plants on the earth were infected, which affected the native species and caused unpredictable mutations.


    These mutated creatures gradually multiplied into what they are now, forming today''s world full of fantasy colors.


    The descendants of the survivors gradually adapted to the environment and space that was highly filled with elements, and their physiques also evolved to a certain extent.


    Although the degree of this evolution was not significant, it was enough for them to survive in this space full of dangerous elements like elemental creatures, without being seriously harmed by the elements'' intense and active characteristics.


    In the following 1,700 years, a system of mystical arts that was derived from but different from the arcane arts was gradually established and improved.


    This system combines the elemental energy of the new era and the essence of the ancient arcane arts to form the current magic system.


    No wonder Jia Lan noticed that the elemental particles in nature were hundreds and thousands of times more active than in his time, and the arcane particles in the space were so dense that they were almost sticky.


    Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.    Surprisingly, although the arcane knowledge system has been completely lost in the long river of history, the magic knowledge system derived from the environment in the "Apocalypse Age" after the Great Destruction has not been weakened.


    On the contrary, in this era, due to the high activity of elemental particles in nature and the rich and diverse elemental properties, a large number of powerful magicians who mastered supernatural powers emerged.


    Their number increased on a large scale, making this era one of the most glorious and brilliant periods of magic civilization.


    In the special environment of high concentration of elements, nature shows its amazing creativity and transformative power.


    Countless wild animals and plants are deeply infected by elements in this land rich in elements, and their genes and cells have undergone unprecedented mutations and evolution.


    Some creatures that were originally ordinary have acquired jaw-dropping new abilities. Some of them can control fire, some can call storms, and some are even born with the ability to use elements.


    These strange creatures born from element mutations have been given mysterious and charming names by people - "magic creatures".


    Among them, those animals with extraordinary powers are honored as "magic beasts", and plants are called "magic plants". Their existence undoubtedly adds a touch of fantasy and mystery to this era.


    In those areas where elements are highly aggregated, even rocks and minerals have not been spared. They are also infected by elements and have certain elemental characteristics.


    These rocks and minerals rich in element concentrations have been given mysterious names such as "magic stone", "magic iron", "magic crystal", and "magic mine".


    They have not only become precious resources, but also an important cornerstone for the combination of magic and technology.


    As for those humans who are born with elemental abilities, they are regarded as the treasures of this era. They are respected as magic geniuses and have become the favored sons of heaven.


    In order to attract these geniuses with the innate ability to aggregate elements, major magic institutions have offered attractive conditions and treatment. This innate ability they have is called "element affinity", which is a talent that countless people dream of.


    This era belongs to the era of elements. People''s use and exploration of elemental energy has reached an unprecedented height.


    From daily life to industrial production, from transportation to military warfare, elemental energy permeates people''s lives everywhere.


    For example, the goblin steam locomotive and dwarf airship that Jia Lan had witnessed on the street were the products of elemental energy, magic arrays, and combined with construction technology.


    These magical means of transportation not only show the crystallization of human wisdom, but also demonstrate the powerful influence of elemental energy in this era.


    Standing in this era full of fantasy and change, Jia Lan can''t help but be impressed by the adaptability and creativity of creatures.


    No matter how nature changes, the surviving creatures can always change themselves to adapt to the environment in harsh conditions.


    To a certain extent, isn''t this also an evolution and sublimation of life?


    However, different times and different environments naturally have different survival rules.


    Jia Lan knew that if he wanted to integrate into this era, he must master this ability to adapt to the environment. Otherwise, he would only be a weird outsider who was incompatible with the environment in the eyes of outsiders and difficult to be accepted by the public.


    However, it is not easy to integrate into this era full of elements.


    Jia Lan''s "demon-repelling physique" became a huge stumbling block on his way forward.


    He knew that he could not be like the people of this era who had gone through dozens of generations of inheritance and evolution, whose bodies had adapted to the changes in the elemental environment and could even coexist with the elements.


    If he rashly imitated the people of this era and took elemental particles into his body, it is very likely that the elements would be unbalanced because too many unstable elements were stored in his body, and he would eventually explode into a pile of meat cubes with a "boom".


    Jia Lan couldn''t help but fall into deep thought: "The arcane magician stores arcane particles in his body by relying on the ''arcane energy spring'' formed in his body. So how does the magician store elemental particles in his body?"


    He was full of doubts and curiosity, but he had not read any books on this subject.


    Just as he was about to go to the underground of the Great Library where higher-level magic books were kept to look for relevant information, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the heavy door of the Great Library...

 Chapter 57

    "Students come to borrow books so early?" Jia Lan''s slightly surprised voice sounded in the quiet of the early morning. He pushed open the door of the library with some surprise.


    At this moment, a beam of warm sunlight fell in front of the door. Alan jumped in happily from the sunlight like a jumping elf. She shouted lively: "Good morning! Jia Lan, I brought you breakfast!"


    Jia Lan smiled and took the simple but warm breakfast handed by the girl. While chewing the bread, he asked curiously: "Why are you here so early? Isn''t today the first day of class after the start of school? You should have a lot of things to prepare, right?"


    His eyes inadvertently swept across the huge rotating hourglass next to the library counter, and the scale was accurately pointing to 6:30 in the morning.


    You know, the working hours of [Komo University] are from 9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm, and there will be a day off for rest every ten days [Dragon Breath Day].


    Alan''s face was filled with pride and expectation: "From today on! I am a member of the library! Of course I have to come early to see if there is anything I can help with, such as helping you clean up, tidying up the books, etc..." Her words were full of love and expectation for this new job.


    However, when Alan curiously walked around the library, she was surprised to find: "It''s so clean here! There is no dust at all!"


    Her eyes flickered with curiosity and confusion. Then, she tried to help sort out the books, but when she saw the neatly arranged books on the bookshelf, she stopped her action helplessly.


    Alan, who couldn''t find a job to do, looked at Jialan helplessly: "What should I do?"


    Jialan was speechless, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to have "caused trouble" again.


    He was used to managing up to three million book rooms in [Kolanburg Library] by himself, and he just sorted out the books and sanitation of the entire library.


    However, he overlooked that in this era, there seemed to be no convenient magic similar to the special spells exclusive to the [Kolanburg Library], such as [Organizing Books], [Cleaning], and [Repairing].


    At this moment, Jia Lan felt a drop of cold sweat sliding down his forehead. He could only laugh dryly and explain: "Yes, it''s very clean. Maybe it was kept very well before... Well! Your work will not start until after nine o''clock. Today is the first day of class. Don''t you need to confirm the future schedule?"


    Upon hearing this, Alan immediately took out a large piece of parchment with small words copied from his backpack and said with a smile: "Yes! My roommate has obtained all the course schedules of all departments in the college from the senior! I also copied a copy for you, so that you will know when to go to class in the future! Our [Pharmacy] department has no classes in the morning! The afternoon is the first basic class of this school year."


    Jia Lan wanted to get Alan out of the way first, and then find a way to restore the "crime scene" to its original state, but he was speechless at this moment. He took the course list handed over by Alan and looked at it carefully, and found that it was true.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The learning atmosphere of [KoMo University] is indeed very free. Students are not required to take a certain class, and the class schedule is also very relaxed.


    Except for two basic courses every day in the first, second and third academic years, which will be arranged in the morning or afternoon, even the basic courses are omitted in the middle and senior grades.


    Such an arrangement allows students to have more time and space to explore their interests and expertise.


    At KoMo University, each professional department follows a unique education model: except for a fixed one and a half hour professional course every day, the rest of the time is completely at the students'' disposal.


    Students can choose the subjects they are interested in, or if they have no interest in those subjects, they can also choose to arrange their lives freely and enjoy a lot of free time.


    From the perspective of the credit system of KoMo University, this is undoubtedly a way to encourage students to learn independently. Most of the learning tasks need to rely on students'' self-study ability to complete.


    Just like Jia Lan, he does not need to take the basic courses in the first, second and third grades. He can completely rely on self-study to master those popular text knowledge.


    Just like last night, he was immersed in the vast sea of ??books in the library, eagerly reading all kinds of books and absorbing the nutrients of knowledge.


    For a self-study master like Jia Lan, he doesn''t even need to step into the classroom.


    As long as he could read all the books in this big library, grasp the essence of them, and then take the exam at the end of the semester, it would be enough to cope with the academic requirements.


    Therefore, Jia Lan found that he didn''t have to stick to the constraints of the classroom in the first three years. He only needed to ask questions to the teacher in the classroom and seek answers for some content related to magic experience and in-depth explanation.


    What''s more flexible is that Jia Lan also has a simple method that is not limited by the class progress to obtain the knowledge he wants.


    For example, the lectures held by those middle and high-level magic professors, although charged a lot, are definitely worth the money.


    In the lectures, students can ask any questions to the professors, and the professors will answer them on the spot.


    The time of these lectures is not fixed, and they will only be held when those magic professors are free.


    Therefore, students need to go to the bulletin board in the central square of the college to check the type, time and location of the lectures.


    However, just when Jia Lan was immersed in the ocean of self-study and couldn''t extricate himself, a sudden problem put him in a dilemma.


    He couldn''t find a reason to get Alan away, and the big library after nine o''clock was about to usher in the peak borrowing period. At that time, a large number of students and teachers will flock to the library and notice the changes.


    This made Jia Lan worried. If the academy found out that he had supernatural powers of different systems and he couldn''t explain it clearly, would they take him as an experiment to study?


    Thinking of this, Jia Lan couldn''t help but shudder, and a drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead.


    He recalled the scenes when he dissected exotic creatures in the past. After some organs of those creatures were cut off, they showed various physiological reactions under the stimulation of strong acid... Jia Lan didn''t dare to think about it anymore. He realized that being too diligent was not a good thing.


    Licking his dry lips, Jia Lan decided that he had to find a way to solve this problem.


    He looked at the area of ??the library in front of him, which was about 100,000 square meters, and secretly thanked himself for not being diligent enough to clean up the upper and lower floors last night. Otherwise, it would be even more difficult to cover up the truth now.


    Jia Lan, who was quick-witted, came up with a bad idea. As the new librarian of the big library, he had certain privileges.


    He could use the excuse of cleaning the library to get Alan out of the way, thus buying himself more time to deal with those difficult problems.


    So, he pretended to be calm and said to Alan: "Well, Alan, I think we should clean the entire library... For example, we need to pull the weeds on the lawn outside!" After saying this, Jia Lan secretly prayed that this bad idea would work.

 Chapter 58

    Since the last old librarian passed away more than a decade ago, the college has adopted an innovative strategy to maintain the daily operation of the library: encouraging students to work and study in the library by rewarding credits.


    These students not only act as temporary librarians, responsible for sorting books, but also shoulder the responsibility of cleaning the library.


    This move not only provides students with practical opportunities, but also allows the library to operate continuously and effectively.


    When Jia Lan took over the position of librarian, she naturally gained the management rights of the library.


    More importantly, he can apply to the college for a special fee for library maintenance to cope with daily consumption and renewal needs.


    This provides him with more autonomy and resources, allowing him to better plan and improve the service quality of the library.


    "Cleaning? This Alan is very good at it! Where are the tools?" When Alan learned that she had the opportunity to contribute to the library, she immediately rolled up her sleeves and showed her hardworking side.


    She even found the utility room that Jia Lan had not noticed, and dug out a pile of brooms, mops, shovels and rags from it, ready to get down to work.


    However, Jia Lan stopped her helplessly: "Wait! Wait! With such a large area, we can''t handle it with just the two of us, so we need more helpers, otherwise we can''t cope with the daily busyness." After hearing Jia Lan''s suggestion, Alan thought seriously for a while, and then suggested: "Then I can call all the sisters in our dormitory. Many of the people living in our girls'' dormitory area are freshmen who enrolled this year. They will definitely be willing to get credits, right?" However, Jia Lan shook his head: "Only girls can''t do, we also need some boys to help carry heavy objects and do some physical work." As he said, he took out an old parchment and a bottle of dried ink from the administrator''s counter. After getting some water to dissolve the ink, he wrote a recruitment notice.


    While writing the notice, Jia Lan said to Alan: "Okay, Alan, go back to the dormitory and call your sisters to post this notice on the bulletin board in the college square. Then take the document I wrote to you to the supplies department to get the various items needed for the library this semester, such as mops, rags, paper, ink, etc."


    After stamping the librarian''s seal received yesterday on a document, Jia Lan handed it to Alan and instructed: "Half a day will reward one credit and two silver gilts! We will temporarily hire ten temporary administrators and one hundred students to help clean up, fifty girls and fifty boys. Registration is closed before 8:30."


    Alan, who received the task, was so excited that she clenched her fist and put it in front of her chest and shook it: "Am I going to recruit? Then am I considered a temporary administrator?" Seeing Alan''s energetic appearance, Jia Lan couldn''t help laughing: "Yes! I appoint Alan as the temporary administrator of the library this semester in the name of the librarian. The recruitment task will be your responsibility..."


    "Yes! Alan will definitely complete the task successfully!" With that, the energetic girl ran out like a gust of wind.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.


    Looking at Alan''s back, Jia Lan opened her mouth helplessly and muttered: "Hire some people to help manage the library? Well... This is indeed a good idea! This way I can save a lot of time to read those precious books!"


    Alan, the girl who had just been promoted, came with a group of energetic girls in less than half an hour.


    Jia Lan originally thought that no one would come to apply so early, after all, magicians are usually night owls.


    But Alan brought back more than 60 girls, including students from different majors in the second and third grades. They surrounded Jia Lan, chattering and asking if they could work in the library for a long time to earn credits.


    Jia Lan, who was dizzy from the noise, had to let Alan and five other third-year girls be the temporary leaders, and divided the girls into six groups, and they began to work consciously.


    Looking at the girls flying around the library like butterflies, Jia Lan thought that it was really hard to earn credits at [Komag University], otherwise the senior students would not do such cleaning work to earn two silver gimm.


    The affiliated college under [Kolanburg Library] where Jia Lan used to work was completely different from the current [Kolan Public Magic University].


    The history of [Kolanburg Library] can be traced back to a long, long time ago, about a thousand years before [Dawn Calendar 2014] when Jia Lan was frozen. If [Apocalypse Calendar 1714] after the earth vein explosion is added, it was about 2,700 years ago.


    At that time, because the five human countries of Khorvale were divided, they experienced a thousand years of darkness-[The Last War]. After the war, a group of high-level spellcasters who were eager for knowledge organized regular gatherings to exchange their books.


    However, as the gatherings became larger and larger, more and more people participated, management problems began to arise.


    Moreover, because everyone lived far away from each other, it was difficult to arrive at the gathering place on time. People often missed the gathering because of the long distance, which caused dissatisfaction.


    So, the organizers of the gathering began to discuss whether to find a fixed place to build a gathering place, so that the gathering would become more stable and no longer cause conflicts due to the distance.


    Among the core members of the gathering at that time, there was a high-level dragon pattern descendant named Colan Di Sivis, who was born in the "Sivis Dragon Pattern Family" that inherited the [Copy Dragon Pattern]. He was very supportive of this proposal.


    Colan Di Sivis not only used the castle under his name as the venue for the gathering, but also persuaded the family leaders to provide a large amount of funding sponsorship and used the [Copy Dragon Pattern] ability mastered by family members to provide technical support.


    Therefore, the organizers of the party stipulated that all participants must contribute their own collections of books, and let the Sivis family''s scribes make a copy and donate it to the newly built library.


    According to the value of each person''s contributed collection, a corresponding contribution level is given, and then the library''s reading rights are opened according to the level.

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    This activity was very novel, attracting many magicians and scholars from all directions. They took out their precious books and secret collections, hoping to become a member of the library and enjoy the privilege of reading.


    As time went by, the library had more and more books, and the types became more and more complete. After thousands of years of development, when Jia Lan was in charge, the library had already had three million books, which was huge.


    However, the library did not have a special name at the beginning. Later, in order to commemorate the founder, Colan di Sivis, everyone called the library located in his castle "Colan Castle Library".


    "Colan Castle Library" not only has a large collection of books, but also developed into a big city with it as the center. Its function is not just to store books.


    Many magicians and scholars gathered here and founded twelve affiliated colleges, specializing in teaching knowledge in different fields for those who seek knowledge to learn.


    In these colleges, there are no "teachers" and "students" in the traditional sense. Everyone is a magician and scholar who volunteered to give lectures, discuss and study with each other. As long as you have unique experience and are willing to share, you can become a lecturer.


    Sometimes, the person standing on the podium may be just a low-level magician, while the one sitting below may be a mid-level or high-level magician. This is in line with the Donglu proverb: "The one who knows the business is the teacher".


    Therefore, in this strong academic atmosphere, every knowledge seeker who comes to "Kolanburg" is thirsty for knowledge, and there is no need for exams or credits to constrain them.


    Of course, most of those who can enter the "Kolanburg Library" to study are qualified magicians and scholars, not those who know nothing about magic.


    These affiliated colleges are more like "academic research institutes" than places for teaching.


    Unlike the "Kolanburg Library" which is operated by donations, the "Kolanbang Public Magic University" makes money by collecting tuition fees, which seems to be much more utilitarian. They use "credits" to eliminate those students who "occupy educational resources" in order to recruit more new students.


    In this university, only those who get enough credits can be promoted. Therefore, low-level magic apprentices have to spend more money to listen to lectures by magic professors to obtain knowledge that cannot be learned in class, so as to get a few more points in the final exam.


    Although it sounds a bit strange, for most ordinary magic apprentices, the knowledge learned in class is indeed not as profound as the knowledge bought with money. This is the difference between "ordinary consumers" and "high-end consumers".If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.


    No wonder students are so obsessed with credits. After all, it is much cheaper to earn credits by physical labor than to pay for lectures.


    The notice that Jia Lan asked the girl to post quickly attracted many magic apprentices who wanted to earn credits, including middle and high-grade "main department" students.


    What surprised Jia Lan was that compared with the senior students, the way the junior students cleaned was simply too old-fashioned.


    For example, a water magic apprentice summoned a water ball as a mop and let it roll on the ground, and the dust was picked up by the water ball. After the water ball mopped the floor, a fire magic apprentice used the fire element on his body to dry the ground to prevent the books from getting damp.


    On the grass outside, a group of junior wind magic apprentices used wind blades to cut the weeds off at the roots. Then, a senior wind apprentice summoned a small whirlwind, which rolled up the grass on the ground and automatically spun it into the trash can.


    There was even a wood magic apprentice and an earth magic apprentice who worked in perfect harmony: the earth magic apprentice buried the weeds in the ground, and the wood magic apprentice made the bare ground grow neat grass.


    Finally, a student studying fire magic threw a dark red fireball as big as an egg into the already full trash can. Soon, thick smoke and flames came out of the trash can, burning all the garbage inside to ashes.


    Then, a student studying water magic called out a stream of water, washing the stone trash can inside and out, and wiping off the black marks left by the fireball. Finally, he crawled into the sewer as flexibly as a snake.


    Jia Lan was stunned. He had never seen magic of this era before, so he was really shocked when he saw the fire student throwing the fireball!


    In the magic world, although the "spherical" spell is not a very advanced spell, it is very difficult to make a spell into a stable spherical shape and let it fly out to burn things and explode and splash everywhere because of its great destructive power. Ordinary apprentices can''t do it at all.


    Jia Lan knows that the most basic fireball spell must be reduced from the 3rd-level "fireball spell" to the 1st-level "secondary fireball", and the "secondary fireball" cannot explode and splash everywhere.


    The 3rd-level spell is already mastered by very high-level magicians! But these students who look like they are just getting started have actually learned the spherical fire spell. Could it be that their magic level has surpassed that of ordinary junior magicians and is about to catch up with intermediate magicians?


    Jia Lan couldn''t believe that the magic of these students was even more powerful than that of the junior magicians of his time. Then wouldn''t the advanced magicians of this era be almost the same as the super wizards of his time?


    "This doesn''t make sense!" Jia Lan rubbed his eyes and thought he might have seen it wrong. He stared at the fire-type students who were having fun for a long time before slowly relaxing.


    It turned out that these students were not as powerful as he thought. It was his own thoughts that misled him.


    The reason why "Fireball" is a level 3 spell is mainly because of its stable structure, wide range, and great power. Even the most basic "Fireball", a small pea-sized fireball, has a range of 400 feet and an explosion range of 40 feet.


    The temperature of the flame after the explosion is high enough to melt metal, about 1000¡æ, and it cannot be extinguished even with water. Whether in water or in a place without air, it can keep burning until it burns out.


    So when Jia Lan first saw the fire-type student setting off a fireball, he instinctively thought it was the powerful "arcane fireball" he knew, and it was so big. He almost thought that the student was going to blow up the library!

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    But in fact, what the fire magic apprentice released was just an "elemental fireball", which is an ordinary natural flame that can be extinguished by water. Judging from the dark red color, the temperature is probably not more than 500¡æ.


    As for the power, it has neither explosion effect nor splashing effect, nor the characteristics of contamination, erosion, and spread of arcane flames. Moreover, since it is composed of pure elemental energy, it does not have the effect of adhesion and continuous burning.


    If this kind of elemental flame is used as an attack, it is estimated that it can only rely on the temperature generated when it contacts to burn the enemy...


    [Can this also be considered a fireball spell? ]


    Jia Lan''s face was full of strange expressions. Was he planning to burn the enemy with blisters?


    He also saw that the reason why the fire magic apprentice could release the spherical spell was not because of his superb spell construction ability, but simply because of his fire element constitution and his instinctive control over the fire element, just like those low-level fire element creatures, who were born to spit out flames.


    Moreover, with Jia Lan''s perception ability, he clearly sensed the trajectory of the elemental fluctuations emitted by the fire magic apprentice when he released magic. He actually directly consumed the elemental particles in his body, or what they call "magic power" to release magic.


    This made Jia Lan even more difficult to understand. In this case, wouldn''t the elemental particles in his body be quickly consumed, thus losing the ability to cast spells?


    How powerful can a spell that simply consumes its own energy be? No wonder the fireball spell just now looked so weak.


    Moreover, directly releasing the elemental particles in the body is also very harmful to health. Each release will cause a certain load on the body. Once the load exceeds the limit that the caster can bear, it will cause serious health damage, ranging from a serious illness to sudden death.


    In this case, the so-called "magic power enhancement method" that Jia Lan saw in the book last night actually required magic apprentices to cast as many spells as possible to make the body familiar with the casting process, and through continuous "consumption ¡ú recovery ¡ú consumption ¡ú recovery", to improve the body''s affinity for elements, so as to achieve the purpose of increasing the magic power limit.


    Isn''t this just asking for death?


    Jia Lan only felt that he had a lot of questions in his mind, but at this moment, the library was crowded with magic apprentices working inside and outside. He couldn''t read books quietly to find answers, so he had to suppress his questions for the time being and finish the things at hand first.


    The cleaning of the library won praise from many people, especially the faculty and staff of [Komo University].


    Since the death of the previous old librarian, the library has not been cleaned so thoroughly, making the library always filled with an uncomfortable and unpleasant musty smell.


    Especially the library rooms on the underground floors. Although the building of the library has air ducts buried in the wall, the air is not circulated, resulting in a smell of floating dust in the air of the library rooms buried deep underground.


    The smell of dust is very choking, and it can easily cause symptoms such as sneezing, coughing and lung pain. It is okay when there are wind magicians present. They will release some wind spells, such as [Whirlwind], to artificially change the air in the underground library.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    But other magicians do not have this benefit. The underground library contains mostly profound books. Most of the people who use this part of books are teaching staff or middle and high-level magicians. Books suitable for magic apprentices of levels 1-9 are basically on the first floor.


    This causes them to have to endure the poor reading environment, or simply borrow the books back to read, which makes people feel very bad.


    This is not because the college is stingy with maintenance costs, or the management is inactive. First, maintaining the library is a tedious and long-term job, and it is not a simple matter of recruiting cleaners to clean it regularly.


    Secondly, the large library contains important documents and books of [KoMo University], and it is not suitable for a large number of outsiders to enter the college to be responsible for cleaning work. It is easy to cause books to be damaged or lost, and no one is willing to take this responsibility.


    Therefore, among the faculty, no one is willing to take on this thankless administrator position. The college management can only helplessly use the method of rewarding credits to hire students to serve as temporary administrators, but usually they can only last for one academic year before they have to be replaced.


    The work of a librarian is very tedious and time-consuming, and requires a lot of energy and time. Which student is willing to do this kind of work for a long time?


    However, managing books is not a job that can be mastered in a short time. It not only requires a good memory to remember the general situation of books in the library, but also requires a clear understanding of the status of books in order to carry out timely maintenance. The temporary administrator who is replaced every school year obviously does not have this ability.


    Therefore, due to various objective factors such as the temporary administrator''s lack of ability, lack of experience, carelessness, irresponsibility, etc., the library''s environment and the condition of books are getting worse and worse, and the college can only treat the symptoms and invest a large amount of money for maintenance every once in a while.


    Although many faculty members have heard that a new librarian has been recruited, they originally thought that it was another temporary recruitment and would not work for a long time. However, they did not expect that on the first day of school, the new administrator would start to organize students and start to take care of the library environment.


    This surprised them a little and also generated some expectations. They hoped that this change would continue, so that the old dean would not always stare at them, the faculty members, hoping to find a scapegoat who made a mistake and throw him into the position of librarian.


    They were sure that once they were caught by the dean and the old guys in the college management, they would have to work as librarians until they died unless they left the college. The old guys would definitely not let go of the "prey" they had caught with great difficulty, after all, it was too difficult to find a suitable person...


    Seeing that it was almost noon, the first floor of the library and the environment around the library building had been generally cleaned up. Such a fast progress was of course due to the fact that Jia Lan had actually cleaned the first floor last night.


    The remaining second and third floors, as well as the first, second and third floors in the basement, were not as large as the first floor. Jia Lan estimated that it would take another three days to roughly complete the cleaning work, so when settling the accounts, he made an appointment with some of the students who were willing to continue to work to continue to come to work in the afternoon and the next three days.

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    Because it was the first day of school, not many people came to borrow books, so the cleaning work of the library did not affect them too much, and their attitude also made Jia Lan secretly relieved that his mistake last night was not noticed.


    The upstairs and the basement had not been cleaned yet, and the first floor that he had cleaned was full of freshmen who borrowed books. No one noticed that the condition of the books had become particularly good, which was considered to be a preliminary cover-up of his mistakes.


    There were more than 200 students who came to work. Since the library''s funds had not yet been approved by the college''s financial department, Jia Lan had to advance more than 40 gold Talan as salary. It is expected that he will need to pay nearly 300 gold Talan for this in the next few days.


    Although 300 gold Talan is not a huge amount of money for Jia Lan now, if he does not want to attract attention, he must find a way to solve the source of this money.


    Why should a new student who becomes a librarian pay for the maintenance of the library out of his own pocket? If someone else were to be the librarian, he would certainly not be as eager to maintain the library as Jia Lan, but would wait for the college''s financial department to approve the funds before taking action.


    But Jia Lan had a "reason" to invest in maintenance as soon as possible.


    Therefore, although he didn''t care about this small amount of money, he had to find a reasonable reason, which gave him a headache.


    He just took care of the library casually, but who would have thought that it would cause such a complicated chain of problems.


    Jia Lan sighed. It seemed that it would take a long time for him to really adapt to this era, and his previous habits needed to be slowly corrected.


    "Jia Lan, aren''t you going to have lunch?" Alan, whose cheeks were flushed due to being busy, ran to Jia Lan who was standing behind the counter.


    Jia Lan wrote and drew on a piece of parchment with a sad face. Alan climbed the edge of the counter with his little hands, blinking his eyes and asking, looking like a very cute kitten.


    "Uh, lunch?" Jia Lan was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I have to guard the counter here, you go, just bring me one back."


    "Oh! OK!" Alan agreed obediently, turned around and ran to discuss with several girls who were going to become temporary administrators, and asked some of them to go to the college restaurant to pack lunch for others.


    [Do we have to pay for the library maintenance without using our own financial resources?] Jia Lan kept thinking while copying the text on a large piece of parchment.


    Although he had a more convenient method, such as directly using [copying] to copy a large amount of text, what happened during this period made him start to avoid using his magic ability as much as possible, at least avoid using it in front of people.


    The magic ability and life experience he "inherited" from the previous civilization are incompatible with this era.


    This is not because there is a problem with his ability and experience, but because the difference in the times has caused a difference in the system.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    In the eyes of people of this era, he has become a dangerous outlier.


    For dangerous things, whether in the past or now, the most common method people use is to nip them in the bud.


    For example, the magicians of this era seem to be unable to sense the spells he cast, and it seems that some strange supernatural events have occurred.


    For example, he used small spells such as "Ice Making" and "Imbalance" to play pranks several times, and the people around him with magical abilities had no reaction.


    Of course, this may have something to do with the fact that those people are just low-level magic apprentices. Senior magicians may be able to detect the fluctuations of arcane energy.


    And his original life experience, many things that he took for granted or even insignificant in his eyes, also seem a bit shocking in this era.


    For example, the previous potion formula and this time''s "cleansing technique" have caused him a lot of trouble.


    In addition, the memories left to him by the alien soul are also a huge problem. It can even be said that the harm caused by the alien soul is beyond his own problems.


    That is a knowledge system from another unknown world, which is completely different from the civilization of the Eberron world!


    He just tried to use some of the things called "industrialization", which caused a huge destructive impact on the industrial system of a city.


    And this impact is completely invisible and intangible, making it hard to guard against. Even though we know its harm, there is no way to suppress or eliminate it.


    This is just a budding performance. You can imagine what kind of changes will it bring to the world once its power is fully erupted? And there are far more memories of unknown worlds like this in his memory!


    Although Jia Lan already knows the "sinister intentions" of the soul of the unknown world, he has no ability to resist.


    Because their memories have been merged together. Most of the time, all kinds of strange ideas will emerge unconsciously.


    And this is the result of the memory left by the unknown soul, which is in his subconscious.


    And as this unknown memory is gradually unsealed, the influence of the soul of the unknown world on him will inevitably become greater and greater!


    This state is obviously very dangerous. Once there is a problem that he cannot control, it is very likely to cause irreparable disasters for him, and even endanger his own safety.


    In this era, he is just a freshman at the "Techmo University" with no foundation, and now he is just a high-level mage apprentice who has no ability to protect himself.


    Looking at what he wrote, Jia Lan sighed deeply. This is simply an unsolvable proposition for him.


    Unless he does not think at all and does nothing, he cannot control the "grin" of the alien soul in his subconscious.


    It seems that he is very inexperienced in both experience and experience. He regards the unknown soul that has disappeared by self-annihilation as a benevolent existence, and thus carelessly bewitched by it, and successfully let it implant the "evil" will into his soul.


    It seems that no matter what he does in the future, he must think before deciding whether to act.


    Even if he cannot avoid his behavior being affected by the unknown soul that has disappeared, at least he should choose to do it with less harm.

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    To be honest, although Jia Lan made this decision, he was completely unsure in his heart, just like the thing called "Management and Operation" he just copied down, which came from the memory of another soul in his mind, and he couldn''t judge whether it was harmful or not.


    This should be the virus of the unknown world, which is completely invisible and intangible, and people have inadvertently stepped into its trap. Now, Jia Lan understands why there is a message "Remember to help me live a wonderful life!" in the message left by the soul from the unknown world.


    Jia Lan doesn''t know whether his soul will be swallowed or assimilated by the soul from the unknown world in the end. At least before that, he has to work hard to improve his strength and make his soul grow strong enough to control the influence of the unknown soul in turn.


    Just when he was struggling with whether the "self-operation and self-financing" mentioned in the "Management and Operation" was dangerous, Alan came over with a lunch. Jia Lan, who took the lunch, didn''t have time to enjoy it for the time being. After careful consideration, he handed the thing he just wrote to Alan.


    In order to reintegrate into this era, he couldn''t do nothing, so even if there was danger, he had to try it, just hoping that the development of things could be under his control.


    "Alan, help me recruit a group of craftsmen, and we need to buy some supplies."


    Jia Lan gave a simple order, but did not explain the reason to the girl. If he did not use the means he used to manage the library in the previous civilization, then his current identity as a librarian would become a big trouble that would take up a lot of his time and energy.


    This deviated from his original intention of joining [Komo University]. He did not try to get into [Komo University] just to find a job.


    Without using the original management methods, this library, which he thought was not big, would require a lot of money and manpower to manage well.


    The maintenance of books alone is a delicate and tedious job. He had to find a group of mounters to help him do this job, and repair the old and broken books in the library on other floors to cover up the truth that the books on the first floor were repaired and refurbished.


    The cost of repairing and renovating the books in the entire library is not something that can be paid with just a few hundred gold talans, but he can''t use his wealth blatantly and ostentatiously, which will attract attention.


    So he had to find a way to get some money to do this before the library''s funds were approved. When he thought of this, he couldn''t help but sigh again. It was really asking for trouble!


    "Jia Lan, why do we need to hire so many carpenters to maintain the library?"


    Alan looked puzzledly at the carpenters busy on a large lawn outside the library. They kept driving wooden stakes about the thickness of their arms into the lawn, and then made large, long triangular "pointed hats" according to the drawings Jialan drew for them. From the side, they looked like rows of large "umbrellas".You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    "Because the space in the library is too small and the light is dim, in order to provide everyone with a place to read books comfortably, I plan to build some "book sheds" on the lawn... Well, Alan, you should go and prepare with your sisters. Our "Science and Magic Book Bar" can be partially opened today!"


    Jialan answered the girl''s question casually, and kept looking at the small square tables that the carpenters were making. The small square tables were very small, and the smallest one was only two feet long, just enough to put down a book, some paper and pens, and a drink, which was enough for one person to sit and read.


    There were also larger ones, two-person tables, four-person tables, eight-person tables, and even long tables that could seat a hundred people, but these tables were distributed in different positions in the front, back, left and right of the library.


    Small round tables are usually scattered beside big trees, under the corners of the library''s outer wall, or on secluded steps, and are often covered by a large parasol made of white painted oilcloth.


    Perhaps in order to maintain a quiet reading environment, a large area of ??open space around the library is reserved, and there is a large forest of thick and dense ancient trees behind it, so there is enough space for Jia Lan to arrange it.


    For many consecutive days, Jia Lan, in addition to reading a large number of books in the library at night, was studying the soul from the unknown world called "management and operation". Although he dare not say that he has fully mastered the theory mentioned in his mind, he has also learned some insights from it.


    The information derived from the sentence "self-management, self-financing and self-loss" is too huge, so huge that if Jia Lan does not reveal it to the outside world, others will not be able to understand it even if they see it, so Jia Lan decided to take a risk and try it.


    The originally gloomy ancient tree forest, after clearing away the dense weeds, overgrown shrubs, and the thick layer of humus on the ground that exuded an unpleasant and corrupt smell, not only did it appear cleaner and more unobstructed, it seemed that the gloomy and terrifying atmosphere was also cleared away along with the dead branches and leaves.


    The moss on the ancient trees was washed away by the water magic apprentices hired by Jia Lan, and the dense umbrella-like ancient trees were also pruned by a large number of hired gardeners, making the branches sparser, so that the sunlight could be projected through the gaps, forming strange bright light beams in the forest, and beautiful spots of light like stars.


    On the ground, the wood magic apprentices gave birth to a green and soft lawn, and the deliberately born flowers were either blooming alone or gathered in small groups, giving people a very strange and natural feeling.


    Given the climate in the area where [Kolan City] is located, the grass and flowers can probably remain lush for more than two months. Planting grass and flowers at this time is actually not cost-effective, but Jia Lan doesn''t care. What he needs is to create something called "style" and "atmosphere" to see if this thing mentioned by the soul from an unknown world is useful.


    What he is doing now can be regarded as a low-risk spell experiment.

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    After the pruning, the old trees no longer looked so gloomy. After removing the dense twigs, the thick and mottled branches looked energetic and had a unique charm.


    Especially after Jia Lan asked the carpenters to build some small wooden house-style bird nests and moved the original bird nests in the woods, the birds that were startled by the large number of gardeners pruning the branches flew back again and occupied the small houses hanging on the branches without courtesy. The melodious bird calls made the place full of vitality.


    Jia Lan was very surprised by the change in atmosphere brought about by this subtle change in the environment. Before this, the birds'' calls sounded eerie and shrill.


    The old tree branches were thick enough to bear a considerable weight, so Jia Lan asked the carpenters to build spiral wooden ladders around the old trees, and lay a small platform of wooden boards between the branches, and put tables and chairs on it to make a peculiar reading seat.


    As for those old trees that were thick and huge enough, Jia Lan simply asked carpenters to build tree houses of varying sizes on them. Soon, the originally gloomy and terrifying library forest became a beautiful and peculiar place like an elf tribe.


    Although most places are still under construction, the book sheds and round table areas in front of the main entrance of the library are already ready for use. The faculty and students who have come to borrow books during this period are very curious about what the new librarian is going to do.


    The college even sent people to check it out, but because the project did not involve the main body of the library and did not destroy any of the original environment, it was just a tidying up, so there was no reason to stop it. This was within the librarian''s job rights.


    However, some people have seen the new librarian''s intentions for those small round tables and wooden sheds. He seems to be planning to move the reading area originally inside the library to the outdoors.


    No librarian in the history of [Komo University] has ever done this, so there is no school rule that prohibits this, so the fire management can only wait and see how things develop for the time being.


    The main reason why the school could not interfere was probably because the renovation of the college''s library did not cost the school a single copper danding... The library''s funds had not yet been allocated, and all the expenses were paid by the administrator himself.


    The most interesting thing was that the staff sent by the school to check it out found that the cost of the seemingly huge project throughout the library area was actually surprisingly low!


    Ten gardeners were hired, with a daily salary of 5 silver jims, so only 5 gold jims were needed per day.


    Ten carpenters were hired, with a daily salary of 1 gold jims, and the total of 100 apprentices they brought only needed to be paid 1 silver jims per day, so a total of 20 gold jims were needed per day.


    The materials used were branches that the gardeners trimmed from the ancient woods behind the library, because they were thick enough, and after being split, they were enough to make wooden boards for assembling wooden sheds.You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.


    And those small square tables were even more crude and outrageous. Simply split the branches of different thicknesses in half, nail two wooden strips and a few table legs with small branches and leaves without even peeling off the bark, and polish the tabletop to make it smooth, and it became a small table that exuded the fragrance of trees.


    This kind of wooden table without any paint looks as ugly as the building blocks that children put together at random, but when placed in the arranged environment, it is filled with the original natural atmosphere and is unusually harmonious.


    In particular, the plant fragrance of the wood that has not been stripped of its bark makes people feel relaxed and happy in the quiet nature when using it.


    Calculated in this way, the new administrator''s expenditure is just the salary of hiring carpenters and gardeners. Although the tree houses in the ancient woods behind the library are still under construction, the investment is not expected to be too large.


    Just when everyone was wondering what the new librarian wanted to do, a strange cabin run by a group of girls opened. They hung a small wooden sign outside the cabin, which read [Science and Magic Book Bar] and a series of price lists.


    The girls changed out of their light blue magic robes and put on black puff-sleeved tops, short skirts and pink aprons, and wore hairpins decorated with furry ears. Their cute appearance immediately attracted many male magic apprentices who came to borrow books.


    One of the bold boys came up and asked with a grin, "Schoolmates, what are you doing?"


    "Hello, seniors! This is a new service provided by the library. This reading area can be used as a reading place for everyone. It also provides drinks such as black tea, milk tea, coffee and fruit tea, as well as some snacks. In addition, if you come during breakfast, lunch or dinner time, we also provide some light meals..."


    The girl who was asked smiled sweetly and bowed politely, "By the way, if you want to borrow any books, you can also tell us the title or number of the book and we will get it for you. If you don''t plan to borrow the books when you leave, just hand the books to us directly, and we will handle the other borrowing procedures for you."


    This new service model surprised the students. Although students of [KoMo University] can borrow books freely with their school badges, it is a bit troublesome to handle the borrowing procedures. Having such gentle and lovely schoolmates to serve kindly on their behalf, whether it is convenient or not, at least it will make people feel good.


    Moreover, the library did not provide tea and meals in the past. During lunch time, students who came to borrow books often had to return the books first, then walk a long way to the college restaurant for lunch, and then walk a long way back in the afternoon to go through the borrowing procedures again, which was very complicated.


    It happened that [Komo Book Bar] opened at around 11 o''clock in the morning, and it was almost lunch time. The boy who asked was very interested and planned to try it, so he asked curiously: "Then please help me borrow the book "History of the Jilargo City-State Era". I don''t remember the book number. Also, help me get a simple meal and a cup of milk tea as you said."

 Chapter 64

    The girl who was asked immediately went to work, took out a wooden folder with a stack of parchment and an ink pen, and walked out from behind the counter, which immediately attracted the surprised eyes of the students who were watching.


    In this era, most women are used to wearing long skirts or formal puffy skirts. Except for some sexy and unrestrained female adventurers or mercenaries, it is rare to see women showing their arms and legs. However, this girl wore elbow-length puff sleeves and a knee-length black short skirt, revealing a pair of delicate arms and a pair of slender and white calves.


    The beautiful girl, with cute and sexy clothes that do not make people feel exposed, immediately attracted the equally young male magic apprentices.


    "Please tell me your student number and sign at the back. Also, please follow me. I will arrange a seat for you. Meals will be delivered to you along with books later."


    The girl held the wooden board in front of her chest with one hand and led the way with the other hand. The snow-white and tender arms and the black clothes on her plump chest formed a strong color contrast, which made the boy''s eyes go straight.


    "Today''s set menu includes new cheese beef coburger, double fried chicken leg giant coburger, red bean pie, apple pie, cheese chicken roll... and so on. You can pair it with drinks as you like!"


    The girl smiled sweetly and led the absent-minded boy to a small square table: "If you are alone, I suggest you order a cheese beef coburger + cheese chicken roll + milk tea set menu, which is one silver jimmy and two copper dandins cheaper than ordering a la carte, and the second drink is half price!"


    "Oh! Okay! Just do as you said!"


    The boy sat down at the small square table in a daze. He didn''t hear what was being eaten at all. He just looked around with some doubts: "Aren''t the tables here for random sitting?"


    The girl quickly wrote down the boy''s meal on the parchment, and explained responsibly: "Yes, in order to avoid affecting other guests, these small square tables are provided for people who order food. If you just want to borrow books, you can go to the long table area over there..."


    The boy looked at the long table, then at the small square table in front of him. For some reason, he felt a sense of superiority. He sat there proudly under the gaze of the onlookers, waiting for his meal.


    Soon, a simple-looking but novel food was served on a wooden plate, and a book "History of the Era of the City-State of Zirago" was placed in front of him.


    "For your health and to keep the books clean, it is recommended that you use this wet towel to wipe your hands before and after meals."


    The girl smiled sweetly and bent her slender waist, kindly and carefully teaching the boy how to eat the food wrapped in cabbage leaves. It was a round bread cut in half, with a slice of ground beef patty, a slice of thinly cut cheese and two lettuce leaves. It was simple, but tasted good and was very convenient.


    "What is this? Coburger?"


    The boy picked up the cheese beef coburger wrapped in cabbage leaves in surprise, took a look at it and took a big bite. The girl opened her mouth and wanted to remind him that the cabbage leaves outside were only used to wrap food, not to eat.


    However, the administrator of Jialan said: "Customers are gods, and all their actions are correct... as long as they can pay.".


    So the girl decided not to tell the guy who was happily chewing the cabbage leaves the truth, but just smiled sweetly and said: "Yes, Coburger buns are fast food newly developed by a senior chef of our [CoMo University]! It tastes good and is easy to eat. It is only sold in our library''s light meal department!" The boy stuffed his mouth full and muttered: "Mm-hmm! It''s delicious!" "Friendly reminder, please be careful not to dirty the books when eating, otherwise we will charge a book cleaning fee! In addition, after you finish your meal, just put the plate on the table and we will collect it." The girl smiled and stretched out a tender white hand: "Thank you! A total of 15 copper danding!"  The boy was stunned for a moment, and quickly put down the half-eaten Coburger, and hurriedly took out a silver jewel and five copper dandings. After looking up at the smiling girl, he put the five copper dandings back with some heartache, took out two silver jewels and put them in the girl''s palm, and waved his hand generously, saying: "The rest is your tip!"The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    "Thank you, senior!"


    The girl knelt slightly and made a lady''s salute, and ran away with a smile!


    Although the boy felt that the cost of this simple meal was not too cheap, he felt that the money was worth it. He smiled proudly at the guys who were still watching, and continued to eat this simple meal in the college restaurant, which would probably not cost more than a silver jewel.


    With someone taking the lead, a large number of students who planned to have lunch soon rushed into the wooden shed. A large group of butterfly-like girls in short skirts rushed out of the hut, walked to their respective areas, and recorded the books, meals and drinks needed by the student customers.


    About two hours later, the thousands of seats under the wooden shed were filled with students who had finished their meals and returned to a quiet reading state. Compared with usual times, the number of people staying in the library to read was more than five times! After all, they were all students of [KoMo University], and their quality was quite good. Even if they needed anything, they just raised their arms to signal, attracted the attention of the girls nearby, and whispered their needs. Although there were many people gathered, it still maintained a relatively quiet environment. The fifty girls who had just finished their work gathered together behind the small wooden house next to the wooden shed, watching Alan, who was responsible for collecting money, count the lunch expenses, while whispering about how much tips each of them got. "I have 43 copper Danding!"


    "Ah! I only have 32!"


    "Hehe! I got 51! Half a Jintalan!"


    "Unfair! Unfair! Why do you have so many?"


    "I don''t know! But smile sweeter and speak softer, maybe you can get more tips!"


    "Humph! Why are all the people I meet stingy and reluctant to tip?"


    Just when the girls were laughing and joking, Alan suddenly exclaimed, covered her mouth, and said in disbelief: "159 Jintalan, 4 Silver Gim, and 3 Copper Danding!"


    The girls were silent, their eyes widened in surprise. They only sold those simple ingredients, and they didn''t even use any cooking skills. They sold nearly 160 Jintalan in one afternoon?


    And there weren''t many people who came to borrow books today, only more than a thousand people, which means that almost all the students who came to borrow books stayed!


    You know, only one wooden shed area was open! If all five wooden sheds that can accommodate a thousand people are open, plus the small square tables scattered around and the woods behind the library... can it accommodate nearly 20,000 people at the same time?


    Even if each person only consumes one silver gin per meal, three meals a day is 6,000 gold gins, and a month is... Oh my God! The girls almost screamed!

 Chapter 65

    Jia Lan took the bill from Alan and took a quick look at the numbers on it.


    His brain worked very well, and he quickly calculated the total amount. He also found that Alan had made more than a dozen mistakes in writing because he was busy, a total of about seven silver jims.


    He smiled and clapped his hands, attracting the girls who were chatting around him in a low voice. "Girls! Good job!" he said happily, "After the first day of trial operation of our "Komo Book Bar", the five sheds can be officially opened starting tomorrow."


    A bold girl raised her hand to ask a question, and Jia Lan nodded to her. The girl named Minnie asked excitedly: "Administrator Jia Lan! If we officially open, we have to recruit more people. There are only fifty of us. I''m afraid we can''t handle five sheds with a thousand seats each? We are exhausted today!"


    Jia Lan smiled, and his smile made the girls stare at him intently. He nodded with satisfaction, pointed at Minnie and praised her: "Of course! But I have to announce your appointment and salary first..."


    The girls immediately quieted down, gathered together like a group of kittens, and listened to Jia Lan attentively.


    They are all freshmen, and their family conditions are not very good.


    So for them who need to bear the high tuition fees, a part-time job with a good salary is very attractive.


    Jia Lan looked at the more than 50 girls who stayed since the first day, and said slowly: "First of all, I will announce the appointment. Minnie, Luerna, Cindy, Eve and Lisa, the five of you are selected as the "waiters" of sheds 1-5, with a monthly salary of 15 gold talans, and the salary will be paid on the last day of each month. If you do well, there will be an extra bonus!"


    The five girls cheered, and the other girls cast envious or jealous eyes at them.


    But they also knew that these five girls performed very well in today''s trial operation and were very capable, so they were not dissatisfied.


    The monthly salary of 15 gold talans is really good.


    In Kolan City, it is not easy to find such a high-paying job.


    Moreover, the workplace is right in the school, and the environment is very good.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    If you can''t come to class, you can ask for leave, and only the salary for that day will be deducted.


    The most important thing is that you can get a lot of tips while working.


    Like Minnie, they get more than one gold talan in tips a day, and the others get at least five silver gilms.


    In this way, if they can get an average of five silver gilms in tips every day, they can also earn 15 gold talans a month, which is almost the same as their salary. Magicians are generous customers.


    "Okay, now you have the opportunity to exercise the authority of the head waiter. You can select ten people to be the ''regional head waiters'' of each shed."


    Jia Lan smiled and looked at the five newly appointed head waiters: "The monthly salary is 12 gold talans. In the future, we will divide each shed into ten areas, and you will be responsible for management. If you perform well, you will also get a ''regional head waiter'' bonus at the end of the month."


    As soon as he finished speaking, the girls quickly gathered together and soon divided into five small teams.


    Jia Lan glanced at them, smiled and distributed a thick stack of "Book Bar Waiter Training Manual" copied on parchment to them, one copy for each person.


    The manual records in detail the rules of the book bar, as well as the strict requirements on etiquette, appearance, wording, service, etc.


    "Very good! From now on, you are the grassroots management personnel of our [Komo Book Bar]. Since everyone is a student, the main focus should be on study. How to coordinate study and work depends on your own arrangement."


    "The book bar shed area is vast, and it is obviously not enough with only more than 50 of you. Therefore, you ''regional waiters'' are allowed to recruit 5 to 10 waiters each, with a monthly salary of 10 gold talans, and provide working meals. Due to the service nature of our book bar, except for meal time, it is not too busy..."


    Jia Lan intended to test these girls, so he did not go into too much detail, but just reminded: "You can appropriately increase temporary hourly workers during meal time or busy periods, two silver gilms per day or two copper dandings per hour, and also provide working meals."


    The girls nodded and took note of Jia Lan''s words carefully.


    Only Alan, who had not been assigned a job, clenched her hands nervously and asked anxiously: "What about me? What about me?"


    In order to cultivate the girl''s ability, Jia Lan directly gave her an important task: "Alan will serve as the head deacon of the book bar, responsible for finance, cashier, procurement, accounts and overall management of all aspects. The book bar will be handed over to you in the future!"


    Alan was stunned: "Ah? I... I can''t do it..."


    Jia Lan smiled and patted her head, encouraging: "You can do it! These smart and beautiful girls will help you! Right?"


    Some smart girls have obviously anticipated this situation, and they are very supportive of Jia Lan''s behavior of deliberately improving Alan''s authority and status in front of them, cheering: "Yes! Alan! Let''s work hard together!"


    "Yes, right! Deacon! Please take care of us in the future!"


    Alan was surrounded by the girls who surrounded her. After a chaotic frolic, she looked at Jia Lan pitifully: "What about you?"


    "Me?"


    Jia Lan touched his nose, smiled and pointed to the library: "Of course I want to be a qualified librarian!"

 Chapter 66

    With the income from the book bar, he can recruit craftsmen to repair the library, fix the damaged books, and buy what he wants without the financial interference of the college management. He will have an excuse for some of the things he does in the future...


    "By the way! Administrator Jia Lan!"


    The girl named Minnie suddenly raised her hand and asked, "You only arranged the work for the five sheds, what about the woods?"


    "Good question!"


    Jia Lan looked at the clever girl with approval: "Who can tell me how many seats there are in our library book bar?"


    The girls looked at each other, but Alan, who had been in charge of recruiting craftsmen, knew more and answered carefully: "If you don''t count those in the woods, the five sheds plus the fifteen small tables have a total of about 20,000 seats."


    Jia Lan nodded: "Then who of you knows how many faculty and students [Komo University] has?"


    "I know! I know!"


    A girl raised her hand: "The faculty and staff of the whole school add up to about 30,000, and the total number of students in all subjects in all grades is more than 370,000!"


    "Very good!"


    Jia Lan said like a teacher, "That is to say, our [Komo University] has a total population of more than 400,000. Even if only one-tenth of the people come to the library every day, we still need to receive 40,000 people, but there are only half of the seats. What should we do?"


    The girls looked at each other, and Alan was a little skeptical: "Will there be so many people? It seems that only one or two thousand people came today. There are no seats... If there are no seats... they will borrow books back to read, right?"


    "That''s because they don''t know that our book bar is open."


    Jia Lan smiled and said: "And there are no seats. I think many people will be willing to read on the grass or steps nearby. After all, if you borrow books to read, you won''t see so many beautiful and cute girls, and you won''t be able to drink the milk tea drinks brewed by the girls!"


    After making a small joke, which caused the girls to laugh, Jia Lan said affirmatively: "Look, after today''s trial operation, I estimate that starting from tomorrow, the number of students visiting the library will begin to surge! You will be too busy by then! What do you think we should do?"


    The girls looked at each other, and Minnie said excitedly: "Recruit more sisters!"


    "Good idea! 20,000 seats, plus people reading on the nearby grass and steps, will also need meals and drinks. In this way, it is expected that there will be an average of 50,000 customers visiting our book bar every day..."


    Jia Lan said with a chuckle: "As for how many people are needed to serve these 50,000 people, how many meals and ingredients are needed, how to manage, how to operate, settle accounts, purchase raw materials... it all depends on you!"


    The girls were somewhat uneasy. They originally thought it was just a simple part-time job, but they didn''t expect the responsibility to suddenly become so heavy. After whispering for a while, they left Jia Lan, who didn''t intend to manage, aside and hurriedly gathered together to hold the "First Internal Seminar for Managers of the Book Bar of the Komo University Library".Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    Looking at the girls who were getting serious, Jia Lan smiled slightly, turned around and walked into the library, leaving the space for them.


    The reason why Jia Lan was so sure that there would be a huge flow of people was because of a term called "market demand" mentioned in the soul memory from the unknown world. During his observation during this period, he found that the theories of the unknown world were extremely accurate.


    [KoMo University] has a large number of people, but in addition to entertainment venues such as taverns, concert halls, and theaters, the academy lacks places where people can have quiet entertainment.


    Magicians'' demand for alcoholic beverages is much lower than that of combat professionals. Even most magicians resist consuming alcohol, believing that alcohol will affect brain function, reduce mental strength and control over elements.


    Although concert halls and theaters are elegant, not everyone is interested in music and art.


    Most magicians would rather calculate elemental arrangements at home than waste time in concert halls and theaters, listening to those works that moan without illness, which are far less beautiful than magic spells.


    This leads to a very scarce spare time for students at [KoMo University]. The extremely bored students often gather in groups of three or five to find fun based on the knowledge they have mastered.


    For example, they use alchemy to refine small explosives and secretly place them in the toilets of the teaching building... or set up small magic traps to play pranks, and the people who are pranked will try their best to retaliate.


    This vicious cycle of pranks often leads to escalation of the situation and evolves into a large-scale "student war" between student groups, classes, departments, and even colleges.


    [KoMo University] In history, there have been hundreds of student wars at the department level alone, and more than a dozen at the college level. The battles were fierce and affected a wide range!


    Although this has trained students'' practical and hands-on abilities to a certain extent, when the students of the entire college become "active", the college management has a headache and has to organize students to participate in adventure trials frequently to consume their vigorous energy.


    In Jia Lan''s consideration, the college is a place for learning after all, and most of the students who can be admitted to [KoMo University] come here to pursue knowledge.


    Therefore, the library has become the most frequented place for students besides the classroom.


    Instead of borrowing books and then trudging back to a messy dormitory or deserted classroom, why not order a drink at a nearby book bar, enjoy the rich reading atmosphere, bask in the sun, and enjoy the pleasant time of reading?


    In the past, places like book bars did not exist, but now they exist, and they will inevitably become the first choice for students to relax, which is better than staying in a dormitory with a bad environment and smelling stinky socks.


    Therefore, when designing the book bar, Jia Lan planned it according to the scale of one-tenth of the college''s population.


    In the early stage, due to limited funds, he chose to use local materials, using branches trimmed from the ancient forest of the library as materials, and built five wooden sheds on the wide lawn in front of the library to shelter from wind and rain.


    After the trial operation, the popularity of the book bar was determined and the first income was obtained, Jia Lan could build the library book bar according to his own ideas.


    For example, in his conception, the completed book bar will have 30 wooden sheds with a total of 30,000 seats, which will be in the shape of a "U" and cover the lawn in front of the library.


    In addition, there are open-air small tables with a total of 20,000 seats scattered around the wooden shed area.


    There will be 5,000 swing-style hanging chairs, 3,000 tree platforms and 1,000 small tree houses in the ancient forest!


    By then, as Minnie and other waiters become more proficient in the service business, the services provided by the book bar will gradually diversify, adding more items, turning the library book bar from a simple reading place into a leisure place.


    The service hours will also be extended from the current 9 am to 5 pm to all-day operation, and even provide membership priority positioning, reserved seats or tree house rental services.


    These measures are all to meet the needs of faculty and magic apprentices with better economic conditions.


    According to the souls from the unknown world, there are always people who are willing to spend a negligible amount of money to seek some equally negligible "superiority".

 Chapter 67

    As the operation of the book bar gradually gets on track, Jia Lan will not interfere too much in daily affairs, but he still needs to participate in some planning work behind the scenes, such as developing a variety of novel light meals and beverages, as well as designing and making small equipment and props needed for the book bar.


    Jia Lan is busy with these affairs not for profit purposes, but to verify whether the theories he proposed about souls from the unknown world are safe and correct.


    This can be said to be a large-scale academic experiment involving a large number of people.


    However, the participants in the experiment, or the "experimental subjects", do not know that they have become part of the experiment.


    For Jia Lan, this is undoubtedly the most important task at this stage besides understanding and being familiar with the magic system of this era.


    After returning to his administrator''s cabin, Jia Lan wanted to cast a [Dancing Lights] for lighting, but after thinking for a while, he lit an oil lamp, spread out a stack of parchment, and began to record the "experimental data" he observed during the trial operation for a day.


    After completing these records, he will start his routine reading work every night.


    He has not finished reading the basic books on the first floor of the library. After he finishes reading them all, he will need to start attending the lectures of the magic professor in the academy.


    "Today''s trial operation must have attracted the attention of the college management, right? Are they still waiting and watching? It is estimated that within three days, someone will come to intervene in the operation and management of the book bar."


    While recording what he saw and heard that day, Jia Lan muttered to himself: "The speculation of the soul of the unknown world and the knowledge system of manipulating people''s hearts are really interesting... I wonder what kind of surprises ''you'' will bring me? It''s really worth looking forward to..."


    "...The types of magic can be roughly divided into different categories such as white magic, red magic, black magic, blue magic, green magic and death magic..."


    "...Among them, ''white magic'' is also called holy light magic, light magic, light magic or sacred magic, which is mainly mastered by the priests of the [Holy Light Church]..."


    "...As for ''red magic'', it is also called red magic and fierce magic. Its notable characteristics are high destructiveness and serious pollution to the environment. It is difficult to recover after damage..."


    "...There is also ''black magic'', which is a magic system that is completely opposite to white magic. It uses curses, diseases, plagues, toxins and other means to achieve the purpose of harming others..."


    "... and ''blue magic'' is a way of fighting in which the magician is extremely weak, has almost no attack power and self-protection ability, and completely relies on external objects..."


    On the podium, the magic professor pointed to the unique magic symbols on the blackboard and popularized magic knowledge to the students who were concentrating below.


    Seeing that the students listened very seriously, the magic professor nodded with satisfaction.


    Although the lecture fee is not cheap, every magic professor will try his best to impart his knowledge to the apprentices.


    "Although there are many kinds of magic in this world, as students of [KoMo University], you are mainly exposed to ''Blue Magic'', which is also called natural magic, a mysterious ability that uses the power of nature!" He knocked on the blackboard with his pointer, pointed to the symbol representing "Blue Magic" and said seriously: "White Magic is controlled by the church, and people without firm faith cannot learn White Magic; Red Magic is mostly controlled by the military, used for war and destruction, and is forbidden to spread among the people; Black Magic is extremely dangerous and is banned by both the church and the country; as for the evil existence of Death Magic, it goes without saying that once someone is found practicing it, they will be wanted by the official authorities of various countries, and may even attract the pursuit of the church''s knights and demon hunters."The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    "As for the special and minor magic systems like blue magic, although they are not banned, they require very special qualifications to practice. At the same time, since the practitioners are extremely weak, they are almost worthless!" The magic professor proudly knocked on the magic symbol of blue magic again: "Only blue magic, that is, natural magic, is a truly powerful and orthodox magic system. Now let''s explain the basic classification of blue magic..." [Interesting classification... and it seems to have some shadows of arcane magic...] White magic seems to be related to divine magic. Red magic seems to include the theories of other sub-schools in the "Evocation System" except the "Elemental Sub-School". Black magic seems to have a certain connection with the "Dead Soul System". Blue magic seems to be the "Calling Sub-School" in the "Spell System", not the "Summoning Sub-School". Its restraint on summoned objects is not as strong as that of the Summoning School... Death magic should be the "Undead Sub-School" in the "Dead Soul System", right? Green magic... natural magic, this description is very vivid, but isn''t this the "elemental sub-school" in the "Energy Department"... However, they added the natural magic of the druids to the green magic system, why is this so? Has the "Forest Goddess" Alona fallen?


    Sitting in the corner of the lecture hall, Jia Lan took notes while distractedly thinking about his own problems.


    Since his mental power gradually recovered and his soul strength increased, Jia Lan found that he could easily split his attention and even handle several things at the same time. This should be the benefit of the two split souls.


    During this period, in addition to restoring his arcane ability step by step, Jia Lan read a lot of books in the library in order to understand this era as soon as possible.


    However, as he learned more and more, he became more and more confused.


    The knowledge systems of the two eras were almost completely different, and there was a serious conflict in his mind, forcing him to master the two systems independently first, sort them out, and then refer to and compare them.


    But whether it is the "arcane knowledge system" or the "magic knowledge system", it is not too difficult to master it with Jia Lan''s learning and comprehension abilities. It only takes time.


    What really bothers him is the huge "knowledge system" left by the unknown soul in his mind.


    This is a field that Jia Lan has never touched before. The knowledge possessed by any "soul from the unknown world" that emerges from the "unknown knowledge system" is full of temptation for him.


    What Jia Lan fears most about "souls from the unknown world" is not their impact on this era, but their diffusion.


    Just like the thing called "industrialization", it only leaked a little bit of its prototype, and it quickly invaded the minds of the people involved, spontaneously began to spread and spread, and turned a simple housewife into a slave of a monster called "capital".


    Although he knew it might be dangerous, Jia Lan just couldn''t stand the analysis and exploration of "unknown knowledge".


    Although he was very careful, the "unknown knowledge" was not under his control at all and was gradually being unsealed in his mind.


    These unlocked knowledge formed a terrible wave, which was constantly impacting the "dam" built by his original knowledge system, causing cracks in the "dam".


    If this continues, the entire "dam" will be questioned by himself and face collapse.


    The collapse of the knowledge system is almost as terrible as the collapse of faith for a spellcaster.


    This is why after encountering the problem of "Lemli Potion Workshop", he took the risk to set up "CoMo University Library Book Bar" to conduct "management and operation" experiments.


    Jia Lan felt that the proverb of the unknown soul made sense: "There is only a thousand days of thieves, how can there be a thousand days of defense against thieves."


    If a spellcaster is targeted by an elite thief, it is definitely a very troublesome thing.


    Not to mention a thousand days, it is estimated that within a month, he will collapse because he is always in a state of high vigilance and perception, unable to rest and meditate.


    Therefore, as a spellcaster, when encountering difficulties, you should not choose to escape, but solve the problem.


    If it is impossible to defend against the elite thief''s pursuit for a thousand days, then the best solution is to find the elite thief first, and then kill him with "explosive fire"! What Jia Lan is doing now is the process of "finding the thief".


    He must determine which of those knowledge systems are dangerous, which are useful, and which are dangerous but beneficial to him.


    In this way, he can study them with confidence and truly control them, and no longer be disturbed by the strong temptation they emit all the time.


    If this matter is not resolved, Jia Lan knows that even if there is no harassment from foreign souls in his soul, he will not be able to go too far on this road in the arcane field, and it is even difficult to recover to the strength of a first-level primary mage.


    Once the soul has doubts, it means that a big stone has been encountered on the road to exploring knowledge.


    If it is not removed, the spellcaster with obsession and fetters in his heart will be unable to move forward in the arcane field!

 Chapter 68

    "Arcane, magic, knowledge of the unknown world", Jia Lan wrote these three words on paper and drew circles around them. He stared silently for a long time, thinking about how to deal with the relationship between the three.


    He first wrote "Arcane" and "magic" side by side, and then wrote "knowledge of the unknown world" below them, but soon crossed it out with a pen and re-wrote "Arcane, knowledge of the unknown world".


    After hesitating for a moment, he drew a horizontal line and wrote "magic" below the horizontal line.


    Because the horizontal line drawn casually was not very straight, the graphic structure of the relationship between the three looked like a seesaw, and "magic" was the stone that supported the seesaw.


    Before Jia Lan could calculate the "proportion" of the three and try to balance the relationship between them, a noisy sound came from the lecture hall.


    Jia Lan looked up and saw that the magic professor had finished the three-hour lecture on "Basic Magic System" worth two gold talans this afternoon.


    There were not many magic apprentices attending the lecture, only about a few hundred people.


    They were happily discussing the content of the lecture with their familiar classmates, and they were rushing out of the lecture hall in a mess. It seemed that everyone had gained something.


    And Jia Lan just glanced at the notes he had scribbled, put the paper, pen and books under his armpit, and left here calmly with the crowd.


    "It seems that next time I have to start from the intermediate lecture of five gold talans at least. The content of the elementary lecture of two gold talans is not very useful to me." Jia Lan thought to himself.


    The content of the lecture just now was just a summary and explanation of the apprentice-level magic knowledge by the elementary magic professor. It was indeed very insightful, but it was mixed with too much of his personal understanding and views.


    This is not what an excellent educator should do.


    The most basic point for educators to impart knowledge to learners is to "teach" knowledge objectively, rather than "instill" knowledge subjectively.


    This is likely to stifle the learner''s own thinking and form a wrong knowledge limitation for him.


    So when he was in class just now, Jia Lan turned a deaf ear to most of the imposed contents with strong personal will in the long speech of the junior magic professor.


    After all, Jia Lan has read all the books from the 1st to 9th grade on the first floor of the library, and he is fully capable of summarizing the essence of them by himself.


    In short, the two gold Talans today feel a bit wasted.


    Next time, I''d better listen to the lecture of the intermediate magic professor who charges a lecture fee of five gold Talans. It should involve some more advanced content, right?


    When Jia Lan was considering whether to start reading the books on the junior magician level on the second floor of the library after returning today, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "It''s him!!!"


    Coming back from his thoughts, Jia Lan saw a group of teenagers walking towards him angrily, and couldn''t help looking around in a daze.


    He found that the magic apprentices around him avoided him from a distance, but they did not go far away. Instead, they formed a circle and pointed at him and the teenagers who were approaching, whispering.


    For some reason, the word "strong onlookers" suddenly popped up in Jia Lan''s mind.


    He looked at the angry teenager in front of him curiously, and before the other party spoke, he suddenly said: "Ah! It''s Kasmer who grabbed a seat in the Fire Demon Restaurant! Hello! See you again!"


    Kasmer rushed to Jia Lan, raised his finger and pointed at Jia Lan''s nose, and was about to attack. He stared at the smiling guy in front of him with wide eyes and was speechless for a while.


    Jia Lan politely saluted and said: "Last time, classmate Kasmer treated me to apologize. Thank you so much!" If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    "I... I... I didn''t grab a seat..." Kasmer looked at the whispering onlookers around him in panic, and yelled with a red face: "It''s not me, it''s Bob..."


    "Eh? Did I remember it wrong? Could it be Master Kasmer who allowed servants to humiliate others?" Jia Lan looked at him curiously with his head tilted: "I heard that Mr. Kasmer, the councillor, also has the surname Kasmer. A family with a councillor should not have such bad morals, right?"


    "No! No!" Kasmer''s handsome face flushed red. He wanted to refute, but he was blocked by a breath in his chest and couldn''t spit it out.


    Jia Lan asked in confusion: "Since it''s not ''Classmate Kasmer who grabbed a seat'', nor is it ''Master Kasmer who allowed servants to humiliate others'', then are you the poor Kasmer who tried to please Miss Mary, the daughter of the Speaker''s family, but was rejected in public?"


    "No... no... no... I didn''t..."


    Kasmer, who was already incoherent and speechless, blushed and stammered to deny it.


    Jia Lan frowned in confusion: "If you are none of them, then who are you? Do we know each other?"


    "I... I am..."


    Kasmer was stunned. After holding back for a long time, this boy who looked only 17 or 18 years old suddenly roared in grief and anger, turned around and ran away in tears, which surprised the onlookers who were ready to watch the excitement.


    The group of teenagers who followed Kasmer ran back in confusion, asking each other inexplicably while running: "Aren''t we going to beat that kid? Why are you running?"


    "How should I know? Didn''t little Kasmer say that he was going to settle accounts with the guy who defrauded him of 338 gold talans?"


    "Does that guy know little Kasmer? Why does he know that little Kasmer is pursuing Miss Mary?"


    "Little Kasmer is pursuing Miss Mary? Why?"


    "Why? Don''t you know that Congressman Kasmer and the Speaker..."


    With this group of guys who came and ran away inexplicably, the onlookers who had nothing to watch dispersed in disappointment.


    Jia Lan smiled slightly, looked down on these guys who were just there to help, and continued to walk towards the library.


    But after walking two steps, he suddenly froze. What is "soy sauce"?


    It seems to be something in the soul memory of the unknown world.


    Jia Lan shook his head in confusion.


    When Master Kasmer "treated" that day, many magic apprentices who knew him enthusiastically told Jia Lan a lot of information about the Kasmer family.


    Although he didn''t take this information to heart, it was still very useful to solve the little revenge of the passionate teenagers.


    I hope they can be more creative when they come for revenge next time.


    After hitting this group of noble teenagers, Jia Lan''s mood, which was originally heavy because of the unpredictable danger of the souls from the unknown world, suddenly became cheerful. He even didn''t bother to pay attention to the guy who secretly followed him and always used a small tree that was less than an arm thick to cover his body.


    Back to the library, passing through a large area of ??students sitting on the grass, talking or reading quietly, Jia Lan was about to return to her cabin to sort out the notes she copied from the lecture. At this time, Alan, dressed in a very formal black dress, hurried over.


    After so many days of operation, with Jia Lan''s occasional reminders, the management of the book bar has gradually become formalized.


    Both the staff clothing and the management system have begun to gradually improve.


    Even those ugly round wooden tables and chairs that have only been used for a few days have been replaced by exquisite cherry wooden tables and chairs.


    This is the benefit of having sufficient funds.


    The book bar now not only employs a group of skilled craftsmen for a long time, but also employs more than a dozen professional chefs and dozens of second chefs, as well as hundreds of kitchen helpers, freeing the girls from their unskilled cooking.


    In addition, Jia Lan also separated the simple meal department of the book bar and developed it in the direction of formal catering.


    Also separated in this way are newly established departments such as the Finance Department, the Purchasing Department, and the Human Resources Department.


    In a short period of time, Alan, the simple girl, became the official "black-clad supervisor butler" in charge of the library''s book bar.

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    Although these young managers are still immature, they will not stray too far from the right track under the guidance of Jia Lan''s meticulous management regulations that are meticulous to every detail.


    Jia Lan witnessed these girls thrive in his "trial field" with great anticipation.


    "Jia Lan! The teachers from the College Management Office, the Teaching Office, and the Finance Department are here!" Alan''s voice was a little nervous: "They are waiting for you in the library, saying that our book bar violated the college regulations, destroyed the environment, and affected the learning atmosphere of the library... They asked us to stop business immediately for rectification!"


    "Oh? Really?" Jia Lan stopped with interest, and after thinking for a moment, he ordered Alan: "Go and gather the girls from the management department, prepare refreshments at the No. 1 counter in the ''Wizard of Oz'' area, and then invite a few teachers to come over. I will be waiting for them there!"


    Alan was stunned. Although she was a little confused, she had been accustomed to following Jia Lan''s arrangements in the past few days, so she nodded and went to prepare obediently.


    Jia Lan looked at the girl''s hurriedly leaving figure, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Is she finally here?


    After this period of operation, the library book bar has been in full swing. The initial investment has been recovered, and Jia Lan still has a huge amount of working capital in his hands.


    However, he did not deposit the money into the bank, but invested it all in the upgrade of the book bar and library, and carried out a comprehensive upgrade of raw materials and hardware facilities.


    Some people ask, which class does the mage belong to?


    In Jia Lan''s era, the mage is not only a mysterious power controller beyond the secular dignitaries, but also a symbol of mystery, power, wealth and aristocracy in the eyes of ordinary people.


    A mage, whether he has a noble title or not, the social status he enjoys is by no means inferior to that of a real aristocrat, and this social status will continue to rise with the improvement of his spellcasting rank.


    It can be said that mages are truly born aristocrats. Their status does not need to be recognized by the secular regime, and the secular aristocracy has to admit this.


    Because no matter whether it is aristocracy or a royal family, they dare not easily offend mages who have mysterious spellcasting abilities.


    Therefore, although most spellcasters do not care about power and status, they have extraordinary identities and are admired and worshipped by the world.


    This is often reflected in their rich lives that ignorant civilians yearn for.


    Money is not very important to mages, but few mages are poor.


    The mysterious knowledge of the arcane magic they master can always easily bring them huge wealth.


    Compared with the money consumed by those expensive and luxurious spell experiments, the living expenses of mages seem insignificant.


    Maybe even those mages who do not pursue a luxurious life do not realize that the daily necessities they use are not necessarily used by real wealthy nobles.


    For mages, drinking water from a luxurious Swarovski crystal cup worth 20,000 gold coins is no different from drinking water from a crude oak cup worth two copper coins.


    These are just the daily necessities they bought when they had enough funds for the experiment. Naturally, there are servants and housekeepers who are responsible for taking care of the magician''s life to handle these things.


    However, the servants of the spellcaster can''t be compared with their magician master after all, lacking the detached and free spirit.


    Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.    With the generous funds of the master, they took great pains to collect the world''s top and expensive luxury goods for the master, just to win a smile from the master.


    The mages, day after day, unconsciously immersed in the ultimate luxury, their food, clothing, housing and transportation were all of the highest quality, and their lifestyle had reached the top of the clouds.


    All this was just an ordinary daily routine for them.


    After all, the mages'' attitude towards life was indifferent rather than dull.


    When hunger came, facing a plate of fragrant roast suckling pig and a piece of dry and rough black bread, the mages'' choice was self-evident.


    This accustomed luxury, in the eyes of ordinary people, turned into the so-called "natural aristocratic style".


    Jia Lan, immersed in such an atmosphere since childhood, naturally, also got this "natural aristocratic style".


    Therefore, when choosing the hardware facilities of the book bar, she only needed to take a glance to choose her favorite from the dazzling array of samples.


    This may not be noticeable in the "public area" in front of the library, but it is as dazzling as starlight in the "Wizard of Oz" area that has not yet unveiled its mystery.


    As the sun sets, the light and shadow in the ancient woods gradually soften, and a touch of dusk quietly descends.


    Not far away, several middle-aged men, with sullen faces, followed Alan and stepped into this mysterious place.


    They are the backbone of the University of Science and Technology, from the College Management Office, the Teaching Office, and the Finance Department.


    Interestingly, most of these middle-level managers are not magicians, but hired management elites who play the role of servants of the spellcasters in the Jialan era.


    After all, most magicians are obsessed with magic research and have no time to take care of these tedious management affairs.


    Therefore, in addition to the magic sites such as laboratories, museums, and libraries, it is reasonable to hand over other affairs to these professional managers.


    At this moment, the three middle-aged men were in a terrible mood.


    A fledgling student dared to put on a big air, making them wait for a whole afternoon, and even sent someone to invite these managers to meet him!


    Who does he think he is? A professor of the magic academy? Or the dean?


    Even those magicians with strange tempers might be a little bit afraid of you, but what qualifications do you, a magic apprentice who has just arrived, have to be so arrogant?


    However, when they went deep into the woods, they found that the scenery here was completely different from the dark, damp, decayed and terrifying they imagined.


    Since the Wizard of Oz area has not been fully completed, it is not open to the public yet.


    After the craftsmen finished work, the place seemed particularly quiet.


    There was soft grass under my feet, and ancient trees that had experienced vicissitudes of life were beside me, which leisurely exuded intoxicating phytoncides.


    Every ten meters or so, the milky white gauze lanterns hanging on the branches cast a soft light, illuminating a winding path.


    The air was filled with a faint fragrance, intertwined with the phytoncides of the trees, which refreshed people''s spirits!


    After all, they were the management of the academy and were also prestigious social elites outside the academy. Naturally, they could recognize that this fragrance came from the Kashima tribe''s concentration incense in the Blade Desert of Veruna County in Southeast Continent!


    It is said that this rare magic incense has magical effects, which can enhance the magician''s mental strength and concentration, so that when memorizing and reciting magic spells, it can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

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    However, this magical incense is really expensive, and one stick costs hundreds of gold coins¡£


    Even the magicians would find a secret room to use it in order to make it work best.


    Hey, someone actually burns this kind of incense in such a large forest?


    How rich must this person be to waste it so much!


    Not long after walking, the financial minister of the college, von Kasmer, suddenly discovered that the gauze lanterns hanging on the trees were burning fish oil!


    Fish oil is a transparent oil extracted from fish. It has a fishy smell when it is not burned, but it has a faint fragrance when it is burned. It is particularly bright and does not smoke.


    Such a good thing is not cheap. 500 ml costs 10 gold coins, which ordinary people cannot afford.


    Although fish oil is very durable and can burn for a long time with just a little bit, it is also very luxurious.


    However, they saw at least dozens of gauze lanterns along the way.


    If all these lamps are burning with fish-man oil...


    Finance Minister von Kasmer kept muttering to himself, are they going to meet some big shot?


    Maybe the atmosphere in the woods was too quiet, coupled with the low-key luxury brought by the incense and fish-man oil, the three of them unconsciously quieted down and became cautious.


    Not far away, they saw the meeting place.


    Under a strange crooked tree, there was a bunch of purple lavender, and there was a simple round table next to it.


    A young man with black hair and black eyes was sitting at the table, concentrating on reading a very thick old book.


    On the table in front of him, there was also a cup of hot coffee, steaming under the illumination of the gauze lamp, making him look a little mysterious.


    Next to him, there were ten girls in purple long skirts, standing in two rows, neither conspicuous nor ignored.


    They lowered their heads, like elves in the dark night.


    Alan, who led the way, quickened his pace, walked to the young man, bent down and said a few words to him, and then stood behind him with a girl.


    The Minister of Finance and the others stopped involuntarily, as if waiting for the master to call them, and even their breathing became cautious.


    Just when they felt something was wrong, the young man put down his book, stood up, bowed slightly to them and said, "Good evening, please sit down and try the newly arrived Nusaki coffee. I believe you will like it."


    The three of them looked at each other and sat down a little stiffly.


    The girls hiding in the dark began to get busy. Some took out hot pottery pots from behind the bushes, and some began to grind coffee beans.


    Soon, three cups of fragrant coffee were placed in front of them.


    Then, the girls quietly returned to the darkness, as if they had never appeared.


    Picking up the coffee, Jia Lan smiled and gestured to the three people, took a sip lightly, and looked very satisfied.


    The three people then remembered the purpose of their visit. When asked by Jia Lan, they were a little at a loss.


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    They instigated the two supervisors of the management office and the teaching office to come to Jia Lan together, hoping to grab the management rights of the book bar so that they could have a share of the pie.


    The management of [Komo University] is actually divided into two parts: the inside and the outside.


    The inside part includes:


    The [Department of Management] composed of the deans of each branch;


    The [Tutor Supervision Association] composed of the most powerful magic professors of each department;


    And the [Student Union] composed of good student representatives selected by each subject.


    These three levels of management are mainly responsible for educating students and handling things in the school.


    The outside management is the outside people invited by the school, who are responsible for the operation and management of the school.


    In terms of status, the inside and outside management are in a superior-subordinate relationship.


    Those outsiders cannot interfere with the decisions of the [Department of Administration] and the [Tutor Supervision Association]. Even for the activities organized by the [Student Union], they can only help but cannot directly manage them.


    Moreover, the behavior of these outsiders will be supervised by students and teachers.


    However, the daily management of the school, such as how to operate, how to develop, how to contact the outside world, etc., are all their responsibility.


    It can be said that this management is a kind of cooperation between the school''s top management and the big forces outside [Kolan City].


    The school does not allow outsiders to manage the affairs inside, but allows them to get some benefits from the school at the cost of helping the school.


    After all, magicians cannot completely ignore secular affairs, and secular power is needed in many places.


    Moreover, those troublesome management tasks take a lot of time and energy, and no magician is willing to do them.


    Therefore, when someone is willing to do these jobs, the school''s top management is happy to hand them over to them.


    This leads to a middle layer in the school management that cannot manage school decisions but has the right to manage.


    The "benefits" of having someone in the family manage [KoMo University] are obvious.


    Just getting some magic items and techniques from the school''s magicians is enough to make the big forces in [KoLan City] fight over them.


    Therefore, the management positions of [KoMo University] have always been an important position that the big forces and families in [KoLan City] compete for.


    The market, restaurant and other places in the school are also the management rights that the big families have fought for themselves by using their power.


    Just think about it, a school with more than 400,000 people is about the same size as a small or medium-sized city.


    Students are not allowed to go out casually, so a closed living circle is formed here.


    The benefits of meeting the living needs of so many people can be imagined.


    The best thing is that [Como University] has a higher status in [Kolan City] than [Kolan Citizens Association].


    Not only is the school not controlled by [Kolan Citizens Association], but even various businesses in the school do not have to pay taxes to [Kolan Citizens Association]!


    For the forces and families in [Kolan City], the market in the school is a very big piece of fat.


    Whoever can get the management and operation rights is equivalent to getting tax-free benefits. How can they not fight for it?


    However, no one expected that under their noses, the originally simple and deserted school library suddenly had a "book bar" operated by the library itself.


    At first, everyone thought that it was just a temporary adjustment made by the new librarian to repair the library, and the reading area was placed outside the library.


    However, the managers soon discovered that a group of freshmen working in the library actually provided food and drinks to readers in the book bar, which was nothing special.


    However, when they knew how much the things in the book bar were sold for and estimated how many people consumed in the book bar, they were shocked!


    Although the major families and forces made a lot of money in the market and operated in various branches of the school, they always felt that it was not enough after the distribution.


    Because the business in the school does not have to pay 10£¥-25£¥ business tax to the [Colombian Civil Affairs Committee], the profit margin is very large, so they can only continuously improve the quality of the business premises, lower prices, and attract students from other branches to consume.


    However, under such fierce competition, the market potential and profit margin have been almost dug up.


    Originally, everyone was guarding their own territory, and there was nothing to say about competing in strength.


    But at this time, the library book bar that suddenly appeared quietly broke into the student market, severely squeezed their living space, and caused the business of each family to fall to the lowest point in history.


    How could the forces behind the managers not be angry?


    You know, [Como University] has many branches and departments, but only one big library.


    No matter which branch or department, students will definitely go to the library to borrow books.


    Originally, the library had a bad environment and was located in a remote area, so not many students stayed there, and they would go back to their colleges to eat.


    But now, the library book bar provides meals for students who borrow books.


    Although the food provided is far less rich and delicious than the school cafeteria, many students are too lazy to go back to the college to eat, so they eat on the spot.


    This has touched almost everyone''s big cake!

 Chapter 71

    When the financial director of the college, von Kasmer, saw the black-haired young man in front of him, he wanted to lose his temper and wanted to take away the management rights of the book bar from him.


    However, after seeing the luxurious decoration of the book bar, he had to calm down first and be polite to this somewhat mysterious young man.


    He took a sip of coffee to calm himself down, and then tried to ask: "I heard that you are a freshman? Can you tell me your full name?"


    The reason why von Kasmer was so careful was that the young man in front of him looked gentle and elegant, and his temperament was definitely not like a country bumpkin.


    This kind of gentle temperament with a little indifference and self-confidence is not something that ordinary people can have. It is more like a descendant of aristocrats who has been passed down for hundreds of years. Maybe he is a noble child!


    The young man smiled and said: "My name is Galan Kan Edimarchus. However, you can see it from my entrance examination information form."


    A person''s full name actually contains a lot of information, such as which family he comes from, the history of the family, the past glory, etc.


    Some nobles have very long names because they have to write their father''s name, family emblem and title. Some names can even have dozens or hundreds of characters, just like a resume.


    For example, when introducing himself, Galan can say that he is "The Spear of the East, the Black-eyed Son of Karatu, the Red Lion of Tybert, the disciple of Saint Quakermaier... Galan Kan Edimacus".


    This sounds like a poem, mysterious and solemn.


    When von Kasmer and others heard it, they found that there was also the word "Kan" in Galan''s surname. This is a holy name that only the royal family and high-ranking nobles can use!


    They looked at each other. Although they couldn''t remember where "Kan Edimacus" was from, they were sure that Galan must be of noble origin.


    And he only used the name "Galan", maybe he was sent out by the family to be trained, or even the legitimate son with the right of inheritance.


    They did not doubt Galan''s identity. Seeing that he was used to luxurious scenes, they knew that he could not be the child of a young noble.


    And using the holy name of a noble is very dangerous. Once discovered, he might be wanted by the whole continent.


    So they didn''t plan to ask more questions, so as not to offend this young man who might be the heir to the royal family.


    Von Kasmer drank coffee, and a bitter taste rose from the corner of his mouth. He hated those great nobles, their experiences and customs, and these low-key noble descendants.


    Although his Kasmer family in Kolan City was also a big boss, it was just a side branch.


    If he offended a great noble, the family would definitely drive him out to take the blame and replace him with a new "someone named Kasmer".


    Can''t you noble descendants leave some space for us little people?


    Como University is a temple of knowledge and academics, and many princes and nobles come here to study every year.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    There may be some low-key dangerous elements among them, such as the heir to the Duke, the prince of the duchy...


    Looking at the black-haired young man in front of him, von Kasmer flashed several pictures in his mind.


    One is the former Minister of General Affairs who died suddenly because of a big sneeze.


    One is the former Minister of Internal Affairs who was executed for stealing a box of cakes.


    The other was the Director of External Relations, who committed suicide after returning home because he felt guilty for saying something he shouldn''t have said to a magic apprentice.


    Von Kasmer now regretted coming to the library to disturb the young man.


    But he had no choice. He had indeed checked the identity of the new librarian before, but the information sheet only had the name "Jia Lan" and the words "from the Lazar Islands".


    "Lazar Islands", that place is full of pirates, where are the nobles?


    If he knew who filled out the information sheet, he would definitely fire that person!


    Of course, the premise is that the person is not a descendant of a high noble.


    "Information sheet... By the way, there should be information about Jia Lan on the information sheet, but it may be that the person who collected the information missed it. We didn''t see his information sheet, and we don''t even know which department he is studying in..."


    Looking at the two managers next to him, von Kasmer knew that they wanted to stay out of it.


    In order not to be pushed out as a scapegoat by them, he laughed dryly and said: "The college will definitely deal with these irresponsible people!"


    He was secretly glad in his heart that as long as it was not his fault, it would be fine.


    "Oh, I remember now. I was specially recruited. My information was submitted to the Institute, so I can''t find it in the archives."


    Jia Lan thought for a moment and continued, "I don''t have a fixed department to study now. I am an auditor and can attend classes with professors of all grades. Most of the time, I listen to magic lectures and rarely go to class."


    The three managers widened their eyes again.


    Special recruitment?


    Auditing the entire department?


    There has never been a precedent for special recruitment in the University of Magic!


    Even the speaker of the Civil Affairs Council of Kolan City couldn''t get those stubborn magicians to give his eldest son, who had poor talent, a special recruitment quota.


    And this black-haired young man was specially recruited, and was directly affiliated with the Institute.


    That was a forbidden place for those old magicians. Even those advanced students who had become trainee magicians were not qualified to enter!


    The research institute is one of the most important places in the University of Science and Magic. If you want to become a researcher, you need to be jointly recommended by more than three senior magic professors...


    What kind of identity is this guy that can make those stubborn old guys agree to this special recruitment?


    Then think about the fact that he became a librarian as soon as he arrived, and opened a book bar within a few days. Whether it is the information sheet, his special recruitment identity, or his business management ability, it makes people feel that he is like an heir of a big family who came out to gain experience.


    The three people looked at each other, swallowed their saliva, and their faces were very ugly.


    They never thought that the college library would rather be left empty than managed by the college administration office and the tutor supervision association, but it was handed over to a freshman who had just enrolled.


    This itself is problematic.


    Did the people in the college administration office find out that the big families used the college to make money, so they let this guy open a book bar to grab the student market and suppress them?


    No, it''s impossible!


    Although the big families can make money by doing business in the college, the 20% reduction in business tax and the reduction in consumption have become benefits for students.


    Those old guys who don''t care about the money they make don''t care. Isn''t this what they acquiesce to?


    When von Kasmer and the other two managers met with Jia Lan, they drank coffee in silence most of the time. Only von Kasmer occasionally asked a few tentative questions.


    Although the scene looked leisurely, everyone knew that the three middle-aged men were desperately thinking about the cause and effect of this matter, the meaning behind it, the impact on the family, and the solution.


    After drinking a bellyful of coffee that would definitely keep them awake tonight, von Kasmer finally put down the coffee cup and said seriously: "Student Jia Lan, thank you for your coffee! However, we came here today to tell you that although you are now a librarian and have the right to repair the library and adjust the business model, but..."

 Chapter 72

    Von Kasmer looked at the two surprised administrator colleagues, and then said to Jia Lan seriously: "You did not tell the college administration in advance, which violated the regulations."


    "So, you have to write a "Library Maintenance and Renovation Plan" and submit it to the college administration, so that we can do a good job together."


    Jia Lan also sat up straight after hearing this, and answered seriously: "Sorry, this is my negligence. I will submit the plan as soon as possible."


    Von Kasmer said again: "Also, the ancient forest in the library is a very important historical site of our college."


    "As an administrator, you must ensure that during the rectification process, the ancient forest is not destroyed, and the main building of the library and those ancient trees with historical value are not damaged."


    Seeing Jia Lan''s good attitude, von Kasmer breathed a sigh of relief, and then added: "In addition, the college administration hopes that you can adjust the construction time and location, and try not to let students be affected by noise and dust."


    Jia Lan nodded obediently, and the two sides negotiated smoothly.


    However, when they were about to finish, Jia Lan took out a large stack of material lists and funding application forms, asking the college to allocate funds to him as soon as possible to buy materials.


    Von Kasmer took the list and saw the astronomical amount of funds at the end, his face turned green.


    Is this guy trying to turn the library into a palace?


    Not only are the list full of high-end and valuable materials, but the book bar has also ordered ten years of goods from farms outside the city.


    And the expansion plan actually included all the open space around the library all the way to the college wall.


    The library was originally in a relatively remote place in the college. This expansion took up almost one-tenth of the area in the southwest corner of the college. Is he going to build a city?


    There is also an application to increase the number and variety of books. The first batch wants to increase the existing books tenfold, and at least ten copies of each book must be prepared. He also wants everyone to have a copy of the commonly used teaching materials and textbooks!


    Crazy!


    Does this guy know how much these plans will cost?


    Von Kasmer was silent for a long time with a sullen face, and finally he forced a smile and said: "Student Jia Lan, we understand your desire to develop the library, but the college is short of funds now, and we can''t give you so much money for the time being."


    Just like the college allows major families to open stores on campus, but does not charge them money, the college also allows students to make money on their own.


    As long as it does not affect the order of the college, it is okay for students to open their own stores.


    Because the book bar does not use a penny of the college, all the money earned is Jia Lan''s own.


    Although it occupies the college''s land, it is also for the service of the college and all students.


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    They originally thought that the new librarian was a freshman who did not understand these things and wanted to take over the book bar as a manager.


    But they did not expect to meet such a smart and resourceful person.


    The money for the book bar is his own, but the maintenance, repair and expansion of the library must be paid by the college.


    This method of borrowing chickens to lay eggs is really amazing!


    The college''s funds mainly come from three aspects.


    The first is the tuition fees paid by students, the second is the magic products and magic technology produced by the college¡¯s research institute, and the third is the ¡°voluntary¡± donations from school operators and people outside the school.


    Although von Kasmer is the director of the college''s finance department and has the power to manage funds, he dare not embezzle.


    This is the tacit understanding of all college managers and the forces behind them.


    In the long run, the college cannot be offended because of this little thing.


    So from a work perspective, the leaders of these colleges are still quite reliable.


    Von Kasmer''s responsibility is to handle funding applications from various departments of the college.


    However, although he has a lot of money in his hands, the college''s research institute, a super money-burning "bottomless pit", is too powerful. Coupled with the expenses of maintaining the operation of the college, the funds are actually in a very delicate balance, and it is impossible to take out a large sum of money at once to meet Jia Lan''s needs.


    Not only him, the college management department and those tutors will not agree to delay the large number of experiments being conducted by the college because of this matter.


    Since the college cannot pay the reasonable application fee for the library, it can only hope for "sponsorship" from on-campus enterprises and people outside the school.


    But these sponsors are all related to the forces behind the college leaders.


    Let them pay but get nothing in return, let the book bar that oppresses their business grow and develop... Who would be so stupid?


    Therefore, von Kasmer decisively rejected Jia Lan''s application, saying that the college had no money to support his plan, which was indeed true.


    "Is that so..."


    Jia Lan was quite disappointed: "Okay, I understand, I will pay for this fee alone, and the college will pay it back when it has money."


    The three leaders'' faces changed when they heard it.


    You pay?


    Then will the library belong to the college or to you personally?


    The three looked at each other, not knowing what to do.


    This black-haired young man seemed to have this ability. He didn''t even need to use his own savings, he just needed to invest the money earned by the book bar into the expansion of the library.


    After all, expansion is not a matter of one or two days, the book bar can make money every day and slowly support the entire project.


    But the problem is that as the book bar invests more and more in the library, this young man''s control over the library will become stronger and stronger!


    Before the college can pay off its debts in one go, no one can interfere with the management of the library.


    And his status, position and voice in the college will become higher and higher!


    Stop him?


    Stop him from expanding?


    But how could the college management and those tutors refuse such an investment in the library that is beneficial to the college?


    As long as this young man does not intend to take the library for himself and does not intend to leave the college, no magician in the college will stop his large-scale investment.


    But...


    They always feel that something is wrong.


    I can only say that the college needs to study Jia Lan''s request carefully before making a decision.


    The three leaders fled in a daze.


    Tonight they may all rely on coffee to refresh themselves and think carefully about what went wrong and how it became like this. This is completely out of their control.


    After they left, Jia Lan smiled and opened a notebook,


    Under the title of "Negotiation Skills", he began to write down his thoughts just now.


    The girls who had been silent all the time found that the leaders had really left, and they jumped out of the darkness one after another, surrounded Jia Lan excitedly, and asked him why the leaders were so easy to talk to.


    Jia Lan reluctantly put down his pen and said with a smile: "Maybe it''s because they are all responsible and good people?"


    The girls nodded, as if they understood.


    Allen, who had been nervous all the time, also breathed a sigh of relief and echoed: "Well! The management of the college is really good! I thought they would let us stop operating!"


    The girls around were also scared.


    The work of the book bar is very important to these freshmen, and they don''t want to be unemployed in a few days.


    "Oh!"


    Jia Lan suddenly said: "Hurry up! Turn off the gauze lights and incense! Those are very expensive!"


    The girls reacted and quickly turned off the gauze lights and incense that Jia Lan asked them to light.


    These things are very expensive, and they were originally reserved for them to use when they were operating in the Wizard of Oz area.

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    Jia Lan''s life has become much easier now, just like returning to the old days.


    He reads books, listens to classes, and studies some strange things every day.


    However, the difference is that he used to give lectures to others, but now he listens to others'' classes.


    Every few days, Jia Lan will receive a notice from Donaldson, the third-year water element teacher, asking him to go to the institute to do some element repulsion experiments.


    Because he is a specially recruited auditor and a librarian, he has to go to help those magic professors on time.


    Fortunately, Jia Lan likes to study very much and is very hardworking, so those professors like him very much.


    However, Jia Lan has a special physique called "magic repulsion physique", which makes the professors very regretful.


    Because he is particularly talented in pharmacy and alchemy, but this physique prevents him from gathering elements, so he can''t go far on the road of magic.


    However, this does not affect the professors'' love for Jia Lan.


    In addition to element repulsion experiments, they also asked Jia Lan to help with some magic experiments, such as preparing materials and cleaning utensils.


    Although Jia Lan couldn''t really participate in the experiment, he had a strong understanding ability and could always prepare what the professors needed in time to make the experiment go smoothly.


    Professor Taylor, the head of the alchemy laboratory, even wanted Jia Lan to become an apprentice alchemy experiment assistant.


    Although Jia Lan didn''t care about being an experiment assistant, he had to hide his ability and could only watch the experiments that interested him, which made him itchy sometimes.


    The element repulsion experiment also gave Jia Lan a headache.


    He could only use the repulsion of the elements by the arcane to simulate the effect of the "magic repulsion constitution". This kind of research might not bear fruit on him, but the professors still did various tests tirelessly.


    Jia Lan had mastered the basic magic theory knowledge from grades one to nine by self-studying the books in the library, and began to learn the elementary magic theory knowledge on the second floor.


    He found that the magicians of this era had a different study of elements from what he had learned before, forming a new system.


    For example, magicians used mental power to control the elemental particles in their bodies, which they called "magic power", to directly cast magic.


    This kind of spellcasting speed is very fast, and it can have a strong spellcasting ability without preparation.


    This amazed Jia Lan, and he began to study whether he could master this way of casting.


    Although he could not gather elemental particles like a magician because of the arcane energy spring in his body, he could still manipulate elements.


    In the elemental school of the evocation system, there is a small spell called "element sample", which can gather the four elements of "air, earth, fire, and water".This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    Originally, this spell was only used in experiments, but now Jia Lan uses it to "simulate" magic.


    Speaking of "casting", we must first talk about the difference between the two spellcasting methods of "arcane" and "magic".


    The arcane is a mysterious power used by those spellcasters. To cast the arcane, it depends not only on the ability of the spellcaster himself, but also on a lot of "spell ingredients", such as "spells", "curse seals", "casting materials", "casting tools" and "magic implements".


    "Spells" are like the "magic spells" we usually say. The caster must use a special volume, tone, and speaking speed to make the spell effective.


    "Spell seals" are like "gestures". The caster must use his arms, wrists, and fingers to make gestures to connect the arcane energy, and the spell can be activated.


    "Spell materials" are things that are similar to spells to help cast spells and make spells more powerful.


    "Spell tools" are those gadgets used when casting spells.


    "Magic tools" are those items that contain arcane energy, such as staffs and arcane tools.


    The more advanced the spell, the more "spell ingredients" are used, and the more difficult it is to cast. Spells, spell seals, spell materials, and spell tools must all be used, so casting spells has become a mysterious skill that ordinary people cannot learn.


    But it is much easier for magicians to cast magic. They directly use mental power to control the "magic power" in their bodies, and then recite a spell, and the spell will take effect.


    Magicians are much more convenient than arcane mages. Maybe it''s because magicians mainly use elemental energy. Although they also use some magic spices, they are mainly used to enhance the spell effect, not to cast spells.


    Interestingly, magicians and arcane mages use magic tools in very different ways.


    No matter how powerful an arcane mages are, they can cast spells without a staff. They use magic tools mainly to enhance the effect or add new functions. Moreover, usually only very powerful spellcasters can use a staff, and not very powerful spellcasters can''t use it at all. Therefore, not very powerful spellcasters are proud to have their own staff.


    But magicians are just the opposite. The less powerful magicians are, the more they rely on the "magic wand". Powerful magicians don''t use magic wands.


    After studying for a while, Jia Lan found that this was because the mental power of the weak magicians was not strong enough, and they could not create a "magic structure" out of thin air. They could only rely on the "magic model" on the magic wand, that is, the "magic pattern" engraved on the magic wand to cast spells.


    They have to add "magic power" to the "spell model" in the wand to create a "magic form", and then use mental power and spells to guide it out.


    The advantage of this is that even apprentices who have just learned magic can use the wand to cast spells and learn magic earlier. But the disadvantage is that the spellcasting ability is too single, and the magic wand can only cast the magic that is engraved on the "spell model".


    However, this spellcasting method also gave Jia Lan the opportunity to "imitate" magic.


    One day, after finishing the experiment, Jia Lan asked Donaldson, an intermediate water magician, about the use of water magic.


    Although he knew that Jia Lan was a "magic insulator" who would never learn magic, Donaldson couldn''t bear to break his hope. He patiently explained to him and demonstrated several "entry-level" small magics of the water system, such as "water drop magic", "water splash magic" and "water bubble magic".


    "Among the five magic systems, the offensiveness and destructive power of water magic are relatively weak, and most of them are auxiliary and recovery magic." Donaldson explained, "But water magic is not completely without combat power. When the magic level is improved, even a drop of water can become a dangerous weapon..."


    As he said, he stretched out a finger and pointed to a big tree outside the laboratory. He didn''t use a wand or recite a spell, but a small group of water mist gathered at the tip of his finger, and then turned into a transparent water drop as big as a fingertip, and shot out with a "puff" sound, smashing an egg-sized pit on the bark!


    Seeing this scene, Jia Lan''s face showed a strange expression again.


    "At the beginning, you may not be able to cast spells like me without a wand, gestures, or incantations, but with more practice, you will slowly be able to reach my level." Seeing that Jia Lan didn''t seem to understand, Donaldson stopped and comforted him with a wry smile, "You can try to concentrate the magic power of ''Water Drop Spell'', ''Water Splash Spell'', and ''Water Bubble Spell'' when you go back. Practice more, and maybe... well, there will be hope! If you are interested in magic, it''s best to buy a wand first, even an ordinary one will do."

 Chapter 74

    He patted Jia Lan on the shoulder and went back to the laboratory.


    Jia Lan, thinking about things while walking, slowly walked towards the library.


    In Donaldson''s opinion, Jia Lan''s back seemed a little "lonely" and a little "lost".


    After walking for a long time, Jia Lan saw that there was no one around, so he walked into a forest.


    He raised his hand, without chanting a spell or using any magic symbols, a ball of shiny things appeared in the palm of his hand, and it was moving slowly.


    This is not ordinary water, but "water element", which is formed by many small water particles gathered together.


    It sounds like "water" and "water element" are similar, but in fact they are both "energy" in space.


    It can''t be seen or touched, and only when it gathers together will it become a form visible to the naked eye.


    However, it is not water now, but just a ball of energy that looks like water.


    To become real water, some changes must be made.


    Jia Lan was not very good at using water magic. He just heard Donaldson say something and tried to turn this ball of water element into water.


    Unexpectedly, as soon as he thought of this, the water element in his hand began to absorb water from the air crazily.


    Maybe it was humid in the woods, so a small ball of water element quickly turned into a ball of water as big as a washbasin!


    Then, this ball of water quickly turned and flew out in the shape of the "water drop spell" that Jia Lan thought of!


    Jia Lan was startled and quickly changed the water ball back to its original shape, and the water ball turned into many small water droplets in the air.


    But these water droplets flew too fast, and they made many small holes in the trees and grass in the woods!


    Seeing the mess in the woods, Jia Lan was stunned.


    He looked around and quietly slipped away while no one was around.


    He didn''t expect that turning the water element into water magic would have such a big change.


    Elemental particles are really powerful and unstable energy. He had never encountered such a situation when he used arcane energy to release magic before!


    This spell was a failure¡£


    If the magic is not controlled, it is really dangerous. It might even hurt himself.


    Jia Lan was really glad that he used water magic this time¡£


    If he used other destructive magic, this forest might be gone.


    And the noise was so loud that people in the academy would definitely find out!


    Jia Lan ran a long way and was relieved to see that no one noticed what he had just done.


    The trees in the academy are very old and precious. He must have damaged many trees just now¡£


    If he was discovered, he might be reported for damaging antiques!


    Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.Jia Lan decided to go back to his administrator''s cabin and try again secretly.


    However, as soon as he set foot on the path back to the institute, he was stopped by a group of teenagers!


    One of the short boys smiled and said, "I knew he would pass by here at this time!"


    The other boys pushed him aside and asked the handsome boy in the middle, "Is that him?"


    The handsome boy who looked familiar gritted his teeth and said, "That''s him!!!"


    This handsome boy who looked particularly angry was Kasmer, the noble classmate who was cheated by Jia Lan at the Fire Demon BBQ Restaurant.


    Since he entered the school, it seemed as if he was targeted by the god of bad luck.


    He is the fourth child of the Kasmer family and has never thought about inheriting the family business, especially since his three brothers are so outstanding.


    One is doing well in the business world, one is like a fish in water in the political arena, and the other has performed well in magic since he was a child. He became a junior magician in his twenties and is about to become an intermediate magician.


    Everyone calls him "the Flame Cub of the Kasmer Family".


    That is to say, in the fields of business, politics, and magic, his brothers have gone ahead and blocked his way.


    It seems that it will never be his turn to inherit the family business.


    Compared with his three brothers, he seems very ordinary.


    He has neither business acumen nor political talent. The only decent elemental magic talent is only slightly better than that of his brother "Flame Cub".


    The Kasmer family has a history of hundreds of years in Clan City, and each generation has a seat in the Clan City Civil Affairs Committee.


    Such a status certainly does not allow him to become a parasite in the family.


    If he does not have any special skills when he grows up, then his best way out is to be arranged by the family to be the head of a small business.


    This is usually the case with large families, where excellent descendants are the masters and mediocre descendants obey others.


    In this regard, he does not get the sympathy of the family.


    Therefore, Kasmer can only work hard to prove his ability to his family.


    Fortunately, his talent for elemental magic is okay.


    After years of hard work in other fields without any results, at the age of 17, he decided to go to Komag University to work hard to become a magician.


    Although he was not as good as his brother who had 33 points of fire affinity at the age of 16, he at least had 10 points, which was enough to study fire magic at Komag University.


    However, he barely reached 10 points of fire affinity at the age of 17, which meant that he might not go too far on the road of magic.


    But being a magician is better than being mediocre all the time.


    In fact, Kasmer thought he was not mediocre because he thought he was very smart.


    He could learn poetry and music quickly and created a lot of good things.


    His childhood dream was to become a poet or musician.


    Unfortunately, his family did not need these two types of people, and his talent in poetry and music could only be used by himself and could not show off.


    Fortunately, in addition to poetry and music, Kasmer''s biggest advantage was that he was handsome.


    His brothers inherited their father''s broad chin and mother''s brown hair, but he inherited his mother''s handsome face, his father''s blond hair and silver-gray eyes.


    This made Kasmer praised as "the first ray of sunshine in Gem Corner" since he was a child, although those were all subordinates who came to visit his father, who was a congressman.


    Kasmer never thought that his appearance would become an asset, but before entering school, he finally got a little attention from his always serious father.


    After chatting for a long time in his father''s study, he received a family mission: use his handsomeness to get Miss Mary, the only daughter of the Speaker''s family, because they were of similar age.


    If the eldest brother, who was called "the lone wolf in the business world and the unicorn among the perverts", was not too old, this important task would not have fallen on him.


    For this mission, he also specially asked his eldest brother for a lot of skills to chase girls and made full preparations.


    Finally, he "accidentally" met Miss Mary when he entered school, and successfully used his talent in poetry and music to arouse her interest and invited her to dinner.


    But... all this was messed up by that damn guy named Jia Lan!


    Although Kasmer also felt that this was mainly the fault of that self-righteous guy Bob.


    But what made him even more angry was that the next day when he wanted to continue to treat Miss Mary to afternoon tea, explain to Miss Mary that Bob had done it without authorization and apologize, he found that his 38 gold Talan pocket money and the 100 gold Talan dating fund given by his father had been stolen.


    And the crystal card given to him by his father was also overdrawn by Talan for 200 gold and could no longer be used.


    In fact, this is not the most important thing!


    The most important thing is that this happened when he was about to pay the bill!


    Kasmer felt that he had never been so embarrassed since he was born.


    In particular, he felt that he would never forget the smile on Miss Mary''s face when she paid the bill, and the look in her eyes when she looked at him.


    Then... there was nothing...

 Chapter75

    Miss Mary seemed to have disappeared from his world.


    The failure of the family mission led to his father''s severe reprimand.


    He will lose 300 gold talans, which will be deducted from his pocket money of 10 gold talans per week as punishment for his stupid behavior.


    This means that in the next 30 weeks, or about half a year, he will not get any pocket money of copper danding from the family.


    This young mind was severely hit, causing him to be absent-minded during class.


    When the teacher called on him to answer the question, he was at a loss and looked dull like an idiot.


    Unfortunately, this fire magic teacher who was full of expectations and attention to him happened to be the enlightenment teacher of his brother who was called "Flame Cub"!


    Little Kasmer felt that he would never forget the disappointment in the eyes of this educator who expected the second genius cub to appear in the Kasmer family when he left after class.


    Fortunately, he still had a group of enthusiastic partners, the children of his congressman father''s subordinates.


    After hearing that he was defrauded of 338 gold talans, they were indignant and said they wanted to seek justice for him.


    However, misfortune struck again.


    After finally meeting that guy in a magic lecture, he excitedly gathered his friends and prepared to seek justice from that guy.


    But the questions raised by the other party left him speechless and unable to answer.


    As a well-educated young gentleman of the Kasmer family, although little Kasmer wanted to refute, he could not deny that what the other party said was true.


    Little Kasmer, who had never experienced being surrounded by a crowd, felt that he had never been so embarrassed as at that moment in his life.


    Especially when his brother, known as the "Flame Cub", heard that he had lost face in the academy, he coldly called him a shame to the Kasmer family.


    Little Kasmer was angry and he wanted revenge!


    He wanted to take revenge on the guy who ruined his life!


    To this end, he began a month-long preparation.


    His closest friends conducted a very secret investigation on the guy, not only finding out his activity area, but also mastering his fixed activity time.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.


    After some discussion, they decided to ambush on a remote trail that the guy would pass every three days, and then... then...


    "Hello? Mr. Kasmer?" Jia Lan looked at the boy who had been in a daze for a long time in front of him with some concern, and glanced at his companions around him for consultation.


    After the boys looked at each other, they shrugged helplessly at Jia Lan, indicating that they didn''t know what was going on.


    "Huh? What?" The awakened little Kasmer looked at Jia Lan blankly.


    Jia Lan smiled and said, "Hello!"


    "Oh? Hello... Hello!" Little Kasmer responded somewhat at a loss, and then looked back helplessly at his friends: "What... what are we doing now?"


    The friends reminded cautiously: "Revenge!"


    "Revenge? Uh..." Little Kasmer reacted, stared angrily at the guy who ruined his life, and shouted: "Yes! I want revenge!"


    Upon hearing this, the friends began to roll up the sleeves of their magic robes.


    After a while, a friend poked Little Kasmer in the back: "Then what?"


    Little Kasmer stared angrily at the guy who ruined his life, and shouted: "Then... we have to implement the plan!"


    After a while.


    Little Kasmer glared at the guy who ruined his life angrily, and shouted: "Then... I want revenge!"


    Jia Lan looked up at the time and found that it was already late. He said helplessly: "Okay, if you want revenge... could you please do it faster?"


    Little Kasmer looked back guiltily and asked his friends in a low voice: "Um... what do you usually do when you want revenge?"


    Jia Lan and his friends were stunned and looked at the innocent little Kasmer stupidly. He lowered his head in embarrassment and shyness: "I... I have never taken revenge before..."


    Jia Lan pointed to his head with his finger and asked his friends in a low voice: "Has he always lived in the family before and never been exposed to the outside world?"


    The friends also answered in a low voice: "The family education of the Kasmer family is very strict. His father and three brothers are very busy, so his mother has always been educating him and rarely allows him to go out..."


    Jia Lan looked at little Kasmer with sympathy and nodded, and kindly gave him advice: "I think the easiest way to take revenge is for you to beat me up together! Or use the magic you learned recently to blow me up?"


    Little Kasmer hesitated: "Not good? That way you will get hurt! Moreover, the teacher said that it is strictly forbidden to use magic to fight in the academy. If you are found out, you will be expelled!"


    "It doesn''t matter. You see, the academy institute is far away from the teaching area. No teachers will pass by at this time. Moreover, the place is very remote, and the surrounding woods block the view. No one will see it..."


    Jia Lan comforted him, "Of course, if you are worried about being discovered when using magic, if you, one, two, three... seven people, beat me up together, the chance of success is very high!"


    Little Kasmer thought about it and nodded, "That makes sense!"


    Jia Lan tidied his clothes and nodded, "Then come on! I have something else to do and I''m in a hurry! Come on, I''ll count one, two, three, and then you all rush up together!"


    Little Kasmer nodded excitedly, raised his fist to his chest, and shouted, "I''m ready! You count!"


    "Hey, hey!"


    The friends suddenly felt that something was wrong, and pulled at Little Kasmer''s clothes in fear: "Little Kasmer, how about we come again next time?"


    "There are no cowards in the Kasmer family!"


    Little Kasmer shouted and rushed up bravely. Although the friends also felt that this behavior seemed a bit stupid, there would be no accidents when seven people beat one, right? So everyone had to rush up together...


    "Pah!" "Aiya!" "Pah!" "Oh!" "Pah!" "Ouch!"


    Jia Lan clapped his hands in satisfaction, did a few chest expansion exercises, and moved his shoulders.


    He searched the bodies of a group of groaning teenagers on the ground for a while, and pulled out a thumb-thick, about one foot long, first-level apprentice wand from the belt of little Kasmer as a trophy. He left the woods in a good mood and returned to the library humming an unknown tune.

 Chapter76

    In the past, Jia Lan had studied under a martial arts guard of the academy and systematically learned the fighting techniques of "unarmed strike" and "wind combo".


    Although Jia Lan did not have the fighting spirit that martial artists practiced, these techniques were effective enough as a means of physical exercise.


    In his time, mages were not weak and sickly. Even if they were not known for their fighting power, they were often equipped with simple weapons such as wooden sticks, daggers, and crossbows in adventure activities in case of emergency.


    In actual combat, mages usually avoid unnecessary use of high-energy spells such as "explosive fire" to avoid endangering the safety of the entire expedition team due to the exhaustion of arcane energy at a critical moment.


    Even Jia Lan''s previous teacher, despite the heavy laboratory work, still insisted on taking an hour every day to run and exercise on campus, and repeatedly emphasized to Jia Lan: "A strong physique is the basis for long-term arcane research."


    This concept is deeply rooted in Jia Lan''s heart.


    Given that large-scale arcane experiments may last for weeks or even a month or two, although meditation can partially replace sleep, poor physical condition will seriously affect the progress of research.


    In addition, Jia Lan was unable to devote himself to arcane practice for a long time in the early days, so he spent a lot of time on physical training.


    The warrior guard who taught Jia Lan fighting and combat techniques once pointed out that if he had not focused on the arcane field, he might have been evaluated in the adventure guild or mercenary guild and obtained the status of a first-level combat professional.


    Although lacking the support of fighting spirit, Jia Lan found that "Wind Combo" was still quite effective in actual use, although the opponent was relatively weak in "group free fighting".


    At the same time, the operation of the library book bar has been put on the right track and is properly managed by increasingly skilled girls.


    Students of the Science and Magic Academy often come here in their spare time to enjoy a glass of fruit smoothie, hold a book in hand, and spend a whole day leisurely under the autumn sun. This has become a fashion trend.


    Even if they want to relax, students often gather in groups of two or three to occupy a corner of the book bar and play the business chess game "Science Monopoly" or the card game "The Struggle of Two Peasants and the Evil Lord".


    These two tabletop games designed by the new librarian are gradually becoming popular on campus.


    Every Dragon Breath Week (10 days), new rules or new gameplay will be released, attracting a large number of school operators.


    They found that these seemingly inconspicuous tabletop games can effectively extend the customer''s stay time, thereby bringing in more consumption than expected.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.


    However, the inventors of these games have registered them with the "Seven Continents Private Rights Protection Federation", and any unauthorized profitable production and use will be subject to legal sanctions.


    The federation was jointly established by the powerful lords of the seven continents to protect the value of private specialties in the territory, and its authority even exceeds the city councils.


    No one dares to infringe on the rights of others for personal gain, otherwise they will face severe punishment after the owner complains to the federation.


    In addition, small gadgets related to the book bar were also registered. With their characteristics of "novel, unique, and trendy" and their attributes that conform to the student consumption culture, they attracted a large number of students'' attention and gradually formed a cultural trend in "KoMo University".


    The corner of the college that was once remote and deserted has now become one of the most lively areas.


    To ensure that borrowers are not disturbed, the book bar has replanned the reading area and entertainment area to meet the needs of different customers.


    Although the library book bar is now very large, there are too many students at the University of Science and Technology, and there are still not enough seats.


    In order to find a seat, students who don¡¯t have classes have to go early every day to reserve a seat. If they are late, they can only sit on the lawn or farther away.


    Although reading or playing games is not affected, the face-saving magic apprentices always feel a little embarrassed.


    So, the book bar launched a membership system.


    Members can reserve seats in advance, and senior members can reserve a table, even if people don¡¯t arrive, they will be kept.


    It¡¯s really face-saving to have a fixed seat in the book bar.


    Imagine that you walk through a group of classmates who can only sit on the grass, and then sit down elegantly in your reserved seat, which will definitely attract a lot of envious eyes.


    You can even invite the girls you like to enjoy a warm and romantic afternoon together.


    If you don''t like crowded places, you can spend some money to find a specially decorated seat in the quiet Wizard of Oz area, such as next to lavender, in small-leaved trees, or under vines.


    If you are willing to spend more money, you can also rent a small tree platform surrounded by a low fence and with a sunshade, or simply rent a tree house as your secret base. No matter when you come, you can enjoy thoughtful service.


    However, if you want to rent a tree platform or a tree house, ordinary members are not allowed to do so. You must upgrade to silver or gold members.


    Many student groups and clubs in the college are competing for tree houses in the Wizard of Oz as activity venues.


    This is not only a matter of face, but also related to the status of the club in the college.


    If a club does not even have a book bar tree house, how can it go out to interact with people from other clubs?


    Fortunately, the ancient forest of the library is very large and the trees are very thick.


    The craftsmen carefully designed that two or three or more large and small tree houses can be built on each tree, like a bird''s nest in the sky.


    In the ancient woods around and behind the library, there are hundreds or even thousands of years old trees.


    The craftsmen have been working hard, and the number of tree houses is increasing, which should be enough.


    Interestingly, as the book bar becomes more and more popular, some magic professors are also interested in these tree houses with good facilities and thoughtful services, and have booked them as their own private research rooms.


    Put some simple experimental instruments in the tree house, so that you can study magic quietly, and notify the waiter to prepare food and drink through the "microphone" in the tree house.


    In this way, you won''t be hungry like a wolf wandering around the laboratory looking for food when doing experiments until late at night.


    This is much better than staying alone in the laboratory.


    The simple little device of "microphone" is composed of two cardboard tubes and a thick linen thread, but it can communicate clearly from a distance.


    This little thing has even aroused the research interest of many magic professors.

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    There are many similar small facilities in the library, such as book bars, but few people can see the librarian who created these wonderful props.


    Invisibly, this adds a layer of mystery to this mysterious new librarian...


    When Jia Lan walked through the dense but quiet crowd on the grass and entered the library, he found that several girls headed by Alan were gathered together, busy with something, and looked serious.


    When they noticed Jia Lan coming, the girls exclaimed "Ah!" and nervously grabbed the parchment on the table and hid it behind them. They blushed and saluted awkwardly: "Administrator Jia Lan, you are back!"


    Although Jia Lan''s attitude has always been gentle, his identity as the owner of the book bar and librarian made the girls somewhat in awe of him.


    Moreover, in the pre-civilization period, Jia Lan taught those middle and high-level mages as an assistant lecturer, and the calm and steady demeanor he cultivated also became a symbol of superiority in the eyes of the girls.


    Jia Lan felt helpless about this, but it was difficult to change the habit he had developed over the years.


    After all, he had to face a group of students who were generally in their 50s and 60s, and the youngest was no less than 40 years old. Without the dignity of a lecturer, it was difficult for him to gain a foothold on the podium.


    Alan also jumped up and whispered to defend the sisters: "Jia Lan, I asked them questions, not intentionally to study the topic while at work..."


    "Are you studying the topic? It doesn''t matter, we are students first, and then part-time staff of the book bar."


    Jia Lan waved his hand, took a piece of parchment and looked at it. It was some basic pharmacy questions, so he smiled and sat down, saying gently: "There''s nothing wrong with studying the topic in your spare time, as long as it doesn''t delay the normal work of the book bar."


    In fact, the work in the book bar is quite easy, and the six-hour working day is not long.


    As long as the time is arranged reasonably, the part-time girls have a lot of time to study and rest in class, and the rest of the time can be devoted to the work of the book bar.


    Moreover, as the book bar operation is on track, the daily work is divided into four periods: "morning shift, mid-day shift, evening shift, and night shift".


    Except for the busy meal time, most of the time is relatively leisurely.


    "Is there any question you don''t understand?"


    Jia Lan glanced at the question on the parchment with interest, which required the calculation of the ratio between blueroot grass and solvent.


    In his opinion, this is just the introductory knowledge in the basics of pharmacy, which is very simple.


    However, these girls who have been taking pharmacy courses in the pharmacy department for nearly a month can''t even calculate such a simple problem, which shows that the teaching progress of the University of Science and Technology is a bit slow.


    When he studied pharmacy, the first formula given to him by the teacher was the Dragon Fire Potion, and he learned the other low- and medium-level pharmacy formulas by himself.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.


    Since he was sixteen years old, he has been an assistant lecturer, which makes Jia Lan have some "occupational disease" of being a teacher.


    He felt a little itchy in his heart and planned to explain the problem of solvent ratio to the girls.


    "Oh! That''s right! How could I forget that Jia Lan is a great master of medicine!"


    Alan came over happily, grinning: "For this monthly exam, it''s easy to remember the types of medicines and ingredients, but it''s hard to calculate the solvent ratio..."


    "Monthly exam?"


    Jia Lan was a little surprised.


    The girls who were waiting to listen to Jia Lan''s explanation all looked at him with blinked eyes.


    Alan said in surprise: "Yes! Tomorrow is the monthly exam for this month, and the credits will be calculated! Our pharmacy department tests practical operations. If you don''t know the solvent ratio and can''t prepare the medicine on the spot, you will not pass the exam."


    Jia Lan was speechless.


    If Alan hadn''t mentioned it, he would have forgotten that he was still in school.


    By the way... he doesn''t seem to have taken any basic courses, right?


    However, he, a "specially recruited auditor", is not considered an ordinary student.


    Teacher Donaldson recruited him purely to find a guinea pig with rare bloodline.


    Therefore, his student status was directly registered in the college research institute.


    This resulted in Jia Lan''s contact with all senior magic professors at the University of Science and Magic, which is a treatment that magic graduate students at the trainee magician level do not have.


    There is no record of him in the student status management office below.


    In addition to his identity and position as a librarian, he is actually half of the faculty of the college.


    Credits were meaningless to him, so naturally Jia Lan didn''t take them seriously, and he had no idea that there were monthly exams at the University of Science and Technology.


    If, in the initial stage, the senior magic professors in the [Tutor Supervision Association] signed and approved the unprecedented "special recruitment" method.


    Recruiting Jia Lan, a student who was regarded as a "magic waste", into the academy was just to give him a reasonable identity so that he could stay at the University of Science and Technology.


    Then, as Jia Lan managed the academy''s library better and better, and even carried out drastic operations and expansion of the library, this undoubtedly surprised the magic professors.


    After all, not everyone is capable of managing the academy''s library, which is crucial to the University of Science and Technology.


    This can be seen from the fact that after the death of the previous old librarian, the position of librarian has been vacant and no one has taken over.


    It''s not that they don''t value the library, nor do they want to find someone who can manage and understand business to be in charge. It''s just that the books collected in the library are extremely important magic materials and precious documents, which can''t be easily handed over to those ambitious people in the college management office.


    And the magicians who really understand the importance of these magic materials and precious documents either lack management skills or are unwilling to spend time and energy.


    To be honest, when Jia Lan, a test subject who can barely be considered as "one of us" in the University of Magic and Science, suddenly stood up and asked to be the librarian, the bigwigs of the [Tutor Supervision Association] originally didn''t care.


    After all, even if Jia Lan didn''t serve as the librarian, they would find some students to serve as temporary administrators.


    Since Jia Lan, who is half "one of us", does not belong to any faction in Kelan City, and has no background, is willing to take the initiative to take on this management work that no one is willing to take over, why not do it?


    Having someone in charge for a long time, even if the management ability is limited, is better than those students who are replaced after only two days.


    Unexpectedly, Jia Lan not only managed well, but also had outstanding management ability.


    Not long after taking office, he made the library look brand new.


    Not only did he change the gloomy and dilapidated environment, but he also put the books that had been unmanaged for a long time in order, winning unanimous praise from faculty and students.


    And it is said that the new librarian also plans to expand the library and add a large number of books.


    Whether this can be achieved or not, at least this enterprising spirit is worth encouraging.


    It is said that the library expansion plan submitted by Jia Lan has alarmed the deans of the [Dean Affairs Management Office].


    Although they are unable to allocate a huge amount of expansion funds, they have given strong verbal support to Jia Lan''s plan and granted Jia Lan the privilege of self-management...

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    In short, the strategy of these college leaders is essentially a risk-free investment behavior.


    Regardless of the outcome, the college will not suffer any losses.


    No matter what Jia Lan''s intentions are, he cannot occupy the library of the University of Magic as his personal property.


    It is based on these factors that Jia Lan not only received special attention from the magic professors, but also gradually improved his status among the top leaders of the University of Magic.


    Therefore, whether he has elemental talent and whether he can become a magician is no longer the key.


    As long as he wants, he can stay at the University of Magic as a "free scholar".


    In this case, he does not have to worry about exams and insufficient credits.


    However, Jia Lan did not plan to be an experimental subject in the institute for a long time.


    Especially after he found that he could simulate magic by summoning "element samples" and using spell models, he began to consider other plans.


    As he gradually gained a deeper understanding of the magic system, Jia Lan''s purpose of joining the University of Magic was no longer limited to entering the library to read historical documents and explore the causes of the catastrophe.


    No matter what happened 1,700 years ago, as a descendant of the "pre-civilization", he must continue to survive.


    In order to better integrate into this era and more conveniently achieve his goals, a transcendent identity is undoubtedly more advantageous than ordinary people living at the bottom of society.


    However, for a "magic waste" without elemental talent, obtaining a transcendent identity is obviously disadvantageous.


    His current identity as an experimental subject also needs to be changed, and becoming a spellcaster he is most familiar with is obviously the best way to obtain a transcendent status.


    However, if he wants to change his identity with his "demon-repelling physique", he obviously can''t rush it, and can only gradually let the people around him gradually adapt...


    Jia Lan suddenly laughed and said, "Monthly exam!"


    His current situation is so similar to the experience of the previous era.


    Then, becoming a knowledgeable scholar first and letting people get used to his existence seems to be a good entry point.


    He said to the girls enthusiastically: "My knowledge of ''Pharmacy'' is pretty good. Let me explain to you how to mix the ratio of blueroot grass and solvent."


    "It''s actually very simple. First weigh the dosage of blueroot grass, then use the ''Dologen Conversion Formula'' to convert it, and then mix it..."


    Since then, a strange student has appeared in the University of Komo. He frequently appears in the classrooms of various main and auxiliary departments, making it impossible to determine which department he is from.


    At first, it did not attract people''s attention.


    After all, each department and subject has its own teaching area and teaching building, and he does not appear in every class.


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    However, because of his impressive appearance with black hair and black eyes, some students who have chosen several auxiliary department courses found that they could see him wherever they went, so they began to talk about it gradually.


    As more and more people participated in the discussion, the topic became interesting.


    Students called it the "black-haired weirdo''s regular appearance file", and some even began to deliberately track his whereabouts.


    Finally, a student with detective talent recorded a black-haired weirdo''s schedule on the college''s full-department course schedule, which shocked his classmates.


    Wind, wood, water, fire, earth... Linguistics, appraisal, archeology, pharmacy, secret medicine, alchemy, enchantment, heraldry, rune, carving, totem, array, astrology, mathematics...


    He attended courses in all departments and subjects!


    However, it is obvious that he did not attend the basic knowledge popularization courses in these subjects, but only attended the theoretical explanation courses of each subject.


    Among these theoretical explanation courses, the main subjects are five magic courses and pharmacy, secret medicine, alchemy, rune, array and other subjects.


    Linguistics, appraisal, carving, totem, archeology, astrology, mathematics and other subjects will only be selected if there is no conflict with other subjects.


    Shockingly, he almost never missed any lectures arranged by the college.


    According to statistics, he attended an extra lecture every day on average during these three months!


    Moreover, he only chose lectures given by magic professors above the senior level. Even though each lecture cost 20 gold talans, he spent nearly 1,800 gold talans on lecture fees alone in the past three months!


    1,800 gold talans!


    What kind of huge sum of money is this?


    1 gold talan is enough to buy a goat.


    10 gold talans can be exchanged for a cow.


    And 100 gold talans can even buy a Terran horse as a mount!


    According to the consumption level of Kolan City, the monthly living expenses of an ordinary family of three will not exceed 15 gold talans.


    Therefore, 1,800 gold talans are enough for a family to live worry-free for more than ten years!


    Although the students of Komo University generally have superior family conditions, in addition to the necessary tuition fees, the pocket money given to them by their families each month is usually no more than 10 gold talans.


    This means that this black-haired weirdo spent their pocket money for the next fifteen years in three months!


    This black-haired weirdo is undoubtedly a wealthy man who is hiding his true self!


    Perhaps he comes from a big family, or even the heir of an ancient noble family!


    The students were very excited. Making friends with rich people is good for both physical and mental health and future career development, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or dimension.


    However, this mysterious weirdo always seems to be in a hurry.


    During class, he is always the last one to enter the classroom, and the first one to leave after class, making him difficult to approach.


    Some people saw him frequently entering the college''s large library, but never saw him in the public reading area.


    This makes people speculate that he may have booked an exclusive tree house in the Wizard of Oz area.


    Nowadays, the Wizard of Oz area of ??the library is not open to just anyone.


    Ordinary members need to pay a membership fee of 10 gold talans per month, silver members need 20 gold talans, and gold members need up to 50 gold talans.


    To rent an exclusive tree house in the Wizard of Oz area, you must be a gold member at least!


    This made the students sigh: The world of the rich is so hard to understand! The tree house with the worst location and the smallest area will not be less than 100 gold talans a month. Even with the 20£¥ discount privilege of gold members, it is definitely not affordable for ordinary people.


    And he was willing to invest such a huge amount of money to rent an exclusive book house just to be able to read quietly.


    The students'' interest in this black-haired weirdo gradually became known to the faculty in casual chats.


    They began to pay attention to this weird student in class and found that he was unusually quiet in class, just listening silently and taking notes occasionally, but never asked questions to the teacher.


    It seems unlikely that he did this just for fun. After all, where can it be more interesting than in class?


    This aroused the curiosity of the teachers, and they began to consciously ask him questions in class.


    Surprisingly, he seemed to know everything.


    Only when the teachers, out of curiosity, constantly raised difficult questions beyond the scope of the first grade to test his limits, would he smile and politely say that he had not yet learned that content.


    Obviously, this is an extremely intelligent student.


    However, his teachers were dissatisfied with the fact that he spread his energy across so many subjects.


    With his intelligence, if he had focused on a certain field, he would probably have applied for early promotion long ago.

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    Students at Komo University can choose from many courses, but it is rare to find a student like him who is passionate about all courses.


    The teachers were worried that he would learn too many courses and would not be able to make any achievements in the future, so they planned to persuade him through his transcript.


    However, when the teachers collected the monthly test papers of all his courses and prepared to have an in-depth conversation with him, they were all shocked!


    This student actually took the exams of all departments and all subjects, and got full marks in every course!


    You know, full marks surpass "9 points for excellence" and reach the unattainable perfect "10 points"!


    The teachers were skeptical and checked the monthly test papers of the previous three months. The results were without exception - all full marks!


    This is incredible!


    This has gone beyond the scope of intelligence and can be called a genius!


    But the careful teachers found that his grades were not all full marks.


    Although he got full marks in the theoretical knowledge exams of the five major departments, he got 0 points in the five elements test!


    It turned out that he had never participated in the element test!


    The teachers realized that they didn''t even know which department this student belonged to.


    He was not a student of the five major departments, so he was naturally not qualified to participate in the element test, which was only used as a reference for qualifications.


    The teachers were speechless for a moment. Could it be that this genius student was not a member of the University of Science and Technology?


    Finally, Donaldson, a substitute teacher in the third-year water element department, solved the mystery for everyone after checking all his transcripts.


    The teachers understood why this genius student was not on their list and why he did not participate in the element test.


    Everyone felt deeply sorry.


    Although the teachers of the main element department were disappointed, the teachers of those subjects that did not require high elemental talent, such as linguistics, identification, archaeology, astrology, and mathematics, were excited.


    What''s wrong with not having elemental talent?


    If this genius is trained to be a knowledgeable scholar, his future achievements may not be inferior to those of a magician!


    However, just as the teachers of these subjects were preparing to show their talents and carefully train this student, the first short vacation came quietly.


    The University of Magic has three long vacations every year, and this vacation lasts for fifteen days.


    These three long vacations are the most anticipated time of the year for magic apprentices.


    They can go home to reunite, stay in school and rest leisurely, or embark on a short journey with friends.


    Why are there vacations in summer, autumn and winter, but not in spring?


    Because people generally believe that spring is a busy season, and only lazy people choose to rest in spring.


    Although students at the University of Magic do not need to work, they have retained this tradition.


    They believe that spring is a critical period for learning, so they will not let students slack off.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    But in order to let students relax, the school will still give them a certain amount of rest time at the beginning and end of the long vacation.


    For students who are far away, it is better to take a rest in school instead of wasting fifteen days on the road.


    And more students will choose to travel with nearby friends.


    In short, these fifteen days belonged entirely to all the magic apprentices in the academy.


    Having been away from home for more than three months, Alan decided to return to his hometown to visit. At the same time, several familiar girls from the book bar management department also planned to accompany him to visit Maigeng Village with great anticipation.


    During this period, Alan implicitly invited Jialan to go with him, but Jialan declined the invitation on the grounds that there were still unfinished business in the institute.


    After the girls left the institute with joy, Jialan also bid farewell to the slightly lonely book bar and went to Brown''s mansion in Kolan City to evaluate the operating results of the Lemli Potion Workshop in the past three months.


    Lemli Potion Workshop is responsible for the production of potions, while the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group is responsible for sales.


    All income is remitted to the mercenary guild account, and Jialan can check his personal financial status at any time with just a crystal card.


    In fact, even without checking, Jialan can roughly estimate that the balance of his personal account is at least more than 500,000 gold talans.


    Given his strict control over the production of Brown family potions, daily income should remain stable.


    With this fund, Jialan believes that the conditions for implementing subsequent plans are in place.


    In the past three months, the Brown family has earned about five or six hundred gold talans through potion production, and has become a middle-class family with some achievements in Kolan City.


    At the same time, the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group is expected to accelerate its development and recruit more mercenaries thanks to this fixed income.


    For Jia Lan, who has a shallow foundation in Kolan City, these two families are indispensable partners in his subsequent plans.


    The Brown Mansion is located near the Magic Market and not far from the Komo University.


    After finishing three months of college life, Jia Lan ignored the goblin steam locomotive solicitation at the school gate, and walked leisurely to the Brown Mansion.


    However, as he got closer to the Brown Mansion, his brows gradually furrowed.


    Recalling that when he left with Alan three months ago, many residents around the Brown Mansion had already devoted themselves to potion production, making this civilian area very lively.


    However, along the way, he found that this place was unusually deserted!


    Especially when he arrived outside the courtyard of Brown''s mansion, he was surprised to find that this place had been abandoned for a long time!


    Jia Lan pushed open the half-open gate and walked into the courtyard, where discarded items were piled up in a mess.


    The medicine filling machine he designed and manufactured was gone, and there were traces of stove burns on the ground.


    The empty wooden boxes piled in the corner of the courtyard still revealed the busy scene of the past.


    Walking into the room, the Brown family''s items were still preserved, but they were covered with dust.


    Jia Lan reached out to wipe the table and twisted his fingers, guessing that the Brown family seemed to have left this place in a hurry about half a month after he and Alan entered school.


    After thinking for a while, Jia Lan decided to leave first.


    At this time, an animal suddenly jumped out from under the wooden box in the corner of the yard - it was the hen Lemley who served as the image spokesperson of Violet Ointment!


    Lemley looked quite haggard, with messy flax feathers, and her originally plump body was now skinny.


    The originally bright red comb was now drooping softly and shriveled.


    It remained alert and stopped a few meters away from Jia Lan, looking carefully at the robed creature in front of it with wise eyes.


    After confirming that she had seen this male creature before, Lemley combed her messy feathers, like a down-and-out lady.


    Although it looked a little embarrassed, it still tried its best to maintain its elegant and graceful gait, slowly walked towards Jia Lan, and raised its head proudly.


    Jia Lan squatted down in surprise and stared at Lemley''s black eyes full of wisdom for a moment.


    Unfortunately, Lemley was speechless and could not tell Jialan where the Brown family had gone.


    However, Jialan had basically concluded that the Brown family had left the small courtyard on which they depended for survival involuntarily.


    Although they earned a certain amount of income from the violet ointment, it was far from enough to support them leaving their hometown.


    As for the potion formula mastered by the Brown sisters, it could not be leaked to outsiders under the constraints of the contract signed by Jialan.


    Even the quantity of potion production was strictly limited.


    It can be said that it is almost impossible for the Brown family to violate the terms of the contract signed with Jialan out of greed.


    It can be inferred from this that the only reason for their departure may be external factors, such as kidnapping.


    Jialan found some oats that had not yet deteriorated from the earthen jar in the kitchen of the Brown mansion and fed them to the hungry Lemley.


    This poor hen had been feeding on the medicine residue in the corner of the yard for more than a month, but it survived miraculously.


    After Lemley had a full meal, Jia Lan carried the docile Ms. Lemley to the base of the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group, hoping to obtain valuable information from the group leader Casey Cornell and others.

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    After asking several mercenaries, Jia Lan finally found the dilapidated courtyard called "Iguana''s Tooth".


    Looking at the desolate courtyard, it can be seen that Captain Casey and his men seem to be having a hard time.


    After knocking on the broken wooden door for a long time, an angry roar came from the courtyard: "You damn guys! Iguana''s Tooth is finished! Don''t you want to let us go? Uncle Div will fight you..."


    Following the roar, Div kicked the already shaky wooden door from the inside and rushed out with a battle axe in grief and anger.


    However, when he was about to swing the battle axe, he saw clearly who the smiling man in front of him was!


    There was a sound of "crackling" and the shabby and stubble-faced Div screamed miserably. The battle axe that hit the back of his neck fell to the ground behind him with a "clang". He remained in a 75-degree twisted position and could not move...


    This guy actually twisted his waist!


    After a while, Jia Lan sat in the only room in the Iguana Tooth station that was used as a "meeting room".


    Lemley sat calmly on the chair next to him. Even though such a fierce scene had just happened, Lemley did not scream.


    Jia Lan looked at this meeting room with interest, which also served as a public restaurant and storage room for the team.


    In front of him sat Captain Casey Cornell and several elderly disabled mercenaries, plus Div who was lying on the table and groaning. These were all the remaining members of the Iguana Tooth.


    Jia Lan nodded and said gently to the guilty Captain Casey: "Can you tell me what happened?"


    "I''m... sorry! Mr. Jia Lan..." Captain Casey lowered his head in shame: "We failed to protect the Brown family..."


    After listening to Captain Casey''s story, Jia Lan gradually understood what happened.


    There is no doubt that all this was caused by the disaster caused by the huge profits brought by the violet ointment.


    Half a month after Jia Lan and Alan entered school, the Pharmacist Guild of Kolan City reported the Brown family to the Kolan City Civil Affairs Council in the name of privately selling unsafe potions, and sealed up Lemley''s potion workshop at lightning speed.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    By the time the people of Iguana Fang heard the news and rushed over, the Brown family and the pharmaceutical equipment had already disappeared without a trace.


    Since Jia Lan did not leave them contact information after entering school, Captain Casey went to Komo University many times to find his whereabouts and wanted to inform Jia Lan about this.


    But KoMo University has been telling him that there is no student named "Jia Lan" in either the first grade or other grades.


    At the same time, the Iguana Fangs also suddenly began to be suppressed by the Bronze-level medium-sized mercenary group, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group.


    The other party deliberately sabotaged the tasks they were carrying out, causing the Iguana Fangs Mercenary Group''s task completion and reputation to drop rapidly.


    At the same time, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group continued to provoke their members, deliberately angered them and then injured them, and even threatened the members of the Iguana Fang to leave the team through coercion and inducement.


    Some mercenary members could not bear the threat from the other side and left, while some directly left the Iguana Fang and joined the Storm Wolf.


    However, the other side still did not intend to let them go, and sent people to harass them every day, trying to force Casey and others to leave Kelan City.


    That''s why Div broke out of the door so angrily before, intending to fight the other side.


    "... So, now we only have these people you see in the Iguana Fang. If we can''t get more than ten members before the end of this month, even the qualification of the mercenary group will be cancelled by the Mercenary Guild." Leader Casey said disappointedly. Will the mercenary group handed over to her by her father disappear in her hands after all?


    Jia Lan frowned and looked at the four disabled and widowed old mercenaries supported by the mercenary group, as well as Dave Cornell, the adopted son of the previous leader of the Iguana Fang, Old Cornell, and asked in confusion: "I remember that we paid the ''asylum fee'' to the Mercenary Guild at the beginning, right? Don''t they care?"


    "It''s not that they don''t care, but President Clark Abigail can''t intervene in this matter." Leader Casey smiled bitterly: "Because after the Pharmacist Guild kidnapped the Brown family, it did not stop supplying potions to the Mercenary Guild. Even the consignment fee for our Iguana Fang and your income were not deducted, and they were deposited into the Mercenary Guild''s account as usual."


    "It can be said that the Pharmacist Guild did not gain any benefits from this matter. What they did was just to control the Brown family in their hands, and even took on the work of making medicine."


    "Although we don''t want the source of medicine to be controlled by the Pharmacist Guild, the Mercenary Guild cannot conflict with the Pharmacist Guild because the Pharmacist Guild kidnapped a civilian family."


    "We don''t even have evidence that the Brown family was kidnapped by them, even though the Violet Potion was taken from them."


    "As for us... if it weren''t for the protection of President Clark, we would have been gone long ago, right? Competition between mercenary groups is not something the guild can interfere with..."


    "Although the Storm Wolf''s methods are despicable, they did not violate the guild''s rule that ''mercenary groups cannot attack each other when not on a mission''. What the Storm Wolf people did can be completely classified as the personal behavior of mercenaries."


    Listening to the narration of Captain Casey, Jia Lan frowned and said, "In other words, the Brown family is now detained by the Civil Affairs Council of Coran City on the charge of privately selling potions, but in fact, the people should be in the hands of the Pharmacist Guild?"

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    "Yes, so even if we know that the Brown family is being controlled by the Pharmacist Guild, we cannot use force to rescue them." Captain Casey looked at Jia Lan and said, "Unless we intend to confront the soldiers of the Civil Affairs Council and the City Guard of Kolan City head-on!"


    "It seems that they intend to use the Brown family to force me to show up and force me to cooperate with them?" Jia Lan tapped his chin thoughtfully.


    With a slight smile, Jia Lan continued: "It seems quite interesting... It seems that I must meet them... By the way, how are the various materials I asked you to collect and hoard before being prepared?"


    "Since the Pharmacist Guild has no right to interfere with our mercenary missions, and the cost of selling potions is directly remitted by President Clark to your account in the Mercenary Guild, the funds for purchasing materials have not been affected."


    "During this period, we have been continuously purchasing the materials on your list, and rented more than a dozen large warehouses in the dock warehouse area for storage."


    Div, who was lying on the side, covered his waist and continued with a grin, "It''s just that several traitors in our mercenary group joined the Storm Wolf and leaked the information of the material list. Therefore, the Pharmacist Guild is also buying up the materials on the list, causing the prices of various materials to rise, and the source of materials has also been seized a lot."


    "It''s okay, it should be enough..." Jia Lan smiled and walked closer, holding Div''s lower back, then holding his shoulders and twisting them hard. With a "crack", Div screamed and fell off the bench.


    After falling heavily to the ground, Div quickly got up from the ground, held his waist and turned around, and said in surprise: "This is amazing, it''s completely recovered!"


    "It''s just a simple treatment." Jia Lan said casually, "So, do you Iguana Fangs still have the courage to fight against Storm Wolf, the Pharmacist Guild, and the Civil Affairs Council of Coran City?"


    Casey and Div looked at each other, with excitement in their eyes: "Mr. Jia Lan, are you going to rescue the Brown family?"


    "Of course!" Jia Lan said with a smile, "But it''s more than that..."


    There was a strange light flashing in his dark eyes, like a child who found an interesting toy, but it made Casey and Div feel a chill, as if they were stared at by something terrible.


    "So what do we need to do now?" Dave looked around for his battle axe, as if he would rush to the Pharmacist Guild as soon as Jia Lan gave the order.


    "No need to do anything for now." Jia Lan seemed to be in deep thought, with two black flames flickering in his eyes.


    After a while, Jia Lan sighed. The teacher''s ban restrained him and he couldn''t do many things.


    The teacher said that there was a terrible "devil" sealed in his body. Once he acted too indulgently, the seal of the "devil" would loosen.


    "But... it''s really interesting..." Jia Lan muttered.


    Dave didn''t hear clearly and asked in confusion: "Do nothing? But what about the Brown family?"


    "The Brown family is safe... at least until I, the person they are waiting for, show up, they will be very safe and even receive a good reception..."The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.


    "Well, the only thing that is limited is probably freedom, right?" Jia Lan smiled, "However, it would be even better if you could find out the whereabouts of the Brown family, so that we can cause some trouble for the Pharmacist Guild."


    "But..." Dave and Casey looked at each other, looking embarrassed, "Members of our team have defected to Storm Wolf, and now no one can sneak into the Pharmacist Guild to find out the news."


    "Who said that we don''t have thieves in Iguana Fang?" An old mercenary who lost his left arm suddenly laughed, "Although I am old and lost an arm, I don''t need to use both arms to fight to find out the news."


    Jia Lan has always respected the elderly, even though his own age is likely to be much older than this old thief.


    He looked at the old mercenary for a while and said with a smile: "You must have been the most agile thief back then!"


    The old mercenary laughed: "Leave it to old Jimmy! I can find the location of the Brown family tonight, unless they are no longer in Kelan City."


    "Don''t be so anxious, we still have a lot of time to use, we can prepare first, it''s not good to alert the other party too early."


    "In addition, I think you may need some small props... Believe me, you will like it!" Jia Lan waved his hand, "Now I need you to help me prepare some things."


    "In addition, Captain Casey, please help me make an appointment with President Clark. I have some business cooperation that I want to discuss with the president." As he said, Jia Lan summoned a portable notebook and quickly copied down a long list of materials and equipment.


    Most of these materials are very common. Although some are valuable, they should be easy to buy in the material market of the magic market.


    After writing, Jia Lan checked it and modified the names of several medicinal materials. For example, in this era, "mistletoe" is called "pigeon blood vine", and the names of many materials have changed.


    Jia Lan''s current financial situation is quite stable. Even if he does not use the funds deposited in the mercenary guild account, he still has plenty of Jintalan to allocate.


    The operating income of the library book bar far exceeded expectations, allowing him to purchase a set of exquisite alchemy tools, a set of sophisticated craftsman tool sets and a complete set of medicine preparation tools.


    The total value of these tools exceeds 2,000 Jintalan.


    Due to the misfortune of the Brown family, all of their original tools were taken away, and Jia Lan had to purchase these equipment again.


    At present, there are only six members left in the Iguana Tooth Team, including an elderly mercenary. All members are mobilized to prepare the necessary items for Jia Lan, while Jia Lan stays in the station to meditate.


    When Di Fu and others returned with three sets of tools and a large amount of materials, Jia Lan ended his meditation, moved his fingers, and smiled and announced that he would start working.


    Then, he performed a [Transportation Spell], and the three sets of tools floated up like well-behaved puppies, and followed them into the "conference room" of Iguana Fang.


    In the conference room, the long table originally used for dinner parties was temporarily used as a test bench, and all kinds of strange utensils and tools were taken out one by one.


    In view of the relatively low personal work efficiency, Jia Lan cast the magic of [Activate Tools] on the tools, so a large number of bottles, beakers, measuring cups, crystal test tubes, pocket crucibles, small furnaces, etc. seemed to have gained life, floating, moving and self-assembling.


    Under the synergy of [Transportation] and [Mage''s Hand], various objects in the conference room floated up and down, as if countless invisible hands were controlling everything.


    Fire elemental substances were thrown into the small furnace, the pocket crucible fell on the burning furnace by itself, and the water bottle took clean water and poured it into the crucible.


    The medicinal materials flew up by themselves, were chopped by the medicine guillotine, and the hand grinder rotated wildly to sprinkle fine powder.


    After the crystal dish was filled with powder, it flew up and sent it to the medicinal scale, and the spoon carefully shoveled away the excess until it met the dosage standard.


    The members of the Iguana Fang looked at the "conference room" that seemed to be shrouded in magic in horror, hiding at the door and not daring to enter easily.


    Only when Jia Lan asked for something, they would tremble and provide clean water or pour out the turbid liquid.


    An old mercenary quietly asked his companion what kind of magic this was. Old Jimmy shook his head in awe, saying that he had never seen such a scene.


    After seven or eight hours of intense work, Jia Lan walked out of the messy conference room with a little fatigue, holding a potion carefully placed in a crystal test tube in his hand.

 Chapter82

    While taking a nap outside the door, Div was suddenly awakened.


    He jumped up suddenly, his eyes focused on the colorful potion in Jia Lan''s hand, and asked curiously: "What is this?"


    Hearing the noise, Casey and the old mercenaries also rushed over from their resting place, and looked at Jia Lan curiously.


    Jia Lan looked at the old ''thief'' who had lost an arm, and then fixed his eyes on the muscular Div, and said with a smile: "Come, try my new invention."


    As he said, he handed Div a crystal test tube filled with transparent liquid.


    Div curiously pulled out the stopper, sniffed it, and drank it all. After drinking it, he smacked his lips and said: "It doesn''t taste much."


    However, he didn''t notice that Lemley beside him suddenly trembled all over and hid under the table.


    The old mercenaries were all shocked. Does this guy know what he just drank?


    That''s a potion made by a magician!


    Who told you to try it casually?


    Jia Lan looked around, picked up a bucket of dirty water for cleaning, sprinkled it in the yard, pointed at the water on the ground and said, "Go over and try it."


    Dave was confused and walked over the water according to Jia Lan''s instructions, but nothing happened.


    However, Old Jimmy''s eyes lit up, and he quickly rushed to Dave''s side and touched the ground.


    Everyone realized that there were no footprints left where Dave walked!


    Old Jimmy shouted in surprise: "This... this is...?"


    "Primary invisible trace potion." Jia Lan nodded, "Try this again!"


    As he said that, he handed Dave another light blue potion. Dave drank it without hesitation.


    Jia Lan asked: "How high can you jump with all your strength?"


    Dave scratched his head and said uncertainly: "About two or three meters?"


    "Jump and see! Try your best!" Jia Lan said with a smile.


    Without thinking too much, Div squatted down and suddenly jumped up.


    The result was completely different from what everyone expected. Div jumped into the air like a big flea.


    Although the exact height could not be determined, it was definitely higher than the three-meter-high wall!


    "Eight meters, the effect of the primary jumping potion is limited to this." Jia Lan said with a little regret.


    Div, who did not expect that he could jump so high, screamed, danced in the air, and finally fell heavily to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.


    "Try this bottle again..." Jia Lan stuffed a bottle of milky white, slightly turbid potion to the groaning Di Fu.


    But this time, Di Fu dared not drink it no matter what.


    Old Jimmy quickly snatched it: "Let me try."


    Without waiting for Di Fu to speak, he pulled out the cork and drank it all.


    Soon, Old Jimmy''s figure became blurred.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    Everyone knew he was standing there, but if you didn''t look closely, it would be difficult to find him, as if Old Jimmy was integrated with the surrounding environment.


    "Primary invisibility potion, can only last for one minute." Jia Lan said, put the remaining potion into a leather bag and handed it over.


    "Light body, night vision, shrinking, flying, spider crawling... These are all primary alchemy potions, some of which are weakened versions and can only last for less than a minute."


    "With these, plus your thief skills, it will be more certain to sneak into the Pharmacist Guild and find the Brown family." Jia Lan nodded with a little satisfaction.


    The hidden scar effect on his body gradually disappeared, and Old Jimmy excitedly took the leather bag.


    Although he only had one arm, he tied the leather bag around his waist deftly.


    "There are only six bottles of each potion. I suggest you use one bottle of each to try the effect first." Jia Lan looked at the sky and said with a smile, "I hope you can bring back good news."


    Old Jimmy was as excited as a child, jumping around in the yard to test the effect of the potion, but he didn''t make any sound, and he was as flexible as a cat.


    However, Dave and Casey, who were responsible for purchasing medicinal materials, showed strange colors on their faces.


    The eight potions that Jia Lan took out, not counting the labor cost and the difficulty of making, the material cost alone is about twenty gold talans per bottle.


    In other words, the material cost of the forty-eight potions that Jia Lan took out is nearly a thousand gold talans!


    And if these potions are put on the market for sale, the lowest price will not be less than fifteen thousand gold talans!


    Fifteen times the profit, is it high? Not high!


    Among the alchemical potions on the market, although there are several with similar effects to these potions, nearly half of them are unheard of.


    For example, night vision, shrinking, light body... The effect of the earth-based invisible trace potion is similar to the invisibility potion, but it can only wipe away footprints on the mud. It cannot leave footprints on anything like the invisibility potion.


    The water-based mist potion is quite similar to the hazy potion, and the wind potion, like the jumping and floating potions, uses the power of wind to make people jump higher.


    However, the "human shrinking" effect that can change the size of the human body is rarely heard of.


    The effects of these potions often play an important role at critical moments.


    For example, when thieves try to sneak into the lord''s treasure house, if they can use these potions, the benefits will far exceed the cost.


    Unfortunately, these alchemical potions are extremely scarce in the market. Every time they appear, they will trigger fierce competition among high-level professionals, resulting in soaring prices.


    However, Jia Lan successfully refined forty-eight bottles in a short period of time, which amazed Casey and others, and they thought that this was simply a rhythm of rolling in money!


    However, refining these potions is not an easy task. It takes a lot of time and requires the magician to concentrate on controlling the amount, combination and temperature of the medicinal materials.


    Finally, it needs to be activated with magic power, and this process requires even more concentration.


    Any mistake in any step will lead to the failure of potion refining.


    Therefore, alchemical potions cannot be mass-produced like ordinary medicines, and only a small amount of stock can be found in the magician''s laboratory.


    Except for professional alchemists and magicians who really need these potions, few people are willing to invest so much energy in alchemical potions.


    But Jia Lan only used a few simple spells, just like a magic trick, and completed the work of more than a dozen magicians alone! This is simply a miracle!


    If anyone knew that Jia Lan could make alchemical potions in batches and could make eight different potions at a time, I wonder how many people would be excited.


    Although Casey and Dave lived in the magic city of Coran and had some understanding of magic, they found it difficult to understand the "magic" that Jia Lan used to make those alchemical tools operate on their own.


    In fact, not only those who did not understand magic, but even real magicians could not understand Jia Lan''s methods, because these skills were not the product of this era.


    Therefore, the mercenaries of Iguana Fang were full of awe for this mysterious young magician.


    The old thief tried every potion, and although he was exhausted and out of breath, he was full of excitement in his heart, as if he had returned to the time when he was adventuring side by side with his companions.


    Old Jimmy''s eyes flashed, and he laughed: "It seems that my previous skills are not lost!" After that, he ran into the room and rummaged through the boxes to find a large wooden box covered with dust.


    Dave wanted to help, but was rejected by Old Jimmy.


    He deftly unlocked the complicated lock on the wooden box with one hand and took out a bunch of old but well-maintained equipment: a pair of sharp black iron daggers, a set of exquisite thief tools, and some small gadgets that only thieves know the use of.


    Old Jimmy stroked the daggers like a treasure, while the three old mercenaries stood in a row behind him, guarding his back as they did when they fought side by side.


    The faces of the old men were filled with excitement and envy, silently watching Old Jimmy take out the items in the box one by one, wipe them clean and put them on.

 Chapter83

    Old Jimmy''s movements seemed slow, but he quickly packed up a lot of things and changed into a set of soft leather armor that was very old and full of traces of battle.


    He tied the belt on his leg tightly, inserted a long black iron dagger, thought for a while, and handed another one to Jia Lan, saying: "Mr. Jia Lan, as an old man, I give you this black tooth dagger that has been with me for forty years. Although you are a magician, it is also good to have a self-defense dagger. In addition, thank you very much!"


    Jia Lan took the dagger with both hands very solemnly and thanked Old Jimmy.


    This serious atmosphere made Casey and Dave a little confused, but the other three old mercenaries were trembling with excitement.


    "Haha, I''m leaving, wait for my good news!" Old Jimmy laughed happily, tied the potion bag given by Jia Lan to his waist, climbed up the wall as flexibly as a monkey, and disappeared with a wave of his hand.


    Who would have thought that he looked so old before.


    Jia Lan was holding the black, non-reflective black tooth dagger, stunned for a while, then smiled.


    The three old mercenaries also smiled and nodded to Jia Lan: "Thank you! Mr. Jia Lan, thank you for cheering up old Jimmy! We haven''t seen him so happy since he lost his arm! He must want to do another job!"


    Although they didn''t know the specific effects of those potions, they knew that they were very important to old Jimmy and could help him get back to form.


    Jia Lan blinked and smiled: "Is it only old Jimmy who wants to cheer up again?"


    The three old mercenaries were stunned for a moment and looked at Jia Lan expectantly.


    "I can only make elementary potions now, but there should be many recipes that can help you." Jia Lan looked at the three old mercenaries and said with a smile: "Do you want to relive the feeling of fighting? Let me see your collection! They must be impatient! Do you want to teach those annoying guys of Storm Wolf a lesson?"


    A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of the three old mercenaries. They looked at each other, then ran back to the room and dragged out a few large wooden boxes to Jia Lan.


    "Mr. Jia Lan, these equipment that have been with us for a long time, please trouble you!" One of the burly but skinny old mercenaries shook his arms and twisted his waist while laughing: "It seems that we old guys have to move too, otherwise... Ouch!"


    Hearing the sound of bones cracking, the people around were startled, and the other two old mercenaries hurriedly helped him back to the room to wipe the medicinal wine.


    Casey and Dave looked at these old mercenaries who seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, and they were a little confused.


    They remembered that these old guys who had retired since the time of the old leader Cornell were always lazy before, and they didn''t know how they suddenly became so energetic.


    "The lost power can be replaced by things, but the accumulated experience cannot be compared with things... As long as the Iguana Fang doesn''t abandon them, they will not abandon the Iguana Fang." Jia Lan said to Casey, "Believe me, with these old people, the Iguana Fang will definitely be rebuilt! Old soldiers never die..."Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    As he said that, he walked into the conference room with three heavy wooden boxes.


    Casey and Dave looked at each other, and Dave scratched his head: "Casey, do you understand what he is saying?" Casey shook his head, but his eyes gradually became excited.


    As time passed, humans not only faced the decline of energy, but also suffered from spiritual erosion.


    For those mercenaries who devoted their lives to adventure and combat, their once strong and agile bodies gradually showed their inability to do their best, which undoubtedly became the deepest lament of their group.


    Deep in Jia Lan''s heart, blending with the memories of souls from another world, a poem aptly depicts the career trajectory of combat professionals such as adventurers and mercenaries:


    "A clay pot will break if it is not close to the well, and a general will inevitably die on the battlefield. When the children of Jianghu grow old in Jianghu, why should they bury their bones in their hometown?"


    The clay pot will eventually break by the well due to frequent use, implying that groups such as warriors, mercenaries or adventurers will eventually find it difficult to escape the judgment of fate if they continue to fight in danger.


    As for the term "jianghu", although Jia Lan''s understanding of it is still vague, it can be regarded as an environment similar to the mercenary world.


    Therefore, as adventure professionals, their final destination is often closely related to their living environment throughout their lives, and it is not difficult to understand the indifference of such people to the place of death.


    Whether it is adventurers or mercenaries, except for a very few lucky ones or frustrated people who gave up early, most of them have a miserable situation in their later years.


    The long-term adventure career has caused serious damage to their bodies and health. Even if they are lucky enough not to die in a dangerous mission, they will generally be left with disabilities or serious sequelae. Few people can die peacefully.


    On the contrary, most of them will die sadly in the torture of illness.


    The four old mercenaries of Iguana Fang are relatively lucky in the mercenary world.


    They did not die under the claws of monsters, nor did they die under the swords of enemies. Instead, after dedicating their lives to the mercenary group, they were able to obtain the support of the mercenary group, avoiding the fate of being expelled due to old age and physical weakness, and tragically dying under the eaves on a cold night.


    However, this luck is also accompanied by sadness. They gradually feel the passing of vitality and can almost foresee their own death from illness.


    As they grow older, they miss the health and strength of their youth more and more, and constantly recall the time when they fought side by side with their partners.


    Although Jia Lan''s potion could not really restore their health and youth, it was enough for them to relive the passionate years of the past and feel the blood boiling during the battle.


    At the same time, this also allowed them to contribute their last bit of strength to the mercenary group they had devoted their lives to, proving that they still had value in existence, rather than hiding in the dark like useless waste, expecting others'' mercy and charity, and waiting for death in fear.


    At first, Jia Lan only wanted to use the alchemy potion to enhance the ability of the old thieves to avoid mistakes or danger when exploring intelligence.


    However, after witnessing the ecstasy and spiritual power that Old Jimmy burst out after using the potion, Jia Lan decided to use the alchemy potion to help the old mercenaries realize their last wish in the rest of their lives - the dignity of being a warrior.


    For them, death and danger are no longer scary.


    Compared to decaying and becoming a burden under the support of the mercenary group, they are more willing to die heroically in the battle to defend their honor like the meteors that once appeared in their lives.


    Although alchemical potions can bring amazing effects, any potion has certain toxicity and side effects, which will inevitably cause damage to the human body.


    Healthy young people can quickly recover from the damage caused by potions with their strong physique and strong recovery ability.


    However, the old mercenaries who are old and scarred no longer have this recovery ability.


    Therefore, although Jia Lan''s alchemical potion can enable them to regain the peak state of their youth, it comes at the cost of overdrawing their remaining life.

 Chapter84

    Although he knew the risks, Jia Lan resolutely decided to use his abilities to help the old mercenaries recover their combat effectiveness, even though this might accelerate their life consumption.


    This move not only reflects respect for the old warriors, but also a kind of lofty respect for them.


    However, after waking up from the Eternal Ice, although he was unexpectedly freed from the constraints of exploring the mysterious field, Jia Lan''s spellcasting ability dropped from the original level 1 to level 0, and what he can currently use is limited to more basic abilities.


    After obtaining the collections of the three old mercenaries, Jia Lan, despite his own fatigue, conducted a meticulous inspection of their equipment.


    Although these equipment are not magical weapons, and the best ones are just ordinary fine products, they are sufficient for use.


    In order to improve the physical fitness of the old mercenaries, alchemical potions such as primary armor potion, primary tree skin potion, primary bear toughness potion, primary bull strength potion, and primary cat elegance potion are enough to restore their strength to the peak state of their youth in a short period of time, or even beyond the peak.


    As for equipment, Jia Lan''s enchantment skills and rune engraving techniques are enough to improve these ordinary or even dilapidated equipment to an unexpected level.


    As the night deepens, the main month of January, "Valette, the Moon of Alert", will sprinkle the earth with slightly fluctuating light gray moonlight. This strange fluctuation often makes those hidden and dark corners inadvertently revealed.


    In fact, January is not an ideal time for thieves to act, because no matter how they hide their whereabouts, Valette''s strange moonlight fluctuations will always make their figures appear particularly abrupt in the shadows.


    Fortunately, with the rich experience of Old Jimmy and the magical effect of the alchemy potion given by Jia Lan, he successfully returned and completed the task beyond expectations-bringing the Brown family back.


    This surprised Jia Lan very much. He originally only planned to let Old Jimmy find out the location of the Brown family and ensure their safety. There were a series of plans and multiple plans for rescue in the future.


    However, Old Jimmy only went out once and brought all the Brown family back.


    This was due to Old Jimmy''s excellent investigation and hostage rescue skills, and also to the fact that the Browns were ordinary people without special abilities, and the other party was not vigilant and did not guard them strictly.


    In any case, the safe return of the Browns was always gratifying.


    Everyone happily welcomed the family who had been frightened for more than two months, and learned the details of the incident from their frightened narration.


    The mastermind behind all this was indeed the Pharmacist Guild.


    They bribed the members of the Civil Affairs Council of Coran City and reached a deal with them, persuading them to use their official powers to assist them in carrying out this dirty kidnapping and extortion operation.


    However, after discovering that the Brown sisters, who had the detailed formula of the violet ointment, were bound by some mysterious magic contract and could not reveal the formula through words, text, actions or demonstrations, the Pharmacist Guild changed its strategy, detained the Browns, and forced them to continue to produce potions in order to lead out the "Master Lemley" behind the Browns.


    The Brown family, who had spent two months in fear in the Pharmacist Guild, were carried out of the guild by Old Jimmy after their bodies were reduced to half of their normal size using the Primary Human Reduction Potion.


    Except for the obese Aunt Brown, no one else caused trouble to Old Jimmy, who used various alchemical potions.


    The young Brown sisters were terrified, and after holding back their tears for a while, they finally burst into tears: "Old... Teacher... They took away the potion formula!"Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.


    Although the people of the Pharmacist Guild could not master the detailed proportions of the formula by interrogating the Brown sisters due to the restrictions of the secret contract, this did not prevent them from finding out the ingredients of the violet ointment when preparing the medicinal materials for them.


    After all, the violet ointment is only a primary potion, and the medicinal materials are not complicated. The main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients add up to only a few.


    Moreover, the Pharmacist Guild can even gradually analyze the approximate ingredients and dosage of the violet ointment from the amount of medicinal materials used by the unsuspecting Brown sisters every day.


    But with just these, they still need some time to experiment in order to fully master the formula and preparation process.


    However, this period of time will not be too long, at most a few months, the pharmacists of the Pharmacist Guild will be able to fully master this formula.


    By then, with the power of the Pharmacist Guild in Kelan City, this special potion formula will be in their pockets.


    Jia Lan gently comforted the Brown sisters and the Brown couple who were anxious and afraid that he would hold them accountable, and asked Captain Casey to temporarily arrange for them to stay and rest at the Iguana Fang station.


    After thinking for a while, Jia Lan smiled and said to Casey and others: "Now that the Browns have been rescued, we can start to deal with the Apothecary Guild and the annoying Storm Wolf Mercenary Group!"


    "First, I need to purchase the following materials: 2,000 kg of blue steel, 100 kg of cold iron, 150 grams of refined gold and mithril, 50 kg of high-purity refined copper, 5 kg of three-leaf euphorbia gum, and 100 electric crystals or magic crystals. Please try to help me get these materials."


    Jia Lan quickly wrote down the list of required materials and handed his personal crystal card to Casey.


    Then, he gave Old Jimmy a task: "I need you to investigate the relationship between the Apothecary Guild and the Storm Wolf, as well as the forces behind them. In addition, please pay attention to the members of the Civil Affairs Council who are in contact with the Apothecary Guild."


    Old Jimmy nodded in response, then took two steps back and hid in the shadow of the corner.


    The experienced thief was in high spirits and eager to vent his regained strength, so carrying out this mission was a good opportunity for him to release his passion.


    After Kathy took the list, her face turned slightly pale.


    Although she had heard of materials such as blue steel, cold iron, refined gold and mithril, she had never seen them with her own eyes.


    These materials were extremely expensive, and their value was several times or even dozens of times higher than the same weight of gold.


    She took a deep breath, nodded to confirm and kept the list of materials properly.


    She deeply realized that the mysterious profession of magician was indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people.


    Jia Lan further proposed: "We also need a large and hidden venue as a workshop, and secretly recruit a group of craftsmen and hired workers."


    His dark eyes flashed with a strange light: "Learning from the experience of others, walking your own path, and leaving your opponents with no way out, this is the wisest strategy. Therefore, I need a list of potions sold by the Apothecary Guild."


    The people present could not help but feel a chill.


    Why did this young magician, who had always maintained a gentle attitude and treated people politely, suddenly exude such a strong evil aura?


    In the eyes of the Iguana Fang mercenaries, Jia Lan''s smile seemed to be shrouded by a layer of creeping black fog.


    Under this layer of black fog, they vaguely saw sharp horns and swaying arrow tails.


    However, Jia Lan did not immerse himself in this atmosphere. He continued to plan: "Before that, I need to go back to the academy. Please send all the materials to the library, and I will coordinate this with the guard."


    He turned to Casey: "By the way, I have put your equipment in the conference room. Please try it on when you are free. In addition, I have prepared a batch of new alchemical potions for you. You can try them first."


    Then, he told Dave to pack the alchemical tools in the conference room and send them to the academy after the materials were in place, and took the Brown sisters away from the Iguana Fang station.


    Soon after, Dave rushed out waving a silver-shining battle axe, extremely excited.


    After Jia Lan coated his black fine iron battle axe with "refined silver", its sharpness doubled.


    On the axe face and the axe handle, black magic materials were used to draw vine-like rune patterns, making the battle axe look both delicate and mysterious.


    These runes have "electric shock" and "mad slash" effects respectively: the former has a certain chance of triggering electric shock when in contact with the enemy; the latter can burst out a swift attack that is difficult to block.


    Casey''s long sword was also enchanted, but the effect was changed to "freezing cold" and "wind".


    Although Jia Lan''s current ability is not enough to enchant high-level powerful effects, and the power, duration and triggering probability are all low, he has mastered a variety of skills with his rich knowledge of arcane magic.


    Even low-level enchantment effects can produce amazing combat effectiveness when accumulated.


    With the support of this batch of enchanted equipment and alchemical potions, the combat effectiveness of the Iguana''s Fang Mercenary Group members will be significantly enhanced.

 Chapter85

    Casey and Dave were only bronze-level warriors, but with the help of these enchanted equipment and alchemical potions, their strength can at least compete with bronze-level warriors, or even silver-level warriors!


    You know, Ralph, the leader of the Storm Wolf, is only a silver-level warrior!


    Jia Lan took the Brown sisters back to the Komo College and temporarily placed them in the kitchen of the book bar to help. He went to find the magician Donaldson and asked him to help contact the senior management of the College Administration Office, hoping to rent the Doom Castle from Komo University.


    Donaldson was very puzzled by Jia Lan''s strange request to rent the abandoned "Doom Castle" - this group of "Doom Castles" that were rarely visited and dilapidated. He kindly explained the "special situation" of the Doom Castle to Jia Lan and recommended a manor for sale outside the city of Kelan to Jia Lan.


    However, Jia Lan insisted on renting the Castle of Doom, so Donaldson had to take him to the school property management office, where he searched through boxes and cabinets for a long time before finding the dusty property information of the Castle of Doom.


    Perhaps it was because the magicians did not care about the horror legend of the Castle of Doom, and the Castle of Doom had been abandoned for a long time. For the University of Science and Technology, if Jia Lan had not mentioned it, even the senior staff would have forgotten that the college had such an industry.


    Therefore, Jia Lan easily got the right to use the Castle of Doom at a cheap rent of 5,000 gold talans per year. The school management office did not even ask Jia Lan about the purpose of renting the Castle of Doom.


    After getting the right to use the Castle of Doom, Jia Lan did not go there immediately, but buried his head in the library, began to calculate a large number of alchemical formulas and design some strange equipment graphics.


    That afternoon, Captain Casey sent a group of craftsmen, as well as various materials and alchemy tools needed by Jia Lan, and also brought him news from the Pharmacist Guild - the disappearance of the Brown family had alarmed the Pharmacist Guild.


    For a whole day, the people of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, like startled flies, ran around in Kelan City and turned the yard of Brown''s house over and over, but apart from finding traces of someone going to Brown''s yard, they did not find any useful clues.


    The people of the Iguana Fang were busy outside all day, and even the Brown couple were secretly sent to the Mercenary Guild for protection by Captain Casey when he took the opportunity to meet President Clark Abigail.


    After reading a letter that Casey handed over on behalf of Jia Lan, and a certificate of ownership of the medicine formula issued by the Seven Continents Private Rights Protection Federation, President Clark immediately entrusted Casey to express his apology to Jia Lan for the Mercenary Guild''s failure to fulfill its responsibility of protection, and tactfully expressed his expectation for the cooperation between the Mercenary Guild of Kelan City and the magician team.


    Jia Lan nodded and told Casey to be careful in the next few days, and to recruit a large number of hired workers to go to the Bad Luck Castle to tidy up and repair the castle complex.


    Five days later, Jia Lan finally walked out of the small laboratory he built behind the library, and asked the hired craftsmen to carry large and small wooden boxes to the Bad Luck Castle by themselves, while he went to the Iguana Fang''s base.


    But when he came to the courtyard of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Corps, he found that there were many more wandering mercenaries nearby, and from the wolf head badges on their chests, it can be seen that they should belong to the Storm Wolf Mercenary Corps.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    At first, Jia Lan''s appearance did not attract the attention of the Storm Wolf mercenaries. After all, it was the winter vacation of the Komo University, and a large number of magic apprentices who stayed in school often appeared in groups in this area. Jia Lan, wearing a light blue magic robe, was inconspicuous walking on the street.


    But when Jia Lan walked straight to the Iguana Fang Station, he alarmed the Storm Wolf mercenaries, who quickly rushed over and stopped Jia Lan.


    A warrior who looked like a small leader came over with his companions.


    He crossed his arms and looked at Jia Lan, then asked: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"


    Jia Lan smiled and said: "Who are you? Why are you stopping me?"


    The mercenary leader didn''t expect that a young man who was only a level 1 magic apprentice could remain so calm when surrounded by people, and he immediately frowned.


    The mercenary beside him shouted arrogantly: "Little guy! Answer Captain Cardolan''s question honestly!"


    Captain Cardolan waved his hand, indicating that he should not be unreasonable, and gestured with his thumb in the direction of the Iguana Fang station, and asked again: "Are you here to find the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group?"


    "Who I am here to find has nothing to do with you, right?" Jia Lan smiled: "Get out of the way, you are blocking my way!"


    "Do you want to be beaten?" The mercenary thug threatened Jia Lan again with a fierce face: "Are you the guy who made a deal with the Iguana Fang? Tell me the truth, otherwise I will break your bones and force you to tell it!"


    Jia Lan thought about it seriously, and then nodded seriously: "Good idea!"


    The mercenary thug laughed triumphantly when he heard it, but immediately reacted and looked at Jia Lan dumbfounded: "What did you say?"


    Jia Lan smiled politely and repeated it again: "I said... you come to break my bones..."


    "Stop talking nonsense!" Captain Cardolan frowned, turned his head and said to the mercenaries behind him: "Take him back for interrogation..."


    "Bang!" Before he finished speaking, the wooden door of the Iguana Tooth Courtyard, which had been repaired with great difficulty, once again turned into flying fragments.


    Dave smashed the door panel and rushed out, roaring and waving his battle axe, rushing towards the stunned Storm Wolf mercenaries!


    Accompanied by a low roar and the sound of metal collision, two members of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group quickly drew their weapons and faced the enemy, but were repelled by Dave with a swift horizontal slash.


    He took the opportunity to approach Jia Lan and guarded him in front of him with a horizontal sword.


    At the same time, Casey and three senior mercenaries also walked out with weapons and also gathered around Jia Lan.


    In a corner that no one noticed, a thin figure quietly poked his head out of the Iguana Tooth Courtyard and carefully followed Jia Lan.


    It was the target that the Storm Wolf Mercenaries had been searching for for a long time - "Master Lemley".


    Captain Cardolan glanced at the battle formation of Casey, Div and others, and couldn''t help but laugh contemptuously: "Even these old people have taken up weapons? Is there no one to use the Iguana''s Tooth? Kill them for me..."


    "Don''t act rashly, little guy..." A voice sounded leisurely behind him, "Old people can also take people''s lives..."


    Cardolan''s body froze. I don''t know when, Old Jimmy appeared behind him silently, and a long combat dagger was quietly across his throat.


    The sharp edge of the dagger exuded bursts of coldness, which made his Adam''s apple feel a sting, so that he couldn''t make a sound, and even swallowing saliva became difficult.


    The city of Coran is located on the coast. Thanks to the mild marine climate, the temperature is not too cold even in winter.


    However, the temperature in January does not exceed 10¡æ, which can still be called cool.


    But in this cool temperature, Cardolan was sweating all over, instantly soaking his clothes and leather armor.


    As an experienced bronze senior mercenary, Cardolan''s strength is already superior among the mercenaries in Coran City.


    His team naturally also includes members of combat professions such as thieves.


    Therefore, he knew very well that the state of the combat long dagger across his throat at this moment was exactly the starting position of the "strangulation" technique commonly used by thieves!


    Moreover, the opponent''s dagger was placed in a very tricky position. As long as the opponent''s wrist moved slightly, two V-shaped fatal wounds could be cut on his Adam''s apple!


    Whether it was him or the opponent, as long as they moved slightly, the sharp blade could easily cut his trachea.


    This made it impossible for him to break free or resist, because even if the opponent was attacked, it would lead to his death!


    However, what shocked him even more was that the other party was able to lurk behind him without alerting the thieves in the team even though he was surrounded by his companions, and did not arouse the vigilance of him, a bronze-level warrior!


    This showed that the other party was at least a silver-level thief, and could even be a silver-level thief!

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    How is this possible?


    There are not many silver-level warriors in the entire Kelan City. The combat power level of mercenaries is generally only black iron level. Those who can reach bronze level are considered good players, and silver-level combat power is even more scarce. Only a small number of them can be seen in some strong mercenary groups.


    The Iguana Fang was originally just a small mercenary group with less than 100 members. The strongest among them were only a few primary and intermediate bronze warriors, and there was not even a high-level bronze warrior.


    If there were really silver-level combat power among them, how could they be suppressed by the Storm Wolf and almost disbanded?


    The leader was held hostage, and the mercenaries who were originally ready to rush forward were stunned.


    This 20-man mercenary team was sent by the thieves in the group responsible for intelligence investigation to monitor the movements of the other party because they noticed that the Iguana Fang had become active again in recent days, hoping to find clues about "Master Lemley".


    Unexpectedly, the Iguana Fangs, who had been silently enduring their oppression and humiliation, would suddenly resist so strongly. Many of the Storm Wolf mercenaries did not even have time to draw their weapons, and were caught off guard for a moment.


    "Sir, let''s leave here."


    Casey, who deliberately concealed Jia Lan''s name, guarded him vigilantly with a long sword.


    Jia Lan shrugged and regretfully put away the Level 1 Apprentice Wand in his hand. He had finally mastered the skill of spell model charging casting and was planning to try it out.


    "Little guy, let your men get out of the way." Old Jimmy smiled kindly, like a kind grandfather advising his grandson: "Old Jimmy is too old, it will be tiring to keep raising his arms like this..."


    Cardolan only felt the dagger in his throat trembling slightly and rhythmically, so he had to shout: "Get out of the way! Everyone, get out of the way..."


    The mercenaries of Storm Wolf looked at each other for a while, and could only disperse the encirclement, watching the people of Iguana Fang surrounding the magic apprentice and slowly leaving their encirclement.


    However, the mercenaries who were unwilling to give up followed the crowd step by step, and suddenly heard a slight "hiss..." sound, and a shallow blood mark appeared on Cardolan''s neck.


    Cardolan was so scared that he screamed, "No! No, no, no! Stay where you are! Don''t follow me!"


    His men stopped immediately when they heard the leader''s terrified voice, and watched a one-armed old thief affectionately hug their leader''s shoulder and leave.


    Several old men beside him carried big swords and flails, and disappeared from their sight with laughter and swagger.


    After turning a few corners, Old Jimmy suddenly turned the dagger upside down and used the raised end of the handle of the dagger to hit Cardolan''s lower back with a kidney shot.Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    Such a strong man just groaned and collapsed limply, and was pushed into the garbage dump on the corner by Old Jimmy.


    Kidney shot is a very "evil" way of attack.


    Cardolan was hit without any defense. He will have to stay in bed for at least half a month and urinate blood for three months.


    Even if he recovers, his strength will probably decrease a lot.


    The most terrible thing is that Cardolan may not be able to show off his masculine charm in the mercenary bar in the future.


    When everyone stared at him, Old Jimmy put away the dagger, patted his palm on his buttocks, as if he had just thrown a bag of garbage, and asked leisurely: "Where are we going next? Keep going forward. I guess we will meet their rescuers after we go around two street corners."


    Casey frowned and said, "Then let''s go back! Go around the Magic Market to Adventure Street, and then go directly to the Mercenary Guild. They don''t dare to rush directly into the Mercenary Guild to commit crimes, right?"


    "Kill them all! Kill them all! Kill... Ouch!"


    Diff shouted and waved the battle axe in his hand, full of morale. It seemed that the alchemy potion and enchanted equipment gave him a lot of confidence.


    He had always wanted to fight a bloody battle with the Storm Wolf to get back all the grievances he had suffered before.


    But the big old mercenary with a two-handed sword hit Difu on the back of his head with a fist, and he almost fell down.


    The old warrior named "Bruno" snorted at Difu, who was holding the back of his head in grievance, and turned to Casey and said, "No. Going to Adventure Street requires passing through the Storm Wolf''s base, and if you take a long detour, you will probably be caught up by them."


    "What should I do?"


    Casey was a little anxious. If it was just them, it wouldn''t matter. At worst, they could just rush out.


    With their current equipment, they can do this.


    But there was also Jia Lan, the "fragile" magic apprentice.


    Once a battle breaks out, the other side has so many people that they can''t care about Jia Lan''s safety at all.


    Jia Lan, holding Lemley in his arms, smiled and said, "Let''s take the route that Captain Casey said."


    The people of Iguana Fang were stunned: "But..."


    "If the Storm Wolf people come out to encircle us, how many people will be left in their base?"


    Jia Lan touched the feathers on Lemley''s back and smiled, "Besides, why do we have to avoid them?"


    Casey and the others were stunned and looked at each other.


    Having said that, the total number of Storm Wolves is about four or five hundred, and most of the members are only Black Iron Warriors. It would be good to have one-tenth, that is, forty or fifty Bronze Warriors.


    There are only a few silver-level masters, including the leader "Knife Wolf" Ralph, a total of no more than five people.


    Although the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group currently has only six members, and four of them are old, with the help of the enchanted equipment and alchemical potions provided by Jia Lan, their combat effectiveness has been significantly improved, and almost all members have reached the silver level.


    If there is a real battle, unless Ralph, the knife wolf, leads the silver-level masters of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group to block them with all their strength, those ordinary members will not be able to resist their offensive at all.


    In addition, as a medium-sized mercenary group, the Storm Wolf cannot stay idle in the station all day.


    They need to undertake tasks in the mercenary guild to earn commissions, and usually only 20£¥ to 30£¥ of the members will stay in the station to rest.


    Let''s put it this way, the number of Storm Wolf Gang in Kelan City should not exceed 100.


    Coincidentally, their leader took several outstanding members to carry out a secret mission two days ago and is no longer in the city.


    Dave swallowed his saliva and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Jia Lan, do you mean... go directly to their lair?"


    Jia Lan gently stroked Lemley''s chin in his arms and replied with a smile: "Why not? We will need a lot of manpower to rebuild the Iguana Fang next, but with our past reputation, it seems that not many people will be willing to join us?"


    Several members of the Iguana Fang looked at each other, their eyes flashing with excitement.

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    Storm Wolf recently suppressed Iguana Fang, causing the Iguana Fang mercenary group to almost disband.


    Even if they decide to take revenge, they firmly believe that they are on the side of justice.


    In addition, there is an unwritten rule among mercenaries: as long as they do not cause too much damage, such as causing a large number of casualties or harming civilians and urban facilities, managers such as the city guards and the mercenary guild usually do not interfere too much.


    Talking about this matter, we have to mention the situation in Kolan City, and even the entire Kolan State, Zilago State, and even the entire Star Continent.


    After the "Dark Apocalypse" disaster more than 1,700 years ago, the former countries and regimes were destroyed, and society returned to the primitive clan era, restarting the long road of civilization evolution.


    After the clan era, tribal era, chiefdom era, city-state era and federal era, which were full of darkness and blood, the countries and regimes on the Star Continent gradually revived civilization.


    However, the recovery of civilization takes time.


    Today, the Star Continent has just transitioned from the Federation Era and still retains many characteristics of the City-State Era.


    For example, the large city clusters that have risen on the ruins of the old era on the seven continents are usually led by the city lords with the greatest local power, assisted by some influential clan leaders, tribal chiefs and heads of professional guilds, who together form the City-State Council to manage the city and the surrounding population gathering places.


    However, the City-State Council is essentially only used to distribute benefits and mediate conflicts.


    This management method will inevitably lead to conflicts between forces due to disputes over interests and power.


    Not to mention the vast areas separated by nature like the seven continents, even in the same continent, the same county, or even between cities in the same country, there are often endless fights over interests.


    In general, in city-state politics, whichever force is more powerful has the greatest say.


    Cities, as the smallest unit in the city-state political system, whether they are large buildings called "cities", small buildings called "towns", or small villages that are only a little bit big, their management is actually a microcosm of the current city-state politics.


    Take the city of Kolan as an example. Since Kolan has a very important magic school, Komagic University, there is no city lord or king here like other places.


    However, there is still an institution to manage the city, namely the Civil Affairs Council.


    The Civil Affairs Council is composed of three management institutions, the "House of Lords, the Middle House, and the House of Commons", and its members are called "Members".


    Most of these members are appointed by large families, professional guilds and other forces in the Kolan State where Kolan City is located.A case of content theft: this narrative is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.


    Among them, the "House of Lords", also known as the "Senate", all have members from the most powerful forces.


    The "Middle House", also known as the "House of Representatives", has members from medium-sized forces and managers of surrounding towns and villages.


    The "House of Commons", also known as the "House of People", has members from small forces, as well as farmers, small businessmen, and ordinary people with reputations.


    Such a power structure seems reasonable, but in fact it is just a means for major forces and institutions to gain benefits.


    It is conceivable that there must be many dark calculations, intrigues and exchanges of interests.


    In such a management organization, how perfect can we expect the legal rules and urban security?


    In such a three-level management organization, everyone is fighting for interests and power, so it is inevitable that some illegal forces and violent gangs will breed.


    They may control a street or an industry, lurking in the dark corners of the city.


    As long as these "underground organizations" do not provoke powerful people and do not create big troubles in the city, those big men usually don''t bother to pay attention to them.


    As for the safety and life and death of ordinary people, who would care?


    Therefore, under the influence of this social atmosphere, although the Pharmacist Guild of Kelan City looks formal on the surface, it is not surprising that they collude with the councilors to do incredible things such as kidnapping.


    As for the Mercenary Guild, they seem to be indifferent to the people they protect, and there seems to be their "unspeakable secrets".


    First of all, the reason why the Pharmacist Guild dares to do this is that it has actually been "legalized" in this environment.


    Secondly, they just "took over" a civilian family from a small mercenary group and put them under their protection, under the pretext of ensuring the "safety" of drug production.


    As the "leader" of the drug industry in Kelan City, they have such "power".


    Furthermore, the Mercenary Guild is not dominated by the president Clark Abigail alone.


    Although he is the president, the leaders of many large mercenary groups serve as vice presidents, which disperses a lot of power, and he cannot fully control the Mercenary Guild.


    Finally, the behavior of the Pharmacist Guild is also in line with the "rules" of Kelan City.


    It is almost impossible to make other leaders of the Mercenary Guild become enemies of the Pharmacist Guild for a civilian family.


    Therefore, even if Jia Lan came to the door and accused the Mercenary Guild of taking money but failing to fulfill its duty to protect the Brown family, they can find a "reasonable" excuse.


    The potions are still supplied to the Mercenary Guild as usual, and the money is remitted to the accounts of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group and the Lemley Potion Workshop as usual, without damaging the interests of the Mercenary Guild, the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, and Jia Lan, the owner of the Lemley Potion Workshop.


    As for the Brown family, who told you to "privately" make potions?


    As for the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group being suppressed by the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, this is just a normal "competition" in the mercenary world.


    Who can you blame if you can''t beat them?


    They neither killed your teammates nor stopped you from accepting guild tasks. It was your own people who left, which made the mercenary tasks impossible to complete. Who can you blame?


    When encountering conflicts, you should use the mercenary method to solve them. If you are not capable enough, who can you blame?


    In the final analysis, the current predicament is because the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group is not strong enough!


    But now, the Iguana Fang has been strengthened, and it is time to show its strength and deter all forces.


    Kathy and Dave wanted to fight, but Jia Lan didn''t want to be bullied anymore.


    Jia Lan didn''t think the other party was wrong, but you have your rules and I have my principles.


    Although he is only a 0-level mage, the dignity of a mage cannot be violated!


    Perhaps the mercenaries of Storm Wolf went to besiege another team of Iguana Fang, and Jia Lan and his team didn''t meet them along the way.


    It was not until they reached the gate of Storm Wolf''s station that the guards who were chatting at the gate noticed them, froze for a moment, and then pointed at them and shouted.

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    Dave laughed grimly, swung his battle axe quickly, and launched a fierce charge at the low-level mercenaries at the gate, knocking them to the ground quickly, and then jumped into the courtyard.


    Then, Casey followed closely behind him and rushed into the courtyard with the speed of the wind.


    Old Jimmy, Bruno and other four senior mercenaries remained calm and moved forward steadily.


    Jia Lan walked into the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group with a leisurely pace and tried to close the heavy wooden door.


    However, unexpectedly, despite his repeated attempts, he still failed to close the door successfully.


    Given that Storm Wolf is a medium-sized mercenary group with certain strength, the gate of its station, as a symbol of the mercenary group''s power, should be well maintained and should not be unable to be closed due to disrepair.


    Jia Lan was very confused about this and pushed the door hard many times, making a "bang! bang!" sound, as if something foreign object was stuck on the door axis.


    After looking down, he found that a mercenary who was knocked unconscious by Div just fell in the corner of the door, with his head against the door axis.


    Jia Lan shook his head helplessly, used the moving technique to move the mercenary to the side, and finally successfully closed the door.


    Considering that the mercenaries chasing them might search the whole city instead of returning to the base in a short time if they failed to find them, they had enough time to deal with the remaining personnel.


    When Jia Lan closed the door and looked back, the six members of Iguana Fang had already started a fierce battle with about 40 to 50 mercenaries left by Storm Wolf.


    However, unexpectedly, the actual situation was different from expectations.


    Among the remaining personnel of Storm Wolf, there were two silver-level combatants who were fighting fiercely with Casey and Div.


    The rest of the personnel surrounded the four old mercenaries and tried to capture them first.


    However, the four old mercenaries were not panicked. Facing dozens of people rushing towards them, they remained calm and composed.


    They have experienced more than 40 years of ups and downs in the mercenary world. Facing such a situation, they can naturally remain calm.


    They have spent almost their entire lives in fighting and killing, and their nerves have been trained to be extremely tough.


    Even when facing the threat of life and death, they can remain calm and composed, and they don¡¯t care about these relatively young new mercenaries in front of them.


    The burly old Bruno, from his still majestic body, can still vaguely see his past heroic style.


    He even moved his arms leisurely, and with the sound of bones rubbing against each other, he smiled and said, "Old friends, it''s time to show our strength. We haven''t used our skills for many years, and I''m afraid even our bones are a little stiff!"


    Hearing this, another senior mercenary, Scott, laughed and teased, "Bruno, be careful with your old waist, don''t sprain it again!"The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    After that, the old warrior held the double kukri upside down, leaned forward and rushed out with agility, showing no signs of aging at all.


    However, just as he was about to fight the enemy, two arrows pierced the sky and accurately hit the thighs of the two Storm Wolf mercenaries who were rushing in the front. The two fell to the ground, wailing in pain and covering their wounds, and instantly lost their combat effectiveness.


    At this time, the old archer Murphy, the only long-range combat expert of Iguana Fang, taunted: "You two old guys, you are too slow! If you don''t take action, old Jimmy will kill all these little guys!"


    Scott couldn''t help but break out in a cold sweat after an arrow just narrowly passed over his head.


    Although he knew that his old partner who had cooperated for many years would not accidentally hurt him, he was still frightened by Murphy''s ruthless attack.


    Murphy''s two consecutive shots not only accurately hit the joint where the opponent''s thigh and hip were connected, but also cleverly avoided the aorta, which not only weakened the opponent''s combat effectiveness, but also avoided death due to excessive blood loss.


    These old mercenaries who have been working in the mercenary world for a lifetime are very good at this kind of firefight between mercenaries.


    They can effectively weaken the opponent''s manpower and avoid interference from the mercenary guild, showing extremely high combat wisdom and strategy.


    "It''s a pity that Old Bones left too early, otherwise we old guys can form another ''Iguana Tooth-Old Man Squad'', just missing a warrior with a shield." Bruno said regretfully, and slapped the face of an unlucky guy who rushed over with his huge two-handed sword, flattening his face!


    "Yeah, back then, our thieves, archers, heavy sword warriors, double-blade warriors, plus Old Bones'' shield warriors, that was the top combination in the group!" At some point, Old Jimmy returned to the archer Murphy''s side, shook off the blood on the dagger, and was also full of emotion.


    These old mercenaries chatted and recalled the past, driving the Storm Wolf mercenaries who besieged them crazy.


    The archer was fine, but the old thief had somehow gotten behind them and stabbed more than a dozen people before he was discovered.


    Moreover, he was extremely ruthless. The people he stabbed were all cut on the waist. Although they did not die, they basically lost their ability to move.


    The old heavy sword warrior was too lazy to move. He stood there chatting with his companions, and while chatting, he used his 1.5-meter-long sword to slap the opponents who rushed over to the ground like slapping flies.


    These people are probably safe, but they will definitely have scars on their faces in the future.


    And the double-blade warrior, who looked skinny and old like a dead tree, was extremely fierce in a fight. A pair of scimitars in his hands were as fast as the wings of a hummingbird.


    He did not use any fancy moves, just a simple chop, but he was both offensive and defensive, neither blocking nor retreating, and even not dodging!


    If you chop his arm, he will chop your neck; if you chop his thigh, he will still chop your neck. In short, he doesn''t care about the enemy''s attack at all!


    If it really comes to a life-and-death situation, he will fight to the death.


    But then again, this old man looks like he won''t live long even if he is not chopped, and it would be a shame to die with him!


    Where did these old monsters come from?


    How can they still be so cruel at such an old age?


    How could these new mercenaries know that the Iguana Fang was also a well-known medium-sized mercenary group in the past, even more powerful than the Storm Wolf.


    These old mercenaries used to be intermediate and advanced silver masters!


    Although they are old and their combat effectiveness is not as good as before, they have fought all their lives and the accumulated experience is not to be underestimated. These experiences will not disappear with time because they are deeply engraved in their bones.


    Even if their memory is not as good as before, their body''s instinct still remembers how to fight.


    So, the ones fighting against them were not a few old men, but living textbooks who had experienced hundreds of battles, encountered various dangers and death threats!


    It is no exaggeration to say that even if the old mercenaries stood still and let others hit them, before their weapons attacked, the old mercenaries'' bodies would instinctively make small movements to avoid them, without thinking at all.


    Although the old mercenaries no longer had the strength and skills of their youth, with the help of Jia Lan''s alchemy and magic equipment, they were not much worse than the young people in terms of physical strength, power, and skills.

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    These four old men are completely different from Casey and Dave, who were promoted to silver level by alchemy. They are genuine silver-level warriors. After years of baptism, they still maintain extraordinary combat effectiveness!


    Whether it is those black iron and bronze-level novices or silver-level warriors, they can hardly gain the upper hand in front of these old men with their years of accumulated combat experience.


    For them, defeating these novices is no different from fighting against silver-level enemies.


    Who can defeat these four experienced old mercenaries?


    The old mercenaries can easily defeat novices who are ten times their number.


    Old Bruno said with a two-handed sword in hand: "I haven''t fought like this for a long time. This move is really a bit strenuous..."


    In order to recover and strengthen their strength in a short time, they used the Bear''s Toughness Potion to increase endurance, the Bull''s Strength Potion to increase strength, and the Cat''s Grace Potion to enhance agility and flexibility.


    However, using these potions is not without cost, they will consume their physical strength.


    At the same time, this high-intensity combat state cannot be maintained for a long time.


    Once the effect of the potion disappears, their strength will decline, and they may even become weaker.


    If they are young, they may be able to recover quickly or even be completely unaffected.


    To be honest, they are all elderly people, with an average age of over 60 years old.


    After using the alchemical potion, their physical condition has deteriorated.


    At this time, Scott, who was standing next to Bruno, panted and coughed a few times, and began to taunt Bruno: "Old man, I have said long ago that people like you who are simple-minded and well-developed are no different from bald gorillas who can only use brute force, and they are equally annoying..."


    Bruno was annoyed when he heard this: "You dishonest guy! Do you have the guts to compete with me? I wanted to teach you a lesson thirty years ago!"


    As he said, he suddenly raised the two-handed sword, and with a "crack", the sword fell to the ground.


    Seeing this, Scott and Old Jimmy ran over and supported Bruno, who had sprained his waist again.


    As for Murphy, he was holding a bow and laughing so hard that the arrow missed the target. The arrow went straight through the crotch of Dave, who was fighting fiercely with the opponent''s silver warrior, and hit the opponent''s sole squarely, pinning him to the ground.


    Dave took the opportunity to chop the opponent down with an axe. His forehead was full of cold sweat, and he didn''t have time to make up the knife. He touched his crotch first, breathed a sigh of relief, and then rushed forward with the battle axe, besieging the remaining silver intermediate warrior with Casey.


    These mercenaries are not as disciplined as knights. They only want to destroy the enemy. As long as they can kill the enemy, it is a good trick.


    Fighting alone? Can that thing be eaten?


    After cleaning up those black iron and bronze level minions, the old mercenaries did not care about the battle between the two juniors and the silver warriors, but gathered together to watch the excitement and comment from time to time. The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    The actions of these old men almost spit out blood from the remaining silver warriors of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group. He felt like a mouse caught by an old cat and thrown to the younger generation to play with.


    After a while, Casey and Div finally teamed up to defeat the silver warrior, panting heavily from exhaustion.


    Being able to fight with a real silver warrior and experience the silver-level combat power in advance will be of great benefit to their future growth.


    "What should we do next? How about moving all their things away?" Div patted his chest excitedly, looking like an overly happy gorilla.


    "No need, you just need to take the flag of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group!" Old Jimmy threw a folded silk flag to Casey easily.


    This flag is vital to the mercenary group, just like their soul and symbol.


    If they could capture the enemy''s flag, then the Iguana Fang would have defeated the Storm Wolf Mercenaries, proving to the world their strength, and they could win even without numbers!


    Hearing that they could not rob items from the Storm Wolf Mercenaries'' base, Dave was quite disappointed, shrugged, and stuffed the flag that Old Jimmy handed him into his armor.


    Mercenary groups usually don''t have mortal enemies, nor do they rob each other''s bases.


    First, the money of the mercenary group is usually stored in the mercenary guild, which is managed by a dedicated person. The base is just a place for them to rest and show off.


    After all, the profession of mercenary will not stay in one place for a long time, and sometimes the whole team will go out to perform tasks.


    For the safety of property, what place can be safer and more reliable than the safe of the mercenary guild?


    Secondly, if they really kill people and rob goods, the matter will be a big deal.


    Not only will the mercenary guild intervene, but even the city managers will regard them as dangerous elements and expel them from the country. In serious cases, the city guards will be sent to hunt them down and arrest them.


    In fact, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group was obviously much stronger than the Iguana Fang before, but they did not directly eliminate the Iguana Fang, but used some tricks to suppress them.


    If the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group had enough people, they could capture all the defeated Storm Wolf Mercenaries and wait for their leader to pay to redeem them and their flags.


    Unfortunately, the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group now has only six people, so they can''t take these "captives" away at all.


    Otherwise, they can even ask for a ransom of up to 10,000 gold talans from the silver-level mercenaries.


    Jia Lan has been hiding by the door watching the battle of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group. It is not known whether it is because he is too inconspicuous or because everyone is fighting too fiercely and no one noticed him. Anyway, the members of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group did not come to trouble him.


    Next, they only need to bring this flag to the Mercenary Guild and publicly ask the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group to redeem it.


    In this way, the leader of the Storm Wolf, "Knife Wolf" Ralph, can only pay the money obediently, otherwise their flag will be hung in the hall of the Mercenary Guild, making them lose face.


    Before redeeming the flag, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group could not seek revenge on the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group.


    Because the Mercenary Guild will protect the person who issues the task. If the designated mercenary group does not "complete the task" but kills the person who issues the task, it will violate the mercenary law and will be severely punished by the Mercenary Guild.


    Although this is only a unilateral designated task, this "task" is something that the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group cannot refuse. Otherwise, not only will their reputation in the mercenary world be damaged, but even the most precious "credibility" of the mercenary group will be gone.


    The flag of a medium-sized mercenary group can be priced at a high price of at least 10,000 gold talans in the Mercenary Guild, which is a huge sum of money that the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group has to pay.


    Interestingly, the Mercenary Guild actually encourages this kind of "little game" between mercenaries.


    After all, having a set of "game rules" that can constrain both parties is much better than them fighting indiscriminately and making things out of control.


    Although these rules seem simple and crude, they are effective among mercenaries.


    Seeing that the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group is about to receive the profit of 10,000 gold talans, they not only return all the humiliation of the previous period to the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, but also vent their anger.


    Everyone in the Iguana Fang is in a particularly good mood.


    However, just as Dave pushed open the door of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base and was about to leave with everyone, a palm just happened to press on his chest when he pushed open the door!


    Dave looked down at the big hand pressing on his left chest, and then looked up at the owner of this furry palm. The two of them were inexplicably stunned.

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    I have to admit that the other party''s action was a bit vulgar, especially when both the "breast attacker" and the "breast victim" were burly men with hairy chests. This scene was not only weird, but also inexplicably funny.


    After the weird silence lasted for a few seconds, a group of people outside the door suddenly roared emotionally, as if their female relatives were "humiliated".


    And Div, who was "breast attacked", was not angry, but kicked the man from the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group who touched his chest out with a guilty conscience, and quickly closed the door, holding it tightly with his shoulder.


    No one expected that the mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group should be searching for their traces throughout the city at this time, but they returned to the base so quickly, and blocked them who had done "bad things" at the "crime scene" impartially.


    "Swish...! Puff!"


    The old archer Murphy fired two arrows in a row, knocking down two Storm Wolf mercenary thieves who had jumped onto the wall, and then asked calmly: "How many people are there?"


    While holding up the door that was banging and shaking due to the impact of the other party, Dave answered with a bitter face: "At least more than fifty people!"


    The people of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group looked at each other, and they all felt that the matter was a bit serious.


    Their behavior of trespassing into other people''s residences without authorization undoubtedly constituted "malicious invasion of private territory", and even if they were killed on the spot, it was in line with the "rules of the game" between mercenaries.


    However, after the battle just now, the young Casey and Dave still had the strength to fight.


    But the alchemy potion used by the four old mercenaries had lost its effect, and their physical strength was greatly consumed.


    Moreover, since they have already used the alchemical potion once, even if they do not consider the drug resistance that can only obtain 50£¥ of the drug effect by using the second bottle in a short time, they do not have enough physical strength to fight another high-intensity battle.


    There are limitations to using alchemical potions to quickly improve strength.


    Although it looks powerful, the side effects are also obvious.


    The strength given by alchemical potions is not your real strength, but by stimulating your potential, making you stronger in a short period of time.


    But this is actually overdrawing the user''s physical strength.


    Under normal circumstances, only about 30£¥ of the potential can be exerted.


    But alchemical potions can paralyze or stimulate the brain, ignore the burden of the body, and exert 40£¥, 50£¥ or even more potential.


    Good alchemical potions will have fewer side effects and better side effect relief.


    But the alchemical potion made by Jia Lan is only elementary. Although the effect is 40£¥ better than the general one, it can only allow us to exert 60£¥ of our potential.


    Moreover, its side effect relief effect takes 20 minutes to work.Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.


    Jia Lan saw that the four old mercenaries were old and in poor physical condition, so the alchemical potion could only allow them to exert 50£¥ of their potential, which was worse than normal.


    Moreover, their recovery speed was also slow, and it took about 30 minutes to fully recover.


    Therefore, these four old mercenaries no longer had the strength to fight.


    If they used another alchemical potion, not only would they not be stronger, but it would cause great damage to their bodies.


    Fortunately, the archer Old Murphy did not spend too much effort in the battle just now, and now he can barely defend.


    Seeing this scene, Jia Lan quickly stopped several old mercenaries who ignored their own bodies and wanted to use potions.


    He smiled and said to Dave, who was almost unable to stop the impact of the door: "Open the door, I will handle it."


    Dave was stunned, and then he was knocked out by the strong force from the door. He rolled on the ground and climbed up, raised his battle axe, and stood beside Jia Lan with Casey to protect him.


    The mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Corps outside the door rushed in at once. Seeing the wounded all over the ground and the empty flagpole in the garrison, they were extremely angry!


    However, just when they were about to attack frantically and eliminate these guys who dared to invade, two sharp weapons were placed on the necks of the two silver-level mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Corps, forcing them to stop and spread out into a semi-encircled formation to surround these people.


    Taking hostages is already commonplace for them. Years of cooperation have allowed them to take the best actions at the same time without speaking.


    Bruno''s greatsword and Scott''s scimitar were lightly placed on the necks of the two silver-level mercenaries on the ground. As long as they moved a little, their heads would fall off.


    Their plan was simple, which was to delay for a while, wait for the side effects of the alchemy potion to pass, and then take the medicine to restore their combat effectiveness.


    By then, how could this group of mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Corps be their opponents?


    But what is surprising is that although there are no silver-level warriors in this group of Storm Wolf Mercenaries, there is a junior wind magician wearing a cyan magic robe!


    Casey and the others'' faces changed.


    The combat power of a junior magician is almost comparable to that of a silver junior warrior, and because of the special and changeable magic, in a one-on-one battle, he can even suppress the warriors of the same level.


    The appearance of this junior magician is really bad news for the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, which already has little combat power!


    The Storm Wolf Mercenary Group is a medium-sized mercenary group with four or five hundred people. It is financially strong and they have hired four or five magicians of different levels to join at a high price.


    Among them, there is an important intermediate water magician who is an important member of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group.


    In addition, there is a junior fire magician, a junior wood magician and two junior wind magicians.


    And the one in front of him is one of the two junior wind magicians.


    Don''t think that because Komo University has hundreds of thousands of students, there are magicians everywhere.


    In fact, Komo University only enrolls about 3,000 students majoring in magic every year, and among these 3,000 people, only about one-fifth can graduate successfully and become "apprentice magicians".


    Among these approximately 600 apprentice magicians, only one-fifth, or more than 100 people, can be promoted to the next level and become "primary magicians".


    In fact, it is extremely difficult for magicians to upgrade. Many magic apprentices may only stay in the apprentice stage for their entire lives. After graduation, they can only go to some magic institutions to serve as "magic craftsmen", such as adding magic to magic items.


    Although they can earn a lot of money, they cannot be respected by people like real magicians.


    These magic apprentices and apprentice magicians may be almost the same as real magicians in the eyes of country people, but in the eyes of people who have seen the world, they are far from being comparable.


    Therefore, only by becoming a formal magician can you truly win people''s admiration.


    However, this does not mean that magic apprentices have no fighting power at all.


    The fighting power of a magic apprentice is roughly equivalent to that of a black iron mercenary, while the strength of an entry-level magician is equivalent to that of a bronze mercenary.


    Moreover, whether it is a magic apprentice or an entry-level magician, the magic they cast can basically easily defeat warriors of the same level.


    Of course, this only happens when the warrior is not close to them.


    One magic is enough to defeat a warrior of the same level, but a sword from a warrior of the same level can also easily defeat a magician.

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    After becoming a formal magician, magicians can truly protect themselves.


    In battle, they can survive longer, master more types of magic, and their combat power is several times higher than that of warriors of the same level.


    However, due to their strong strength and high cost, not all mercenary groups can easily afford to hire formal magicians.


    Only those teams with strong financial resources and firm determination will not hesitate to cut back on food and clothing and hire a few formal magicians to enhance their strength.


    Therefore, most mercenary groups can only settle for the second best and rely on magic apprentices and trainee magicians as the main magic combat force.


    Some magic apprentices think they are strong and need a lot of resources to improve themselves, so they will choose to join the mercenary group.


    Although they face danger, the rewards are also rich, and they can get a lot of money and resources.


    It is rare for a mercenary group like Storm Wolf to invite five formal magicians to join.


    After all, a formal magician has wealth and resources, and can live a comfortable life without taking risks. Why would he fight with a group of muscular warriors in the wind and rain?


    Therefore, the reason why the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group was able to invite five magicians, in addition to offering generous rewards, may have other reasons, such as the support of the big boss behind it...


    However, even among the members of the Storm Wolf, only a few senior members know these secrets.


    Other ordinary members only know that the leader suddenly dismissed a large number of magic apprentices and trainee magicians a few years ago, and these five magicians immediately became the backbone of the team, making the strength of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group quickly approach the top team in the mercenary world of Kelan City.


    The dismissal of those magic apprentices and trainee magicians is not because they cannot afford the fees, but because magicians are often not the main combat force in the mercenary group.


    They only play a role in specific tasks. However, when performing dangerous tasks, magicians are particularly vulnerable, and mercenaries not only have to fight, but also need to be distracted to protect them.


    Once a magician dies, the pension may exceed the sum of the other dozen mercenaries of the same level.


    Therefore, after the mercenary group has five formal magicians, they are unwilling to waste resources on those apprentices who are weak and easily injured.


    The group of mercenaries who have just returned to the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group¡¯s base are not the group that searched the city for members of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, but just returned after completing the mission.


    Although it is unclear what happened, it is obvious that their nest has been destroyed and dozens of brothers have been defeated. They must not sit idly by.


    However, two silver warriors have fallen in the team, and the opponent has only six people, so they must act cautiously.


    In addition, the lives of the two silver warriors are in the hands of the opponent, so they are even more cautious, and the situation is in a stalemate.


    At this time, the wind magician with the highest status in the team walked to the front of the team with a three-foot-long magic wand.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    Two shield warriors carefully raised their shields to protect him on both sides, and two thieves followed closely behind. The six of them could easily defeat more than fifty brothers and two silver warriors, which seemed effortless.


    This means that either the more than fifty brothers are in poor condition, or the other party has at least silver-level strength.


    You know, six silver warriors are quite powerful in the mercenary world of Kelan City.


    The Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, including the leader, has only six silver warriors.


    Although a junior magician can defeat a silver warrior of the same level, the other party not only has six silver warriors, but also archers and thieves. These two professions pose a great threat to magicians, and even wind magicians have to act cautiously.


    The wind magician looked at the crowd on the opposite side and found that the two young warriors looked nervous. It was obvious that their strength had not yet reached the silver level and did not pose much threat to him.


    As for the magic apprentice, he hardly paid attention to him. Perhaps he was just a junior who accompanied him.


    What really made him feel dangerous were the four seemingly calm old men.


    Although they were old, the traces of fighting showed that they were all extraordinary masters.


    Moreover, he could keenly perceive the dangerous aura emanating from them.


    He guessed that they were at least high-level silver warriors.


    He glanced calmly at the slightly hunchbacked and unstable one-armed old thief, and then looked at the old archer who put the arrow on the bow as easily as holding a flower.


    Then he asked uncertainly: "Excuse me, who are you? Why are you attacking our Storm Wolf Mercenary Group?"


    He had to act cautiously. After all, these people were able to show such powerful strength even at their old age, and they must be extraordinary people.


    Besides, the strength of a mercenary group with six silver warriors should not be underestimated.


    Especially since they dared to attack the lair of the Storm Wolf with only six people.


    If they did not have a certain strength, they would not dare to be so arrogant.


    In order not to cause trouble to the team, he had to suppress his anger and pretend not to see the wounded on the ground.


    "Who are we?"


    To his surprise, it was not the four old men who spoke, but the magic apprentice Jia Lan who was protected by the young warriors.


    He smiled and replied: "Well, you can ask your leader."


    Although Jia Lan''s attitude was very friendly, the wind magician couldn''t help but frowned.


    They actually let a magic apprentice come to negotiate with him, which made him feel despised.


    He said angrily: "No matter what your intentions are, release our companions immediately and return our mercenary group flag! Otherwise, I can''t guarantee that you can leave here alive."


    Jia Lan asked curiously: "What if we neither release people nor return the group flag? Are you going to kill us?"


    The wind magician didn''t know what to say for a moment.


    Indeed, they have two important hostages in the hands of the other side, and the other side has four super powerful silver senior warriors.


    If a fight really breaks out, he is really not sure that he can protect his companions and himself.


    Although he can quickly get rid of the two young warriors and a magic apprentice on the other side, the four experienced warriors on the other side can also rush to his side quickly, kill him, and then easily get rid of the not-so-strong mercenaries behind him.


    The other side has not taken action yet, probably because they are worried about the safety of the three young people.


    "If you are willing to hand over the mercenary group flag, I guarantee that you can leave safely..." The wind magician just said this and heard a noise behind him.


    It turned out that the team that was searching the city for members of the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group finally got the news and rushed back.


    Now, more than a hundred mercenaries from the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group surrounded the base tightly.


    Seeing so many reinforcements, the wind magician felt more at ease and spoke more firmly: "You all saw that if we really fight, even if you are very powerful, you will probably suffer heavy losses. So why not..."


    He was interrupted before he finished speaking.


    Someone shouted: "They are from the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group! Kill them!"


    Several archers from the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group climbed up the wall and shot at Jia Lan on the opposite side.


    The wind magician almost cursed, which idiot commanded this battle?


    Can''t you see that we are in a confrontation now?


    So many of us didn''t take action, why are you guys who came later so anxious?


    Besides, if you want to fight, go and hit those silver warriors. What''s the point of shooting that magic apprentice who has little fighting power?


    These mercenaries searched the entire city of Coran but couldn''t find anyone from the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group. They only found the knocked-out Cardolan squad leader in a garbage dump, and then they realized that they were tricked.

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    They ran back to the camp angrily, only to find that two more silver warriors were captured by the enemy in the same way.


    The magician leading the team was also threatened by the enemy because of the safety of the hostages.


    At this time, a squad leader thought he was very smart. He asked people to quietly go around the two sides of the yard to prepare for a sneak attack, and sent people to shout outside the gate of the station to attract the enemy''s attention.


    I have to say that the squad leader''s plan is quite good.


    In his opinion, the magic apprentice is the apprentice of "Master Lemley" that the leader is looking for, and the enemy attaches great importance to his safety.


    Therefore, the squad leader arranged several archers to sneak attack the magic apprentice.


    However, the archers were actually warned in advance that they would not really shoot him. The arrows would just fly by and look like they were about to hit him.


    Those members of the "Iguana Tooth" mercenary group who attach great importance to the safety of magic apprentices will definitely help him block the arrows.


    In order to block the arrows shot from different directions, the two old guys had to let go of the silver warriors they caught, so that their companions in the camp would have a chance to rescue them.


    However, the squad leader never expected that the arrows they shot were directly ignored by the enemy!


    Whether it was the magic apprentice or the old guys, they seemed to have no reaction and let the arrows fly past the magic apprentice.


    As a result, the arrows shot the archers responsible for the sneak attack off the wall!


    Although the arrows did not hit the vital points, one unlucky guy fell headfirst...


    At this time, the bowstring sounded, and the wind magician knew that the negotiation could not be reached.


    He immediately sent out a wind blade that had been prepared long ago, rushing towards the old archer, and the mercenaries around him also rushed up!


    But an arrow formed by fire blocked his wind blade in mid-air, which surprised him!


    It is very common for magicians to fight with magicians and cast magic on each other.


    If the levels are similar, it is even possible that both sides have used up their magic power but still no winner.


    But that is between magicians of the same level.


    The one in front of me is just a magic apprentice!


    For magic to be blasted, the magic of both sides must be similarly strong.


    Otherwise, the magic of one side will definitely be cracked or penetrated.


    Even if the power is weakened a little, it will still hit the target. The so-called "magic strength" is to see whether the magic structure is stable.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    If the magic structure is not stable enough, it will fall apart when it encounters external forces, and the elements will be scattered again, and the magic will be useless.


    The magic power of high-level magicians is of course stronger than that of low-level magicians, so the result of their magic collision is like an egg hitting a stone, and it is easy to determine the winner.


    Among the five basic magics - wind, wood, water, fire, and earth, earth magic is the strongest, followed by wood magic, wind magic, and water magic and fire magic are relatively weak.


    Among these five types of magic, wind magic has the strongest attack power, that is, if wind magic and fire magic of the same level collide, fire magic will definitely be defeated by wind magic.


    But a very strange thing just happened. The magic of a junior wind magician was actually dispersed by the fire magic of a magic apprentice. This is simply impossible!


    Although it is just "dispersed" instead of "penetrated", it is impossible to do this if it is not a magician of a higher level than him.


    So some people speculate that this magic apprentice is actually an intermediate magician.


    But this idea was quickly denied by the wind magician himself, because the level and department between magicians are not judged by clothes and badges.


    Every magician will gather around him with magic elements of the same department. Although they cannot be seen or touched, other magicians can feel it.


    Ordinary people can also judge the magician''s department based on these characteristics. For example, standing next to a fire magician will feel hot, standing next to a water magician will feel damp, standing next to a wood magician will feel fresh air, standing next to an earth magician will feel dust in the air, and standing next to a wind magician will feel a breeze.


    These characteristics cannot be hidden by magicians, so they wear magic robes representing their department to tell the enemy their magic type.


    But this magic apprentice wearing the light blue apprentice magic robe of the University of Science and Technology did not emit any magic element before.


    This may be because his strength is too weak to be detected, or because he is too powerful and can completely hide his magic aura.


    But judging from his age, he doesn''t look like a great magician with strong control over elements - a 20-year-old great magician?


    How embarrassing is this for those who have been magic apprentices all their lives?


    [Is it some kind of magic item that can block the aura of elements? ]


    The wind magician''s mind was in a mess, but he instinctively waved his wand, chanted magic spells, and continued to release magic, putting on a layer of wind barrier protection for himself to prevent the old archer who posed the greatest threat to him from attacking in the chaos.


    However, after releasing the wind barrier, he was immediately shocked again, because he thought of a problem that had just been overlooked: this magic apprentice actually cast the magic silently and simplified the spell when releasing the magic!


    The so-called "casting without chanting spells" and "simplified casting" are two advanced casting techniques.


    When a magician is extremely proficient in a certain magic and has mastered a very high magic control ability, he can shorten the bytes of the magic spell and simplify the movements of the magic gestures accordingly to achieve the purpose of releasing the spell quickly and covertly.


    However, whether it is magic spells or magic gestures, they have been passed down through thousands of trials and tribulations, so how can they be shortened and simplified so easily?


    Even he, a junior magician, only mastered the simplified casting technique of "Wind Blade", the most basic of wind magic, and simplified the original wind blade spell of twelve bytes and the casting process of up to six hand movements to two single-word bytes and one casting movement per hand.


    Therefore, he was able to release the wind blade to attack the old archer in a very short time.


    But the magic apprentice just now was able to defeat his wind blade with a fire arrow, and he did not hear the other party spit out any spell bytes, nor did he notice any casting movements of the other party!


    If he knew what "science" was, he would definitely exclaim: "This is not scientific!"


    [His magic wand must be a magic wand that can store magic secrets! ]


    The wind magician was about to collapse, staring at the magic wand in the other party''s hand, which looked inconspicuous and looked like a level 1 apprentice magic wand.


    The whole process sounds long to describe, but in fact, from the sneak attack of the Storm Wolf archer to the release of the wind blade by the wind magician, it only took one or two seconds.

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    In just one or two seconds, several members of the "Iguana Tooth" mercenary group on the opposite side had already taken out a tube of alchemical potion from the leather bag on their waists, poured it into their mouths, and then fiercely attacked the large group of "Storm Wolf" mercenary group members.


    "Kathy, Dave! Protect the magician!" The old heavy sword warrior Bruno roared, dragging his two-handed sword to charge, knocking a "Storm Wolf" mercenary away!


    Then, like an old lion, old Bruno, with his beard and hair flying, swung the two-handed sword with one hand. The sword body was two palms wide and the blade was 1.5 meters long, and fiercely slashed it horizontally, chopping four or five members of the "Storm Wolf" mercenary group who flew over and retreated with their weapons.


    He had just drunk a tube of primary "Bull Strength" potion, and his slightly relaxed muscles swelled up again under the stimulation of the potion. At first glance, the whole person seemed to have swelled up a lot, and he was as powerful as the tide!


    Beside him, the two kukri in the hands of the two-weapon warrior Scott seemed to explode into two bright and shining sword lights, and rushed directly into the crowd, setting off a bloody storm.


    On the other side, the one-armed thief Old Jimmy shook his body slightly, and then disappeared from people''s sight in full view of the public.


    And the archer Murphy, with a short bow in his hand, drew the string and was ready to shoot. The sharp arrow on the bowstring pointed at the wind magician vaguely, making him seem like he was stared at by a venomous snake, unable to let go of his hands and feet to cast magic.


    With the silver-level archer suppressing the magician, the safety of the "Iguana Tooth" mercenary group was greatly improved, but Murphy was also restricted by the existence of the magician and could not use long-range attacks to help his companions fight.


    Arrows are most threatening only when they stay on the bowstring. Once they are fired, they will lose their original deterrent power.


    The cooperation of the "Iguana Tooth" mercenary group is very tacit, and the cooperation between the mercenaries of the "Storm Wolf" mercenary group is not inferior.


    They are all mercenaries who have been on the edge of death for many years. If they don''t have some strength, they will lie in the mud and show their epitaphs to the newcomers.


    So when the battle broke out, the mercenaries of the "Storm Wolf" mercenary group rushed forward frantically. Although they were facing six silver warriors, they knew that if they didn''t fight hard, they would be gradually killed by the other side!


    Silver warriors are not invincible!


    They also have physical limitations. The more intense the battle, the shorter the time they can persist.


    So, if they can exhaust the opponent''s physical strength before the opponent defeats them all, then even if there is only one person left, they can win!


    The wolf pack tactics used by the mercenaries were so fierce that even high-level warriors would be afraid, not to mention these old mercenaries who relied on alchemical potions to enhance their strength.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    They were all experienced mercenaries and saw through the tricks used by the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group at a glance.


    Although alchemical potions could make them stronger instantly, their endurance would decrease.


    Although the opponent''s silver-level strength far exceeds theirs, it now depends on who can hold on to the end.


    Casey and Dave protected Jia Lan, shouting and shouting, and repelling the enemies who rushed over.


    Casey swung his battle axe, and a flash of lightning flashed by. The mercenary hit by him trembled all over and fell down with convulsions.


    Casey''s long sword also exuded a strong chill, and even the sword body was covered with frost.


    When a sword is swung, regardless of whether it can break the opponent''s defense, the chill will invade the opponent''s weapons and armor, causing freezing damage.


    Such a scene appeared on the six mercenaries of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group.


    Bruno''s heavy sword slashed heavily on the ground, and the gravity special effect shook the surrounding ground to pieces. Even if it did not hit directly, it could still shake the enemy away.


    Scott''s double swords were even more powerful. From time to time, he swung "Crazy Slash", and the blades of light thrown from the blades set off a bloody rain in the crowd.


    After the old mercenaries took the alchemical potion, coupled with the magic bonus of armor and weapons, their combat effectiveness did not increase a little bit, but leaped up!


    Although this improvement has not exceeded the silver level, can a silver-level ant and a silver-level elephant be the same?


    The members of the Storm Wolf were stunned, and even the wind magician under the protection of the shield warrior and the thief couldn''t help but exclaimed: "Magic potion! Magic weapon!"


    Jia Lan, who had been lost in thought since releasing a fire arrow, was awakened by the exclamation of the wind magician.


    He looked up at the melee scene and smiled slightly. This effect had long been expected by him.


    Although it was just an ordinary primary alchemical potion and enchantment, it was not a rare thing in his time, but it is undeniable that in such a low-level battle, these auxiliary products can indeed play a considerable role.


    Since he does not have the ability to store "magic power", or "elemental energy", in his body, like the magicians of this era, the fire arrow just now was still a simulated magic released by Jia Lan by summoning [element samples].


    Jia Lan, who has not yet fully mastered the difference between arcane and magic, dares not rashly use the abilities he has mastered to change the way of casting spells, and can only simulate magic according to the program step by step.


    However, this will extend the casting time several times invisibly!


    Due to the problem of "dual soul interference" encountered in the previous era, Jia Lan has never been able to release high-level spells that require high concentration, so he can only work hard on 0th and 1st level spells.


    In order to maximize the effects of the 0th and 1st level spells he has mastered, Jia Lan has specially studied multiple casting specialties such as "casting without materials", "combat casting", and "spell familiarity", and has also studied multiple superconducting specialties such as "silent casting of spells" and "static casting of spells".


    "Casting without materials" allows Jia Lan to release spells without relying on the induction of spell materials.


    "Combat Casting" allows Jia Lan to cast spells in any posture during fierce battles, including dodging and running fast.


    "Spell Mastery" conducts in-depth research on the principles of spells for each spell of level 0 and level 1, allowing Jia Lan to understand these spells more familiarly than his own limbs, allowing him to cast spells without thinking, just like breathing.


    Among the several "superconducting specialties": "Silent Spell Casting" allows Jia Lan to cast spells without reciting "spells".


    "Silent Spell Casting" allows Jia Lan to activate spells without blessing "hand seals".


    Although in Jia Lan''s case, these spell specialties and superconducting abilities can only target level 0 and level 1 spells, they are enough to maximize the effects of low-level spells.


    Therefore, when casting low-level spells, Jia Lan''s casting speed is quite amazing, almost reaching the level of instantaneous casting.

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    Theoretically, if Jia Lan used the "arcane magic" that he was proficient in, he would have been blasted to pieces before the wind magician raised his wand.


    However, the magic simulation process he performed, "summoning fire element samples ¡ú injecting fire elements into the model magic circle on the apprentice''s wand ¡ú triggering the magic circle ¡ú releasing fire arrows", completely offset the spellcasting ability that he had worked hard to master, so that his spellcasting speed was almost the same as that of the opponent.


    This situation made Jia Lan quite depressed. It seemed that he could only spend some more precious time and energy to study how to shorten this simulation process.


    Jia Lan came to his senses and shifted his attention to the wind magician on the opposite side.


    Compared with locking himself in the laboratory to study slowly, a spell confrontation can allow Jia Lan to have a deeper understanding of the working principle of magic.


    So, regardless of the mood of the Iguana Fang Mercenaries and the wind magicians in the fierce battle, Jia Lan said to the old archer Murphy who was suppressing the opponent and making them dare not release spells easily: "Leave him to me, you go help old Jimmy and the others."


    Looking at Jia Lan in doubt, and then recalling the fire arrow just now, the knowledgeable old Murphy didn''t say much nonsense, just nodded, and then raised his hand to shoot the arrow on the bowstring.


    He used the "Rapid Shooting" bow technique to perfection, and one arrow after another whistled and hit some unlucky people in the chaotic crowd.


    At the same time, the enchantment effect "Rapid Wind" on the bow was also activated, which doubled the original speed of "Rapid Shooting".


    For a moment, only old Murphy created a "rain of arrows" effect!


    And Casey and Dave, who were protecting Jia Lan, looked at each other for a while, and then rushed into the melee with their weapons.


    Although they were very worried about Jia Lan''s safety, they also knew that the effects of the alchemy potions on them could not last long.


    Once the alchemy effect disappeared, the combat power of the four old mercenaries would fall back to their original state, or even fall into a weak state.


    By then, none of them would be able to leave the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base.


    Although the silver archer who suppressed the wind magician changed his target, which made him feel relieved, he did not despise the "magic apprentice" in front of him.


    Just from the fire arrow just now, he was sure that the magician in front of him must have deliberately put on the apprentice magic robe to confuse others.


    Come to think of it, the other party is the disciple of "Master Lemley" who the leader repeatedly urged to establish a relationship with, and is also the only external spokesperson for the mysterious "magician team".


    How could he only have the strength of a level 1 magic apprentice?


    Isn''t he afraid that the potion formula of the team behind him will be taken away by others?


    In addition, the various alchemical potions and enchanted equipment used by the members of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group that he saw made him even more convinced that this mysterious magician team had terrifyingly strong strength in the fields of potions, alchemy, and enchantment.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    He had to lower his posture and said respectfully and cautiously: "Young sir, I think there may be some misunderstandings between us. Please believe that we have no ill will towards you and the team behind you, we just want to reach a certain cooperation with you..."


    The Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base had already fallen into a chaotic battle, but in the midst of the deafening noise of shouting and killing, the two magicians seemed to be in another world, completely unaffected by the mercenaries'' melee, standing there quietly like a reef in a torrent.


    Jia Lan smiled and nodded: "I know."


    The wind magician was overjoyed when he heard this: "In that case, why not..."


    Before he could finish, Jia Lan interrupted him: "I know your purpose and intention, and I know that your actions have not harmed my interests. But I don''t like your behavior very much..."


    "Because you frightened my civilian friends and caused losses to my mercenary friends. Therefore, you, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, must pay the price for this..."


    After a slight pause, Jia Lan smiled and continued: "A price that is enough to satisfy me and can calm the anger of my civilian and mercenary friends!"


    "Young sir, are you really going to be our enemy for a few civilians and a small insignificant mercenary group? Our strength is far more than what you see, and it is not even just the Apothecary Guild and the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group. Unless you don''t plan to continue in Kolan City..." The wind magician who couldn''t sense Jia Lan''s magic level at all became alert, with a threatening tone: "No! It should be said that unless you don''t plan to develop in the entire Kolan State and the entire Zilago Continent. Otherwise... let me kindly advise you that you are against a huge force that you can''t imagine. Behind us..."


    "I don''t need to know who is behind you..." Jia Lan''s dark eyes flashed with black light, as if chatting with an old friend, and said with a polite smile: "Because it doesn''t matter at all..."


    The apprentice magic wand in Jia Lan''s hand lit up with a red light, and the wind magician was shocked and quickly chanted the magic spell, wanting to cast magic against Jia Lan first.


    The whistling wind element drove the air in the courtyard, forming a strong airflow and began to condense at high speed, and a ball of wind gradually took shape at the front end of his magic wand.


    Jia Lan''s hanging fingers trembled slightly, and he resisted the urge to release his most familiar arcane magic, which was indeed a bit difficult for him.


    The spellcasting habit he had developed over the years allowed him to judge the type of spell released by the other party by perception without thinking most of the time, and react instinctively.


    However, in this era that was completely different from his memory, he had to suppress this instinct and change his usual way of casting.


    The hesitation in consciousness invisibly caused Jia Lan''s reaction to be delayed.


    The wind ball technique was a spherical airflow formed by countless wind blades. During the flight, the rotation range gradually expanded to form a scattered range attack.


    This was a powerful wind spell. If used in a large-scale melee, it would be as ruthless as a meat grinder.


    Perhaps because of fear of Jia Lan, this group attack spell was used by the opponent to interfere with his spellcasting.


    If it were an ordinary magician, once he fell into the range of this spell, how could he have time to stand still and cast spells?


    If he didn''t quickly escape from the range of the spell, he could only wait to be cut into thin slices of meat by the wind blades that madly rotated and spread out with the wind ball as the center!


    And the time consumed by the opponent''s escape was enough for the wind magician to prepare a decisive killer spell to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, such as the simplest wind blade spell.


    Jia Lan had seen the description of this spell in a book "Detailed Explanation of Conventional Magic of Each Department" in the library.


    Obviously, the wind magician on the opposite side put a lot of effort into this magic.


    Unlike ordinary magicians who used wind blades and wind arrows to fight in a conventional way, he took a different approach and cast a range spell at a very fast speed.


    If it were a regular battle, I''m afraid many magicians would fall for this move.


    Because in battle, especially in the magic confrontation between spellcasters, it is not like what ordinary people imagine, you cast a forbidden spell and I cast a forbidden spell.


    On the contrary, no matter how high-level the spellcaster is, high-level spells are rarely used in magic confrontation.


    Because although high-level spells are powerful and effective, they also have disadvantages such as slow casting speed and many restrictions.

 Chapter95

    In a magic battle, if you prepare powerful magic slowly, the enemy may have already cut you into pieces with small magic like wind blade.


    And the wind magician in front of him was super skilled in using wind blade just now, as if he could send it out at once.


    The wind ball he released was also super fast. Just after raising his hand a few times, the wind ball came out, and the speed of his chanting was so fast that people could not hear it clearly.


    However, in front of Jia Lan, who has been studying small magic for 20 years, his speed was still a bit slow.


    In order to see more of the other magicians'' spells, Jia Lan had to wait patiently.


    He wanted to kill the opponent with wind blade several times, but finally waited until the wind ball was ready.


    He stared at the wind ball that looked like many thin sheets and began to grow bigger. While muttering something, he raised his hand and flicked it.


    Jia Lan talked to himself, but the wind magician thought he was chanting a spell.


    As soon as the wind ball was cast, the magician regarded Jia Lan as an opponent as powerful as himself, and immediately began to prepare the next magic, regardless of whether the magic power would be insufficient.


    However, what happened next almost made him suffer from the backlash of magic power!


    Jia Lan flicked it, and a small water drop flew out.


    Because the wind ball became slow, the water drop cleverly avoided the wind blade and flew into the center of the wind ball that opened like a flower, and then exploded all of a sudden, turning into a ball of water mist and spreading around!


    And then... there was nothing else.


    As the water mist dispersed, the wind blades that had not yet flown out disappeared as if they had never appeared, and were completely eaten up by the water mist.


    "Water drop spell? Water mist spell?" The wind magician looked at Jia Lan in surprise. He held the apprentice wand and began to write something in a notebook.


    His mind was in a mess, and he even forgot to release the wind arrow in his hand.


    This is really hard to understand. If he didn''t see it wrong, the opponent just released a basic water drop spell, which is a basic spell for apprentices to practice magic release skills!


    However, even if the water drop spell hits the body, it can only add some moisture to the skin. How can it break the wind ball spell, which is already considered an intermediate magic?


    What''s more surprising is that this water drop spell has also undergone a "transformation", spreading from a water drop state to a water mist state.


    This is not the most important thing. The key is that the water mist spell, which was originally used to block the line of sight and conceal the body, how could it devour the powerful wind ball spell?


    The knowledge system of this wind magician was completely overturned, and he was at a loss in the wind.


    What shocked him even more was that the young magician just released the water drop spell?


    But if he remembered correctly, wasn''t the other party a fire magician?


    But if he remembered correctly, wasn''t the other party a fire magician?


    A dual-system magician?


    Well, dual-element magicians are not rare, but his is a dual-element magic of ¡®water and fire¡¯, which are two types of magic that are almost impossible to exist at the same time.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.


    Anyone who knows a little about elements knows that there are reactions such as ¡°amplification, neutralization, compatibility, and repulsion¡± between elements.


    For example, there is an ¡°amplification¡± reaction between the wind and fire elements, while there is a ¡°neutralization¡± between the wind and wood elements, that is, a reaction that cancels each other out.


    There is a ¡°compatibility¡± reaction between the earth and water elements, and an ¡°amplification¡± reaction between the earth and wood elements, but there is an obvious ¡°repulsion¡± reaction between the water and fire elements!


    Even dual-element magicians are mostly magicians who "amplify" or "compatibility" two-element magicians, such as "earth-wood amplification magician, water-wood compatible magician, water-earth compatible magician, wind-fire amplification magician", etc.


    Has anyone seen a "dual-element magician with water and fire repelling each other"?


    For a person who has both water and fire elemental talents, it is good enough that he can grow up without being weak and sick or even dying due to the rejection reaction of water and fire elements. How can he still become a magician?


    This has completely violated the law of elements, making this wind magician feel that his knowledge system is about to collapse!


    "Hey, hey!"


    After simply recording a few key points he just observed in his magic notebook, Jia Lan put away the notebook and waited for the other party to release the next magic.


    However, the other party was stunned, and Jia Lan had to kindly "remind" him that he could continue to attack him.


    Jia Lan was actually innocent of the confusion of the wind magician, because what he just released was not magic at all!


    He just ejected a drop of water elemental material and then released the restraint on it.


    The reason why it exploded to form a ball of water mist was entirely due to the fact that elemental material could not exist in material form for a long time without external control.


    Jia Lan removed the arcane energy that wrapped the water elemental material to ensure that it could exist in material form in nature.


    However, once the support of the arcane energy was lost, the water elemental material with collapsed material structure immediately spread into the most basic water elemental energy particles.


    These highly condensed water elemental energy particles will inevitably undergo the "deformation" process of "expansion ¡ú diffusion ¡ú atomization ¡ú gasification" in the process of self-dissolution and reintegration into the environment.


    In this process, the energy it releases is quite large and violent.


    As the wind magician understood, there is a "repulsion" reaction between the water element and the fire element, but he did not know that there is also a certain deformation transformation relationship between the water element and the atmosphere element.


    The violent energy released by the water element during the deformation process is enough to destroy the structure of the atmospheric spell, which is not difficult to understand.


    However, Jia Lan was not the lecturer of the Wind Magician Element Principles class, and the other party was not his student, so he had no obligation to explain to the other party the experiment he had just done - in the Element Principles class, it was just the principle of a small experiment.


    The unknown often brings fear.


    The wind magician who came back to his senses shouted and began to pour wind blades and wind arrows at Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan frowned and injected elemental substances through the four spell models of "wind blade, water arrow, fire arrow, dust fog" engraved on the apprentice''s wand.


    Cyclic simulation of four magics to offset the opponent''s attack, while expectantly saying: "You can try to release some advanced magic, it doesn''t matter if it''s slow, I can wait for you!"


    He also wanted to see the form of other advanced wind magic, but the opponent was obviously a little mentally collapsed by this incomprehensible situation, shouting: "Three series? No! Four series magician? This is impossible!"


    After waiting for a long time, he didn''t see the other party release any other advanced wind magic, and Jia Lan sighed with disappointment.


    How come the magicians of this era have no spirit of sharing?


    It''s just some conventional spells, do they need to be kept secret?


    Thinking that there would be nothing new to see, Jia Lan condensed a water ball and threw it over. With a "bang!", it was hit by a wind blade near the wind magician. When it exploded, it knocked a group of people nearby, including the wind magician, to the ground.


    Without waiting for the wind magician who was struggling to get up and fight to continue casting magic, Jia Lan snapped his fingers with a "snap!" and quietly performed a [tongue cutting technique].


    The wind magician groaned, and with a "puff...", he spat out a mouthful of blood and lost the ability to speak.


    Walking up to the wind magician who was looking at him in horror with blood constantly flowing from the corner of his mouth, Jia Lan looked down at the three-foot-long wand in his hand and asked, "Do you plan to give me the wand as a trophy, or do you plan to let me knock you out before taking the trophy?"


    "Ah! Wow! Ah! Jiligua!" The inarticulate wind magician trembled in fear and handed over his wand.


    After taking it and looking at it, Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction and said politely, "Thank you! But please stand aside for a while, I need to deal with these mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group."

 Chapter96

    The wind magician temporarily lost his ability to cast spells, lost his tongue and became mute. He rolled and crawled to the corner, curled up, and stared at this terrible "magic apprentice" with horror.


    And Jia Lan turned to the Iguana Fang Mercenaries who were still in the melee, especially Captain Casey, and shouted loudly: "Captain Casey, we have wasted a lot of time, let''s retreat?"


    Casey and his men felt bitter.


    It was easy to say. Although they had the strength to suppress the opponent with alchemical potions and enchanted equipment, the Storm Wolf Mercenaries had more than a hundred people after all. They could only injure but not directly eliminate the opponent, which made them feel more pressured when they were besieged.


    Moreover, they had already felt that the effect of the second use of the alchemical potion was gradually declining, and there were only fifty or sixty members of the Storm Wolf left. Although everyone was injured, it was not something that could be solved in a short time.


    However, they did not notice that after studying the wand he had just snatched, Jia Lan suddenly waved it, and a wind ball that was larger than the wind ball magic released by the wind magician just now suddenly appeared in front of him.


    This wind ball rotated at a strange high speed, but the speed of flight was not much faster than a person walking. It expanded and contracted at once, and looked very unstable.


    Jia Lan looked at the wind ball he released, and after a moment of shock, he suddenly ran out of the door, shouting as he ran: "No! Out of control! Run!!!"


    The people who were fighting looked back and were almost scared! A giant wind ball that had expanded to the size of a person made a "woohoo" high-speed rotation sound and floated towards them.


    The wind ball was even divided into several layers of countless wind blades that rotated in an interlaced manner, colliding with each other, making a "crackling" explosion sound.


    Where the wind ball passed, the air flow formed a rotating tornado, which swept in the weapons scattered on the ground by the members of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group who were knocked down, and turned into a terrible blade tornado.


    When the high-speed rotation cut the air, a terrible whistling sound was emitted!


    The members of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group did not dare to neglect it at all. They risked being attacked by the other side, abandoned the enemies they were fighting, and desperately fled outside the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group.


    Old Jimmy was the fastest, jumping onto the top of the wall with one leap, flipping over and throwing himself down.


    Scott and Murphy were not slow either, following behind Jia Lan and rushing out of the door.


    Instead, the inexperienced Casey and Dave stayed there dumbfounded.


    Bruno threw away his greatsword, grabbed the two with both hands, "Swish! Swish!" and threw them both off the top of the wall, and then ran away.


    When he was almost at the door, Bruno heard a terrible air explosion from behind.


    He roared and leaped, but was blown away by the strong airflow from behind.


    After landing, he rolled over more than ten times. He was dizzy and lay on the ground with his head in his arms, not daring to look up.


    After a chaotic whistle, scream, explosion, rumble, and clang, everyone looked up tremblingly, and stood there in shock.


    About one-third of the wall of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base had collapsed, and the remaining two-thirds were deeply pierced by various weapons. The ground and walls seemed to have been chopped by knives, covered with messy and long scars.The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    The scene fell into a dead silence, and the people of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group stood up carefully.


    Bruno unexpectedly found his sword stuck in the ground less than two meters away from him. He walked over and pulled out the sword that was stuck more than one meter deep in the ground.


    Bruno carefully checked it and found that it was not damaged. He carried it on his shoulder, walked to the collapsed courtyard wall, and looked inside.


    There were "corpses everywhere" inside. Although there was not much blood, he still looked back at Jia Lan with lingering fear and asked, "Are they okay?"


    "Uh..." Jia Lan hesitated for a moment, and did not dare to answer with certainty: "It should be... nothing, right?"


    The battle at the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base has alarmed the people in Adventure Street and other nearby mercenary bases.


    The people of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group did not dare to stay for long, and fled the scene quickly and low-key.


    After a while, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base was surrounded by three layers of mercenaries inside and outside, and they all looked at the scene that seemed to have been ravaged by giants with shock.


    "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" A team of city guards quickly came, dispersed the mercenaries who were watching, and rushed into the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base to rescue.


    After a while, the city guards reported to the captain: "There are no casualties... uh, no, no deaths were found!"


    Some mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group who were lucky enough not to stay in the base finally rushed back after hearing the news, but after seeing the scene, they were scared again.


    A member who might be a core member of the top leadership grabbed a half-dead member and yelled, "Who did it!? Where is the mercenary group flag?"


    "Iguana... Iguana..."


    The member of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group was covered with dense wounds, and looked slightly better than minced beef. He struggled to finish a sentence, and fainted with a "hiccup..."


    The leader threw the member down in astonishment and asked in surprise, "Iguana Fang Mercenary Group? Does their team have a magician? Not good!"


    He quickly gathered several team members and rushed to the Mercenary Guild.


    However, when they arrived, a tattered Storm Wolf Mercenary Group flag was already hanging high in the hall of the Mercenary Guild.


    Looking at the designated group flag redemption task hanging high on the task list, with the price of 10,000 gold talans clearly marked behind it, the mercenary leader could only return to the base with people in a rage.


    Although he was also a core member of the team, he was only a squadron leader and could not decide on such a big matter as 10,000 gold talans. This matter had to wait until the captain came back.


    However, the captain personally led the team to the opposite side of the Sea Wall Mountains, Dagon County, which was separated from Zilargo County by a mountain, to carry out the mission. It would take at least half a month to return.


    Moreover, because the captain and his team were erratic and the mission they were carrying out was very secretive, even if they wanted to send someone to deliver the letter, they could not find anyone.


    This meant that their flag would be displayed in the hall of the mercenary guild for at least half a month!


    By the time the captain and his team returned, the reputation of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group might have been ruined.


    The squadron leader who rushed back to the base checked the injuries of the team members and found that although there were no casualties this time, almost more than half of the people had lost their combat effectiveness. These people could not get out of bed for at least three months and could not participate in the mission within half a year!


    The squadron leader gnashed his teeth in anger. After asking the team members who were less seriously injured, he found that their statements were quite consistent. It was obviously the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group that was suppressed by them and was about to disband that attacked the base.


    He already knew this because the name of the task issuer was very conspicuous behind the task of redeeming the group flag, which was the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group.


    On the way back, he had already sent people to the other side''s base, but the dilapidated courtyard was empty.


    This made it impossible for them to retaliate.


    Even if the other side''s base was demolished, what would happen?


    With the 10,000 gold talans from the group flag redemption task, they could completely rebuild a new luxurious base and save the cost of demolition.


    But what puzzled the squadron leader was that the team members all said that there was a magic apprentice in the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group that they were fighting.


    But when asked about the appearance of the magic apprentice, everyone shook their heads in confusion, saying that they did not notice it during the battle.


    He knew that the other side had a magician, which could be seen from the traces on the courtyard wall and the ground.


    But the team members actually said that it was a magic apprentice who caused all this?


    How is this possible? What kind of magic apprentice is so cruel?

 Chapter97

    According to the assessment of the city guard commander, the situation on the scene was caused by the high-level magic cast by a senior magician who was at least equivalent to a silver-level high-level warrior, or even by a great magician with the strength of a gold-level warrior, which could have such amazing destructive power.


    Thinking of this, the squadron commander couldn''t help but feel his scalp tingling.


    Great magician? This is not an existence that they can easily provoke.


    So he turned to the junior water magician who was fighting with the hostile magician for information.


    Unfortunately, however, the magician had his tongue cut by the enemy thieves, temporarily lost his ability to speak, and seemed to have suffered a severe mental injury, with empty eyes, and it would be difficult to recover in the short term.


    "Report to your Excellency immediately!"


    The squadron commander had no choice but to grit his teeth and make a decision to send people to ask for help from the sponsor behind him.


    Although the amount of 10,000 gold talans is huge, it is insignificant for your Excellency who controls the underground world of Kelan City.


    At present, they can only hope that the leader can return as soon as possible...


    At the same time, when Old Jimmy went to the Mercenary Guild to issue the mission and bring back the Browns, Jia Lan and his party had already set off for Doom Castle.


    For several months, various materials stored in the dock warehouse area have been hired to load and transported to the warehouse cleared by Doom Castle.


    A team of hundreds of skilled craftsmen and hired workers has been assembled.


    Although Doom Castle has a bad reputation and rumors of haunted incidents continue to occur, the workers are obviously no longer afraid of those ghost rumors due to the rising popularity and generous salaries.


    This ancient castle complex is huge.


    Jia Lan currently does not need a large area of ??space, and only ordered people to clear out the largest main castle and its surrounding ancillary buildings for use as workshops and hired dormitory.


    The square in front of the main castle, which was originally overgrown with weeds, has been cleared and rows of sheepskin tents have been built.


    A large amount of supplies have also been purchased and stored in the rooms of the main castle.


    Jia Lan could only express regret that the hired workers would rather live in tents than in the castle. Although they were willing to work for high salaries, they were still afraid of the rumors of haunting.


    The thick rock walls have not decayed after years of erosion.


    Except for the slightly weathered and mottled surface walls, the main building is actually intact.


    It only needs a little tidying and repair to be put back into use.


    To build such a spectacular castle complex, the capital investment required is undoubtedly extremely huge.


    As Captain Casey predicted earlier, even if this castle has been abandoned for a long time, its purchase cost is expected to be as high as tens of millions of gold talans.


    However, at present, Jia Lan has successfully obtained the right to use this castle at a very low cost of only 5,000 gold talans per year, which is undoubtedly a very cost-effective deal.


    Given the notoriety of the Castle of Doom, Jia Lan quickly conducted a comprehensive inspection of the castle after arriving. Similar to the teams that had planned to come to exorcise the evil spirits, he did not find any abnormalities except that it was slightly eerie.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it


    After all, it is reasonable for such a long-abandoned and poorly maintained castle to be slightly eerie.


    Currently, the procurement of materials and security protection for the Castle of Doom has been entrusted to the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group recommended by President Clark.


    The squadron includes hundreds of bronze-level mercenaries and twelve silver-level mercenaries, responsible for the security of the entire castle community, and this service is provided free of charge.


    At the same time, Kenmet Abigail, the leader of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, has publicly announced that he plans to transform the Doom Castle into the headquarters of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group in Coran City to cover up the fact that Jia Lan and the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group have settled in.


    After completing all the arrangements, Jia Lan began to lead the craftsmen to dismantle and assemble the equipment in the large wooden boxes that arrived.


    This batch of metal parts made by alchemy includes a large number of gears, chains, screws and metal rods of different models.


    As various strange-shaped parts are gradually assembled in Jia Lan''s hands, the interlocking gears are tightly stacked, and their complexity is comparable to the astrolabe used by astrologers.


    Then, Jia Lan used a rough and heavy black iron shell to wrap the complex internal structure, and embedded a fire crystal about the size of an egg at the bottom of a pure silver barrel-shaped liner in the construction equipment.


    The bottom of the pure silver liner is engraved with a fire element conduction rune array. When it comes into contact with the fire crystal, the conduction rune glows slightly and begins to release hot temperature. At the same time, the pure silver liner also emits a silvery-white light.


    Jia Lan quickly pulled a switch handle next to the construction equipment and opened the copper water tank valve connected to the pure silver liner. The clean water stored in the water tank flowed into the pure silver liner that had been burned at high temperature and was instantly evaporated into steam.


    With the violent eruption of steam, the connected air valve was opened, driving the gears and chains inside the construction machinery to start running at high speed, making a clanging noise.


    Jia Lan directed the hired workers to carry the raw materials of medicinal materials to the upper hatch of the construction machinery and dump them one by one.


    Immediately afterwards, a buzzing sound came from the inside of the machine, and then at the exit below the construction machinery, fine medicinal powder began to slowly flow out.


    After confirming that the construction machinery was running normally, Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief and then led the craftsmen to assemble other parts of the construction machinery.


    Jia Lan carefully connected a large number of different parts to each other and invested a lot of time in assembly and debugging.


    In the end, this unique construction machinery formed a huge metal monster in the castle square.


    Under the watchful eyes of many craftsmen, hired workers, helpers, members of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group and Clark Abigail, the president of the Mercenary Guild, Jia Lan solemnly flipped the switch of the construction machinery.


    With a deafening roar, the hired workers quickly moved the baskets of medicinal materials to the hatch of the assembly machine and dumped the medicinal materials into it.


    With the strong vibration, these materials seemed to be swallowed by an invisible force and gradually disappeared.


    After grinding, the powder was sent to the next assembly machine through an animal skin conveyor belt, mixed into a mixed powder according to a certain proportion, and then sent to a row of huge sealed metal medicine crucibles, added with water and heated to boiling.


    In the next twenty or so processes, everyone stood together in front of the last process of the full set of assembly machinery, watching the hired workers pull the handle of the giant medicine storage tank.


    Rows of closely arranged brass nozzles instantly filled 20 straight-cylinder ceramic medicine bottles on a thin wooden pallet. The tray filled with medicine was pulled away by the hired workers and pushed onto a slowly rotating animal skin conveyor belt.


    The hired workers standing on both sides screwed the caps coated with beeswax on the medicine bottles and sealed them for boxing.


    President Clark swallowed his saliva involuntarily, and asked with a slightly dull look: "Master Jia Lan, what is the daily output of this assembly machine?"


    Jia Lan, who was holding a notebook and continuously observing and recording, frowned and looked at the first "fully automatic medicine preparation assembly line" he built with regret.


    Obviously, the results this time were somewhat unsuccessful.


    This assembly line was designed and manufactured by Jia Lan based on the principles of certain assembly equipment in the soul memory from an unknown world.


    However, since the assembly knowledge mastered by the soul from an unknown world contains a large amount of knowledge system that Jia Lan cannot understand, and many parts cannot be manufactured.


    Therefore, Jia Lan can only refer to some understandable parts of the alien soul assembly knowledge to design this unqualified semi-finished product.


    Some of the parts and processes that cannot be realized and manufactured were replaced by him in other ways, such as the fire element conduction array, etc.

 Chapter98

    Jia Lan''s understanding of the knowledge system obtained from the other world is still in its infancy.


    Although he was able to use alchemy technology to barely make this equipment, the equipment has many problems such as low efficiency, unreasonable structural design, frequent failures and large size.


    Jia Lan explained to President Clark: "If the equipment operates without failure all day and the raw materials are in sufficient supply, its output can theoretically reach 500,000 bottles."


    After a pause, Jia Lan added: "Given the performance limitations of this construction device, it is expected that the actual output may only reach one-half to one-third of the theoretical value, that is, about 150,000 to 250,000 bottles of medicine per day."


    President Clark was shocked after hearing this.


    In order to simplify the production process, more than ten conventional medicines produced this time all adopted the form of potions, and Jia Lan set the price of the medicine at 4 silver gym per bottle, which is 1 silver gym cheaper than the similar black iron primary medicine of the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild.


    Based on an average daily output of 200,000 bottles, 80,000 gold talans will be earned every day.


    As for the cost, raw materials only account for 10£¥ of the cost, while the main cost of the potion comes from the pharmacist himself, and the price fluctuates with the output.


    A junior pharmacist can only prepare a dozen bottles of black iron-level potions a day.


    The Kelan City Pharmacist Guild has more than 300 junior pharmacists and dozens of intermediate pharmacists, but its maximum daily output is only 5,000 bottles of potions.


    In addition to supplying Kelan City for local use, most of these potions are also sold to other places, making it difficult for the Mercenary Guild to obtain sufficient potion supply.


    However, under the guidance of the magician Jia Lan, with only a dozen unique alchemical construction equipment, an astonishing output of 200,000 bottles can be achieved every day.


    It is worth noting that there is no pharmacist in the master''s team, and only hired workers are used for feeding and packing.


    When did the potion configuration process become so efficient?


    The appraisers brought by President Clark conducted a spot check on the potions produced. Although these potions were mass-produced and the quality was reduced, they still reached the intermediate level of Black Iron.


    It should be understood that the general price of a bottle of intermediate Black Iron potion in major potion stores is 1 Jintalan. However, at Master Jialan, its price is only 4 Silver Jims, even lower than the price of primary Black Iron potion.


    This significant profit difference cannot be ignored.


    Due to the existence of Komo University, the alchemy, enchantment and potion industries in Kelan City are more developed than in other regions.


    In addition, the convenient transportation conditions of Kelan Port make the commercial activities in the region particularly prosperous.


    A mature system has been established in Kelan City for the procurement of potion raw materials and the sale of finished potion products. Therefore, Kelan City is regarded as an important potion production base on the Star Continent.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    However, due to the monopoly of the Pharmacist Guild on various potions, the price of potions remains high and the supply of potions is difficult to guarantee.


    President Clark initially aimed to promote the establishment of a cooperative relationship between the Lemley Potion Workshop and the Mercenary Guild Branch in Kolan City, and to use the channels of the Mercenary Guild Branch to sell the potions produced by the workshop to solve the problem of insufficient potion supply.


    Once the restrictions on potion supply are lifted, the survivability and combat effectiveness of the mercenaries under the Kolan Branch will be significantly improved.


    The increase in the strength of mercenaries will also indirectly enhance the reputation of the Kelan branch in the mercenary world.


    As the influence of the Kelan branch in the mercenary world expands, sufficient supply of medicine resources will become an important factor in attracting more powerful mercenaries to register in Kelan City.


    As the number of registered mercenaries increases, the influence of the Kelan branch in the mercenary world will also increase.


    By then, once the attention of the mercenary guild headquarters is attracted, both the resources allocated by the headquarters to each branch and the status of President Clark as the branch president will be improved.


    This prospect makes President Clark very excited.


    For this reason, President Clark resolutely, as the branch president, overcame all objections and suppressed the opposition of the vice president, deacon and other personnel in the guild who had complicated relationships with the officials of the Civil Affairs Council.


    For those short-sighted opponents, he used his savings and the power of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group under his name to force this cooperation.


    He made it clear that those opponents would not be able to obtain any potion quota from the Lemley Potion Workshop to support the mercenary group behind them.


    However, what President Clark had never expected was that when discussing the cooperation agreement with Master Jia Lan, the other party proposed to allow him to occupy 40£¥ of the shares of the Lemley Potion Workshop in exchange for being responsible for purchasing potion raw materials, ensuring the safety of the potion workshop, and selling potions through the mercenary guild channels.


    The only condition proposed by Master Jia Lan was that all potions must strictly abide by the price standards set by him when they are sold, otherwise the cooperation agreement between the two parties will be terminated.


    Although the cost of raw materials must be borne, after deducting 10£¥ of the material cost and 10£¥ of the labor, transportation and channel costs, President Clark can still enjoy 20£¥ of the profit with his 40£¥ stake.


    Based on the daily output of 200,000 bottles of potions, President Clark''s daily net profit is 16,000 gold talans, which is undoubtedly a very considerable income.


    As for hiring mercenaries to serve as workshop guards and using mercenary guild channels for sales, these are the areas of mercenary expertise.


    The daily output of Lemley''s potion workshop is as high as 200,000 bottles, and the monthly output can reach 6 million bottles, which is 40 times the monthly production capacity of 150,000 bottles of the Pharmacist Guild of Kolan City.


    It is particularly noteworthy that Master Jialan was able to achieve such a huge potion production capacity with only one construction device without hiring any pharmacists.


    This means that once a construction device is successfully manufactured, the model can be replicated to increase potion production capacity infinitely according to demand.


    By then, these potions will not only fully meet the needs of mercenaries under the Kolan branch.


    As the president of the branch, Clark is also expected to supply potions to the mercenary guild branches in the surrounding city-states, and then expand the business scope to the entire Kolan State, Zilargo County, Zilargo Continent and even the seven continents of the world.


    President Clark was very excited about this vision, but when he looked at the types of potions being produced, he couldn''t help but feel doubtful.


    These potions happened to be the same types of potions sold in the pharmacy under the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild, and the price was slightly lower and the quality was better.


    This undoubtedly posed a direct threat to the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild.


    Thinking of the flag of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group hanging in the hall of the Mercenary Guild, and the record of six members of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group defeating one-third of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, President Clark couldn''t help but feel a chill in his heart, realizing that this magician was not easy to deal with.


    However, the forces behind the Kelan City Pharmacist Guild should not be underestimated.


    The forced involvement of the Lemley Potion Workshop in the potion industry will undoubtedly affect its interests.


    Previously, the other party had taken extreme measures such as kidnapping just because of the violet ointment.


    This time, the two sides completely tore their faces, and it was hard to predict what kind of chain reaction would be triggered.

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    President Clark frowned and pondered for a long time, then suddenly snorted and said, "So what if they are powerful? The mercenary guilds that are spread across the seven continents are not easy to deal with. I don''t believe that the headquarters will ignore this matter after learning about it. After all, this is related to the interests of the entire mercenary world!"


    However, before attracting the attention of the headquarters, President Clark believes that it is necessary to contact several allies first, such as his old friend Lauren Clifford, the president of the Eternal Hammer Auction House.


    In addition, the arrangements made by Master Jia Lan in advance should also be implemented as soon as possible.


    After repeated thinking, President Clark finally made a decision. He said to Jia Lan, who was observing and recording the operating data of the construction equipment, "Master Jia Lan, please tell me truthfully, if you want to expand the production of medicine, how long will it take you to manufacture such a ''fully automatic medicine preparation line''?"


    Perhaps worried that Jia Lan would misunderstand, he added: "Sorry, this is related to whether we can contact enough allies to counter the forces behind the Pharmacist Guild."


    Jia Lan thought for a moment, pointed to the construction equipment that was rumbling and said: "If you mean this test model, give me enough craftsmen, and I can manufacture one every five days... However, I plan to improve this model, and the next one should be more perfect."


    President Clark breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. If the production capacity can double every five days, it should be able to meet his planned sales plan.


    He laughed confidently and said, "Then, let''s join forces to defeat those corrupt councilors and the guys who control the dark forces in Kelan City!"


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, then understood what President Clark meant, and shrugged helplessly.


    I heard that President Clark was also a mercenary in the past, but I didn''t expect that he was still ambitious and challenging at his age.


    To be honest, at the beginning, he did not intend to be an enemy of the powerful class in Kelan City.


    The main purpose of creating this extremely destructive "different world mechanical device" is just to verify the correctness of the knowledge system of the different world mechanical device, and by the way, it can also teach the "naughty" Pharmacist Guild a lesson.


    Of course, if the forces behind the Pharmacist Guild continue to be "naughty", he doesn''t mind continuing this interesting "game".


    "Master Jia Lan, then I''ll take my leave first! I need to go back to arrange the purchase of raw materials and the sale of medicines," President Clark said goodbye to Jia Lan in high spirits.


    After thinking for a while, President Clark added: "In addition, we must also guard against the other party doing such a bad thing as kidnapping again. After returning, I will arrange a large team of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group to take charge of the security of the Doom Castle. There are still too few people here now."


    Jia Lan smiled and pointed to the huge black iron structure that almost occupied the entire small square in front of the main castle: "Who can they kidnap? This iron mechanical structure?"


    President Clark was stunned when he heard it, and then he figured it out.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.


    Indeed, those employees engaged in production are not worth kidnapping.


    And this structure that can produce potions independently, unless the opponent sends a large number of people to forcibly attack the Doom Castle, only a few intruders can''t move even one of its parts!


    "Well, I really hope to see the shock on the face of the enemy''s intruders after seeing this heavy device!" President Clark laughed heartily and continued, "Oh, by the way, adding more manpower is also beneficial. If we need to expand production in the future, we don''t need to recruit additional employees to avoid infiltrating enemy personnel..."


    At this point, he suddenly thought of a question and asked, "What if... I mean, what if the Pharmacist Guild also follows us to lower prices, what should we do?"


    "Let them lower the price!" Jia Lan closed the notebook in his hand and blinked, saying, "Even if they can reduce the price of the intermediate black iron potion to 4 silver jims, what can they do?"


    President Clark was speechless for a moment.


    Indeed, the Lemley Potion Workshop produces all intermediate black iron potions, but their cost is extremely low!


    Even if the other party also reduces the price of intermediate black iron potions to 40£¥ off, regardless of the cost loss, with their daily output of 5,000 bottles of potions, they can''t affect the daily production capacity of 200,000 bottles of potions and the subsequent series of plans of the Lemley Potion Workshop!


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    ¡°Hey! Have you heard? The Mercenary Guild is preparing to supply a large amount of various potions!¡±


    ¡°Really? Did the Mercenary Guild cooperate with the Pharmacist Guild?¡±


    ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be. How could the Pharmacist Guild easily provide potions to the Mercenary Guild¡­ Maybe the President has found a new source of potions?¡±


    In a bar near Adventure Street, a group of mercenaries gathered together, holding huge oak cups, and heroically poured 4 copper dandings into a cup of bitter ale, while loudly exchanging various information.


    "I guess so. In order to obtain enough potion shares, our Mercenary Guild has given the Pharmacist Guild many benefits."


    "How could the Pharmacist Guild easily give up this piece of fat meat of our Mercenary Guild... Hey! That plump and sexy waitress! Here is another cup of bitter ale!"


    Although for these mercenaries who are fighting for their lives, a cup of sweet ale with 6 copper dantins or a cup of dark rye with 8 copper dantins is also within their tolerance, this bitter ale with a strong taste and a slightly bitter aftertaste is most suitable for their taste.


    Only by drinking it in big gulps can you enjoy the deliciousness of the ale.


    The mercenaries'' heroic drinking style always triggers the plump and sexy waitresses in the bar to cheer excitedly.


    And the aroma and sweetness of the wheat that returns with a loud burp after the bitterness reaches the bottom of the stomach, just like the plump breasts and round buttocks of the bar waitress, makes the mercenaries deeply intoxicated.


    Even when they are old, sitting on the worn-out lounge chairs in the sun, they will squint their dim eyes more than once, trying to recall the bitter yet sweet taste.


    "That''s right. The Apothecary Guild''s restrictions on the supply of medicines for the development of our mercenary guild are not limited to Kelan City. The problem behind this is huge. I heard that this is a game between many big shots..."


    "Who cares? How can we small mercenaries interfere with the affairs between big shots? As long as the guild has a supply of medicines, it''s fine. Have you heard when the supply will start?"


    "It should be in the next two days. Our team leader has contacted several other team leaders and is ready to go together to ask the president for more medicines."


    "Only supply to the mercenary group? What about us free mercenaries... Hey! Here! Give me another cup... No! Give me a bucket!"


    A big mercenary angrily used the empty oak cup as a war hammer and smashed it on the thick wooden long table, making a loud "bang!" However, except for the barmaid, no one paid attention to it, and there was not even a complaint.


    In the bar frequented by mercenaries, this kind of thing is very common.


    "Don''t worry, the Mercenary Guild Hall has posted a notice that the first batch of potions will be supplied to mercenaries registered in Kelan City first. As long as you bring your own mercenary card, you can go to the counter of the Mercenary Guild to collect your potion quota for this month!"


    Another mercenary who sat at the same table with the big mercenary comforted him: "Whether it is a large mercenary group with more than a thousand people, a medium-sized mercenary group with about 500 people, or a small mercenary group with less than a hundred people, they can all receive different amounts of potion shares. Even small mercenary teams and single free mercenaries can get one with their mercenary cards!"

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    "Damn it! I registered in Zolan City, and I just passed through Kelan City on a mission..."


    The big mercenary pounded the table in disappointment, and asked unwillingly: "Can you only get the potion quota if you register in Kelan City?"


    "Well, that''s what the notice said, saying that mercenaries in this city will be given priority. If there are surplus potions, maybe you mercenaries from other cities will be considered?"


    "I heard from the captain that this time the Kelan branch has invested heavily to improve the strength of its mercenaries. Each mercenary group can buy 10 bottles of potions per person at the price of 4 silver jims according to the number of registered people..."


    While talking, the mercenary at the same table secretly pulled out the cork on the big mercenary''s oak barrel and filled his empty oak cup with a glass of bitter ale.


    Seeing that the big mercenary didn''t notice his action, he took a big sip of the free beer, and then said regretfully: "Those are all intermediate quality potions of Black Iron. Even in our city of Kelan, where potions are produced, they are sold for 1 gold talan per bottle!"


    The big mercenary said angrily: "If I had known this, I would have registered in Kelan City!"


    "You can transfer your mercenary status from Zolan City to our Kelan City, it only costs 10 gold talan! It''s much more cost-effective than spending 12 silver gilms per bottle to buy intermediate Black Iron potions in other cities!"


    After stealing another glass of beer from the big mercenary with deft movements, this profession should be a ''thief mercenary'', and then reminded the big guy: "You can buy 10 bottles of intermediate Black Iron potions at the price of 4 silver gilms every month, which is equivalent to saving 8 gold talan! The transfer fee is recovered in an instant!"


    "And don''t forget, not to mention the intermediate Black Iron potion, even the primary Black Iron potion is not so easy to buy! The Kolan branch has a monthly quota, so you don''t have to worry about not being able to buy it even if you spend money!"


    Perhaps because he stole several cups of bitter ale from the big guy, the ''thief mercenary'' kindly gave him advice: "In addition, you may not use up all the 10 bottles of potion every month. If you go on a mission, when you pass through other cities, you can sell them to mercenaries in other cities for 12 silver jims!"


    The big guy was stunned. Yes! Potions are not beer. You won''t drink them casually.


    If you are carrying out some escort missions that are not dangerous, if you are lucky, there will be no battle at all.


    In this way, there will definitely be a surplus of 10 bottles of potion every month, and you can make several times the difference by selling them!


    The big guy slapped the table in surprise: "Yes! I will go back to Zoran City to handle the transfer procedures! Hey! Brother, thank you! This barrel of beer is for you to drink!"Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.


    As he said that, he rushed out of the bar in a hurry.


    The thief looked at the big guy who ran away, smiled cunningly, drank half a cup of bitter beer in his hand, and did not continue to enjoy the barrel of beer that the big guy gave him.


    When he passed the barmaid, he touched the waitress''s butt, and then left leisurely amid the waitress''s screams and curses, and the laughter of other mercenaries.


    However, just after he left for a short time, the big guy who had just left rushed back angrily with a battle axe, shouting: "Damn rat! Who stole Mr. Bino''s purse, get out!"


    At the same time, in the Pharmacist Guild of Kelan City, a voice roared angrily: "Where did that bastard Clark get the potion from?"


    Several middle-aged men in grey pharmacist robes looked at the frantic president of the Pharmacy Guild in silence, all with innocent looks on their faces.


    Even the spies sent by the Pharmacist Guild to the Kelan branch of the Mercenary Guild did not get any information in advance, so how could they, the heads of the pharmacy, know?


    Looking at the president of the Pharmacy Guild walking around the room like an angry lion, a middle-aged pharmacist guessed, "Maybe it''s the potion transferred from other cities by the mercenary headquarters?"


    "Are you a long-eared donkey?" The president stared at the middle-aged pharmacist who spoke fiercely, "How much potion does the mercenary guild have in total? How could it be possible to transfer such a large amount to the mercenary guild branch in a low-risk area like Kelan City?"


    Several middle-aged pharmacists looked at each other, and another pharmacist said cautiously: "Could it be the pharmacy school of Komo University?"


    "Idiot! If the pharmacy school of Komo University is willing to produce potions, how can it be the turn of the mercenary guild to cooperate with them!"


    The president of the pharmacist guild wanted to beat these brainless subordinates. In addition to potion bottles and stirring sticks, is there nothing else in the minds of these idiots?


    "Conspiracy! This must be a conspiracy!" He suddenly thought of something and shouted angrily: "It must be the work of that Lemley Pharmacy Workshop!"


    In the past few days, several members of the Civil Affairs Council suddenly took a Violet Ointment Formula Ownership Certificate issued by the "Seven Continents Private Rights Protection Federation" and reported to the Civil Affairs Council that the Lemley Pharmacy Workshop, which was forcibly banned before, had legal production qualifications.


    They demanded the release of the Brown family, the operators of the Lemley Pharmacy Workshop who were under custody, and the special production tools confiscated by the Pharmacist Association.


    The authority of the "Seven Continents Private Rights Protection Federation" is much greater than that of their small city pharmacy association!


    Since they have produced the formula ownership certificate to prove that this medicine has been recognized by the "Seven Powers Federation", they have no reason to continue to detain the Brown family who "privately" produced medicines because they did not have the qualifications of pharmacists, and the strange set of medicine production tools used by the other party.


    However, although the general composition of the violet ointment has been figured out, it is not easy to research the detailed ratio.


    Once the other party takes out the formula ownership certificate of the Seven Powers Alliance, even if they have researched the detailed ratio of the potion, they cannot produce this potion without the permission and authorization of the other party!


    What''s more hateful is that the Brown family, who were detained in the Pharmacist Guild a few days ago, disappeared inexplicably overnight, and they simply cannot hand them over.


    In the past few days, those civilian councilors have been in a mess in the Civil Affairs Council, suspecting that they murdered the Brown family in order to seize the potion formula!


    Considering what happened at the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s base, it is obvious that the mysterious magician team behind the Lemley Potion Workshop took action!


    This made the president of the Pharmacist Guild somewhat panicked, because the big man above was already very unhappy about this matter.


    If he doesn''t deal with this matter as soon as possible, it may not be as simple as losing the position of president of the Pharmacist Guild.

 Chapter101

    Recently, several major events that shocked the whole city have occurred in Kelan City.


    The first is the "fake medicine workshop incident" some time ago.


    It is said that a civilian who does not have the qualifications of a pharmacist was so bold as to privately make fake medicines at home, and was eventually cracked and sealed by the city guards.


    Then, a small mercenary group with less than 100 members, which was almost on the verge of disbanding in the fierce competition among mercenary groups, suddenly rose up bravely and reversed the situation.


    With only six members, they challenged the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group that had suppressed them, and hung the opponent''s group flag on the mercenary guild hall.


    In addition, Kelan City''s leading large mercenary group, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon, suddenly announced that it would establish a mercenary group headquarters in the cursed abandoned castle group "Doom Castle" and allocate precious medicine shares to its mercenaries.


    These events are all interesting stories that the people of Kelan City talk about with relish.


    However, the heat of these interesting stories has not yet dissipated, and a shocking new news has once again caused a lot of discussion in Kolan City.


    The "fake medicine workshop incident" some time ago has unexpectedly reversed.


    The owner of the pharmacy workshop produced a legal pharmacy certificate to prove that the innocent civilian detained was just an employee of the workshop!


    For this reason, several righteous civilian councilors who pleaded for the people sued the Pharmacist Guild to the Kolan City Civil Affairs Council, accusing the Pharmacist Guild of maliciously accusing and kidnapping the civilian in order to obtain the medicine formula, and also taking away their special medicine production tools for personal gain.


    Just when the righteous civilian councilors asked the Pharmacist Guild to release the civilian, news came out that the civilian had disappeared!


    This incident directly aroused the anger of the people in Kolan City.


    Civil groups have continuously organized people to protest in front of the Civil Affairs Council Hall, demanding that the Pharmacist Guild release the innocent civilian Brown family.


    But according to reliable news from the Pharmacist Guild, the Brown family was murdered after being forced to reveal the formula of the medicine by the Pharmacist Guild, which monopolized the pharmacy industry in Kolan City.


    During the trial of the Civil Affairs Council, the Pharmacist Guild was unable to hand over the people.


    This caused the reputation of the Pharmacist Guild to plummet in Kolan City.


    The president of the Pharmacist Guild and several management deacons resigned, and the new president of the Pharmacist Guild publicly stated that he would give an explanation to the people.


    However, at this time, the civilian councilors who bravely stood up to uphold justice for the civilians were brutally murdered at home.


    The suspect of the murder directly pointed to the former president of the Pharmacist Guild who had resigned.


    This vicious incident shocked the entire Civil Affairs Council.


    For a while, the civilian councilors were in danger, and the civilians were outraged and demanded severe punishment for the murderer.


    However, the former president and deacons of the Pharmacists Guild said they had no reason to kill the members of the people when they attended the public hearing and self-defense appeal meeting.


    With all the unfavorable testimony pointing to the Pharmacists Guild, it was even more impossible for them to deliberately kill the members of the people.


    Not only would this not do them any good, but it would also lead all suspicion to them.


    They claimed that this was a conspiracy against them and the Pharmacists Guild!


    In order to clear their grievances, the former president and deacons of the Pharmacists Guild died in public in grief and anger, using their lives to prove their innocence.


    They committed suicide collectively at the venue of the self-defense appeal meeting!


    At this point, the suspicion shifted from the Pharmacists Guild to the vested interests - Clark Abigail, the president of the Colan branch of the Mercenary Guild.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    As the former president of the Pharmacist Guild who has died to make his will known said, the actions of the Colan branch of the Mercenary Guild have been a little strange in recent times!


    They got the mysterious source of medicine from nowhere, not only privately terminated the medicine supply agreement with the Pharmacist Guild, but also seized the market share of the Pharmacist Guild.


    There is sufficient reason to believe that this is a move taken by the Mercenary Guild, which has obtained the source of medicine, to attack, frame and seize the medicine business of the Pharmacist Guild, and to retaliate against the Pharmacist Guild for controlling their medicine share and inhibiting their development!


    President Clark was overwhelmed by this sudden reversal of the wind direction, and was almost ready to follow the other party and die to make his will known.


    This made the whole incident even more confusing.


    For a time, the Pharmacist Guild and the Colan branch of the Mercenary Guild attacked each other, and with the intervention of the Colan City Civil Affairs Council, the three forces caused chaos in Colan City, and many forces also took the opportunity to make moves.


    Behind a seemingly simple event, there are undercurrents.


    At first, the medicine rationing plan formulated by the Mercenary Guild only provided quotas for mercenaries in the city, with a limited scope of impact, and did not excessively affect the interests of the Pharmacist Guild.


    However, perhaps because the two sides had torn their faces, the Mercenary Guild, which had been acting quite politely, simply tore off its mask and revealed its hideous face.


    The city of Kolan, a medium-sized city with a local population of more than 1.7 million and hundreds of thousands of floating population, not only has a seaport terminal and an airship airport, but is also an important transportation hub connecting Zirago County and Dagon County on both sides of the Sea Wall Mountain Range.


    Therefore, under the conditions of extremely convenient land, sea, and air transportation, the business of Kolan City is particularly prosperous.


    The gathering of a large number of businessmen has also promoted the vigorous development of the mercenary industry.


    The number of registered mercenaries in this city alone is as high as more than 35,000, including 7 large mercenary groups with more than 1,000 people, 16 medium-sized mercenary groups with more than 500 people but less than 1,000 people, and 56 small mercenary groups with more than 100 people but less than 500 people, as well as hundreds of micro mercenary groups or small mercenary teams and free mercenaries with less than 100 people.


    In addition, the number of temporary mercenaries from other cities is even equal to the number of mercenaries in this city during the peak period, making Kelan City a large-scale mercenary gathering point in the mercenary world of the seven continents.


    The high-risk industry of mercenaries has a huge demand for potions.


    Even if mercenaries regard life and death as nothing, who would be willing to die if they can avoid death?


    Therefore, in addition to weapons and equipment, various life-saving potions have become the main consumption of mercenaries.


    At first, the Kelan branch of the Mercenary Guild only allocated a single type of potion purchase share to the mercenaries registered in this city.


    The loss of this part of orders is less than 5,000 bottles of medicine, which is less than one-thirtieth of the monthly production capacity, and is insignificant to the Pharmacist Guild.


    However, now the Kelan branch is frantically supplying all kinds of potions to its local mercenaries.


    Any potion that can be bought in the pharmacy under the name of the Pharmacist Guild can be bought at the pharmacy counter of the Kelan branch.


    Not only is the quality one level higher than that of the pharmacy, but the price is only 40£¥ of the same kind of potion!


    This supply scale is simply unbelievable.


    Even if it is calculated based on the population of 50,000 mercenaries, and 10 bottles of potions are supplied to each mercenary per month, it will be a full 500,000 bottles of potions, which is more than three times the total production capacity of the Pharmacist Guild!


    With such a huge potion production capacity, how many pharmacists are needed to prepare it?


    If it is only the mercenary market in this city, it may not be enough to hurt the Pharmacist Guild with stable sales channels and fixed supply targets.


    Although potions are only useful when life and health are threatened, they are definitely a necessity for survival.


    Therefore, when the Kolan branch lifted the supply restrictions, those who needed medicines were worried that there would not be many opportunities for such abundant supply of medicines, and they rushed to stockpile.


    In a short period of time, the medicine market in Kolan City was pushed to saturation.


    Medicines are not like food that needs to be eaten every day. Buying them once can often ensure long-term use.


    Many mercenary groups finally caught the opportunity of unlimited price reductions for medicines, and even bought a year''s supply at one time to stock up.


    When the Pharmacist Guild realized that it was not good and planned to cut prices to compete for market share, it was too late.


    It is estimated that no mercenary group will purchase medicines in the next year.


    And all these bad consequences were sown by the Pharmacist Guild itself.


    They clearly have a production capacity of 150,000 bottles of medicines per month, but they only put 5,000 bottles of medicines into the Kolan City medicine industry.


    They deliberately created a market hunger to ensure that their potions could be sold at high prices while also being sought after by people.


    In this way, no matter how many potions they put into the market and how high the price is, they will not worry about not being able to sell them.


    When they need funds, they can harvest Jintalan to their heart''s content.


    However, now this market that has been hard to operate and has been in a state of hunger for a long time has been snatched away by the sudden outbreak of the Mercenary Guild''s Kelan Branch.


    This is simply adding insult to injury for the Pharmacist Guild, which is currently involved in a civilian kidnapping and murder case.


    Is this the only crazy potion dumping plan of the Mercenary Guild Kelan Branch?


    Of course not!


    It''s not only mercenaries who need to use potions.


    The Adventurer Guild, which is no smaller than the Mercenary Guild, the various combat professional guilds, and even the City Guard under the name of the Civil Affairs Council, these industry guilds with certain risks, have all stockpiled enough potion reserves for a year in this sudden potion dumping!

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    Finally, the Pharmacist Guild lost its composure and began to desperately contact the channels in their hands, trying to seize the market before the dumping of the medicines of the Kelan branch spread to the surrounding city-states.


    However, what they never expected was that those pharmacists who had long been pampered in the seller''s market, accustomed to "I am the boss of my own territory", and slowly prepared medicines, were actually powerless in this massive battle for the market share of medicines!


    All pharmacists under the Pharmacist Guild have tried their best to prepare medicines, but they found that the output was still not enough to satisfy the channel market that had been "starved" for too long in a short period of time.


    At this time, the Kelan branch of the Mercenary Guild came out with a large amount of cheap and large-scale medicines, and directly burst the channel market in their hands under their noses!


    Moreover, this cruel and ruthless war of aggression in the medicine market has spread to the city-states in the entire Zilargo County, and has gradually spread to a wider area with the internal word-of-mouth of the combat professional guilds and the spread of profit-seeking merchants!


    What terrifies the Pharmacist Guild is that the most terrifying thing for them is not only the loss of market share, but also the decline in support from all walks of life!


    In this world ruled by city-state politics, there are constant frictions between the city-states, and it coincides with the era of great adventure. The importance of precious medicine is almost equal to strategic materials such as steel.


    Imagine that the lords of the city-states with thousands or tens of thousands of troops under their command would like an institution that controls the source of medicine, is arrogant, and uses medicine quotas as a threat to demand rights, wealth, and various political and economic privileges, or would they like an institution that supplies them with unlimited amounts of medicine and has no desire?


    The history and regional characteristics of the Mercenary Guild destined them not to participate in politics, while behind the Pharmacist Guild, which controls the source of potions, there is an ambitious shadowy figure who intends to control the city-state parliament from a political level!


    Under various conflicts of interest, an institution that can fully supply them with potions without threatening their ruling power is obviously more in line with their needs.


    The dispute between the two parties in the city of Kelan, the Pharmacist Guild and the Kelan Branch of the Mercenary Guild, which have torn their faces and competed desperately, will not affect the situation at a higher level for the time being.


    These two protagonists are gradually fading from the "stage", and some forces that were originally lurking underwater are gradually emerging...


    The new president of the Pharmacist Guild has been forced to collapse by the crazy Mercenary Guild - to be precise, Clark Abigail, the branch president of the Kelan Branch.


    If the situation continues to develop like this, he will probably be like his predecessor, either dying in front of the public or being "murdered" in his own home.


    He has already exhausted all his strength, but sadly found that the situation is tilting in a direction that neither side can control.


    At this point, it is no longer possible for him and Clark to stop.


    The first wave of potion dumping has moved away from the shock wave center of Kelan City and swept to a wider area.


    However, the competition between the two sides has become more and more intense. They are too lazy to even cover up and directly tear their faces to fight to the death.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    I don''t know what kind of relationship the new president of the Pharmacist Guild used, but he actually bought off the Kelan City Artisan Guild and the Kelan Port Commercial Guild, interrupting the supply of weapons, equipment and materials to the Kelan branch.


    The Kelan branch is even more ruthless. They contacted the mercenary guild branch in Zilargo County and directly monopolized the supply of various medicinal materials!


    In fact, the Kolan branch has been carrying out this kind of root-cutting operation since the beginning.


    After all, most small and medium-sized mercenary groups cannot spare thousands or even tens of thousands of Jintalan''s operating funds to stockpile a year''s worth of medicines needed by all members of the group.


    Therefore, the Kolan branch signed a medicine supply agreement with those mercenary groups, allowing the mercenary groups to advance medicines and repay them in batches with various medicinal materials collected in the next year.


    Although some of the medicinal materials circulating on the market come from the collection of rural herbalists, the bulk of the medicinal materials mainly come from the mercenary guild.


    After all, mercenaries have a significant advantage over civilians in collecting medicinal materials in dangerous mountains and forests.


    In the past, the Pharmacist Guild used this method to try its best to lower the price of medicinal materials, raise the price of finished medicines, and obtain a large amount of medicinal materials from the mercenary guild by controlling the share of medicine allocation.


    Now, the Kolan branch also uses this strategy to directly weaken the foundation of the Pharmacist Guild, making it difficult for the Pharmacist Guild to even buy a leaf!


    As for the banned equipment, weapons and supplies, since there are still certain channels within the mercenary guild to obtain supplies, even if the quantity is insufficient, the Colan branch can directly issue guild tasks, send mercenary groups to distant city-states, or even cross the sea to other continents for procurement, and then escort them back.


    This is what mercenaries are best at, isn''t it?


    Although it is a little inconvenient to do so, compared with the strong dependence of the Pharmacist Guild on medicinal materials, this method is not excessive.


    If you plan to play this trick, then let''s wait and see who can outlast whom!


    Gradually, people found that the Pharmacist Guild became low-key, and the fight between the two sides in the pharmaceutical industry gradually began to spread to other industries, and the situation became more intense and brutal.


    No one noticed that a more terrible crisis caused by pharmaceuticals was brewing.


    Once it breaks out, it may trigger a series of unpredictable chain reactions like dominoes, pushing the incident in an uncontrollable direction.


    No one knows how far this terrible crisis will affect...


    The status of the University of Komo in Kolan City is very transcendent. It is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Civil Affairs Council of Kolan City, nor does it interfere with the politics and management of Kolan City.


    This place is like a small world isolated from the outside world. No matter what kind of earth-shattering happens outside, it cannot affect the traditional operation trajectory of the academy for two hundred years.


    Perhaps for most of the magic professors in the academy, the world outside the academy wall is not much different from when the academy was just established two hundred years ago.


    At that time, in order to avoid the attacks of the fishmen, some fishermen gathered together to seek shelter from the academy.


    In the past two hundred years, no matter whether it is a change of regime or a change of situation, it can''t shake the academic atmosphere of the University of Komo, let alone the recent insignificant little disturbance.


    The short 15-day winter vacation passed in a flash. Whether it was the students who returned home or stayed in school, they all returned to their study life with reluctance.


    Alan and several girls who went to visit Maigeng Village with her returned like a group of happy little birds, and brought back many specialties of Maigeng Village.


    A large number of wild nuts, homemade blueberry jam, air-dried venison, and even a live squirrel.


    Seeing the sisters, Garth Brown and Anlia Brown, busy in the book bar, Alan screamed in surprise, jumped over and hugged them and jumped.


    A fat hen patrolled her territory like a queen.


    When passing by three laughing girls, it looked at the somewhat uneasy little squirrel on Alan''s slender shoulder with a proud look, and cooed twice, as if accepting the other party as its first "subject".


    After getting intimate with the Brown sisters, Alan noticed Jia Lan and several old men standing beside them with a smile.


    She adjusted her magic robe somewhat embarrassedly, bowed to the elders, and conveyed her father''s words of gratitude to Jia Lan.


    Because Alan really became a student of the University of Magic and Science, the "quasi-eighth-class knight" Master Mapdoler, who had never thought that his letter of recommendation could allow a country girl who had never been exposed to magic to be admitted to the University of Magic and Science, had to treat Alan, whose identity had changed, with courtesy.

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    Old Hogg, the former steward of the small manor of Master Mapdoler, and Alan Hogg''s father, has now been promoted to the Grand Deacon of the Mapdoler family, and is in full charge of the Mapdoler manor.


    Faced with this change, Jia Lan only responded with a smile.


    This situation is actually not uncommon. Although Alan is not a student of the main department, he is a magic apprentice from the University of Magic and Magic, which is enough for this country lord and nobleman to think it is worth investing.


    Master Mapdoler should feel fortunate, because during Alan''s growth, although he was a little harsh on the Hogg family, he definitely did not treat them unfairly.


    Otherwise, Alan''s purpose of going back this time might not be to visit relatives, but to take revenge.


    Jia Lan accepted the gratitude of Alan''s father, and accepted the various mountain delicacies that Old Hogg collected and dried from the mountains near Maigeng Village in the early autumn. These were sent as gifts by him.


    Afterwards, Jia Lan introduced the four old mercenaries behind him to Alan. They were dressed as book bar helpers at the moment.


    Now, the Doom Castle has been handed over to Casey, Dave and the Browns.


    The Browns continue to be the managers of the Lemley Potion Workshop, while Casey and Dave are responsible for coordinating with the guards of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group.


    When necessary, they will notify Jia Lan, or contact President Clark, who has been very busy recently, for Jia Lan.


    The four old mercenaries are nominally responsible for protecting Jia Lan''s safety, but in fact, Casey and Dave can''t bear to see the old mercenaries too tired, so they can follow Jia Lan to relax a little.


    However, the four old mercenaries who followed Jia Lan to the library of the Komo Academy couldn''t rest, so they simply found a job in the book bar, which can not only conceal their identity as external employees of the academy, but also have something to do.


    Old Jimmy, who has recently regained his second spring, will sneak out of the academy every night, go to Kelan City to inquire about the news, and bring the collected intelligence back to Jia Lan.


    So at present, in addition to reading the books and studying in the library, Jia Lan has an additional task, which is to study the daily progress of this incident directed by him and intensifying according to the intelligence brought back by Old Jimmy.


    Every night, Jia Lan will record a detailed analysis report in the heavy parchment notebook with "On the Impact and Harm of Dumping on the Market and Economy" on the cover.


    Recently, Jia Lan''s life is very fulfilling. He strives to improve his arcane strength, learn magic knowledge, study the knowledge system of the other world, and conduct a lot of experiments and research. Occasionally, he has to pay attention to the progress of the ongoing "other world experimental project".


    He seems to have returned to the previous era, the busy and fulfilling days spent with the teacher, there is always endless knowledge to learn, endless experiments to do, and all kinds of interesting things.The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    In the previous era, Jia Lan once thought that he would continue to enjoy this wonderful life until the end of his life.


    Then, like most mages, he would transform himself into an elemental creature or a virtual creature and continue to live.


    If his strength could reach the legendary level or above when he died, he might be able to try to transform himself into an immortal lich, just like his teacher had been working on before the Great Destruction.


    In this way, he would have a long enough life and plenty of time to do anything he wanted to do, including but not limited to mastering all the knowledge he was interested in.


    However, these ideas might be too far away.


    Jia Lan still has a long way to go to reach that level, but he vaguely feels that he might eventually follow the path of his teacher.


    The reason is that the contents of the three major knowledge systems of arcane knowledge, other world knowledge, and magic knowledge are too huge, so huge that he may not be able to fully explore the mysteries in his entire life, so he must live long enough.


    This means that after hundreds or even thousands of years, he must spare enough time to prepare for his "death".


    The arcane knowledge system that he was most familiar with was already vast and boundless.


    In his memory, no spellcaster had ever been able to truly reach the other side of the arcane... Of course, except for a spellcaster who became a god by relying on his own arcane abilities in the ancient times.


    The knowledge system of the other world is far more profound and complex than he imagined.


    The most important thing is that it is a knowledge system completely different from the arcane.


    He has only touched the surface now, but he has been shocked by the extensive, comprehensive, detailed and in-depth knowledge characteristics of the system.


    That kind of invisible and intangible destructive power cannot be controlled or prevented in the current environment.


    It can be said that the era and world he is in now are simply defenseless under the knowledge system of the other world.


    Therefore, even though he knew that the knowledge of the other world was very dangerous, Jia Lan could not resist its temptation and indulged in it involuntarily, just like a thirsty traveler in the desert, even if he knew that there was a cup of poison in his hand, he would not be able to bear to drink it.


    As for the magic knowledge, which he originally thought was a trivial branch of the arcane knowledge system, with in-depth learning, it gradually unveiled the mysterious veil and showed him the hidden essence.


    If the characteristics of arcane knowledge are complex and huge macro systems, then the characteristics of the knowledge of the other world are detailed and precise micro systems.


    As for magic knowledge, it is between the two, and is a simple and direct materialized middle view system.


    According to a unique allegorical short sentence in the memory left by the soul of the other world: the arcane is to complicate simple things, while magic is to simplify complex things. One is "breaking power with cleverness", and the other is "breaking cleverness with power".


    This can be seen from the energy system of magic.


    Although magic is not as varied as the arcane, and there are often hundreds of solutions, ways and means to deal with a difficult problem, magicians often use a "fireball" to solve any "obstacle".


    The problem that the "fireball" cannot solve is often caused by the lack of power of the "fireball".


    If it cannot be solved, use a bigger "fireball", there is always a "fireball" that can solve the problem.


    If no matter how big the "fireball" is, it can''t solve the problem, then summon a forbidden spell such as a skyfire burning the city, a meteor shower, or a meteorite explosion, and directly wipe out the area where the problem occurs from this world, which can fundamentally solve the problem.


    Although it was simple and crude, Jia Lan had to admit that the supernatural powers mastered by magicians did have their reasons, and were far from being as elementary as he had imagined at the beginning.


    It was worth his time to carefully study the differences between magic and the arcane.


    The towering walls isolated the disturbances from the outside world, and life in the academy was closed and simple.


    The students who had happily spent a winter vacation returned to the atmosphere of learning, desperately accumulating credits, and working hard to successfully upgrade their grades in the annual exam at the end of the school year.

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    In the quarterly exams held every three months at KoMo University, Jia Lan achieved excellent results in all subjects in the first grade, that is, 10 points in each subject, and successfully accumulated enough credits in a unique way.


    If he applies, he is fully qualified to be promoted to the second grade.


    According to the school''s grading mechanism, students can get 5 credits if they get an "excellent" rating in the monthly exam.


    Therefore, even if there are 10 monthly exams in a school year and each time they get an "excellent" rating, they can only accumulate 50 credits.


    The specific grading criteria are: 5 points for excellent, 4 points for good, 3 points for medium, 1 point for poor, and 0 points for extremely poor.


    In addition, if a student gets an "excellent" rating three times in the quarterly exam, he can accumulate 30 credits, and if he gets an "excellent" rating in the annual exam at the end of the school year, he can accumulate 20 credits.


    However, the credit system of KoMo University stipulates that the student''s qualification for promotion must be based on the comprehensive score of "50£¥ of required courses + 40£¥ of elective courses + 10£¥ of performance".


    Even if students get full marks in required courses, they cannot reach the minimum 60 credits required for promotion.


    Therefore, students must choose 1 to 2 elective courses to obtain additional credits.


    However, the grading criteria for elective courses are different from those for required courses. They are divided into only two levels: "pass" and "fail". Passing can get 1 credit, and failing will not get any credits.


    If students only take one elective course, they need to get full marks in both required and elective courses to barely reach the minimum 60 credits required for promotion.


    Therefore, students usually choose 2 to 4 elective courses to increase the total number of credits to meet the promotion requirements.


    It can be seen that the promotion standards of Komo University are very strict.


    However, Jia Lan did not participate in the element test, and his score in the required courses was 0. But he took dozens of subjects in more than a dozen auxiliary departments and got full marks in all of them.


    Even if only the scores of elective courses are considered, his total number of credits is far more than required.


    This situation has never happened in the history of Komo University, which has caused confusion among teachers.


    The graduation destination of students depends on whether they can obtain a "magic undergraduate diploma" and become a "magic apprentice", or only obtain a "vocational college diploma" and become a "vocational apprentice".


    According to common sense, if the required course score is 0, the student will not be able to accumulate enough credits for promotion, and naturally cannot be promoted to the next school year. In the end, they may be persuaded to drop out for failing to advance for three consecutive years.


    However, Jia Lan not only successfully accumulated 60 credits for promotion, but also far exceeded the required credits by several times, even though his score in the required courses of the main department was 0.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.


    However, this excellent student has no magical ability.


    In response to this special situation, the teachers reported the problem to the "Tutor Supervision Association" and the upper-level leaders made the decision.


    The old professors in the college disagreed on this matter and argued endlessly.


    Some magic professors believed that from the perspective of credits alone, according to the school''s credit system, the college had no reason not to allow Jia Lan to advance, nor to grant him the status of magic apprentice.


    However, another group of professors insisted that although Jia Lan could advance, people without magic power should not be granted the status of magic apprentice.


    This matter eventually attracted the attention of several deans of the "Department of Administration".


    After research, they finally decided that Jia Lan, as a "school staff" and "specially recruited auditor" with a special status, should not be measured by the standards of ordinary students.


    Therefore, the college decided not to conduct a rigid assessment on him, but only adopt the "independent professional title rating standard" of magic professors, that is, only improve the "professional title" but not the "level".


    This means that Jia Lan can apply for the promotion exam at any time according to his own wishes.


    However, if his magic ability fails to meet the standard, he will not be able to improve his magic apprentice level.


    Even if he is promoted to the ninth grade, if he still cannot cast magic, then he will be permanently given the honorary "level 1 magic apprentice" status of the University of Science and Technology.


    For Jia Lan, a student with outstanding learning ability but poor magic talent, the college leaders feel both pity and regret.


    Originally, it was planned to train him to become a magic professor with professions such as archaeologists, linguists, and appraisal masters, but under the intervention of the senior management of the College Affairs Management Office, it was decided to observe him for a period of time, and after determining the field he is really good at, make a decision on whether to further train him.


    Jia Lan was unaware of this, and his future had been decided by the senior management. I am afraid that he will always stay at the stage of level 1 magic apprentice.


    However, he was still preparing for the fourth monthly exam with great enthusiasm.


    This time, he planned to skip the fourth grade exam and strive to be promoted to an apprentice magician before the end of the school year.


    By then, he would be eligible to apply to the academy to borrow the precious archaeological documents in the library on the third floor underground of the Great Library that were not open to students.


    Such as: "When preparing a potion, the process of boiling the potion liquid under heat is the process of releasing the medicinal ingredients in the medicinal materials through the boiling reaction of the liquid..."


    "The identification methods of antiques are divided into several categories, but the most suitable method for beginners is undoubtedly the intuitive method of alchemical reagent reaction."


    "The reaction of alchemical reagents of different properties to antiques of different materials can roughly determine the age of the antique..."


    "The local language of Zirako is an ancient language mixed with a small amount of Zirako dwarf language and Dagon goblin language vocabulary, but the main body belongs to the common language..."


    "The intensity of the flame temperature, the order and time of adding different types of medicinal materials, and the process of fusion and change of the ingredients of different types of medicinal materials will determine the quality of the finished potion..."


    "This phenomenon of local languages ??mixed with foreign words is very common in all parts of the seven continents. It is mainly related to the population ratio, geographical location and historical changes of the local major ethnic groups..."


    Since Jia Lan explained several courses to the girls, the girls found that his personality is actually very gentle and easy to get along with, and they gradually became bolder.


    Whenever they encountered questions they didn''t understand in class but were too embarrassed to bother the teacher, they would come to ask Jia Lan humbly.


    At first, only the first-year students of the pharmacy department came to him.


    But gradually, the girls found that Jia Lan''s attainments in pharmacy were not limited to the first-year content, and he could even easily answer some questions from senior students.


    This aroused the interest of the girls in the book bar. Many senior pharmacy girls even deliberately found some questions to make things difficult for him, but Jia Lan always answered them one by one without any care.

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    After comparing and analyzing the answers provided by the teachers, the girls were surprised to find that although Jia Lan''s answers did not follow the traditional model in some cases, he could answer their questions in extremely concise and clear language.


    They even thought that Jia Lan''s answer style was easier to understand.


    This extracurricular tutoring activity was carried out during the leisure time of the book bar, and gradually attracted more people''s attention.


    The girls further discovered that Jia Lan''s knowledge was not limited to the field of pharmacy, but could cover questions in various disciplines.


    This phenomenon prompted the girls'' attitude towards Jia Lan to change from surprise to shock, and then from admiration to worship. They were proud to be able to participate in this extracurricular tutoring course.


    However, since this was a voluntary explanation, Jia Lan''s tutoring time was not fixed.


    Usually, tutoring would only be arranged temporarily when a few girls who were close to the book bar management department encountered academic difficulties and he happened to be free.


    "Administrator Jia Lan, you are so awesome!" A girl said with admiring eyes and clasped her hands together, "You will definitely participate in the joint competition of the seven continents magic academies this time?"


    Faced with this sudden question, Jia Lan was a little confused for a moment: "Joint competition of the seven continents magic academies? What is this event?"


    Obviously, he was not aware of the upcoming event at Komo University.


    Since he had never participated in any basic courses in any subject, he naturally did not learn about this news from the classroom.


    Seeing that Jia Lan knew nothing about this, the girls explained to him one after another.


    It turned out that during the "Two Hundredth Anniversary School Festival of the Founding of Kolan Public Magic University" last year, the "Seven Continents Magic Academic Seminar" was successfully held.


    The participating scholars agreed to hold the "Seven Continents Magic Academy Joint Competition" again to test the comprehensive quality and teaching quality of students from each academy.


    Hearing this, Jia Lan smiled and shook his head: "Those who participate in the joint competition should be senior students from various colleges, right? Don''t forget, I am just a freshman in the ''first year''."


    The girls suddenly realized that they had subconsciously regarded Jia Lan as a senior student.


    Because Jia Lan was a little older, knowledgeable and served as a school administrator, they completely ignored his true identity.


    Many girls in middle and high grades felt quite embarrassed.


    Jia Lan obviously would not waste time participating in such competitions. He still had a lot of things to deal with.


    Seeing that no one asked any more questions, he closed his notebook, smiled and said goodbye to the girls, and walked towards Dave who was not far away.


    Before Jia Lan asked, Di Fu respectfully conveyed President Clark''s invitation: "Mr. Jia Lan, President Clark asks you to go to the Colan branch when you are free. He has important matters to discuss with you."


    When reviewing the progress of the experiment in the other world recorded in the notebook, Jia Lan smiled and nodded, saying: "It seems that President Clark is facing some pressure. We should go there immediately. Please wait a moment."Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site.


    At present, the dumping of potions is nearing the end stage. Even if President Clark does not actively seek a meeting, Jia Lan will take the initiative to contact him to promote the follow-up plan.


    Afterwards, Jia Lan returned to the administrator''s cabin, took out a delicate small wooden box, and said goodbye to Alan and others. Then, he left Komo University with Di Fu, took a carriage driven by two silver mercenaries at the school gate, and went to the Colan branch of the Mercenary Guild.


    Compared with the steam, violent vibration, huge noise and thick smoke brought by the goblin steam locomotive, Jia Lan prefers to take a carriage.


    As the carriage slowly moved, accompanied by the sound of horse hooves and crisp bells, Jia Lan asked: "What is the situation in Doom Castle?"


    Div replied: "Except for some timid employees who were suspicious and claimed to see strange black shadows and hear strange howling sounds at night, the rest remained normal."


    "In addition, members of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group have recently captured several "spies" and imprisoned them in the castle dungeon. This shows that the other party can no longer hold back."


    Jia Lan understood this, because the potion dumping in charge of the Coran branch has fully covered Zilargo County, which is equivalent to cutting off the main source of income for the Pharmacist Guild.


    To monopolize a region with more than 2 million square kilometers of land and dozens of large and small city-states, the demand for potions and the required production capacity are huge, which can be imagined.


    However, all potions are processed by the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group in the castle group and transported to various places.


    Could it be that tens of thousands of pharmacists really live in that desolate castle group?


    If this mystery is not revealed, the other party may not be able to sleep well, so it is not surprising to send thieves to spy.


    In addition, due to the serious lack of potion production capacity, President Clark has instructed craftsmen to imitate the magic machine.


    Although the main part has been successfully cast, it has never been able to start.


    Dave said: "I guess President Clark invited you this time just to discuss this matter."


    Jia Lan remained silent about this, because he had long expected that President Clark would try to create more magic machines to increase production capacity due to greed.


    In order to make him give up this idea, Jia Lan deliberately left a set of design drawings for craftsmen to copy.


    However, if it was so easy to copy, the Apothecary Guild would not be forced into a desperate situation.


    Even Jia Lan himself has not yet fully mastered the principle of this exotic construct, let alone those craftsmen who have no knowledge of construction?


    This is a product that integrates the three major knowledge systems of arcane, other worlds and magic.


    To mass produce, he needs to wait until he has thoroughly studied the principles of the other world construction system.


    In addition, the current potion production capacity of Doom Castle is sufficient and does not need to be increased.


    More importantly, when he goes to Doom Castle next time, he will bring a newer exotic construct to replace the current one.


    Therefore, it is a waste to manufacture experimental exotic constructs again.


    However, Jia Lan speculated that President Clark was eager to meet him this time, and his main purpose was not to discuss this matter.


    With the dense flow of people in the city, the carriage was moving slowly, but Adventure Street was not far from Komo University, so it soon arrived at the back door of the Mercenary Guild.


    As the largest building complex on Adventure Street, the Mercenary Guild''s Kolan Branch covers a large area.


    However, the main area open to the public is limited to the street-facing buildings, and the buildings in the back are specially used for the guild''s internal staff to work and store supplies.


    When the carriage slowly drove into the back door of the Mercenary Guild, several silver mercenary guards quickly closed the door.


    Soon after, several carriages exactly the same as the previous carriage drove out of the backyard of the Mercenary Guild and rushed in different directions of Kolan City.


    Then, another batch of carriages drove out, followed by another batch, and several batches of carriages drove out of the Mercenary Guild in an endless stream, circling Kolan City and returning to the Guild.


    This surprised the thieves who had been following them since the entrance to Komo University!


    Jia Lan had already been sitting in President Clark''s office, leisurely enjoying a cup of fragrant black tea with milk.


    "I''m sorry!" President Clark apologized to Jia Lan, "It''s really because there is something very important that I need to discuss with you, so I have to ask you to come in person."


    Jia Lan smiled and shook his head, indicating that he didn''t mind, and gently put down the flower-shaped glass teacup in his hand, jokingly saying, "It seems that the other party is quite anxious, and now he has begun to openly monitor you, the president of the Mercenary Guild branch."

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    "Now, Doom Castle, Komo University and the Mercenary Guild have become the focus of the other party''s close surveillance. Even I dare not leave the branch easily."


    "Privately, we have had no less than dozens of small-scale conflicts between the two sides. Now we are just one step away from a direct fight."


    President Clark said with a wry smile.


    Jia Lan nodded when he heard this, then laughed and looked at another middle-aged man next to President Clark: "This should be President Lauren Clifford of the Eternal Hammer Auction House? First meeting!"


    President Lauren, who had been smiling and silent, nodded to Jia Lan, but did not interrupt, just waiting for his old friend Clark to speak.


    The two of them have formed a deep friendship since they were young, and many etiquette details have been omitted for decades.


    "This time, I invited Mr. Jia Lan to come because I want to discuss a few things with you." President Clark''s attitude was quite polite.


    Although the young magician in front of him always wears the magic robe of a level 1 magic apprentice, as the president of the Kolan branch of the mercenary guild, he knows almost everything that happened in Kolan City.


    Therefore, he is almost one of the first batch of people who know what happened in the Storm Wolf Station.


    There is even a silver-level thief in the branch who specially restored the battle scene and process for him, so he knows very well that the young magician in front of him is not as weak as he looks.


    In the process of restoring the battle scene, more than one experienced old mercenary judged that among the two magicians participating in the magic confrontation, one of them was only as strong as the silver junior, that is, the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group¡¯s junior wind magician.


    As for the other one, it is difficult to accurately judge his strength from the description of the mercenaries of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group who personally experienced the battle scene.


    Because he only released three magics from beginning to end: the first "Fire Arrow" offset the opponent''s "Wind Blade", and from the perspective of only "offsetting" rather than "penetrating", his fire magic strength should be equivalent to that of a junior magician.


    The second "Water Drop Spell" cracked the opponent''s "Wind Ball Spell". It is puzzling that low-level magic can crack high-level magic. We can only conservatively estimate that his water magic strength is at least equivalent to that of an intermediate magician.


    The third "Wind Ball Spell" that caused the annihilation of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group, judging from the degree of damage at the scene, his wind magic strength is at least equivalent to that of a high-level magician. Judging from his casting state, he may even be a great magician!


    A 20-year-old great magician?


    It sounds incredible, doesn''t it?


    Compared with Jia Lan, those white-haired old magicians are simply ashamed!


    However, there is no shortage of geniuses in this world, and it is not difficult to accept that they cannot be measured by ordinary people''s standards.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    What is really unacceptable about this young magician is that he has demonstrated the magic abilities of "fire, water, and wind". He is actually an extremely rare three-system magician!


    Even Clark and other warriors who are not magicians know that people with multi-element talents are either insignificant trash or peerless masters!


    The problem is that even in various legends, the most common ones are powerful dual-element magicians, and three-element magicians... It is not certain whether there are only three-element magicians, and the three-element magicians have conflicting elemental tendencies, which is really hard to understand.


    Based on President Clark''s extensive knowledge, although he has heard about the situation that high-level magicians can perform magic abilities that are not bound by elements, given the age of this young magician, he is more inclined to believe that the other party may have used some kind of magic equipment or scrolls, which is relatively more reasonable.


    The field of magicians is unfathomable. For people like them who lack magical abilities, it is best to avoid making unfounded guesses.


    In any case, it is always the right attitude to maintain respect. You cannot despise the other party just because they are young, otherwise, once you anger them, it may lead to unpredictable consequences.


    Even if you don''t consider his strength, his identity as the person in charge of the "Mysterious Magician Team" is enough to arouse people''s respect.


    It is worth noting that from beginning to end, the "Mysterious Magician Team" has always remained mysterious, and all matters are handled by this young magician.


    And this young magician appointed by the "Mysterious Magician Team" has demonstrated impressive magical strength and outstanding talents in the fields of pharmacy, alchemy, and enchantment.


    This has aroused people''s curiosity about the true strength of the "Mysterious Magician Team". How strong is it to allow such an outstanding magic master to serve as an agent?


    The first topic is the potion business.


    According to the plan, the potions produced by Doom Castle will be based on the city of Coran and penetrate the surrounding city-states.


    However, even if we don¡¯t consider the city-states in the neighboring ¡°Ubrulan County¡± and ¡°Dagon County¡±, there are more than ten large city-states in ¡°Jirag County¡± alone, including Coran City, Tolan City, Zolan City, Taliston City, Talandor City, Suribal City, Osquilo City, Jansers City, Raven City, Lugwen City, Quisk City, etc., as well as dozens of small and medium-sized city-states.


    President Clark said with difficulty: "Through the channels of the Mercenary Guild, I have conveyed the information that the Mercenary Guild branches in various city-states in Zilargo County can supply potions in bulk."


    "As a result, these large urban-level city-states have placed huge orders for 30 million potions per year with our Coran branch." He turned to Jia Lan and said with difficulty: "The Lemley Potion Workshop in Doom Castle, with its current scale, has an annual production capacity of only 73 million potions, which barely meets the order needs of Coran City, Tolan City and Zolan City."


    "Do you think about adding equipment? Otherwise, it will be difficult to meet the potion needs of the entire Zilargo County. If the news that the Coran branch supplies potions in large quantities has not been leaked, perhaps we would not be so embarrassed."


    President Clark said with a headache: "But now the branches that have learned the news are eagerly looking forward to it. If we don''t supply them with potions, I''m worried that their branch presidents will lead all registered mercenaries to form a mercenary corps and attack our Coran City!"


    Jia Lan, who was listening to the report, almost spit out tea while drinking it. He put down the teacup in surprise and said in astonishment: "30 million potions per city-state? Are they going to use potions instead of drinking water? Potions are time-sensitive! What is the purpose of hoarding so many potions?"


    President Clark responded with a wry smile: "Imagine the reaction of a long-starved farmer who suddenly found a large wheat field, and you can understand their mentality."


    Jia Lan was speechless for a moment.


    Although he had expected similar situations, he had never expected it to be so fanatical.


    As President Clark said, three days of hunger may not be fatal, but three days of injury without treatment will definitely be fatal.


    It is hard to imagine how the high-risk profession of mercenaries survived in the past when the Pharmacist Guild strictly controlled potions.


    No wonder the casualty rate of mercenaries remains high.


    The demand for potions is not limited to mercenaries. Adventurers and city-state armies are also the main consumers of potions.


    Therefore, it is reasonable for a large city-state to place an order for 30 million medicines every year.

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    Jia Lan predicted that there might be panic buying and hoarding in the first year.


    However, from the second year onwards, as long as the supply of potions can be sustained, the annual order volume of these large city-states is expected to be reduced to one-tenth of the original level or less.


    "Since the new equipment is still in the research and development stage, the output of potions cannot be greatly increased in the short term. I will try my best to speed up the development of potion production equipment, but it is expected to take at least two to three months before it can be officially put into use."


    After thinking for a moment, Jia Lan shook his head and added: "Although we cannot meet the other party''s order requirements at one time, we can still accept the order."


    "I suggest that the first batch of deliveries be made at 1£¥ of the order requirements of each city-state. I believe this move can alleviate their anxiety to a certain extent."


    When talking about the deadlock with the Apothecary Guild, Jia Lan pointed out that the forces behind the other party have begun to intervene in the conflict between the two sides.


    Although he has tried his best to deal with it by seeking allies such as Clifford and the president of the Adventure Guild, the potion problem seems to have no solution for the time being.


    President Clark expressed his helplessness and turned to discuss the second matter: "In the Civil Affairs Council, our power has always been difficult to compete with the Golden Power Society, which has the advantage of discourse power."


    President Clark emphasized that the Golden Power Society is a powerful organization hidden behind the scenes of major city-states. Its members include all kinds of upper-class people, and its history can be traced back to the ancient times before the Apocalypse Calendar.


    He explained to Jia Lan that although the current Golden Power Society is essentially unrelated to the Golden Power Society before the Apocalypse Calendar, the means and organizational structure it adopts have inherited the style of the pre-civilization.


    The Golden Power Society gains power by controlling huge wealth, and then gains more wealth by manipulating power. This is its most fundamental mode of action.


    The Golden Power Society has infiltrated almost all city-states in Zilargo County, and there are a large number of its members in the councils of each city-state, so it is also called the "Dark Council".


    President Clark pointed out: "At present, the Jinquan Society has begun to put pressure on our mercenary guild through various channels. We can still deal with small issues such as the ban on the sale of weapons, equipment and resources."


    "However, they manipulate the city-state laws to create various unfavorable situations for us, such as tax increases, personnel restrictions, weapon restrictions and behavior restrictions, in order to force us to surrender and hand over the management of the medicine business to them."


    Due to the industry characteristics and historical background of our mercenary guild, politically, we absolutely cannot confront the Jinquan Society head-on, otherwise it will bring great public pressure to the mercenary guild, and may even cause ordinary people to boycott the entire mercenary industry.


    Clark looked at Jia Lan seriously: "If we don''t try to solve this problem, I''m afraid our mercenary guild will not be able to last long in this regard! We can only choose to compromise with them and give up some of our interests. In serious cases, we may even have to hand over the production rights of medicines."Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!


    When President Clark mentioned the Jinquan Society of the "Dark Parliament", Jia Lan smiled.


    Finally, in this era, he heard of a force related to the former civilization.


    As President Clark said, the history of the Golden Power Society can be traced back to the "ancient times" before the Apocalypse Calendar, that is, the "dawn era" before the great destruction of civilization, which was also the era in which Jia Lan lived.


    In fact, the history of the Golden Power Society is much longer than people of this era know.


    In Jia Lan''s era, it was already a powerful organization that controlled the underground world of the Kingdom of Zilargo.


    Unexpectedly, more than 1,700 years have passed, and the Golden Power Society has not been buried deep underground with the earth vein explosion and the previous civilization. Instead, it has continued to this day and continues to thrive on the land of Zilargo County.


    Perhaps the current Golden Power Society has no direct blood relationship with the Golden Power Society of the previous era, but Jia Lan believes that the current Golden Power Society should be inherited by some members of the Golden Power Society of the previous era.


    Otherwise, their organizational structure and methods of doing things would not be so similar.


    After sighing for a while, Jia Lan smiled and asked: "Is the power of the Jinquan Society so huge?"


    "Power and wealth are the most powerful weapons of the Jinquan Society!" President Clark said, "I believe you know a little about the social environment of Zilargo County. You should know that there are no "nobles" in the traditional sense in the entire Zilargo County."


    President Clark and President Clifford looked at each other and nodded carefully: "Since the Federation era in the 13th century of Apocalypse, Zilargo County has always adopted the political management model of the "city-state parliament system", and there is no so-called king or royal family."


    "Even if some city-states in Zilargo County are controlled by powerful lords, these lords who call themselves "city lords" are at most the heads of powerful families, not nobles."


    President Clark frowned and said: "However, although these powerful families do not have the identity and name of nobles, the power, wealth and force they possess make their status no different from that of real nobles."


    "Although not recognized by traditional nobles, under the operation of the Gold Power Association, there is still a set of aristocratic system in the society of Zilargo County, which is called the ''golden power aristocracy''. The titles of these gold power aristocrats are not measured by the size of the territory and the strength of the military force in ancient times."


    President Clark said disdainfully: "It is based on the amount of wealth and the influence controlled. The original noble title is operated by them as a special ''title''."


    "That''s right! Don''t underestimate these gold power aristocrats. Although they do not have any noble power, they do not have to fulfill any noble obligations."


    "To the society of Zilargo County, they are a group of greedy parasites who only know how to ask for but not how to give back! Their harm is even greater than those domineering nobles!"


    President Clifford nodded and echoed: "As long as you join the Gold Power Association and donate a sum of money to the Gold Power Association, you can get the title of a gold power aristocrat, and thus join this huge circle of interests to share the wealth."


    "The sixteenth-level inferior gold title almost covers the small landlords, small manor owners, small businessmen and other people at the bottom of society in Zilargo County;"


    "And the tenth-level middle gold title has become an important means for them to lure other members of the power system to join;"


    "As for the highest five-level high gold title, it is exclusive to the senior members of the Gold Power Association, and it is impossible for latecomers to get involved."


    "It can be said that the tentacles of the Gold Power Association have penetrated every class and every group in Zilargo County. You can imagine how huge their power is!"


    President Clifford looked at Jia Lan who was listening carefully: "The reason why we can compete with them now is that the Gold Power Association is still a little afraid of the mercenary guild behind Clark and the Eternal Hammer Auction House behind me in the Pan-Continental region."


    "Secondly, there are also certain factional struggles within the Gold Power Association, which have not yet been launched; thirdly, the pharmaceutical industry is just an insignificant one among the many industries controlled by the Gold Power Association. What we did did not touch the fundamental interests of the other party..."

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    President Clifford paused for a moment, looked at Jia Lan and said, "The potions produced by the Apothecary Guild are just a means for them to control armed organizations such as the Mercenary Guild and the Adventurer Guild and serve them, rather than a profitable industry, so the other party''s reaction is so slow."


    "However, the potions produced by the Lemley Potion Workshop have now demonstrated an amazing ability to make money. I guess this should have attracted the attention and covetousness of the top leaders of the "Golden Power Association."


    "Next, I''m afraid it will provoke the other party to take full action! They will never allow such a lucrative potion industry to fall into the hands of anyone other than them!"


    "The "Golden Power Association" will do whatever it takes to make money. We are worried that the power of the Mercenary Guild and the Eternal Hammer Auction House behind us is not enough to curb their greed."


    "After all, Clifford and I are only managers of small city-level branches. It is impossible for the General Association to conflict with such a huge force as the "Golden Power Association" for us!"


    President Clark said solemnly: "Therefore, if we want to get the support of the General Association, we must have chips in our hands that are enough to attract the attention of the General Association, such as the source of medicines needed by the mercenary guilds of the entire seven continents! This is also the reason why I am eager to expand the production capacity of Lemley''s medicine workshop in the Castle of Doom!"


    "The ''chips'' in our hands are still insufficient. If we can add some ''chips'', such as the support of Komo College..."


    At this point, the two looked at Jia Lan expectantly, and President Clifford added cautiously: "You know, the enemy we are facing now is just a ''baron'' among the rich and powerful nobles!"


    Jia Lan did not respond to the two immediately, but fell into deep thought.


    At this point, his experimental project of "testing the impact and conflict of the alien world system on the current social environment" seems to need to expand the scope and intensity of the experiment, otherwise it is very likely that the experiment will fail due to the intervention of the "Golden Power Association".


    "Have you heard of the True Knowledge Society?" After a long silence, Jia Lan looked up and asked the two of them, which made them stunned for a moment. After thinking carefully, they all shook their heads.


    "Well... If you don''t know the True Knowledge Society, then it''s easy!" Jia Lan suddenly laughed, with a faint light flashing in his black eyes, which made Clark and Clifford feel a layer of fine cold sweat on their backs.


    Just when the two were still wondering where this inexplicable sense of danger came from, Jia Lan had put the briefcase he carried with him on the table and took out a stack of documents from it, but did not give it to them immediately, but revised it on the spot.


    In Jia Lan''s view, this so-called "Golden Power Society" is actually just a local powerful force in Zilargo County. It uses the "Golden Power Society" model of the previous civilization, relying on blood marriage, money temptation, power coercion and other means, as well as their huge local advantages and complex interest relations, to weave a huge power network.


    This kind of power institution was not very powerful in the pre-civilization era, and could only wield power in some remote areas at most.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    The pre-civilization Kingdom of Zirago also adopted the parliamentary system.


    The citizens elected nine councilors from the three cities of Kolanburg, Tolan Port, and Zelanburg, which have special status, to form the "Three Cities Council" to manage the entire Kingdom of Zirago.


    Although the "Three Cities Council" was also infiltrated by institutions such as the Gold Power Union at that time, it was far less unscrupulous and lawless than the Gold Power Union of today.


    The core reason is that compared with the loose "city-state parliament system" of modern times, the pre-civilization "Three Cities Council" not only has a relatively centralized power structure, but also the members of the parliament are closely supervised by the "Mage Supervision Association" composed of high-level mages from the Kolanburg Library, thus ensuring a more sound and complete legal system.


    Secondly, in the pre-civilization period, the "Golden Power Society" of the Kingdom of Zilargo did not form a monopoly.


    In addition to being subject to the dual constraints of the Three City Council and the Mage Supervision Association, there is also a secret organization aimed at maintaining the order of the Kingdom of Zilargo-the True Knowledge Society.


    If the "Golden Power Society" is an "order destroyer", then the True Knowledge Society is an "order maintainer".


    Despite the opposition between the two sides, under the influence of the Three City Council and the supervision of the Mage Supervision Association, they jointly promoted the development of the Kingdom of Zilargo.


    However, in modern times, Komo University, which replaced the status of the Kolanburg Library, chose to remain neutral and not get involved in the political field.


    The magicians who were originally able to form the "Mage Supervision Association" focused on personal research and were indifferent to external affairs.


    The city-state parliament similar to the "Three City Council" appears to be extremely loose, and the True Knowledge Society, which should have been the opponent of the "Golden Power Society", is completely missing.


    This undoubtedly provides an opportunity for the modern "Golden Power Society" to act recklessly.


    Therefore, Jia Lan decisively adjusted the original plan and decided to rebuild the True Knowledge Society!


    He submitted a heavy document to President Clark and President Clifford, which involved the establishment plan of "Kolan Lemli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." which was funded by "True Knowledge Venture Capital Corporation" under "Kovare Mystery Group".


    Jia Lan introduced to the two: "''Kelan Lemli Pharmacy Co., Ltd.'' (hereinafter referred to as ''Kelan Pharmacy'') will be held by ''Zhenzhi Venture Capital Corporation'' (hereinafter referred to as ''Zhenzhi Venture Capital'') with an initial equity of 51%."


    He further explained: "The owner of ''Lemli Pharmacy Workshop'', ''Keao Research Institute'', will hold 15% of the initial equity in the form of technology investment. And I, as the agent of Keao Research Institute, will serve as the CEO of Kelan Pharmacy and hold 4% of the initial equity."


    "Of the remaining 30% of the initial equity, 10% will be held by the partners ''Mercenary Guild Kelan Branch'' and ''Eternal Hammer Auction House Kelan Branch'', 6% and 4% respectively."


    Jia Lan added: "The other 10% will be issued as 10 million shares of ''Kelan Pharmacy Stock'' for future members to join the ''Kelan Pharmacy Zhenzhi Branch''. The value of each share will fluctuate with the market."


    "The remaining 10% will be used as ''bearer dividend shares'', of which 5% will be awarded to managers who have made outstanding contributions to Cole Pharmaceuticals, and 5% will be awarded to all employees. The holders of these shares only enjoy the right to dividends, but do not have equity ownership and voting rights."


    "Dividend shares" are associated with the corresponding positions. After the personnel are transferred or leave, the dividend shares will be adjusted or the dividend qualification will be cancelled according to the new position.


    Jia Lan noticed that the two were still confused and nodded with satisfaction.


    He admitted that he only referred to the so-called "share system" in the memory left by the soul of the other world and made a preliminary application.


    After announcing the equity rules of Cole Pharmaceuticals, Jia Lan added: "The final right of interpretation of the above-mentioned belongs to Zhenzhi Society."


    He did not give further explanation to the two who still did not understand, but continued to submit several documents, inviting them to serve as executive vice presidents of Cole Pharmaceuticals.


    President Clark and President Clifford looked at each other, picked up the "Executive Vice President Employment Letter" submitted by Jia Lan and read it carefully.


    Although they knew the characters, which were the common language on the mainland, the content was very confusing to them.

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    President Clark gently put down the document that seemed to contain some mysterious contract terms, and asked Jia Lan in a cautious tone: "Mr. Jia Lan, maybe I can ask you to explain it to us in detail from the beginning?"


    In response to Clark''s request, Jia Lan was silent for a moment, then took out two documents with a thickness of more than 50 pages and handed them to them, indicating that they should study them by themselves when they have free time.


    President Clark did not give up and continued to ask: "Then, can you please explain the specific meaning of ''True Knowledge Society''?"


    Jia Lan explained: "''True Knowledge Society'', the full name of ''True Knowledge Mutual Aid Society'', is a union-like organization established by True Knowledge Venture Capital to protect the rights and interests of all shareholders of its holding companies, aiming to cover all companies under True Knowledge Venture Capital in the future."


    Although Jia Lan has tried his best to explain, Clark and Clifford are still confused, and it is obvious that they need more time to understand and digest this information.


    Jia Lan did not elaborate too much, but directly pointed out the most critical point: "In the future, Cole Pharmaceuticals will set up ''Cole Pharmaceuticals First-level Sales Branch'' in every city on the seven continents of the world, and it will have ''Second-level Sales Subsidiaries'' and ''Third-level Sales Franchise Stores'' under its jurisdiction."


    "The scope of financing will be limited to these first-, second- and third-level branches, subsidiaries and franchise stores. Shareholders must be members of the True Knowledge Society and be willing to assume corresponding responsibilities and obligations before they can enjoy corresponding rights and benefits."


    After listening to what Jia Lan said, Clark and Clifford compared the documents in their hands, pondered for a long time, and suddenly showed a look of shock.


    Although they have not yet fully understood, they have initially gained insight into the complex relationship between Keao Group, True Knowledge Venture Capital, Cole Pharmaceuticals, Keao Research Institute, True Knowledge Mutual Aid Society and its three-level branches and subsidiaries.


    They are more aware that the "True Knowledge Society" plays a vital role in this huge system - personnel control, interest binding and concept indoctrination.


    The huge benefits contained in Cole Pharmacy are irresistible, and many forces are eager to make a move but have no idea where to start.


    And Jia Lan''s plan undoubtedly provides them with a rare opportunity.


    Once they join this interest group, they will be deeply branded by this group.


    Without the need for external drive, they will also go all out for their own interests and join hands with other vested interests to fight against those forces that covet their interests.


    On the surface, Cole Pharmacy seems to be sharing part of the benefits with others, but in fact it cleverly uses the funds, channels and forces provided by shareholders to establish a huge network of branches and subsidiaries.


    At the same time, it also binds everyone tightly to its "chariot".If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Clark and Clifford can''t help but feel excited.


    They foresee that once this interest group connected by the "True Knowledge Society" is completed, it will quickly form a power community similar to the Money Rights Union.


    Previously, they were unable to compete with the Money Power Union that had infiltrated all levels of society in Zilargo County because they lacked similar institutions.


    Now, according to the blueprint outlined in this plan, they can use the temptation of interests to integrate the forces of those non-Money Power Union members and form a huge interest group that can directly compete with or even completely suppress the Money Power Union.


    "It seems that you two have understood. With your abilities, you should be able to investigate which people are members of the Jinquan Society, right? You can also select the first batch of people who are suitable for the development of the Zhenzhi Society members, right?"


    Looking at the expressions of the two, Jia Lan laughed: "For the first batch of investors, please try to choose people who are suitable for the future development of the Zhenzhi Society. The number does not need to be too large."


    "Depending on the size of the city, you can develop people like you two who have a certain influence in the local area and are oppressed by the Jinquan Society..."


    Considering the huge profits that will be generated by the three-level chain organizations under the "Kolan Lemli Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd." once it is established, and the possible temptation to the powerful people in various places, Jia Lan did not say it firmly.


    Instead, after thinking for a while, Jia Lan added: "How about this, each city will divide the first, second and third level agents according to different situations, and allow them to jointly invest or recommend them to buy the "Colai Pharmaceutical Stock" of branches and subsidiaries."


    "If there are individuals or forces who are unwilling to jointly invest, there is no need to conflict with them. Just tell them politely that Colai Pharmaceutical is just one of the investment projects of Zhenzhi Venture Capital, and there will be a lot of cooperation opportunities in the future."


    Clark and Clifford looked at each other, both showing shock.


    After Jia Lan''s explanation, they have gradually understood the composition structure of the entire system.


    From the mysterious "Keao Group" at the top of the pyramid, to the "Zhenzhi Venture Capital" that holds all companies, to the "Colai Pharmaceutical" that operates externally and the three-level agents below, and the "Keao Research Institute and Zhenzhi Mutual Aid Society" that are independent of the entire system but directly affect the development of the entire system.


    The "grading system" adopted by this huge structure has almost all the people who join this system firmly under control.


    It can accommodate intercontinental forces such as the Mercenary Guild, which covers seven continents, and can also accommodate small traders at the bottom of society to join.


    Whether it is the rigor of the organizational structure or the coverage of social classes, it is huge and broad.


    What is even more amazing is that this system reflects the sharing of benefits from top to bottom, not just the upper class exploiting the lower class.


    This is much stronger than the oppressive and exploitative system of the Financial Power Association, which relies on power and wealth, violently coerces others, and forces others to rely on and submit to their rule.


    Although they are both interest groups, one actively supports it in order to protect its own interests from infringement by outsiders, while the other is forced to obey in order to prevent its own interests from being plundered.


    Can the power that members of the two can exert be of the same order of magnitude?


    While the two of them were still in shock, Jia Lan continued: "... Well, in order to facilitate future management, the two of you will be responsible for contacting and selecting personnel. After determining the number of franchisees, we will gather these franchisees to the Castle of Doom to hold the first shareholders'' meeting."


    Jia Lan smiled gently. Although his dark eyes flashed with black light, looking weird and evil, he seductively explained the plan that has gradually become perfect:


    "At that time, the head office will convey the company''s unified management system to members at the shareholders'' meeting, requiring all branches, subsidiaries, and franchise stores to maintain a high degree of consistency with the head office. Whether it is corporate culture, organizational system, humanistic style, personnel clothing, concept slogans... they will all be unified!"

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    Clark and Clifford listened to Jia Lan''s narration attentively and tried their best to remember what he said, but they did not realize that they were gradually falling into the abyss created by Jia Lan, like ordinary people tempted by the devil.


    They have not yet realized that in the knowledge system of the other world that Jia Lan has come into contact with, there is a strategy called "dissemination business sales method".


    This method does not require any supernatural means such as mental power, illusion or control, and can manipulate people''s hearts with language skills alone. Its power is chilling.


    Even Jia Lan, who is proficient in illusion and control spells and is immune to the effects of control due to the "dual soul" trait, is afraid and trembling about this evil knowledge.


    This method is invisible and intangible, and it is difficult to defend through mental exemption. It directly acts on people''s souls and minds, and its destructive power even exceeds the most evil devil''s contract.


    Fortunately, Jia Lan is not currently using this evil rhetoric, but only borrowing the concept from it and adopting a conventional business model.


    In Jia Lan''s view, even the conventional business methods in the knowledge system of the other world are enough to have a huge impact and destruction on the society of this era.


    As for the extremely destructive "other world devil", it is difficult for him to control it with his current ability.


    Even Jia Lan, who was praised by his teacher as "a devil hidden in the soul and magma flowing in the blood", did not dare to release those terrible "other world devils" easily unless it was absolutely necessary.


    Since Jia Lan woke up in this era, he left the library, college, laboratory and other environments that restricted his activities specially created for him by his teacher, and a certain "seal" on his body was gradually loosening.


    The nature of yearning for freedom in his blood began to stir, and a certain mysterious instinct continued to sprout deep in his heart, making it increasingly difficult for him to suppress his curiosity.


    However, the long-term constraints of the teacher have made Jia Lan develop good habits.


    At the same time, the strict prohibitions set by the teacher can also make Jia Lan aware of his subtle changes, so that he can take precautions vigilantly.


    Therefore, the prohibition effect of the "Law Spell" left by the teacher in his soul that still existed in his mind prompted Jia Lan to rationally make a promise of "not releasing the devil from another world first".


    However, the recent actions of the Pharmacist Guild and the Financial Power Association behind the scenes inevitably made Jia Lan feel a little excited, as if cheering in his mind: "Come on! Come on! Let''s make things more interesting!"


    This curiosity and excitement about the unknown world made Jia Lan excited and scared.


    He had never left the scope of the Colanburg Library, nor had he lived alone. He was like a fledgling that secretly left the nest, excited and terrified.


    When Jia Lan finished his narration with a lingering feeling, Clark and Clifford wiped their cold sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.


    Although Jia Lan only gave a brief explanation, the amount of information contained in it was extremely huge, and it took them a lot of time to digest it.


    Seeing that the two could not fully understand it for a while, Jia Lan was not in a hurry to urge them.


    He just left the plan for establishing Cole Pharmaceutical Company that he had prepared during this period in his suitcase, as well as relevant information on company structure, management, etc., so that they could study it in depth when they had time.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    Seeing that Jia Lan was about to leave, President Clifford suddenly remembered the reason why he came to meet Jia Lan this time, and hurriedly stopped him and asked, "Can you prepare some high-quality potions recently?"


    Jia Lan was puzzled when he heard this.


    In their plan, high-quality potions did not play a big role in potion dumping.


    Even if the price was high, it was only for a very small number of high-level professionals, and the audience was extremely limited.


    However, after listening to Clifford''s explanation, Jia Lan suddenly realized.


    In the potion dumping plan, compared with the key role played by the Colan branch of the Mercenary Guild, the influence of the Colan branch of the Eternal Hammer Auction House seemed relatively limited.


    The profits it earned were not enough to attract the attention of the headquarters of the Eternal Hammer Auction House.


    After all, the profit model of the auction house mainly depends on the reputation of the auction items.


    The more valuable the auction item is, the higher the transaction price will be, and the reputation of the auction house will also be improved, thereby attracting more customers to entrust the auction, thereby achieving greater economic benefits.


    Previously, Jia Lan had commissioned the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group to deliver a batch of "special, super, and extremely effective" quality violet cream to the Eternal Hammer Coran Branch.


    The quality level of this batch of potions is equivalent to the contemporary silver-level high-grade potions.


    For this reason, President Clifford, who was eager to improve the reputation of the Eternal Hammer Coran Branch at the time, was willing to waive the transaction fee and auction this batch of silver potions for Jia Lan for free.


    It should be noted that in this era, although high-quality potions do exist, their production is extremely limited.


    If black iron potions are the quality that mercenaries can generally access, then bronze potions are the best potions that mercenaries can obtain.


    As for silver-level potions, they are even rarer and more difficult to buy. You can only buy them easily if you have money, and you need luck to occasionally encounter them.


    President Clifford''s intention of calling Jia Lan was to expect him to provide a batch of high-quality potions to improve the reputation of the auction house.


    Of course, it would be even better if Jia Lan could provide silver-level potions stably for a long time.


    Out of consideration for supporting allies, Jia Lan agreed after a little thought.


    With his ability, he was originally unable to stably prepare extremely effective potions.


    However, the medicinal materials of this era are old and have excellent efficacy.


    If precious medicinal materials are sacrificed, relying on the medicinal effects of the medicinal materials themselves, increasing the dosage to improve the quality of the potion, it is not difficult to prepare silver-level high-level potions.


    It''s just that this behavior is a bit extravagant.


    If a real pharmacist is used to prepare, the same quality of medicinal materials may be able to prepare "rare" or even "elite" potions, that is, gold-quality potions.


    President Clifford was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked Jia Lan for the tools and materials he needed, and quickly arranged for people to send them to Komo College.


    Seeing that President Clifford was so anxious, Jia Lan asked Div to return to the Komo University Library and asked Alan to take out a batch of potions that he had stored in the cabinet of the administrator''s cabin.


    Knowing that Jia Lan had a batch of ready-made high-quality potions, President Clifford no longer wanted to study the company system with Clark, and decisively abandoned the president of the mercenary branch and enthusiastically invited Jia Lan to participate in the auction tonight.


    Jia Lan shrugged innocently at President Clark, and followed President Clifford to see the auction of this era.


    The Eternal Hammer is not far from the Mercenary Guild, and is on the Adventure Street, but on the other side.


    Therefore, Jia Lan and President Clifford did not take a separate car, but put on a cloak and a hood to cover their faces, walked out of the Mercenary Guild Hall, and walked with the crowd.


    President Clark believed that there were risks in such a trip, so he specially sent two silver senior mercenaries to accompany him secretly for protection.


    If it weren''t for the fact that there were more people, it would have attracted more attention. President Clark would have wanted to send a team of silver mercenaries to protect Jia Lan, who was extremely important to the Kolan branch.


    After all, the Pharmacist Guild and the Money Power Union behind it were frantically looking for Jia Lan to destroy their plans.


    Once Jia Lan was alone and encountered a killer under the Money Power Union, he might encounter unexpected danger even if his magic power was strong.


    However, the Money Power Union was not so bold as to attack and kill a Komo University magician in public.


    Although the senior magicians in Komo University did not care about worldly affairs, it did not mean that they would remain indifferent when someone bullied them.

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    Although the Jinquan Society is extremely powerful in Zilargo County, it definitely does not dare to easily provoke Komo University.


    This magic institution not only enjoys a high reputation in Zilargo, but also occupies an extremely special position in the entire seven continents.


    Let alone anything else, if an old man above the level of a great magician walks out of Komo University and casts powerful magic such as meteor showers or skyfires to their nest in the middle of the night while everyone is asleep, the consequences will be disastrous.


    Therefore, as long as Jia Lan is escorted by two silver senior mercenaries and does not deviate from the main road with many people, he should not encounter too many problems.


    Moreover, this seemingly young magician Jia Lan, who wears a light blue magic robe of a level 1 magic apprentice all day long, is far from being as harmless as he looks.


    The wall of the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group¡¯s base has collapsed and has not been repaired due to an accident of his.


    Jia Lan rarely had the opportunity to go shopping, so he was very interested in the dazzling array of shops on Adventure Street.


    He walked and stopped, stopped from time to time to ask about the prices of goods, and occasionally took out a notebook to write and draw, recording something.


    Clifford, who was following beside him, was full of admiration, thinking to himself: As expected of Mr. Magician who has developed such a huge institutional system, he never forgets to conduct "market research" at any time even when shopping.


    Just as he was happy that he had mastered a new term, the two had already walked to the vicinity of the gorgeous building of the Eternal Hammer Auction House.


    When Clifford was about to invite Jia Lan to follow him into the auction house, Jia Lan suddenly pointed to a crowded alley on both sides of Adventure Street and asked: "What is this place for? Why are there so many people?"


    "It''s a flea market full of garbage, rags and scammers. There will be some adventurers and mercenaries reselling the spoils obtained during adventures there. Basically, there is nothing valuable..." Clifford glanced at it and looked down on it with disdain.


    He had long been dissatisfied with this place, which was located right behind the Eternal Hammer auction house. He had tried many times to persuade the Civil Affairs Council to sell the vacant land to the Eternal Hammer for expansion, but he was always unable to do so for various reasons.


    However, before he finished speaking, he was surprised to find that Jia Lan had already walked towards the flea market.


    Clifford sighed and had to follow him.


    Although this young magician was talented, he was still a young man after all, and was curious about everything.


    A place where mercenaries resell junk may have a different flavor in his eyes.


    Surprisingly, this flea market, which can only be reached through a narrow alley, actually covers a large area, but is only covered by the glamorous street shops on Adventure Street.The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.


    The flea market is surrounded by some shabby small shops, and the narrow shops are filled with all kinds of strange goods inside and outside.


    In the middle of the market, rows of stalls and tents are built with wooden boards and animal skins.


    More mercenaries sat on the ground, with a piece of animal skin in front of them and one or two scattered items.


    As Clifford said, at first glance, the goods randomly placed and piled in front of the store looked more like rags and garbage.


    In the eyes of ordinary people, it is absolutely impossible to see what use those broken stones and tiles have.


    Jia Lan looked around, looked at the owners of the small shops around him who were chatting lazily with acquaintances, and looked at the mercenaries sitting on the ground.


    He decided to visit the mercenaries'' stalls first.


    The experience during this period told him that perhaps the items that were useless in the eyes of others were extremely valuable to him.


    Before he had taken a few steps, Jia Lan found some interesting things on an adventurer''s stall.


    "Hey, little guy, do you want to see the treasures of Uncle Cracked Hammer?" The stall owner was a burly man. He waved to Jia Lan who stopped in front of the stall. The smile he tried to squeeze out on his face was more like a provocation than a greeting.


    Jia Lan squatted down without caring, turned over a few items placed on the animal skin, and asked curiously: "What are these?"


    "Hey! Speaking of these treasures, we have to mention Uncle Cracked Hammer''s adventure this time!" The big man boasted proudly, "These are all antiques that Uncle Cracked Hammer risked his life to dig out from the Paluzor ruins deep in the Sea Wall Mountains!"


    "Look at this! This was knocked off the wall by Uncle Cracked Hammer after he killed more than 800 ferocious mountain wolves and rushed into a basement in the Paluzor ruins!" He raised a piece of rusty and broken metal with saliva flying.


    There were some strange words faintly engraved on the metal. Lie Hammer rubbed his hands and said uncertainly: "I guess it must be a magic spell from ancient times, or a treasure map."


    Jia Lan glanced at the few words that could barely be recognized on it, and he could actually recognize it: the processing catalog of the Tongchui Blacksmith Shop.


    Jia Lan smiled and picked up another thing. It was this thing that attracted his attention.


    It was four "U"-shaped black iron bars. Although there was no rust, it was obvious at a glance that these were probably horseshoes left behind by an ancient warhorse after its death. What was rare was that none of the four were lost.


    "Boy, you have a good eye! You saw the treasure of Master Liechui''s treasure at first sight!" Seeing that Jia Lan was not interested in the broken metal plate, the big man Liechui threw it on the animal skin with a bang, and then raised the horseshoe and continued to brag: "This is what Master Liechui took off from the hoof of a black knight''s mount skeleton horse after killing more than 1,200 evil skeletons..."


    "A scrap horseshoe?" Clifford behind Jia Lan couldn''t help but taunted, "Are you going to say that the half-broken hilt next to it is the sword of the black knight, the Sword of Hellfire?"


    The big man Liechui was speechless for a moment, and suddenly got angry. He stood up and roared: "You can insult Master Liechui''s personality! But you can''t insult Master Liechui''s treasure! I want to tell you..."


    Jia Lan interrupted Master Liechui''s words without caring, and asked curiously: "How much?"


    The big man, Liechu, who was about to fight Clifford, immediately squatted down again and smiled flatteringly: "This pair of skeleton horseshoes only costs 800 gold talans! If you buy it, it will also come with an ancient magic spell engraving and the hilt of the Black Knight''s Hellfire Sword!"


    Clifford rolled his eyes. This guy was so shameless that he immediately used the name "Hellfire Sword" which sounded very powerful. He was exaggerating.


    I believe that with the shrewdness of Jialan Magician, it is impossible for him to be fooled by this big-mouthed guy.


    More than 800 ferocious mountain wolves?


    More than 1,200 evil skeletons?


    This is simply too exaggerated!


    With the strength of the big man''s Black Iron Primary, a mountain wolf that has not yet been weaned can probably kill him.


    "Eight hundred gold talans? Too expensive! Can''t it be cheaper?" What almost made Clifford''s eyes pop out was that Jia Lan actually bargained with this idiot!


    "Although it''s a bit expensive, it''s definitely worth it! This is an antique from the ancient times 18,000 years ago! Even if you take it back as a collection, it''s definitely worth it... But considering that you know the value of things, five hundred gold talans... No! Fifty gold talans will do!"

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    When the big man Liechu saw Jia Lan standing up, he immediately changed the subject and directly reduced the price by ten times.


    Jia Lan shook his head and said, "It''s too expensive. I can''t afford it. I don''t have that much money."


    The big man Liechu gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! I''ll give you a discount, twenty gold Talans! No less!"


    Jia Lan still hesitated, and the big man Liechu shouted hurriedly, "Hey hey hey! Don''t go! This is an antique from 18,000 years ago... How about this, ten gold Talans!"


    Jia Lan still didn''t express his opinion, and the big man Liechu continued to lower the price: "Only ten gold Talans! No no no! Eight!?"


    Seeing that Jia Lan was still unmoved, the big man Liechu picked up a metal plate and said, "Hey! Look at this metal plate, such a big piece weighs several kilograms. Even if it is made of copper, it can be sold for two gold Talans in the blacksmith shop!"


    Jia Lan asked in confusion, "What? You said this thing is not made of copper?" The big man Liechu said, "Yes, copper products will not rust like this... Hey! Are you going to buy it or not? This is an antique!"


    In the end, Jia Lan bought the horseshoe and the metal plate for five silver gims plus two copper dandins. As for the "Sword of Hellfire", Jia Lan did not want it.


    Clifford followed Jia Lan in confusion. He did not understand the magician''s preferences.


    "Mr. Jia Lan, let''s go to the Eternal Hammer first? The auction tonight is about to start!" Clifford reminded.


    Clifford followed Jia Lan in the flea market for a long time. Finally, he couldn''t help but said when Jia Lan changed his stall: "These mercenaries and adventurers will come here to set up stalls most of the time when they don''t have missions. There will be plenty of time to come back later!"


    Because it was difficult to understand the interests and hobbies of magicians, Clifford never stopped Jia Lan from happily buying those things that he thought were completely broken.


    In his opinion, it was okay for magicians to spend a few silver gims to enjoy the fun of bargaining.


    In two hours, Jia Lan visited almost every stall of the adventurer, squatted down and stayed for a long time, and bought a lot of junk.


    However, they didn''t walk far in total, and the total cost was less than ten gold talans.


    In the end, because there were too many odds and ends bought, Clifford had to call two men from the Eternal Hammer to help Jia Lan move the junk he bought to the VIP reception room of the Eternal Hammer for storage.


    Clifford was almost ashamed under the weird eyes of his two men.


    The president of the Eternal Hammer auction house actually accompanied a magician to buy a bunch of junk in the flea market.


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    And the two silver senior mercenaries following Jia Lan and the others were even more miserable. Instead of waiting for the killers of the Golden Power Association, they caught more than a dozen pickpockets for Jia Lan!


    In order to conceal that they were protecting the magician Jia Lan, they tried almost every excuse, making the pickpockets in the flea market think that they were plainclothes inspectors of the city guard.


    Jia Lan stood up regretfully, looked at the flea market where he had only visited more than 20 stalls, and reluctantly followed Clifford to leave here and enter the Eternal Hammer through the main entrance.


    "The auction will start in an hour, you can have dinner first..." Clifford led Jia Lan into the luxurious VIP reception room of the Eternal Hammer, while introducing the auction process to Jia Lan.


    After Jia Lan entered the VIP reception room, he only responded absentmindedly twice and went straight to the pile of junk placed on the gorgeous coffee table.


    Dave waited in the reception room for a long time, and when he saw Jia Lan and the others coming back, he stood up quickly.


    Clifford didn''t care why Jia Lan was so interested in the junk, and also went straight to a medicine box next to Dave.


    He carefully opened the box and found dozens of different bottles of medicine inside.


    He took out one of the potions and looked at it, then turned around and asked Jia Lan who was fiddling with the broken ones: "These potions..."


    While wiping a horseshoe, Jia Lan casually explained: "The five bottles in your hand are rare quality ''primary first aid potions'', the effect is similar to violet ointment, but the healing speed is much faster, and injuries below moderate can be healed within five minutes..."


    Clifford was stunned, obviously a little confused about the level of "rare quality" that Jia Lan mentioned, but just listening to the effect of the potion, it feels quite similar to the gold-level healing holy product "Immortality Potion".


    He quickly asked someone to call the auction house''s appraiser to appraise the five bottles of first aid potions on the spot.


    Several appraisers used various appraisal tools and reagents, and even found a goat for a long test.


    Not long after, the chief appraiser of the Eternal Hammer, with his beard trembling with excitement, said in surprise: "Sir Clifford! This is a golden potion! At least a mid-level golden potion!"


    Clifford''s eyes lit up. He originally expected that Jia Lan could take out another batch of silver potions similar to the last violet cream, but he didn''t expect that Jia Lan would take out a golden potion!


    Golden potions, also known as "master-level potions", can only be prepared by masters who have been promoted to the level of great pharmacists. Each bottle can be sold at a sky-high price at the auction!


    After all, for those upper-class people with noble status and delicate bodies, or those high-level warriors with extraordinary strength, no matter how expensive the price is, it is not as good as their lives.


    If you can always have such a bottle of high-level first-aid potion around you, it is equivalent to having a spare life. Who would care about this little money?


    It is hard to imagine that these five bottles of golden potions were actually prepared by this young magician.


    But for Clifford, it doesn''t matter whether it was prepared by Jia Lan or not. What matters is that he can really produce high-quality potions!


    From the beginning, Clifford suspected that these high-quality potions flowing out of Jia Lan''s hands were the works of the mysterious magician team behind him.


    Looking at the golden potion in a fist-sized pottery jar, Clifford felt a burst of pain like a nervous twitch.


    He waved his hand and asked someone to bring the top-grade "Ice Crystal Potion Bottle" for high-quality potions.


    This potion bottle carved and polished with hard ice crystal stone is worth more than 100 gold talans, which is worthy of the value of this gold-level potion!


    The minimum starting price of the primary gold potion in the auction house is 500 gold talans, but the transaction price is often more than ten times!


    However, these five bottles of potions, which the young magician called "rare quality primary first aid potions", were identified by the chief appraiser as the quality of gold intermediate potions, and the starting price was at least not less than 1,000 gold talans.


    Assuming that the transaction price can be auctioned off at more than ten times, it would be a sky-high price of 10,000 gold talans!

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    Clifford was very confident that he could sell this batch of gold potions.


    Now there were many high-level warriors and rich people in Kelan City, and these gold potions would definitely be in great demand once they were auctioned.


    He felt that there was no need to advertise them, and he could just make these gold potions the last surprise of tonight''s auction and temporarily add them to the auction items.


    Each bottle of potion was filled to the brim, as many as three ice crystal potions, which made Clifford feel that Magician Jialan was really generous.


    But thinking that these potions were originally intended for his private mercenaries, the six members of the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group, Clifford could understand.


    When Clifford saw the chief appraiser take out another set of potions, he suddenly remembered that there were not only five bottles in the potion box, but dozens of bottles!


    If they were all gold-grade, it would be even more exciting.


    If these potions were separated, there would be more than a hundred bottles of gold potions!


    Usually, everyone would scramble for one bottle, but now there were so many, what should he do?


    Clifford thought about it and decided to auction only three bottles tonight, and the rest could be hyped slowly.


    Just when the chief appraiser was about to open a bottle of potion, Jia Lan suddenly shouted: "Don''t move! It will explode!"


    The chief appraiser was so scared that he didn''t move, and sweat broke out on his forehead.


    Ordinary people dare not touch the magician''s things.


    Jia Lan came over, took the potion carefully, looked at the seal, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This is the flame explosion potion, elite level, extracted from the fire stone."


    He added: "This thing is very powerful, it can blow up a small bunker."


    Everyone was scared when they heard it, especially Dave, who just took the goblin steam locomotive with this box of terrible potions and didn''t care all the way. Now think about it, it''s really a bit scary!


    Jia Lan took out bottles of strange potions from the box and explained that they were called "Environmental Tolerance Potion", which could allow people to survive between -45.6¡æ and 60¡æ.


    There was a "Light Potion" that could illuminate the darkness after being broken.


    There was also a "Dead Ignore Potion" that could make undead creatures invisible.


    President Clifford and the appraisers were stunned. They had never heard of such potions.


    A new variety of alchemical potion?


    Seeing that Jia Lan was about to return to the pile of debris after the explanation, Clifford hurriedly said, "Mr. Jia Lan, can we finish sorting these potions first and then deal with the debris? If you are interested in antiquities, there are a lot of them in our waste warehouse of the Eternal Hammer..."


    "Debris?" Jia Lan smiled and picked up the rusty metal plate: "Do you know what this is?"


    "A metal plate that is not copper?" Clifford couldn''t help but mutter, which was what Jia Lan said when he bought the metal plate before. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    With a chuckle, Jia Lan said, "This is indeed not copper, but a piece of ''refined copper''!"


    Refined copper is the pure essence of copper extracted from copper ore.


    In dimly lit places, it will show a faint glow.


    Because of its very soft texture, it is usually not used to make weapons, but its bright and pure luster is widely used to make arcane accessories or protective gear.


    For ordinary people, refining copper looks no different from common copper.


    But in the eyes of spellcasters, it means an element purifier that can filter out strong and harmful substances in the elements.


    At the same time, the trace of elemental resistance naturally present in refining copper also makes it an excellent material for mystical armor, such as refining copper mystical armor that can increase the resistance to cold by 2 levels.


    To extract refining copper, not only a large amount of copper ore is needed, but also special alchemical equipment.


    Therefore, for Jia Lan, who currently has limited conditions, being able to get a piece of refining copper is enough for him to make some items.


    In Jia Lan''s era, although refined copper was not considered an extremely rare arcane metal, the cost of one kilogram was as high as 5,000 gold coins.


    Due to the different prices and currency values ??in the two eras, this piece of copper weighing more than 2.5 kilograms cannot be simply converted into the current Jintalan unit, but its value is definitely not cheap.


    "You mean, such a large piece of metal plate is actually made of magic metal?" President Clifford took the dirty copper plate covered with rust residue from Jia Lan in disbelief, and looked closely at it, but could not see anything special.


    Several appraisers also came up and almost snatched the copper plate from the president''s hands, intending to test it immediately.


    Jia Lan smiled and said, "It''s not okay to appraise it directly like this. You have to remove the surface first..." As he said, Jia Lan stretched out his hand and touched the copper plate, and started the cleaning spell.


    Because it was buried in the wet and muddy underground, the copper plate was covered with a layer of dirt.


    Now, this layer of rust began to melt like the chocolate on the surface of ice cream, revealing the essence of copper hidden underneath.


    The copper plate, which was as bright as new, was like a shiny copper mirror, reflecting the faces of the people in front of it.


    Clifford and the appraisers'' eyes widened. This was magic metal! It was definitely magic metal!


    The beautiful golden-red copper plate was covered with a layer of glittering light, which was like a mist, making the copper plate look very mysterious.


    And this layer of light was the characteristic of magic metal. Its composition could be determined without identification.


    "If this piece of magic metal was cut into pieces and auctioned in batches..." Clifford licked his dry lips, his eyes shining.


    He didn''t care about the auction fees and profits that could be obtained from the auction of this piece of magic metal. Besides, he couldn''t charge such a trivial fee for Jia Lan, his partner and big money sponsor.


    What he really cared about was to enrich the types and grades of the auction items in the auction house.


    There are already gold potions and a variety of mysterious alchemical potions. If such a large piece of magic metal can be added, it will be enough to open a magic item special!


    Although this piece of flame magic copper is only one level higher than magic iron among elemental metals, its value is at least equivalent to nearly 100 times the weight of gold!


    No matter which kind of magic metal it is, it is not sold by kilogram.


    On the standard purchase price list of magic materials of some magic institutions, the standard price of 1 gram of flame magic copper is 10 gold talans, and it is usually sold in units of 10 grams.


    But this kind of thing is in great demand, and there are few stocks on the market, so no one is stupid enough to sell it at the standard purchase price of magic institutions. It is usually put on auction houses for auction.


    When encountering a magician or alchemist who is in urgent need of magic metal and is rich, it is common to sell it at several times the price.


    Clifford has already calculated in his mind: this piece of flame magic copper weighs more than 2.5 kilograms, and can be re-cast or cut into 250 standard pieces.


    Even if we only calculate the starting price, it is more than 25,000 gold talans!


    If the auction is held in five sessions at 50 yuan per group, Clifford is confident that the price can be more than five times, which means a large auction of more than 100,000 gold talans!


    This scale of auction is not available every day, even in the Thor''s Hammer headquarters!


    Just when Clifford was thinking happily, he suddenly froze.


    Because he remembered that just now, Jia Lan only spent more than five silver jims to buy this piece of magic metal!


    Just by changing hands, Jia Lan made a net profit of more than 240,000 times the sky-high profit!


    And just now he was still mocking the young magician for being too curious and spending money to buy a bunch of sundries!

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    As soon as Jia Lan saw Clifford''s expression, he guessed what he was thinking and said with a smile, "I won''t sell this piece of flame magic copper. I''ll keep it for other uses."


    Clifford was very disappointed when he heard this. He forgot that Jia Lan was a magician.


    This kind of magic material in the hands of a magician would definitely not be resold, not to mention that Jia Lan was a magician with great alchemy.


    "But I have other good things. You can put them in your auction house for auction!" Garland shook the horseshoe in her hand.


    Clifford swallowed his saliva and looked at the coffee table in front of Garland involuntarily.


    Yes! Just now, Jia Lan bought a lot of sundries with the piece of flame magic copper. Since a broken metal plate is worth a fortune, I think the other things won''t be junk, right?


    Clifford suddenly felt a little regretful. If he had known this, he should have gone to the flea market to buy back all the weird things...


    Clifford, who was more and more depressed the more he thought about it, couldn''t help but glared at the innocent appraisers under his command.


    These guys were the chief appraisers sent by the head office. They didn''t even find that there were ancient magic treasures hidden in the flea market that looked like a garbage dump!


    What''s the difference between this and a piece of gold wrapped in mud placed under their noses, but being picked up by others?


    Over the years, it is estimated that many treasures in the flea market have been missed by them.


    But the horseshoe in Jia Lan''s hand made Clifford curious: "What is this? Is it a horseshoe made of some magical metal?"


    "This is a damaged ''floating horseshoe''! If I''m not mistaken, this is the standard equipment of the mountain knights of Zolan Castle in the pre-dawn of civilization!" Jia Lan gently knocked on the two horseshoes, making a crisp ding-ding sound.


    Jia Lan continued, "Zoran Castle is located near the gemstone vein deep in the Sea Wall Mountains. The mountain environment is very rugged and steep. In order to maintain high-speed mobility and mountain combat capabilities, the mounts of the Zoran Castle mountain knights are equipped with this alchemical secret equipment."


    "The floating horseshoe should have been shiny silver. Wearing its mount, you can float in the air and move without being restricted by the terrain..." Jia Lan said regretfully, "But because of the decay and erosion caused by being buried underground, the floating runes and wind magic array engraved on the horseshoes have been destroyed, so now they are ineffective."


    Ancient magic treasures are the most talked-about topics among adventurers and civilians, and there are also treasures excavated from ruins on the market.


    As far as Clifford knows, a few years ago, a Barbarian Bull Orc found half a pair of two intact flying horseshoes from the ruins of the Sea Wall Mountains. As a result, he nailed the two horseshoes on his hooves and changed his job to become a unique Skywalker Berserker!


    I heard that the Barbarian Bull Orc later became the chief of the Barbarian Bull Orc Tribe and became a famous hero!


    And now, Jia Lan actually said that this inconspicuous tattered horseshoe was the legendary flying horseshoe that created a Skywalker hero, which made Clifford very excited!


    Although Jia Lan said it was damaged, since he said he would put this horseshoe on the Eternal Hammer auction, it means that he is sure to repair this magic treasure!


    Jia Lan put down the floating horseshoe and said regretfully: "I can try my best to repair it, but due to material limitations, I can''t restore its original function. At most, it can float at a height of one foot above the ground..."


    That''s also very powerful, okay?


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    Clifford can foresee that once Jia Lan repairs this horseshoe, all knights will be crazy about it!


    Money?


    It''s so vulgar to mention money in front of such a treasure!


    They will get this legendary magic equipment at any price!


    With this magic equipment, Clifford has the confidence to hold a large-scale magic item auction that will alarm the Eternal Hammer headquarters!


    "President Clifford, these things are useless to you. You can only dismantle some materials."


    When Clifford''s expectant eyes fell greedily on the pile of rags in front of Jia Lan again, Jia Lan shook his head and said, "The others are still intact, such as this ''Staff of Light''..."


    Jia Lan picked up a metal staff about one foot long and continued, "Just tap the head of the staff, it can release bright light that is enough to illuminate a radius of 10 meters, and dim light with a radius of 10 meters, like a torch. The brightness is roughly equivalent to the sunlight at noon... But it''s worthless."


    "What...what? You said it''s worthless!?" Clifford almost cursed. Do you know what this kind of adventure equipment that can provide stable and long-term lighting in underground ruins means to adventurers? It means safety!!!


    Especially when entering ruins hidden by monsters that are afraid of light, holding this thing is like a protective umbrella. You can enter the monsters'' treasure house effortlessly and choose treasures at will!


    Facing President Clifford''s excited expression, Jia Lan was stunned for a moment, then said thoughtfully: "Is there no alchemist who can make the ''Staff of Light'' now?"


    ''Staff of Light''? Clifford stared at Jia Lan with wide eyes.


    Jia Lan nodded and waved the short metal staff in his hand: "This is an alchemical product very similar to the Staff of Light. It has low lighting brightness and short duration. It is a disposable product with relatively low manufacturing cost... It is similar to the nature of a torch, but it can last for more than 6 hours."


    Clifford''s eyes flashed: "Then can you mass produce it?"


    "It is not difficult to make this kind of low-level alchemical product, but it takes a lot of time. If I rely on myself alone, the lighting staff I make is barely enough for my own use and cannot be sold to others." Jia Lan thought about it with some embarrassment, and continued: "After all, alchemical products are different from low-level potions that do not require high abilities. It is impossible to train ordinary employees to assist in production. Besides, I personally don''t have that much time to be responsible for the manufacture of alchemical products."


    Clifford laughed: "What if there is a group of alchemists to assist you?"


    Jia Lan raised his eyebrows unexpectedly and asked: "I don''t quite understand what you mean."


    "New Sharn, the city of a thousand towers in the Right Sword Bay of Breland County, is a famous alchemy holy land in the seven continents, and the headquarters of the Alchemy Guild is also there!" Clifford laughed and said, "We can hire a group of New Sharn alchemists and alchemy workers. Although we need to pay them a lot of salary, if we can build an alchemy workshop, any investment is worth it!"


    Hearing that he could recruit alchemists, Jia Lan couldn''t help but be moved.


    His own strength was too weak, and it was too time-consuming to make some items. For example, the alien world equipment he was trying to improve recently, if he had a group of helpers, the progress would be improved tenfold or a hundredfold.


    Jia Lan thought about it and nodded that it was necessary to build an alchemy laboratory for future development.


    With his current ability, the alchemy products he could make were mostly low-level, but they should be enough in the early stages of development.


    He is not like he was under the protection of his teacher now. He is very poor now.


    Although the prospects of Cole Pharmaceutical seem good, the annual output value has reached nearly 30 million gold coins based on the current production capacity.


    But the problem is that after deducting the cost of Cole Pharmaceutical, the reserved working capital and development funds, the remaining amount that he can withdraw at will is not even enough to complete the infrastructure he envisions for Cole Pharmaceutical.


    If Jia Lan really follows the habit of presiding over more than a dozen super-large experimental bases under his teacher''s name, it will not even be enough to purchase the equipment for one of the laboratories.


    The construction cost of a large alchemical furnace in the alchemical test base alone is probably more than 30 million gold coins.


    So let alone those hardware facilities that burn money, the annual funds of 30 million gold coins, even if used as project establishment funds for experiments, are not enough to squander on several projects.


    Especially when encountering a crazy mage who attempts to build a starry channel or attempts to reproduce the technology of the ancient Nesser arcane civilization, that little money will be even more useless.


    When Jia Lan was reviewing the project plans of the mages for his teacher in the previous civilization, he encountered a madman who planned to study the "Nesser energy core" and build a floating continent...


    Just as the mages said self-deprecatingly: "Magicians are the richest people in the world, but the poorest people in the world are also mages, because as mages, they are always short of money!"


    In comparison, Jia Lan now has almost nothing, and can be regarded as a model of a spellcaster who started from scratch.


    Because of the lack of various arcane infrastructure, his arcane strength is only theoretical, and it is extremely slow to improve.


    So far, he has only recovered to the peak state of a high-level mage apprentice, and has never been able to break through the rank limit and restore his strength as a 1st-level mage.

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    The advancement of a mage is not like what some mediocre people imagine, that one can become a master just by defeating small monsters and accumulating combat experience.


    Almost every successful mage relies on extensive knowledge and huge experimental data.


    Without the data support provided by the Kolanburg Library and accumulated by generations of mage predecessors over thousands of years, even a genius like Jia Lan, even with a head full of theories, can only sigh at the vast sea of ??mysteries.


    Clifford didn''t know that so many ideas had flashed through Jia Lan''s mind in such a short time.


    He was just proposing tentatively, but he didn''t expect Jia Lan to agree.


    He had long noticed Jia Lan''s extraordinary abilities in the fields of pharmaceuticals, alchemy, and enchantment.


    This can be seen from the fact that the various potions and alchemy products that Jia Lan brought out are completely different from those basic products on the market that do not have private property rights, and Jia Lan''s uniqueness can be seen.


    He speculated that there must be a powerful team of magicians behind Jia Lan.


    As long as he can get a few rare alchemical product formulas from this team of senior magicians, such as the light staff that Jia Lan just mentioned, it will be enough to support an alchemical workshop and feed an alchemical store.


    Unlike his old friend Clark, who focuses on the pharmacy industry that is beneficial to the mercenary guild, Clifford''s plan is more ambitious!


    In this pioneering era that advocates adventure, industries such as archaeology, exploration, and the development of former civilization ruins all require a large number of special alchemical products and magic equipment, which ordinary craftsmen cannot meet the needs of adventurers and mercenaries.


    Once he can intervene in this blank market full of hungry demand and get involved in this high-end field, what he can get will not only be the benefits, but also the increase in fame, reputation and influence.


    This makes Clifford have to pay attention.


    Both parties have their own needs, so they naturally hit it off.


    Clifford didn''t even bother to host the regular auction that had already started, and planned to discuss with Jia Lan, wishing to build an alchemical workshop tomorrow.


    However, Jia Lan smiled and appeased the enthusiastic Clifford, saying that he still needed to make some preparations for the establishment of the alchemy workshop, and he would confirm with him after he was ready.


    However, he did not intend to leave Clifford idle, and naturally gave him the responsibility of sending people to the Thousand Towers City New Sarn to recruit alchemists and alchemy craftsmen, as well as the storage of various conventional alchemy raw materials.


    After finally calming down the excited Clifford, Jia Lan realized that the auction had already begun.


    While he was casually watching the auction in the auction house below from the balcony of the VIP reception room, he mentioned the Eternal Hammer Waste Warehouse that Clifford had just mentioned.


    Clifford was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered.


    Judging from the previous situation, this young magician not only has outstanding strength in the fields of medicine, alchemy and enchantment, but also seems to have extraordinary abilities in the fields of archaeology and identification.Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.


    This made him involuntarily look forward to the things in the Eternal Hammer Waste Warehouse.


    Those items were all sent by the Eternal Hammer Auction House during its auctions over the years.


    Most of them were strange items whose value could not be determined after appraisal by appraisers.


    For such items whose origins were unknown and whose functions could not be determined, if the bidders insisted on auctioning them, the auction house would usually suggest that they conduct an "unreserved auction" and put them in several small auction houses of the Eternal Hammer for those who wanted to try their luck on Taobao.


    Maybe if they were lucky, there would be a fool willing to spend money to buy them and collect them.


    But in many cases, more than half of the items in the auction will fail to sell.


    Except for a very small number of people who are willing to bear the high appraisal fees and auction handling fees and choose to take back the items, the vast majority of people simply give up their unsold items and use them directly to pay Eternal Hammer as auction fees.


    This "zero no reserve auction" model is specially launched by Everlasting Hammer to compete with several other large auction houses for market share.


    First of all, "no reserve auction" has almost no operating costs. It only needs to vacate a few small auction houses to regularly exhibit those strange items.


    No one can say whether a few rare and mysterious treasures that people don''t know will suddenly appear among these items.


    Even if only one treasure appears among a thousand items, it is considered a profit.


    Secondly, this form is also to cultivate customer groups.


    Most of the bidders who choose the "no reserve auction" are adventurers and mercenaries. Because they cannot afford the appraisal fee, they are also unwilling to sell the strange trophies obtained from adventures on the street at extremely low prices like vendors in flea markets, so the Eternal Hammer also gives them an opportunity.


    These low-level mercenaries and adventurers will always grow, and perhaps several famous big names will emerge.


    And the Eternal Hammer that once "helped" them will also win their trust and become their loyal customers.


    When they have real good things in their hands, the first choice is naturally the Eternal Hammer.


    Therefore, cultivating customer groups with almost zero-cost operations is a sure-win behavior.


    Since the appraisers of the auction house can occasionally pick out a few good things from these worthless unsold items, they cannot be thrown away directly.


    Over time, these strange unsold items have accumulated more and more, and they have to vacate warehouses to store them.


    Although they were just some worthless weird stuff, they were much better than the junk in the flea market and could be considered the best among the junk.


    Therefore, when Jia Lan expressed his interest in these items, Clifford immediately made the decision to hire Jia Lan as the special appraiser of the Eternal Hammer, who was responsible for appraising the items that were not auctioned off.


    Clifford promised that if a good item was identified and successfully auctioned, the two parties would split the profits 50-50 after deducting the auction cost.


    And if it was the item Jia Lan needed, he only had to pay the cost price.


    As he was talking, Jia Lan''s eyes were suddenly attracted by an item being auctioned in the auction room below.


    Seeing that Jia Lan was interested in the auction item, Clifford smiled and said, "If Mr. Jia Lan is interested, you can also try to bid for it!"


    At this time, the auctioneer in the auction hall was waving a small golden hammer and introducing the auction item incessantly: "... This is an exquisite silver mask inlaid with three precious gems: a diamond-shaped diamond, a square sapphire and a round ruby!"


    Perhaps the customers participating in the auction this time were mainly adventure professionals, so they were not very interested in this pure antique collection and reacted indifferently.


    The auctioneer had been jumping up and down for a long time, but no one bid.


    "Although this mask is made of silver, its origin can be traced back to the aristocracy of the pre-civilized Kingdom of Bruland. It is said that it was a prop used by the ladies of the time to cover their faces when attending masquerade balls, and it is of great collection value..."


    The auctioneer was obviously a little anxious, as this was related to his commission, so he could only continue to encourage customers: "... The starting price is only 50 gold talans, and each increase in price must not be less than 5 gold talans. The three gems on the mask alone are worth more than 50 gold talans!"


    Jia Lan couldn''t help laughing, and couldn''t bear to watch the auctioneer continue to waste his breath.


    He picked up a small iron rod and tapped it lightly on the triangular iron in the corner of the balcony, making a crisp sound. "Very good! This guest bid 55 gold talans! Is there anyone bidding? Is there anyone else..."


    Unfortunately, he asked several times, but no one was willing to bid for this antique mask.


    In the end, he could only knock the thick wooden board in front of him three times with the auction hammer in his hand in frustration, announcing the end of the auction and that Jia Lan had won the antique mask.

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    Most of the guests present were senior professionals, and they already knew the origin and value of this mask.


    Regardless of the fact that the actual value of the silver mask inlaid with three gems would not exceed fifty gold talans, such masks usually come from ancient relics, and it is difficult to determine whether they are attached with the resentment of the original owner.


    Soon, the mask was delivered to the VIP room where Jia Lan and his companions were by the waiter of the auction house.


    Clifford had high expectations for the appreciation of Jia Lan, the magician. He curiously asked Jia Lan who was examining the mask: "What is the story behind this mask?"


    Jia Lan chuckled and responded: "What the auctioneer just introduced is basically the truth. This is indeed a makeup mask commonly used by the upper class nobles of the former civilization of Breland Kingdom at the ball..."


    Clifford was a little disappointed. He admired Jia Lan''s extraordinary identification ability before, and thought that anything that Jia Lan paid attention to must be extraordinary.


    "...But it''s not an ordinary mask. Its name is ''Orlando Mask''. It belongs to a class of masks with unique functions... Well, in your words, it is a magical tool."


    After saying that, Jia Lan wiped the slightly dim silver mask with a little regret, and regretfully pointed out: "Unfortunately, it was reprocessed by an unwise person, destroying its original function, and now it is just an ordinary antique mask."


    What Jia Lan did not reveal to Clifford was that in the past, the Orlando Mask was jokingly called "Lady Mask, Tryst Mask", or "Lover Mask", and was a tool used by ladies to cover up their extramarital affairs.


    Its material is not silver, but a special metal called "Moonlight Phantom Silver".


    In the moonlight, this metal will reflect a hazy and foggy glow, creating an illusory atmosphere.


    The Orlando Mask made of Moonlight Phantom Silver has simple functions and can change into three different faces. Even acquaintances find it difficult to recognize the true identity of the wearer.


    However, in order to increase the value of the mask, a person who did not know the truth replaced the three moonstones that were originally inlaid with more valuable gems.


    But what the person who did not know the truth did not know was that the combination of moonstone and moonlight phantom silver can produce a very special and realistic illusion effect.


    Without further explanation, Jia Lan put the Orlando mask in his pocket and continued to pay attention to the auction.


    The following auction items were mostly antiques, luxury goods and other preparatory items, and the response was mediocre.


    Until the auction was coming to an end, some exquisite weapons and magic items began to appear, and those guests who had been sitting in the seats began to raise their cards frequently to bid.


    What surprised Jia Lan was that some magic items that he thought were worthless could be sold at high prices among professionals.


    For example, a small fireball ring, after being injected with fire magic, can release three apprentice-level fireball spells. This kind of spell that can barely be used to light a fire in the wild, someone is willing to spend 1,500 gold talans to buy it?Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    "Next, it''s the penultimate lot of this auction!" The auctioneer announced excitedly, "This is a set of extremely rare healing potions! Three bottles of master-level first aid potions, the quality has reached the intermediate gold level!!!"


    The auction hall was instantly boiling, and the guests stood up one after another, scrambling to stretch their necks to look at the stage.


    Under the illumination of special lights, three ice crystal potion bottles were shining in front of everyone.


    Amid the noise, the auctioneer had to shout loudly: "This set of three intermediate gold potions, the starting price is 3,000 gold talans, and each bid must not be less than 100 gold talans..."


    "I bid 3,500!"


    "4,000!"


    "4,200!"


    "5,000!!!"


    The bidding rose rapidly, but when it approached 10,000 gold talans, the growth rate slowed down significantly.


    The standard price of an intermediate gold potion is only 1,000 gold talans per potion, and Jia Lan was very satisfied that three potions could be sold for more than 10,000 gold talans.


    But after Clifford frowned slightly, he waved to a waiter and whispered a few words.


    The waiter quickly ran to the auctioneer and whispered something to him.


    "Since this set of medicine is being auctioned temporarily, and considering that some friends may not have enough funds, the payment of this auction can be deferred."


    The auctioneer stretched out his hands to appease the auction hall, which was a little noisy due to various complaints, and announced loudly: "If you are unable to pay the money for the time being, these three potions will be kept for you for three days."


    "If you still haven''t paid after three days, this auction will be deemed to be automatically unsold, and you will continue to bid in the next auction!"


    As soon as the auctioneer said this, there was a burst of joyful exclamations in the auction hall, and the guests'' bidding speed soared like a rocket again.


    Those warriors who almost got the golden potion cursed loudly in anger, but kept raising the price, suppressing other bidders.


    "11,000!"


    "12,000!"


    ...


    Suddenly, a voice roared: "I bid 15,000!!!"


    The auction hall was quiet for a moment, and then it became noisy again.


    "15,500!"


    "16,000"


    ...


    "18,000 Jintalans! 18,000! Is there a higher price? Is there a higher bid than 18,000?"


    "Okay! 18,500! 18,500 once! 18,500 twice..."


    "Twenty thousand! Twenty thousand gold talans!!" The auctioneer was shouting like a madman at the auction table.


    In the end, the price stabilized at 20,000 Jintalans.


    After asking three times, the auctioneer raised the hammer high.


    "Wait a minute!!!"


    It was the voice that just shouted 15,000 Jintalans, which stopped the auctioneer from dropping the hammer.


    I saw a burly warrior strode towards the auction table.


    Two silver senior swordsmen from the auction house took a step forward and stopped the warrior who was trying to approach.


    The warrior stopped at the auction table without any concern, looked at the auctioneer and said, "I am Wen Leien from the Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Group. I really need these three gold-level potions, but I don''t have so many gold talans now. However, I have a magic item here, and I hope to exchange it with this potion master!"


    The man who quoted 20,000 gold talans laughed immediately, but the warrior Wen Leien was unmoved and took out a milky white, palm-sized, thin thing and held it in his hand.


    This situation is not uncommon in auctions.


    When the auctioneer was about to ask the waiter to ask for instructions, a voice suddenly came from the VIP room on the second floor of the auction house: "Please ask Captain Wen Leien of the Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Group to come to the VIP room. The three gold potions will be delivered to the gentleman who just bought them!"


    The person who spoke was naturally Clifford, the branch manager of the Eternal Hammer Auction House branch.


    Wen Leien frowned slightly, but soon relaxed again and followed the waiter to the VIP room.


    The guests in the auction hall immediately started talking about it.


    Although the guest who bought the three immortality potions got the auction items as he wished, he was somewhat depressed.


    Because Clifford''s words revealed a hint of information, that is, there are more than three of these gold-level immortality potions!


    Moreover, the potion master seemed to be very interested in the item that looked like a piece of rag that Wen Leien took out.


    It seems that Wen Leien can also exchange what he wants from the potion master.


    Clifford obviously knew Wen Leien, the leader of the Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Group.


    After asking him to sit down in the VIP room, he took the magic item in his hand and sent it to the lounge attached to the VIP room.

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    Wen Leien looked around the small room of the VIP room curiously.


    As the leader of the leading gold-level mercenary group in Kelan City, he naturally has a high-level VIP card of the Eternal Hammer Auction House, but not all VIPs are eligible to use such a VIP room.


    Only those big figures who do not want to attract attention can enjoy the treatment of being accompanied by the president of the Eternal Hammer branch in person.


    Wen Leien knew very well that the great pharmacist might be in the small room, but he still felt a little nervous.


    Not long after, an old and low voice suddenly came from the small room: "Captain Wen Leien, how much gold potion do you plan to exchange from me with this magic prop?"


    Not only Wen Leien was stunned for a moment, but even Clifford was stunned for a moment.


    Wen Leien stood up in surprise, facing the small room, and said respectfully: "Respected Mr. Great Pharmacist, do you agree that I can exchange the magic prop for the golden potion?"


    "Yes, tell me your request. Since you took out this magic prop, it is obvious that you need more than just three bottles of potion." The old voice in the small room responded gently.


    "In addition, I hope you can tell me the origin of this magic prop after completing the transaction."


    "As you wish, Mr. Great Pharmacist!" Wen Leien replied, "This magic prop was accidentally discovered by our Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Group from the ruins of Kolanburg..."


    After briefly explaining the origin of the magic prop, Wen Leien subconsciously glanced at Clifford.


    Seeing him looking at him with encouraging eyes and nodding, Wen Leien knew that the great pharmacist should have a very mild temper and would not be angry because of his excessive demands.


    After a slight hesitation, Wen Leien gritted his teeth and said, "Respected Mr. Great Pharmacist, please allow me to present this magic item to you on behalf of the Sabretooth Mercenary Group. I only hope that you can allow me to make a small request!"


    Before coming to the VIP room, Wen Leien did consider exchanging this magic item for the three bottles of gold potion when he didn''t know that the great pharmacist was also present.


    But after learning that the great pharmacist was present, he changed his mind.


    The old voice in the small room seemed very surprised and smiled, "Oh? Tell me your request."


    Wen Leien secretly wiped the sweat from his palm and said sincerely, "I hope you can allow our Sabretooth Mercenary Group to buy one at the market price every time you have a potion to sell!"


    Clifford grinned silently and gave him a thumbs up!


    Although it is a bit greedy to directly exchange magic props for three potions, it is obviously more cost-effective to use magic props as gifts to establish a relationship with the great pharmacist so that you can often buy gold potions in the future.


    Although this magic prop is worth a lot of money and should be far more than the price of three gold potions, rare items such as gold potions are not something you can buy just because you have money.


    For a large mercenary group that often needs to enter and exit dangerous ruins and fight some powerful monsters, the loss of a gold warrior to the team is definitely beyond the limit that money can measure.This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.


    After listening to Wen Leien''s request, the "great pharmacist" in the small room fell silent.


    Just when Wen Leien was a little worried, an old man in a gorgeous red magic robe suddenly walked out of the small room.


    Clifford on the side suddenly widened his eyes and opened his mouth a little bit, while Wen Leien immediately lowered his head and showed respect to the old man.


    The figure of the old man seemed to be wrapped in a layer of hazy light mist, and it was barely possible to see that he was wearing a silver mask.


    Behind the mask, a pair of mysterious black eyes seemed as deep as a dark pool. When he looked at them, even his soul seemed to be shaken.


    Wen Leien was shocked.


    With his strength as a gold primary warrior, he could not sense the strength of this old man at all.


    It was as if the person standing in front of him was just an ordinary old man.


    But no matter how he observed, he could not see the face behind the thin light mist.


    "Please sit down!"


    The old man waved his hand gently and walked to the seat and sat down.


    Wen Ryan glanced at President Clifford and found that he had a strange look on his face, as if wondering why the old man was willing to meet him in person.


    This made Wen Ryan a little proud. It seemed that the gift of the magic prop really touched the great pharmacist. In this way, his request just now might be agreed.


    "Captain Wen Ryan, do you know what this magic prop is?" The old man gently pointed to the thin magic prop that looked like a piece of cloth placed on the coffee table.


    "Yes, I have asked the chief appraiser of the Eternal Hammer to appraise it!" Wen Ryan nodded honestly: "This is a space bag preserved from ancient times."


    The old man smiled: "Then you should also know the problem of this space bag, right?"


    A drop of sweat broke out on Wen Ryan''s forehead: "Yes, I know..."


    "Well, very good! Since you know it very well and decide to exchange with me..." The old man smiled with satisfaction: "You can choose 10 bottles of potions you need from President Clifford."


    As he said, the old man stood up, took the "space bag" on the coffee table, and said to President Clifford: "Well, that''s it for today, I''ll take my leave first."


    President Clifford quickly stood up to see him off, and a mercenary who had been standing in the corner followed him.


    Wen Ryan subconsciously glanced at the mercenary, but unexpectedly found that it was Div, the deputy leader of the Iguana Tooth Mercenary Group, which has recently become famous.


    But at this moment, he had no time to think about why the mercenaries of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group were with this great pharmacist. He stood up anxiously and opened his mouth to speak, but President Clifford secretly pulled him from behind and stopped him from speaking.


    The two respectfully sent the old man out through the secret back door of the Eternal Hammer Auction House.


    As an auction house with high confidentiality, there are more than a dozen back doors like this in this building.


    After the old man and the deputy leader of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, Div, disappeared into the crowd with two silver swordsmen as guards.


    Wen Ryan lowered his voice and asked, "President Clifford, this great pharmacist... could it be the mysterious Master Lemley?"


    Clifford''s expression was a little strange, but he nodded.


    Wen Leien complained with some disappointment: "Why did you stop me just now? Although 10 bottles of gold potion are indeed very generous, if we can get Master Lemley''s permission, our saber-toothed tigers will have a stable source of gold potion in the future!"


    "I promise that you Sabertooth Tigers will have a stable source of gold potions in the future!" Clifford rolled his eyes unhappily: "Didn''t you hear? When Master Lemley asked you these questions just now, he had already agreed to your request."


    "Then why did Master Lemley pay me 10 bottles of gold potion? That space bag was identified by your chief appraiser and can''t be opened at all."


    After Wen Leien finished speaking, he continued with some confusion: "Although it has certain research value, it is definitely not worth 10 gold potions... Maybe even 5 can''t be exchanged!"


    Clifford looked at him with contempt: "Do you think Master Lemley will take advantage of you? 10 gold potions are the payment for your space bag. At the same time, you can come to our Eternal Hammer every month to buy a set of gold potions at the market price! Listen carefully, it''s a set! This is what Master Lemley just told me!"


    Wen Ryan was overjoyed when he heard this, and even a little unbelievable.


    Clifford shrugged: "Don''t ask me why, although you can''t open the space bag, maybe Master Lemley can open it!"


    Wen Ryan was surprised when he heard this: "This is impossible! That is the ''Dawn Relic''. Without the original owner''s opening spell, even the great magician can''t open it!"


    "Well, forget it, this is not a problem you need to worry about!"

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    Clifford patted his shoulder and said meaningfully: "Didn''t a magic organization successfully open a space device in the ''Dawn Relic''?"


    Wen Ryan answered stubbornly: "But it was a gathering of more than a dozen wizards and dozens of great magicians, using magic circles to force it open..."


    Clifford smiled mysteriously: "How do you know that Master Lemley is only one person?"


    Wen Ryan was shocked: "Could that rumor be true?"


    "Well, Captain Wen Ryan, don''t guess about magicians, that''s not something you can understand! Now I have good news to share with you. We have been friends for more than ten years. Don''t blame me for not giving you a chance... Do you know the True Knowledge Society?"


    Clifford put his arm around his shoulders and said in a low voice: "Join! By then, you will get more than just a few gold potions. By then, you will have all kinds of alchemical items and enchanted equipment. I only share this kind of good thing with my best friends..."


    The two chatted and slowly returned to the VIP room.


    There was no accident on Jia Lan''s way back to Komo College in the carriage.


    The two silver swordsmen escorted him back to the gate of Komo College, and then said goodbye to Jia Lan and prepared to go back to report to President Clark.


    Before they left, Jia Lan gave them two silver potions to thank them for their escort throughout the journey, which made them very happy.


    When the two silver swordsmen drove away in the carriage, Jia Lan, who was still dressed as an old man, looked back at a corner, smiled, and stepped into the gate of Komo College.


    Almost at the same time as he turned around, the [Mist Illusion] effect on Jia Lan receded like a tide, and the magic robe on his body quickly returned from the gorgeous style and fiery red color to a simple light blue apprentice magic robe.


    Jia Lan took off the silver Orlando mask from his face, put it in his pocket, and said to Di Fu, who was very surprised all the way, with a smile: "Don''t be surprised, it''s just a little trick."


    Di Fu opened his mouth, but finally chose to remain silent.


    He had begun to get used to the magical abilities that this strange young magician often displayed.


    Even a warrior like him who knew nothing about magic, felt that this young magician seemed to be a little different from ordinary magicians.


    Walking back to the library with Di Fu, the area near the book bar was still so lively.


    There were young students everywhere, happily playing various games together.


    Recently, the entertainment facilities in the book bar have become more and more abundant, which always attracts students to stay in the book bar for a long time, and some even book tables all night.


    The book bar has recently developed a game called "Komo Adventure", which includes specially designed super-large miniature real-life sand table maps, adventure scenes, chess-style fighting boards, monster models designed with reference to the Warcraft and monster data in the library, etc., which have been meticulously designed to the extreme.


    If magic apprentices want to participate in this "Komo Adventure" game, they must not only pass professional evaluations, but also build their own character crystal cards containing data such as magic points, magic types, equipment, skills, and wealth, so that they can participate in adventure tasks of corresponding levels according to the "adventure level" evaluated.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    This "Komo Adventure" game has even been recognized by the college.


    The school believes that this simulated adventure method can allow students to understand the adventure environment in advance in a safe environment.


    For this purpose, a special evaluation group composed of teachers from various departments was organized to assist the book bar in providing evaluation services for students.


    After such a period of development, the rules of "Komo Adventure" have been updated to the third edition, making the system of "Komo Adventure" more complete and detailed, and more professional and realistic.


    In the adventure activities, participants have the opportunity to obtain a variety of equipment, props, treasures and wealth resources.


    These resources can not only be used to enhance the strength of the character card, but also as trading items, which can be legally exchanged and sold through the virtual item trading platform specially established by the book bar.


    The platform requires both parties to pay only a small handling fee to successfully complete the transaction process.


    For private transactions that are not conducted through the trading platform, the virtual items involved will not be recognized and cannot be entered into the character crystal card system.


    In order to ensure the fairness of the "Komo Adventure" event and prevent cheating, all arbitrators responsible for hosting the adventure process must sign a legally binding "fairness contract" before officially taking office.


    In addition, the character crystal cards that record various materials are produced by the mercenary guild according to the same material and technical standards as the mercenary crystal cards.


    In a strict sense, "Komo Adventure" has surpassed the scope of traditional games and has become a highly realistic simulation adventure deduction activity.


    Due to its high degree of authenticity, the time investment required for this activity is also relatively long. Usually an adventure mission will last for ten days, half a month or even longer.


    In the early stage, some faculty members expressed concerns that the "Komo Adventure" activity might affect students'' learning.


    However, after experiencing it themselves, many teachers became loyal fans of the activity, and even took the initiative to transform their adventure experiences into task planning proposals and submitted them to the book bar for production and promotion.


    Given the high randomness and variability of adventure tasks, even the same task often has very different results due to different participants, time and triggering conditions.


    At the same time, the various factors involved in the adventure process almost cover the application areas of all disciplines of Komo University, which has attracted widespread attention and interest from the school.


    To this end, the school organized adventure confrontation activities based on classes, and some teachers personally led the team to participate. During the adventure, they explained problem-solving methods and skill application techniques to students based on actual conditions, which greatly stimulated students'' interest in learning.


    Because the "Komo Adventure" activity combines fun and education, it has quickly become popular in Komo University and has been warmly welcomed by students.


    As the student population continues to expand, the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild have also successively applied for cooperation with Komo Book Bar, and established the "Komo Adventure Branch" and the "Komo Adventure Mercenary Branch" respectively outside the "Komo Adventure Book Bar Headquarters".


    The three clubs have worked closely together to jointly promote the in-depth development of adventure activities.


    For Komo University, the "Komo Adventure" event provides students with valuable simulated practical adventure experience.


    For the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild, this is a great opportunity to establish connections with the closed Komo University and expand their business scope.


    By participating in adventure activities, guild members can establish a good relationship with the magic apprentices of Komo University, laying the foundation for possible future cooperation.


    At the same time, this method also helps to consume the excess energy of mercenaries and prevent them from causing bad behavior due to idleness.


    However, whether it is Komo University, the Adventure Guild or the Mercenary Guild, they have not fully realized the far-reaching intentions of Jia Lan, the real initiator of the "Komo Adventure" event.


    Because the meaning and value of this activity are far more than the game itself...


    "Administrator Jia Lan, you are back! I will report to you the operating income of the book bar today." Minnie, the purple-robed supervisor who was on duty at the book bar that day, greeted Jia Lan warmly when she saw him return.


    Jia Lan smiled at her and winked at Di Fu, indicating that he should pay attention to the temporary base of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group behind the library.


    Di Fu nodded in understanding, glanced back calmly, and then walked leisurely to the back of the library.

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    Several young girls who joined the book bar at its inception have gradually grown into team leaders who can independently assume management responsibilities after several months of practice and training, and have formed a subtle competitive atmosphere among each other.


    Jia Lan has a positive attitude towards this moderate competition, believing that it helps to stimulate greater potential of team members.


    "The above is the operation overview of the book bar area today."


    After finishing the work report of the bookstore, Minnie solemnly placed another detailed record in front of Jia Lan, moved closer to him, used her slender fingers to guide Jia Lan''s attention to the key data in the record, and gave a detailed explanation.


    "Today, the game bar received a total of 11,378 character crystal card creation applications, and each application was charged 1 gold talan as a registration fee; in addition, the prop sales counter successfully sold various virtual props, totaling 36,881 gold talan."


    "In terms of expenditure, we paid 1,137.8 gold talan to the evaluation team as evaluation fees, and paid 4,551.2 gold talan to the mercenary guild for crystal card production. At the same time, the virtual prop manufacturing team spent 1,000 gold talan as material costs and labor costs for the day."


    "In summary, the total income of the game bar today was 48,259 gold talan, the total expenditure was 6,689 gold talan, and the net income was 41,570 gold talan."


    Jia Lan smiled after listening to Minnie''s report. While browsing the bills, he enjoyed the warmth and touch brought by Minnie, and responded softly: "I understand. These revenues will be included in the general ledger. In addition, starting tomorrow, we will add virtual equipment recycling and virtual treasure physical exchange services."


    Facing Jia Lan''s calm decision, Minnie curled her lips in dissatisfaction and asked, "Will we start tomorrow? But we don''t have enough people in the physical prop processing team!"


    Jia Lan frowned slightly and asked uncertainly: "Who is currently in charge of the physical prop processing group?"


    Minnie smiled and replied: "Cindy is in charge."


    Jia Lan nodded and said: "Then you go and get busy first, and notify Cindy to come over by the way."


    Not long after, Cindy arrived in a panic.


    Jia Lan smiled and nodded at her, and Cindy nervously sat down opposite Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan asked gently: "Is the physical prop processing group currently facing any difficulties?"


    Cindy''s cheeks flushed, and the small freckles on the tip of her nose slightly sweated due to nervousness. She whispered: "No... no big problem... It''s just that we can''t recruit senior students from the auxiliary department to join, and the processing success rate of junior students is very low..."


    "I understand. It doesn''t matter. From tomorrow, we will issue a notice announcing that the ''Komo Adventure Game Bar Physical Prop Processing Group will provide materials for free. You only need to sign a ten-year employment contract after graduation to apply for joining." After a little thought, Jia Lan smiled and patted Cindy''s shoulder, encouraging: "The tuition and living expenses of the joiners will be borne by the game bar, and for manufacturers whose material loss rate does not exceed sales, they will also enjoy 50£¥ of the profit share."If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    Feeling Jia Lan''s understanding and encouragement, Cindy''s mood relaxed a little, but after hearing Jia Lan''s proposal, she couldn''t help but widen her eyes: "Won''t we lose money in this way? Isn''t it a waste of materials to train them in vain?"


    "The original intention of establishing the physical prop processing group was not to pursue economic benefits."


    Facing the girl''s worries, Jia Lan smiled and responded: "How can there be a loss? These trained personnel will sign a ten-year employment contract with us... In short, the physical prop processing group only needs to maintain a balance between income and expenditure."


    Although Cindy was confused, she was relieved. After bowing to Jia Lan, she left happily.


    The environment of Komo University is relatively closed, which makes people speculate about the considerations behind the decision of the "College Affairs Management Office" of the college''s top management.


    Those mysterious and rarely seen senior magicians seem to have a rejection attitude towards the world outside the college, as if they are in a small world built by themselves and are indifferent to the outside world.


    Although it is not clearly stated, their attitude has invisibly shaped the atmosphere of the college.


    On the one hand, the college does not reject outsiders from exploring magic knowledge, but on the other hand, it allows students to develop on their own. This management model is indeed confusing.


    It seems that no magician has ever considered organizing students to improve learning conditions through their own efforts.


    The continuous expansion of the book bar, as well as the newly added game bar and derivative industries, provide a wealth of work-study opportunities for college students.


    The college encourages this, but strictly prohibits students from leaving school on study days.


    However, how many work-study opportunities are there on this campus?


    In particular, most of the self-sufficient campus industries have been infiltrated and controlled by the forces of Kolan City.


    It is hard to imagine how a magic apprentice can compete with those employees who can work like livestock for only low wages.


    If you were an employer, would you choose an employee who provided food and lodging, received very little salary, could be driven around at will, and could even scold him to change your mood when you were in a bad mood, or would you choose a magic apprentice who could not be punished as your subordinate?


    Therefore, in this environment, whether it is a book bar or a game bar, it is a test for the college''s top management.


    Judging from the current reaction, the college does not oppose students working, but the premise is that they do not leave the college and do not affect their studies.


    Jia Lan was speechless about the attitude of the college''s top management.


    He believes that those senior magicians have the mentality of "whether it is to release one sheep or a group of sheep, it is to release sheep anyway." to students.


    It is their responsibility to teach knowledge, and whether to learn or not is the students'' business. As for whether they have the financial conditions to study is another matter.


    Senior magicians seem to have fully implemented the concept of "The world of magic, poor people should stay away from it!", as if to hint to students with poor economic conditions: the road of magic is full of thorns, and understanding this as early as possible may make them happier.


    However, in this case, why not refuse civilian students from the beginning? Is there a deeper intention hidden in this?


    Jia Lan''s meditation was interrupted by a "click" sound.


    In the dim light, he watched several girls trying to rub flints to light the bull''s eye lanterns for the book bar. He didn''t disturb the girls, smiled, stood up and walked towards his administrator''s hut.


    As he got to know more, he felt that this era was not as simple as he imagined.


    As a special existence in Kolan City and even the entire Zilago Continent, Komo College''s attitude of inaction was obviously abnormal.


    However, this didn''t seem to have much to do with him. Jia Lan sighed. His curiosity might cause trouble, but these mysterious things were indeed fascinating.


    However, today''s harvest was still good, and it was worth spending time to repair the "junk" he bought.


    Returning to the administrator''s hut, closing the door and drawing the heavy curtains.


    Jia Lan flicked his fingers and released a light spell to the tallow candle wick on the candlestick. A flame replaced the candlelight and illuminated the room.


    Jia Lan has used this tallow candle for several months, but in most cases, it is just a carrier.


    After all, the light of the light spell is much brighter and more stable than that of a candle.


    The place where the bed was originally placed is now filled with multiple rows of simple wooden shelves, and Dave has placed all the junk he bought on them.

 Chapter120

    As the trauma of his soul gradually recovered, Jia Lan found that he no longer needed sleep.


    His unique dual soul characteristics made one soul awake while the other soul went into dormant mode, similar to the so-called "battery" mechanism in the soul memory of another world, that is, one soul was in use while the other was charging.


    For spellcasters, this is undoubtedly a very desirable ability.


    Although spellcasters can replace sleep with meditation, they still need to invest time to restore the consumed mental strength.


    However, Jia Lan can let another soul meditate in the "backstage" while one soul is busy, so as to always maintain a full mental state.


    In contrast, physical fatigue is easier to recover than mental fatigue.


    Spellcasters are not combat professionals who need to consume physical strength rapidly in battle.


    Spellcasters who are static most of the time only need a nutritious food, a cup of fragrant milk, and a short rest of a few minutes during meals to restore their physical strength when they feel tired.


    No need for sleep, naturally no need for a bed.


    Therefore, Jia Lan removed the occupied bed and made room for a test bench and a large number of shelves, so that he could easily get the required materials when he needed to perform secret experiments.


    Some people say that a wizard''s laboratory is more terrifying than a devil''s lair, because you can never predict whether any object you touch will blow the entire building into the sky.


    This statement is of course directed at those who rashly break into the wizard''s laboratory.


    Although the wizard''s laboratory seems to be messy and even described as a garbage dump, as the owner of the laboratory, the wizards can always walk freely in this seemingly dangerous (actually extremely dangerous) environment and find the required items at hand.


    Jia Lan is not the kind of crazy wizard who is completely obsessed with experiments and has extremely bad living habits.


    However, the administrator''s hut, which he transformed into a small laboratory, also looks extremely dangerous.


    Especially those crystal test tubes that still bubble when unattended and the obviously unstable substances inside.


    Jia Lan believes that this is not his fault, but only because the space is too small.


    In a single room of more than 30 square meters, the space is indeed stretched to the limit.


    Of course, even a space of more than 300 square meters or even more than 3,000 square meters may not be enough.


    Mages can always find various items to fill it up, and they think that these are necessary and may be used at any time.


    Jia Lan casually moved some tools on the wide test bench aside, took out the Orlando mask and the "space bag" and placed them in front of him, smacking his lips and rubbing his fingers as if he was preparing to eat.


    After hesitating between the two items, he first picked up the Orlando mask.


    Jia Lan closed his eyes slightly, took the crystal magnifying glass, and carefully checked every rune array line hidden in the decorative pattern on the mask.The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    After confirming that it was intact, he took out a bottle of strong acid from under a pile of parchment manuscripts with a sense of relief, and took out a reagent lead bucket from under the only chair in the room.


    The reagent lead bucket contained a seemingly turbid liquid, showing a terrifying colorful color.


    Jia Lan was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten what was in it. However, it was not important.


    He looked around and saw a pot of withered plants in the corner of the room. He poured the turbid liquid into the pot.


    The originally withered plant turned black in an instant, and then stretched out its leaves as if it was resurrected in a short time.


    In less than five minutes, it grew about 30 centimeters taller, and porcupine-like quills appeared on its leaves, and the color became as colorful as the belly of a spider.


    When the plant, which was originally used as a container for the treatment of reagent waste liquid, sprouted fist-sized, tumor-like, disgusting dark red fruits on its branches, Jia Lan had already walked back to the test bench.


    He put the Orlando mask into the reagent lead barrel, pulled out the stopper of the strong acid, and poured the whole bottle into it until the mask was submerged.


    As the white foam in the reagent lead barrel continued to expand, Jia Lan began to prepare materials: mithril silk, gold-etching liquid, alchemical engraving pen, and three moonstones the size of little fingernails.


    This Orlando mask was well preserved, but due to the unauthorized intervention of someone who was dissatisfied with the silver color of the moonlight, it was additionally coated with a layer of liquid silver and engraved with complex patterns, resulting in some flaws.


    After Jia Lan used strong acid to treat it, he successfully removed the surface liquid silver and three gems, and then placed it in a basin of relatively clean water for a simple rinse. The mask immediately restored its original lead-gray tone, and even the rune array line slot was thoroughly cleaned.


    Afterwards, Jia Lan selected the mithril thread and used the alchemical engraving pen to fill the grooves of the rune array one by one with exquisite skills, repaired the worn parts, and accurately inlaid three moon stones in the gemstone grooves on the forehead of the mask.


    Except for the mithril thread filling work which took a little longer, the rest of the preparations were completed quickly.


    After Jia Lan finished warming up his hands, he gently placed his palm on the mask and chanted a spell in a low voice, injecting the arcane energy from his palm into the mask.


    At this time, the silver light spread along the mithril thread, covering the entire mask like a vine, and after shining for a moment, the Orlando mask exuded a soft moonlight, and at the same time released a faint hazy mist, completely covering the surface of the mask.


    "Success!" Jia Lan whispered to himself.


    However, at this moment, something strange happened!


    Originally, the function of the Orlando mask was limited to changing three facial features. As an identity disguise tool, it was not considered a high-end item in its era.


    Jia Lan bought this mask purely out of interest and curiosity.


    Considering its status as an alchemical tool and the relatively low price of 50 gold talans, it is still a good deal even if it is damaged.


    Jia Lan is confident that he can repair such damage. After all, it is not a high-level magic weapon, secret weapon, strange object, relic, secret treasure, holy object or artifact, nor is it an arcane superconducting equipment with powerful power.


    However, he did not expect that after a simple repair, the Orlando mask would be abnormal in the final activation stage.


    When Jia Lan injected arcane energy to activate the mask, the catalog stone that had been worn on his chest suddenly resonated with the Orlando mask composed of moonlight phantom silver and moon pattern stone, releasing a dazzling blue light, instantly covering the mask being activated.


    Jia Lan was surprised to find that the catalog stone could release such a strong "Light of Lean", while before that, it only reflected a faint light blue light under the moonlight and could provide limited illumination in the dark.


    Since Jia Lan woke up in this era, he noticed that the Catalog Stone seemed to be affected by some mysterious power in the upheaval of the earth vein explosion, and thus underwent strange mutations.


    This was reflected in the fact that Jia Lan was able to borrow moon energy from the Catalog Stone to release spells when the Orlando Energy Spring was exhausted.


    The moon energy in the Catalog Stone resonated with the Orlando Mask, a phenomenon that was completely beyond Jia Lan''s cognition.


    When the strong and dazzling Lean Light was completely absorbed by the activated Orlando Mask, Jia Lan picked up the mask shrouded in soft light blue light and found that the light on it was slightly expanding and contracting like breathing.


    The Orlando Mask, which was supposed to emit a faint moon-white light mist, now emits a strong and eye-catching light blue light mist, as if it had life, faintly emitting a mysterious pressure.

 Chapter121

    After Jia Lan''s careful inspection, he was surprised to find that after absorbing the light of Lei En, the function of the Orlando mask was greatly enhanced, and the effect was also super good.


    After a slight hesitation, Jia Lan slowly put the mask on his face, as if he was in deep thought.


    After a moment, he began to quickly use various formulas on a piece of manuscript paper to calculate, and finally came up with the following identification data:


    "Eye of Lei En": In an absolutely dark environment, the wearer has a visual range as if bathing in the moonlight of Lei En. "


    "Since this enhancement is based on its own ability, when wearing the mask, the Eye of Lei En can penetrate any hidden objects and things within 10 meters, ignoring the effects of skills such as haziness, stealth, and stealth.


    "Insight of Lei En": The ability to observe and analyze subtle things is enhanced by 10 times.


    "Face of Lei En": After wearing the mask, the wearer''s breath will be hidden, and it has three different real forms that can be freely transformed.


    "Lei En''s Majesty": The pressure generated by the wearer''s will and momentum is enhanced 10 times based on its own foundation without considering the suppression of rank.


    "Lei En''s Favor": The wearer''s memory, understanding, and comprehension of knowledge are increased 10 times under the influence of Lei En''s power, and the ability to use the full range of knowledge systems is increased to 5 times.


    "Lei En''s Moon Energy": When bathing in the moonlight of other moons, the spellcasting level is increased by 1 level; when bathing in the moonlight of the book moon-Lei En, the spellcasting level is increased by 2 levels, and at the same time, it has the power field of the moon in the sky.


    Jia Lan stared at the identification results on the manuscript paper and was stunned for a long time.


    This mask is completely different from the Orlando mask. Perhaps it should be renamed "Lei En''s Mask" to be more appropriate.


    However, are these properties normal?


    This is obviously beyond the scope of his enchanting alchemy ability.


    Moreover, he only made simple repairs and did not re-enchant.


    These properties are no longer possessed by ordinary alchemical tools.


    If it must be classified, perhaps it could be called a sacred object or a divine object.


    Jia Lan felt that what had just happened had nothing to do with the repair he had made. It was more like a mysterious and powerful consciousness that chose this carrier with his hands.


    He reached out and groped his face, trying to take off Lei En''s mask for further research.


    However, to his surprise, no matter how he groped, he could not find the edge of the mask, as if the mask had merged with his facial skin.


    In a hurry, Jia Lan summoned a ball of ice elemental material, and under its control, it extended into an ice mirror suspended in front of him.


    Just a glance into the ice mirror, Jia Lan was stunned.


    What is this?


    Iron-faced man?


    The silver mask emitting a light blue light, although not gorgeous in style, is extremely delicate, so delicate that even the pores on his facial skin can be clearly seen, as if he had applied a layer of silver powder on his face.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    He reached out to touch the mask, and felt the unique cold touch of the metal being gradually soaked by his body temperature.


    Jia Lan even felt that the thin mask was being softened by his body temperature and became soft.


    However, when he pressed his cheek with his fingers, he found that it was not the mask that was softening, but the mask was seeping into his facial skin and gradually disappearing.


    Jia Lan looked at his face with a strange expression, gently pinched his cheeks, and then puffed up his cheeks.


    He was not showing childishness, but because the mask really disappeared from his face.


    However, surprisingly, he could still feel its existence, but he could neither see nor touch it, and even the effect of the mask was still working.


    After a brief moment of daze, Jia Lan shrugged and decided to put aside this incomprehensible phenomenon for the time being.


    Although he was confused, he did not feel that the Lei En mask had any negative impact on him.


    Jia Lan''s eyes fell on the thin "cloth" on the test bench, and he couldn''t help but feel a little worried, wondering if this thing would mutate like the Orlando Mask.


    However, he changed his mind and smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that if every object he touched could mutate into a prop like the Lei En Mask, which could be called a holy object or artifact, then he would rather the mutation be more violent.


    Among the "junk" he collected, only the Orlando Mask and this "space bag" were worth repairing.


    The reason why Jia Lan chose to repair the Orlando Mask first was mainly because it was relatively simple to repair and suitable for practicing and recalling his own feel and alchemy skills.


    However, unexpectedly, the Orlando mask mutated into the extremely valuable Lei En mask, and this "space bag" became a supporting role.


    What the leader of the Sabretooth Mercenary Group called a "space bag" should actually be called a "dimensional bag".


    In Jia Lan''s time, only high-level mages had the ability to enter the spirit plane and collect the "phase spider web" of the phase spider without being trapped in the "phase maze" of the phase spider.


    And only the top "alchemists" have the ability to disassemble the phase spider web, extract the phase spider silk strong enough to cut through space, and then weave it into a dimensional bag that contains its own dimensional space.


    The quality of the dimensional bag varies depending on the ability of the maker, and the size of the independent small dimensional space opened up in it also varies.


    However, it is not clear what level this dimensional bag belongs to.


    Due to the special material of the dimensional bag, it is difficult to be destroyed from the outside.


    The only way to destroy the dimensional bag is to put another dimensional bag inside it, causing dimensional chaos and causing the internal space to collapse.


    But obviously, few people are willing to do this.


    In addition, although the dimensional bag looks like a palm-sized, thin, milky white smooth cloth bag, its internal space is quite vast.


    Except for the owner of the dimensional bag, no one knows the secret key of the spell to open the entrance of the dimensional bag.


    Therefore, theoretically speaking, it is very likely that the dimensional bag left over from the pre-civilization period is well preserved.


    The dimensional bag was also an extremely precious treasure in Jia Lan''s era. It may even contain some intact pre-civilization items.


    However, the problem is how to open it.


    Coincidentally, Jia Lan just knows how to open this dimensional bag.


    If you don''t know the secret key of the spell to open the dimensional bag and force it open, the difficulty is almost comparable to opening a constant plane door.


    This requires a lot of time and effort.


    If you know what treasures are in the dimensional bag, it may be worthwhile to invest time, energy, manpower, financial resources and material resources in a targeted manner.


    However, if you don''t know what is in the dimensional bag and you try to crack it rashly, you may lose everything.


    This is why the dimensional bag, which is called the "treasure of dawn", is difficult to sell at a high price in this era.


    However, for Jia Lan, it is not so troublesome to open this dimensional bag.


    Because he had asked the leader of the Sabertooth Tiger Mercenary Group in detail, they found that the location of this dimensional bag happened to be the location of the Kolanburg Library in the pre-civilization period.


    In Jia Lan''s original era, although the dimensional bag was not an extremely rare wonder, it was not something that ordinary civilians could own.


    In the previous era, the most likely people to own a dimensional bag in the Kolanburg area were probably library managers like him or spellcasters of the twelve academies affiliated with the library.


    Although it is not clear which spellcaster this dimensional bag once belonged to, the dimensional bags owned by the managers of the Kolanburg Library and the lecturers of the affiliated colleges are all standard props issued by the library.


    Unfortunately, Jia Lan knows almost all the spell keys of the standard dimensional bags issued by the Kolanburg Library.


    Therefore, as long as this dimensional bag is not the personal property of a spellcaster, he has a great chance of finding its spell key by trying.

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    Jia Lan picked up the lightweight dimensional bag woven with phase spider silk and carefully opened the bag to inspect it.


    This half-moon-shaped flat bag is just the right size and depth for a palm to fit in when not in use.


    He used to have a similar space item, but it was of a higher grade than the dimensional bag.


    However, he did not carry this item when he was frozen, and his whereabouts are unknown.


    Thinking of this, Jia Lan could not help but sigh, and then began to recite various spells and secret keys in a low voice in order to open this dimensional bag.


    Although the dimensional bag has not been opened after dozens of attempts, Jia Lan did not show frustration, but showed a surprised expression!


    In the Kolanburg Library, the grade of the dimensional bags issued varies according to different positions, and the spells and secret keys to open these dimensional bags are naturally different.


    He has tried all the "secondary dimension bag" spell keys applicable to the affiliated college school workers and library staff, but none of them can match.


    This shows that this dimension bag is most likely a "low-level dimension bag" distributed to lecturers of the twelve affiliated colleges, or even a "middle-level dimension bag" distributed to senior managers.


    As for the "high-level dimension bag", there is no need to consider it, because only senior scholars in the laboratories and research institutes of the Kolanburg Library are qualified to wear high-level dimension bags to store various experimental tools and arcane materials.


    Despite experiencing major disasters such as the earth vein explosion, Jia Lan always believed that senior scholars like his teacher would not die easily.


    Even if those senior scholars were unfortunately killed in the earth vein explosion, the place where they fell was definitely not something that lower-level mercenaries such as the Sabretooth Mercenary Group could set foot in.


    Unmanned laboratories are far more dangerous than managed laboratories.


    Twenty-seven low-level dimension bag spell keys?


    No!


    Thirteen intermediate-level dimensional bag spell keys!


    The fourth... the ninth... the eleventh!!!


    As the obscure secret spells came out of Jia Lan''s mouth, the dimensional bag shone with a faint fluorescence.


    Jia Lan reached into the pocket that was less than half a palm deep, and suddenly, his entire palm was completely inside!


    Although he had guessed the approximate ownership of this dimensional bag through the classification of spell keys, Jia Lan still couldn''t suppress his excitement.


    After all, he had almost nothing at the moment, and the higher the level of the dimensional bag, the higher the identity of the wearer, and the greater the value of the items that might be stored in it!


    While the dimensional bag was opened, Jia Lan had quickly reached out and grabbed one of the items and took it out.


    It was a broken stone slab, about the size of a palm, with a circular symbol engraved on it, and inside the symbol were complex runes and spells.


    "A...Y...M."


    Jia Lan read the words on the stone tablet with great effort, and studied the cracked stone tablet over and over again with doubts, but failed to find any abnormalities.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    He could only put the stone tablet down temporarily and continue to explore the dimension bag, and took out a small human-shaped stone statue, a heavy stone box about one foot long, a transparent gem as big as an egg, and a silver bone pocket horn as thick and long as a thumb.


    There is also a crystal plate two palms wide, a set of eighteen crystal mirrors, a large number of thin stone pages similar to the size of book pages, and a large number of various rare stones, gemstones, huge crystal ores, cutting tools, and carving tools.


    In addition, there are a large number of scattered files, notes, books, conventional experimental equipment, and various arcane materials.


    ...


    Judging from the various items in this mid-level dimension bag, it is very likely to belong to a super-level wizard, that is, a spellcaster commonly known as a "grand wizard".


    There are dozens of such super-class mages in the Kolanburg Library.


    Most of them do not participate in the management of the library and the academy, but conduct arcane research alone in their own mage towers.


    Therefore, Jia Lan could not infer the identity of this mage from the items in his dimensional bag for a while.


    However, is this super-class mage a stonemason?


    Jia Lan had many questions about the items in this mid-level dimensional bag.


    Although there are many items in the bag, those who are familiar with the storage habits of spellcasters can see that this dimensional bag is not their main storage equipment, but more like a special tool bag or sundry bag, which is specially used to store various items needed for work.


    This also means that there are probably no valuables in the bag. However, Jia Lan was not frustrated because if this was a private dimension bag, he might not be able to open it.


    The internal space capacity of this intermediate dimension bag is about 150 standard dimension base units, which is twice that of the primary dimension bag, but only half of the high-level dimension bag.


    For a spellcaster who carries all kinds of messy items with him, this capacity is not large, but for Jia Lan, it is enough for the time being.


    Jia Lan carefully checked all the items in the dimension bag, and then carefully put the items taken out back into the bag, leaving only the files, notes and books.


    As a mage with a master, Jia Lan knew that he should not easily turn over the task items of other spellcasters unless he knew something about them. This is completely different from those self-taught wild mages who are always curious about any items related to the arcane, regardless of their potential dangers.


    Jia Lan carefully flipped through the broken files and notes, and sorted them according to his own habits.


    Most of these files were records of arcane experiments, interspersed with some scattered ancient book fragments, covering multiple fields such as magic arrays, totems, soul energy, and psychic energy.


    However, these contents were beyond Jia Lan''s current level of cognition.


    He shook his head regretfully, put away these precious arcane materials, and took out a stone box instead.


    The stone box seemed to be carved from ordinary bluestone, with a long history, mottled appearance, and full of cracks and gaps.


    The runes and magic array patterns on the lid were blurred.


    Gently push open the lid, and there is a crescent-shaped pocket knife, a wine glass and three small balls inside.


    These items are likely to be the most precious existence in the dimension bag.


    Although they seem inconspicuous, Jia Lan learned from the notes of this super-class wizard that this is actually a complete set of ancient holy objects, or more precisely, a set of contract tools.


    Although Jia Lan has not yet clarified its specific function, according to the notes, the contract signed with this set of tools cannot be violated even by the devil who is best at contract manipulation.


    The existence of this set of tools also reveals the main work content of this super-class mage - signing contracts with various creatures or non-living things.


    Jia Lan is no stranger to contracts. In the past, when his teacher conducted experiments on foreign summoning, he was often responsible for signing contracts with those foreign creatures of various forms.


    Whether voluntary or involuntary, mages can always find a way to get the other party to sign the contract.


    This time the harvest is quite fruitful, but it takes a lot of time to truly master these items.


    With Jia Lan''s current strength, the appearance of these items is almost a torture for him - he cannot use them.


    Taking this set of contract-making holy objects as an example, are the creatures that need to be used to sign a strong contract the ones he can currently contact?


    And those items with unknown uses need to be treated with more caution.


    Jia Lan had witnessed an ignorant person who mistook a blood-red potion that was said to be from a relic and emitting a holy light for an angel potion and drank it.


    Then, he disappeared in front of everyone, without any arcane fluctuations, plane fluctuations, or any fluctuations, as if he had never existed.


    Unfortunately, all researchers at the Kolanburg Library, including Jia Lan, ultimately failed to determine the true purpose of the potion.


    Therefore, although the harvest was fruitful this time, the only things that could really play a role, apart from this dimensional bag with storage function, were the arcane materials and various tools.

 Chapter123

    "This is the recent situation of the Mercenary Guild''s Coran branch and the Eternal Hammer Coran branch, Lord Baron Rodney."


    The scene switched to another place.


    In the luxurious villa on the seaside that looked like a manor, a middle-aged man in old-fashioned gentleman''s clothes, wearing a bowler hat, bent over, and nervously reported to a fat old man.


    This old man is the real boss behind the Pharmacist Guild and the highest-ranking noble of the Golden Power Association in Coran City - Baron Aldington Rodney.


    The person who reported to him was the newly appointed president of the Pharmacist Guild, a president who was not a pharmacist.


    Because of the Komo University, Coran City has a very special status in Zilargo County. It can manage itself and there is no ruler like a lord or city lord.


    The Civil Affairs Council is also organized by the residents themselves to maintain the order of the city, which is different from the city-state councils of other cities.


    However, now that Komo University is not in charge, the Civil Affairs Council has been slowly infiltrated and controlled by powerful people, and has become an administrative agency serving them, with only a symbolic lower house left.


    And most of the members of the lower house have been secretly bought by the upper institutions.


    In Kolan City, the power of the Gold Power Association is not actually very large, and the highest-ranking gold power noble is Baron Rodney.


    However, the Rodney family is still the richest in Kolan County, with many industries in and outside the city, as well as a large number of farms, ranches and vineyards.


    I heard that they also control one-third of the docks in Kolan Port. They are really a powerful family.


    However, the largest landowner in Kolan City is not the Rodney family, but Komo University.


    From Gem Cape to Cape Bay, the original Cape Forest area is almost all Komo University.


    Hundreds of years ago, the first generation of magicians from Komo University came here and used magic to turn the muddy, hot and stuffy mangrove cape forest into a place suitable for human habitation, allowing humans to replace crabs as the masters here.


    If it weren''t for the magic power of the magicians, those muddy and smelly creatures would not be driven away.


    If these muddy and smelly creatures were not driven away, there would be no human habitation in the cape forest.


    Komo University can be said to be the pioneer of Kolan State. It is not an exaggeration to say that the entire land of Kolan State belongs to Komo University.


    However, those magicians did not mind civilians living on their land, and even protected the fishermen living near Komo University.


    Therefore, Kolan State attracted a large number of free people and fishermen to join, and gradually formed Kolan City.


    Later, the land originally occupied by civilians gradually became their private land.


    However, no one dared to offend Komo University, because these lands still belonged to Komo University in principle.Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.


    If the administrators of Komo University want to expand the campus one day, the residents of Kolan City may have no place to live.


    They can only hope that the administrators of Komo University will be merciful and give them some compensation. Otherwise, they will have to leave their hometown.


    Protest to Komo University? That''s impossible!


    The land originally belongs to them, how can you make them give it to you by reasoning?


    It¡¯s good enough that they haven¡¯t asked for land use fees for hundreds of years!


    Want to occupy it by force?


    Uh... I only heard that some people hope that magicians can maintain their demeanor and be reasonable, and I have never heard of anyone who dares to be unreasonable to magicians.


    Baron Rodney is not actually a real noble.


    A long time ago, Rodney''s family was still a small fisherman living by the sea. Because they were afraid of the attack of mudflat fishmen, they moved to a place where there were many magicians to seek protection.


    Unexpectedly, they stopped fishing and started working for the magicians who built Komo University, and gradually became rich.


    For hundreds of years, the Rodney family has developed step by step to the present.


    Later, the Rodney family became a little famous in Kolanbang, and was quietly pulled in by a money power organization that wanted to break into Kolanbang to become a member, becoming the first batch of gold nobles.


    At the beginning, they were just a small third-class lord, and many families like them were also pulled in, with titles ranging from quasi-eighth-class knights to first-class lords.


    However, the Rodney family is not easy to mess with. They used all kinds of means to eliminate or annex many other gold nobles, and finally gained a foothold in Kolanbang, becoming one of the most powerful families besides official institutions such as Komo University and the Civil Affairs Council.


    Baron Rodney''s father eliminated the last first-class gold lord family and became a quasi-baron.


    Baron Rodney inherited his father''s ruthlessness. At a family banquet, he killed his father and all the brothers who could inherit the family business, took the throne himself, and began his bloody war.


    Twenty years ago, he finally became the Golden Baron.


    However, Baron Rodney''s ambitions ended there.


    Because of the suppression of Komo University, no one dared to make trouble in Kolan City.


    Baron Rodney tried every means, but there was no progress in twenty years.


    Unless he could control Komo University, he would never be promoted in the Golden Nobles.


    Moreover, among the Golden Nobles, the Golden Baron was nothing at all. He couldn''t even afford to offend the Golden Dukes and Marquises of other city-states.


    Although Baron Rodney was confident that he could compete with the Golden Barons of city-states of similar size, the geographical location of Kolan City was too remote and isolated from the Golden Power Association''s network of influence.


    The nearest medium-sized city-state to Kolan City, "Tarandor City", is protected by the large city-state of Suribal City, so he can''t reach it at all.


    Fortunately, although Komo University stopped Baron Rodney''s ambition, it also protected Kolan City, allowing him to develop with peace of mind.


    After twenty years of hard work, Baron Rodney finally realized that he could only find a way to unite local forces and form an alliance of interests.


    He began to plan a big move to hold all local forces hostage, move into Komo University, and become the owner of Komo University!


    Among the rich and powerful nobles, the promotion of the title is not based on how much money you have, but on how far your power can affect.


    Baron Rodney was trapped in Kolan State and could not move. If he wanted to upgrade his title, he had to break through the suppression of Komo University and Suribal City.


    To do this, he must have absolute say in Kolan State.


    A few years ago, Baron Rodney began to control various local industries and integrated the originally scattered pharmacists to form the so-called "Kolan City Pharmacist Guild".


    He manipulated this guild behind the scenes, using the potion quota to force the branches of the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild in Kolan City to join his camp.


    Everything went quite smoothly before the appearance of the hateful "Lemli Potion Workshop".


    If Baron Rodney had a few more years, he might have been able to take all the votes in the Civil Affairs Council and weave all walks of life in Kolan City into a huge network of interests.


    However, the sudden emergence of the Lemli Potion Workshop completely disrupted his plan.


    Many adventure groups, mercenary groups and other armed forces that had begun to move closer to the Rodney family suddenly turned to support their respective guilds, and even formed a force that was enough to compete with the powerful Rodney family.


    This made Baron Rodney furious.

 Chapter124

    "The headquarters of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, is there still no progress in Doom Castle?"


    Baron Rodney, holding a burning pipe in his mouth, stood on the balcony of the spacious villa, looking at the beautiful scenery of Gem Cape with gloomy eyes.


    The new president of the Pharmacist Guild was sweating profusely with nervousness. Fortunately, Baron Rodney was not asking him, but the thief standing in the corner of the room, whose face was covered by shadows.


    "The Golden Two-Headed Dragon has recalled the main forces of the mercenary group from all over the place and concentrated them in the Castle of Doom..." A low and unrecognizable voice sounded lazily: "Dozens of ''scouts'' have been sent to explore the way, but... I guess there are ''cats'' in the Castle of Doom, and none of the scouts sent out have returned alive."


    "Is the defense of the Castle of Doom so tight that no intelligence can be detected?" Baron Rodney said angrily: "I spent so much Jintalan and raised so many ''scouts'' to let them spy on intelligence, not to fatten them up and slaughter them! Moonlight Mouse, those ''scouts'' under your command are probably so fat that they can''t even get into the gaps, right?"


    "My Lord Baron, the little scouts in the ''Rat''s Nest'' are only used to gather intelligence, not for fighting. The Golden Two-Headed Dragon is the leading gold-level mercenary group in Kolanbang!"


    "Moonlight Mouse" leaning against the shadow of the wall, still lazily hugging his arms, said slowly: "The other side has no fewer silver-level thieves than our "Rat''s Nest", and there are also several gold-level thieves of the same level as me. With them there, once the infiltrating scouts are discovered, do you think they still have a chance to escape?"


    The thief Moonlight Mouse is the leader of the secret intelligence organization "Rat''s Nest" under Baron Rodney, but from the tone of his voice, he does not have much respect for Baron Rodney.


    The slightly sarcastic tone of Moonlight Mouse made Baron Rodney furious, but he suppressed his anger. A trace of fear flashed in his turbid eyes. After calming down, he slowly said: "Apart from these bad news, is there no exciting news?"


    "There is really no good news, but there is still a lot of bad news. Do you want to hear it, Baron?" Seeing that Baron Rodney did not dare to get angry, Moonlight Mouse raised his mouth sarcastically: "The power behind the ''Lemli Potion Workshop'' has surfaced. It is said to be a mysterious magic research institution called ''Kovale Mystery Research Institute''."


    "Although we still don''t know who is behind this institute called ''Keao Research Institute''."


    "But there are signs that it is related to Komo University, and it should have some connection with the senior magicians of Komo University."


    "The intelligence sent back by my ''spies'' shows that this Keao Research Institute is involved with another mysterious force called ''True Knowledge Mutual Aid Society''..." Moonlight Mouse said, becoming serious, frowning and saying, "Behind them, there seems to be a larger force, but the confidentiality level of the relevant information is too high, and there are very few people who know about it, so the ''spies'' have not been able to get in touch with it..."


    "At present, the Mercenary Guild Kolan Branch and the Eternal Hammer Kolan Branch have jointly established an organization called ''Kolan Lemli Pharmacy Development Co., Ltd.'' with the ''Koao Research Institute'' behind the Lemli Pharmacy Workshop. They are referred to as ''Kolai Pharmacy'', which mainly deals in various pharmaceuticals."


    Shaking his head with some regret, Moonlight Mouse stared at Baron Rodney with his amber eyes glowing with a faint light, and said with a smile: "I''m sorry to tell you that I''m afraid your ''Kolan City Pharmacist Guild'' will completely collapse after the other party''s ''Kolai Pharmacy'' officially starts operating!"


    Thinking of the original potion production capacity of Lemley''s potion workshop, Baron Rodney took a breath of cold air!The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    The other party was just an experimental potion workshop, but with a few civilians who didn''t know anything about potion science, the potion production capacity created by them had already exceeded that of the Pharmacist Guild, which had as many as 300 pharmacists and thousands of pharmacy apprentices under his command.


    The strange pharmaceutical tool "seized" from the Lemley Pharmacy Workshop has been disassembled and studied by him, and it has also been copied, which can indeed greatly increase the production capacity of pharmaceuticals.


    However, the pharmaceutical tool can only perform simple auxiliary processes and cannot completely replace the existence of pharmacists. The real core technology is still in the hands of pharmacists. The pharmacist formula!


    However, the pharmacists owned by his pharmacist guild are only a few intermediate pharmacists at the highest level. The real senior pharmacists or even pharmacy masters are impossible to be constrained by such informal guilds.


    The pharmacy formulas mastered by these junior and intermediate pharmacists are mostly basic popular pharmacy formulas.


    It is not like the violet pharmacy mastered by the other party, which has private ownership of the pharmacy formula. Even if he orders mass production of pharmacy, he is not competitive in this regard!


    Now, the other party has officially begun to get involved in the pharmaceutical industry and has carried out large-scale pharmacy preparation.


    How huge is their potion production capacity?


    As Moonlight Mouse said, once the other party officially operates, his pharmacist guild will completely lose its living space!


    Although the pharmacist guild is profitable, it is not his main means of making money.


    Even if the pharmacist guild goes bankrupt, it will not affect his source of funds.


    However, the problem is that once he loses control of the potion quota, he will no longer be able to restrain the Adventurer Guild, the Mercenary Guild, or even the City Guard under the Civil Affairs Council of Kolan City.


    Losing control of these armed forces will trigger a series of chain reactions, causing the Rodney family''s deterrence against other powerful families and small and medium-sized forces to decline significantly.


    This has shaken the Rodney family''s leadership in the Kolanbang area.


    "Damn it! Can''t let them succeed!" Baron Rodney roared with a ferocious face: "Moonlight Mouse! Gather all your combatants! Attack the Castle of Doom! Destroy it! Must destroy it!!!"


    "Are you sure you want to do this? As far as I know, the Kolai Pharmacy, jointly established by the Koao Research Institute, the Kolan Mercenary Branch, and the Kolan Eternal Branch, will hold a shareholders'' meeting in the near future."


    "These shareholders are spread across the major city-states in Zilargo County, and they are all powerful institutions. If you plan to take action, it''s best to do it before the shareholders'' meeting!"


    Moonlight Mouse smiled: "Otherwise, once the other party''s board of directors is established, if you want to destroy this organization, it will be equivalent to making an enemy of the powerful institutions in the entire Zilargo County."


    "It can be predicted that the other party''s power will not be even smaller than the Jinquan Association. It is probably difficult for you, the Jinquan Baron, and the Rodney family behind you to compete with it!" Moonlight Mouse''s meaningful words guided Baron Rodney''s thinking.


    Baron Rodney''s eyes turned resentful, and after a while he said: "Then... let''s mess up the city of Coran first. I need time to contact the nobles of the Golden Power Society. They will definitely be interested in this matter!"


    Shrugging his shoulders, Moonlight Mouse said indifferently: "As you wish!" Then he stood up and prepared to leave.


    At this time, Baron Rodney said faintly: "In addition, contact the ''Razor Crown War Goblin Corps'' in Dagon County as quickly as possible and tell their General Harlock that I agree with its request. As long as it helps me destroy this blockade, I will convince the nobles of the Golden Power Society to support its founding of a country!"


    Moonlight Mouse smiled silently, and his figure gradually disappeared into the shadows.


    Baron Rodney looked at the turbulent sea and was silent for a long time before he said quietly: "Zilago has been quiet for too long. It''s time to use a city-state war to redivide the sphere of influence. Although the ''plan'' is a little ahead of schedule, I believe the effect will not be too bad, right?"


    The new president of the Pharmacist Guild, who was soaked in cold sweat, looked at the Baron in horror. He felt that he seemed to have heard something he shouldn''t have heard.


    Baron Rodney knocked the cherry wood pipe in his hand on the fence of the balcony of the villa, carefully wrapped his beloved pipe with a handkerchief and put it in his pocket, turned around and turned the huge gem ring on his thick fingers.


    He looked at the new president of the Pharmacists Association with a smile on his face, his expression gentle but domineering: "Are you right?"


    ¡°Sir¡­I¡­I didn¡¯t hear anything¡­¡± The new president of the Pharmacists Association was terrified and stammered, his tone full of pleading.


    His body involuntarily retreated, and a series of shrill screams rang out in this beautiful villa, which stopped abruptly after a long time.


    On the hillside behind the villa, next to the tombstone engraved with the name "Selena", next to the densely packed tombs without words, it is estimated that a new small mound will be added soon...

 Chapter125

    The students of Komo University are looking forward to the ten-day holiday on Dragon''s Breath Day, even more than the winter and summer holidays.


    Whenever this day comes, the students who have been "confined" for nine days will always gather in the campus early, excitedly waiting for the gate of the college to be opened.


    Looking at the crowds of people near the gate of the college, Jia Lan shrugged helplessly, and then led a group of chattering girls to the small passage dedicated to faculty and staff.


    Jia Lan, who does not need to abide by the gate control, obviously cannot understand the students'' desire for freedom.


    As the plan goes smoothly, Jia Lan decides to lead the girls in charge of the "Komo Adventure Book Bar Headquarters" to the "Komo Adventure Adventure Branch" and "Komo Adventure Mercenary Branch" for inspection, brainstorming, and discussing whether there is an opportunity for tripartite cooperation.


    Of course, Jia Lan also admitted that the main purpose of this trip is to let these girls relax and release the work pressure they usually accumulate.


    However, surrounded by the girls, Jia Lan unexpectedly discovered that Alan, who was always optimistic and cheerful, seemed to be in a low mood, and the Brown sisters accompanied her and whispered to comfort her.


    Jia Lan approached curiously and asked: "Alan, what''s wrong? Are you not happy to go out and play?"


    Alan was unhappy, opened her mouth slightly, but bit her lips and lowered her head without saying anything.


    Instead, Garth Brown on the side whispered: "Teacher, Alan''s magic power has never been able to increase, so the element test results in this monthly exam are very bad..."


    Jia Lan nodded upon hearing this.


    As early as when Alan entered school and took the element talent test, he had anticipated this situation.


    Alan''s rare one in ten million five-element balanced element talent destined her to not be a magician.


    At first, the first-year magic apprentices mainly learned theoretical basic knowledge, and the impact was not obvious.


    And Alan chose pharmacy, a secondary subject, which did not require high application of elements.


    However, as the magic knowledge she learned deepened and she began to learn about the elements, Alan''s disadvantages gradually became apparent.


    The five elements in her body repelled each other and cleverly formed a balance, which prevented her from absorbing any element particles from the outside world, and the element values ??in her body naturally could not be improved.


    According to the standard strength classification of Komo University, a magic apprentice can be called a "level 1 magic apprentice" if the value of any element in the body reaches more than 10 units.


    If it reaches 20 element units, it is a "level 2 magic apprentice".


    Similarly, when the element units in the body of a magic apprentice exceed 100, he can be promoted to an "apprentice magician".


    After a long period of magic power accumulation, the element units in the body exceed 1,000, and he can be promoted to a "primary magician".Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    This is just a rough way of strength classification, which cannot be directly linked to the magician''s combat power, but it is the easiest way to rate magicians.


    This simple, rough and not very accurate grading system is widely used in the field of magic.


    For example, a level 1 magic apprentice needs 1 elemental unit of magic to release a small fireball magic, and this small fireball is called a "level 1 small fireball".


    When a level 1 magic apprentice can skillfully release a "level 2 small fireball" of 10 elemental units after a lot of practice, it means that his combat strength has been improved to a higher level.


    But this does not mean that he has been promoted to a level 2 magic apprentice, because the magic power of less than 20 elemental units in his body cannot release the second magic at all.


    Therefore, generally speaking, even if magic apprentices have mastered the ability to release level 2 or even higher magic, they rarely use it in ordinary battles, because it is equivalent to directly abolishing their own spellcasting ability.


    In fact, the battles between high-level magicians are also similar.


    It is rare to see high-level magic in the magic confrontation between two magicians.


    If you can kill with one blow, it''s fine. If you can''t defeat the opponent with a magic that you have used all your strength, then the opponent can slowly consume it with a level 1 small fireball.


    The dilemma Alan is facing now is that she has never been able to improve the elemental units in her body.


    At the beginning of school, her five elemental units were all 1. However, after several months, even if she practiced hard according to the magic accumulation method taught by the academy, the five elemental units in her body remained at 1, without any increase.


    In the early stages of pharmacy, magic may not be needed, but when configuring advanced potions, the use of elements is particularly important.


    For example, fire pharmacists need to accurately control the temperature, water pharmacists need to strictly control the dosage, and wood pharmacists need to carefully control the effect of the potion. These are directly related to whether the pharmacist can successfully prepare high-quality potions.


    Of course, this does not mean that people who lack elemental talent cannot become pharmacists.


    However, in this era, people with elemental talent undoubtedly have greater advantages when studying pharmacy, and there is more room for improvement in the future.


    Take a great magician with outstanding elemental talent as an example. If he gave up magic practice halfway and turned to study pharmacy, he might quickly grow into an outstanding great pharmacist.


    On the contrary, an ordinary pharmacist who has no elemental talent at all will find it difficult to become a great magician even if he tries his best.


    Alan knew that his elemental talent was mediocre, so he did not choose a major subject too high, but wisely chose pharmacy, which did not require high elemental talent.


    However, what Alan herself did not realize was that her five-element talent with a one-in-ten-million chance would have a profound impact on her.


    If everything went well, even if Alan continued to study at Komo University and had outstanding theoretical knowledge, she might only become a skilled pharmacist in the end, helping those real pharmacists.


    Not to mention her unique elemental talent, even many magic apprentices with better elemental talents than her had similar fates in the end.


    Those with good family conditions may become the owner of a pharmacy or herbal medicine shop with a good knowledge of medicine with the support of their family.


    Those with limited economic conditions are likely to become a craftsman related to the field of magic, commonly known as a "magic worker" or "magic apprentice".


    Komo University has hundreds of thousands of students, and many graduate or drop out every year. If everyone can become a magician, wouldn''t it be that there are strong people everywhere and magic gods everywhere?


    However, it is not completely impossible to solve Alan''s problem. Jia Lan knows several methods, but these methods are relatively dangerous.


    The safest way is for Jia Lan to use the arcane energy in his body to forcibly expel the weak five elements in Alan''s body, so that she can follow him to practice arcane magic instead of magic.


    However, this raises a new problem: Jia Lan does not know whether the surviving creatures after the explosion of the earth veins are infected by the space elements and have evolved a constitution that can accommodate elements and is suitable for arcane practice.


    What if the humans of this era can no longer live without the elements in their bodies?


    Then, if he rashly expelled the elements from Alan''s body, it would be tantamount to directly depriving the girl of her life.


    This is also the reason why he has been hesitant and has not taken action to improve Alan''s physique.

 Chapter126

    Jia Lan said to Alan hesitantly: "Alan, I do have a way to solve the problem of your elemental talent, but this may be a little dangerous for you..."


    "Really? Can you really help me?"


    The girl Allen raised her head in surprise, widened her eyes, and looked at Jia Lan expectantly.


    After thinking for a moment, Jia Lan asked: "Alan, do you want to be a great magician or an outstanding pharmacist in the future?"


    "Of course, to be a great magician!"


    The girl clasped her hands tightly and stared at Jia Lan nervously.


    "Well... okay, I have a way to enhance your elemental talent, but the learning process will be difficult and hard. Are you willing to try it?"


    Jia Lan knew in his heart that this question was equivalent to asking in vain. After all, who would give up the opportunity to become a magician to become a pharmacist?


    What''s more, after becoming a magician, if you are willing to invest time in learning, you can also become a pharmacist.


    "Really?" Alan nodded seriously: "Alan is not afraid of hardship or hard work!"


    Jialan nodded helplessly: "Okay, then starting tomorrow, you don''t have to go to class. Stay in the library first. I will try to improve your elemental ability."


    ¡°Okay, okay!¡±


    Alan was so happy that she almost jumped up, and the Brown sisters beside her showed envy and looked at Jialan with expectant eyes.


    Sighing, Jialan said to the two nominal girl apprentices: "If you also want to learn, you can also follow Alan, but let me make it clear first! I will be very strict..."


    However, the three girls had no time to listen to what he said. They hugged each other and jumped and cheered, attracting the attention of other girls in front.


    Minnie also waved to Jialan and others who fell behind and shouted: "Administrator Jialan! Hurry up! Hurry up!"


    Jialan smiled and waved, and followed with the three excited girls.


    The sisters, Garth Brown (older sister) and Anlia Brown (younger sister), actually do not have any significant elemental talents, and only have a negligible 1 element unit in their bodies.


    In other words, they are just ordinary civilian girls.


    Perhaps it is because of their personalities. Although they are twins, the passionate older sister has a fire talent, while the gentle and shy younger sister has a water talent.


    Although these talents are so weak that they can be almost ignored, it cannot be denied that there are elements in their bodies.


    The reason why Jia Lan agreed to teach the three girls "magic" is mainly because in his time, there was a type of wizard who took a different approach and specialized in studying the spells of the elemental sub-school, and even used the "element transformation method" to transform his body into elemental matter, and finally became an elemental creature, in order to achieve the ultimate power of elemental spells.


    This type of crazy wizard is called "elemental wizard" by traditional wizards, and their nature is quite similar to the magicians of this era.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    However, when the elemental mages cast elemental spells, they still use arcane as the driving force.


    But since the people of this era have a physique that is not afraid of elemental infection, they are likely to learn the extreme spells of those crazy mages!


    Of course, this is just Jia Lan''s speculation, and whether it will succeed or not, Jia Lan cannot be sure.


    After all, he has neither practiced the Elemental School himself nor tried to use "Element Transformation" to transform himself into an elemental creature.


    Everything needs to be tried slowly.


    Jia Lan led the Girls Arbitration Team out of the gate of Komo University, and a thief wearing a two-headed dragon badge on his chest hurried forward and reported some situations to him in a respectful manner.


    Jia Lan frowned slightly after hearing this, and then asked the excited Alan to lead the team to visit and study at the Komo Adventure Mercenary Branch. He could not lead the team in person because he had other important matters to deal with.


    Although Alan was a little surprised at Jia Lan''s temporary departure, she was simple-minded and did not care too much. She just nodded in agreement, and replied with a sweet smile that she would promise to bring the members of the arbitration team back safely.


    The inspection will be accompanied by mercenary guild personnel throughout the whole process, and Jia Lan does not need to worry too much about the safety of the Girls Arbitration Team.


    After watching the female arbitration group leave, Jia Lan used magic communication to notify several senior members of the "Iguana''s Fang" mercenary group to gather quickly and inquire about the details of what happened.


    According to the report of the Silver Thief, President Clark and Captain Kenmet have also set off for the Castle of Doom and are expected to have arrived at their destination.


    Jia Lan frowned when he heard this. A mysterious incident occurred in the Castle of Doom last night. Several night shift workers died unfortunately, but there was no sign of struggle or fighting at the scene. The dead even had a smile of happiness and satisfaction on their faces.


    The scene has been blocked by the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, and the dead have been covered up on the grounds of transfer, which has not affected the operation of the Cole Medicine Production Workshop for the time being.


    However, this incident was too weird, which once again triggered people''s association with the horror legend of the Castle of Doom.


    As a spellcaster who pursues the truth and studies the essence of things, Jia Lan naturally does not believe in horror legends.


    But according to the Silver Thief, the dead were killed on the way to the medicine warehouse.


    There were at least three groups of night watch teams of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group patrolling the area, with an interval of no more than five minutes.


    No abnormalities were found before the incident, and no suspicious points were found in the subsequent investigation, as if the deceased died of a sudden illness, which was obviously illogical.


    After the scene was sealed off, the deputy leader of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon stationed at the Castle of Doom immediately sent someone to notify President Clark and Jia Lan, waiting for them to come to the scene to deal with it.


    The four senior mercenaries who received Jia Lan''s communication spell took the carriage waiting outside the gate of Komo University with Jia Lan and quickly rushed to the Castle of Doom.


    At present, the 100,000 ping castle group under the name of the Castle of Doom and the surrounding more than 12 million ping (about 40 square kilometers) of mountain and forest land were all purchased by Jia Lan in the name of the "Kovare Mystery Group" from the Komo University Property Management Office at a secret cost of 8 million gold talans as the infrastructure land for the future development of the Koao Group.


    Therefore, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group hired a large number of workers to level the mountains and build houses under this name, making this desolate land bustling.


    According to common sense, ghosts should not appear in popular places.


    The workers who were originally afraid of working in the Doom Castle gradually let down their guard due to the crowds.


    However, now there is a supernatural incident of the strange death of the workers. Once exposed, it will cause heavy damage to the Doom Castle under construction.


    It is expected that all the workers will flee within half a day.


    After all, life is priceless, and no matter how generous the wages are, they cannot compare with it.


    In this regard, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group has shown rich experience, and both the reaction speed and the means of handling are skilled and decisive.


    Although it is unfair to the families of the deceased workers, in this era of strict class system, who will care about the lives of civilians?


    Although Jia Lan gradually accepted the memories of the souls from another world in his mind, he still had reservations about this way of dealing with things. But as the master of Castle of Doom, he could only accept this reality temporarily.

 Chapter127

    Jia Lan recently found that his behavior had fluctuated strangely, which was due to the fierce conflict between two completely different concepts in his mind.


    As a spellcaster, he began to feel sympathy for a civilian.


    In history, it was not uncommon for spellcasters to cast plague spells at will in spell confrontations, resulting in the death of civilians in the entire city.


    Spellcasters have never compensated civilians, so the nobles in the secular world have always maintained an attitude of awe and fear towards spellcasters.


    Plague spells and other means of mass destruction are numerous in the spell lists of mages. If used in war, they will have a strategic-level map killing effect.


    In that era, "never provoke mages" had become a consensus among people.


    Jia Lan and his party took a carriage, passed through the huge and bustling construction site around the Doom Castle, sped along the newly paved dirt road, and finally drove into the Doom Castle.


    When the mercenaries at the gate saw the ¡®silver-level thief¡¯ driving the carriage, they immediately pushed open the newly replaced heavy log gate, allowing them to go to the warehouse area behind the castle group unimpeded.


    As the scale of production expanded, the demand for medicinal materials for Cole Pharmacy also increased significantly.


    Therefore, several castle buildings were specially cleaned up as medicinal material warehouses to purchase and store raw materials in bulk through the mercenary guild channels.


    When Jia Lan and his party arrived, the warehouse area was under martial law, and the use and transportation of medicinal materials were all the responsibility of the mercenaries.


    Although the hired workers noticed the strange atmosphere, they did not think too much because of the heavy production tasks.


    In their spare time, the mercenaries would also help complete the production tasks.


    Casey, Dave, President Clark of the Mercenary Guild, and Captain Kenmet of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon were all at the scene. The bodies of the hired workers who died were still in place.


    "No signs of fighting or struggling were found at the scene. The four hired workers died about five or six meters away, indicating that they did not even notice the existence of the attackers at the time of the incident, which is similar to the means of thieves." After greeting Jia Lan, President Clark directly introduced the search results of his experienced thieves on the scene.


    "However, there are no obvious external injuries on the bodies, and the tests showed that they were not poisoned. They seemed to have suddenly lost their lives..." As an experienced old mercenary, President Clark had never encountered such a bizarre incident.


    Jia Lan checked the bodies of the four hired workers one by one and found that they were all in a backward position.


    In addition to being pale and lifeless, they seemed to be sleeping.


    Some had a smile on their lips, and some had their lips and teeth half open, as if they were still happily talking with their co-workers the moment before.


    This scene was extremely weird and chilling.


    Although the mercenaries guarding the scene had silver-level strength, they could hardly resist the fear brought by this unknown and strange incident.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.


    President Clark had no idea about the cause of the employee''s death, but suspected that it was related to the Jinquan Society: "The atmosphere in Kolan City has been weird recently. A large number of neighborhood gangs seem to be as excited as smoking ''Devil Leaf'' cigarettes, and hundreds of fights break out every night."


    "The prison of the city guards is almost full of captured neighborhood gang members! This is too unusual."


    "Although these gangs often fight each other for territory in the past, they have never been so frequent and unscrupulous."


    "Someone must be controlling them behind the scenes!"


    After President Clark finished speaking, he looked at Jia Lan and continued: "If nothing unexpected happens, it is very likely that the Jinquan Society is behind it. It''s just that I don''t know what their purpose is? Are they attacking us with force? Disrupting the market? Or using the city''s security to force the Civil Affairs Council?"


    Jia Lan nodded and shook his head, and began to chant in a low voice and release a series of detection spells: detect toxins, detect secret methods, detect alchemy, detect charm, detect undead, detect immortality...


    When the "Detect Undead" spell was released, Jia Lan sensed a strange fluctuation and frowned slightly.


    Jia Lan said calmly: "It was not the poison that killed them, but someone attacked them from behind..."


    Jia Lan gently tilted the head of a hired worker''s body, parted his loose hair, pointed to the skin below his ear and said, "Please look here."


    Everyone looked closer and found two small red spots about an inch apart on the neck of the hired worker, like a swollen bump from a mosquito bite.


    President Clark and the others were a little confused at first, but soon understood.


    Although the weather is not so cold now, it is still early for spring.


    How could there be mosquitoes at night when the temperature is so low?


    Jia Lan took out a bottle of "solvent" from his pocket, opened the lid, and dripped two drops on the wound of the corpse.


    If it were a living person, these two drops would be fatal, but they had no effect on the corpse.


    As soon as the two drops of solvent touched the red spots, the red spots began to emit white smoke and black pus and blood, as if corroded by strong acid!


    "Is this alchemical acid?" President Clark looked at Jia Lan curiously, but didn''t understand why he used alchemical acid to get rid of the red spots on the corpse.


    "No, it''s just an alchemical solvent." Jia Lan shook his head.


    Alchemical acid is a corrosive substance commonly used in alchemy. Only alchemists can refine it, and the output is very small.


    And alchemical solvents are commonly used alchemical reagents. They are used in many alchemical experiments to melt materials or combine insoluble things.


    However, alchemical solvents are not corrosive. As long as they are not swallowed, they can be applied to the skin or wounds.


    Seeing the red spots on the neck of the corpse, Jia Lan probably guessed how the four hired workers died, so he used alchemical solvents to melt the "thrombin" on the red spots.


    Yes, the murderer is likely to be a vampire among some undead creatures. Although it is not clear what kind it is, the traces left behind have exposed his identity.


    When vampires suck blood, they inject anesthetic substances into the body of their prey, making people feel no pain.


    Excessive blood loss can make people dizzy and produce hallucinations like taking drugs.


    This is the reason for the strange smile on the hired worker''s corpse.


    After sucking blood, the thrombin in the venom on the vampire''s fangs will cause the blood to coagulate quickly, producing a layer of transparent glue, making the wound look like a mosquito bite, so as to cover the wound.


    It just so happens that the alchemical solvent can dissolve this thrombin and expose the wound.


    After listening to Jia Lan''s explanation, President Clark and others were shocked: "Could it be a vampire?"


    Jia Lan knew that vampires were not a legend... but he didn''t need to tell Clark and others about this.


    Jia Lan just looked at the wound again and shook his head: "The distance of the wound looks like a vampire bite, but the ''features'' are wrong..."


    "Vampire" is a name people use to belittle vampires. In fact, vampires call themselves "blood clan".


    They are undead creatures that are smarter than humans. They have noble and elegant temperaments and handsome looks. They think they are nobler than humans.


    Moreover, the vampires are very picky about their "tastes", just like human nobles choose fillet when eating steak, they prefer beautiful girls and handsome boys.


    The "dining etiquette" of the vampires is also very "elegant". They will first seduce their prey and then tease them, and this process may last for several days or even months.


    After making the prey fall in love with them, they will enjoy the "feast" when the prey is most fascinated by them.


    Therefore, unless they are deliberately killed, people attacked by the vampires will even fall in love with them without regrets, dedicate their blood, and willingly become their slaves.

 Chapter128

    The four hired workers were all rough men in their thirties or forties. No matter from which angle they were viewed, they did not meet the normal standards of the vampires in selecting prey.


    If the beautiful young girl and the handsome boy were compared to high-quality "fillet tenderloin", they could only be regarded as low-quality "offal" at best.


    Assuming that a vampire really chose them as prey, Jia Lan could only speculate that the vampire might be extremely hungry or have an abnormal taste preference...


    Jia Lan pointed out to Clark and others by comparing his slightly sharp canine teeth with the width of the wound on the corpse: "This spacing is obviously not left by a small vampire like a vampire bat. It is really puzzling!"


    He was also confused because this spacing just matched the canine spacing of human vampires, but besides the vampires, what other vampires have human characteristics?


    However, the existence of vampires can indeed reasonably explain the horror legends circulating in the Doom Castle and the strange deaths of the residents.


    The only doubt is why there have been mysterious disappearances of victims in the history of the Doom Castle.


    You should know that although the dhampirs belong to the undead system, they do not eat corpses.


    Even if the victim is attacked by the dhampirs, the corpse will not disappear without a trace.


    Although there is a folk legend of "vampires eating people", it is only because people lack understanding of dhampirs and confuse the "undead system" vampires, the "dead system" ghouls and the "dark system" werewolves.


    Although the "undead system" and the "dead system" belong to the category of "dead spirits" rather than "living spirits", the two are completely different and cannot be confused.


    Faced with many doubts, Jia Lan could not make a judgment for a while, and could only ask the mercenary who found the employee''s body: "How long have the four hired workers been dead?"


    The mercenary recalled and replied: "No more than six hours, we found them about half an hour before dawn."


    Hearing this, Jia Lan squatted down to study the corpse carefully, and suddenly gently pulled the hair of one of the employees, and pulled out a lot of hair, causing the employee to have a large bald spot on his head!


    Clark and the others felt a chill, but then realized that in such cold weather, a body that had died no more than six hours earlier could not rot, and hair should not fall off so easily!


    Jia Lan seemed to have noticed something, but did not say it, just nodded thoughtfully: "Can you get holy water or invite a priest?"


    President Clark and Captain Kenmet looked at each other and frowned: "Kolan City is the territory of Komo University and the only city without the Church of Light. Although there are a few priests of light active in Kolan City, it should be difficult to find them in a short time."


    Jia Lan seemed to have expected it and nodded.


    In the pre-civilization era, although the religious beliefs of the Kingdom of Zirago were quite free and did not prohibit the spread of certain religions, religious forces had almost never appeared in Kolan Castle.


    This situation is not limited to Kolan Castle. In almost all areas where the arcane is prevalent, religious beliefs are relatively weak.


    After all, most mages are non-believers hated by religious people. Although the arcane and religion are not in opposition, the two sides are not harmonious.


    "Then, we can only take a more cruel approach..." Jia Lan looked at the four corpses with some embarrassment and ordered: "Go find a wild hawthorn tree that is more than ten years old, and bring back three hard branches that are about the thickness of a little finger and at least one foot long."


    President Clark asked with interest: "Can a ten-year-old hawthorn branch kill a vampire?"


    Jia Lan shrugged: "I don''t know, I just heard about it, I''m not a priest... But I have to try, and I can''t destroy the body. I can''t think of any other way."This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    After all, the four hired workers are innocent. After the matter is over, their bodies need to be returned to their relatives for burial.


    Wild hawthorn trees are easy to find, and soon a mercenary brought back a large bundle of branches.


    Jia Lan selected three branches of suitable thickness and sharpened them with the combat dagger given by Old Jimmy, then asked Div to turn the body of one of the employees over and face down, and said to the people on the side: "Press the body to the ground!"


    Although President Clark and others felt that the scene was weird, Captain Kenmet still stepped forward to help.


    The two held the shoulders of the corpse respectively. After Jia Lan fumbled around the back of the neck of the corpse for a while, he gently inserted the wild hawthorn branch from the connection between the skull and the spine!


    "Ah..."


    A shrill scream suddenly came from the mouth of the stiff corpse.


    The harsh sound waves frightened everyone.


    Captains Div and Kenmet, who were in charge of holding down the corpse, were almost frightened to the point of urinating!


    Because they only symbolically held down the corpse without exerting any force... Who would have thought that the corpse would struggle?


    They thought it was just part of Jia Lan''s "autopsy ceremony".


    However, when Jia Lan stabbed the wild hawthorn branch into the back of the corpse''s head, the employee''s body suddenly burst out with great force and leaned back, almost knocking the two over.


    Fortunately, the two were strong and reacted quickly, and immediately pressed the body back to the ground.


    The employee''s body trembled violently for a while, and then returned to a stiff state.


    After receiving Jia Lan''s signal, the two sweated profusely and carefully released the shoulders of the corpse.


    This sweat was not from fatigue, but from fear.


    When Jia Lan looked at the second corpse, he reminded everyone: "Uh, by the way, when you suppress the corpses, it is best not to put your hands on their shoulders, just press the back of the neck or the spine to avoid being bitten by them, which is contagious..."


    Dave was frightened when he heard this, and Captain Kenmet was pale, thinking, could you have said this earlier?


    After dealing with the other two corpses, Jia Lan clapped his hands easily and nodded, "Now you can send these three corpses to a closed space for ''isolation'', send someone to guard them, and deal with them after the matter is over!"


    President Clark was horrified: "Are they still not dead?" That was a foot-long hard branch inserted into the back of their heads!


    "By the way, why only deal with three corpses? What about the remaining one?" President Clark pointed at the remaining corpse and asked with some concern.


    Jia Lan looked at the hired worker''s body whose hair he had plucked out, and smiled, "Of course we have to leave one behind to lead the way for us!"


    Throughout the day, the warehouse area of ??Doom Castle was filled with a strange atmosphere, which became stronger as time went by, and reached its peak when the afterglow of the sunset dissipated and darkness enveloped the earth, making people suffocate.


    The body left behind to "lead the way" brought great psychological pressure to the mercenaries.


    It was parked behind the castle that served as a warehouse, under several tall ancient trees, and it kept changing throughout the day.


    In the first six hours, the hair of the corpse began to fall off, making the hired worker who had thick brown hair in life become a bald man after death.


    Six hours later, the ears of the corpse began to grow, gradually turning into a pair of wings like bat wings, wrinkled and curled together.


    After another six hours, the skin on the head of the corpse began to fester and fall off, revealing scarlet muscles. Tentacles like meat strips grew from the top of the head, entangled together and hanging behind the head, looking like some kind of trendy hairstyle, but they kept wriggling, like the tongue of some monster.


    In the last six hours, the head of the corpse began to swell, sharp fangs protruded from the lips, and even began to tremble slightly. The "tongues" were like earthworms, probing around the head, as if groping for something.


    The whole process of change was presented to the eyes of the mercenaries responsible for monitoring the corpse.


    Seeing a person''s head slowly transform into a terrifying monster, the psychological impact on the mercenaries was too great. Even experienced old mercenaries could not bear such a terrible and disgusting scene, and had to frequently change personnel for monitoring.


    Compared with the swollen head, the body of the corpse shrank and shrank, as if the head had sucked the nutrients of the entire corpse dry.


    The last shift of surveillance sentry was personally in charge of Jia Lan and Captain Kenmet.


    In addition to the two of them, there were seven other senior mercenaries from the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group. They would form a temporary adventure team to track the corpse that "led the way" for them, to find the monster''s lair, and completely destroy them.


    Originally, President Clark also planned to go, but a large-scale riot suddenly broke out in the city of Colan, so he had to rush back to the Mercenary Guild to take charge and cooperate with the city guards to suppress the rebellious gangsters and hooligans.


    The strength of this adventure team is very strong. Captain Kenmet sent almost all the elite members of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon.


    A gold-level thief, a gold-level archer, plus Captain Kenmet, a gold-level greatsword master, and five other high-level mercenaries who are also high-level silver combat professionals.


    In the words of Captain Kenmet, with such a team configuration, the combat power is almost enough to clear a dragon''s nest.


    But at this moment, they seem a little nervous, because the enemies they need to face are not the monsters and monsters that they will encounter in normal missions, but "ghosts" that only exist in legends!

 Chapter129

    Old Jimmy, squatting beside Jia Lan, showed extraordinary calmness. He even had time to take out a thick leaf and put it in his mouth to chew silently. This action won the admiration of the "Golden Level Thief". This is the embodiment of experience.


    Although ghosts and monsters only exist in legends and few people have witnessed them, this is not uncommon for those mercenaries who have experienced hardships. Some people often insist that they have encountered ghosts and monsters.


    Unlike the physical monsters, the mercenaries are most afraid of those invisible and intangible enemies, because every confrontation with such opponents will result in serious casualties.


    The movement of the corpse became more and more intense, accompanied by the "Pula Pu La" sound of the flapping wings and the occasional sharp screams.


    Captain Kenmet asked nervously in a low voice: "Mr. Jialan, when do we take action? It seems to be struggling?"


    Jialan, who had been busy preparing, looked up and smiled and replied: "Once it takes off, we will follow!"


    After that, he calmly put the scattered small objects in front of him into his pocket, and took out a two-foot-long magic wand from the bag and placed it at hand.


    Captain Kenmet looked at the pockets on Jialan''s robe with a strange look. Although Jialan had stuffed a lot of items into it, the pockets did not bulge at all.


    He unconsciously touched the potion bag on his waist, which was filled with more than a dozen bottles of strange alchemical potions, most of which even he, a well-informed mercenary leader, had never seen.


    However, these alchemical potions gave him and his mercenaries great confidence.


    In the battle with demons and monsters, magicians and priests are undoubtedly more authoritative.


    Kenmet was about to speak when a fierce hissing and flapping of wings suddenly came from the place where the corpse was parked.


    Everyone exchanged glances and rushed out of their hiding places quickly!


    Since Jia Lan specifically reminded them to avoid using too bright lighting near the corpse, they only hung a dimmed bull''s eye lantern on the side of the castle.


    The dim light did not shine directly in the direction of the corpse, so they could only barely observe that the corpse began to struggle!


    This scene was extremely strange, because everyone knew that there was only a corpse lying there.


    However, at this moment, the corpse "sat" upright under the wings that kept flapping on both sides of its head!


    To be more precise, it was driven to stand upright by the wings.


    What was even more shocking was that the corpse "stood" up shakily under the flapping of the wings, or was dragged and hung up, with its legs dragging on the ground, and began to fly around like a headless fly.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Jia Lan could hear the swallowing sound caused by nervousness around him.


    Although this was his first time witnessing this scene, he had seen more horrifying scenes in his teacher''s biology laboratory, so he was not overly frightened.


    However, for mercenaries who rarely witnessed such scenes, this scene was undoubtedly very exciting.


    The flying corpse seemed to gradually adapt to flying, and also noticed the presence of Jia Lan and others.


    Suddenly, it let out a scream like a night owl, flapped its wings desperately, and dragged its body towards them.


    Looking at the approaching corpse with its legs rubbing on the ground, Kenmet turned his head in a bit of astonishment and asked: "Uh, Mr. Jia Lan, what should we do now?"


    Jia Lan nodded and said: "Attack it! But be careful not to kill it, we still need it to lead the way for us."


    As soon as the voice fell, the bowstring sounded, and an arrow accurately shot the heart of the corpse, causing it to fly backwards.


    The one who shot was the golden archer.


    The corpse floating in the air just shook for a moment, letting the arrow pierce the heart, and continued to fly over with a hiss, and the four sharp fangs flashed dangerous cold light in the dim light!


    Jia Lan reminded: "Attacking the body is invalid, its main body is the head... Don''t cut its wings!"


    The figure of Captain Kenmet suddenly appeared beside the corpse, and a whistling two-handed sword slashed at the head of the corpse.


    But after hearing Jia Lan''s reminder, he had to change from slashing to slapping, and the palm-wide sword slapped the head of the corpse horizontally!


    With a tearing sound, the twisted head with wings was slapped off by Kenmet''s sword, and a long spine was pulled out together.


    The head rolled far away on the ground, and the body was limp like a pile of mud.


    Everyone watched the head flapping its wings and struggling on the ground.


    After a while, it started to fly again, dragging its long pale spine with blood on it, and staggered towards everyone again.


    However, this was a newly created monster after all, and all the people present were powerful mercenaries.


    Therefore, no matter where it flew, it would be shot down by the mercenaries with weapons, and it would continue to scream.


    As time went by, everyone seemed to be accustomed to this weird scene, and the tension was obviously relieved.


    Although it seemed strange that a head grew wings and flew, as a mercenary, who didn''t come from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ??blood?


    After losing the sense of mystery, everyone began to tease this "strange head" curiously, like playing ball, you hit it back and forth with a sword.


    Although it was a joke, the mercenaries also noticed that the skin of this monster head was as tough as rhinoceros leather.


    Occasionally, when weapons were cut on it, there would be a muffled "puff" sound, but it was difficult to cause serious damage!


    Fortunately, the mercenaries present were all strong. If ordinary civilians encountered this kind of monster, even if they were not scared to death, they would be bitten to death by its sharp fangs!


    Fortunately, Mr. Jia Lan foresaw this situation in advance and took preventive measures.


    Otherwise, if the changes of the corpse were ignored without knowing it, and the four monster heads were "resurrected" at night, it would pose a great threat to the hired workers in front.


    Perhaps it was scared by the beating, the monster head did not dare to attack the mercenaries again, but began to rush left and right to try to escape.


    But as soon as it rose, the golden archer''s arrow would immediately pierce a hole in its bat-like wings.


    The leaky wings made it only float in the air two or three meters above the ground, struggling up and down.


    "Okay, let it go!" Seeing that the beating was almost over, Jia Lan spoke to stop the mercenaries'' siege.


    This newly generated monster was actually not a big threat, and it couldn''t even control its own flight.


    Only when the spine it is dragging along gradually falls off will it become a truly dangerous monster.

 Chapter130

    The monster''s spinal tissue sheds a part every day until it is completely detached after 25 days, indicating that the monster''s head structure will reach maturity in about a month.


    During this period, it is in the most vulnerable and potentially dangerous state, because it will frequently "forage" at night and absorb blood by attacking various creatures.


    Jia Lan took action in time, severely injuring the creature just after it completed the mutation, forcing it into a weak state, and finally released it.


    According to the instinctive behavior pattern of the derivative creature, such creatures usually choose to return to their nests or seek shelter from their own kind in a weak state.


    This feature distinguishes undead creatures with a certain degree of intelligence from undead creatures without intelligence, the latter of which do not have the instinct to escape even if they are completely destroyed.


    Because the wings of the abnormal head were attacked by the archer and almost shattered like a spider web, its flying ability was severely weakened.


    Although it was free from the burden of the body, even if it flapped its wings with all its strength, it could only barely maintain flight without falling, and its flying speed was significantly slowed down.


    This greatly facilitated the tracking action of Jia Lan and others.


    Among them, the ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ was responsible for tracking and driving the creature away, attacking it with a slingshot from time to time to speed it up, while the rest of the people followed closely behind at a leisurely pace.


    Captain Kenmet finally asked a question: ¡°Mr. Jia Lan, what kind of monster is this? How can it parasitize in a human head?¡±


    He could hardly imagine that a corpse¡¯s head could resurrect and grow wings to become a monster, but if it was explained as a certain creature parasitizing in the corpse¡¯s head, it would be more reasonable.


    Jia Lan patiently explained: "From the perspective of parasites, although it is not completely accurate, there are indeed similarities. This undead creature is called ''flying head barbarian'' or ''blood-sucking barbarian''. Although its operating mechanism is still unclear..."


    He pointed to the abnormal head flying hard in front of him, "But it is true that creatures that are sucked to death by flying head barbarian will almost all be transformed into ''undead derivatives'', that is, their ''offspring''..."


    Old Jimmy interrupted and said: "It sounds very similar to the legendary vampires. It is said that people bitten to death by vampires will also become vampires!"


    Jia Lan smiled and responded: "They do have many ''similarities''."


    He did not tell the mercenaries that the real blood clan is far more powerful than they imagined, with great strength, agile speed, elegant charm, high wisdom and profound knowledge accumulated from a long life.


    In a sense, the blood clan is almost perfect.


    In this era, the legendary "vampire" may only be a low-level "blood servant" left by the blood clan, or even a "blood slave" without self-awareness.


    They were only driven and enslaved by the vampires who claimed to be nobles, and were not considered as the same kind by the vampires at all.


    This seems to indicate that the high-level vampires have disappeared from this era, otherwise these low-level blood slaves would not have lost control and attacked humans at will.


    What happened during the earth vein explosion?


    Why did the high-level creatures disappear without a trace?


    Why did ordinary civilians survive, while the powerful creatures became extinct?


    Jia Lan''s thoughts drifted away, and when he came to his senses, he found that the flying head barbarians, whose flying speed was only equivalent to that of humans walking, had brought them to the deepest part of the Doom Castle.


    "What is the purpose of this place?" Jia Lan looked at the low building under the mountain wall in surprise.


    He didn''t even know the industry under his name as well as these mercenaries.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.


    This place is located at the end of the Doom Castle, close to the desolate area of ??the Sea Wall Mountains.


    There is a large area of ??simple rock buildings here, like the entrance to the cellar.


    Captain Kenmet explained to the young magician who had only briefly inspected his territory, "This is the dungeon area of ??the Castle of Doom, where the original owner imprisoned prisoners. The space below is vast... Because there are many buildings in the castle complex, this place has not been used."


    The ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ stopped at the entrance of a dungeon and turned back to ask for advice on whether to continue tracking.


    Obviously, Feitou Man had fled into this dungeon, but it was unclear whether he fled in panic or was attracted by some kind of induction.


    ¡°What kind of business did the original owner of the castle engage in that required such a large dungeon area?¡± Jia Lan looked at this low rock building complex in confusion.


    Its location is actually beyond the scope of Doom Castle and is quite far away from the castle complex.


    However, the area of ??the dungeon area, the ground building part alone, is equivalent to a quarter of Doom Castle.


    As for the underground part, its scale is even more unknown, which is significantly different from the theoretical layout of traditional castle buildings.


    Any true noble would not be willing to build a dungeon area of ??such a scale in his own castle, because it would undoubtedly bring shame to himself and his family.


    Only those cruel war lords or notorious slave traders would ignore their reputation and take such actions, and both of them are regarded as evil beings.


    Due to long-term abandonment, the dungeon is dark and damp, with mosses everywhere.


    No matter the darkness of the night or the sunlight of the day, it is impossible to penetrate the darkness here, making it pitch dark.


    The entrance of the dungeon is like a big black mouth, quietly waiting for prey to enter.


    When the mercenaries prepared lighting tools and planned to explore further, Jia Lan took out a metal stick from his pocket and knocked on the rock at the entrance of the dungeon.


    In an instant, a bright golden light burst out, with the holder as the center of the circle, and the area within 20 meters was illuminated as daylight.


    The sudden bright light startled the mercenaries, and they subconsciously squinted their eyes and took a defensive posture.


    It was difficult for their eyes to adapt to the extremely bright environment from the darkness.


    "Sorry." Jia Lan said apologetically, and then handed the metal staff in his hand to Captain Kenmet, "Don''t be surprised, this is an alchemical lighting tool called ''Eternal Light Staff''. As you can see, its lighting effect is excellent and very suitable for use as an adventure prop..."


    More than excellent! Having a lighting tool of this brightness will greatly reduce the danger of underground ruins.


    More importantly, bright light is itself a very effective deterrent for underground creatures.


    Captain Kenmet was surprised to put his palm close to the glowing part of the metal staff, but he could not feel the temperature at all.


    The Eternal Light Staff emits only a pure cold light, without temperature, smoke, or smell.


    Even in an airless environment, such as underwater, it will not affect its lighting effect.


    As Jia Lan spoke, he took out a few short metal rods from his pocket and distributed them to everyone: "Although the effects of these ''Light Scepters'' are not as good as the ''Eternal Light Rod'', they can be used for up to six hours. Just in case, keep them for use when you need to leave the lighting range of the Eternal Light Rod."


    The mercenaries were amazed, and Captain Kenmet stared at Jia Lan''s pocket with envy in his heart.


    If he had memories of another world, he might think that Jia Lan had a magical space pocket like some kind of robot cat in another world.


    Although he had already learned from his uncle, President Clark, that this mysterious young magician had many magical means, hearing and seeing with one''s own eyes are completely different things!


    Not to mention that the dozen or so gold-level potions and alchemical potions carried by each person were enough to trigger a medium-sized war; this magical alchemical lighting prop alone was enough to make the mercenaries crazy.


    The mercenaries looked at each other for a while, and then took out several torches dipped in butter from their equipment and threw them on the ground.


    Although these torches had a decent lighting effect, they were large and heavy, and the smell of burning butter could drift far away in the darkness.


    In dangerous places, this was like a monster summoning device, always attracting all kinds of strange creatures.


    Compared with the "Eternal Light Staff" and the "Lighting Staff", these torches were simply eclipsed.


    Under the illumination of the "Eternal Light Staff", the environment in the dungeon was exposed.


    The corners that might be ignored in the dark were now completely exposed to everyone.


    The flying head barbarian had disappeared without a trace, and what appeared in front of them was a rough stone staircase carved out of the rock, spiraling down and disappearing into the darkness underground.


    The door of the dungeon had long been rotten, and the uneven stone steps were covered with mud and some dead branches and leaves, and occasionally the bones of some small creatures could be seen scattered.


    If you step on it carelessly, it will make a crisp cracking sound, adding a creepy atmosphere.


    Captain Kenmet didn''t understand why the original owner of the castle built the dungeon so deep.


    He looked down the stairs without handrails. Even with the 20-meter lighting range of the "Eternal Light Staff", it couldn''t illuminate the bottom.


    The mercenary picked up a tallow torch that they had abandoned, lit it and threw it down.


    The burning torch spun in the air for a long time before it fell to the ground, hitting a bunch of sparks and extinguished.


    He turned back and reported: "More than 80 meters deep!"


    "Damn it! Is this a dungeon or a mine?" Captain Kenmet cursed.


    He held the "Eternal Light Staff" in his left hand and drew his two-handed sword in his right hand.


    When the tallow torch fell just now, they all heard a faint scream that seemed a little weak due to the distance.


    Captain Kenmet signaled his "gold-level thieves" to explore the way ahead, and the group began to move deeper into the dungeon.

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    The spiral staircase inside the dungeon is extremely steep. After a long period of accumulation, dust and dirt have turned the surface of the staircase into a slope, making it extremely dangerous to walk on it. There is a risk of falling if you are not careful.


    Fortunately, these people are basically senior mercenaries with rich experience. They are quite stable.


    In order to ensure the safety of the magician Jia Lan, the team specially arranged personnel to protect him.


    The "Golden Thief" who was on a reconnaissance mission in the front showed his excellent reconnaissance skills. He acted cautiously on the surface, but in fact he acted quickly. He carefully checked the possible traps and mechanisms on the spiral staircase, and squatted from time to time to carefully observe the tiny traces on the dirt of the staircase.


    Suddenly, the ''Golden Level Thief'' in front stopped and turned to warn everyone: "Everyone be careful, there are signs of biological activity ahead, but its specific species cannot be determined at present."


    He spread out his palm, showing a five-finger print similar to the size of a human palm, but the knuckles are obviously much longer than ordinary fingers, and the fingertips are in the shape of sharp and curved claws.


    "This seems to be the paw print of some kind of rodent, but why is it so huge?" After measuring the distance between the front and back paw prints, he said in surprise: "If you don''t count the length of the tail, it is at least two meters long!"


    The old thief Jimmy bent down, picked up a piece of pale skeleton, carefully observed the tooth marks on it, and inspected the traces around, and said in surprise: "Could it be a giant rat? But even giant rats usually don''t grow so big!"


    The ''Golden Level Thief'' nodded to Old Jimmy in agreement, and did not look down on him because of his level and disability.


    Then, he looked up and reported to the leader Kenmet: "Boss, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" Kenmet laughed and cursed: "Damn it! I hate this kind of multiple-choice questions the most! Tell me!"


    The ''Golden Thief'' explained: "The good news is that the flying head did fall under the dungeon. The bad news is that there is a giant rat nest here. Giant rats are social animals. Judging from the number of claw marks on the ground, the number may be quite large."


    Giant rats are one of the monsters that mercenaries often encounter in ruins exploration. Adult individuals can grow up to more than one meter long.


    Although its body size is large, other than this, its other characteristics and habits are not much different from ordinary rats, so it is not too difficult to deal with.


    However, this monster is always hungry and is much more aggressive than ordinary rats.


    Different levels of hunger will affect their courage. If they are extremely hungry, they may even be more dangerous than wolves.


    The number of giant rats in a nest ranges from a dozen to hundreds. Once they attack at the same time, they will pose a great threat with their sharp teeth that can crush rocks.


    Although the ''Golden Thief'' reported the "bad news", both Kenmet and the mercenaries behind him seemed quite relaxed and did not show any tension due to the presence of the giant rats.


    After all, they are all high-level silver or even gold-level warriors, and the giant rats are at most black iron-level monsters.


    Old Jimmy imitated the tone of the ''Golden Thief'' and interrupted the mercenaries'' jokes: "There is also good news and bad news."


    "The good news is that the distribution of claw marks is denser as you go down, and there are almost no claw marks on the ground at the entrance of the dungeon, which means that these giant rats are quite afraid of light, and their range of activities is limited to the inside of the dungeon, and they rarely appear on the ground."


    Old Jimmy then added: "But the bad news is that giant rats with this characteristic may be dark demon rats that are more dangerous than ordinary giant rats."


    Upon hearing this, everyone frowned and subconsciously looked at the claw marks on the ground that were twice as wide as ordinary giant rats.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.


    At the same time, creatures associated with the words "darkness" and "demon" usually make people feel afraid.


    Kenmet waved the two-handed sword in his hand and said confidently: "No matter what it is, just kill it all! Don''t say it''s a two-meter-long rat, even a three-meter-long one..." However, before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly became dull and stared straight at the bottom of the spiral staircase.


    Everyone present was shocked and turned around involuntarily, but they almost lost their composure because of the scene in front of them.


    In the depths of darkness that the "Eternal Light Staff" could not illuminate, a dense blood-red glow suddenly appeared, and then a huge rat slowly emerged from the darkness.


    "Oh my God!" A mercenary exclaimed involuntarily, "Is this a rat?"


    It was normal for the mercenary to react like this, because the rat that slowly walked out of the darkness in a hunting posture was much bigger than they had expected, far from the two meters they had estimated, but reached an astonishing three meters.


    At first glance, the body of this giant rat was not as slender as ordinary rats, but rather appeared sturdy and wild, like a ferocious wild boar.


    Its bulging muscles were covered by the upright bristles like steel needles, and the thick bone spurs penetrated the skin and were exposed on the surface of the body.


    All the mercenaries, including Kenmet, the gold-level great swordsman, couldn''t help but take a breath of cold air.


    Before Kenmet ordered a retreat, the giant rat let out a sharp hiss, "Squeak..." Then, countless rats of all sizes surged out from the darkness behind it like a tide, clinging to it one after another, screaming and rushing towards them.


    "Stop these beasts!" Kenmet shouted, and two shield warriors quickly rushed forward, blocking the narrow spiral staircase side by side, blocking the rats'' way with heavy armor and metal shields.


    At the same time, three sword warriors in light armor rushed behind their companions and supported their backs with their shoulders.


    The rats and shields collided violently on the spiral staircase.


    Although the five people occupied a favorable position on the slope above, they were still forced to retreat by the rats.


    The five people roared in unison, and various colors of flames suddenly burst out from their bodies. With concerted efforts, they barely blocked the charge of the rats and stopped them abruptly.


    The width of the spiral staircase was only enough for two or three people to pass through, and it was blocked by five high-level silver mercenaries. Given the size of the giant rats, it was impossible for too many individuals to rush up at the same time.


    The three silver sword warriors took the opportunity to swing their swords and slashed at the rats rushing up through the gap between the two shield warriors.


    As the sword light flashed, blood and flesh flew everywhere.


    Jia Lan, who stayed behind, watched the flames bursting from the silver warriors, and asked the guard beside him, Old Jimmy, in a low voice in surprise: "What is that?"


    Old Jimmy was stunned by Jia Lan''s question. He turned his head and realized that he was referring to the silver-white flames on the warriors. Then he looked at him with a strange expression and said, "That''s Dou Qi. To be precise, that layer of flame is the Dou Qi flame formed when Dou Qi is released to protect the body and burns in the air... Haven''t you seen it?"


    Jia Lan laughed dryly and didn''t know how to answer.


    Last time in Kelan City, he didn''t see the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group and the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group using this skill during the fight.


    Old Jimmy didn''t care, thinking that Jia Lan had lived in the Science and Magic Academy for a long time and rarely dealt with warriors, so he had never seen the Dou Qi flame released by warriors in battle.


    "The various types of Dou Qi cultivated by warriors will be violently released from the body during battle, forming this flame-like substance. Its different colors are related to the properties of the Dou Qi in the warrior''s body." Old Jimmy explained while paying attention to the battle situation.


    "Green represents wind-type Dou Qi, red represents fire-type Dou Qi, blue represents water-type Dou Qi, yellow represents earth-type Dou Qi, green represents wood-type Dou Qi... and there are some special types of Dou Qi."


    After listening to Old Jimmy''s explanation, Jia Lan was speechless. He had never heard of the concept of "dou qi".


    In the previous era, the "dou qi" that warriors used to enhance their strength was an invisible and intangible "dou qi" that only existed in the body, without such fancy sound and light effects.


    After careful observation, Jia Lan found that "dou qi" was completely different from the "dou qi" he knew.


    Just as "arcane" is to spellcasters, "dou qi" is the source of the power of warriors.


    However, in his opinion, dou qi is more like another mode of using elemental energy.


    Are all warriors of this era elemental warriors?


    Unfortunately, the war situation is urgent at the moment, and he cannot study it in depth.


    In addition to Old Jimmy who was responsible for protecting him, Captain Kenmet and two other gold-level mercenaries also joined the battle.


    The most eye-catching one among them was the gold-level archer. With the sound of the bowstring "clanging", the whistling arrows shot down the giant rats that stepped on the bodies of their own kind and tried to cross the human wall. Many of them fell to the bottom of the deep spiral staircase with arrows screaming.


    However, there were many giant rats. Although most of them were just ordinary giant rats, these giant rats were more than one meter long and as big as jackals. Their fangs were as sharp as wolf teeth. They would even bite the swords that were cut at them without fear, forcing several silver warriors to struggle to throw off the heavy rat bodies hanging on their weapons.


    As a result, the attack frequency became slow, and it was impossible to completely protect the two shield warriors who were holding iron shields to block the rats.


    "Get out of the way! Let me do it!" A layer of blazing dark golden flames rose from Captain Kenmet''s body. He suddenly leaped over the heads of his companions, shouted loudly, and slashed heavily from the air into the rat group.

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    With a deafening roar, Jia Lan deeply felt the violent vibration of the ground rocks, as if the rats were hit by a meteorite and fled in all directions.


    In the bloody rain, many giant rats fell into the abyss below the spiral staircase with shrill screams.


    Jia Lan was surprised to see that although there are differences between "fighting spirit" and "battle spirit", their essence is highly similar, except that fighting spirit is more direct and violent, relying solely on elemental explosion to enhance the intensity of attack.


    The operating principles of many things in this era have surpassed Jia Lan''s cognition of the essence of the world.


    For example, the "arcane secret system" of the previous civilization and the "elemental magic system" evolved from the "elemental sub-school", as well as the "elemental fighting spirit" derived from the "battle spirit system" of the previous civilization but unique, all reflect this point.


    From a certain perspective, although the various power systems of the current era are not as profound and heavy as the power systems of the previous civilization in terms of depth, they are not inferior in terms of combat power strength, and even surpass them in terms of destructive power.


    This is true for both magic and fighting spirit, which may indicate an evolutionary trend of "simplifying the complex".


    Jia Lan sighed inwardly, while Captain Kenmet showed amazing explosive power with the strength of a gold-level great swordsman. He successfully blocked the surging rats on the spiral staircase alone.


    Kenmet was like a human meat grinder, exerting basic swordsmanship such as horizontal and vertical slashes to the extreme. His whole body was shrouded in dark golden fighting spirit flames, burning hot, and even his armor and battle blades were covered by blazing flames.


    Every time he swung his sword, the blazing flames released a violent explosion effect at the moment of contact with the giant rats, smashing those thick-skinned giant rats to pieces, and the broken body parts splashed everywhere, producing a secondary splash effect. Although it could not directly kill the giant rats, it caused heavy damage to the rats.


    After observing for a while, Jia Lan frowned slightly. He seemed to have discovered a flaw in fighting spirit.


    Although the explosive killing power is amazing, its consumption is also extremely huge.


    In just a few minutes, Captain Kenmet killed 20 to 30 giant rats, but the rats that continued to emerge from the darkness did not decrease.


    In addition, two dark rats about two meters long and one dark rat over three meters long were still hovering at the edge of the range of the Yongming Light Staff, watching the rats charging forward one after another.


    Jia Lan was frightened. The intelligence of these three dark rats was obviously not low.


    They knew how to use cannon fodder to consume the enemy''s strength.


    Although Captain Kenmet''s fighting state did not show signs of fatigue, Jia Lan thought it was not appropriate to continue. Once Captain Kenmet''s fighting power was exhausted, when the dark rats launched an attack, it would pose a serious threat to the expedition team.


    Just as Jia Lan was about to attack, Captain Kenmet suddenly shouted loudly, and the silver swordsman squad behind him rushed forward quickly. Captain Kenmet took the opportunity to retreat to the rear from the gap they left, and the silver swordsman squad blocked the giant rats again.


    In the fierce battle, the ''gold-level shooter'' and the ''gold-level thief'' seemed quite calm. They stood leisurely in the rear and seemed to be unconcerned about the progress of the battle.


    Just as Jia Lan was puzzled, Old Jimmy seemed to see through his confusion and smiled easily: "Don''t worry, this is a normal recovery link in the battle rhythm..."


    After Old Jimmy''s explanation, Jia Lan suddenly realized.


    In this era, the explosive power of fighting spirit is strong and the consumption is huge. Therefore, the warriors often form a tacit cooperation in battle.


    After a round of outbreak, even if the combat power is not overdrawn, they will frequently exchange offense and defense and retreat to the rear to recover in order to prolong the duration of the battle.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.


    This is just the battle coordination between the squads.


    If they are in a real battlefield, when a certain number of warriors form enough batches, they can charge in the strongest burst state like waves, destroying the enemy''s defense line with overwhelming force!


    Jia Lan couldn''t help but marvel at it. This is undoubtedly due to the difference in the times.


    In his time, the proud warriors would not adopt this relay tactic.


    It''s not that "battle spirit" is inferior to "fighting spirit", but the two are completely different in the nature of power, and it is difficult to simply judge the pros and cons.


    Although fighting spirit consumes a lot, the recovery speed is also quite fast.


    After a short recovery, the warriors can recover to the peak state of combat power and maintain combat effectiveness for a long time.


    At this time, Jia Lan has taken out the wind-type primary magician wand seized from the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group.


    After his transformation, this primary magic wand has been engraved with a variety of magic models, waiting for actual combat testing...


    Kenmet is a gold junior greatsword master, so he did not consume too much fighting spirit in the battle just now.


    He has not even used the powerful "fighting spirit skills".


    Therefore, after retreating to the rear according to the team''s coordinated battle rhythm, he focused his attention on the three dark magic rats curled up in the rear while recovering his breath.


    Rodents such as giant rats and dark magic rats are the most common species in underground ruins.


    This is not the first time he has encountered them in his mercenary career.


    Although it was quite unexpected to encounter such a monster in the dungeon of Doom Castle, Kenmet was not overly worried.


    Behind him was the dungeon stairs. If it was really difficult to resist, they could exit the dungeon at any time, guard the exit, and summon team members to encircle and suppress it.


    Therefore, while commanding the battle, Kenmet was puzzled by the appearance of dark magic rats in the dungeon of Doom Castle.


    This kind of dark creature usually appears in extremely dangerous underground ruins and rarely appears near the surface.


    Although this dungeon is unusually deep, it is not the normal activity area of ??the dark rats.


    Moreover, although there are horror legends about the Castle of Doom, no monsters have ever appeared.


    Many adventure teams have explored this place in history, but none of them found anything unusual.


    How could those adventure teams not find the existence of the dark rats! So, these dark rats and the weird flying head barbarian have only appeared here recently?


    Just as Kenmet was puzzled, a group of giant rats gathered on the spiral staircase again.


    Kenmet shook his head and waved the two-handed sword in his hand, intending to launch another tactical outbreak.


    At this moment, the dark rats under the spiral staircase suddenly let out a sharp whistle.


    After a momentary pause, the entire group of rats seemed to be in a frenzy, screaming in unison and charging at the people on the spiral staircase!


    Everyone was shocked. A large number of giant rats were climbing up the hanging wall of the spiral staircase... The narrow spiral staircase could no longer stop them!


    No one expected that such a large group of giant rats would be hidden in this inconspicuous dungeon of the Castle of Doom.


    Is there a rat kingdom down there?


    The three dark rats also began to charge with screams. They used their huge bodies to knock down smaller rats, and even trampled on them directly... Like a bull plowing the field, they directly pushed a large number of their own kind off the spiral staircase!


    Seeing the rats screaming and falling like ripe fruits, Kenmet had a bad feeling. He raised his battle blade and shouted, "Back off! Back off quickly..."


    Before Kenmet''s order was delivered, he sensed a strong fire element fluctuation suddenly erupted in the narrow space between the spiral staircases.


    Kenmet turned back in surprise, but witnessed a scene that he would never forget!


    Surrounded by his men - the ''Golden Grade Shooter'', the ''Golden Grade Thief'', and the old mercenary of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group, the young magician who was protected in the back gently raised his wand.


    A ball of fire spun and expanded rapidly, and in the blink of an eye it expanded from the size of a fist to the size of a round table!


    Kenmet suddenly felt his legs go weak. As the leader of a large gold-level mercenary group, he was no stranger to magicians.


    Although he had heard from his uncle that this mysterious young magician was quite "powerful", that kind of power only stayed at the level of pharmacy and alchemy.


    Kenmet thought that this young magician who always wore a level 1 apprentice magic robe, even if he was gifted in magic attainments, would not exceed the level of a junior magician.


    After all, people have limited energy and it is difficult to be good at multiple fields at the same time.


    The abilities demonstrated by this young magician have spanned the three major fields of pharmacy, alchemy and enchantment. It is hard to imagine how strong he would be in magic combat.


    However, the facts told Kenmet that the world of geniuses should not be easily speculated... You can never figure out their limits!


    What level of magic should that seemingly dangerous giant fireball be classified as?


    Is Jia Lan planning to blow up this dungeon?


    Even if he wants to blow up the dungeon, he should wait for everyone to leave first, right?


    After the round table-sized fireball expanded to its limit, it suddenly shrank.


    Kenmet and others were shocked, thinking that the magic was out of control and was about to explode before it was released!


    But after shrinking, the giant fireball suddenly expanded again and broke into nearly a hundred fist-sized orange-red fireballs.


    Under the stunned gaze of everyone, these small fireballs emitted astonishingly high temperatures and slowly fell down to the spiral staircase!


    "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

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    In the narrow spiral staircase, a sudden and violent explosion occurred, releasing scorching air waves and high temperatures.


    Kenmet and others lost their hearing instantly, felt their hair seemed to be ignited, and even the armor on their bodies became extremely hot.


    The hot air caused by the explosion formed a strong updraft, which caused a pipe whistle like a dragon''s roar in the cylindrical spiral staircase up to 80 meters high.


    The sharp and long sound made everyone''s legs kick the ground tightly and their backs pressed against the wall.


    In the rising fire cloud column, everyone could hardly open their eyes. They could only vaguely see all kinds of strange objects being sprayed into the sky, and then falling like raindrops, falling into the dark abyss below.


    At the same time, the screams of the giant rats echoed in the spiral staircase, as if there were countless rats everywhere.


    After a struggle, everyone finally escaped from the smoke-filled spiral staircase with violent coughs and returned to the outside of the dungeon.


    They looked at each other in disgrace, and then cast their horrified eyes on the slightly embarrassed Jia Lan.


    Kenmet, a junior golden swordsman, asked with a trembling voice: "Just now... was that the forbidden spell ''Meteor Shower''?"


    Among the crowd, Jia Lan, the only one who looked relatively neat, laughed dryly: "Well, it''s just an amplification... an improvement... an enhanced version of the ordinary ''Fireball''..."


    In fact, this situation also exceeded Jia Lan''s own expectations.


    Since there were no other magicians on the scene, no one could detect his magic fluctuations.


    So, Jia Lan decided to try to directly convert arcane energy into elements to release the effect of "magic".


    He did not inject elemental energy into the magic model engraved on the wand to activate the magic, and the actions of waving the wand and chanting were just pretending.


    Jia Lan used the arcane casting method to simulate the spell model of "Fireball".


    This casting method is theoretically feasible, because the elemental magic of the current era is basically derived from the "elemental sub-school" of the "Energy School".


    Although a pre-process of converting "arcane" into "elemental matter" and then converting "elemental matter" into "natural elements" was added during the casting process, there was no obvious error in the overall casting procedure, but the casting speed was relatively slow.


    However, Jia Lan overlooked some key issues during the casting process.


    The process of arcane casters releasing secret arts is to output the arcane particles contained in the "arcane energy spring" in the body, attract multiple arcane particles in the space, and then construct them into spell forms after forming a certain order of magnitude.


    When a magician releases magic, it directly outputs the elemental particles stored in the body to form a magic form.


    Although it seems that there is not much difference, magicians have simplified the casting process, but the ratio of arcane energy, a "high energy", to "elemental matter", a "low energy", is very huge, and the ratio of high-purity "elemental matter" to elemental particles is very amazing.


    Therefore, Jia Lan adopted the arcane casting method and directly used arcane energy to simulate the model of "fireball", resulting in a complete change in nature.


    It is more intuitive to express it with numbers: Jia Lan''s current "casting level" is still at the level of "high-level caster apprentice", which is roughly equivalent to the level of "9th-level apprentice magician".


    As long as you break through a certain difficult-to-explain level, you can be promoted to "1st-level caster", that is, "primary magician".


    According to the current level measurement standard, the amount of elemental particles contained in the body of a "9th-level apprentice magician" is close to 1,000 elemental units, which is enough to release ten level 3 fireballs containing 100 elemental units.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    However, Jia Lan ignored the difference in the times and directly simulated the level 3 fireball according to the casting habits of arcane casters.


    In this way, what is injected is not 100 elemental units of elemental particles, but 100 arcane energy units of arcane energy particles.


    According to the casting ability of "high-level caster apprentice", Jia Lan releases 100 units of arcane energy particles, which is theoretically enough to attract 1,000 units of arcane energy particles in the natural space!


    In the natural space of the current era, affected by the explosion of the earth veins, the number of units of arcane particles and elemental particles has increased by hundreds to thousands of times compared with the pre-civilization era.


    Even with the most conservative estimate of 100 times the arcane particle concentration, the 100 units of arcane particles released by Jia Lan can cause an attraction effect of up to 10,000 units of arcane particles, rather than the original 1,000 units.


    Further, these 10,000 units of arcane particles can be converted into 100,000 units of high-purity elemental substances, and then generate 1 million units of natural elemental particles.


    Through Jia Lan''s "traction-type" amplification arcane spellcasting method, the effect is even more significant.


    It is worth noting that if the concentration of arcane particles in the current era space is 100 times that of the pre-civilization era, then the concentration of natural elemental particles is likely to reach 1,000 times that of the pre-civilization era.


    Therefore, the level 3 fireball that should have contained 100 elemental units now contains 1 billion elemental units, and its power has been amplified 10 million times.


    Jia Lan was confused about whether the "small fireball" after this change was still a small fireball.


    After noticing the abnormality, he quickly used his relatively exquisite spell control ability to split the powerful "small fireball" to the extreme, and forcibly dispersed the elemental particles in it before it lost control, so that it could be reintegrated into the space.


    The so-called "magic out of control" phenomenon is actually the "element resonance effect" caused by Jia Lan''s forcible dispersal of elements, rather than the real outbreak of magic.


    The side effects of this forced dispersal caused great pressure on Jia Lan. Fortunately, he was unable to improve his spellcasting level due to the "dual soul" troubles in the pre-civilization era, so he strengthened his "arcane energy spring", thus having the capacity and mental strength of the arcane energy spring equivalent to that of a 7th-level spellcaster.


    Otherwise, this backlash would be enough to damage his spell ability.


    Fortunately, the small fireball that was magnified tens of millions of times did not explode, otherwise the dungeon area of ????the Castle of Doom might suffer great damage.


    Jia Lan was deeply worried when he failed again when trying to regain his spellcasting ability.


    Adapting to the spell environment of the current era is full of challenges, and the frequent spell loss of control is unbearable for him.


    If the spell control problem caused by the difference in spellcasting in different eras cannot be solved, Jia Lan will not be able to be promoted to a level 1 spellcaster again.


    After trying, he found that there would be no loss of control when releasing the less powerful level 0 spells or injecting elemental particles according to the spell template on the wand.


    However, he could not use his familiar spellcasting skills to release magic, which may be related to his current low spellcasting ability and insufficient control over the elements.


    Therefore, he could not use high-level spells in a short period of time.


    In the pre-civilization era, Jia Lan could not use high-level spells due to "dual soul interference", and in the current era, although the "dual soul interference" problem was solved, he could not cast high-level spells due to the change in the spatial environment.


    This made him frustrated with his path to the arcane. At the same time, Kenmet and others were shocked by the magic that Jia Lan had just released.


    They did not realize how powerful the "small fireball" that was "repatriated" was.


    However, they already regarded Jia Lan as a great magician, or even a magician.


    After all, the small fireball containing 1 billion elemental units is equivalent to the "level 10 small fireball" that only "platinum-level" magicians can release in terms of the order of elemental units.


    However, in the current era, no magician will practice basic apprentice magic to such a terrifying level.


    Generally speaking, the magic level released by magicians is not too high. Usually, practicing a magic to level 3 to 5 is enough for practical use.


    It is undoubtedly a waste to continue to spend time and energy on such magic.


    However, the power of the small fireball is almost the magician-level "small forbidden spell" of the great magician with all his strength.


    If you tell them that it is just an apprentice-level magic fireball, I am afraid no one will believe it.


    After everyone recovered, they reorganized the team and planned to enter the dungeon again.


    Shocked by Jia Lan''s "small forbidden spell", Captain Kenmet carefully discussed with Jia Lan, hoping that he could notify him in advance before releasing the forbidden spell next time if conditions permit.


    Jia Lan could only agree with a wry smile.


    Given the large number of giant rats and dark demon rats in the dungeon of Doom Castle, the seriousness of the situation is no longer limited to the threat posed by the flying head barbarians.


    In order to prevent the giant rats in the dungeon from being alarmed and rushing out to hurt people, Captain Kenmet summoned a mercenary squadron from Doom Castle to guard the dungeon entrance.


    It¡¯s not that he didn¡¯t want to bring more people to clean up the giant rat¡¯s nest, but the space down there was small and there was no point in having too many people.

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    Due to the terrain conditions, the team was composed of Jia Lan and others and was selected to carry out the mission.


    Before setting off, Jia Lan took out a crystal mirror and handed it to Casey, Dave and several senior mercenaries who came after hearing the news.


    Jia Lan explained to them that in case of emergency, they would contact them through this "communication mirror".


    After properly arranging support and logistics, the team went deep into the dungeon of Doom Castle again.


    Surprisingly, even though the team included three gold-level warriors and a standard silver team, they were still repelled by a group of giant rats.


    This performance embarrassed Kenmet.


    In order to maintain the reputation of the golden two-headed dragon and vent their emotions, they decided to completely eliminate all monsters in this dungeon.


    When the team entered again, they were surprised to find that the strong light emitted by the "Staff of Eternal Light" illuminated the surrounding environment very clearly.


    Not only did the giant rat group disappear without a trace, but even the bodies of the giant rats that died in the battle were gone.


    Jia Lan looked suspicious.


    He was well aware of the power of the forbidden fireball he had cast earlier.


    Despite the amazing momentum, after experiencing the extreme splitting and elemental dispersal, the remaining "element resonance" effect no longer posed a fatal threat.


    Otherwise, in such a narrow space, their team would probably have died.


    "Did the bodies all get swept down by the air wave?" Kenmet peered down in confusion.


    There was silence in the darkness, as if the dark demon rats and giant rats had been completely wiped out by the small forbidden spell.


    "Maybe the bodies were dragged away by rats." Old Jimmy speculated, "Dark Demon Rats even eat rotten corpses, there is no reason for them to let go of those tempting roasted giant rat corpses!"


    "Dark Demon Rats eat rotten corpses because of food shortage. But this place leads directly to the surface, not the deep underground world. The rats can go out to find food. If they need food so urgently, why have they never left this dungeon to attack the hired workers of Doom Castle?"


    "Afraid of light? Although rats hate strong light, light will not harm them!" Jia Lan frowned and questioned, "And the sense of smell of rats is much more sensitive than that of dogs. They can''t fail to notice that there are so many people gathered in Doom Castle. I suspect that there may be something under this dungeon that can control these giant rats."


    As a librarian, although Jia Lan rarely participates in battles, it does not mean that he lacks understanding of the ecology and habits of various creatures. He has dissected a lot of creatures by himself.


    When Jia Lan first saw the so-called "dark demon rats" by Kenmet, Old Jimmy and others, he found that these demonized giant rats should be the descendants of the low-level "violent rats" common in his time.


    However, the descendants of these violent rats seemed to be infected by some evil power and had undergone serious mutations.


    Something that can control the dark demon rats?


    Old Jimmy, Kenmet and others looked at each other.


    The dark demon rats are evil monsters. I''m afraid only the devil can control evil monsters?


    With Jia Lan''s reminder, the team became more alert.


    They did not relax their vigilance because there was no rat in the spiral staircase.


    After some exploration, they arrived at the bottom of the spiral staircase, which was 80 meters deep.


    Sure enough, except for some dilapidated and rotten debris, no giant rat corpses were found here.


    Walking out of the spiral staircase, they came to a small rock hall with a small area.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.


    The ground was covered with a thick layer of soil that flowed into the dungeon with rainwater, making the ceiling of the small rock hall look particularly low.


    Originally, there should be a passage or door leading to other areas of the dungeon in the small rock hall.


    Now, except for a huge rat hole that led to an unknown place, nothing was found.


    After Kenmet''s ''Golden Level Thief'' patrolled the small hall, he checked the symbol on the door lintel exposed one foot above the ground, then looked up and said, "The rat hole leads to the prison area and the warehouse area. The several roads buried by the soil should lead to the interrogation room, the execution room and the guard lounge respectively."


    The dungeon layout of the noble castle is similar. The place closest to the exit is usually where the guards responsible for guarding the prisoners are located, while the area of ??the interrogation room, the execution room and other areas is often not large. No wonder even the giant rats are not interested in them and are unwilling to dig holes and build nests here.


    "In addition, I roughly understand why the original owner of the castle chose to build a dungeon near the sea wall mountain range!"


    The ''Golden Level Thief'' scraped the dirt on the wall with a dagger, revealing the rock wall below: "This is not artificially excavated, but rebuilt and repaired on the basis of the original cave, so this dungeon is so deep..."


    He hit the rock wall heavily with the handle of the dagger, and a few sparks burst out: "Look, this is natural granite, there is no trace of stacking, no wonder the positions of these passages are so irregular, they are originally composed of several natural caves."


    This also explains why the spiral staircase in the dungeon is 80 meters deep. Although digging a spiral stairwell is a huge project, it is a relatively easy choice compared to digging the entire dungeon.


    Kenmete nodded and said, "Keep going inside!"


    The flying head barbarian transformed from the head of the hired worker has long disappeared, but no one cares about its whereabouts.


    Not only was it covered with "tracking powder" by the ''Golden Level Thief'', but it was also marked with the ''Secret Mark'' by Jia Lan. As long as you follow the tunnel, you can always find it.


    With the ''Golden Level Thief'' leading the way, everyone was much easier to move forward.


    Besides, this was just a dungeon for prisoners, not a treasure house for storing treasures, so there was no need to worry too much about the existence of traps.


    They quickly passed through the cave dug by the giant rat and entered the prison area of ??the dungeon - where the prisoners were held.


    The air was filled with a strong smell of dust, mixed with a strange smell of burnt odor and damp and moldy smell.


    Although the fire cloud just now almost collapsed this place, it also formed a strong air flow, so everyone didn''t have to worry about suffocating here.


    The prison area was not close to the spiral staircase, so it was relatively dry.


    There was not much wet soil on the ground, only a thick layer of dust, and a lot of claw marks remained on the dust.


    The small cell that was originally separated by logs has now completely turned into a pile of wood chips, which were gnawed to pieces by the giant rats, making the space seem much more empty.


    The ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ even found a large number of bones in the wood chips, most of which had been trampled into pieces by the giant rats and turned into bone chips.


    But with rich experience, the Golden Thief still judged that this irregular prison area, which was converted from caves of different sizes, originally held at least more than a thousand prisoners!


    "This is the skeleton of the ''little goblin''!"


    Old Jimmy recognized the species of the abnormally short tibia in the hand of the ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ at a glance.


    He dug out several large and small bones from the wood chips, bone chips and a large amount of granular giant rat feces, and placed them together with the complete tibia of the ''Little Goblin'' found by the ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯.


    "Look! Little demons, big demons, bear demons... all the monster families are here!"


    Old Jimmy pointed to three tibias of different sizes placed side by side and said, "The original owner of the castle must have been a goblin slave owner in the chiefdom era, and he must have a powerful slave-catching group under his command! No wonder there are rows of barrack-style buildings in the Castle of Doom, that should be their military camp!"


    Jia Lan had a general understanding of the history of Zilargo County and Dagon County after the "Apocalypse Era" from the books in the library.


    Before the Apocalypse Era, that is, the "Dawn Calendar" era where Jia Lan originally lived, the Kingdom of Zilargo was the territory of the dwarves, and humans were only a "minority race" here, with a population of only about 15£¥ of the total population.


    The population of dwarves in the Kingdom of Zilargo accounted for about 60£¥, plus some dwarves and other races, which constituted the population structure of this small kingdom located on the southern coast of the Khorvaire continent.


    The Kingdom of Dagon, which is adjacent to the Kingdom of Zilargo across the Sea Wall Mountains, is the territory of the goblin race, and the number of goblins accounts for more than 80£¥ of the population structure.


    Due to the harsh geographical environment, the Kingdom of Dagon is more desolate than the Kingdom of Zilargo.


    This is also related to historical issues.


    In general, the ancestors of the goblin race were once glorious. In ancient times, they even relied on their powerful construction and manufacturing skills to once rule the entire Khorvaire continent, and they were well-deserved kings of the continent.


    Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the Dakan Goblin Empire established by the great goblin fell, and the descendants continued to degenerate. The goblin race once became a synonym for ignorance on par with beasts.


    After the Apocalypse Calendar, the goblin civilization gradually recovered, but not as fast as the rise of the dwarf civilization.


    The rapidly developing dwarf civilization requires a large amount of cheap labor, so a war for slave population broke out between the Kingdom of Zilargo and the Kingdom of Dagon.


    The final outcome is obvious. The goblin race and the dwarf race, which were both injured, failed to defeat each other.


    Humans took the opportunity to migrate from the inland areas of the continent, which were full of dangers, to the southern coastal areas on a large scale, and became the main population of the Kingdom of Zilargo, becoming the masters of this place.

 Chapter135

    The "Slave War" broke out between the 9th and 10th centuries of the Apocalypse, which means that the history of Doomburg can be traced back to about 800 years ago, and its historical heritage is several times that of the city of Coran.


    It is speculated that the first owner of Doomburg was most likely a powerful goblin slave owner at the time, so he built a war castle here.


    Its geographical location is unique, just at the end of the Sea Wall Mountains, guarding the land route between the Kingdom of Zilargo and the Kingdom of Dagon.


    "It is puzzling why the giant rats and dark rats regard this as their habitat?" As the team went deeper into the dungeon, this question became stronger.


    In the long history of Doomburg, countless adventure teams came to explore because of the horror legend, but never found the existence of dark rats.


    Even if these adventure teams lacked the ability to detect, they would not have failed to detect such a large group of giant rats.


    What''s more, as underground creatures, dark rats usually do not appear near the surface.


    They must have migrated here recently, so what is their origin?


    With these questions, the team continued to move deeper into the dungeon.


    Because the giant rats had fled in panic due to the previous "small forbidden spell" explosion, they had disappeared at this moment, and the exploration team did not encounter any attacks along the way.


    Finally, when they searched the underground warehouse in the deepest part of the dungeon, they found the source of the problem.


    This warehouse, which was originally used to store supplies, was transformed from a natural cave, presenting an irregular space that was slightly semicircular.


    Now, the relatively flat rock floor of the warehouse has collapsed by nearly half, revealing a dark hole.


    The ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ squatted on the edge of the collapse, rubbed the broken rock with his fingers, twisted the stone powder on his fingers, and then turned back to say to everyone: ¡°The collapse time of this cave entrance will not exceed half a year, it should be between three and four months.¡±


    As he said that, he sniffed the slightly dull and bad-smelling air in the warehouse again, and added: ¡°The flying head barbarian also entered here!¡±


    Everything seemed to be solved.


    A few months ago, the dungeon collapsed for some reason deep in the dungeon, causing a flying head barbarian and a group of giant rats to emerge from the ground.


    Everyone looked at each other and said in unison: ¡°Ruins!?¡±


    It is not uncommon for giant rats to appear underground, but the appearance of dark demon rats and flying head barbarians is obviously abnormal.


    Most of these supernatural creatures mutate due to certain special environmental factors, especially the flying head barbarian, which is almost inseparable from corpses.


    However, where is the corpse underground?


    The answer may lie in the explosion of the earth vein more than 1,700 years ago.


    In that explosion, countless historical relics sank into the ground under the influence of mysterious forces.


    Although Jia Lan had read almost all the books in the library of Komo University during this period, there were only vague myths and legends about 1,700 years ago.


    In these myths and legends, many mentioned a strange phenomenon: when the earth vein explosion occurred, the sky collapsed, the earth cracked, the space was broken, and a large amount of mysterious energy buried deep in the earth vein was released.


    Huge arcane torrents and elemental tides overflowed from the cracks between heaven and earth, forming an inexplicable phenomenon of heaven and earth.


    These mysterious energies infected plants and animals, causing them to mutate unpredictably.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    The entire continent collapsed and broke into pieces, and magnificent cities slowly "sank" into the ground under the influence of mysterious forces.


    Please note that the word "sunk" is used here instead of damage.


    Jia Lan saw in an ancient biography that some cities "sank" very slowly, even for days or even weeks, as if a pair of mysterious hands pressed them into the ground and covered them with soil.


    According to records, individuals with powerful supernatural abilities seemed to disappear collectively under the influence of the huge energy released by the earth vein explosion.


    In contrast, civilian groups without such abilities did not suffer significant effects. Instead, they evolved under the influence of elemental invasion and gradually adapted to the high-concentration element environment, thus surviving.


    Some religious believers firmly believe that this is a divine punishment from the gods, intended to eliminate the filth and blasphemers in the world and usher in a new era.


    However, for "non-believers" like Jia Lan, such statements obviously lack basis and it is difficult to find a reasonable explanation for the time being.


    Nevertheless, existing historical materials do show that the unprecedented upheaval more than 1,700 years ago caused many pre-civilization cities to be "buried" underground, forming many relatively well-preserved ruins and underground city clusters.


    After the Apocalypse Era, civilization began to revive, and archaeology and exploration quickly became popular industries in emerging civilizations.


    It can be said that the new civilization was gradually established on the basis of excavating the remains of pre-civilizations.


    The excavation and restoration of any pre-civilization technology will have a profound impact on the new civilization, such as the dwarf''s airship technology, the goblin''s steam construction technology, and the dwarf''s gunpowder technology.


    These technologies not only promoted the progress of civilization and accelerated racial integration, but also gave birth to the city-state ruling system, weakened the boundaries between countries and races, and formed a unique civilization model in the new era.


    As explorers, archaeologists and mercenary teams gradually explored, the truths that were buried in history gradually surfaced, including creatures buried deep underground in the earth vein explosion.


    During the exploration, various strange creatures were discovered one after another, which not only expanded the cognitive boundaries of human beings, but also brought potential threats.


    For example, the dark magic rat is one of the most common monsters in underground ruins.


    Therefore, when rare creatures such as dark magic rats and flying head barbarians appeared in the dungeon of Doom Castle, there was reason to speculate that there might be unknown ruins hidden underneath.


    This discovery made everyone excited, because for them, the ruins meant danger and challenges, but also contained immeasurable wealth and opportunities.


    After eliminating a small group of scattered giant rats, all mercenaries including Captain Kenmet quickly got to work.


    Even Old Jimmy, who was not a member of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, instinctively used his own experience to begin to explore the ruins hidden under the dungeon warehouse.


    The ruins are a circular rock hall, and the collapsed entrance is located right in the center of the hall.


    The hall is about ten meters high, and the thickness of the collapsed rock layer is also two or three meters.


    As for the specific cause of the rock layer collapse, it is still unknown.


    It is particularly puzzling that there has been no earthquake near the Sea Wall Mountains recently.


    The floor of the hall is covered with dust and a large amount of collapsed rubble is scattered. The circular walls are carved with murals and reliefs of unknown content, most of which have been mottled and fallen off.


    Jia Lan carefully stepped over the rubble and planned to approach the wall to observe the content of the murals in order to determine the origin of the ruins.


    However, he stopped as soon as he took a step and reminded everyone to be careful.


    His keen intuition detected a strange atmosphere in the circular hall.


    However, in the underground ruins, abnormal situations are normal, and it would be disturbing if everything went well.


    The mercenaries carefully searched the hall and found scattered bones and rotten weapons in the rubble.


    Among them, four relatively complete skeletons fell beside the wall, one of which stood against the wall, with a metal spear pierced through the chest and hung on the wall.


    This bronze spear seemed to be of high quality, and it was still in good condition when other metal weapons were rotten.


    The ''Golden Level Thief'' under Kenmet wanted to pull it out, but was stopped by Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan reminded: "It''s best not to touch it! Do you know about the undead? Some of the dead''s bones and the objects they used in their lifetime may contain their broken souls."


    "And the weapons that killed them are more likely to be entrusted with resentment. If living beings rashly touch these items, it is likely to arouse the resentment of the undead and cause them to reactivate."


    After listening to Jia Lan''s reminder, the ''Golden Thief'' withdrew his hand, and the other mercenaries looked at each other.


    Although they are all experienced and experienced old mercenaries, they still need to listen to the advice of the magician in places like ruins.


    It is inevitable to encounter supernatural phenomena in the exploration of ruins.


    They have seen too many tragedies caused by greed, most of which, as Jia Lan said, are caused by rash contact with the relics of undead creatures.


    Of course, the main purpose of exploring ruins is still to find treasures.


    It is obviously unrealistic to let the mercenaries turn a blind eye to the treasures scattered all over the ground, but it is also very important to explore the environment before taking the treasures.


    Being promoted to a gold-level mercenary means that they are extremely powerful. Naturally, they will not be as eager for quick success as those fledgling black iron-level mercenaries, fearing that they will miss the opportunity.

 Chapter136

    Compared with the ruins exposed on the surface, this ruin hidden under the dungeon of Doom Castle is extremely secretive.


    If the floor of the dungeon warehouse had not collapsed unexpectedly, this ruin would probably have remained undiscovered by the world.


    At present, only Jia Lan and his party are at the scene, so there is no need to worry that the treasures in the ruins have been taken by others first, and they are not in a hurry to plunder.


    After patrolling the closed circular hall, the two experienced thieves found a total of four secret room doors hidden behind the murals, but out of caution, they did not open them easily.


    After whispering with Old Jimmy, the ¡®Golden Level Thief¡¯ decided to try to open the secret room door in the north direction first.


    This decision is based on architectural principles. Usually, the most important buildings in the complex are located in the north direction, so there may be more precious items hidden.


    However, after studying the murals and reliefs for a long time, the two thieves found that the mechanism to open the secret room door was just behind the skull nailed to the rock wall.


    This discovery made everyone present look at each other in bewilderment, and it was obvious that they had to take further action.


    During this period, Jia Lan had been carefully observing the broken murals and reliefs on the walls of the circular hall.


    Although most of these artworks were incomplete and unclear, Jia Lan still captured some key information from them.


    He realized that this was actually a secret underground temple of the Dragon Worship Cult.


    Jia Lan had heard of the ancient and secretive Dragon Worship Cult in the pre-civilization era, and had seen a library dedicated to the history of the Dragon Worship Cult and related books in the religious area of ??the Kolanburg Library.


    However, since Jia Lan was not very interested in religion and had only read a little about religious books, he had limited knowledge of the situation of the Dragon Worship Cult.


    But based on Jia Lan''s superficial understanding of the Dragon Worship Cult and his familiarity with the history of the pre-civilization, he was able to judge that the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult temple were probably not "relics of the apocalypse", but an ancient "twilight ruins" that had not been discovered in the dawn of the pre-civilization era.


    At least, as a researcher of the Kolanburg Library, Jia Lan had never heard of anyone discovering such a Twilight Ruins near the Kolanburg Library.


    If this Dragon Worship Temple is indeed a "Twilight Ruins", then the situation will be extremely serious.


    Except for Jia Lan, no one present may know how terrible the era when even the sun was shrouded in darkness was.


    If Jia Lan had a choice, he would choose to retreat first, seal the ruins, and wait until he was promoted to the 5-6th level of high-level mage realm before exploring.


    However, with his current strength as a 0-level high-level mage apprentice, it is obviously not wise to take risks in this dangerous Dragon Worship Ruins.


    However, Kenmet and other mercenaries obviously do not think so.


    They do not think that this ruins is more dangerous than the ruins they have explored before.


    After all, ruins exploration itself is a dangerous thing.


    In the mercenary doctrine, there is not much difference between dying early and dying late.


    They couldn''t give up the opportunity to explore because of the fear of death.


    Therefore, before Jia Lan fully interpreted the contents of the murals and reliefs, they had already reached out and pulled out the bronze spear.


    At the moment the bronze spear was pulled out, a crisp sound of the spring of the mechanism was heard.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    Everyone''s face changed, and Old Jimmy rolled forward swiftly, curled up and hid at the feet of the standing skeleton.


    The gold thief who pulled out the bronze spear was facing the wall head-on, and it was too late to dodge. He could only pounce to the side and roll to avoid it.


    In the dense spraying sound and the subtle sound of metal falling, everyone fell to the ground except Jia Lan who was standing far away.


    After a while, the whistling sound gradually dissipated.


    Captain Kenmet slowly raised his head, which was protected by his arms, and after looking around, he asked Hugo (the gold-level thief) who was lying prone not far away: "Hugo, how are you?"


    "Damn! I was almost shot into a honeycomb!" Hugo groaned in response, "Captain, if you want to keep a skilled thief in the team, you''d better come and help me remove the poison needles in my body, check my injuries, and then decide whether to find an antidote for me or take other necessary measures."


    "Boy, if you don''t shut up your chattering mouth, I''m afraid you won''t even have a chance for the captain to take action!" At some point, Old Jimmy appeared beside Hugo, quickly put on a thin deerskin glove, and began to treat Hugo.


    Although Hugo did not lose his ability to move, as an experienced thief, he knew that it was not advisable to do strenuous exercise after being poisoned.


    Therefore, he remained in a prone position and even held his breath to slow down blood flow.


    Although Old Jimmy only had one hand, his movements were skillful and agile. He quickly removed more than a dozen thin steel needles from Hugo''s body, sniffed them and laughed, "Boy, you''re lucky. These poison needles have become ineffective due to their age."


    Hugo breathed a sigh of relief, but Old Jimmy immediately added, "Of course, it is also possible that changes may occur over time. You may have been infected with some mysterious virus."


    Old Jimmy''s joke almost made the young gold thief breathless.


    At this moment, Jia Lan reminded, "Everyone, this is probably not the time to chat."


    A whistling wind blade slashed heavily on the skeleton leaning against the wall, making a crisp "clang" sound, shaking off the dust and spider webs on the skeleton, revealing a brilliant golden skeleton - a golden skeleton! This is actually a monster at the level of a gold-level great swordsman!


    Everyone gasped.


    A joke from the memory of a soul from another world came to Jia Lan''s mind: What''s more disgusting than eating a pile of dog shit? Answer: Eat another pile!


    Kenmet and the others probably felt this way at the moment, because the other three skeletons lying in the corner were also slowly and stiffly crawling out of the dust, showing their golden bones!


    "Damn it!" Kenmet shouted, and Hugo also shouted: "Captain! This is none of my business! I didn''t touch it!"


    Old Jimmy on the side kindly reminded him: "You took its bronze spear!"


    No one expected that just triggering a poison needle trap would lead to the resurrection of four gold-level skeletons!


    Without time to think about it, Kenmet raised his sword and rushed towards the golden skeleton whose eyes were gradually glowing with blood-red light and was resurrecting, and slashed it fiercely on the clavicle, making a crisp sound like the sound of metal clashing.


    There were only three gold-level warriors on the scene, but there were four gold skeletons.


    The gold-level archer triggered Dou Qi flame on the spot, and the slightly injured gold-level thief Hugo didn''t care about the poison, turned over and jumped up, pulled out the combat dagger and rushed towards the enemy!


    Although the other five silver mercenaries were slightly weaker, the five of them joined forces to entangle a gold skeleton.


    If they were not managed to entangle them, these gold skeletons with the combat power of the great swordsman would soon destroy everyone.


    As the most common type of soldier among the undead, skeletons are usually fragile consumables at the level of cannon fodder, relying on the characteristics of the undead who are not afraid of damage and death and the advantage of numbers to suppress the enemy.


    However, the skeletons in this relic violated this rule. Not only were they the highest level among the undead skeletons when they appeared, but they also came in four!


    Fortunately, the level of Galan¡¯s team was also quite high. Among the ten people, there were three gold-level warriors, who barely resisted the three golden skeletons.


    But the skeleton''s undead nature of not fearing harm and death caused great trouble to the mercenaries.


    Hugo quickly attacked the golden skeleton while shouting: "Cut the throat... Damn it, who can tell me where its trachea is? Pierce the heart... Where is the heart? Where is the heart of this skeleton?"


    The easiest way to deal with a skeleton monster that has no vital points is to dismantle it directly.


    However, the hardness of the golden skeleton bones is comparable to metal. Even the attack of a golden swordsman like Kenmet can only repel them but cannot kill them.


    In the fierce battle, it seemed that only Jia Lan was standing leisurely next to the gold-level archer.


    Archer Carter shot arrows wrapped in light blue light to repel the approaching golden skeletons, and asked anxiously: "Mr. Jia Lan, can you cast the small forbidden spell again?"


    "Small forbidden spell? Uh, are you talking about the little fireball just now?" Jia Lan shook his head. "If we use the ''small forbidden spell'' you mentioned in this confined space, I guess all of us will be turned into roasted chickens!"


    He honestly injected a small amount of elemental matter into the spell model of the magic wand.


    It''s not that he doesn''t want to use a big move to destroy these golden skeletons, but he can''t master the traction amplification method of casting at present.


    Unless he wants to die with these golden skeletons, Jia Lan doesn''t think he can release that kind of out-of-control spell while ensuring the safety of himself and his companions.

 Chapter137

    After launching a wind blade attack on the skeleton''s main weaknesses, namely the cervical and lumbar vertebrae, Jia Lan quickly fired a small fireball at the golden skeleton''s eye sockets.


    The impact of the flame explosion caused the golden skeleton to stagger back a few steps, and the soul fire in its eye sockets also fluctuated violently.


    Jia Lan exhaled lightly and commented: "Obviously, the strength of the bones has been refined to the limit by the soul fire. The only weakness is the soul fire in the cranial cavity."


    "Both blunt attacks and magic shocks can effectively affect the stability of the soul fire."


    Jia Lan stroked the magic wand gently, as if to dispel the invisible gunpowder, and smiled: "It can be understood as a ''concussion'' effect."


    The mercenaries were puzzled by Jia Lan''s action of flicking the wand head after firing the fireball, and speculated whether the fire magic caused the wand to heat up.


    However, after listening to Jia Lan''s insights, everyone adjusted their tactics and focused on attacking the golden skeleton''s head.


    Especially the golden archer Carter, whose longbow was extremely accurate, and the "wind arrows" fired continuously all hit the eye sockets of the golden skeleton accurately.


    The wind element impact released in the arrows made the golden skeleton that tried to approach retreat again and again. Seeing this, everyone was overjoyed and confirmed that the strategy worked.


    The physical undead such as skeletons and zombies are different from the virtual undead such as ghosts and spirits. Their resentful souls need to rely on corpses to exist.


    The low-level skeletons that the mercenaries encountered in the past had insufficient bone strength to resist weapon attacks, so there was no specific weakness, and their skeletons could be destroyed.


    However, the undead accumulated resentment over time, absorbed the "negative energy" of the space, and the soul fire gradually strengthened. Its skeleton and body also strengthened accordingly, and even mutated and evolved.


    At this time, it was difficult to destroy the undead by destroying the skeleton. Its only weakness was the fragile soul fire under the protection of the hard skull.


    However, it was extremely difficult to attack the soul fire hidden in the closed skull.


    Although the undead creatures are not afraid of death, their intelligence has slightly improved as their soul fire has increased. Although they have not reached the level of "wisdom", they have the instinct of self-protection.


    Therefore, when attacking their "vital points", the undead will dodge or block according to the combat instinct left over from their previous occupations.


    For example, the golden skeletons that are attacking Carter and Jia Lan may have been shield warriors in their previous lives, according to their actions.


    Although their equipment and weapons have decayed and disappeared, after being attacked by Carter''s unique wind-related fighting skill "Wind Arrow", they actually used their left arm bones as shields and bent their bodies to take a defensive posture, which made people laugh.


    Jia Lan observed the actions of several golden skeletons with great interest. This is an excellent opportunity to study the ecology of the undead at close range. The knowledge in books is far inferior to what you see with your own eyes.


    However, after observing for a while, Jia Lan found that the five silver mercenaries on the side were gradually unable to resist the fierce attack of the golden skeletons, and had to hold the magic wand in his hand again with a little regret and prepare to fight.


    Although this combat team of five silver-level mercenaries successfully trapped the golden skeleton with tacit cooperation, their fighting skills were not strong enough to cause damage to the golden skeleton.


    Facing the fierce attack of the golden skeleton that was almost "invulnerable", they seemed a little helpless.


    In order to protect his companions, one of the silver-level shield warriors resisted the attack of the golden skeleton and was slightly injured.


    Jia Lan hesitated slightly when he raised his magic wand.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.


    Considering that there was no magician who could see through his spellcasting ability, he imitated the spellcasting posture and quietly released a 0-level necromancy spell "Strike the Undead" with the cover of the primary water magic "Water Arrow".


    No one noticed that in the trajectory of the rapid-fire water arrow, a positive energy ray accurately hit the most vulnerable eye socket of the golden skeleton, causing serious damage to it.


    There was a crisp "crack" sound from the eye sockets of the golden skull, and a spider-web-like crack appeared.


    Jia Lan frowned. Although the 0-level necromancy spell "Strike the Undead" can cause multiple basic damage to the undead, it lacks penetration.


    Seeing this, the golden archer Carter was overjoyed. He took out a very special enchanted arrow from the quiver behind his back - the "blasting arrow", put it on the bowstring, and pulled the longbow to the limit!


    After a burst of fighting spirit, the enchanted arrow with a large amount of wind element energy turned into a phantom, hit the broken eye socket of the golden skull with a bang, and shot directly through its skull!


    The blasting effect of the enchanted arrow exploded in the cranial cavity of the golden skull, blowing its golden head to pieces.


    Everyone seemed to hear the silent wail of the undead, and the headless golden skull was scattered all over the ground!


    The golden archer''s successful attack greatly boosted morale.


    "Hey! Good job! Carter! Can you come to me too?" Hugo, the thief who jumped up and down and looked a little embarrassed, shouted.


    But Carter said unhappily: "Do you think the enchanted arrows are just branches picked up at random? I only have three enchanted arrows with the effects of ''blast, fire, and freezing''.


    The blasting arrow has just been used up, and the fire and freezing effects may not have much power on the golden skeleton!"


    "Arrow enchantment? It happens that I know some enchantment skills..."


    Jia Lan''s heart moved, and he smiled: "Although the effect of on-site enchantment is average, it is always stronger than ordinary arrows..." As he said, Jia Lan asked for three ordinary arrows from the surprised archer, and spent some time to enchant them with the effect of "strike the undead".


    Carter, who changed to the newly enchanted arrows, immediately showed his strength as a gold-level archer.


    All three arrows hit the eye sockets of the remaining three golden skeletons without missing a beat, directly piercing the thin layer of bones.


    The positive energy attached to the arrowheads exploded in the cranial cavity of the golden skeletons.


    In the silent wailing, the three golden skeletons staggered back and struggled to reach out to pull out the arrows in their eye sockets.


    Although they were not killed in one blow like the first golden skeleton, the mercenaries clearly found that the bones of the golden skeletons that seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light immediately dimmed a lot.


    This discovery made the mercenaries, who were already powerful, burst out with all their strength, and they were surprised to find that their weapons could actually hurt these skeletons as hard as fine iron!


    Especially Kenmet, whose two-handed sword seemed to be covered with a layer of flames. With a fierce slash, he directly chopped off the head of the golden skeleton that had been entangled with him for a long time, and the skeleton as hard as fine steel immediately scattered all over the ground.


    He chased after the skull that was still moving in its jaw and stepped on it, then he held the two-handed sword upside down and stabbed it into its eye socket, completely shattering the golden skull''s soul fire!


    As the strongest Kenmet was freed, the remaining two golden skeletons could not hold on for too long and were beaten into pieces by the mercenaries.


    The originally golden skeletons gradually faded into pale skeleton color as the soul fire dissipated, completely losing their vitality.


    After a fierce battle, everyone was still a little shocked, and they also had a little more awe for Jia Lan who showed his enchanting ability.


    On the contrary, Jia Lan shook his head with regret. The effect of on-site enchantment is far inferior to that of regular enchantment. Not only is the power smaller, but the enchantment effect is also short-term and one-time.


    The only advantage is probably that it is more flexible and can be enchanted on the spot according to the situation.


    He himself did not think there was anything strange about on-site enchantment, but a group of mercenaries looked at him with confusion.


    Especially the golden archer Carter, he had never heard of any enchanter who could enchant on the spot without tools and materials.


    After killing the golden skeleton, everyone took a short break and came to the secret door that almost killed them again.


    Hugo carefully used the bronze spear he had obtained to poke the poison needle trap several times in a row. After ensuring that no more poison needles would be shot out from it, he timidly approached to study how to open the secret door.


    After a while, Hugo inserted the bronze spear into a hidden gap in the wall relief again and turned back to ask, "Is it open?"


    Everyone looked at each other, and Kenmet nodded heavily: "Open!"


    No one expected that this hidden relic would be so dangerous. Just after entering, they encountered four golden-level skeletons.


    Fortunately, Jia Lan, a magician, alchemist and enchanter, was present, and used various magical means to greatly reduce the danger.


    In this circular hall, in addition to the four hidden secret doors, there were only a few rat holes dug by giant rats under the piles of rocks on the ground.


    But no one wanted to risk going into the rat hole that was dug by giant rats like a spider web.


    After all, the height of the rat hole might be suitable for big rats that can get through narrow spaces, but it is not suitable for humans who walk upright. Once they encounter danger in the rat hole, they may not even be able to fight.


    In this way, they can only take the risk of choosing the four unknown secret doors.


    As Hugo pulled the bronze spear heavily, the two-foot-thick rock wall sank into the ground with a rumbling sound, revealing the hidden space behind...

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    All personnel were on high alert, and they were relieved until the secret door was completely closed.


    This square room with a side length of about ten meters had one wall completely destroyed due to the activities of a large number of giant rats.


    The soil behind the wall collapsed, forming a small mound that occupied half of the room, and even buried half of the adjacent wall.


    Only the wall opposite the small mound remained in good condition. After a preliminary inspection, Hugo motioned for everyone to enter.


    Given that the room had been severely damaged, even if there were traps or mechanisms, they were most likely ineffective.


    The well-preserved wall was also decorated with gorgeous reliefs, depicting a majestic red dragon.


    Although it was not colored, people familiar with the dragon clan could still easily identify its species based on the characteristics of the dragon head.


    However, the mercenaries were obviously not among them, and Jia Lan doubted their knowledge of the dragon clan.


    Everyone just glanced at the red dragon on the relief and began to search this slightly abnormal room.


    According to architectural principles, the passage in the due north direction usually leads to important areas.


    In addition, the previously speculated circular hall may be the center of the area, so it is impossible for such a location to hide only one secret room.


    However, the experienced thieves Hugo and Old Jimmy explored the obvious stone door covered with red dragon relief for a long time, but found neither traps nor opening mechanisms.


    This put the two thieves in a dilemma - no matter how superb the lock-picking skills are, there must be a lock to open.


    Seeing the sweat beads on the foreheads of the two thieves, Jia Lan couldn''t help but remind them: "This seems to be a secret door, that is, a magic door!"


    After wearing the invisible "Laian Mask", Jia Lan''s eyes strengthened the effect of the "Laian Eye", not only having "lightless vision" beyond "dark vision", but also being able to see things clearly in absolute darkness as if bathing in the Laian moonlight, and being able to penetrate any hidden objects within ten meters, ignoring the hazy, invisible, and stealth effects.


    Therefore, in fact, the secret door was first discovered by him, not the two thieves.


    But in order to keep a low profile, Jia Lan waited for professionals to handle it.


    He didn''t speak up until the two thieves were helpless with the stone door without a keyhole.


    The two thieves breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that it was a "magic door".


    Every profession has its own expertise. If something related to magic cannot be opened, it does not damage their image as "lock-picking professionals".


    The two hurriedly gave way and let Jia Lan, a "magic professional", handle it.


    Jia Lan carefully examined the stone door relief, risked his fingers into the slightly opened mouth of the relief dragon head, and touched a tiny and slightly concave secret magic circle.


    He tapped the raised red dragon head with the magic wand in his hand, shook his head regretfully and said: "Unless we find a special "key", we can only use violent means to enter..."


    Violent means? The mercenaries looked at each other.


    Such a heavy stone door, even the great swordsman Kenmet, the leader, could hardly destroy the granite layer of more than one foot thick with a two-handed sword in a short time.


    What Jia Lan didn''t tell them was that this stone door had been reinforced with secret magic, so it would be difficult to break it open with violence, let alone a foot thick, even if it was only an inch thick.


    The reason why he seemed regretful was that if he had the realm of a "mid-level wizard", he could easily open this "secret door" by releasing a 2nd-level transformation spell "knocking".


    But now they had to find the special secret door key.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.


    Everyone was at a loss, and Captain Kenmet frowned and said, "Why don''t we try to open the other three secret doors?"


    In previous ruins explorations, they had also encountered special doors that even the gold-level thieves known as "locksmiths" could not open.


    In this situation, usually you can only take a detour, or simply "break it open violently" as Jia Lan said.


    Jia Lan thought for a while and said, "Maybe we should look for the key to the secret door nearby? Maybe there are clues on those golden skeletons just now?"


    "Are you referring to these gold coins?" Hugo innocently took out a handful of ancient gold and silver coins from his pocket. "I found them where those gold-level skeletons were..."


    As Hugo said this, he suddenly found that his captain was staring at him, and he couldn''t help laughing and said, "Hey! Boss, I don''t plan to hide it. Isn''t it just putting it away first and dividing the spoils when I go home!"


    It turned out that he had secretly looted the spoils without knowing when.


    Jia Lan took the ancient coins and identified them one by one, looked at the embossed dragon head, shook his head, and returned the ancient coins to Hugo.


    Although there is a saying that dragons love gold coins, Jia Lan doesn''t think that putting gold coins in the dragon''s mouth will make it take the initiative to open this secret door.


    There was no mystical fluctuation on those ancient coins, and the shape and size of the coins did not match the small concave mystical array in the dragon''s mouth.


    Jia Lan''s eyes inadvertently swept across the bronze spear on the shoulder of a silver swordsman, which was given to him by Hugo because he was searching for traps.


    His eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Show me the spear!"


    Spears are usually used by soldiers in the army, while adventurers and mercenaries rarely choose this long weapon.


    In this relatively narrow underground temple building, those who use spears are most likely guards on duty at the temple.


    In addition, Hugo just opened the secret door with a bronze spear, and Jia Lan suspected that the four golden skeletons outside were probably the guards of the four secret doors in the east, south, west and north of the circular hall when they were alive!


    Although a little surprised, the silver swordsman immediately handed the bronze spear to Jia Lan.


    This weapon is quite heavy to hold. It is made of bronze, and the spearhead and the spear body are engraved with very exquisite patterns.


    Especially the still sharp spearhead, the complex patterns on it make it look not like a weapon, but a decoration that is more intimidating and symbolic than practical.


    Jia Lan knocked on the bronze spear. It was indeed solid. It was not until he felt the end of the spear that he found that the end of the spear was inlaid with a copper ball with complex patterns!


    After twisting it hard, the copper ball was embedded on it without moving. The copper rust had completely rusted it on it.


    However, this did not bother Jia Lan. He threw a "repair spell" on it, not only removing the copper rust on the copper ball, but also making the whole bronze spear shiny.


    This magical scene made the mercenaries open their eyes wide. If they also knew this repair spell, they would not have to worry about the maintenance of the equipment and spend a lot of effort on maintenance.


    Gently unscrewing the copper ball at the end of the spear, Jia Lan measured it on the embossed dragon head and found that the size was exactly the same as the dragon''s grinning mouth.


    After the copper ball was stuffed in, a rolling sound was heard. The copper ball rolled along the root of the dragon''s tongue to the tip of the tongue, making a wedge-joining sound of "knock"!


    A glimmer of light flashed, and the dragon head seemed to come alive. Suddenly, a strange language with a lot of breath sound came out of the dragon''s mouth!


    Everyone was startled by the dragon head that suddenly spoke, and they all raised their weapons and aimed at it.


    Old Jimmy, who had been standing next to Jia Lan, asked curiously: "It actually makes a sound? What language is this?"


    "Don''t be nervous. This is just an ancient magical method of storing sounds..." Jia Lan nodded. "This is dragon language. It says, ''What is too heavy to lift? What is too light to exist? What makes everything become nothing? What is the most gentle? What is the most brutal?'' This is a riddle. You can guess it yourself..."


    The mercenaries were collectively dumbfounded, but Jia Lan didn''t tell them the answer, but directly read out a dragon language.


    A rumbling sound was heard, and the ground under everyone''s feet began to shake violently, so that the earth slope began to roll down a lot of mud and gravel.


    Under the surprised eyes of everyone, the whole wall split from the middle and retreated to both sides, leaving only a stone tablet as tall as a person, which happened to be the red dragon relief that everyone thought was the stone door!


    This situation made Hugo and Old Jimmy look at each other in confusion.


    And Jia Lan stretched out his palm in front of the dragon head relief, and the copper ball was spit out by the dragon head again and rolled into Jia Lan''s open palm.


    "Let''s go, this magic door will only be open for one minute." Jia Lan said, and took the lead in stepping into the long passage behind the secret door, and everyone hurriedly followed.


    This is a very long passage, and it seems that because it has been closed for too long, the air quality is quite bad.


    The ground was filled with dust that was enough to cover the soles of the feet. Every time he stepped on it, it was like stepping on a bag of flour and bursting a cloud of gray.


    As a last resort, Jia Lan injected water elements into the magic model on the magic wand, releasing "bubble spells" one by one, covering everyone''s heads to prevent them from inhaling dust, but he didn''t care about their bodies.


    This long and winding passage has a downward staircase every few meters, with a drop of about ten meters.


    When Jia Lan and his team carefully walked to the end, they had almost gone nearly a hundred meters underground.


    The only thing to be thankful for was that there were many pedal mechanisms on this passage, but they were all scrapped due to disrepair.


    The hidden arrow holes on the wall could only spray out puffs of dust, but no arrows could be shot out.


    Until the end of the passage, there was another stone door.


    This time, there were no more riddles. Hugo easily broke the two broken mechanisms above and opened the stone door.


    A broad and magnificent palace appeared before them...

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    Inside this magnificent hall, the towering dome is hidden in the deep darkness, dotted with dense, flickering bright spots of various colors.


    With just a quick glance, Jia Lan recognized that this was a large-scale star map. He had seen a similar star map on the top observatory of his mentor''s wizard tower.


    However, compared with the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" inlaid with countless gems here, that star map seems much inferior.


    Despite this, compared with the "Independent Crystal Wall System Micro Plane Map" owned by Jia Lan''s mentor, this "macro galaxy map" still seems insignificant.


    Neither the "macro star map" nor the "micro star map" is within Jia Lan''s current realm.


    He just glanced at it and felt a strong dizziness, almost unable to stand steadily.


    He closed his eyes tightly and tried his best to endure the dizziness. After a long rest, he gradually returned to normal. He was still frightened and did not dare to look up at the dome again.


    This also made him understand why his mentor never allowed him to go up to the observatory.


    With his "double soul", he has a mental strength comparable to that of a seventh-level great wizard.


    Even after waking up from the ice, his soul and spiritual world experienced some unknown improvements without his knowledge.


    Theoretically, with his conditions, he is already a leader among stargazers.


    However, he only took a quick glance at this "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" and barely identified the thirteen "plane nebulae" and their corresponding thirteen "sub-satellite clusters" shrouded outside the Eberron world, and almost fainted.


    It is hard to imagine what consequences he would face if he studied this star map in depth.


    Spiritual exhaustion?


    Soul damage?


    Even the soul was pulled out of the body?


    This is just a "macro star map".


    Recalling his experience of trying to sneak into the mentor''s observatory but giving up because he couldn''t solve the restrictions set by the mentor, Jia Lan couldn''t help but feel fortunate.


    Jia Lan thought that this might be the most sinister "trap" in the ruins that specifically targets spellcasters.


    In fact, if it were someone who knew nothing about astrology, this "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" would not pose any threat.


    Just like Hugo and others, they just stared blankly at the gems on the dome, drooling, but without any discomfort.


    They just naively muttered how much they could sell these glowing gems if they could pry them off.


    However, they didn''t know that these gems were insignificant compared to the value of this "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" itself.


    "It seems that the secrets hidden in this secret underground temple of the Dragon Worship Cult are probably more mysterious than I expected..." When Jia Lan came to his senses, he found that the mercenaries had already started to move and headed towards the center of the hall.


    Just as Jia Lan was about to catch up, he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be strange patterns faintly engraved on the dusty ground.


    Jia Lan squatted down and brushed away the dust on the ground with his palm. The ground revealed under the dust surprised him, because the floor of the entire hall was made of a whole piece of finely polished, gorgeous deep purple obsidian.


    Stepping on it, it feels like standing in mid-air!


    On the obsidian ground, the lines of the magic arrays are intertwined, forming a series of rune arrays of different sizes.


    Looking around, if the entire floor of the hall is covered with such rune arrays of unknown purpose, then the number is probably no less than hundreds.This narrative has been purloined without the author''s approval. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    Such a complex and huge rune array system, even Jia Lan can hardly fully analyze its function in a short time.


    Jia Lan was about to look up and remind the mercenaries to be careful and not to touch any device in the hall at will, but saw Hugo reaching out to a huge crystal ball suspended on the altar in the center of the hall!


    "Don''t touch it!"


    Hugojust touched the seemingly priceless huge crystal ball, and Jia Lan''s exclamation scared him to death.


    Hugofroze on the spot, keeping the posture of reaching out to touch the ball, and all the mercenaries also kept their stiff movements and dared not move.


    There was silence all around, the mercenaries held their breath, and only each other''s heartbeats could be heard clearly.


    After a while, Captain Kenmet raised the Yongming Light Staff, held a two-handed sword, and with one leg hanging in the air, he looked back carefully at Jia Lan who was shouting.


    "Don''t move! Don''t move! Don''t move!" Jia Lan quickly ran to the center of the hall while reminding Hugo loudly.


    This made Hugo maintain an extremely awkward posture, and he didn''t even dare to turn his head.


    When Jia Lan rushed to Hugo''s side and found that everything was normal, the big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and everyone''s heart almost jumped out.


    Hugo removed his hand from the jade-like golden crystal ball, muttering softly: "Mr. Jia Lan, I am a timid person, please don''t scare me all the time..."


    Before he finished speaking, as soon as Hugo left the golden crystal ball, the crystal ball instantly shone like the sun, the light was so dazzling that it blinded people instantly!


    Only Jia Lan, who possessed the "Eye of Laian", survived. In shock, he quickly pulled Hugo, who was covering his eyes and screaming, away, and saw the golden Yaoshi crystal ball slowly rotating and rising into the air.


    As the golden Yaoshi crystal ball rose into the air, a circular golden light curtain spread out from the altar as the center, and the complex rune array on the ground spread like a snake, leaving a piece of spider web-like traces.


    The dust on the ground seemed to be pushed away by an invisible force, revealing the smooth obsidian ground, and a series of colored light beams lit up one by one as the rune array was conducted.


    The lighting range of the Yongming Light Staff is limited and cannot illuminate the entire hall.


    At this moment, with the help of the light from the golden crystal ball, Jia Lan finally saw this magnificent hall clearly!


    This hall is huge and perfectly circular. In the center is the three-story large altar with the golden crystal ball. There are five evenly distributed small altars around it. On each altar, there is a crystal ball of a human head.


    Starting from the dark purple obsidian on the ground, there are seven colors of obsidian: "purple obsidian, blue obsidian, red obsidian, blue obsidian, yellow obsidian, green obsidian, and golden obsidian"!


    In addition to the purple obsidian on the ground, the other six types divide the entire hall into six areas: "central" and "five directions". This can be seen at a glance from the different colors of light emitted by the rune arrays in different areas.


    The dazzling light rises to the highest point of the dome with the golden crystal ball, hovering like the sun, and the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" on the sky also dims and disappears.


    Everyone gradually adapts to the softened light and looks around blankly with tears on their faces.


    Jia Lan''s face was livid. He felt that this huge rune array was most likely the "Nine Stars Array" that was common in the ancient Nesser Arcane Era!


    This was a composite rune array that integrated multiple functions such as teleportation, summoning, sealing, and space. Its complexity was so complex that no one except the builder and operator could understand it.


    Coupled with the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" on the dome, this "Nine Stars Array" became the "Nine Stars Zodiac Array", and its full name should be called "Nesser Arcane Nine Stars Zodiac Array"!


    Jia Lan felt that they seemed to have activated something incredible!


    "Sun, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth... No! There''s also a lack of ''Moon'' and two ''Hidden Glory''!"


    Jia Lan tried desperately to analyze the components of this rune array in his mind, but found that in addition to the "Ecliptic Five Stars" and "Sun", the "Moon" and the two "Hidden Glory" were nowhere to be found!


    Recalling that before the "Nether Array" was triggered, the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" on the dome did lack the "main star"... This means that this is an incomplete and broken Nether Array!


    Jia Lan was sweating instantly. He couldn''t explain the horror of a broken Nether Array to the bewildered mercenaries.


    Although the "Nine Stars Array" can be simplified to "Seven Stars Array" or "Five Stars Array", Jia Lan has never heard that the broken "Six Stars Array" can still work normally!


    Any kind of Nether Array was regarded as a synonym for "mystery", "unknown", "complexity" and "danger" in Jia Lan''s era. Even if it was a complete Nether Array, few spellcasters dared to easily control it, not to mention the broken array.


    They are currently in the central area of ??Nether, which is theoretically safe. As long as they don''t step into the functional area of ??the "Ecliptic Five Stars", they should not trigger danger.


    However, even Jia Lan himself could not be sure whether this Naeser array was a complete "Nine Stars" or a simplified "Seven Stars". Assuming it was just a simplified "Seven Stars", the danger would be greatly reduced.


    But the problem is that the existence of "Sun" must mean the existence of "Moon". Now that "Moon" is absent, this incomplete and incomplete Naeser array is full of uncertainty. Once triggered, the consequences will be disastrous!


    Jia Lan swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Don''t touch anything, follow me, don''t step on any runes... Let''s retreat!"


    Although they didn''t know why, the mercenaries were frightened by Jia Lan''s nervous expression. They followed Jia Lan''s instructions, stepped on Jia Lan''s footprints, and retreated carefully to the entrance, but...

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    People often say that fear always comes unexpectedly!


    When Jia Lan carefully led everyone out of the Sunlight Zone and into the wonderful realm of the Five Zodiacs, a mysterious invisible rune unexpectedly appeared under their feet, flashing a faint blue light.


    Then, a light blue mist slowly rose from the ground and surrounded everyone.


    The elements in the space began to stir, the wind whistled, the dust flew, and sparks were rubbed out, and the electric particles also danced with it.


    In the blue mist, tiny electric snakes swam, and in an instant, everyone seemed to be evaporated and disappeared without a trace.


    However, after they disappeared, the changes in the hall did not stop.


    On the incomplete "Nesser Ao Neng Jiu Yao Zodiac Formation", runes flickered, and deep black holes appeared in the air, and strange roars and roars came.


    The space was distorted, and pictures of different scenery flashed by, and it took a long time to return to calm.


    The five zodiac stars gradually stabilized, and the light of the sun turned from blazing to gentle, like a sinking sunset.


    Under the deep purple ground of the hall, a touch of brilliant silver gradually lit up, and that was the hidden array hidden underground starting to work.


    As the light of the sun dissipated, the light of the moon bloomed underground.


    The hidden rune array deep in the ground of the hall began to light up, showing twelve moon arrays with different lights, each of which contained a strange moon.


    With the appearance of the hidden moon array, the five zodiac stars on the surface began to disappear, while the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" on the dome of the hall lit up again, showing the brilliant galaxy and the stars in the sky.


    One by one, the moons appeared on the galaxy map, as if it were a real moon sky, shining alternately on the ground of the hall.


    Whenever a moon "took turns", it would show its gentle or violent power in the air and on the ground.


    The thirteen "plane nebulae" and thirteen "sub-satellite clusters" in the "Eberron Macro Galaxy Map" seem to break through the air and jump into reality.


    However, if Jia Lan were here, he would not only be stunned by this strange "Eberron Zodiac Fantasy Moon Array", but also find that this array is also incomplete.


    Because in the central core area and the surrounding area of ??the array, there is a strange circular darkness and a circular emptiness, missing two key component units.


    Perhaps it is because of this incompleteness that the space in the hall has become extremely unstable.


    The whole hall seems to switch between illusion and reality, causing violent space fluctuations.


    In the center of the hall, where Jia Lan and the others disappeared, a faint blue light spot that was almost imperceptible broke through the space and penetrated into other levels.


    With the flashing of the light, the whole hall suddenly shrank, as if it was swallowed by the light blue spot inside, and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, leaving only a huge spherical hole in the ground.


    A light blue light flashed, and everyone appeared in a certain place in a daze.


    Jia Lan was the first to wake up from the dizziness. She shook her head, and before she could see the surrounding environment clearly, she felt that the directory stone on her chest was as hot as if it was burned by fire.You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    Jia Lan grabbed the chain and pulled the catalog stone out of his collar. In a trance, he seemed to see the nebula flowing in the transparent gemstone-like material of the catalog stone, and the shadow of a miniature palace flashed among the stars.


    Jia Lan blinked his eyes and tested the temperature of the catalog stone in confusion. He found that its temperature was dropping rapidly and soon returned to its cold touch.


    He didn''t understand what happened. His mind was full of doubts: How could the catalog stone resonate with the "Nether Arcane Nine-Light Zodiac Formation" just now?


    After thinking for a long time, Jia Lan shook his head and couldn''t figure it out. The things left over from the ancient Nesser Arcane civilization era were indeed full of unknowns and dangers!


    In the deep and unpredictable hinterland of the underground temple of the Dragon Worship Cult, there is a ruin of the Nesser civilization that is older than the temple itself. This shocking discovery made Jia Lan fall into deep thought.


    The history of this relic may be even older than the Dragon Worship Cult!


    The mercenaries gradually woke up from the short dizziness caused by the space conversion. Captain Kenmet tightly grasped the two-handed sword and the eternal light staff in his hands, fearing that they would be lost in the chaos.


    As their vision gradually became clear, they found themselves in a slightly smaller underground hall.


    The layout of this hall is very unique, like a rectangular chessboard, divided into two by a bottomless abyss.


    The hall seems to span the underground rift, connected only by a natural rock bridge.


    The hall on their side seemed empty, with nothing but the green flames that had been burning for an unknown period of time embedded on the wall.


    On the other side of the rock bridge, under the light of the ghost fire, rows of strange statues appeared.


    After experiencing all the adventures before, the mercenaries all turned their eyes to the magician Jia Lan.


    Even the two experienced thieves became cautious and did not dare to move or touch the surrounding objects at will.


    "Don''t worry, we may have just triggered the internal transmission device of this ruin." Jia Lan found a reason to comfort the nervous mercenaries, and at the same time took out a transparent gem the size of an egg, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment.


    Jia Lan seemed to see something from the gem, and he breathed a sigh of relief. After looking around, he concluded: "Fortunately, this place is not far from the hall we were in before. If we turn back now, we should be able to find a passage back to the circular hall under the prison warehouse."


    The mercenaries looked at each other, and after the two thieves got Jia Lan''s confirmation, Hugo took the bronze spear and the key copper ball and began to search the passage behind.


    Old Jimmy was responsible for searching the hall on their side, and the others took the opportunity to take a break.


    About half an hour later, when Old Jimmy had just finished searching half of the hall and was sure it was relatively safe, Hugo came back.


    "Boss, Mr. Jia Lan, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?" Hugo calmed down his breath and played his prank again.


    Captain Kenmet glared at him: "Do you want to die?"


    "Well, the good news is that Mr. Jia Lan is right, our retreat is unobstructed. Go through that passage and you can return to the circular hall, and go out from there to the south secret door." Hugo laughed dryly twice and shrugged at his captain for not understanding humor.


    "And the bad news is that the north secret door we just entered collapsed, and the entire passage was buried in the soil. If we want to enter that strange hall again, I''m afraid we need a team to dig the passage."


    Hugo''s words confirmed that Jia Lan''s inference was correct, and there was indeed a passage leading to the circular hall.


    And because he was leaving from the inside, Jia Lan didn''t even take the small ball and left the secret room with the embossed dragon head.


    But the regret on his face was obviously because he was obsessed with the gems full of stars on the dome of the hall.


    "Damn it! I don''t want to enter that weird hall again! Even if it is full of gems!" Carter muttered, "The world of magic is too scary! I swear, this is the weirdest ruins I have ever encountered in my mercenary career!"


    "The question now is, should we retreat to rest first, or continue to explore?" Captain Kenmet observed the state of everyone. After a whole night of exploration, everyone seemed a little tired.


    It is undoubtedly very dangerous to continue exploring the ruins in this state.


    "How about we go to the other side of the rock bridge to take a look before going back? I think there must be good things over there!" Hugo looked at the other side of the rock bridge unwillingly.


    "This relic will always exist anyway, I think it''s better for us to go back first!" Kenmet disagreed with Hugo''s idea for safety reasons, but his eyes were still cast on the mysterious young magician, Jia Lan, who was standing on the edge of the rock bridge and staring at the other side.


    After staring at the other side of the rock bridge for a long time, Jia Lan turned back and smiled: "I agree with Captain Kenmet''s opinion. The other side may be more dangerous than the hall just now, because it looks like a mausoleum!"

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    "Look at those statues. They are like loyal guards of the mausoleum. I don''t think we are their opponents!" Jia Lan pointed to the other side, where "statues" made of white marble stood in disorder in the hall, as if with a touch of red lines.


    Jia Lan said slowly, "I''m afraid that the ruins we found are an even older ''Twilight Ruins''. According to my understanding, the ''magic'' technology of the early civilization, the Dawn Age, is far from the level of building such a magnificent underground temple!"


    The mercenaries looked at each other, and Captain Kenmet asked hesitantly: "So, what you mean is... we should retreat?"


    "Yes, retreat temporarily. Before we have enough power to thoroughly explore this place, it''s best not to come back... Otherwise, I can''t guarantee that there won''t be accidents like the one in the hall."


    Jia Lan nodded heavily and continued, "To be honest, with my ability, I can''t understand the magic mechanism in this ruins at all. Just like the complicated ''magic circle'' in the hall just now, I can''t even tell its type... We are lucky. We just activated a teleportation circle inside the ruins."


    Looking at the mercenaries who seemed a little disappointed, Jia Lan shrugged: "If the summoning array or the sealing array is triggered... we may face a monster summoned from another world, or be sealed here forever, just like... those statues!" He pointed to the "statues" of various shapes on the other side, and the mercenaries couldn''t help but feel creepy. Could it be that those "statues" were once alive?


    Captain Kenmet swallowed his saliva. Although he felt sorry for the fact that he had gained nothing from this trip to the ruins, considering that even Jia Lan, an unfathomable magician, did not dare to go deeper, he decided to retreat for safety.


    Since they decided to retreat, everyone did not linger too much and quickly left the hall full of weirdness and danger and returned to the circular hall.


    They discussed that Captain Kenmet would keep the bronze spear, and Jia Lan would keep the key copper ball.


    In this way, even if one party lost the "key", it would not be easily invaded here.


    In fact, everyone knew that the magic door hidden behind the secret door was the most important of the two levels in the circular hall.


    Even if you have the key copper ball, you can''t open the magic door without knowing the opening spell.


    The reason why the "keys" were kept separately was just a gesture made by the partners to show mutual trust.


    Looking at the slowly closing secret door, Jia Lan and the others breathed a sigh of relief, as if as long as they closed the magic door, they could reseal the strange danger in the ruins.


    However, they didn''t know that after they left the Rock Bridge Hall, among the "statues" on the opposite bank, a tall statue with double horns on its head, a thick tail behind it, and a pair of wings on its back suddenly trembled, and while sprinkling a lot of dust, it slowly opened a pair of scarlet eyes...


    After exiting the Rock Bridge Hall, everyone took a short rest in the circular hall.


    Jia Lan went to check the passage of the "Nine Lights Hall". As Hugo said, after they were teleported away, something happened and the entire passage collapsed.


    Now, even if they want to return to the "Nine Lights Hall", they need to gather enough construction workers and spend a long time to dig the passage again.


    Perhaps unwilling to return empty-handed, under the instigation of the gold thief Hugo, everyone decided to open the two secret doors in the east and west to have a look.


    Even if they don''t explore immediately, at least they can know what is behind the secret door, satisfy their curiosity, and be mentally prepared.


    However, when they opened the secret door in the east direction, they found that the back had collapsed long ago, and the soil and rubble blocked the entire secret room.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    When the secret door sank into the ground, what appeared in front of them was just a mud wall.


    And judging from the rubble mixed in the earth wall, even the magic door with the dragon head relief was broken under the huge pressure.


    Behind the secret door in the west, although the secret room is well preserved, strangely, there is no magic door with the dragon head relief in this secret room.


    A secret array is engraved on the ground. After careful analysis by Jia Lan, it is determined that this is a miniature teleportation array inside the ruins.


    Unfortunately, I don¡¯t know if it is due to the local geological changes caused by the collapse of the "Nine Lights Hall", this internal teleportation array has been destroyed by a rock crack about three meters wide from the ceiling to the ground.


    Fortunately, the rock material of this circular hall is unusual. They are made of "magic" materials strengthened by secret methods and are of excellent quality.


    Even after such drastic geological changes, the main structure of the circular hall still stands, avoiding the tragedy of people being buried alive underground.


    Everyone was secretly glad, and Jia Lan quickly took out a "communication mirror" and contacted Casey and Dave on the ground.


    However, the news was puzzling - Casey and the others did not notice any vibration, and the Castle of Doom was still safe and sound!


    Could it be that this geological change was limited to the underground? Or was this crack not related to the collapse of the "Nine Lights Hall"? Or was it that some unknown force limited the geological change to the underground?


    Everyone looked at each other, including Jia Lan, and no one could solve the mystery.


    The bottom of the crack was not deep, filled with collapsed rubble, only two or three meters deep. With their strength, it was no problem to cross it easily.


    On the other side of the crack, there seemed to be another huge space hidden, with fluorescent light flashing, and the scene on the opposite side could be vaguely seen.


    "Hush! Listen!" Old Jimmy suddenly raised his finger, signaling everyone to be quiet, "There seems to be movement on the other side!"


    Everyone held their breath and listened carefully. Sure enough, there was a faint sound coming from the space on the other side of the crack, like air surging, or like a whisper.


    "Go and have a look? Maybe those giant rats? Or that flying head barbarian?" Captain Kenmet looked at Jia Lan inquiringly, pointing to the collapsed rubble in the circular hall, "Maybe this crack has existed for a long time! Those giant rats and flying head barbarians came in from the opposite side!"


    Jia Lan hesitated for a moment and nodded. As the new owner of the Castle of Doom, he could not tolerate monsters like giant rats and flying head barbarians hiding under the castle.


    The two thieves took the lead, tied with ropes to prevent the rubble at the bottom of the crack from collapsing again. No one dared to be sure of the depth of the crack and the stability of the rubble.


    Jia Lan climbed up and down with the mercenaries, showing great agility.


    The group carefully passed through the rock crack.


    Opposite the crack was a natural rock cave, which was humid and filled with the strange smell of rotting plants.


    There must be an underground water source nearby.


    The walls of the cave were covered with mosses, emitting a faint fluorescence in the dark.


    Jia Lan reached out and touched the slippery moss, sniffed the juice on his fingers, and shook his hand in disgust.


    Although this luminous moss is similar to the "moonlight moss", it exudes a disgusting stench and is covered with sticky mucus.


    The ground is also covered with this moss, and every step will make a disgusting sound.


    After a few steps, the shoes are covered with thick gray-white sticky substances.


    The group resisted nausea and passed through the moss area.


    On the walls and ground of the cave, they found some large and small holes, with soil and gravel scattered around, which were obviously dug out by giant rats and dark demon rats.


    Captain Kenmet''s guess was confirmed.


    The rat holes in the circular hall are connected to these rat holes. The giant rats drilled into the hall through these rat holes and then jumped into the dungeon warehouse from the top of the rubble.


    The real body of the Flying Head Barbarian might have accidentally flown out of these holes.


    Although it is still unclear whether the main body has returned underground, judging from the instinct of its infected bodies to return to the nest after being injured, their origin has been basically determined.


    After turning a few corners in the complex and ever-changing cave group, the view in front of us suddenly opened up.


    There is actually a huge underground cave hidden here!


    Everyone also found the source of the strange sound they heard before - an underground river that fell into the underground crack!


    The roaring sound of water echoed between the rock walls, and when it reached their previous location, it sounded like the sound of wind.


    Although the humid environment created by the underground river is harsh, it provides space for mosses and giant fungi to grow.


    The huge fungi are piled up in the underground cave like big umbrellas. Not only are their figures densely covered on the ground, but there are also clusters of huge mushrooms on the walls and domes.


    It seems like there is an underground forest of fungi here, and occasionally you can hear the sharp cries of giant rats.


    These fungi provide them with a natural food source, allowing them to reproduce into large populations and turn this place into a huge rat''s nest!

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    When you go deep into the cave, a faint smell of sulfur will quietly invade your breath, and coupled with the suffocating heat, people can''t help but wonder if there is a hot lava lake hidden nearby.


    However, their arrival alarmed the overlord of the cave - the giant rat group.


    As pairs of green eyes flashing in the fungus gradually appeared, Captain Kenmet waved his hand without hesitation: "Retreat!"


    After they quickly retreated to the crack of the secret door in the west, the five silver mercenaries quickly formed a defense line, using the narrow terrain to hold the crack and block the rat group that was pouring in like a tide.


    This "rat nest" is huge in scale, and the number of giant rats and dark magic rats in it is countless. Obviously, it is not something that their ten-man expedition team can easily deal with.


    After a brief discussion, Jia Lan took out the "Communication Mirror" and contacted Casey and Dave on the ground, asking them to gather manpower and tools, enter the dungeon, and renovate the long-abandoned ruins as their base camp and transit station for ruins exploration.


    At the same time, Captain Kenmet also contacted his two deputy captains through the "Communication Mirror" and summoned the remaining mercenaries to come to support.


    Both parties also issued martial law and gag orders, and any news about the ruins was strictly prohibited from leaking out before the underground ruins were cleared.


    While waiting for support, Jia Lan took out the mysterious gem.


    In the surprised eyes of Kenmet and others, the gem projected a three-dimensional phantom in the air.


    Careful identification can reveal that this is the miniature map of the route they took after entering the dungeon.


    Seeing the surprised looks of the mercenaries, Jia Lan simply explained: "This is a ''positioning gem'' that can record the route we have taken. Like the ''communication mirror'', it is a powerful assistant for exploration."


    As he spoke, Jia Lan gently stroked the positioning gem, enlarged the area of ??the rat''s nest that he had just entered, and turned it into a flat map to show everyone.


    This "phantom map" floating in front of everyone clearly showed the terrain of the rat''s nest, which was a large underground cavity.


    Due to the humid environment caused by the underground river, a large number of fungi and mosses have bred here, forming a unique ecological microenvironment.


    The fissure channel they just entered is just a branch of this underground cavity.


    "Look here! We are here..."


    Jia Lan enlarged the phantom map to the extreme and pointed to a corner of the map that was about the size of a round table. Everyone focused their attention on it.


    Jia Lan waved his finger and marked a door symbol in a corner of the map with a secret mark.


    "This is an underground fissure and underground river. Look further ahead. Did you notice here? There are many broken rocks and stones of regular shapes..."


    Jia Lan''s finger moved on the map, pointing to a corner not far from where they were discovered by the giant rats: "Those stones clearly have traces of artificial carving. I suspect that there is a way to other areas of this ruins."


    Everyone gathered around the phantom map and looked at it curiously.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    The map projected by the positioning gem was translucent, showing the underground cavity of the rat''s nest in front of everyone in the form of a cross-section.


    Where they were standing at the moment, Jia Lan used the mysterious mark as ink to outline a bright spot in the void. With this as the center, the surrounding scenery spread out like a scroll, with virtual and real interweaving, and everything in sight.


    And those areas that have not been seen with their own eyes but have been set foot on are gently covered by a layer of mist and veil, and as for those unknown secrets, they are silent in the boundless depths.


    What is particularly eye-catching is that next to the white light dot representing the positioning gem, there are a few fresh green spots, like loyal guards.


    In the dark space on the other side of the rift, there are occasionally a few scarlet flashes, and then they disappear in a flash, like ghosts in the dark night.


    Without Jia Lan''s words, the mercenaries have understood: the green dots are partners fighting side by side, and the red dots are the cunning giant rats.


    Captain Kenmet looked at the communication mirror and positioning gem in Jia Lan''s hand, with a gleam of desire in his eyes.


    These two magic treasures are undoubtedly powerful assistants during the adventure, but he knows that it is difficult for non-magicians to control them.


    Although there are many resident mages under his command, how can this young mage easily give up such rare things?


    Therefore, despite his covetous heart, Captain Kenmet still restrained the thought of asking, and only commanded them to launch a counterattack against the Rat''s Nest immediately after his mercenaries gathered.


    The reason why the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group can stand firm in Kelan County is not only because of the protection of President Clark, but also because of its own superior strength.


    More than a thousand Black Iron-level mercenaries, five hundred bronze warriors, sixty or seventy silver elites, and even five "golden mercenaries", such a lineup is enough to scare any opponent.


    Even if it does not have an advantage in numbers, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group is undoubtedly the best in terms of combat power.


    Due to the cooperation between President Clark and Jia Lan, the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group suspended other tasks and all members gathered in the Doom Castle.


    Through the communication mirror, the elite members responded quickly, and the five golden warriors, all the silver warriors, and even the magician team came out in full force, and the scene was spectacular.


    One high-level fire magician, five intermediate magicians, and more than ten junior magicians, such a large lineup of magicians shows that the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group has a deep foundation.


    Kenmet admitted that even when carrying out large-scale missions, they had never fought so hard.


    More than 20 magicians, five gold warriors, and dozens of silver warriors, this force is enough to set off a small-scale city-state war.


    Obviously, the battle with the four golden skeletons and the strange teleportation of the Nine Lights Hall left Captain Kenmet with lingering fears.


    There is strength in numbers. The mercenaries quickly cleaned up the giant rat corpses in the rock cracks and transported them outside the dungeon for disposal.


    After all, although the giant rat is only a black iron-level monster, its magic crystals, fur, bones, and claws are all precious materials. A little bit adds up to a lot, which is also a considerable income.


    Hunting monsters and collecting materials are the daily routine of the mercenary group. Therefore, the mercenaries had a clear division of labor, tacit cooperation, and the scene was in order.


    Some mercenaries dug soil from the secret door, mixed it with gravel, filled the cave and gravel pit, and built stairs with local materials.


    Then, an intermediate earth magician waved his staff and cast "rock shaping" and "soil reinforcement" to make the soil stairs and the ground as solid as a rock, and at the same time widened and repaired the rock cracks.


    Seeing this intermediate magician who was only equivalent to a "second-level magician" easily change the shape of the rock, Jia Lan was secretly amazed.


    There are similar spells in the arcane magic he knows, but they are definitely not something that a "second-level magician" can cast.


    Of course, those high-level spells jokingly called "city building" and "city breaking" are far more powerful than the earth magic of this era.


    Although there are many giant rats, they quickly retreated and fled under the fierce attack of the mercenaries.


    Under the leadership of the bronze-level team leader, the Iron-level mercenaries rushed into the rat nest and launched a large-scale cleanup.


    The Silver-level mercenaries and junior magicians stayed in the rear, and once the dark magic rats appeared, they would be hard to escape the encirclement.


    The corpses of these silver-level monsters are more valuable. Their fur and claws can be used to make armor and weapons, and their blood and internal organs are rare magic materials.


    It is undoubtedly a pleasant surprise for the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group to find such a large group of giant rats and dark magic rats in the suburbs of this city.

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    The bodies of these killed giant rats and dark demon rats are valuable and can be sold at a high price in the material market.


    Considering that the ruins located under the Doom Castle should theoretically belong to Jia Lan, Captain Kenmet proposed to share the proceeds from the sale of these materials with Jia Lan.


    However, Jia Lan declined this proposal without any care, saying that all these "results" could belong to the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group as a reward for the mercenaries to clear the giant rats for the Doom Castle.


    In Jia Lan''s eyes, the bodies of these monsters are not worth mentioning at all. He values ??the ruins hidden under the Doom Castle more.


    Once such a vast underground space is cleaned and repaired, it will become a natural underground city, which is far more secretive and safe than the Doom Castle on the ground.


    The large research room envisioned by Jia Lan can be built in this underground space, so clearing the monsters here has become an imperative task.


    Once the large research room has some output, what are the bodies of those low-level monsters?


    Since Jia Lan promised that the potions and various supplies consumed by the mercenaries during the cleanup process would be "sponsored" by Cole Pharmacy, and the casualties in the battle would also be compensated by Cole Pharmacy, the morale of the mercenaries was high.


    Even for the bronze and silver mercenaries, Jia Lan also prepared a batch of "bronze potions" and "silver potions" suitable for their level as rewards, which completely stimulated their fighting enthusiasm.


    Therefore, the cleanup progressed rapidly. In just one day, the mercenaries took turns to wipe out the giant rats in the rat nest.


    Subsequently, a large number of hired workers began to enter the underground cave, cut down the mushroom forest, and clean up the environment.


    While the hired workers were cleaning the rat nest, Jia Lan deliberately checked the gravel with traces of artificial carving.


    He was almost certain that this huge underground cave was originally part of the Dragon Worship Temple, but for some reason, the interior collapsed, gradually forming this underground mushroom forest, and became the habitat of the giant rats.


    Surprisingly, this underground cave is not isolated, but connected to other underground areas. Some of the caves even lead to a huge underground maze!


    Judging from the traces left on the rocks of the maze passage, this place should have been built by dragon worshippers on the basis of natural underground caves in ancient times.


    In this complex maze, every corner is full of various traps, such as rockfall traps, pit traps, closing traps, stinger traps, arrow traps, thorn traps, etc. It is like a museum of traps, and the number is staggering!


    Fortunately, the huge number of giant rats has exhausted the life of these traps for the later comers, and did not cause too many casualties to the thieves exploring this maze.


    But judging from the shocking pits and giant rat skeletons scattered around in the maze, the giant rats have spent millions of lives to get through this dangerous maze from other areas of the Dragon Worship Temple.


    Due to the existence of this huge maze, Jia Lan suddenly realized that they seemed to have accidentally taken a shortcut from the top of the collapsed circular hall to the deepest part of the Dragon Worship Temple, avoiding possible dangers.The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    Unfortunately, the circular hall hidden in the deepest part of the Dragon Worship Temple did not bring any gains to Jia Lan and his team.


    The "Nine Lights Hall" in the north collapsed due to an unexpected teleportation.


    The "Mausoleum Hall" in the south should theoretically store a large number of sacrificial treasures, but it is full of terrifying statues guarding it, and they can''t get close to it with their strength.


    The secret door in the east has collapsed into a solid earth wall.


    Behind the secret door to the west, it has completely become a paradise for giant rats.


    At this moment, Jia Lan and his group are facing a problem that is just as difficult as the giant rats.


    How can they pass through this intricate maze, go deep into the core area of ??the Sea Wall Mountains, and finally reach the core area of ??the Dragon Worship Temple?


    According to the thieves'' report, this building called "Dragon Worship Labyrinth" consists of three floors: upper, middle and lower, and contains twelve small mazes that are linked together.


    The area of ??the explored part alone is ten times larger than that of the Castle of Doom!


    Even the experienced gold-level thief Hugo seemed to be furious. He claimed that even gods would find it difficult to get out of this maze unless they had an accurate maze route map.


    "This is simply a paradise for hide-and-seek!" Hugo joked.


    Hugo had just lost his way in the first small maze. If it weren''t for a long silk thread as a guide, I''m afraid his friends would never find him in their lifetime.


    Just as Hugo was trying to persuade Captain Kenmet to use the advantage of the large number of people present to conquer the maze with the "human sea tactics", Jia Lan took out the positioning gem again, chanted a mysterious spell in a low voice, and released a "city positioning technique" to the gem.


    A striking green light extended on the phantom map projected by the gem until it disappeared into the darkness.


    However, Jia Lan shook his head. It seems that the first-level "city positioning technique" is not very effective for underground ruins, especially for mazes.


    It can only point out the target in a straight line, but cannot avoid those tortuous and complex passages.


    Jia Lan originally thought that the combination of "city positioning technique" and the power of "positioning gem" could enhance the effect, but it seems that this opportunistic method is not feasible. Perhaps his current spellcasting level is not enough to control the first-level spell.


    Although the "moon energy" effect attached to the Ryan mask can improve his first-level spellcasting level, this place is hundreds of meters underground, and naturally cannot be bathed in moonlight.


    "Then..." Jia Lan frowned and pondered for a moment, and began to take out alchemy tools and enchantment arrays to make some small props on the spot.


    Captain Kenmet was attracted by Jia Lan''s actions and came over involuntarily. He had already developed an inexplicable trust in this mysterious young magician.


    Since the magicians have no good way to solve the maze problem, maybe this Jia Lan will have a way?


    Several intermediate magicians, led by the senior fire magician, wanted to see what Jia Lan was doing, but they didn''t dare to go over directly because of the rules of the magic world.


    They were worried that people would misunderstand them and think they were trying to steal the alchemy formula.


    Since the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group began to cooperate with Cole Pharmacy, they, as core members, naturally knew some confidential information.


    For example, this young magician is not only a master of pharmacy, alchemy, and enchantment, but also an identification master who is proficient in archaeology. This may sound incredible, but it is the truth.


    This young magician has made outstanding achievements in many fields, which can no longer be described by the word "genius".


    Although there have been genius magicians with outstanding talents and the ability to master knowledge in many fields in history, the achievements of this magician are still amazing.


    What is even more difficult for them to accept is that the magic power of this young magician may have reached the level of a great magician or even a magician.


    If the breadth of knowledge can be comprehended with super wisdom, then the improvement of magic power cannot be achieved by taking shortcuts.


    The profession of magician is full of dangers, and there are too many internal and external factors that may cause them to die halfway.


    In history, there are very few magicians who can die of natural causes, and most of them die accidentally due to various "magic diseases".


    This is also the reason why there are so few high-level magicians.


    However, according to the description of Captain Kenmet, this young magician who seems to be no more than 20 years old actually has the magic casting ability of the great magician realm.


    Then he is either an old monster who has changed his appearance with magic, or he is a "non-human".

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    The term "non-human" does not mean to be derogatory.


    In this vast universe, intelligent races are not unique to humans. Elves, dwarves, giants, orcs, winged people, halflings, dwarves, goblins, scaled people, sea people and other races, as well as countless sub-humans, half-humans, humanoid creatures, and their subspecies, branches, and close relatives, have jointly woven this picture of civilization under the sky.


    And humans, among them, may not even be considered elites, but just ordinary "short-lived races".


    After the apocalypse, many "long-lived races" were extinct or degenerated because they could not adapt to the great changes in the space environment.


    In contrast, those "short-lived races" that reproduce rapidly and frequently update their populations have shown tenacious vitality.


    For example, goblins, a race that was once glorious in ancient times, were once described by pre-civilization files as a barbaric, primitive, greedy, and rude "uncivilized race".


    However, after the apocalypse, they ushered in a racial revival. The huge population, strong reproductive capacity, amazing environmental adaptability, and short life span of twenty years on average, and no more than forty years, made the goblins have an amazing evolutionary speed.


    In terms of adapting to the new era, goblins even surpassed humans, quickly returned to the ranks of "intelligent races", and became a mainstream civilized race.


    Therefore, on the Star Continent, being called "non-human" may not be an insult, but may be a compliment.


    Such as "as handsome as an elf", "as strong as a giant", "as persistent as a dwarf", "as smart as a dwarf", and "as cunning as a goblin", are all words of praise.


    In the eyes of the magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, the various extraordinary abilities displayed by Jia Lan are indeed beyond the reach of "humans".


    But they prefer to believe that Jia Lan''s young appearance is just the childlike innocence of an old magician, who changed his appearance with magic.


    After all, as the leader of a large mercenary group, Captain Kenmet has a unique vision and broad knowledge. In addition, there are magicians stationed in the group, who have a good understanding of magic, unlike low-level mercenaries who are ignorant.


    Therefore, his judgment that Jia Lan has the magic ability of the "Great Magician" realm is not far off, even if it is exaggerated.


    They all know about the Storm Wolf Mercenary Group''s station, and some have even witnessed it with their own eyes. That is not a power that a young magician can possess.


    It is also said that Jia Lan is a multi-system magician, and the magic abilities of fire, water, and wind that have been revealed are already amazing.


    According to gossip from the Sabretooth Mercenary Group, Jia Lan once appeared in the Eternal Hammer Auction House as an old man.


    Although it seems to conceal his identity, the magicians are more willing to believe that it is Jia Lan''s true face. Only in this way can we explain his "young and promising" ability to master multiple fields such as potions, alchemy, enchantment, identification, fire, water, wind and other magic.


    Considering his apparent age, isn''t it too amazing that he has such profound knowledge?


    We have to admit that the magicians'' speculation and imagination, from a certain perspective, do touch on a bit of the truth.


    Considering Jia Lan''s actual age, he is an "old monster" pretending to be young...This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.


    In "Dawn Calendar 2014", Jia Lan was in his prime, 20 years old. However, time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is "Apocalypse Calendar 1715".


    If the years when Jia Lan was frozen are also counted, then he is already a 1735-year-old "old man".


    ...


    "Eh? Mr. Jia Lan, are you making some magic props?" The magicians were a little confused, and Captain Kenmet was like a curious kitten, making trouble on the side.


    But Jia Lan was not distracted by this. While he was busy with his work, he casually responded to Captain Kenmet, "These are just some small gadgets that can help us pass through this maze!"


    Jia Lan picked up pieces of silver badges, which flashed with the light of spells such as "Seal of Exploration", "Pointer Spell", and "Ultrasonic Signal Spell". "This ''Exploration Badge'' can make thieves more powerful in the maze and find the right path."


    As he said, Jia Lan picked up the disposable badges that were hastily made and said to Captain Kenmet: "Now, I need a group of thieves to draw a map of this maze!"


    In the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, thieves are naturally indispensable.


    Captain Kenmet quickly summoned a group of thieves, led by the golden thief Hugo and the silver thief Old Jimmy.


    Although most of these thieves were only bronze-level, the task of exploring the way was enough. After all, most of the traps in the Bailong Maze had become ineffective. As long as they were not stupid enough to break into the scrapped traps, their safety was guaranteed.


    Due to time constraints, Jia Lan only made twelve disposable exploration badges, which was far from enough to implement the human wave tactics.


    However, Jia Lan did not intend to rely on manpower to map the maze. He selected twelve experienced thieves from the thieves, including Hugo and Old Jimmy, and distributed the Exploration Seal to them.


    "This badge can temporarily enhance your sense of direction and judgment by two times, helping you to identify the direction in the maze. Moreover, the half-foot-long white light cone emitted from the badge will always point to the exit of the maze."


    Jia Lan showed the silver badge in his hand. Although it looked a little rough, its function was no less impressive. "Do you see this sonic mark above? Press your finger on it and input a little fighting spirit to activate its function and release a silent sound wave..."


    "You need to activate the sonic mark once at every fork and intersection. In addition..."


    After handing the badge to Hugo, Jia Lan took out twelve strange gray thin stone pages and applied "secret marks" on them for positioning.


    "This ''recording stone page'' will display the maze map you have explored in real-time. I will update the map information in your hands at any time."


    After distributing the recording stone pages to the thieves, Jia Lan took out twelve crystal mirrors and said seriously: "This is the ''communication mirror''. I will contact you through them and guide you!"


    Not only the thieves but also the magicians on the side were stunned by the magic props in Jia Lan''s hand. They never thought that exploring the maze of underground ruins could be so simple.


    The magicians were deeply shocked! Whether it is the "positioning gem" that can project virtual maps, the "recording stone page" that can record information, or the "communication mirror" that can communicate over long distances, they are all sure that this is a magic treasure left over from the "Dawn Age", and it is a complete set of "Dawn Treasures"!


    The magicians looked at Jia Lan with envy and jealousy. They were sure that the magician Jia Lan had more than just the Twilight Treasures. He also had at least one piece of space equipment!


    Although the magicians were full of jealousy, the thieves immediately set out to enter the Bailong Labyrinth after getting the new equipment. This time, they no longer had to be cautious.


    With the help of the Seal of Exploration and the Pointer Technique, the thieves acted quickly. Whenever they encountered a crossroads, the "ultrasonic signal technique" they activated would "draw" a clear map area on the virtual map projected by the positioning gem in the form of sound wave vibrations, and the positioning gem would record it in real-time.


    While Jia Lan stared at the virtual map, he remotely directed the thieves to avoid dead ends and detours through the communication mirror.


    The twelve thieves took almost a straight line and quickly passed through this complex three-layer twelve-link maze.


    The route that had taken most of the day to explore was presented to everyone in less than two hours this time!


    When the thieves had just completed half of their exploration, Jia Lan and Captain Kenmet led the magicians and silver warriors to set off.


    This relic is extremely dangerous, and the thieves'' combat power alone may not be enough to cope with the subsequent battles.


    Facts have proved that Jia Lan''s foresight is accurate. When the main combat team was about to catch up with the thieves, the thieves who had gathered at the entrance of the maze encountered a fierce battle!


    There is also a secret door at the entrance of the maze, and behind the broken secret door is a wide and strange "cell".


    There are a large number of dark magic rats gathered here, and the number even exceeds the total number they killed in the rat nest!


    But this is not the most surprising thing. The most surprising thing is that in this "cell", there is a terrible beast imprisoned...

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    This huge "cage" is arranged along the wall of the hall. The metal cages have been baptized by the long years. Although the thick metal pillars that make up the cages have become pitch black, they are still intact without any signs of decay and rust.


    Inside the hall, there are layers of metal cages arranged in the shape of a "Hui".


    The cages, which are three meters long, two meters wide, and three meters high, are not designed to imprison humans, but more like those three-meter-long dark magic rats.


    Most of the cages are closed, and the scattered bones inside verify Jia Lan''s conjecture that these cages made of iron pillars as thick as thighs are indeed used to imprison dark magic rats.


    In the center of the circles of circling cages, on a relatively spacious square, stands an extremely magnificent metal cage, which imprisoned the amazing giant beast.


    Countless dark demon rats gathered around the giant cage because of the intrusion of outsiders like Jia Lan, screaming wildly, as if they were guarding the giant beast.


    The so-called "giant beast" was just a giant rat, but this rat was too big.


    The giant cage was filled with various broken corpses, piles of bones, a large amount of tangled fur and piles of feces, which even overflowed from the gaps in the iron pillars of the giant cage and piled up into a "small mountain".


    Compared with its fat body, the slender limbs of this super giant rat, which was like a meat mountain, were unable to support its bloated body.


    It collapsed on the top of the garbage mountain, and as it squirmed, the rotten corpses and feces would squeeze out pus-like black water and flow everywhere.


    The air was filled with a suffocating and heavy stench. Even if you hold your breath, the stench will linger at the tip of your nose, making it difficult to breathe and causing a strong sense of suffocation.


    The mercenaries felt dizzy just by approaching the secret door leading to the "Rat Cage Hall".


    "Poisonous!?" Captain Kenmet screamed, while struggling to resist the dark demon rats rushing out of the Rat Cage Hall, and shook his head vigorously, trying to make himself more awake.


    But he couldn''t suppress the strong nausea in his chest and abdomen. After swinging a few swords, he couldn''t help vomiting.


    Even his strong physique as a gold-level great swordsman couldn''t resist the invasion of this stench, not to mention other mercenaries of lower levels, almost all of them lost their combat effectiveness.


    Compared with those warriors who are used to "bravely moving forward" when encountering a battle, magicians cherish their bodies more.


    After smelling this unbearable smell from a long distance, they immediately cast a bubble spell that can isolate the smell and toxins for themselves.


    In addition, the distance is far, so they are not affected much.


    As soon as the junior water magician in the team noticed something unusual, he immediately began to cast the Water Bubble Spell for his fellow mercenaries.


    The intermediate water magician waved his wand and chanted to cast a "Water Curtain Spell" on the secret door, isolating the spread of the terrible smell in the Rat Cage Hall.


    With the breathing barrier of the Water Bubble Spell, the mercenaries who gathered in formation and relied on each other gradually recovered their spirits and began to organize a counterattack, gradually gained a foothold, blocked the secret door, and began to encircle and suppress the dark magic rats that rushed out.


    Jia Lan, who was standing near the group of magicians in the back, secretly cast a "Detect Toxicity" and found that although the dirty air in the Rat Cage Hall was not fatally toxic, it carried a weak plague!Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.


    Long-term fierce fighting in this environment and rapid breathing will allow the plague to invade the body.


    Although there is a certain degree of protection from the water-based bubble technique, the people who have just been infected with the plague may still be infected with the plague!


    Fortunately, the plague will not break out immediately, and the mercenaries will not lose their combat effectiveness for the time being.


    Behind the narrow secret door, the dark magic rats surged out like a tide. They seemed to be driven by an invisible force and trampled on each other frantically, as if the secret door had become a huge crater, constantly spewing out these silver-level monsters.


    Although the sixty or seventy silver-level mercenaries led by Kenmet were extremely brave, they still seemed a little powerless in the face of such a huge enemy.


    The encirclement continued to expand, the number of dark magic rats accumulated, and the situation became more and more serious.


    These dark magic rats have the strong physique of silver-level monsters, with strong muscles and tough fur. It is not easy to kill them easily.


    So, the magicians who had been hiding behind the mercenaries finally took action!


    More than a dozen junior magicians chanted something and waved their wands, and fireballs, wind blades, and earth spikes shot out like arrows.


    The earth magician among the five intermediate magicians showed his power. As the obscure spells rang out, several towering earth walls rose!


    However, these earth walls were not used to block the dark magic rats, but cleverly squeezed the exit of the secret door, making the passage of the dark magic rats narrower and narrower.


    Then, the earth walls were arranged in the shape of a "chuan", diverting the surging dark magic rats, greatly reducing the pressure on the mercenaries.


    At this time, the mercenaries only needed to guard the exit of the "chuan"-shaped passage and break them one by one.


    The wood intermediate magician sprinkled a seed, and as he chanted the spell, pieces of twisted vines broke out of the ground.


    These thick and tough vines can not only help the mercenaries bind the dark rats in battle but also drag away the bodies of the dead dark rats to prevent blocking the passage.


    Several other intermediate magicians and the senior fire magician stood calmly at the back of the team and watched the battle. Jia Lan secretly admired that the fighting power of the magicians of this era should not be underestimated!


    They did not bomb the dark rats blindly but formed a battle echelon in an orderly manner.


    After all, the magicians have limited magic power and recover slowly after consumption, so they pay great attention to saving magic power.


    Even those junior magicians will only use magic to suppress the dark rats when the number of dark rats increases and the mercenaries can''t resist them.


    Once the mercenaries were able to stabilize their positions, they would stop and quietly recover their magic power, leaving the main combat tasks to the mercenaries.


    The reason why those intermediate and senior magicians did not take action was not because they relied on their status to be lazy but to preserve their magic power so that they could suppress it at the critical moment.


    What''s more, there were a large number of dark magic rats in the Rat Cage Hall, and there was also a super rat that was so huge that it was terrifying. This size could not be solved by close combat at all, and then it would be the time for them to take action.


    Jia Lan knew that this would be a protracted war of attrition, and maintaining the rhythm of the battle was the wisest choice.


    He once thought that the elemental magicians'' spellcasting ability was simple and crude, but now it seems that they also have their advantages.


    In battle, their magic release speed is fast, the killing power is great, and the magic power recovery is fast.


    Moreover, from their battles, it can be seen that they are not just blindly carrying out magic bombing, but also have unique spellcasting skills.


    In addition, the cooperation between mercenaries and magicians is also quite tacit.


    Although there was no verbal communication between them, they always assisted each other in the battle.


    The water and wood magicians took on the treatment and logistics work, providing timely medical treatment and recovery for the mercenaries.


    As the wood magicians scattered seeds around the battlefield and gave birth to various plants, the filthy and smelly air was gradually purified and became fresh and pleasant.


    The drizzle sprinkled by the "Ganlin Magic" released by the water magicians not only moistened the earth but also penetrated the mercenaries'' bodies, helping them to expel the epidemic virus in their bodies.


    This is the power of the team! Although they have less than a hundred people, facing dozens of times more enemies, they can still gain an advantage with their own combat experience and cooperation skills.


    After watching the battle with great interest for a while, Jia Lan also took out the captured primary magic wand eagerly.


    However, Jia Lan''s actions frightened Old Jimmy, who was guarding him, and he retreated repeatedly, staring at him nervously, fearing that he would cast another small forbidden spell and wipe them all out.


    After noticing Old Jimmy''s nervousness, Jia Lan could only touch his nose awkwardly, after all, he seemed to make some mistakes every time he made a move.


    Jia Lan muttered to defend himself, "I don''t make mistakes every time, don''t be so nervous!" As he said that, he carefully injected a trace of wind elemental substance into the magic wand.


    With a sharp whistle...

 Chapter146

    "Get down!" Old Jimmy shouted to himself, and fell to the ground without hesitation, ignoring the dust on the ground, hugged his head tightly, and curled up in the corner.


    However, the next scene was very different from what he expected.


    Jia Lan did not cast a small forbidden spell, but summoned a ball of wind, which spun at high speed in the harsh wind, gradually stabilizing and making a faint but creepy buzzing sound.


    If you don''t observe this ball of wind, it looks like a hazy green halo.


    But once you perceive it with mental power, you will find that it is made up of countless thin green light sheets. These light sheets are wind blades, vibrating and rotating at an astonishing speed.


    Jia Lan looked at the watermelon-sized windball in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. Although he couldn''t cast spells stably, he was not unable to cast spells.


    With Jia Lan''s current strength, although he cannot fully master the traction casting of the arcane magic and release elemental magic out of thin air, it is still feasible to inject elemental substances into the magic wand spell model to simulate the casting.


    (1 unit of arcane particles ¡Á 100 times the concentration of arcane particles ¡Á 10 times the converted elemental substances ¡Á 10 times the converted natural elemental particles ¡Á 1000 times the traction amplification = 10 million times)


    Since the "arcane traction" magic is too powerful, Jia Lan summoned the "element sample", stripped the elemental substances, decomposed them into the smallest units, and made "magic substances" based on "1 unit of elemental substances" and filled them into the magic wand spell model.


    In this way, it is 1 unit of elemental substances ¡Á 10 times the converted natural elemental particles ¡Á 1000 times the traction amplification = 10,000 elemental units.


    Although it is only equivalent to the elemental units of level 5 magic, it is equally amazing, but it is easier to control than the 1 billion elemental units of level 10 magic.


    To strip elemental substances, one needs extremely strong mental power and spell control ability, but the spirit comes from the soul. For Jia Lan, who has "double souls", mental power seems to be the least lacking.


    And the ability to control spells is not difficult for him who has been engaged in alchemy operations for a long time and is good at micro-control technology.


    Although the wind ball the size of a watermelon in front of him is very powerful and dangerous when approaching, the spell structure is extremely stable under the restraint of Jia Lan''s strong mental power.


    Moreover, Jia Lan did not intend to release this level 5 wind ball directly.


    Before the spell went out of control, he split the level 10 fireball to the extreme at a critical moment, which gave him a new understanding.


    Since splitting the level 10 fireball instantly and forcibly dispersing the elements will cause the "element resonance" to go out of control, what will happen if an equally stable wind element structure is stripped from a stable level 5 wind ball?


    Jia Lan looked at the windball curiously, muttering to himself, completely ignoring the fact that the magicians beside him were already pale with fear.


    He waved his finger gently and scratched the wind ball.


    "Swoosh¡ª¡ª" A piece of wind blade was peeled off, and with a sharp whistle, it disappeared instantly!


    Jia Lan looked around and finally found a bottomless mark less than half a foot above the head of Old Jimmy on the wall of the passage.


    Old Jimmy lay on the ground, tremblingly stretching out a hand, touching the back of his head and neck, tears slid down his cheeks, and sobbed.


    Old Jimmy was very grateful for his measures just now, otherwise he might have been beheaded by this magician boss. He felt very bitter in his heart, thinking that it was too dangerous to take risks with the magician bosses.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    "It seems that I not only have to peel off the wind blade, but also guide it." Jia Lan muttered to himself, and stretched out his hand to scratch the floating and rapidly rotating wind ball in front of him.


    This time, not only did Old Jimmy close his eyes in fear, but even the magicians standing next to Jia Lan also changed their faces and took a step back.


    "Swoosh--"


    This time it was much better, the wind blade drew a beautiful arc and shot into the ground.


    A silver mercenary who was fighting suddenly felt a little cold in his crotch, looked down, and found that a small section of the skirt armor that protected the vitals was missing.


    The mercenary scratched his head in confusion and continued to fight, but he didn''t know that the people behind him were sweating for him.


    Because the wind blade peeled off from the wind ball was not "sheet-shaped" at the moment of peeling, but "arc-shaped" with a certain curvature, it was difficult to control its flying trajectory.


    After many attempts, Jia Lan finally gradually mastered this special casting mode and began to control it with ease.


    Arc-shaped wind blades, drawing large and small arcs, even like boomerangs, spun around and expanded in arcs, occasionally refracting at almost right angles, making it impossible to judge their trajectories.


    Jia Lan was very happy that he had finally mastered a method of simulated spellcasting. Now he no longer had to worry about being killed by his magic!


    However, when he looked up, he found that the magicians around him had already stood behind him, led by the senior fire magician, who erected a blazing "flame shield" in front of him as if facing a great enemy.


    Jia Lan smiled at the senior magician who was looking at him vigilantly, refocused his attention on the windball, and started the battle with great interest.


    A wind blade shot out!


    A green shadow flashed, and a dark magic rat that jumped out on a half-human-high earth wall had a blood flower splashed on its forehead, and its fat body fell!


    The mercenaries in the fierce battle were stunned.


    You know, the dark magic rat is a silver-level magic beast with extremely high magic resistance. Whether it is fighting spirit or magic, the damage caused to it will be offset or weakened to a certain extent.


    Therefore, unless it is a gold warrior like Kenmet who suppresses it with the strength of a gold-level fighting spirit, it is difficult for the silver mercenaries of the same level as the dark magic rat to cause a fatal attack that will kill it with one blow.


    However, this Jialan magician killed a dark magic rat with a wind blade of only level 3 strength, which is simply unbelievable!


    There are wind magicians present. They used level 3 wind blades to suppress the rat group before, but they could only cause weak damage to the dark magic rat and barely break the defense of its tough fur.


    If you want to severely injure the dark magic rat, it is impossible without the strength of level 4 magic, and if you want to kill the dark magic rat instantly, I am afraid that at least level 5 magic is needed!


    But the magic power of a junior magician usually does not exceed 10,000 elemental units. If you want to release level 5 magic, you may have to overdraw your magic power.


    Attack the vital points? It''s not impossible, but the wind blade just hit the dark rat''s strongest skull!


    Moreover, the magicians present are not blind. How could they not feel the strength of the wind blade released by Jia Lan magician? It is only level 3 at most, and even the weird windball is only level 5!


    Jia Lan did not notice their shock. Under his control, the wind blade shot faster and faster, and the whistles were as sharp as knives as if they were going to cut the space into pieces.


    "Puff! Puff!" With crisp sounds, the dark rats that were entangled with the mercenaries and those that had just jumped out of the secret door were instantly knocked to the ground by a light blue wind blade!


    For a moment, the dark rats on the battlefield were instantly cleared. Many mercenaries could not stop their offensive and stopped in a daze after slashing at the rat corpses.


    And the rat corpses at the secret door blocked the exit tightly!


    "Swoosh--"


    The last wind blade nailed a dark rat that was struggling to squeeze its head out of the pile of corpses to the pile of corpses, completely blocking the secret door.


    Jia Lan rubbed his fingers, frowned and fell into deep thought.


    Several intermediate magicians looked at each other, especially the wind magician, who seemed to want to ask questions, but was a little embarrassed. After all, this was directly asking about other people''s secrets.


    On the contrary, the fire senior magician''s eyes suddenly lit up after thinking for a long time, as if he had thought of a key.


    The mercenaries were not as entangled as the magicians. Their magicians showed their power and instantly wiped out a wave of dark magic rats, which made them cheer.


    However, the battle did not end there. The pile of rat corpses blocking the secret door was pushed and shaky by the dark magic rats behind.


    Taking advantage of this short interval between battles, the mercenaries quickly rushed up and dragged the piled rat corpses aside to clear the passage again.


    These are the corpses of silver-level monsters, and the materials obtained after dissection are very valuable.


    There were at least a hundred rat carcasses piled up here. Even at the lowest price, they could be sold for tens of thousands of gold talans! Even for the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, it was a huge profit.


    As the piles of rat corpses were dragged away, the rats behind rushed out of the secret door again.


    But this time, after thinking for a moment, Jia Lan did not rush to attack. Instead, after releasing a level 5 windball, he released the second, third, and fourth...

 Chapter147

    After releasing four level 5 windballs around him, Jia Lan was keenly aware that this was the limit of his current magic control ability. If he released more, it would be difficult to restrain the flow of elements.


    However, as his rank increases, his magic control ability will surely be improved, and he may find other ways to control multiple magics at the same time.


    Although the speed of simulated casting is as slow as a snail, it can at least avoid the gap between castings and give the enemy no chance to take advantage.


    The magicians were shocked when they saw Jia Lan casting. Four level 5 wind balls slowly rotated around him like a guardian angel, continuously shooting out accurate and deadly wind blades, killing the dark rats swarming out of the secret door one by one.


    For the intermediate magicians present, especially the senior fire magician, level 5 magic may not be a big deal, but what shocked him was that Jia Lan could control four magics at the same time, not just one!


    Jia Lan could suppress the released wind ball steadily, keep it from exploding for a long time, split the 3rd-level magic of the same kind from the 5th-level magic, and even make the low-level magic have the lethality of high-level magic... These casting skills are simply unheard of!


    Although Jia Lan has never shown the ability to exceed that of a junior magician, as Kenmet said, he can release a small forbidden spell, and no magician present dares to underestimate Jia Lan!


    As the control of the four wind balls becomes more and more proficient, Jia Lan''s attack speed becomes more and more rapid.


    The wind blades that shot out almost gathered into a storm. A wind ball containing hundreds of level 3 wind blades can be emptied in just a breath!


    However, there are four windballs around Jia Lan at the same time. Even if one is consumed, it will be replenished immediately, forming a perfect cycle.


    This endless magic attack method makes all the magicians dumbfounded.


    Because even if we don''t consider the high lethality of this level 3 wind blade, how many magicians can withstand this overwhelming magic bombardment?


    Even if a junior magician masters this spellcasting technique, he can completely kill a senior magician who is two levels higher than himself before his magic power is exhausted.


    Cross-level challenges have become possible!


    The impact speed of the dark magic rats can''t even catch up with Jia Lan''s attack speed.


    A large number of rat corpses piled up at the entrance of the secret door. Several wood magicians had to give birth to more vines and quickly drag the rat corpses away to avoid blocking the dark magic rats'' way to death.


    After killing hundreds of huge dark magic rats, these stupid guys finally stopped rushing out to die, but hid behind the secret door, screaming desperately.


    Jia Lan threw four unfired windballs out of the secret door at once with unsatisfied intention.


    After hearing a burst of dense whistles and the "puff! puff! puff!" sound of wind blades hitting flesh, the outside of the secret door instantly became quiet!


    The mercenaries looked pale because, from the perspective of their close combat, there were at least hundreds of rat corpses lying all over the ground outside the secret door.


    Jia Lan alone killed almost all the dark magic rats in the rat cage hall!


    This old magician is simply the most brutal butcher in the world!


    Seeing that the dark magic rats dared not rush in again, of course, even if they rushed in, their remaining number would not be enough to threaten the mercenaries.


    Captain Kenmet quickly ordered a thief to take a stone page recording the route of the maze and return to the mushroom cave to gather people to transport the piles of rat corpses.


    He led the remaining sixty or seventy silver mercenaries to rush into the rat cage hall again to eliminate the remaining dark magic rats.Stolen story; please report.


    Except for the wood magicians who followed and were responsible for producing plants to purify the filthy air, the other personnel were temporarily left behind the secret door to rest.


    After whispering to each other, several middle and senior magicians recommended the senior fire magician to come over and carefully asked Jia Lan about the magical spellcasting technique just now.


    "Well, you asked how to make the level 3 wind blade have the damage of the level 5 wind blade? Of course, it''s the speed. Ordinary wind blades only fly in a directional straight line, and the flying speed is slow. The destructive power it can cause is naturally limited to the wind element of the wind blade itself..."


    Jia Lan, who has always been helpful, did not have the idea of ??hiding his secrets. He simply explained to them: "The reason why the wind ball is so powerful is that in addition to being able to release multiple wind blades at the same time to cause group damage attacks, it is also because of the acceleration brought by its rotation."


    A group of magicians listened to Jia Lan''s narration, and a bitter smile appeared on their faces.


    Jia Lan''s seemingly careless words were an unattainable realm for them.


    Just being able to suppress the delayed burst of released magic or separating low-level magic from high-level magic, these two skills are enough to make them dumbfounded, because these technologies are unheard of.


    In this era, the moment magicians release magic, the spell ends, and they cannot intervene in any way after the magic is released.


    However, for Jia Lan, the former civilization''s arcane magician, controlling the spell form to achieve the goal is as easy as pie.


    The gap between the two is simply a world of difference. Therefore, although Jia Lan''s words confused them, they still couldn''t help but feel an inexplicable shock.


    "Excuse me, what realm have you reached now?" A senior fire magician asked cautiously.


    This has always been an unsolved mystery for these magicians, because, in this era, those who can break through the level of high-level magicians and reach the level of great magicians are already rare, not to mention the higher-level "magic guides" and "great magic guides".


    As for the realm of magic mentor and grand magic mentor, it only exists in legends and is at the strategic level of each country.


    Take the University of Como for example. The reason why it has such a transcendent status is not only because it has a large number of magicians and possesses a strong deterrent power, but also because the deans of the various branches that make up the "Faculty of Administration" are all platinum-level powerhouses who have reached the realm of "magic mentors."


    The dean of Komo University is one of the few purple-gold-level "great magic mentors" in the seven continents of the entire Star Continent!


    At that level, secular laws and military force can no longer pose a threat to them.


    Once they are angered, the legendary "one person destroys a country" is not impossible.


    A forbidden spell, whether it is the "Heavenly Fire Burning the City" of the Fire Element, the "Purifying Flood" of the Water Element, the "Earth Sinking" of the Earth Element, the "Void Storm" of the Wind Element, or the "Life Withering" of the Wood Element, is enough to wipe a city off the map.


    However, the magic ability displayed by Jia Lan has exceeded their understanding.


    In their opinion, being able to suppress elemental activity with magical abilities is something that only a platinum magic instructor can do.


    But looking at Jia Lan''s young appearance, they really can''t believe that this young man who looks no more than 20 years old is a mage.


    "What realm? Uh... I said I am a freshman at Komo University now, do you believe it?" Jia Lan pointed to the light blue magic robe on his body and smiled.


    But in theory, his "magic" strength has reached the level of a 9th-level apprentice magician, infinitely close to the level of a primary magician.


    The magicians looked at each other with an expression of disbelief.


    They really couldn''t imagine that an apprentice magician with no more than 1,000 equivalent elements in his body could release a level 5 magic with an element equivalent of 10,000 units.


    Can an apprentice magician restrain elements? Can he release level 5 magic one after another without even taking a breath?


    Seeing that the magicians didn''t believe him, Jia Lan shrugged helplessly, but he couldn''t explain to them. He couldn''t tell them that he was only equivalent to an apprentice magician, and was still a little bit away from being a junior magician equivalent to a "level 1 spellcaster" in his original era, right?


    "Okay, I admit that my situation is indeed a bit "special"..." Jia Lan admitted helplessly, "After all, my teacher never took me to the Magic Association for certification. In name, I am indeed just a magic apprentice."


    The magicians suddenly realized that the rating and certification in the Magic Association were just to obtain the corresponding magician identity, and it did not represent their real strength.


    Some low-key magicians who are not interested in the identity and benefits after the certification and rating of the magic institution may indeed have no level mark of any magic institution on them.


    And there is nothing wrong with Jia Lan calling himself a magic apprentice.


    Seeing that Jia Lan was unwilling to say more, the magicians did not continue to ask, but showed an expression of "I understand".


    Because they learned from the head of the Kenmet Mercenary Group that this magician Jia Lan did come from a mysterious magic organization.


    Although they did not know the detailed magic level of Jia Lan, it did not prevent the magicians from becoming respectful to him.


    Especially after Jia Lan mentioned his "teacher", they were even more awed.


    Think about it, if a "magic apprentice" has such powerful magic power, then what level of person should his "teacher" be? A platinum magic mentor? A purple gold great magic mentor? Or the legendary "star sage"?


    And how powerful would a mysterious magic organization with purple gold-level strongmen be? These questions made the magicians full of awe for Jia Lan.

 Chapter148

    In the back, Jia Lan and his companions were immersed in academic discussions, while the front was in flames. The mercenaries were pressed by the dark rats step by step, and finally had to retreat to the secret door for refuge.


    The magic that Jia Lan had just cast poured down like a rainstorm, almost wiping out all the dark rats in the rat cage hall.


    Kenmet and his five gold warriors and sixty or seventy silver warriors should have been more than enough to face the remaining dozens of dark rats.


    However, when Jia Lan and his companions arrived at the entrance of the secret door, they were surprised to find that the number of dark rats, which had been greatly reduced, had increased instead of decreased!


    How is this possible? Could it be that the rats hurried back after noticing the attack on their nest from other places?


    Soon, Jia Lan and his companions found the answer.


    The super giant rat imprisoned in the center of the rat cage hall, although too fat to move, could summon groups of dark rats out of thin air through roars, at least hundreds of them each time!


    Giant rat with summoning ability?


    Jia Lan was shocked. This is a special ability that only devils and demons have. He carefully looked at the giant rat with dirty fur and almost invisible color, and exclaimed: "Dark Mocha Rat Queen!?"


    "What?" A high-level fire magician beside Jia Lan was busy casting magic to help the mercenaries resist the attack of the rats. He didn''t hear Jia Lan''s words and asked instinctively.


    "Look at its eyes! This is a Dark Mocha rat queen!" Jia Lan pointed at the fat rat queen that was violently colliding in the metal cage. Everyone noticed that this huge rat was a blind rat!


    Of course, the "blind rat" here does not mean that its eyes are blind, but that it does not have eyes at all.


    There are only two deep depressions in the original eye sockets, and it is obvious that the eyes have degenerated.


    Eye degeneration usually occurs in biological groups living deep underground.


    Although this place is also underground, it is quite close to the surface. The eyes of other giant rats and dark demon rats have not degenerated, which means that this is not the native place of this super giant rat queen.


    Coincidentally, Jia Lan is not unfamiliar with this blind rat. Although he has not seen it with his own eyes, he has seen the hand-drawn illustrations of the Dark Mocha Rat in the book "Underworld Biological Atlas".


    The Dark Mocha Rat lives in the deep underground called the "Underworld". In their infancy, they are not much different from ordinary rats except for their huge size.


    However, as they grow, their size will become larger and larger, bone spurs and bone armor will grow on their bodies, and their eyes will gradually degenerate. They can only hunt food by smell and hearing.


    The group morphology of the Dark Mocha Rat is very similar to that of ants and bees. The entire group is the offspring of the Rat Queen, and all of them are male individuals without reproductive ability.


    The rat queen cannot hunt on her own due to her large size and needs to rely on her offspring to collect food for her. Her main task is to eat and reproduce desperately to continuously expand the population.


    It is said that a population of dark mocha rats can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of individuals, and the only thing that can limit the population is the source of food.


    The more abundant the food, the larger the population. When food is scarce, the rat queen will even feed on her offspring to prolong her life until food is sufficient again.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.


    When the Rat Queen is in danger, she will directly call on her direct descendants to come and protect herself, which is the summoning phenomenon seen by Jia Lan and others.


    This Rat Queen imprisoned in the metal cage is not the first generation of the Dark Mocha Rat Queen.


    After all, these closed underground ruins have been unattended for thousands of years. During this long period of time, the Dark Mocha Rat that left the "Underworld" may have mutated.


    Therefore, Jia Lan did not find the group of Rat Kings responsible for protecting the Rat Queen and reproducing offspring, and the group of "Soldier Rat" responsible for protecting the entire tribe around the Rat Queen.


    This reduces the danger of this Dark Mocha Rat to a certain extent.


    In the dark ruins of the Dragon Worship Temple, the first generation of Rat Queen seems to have been carefully imprisoned in the metal cage by the Dragon Worshipers.


    However, when the first generation of Rat Queen died, her successor not only did not escape from the cage but regarded it as a shelter and passed it down from generation to generation.


    Therefore, the newborn rat queens regarded the metal cage that imprisoned them as their nest and throne with peace of mind, enjoying the offerings of their offspring.


    Jia Lan wondered why the dragon worshippers would imprison a mocha rat queen from the dark region here. Was it to conduct some evil magic experiments and needed a large number of experimental subjects?


    This seems to be the most reasonable explanation. After all, the Black Mocha Rat King has an extremely amazing reproductive capacity. It only takes a moment to reproduce a huge population. With a single order from the Rat King, he summoned nearly a thousand Black Mocha rats.


    "Damn it! Are we breaking into a rat nest?" Kenmet shouted.


    The rats rushed over like a tide, and the position they had finally captured was instantly recaptured, and even the retreat was surrounded by dark magic rats.


    The dark mocha rats have been breeding in this relic for countless years, and the underground is almost opened up by them!


    The remains of the Dragon Worship Temple provided a sufficient source of food for the Dark Mocha Rat. The Rat Queen had enough direct descendants to summon, and even planned to fill the Rat Cage Hall with them!


    Everyone was fighting desperately, and the magicians dared not hold back. Once the rats broke through the mercenary defense line, these magicians who were powerless in close combat would only become food for the rats.


    Jia Lan also cooperated with the magicians to release the powerful "chain wind balls" to strangle a large number of Mocha rats who lost their minds because the safety of the Rat Queen was threatened.


    However, the rats seemed endless and continued to pour out from the Rat Queen. Even if everyone had tried their best, the rat corpses were still piled up in the attack range.


    If this goes on, the mercenaries will soon be unable to resist, and the magicians will also run out of magic power. By then, even if Jia Lan''s chain wind balls are strong, they will not be able to eliminate all the Mocha rats alone.


    Jia Lan frowned, and he realized that the trouble seemed to be more than just the rats.


    The rats'' trampling was rapidly destroying the plants that the wood magicians had grown. These plants were supposed to purify the polluted air and the virus toxins.


    Moreover, the Rat Queen was still spewing out black mist. Although Jia Lan didn''t know what the black mist was, it was not a good thing!


    While quickly releasing the windball, Jia Lan said to the magicians around him: "This won''t work! Can you attack the Rat Queen?"


    The senior fire magician took a look at the giant metal cage in the center of the hall and shook his head: "The distance is too far!"


    This rectangular rat cage hall is about 250 meters long and 200 meters wide, with hundreds of thick stone pillars supporting the dome.


    The secret door where they were located was in a corner of the hall, more than 100 meters away from the giant metal cage in the center of the hall, and there were five or six layers of cage arrays in between. Even the magic released by the senior magician could not reach such a long distance.


    "In that case..." Jia Lan looked up at the intermediate wind magician above him, who was using the wind flying technique to float in the air and attack the rats.


    Jia Lan took out a bottle of "levitation potion" and drank it. His body lightened slightly and floated up from the ground.


    "Levitation potion" is not a "flying potion". It can only make people float at a vertical height of ten meters above the ground.


    After all, Jia Lan is only a high-level mage apprentice and cannot cast flying spells. His floating action did not surprise the wind magician in the air. He just nodded to him and continued to throw windballs at the rats on the ground.


    "Mage Reka, can you take me to a higher altitude? It would be best if you can take me to the vicinity of the Rat Queen?" Jia Lan pointed to the center of the hall.


    Although he can float, he cannot avoid the attack of the rats at a height of ten meters.


    The Mocha Rat''s jumping ability is amazing, especially when the ground is covered with three-meter-high rat cages. With a little leverage, it can pounce from the air.


    Magician Rika looked at Jia Lan in surprise.


    Jia Lan shrugged, unable to explain why he could float but couldn''t "fly" to the Rat Queen. He could only summon a huge fireball and threw it at the rats, blowing up a large group of Mocha Rat Queens. He said to Lika with an innocent look, "I said I''m not a wind magician, do you believe me?"


    Magician Rika was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that this magician Jia Lan seemed to be not limited to the wind system!

 Chapter149

    Jia Lan was pulled by an invisible force of wind element and flying in the air, but his heart was full of depression.


    In the eyes of the mercenaries and magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, this magician with a mysterious background seemed to be "omnipotent" and might even be regarded as the legendary "all-round magician".


    However, only Jia Lan himself knew that his true strength was only at the level of "high-level magician apprentice", not even a real "arcane spellcaster".


    Despite this, Jia Lan''s strength should not be underestimated.


    In the twenty years he spent in the Kolanburg Library, he accumulated a lot of knowledge and gained rich practical experience under the guidance of a 13th-level legendary teacher, which made him proficient in all fields.


    In addition, due to the changes of the times, the concentration of arcane energy and the density of elements in the space have undergone tremendous changes. These changes have made Jia Lan, who originally had mediocre combat ability, a "strong man" in the eyes of others.


    However, the gap in rank cannot be made up by profound knowledge alone.


    In the pre-civilization era, "caster" is a general term covering many factions such as "arcane, secret, trickster, sorcerer, spirit, shadow" and so on.


    Whether it is a "mage" or a "warlock", their spellcasting principles are inseparable from the roots of arcane magic, which involves a problem of "casting level".


    The so-called "casting level" does not refer to the level of magic strength mastered by modern magicians, but to the level of "spell structure".


    In the arcane magic system, spells are composed of different "rune components".


    The higher the level of the spell, the more rune components there are and the more complex the structure.


    In addition, on top of the planar components of the spell structure, there are more complex "multi-dimensional" and "phase" issues.


    People often say "1st-level spells, 2nd-level spells", which actually refers to the inclusion of several-dimensional structures in the spell structure.


    Those containing "one element" are called "one element spells" or "one-ring spells", and those containing "two elements" are called "two element spells" or "two-ring spells".


    If "phase" is involved, there will be complex spell structures such as "one element single phase spells", "one element two phase spells", and "two element three phase spells".


    These details are too complicated, so let''s not talk about them for now.


    With Jia Lan''s strength, he could only construct "0-level spells", that is, "zero-ring spells" or "zero element spells" in the pre-civilization era.


    To put it bluntly, it is an apprentice spell, and the highest one only involves a small amount of "one element spells".


    It just so happens that most of the 0-level spells are "single component spells", which can only show basic spell effects when released.


    Therefore, although Jia Lan has extensive knowledge of the arcane, he cannot release spells with complex effects.


    For example, "Flying" is a "three-element three-phase" spell in the arcane magic. The complexity of its spell structure is beyond the control of Jia Lan at present.


    Even if he knows the detailed spells and gestures of "Flying", it will be useless because he has not personally constructed the spell model of "Flying", so he cannot release this spell.


    In this regard, Jia Lan feels that the magicians of the current era are simpler and more direct. They do not consider any structure or phase, but simply manipulate the elements to achieve their goals.


    Of course, Jia Lan also knows that the "Wind Flying" of the wind magician is fundamentally different from the "Flying" he knows.


    But even so, the flying height and speed of "Wind Flying" make him feel helpless. It is better to say that it is floating in the sky in a suspended state, carried by the air flow.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    As far as he knows, even the most basic flying technique can reach an altitude of 200 meters and a speed of 20 meters per second.


    That''s roughly equivalent to more than 70 kilometers per hour.


    And the advanced flying technique can reach an altitude of 1,000 meters and a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour.


    It floated slowly in the sky, no more than twenty meters high, and its speed was so slow that it was a "living target"!


    Okay, but in general, it is at least flying.


    But in this situation, Jia Lan has no choice but to grit his teeth and concentrate on summoning four wind balls to ruthlessly shoot down the jumping rats below.


    The impulse in Jia Lan''s heart to get close to the rat queen is undoubtedly a gamble.


    The rats that originally besieged the mercenaries were attracted by them at this moment, and gathered under their feet into a surging "rat wave".


    Looking at the huge rats, scrambling to step on their companions and rushing into the air, the spectacular scene was a little inspiring, but it was stressful for the two magicians who acted as "live targets" in the air.


    When Jia Lan heard the "crackling" sound of a dark magic rat biting its fangs less than two or three meters away from his feet, his original plan to capture the king first and directly eliminate the rat queen was disrupted. He had to wave his wand and planned to teach these minions a lesson.


    Jia Lan originally planned to launch a "level 10 out-of-control fireball" at the "rat wave", but just when he injected the fire element into the magic wand, he felt his body suddenly sinking, and the exclamation of Rika, an intermediate wind magician, came to his ears.


    Jia Lan quickly dispersed the gathered fire elements, sweating coldly. He was too close to the magician Reka who was maintaining the Wind Flying Technique, and his simulated magic had too strong a pulling effect on the elemental particles in the environment, which could easily affect the stability of other elemental magic.


    Jia Lan was safe and sound when he released the wind ball, but when he switched to fire magic, he almost destroyed Reka''s Wind Flying Technique.


    As two magicians, they would definitely not die from falling, but the problem was that there was not only a hard ground below, but also a pile of dark magic rats piled up like a mountain. If they fell, they would probably be gnawed to pieces before they felt any pain.


    Since he couldn''t use explosive fire magic, and the damage of wind magic to the rat wave was negligible, Jia Lan had to find another way. He took out bottles of pottery from his pocket and smashed them hard at the rat wave, throwing dozens of bottles!


    Magician Reka, who had just been startled, asked in shock: "Magician Jialan, what did you throw down?"


    "Uh, nothing, a kind of alchemical oil..."


    When Jialan saw that the rolling pile of rats was almost stained by the black oil flowing out of the broken pottery jar, he took out a black stone the size of an egg and reminded: "Magician Reka, hold the wind flying technique steady, there may be air flow impact..." As he said, he suddenly smashed the black stone in his hand down.


    With a loud bang and a flash of fire, the pile of rats on the ground was instantly covered by a spreading flame!


    The dark demon rats covered in flames screamed and fled in all directions. The originally piled-up waves of rats quickly disintegrated. In the blink of an eye, the dark demon rats on fire were all over the rat cage hall!


    The dark demon rats with black oil on their fur were burned by the flames and lost their minds. They rushed and bit each other frantically without distinguishing between friend and foe. Soon, they rubbed the kerosene on their bodies onto other innocent dark demon rats. One spread to ten, ten spread to a hundred...


    Everyone stared at the chaotic scene in front of them in amazement. Even Jia Lan himself was stunned. This was something he had never expected. A short sentence emerged in his mind: "A single spark can start a prairie fire!"


    The rat group in the rat cage hall was too dense. The number of dark demon rats summoned by the rat queen had exceeded two thousand, and they were almost crowded together.


    At this moment, nearly a hundred dark demon rats covered in black oil were running around with blazing flames, and soon ignited the thick fur of other dark demon rats.


    The dark demon rats crowded together were like a group of furry tinders. Soon, the whole hall was filled with rats with flames all over their bodies, jumping and screaming wildly, like a pot of boiling water!


    Jia Lan''s face changed when he reacted, and he said, "Not good! Let''s retreat!"


    Magician Rika also understood what Jia Lan meant, and desperately urged the wind flying technique to fly towards the secret door, and had to keep lowering the altitude... The billowing black smoke had begun to cover the dome of the rat cage hall.


    As soon as he fell back into the defensive formation formed by the mercenaries, Jia Lan waved his magic wand, and a thick earth spike smashed the earth wall that the earth magician had used to seal the secret door. He also threw a fireball, which blew away the rats behind the door and shouted, "Run!"


    Jia Lan rushed out of the rat cage hall first, with the wind ball clearing the way, and the mercenaries who also knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time followed him and quickly withdrew from the secret door.


    Fortunately, the number of dark demon rats that went around from other rat holes to the back of the crowd was not large, and they were quickly slaughtered in front of the mercenaries and magicians who had already started to fight desperately.


    When everyone evacuated the secret door, the earth magicians sealed the secret door again with an earth wall.


    The thieves scattered and looked for nearby smoke, and the earth magicians sealed them one by one!


    After seeing everyone escape safely, Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked up, he found that everyone was looking at him straight, and he was immediately embarrassed. This was the third time he almost killed his own people, right?


    Jia Lan was also very frustrated. Is this the result of lack of experience? No wonder those adventurers in the pre-civilization would jokingly call his kind of magicians "academic magicians", saying that they have rich theoretical knowledge but lack practical experience...

 Chapter150

    Deep in the Rat Cage Hall, the flames raged like a mad dragon for a whole day, releasing suffocating heat waves and indescribable stench, forcing the brave mercenaries to temporarily retreat to the Castle of Doom to take turns to breathe and rest.


    When the mercenaries mustered up their courage and pushed open the heavy secret door again, the wind mage displayed his superb skills, using the breeze as a blade to cut through the smoke and hot shackles.


    Even those experienced mercenaries, after seeing the tragic scene in the Rat Cage Hall, couldn''t help but lean on the wall and vomit.


    The scene was no longer "corpses everywhere" but like a purgatory on earth.


    In every corner of the hall, there were piles of charred rat corpses, like small hills.


    And in the center of the hall, the huge metal cage that once imprisoned countless dark demon rats had long disappeared, replaced by a huge mountain of charred corpses, almost touching the dome of the hall that was more than 20 meters high.


    The bones fell like dead leaves, and turned into dust with a light touch.


    The number of these rat corpses was far more than two thousand, and it was conservatively estimated that there were tens of thousands of them.


    Especially the mountain of corpses, which witnessed the desperate struggle of the rat queen in the flames. It summoned its offspring to protect itself, but it didn''t know that this was the death warrant that pushed them into the abyss.


    The earth mages used their skills to block the forks and dead ends in the Bailong Labyrinth with earth walls, leaving only one way to survive to prevent accidental entry.


    Afterwards, the mercenaries led the hired workers to transport the charred rat corpses out of the rat cage hall one by one.


    Kenmet looked at the busy figures of the hired workers, and his heart was full of reluctance.


    Tens of thousands of silver-level monster corpses! If they could be preserved, even the decomposed materials would be enough to exchange for millions of wealth.


    However, all this was destroyed by Jia Lan''s fire.


    The resentful look of Captain Kenmet made Jia Lan feel guilty, but fortunately, it was not a complete failure. The tens of thousands of silver-level earth magic crystals were enough to comfort the injured heart of Captain Kenmet.


    At that moment of life and death, it was a blessing to be able to save his life. Even if there were some twists and turns in the process, the final result was still perfect. Tens of thousands of dark magic rats were wiped out without bloodshed.


    The biggest contributor, in addition to Jia Lan''s fire, was the stupid Dark Mocha Rat Queen. In order to protect herself, it summoned almost all the descendants of the ruins here.


    Now, there is probably no trace of dark magic rats in the ruins of the Dragon Worship Temple.


    Jia Lan strolled in the rat cage hall, which was still warm, and pondered the source of the power of the fire.


    On the ground of the hall, there are piles of dried bones, rotten fur, piles of dry rat feces and various strange garbage accumulated over thousands of years.


    These natural fuels, plus the corpse oil from the uneaten prey bodies, have already soaked the ground.


    Once ignited, it will be a raging fire that is difficult to extinguish.


    And this complete Dragon Worship Temple, with its perfect ventilation system, makes the entire hall a natural crematorium.


    Cleaning this hall will be a difficult task, and even if it is completed, it will be difficult to use it for other purposes.


    The smell was so strong that it was deadly even after being burned by fire.


    When the hired workers entered and exited, they had to rely on the water blister spell cast by the water mage to protect themselves.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Jia Lan gently pulled out the long combat dagger given to him by Old Jimmy and tapped the blackened rat cage pillars, making a pleasant metal collision sound.


    He glanced at the busy mercenaries, and suddenly swung the knife heavily on the metal pillar, but only scraped off a layer of dirt, revealing the pillar''s dark blue essence.


    Jia Lan stretched out his fingers and touched the dark blue metal, and a chill came over him, making him think.


    After thinking for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked around the rat cage hall that was still shrouded in smoke and scorching, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.


    The value of a magic crystal of a Warcraft is almost half the value of the flesh and blood of the Warcraft.


    An unexpected fire devoured tens of thousands of dark magic rats, equivalent to destroying half of the value of the Dark Mocha Rat.


    However, after the fire, the value of the magic crystals found easily exceeded the million gold Taran mark.


    According to the rules of the mercenary world''s spoils distribution, most of these Dark Mocha Rat were hunted by Jia Lan, and the spoils naturally belonged to Jia Lan.


    However, Jia Lan generously gave these magic crystals to the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, both as a reward for the mercenaries'' attendance and as the cost of hiring them to clean up the underground ruins.


    In the task list of the mercenary guild, a task of 10,000 gold Taran is already gold-level, 100,000 gold Taran is platinum-level, and a task of 1 million gold Taran is purple-gold-level, enough to support the expenses of a city-state war.


    Although the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group is one of the best in Kelan City, most of the tasks they receive on a daily basis are no more than gold-level of about 10,000 gold Taran.


    Missions worth more than one million gold talans are rare, not to mention in Coran City, even in Zilargo County, or even in the seven continents of the entire Pan-Star Continent. Not every mercenary group has the opportunity to get involved.


    Moreover, even if a purple gold mission is received, the mission process must be tragic, with personnel input, time consumption, supply consumption, and casualties compensation, all of which are not small expenses. It is not as "easy and comfortable" as this time to harvest spoils worth more than one million.


    Even better, this is a private commission that has not been approved by the Mercenary Guild, and there is no need to pay a 10£¥ commission to the Mercenary Guild.


    Therefore, although Captain Kenmet had some complaints about Jia Lan burning half of the spoils, he still smiled from ear to ear.


    "Cleaning" is different from "repairing" and does not require too much material cost. This mission was originally intended by his uncle, President Clark, to provide free support to Jia Lan, a partner.


    However, Jia Lan not only generously provided a large amount of high-quality potions, but also achieved zero casualties, which made Kenmet very satisfied.


    Kenmet himself felt embarrassed to get so many spoils for nothing, so he led his mercenaries to work extra hard. Even the magicians who were usually treated as treasures were pulled in to work as construction workers to help Jialan''s magicians repair the areas that had been opened up in the ruins.


    The always arrogant magicians were very cooperative this time. Upon hearing Kenmet''s request, they started working without saying a word. Even the senior fire magician worked hard and helped burn the mushroom jungle with fire spells.


    As for the manpower for repairing the underground city, Kenmet was even more willing to invest. He spent a lot of Jintalan and sent people to hire a large number of hired workers from Kelan City and surrounding towns.


    How many copper dandings are the wages of these hard-working hired workers worth? With more manpower, the cleaning speed will naturally be faster.


    After the rat cage hall was roughly cleaned up and entered, Hugo led a group of elite thieves to continue to investigate the ruins.


    During the cleaning process, the hired workers found that the rat queen did not die under such a fierce flame!


    From the traces, the rat queen used her almost degraded slender claws to dig a deep pit in the garbage dump under the metal cage and drilled into it, and then summoned a large number of offspring to form a layer of heat insulation protection to bury herself, and she miraculously survived.


    A wood magician sprinkled a large number of "corpse-binding vine" seeds on the huge garbage dump, and then gave birth to a large area of ??thick vines, controlling them to quickly devour the terrible garbage dump.


    For humans, the filthy environment in the Rat Cage Hall is difficult to approach, but for plants, this is the most fertile breeding ground.


    The habit of the corpse-binding vine is to wrap the prey with vines into rattan balls when hunting and slowly enjoy it.


    Using this habit of the corpse-binding vine, a large number of corpses of different degrees of decay in the Rat Cage Hall and the layers of rat feces accumulated over the years were collected by the vines of the corpse-binding vine and wrapped into rattan balls of various sizes.


    The hired workers only need to roll these rattan balls out.


    After cleaning up the garbage and feces in the metal cage, the water magicians summoned water balls to wash it vigorously.


    The wood magician who controlled the corpse-binding vine then used the vines to pull the half-cooked rat queen out of the cave it dug.


    What surprised everyone was that there was a circular shaft with a diameter of about two meters in the center of the giant metal cage. It was dark and led to nowhere.


    The Queen of Rat probably intended to dig this shaft to escape, but she got stuck because her body was too fat. In desperation, she could only summon a large number of offspring to act as a heat insulation layer.


    It was this shaft that saved the Queen of Rat from being burned to death by the flames, nor from suffocation due to smoke and lack of oxygen.


    The Queen of Rat''s survival consciousness surprised Jia Lan. Nowadays, even rats know to leave an "escape passage" for themselves!

 Chapter151

    The mercenaries were planning to get rid of the fat rat queen.


    Although its combat power was mediocre, as the core of the entire tribe, it had at least gold-level strength. Once it succeeded, digging out a gold-level earth magic crystal would be a sure thing.


    However, when Captain Kenmet swung his two-handed sword and was about to take action, he was stopped by Jia Lan. Jia Lan smiled and asked Captain Kenmet: "Do you want a precious gold magic crystal or an endless supply of silver magic crystals?"


    Captain Kenmet was stunned when he heard this.


    Magic crystals are rare resources. Depending on the type and rarity, the market price naturally varies greatly. Among the five magic crystals of "wind, fire, water, earth, and wood", the earth magic crystal may be the most inconspicuous and the price is relatively affordable.


    The black iron grade earth magic crystal is only five silver jims, and the bronze grade is only five gold talans. Even the gold grade earth magic crystal can only be sold for five hundred gold talans at most. It depends on whether there are earth magicians who need it urgently to sell it at a good price.


    After all, the higher the grade of magic crystal, the rarer it is. No one would be stupid enough to sell it at the market price set by those profiteers.


    Although five hundred gold talans are not a small number, ten silver grade earth magic crystals can also be sold at the same price.


    The Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group has just harvested tens of thousands of silver earth magic crystals, so naturally they don¡¯t look down on a mere gold magic crystal.


    However, Jia Lan¡¯s words made people wonder, can we harvest more silver magic crystals by not killing the rat queen?


    ¡°Mr. Jia Lan, do you mean¡­ that you plan to tame this rat queen?¡± Captain Kenmet scratched his head and asked in confusion.


    "Taming? No, it''s not necessary." Jia Lan smiled and shook his head, pointing to the cage array in the rat cage hall, "In fact, thousands of years ago, the Dragon Worship Cult had already started to raise Dark Mocha rats, which you call ''Dark Demon Rats''. These cages are prepared for them."


    A fire destroyed the huge rat colony that the Rat Queen had spent countless years breeding, but the sacrifice of the rat colony not only cleared the rat infestation in the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult temple for Jia Lan and his team, but also indirectly saved the life of the Rat Queen.


    For the Dark Mocha rats, a dark creature group originating from the Underdark, as long as the Rat Queen is still there, the group is not extinct.


    This Rat Queen, who has been kept in captivity by the Dragon Worship Cult for countless generations, although most of the Dark Mocha rats'' special abilities have degenerated, the instinct to reproduce the group still exists.


    Feeling that there was no danger outside, the dying Rat Queen, despite her weak state, struggled to breed the next generation of Rat Queens before wailing and dying.


    Its corpse, like the previous generations of Rat Queens, will remain fresh under the protection of some residual energy and become food for the new generation of Rat Queens as they grow.


    However, the mercenaries who did not understand these ecosystems naturally did not know that the Rat Queen had given birth to a successor.


    Under Jia Lan''s command, they took out ropes and turned over the "meat mountain"-like corpse of the rat queen, revealing its fat belly.


    Jia Lan used a wind blade to cut through the fat layer, and the disgusting intestines and liver poured out.


    One of the purple flesh balls began to wriggle slowly and was taken out by a mercenary who covered his mouth and nose and placed in front of Jia Lan.


    Jia Lan used the long dagger that Old Jimmy gave him to cut open the embryo, and a pink little thing rolled out, whimpering weakly and sniffing around.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.


    Jia Lan summoned a water ball to wash it, and released several cleaning spells to remove mucus and stench, and pulled it up by its tail for careful observation.


    This one-foot-long little guy seemed to be born with some congenital deficiencies. He was frightened by the upside-down posture and screamed desperately, but he couldn''t even struggle, and could only twitch his tender nose to explore the outside world.


    In Jia Lan''s eyes, the little thing''s weak protest seemed insignificant, and he gently placed it on a carefully cleaned ground.


    Then, Jia Lan took out a heavy stone box from his pocket, and carefully took out a small ivory cup with complicated and mysterious runes engraved on the wall, a crescent-shaped bone pocket knife, and three crystal balls that were crystal clear and flawless.


    Jia Lan used a long dagger as a pen to outline a simple but mysterious three-phase rune array on the ground, and then placed the crying mouse in the inverted triangle pattern in the center of the array.


    Jia Lan placed the three crystal balls steadily on the apex of the inverted triangle rune, humming the obscure secret spell, flicking his fingers, and a handful of bright gem powder fell like a meteor.


    As the gem powder fell, the entire rune array suddenly burst into a light blue light, and the criss-crossing lines and mysterious runes flickered, covering the entire space.


    The crystal ball at the top of the inverted triangle rune glowed softly, covering the entire rune array and the crawling mouse.


    The originally uneasy mouse seemed to have found support, and instantly calmed down, curled up in the center of the array, and fell asleep.


    Jia Lan picked up the sharp bone knife, gently cut a hole in the palm of his left hand, and clenched his fist to drip the gushing blood into the ivory cup.


    Every time a drop of blood fell into the cup, the ivory cup would make a crisp and pleasant ding-ding sound as if it was struck. The bright red blood gradually turned into brilliant gold under the transformation of the dense mysterious runes on the ivory cup.


    Jia Lan solemnly chanted the secret spell, dipped his fingers in the golden blood, and began to outline a secret mark that belonged to him out of thin air.


    When the golden secret mark was finally completed, Jia Lan hesitated for a moment, then asked Captain Kenmet for the golden magic crystal of the mouse queen, and threw it into the mark. The magic crystal was wrapped in the secret mark and slowly fell towards the sleeping mouse in the magic circle.


    As it fell, the golden magic crystal, which was as big as a fist, shrank smaller and smaller until it was only the size of a thumb belly, and was wrapped in the secret mark and embedded in the mouse''s forehead!


    Seeing that the contract ceremony was successfully completed without any resistance, Jia Lan breathed a sigh of relief.


    However, just as the light of the three crystal balls gradually dimmed, a fiery red light suddenly flashed on the mouse''s body, converging into the earthy yellow magic crystal with a hint of light gold on the forehead, adding a small flame rune to the secret mark left by Jia Lan!


    Jia Lan widened his eyes, this change was completely beyond his expectations.


    The Rat Queen''s golden magic crystal was for the Little Mouse to inherit the Rat Queen''s heritage. Perhaps it would inherit the Rat Queen''s earth element talent, but where did the fire come from? Could it be the fire element left in the magic crystal after the Rat Queen died in the flames?


    Jia Lan shook his head in confusion, put away the contract-making tools, grabbed the mouse and stood up.


    Jia Lan did not yet have the ability to summon a "mystical pet", so he could not seal the mouse as his magic pet for the time being. Of course, he never intended to choose a little mouse as his mystical pet.


    So, Jia Lan could only ask the mercenaries for a leather backpack, stuffed the still sleeping mouse into it, and carried it on his back.


    The whole contract-making process amazed the magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group. Fortunately, there was no "summoner", a branch profession of magicians among them, otherwise they would probably see that Jia Lan''s contract-making ceremony was very different from the summoning ceremony they knew.


    In fact, Jia Lan''s strength was not enough to complete this contract-making ceremony. The success was mainly due to the power of this set of contract-making holy objects, in addition to the fact that the young mice had no resistance consciousness.


    Although the main function of this set of holy objects is not to sign a contract with creatures, it is more than enough to deal with low-level beings such as the young rat queen.


    Just as Jia Lan was about to continue exploring other areas of the Dragon Worship Ruins with Captain Kenmet and his team, he suddenly remembered a forgotten legend about the Dark Mocha Rat!


    According to the legend, the Dark Mocha Rat is a rat-shaped creature living in the Dark Region, but they are not ordinary rats, but a kind of arcane creature, commonly known as "Arcane Beast".


    It is said that the Dark Mocha Rat has a variety of forms and is not limited to a single species. According to the needs of the tribe, the Rat Queen will give birth to different kinds of offspring to serve herself.


    For example, the "Flame Mocha" that can be reborn from the flames, and the "Blood Mocha" that can restore itself by sucking the blood of prey, etc.


    The most common is the "Claw Mocha" that occupies the majority of the tribe.


    Interestingly, among the Dark Demon Rat Group, some gold-level Rat Queen guards and spouses are called "Rat Kings" by mercenaries, those responsible for fighting are called "Soldier Rat", and those responsible for collecting food are called "Worker Rat", etc.


    However, these are completely titles imposed on them by people according to the habits of ant colonies and bee colonies. In fact, the so-called "rat king, soldier rats, and worker rats" should be the faded "flame mocha, blood mocha, and claw mocha"!

 Chapter152

    After Jia Lan''s covenant ceremony, the young queen rat seemed to have undergone a strange transformation, perhaps a miracle of atavism, or a mysterious mutation, and it regained the ancient characteristics of the Dark Mocha Rat.


    Looking back on history, this change may be closely related to the earth vein explosion that shook the world 1,700 years ago.


    The environmental imprint left by the disaster has profoundly affected the fate of countless creatures.


    The Dark Mocha Rat, a creature living deep underground, will show unique mutations in the new environment once it leaves its dark habitat.


    In that great destruction, the surge in space element particles forced the survivors such as the Dark Mocha Rat to evolve a physique that adapts to the new environment.


    After countless generations of reproduction and evolution, the title of "Dark Mocha Rat" gradually evolved into "Dark Demon Rat", and possessed the unique elemental characteristics of this era.


    Each generation of rat queens passed down the special ability of the Dark Mocha rat clan, "blood call", through their unique "blood inheritance".


    However, Jia Lan''s contract ceremony broke the convention of this inheritance, allowing the new generation of young rat queens to get rid of the original shackles, as if they had regained the fire power of their underground ancestors.


    Now, this young rat queen, who has become Jia Lan''s "contracted beast", has both earth and fire elemental talents. Perhaps as it grows, the special abilities of the Dark Mocha rat clan will gradually recover.


    Of course, due to the difference in space environment, this young rat queen is still fundamentally different from the Dark Mocha rat of the pre-civilization era.


    Jia Lan is very clear about this because he himself is an orphan from a previous civilization and is also unable to integrate into the present era.


    Although Jia Lan seems to be able to survive in this era with ease, deep in his heart he knows that he is fundamentally different from those creatures that have undergone thousands of years of blood inheritance and selection.


    Although Jia Lan''s physique, which was slowly transformed by time, barely adapted to the elemental environment of the new era, he was still rejected by this era in essence.


    Especially Jia Lan''s pure arcane physique, which made him seem out of place in this time and space. Should he insist on himself and seek recognition and acceptance from time and space, or compromise and change his physique to cater to the environment? This is a choice worth pondering.


    The "atavism phenomenon" of the young rat queen gave Jia Lan some inspiration. Since the rat queen can "atavism", can he also find his own "atavism" path in the current elemental environment?


    Just when Jia Lan was confused about his own physique, the expedition team led by the golden thief Hugo returned from the depths of the ruins and brought back worrying news-a large number of dark creatures appeared in the ruins.


    Jia Lan originally planned to develop the ruins of the Dragon Worship Temple into his own secret research institute, and naturally could not tolerate these dangerous creatures to occupy it.Stolen novel; please report.


    Therefore, Jia Lan temporarily put aside his thoughts on his personal physique, hurriedly summoned the silver mercenaries and magicians, and headed deep into the ruins.


    They passed through the wide corridor connected to the Rat Cage Hall. In the corridor, every twenty meters there stood a stone pillar with a dragon relief, supporting the arc-shaped dome.


    Although the murals and reliefs on the walls and ceiling were mottled, they still felt the glory of the past.


    The corridor was scattered with metal debris and broken marble blocks, which were the remains of marble statues and decorative armor, and now they have been destroyed by the big rats.


    Thanks to the cremation fire in the Rat Cage Hall, the high temperature and thick smoke destroyed many underground creatures. Along the way, they did not encounter any other dangers except for the densely packed giant bat corpses and piles of strange big insects on the ground.


    At the end of the Dragon Corridor, a vast underground square quietly spreads out. There, magnificent stone pillars that can be hugged by dozens of people stand like a forest, supporting the 50-meter-high dome, as if telling the glory of ancient times.


    It is hard to imagine that this underground palace covering an area of ??more than 300,000 square meters was actually carved out bit by bit by the hands of dragon worshippers.


    This is not only a miracle in the history of architecture, but also a shocking challenge to the limits of human power!


    On the stone pillars, the dragon reliefs are lifelike. Although the frost of the years makes them slightly mottled, the dragon power from ancient times is still awe-inspiring.


    The Dragon Square is like a huge maze. Ten dragon corridors surround it like the tentacles of a dragon, and they are scattered in the east, west, south and north. Their starting point is the first corridor on the west side.


    These ten functional areas are like huge rat cages, distributed around the square.


    However, after the exploration of Hugo and others, they were empty or covered with dust, bones and debris, as if they had been forgotten in the long river of history.


    Only the two corridors in the north and south are tightly closed by heavy stone doors, mysterious and unpredictable. The appearance of dark creatures is in the hall connected to the fourth corridor on the east side, which echoes the rat cage hall.


    In the center of the square, a peculiar fountain platform attracts attention. The circular fountain is like a small lake, and black wyvern sculptures stand in it in various shapes, as if telling ancient legends.


    These dragons are thin, covered with bone spurs, with hooked wing tips and exposed fangs. Their ruby-encrusted eyes seem to be able to see into people''s hearts. They exude a hideous malice that makes people shudder.


    In the center of the platform, a deep well swallows everything like a black hole. The well is filled with thick fog, and even light cannot penetrate. Standing at the mouth of the well, an inexplicable palpitation surges into my heart, as if there are endless secrets hidden in the deep well.


    Jia Lan walked around the well carefully, carefully examining the rune array on the platform.


    The mercenaries stayed cautiously outside the fountain, away from those dangerous traces of magic.


    Although the thieves were greedy for money, they did not touch the ruby ??eyes of the wyvern statues during the advance reconnaissance. Their wise move was praised by Jia Lan.


    "Those flying dragon sculptures are not ordinary flying dragons, but images of ''Abyssal Dragons'' living in the abyss underground." Jia Lan explained, "The deep well in the center of the fountain pool exudes a strong ''Underworld'' atmosphere, perhaps a passage leading to the depths of the underground."


    Fortunately, the seal array on the platform is intact, and there is no need to worry about the invasion of creatures in the Underworld in the short term.


    However, Jia Lan was puzzled by the intentions of the Dragon Worship Cult: Why did they open this passage to the Underworld? Is it to summon dark creatures, or to plunder the mineral deposits there?


    The corridors in the north and south are sealed by stone doors, and the thieves'' lock-picking skills are powerless. They can only choose the "East 4 Corridor" where dark creatures are found.


    This corridor is no different from other corridors, but the connected hall has collapsed, revealing a bottomless hole.


    According to Hugo, they heard human voices and flickering firelight coming from under the cave, which means that there are other tribes underground below.


    While waiting for the mercenaries to connect the ropes, Jia Lan was secretly worried: How deep is this ruin? Will it really lead to the depths of the Underdark?

 Chapter153

    Jia Lan was curious whether people of this era knew about the "Underworld" hidden in the deep land under their feet.


    However, for the pre-civilization where Jia Lan came from, the high-risk forbidden areas on the surface were nothing compared to it.


    Although some people always like to say that "hell" is deep in the earth, in fact, the "hell" in people''s mouths is just another name for the "Underworld". Although this description is not accurate, using "hell" to describe the "Underworld" also vividly reveals its horror.


    The heavy earth, like a kind mother, accepts those races that cannot gain a foothold on the surface for various reasons.


    For billions of years, no one can tell how many little-known secrets are hidden in the arms of this mother.


    Jia Lan doesn''t know how many biological groups in his era were eliminated by nature, and how many groups dived underground to seek the protection of Mother Earth in order to survive.


    Even without considering the underground tribes that were notorious in Jia Lan''s time, the parts that survived the destruction of the former civilization are enough to make people shudder.


    This ancient Dragon Worship Temple ruins, which was little known in the pre-civilization period, is not only beyond Jia Lan''s imagination, but also constantly refreshes his cognition of its danger.


    It is impossible to know how deep they go underground, but the danger increases with every meter of depth.


    The thieves who went down to the bottom of the collapsed cave first brought shocking news: this fault cave is hundreds of meters deep, and below it is another layer of ruins!


    Jia Lan speculated that perhaps before the "East 4th Hall" collapsed due to geological changes, there was a secret passage connecting the upper and lower floors of the Dragon Worship Temple ruins.


    This is really an incredible underground building.


    Apart from the collapsed and damaged areas, the remaining parts of the Dragon Worship Temple ruins are still shocking.


    However, no one expected that there was another layer of ruins hidden under this layer of ruins!


    Unlike the agile mercenaries, the descent of magicians such as Jia Lan seemed easier.


    The wind magicians cast wind magic and slowly descended with magicians of other factions.


    And Jia Lan''s method was even simpler. He only needed to drink another bottle of levitation potion and landed as lightly as a fallen leaf.


    Surprisingly, the exit of this collapsed cave was cleverly blocked by the fallen rubble. From the outside, it was impossible to detect that there was a secret passage leading to the top.


    The mercenaries worked together to move several boulders and expand the exit, so that everyone could enter the lower level of the ruins.


    This is a complex ruins area. From the layout, it can still be seen that this was originally the living area of ??dragon worshippers.


    Public toilets, open dining halls, storage rooms and other densely packed rooms are scattered and orderly, enough to accommodate hundreds of people.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.


    The thieves found some antique items in the ruins, such as a small number of ancient coins and scattered gems.


    However, most of this place has collapsed and broken, and it is unusable now. If you want to reuse it, cleaning up the rubble will be a difficult task.


    The voices and firelight that Hugo and others heard before obviously came from the depths of this area.


    Everyone moved carefully, and the rubble under their feet made a rustling sound from time to time.


    The mercenaries were surprised by this huge living area, which was like an underground town.


    And farther away from the living area with a more complete layout, there are some large living rooms, which look like a place where lower-status dragon worshippers live together.


    After passing through the large living room area and a deep pit full of bones, Jia Lan and others entered an underground cemetery in a low cave.


    Many simple coffins were densely piled in the branch caves, and there were countless of them.


    Due to the long history, the wood of most coffins has decayed into slag, and the bones inside have been scattered all over the ground.


    The blue phosphorescent fire makes this place even more eerie.


    In the most secret corner of the cemetery, there is a mysterious obsidian altar, on which stand four majestic sarcophagi, like the guardians of history.


    In front of these sarcophagi, there are some small stone platforms, each of which is flickering with candlelight, and there are a few relics scattered around, which seem to still have the breath of the deceased.


    Jia Lan and his party were attracted by the four strange candlelights. After all, this place has been sleeping for thousands of years. What can continue to burn in such a long time?


    Perhaps there are just visitors here to pay tribute, or perhaps there is a long-lasting magic mystery behind the candlelight.


    No matter which possibility it is, it has aroused the curiosity of Jia Lan and others, but they also know that danger may come at any time.


    Jia Lan cast the "Detect Undead" spell, and the result was shocking - the concentration of negative energy here was astonishing, as if it could explode at any time.


    Thinking of the golden skeletons they encountered before, Kenmet and others couldn''t help swallowing their saliva. The number of skeletons here was enough to form a terrifying army of undead.


    On the obsidian altar and sarcophagus, there were lifelike dragon patterns carved, and the four candlelights were not real flames, but were blessed by the "Eternal Flame" spell to illuminate this silent place.


    "Look, there seems to be something engraved here." Hugo carefully observed around the altar and found that there were strange words engraved on each stone platform.


    Jia Lan slowly read out: "Tanaa Man Heka Meng...Nai Na Ya...A Zang Gong Ti...Nai Hui Nai...", and explained: "This is dragon language, which means ''guardian of dragon power, summoner of flame, shepherd of dragons under the night, guide of death'', which may be the identity symbol of the deceased in the coffin."


    Hugo was not very interested in these words, and his eyes were fixed on the relics on the stone platforms.


    Although Jia Lan did not recommend touching them, he still carefully lifted a stone platform and found that it was a hidden storage box, which contained items such as peridot skeleton dragon statues, jade dragon-shaped glass amulets, rings, scrolls and potions.


    Jia Lan quickly put away these items. Although Hugo cast a resentful look, he knew that these unidentified treasures might cause trouble to the curious Hugo.


    "Now, let''s leave quietly and don''t touch anything." Jia Lan reminded, but before he finished speaking, the sarcophagus made a harsh friction sound and the lid slowly opened.


    Everyone''s eyes were focused on the candle in Hugo''s hand. He explained innocently: "I just think Mr. Jia Lan may have missed something... With these candles, we don''t have to worry about lighting at night."


    "Run!" Jia Lan shouted, and everyone ran towards the exit of the cemetery, and the bones in the cemetery began to wriggle, splicing each other, trying to stand up.


    "Hugo! You bastard! I''m going to cut off your claws!" Kenmet roared, and Hugo, who ran faster than him, shouted aggrievedly: "Hey! Boss! It''s not my fault! My profession is a ''thief''!"


    Jia Lan shouted anxiously: "Throw away the candle in your hand!" Everyone realized that this greedy ''thief'' was still holding the candle tightly.


    "No! Never..." Hugo screamed, but was grabbed by the ankle by a skeleton whose upper body had been pieced together. He had no choice but to smash the candle on the skeleton''s face, turned over and climbed up to continue running away.


    When they fled to the entrance of the cemetery, the first sarcophagus with "Dragon Power Guardian" written on it had been completely opened, and a knight skeleton wearing heavy armor walked out of it, holding a huge sword in his hand!

 Chapter154

    "Stop them!" Kenmet gave an order, and the silver mercenaries quickly raised their shields, lined up closely, and blocked the cemetery exit, which was less than five meters wide.


    However, rotten coffins were constantly destroyed in the cemetery, and the golden skeleton warriors stood up, which was chilling.


    "Boss, what level do you think the skeleton in the iron can is?" Hugo stared curiously at the monster wearing dragon scale armor behind the group of golden skeletons, and joked: "That armor looks good, maybe it''s suitable for you to wear..."


    "Shut up, you guy!" Captain Kenmet was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He chopped a golden skeleton with a sword and really wanted to turn around and slash the troublemaker under his command.


    Even the minions are golden level, what level would the guy wearing dragon armor be?


    This is not a joke, right?


    Thousands of golden skeletons, and a skeleton knight of unknown level, you kid don''t worry about your own life, but are interested in other people''s armor? Why are the thinking of thieves so unique?


    Kenmet has "almost" gotten used to the existence of these "weird teammates" in the team. Almost every time he goes on an adventure, it is Hugo and his thieves who cause trouble.


    But there is nothing that can be done about it. Thieves are not as knowledgeable as the magician Jialan. They don''t know what they can touch and what they can''t touch. Their professional characteristics are destined to make them prone to trouble.


    Old mercenaries often say that honest thieves are not good thieves.


    In the adventure, the team relies on their curiosity and adventurous spirit to detect the traps and treasures in the ruins.


    If you don''t touch anything because you are afraid of danger, go in fully armed, and then return empty-handed, it''s not called "ruins adventure", it''s called "scenic spot play"!


    Moreover, the highest casualty rate in the mercenary group is often thieves. Their job is to cause trouble, and the mess after the trouble needs to be cleaned up by the main combat personnel.


    Just like the old thief beside the magician Jia Lan, the arm he lost must have been caused by some dangerous mechanism.


    This is a profession that uses life to satisfy curiosity. Once they lose their curiosity and adventurous spirit, they will no longer be able to be a thief.


    Therefore, although Kenmet was very angry, he did not blame Hugo too much. Instead, he took the responsibility of cleaning up the mess and guarded the exit of the cemetery with his silver mercenaries to prevent those golden skeletons from rushing out.


    It is impossible to destroy thousands of golden skeletons by just these people, even if the entire Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group is dispatched.


    So, several earth magicians in the team began to cast magic desperately, and walls of earth rose from the ground, piling up layer by layer at the entrance of the cemetery, trying to seal it off.


    The ten-layer one-foot thick earth walls were reinforced by the earth magicians to be comparable to rocks, and finally completed the last procedure of the funeral for the dragon worshippers - sealing the earth.


    As the earth wall became thicker and thicker, everyone gradually breathed a sigh of relief.


    You could still vaguely hear the sound of knocking on the wall from inside.


    Kenmet turned his head suddenly, and the thieves around him, such as Hugo, trembled all over.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement.


    "You guys! Don''t be so naughty next time!" Kenmet shouted angrily, "Even if you want to be naughty, you have to wait until Mr. Jia Lan confirms that it is safe!"


    The thieves shrugged awkwardly. Although the magicians in their team were also knowledgeable and could occasionally identify dangerous magic mechanisms in advance during the adventure, most of them were like this young magician Jia Lan, and their combat ability was their strong point.


    Therefore, the exploration and reconnaissance work in the team has always been the responsibility of these thieves.


    In the face of temptation, human nature is always hard to resist, but this time there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the team.


    Among them, a magician who was only 20 years old was proficient in knowledge in many fields such as archaeology, identification, and history, and his strength was comparable to that of a platinum-level magician, which was amazing.


    How he could study various fields so thoroughly while busy practicing is really puzzling.


    Everyone could only half-jokingly guess that this young magician might be a hidden old monster who just disguised himself as a young boy.


    Undead, creatures driven by negative energy, usually lack wisdom and only blindly pursue the resentful breath of living beings.


    Earth magicians cleverly use earth walls to seal the exit of the cemetery, isolating the "vitality" on which the undead depend for survival, and gradually calming their restless emotions.


    The mercenaries and magicians of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, with tacit cooperation and rich experience, are obviously accustomed to dealing with undead creatures such as skeletons in ancient ruins.


    In Jia Lan''s view, the mercenaries'' methods are simple but very practical.


    Because most undead rarely leave their "territory", once they lose their target of hatred, they will wander back to their "nest" again and stay in that area.


    This may be common sense for the mages of the previous civilization, but for the mercenaries of this era, it is a valuable experience gained with countless blood and lives.


    Thanks to Kenmet''s timely response, the team avoided heavy casualties, and after a short rest, they continued to advance deeper into the ruins.


    Jia Lan took advantage of this gap to identify some of the spoils in the cemetery storage box. A total of four scrolls, four bottles of potions, four rings, four small peridot statues and four dragon-shaped glass amulets were found.


    Among them, the four scrolls were confirmed by Jia Lan as rare 3rd-level spell scrolls: Earthquake (Earth), Rainstorm (Water), Skyfire (Fire), Tornado (Wind).


    When Jia Lan identified the properties of these scrolls, he couldn''t help but be shocked. What on earth were those dragon worshippers thinking? They actually exposed these dangerous spell scrolls so casually without any restrictions?


    If the triggering sigils on the scrolls aged and failed, the consequences would be disastrous!


    Even in Jia Lan''s time, 3rd-level spell scrolls were very rare high-level spell scrolls, which were extremely difficult to copy and very few in existence.


    Jia Lan carefully found a wooden box that was usually used to hold medical gadgets, poured out the tools inside, wrapped them with a piece of linen and stuffed them back into his pocket.


    Then he found a spare piece of clothing, tore it into strips and spread it all over the bottom of the wooden box, and finally gently put the scroll into the dimensional bag like a work of art.


    Since there was no dedicated scroll box, Jia Lan could only take this temporary measure, hoping that the triggering symbols on these scrolls could last for a while longer.


    As for the four small peridot statues, Jia Lan speculated that they might be the functional forms of the four "Dragon Power Gatekeeper, Flame Summoner, Night Shepherd, and Death Summoner", but their specific functions were still unclear.


    The four dragon-shaped glass amulets were even more mysterious. Although Jia Lan did not identify their detailed properties, their functions could be roughly inferred from the hollow structure of the amulets - these were four whistles!


    The small and exquisite dragon-shaped pendant, with the dragon''s mouth biting the chain, was cross-shaped with its wings spread out and its head and tail stretched out, and it could be blown by holding the tail.


    Compared with the curious Hugo, Jia Lan seemed more cautious. He would never try these whistles easily before he figured out the purpose of them.


    After the mercenaries rested, Jia Lan could only hurriedly pack up the spoils, holding one of the whistles in his hand and studying it while on the road.


    As they went deeper and deeper into the ruins, the surrounding environment became more and more desolate.


    Obviously, this area was close to the edge of the ruins, and even unfinished buildings that the dragon worshippers had not yet completed could be seen.


    After passing through a large area of ??unfinished buildings, they finally arrived at the end of the ruins. However, this did not mean that the adventure was over!


    Because at the very end of the ruins of the Dragon Worship Temple, a large underground rift several tens of meters wide cut off their way.


    Because at the very end of the Dragon Worship Cult ruins, a large underground crack tens of meters wide blocked their way.

 Chapter155

    On both sides of the bottomless rift, two broken iron chain bridges were hanging, and the years had left mottled rust on them.


    On the other side of the rift, there was a vast underground world hidden.


    Standing beside the rift, feeling the rising air and humid air coming out from the ground, Jia Lan and his party finally found the source of the "fire" and "human voice" that the thieves had detected before.


    Across the rift, they saw a settlement of underground creatures, where lights flickered and the dim firelight reflected a noisy scene.


    In the blurred firelight, two groups of underground creatures whose faces could not be seen seemed to be in conflict.


    "What are those over there..."


    Hugo stood on tiptoe and tried to look across the rift valley. With a strange expression on his face, he pointed to the hazy shadow on the other side and said, "If I''m not mistaken, that''s a tree, right?"


    Carter nodded with his superior eyesight, "Yes, it''s a tree."


    Hugo was puzzled: "But this is hundreds of meters underground. There is no sunlight. How do trees grow?"


    Carter rolled his eyes helplessly: "How do I know!"


    The seemingly nonsensical conversation between the two was also a puzzle in the hearts of others. Although trees are not rare, how do they grow deep underground?


    Although this tens of meters wide rift valley is unfathomable, the underground creatures on the other side seem unable to cross over and threaten the ruins of the Dragon Worship Temple, which has become Jia Lan''s property, but they cannot be careless.


    After all, they searched the ruins and found no trace of the escaped flying head barbarian.


    Undead vampires like flying head barbarians are not naturally produced, but reproduce through infection.


    Therefore, there must be a "source".


    And the flying head barbarians who were seriously injured by the mercenaries and struggled to "return to the nest" were not "residents" of this dragon worship ruins, but flew over from the opposite side of the underground rift!


    Even Jia Lan was amazed at the twists and turns of this ruins exploration.


    From the castle dungeon to the underground rift, the area of ??this underground ruins has exceeded everyone''s imagination.


    This is no longer a ruins, but a complete underground city!


    Although the cost of purchasing the Doom Castle is not cheap, compared with the 100,000 ping (about 330,000 square meters) castle complex of the Doom Castle and the more than 12 million ping (about 40 square kilometers) of land attached to the surrounding area, the price of 8 million Jintalan can only be regarded as a great value for money in the economic environment and consumption level of this era.


    However, no one expected that there was such a huge underground city hidden under the Castle of Doom.


    It was like buying a cabbage and the seller gave it a farm. Even Kenmet and others were jealous of Jia Lan''s good luck.


    However, if you want to renovate this underground city, the cost will probably be more than ten times or a hundred times that of buying the Castle of Doom.


    But in any case, this underground city ruins already belonged to Jia Lan, but how could he tolerate others sleeping soundly next to his territory.


    Therefore, after careful observation for a while, it was found that the underground creatures on the other side of the Great Rift were not very dangerous, and the mercenaries began to prepare to cross the Great Rift.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    The mercenary group with magicians in charge obviously has an advantage in dealing with this problem.


    A wind magician flew across the rift with a rope and tied it to the root of a big tree on the opposite bank.


    Then, under the control of an intermediate earth magician, a large mass of soil surged, attached to the rock wall of the rift layer by layer, gradually climbed up the rope and extended to the opposite bank, and finally formed a mud arch bridge!


    When the mud arch bridge with a bridge deck of about two meters wide was formed, several junior earth magicians took over the intermediate earth magicians who consumed a lot of magic power and began to release "mud reinforcement" on the mud arch bridge to make it stronger.


    Although this mud arch bridge cannot be compared with a stone bridge, it is not a big deal to use it in a short time.


    In order not to put too much pressure on the mud arch bridge, the group carefully divided into groups of five to cross the bridge and quickly completed the flight.


    When crossing the arch bridge, Jia Lan looked at the rifts on both sides for a long time, and wondered in his heart whether this place was located on the same underground abyss as the Rock Bridge Hall behind the secret door to the south of the circular hall!


    After passing through the low, twisted, and leafless strange forest, the crowd lurked outside the range of the torches held by the two gangs of underground creatures who were fighting and observed for a long time, but was surprised to find that it was the dwarves and the lizardmen who were confronting each other.


    Although racial integration has become a trend in the current era of city-state politics, there are few tribes of dwarves and lizardmen in the South Continent where Zilargo County is located.


    Therefore, these two races are considered minorities in the Kolanbang area.


    Lizardmen, especially them, prefer humid rainforests, wetlands and swamps. It is rare to see their traces in Zilargo County, but their habitats can be found in the Torako Swamp and Kara Rainforest in Dagon County.


    However, in any case, these two races seem to belong to the surface races. Why did they appear in this mysterious underground is puzzling.


    The mercenaries in the dark, with their eyes wide open and gleaming, stared at Jia Lan, waiting for him to make a decision, should he help the dwarves or the lizardmen?


    But Jia Lan squinted his eyes, staring at the chaotic battlefield, and remained silent.


    This group of mercenaries living in the Apocalypse Era knew nothing about the Underdark, and naively thought that the dwarves and lizardmen who were fighting were both surface races. They even tended to help the dwarves because humans and dwarves had a good relationship.


    However, for Jia Lan, who had lived in the pre-civilization dawn era, it was easy to distinguish the true identities of the two races from some of their characteristics.


    The ones who were fighting were indeed the dwarves and lizardmen, but one of them was the "underground dwarves" and the other was the "ground lizards"!


    Just like the large number of humans, who were divided into many ethnic groups due to nationality, region, skin color, race and other factors, each race also had a large number of subspecies.


    For example, the "dwarves" that the Kenmet people believe in usually refer to the "hill dwarves" who have the most contact with humans and whose living areas overlap. In addition, there are also "lowland dwarves", "mountain dwarves", and so on, different dwarf ethnic groups living on the surface world.


    Underground, the close relatives of the "lowland dwarves" live, the "underground dwarves". What they are seeing now are the "near-ground dwarves" among the "underground dwarves".


    There are many ethnic groups of dwarves, and it is difficult to clearly classify them according to human habits.


    Like dwarves, there are also many types of lizardmen. The most common ones on the surface are rainforest lizardmen, wetland lizardmen, swamp lizardmen, or collectively referred to as "land lizards". The less common ones are "sea lizards", but they all belong to the "scaleless lizardmen".


    These are another branch of the lizardmen living underground, the "ground lizards". Due to some subtle differences, they can be divided into "hunting lizards", "iguanas", "war lizards", etc. Although they still belong to the "scaleless lizardmen", they basically have no great blood relationship with the "land lizardmen".


    As for the distant relatives of the "scaleless lizardmen", the "scaled lizardmen", because the blood relationship is too distant, we will not mention it for the time being, and only talk about the "hunting lizards" among these "ground lizards".


    Just like darkness repels light and the undead hate living creatures, these races that live underground and are regarded as "dark creatures" by humans naturally repel surface creatures and are far less kind than the mercenaries imagine.


    Therefore, Jia Lan believes that it is best not to help either side and wait until both sides are defeated before going out to clean up the situation.


    However, the situation is never as good as imagined. These lizard hunters with extremely keen sense of smell soon noticed the presence of outsiders and actually separated a group of warriors and rushed towards the low woods where they were hiding!


    Jia Lan shrugged helplessly. Now they don''t have to choose who to help.


    Since entering the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult, they have encountered all silver-level magic beasts "Dark Magic Rats" and even golden skeletons that are stronger than most mercenaries.


    The mercenaries, who have long been a little excited, did not even need the leader''s order, and they drew their weapons and rushed out one by one.

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    Those lizard hunters who looked like upright giant lizards, although their appearance made people feel a little nervous, their combat power was only equivalent to that of bronze-level warriors, and only a few of them were slightly stronger and barely reached the silver level.


    Facing the all-silver-level team of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, they just became the target for the mercenaries to vent their emotions.


    Before Jia Lan had time to reveal the weaknesses of these underground races to the mercenaries, the well-equipped silver mercenaries chopped down the lizard hunters wearing simple leather armor and holding stone spears and stone axes like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, and then rushed to the two sides who were fighting fiercely.


    Jia Lan was hesitant to speak. Although he wanted to remind the mercenaries that they might have caused a lot of trouble, after taking a look at the corpses of lizard hunters on the ground, he could only follow them helplessly.


    This near-ground dwarf village built next to the cliff of the underground fissure was not large. Together with the fifty or sixty dwarf warriors who were fighting, there were less than 200 people in total.


    However, the dwarves are naturally strong, and once a male dwarf reaches adulthood, he has the strength of a high-level bronze.


    Even the old, weak, women and children in the dwarf tribe have a fighting power no lower than the black iron level, and the trained warriors are even more powerful.


    Just like the fifty or sixty dwarf warriors, although they are all holding pickaxes and hammers, they are all silver-level warriors, and the three dwarf leaders who lead them have even reached the gold level!


    Unfortunately, their enemies are numerous. Although the lizard hunters are poorly equipped and their strength is mostly around the bronze level, the five or six hundred lizard hunters make it difficult for the dwarf warriors to resist.


    The dwarf warriors roared angrily, waving their big hammers vigorously, smashing the lizard hunters one by one.


    However, many lizard hunters have already broken into their village and attacked the relatively weak dwarf women and children.


    At this moment, a group of surface people that had never been seen before suddenly appeared, killed the lizard hunters who invaded the village without leaving a single piece of armor, and rushed up from the side and rear of the village to support the dwarf warriors.


    This sudden change made the lizard hunters panic, and even the dwarves were stunned.


    They stared at the allies who grinned at them with gray-blue eyes that were different from their surface relatives.


    The mercenaries who burst out with all their strength were extremely fierce. They were well-equipped, experienced, and well-coordinated, far beyond the lizard hunters who were poorly equipped and relied solely on brute force and numbers.


    Therefore, although the lizard hunters were numerous, they were killed by the mercenaries and retreated step by step.


    Without waiting for the magicians to take action, the lizard hunter leader screamed, left nearly a hundred corpses, and fled into the darkness like a tide.


    The dwarves did not relax their vigilance. They quickly retreated to the entrance of the village surrounded by branches and fences, guarding against the group of surface people who suddenly appeared as if they were facing a great enemy.


    Hugo smiled and approached to talk to the dwarves, but a short spear thrown at him almost pierced his foot.


    The dwarf leader waved a huge hammer and roared at him, but Hugo was dumbfounded to find that he could not understand it at all.


    Not only him, but even the magicians in the team who were relatively knowledgeable and understood the dwarven language were also dumbfounded, because they also could not understand what the other party was saying, and everyone could only look back helplessly.


    Under the protection of Old Jimmy, Jia Lan walked out from behind the crowd helplessly.


    Of course, they could not understand what the dwarves said, because they did not speak "surface dwarven language" or "surface common language" at all, but "underground common language".Stolen story; please report.


    Even the language used by these underground near-ground dwarves is a kind of "underground dwarven language" similar to the dwarven dialect.


    It would be strange if the surface people who have not dealt with the underground races for thousands of years could understand it.


    Fortunately, although the language vocabulary in the isolated underground world has changed with the passage of time, Jia Lan, who was once complained by the souls of the other world as a "multi-national translator", can still roughly understand the conversations of the near-ground dwarves.


    These near-ground dwarves have slightly rough and slightly brownish-red skin, with brownish-red or brownish-yellow hair on their heads.


    Their height is similar to that of the hill dwarves, about 1.2 to 1.4 meters, but they are slightly thin.


    Of course, the "thinness" here is relative to their close relatives on the surface who have superior living conditions. It is estimated that their weight will not be less than 100 kilograms.


    However, with a height of no more than 1.4 meters and a weight of more than 100 kilograms, the dwarves have a standard oak barrel-shaped body. Their short and thick limbs are bulging with muscles, which makes them look full of strength.


    The dwarf leader is still speaking loudly in the underground common language with a strong accent.


    However, what made Jia Lan slightly relieved was that perhaps because of their assistance just now, these near-ground dwarves who did not have much good feelings for surface creatures were only wary of them, but did not hate them.


    "Hey, hello! Dear underground dwarf friends!"


    Jia Lan spoke a string of authentic dwarven language. Although her pronunciation could not match that of real dwarves, her clear words were enough for those near-ground dwarves with strong accents to understand.


    A trace of surprise flashed across the face of the dwarf leader. He stared at Jia Lan in confusion, and then gave up using his not-so-standard underground common language and responded in his native language: "Surface people? Who are you? Where are you from? What do you want to do in our ''Uga Tribe Bloodmane Village''? Surface people are never welcome here!"


    "I''m really sorry, we came here unintentionally!" Jia Lan smiled gently and continued: "But please believe that we have no ill intentions. We are from the surface..."


    "This is unbelievable! You are lying!" The dwarf leader questioned: "There has been no trace of surface people in the Gusyasdisen area for thousands of years! The elders of the Uga tribe once warned us that the outside world has disappeared under Moradin''s ''Soul Forging Hammer''!"


    The dwarf leader paused for a moment, and obviously understood that this was just a myth woven by the elders to warn future generations not to leave the underground.


    But the dwarf leader knew very well that there was no passage leading to the surface in the "Gusyasdisen" area. The only underground waterway leading to the surface was said to be located on the other side of the distant "Toraksh Swamp Sea".


    But these surface people appeared from the direction of the "Sanmaste Holy Land Abyss" behind their village, which was obviously a lie!


    This discovery made the dwarf leader furious. He waved the sledgehammer in his hand and roared: "Liar! You must be spies sent by those cunning big lizards! I, Barend Bloodmane Uga, will not be fooled!"


    "But we did come from the temple on the other side of the Great Rift." Jia Lan pointed helplessly at the bodies of the dead lizard hunters on the ground: "Besides, if we are spies of the lizard hunters, why should we help you eliminate the invaders?"


    Barend, the leader of the Bloodmane clan of the Uga tribe, was speechless. Yes, if the other party was a spy of the big lizard, why did they suddenly appear and eliminate the invaders at the critical moment when they were about to be destroyed?


    "Okay! Even if you are not spies of the big lizard, what evidence do you have to prove that you are from the ''Sanctuary of Sammaster''?" Barent asked loudly: "Do you still want to say that you are the Asadron worshippers under the Saint Sammaster?"


    Jia Lan keenly captured the key words in the words of the dwarf leader Barent. Although these words may be slightly different in the translation process, they are indeed related to some secrets he knows.


    While recalling his vague memories of the Dragon Cult, Sammaster, and Ashardron, Jia Lan pointed to the direction of the Dragon Cult ruins behind him and said calmly: "If you are talking about that temple, I can only say yes, it is now mine."


    "Yours? How is that possible!" Barent did not expect that his casual sarcasm would be acknowledged by the other party. There was a trace of fear in his gray-blue eyes, and his voice became trembling: "The Holy Land has been in decline for thousands of years. There are only the Holy Land Guards guarding the "Dark Well"..."


    Although he said so, the huge iron hammer in Barent''s hand was involuntarily put down, and he dared not aim at Jia Lan again.


    Dark Well, Holy Land Guards?


    From Barent''s words, Jia Lan seemed to have found some clues. Could these near-ground dwarves be the descendants of servants enslaved by the Dragon Cult back then?


    "Do you think the Holy Land has declined, so you started to fight for the territory here?" Jia Lan cleverly used the skills of "observing words and expressions" and "inducing" to take out a ring found in the cemetery from his pocket and put it on his hand, and then took out a dragon-shaped glass amulet and hung it around his neck: "What do you think now?"


    Although it was a bit unbelievable, the dwarf leader stared at the dragon-shaped glass amulet on Jia Lan''s chest with horror, and stammered: "You...you are...the new Asadron priest?"


    "Do you need me to prove it?" Jia Lan picked up the dragon-shaped glass amulet, put it to his lips and pretended to blow a whistle.


    "No!!! Respected Master Priest! Please forgive your servant''s offense! You have been away for too long!" Before the dwarf leader Barent could speak, several old dwarves rushed out of the village and knocked away the dwarf warriors guarding the village entrance. They knelt in front of Jia Lan and begged in fear: "It has been so long that the descendants of your servants have almost forgotten your glory! Are you coming back this time to rebuild the holy land?"

 Chapter157

    "Elders? You?" Barent and the dwarf warriors roared, emotional, but did not dare to act rashly.


    Since they were young, the elders of the tribe told them the history of the Uga dwarves and the legend of the Sammaster Holy Land.


    Although the years have passed, the new generation of Uga near-earth dwarves no longer believe in those ancient legends.


    However, it is undeniable that those legends have been deeply rooted in their hearts through the inheritance of generation after generation, making them feel awe for the "holy land" opposite the big rift behind the village.


    As a "long-lived species" with a lifespan of three or four hundred years, thousands of years are just a dozen generations for the Uga dwarves.


    Those legends about the holy land have a much greater impact on them than those "short-lived species" with a lifespan of only a few decades.


    The Blood Mane elder of the Uga dwarves ignored the doubts of the young warriors. He slowly raised his head and carefully looked at the dragon-shaped glass amulet on Jia Lan''s chest.


    Then, the old dwarf said respectfully: "Respected Lord Asadron, please show your ''Domain Statue'' to your servant so that your servant can confirm your identity."


    Jia Lan looked down at the amulet on his chest. The four amulets were the same in material, but slightly different in shape. They were black dragon, white dragon, blue dragon and green dragon, but the red dragon among the five-color dragons was missing.


    Although the inheritance of the Uga dwarves recorded detailed information in this regard, it was obviously beyond the identification ability of the elders of the Bloodmane clan to distinguish the subtle differences between these dragon-shaped amulets from the pendant that was only the size of a palm.


    After all, no matter how detailed the inheritance was, more than a dozen generations had passed, and their descendants had not seen the personal accessories used by the "Asadron Worshiper" to prove their identity.


    The simplest way was to ask the other party to take out the prototype of the "Domain Statue" statue standing in the gathering place of the four vassal races of the "Sanmast Holy Land" to prove their identity.


    Therefore, the old dwarf mustered up the courage to make a request to Jia Lan.


    In the ancient times when the "Sacred Land of Sammaster" was prosperous, the Uga dwarves were under the jurisdiction of the "Flame Summoner", one of the four "Asadron Priests" under the command of the Dragon Worship Saint "Sammaster".


    Therefore, in the largest gathering place of Uga dwarves in their "Gusyasdi Sen Region", there stands a huge statue of the "Domain Statue" of the "Flame Summoner".


    On the statue, there is indeed a pendant that is exactly the same as the one on the chest of the surface man in front of him.


    Because of this, before the other party''s identity was confirmed, the elder of the Blood Mane clan stopped the young warrior of the clan. If the other party was a fake, it would be fine, but what if it was real?


    No matter which of the "Dragon Power Gatekeeper, Flame Summoner, Night Shepherd, and Death Summoner" he is, once he is angered, it will bring irreparable disaster to the Uga Dwarves.


    Jia Lan thought for a moment, and simply took out all the four peridot statues carved into the shape of skeleton dragons from his pocket and held them in his hands.


    The elder of the Blood Mane clan, who originally thought that the surface person in front of him was just a "worshiper", almost had his eyes wide open when he saw Jia Lan take out four "domain statues" at once. He trembled and shouted something in the underground dwarf language with a very heavy accent, so that Jia Lan could not hear what he was shouting.


    The one who can possess four "domain statues" at the same time is definitely not a certain "Asadron Worshiper", but the "saint" who is in charge of the "Saint of Sammaster".


    In addition, Jia Lan just casually said that "the temple is under his jurisdiction", which made the Blood Mane elders imagine Jia Lan''s "identity" in their own minds.If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    Jia Lan had a conversation with the dwarves, leaving the mercenaries behind him confused. They could only wait in frustration for the two sides to finish their conversation. As they were talking, the dwarves suddenly became angry, and the mercenaries could not help but nervously clench their weapons.


    However, the following scene made them even more confused.


    Several old dwarves rushed out and paid homage to Magician Jialan.


    Then, Magician Jialan took out the small statue he had just obtained from the cemetery and showed it to the other party. The dwarves all bowed to the ground excitedly, and then respectfully surrounded them and entered the dwarf village.


    Captain Kenmet lowered his voice and asked secretly: "Mr. Jialan, what is the situation now?"


    Jialan was also a little helpless and could only answer in a low voice: "It''s hard for me to explain it for a while."


    "These dwarves should be the guardians of this ruins, but they regard me as the heir of the ruins, so if you don''t want them to find out that we are just pretending, you''d better pretend to be my guards now."


    The mercenaries looked at each other, with a hint of helplessness in their eyes.


    After all, since they entered this mysterious ruins, they have encountered countless bizarre events, and this scene is just one of them.


    As for the fact that the magician Jialan was named "the heir of the ruins", it was understandable. After all, he had taken possession of the Castle of Doom, so the ruins naturally became his possession as well.


    The dwarf village warmly welcomed Jialan and his mercenary team, and took out their treasured delicacies to entertain the guests from afar.


    Several dwarf women brought out giant round mushrooms, which were as spectacular as oak barrels. They opened the mushroom caps, took out pieces of strange ingredients that looked like rotten meat, strung them on branches and smoked them, and then enthusiastically handed them to the mercenaries to taste.


    However, faced with these strange black "meats" and foods that were obviously mosses and fungi, the mercenaries looked embarrassed.


    They secretly muttered in their hearts: These dwarves living in the dark underground, their lives are too hard, right? Are they like those dark magic rats, who can only rely on mosses and fungi for survival?


    Jia Lan obviously noticed this, and he quickly contacted Casey and Div who stayed on the surface through the "Communication Mirror", asking them to quickly prepare a batch of food, meat, and fruits and vegetables.


    Then, Jia Lan took out a strange little statue of a human with a package on his back from his pocket, and whispered an obscure secret spell. The little statue on the ground disappeared in the flashing light.


    Not long after, a large pile of baskets, bamboo baskets, packages and oak barrels suddenly appeared in the small square of Bloodmane Village. This scene not only made the Bloodmane dwarves dumbfounded, but even the mercenaries were surprised.


    "Teleportation!?" Kenmet exclaimed with his eyes wide open.


    But he soon regained his composure, coughed awkwardly, and stood behind Jia Lan with a two-handed sword and a stern face to continue to perform his duties as a guard.


    Fortunately, his exclamation did not attract the attention of the dwarves. The dwarves were deeply attracted by the magical means displayed by Jia Lan. They were curious and surrounded the supplies that appeared out of thin air, but they didn''t know what they were.


    In order to ease the tension with the dwarves, the mercenaries took the initiative to open the packages and take out the food, set up a fire and a soup pot to cook broth and barbecue.


    The tempting aroma soon spread in the dwarf village that feeds on fungi, making the dwarves drool and gather around the fire.


    Although the language is not understood, food and wine are excellent media for emotional communication.


    Soon, the dwarf warriors who were originally wary and repulsive to the mercenaries of unknown origin gradually let down their guard after drinking a few large cups of fine rye. They happily took out their treasured dark red drinks and gestured to the mercenaries.


    The mercenaries looked at each other, and none of them dared to be the first to try.


    After tasting the "rotten meat" handed to him by the dwarf elder, Jia Lan smiled and said to the mercenaries: "Don''t worry, these things are not poisonous. Although they look a bit scary, they are indeed edible!"


    He pointed to the "rotten meat" in his hand: "This thing that looks like ''meat'' is actually called ''skin fungus'', which is a non-toxic fungus that grows in moist places underground. It may be difficult to accept eating it raw, but after baking, it has the aroma of shiitake mushrooms, and it tastes pretty good!"


    "And this blue ''bread'' is actually ''spore bread'' baked with flour ground from ''blue cap fungus'' spores. It is the staple food of underground dwarves. The taste is similar to our rye bread."


    Seeing that Jia Lan had already started, the mercenaries also plucked up the courage to try the food given to them by the dwarves. They even boldly dipped some orange sauce served in mushroom bowls. It tasted spicy, but not hot sauce.


    "This is ''fire lichen sauce''!" Jia Lan also tasted it, and then picked up a cup of dark red drink and shook it and said: "This ''fire wine'' is also fermented and brewed from this fire lichen that grows near the underground lava lake. Although it tastes like strong liquor, it actually does not contain alcohol and is very suitable for magicians who do not drink."


    As a profession that requires keeping a clear mind, magicians rarely drink. This "fire wine" brewed from fire lichen has aroused the interest of several magicians. They tasted it with great interest, enjoying the hot and spicy pleasure that only comes from drinking strong liquor.


    The dwarves gnawed on the fat and greasy roasted lamb and drank rye in big mouthfuls, and were also conquered by the delicious food from the surface.


    Although both sides spoke words that no one could understand, they smiled foolishly with their arms around each other and kept clinking glasses made of mushrooms.


    The two sides, who were originally wary of each other, soon became one.


    And Jia Lan listened quietly to the dwarf elder''s account of what happened in this underground world after the decline of the "Holy Land".

 Chapter158

    It is said that the origin of the Dragon Cult can be traced back to the ancient Nestherian Arcane Civilization era when gods walked the earth and dragons danced with Titans.


    Although the exact age is no longer verifiable, it is certain that it has a history of at least tens of thousands of years.


    That was a very long time ago. Even in the era of Jia Lan, information about it was as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.


    People can only capture some clues about that era from those ancient volumes and books.


    Fortunately, Jia Lan was born in the vast library of Kolanburg. He was fortunate to learn some information about the Dragon Cult and its founder in some extremely precious ancient fragments.


    The so-called "Sanctuary of Sammaster" is actually a special name for the Dragon Cult, which means "the holy place of the Dragon Cult".


    And those spellcasters who know it in the outside world prefer to call it "Dragon Witch Cult" - an evil sect that exercises its priesthood with the power of arcane magic.


    Its founder, "Saint" Sammaster, was not a great priest or a respected clergyman, but an evil and crazy necromancer.


    At first, the Dragon Cult worshipped not a dragon, but an ancient undead dragon named "Drogosa", or more precisely, a dragon lich!


    Sammaster longed to gain the power of the dragon lich Drogosa, and sacrificed his soul to become the undead slave of the dragon lich Drogosa. He finally gained the dragon power he dreamed of and became an extremely powerful lich.


    Sammaster, a powerful lich, tampered with the ancient prophecy, founded the Dragon Cult, and gathered believers to start building his own death dragon army. In that ancient era, Sammaster''s dragon lich army once ran rampant on the continent.


    However, Sammaster, who was overwhelmed by the powerful force, dared to challenge the gods. The result is predictable. The Dragon Cult was destroyed by all the major sects, and the surviving believers were either hunted down or disappeared.


    This is the first destruction of the Dragon Cult that Jia Lan learned from the ancient files.


    But there is always a sequel to the story. In the long history of tens of thousands of years that followed, the Dragon Cult revived several times and was destroyed several times, gradually forming branches, and the name of the church gradually evolved into the Dragon Cult.


    As far as Jia Lan knows, most of the so-called "Dragon Cult" in history were not created by real Dragon Cultists, but some forces that worship death and dragons pretended to be them.


    There are five branches of the Dragon Cult that truly inherited the Dragon Cult:


    The Red Dragon Cult that worships the red dragon "Night Fang" Asardron.


    The Green Dragon Cult that worships the green dragon "Azure Blood Violence".


    The Black Dragon Cult that worships the black dragon "Black Dragon Queen" Goglad.


    The White Dragon Cult that worships the white dragon "Son of Winter" Rime.


    The Blue Dragon Cult that worships the blue dragon "Sharptooth" Iryklathagra.


    As for the small Dragon Cult factions that worship other miscellaneous dragons, there are countless of them. They are basically some forces with ill intentions and unclear intentions. They dug out a notorious dragon in history from ancient books and files, and dared to use it as the signboard of the sect, using its name to deceive people.


    Those giant dragons probably can''t ask them for portrait usage fees.


    And the Dragon Worship ruins where Jia Lan and his friends are currently located is obviously one of the many Dragon Worship strongholds.


    Judging from the scale and layout of the ruins, this place is quite formal, but it is not clear which branch of the Dragon Worship it belongs to.


    Since there is no time to study the murals and reliefs in the ruins, Jia Lan cannot determine the detailed faction of this Dragon Worship.


    But from the red dragon reliefs on the secret doors and the details that the dwarves call him "Asadron Worshiper", Jia Lan suspects that this is probably the ruins of the Red Dragon Temple that worships the ancient red dragon "Night Fang Tip" Asadron...The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.


    Alas, the decline of this Red Dragon Temple has long become history. As time passes, the truth seems to have been buried in the dust of the years. Few people know what happened that year that caused the believers of the sect to disappear overnight.


    According to the elders of the Uga dwarves, according to the human calendar, about three thousand years ago, that is, around the 700th year of the Dawn calendar, the Dragon Worship Cult that ruled this underground world suddenly had some kind of change and quietly lost contact with its vassal races.


    After a long wait, the four vassal races that once served the "Dragon Worship Holy Land": the Uga near-earth dwarves of Gusyasdisen, the cold spring tribe lizard hunters of the Toraks Swamp Sea, the Hakaza tribe kobolds of the Frost Iron Mine Road, and the Dunbrook goblins of the Withered Hills, began to try to regain control of their own destiny.


    The first to take action were the Hakaza tribe kobolds and the Dunbrook goblins with amazing fertility. These two relatively weak races quickly became the most powerful of the four vassal races with their strong fertility.


    After being squeezed by the kobolds and goblins, the lizard hunters of the Cold Spring Tribe relied on their strong reproductive ability and powerful strength to firmly control the only exit from the underground world to the surface - the secret waterway in the Toraksh Swamp Sea, cutting off the connection between the other three tribes and the outside world.


    The Uga tribe, the near-ground dwarves who were originally responsible for guarding the holy land, became the most vulnerable group in this underground area after losing the protection of their masters due to their sparse population and long growth period.


    "Now, there are less than 3,000 of us Ugar dwarves in Gusyasdi Sen. Large tracts of forests have been occupied by lizard hunters, kobolds and goblins, and our living space is constantly being compressed!" The Ugar dwarf elder of Bloodmane Village said angrily, "Originally, with our powerful combat power and superb equipment manufacturing capabilities, we could suppress the invasion of the other three tribes, but the cold iron mine road was blocked by the Hakaza kobolds, and the lava river was cut off by the Dunbrook goblins. We have lost our equipment advantage..."


    "In addition, the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters have obtained a large amount of surface equipment and supplies from somewhere. We are almost unable to resist..."


    "But now it''s good. Your Majesty the Saint Sammaster has returned. You will definitely lead our Ugar dwarves to wipe out those traitors!" The dwarf elder looked at Jia Lan enthusiastically, "Your Majesty, please summon the ''Holy Land Guards'' and ''Dragon Riders'' to kill all those rebels!"


    Jia Lan was a little embarrassed. Summon the "Holy Land Guards" and "Dragon Riders"? He had never even heard of it!


    As for the "Holy Land Guards", Jia Lan could probably guess that they might be the golden skeletons and skeleton knights in the cemetery on the second floor of the ruins, but what the hell was the "Dragon Knights of the Guardians of the Church"?


    Jia Lan coughed dryly and changed the subject: "You just mentioned that the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters received support from surface materials?"


    "Yes, Your Majesty!"


    The old dwarf elder climbed up with difficulty and took out some weapons and armor to show Jia Lan: "These are spoils captured in the battle, but unfortunately they are just inferior products and are not very useful to us dwarves!"


    With the exquisite forging skills of the dwarves, they can indeed despise most blacksmiths.


    Jia Lan took a weapon and looked at it. The quality of the battle axe was not bad, and the market price would not be less than ten gold talans.


    As for those half-body armors, they were obviously used by humans. The lizard hunters were as tall as humans, but they were slightly thinner and could barely wear them.


    And with the standard oak barrel body of the dwarves, don''t even think about wearing them.


    Old Jimmy at the side took the half-body armor and looked at it. He exclaimed, attracting Jia Lan''s attention. He pointed to the emblem on the half-body armor and said, "This is armor produced by several equipment stores in Kelan City!"


    Jia Lan was puzzled and said, "How could it be? According to the dwarves, the Toraksh Swamp Sea, the territory of the Cold Spring Lizard Hunters, is located in the east of the underground world. If my sense of direction and distance are correct, it is very likely to be connected to the ''Torak Swamp'' in Dagon County..."


    Halfway through, Jia Lan suddenly stopped and looked at Captain Kenmet in surprise: "JQ Association!?"


    Some time ago, the conflict between the Kelan City Mercenary Guild Branch and the Pharmacist Guild was, to put it bluntly, a conflict with the QJ Association.


    In order to suppress the mercenary forces, the other party used the power and channels in their hands to restrict the industry within Kelan City, and banned the sale of weapons, equipment and various material resources to mercenaries, and the two sides were in a mess.


    At that time, I just thought it was just the other party''s means, but now I think there are many doubts!


    No matter how powerful the JQ Association is, it is impossible to control all industries in the entire region and prohibit them from selling weapons, equipment and materials to mercenaries.


    The only way is for them to spend their own money to buy all the materials in various industries. Only when the interests of those industries are not affected, it is possible to cooperate with them to put pressure on the Mercenary Guild.


    The mercenaries who could not buy materials in the Kelan City area had to purchase them from the surrounding areas, but found that there were also forces that were purchasing materials on a large scale, so that the competition between the two sides caused prices to continue to rise.


    If it is said that the JQ Association spent all its capital to suppress the Mercenary Guild, it would be too ridiculous. How could those guys in the JQ Association who pursue wealth do such a thing that is not worth the loss?


    It would cost a lot of money to accumulate so many materials. If they were sold at the market price in the whole city, would they still plan to sell them at the market price at that time?


    For such a long time, there has been no sign of the JQ Association experiencing any shortage of funds or backlog of resources, and we don¡¯t even know where the supplies intercepted by the JQ Association have gone... but now they appear in the hands of the lizard hunters in the secret underground world?

 Chapter159

    "JQ Association actually colluded with the goblin tribe of Dagon?" The face of the head of Kenmet suddenly darkened.


    It is strictly forbidden to provide weapons and equipment to the goblin tribe of Dagon. This is the consensus of all the surrounding forces.


    Since the revival of civilization after the Great Destruction, the goblins have gradually regained the wisdom of their ancestors.


    But it is undeniable that most members of this race that is like weeds in every corner of the Star Continent are still engaged in occupations such as pickpockets, villains, robbers, and robbers, and mercenaries are already their most respectable and formal occupations.


    What is most disgusting is that the goblins still think that they are the masters of the "Khorvare Continent", the predecessor of the Star Continent, and have strong hostility towards all those who stand on "their land", viewing them as invaders and plunderers.


    From an academic point of view, there is nothing wrong with the goblins calling themselves "the masters of the Khorvare Continent". After all, tens of thousands of years ago, the "Khorvare Continent" did belong to the "Dakkan Goblin Empire" that ruled the entire continent.


    However, that was tens of thousands of years ago.


    Today, the Khorvaire continent has long been broken into the current Star Continent, but the goblins still retain this strong patriotic sentiment, which is really disgusting.


    As the gathering place of the goblin race, Dagon County is full of countless ambitious people, dictators and warlords.


    Although they cannot cause too much trouble to the surrounding areas for the time being, as a race that is always ready to "restore the country" and rule the entire continent, they are not welcome.


    In order to avoid trouble for themselves and their neighbors, it has become a consensus among the surrounding forces not to provide too many resources and weapons and equipment to the Dagon area.


    Because no one can predict when those crazy goblins will do something that is a headache.


    If the JQ Association dares to defy the world and subsidize the goblins of Dagon at this time, then this is no longer just a problem in the city of Coran, but it is very likely to trigger joint sanctions from the surrounding forces, causing great trouble to Zirago!


    "What on earth are those guys in the JQ Association thinking?" Captain Kenmet cursed inwardly, but he really couldn''t figure out what the point of the JQ Association''s actions was.


    For the JQ Association, once the goblin armed forces invaded Zilargo, they would be the ones who would be most affected.


    Once the war breaks out, it will cause a huge blow to the transportation, economy, and people''s livelihood in various places, and the losses of those JQ Association nobles will be immeasurable.


    Not to mention that the JQ Association secretly funded the goblin warlords in Dagon. Even if outsiders led the goblin warlords to attack Zilargo County, the JQ Association nobles who valued money as their lives would be the first to rush in.


    In a sense, although the JQ Association nobles monopolized the economic lifeline of Zilargo County, on the other hand, they were also one of the most loyal guardians of Zilargo County with strong financial resources and well-armed.


    "Could it be the private behavior of Baron Aldington Rodney, a JQ noble in Coran City?" As core members of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, several middle and senior magicians are not only an important deterrent force for the team, but also serve as military advisors and think tanks. They put forward different opinions to Captain Kenmet.


    However, all this is just their speculation. Without substantial evidence, they can''t even accuse the "Baron Blood Hand" to the city-state councils in various places. Some helpless mercenaries turned their attention to the initiator of this ruins exploration.


    Jia Lan thought about it and suggested: "Well, whether it is or not, we can''t stop it now, so let''s figure out what''s going on first?"


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    Besides, even if the JQ nobles in Coran City are restless and attract the goblin warlord forces to invade Zirago, what does it have to do with him?


    That is something that the mayors of the major cities in Zilargo County should consider!


    Even if the turmoil in Zilargo County is good for him, will those goblins be crazy enough to attack Komo University?


    Damage to the industry?


    What industry under Jia Lan''s name would be damaged?


    The only industry is still as desolate and dilapidated as a ruin. To put it bluntly, the Cole Pharmacy is a processing production line, and the production equipment can be disassembled and transported or hidden at any time.


    So, even if a war breaks out, Jia Lan''s industry will not be damaged, but it is very likely to make a lot of "war windfall".


    In war, the consumption of medicine is no less than other military supplies.


    Jia Lan''s attitude of not caring about it made the mercenaries look at each other in bewilderment.


    Kenmet could only shrug his shoulders. As the leader of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group, he was like Jia Lan. Even if there was unrest in Zirag County, these mercenaries would not lose anything, but would gain a lot from it... After all, war is their home ground!


    It was because his uncle was the president and councilor of the Mercenary Guild''s Coran City branch that Kenmet unconsciously took the place of the councilors in Coran City and worried a little about them.


    "Next, how should we plan our itinerary?" Kenmet looked at Jia Lan, with a glimmer of exploration in his eyes, "Continue to go deeper into this unknown underground kingdom?"


    Jia Lan shook his head gently, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "No, our journey to the ruins will come to an end for the time being."


    "War?" Kenmet repeated Jia Lan''s words in surprise. Suddenly, he realized that what Jia Lan meant was not simply to fight against the goblin warlords supported by the JQ Association, but to revive the glory of this underground world with "force"!


    Jia Lan asked humbly: "Respected elder, how many brave and skilled dwarf warriors can the Uga tribe currently gather?"


    The Bloodmane dwarf elder pondered for a moment and replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, our Uga tribe has four major clans in Gusyasdi Forest, namely, Fiery Mane, Black Mane, Yellow Mane and our Bloodmane, scattered in more than 20 villages. Excluding the elderly, women and children, we can summon at least a thousand adult dwarf warriors!"


    Jia Lan''s eyes flashed with wisdom: "I plan to rebuild the ''Holy Land'' in the name of ''True Knowledge Society'' and restore its former glory! But this requires a lot of manpower!"


    Jia Lan smiled and added: "Please convey the message for me, the ''Holy Land'' summons the warriors of the Uga tribe to bring their families and move to the Holy Land. Food, resources, everything will be provided by the Holy Land!"


    A flash of excitement flashed in the eyes of the dwarf elder. He straightened his old body, solemnly beat his chest and swore, then turned around to convey the sacred will of "His Majesty the Saint" to his tribe.


    The dwarves, who were originally immersed in joy, suddenly burst into warm cheers, shocking the mercenaries present.


    The dwarves did not question the sudden change of the name of the Dragon Worship Church. As a "faith group" with a long history, the Dragon Worship Church had countless aliases. From "Dragon Worship" to "True Knowledge", it was just another transformation.


    Under the passionate call of the village chief and leader Barend Bloodmane Uga, sixty or seventy silver-level dwarf warriors quickly gathered, carrying weapons and dry food, formed five teams, and immediately set off for other villages.


    In just one day, the news of the reconstruction of the holy land could spread to every corner of Gusyasdisen.


    In order to win the trust of the elders and leaders of each village, Elder Bloodmane asked Jialan to write a letter of "Holy Land Call" in the underground dwarven language, and with the help of four "domain statues", leave four different arcane rune marks on the animal skin.


    Jialan was surprised to find that the "domain statues" also carried the function of official seals. Fortunately, as a "magician", he was able to control these four "domain statues" that needed to be injected with arcane energy, leaving mysterious rune marks.


    Under the leadership of the elders, the dwarves of the Bloodmane clan began to relocate the village.


    For them, those wooden houses built by twisted dwarves were not too nostalgic. They only needed to pack up the commonly used tools and accumulated ores and iron ingots.


    The dwarves are natural blacksmiths and stonemasons, and they are also masters of underground construction. They are known as the "stone nation" and have a natural affinity with rocks.


    The mine tunnel they dug was stable and safe, and even this dragon worship temple was built under the guidance of the ancestors.


    Therefore, Jia Lan was confident in accommodating the nearly 3,000 dwarves who were coming. The living area of ??the believers on the second floor of the ruins was enough to accommodate them, not to mention the wider first floor of the ruins.


    Regardless of the original use of the halls and functional areas in the ruins, they have now become empty underground buildings. With the communication mirror and the transmission statue, Jia Lan has made it extremely convenient to mobilize supplies.


    Compared with the underground world with scarce resources, the surface world is rich in resources. You only need to spend gold to buy anything you need.


    1,600 mercenaries of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group were urgently summoned to clean up the ruins with the dwarves and make full preparations for this underground war.


    Unfortunately, for confidentiality reasons, Jia Lan cannot recruit a large number of hired workers to assist for the time being, otherwise the progress will be faster.


    While the dwarves and mercenaries were busy, Jia Lan sat together with several elderly dwarf elders to discuss the mysteries of the four regions of this underground world.

 Chapter160

    In this mysterious underground kingdom, there are three treasures: Gusyasdisen, Toraksh Swamp Sea, Withered Hills and Cold Iron Mine Road, quietly telling their legends.


    Although Jialan has not set foot in these areas in person, through the delicate description of Elder Blood Mane, he seems to be in that deep underground world.


    Toraksh Swamp Sea and Withered Hills are like the mud and desolation left by Mother Earth. The former is hidden in the underground cave and is muddy.


    The latter is connected to the Torak Swamp in the outside world, and the swamp is everywhere.


    The Cold Iron Mine Road is an underground vein that was dug like a spider web at the beginning of the construction of the Dragon Worship Temple.


    In this mine, there is a rare secret metal "cold iron", which is not only extremely sharp, but also has the power of freezing and amazing toughness.


    In the world of arcane metals, although cold iron is not as noble as fine gold and mithril, it is comparable to metals such as burning iron.


    Although cold iron veins are rare, traces of them can occasionally be found in some mines as deep as 500 meters.


    However, this metal hidden deep underground is extremely strange and difficult to melt with ordinary flames. It can only be refined by the low-temperature forging method mastered by the alchemy laboratory.


    Like all arcane metals, conventional smelting methods are futile for them and may even destroy their materials. Only secret techniques or arcane methods can give them new life.


    However, in this underground kingdom, there are amazing cold iron veins, and the near-earth dwarves are the top craftsmen who handle these metals.


    Jia Lan once marveled at the metal cage made of pure cold iron in the Rat Cage Hall. Now thinking about it, this is probably the masterpiece of the ancestors of the Uga dwarves who participated in the construction of the Dragon Worship Temple.


    In Bloodmane Village, Jia Lan discovered that the armor worn by the dwarves, the hammers they used, and even the pickaxes and iron chisels in their hands were all made of cold iron. If this happened in the outside world, it would undoubtedly cause a crazy fight.


    However, although cold iron is precious, it also has its limitations.


    Pure cold iron is soft in texture and not suitable for making slashing weapons.


    But its natural sharpness makes it an excellent material for making piercing weapons such as arrows.


    However, the value of cold iron is equivalent to the same weight of gold. Who would be willing to use such expensive arrows to fight?


    The dwarves are indeed natural casting masters. Their understanding of the properties of metals is almost instinctive. Their big hammers and rough armor seem bulky, but they are just right for the powerful dwarves.


    The cold attribute armor protects them from high temperatures and allows them to work in front of the furnace for a long time. The big hammer, as a weapon of blunt damage, avoids the weakness of soft texture.


    Adding one-tenth of cold iron to a weapon is enough to improve its quality to an excellent level. However, in this underground world, cold iron is used to make rat cages, which is extremely luxurious.


    But then again, it is not the fault of the residents here, because they only have cold iron ore!


    Jia Lan couldn''t help but sigh: 8 million gold talans to buy the ownership of the Doom Castle is really worth it. The cold iron ore produced alone is valuable enough, and in the hands of Jia Lan, a spellcaster, the role of cold iron is far more than the weapons and equipment in the hands of blacksmiths.


    "The central area you mentioned can lead to the underground forest at a lower level?" Jia Lan asked uncertainly after hearing the news revealed by Elder Blood Mane.


    Originally thought that this was the bottom of the underground world, but unexpectedly, there was a passage leading to a deeper depth in the central area. If this continues, they may be able to directly enter the range of the dark area!If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.


    Elder Bloodmane nodded and said, "Yes, in fact, the forest we are in is just a small forest derived from the real ''Gusyasdi Forest'' below."


    Jia Lan was speechless.


    According to Elder Bloodmane, the "Dusk Ramp" near the central area is the only way to enter the lower level.


    In other directions, there are cliffs hundreds of meters deep! The largest clan of the Uga near-ground dwarves, Liemang Village, is built on the top of the Dusk Ramp and has built a checkpoint to prevent dangerous creatures in Gusyasdisen from invading the upper level.


    "Dangerous creatures?" Jia Lan''s face suddenly became solemn when he heard this: "What is hidden underneath?"


    Elder Bloodmane looked at Jia Lan with a hint of surprise in his eyes, as if wondering why this "saint" of the Dragon Worship Cult knew nothing about the situation in the Holy Land.


    But Elder Bloodmane immediately explained: "Dragon! Gusyasdisen is the ranch where the Holy Land used to raise dragons!"


    Jia Lan couldn''t help but take a breath when he heard this.


    A ranch where dragons are raised?


    Could it be that dragons can be tamed?


    However, Jia Lan quickly came to his senses.


    In the language of the pre-civilized Khorvaire continent, the word "dragon" has multiple meanings. Depending on the syllables, suffixes, and object-predicate quantifiers, it can refer to a variety of creatures such as "real dragons, sub-dragons, dragon-like creatures, pseudo-dragons, dragon descendants, and dragon beasts".


    In the language of the underground dwarves, "dragon" refers specifically to a certain type of dragon.


    Due to the changes in the times and the different contexts, Jia Lan could not tell which kind of "dragon" Elder Bloodmane was talking about.


    Jia Lan knew that the "dragons" described in folk adventure novels were very different from real dragons.


    Most of the "dragons" that appeared in front of ordinary people were just in name only.


    As for the stories of those brave knights who bravely broke into the dragon''s cave to rescue the princess, it was even more absurd.


    Real dragons, even the weakest species, are by no means a match for human power.


    Going alone to rescue the princess?


    That''s simply courting death!


    However, in this ruin of the Dragon Worship Cult, Jia Lan did not dare to take it lightly. Who knows if those ancient Dragon Worship Cultists have mastered some mysterious means to communicate with dragons?


    Of course, Jia Lan can be sure that the so-called "Dragon Ranch" does not raise "real dragons".


    Because the proud real dragons cannot be tamed, and of course they cannot be any powerful dragon species. Even the weakest dragon species cannot be stopped by hundreds of dwarves.


    What''s more, according to Elder Bloodmane, there are not only one or two dragons in the Dragon Ranch, but a large number of "dragon groups".


    Jia Lan knows very well that dragons are solitary creatures. They need a vast territory as a hunting ground. Even if they meet, they may fight. How can they come in groups?


    No matter how large the area of ??Gusyasdi Sen is, it is impossible to accommodate so many dragons.


    In this barren underground world, what can be used to feed these behemoths? Do dragons eat grass?


    "There are currently about a dozen species of dragons in the lower layer of Gusiasdi Forest, but the number is not large. The largest group has only a dozen or so..." Elder Bloodmane continued, "The Fierymane Clan guards the Dusk Slope mainly to defend the ''Dragon Spiritual Light Array''. The dragons dare not force their way into the slope."


    "What the Liezong Clan is really defending is the ''Withered Thorn Tree Man'' derived from the ''Gusyas Vampire Owl Tree'' in the lower layer of Gusyas Forest! In addition, there are some strange animals and plants in the lower layer. Once they invade the upper layer, they will directly threaten our living environment!"


    "''Gusyas Vampire Owl Tree''? ''Withered Thorn Tree Man''?" Jia Lan''s face changed suddenly when he heard this. He had never heard of these two terms.


    But Jia Lan knew something about the "Owl Tree". This carnivorous plant is known as the "Tree of Death".


    If there is such a tree in the forest, it can almost be concluded that there will be no survivors here.


    The curse, illusion and other abilities of the "Owl Tree" itself are not terrible. The most terrible thing is that it can transform the intelligent creatures that are seduced and devoured by it into its own wooden puppets to serve and fight for itself!


    Of course, this is only the ability of the "Owl Wood" that Jia Lan knows, and this secret plant called "Gusyas Vampire Owl Wood" by Elder Blood Mane has obviously mutated and is completely different from what he knows!


    According to Elder Blood Mane, this Owl Wood was first planted by the Dragon Worship Saint thousands of years ago to imprison a vampire demon.


    However, as time went by, the vampire demon imprisoned in the Owl Wood gradually woke up, and instead devoured the Owl Wood, turning into this terrible "Vampire Owl Wood".


    Fortunately, the ban set by the Dragon Worship Saint is still in effect. The Vampire Owl Wood cannot leave the seal and can only rely on controlling the wooden puppet to try to break free from the seal, which allows Gusyas Disen to maintain the status quo!


    However, the situation has been getting worse and worse.


    Over the years, the number of those stupid dog-headed people and goblins controlled by the Vampire Owl Wood has increased, and they even dare to hunt dragons for them to suck.


    This made the power of the Vampire Owl stronger and stronger, and gradually showed signs of breaking free from the seal.


    Fortunately, the powerful dragon group destroyed a large number of withered thorn tree people controlled by the Vampire Owl, and the Vampire Owl also hunted a large number of dragons.


    This kept the power of both sides in a delicate balance, which allowed the four major tribes in this underground world to survive.

 Chapter161

    Jia Lan gently rubbed his painful brow. This Red Dragon Cult ruins is like a maze, full of unknown mysteries.


    The four vassal underground races, the cold spring tribe lizard hunters who colluded with the JQ Association, the dragon ranch in the lower layer of Gusyasdi Forest, the vampire owl wood...


    There are many areas that have not been set foot on. Potential danger points such as the mausoleum hall, the dragon worship cemetery, and the dark well make people feel cold.


    Although it seems calm at present, as the guardian of this ruins, Jia Lan cannot turn a blind eye to these potential threats.


    Combining the existing intelligence and the story of Elder Blood Mane, Jia Lan gradually pieced together some clues.


    The large number of dark mocha rats raised in the rat cage hall may not be used for combat, but as a delicacy for the dragons raised by the Red Dragon Cult.


    The flying head barbarian that led them into the ruins was probably the blood-sucking owl tree in the lower layer of Gusyas Disen. Elder Bloodmane once mentioned that a blood-sucking demon was sealed in that owl tree.


    Jia Lan pondered over what else could create a blood-sucking creature like the flying head barbarian, except for undead creatures like vampires.


    However, this clue was not a good sign for Jia Lan, because it meant that the demon seal in the Gusyas blood-sucking owl tree was gradually loosening, and it might even extend its tentacles beyond the surface through derivatives like the flying head barbarian.


    Many mysteries were intertwined, making Jia Lan feel a little confused. The current priority was to solve the cold spring tribe lizard hunters who colluded with the JQ Association, because they controlled a secret waterway leading to the outside world, which was another exit from this underground world besides the dungeon controlled by Jia Lan.


    Why did the JQ Association collude with the lizard hunters? What was their purpose? Why were they eyeing this underground world?


    This hidden danger must be eliminated!


    Because if the people of the JQ Association break the seal of the vampire demon in ignorance, once it breaks free, it will bring a terrible catastrophe to the surface world!


    Solving these problems is urgent, not just to protect one''s own property!


    What worries Jia Lan now is that the exit of the underground world is not the only one. Since the vampire demon can send the flying head barbarians into the Doom Castle, it may also escape from the underground world from another exit!


    Once this vampire spreads in the surface world, its destructive power will be comparable to a plague!


    The Uga dwarves who received the "holy land call" are migrating to the "holy land". After cleaning up the explored ruins, 1,600 mercenaries of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Corps were transferred to the Dusk Slope by Captain Kenmet to assist the Uga dwarves of the Liemane Clan in guarding the lower level of Gusyasdisen.


    And the Uga dwarves who have moved to the holy land, after settling down, were also arranged by Jia Lan to upgrade everyone''s equipment!


    A large amount of materials purchased from the surface world were transported to the ruins, and the tools of the blacksmith''s workshop were installed in a specially vacated hall. The dwarves were enthusiastically engaged in forging work.


    Due to the problem of the ruins, Jia Lan has been stranded under the Doom Castle. The news from above shows that the situation in Kolan City is also serious. A large number of street gangs are rampant in Kolan City, and the city guards under the Civil Affairs Council are difficult to suppress.


    What''s worse is that since the "Seven Continents Magic Academy Joint Competition" held by Komo Academy was held in Kelan City, a large number of magic academy teams from all over the seven continents gathered here, resulting in a high density of foreign mercenary groups responsible for escorting them to Kelan City.


    Even mercenaries from the same mercenary guild branch often have conflicts, and it is almost impossible for mercenaries from different places to live in peace. During their stay in Kelan City, these foreign mercenary groups almost messed up the public security of Kelan City!This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.


    Every tavern has become a battlefield for local mercenaries and foreign mercenaries. They are happy to fight for seats, quarrels and some trivial matters, and even more than a dozen large-scale mercenary wars have broken out.


    During this period, various crimes and vicious violent incidents in Kelan City have emerged one after another, making the city guards and mercenary guilds responsible for the city''s public security in a mess.


    President Clark was so busy that he had to temporarily hand over the cooperation with the Cole Pharmacy under Jia Lan''s name to another partner, Clifford, the president of the Eternal Hammer Auction House, while he fully assisted the city guards in maintaining the city''s public security.


    As Jia Lan expected, the more chaotic the environment, the higher the sales performance of Cole Pharmacy. After discovering the various potions supplied in bulk in Cole City, a large number of foreign mercenaries who poured into Cole City almost frantically rushed to buy the stocks of the pharmacy under the name of Cole Pharmacy.


    Although the potion production line of Cole Pharmacy in Doom Castle has been working overtime day and night, the daily potion output has not been delivered to the pharmacy before it is sold out by various organizations that come to pick up the goods.


    In order to stabilize the public security of Cole City and appease the foreign mercenaries who know that there is a bulk supply of potions but cannot get the goods, the Mercenary Guild has to suspend the supply to the outside world and give priority to satisfying these outsiders from all over the world.


    However, this decision has led to dissatisfaction among various forces in Zilargo County that have signed supply contracts with Cole Pharmaceuticals.


    The seemingly amazing output of Cole Pharmaceuticals is actually just a drop in the ocean of the huge demand in Zilargo County.


    Under the situation of supply exceeding demand, forces from all over the country are anxious and even personally send teams to Kolan City in an attempt to "get there first".


    This move undoubtedly plunged Kolan City into a deeper vortex of chaos.


    In this chaos, the mastermind behind the scenes seems to be secretly controlling everything, but the Civil Affairs Council is helpless and lacks solid evidence. They can only watch the situation deteriorate.


    What is more worrying is that there may be people who are trying to disrupt the situation within the Civil Affairs Council, making it difficult to pass emergency decisions.


    In this battle for interests carefully planned by those with ulterior motives, the spokespersons of the major forces in Kolan City, those councilors, were also ruthlessly involved.


    They are busy all day long pursuing personal gain for their family and power, and have no time to take care of civil affairs.


    The paralysis of the city management agency has made the public security situation worse and worse. Merchants have taken advantage of the situation to maliciously hoard supplies and drive up prices. The commercial fleet at the dock has also stopped operating for various reasons. The entire city seems to be about to collapse.


    Komo University, this pure land of academics, was originally immune to this storm, but with the dereliction of duty of the external staff of the college management office, student management fell into chaos and material supply was also stretched.


    This storm finally affected the college, and the "Seven Continents Magic College Joint Competition" that was being prepared was also affected.


    Faced with this dilemma, the College Administration Office and the Mentor Supervision Association angrily dismissed the external staff who had failed to perform their duties and temporarily relieved them of their management positions.


    However, although these external staff were not in a high position, they were the backbone of the college''s daily operations. Their departure made the professors and mentors who were used to having someone take care of trivial matters flustered for a while.


    The only thing that was not swept by the storm was the Komo Book Bar. This department, which was run by the library itself, was still well managed and operated, with sufficient supplies, as if it was isolated from the world.


    The College Administration Office and the Tutor Supervision Association noticed this and immediately contacted the Book Bar Management Department, but they were surprised to find that the maverick academic librarian had already left the school.


    During the time that Jia Lan was away, the library and the book bar had been operated by the girls in the management department according to the detailed management system he had formulated.


    This novel management model of student self-governance aroused great interest from the college''s senior management. They ordered the Book Bar Management Department to notify the librarian to return to school immediately to assist the college in taking over management responsibilities and ensure the smooth convening of the "Seven Continents Magic School Joint Competition".


    In the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult under the Castle of Doom, Jia Lan was busy. When he learned the news and returned to the college, it was two days later.


    The three sisters, Alan Hogg, Gasley Brown, and Anlia Brown, who stayed in the library book bar, had already contacted Casey and Div of Doom Castle through several old mercenaries of the Iguana Fang Mercenary Group.


    Casey and Div informed Jia Lan, who was deep underground, of the news through the communication mirror, but now Jia Lan could not get away for a while.


    After finally arranging everything, Jia Lan left the communication mirror to the leader of Kenmet, the elders of the Uga dwarves, and Casey and Div, respectively, in case of emergency, and then hurried back to Komo University.


    Facing a large group of young magic apprentices full of expectations, Jia Lan couldn''t help but sigh. Why do troubles always come one after another?

 Chapter162

    "In the markets of various branches of the college, those external staff serving the campus markets and restaurants have been temporarily fired and expelled from the campus to ensure that the internal atmosphere of the college is not disturbed by external factors."


    "However, this move has caused various services to stagnate, and students have reacted strongly to this. Even the external student groups are a little uneasy..."


    Alan sat upright and reported to Jia Lan in detail about the current situation of the college: "In order to deal with this dilemma, we temporarily use the book bar as a substitute for service projects, which naturally increases our urgent procurement needs for various materials."


    There are many descendants of prominent local families in Kolan City in Komo College. Although their actions are relatively simple, they are inevitably influenced by family concepts, making their behavior have family colors.


    The school can fire external staff who cause trouble outside the school, but it is difficult to expel students!


    Students who are in the rebellious period of youth, under the instigation of those with ulterior motives, are prone to make some impulsive actions, such as conflicts with students from other schools who come to participate in the "Seven Continents Magic Academy Joint Competition".


    As for the real purpose of those behind-the-scenes people trying to disrupt Komo Academy, we don''t need to guess. What is certain is that it is definitely not a good thing.


    Jia Lan is not interested in such trivial matters. He only focuses on completing the mission assigned to him by the top management of the academy.


    While listening to Alan''s report, Jia Lan flipped through the appointment letter in his hand and couldn''t help but smile.


    Jia Lan, who has rich experience in academy management, knows very well that young students are easily influenced by others, but they are also the easiest group to appease and manage.


    In view of the convening of the "Seven Continents Magic Academy Joint Competition", most of the academy''s courses have been suspended, and students have been left to study on their own. These idle students, under the instigation of a very small number of people with ulterior motives, it would be strange if there were no conflicts.


    Those who can be brought by teachers to participate in the joint competition are all the best of the major magic academies. They are all arrogant and naturally look down on students from other academies. This mentality and attitude will inevitably cause friction in daily life.


    However, the magic professors and mentors who were supposed to suppress the students disappeared in the institute under the pretext of discussing the joint competition, which led to the increasing conflicts among the students.


    Jia Lan couldn''t help but complain in his heart. Those old guys were not discussing the competition at all. They clearly took advantage of this opportunity to pull a few like-minded magic professors from other schools to hide and study their own magic projects.


    Is it really appropriate to let these full-time magic professors and mentors stay out of the matter and push the trouble to himself, the librarian?


    Sighing, Jia Lan looked up at the group of young students sitting in front of him. They were all outstanding magic apprentices, but they were all young and energetic. Could they really cooperate with him to manage the college?


    The Student Union of Komo University has a complex structure, which is divided into four levels: the college general meeting, the branch branch, the department branch and the class meeting.


    Each class has a member of the Student Union, each department has ten student representatives, and each branch has about one hundred student consuls.


    The entire student union has nearly a thousand people, representing hundreds of thousands of students at Komo University.


    In this joint competition, more than thirty magic schools from seven continents participated. With nearly a hundred students from each school, the total number of students from other schools reached more than three thousand.


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    "Hey! New ''Dean of College Affairs'', do you have anything to announce? If not, let''s adjourn! We are all very busy!"


    "That''s right, we have been waiting for a long time!"


    "What the hell are the people from Komo University doing? What a waste of time!"


    In the magnificent college conference hall, nearly a thousand student representatives gathered together, but because of Jia Lan''s long silence, there was a burst of noise, and the laughter and conversation intertwined into a lively ocean.


    Jia Lan finally looked up with a faint smile on her lips: "Since you are so anxious, I will not elaborate and directly announce a few orders. I hope that the members of the Student Union of each branch and department can follow them..."


    Before the voice fell, the venue was boiling: "Wait! How can we not discuss orders and decisions with us? It''s too arbitrary!"


    "That''s right! Do you think you are a high and mighty professor?"


    "Be quiet! Listen to what he says first!"


    "Student, what qualifications do you have to speak to a senior like this and ask us to keep quiet?"


    Alan and other girls who came to assist Jia Lan looked pale in the face of this chaotic scene, and looked at Jia Lan helplessly.


    They are just freshmen who have just started their first year, and the people under the stage are all seniors!


    Jia Lan looked down at his light blue magic robe, smiled slightly, and locked his eyes on the young man who started the fight first: "Who are you?"


    The young man held his head high and proudly showed the school badge on his chest: "Fire Academy Magic Student, President of the Fire Branch of the Student Union, Jones Kasmer!"


    "Oh? So you are the famous ''Flame Lion'' of the Kasmer family?" Jia Lan glanced at the school badge on his chest and knew that the school system of Komo University, from "primary apprentice" to "intermediate trainee" and then to "advanced study", each step represents the advancement of the magic road.


    Jones Cosmer, known as the "Flame Lion", has the honor of being a "Junior Magician" and is actually qualified to graduate.


    However, he, who is gifted, chose to stay in the academy and continue to study more advanced magic knowledge.


    At this stage, many students, like Jones Kasmer, no longer attend classes with a large number of students, but are accepted as disciples by magic professors to teach exclusive magic.


    Although they are still students, they have assumed certain responsibilities in the academy, such as teaching junior students, which is quite similar to Jia Lan''s experience as an assistant lecturer.


    If their magic skills are further improved and they reach the level of intermediate or even advanced magicians, and they are still unwilling to leave the academy, they can stay in school as magic instructors, join the Magic Guidance Association within Komo University, and officially become a member of this magic institution.


    This is the practice of Komo University and even the magic academies of various continents in the Star Continent.


    This "Flame Lion" of the Kasmer family became a "trainee" at the age of 20. He is indeed a gifted genius. But... so what?


    Jia Lan smiled indifferently: "Student Jones Kasmer, why should I discuss this with you?"


    Jones was stunned and said angrily: "I have the right to participate in the affairs of the ''Student Self-Supervision Management Department''!"


    "Oh? As the Minister of College Affairs Supervision, how could I not know that you have this right?" Jia Lan shook the appointment letter in his hand and said with a smile: "If it is appointed by the College Affairs Management Office or the Tutor Supervision Association, please show the appointment letter so that I can arrange a position for you."


    Jones was speechless and shouted angrily: "But I am the president of the Flame Department Branch of the Student Union and one of the thirteen consuls of the College General Assembly. I..."


    "Oh?" Jia Lan glanced at the appointment letter: "It only says that I can select members of the Student Union to participate in the management of the college at my discretion... I don''t seem to have selected you to participate in the work of the College Affairs Supervision Department?"


    "You are a first-year apprentice, what qualifications do you have to be the Minister of Supervision?"


    "That''s right! You should give this position to ''Casmer''! Stop wasting everyone''s time and get off the stage!"


    "We will only believe Kasmer! We won''t believe you!"


    A group of student union members around Kasmer suddenly started to make a noise. The "Flame Lion" who was originally refuted by Jia Lan became proud again and cast a provocative look at Jia Lan.


    So what if you are appointed by the College Administration Office? The entire student union does not obey your management, and your supervision and management department cannot be established at all! Only I, the "Flame Lion" Master Kasmer, am the one that everyone expects!


    While flipping through the materials, Jia Lan casually said, "In this case, students who are unwilling to obey the supervision and management department, please leave the conference hall. We are going to start discussing the management of the college."


    "You!" Kasmer stared at Jia Lan on the stage in disbelief, and bursts of laughter came from the students from other schools on the side, making him feel ashamed. He stood up suddenly and growled, "Let''s go!"


    The members of the Student Union beside Kasmer stood up and followed him out of the conference hall. Even many students from other branches stood up and left, muttering, "Go to hell! Let him play alone!"


    However, before they walked out of the conference hall, Jia Lan''s voice came slowly: "Alan, write down the list of people leaving. On the grounds of disobeying the management of the Supervision Department and obstructing the execution of college affairs, their qualifications for participating in the joint competition, membership of the Student Union, all scholarships and research funds for this academic year will be cancelled, and 50£¥ of the credits for this academic year will be deducted..."


    The crowd that was about to leave the conference hall suddenly froze in their tracks. Kasmer and the others turned around angrily and yelled at Jia Lan, "What right do you have to do this..."

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    Jia Lan leisurely raised the appointment letter, with a hint of innocence in his eyes: "Sorry, it''s written in black and white that I happen to have these rights."


    Kasmer was almost furious and roared: "You bastard! I want to duel with you..."


    "Boom!" As soon as Kasmer finished speaking, the whole person turned into a residual shadow and was instantly blown away, disappearing from the front door of the conference hall.


    Jia Lan took his hand back and tapped the table lightly, then lowered his head and continued to flip through the documents in his hand, as if he had just flicked away a fly casually, and then said in a calm tone: "Are there any other students who want to duel with me?"


    Nearly a thousand students present shuddered collectively, muttering in their hearts: This guy is so powerful, and he is so good at pretending...


    Jia Lan lowered his head to look at the documents for a while, then looked up and found a group of students staring at him in amazement, so he smiled coldly and said: "Why haven''t you left yet? Students who want to leave, please leave quickly, and those who don''t leave, please return to your seats and sit down, the meeting is about to begin."


    Those members of the Student Union who originally planned to leave looked at each other, and all returned to their original positions silently and sat down obediently.


    "Well, before the meeting officially starts, I would like to ask, does anyone have any objection to my position as the Minister of the College Affairs Supervision Department of the ''Student Self-Supervision Management Department''? If there is no objection, we will start the first meeting of the College Affairs Supervision Department."


    No one answered.


    Jia Lan nodded with satisfaction: "Now I will announce an appointment. Alan Hogg, Garth Brown, Anlia Brown...Minnie, Luerna, Cindy, Eve, Lisa...The above personnel will serve as members of the secretarial office of the College Affairs Supervision Department. Alan and Minnie will serve as the director and deputy director of the secretarial office respectively, assisting the director of the Supervision Department, that is, me, to handle college affairs."


    "Jasper Gabriel will serve as the director of the Procurement Department.


    Bibb Morris will serve as the director of the Communications Department.


    Winnie Joyce will serve as..."


    Jia Lan issued a series of orders, and most of the appointed students were from local families in Kolan City, and the families behind them happened to be inextricably linked to the positions they held.


    Those students who had just witnessed Jia Lan''s "power" lowered their heads, neither objected nor spoke, and just remained silent.


    "If you think you are not capable enough to take on the above appointments, please put it forward now. If you are unable to complete the tasks assigned by the Supervisory Department once you take office..." Jia Lan ignored the thoughts of these little guys and said lightly: "...I will recommend to the School Administration Office and the Mentor Supervision Association in your evaluation to cancel your positions in the Student Union."


    The young magic apprentices widened their eyes and stared angrily at Jia Lan who looked indifferent.


    This position in the Student Union is very important to the descendants of the local family, and it even affects their inheritance order in the family.


    Most of them are not legitimate children of the family. The reason why they can get the family''s resources is not only because of their good magic talent and high elemental affinity, but more importantly, their achievements in Komo University will affect the family''s "influence" on Komo University.


    If this hateful guy discredits them in their evaluation and causes them to lose the value of the family, then their future will be worrying!


    Jia Lan, who has been overwhelmed by various complicated affairs recently, just wants to quickly solve the work at hand and free up time to deal with other affairs of his own.


    Jia Lan had no time to sympathize with the angry children below. You have to know that in the last era, Jia Lan was the only librarian in the Kolanburg Library after the teachers who was qualified to manage the library''s three million book catalog stones.


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    In the Kolanburg Library, Jia Lan''s status cannot be said to be second to none, but it is definitely a very special existence except for the director and a few masters.


    Even those high-level spellcasters who were equivalent to the current "Golden Great Magician" had to maintain respect in front of him and address him as "Mr. Scholar" or "Mr. Administrator".


    In addition, Jia Lan has been serving as an assistant lecturer in the 12 affiliated colleges for many years, and he is also a legitimate mage noble. His power is inadvertently revealed, which shocked the young magicians of the Student Union. They dared not speak out, but had to obey obediently.


    The students who were inexplicably shocked by Jia Lan''s power and had a little awe of him instinctively began to think hard about how to complete the tasks assigned by the College Affairs Supervision Department.


    Jia Lan did not take the emotions of those students to heart.


    In order to follow the trend of this era, Jia Lan had to take over some tedious affairs, but this did not mean that he needed to take into account the ideas of those "subordinates".


    Due to the disparity in status, those young magicians could not shake his position at all. Therefore, in order to avoid leaving flaws in the evaluation, they should focus on how to complete the tasks efficiently.


    No matter what these young magicians think of him, they must obey the orders of Jia Lan, the "boss", so Jia Lan does not need to worry too much about their emotions.


    Recalling the days in the 12 affiliated colleges of the Kolanburg Library, Jia Lan was nicknamed "devil assistant" and "devil lecturer" among those young magic apprentices.


    However, they had to obey Jia Lan''s orders tremblingly, so it is not surprising that he can control such a group of magic apprentices now.


    "The heads of each department, please form your own team... Well, this is the first task. I want to see the results before sunset!" Jia Lan''s fingers slowly tapped on the wooden table of the podium. The crisp and rhythmic tapping sound sounded like the rustling sound of an executioner sharpening a knife to the young magicians, which was palpitating.


    Jia Lan smiled and said, "Of course, if the heads of departments are not capable enough and cannot complete the task within the specified time, the School Supervision Department will implement the ''last-place elimination system''. After the task deadline, the last head of the department who completed the task will be replaced by a deputy staff member."


    The faces of the young magicians turned pale in an instant, and they imagined the consequences of failing to complete the task.


    The new head of the School Supervision Department acted so arrogantly and unreasonably, but they had to obey because Jia Lan strangled their lifeline.


    What was even more frustrating was that although the orders issued by Jia Lan were difficult, they just happened to be within their capabilities.


    "Now, students, you can go to work..." Jia Lan glanced at the hourglass in the conference room: "You don''t have much time left, less than ten hours left!"


    The young magicians looked at each other, and then fled like frightened rabbits, even those students from other schools were no exception.


    Although they didn''t have to care about Jia Lan''s threats, the punishment of canceling the qualification for the joint competition was enough to make them submit obediently.


    What''s more, the task that Jia Lan gave them was just to simply restrain their own students and cooperate with the work of the Komo University School Affairs Supervision Department.


    Originally, they looked down on the students of Komo University, but now they sympathized with them for having such a terrible "mentor". At the same time, they were also glad that this "mentor" was not working in their own college.


    Seeing those arrogant seniors fleeing in a panic, Alan and the others, who were extremely nervous, were relieved. They looked at the librarian who had always felt very gentle with awe, and found that he had such a strict and terrible side.


    Jia Lan waved to the girl deacons of the book bar. Due to the hasty appointment from the Komo University School Affairs Management Office, he could only temporarily transfer these girl deacons to come over to temporarily replace the clerical work of the School Affairs Supervision Department to assist himself.


    Fortunately, the girls have experienced a school year of tempering in the book bar and have become familiar with various management aspects.


    Although the work contents are different, the principles are the same. They soon became familiar with the work of the hospital supervision department established by Jia Lan.


    All this is due to the management system that Jia Lan has carefully built with inspiration from the knowledge system of another world.


    The beauty of this management system is that, except for some key positions that have certain requirements for the decision-making, judgment, leadership and other abilities of the incumbents, most other positions only need to be implemented in accordance with established rules and regulations.


    The entire system is like a huge and sophisticated "mechanical device". The incumbents of each position are the parts and units of this "mechanical device". If necessary, they can be replaced at any time, or even completely copied into another identical "mechanical device".


    In terms of operation, this system is even more efficient.


    Since the work content of each position is detailed and clear, it only needs to arrange the work content. The incumbents of each position can know their work tasks and complete them by themselves without the need for instructions from the superiors.


    In this way, the entire system can operate autonomously without paying too much attention to and managing the operation of the system.


    Therefore, when Jia Lan copied this system to the College Affairs Supervision Department and added the young butlers of the book bar to the management, he only needed to place the members of the Student Union as "execution units" in the system to easily operate the College Affairs Supervision Department.


    The emotions and thoughts of those "execution units" were completely irrelevant, they only needed to mechanically execute the orders issued by the management.

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    In the pure land of Komo University, Jia Lan, a young librarian who was given the "full management of the college affairs", cleverly dealt with a crisis of infiltration by family forces with his unique wisdom.


    Faced with those families who attempted to expand their power in Komo University during the chaos, Jia Lan did not back down.


    He cleverly used the restless students in the college, especially those with family backgrounds, and made them take on the responsibility of purchasing resources for the college.


    In order to maintain their connection with Komo University, these families had to fully support their own magic apprentices, thus solving the problem of material procurement in a short time.


    At the same time, Jia Lan also expanded the scale of the library book bar and built it into the service center of the college. He used the student resources within the college and turned the participation in service work into the students'' daily "task" rather than a simple "obligation".


    This move not only trained the students'' practical ability, but also cleared out the members hired by the family to disrupt the academic atmosphere of the college one by one, restoring the pure learning environment of the college.


    For the major families in Kolan City, this "infiltration" operation against Komo University is undoubtedly a loss. They not only lost the benefits from this "city within a city", but also lost their influence on Komo University.


    In the chaotic environment of Kolan City, the major families can only accept the decision of the college helplessly. Otherwise, once even the magicians trained by their families are cleared out of the Student Union, it will be an irreparable loss.


    And Jia Lan knows that managing students is not complicated. As long as their demand for resources is met and they are kept busy, they will naturally behave themselves.


    On the eve of the "Seven Continents Magic Academy Joint Competition", Jia Lan issued a large number of "practical tasks" to the students, allowing them to grow in practice and forget disputes in busyness.


    Students of pharmacy were sent to Doom Castle to take over the classification, processing and production of medicinal materials.


    Students of alchemy participated in the assembly line manufacturing of pharmaceutical equipment.


    Students of archaeology and identification are responsible for the identification and restoration of antiques in the ruins.


    Students from the Elemental Master Department were assigned to the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult, each with their own duties, and jointly maintained the order of the ruins.


    For this practical task, Jia Lan even exposed the existence of the underground ruins, but considering that the secret would not be kept for a long time, he chose to arrange students to enter the ruins and officially disclose the secret to the college.


    At the same time, Jia Lan also doubted whether the college leaders had known about the existence of the ruins for a long time, but he believed that with the ownership of the Castle of Doom and the support of Komo University and the Mercenary Guild, he could still obtain the ownership of the ruins.


    The chaotic incident in Kelan City this time provided Jia Lan with a rare opportunity for him to make full use of the power of a large number of magicians.


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    The college leaders handed over the management of the college affairs to him, perhaps as an inspection of him.


    Jia Lan knew that he could not always pretend to be a waste with a "magic-rejecting physique". He had gradually revealed his strength and sent a clear signal to the college leaders.


    As for the issue of Jia Lan "sneaking into" Komo University, he had already made thorough preparations. He believed that the old guys in the college''s upper echelons had already noticed his presence.


    Jia Lan showed goodwill to the college''s top management by managing the library and operating the book bar, which also won him the opportunity to supervise the college affairs.


    Of course, the delicate "dialogue" with the college''s top management will probably have to wait until the turmoil in Kelan City subsides before it can be settled.


    In any case, this "examination" of him by the college''s top management is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for a "breakthrough", which is related to the effectiveness of his previous "layout".


    Komo University has more than 30,000 faculty and staff, and 30,000 students in the main department of elements. The number of students in various disciplines of the auxiliary department is still more than 300,000. This behemoth is by no means something that ordinary forces can reach or control.


    More than 30,000 students in the main department of elements gave the ruins of the Dragon Worship Cult a new look in a moment, and those dilapidated places were made indestructible by thousands of earth magicians.


    As for the underground world, it was almost razed to the ground by the enthusiastic magic apprentices. Many cold spring tribe lizard hunters, Hakaza tribe dog-headed people, and Dunbrook tribe goblins were captured and incorporated into the True Knowledge Society...


    What else can you do if you don''t surrender? Imagine thousands of fireballs or wind blades coming all over the place. Even if most of them are level one fireballs or level one wind blades, even if there are more of them, it is difficult to resist such a saturated magic offensive, and you can only surrender obediently.


    Jia Lan did not let the magic apprentices set foot in those dangerous places in the underground world. That was not an area they could touch. After clearing the "rebellion" and rectifying the environment, Jia Lan evacuated the students from the underground world.


    This time, arranging Komo University students to go deep into the underground world for "training" was of course a great advantage for Jia Lan, but he also invested heavily. For the students who participated in the "training", Jia Lan gave "remuneration" according to the employment standards of the mercenary world. This is an astonishingly huge expense.


    Fortunately, students from the Department of Pharmacy and the Department of Alchemy joined Cole Pharmacy, which greatly increased the production scale of Cole Pharmacy. The current production of Pharmacy can meet the needs of the entire Zilargo County.


    Under the demand generated by the turbulent situation in Kolan City, Cole Pharmacy''s sales performance reached its peak, and huge funds were recovered, allowing Jia Lan to pay the amazing "remuneration".


    And it was during this turmoil that the scheduled first shareholders'' meeting of "Colan Lemley Pharmacy Co., Ltd." was also "successfully" held in the newly renovated Doom Castle.


    At the shareholders'' meeting, Cole Pharmacy Corporation unified the company''s management system and established a detailed company culture and philosophy, which also made the "True Knowledge Mutual Aid Society" behind Cole Pharmacy become another huge interest group in Zilargo County in addition to the JQ Association.


    Just as everything was moving forward steadily according to the established trajectory, the long-brewing turmoil in Colan City finally erupted like a volcano!


    "Asshole! Asshole! Asshole!"


    JQ noble Baron Aldington Rodney, in his luxurious coastal villa, angrily vented his anger to the members of the JQ Association under his command: "You idiots! Even today, are you still reluctant to give up the insignificant interests of your family?"


    In the spacious reception room, dozens of JQ nobles of varying ranks were sparsely sitting. Facing Baron Rodney''s anger, some of them were trembling with fear, some obeyed his orders, and some had no expression on their faces, but in fact they sneered in their hearts.


    Seeing these JQ nobles silent, Baron Rodney wanted to pick up a sharp blade and kill them all, but these Jin JQ people were only partners in interests, not his subordinates. Once they broke up, even he would inevitably end up being deserted by his friends and relatives.

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    After a thunderous rage, Baron Rodney suppressed his anger towards those selfish guys and said to the leader of the "Rat Nest", the senior gold-level thief Moonlight Mouse, who was leaning in the corner of the conference hall and trimming his nails with a sharp dagger, "Hasn''t there been any news from Harlock of the Razor Crown War Goblin Corps?"


    "I heard that because the ''Return to the Homeland Plan'' of the goblins and lizardmen was blocked, they have not been able to open up the underground passage of the Sea Wall Mountains."


    "So, unless they are willing to directly attack the border checkpoint ''Sea Wall Pass'', otherwise, they can''t come for the time being."


    Moonlight Mouse leisurely blew away the debris on his nails and added, "Also, the swamp lizardmen of ''Torak Swamp'' have requested another batch of equipment and supplies. It is said that the previous batch of supplies has been almost used up by them."


    "Damn it! They might as well just go and rob!" Baron Rodney roared, "Tell them! If they can''t open the underground passage within half a month, I will see them in Coran City even if I have to destroy the Sea Wall Pass!"


    Moonlight Mouse shrugged indifferently, leaving Baron Rodney, who was panting, and the JQ nobles in the room who were so scared that they dared not breathe, and walked out slowly.


    Baron Rodney''s anger is not difficult to understand, as his career seems to have been unsuccessful recently.


    He originally planned to attract the most powerful war goblin legion "Razor Crown" in Dagon County to attack the city of Suribal in Cape Bay, break the blockade of Coran City by the JQ nobles, and then plot against the cities of Talandor and Taliston, which are protected by the JQ nobles in Suribal City.


    In this plan, he not only planned to let the local forces disrupt the public security of Coran City, so that the city guards had no time to stop the war goblins of "Razor Crown", but also planned to take advantage of the situation to ask the war goblins to break through the Doom Castle so that he could obtain the industry and production line of Cole Pharmacy.


    Then use the magical pharmaceutical equipment of Cole Pharmacy to produce a large number of potions to recover the funds invested in the early stage, and support the major goblin forces in Dagon County to invade Zilargo, so that the local forces in Zilargo County have no time to take care of his development...


    However, he never expected that the damn goblins were blocked by the underground passage of the Sea Wall Mountains that was scheduled to be opened a month ago.


    And those swamp lizardmen in "Torak Swamp" were so greedy that they asked him for supplies again. One third of his huge investment in the early stage was spent on those slimy lizards!


    What kind of mysterious place is the so-called "ancestral land" of those goblins and lizards? Is it the lair of the dragon? Why is it so difficult to open it?


    If the coalition forces at the Sea Wall Pass were not too powerful, the losses would be too great if they broke through the pass directly. Baron Rodney really wanted to order them to destroy the Sea Wall Pass immediately.


    "I ask you to raise a batch of funds and materials after you go back. The initial investment cannot be wasted like this..."


    Baron Rodney looked at the JQ nobles in the reception room with a gloomy look and continued: "If you don''t want your initial investment to go to waste, it''s best not to find those poor excuses to evade me. As for those greedy goblins and lizardmen, I will let them know afterwards that greed has a price to pay!"


    The JQ nobles looked at each other, and dared not say much. They all stood up with ugly faces and left in twos and threes.


    When there was no one else in the reception room, Baron Rodney grabbed an antique vase angrily and smashed it hard on the ground. The crisp cracking sound showed the quality of this expensive porcelain.


    Baron Rodney, who broke the antique vase but still could not dispel his anger, was almost crazy.


    That damn Cole Pharmacy, through some unknown connection, had loaned thousands of magicians from Komo University to Doom Castle, which ruined his plan to attack Doom Castle!


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    Damn it!


    That''s thousands of magicians!


    Not to mention his armed forces, even the war goblins probably can''t break through a castle with thousands of magicians!


    The Moonlight Mouse who had just left suddenly hurried in, took a look at the porcelain fragments on the ground, clicked his tongue twice, and said: "Baron, there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"


    Baron Rodney did not answer, but stared at the thief with a grim look, obviously not interested in his little joke.


    "Then I''ll tell you the bad news first. There is no hope for the underground passage in the Sea Wall Mountains!"


    Moonlight Mouse, who thought that the Baron had no sense of humor, shrugged his shoulders, "It is said that the goblins and lizardmen were completely driven out of the underground by their enemies in the ''homeland'', and the mysterious passage was destroyed and blocked. It will probably take half a year to dig the entrance to the underground passage again!"


    Before Baron Rodney got angry, Moonlight Mouse told him a piece of good news: "General Harlock of the Razor Crown has formed an alliance with the swamp lizardmen in the Torak Swamp and plans to bypass the Sea Wall Pass from the sea. This requires you, the Baron, to be generous and provide a large number of rafts and supplies!"


    Baron Rodney was stunned when he heard this: "Are they going to let the swamp lizardmen drag rafts in the sea and trek hundreds of miles along the coastline to take the city of Surribal?"


    "How is that possible! They are just swamp lizardmen, not the darlings of the ocean!" Moonlight Mouse rolled his eyes, "They just plan to make a small detour on the sea, avoid the sea wall, and then land and march."


    "Looking at their marching route, they must pass through Kolanbang. Although they dare not offend Kolan City..." Moonlight Mouse suddenly changed the subject, with a bit of gloating, "But the farms, pastures, vineyards, and manors in the suburbs may be destroyed by the goblins. Baron, you may suffer heavy losses this time!"


    Baron Rodney has many industries in Kolanbang, which is the critical period for the growth of crops and livestock. Once the goblins attack, the consequences will be disastrous.


    Baron Rodney frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "Can General Harlock restrain his subordinates and avoid farms and vineyards?"


    "If General Harlock could restrain those greedy, stupid, and brutal goblins, they would have unified Dagon County and become the king of goblins long ago, so why would they need your support? By the way, there is another piece of gossip!" Moonlight Mouse rolled his eyes again, but then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "The ''house mouse'' lurking in the Castle of Doom has sent news that a large-scale underground ruins have been discovered under the Castle of Doom, which contains a large number of goblins and lizardmen!"


    "Underground ruins? What does this have to do with us?" Baron Rodney was stunned, and then he suddenly realized, "Could it be that the so-called ''ancestral land'' is the ruins under the Castle of Doom? And the exit of the ''underground passage'' is the Castle of Doom?"


    Moonlight Mouse nodded slowly, and Baron Rodney frowned immediately.


    Could this Cole potion be sent by God to make trouble? This is too coincidental!  It was such a coincidence that he couldn''t help but wonder, is there a traitor inside the JQ Association? Let the Cole Pharmacy always ruin his plan!


    He sent someone to contact the war goblins of Dagon, and Cole Pharmacy bought the Castle of Doom.


    He funded the goblins and lizardmen to open up the underground passage of the Sea Wall Mountains, and Cole Pharmacy discovered the underground ruins.


    The goblins and lizardmen attacked the "ancestral land", and Cole Pharmacy recruited thousands of magic apprentices...


    Baron Rodney suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. He took several breaths to recover. He didn''t even have the energy to be angry. He even felt a little bit amused.


    "You also find it incredible, right?" Moonlight Mouse said with a smile, "I don''t know if what I''m going to say next is good news."


    "Since the entrance to the underground ruins in Dagon County has been destroyed and closed, the magic apprentices who have completed the ruins exploration have evacuated the Doom Castle. Most of those who remain there are apprentices from the Potion and Alchemy Departments."


    Baron Rodney''s eyes lit up when he heard this. He walked to the wall of the conference room, looked at the map of Colanbang on the wall, and moved his finger on it for a while, and pointed at the location of the Doom Castle.


    "You mean, tell General Harlock this news, let him take the foothills of the Sea Wall Mountains, attack the Castle of Doom, and let the goblins'' marching route avoid most of the manors and farms?"


    Moonlight Mouse smiled and said, "You are so wise and brave!"


    Baron Rodney said excitedly, "Then what are you waiting for? Go and contact those hateful goblins!"


    "Yes, Sir Baron!" After that, the figure of Moonlight Mouse gradually disappeared from Baron Rodney''s sight...


    Suburbs of Kolan City.


    A "Dragon Nest Adventure Hall" that can accommodate 100,000 people has just been completed, and the "First Komo Adventure Competition" will be held here soon.


    Jia Lan stood behind the service desk, with his arms around his chest, watching the magic apprentices who served as "game arbitrators" busy preparing for the opening.


    Recently, the Komo Adventure Game has quietly emerged in Kolan City, attracting a lot of attention.


    Participants are no longer limited to students of Komo University, but are gradually extended to all people in Kolan City.


    This kind of interesting adventure game has many participants and even more viewers.


    In this era of lack of entertainment, Komo Adventure is much more interesting than drinking in bars, gambling in casinos, and watching plays in theaters.


    Especially for those civilians who cannot become warriors or adventurers, watching participants perform Komo Adventure tasks can also make them immersed in it and enjoy the fun.

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    The reason why Jia Lan took time off from the busy work of the College Affairs Supervision Department to host the "First Komo Adventure Competition" was because of the earnest request of Clark, the president of the Mercenary Guild.


    President Clark was surprised to find that Jia Lan easily resolved the civil strife in Komo University with just a few simple management tricks.


    At that time, President Clark, who was worried about the public security issues in Kelan City, immediately asked Jia Lan for help, hoping that he could lend a hand and bring a turnaround to the public security dilemma in Kelan City.


    Therefore, Jia Lan, who was busy cleaning up the underground world and rebuilding the Dragon Worship Temple, had to temporarily put aside his work and lend a hand to President Clark, who was also responsible for the public security of Kelan City.


    Fortunately, the addition of a large number of "internship" magic apprentices during this period has made the cleanup of the underground world progress rapidly, sweeping away the three rebellious underground tribes like autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves, and re-incorporating them into the renamed "Zhenzhi Society" temple.


    While the magic apprentices participated in the cleanup of the underground world in the name of "internship", a very interesting thing happened.


    In the mercenary world, except for a very small number of tasks that must use magicians, few mercenary groups are interested in weak magic apprentices. They prefer to hire apprentice magicians or even higher-level magicians.


    Strong groups like the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group directly start from junior magicians and select magicians with strong magic power and self-protection ability to join.


    This is because low-level magicians are weak and easily injured. Although they have limited role in adventures and battles, their employment fees and pensions are comparable to those of higher-level combat professionals.


    Therefore, for the economic considerations of the mercenary group, the warriors would rather fight hard and do it themselves than spend money on those rookie magic apprentices.


    However, this time, Kenmet unexpectedly discovered that under Jia Lan''s careful training and command, even a level 1 magic apprentice who had just learned an apprentice magic could show amazing combat effectiveness.


    Jia Lan organized many magic apprentices into a small team of 10 people and a large team of 100 people to form a huge magic army.


    Each team selected a magic apprentice as the team leader, each team selected a commander, and the rest lined up neatly and obeyed the command.


    In the battle, the apprentice at the front quickly moved sideways after releasing the magic, giving up the "attack position" and began to chant the next magic, followed by the second apprentice to release the magic, and then the third, fourth... and so on and so forth.


    If a level 1 magic apprentice is not proficient in magic spells, it takes about 5-6 seconds to chant a level 1 spell, but the time to prepare the spell and release it, plus the time to get out of the "attack position", will not exceed 1 second.


    According to Jia Lan''s tactical arrangement, as long as the rhythm of the entire team''s magic release is controlled, the time to release magic can be shortened to an astonishing degree.


    What does this mean?


    It means that a squadron of level 1 magic apprentices can easily release 6 rounds of magic in just 1 minute, that is, 600 level 1 fireballs or level 1 wind blades.


    Although the damage of level 1 magic is not high, the cumulative damage cannot be underestimated. It is like a match cannot burn a person to death, but 600 matches are enough to kill a person, not to mention that the power of a level 1 fireball is far greater than a match.


    What''s more terrifying is that the magic apprentices who released 6 rounds of magic in this 1 minute have almost no impact on their magic value and can continue to attack.


    They even have time to alternate short-distance advances or flexible retreats to ensure the extension of the magic range and their own safety.


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    Under this continuous magic bombardment, even Iron-level and Bronze-level enemies can hardly resist, and even Gold-level great swordsmen like Kenmet are estimated to be difficult to resist.


    When trying Jia Lan''s tactics for the first time, Kenmet was bombarded by a magic group composed entirely of level 1 magic apprentices and could not move.


    In that intensive magic bombardment, let alone rushing up to fight in close combat with the weak level 1 magic, it was already good enough not to be repelled by the impact formed by the magic explosion.


    A golden-level great swordsman was almost defeated by a group of level 1 magic apprentices, and they had no power to fight back. This made Kenmet so ashamed and angry that he almost burst into tears.


    Just imagine, the team of apprentices who just learned level 1 magic is so powerful, how terrible will the team composed of more advanced magic apprentices be? Their magic casting speed is faster and more powerful.


    So, Jia Lan took such a large army of magic apprentices and plowed the underground world over and over again with various apprentice magic.


    At the end of the battle, the land was so soft that it seemed that it could be directly sown.


    In the process of clearing the underground world, the more than 1,600 mercenaries of the Golden Two-Headed Dragon Mercenary Group had almost no chance to intervene except for fighting against a few powerful enemies.


    In the clearing operation, the mercenaries were like guardians and nannies. They only needed to resist or prevent the enemies from approaching the magic apprentices when the powerful enemies came.


    As long as they delayed for a few seconds, the enemies who dared to resist would be smashed to pieces or burned to death.


    Kenmet witnessed this amazing result and had an idea in his mind: the cost of raising 100 level 1 magic apprentices is not higher than raising 100 black iron intermediate mercenaries.


    Moreover, they do not need a lot of expensive resources like high-level magicians, but 100 black iron intermediate mercenaries can never defeat a gold-level great swordsman!


    In this way, raising a large number of magic apprentices is more cost-effective than raising a high-level magician!


    Kenmet couldn''t help but feel annoyed. Why didn''t he realize this before?


    As if he had found a shortcut to improve the team''s strength, Kenmet took advantage of this opportunity to protect the magic apprentices'' "internship" and quietly recruited a large number of magic apprentices to become his "trainee mercenaries."


    These "apprentice mercenaries" do not need to participate in the daily work of the mercenary group. They only need to participate in the daily training of the team and come to fight when they are on a mission.


    Under the protection of the combat mercenaries, they can easily complete almost all less dangerous tasks.


    All these achievements are attributed to Jia Lan''s wonderful "magic battle formation".


    Jia Lan not only pacified the three major rebellious tribes in the underground world in a short period of time, but also captured more than 27,000 Dunbrook goblins, more than 35,000 cold spring tribe lizard hunters, and more than 55,000 Hakaza tribe dog-headed people!


    In addition to nearly 3,000 Uga tribe near-ground dwarves, this directly solved the problem of insufficient manpower when Jia Lan repaired the temple ruins.


    Out of fear of the former master, the "Dragon Worship Cult", when they found that their strength could not compete with the "Temple", the three tribes quickly re-expressed their "loyalty" to the returning "master". Under the supervision of the mercenary supervisor, they honestly devoted themselves to the restoration of the temple.


    The Cole potion production line originally placed in the Doom Castle was also moved into a hall in the temple, which was more secretive and safe, avoiding exposure to the outside world.


    From the dungeon entrance to the dungeon warehouse and then to the circular hall, the three checkpoints are enough to block anyone who attempts to peek into the internal secrets.


    Jia Lan divided the Doom Castle into two parts, the ground and the underground. The surface still uses human workers, while the underground uses the hands of the underground tribe.


    In this way, few outsiders can sneak in. Even if they do, they are either dwarves, goblins, or lizardmen. Wouldn''t they be exposed immediately?


    As the security and confidentiality have been greatly improved, all work has been put on track under the management of Captain Kenmet, Casey, Dave and others.


    There are not many things that need Jia Lan to intervene in the Castle of Doom and the underground ruins, so they began to withdraw to help President Clark.


    Of course, Jia Lan''s so-called help in "managing public security" does not mean to personally go to the streets to catch those who do not follow the rules as a "public security administrator".


    Instead, in the name of the Komo University Academic Affairs Supervision Department, the Mercenary Guild, the Adventure Guild and the major professional guilds in Kolan City were united to hold the "First Komo Adventure" Competition Conference with the support of the Civil Affairs Council.


    Komo University, the Adventure Guild and the Mercenary Guild prepared a joint venture plan at the beginning of the establishment of their respective game bars, so the joint hosting of the "Komo Adventure Competition" was almost a matter of course.


    As early as when Jia Lan invented the tabletop chess game "Komo Adventure", he had the foresight to buy a piece of land on the outskirts of Kolan City and began to build a large building called "Dragon Nest Adventure Hall".


    This huge ring-shaped building like an arena is mainly composed of civil structures. In addition to the wide oval square in the center, there are also 36 halls that can accommodate thousands of people and hundreds of private rooms of different sizes.


    The layout of each hall and private room is similar: a huge sand table map is placed in the center, and there are round tables for games around it, which can be used by a large number of adventure player teams to play "running group" games.