Chapter 33 Magic Workshop (Part 1)

The workshop is divided into two entrances. The outer one is divided into four or five rooms. In each room there is a young man, some of whom are muttering words into a bottle, while others seem to be resting. Seeing Alec walk in, he nodded his head and said hello. Alec returned the salute one by one.

Once you enter from the back, there is a thick iron door blocking it, so you can't see what's inside. But it was written in beautiful cursive on the door: The working laboratory of the wizard Sackville and his assistant Alec. Do not break in illegally, offenders will bear the consequences at their own risk.

Romon glanced at Alec in front of him and thought: It seems that this person is very valued by magicians. Moreover, it seems that this master Sackville still has a bit of the weird and cold humor of the researchers in his previous life.

Alec took Romon and the two of them to the back house. At the door, he stopped, looked back at the two people behind him, and said seriously: "The front is the laboratory of my teacher Sackville, I ask you not to touch any items in the room out of curiosity, As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat. And exhibiting curiosity in a magician's laboratory probably ends up killing him."

Romon spread his hands and said with a smile, "The magician's laboratory is a more dangerous place than the druid's natural greenhouse."

Fezia also smiled and said, "A qualified businessman knows how to control his curiosity."

Alec nodded, and pushed open the iron door, revealing a downward staircase in front of everyone. It appears that the magician built his laboratory underground.

The three of them walked down, and at the same time the iron door closed automatically, and in the originally dark corridor, a little light shone on the top of their heads. Then Luo Meng saw that at the end of the stairs, there was another iron door with cursive characters written on it: Old friends don't need to knock.

Alec in front pushed the door open, and the three finally entered Sackville's laboratory.

Romon looked around carefully, the size of the room was about the same as the one outside, and the whole house was roughly divided into four areas:

There are many utensils placed on the long table in the northwest corner. Romon, who has received modern education, can roughly distinguish their functions from the shape of the utensils. There are balances and measuring cups for weighing doses; there are sealed containers for storing special items. Utensils; there are utensils for distillation, utensils for heating, utensils for cutting, etc.

In the southwest corner, there are some herbs and medicinal ores piled up in different categories. Romon roughly identified more than ten kinds of herbs, but only a few kinds of medicinal ores.

On the desk in the northeast, some parchments were scattered, as well as several quill pens inserted in the ink bottle and placed outside.

To the southeast are two beds, and it looks like the magician and his disciples sometimes slept in the workshop.

At this moment, Mr. Sackville, a fifth-level magician, was sitting at the desk, frowning and looking at something.

"Teacher." Alec stepped forward and called respectfully.

The magician Sackville is a bald old man, not tall, with a flat square face, bushy eyebrows, and a long, white beard. When the old man reads a book, he will unconsciously stroke his beard.

Sackville didn't look up, and said "um" in his nose: "Jacob's business is over?"

Alec said with a wry smile: "That's really a worrying child. He used the Palm of Fire outside just now."

Sackville looked up: "Oh? What's going on?"

Alec told the whole story, and introduced Fezia and Romon by the way.

The old mage listened and shook his head: "Dandy is my old friend. But his disciple is really incompetent. I will write to Dandy and Baron Yibi to deal with this matter."

Then he looked at Fezia, "Your father Barn is a good man, but his capital is too small to do business with people like us. You have to work hard!"

Fezia immediately said gratefully: "Master,

I will work hard and hope that one day I will be qualified to serve you. "

The old mage waved his hand, glanced at Romon, and said to Fezia: "This is the young man Barner recommended to me? He looks very energetic. Well, let me test you a few questions, if you can pass , just do it here.”

Luo Meng bowed to the old mage: "Master, please ask."

The old mage scratched his head: "First of all, what is the basic principle of the alchemy potion?"

Romon recalled it for a while, and replied affirmatively: "Using curing agents to temporarily store spells is the basic principle of alchemy potions."

Sackville nodded: "Second question, do you know how to prepare the curing agent of the alchemy potion?"

"I've learned one, but I haven't tried it." Romon replied. Although he studied and worked with the pharmacist Ansen when he was in Rika Town, and he also did the preparation of potions, ordinary potions and alchemy potions are completely different concepts.

"Oh? What kind?" Sackville's brows twitched.

"The druid's standard preparation method for treating minor injuries. The materials used are: night moon grass picked on the night of the full moon, immediately soaked in wine to extract juice; azure blue stone, soaked in rainwater and ground into powder;..." Romon thought for a while In one fell swoop, he spoke out the answers he knew fluently.

Sackville nodded repeatedly, and after Romon finished speaking, he asked again: "The last question is the correct time to use the curing agent and the casting state that should be selected."

Romon frowned. He was not a druid who had studied systematically. Fortunately, because making healing potions is the biggest source of income for low-level spellcasters, so he also worked in the temple library in the small town at that time. After consulting the relevant information in the room, and consulted the pharmacist Anson and the druid Jefa about it, recalling the few words in the book and the two, Romon sorted out his thoughts and replied: "The first question: After the curing agent is successfully prepared, , its activity index is constantly changing. Once the activity index of the curing agent drops to zero, it indicates that the curing agent is invalid and needs to be re-prepared. However, the change rules of the activity index of different curing agents are different. In principle, the curing agent should be selected Enchanting is performed when the potion is most active. The second question: making alchemy potions and magic items, and casting spells in the process is called enchantment casting. The spells and gestures used for enchanting spells are different from ordinary spellcasting. As far as I know Take the potion for treating minor injuries as an example, during the process of reciting the spell, you should..."

Romon told what he knew in as much detail as possible.

After listening to Sackville, he smiled and said, "Young man, you have passed my exam. Next, I will talk about your salary and work requirements. If you feel unsuitable or have special requirements, you can contact us at I'll bring it up when I'm done."

"Okay, master." Romon replied respectfully.

Sackville stroked his long snow-white beard and said, "You have to know that the general potion for treating minor injuries, like the one you know, is valid for one month, and the price is 1 gold coin. And the potion I prepared, the potion The validity period is as long as 45 days, and the selling price of this potion is 2 gold. As for the total price of the curing agent material, as you know, the market price generally fluctuates around 2 silver coins, but considering that it does not succeed every time A qualified medicine has been prepared, so the cost price of the material alone is higher than 2 silver. The cost of the curing agent formula I use is lower than the formula you know, and the cost price is about 1 silver. So, your work The remuneration is calculated in this way. You should complete a bottle of qualified medicine every day. For this bottle of medicine, I will give you 7 silver as the price of casting the spell, and then I will allow you to fail once a day, but every time you exceed it, I will I will charge you 1 silver coin as compensation for my curing agent material cost. Finally, if you can complete three bottles of potions for treating minor injuries every day, I will give you an extra 5 silver coins as a reward. As for room and board, you will get a small room, And a free lunch. Oh, I forgot the most important benefit of working here. Every week, you can sit in on my lectures, but you can’t ask questions or talk. As for my request, that is, the curing agent you receive cannot be taken with you. Out of the workshop, invalid waste products must also be returned. Do you understand?"

Romon nodded seriously after hearing this: "Master, you are a generous person. I am willing to serve you."

"Then. Let's sign a magic contract. The deadline is one month. After one month, we will decide whether to renew the contract according to the situation." Sackville smiled and took out two parchment scrolls from the desk drawer.

Romon took it over, and it was in duplicate. After carefully reading the terms above, it was roughly as Sackville said, and the more detailed ones stipulated how to deal with the failure to meet the requirements of the terms. At the bottom, Sackville has pre-signed his name. Romon felt that there was no problem, so he picked up a pen and signed his name respectively.

The old mage accepted the contract and smiled even more kindly. He told Alec, "Alec, take Romon to his room and his workshop, um, and show him how to mix the potion once." .Romon, you have to remember that you have a total of three opportunities to watch Alec's potion preparation for free, and you can only watch but not ask. In the future, if you want to watch Alec's potion preparation, Alec will charge a fee, probably It's 5 silver each time. Also, I don't think you would be reckless to break into a magician's laboratory, would you?"

Romon bent down and bowed: "Master Sackville, I understand." Then, he retreated with Alec.

The three of them went back to the workshop outside through the dark stairs.

"Master Alec, Romon will take care of you from now on." After coming out, Fezia said with a smile.

Alec patted Romon on the shoulder: "No problem, I think he is a smart young man."

"Thank you very much. This time we came here in a hurry, and the caravan will return to Rika Town soon, so I can only invite you to the House of Offa for a drink next time."

Romon listened to the conversation between the two. The "House of Arcana" that Fezia said he had heard from adventurers when he was in Rika Town, it was a spellcaster affiliated to Apus City. A hotel of the association, the basic service objects are the gold bags of spellcasters such as mages, that is to say, if someone wants to find a spellcaster to do something, they will choose "House of Arcana" This place invites mages to have a drink—of course, mages also have their own internal bar, which is not accessible to ordinary people.

"Although I am a spellcaster, as a druid, I have to wait until the fifth level to be eligible to enter. I still can't enter a place like this!" Romon thought like this, but he didn't feel angry at all. Backed by him, he is full of confidence in the future.

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