While Lu Yuan was busy, he calmly interacted with all the people he came into contact with on the day of the accident.
Sure enough, the target was quickly located on a second-level mage. It's simple. No one here cares about the life or death of a magic apprentice. When Lu Yuan walks around with a wound like this, most mages and apprentices turn a blind eye and don't care at all. Only one person watched it three times!
After Francois paid attention to Lu Yuan a few times, he completely ignored him. Don't say that the things you do cannot be confirmed. So what if you can confirm them? He was afraid of the seventh-level mage William Gast, but he was not afraid of a young apprentice like Lu Yuan. With his background guarantee, William didn't dare to do anything to him. He just looked at it a few more times because he wanted to test the explosive power of his bottle of potion.
Francois completely forgot about Lu Yuan and started busy with the matters in hand.
Lu Yuan picked out all the materials requested by Francois, plus the materials he had just written down in the laboratory. Lu Yuan smiled gently, Francois was making a "fire-breathing ring". This is a ring that can cast the "Burning Hands" spell three times a day. Each time it is cast, it can spray flames to a cone-shaped area directly in front. The area is small and the damage is small, so it is used to deal with creatures like goblins. However, the recent popularity of the game of playing the fire dragon among the nobles of Baldur's Gate has greatly increased the sales of this kind of ring. When telling a story in the salon, he puts the ring in front of his mouth, pretends to be a fire dragon and sprays out a cone of flame, causing the young ladies of the aristocracy to cry out in a delicate and delicate manner. What a moving picture it is.
Therefore, this kind of ring is now very popular, and the price is sold for thousands of gold coins, which is more expensive than a protective flame ring.
Francois wanted to make such a ring. He would inlay the forged ring with rubies, smear it with cow hair slime, and cast "Burning Hands" on the ring three times in a row, and the enchantment would be successful. He is now a second-level mage and has three first-level spell slots every day, so he can make just such a ring. Lu Yuan continued to rummage through the documents, and finally found the material requirements for a certain apprentice to make cow hair slime. Lu Yuan clapped his hands gently. It seemed that revenge would not take long.
Lu Yuan passed the slime slime and cow hair to the mage apprentice, and the just right amount was rewarded with a complaining look. The apprentice, who could no longer hold back, could only curse Lu Yuan while cutting the cow hair into fine pieces and mixing them evenly with the slime slime. Then he took the finished product and hurriedly walked to Master Francois's laboratory. Watching a magic item being made is an incredible experience.
It's a pity that the mage is obviously in a bad temper today. After he took the mixture, he forcefully closed the laboratory door without waiting for the apprentice to ask! This gives the apprentice another person to curse.
Francois fixed the ring stably on the clamps of the laboratory table, fished out the gems after fully soaking them in the mixture, and perfectly set them into the ring's holder. Francois is the son of a noble family's jewelry maintenance servant. He has a deep knowledge of gem cutting, which makes the gem rings he produces more in line with the requirements of the nobles. The price will be directly increased by one-third, and more than half of the proceeds will be returned to him. He owns it personally.
The exquisite ring, the perfectly cut ruby, and the dots of cow hair on it are particularly disgusting. Francois decided to cast a spell early to burn these dirty things and let the magic ring shine with a bright red light. He breathed calmly, stretched his hands forward at an obtuse angle, and recited a spell. A red cone-shaped flame erupted from the fingers, burning the ruby ring. The ignited slime smells burnt.
Francois pulled the wrench, the ring rotated 120 degrees, and he used "Burning Hands" on the ring again. The ring emits a red light, which is a sign that it has been heated to the extreme. Francois was satisfied and pulled the wrench again to turn the ring to the final side. Where he didn't notice, the ruby was shrouded in a strange red light.
He smiled and executed the third perfect "Burning Hand" accurately on the last side of the ring.
There was a loud "boom", and the door of Francois' laboratory was blown out by the explosion, smashing the head of the apprentice who was still wandering and cursing in the corridor and causing blood! He covered his head and looked at the messy laboratory in surprise. He was so frightened that he was completely speechless. Although he has caused explosions before, they are simply incomparable to those of a formal mage!
In less than a minute, Master Habaser Delin rushed over with a face full of anger.
"What's going on?!" He yelled at the apprentice who was still squatting on the ground and holding his head.
"I didn't curse him!" the apprentice screamed and cried, fearing that Master Habaser Delin would crush him to death.
"Get out!" The nurse's voice made the entire second floor shake. Habaser Delin ignored the frightened apprentice and walked straight into the laboratory filled with debris and strange smoke. Bullshit curses, a hundred apprentices curse me every day. He muttered, glanced around, picked up the container that once contained cow hair mixed with mucus that fell at the door, sniffed it, and cursed loudly again, not knowing who he was scolding.
All the task sheets in the room had been burned. Judging from the residue, it was obvious that Master Francois was planning to do something that was beyond his capabilities, and then naturally failed, that's it. Habaser Delin looked around the nearly abandoned laboratory, cursed a few times again, turned and left. Even the shivering apprentice didn't even look at him again.
So of course he didn't know that what the apprentice sent was just a mixture of cow hair scraps, the standard material for making fire-breathing rings. Instead of the evening primrose solution he smelled.
In the making of a magic ring, the slightest error makes the most of it. The difference between the production of fire-breathing ring, flame bead ring and fireball ring is one or two materials. Lu Yuan added a little bit of evening primrose powder to the mucus, only the amount of a fingernail, and the formula was used to make a fireball ring. But when the amount of evening primrose is not enough, and the spell cast is not fireball but burning hands, only God knows the consequences.
Of course, the most common consequence is an explosion. When it comes to the element of fire and ruby, it's a violent explosion.
That's it. If Habaser Delin hadn't come in person, others wouldn't even have noticed the smell of evening primrose.
In short, this matter is over.
[Life crisis: Your life has been threatened, what are you waiting for? ! Find the root cause and eliminate it!
Mission completed, +300 experience]
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Lu Yuan and the other two apprentices, Alice and Lestrade, stood breathlessly.
In front of them, a middle-aged mage wearing a gorgeous mage robe and a crown looked at them expressionlessly. Including Lu Yuan, beads of sweat began to form on the heads of the three apprentices, and female apprentice Alice's legs could be seen shaking slightly.
This person is the owner of the witchcraft grocery store, the nominal mentor and destiny controller of Lu Yuan and these magic apprentices, the fifteenth-level magician Habaser Delin!
This place called the general store is one of the best magic items stores in Baldur's Gate and even the entire Sword Coast. Its appearance looks like a huge yurt with a glass dome, covering an area of thousands of square meters. And inside it, space folding magic has been applied to expand its space more than ten times. The entire building, including the underground, is divided into four floors with hundreds of rooms.
The top floor is Habaser Delin's residence and laboratory, and most of the first floor is shops open to the public. Formal mages like William, even if they work part-time, will have a room on the first or second floor. Hundreds of apprentices are doing various repetitive or dangerous tasks in the reinforced basement. They call it the "Beehive" because it is divided into dozens of identical rooms, and each room only contains necessary items to reduce losses.
And the owner and protector of it all stood before them.
At noon, Lu Yuan, who received the call message from Habase Delin, hurried to the alchemy factory of the Witchcraft Grocery Store, and was then led into an area he had never entered before, to Habase Delin. In front of the master.
"I know," the master's deep voice sounded. Lu Yuan saw the two people breathing lightly, and he knew he was about the same. The difference is that they were forced by the awe-inspiring pressure of the master, while Lu Yuan was worried that Francois's affairs would be exposed.
"I know, you think I hate you and think I torture you for fun." The master paced slowly.
"No, I don't hate you. I don't even know any of you."
Isn’t this more hateful? Lu Yuan thought in surprise.
"Many of you are injured, some of you die, and all of you live under the shadow of death every day. You hate me." He suddenly stopped and laughed twice, "It's normal, because I was the same way back then. I also struggle with life and death every day. On the edge, until we become official mages. Those of us who survive will get sweet fruits. Those who fail will pay the price."
"It will be like this in the past, today, and in the future when you accept apprentices. Until you understand, feel free to hate, it will be the best step for you to climb the palace."
"The three of you can stand in front of me in advance, not because you are good enough. It's just that you have a decent background, which makes me hesitate for a second or two when I send you to die. Recently, there are always people suggesting I added an assistant for the pharmaceutical experiment, so you were brought to me in advance by your background."
"No. 2", he looked at the girl named Alice. She was so frightened that her head curled up on her chest and she was trembling. Tears began to brew in her eyes. "Your hand is still holding a spell? Put it down. That's false news. ! Learning magic is your own business, all I need is your alchemy talent! I only take the alchemy test."
Alice quickly let go of her clasped hands and put her hands behind her back. Although she didn't hold back from crying, her chest was still wet with tears.
"No. 3", his eyes turned to Lestrade, "Your hands can't be burned clearly. Have you practiced making hot glue many times? Unfortunately, that is also false news. I hope you didn't lose too much money. At least, There is still some use in practicing preparing potions."
The corners of Lestrade's mouth twitched, wanting to smile and say something, but in the end he just twisted his face into a strange shape and said nothing.
"No. 1", he looked at Lu Yuan, "I thought you were either dead or escaped, so I didn't give you any false news."
Okay, can you get a little more hateful? !
"Now, enough nonsense! Enter the room behind you. There are questions in it. These are all things I have done before, maybe once, maybe twice, who cares? An apprentice who can't steal his lessons is not a Good apprentice! Isn’t it? I’ll give you two hours, and if you can’t finish it, go to the basement! I guarantee that before all the remaining people die, there will be no hope for the losers to come to me!”
Lu Yuan turned around and saw a door with "1" written on it.
The so-called title is a table with more than a dozen materials such as moon grass, flame grass, chrysanthemum, fluorite, crushed coal cores, etc. As for what potion needs to be made, guess what? No instructions, no prompts, not even a scrap of paper on the table. Lu Yuan quickly arranged and combined these materials in his mind.
Invincible potion! A potion that can greatly increase a warrior's protection and magic immunity instantly. Although it is only effective for 30 seconds, within 30 seconds, you can rampage like a giant dragon.
If this potion had been prepared by the original Lu Yuanlai, the success rate would not have exceeded 20%. The material was given three times, but in terms of time, it could only fail once at most. However, Lu Yuan's "alchemy" skill is now as high as level 11, which even exceeds the level of most official mages below level five! He is 70% sure about this potion!
First, sit quietly for five minutes to enter a state of shallow meditation, clear away distracting thoughts, and empty your mind. Then he stood up and began to extract substances one by one using the refining technique. He guessed that the invincibility potion might be the most difficult one, just like the information behind it reflected in the sequence of releasing false news before, because he was the one with the lightest background.
Background is also a part of strength. Lu Yuan, who has social experience, certainly understands it, so there is nothing to complain about.
He must complete it the fastest and best to ensure that the assistant's position will not be replaced. Of course, he would never use separation, extraction, chemical synthesis, etc. that did not belong to this world. What he is fighting for now is just an assistant position, and it is not worth risking his life.
The powerful mental power allowed him to easily control the power of arcane magic and complete the steps one by one. An hour later, a bottle of something similar to slime was put into the container. Because this potion looks like slime, it is usually sold in opaque porcelain bottles. The price in the store is as high as 1,500 gold coins per bottle!
Of course, it tastes more like a slime solution! It's a pity that it can no longer be returned at that time, right?
Perhaps the moment of anger after drinking the potion is also part of the reason why the potion is effective. Just like a piece of fluorescent moss can cast the light spell, and eating a spider can cast the spider walking spell. Who knows the mystery and complexity of magic?
After sitting quietly again to regain his energy, he opened the door and walked out.
Sure enough, Alice was already standing there, looking at the transparent bottle and blue liquid in her hand, the absorption potion, a potion that could absorb impact and lightning, with a difficulty coefficient that was at most half that of the invincible potion!
Master Habaser Delin, who was sitting behind the table, waved gently. Lu Yuan felt the porcelain bottle in his hand rising upwards and let go of his hand. The porcelain bottle flew over and landed on the chef's table. He opened it and observed it, then took another drop and tasted it carefully.
"You can leave. Come to the third floor tomorrow."
After Habaser Delin finished speaking, he stuffed the potion and put it aside, and went about his own business.
Lu Yuan bowed and stepped back. As he left, he seemed to hear the sound of the girl named Alice wailing. It was none of my business, so he walked out without looking back.
Tomorrow will be a new beginning.
