[Magic has flourished so far. If we say that the most prosperous event is, it should be the magic exchange meeting held every five years in the magic holy city of Evarang in the Violet Valley. And this is also the only opening date for the Holy City.
Of course, this openness is only relative.
Half a year before the exchange meeting, the Magister Council in the Holy City will draw up a list of 10,000 people. Eight thousand people on this list will receive invitations. They are those who have done research on magic in the past five years. For those who have made major discoveries or made outstanding contributions, this invitation will also allow two people to follow them into the Holy City.
In addition, there are two thousand people who will be randomly selected from all the magic apprentices in the world. According to the rules specified by the original founder of the Holy City, discoverers deserve rewards, and latecomers are also indispensable. These apprentices will receive a Magister Badge as a voucher for entering the Holy City during the exchange meeting.
The Magic Exchange will last for one hundred days, with the first ten days being the time for the magister and the invitees to communicate, and the next ninety days will see all lectures, forums, and other activities fully open to the students in the Holy City. Therefore, some people say that the knowledge learned in one exchange meeting may be more than thirty years of hard study behind closed doors. 】
Lu Ning pressed her slightly swollen temples.
[Alchemy Apprentice Lillian, you come from a little-known small village. Nothing major enough to attract people’s attention has happened there, and you are just a little girl who ran away from home because she couldn’t stand the farming life. Of course, growing up in the countryside gave you a lot of knowledge about plants, and after getting lost, you happened to meet an old and frail alchemist in the forest. After you used herbal medicine to help him relieve his pain a little and stayed with him for more than ten days, before his death, the old man gave away his life's wealth - an alchemy notebook, a book "Elementary Alchemy", and a broken set of I left you with many unusable alchemy tools and a leather box full of patches.
When you embark on the path of alchemy, you will soon realize that the old man is just a junior alchemist who has achieved nothing in his life. The notebook is mostly filled with his fantasies and hearsay stories. "Basic Alchemy" allows you to get started, but it is difficult to gain much room for development. People often say that alchemists are either rich enough to bleed, or poor enough to bleed. You have already experienced it, at least the second half of the sentence.
Just when you were really planning to use your own blood to see if it would work as a primer for some alchemical potions, luck hit you on the head. You received a letter with a Magister's Badge in it, and what the letter said was almost something you had never heard of. There was almost no need to make any judgments. You sold all the sundries on hand, took your alchemy equipment and broken suitcases and embarked on the road to the Holy City. You don’t know what the future holds, because you just don’t want to go back to that ordinary village and live your life in mediocrity.
You rushed to the Holy City and finally stepped in before the opening day. You were able to enter with your badge. Here you finally found a store willing to take you in. Because you had no money, you had to provide at least five bottles every day. Give the alchemy potion to the shop owner, otherwise you will be homeless.
·Personal secrets belonging to tourist Lu Ning will be incorporated into optional tasks.
This mission:
1. Obtain a rubbing of the magic book.
2. Obtain a crystal of light and a crystal of darkness.
3. Identify a "book thief".
4. The identity will not be revealed until the library is opened.
5. (Optional) Obtain an original copy of the Magic Book.
6. (Optional, secret) Complete the refining of the World Stone.
7. (Optional, secret) Expose members of the organization "Twilight Thieves" and survive.
8. (Optional, secret) Expose members of the organization "Book Burning Officials" and survive.
9. (Optional, secret) Kill an informant.
There is an additional rule for this mission - "Informer".
Meditate for three minutes in front of any statue of the Magister, and then form in your mind the appearance and name of a person you have seen. If the person is a tourist, the "informant" is considered successful. After any successful tip-off, the visitor will automatically become a "snitch".
Each tourist has three chances to report unsuccessfully. A successful report will be responded to. No tourist can report repeatedly against the same person.
If the whistleblower is successful, the settlement score reward will be increased by an additional 5%. This additional increase will not be included in the third-level score limit. If you are tipped off, your score will be reduced by 5%. The number of tourists in this mission exceeds 21, so there is a possibility of negative points.
Points can be deducted only if you personally kill the informer against you. If the informer dies for any other reason, points will still be deducted.
After failing to report, you will not get a response even if you enter meditation again. 】
Next, comes the most critical part of this mission.
[Tourist Lu Ning plays Lillian.
Lillian’s secret:
1. Lilian saw the record about the World Stone in the old alchemist's notes and became very interested in it. She knew that this was an extremely powerful alchemy product, so she did not dare to explain it to outsiders. One of her biggest purposes in coming to the Holy Capital was to learn the detailed knowledge of the World Stone.
2. As a little girl who is inexperienced in the world, Lilian does not have a way to completely protect her secrets. Fortunately, the emblems issued by the Holy City have personal exclusive marks, and snatching them is ineffective. On the way to the Holy Capital, Lilian met a masked man who claimed to be from the "Twilight Thieves Group" and lured Lilian into trying to steal a magic book from the Holy Capital. The price he offered - the supply of materials and money - obviously made Lillian feel moved, but she still felt uneasy about the true purpose of the Twilight Thieves Group, and secretly paid attention to it in her heart.
3. On the way to the Holy Capital, Lilian saw a murder of a magic apprentice, which made her feel scared. Although the Holy City will choose a new lucky person again, is this luck really luck? After asking the local guards, she learned that this was the work of an organization called the "Book Burning Officers." Out of concern for her own safety, she began to pay attention.
4. Lilian knows that opportunities and risks coexist, just like the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy. In this holy city, it is absolutely impossible for everyone to have good intentions, and only by eliminating more people who threaten him can he focus more on the cause of alchemy. 】
There was a lot of information, but after digesting it for a while, Lu Ning almost understood the situation of this scene. She turned over and climbed out of bed, pulled on her linen robe, looked at the dark golden curly hair falling on her shoulders, and quickly walked to the basin in the room.
She now had an appearance that she didn't recognize at all. Lilian's unfamiliar face was looking at her through the water. Lu Ning squeezed out a smile, and the people in the water also laughed.
“Fresh experience…”
Lu Ning muttered, reached out to pick up the headband from the bed, combed the messy hair on her head and tied it into a ponytail, then sat on the edge of the bed and considered the information she had obtained so far.
The Holy City itself is a huge educational institution. As a top magic school, those who can truly become a student here must meet one of the four conditions of "money, power, talent, and destiny." A basically "wild" apprentice like Lilian would only be struck by such an opportunity if she was extremely lucky. Generally speaking, she couldn't make any waves at all.
From this point of view, the conditions for the mission are so far away that I don’t know how to do it. I am even worried about making a living here.
As for alchemy, Lu Ning searched his memory and couldn't find any achievements that could be called unique talents. Lillian is learning basic alchemy knowledge from the only textbook in her hand. So far, she can only make a few basic alchemy potions, and in terms of magic, she has only mastered two related basic spells: sparks and water mist.
Lu Ning grabbed the apprentice robe thrown at the foot of the bed. This dress was Lilian's only decent piece of clothing. It came from her reward for passing the apprenticeship qualification. After getting dressed, Lu Ning opened the broken leather suitcase, dug around in the inner pockets of the suitcase, and pulled out six or seven copper coins. This was Lilian's entire possessions.
Poverty has become the biggest problem at present.
Lu Ning carefully put her only possessions into the inner pocket of her apprentice's robe, then opened the door and walked out.
The owner of this store is named Howard, and he is quite a nice person. The room given to Lillian is a personal room like other employees. It is not large but does not have to be crowded with others. As for the accommodation fee, the five bottles of alchemy potions were much lower than the price of ordinary hotel accommodation based on Lu Ning's memory and common sense. After all, the price of basic alchemy potions was not very expensive.
The old man got up very early, and when Lu Ning walked out, the boss was already sitting on a rocking chair in front of the store supervising the employees.
This store is the most common grocery store in the Holy City. In other words, it is the type that sells everything. After all, except for some specific items that require business qualification certificates, everything else in the Holy City is free trade. Many people will open a small business to support their families, but Howard is doing this seriously.
This "One-eyed Squid" is one of the largest grocery stores in this area.
"Good morning, boss." Lu Ning immediately got into the mood as soon as she saw the person. Lilian's character is bold and cautious, otherwise she would not have dared to run away from home and would not have been able to enter the Holy City safely. In terms of dealing with others, she lacks some basic common sense, but her apprenticeship has also allowed her to accumulate some basic courtesy. Lu Ning only needs to not overdo it.
"Is it Lillian? How did you sleep?"
"The room is very nice, and I slept well. Thank you very much." Lu Ning bowed again.
"Then according to what we said, you only need to hand over five bottles of medicine to me every day, and you can use it freely the rest of the time. Unless you are sick, if you can't give me the medicine, then you can't stay here. After all, I am doing Business," Howard said sternly.
"That's good, Mr. Howard. Can I start now?"
"If you're ready, the alchemy laboratory is over there." Howard pointed to a separate cabin in a secluded area of the yard.
After Lu Ning thanked him again, he walked to the laboratory.
Of course, Howard would not let Lu Ning use that broken set of alchemy equipment to refine potions. The laboratory provided a complete set of tools and materials. Although they were all of ordinary quality, they were much better than what Lu Ning had in his hands. . And now Lu Ning happens to be familiar with alchemy here.
The concepts of alchemical potions and the other three major branches of magic, potions, herbal medicines, and botanical potions are completely different. First of all, nothing else is needed but the refining formation. Different types and qualities of refining formations are needed depending on the potion. Even the most basic potion requires at least one. After Lu Ning entered the room, he saw three transformation formations drawn with gold and silver powder on a piece of marble. The materials used in this ordinary transformation formation were not rare, and the price was to ask an enchanter to draw them. The advantage is that this kind of array can be used for a long time, unlike Lillian who usually uses graphite strips to draw one-time drawings.
Lu Ning thought about Lilian's potions and decided to start with the most basic recovery potion.
The materials are simple and easy to find. At least Lu Ning quickly dug out the basic materials needed in the medicine cabinet, and then various measuring tools and equipment... When she turned around from the medicine cabinet holding a tray of things, she saw behind her Standing there was a somewhat slovenly man with long hair that was stuck together, yawning while waiting for her to finish getting the materials.
"Uh... hello?" Lu Ning held the tray in both hands and could only say hello verbally.
"Hello, are you done? It's my turn after you take it." The man barely opened his eyes and glanced at Lu Ning, and then yawned again.
Lu Ning hurriedly got out of the way and walked to a refining formation with nothing next to it.
This man is the alchemist that Howard has hired for a long time. Howard also told Lillian before. His name was Boliwell, a junior alchemist, and this first meeting gave Lu Ning a really bad impression.
The distribution center will not arrange any adventures for you, so if you meet a slovenly, weirdly dressed and low-level alchemist, then he is probably an ordinary alchemist, not a hidden master. , Lu Ning has seen countless failure cases from the records of many people trying to try their luck, so she no longer cares about what Boliwell is doing, concentrates on placing the things, and begins to prepare for the first alchemy in her life.
Equivalent exchange.
As the most important part of alchemy, measurement can be said to be a very critical step in every alchemy. Lu Ning carefully used a scale to weigh the amount of materials required for six potions, and then placed a row of golden wands Put the stand in the most accessible place at hand, use a measuring cup to take the 5% concentration of magic solution, and start the refining array.
At this time, there was a clicking sound from the side. Boliwell also took the materials and started weighing them. He was naturally much more proficient in using measuring tools such as scales than Lu Ning, and his speed was also very fast. , but it is still carried out according to the strict operating procedures of alchemy.
The room fell into silence for a moment. Both of them were focused on the work in hand and had no intention of communicating.
The materials were put in order, and the three magic crystals began to shine, representing the fluctuation of magic power in three directions. Lu Ning pulled out a golden rod and began to drain the magic power. The alchemical medicine machine was not made through the combination of medicinal properties at all. Rather, it is through "exchange" to obtain a substance for a specific purpose, and each alchemist has his or her own opinion on the extent of the flow of magic power required to achieve the purpose. This is why the alchemist's notes are very important.
Even though it was her first time doing it, it took Lu Ning a little longer to adjust to a more confident position of magic flow. This experiential experience was useless even if she had Lilian's memory, she had to explore it by herself.
The alchemy array shone brightly, and Lu Ning clicked the Midas Touch on the node he determined, waited for about five seconds, then pulled it out, and threw the Midas Touch into the waste barrel next to it.
"It's burning money..." She sighed. It's no wonder that alchemists are easily poor. Many things are disposable. It's no wonder that Lilian wants to bleed herself. The magical blood can replace several people to a certain extent. kind of necessity.
