After crossing a path, Eli tightened his clothes and put the silver tar he carried with him in his arms.
He was heading to the bazaar where herbs were sold.
The market is located in the eastern part of the royal city of King's Landing. Eli needs to pass through the slums and urban areas before reaching it. In the process, Eli chose to take the high road.
After all, although this is the royal city, don't think that the shadows here are the same as the bright places. There are many gangsters, thugs, and idle people in the dark alleys.
Soon, he came to the market.
After a brief inquiry, Eli walked into a pharmacy.
"Are there any white koji flowers?" In front of the oak counter, Eli knocked on the table and asked the people inside.
The teller was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. He had a pair of brown eyes and looked very weak. But when he heard Eli's voice, his eyes gradually began to light up and he answered with a smile:
"Some, some, one white song flower costs twenty copper tals."
So expensive!
"Why is it so expensive?" Eli asked. After the white song flower is activated, the aura it emits can only last for an hour. One flower is definitely not enough. It will take at least a week, that is, seven flowers.
Seven flowers equals one silver tal and forty copper tal.
"Guest, you don't know about this white song flower. This flower grows in the dark places of swamps. There are often poisonous snakes and scorpions around. It's very difficult to collect!"
"Every white song flower is hard-earned!" the clerk shouted.
"It's cheaper, I'll buy more." Eli ignored it and said directly.
"Are you a pharmacist?" the clerk asked curiously. You know, most people don't need a lot of herbal medicine, only those pharmacists do.
"no."
"Oh, excuse me." He wasn't a pharmacist, and the clerk wasn't that excited anymore. Then he looked at Eli's outfit and said, "Let's do this. If you buy more than ten flowers at a time, I can give you five coppers per flower. Tal, this is already a great discount, more than five copper tals are cheaper than two copper tals."
"Then give me ten." Eli thought for a moment and said.
Seven flowers may not be enough, but ten flowers should be enough.
And there is no need to worry if there are still white koji flowers left when the time comes. Baiqu hua is one of the ingredients in many basic medicines and is a very common medicine material.
"Okay." The clerk smiled, then walked to the small room at the back. When he came out again, there were ten more packaged white koji flowers in his hand.
Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand.
Eli paid and left.
…
Back home.
Eli took out the Baiquhua.
The white song flower is an off-white flower with fleshy-like petals, and its roots hang down like tentacles. It is unimaginable that this seemingly ordinary plant can actually help perceive the elemental world.
Crush a white koji flower and put it into a container prepared in advance. A light herbal fragrance will immediately come out.
When he smelled this smell, Eli felt a sensation all over his body, as if his whole body was translucent.
Knowing that time was precious, Eli sat directly on the bed and began the first meditation of the day.
The refreshing smell filled the room. Eli closed his eyes and began to perceive the elemental world.
In the haze, a little bit of elemental light began to appear in his consciousness, that is, the elements, but at this time there seemed to be a layer of separation between him and the elements, which could be seen but not touched.
The smell of white koji flowers is constantly stimulating Eli's spirit, shortening the distance little by little.
An hour later, Eli opened his eyes, showing excitement.
Although he still did not perceive the elemental world this time, he could feel that with the help of Bai Quhua, he would definitely be able to perceive the elemental world within half a month, or even less.
"Soon."
Baiquhua is indeed effective, but it is a bit expensive.
If Eli had enough money at this time, he could even directly buy a large amount of Baiquhua. I believe he might be able to sense the elemental world in less than three days, but life is helpless and poor!
But it doesn't matter, as long as you advance to apprenticeship, everything will be fine.
…
Ten days later.
"Today is the day." Eli looked calmly at the last white song flower in front of him.
With the help of Baiquhua, Eli finally touched the boundary of the elemental world, even just one step away. Today is the day when he breaks through to the first-class apprenticeship.
Crushing the white koji flowers as usual, Eli fell into meditation.
In his nihilistic consciousness, Eli was like a ghost, surrounded by almost clear elemental particles floating freely in the air.
Finally, suddenly, like an invisible membrane, it suddenly disappeared.
There is no longer any obstacle between Eli and the elemental world. A large number of elemental particles instantly submerge Eli, transforming this weak body that is exposed to the elements for the first time.
At first, he wanted to observe this state carefully, but as the elements came into contact, he only felt his head getting heavier and heavier, and finally fell into a deep sleep after ten minutes.
It was already late at night by the time Eli woke up.
"Is this the wizard's apprentice?"
Eli sat up, and even with his eyes open, he could feel the looming elements around him.
His mental power seemed to have achieved some breakthroughs, which made Eli feel that his surroundings suddenly became much clearer. He could even recall everything that happened a few days ago as long as he thought carefully about it.
Of course, these are not the most gratifying things. The most gratifying thing is that he can finally learn the zero-ring witchcraft of quick memory.
"There is still time, everything can come in time." Eli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
If he really hadn't broken through to the first-level apprenticeship after three months, it would be really troublesome. But fortunately, it only took him two months and ten days to break through.
To be honest, it had been a long time, but Eli felt it was okay. After all, there was no one else around him to compare with. Speaking of this, Eli discovered something strange.
That is, in the two months he has been in the library, he has not heard any information about wizards at all. It seems that this is really a kingdom of knights.
"It seems that the owner of that book is not simple!" Eli thought of the author of the notebook, Salin Metatrin, but he didn't know who he was?
"Forget it, don't think about that anymore, let's just concentrate on solving the witchcraft model of fast memory first." After thinking for a long time and still getting no answer, Eli simply gave up. Anyway, these things have nothing to do with him at the moment.
His first goal now is to learn to memorize quickly.
According to the precautions for performing witchcraft mentioned in the notes, Eli concentrated his mental power, and then used his mental power to carve out a model of quick memory in his consciousness.
Because it was his first time, Eli was careful with every step, but because he was still very unskilled, he finally failed when constructing the rune as a whole.
Since this did not consume too much of his mental energy, after reflecting and resting for ten minutes, he started to draw the model again. After three failures, he finally completely carved out the runes belonging to quick memory.
Quickly memorize and complete learning.
