Sitting quietly at the head of the bed, Athir silently counted his things.
Regarding the two choices given by Mentor Edith, Athir did not hesitate for long and made a decision.
Although the secret realm left by the ancient wizard is good, it is not as important as your own life.
From the description given by his mentor Edith, Athir had already foreseen the bloody storm that was about to come to this area.
For wizards, the attraction of the ancient secret realm is extremely strong. It is foreseeable that various wizard families and wandering apprentices will be attracted to this secret realm in the future. Coupled with the apprentices of several wizard organizations, the competition and danger will be too intense.
Although the secret realm contains a large amount of precious resources and knowledge, they are not important to Athir.
His current strength is only second-class, and because he has mastered the art of refining potions, he is not short of magic stones for the time being, so there is no need to risk his life to enter the secret realm.
"Moreover, when it comes to resources, how can a mere secret realm compare to an entire new world?"
Turning around and looking out the window, Athir thought calmly.
Athir himself has the talent to travel through the world. As long as he waits quietly for the energy to accumulate, when the time comes, he will be able to go to other worlds and obtain resources and knowledge directly from the other worlds.
With such a prospect, he naturally didn't want to risk his life for the resources in a secret realm.
"Nearly one hundred healing potions, more than two hundred magic stones, and some other miscellaneous items..."
Sitting at the head of the bed, Athir quietly counted the things he had accumulated over this period of time.
On the bed, there were a bunch of scattered things, but the most important thing was the nearly one hundred healing potions and the more than two hundred magic stones he had saved up during this period.
With the help of the chip, Athir's success rate in refining potions far exceeded others' imagination. Up to now, due to the gradual improvement of his purity, his success rate in refining healing potions alone has increased to nearly one third.
The potions in front of him were what he had saved up during this period of time. In order to conceal his success rate in refining the medicines, he had not chosen to sell them before, but had saved them up slowly.
"The recruitment is about to begin. Although the academy has not yet issued a formal notice, the atmosphere in the academy is already a little strange. The prices of various potions and magical items are rising wildly."
Sitting on the bed, Athir thought quietly: "If I sell these potions now, I can definitely make a lot of magic stones. Moreover, under the current circumstances, even if it attracts some people's attention, they will definitely not have the time to investigate it carefully."
"Also, only half of the materials Grace gave me have been used up so far. A lot of them are left in the laboratory and cannot be taken away."
"We can't waste these materials. According to Teacher Edith, there is still a month left before the academy's mandatory conscription. This is just enough time to make some supplementary potions."
Thinking about the next itinerary, Athir stood up, picked up some things on the bed, and walked straight away.
After walking out of the dormitory building, he stopped on the road and chatted with some apprentices he was familiar with.
After a little probing, Athir discovered a pattern.
Those apprentices who have mentors seem to have been notified by their respective mentors. As for those apprentices who have no mentors and no background, they are still kept in the dark. Although they can feel that the atmosphere in the academy is a little wrong, they don't know the whole situation.
"Sure enough, differential treatment is everywhere."
Standing there, looking at the apprentices in the distance, Atier sighed.
After a while, he came to the familiar underground market.
Compared with before, there are obviously more apprentices here, and each apprentice is walking here in a hurry, constantly shuttling back and forth.
Walking here, Athir looked around casually.
Compared to the past, the prices of some materials have dropped significantly, but not many apprentices are willing to buy them. In contrast, the prices of potions and magic items are skyrocketing, and they are often bought up as soon as they appear.
After standing there and thinking for a while, Athir walked to a corner.
There, he saw Ella in a gray robe, who was the one who sold the potion-making equipment to Athir.
"Athir, why are you here?"
In the corner, Ella was a little surprised when she saw Athir suddenly approaching. "Did you choose to stay too?"
"Sure enough, you also received the message."
Looking at the old man in front of him, Atier's face was calm and he looked at him quietly.
"Haha." Ella raised her right hand and pointed at herself: "Although I am almost a waste, I have been in the academy for so many years, so I still know some people."
"As for you, since you have become a pharmacist, why do you want to go in and take risks with the rest of us?"
He had a self-deprecating expression on his face and looked at Athir puzzledly.
At this, Athir shook his head and did not explain. Instead, he asked directly: "What about you? Knowing that this time is very risky, why did you still go in?"
"I'm different from you."
At this point, Ella showed a bitter expression on her face: "I have already made two attempts to become a formal wizard. My mental strength is almost gone. It is difficult for me to even construct a spell template, let alone be promoted to a formal wizard."
"The rewards given by the academy for this recruitment are very generous. If I can find some resources from them, maybe I can exchange them for a bottle of active potion and try to attack again."
Listening to his words, Athir stood there and shook his head secretly.
"I still have some healing potion on hand, I hope you can help me get rid of it."
He looked at the other person, didn't say much, and went straight to the point.
"Healing potion?"
Ella was stunned: "This thing is easy to sell now, how many do you have?"
"About a hundred copies." Athir said calmly.
"Cough, cough…"
Opposite to Athir, Ella looked at him with some disbelief as she listened to him: "How much did you say?"
"Well... this number is indeed a bit too much, but it is no problem to deal with it under the current environment."
After confirming with Athir again and again, Ella's face barely regained its composure. She looked at Athir and said, "Besides, because of the price increase of potions, even if you sell in large quantities, the price of each portion can rise to about eight magic stones."
Hearing the price, Athir nodded calmly: "If possible, I hope you can help me find some potion formulas, ancient potions or incomplete formulas are no problem."
"As a price, when using the formula as a trade-in, the price of each potion can be reduced to six magic stones."
Hearing this, Ella's eyes suddenly lit up: "If this is the condition, I can help you get it."
"It only takes three days to get results."
"Then let's make an appointment to meet in three days." After listening to the other party's words, Athir nodded and agreed to the other party's proposal.
After agreeing on the time and place of the transaction, Atier turned around and walked somewhere else.
The first place to go is the mission hall.
When I walked in, I saw some apprentices walking around inside, but there weren't many of them.
After arriving here, Atier did not hesitate and looked directly at those tasks with long enough time limits and far away from the academy.
"Inspect the southern mountains. The mission will last two years."
"Suppress the sea tribes in the Leondo Sea. The mission period is three years."
As his eyes passed over the tasks one by one, Athir couldn't help but frowned: "I was careless. The academy has limited tasks that can be performed far away from this area for a long time. Most of the tasks that meet the requirements have been taken by people who are about to leave the academy."
"Fortunately, the academy instructors should have just notified their apprentices, and many people are still considering it, so not all the tasks have been snatched up."
"But looking at the situation, if I had come a day or two later, I might have been in a dilemma of not being able to leave."
After all, Uraldo Academy is a wizarding organization. The academy itself is located in a dangerous area with only a few safe roads for passage.
If there is no reasonable reason, the guardian of the academy gate will not let the apprentice pass at all, and he will be locked in the academy in vain.
"With this period of buffer time, by the time those ordinary apprentices without backgrounds react, the appropriate tasks have already been taken up, and they can only stay in the academy and wait for recruitment."
Thinking of this, Atier couldn't help but shake his head, and then continued to look at the stone slab in front of him.
"Investigate the mutated bloodthirsty orcs that appeared near the Kingdom of Gumodo. The deadline is two years..."
After a while, he looked up at a task displayed on a stone slab in the distance, and his eyes lit up slightly.
"The Kingdom of Gumodo is very far from here, and the time given for the mission is also very long, which can fully meet my requirements."
"Moreover, that area is different from where the academy is located. Although it is said that there are some scattered wizards, most of them are small-scale wizards. There is no powerful wizard organization stationed there. With my strength, I only need to be careful of some possible third-level apprentices, and there won't be much danger."
Standing there, looking at the task in front of him, Athir thought quietly: "Also, although it is remote and backward over there, since there are wizards active there, there should still be some basic resources and spellcasting materials. There is no need to worry about some basic materials."
The learning of a wizard requires a lot of resources, not only various potions, but also materials needed for various experiments, including spellcasting materials, which are all indispensable.
In the academy, Athir doesn't have to worry about these things, but if he goes to other areas, he will have to worry about these resources.
For example, in the Baru Islands where Athir used to live, there are almost no traces of wizards. In addition to other auxiliary factors, the harsh environment and the extinction of various wizard resources are definitely the biggest reasons.
Having made a decision in his heart, Atier stood there, calmed himself down, and walked to a corner.
"What mission do you want to take?"
A voice came from the front, asking Athir.
After Athir confirmed the mission and recorded some information on paper, the gray-robed apprentice in charge of mission assignment glanced at Athir and then handed him a pitch-black ring.
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(End of this chapter)