In the spacious room, everyone looked at Mokla standing up in front of them with a little doubt in their eyes.
Facing everyone's puzzled looks, Mokla didn't mean to waste time talking and went straight to the point: "You are all wizards from my Ancient Armor City. I believe you all know the recent situation in the city."
"Are we going to fight again?" Listening to Mokla's words, Whitebearded Xilar frowned and shouted, "Didn't you say it was just a test?"
"That was just something that was put out there to appease the people."
Mokla shook his head: "Now that winter has arrived, the orcs in the north are short of food and are starting to become restless again."
"After discussion, Kosis and I decided to dispatch troops to destroy several orc tribes while the weather outside is still good enough for travel."
"What does that have to do with us?" Aisha interrupted from the side, with no expression on her face.
After hearing her words, the others beside her did not say anything, obviously having the same idea.
"As long as you are willing to accompany us on this expedition, each of you will be given twenty magic stones."
Looking at the people in front of him, Mokla spoke.
"this···"
After hearing Mokla's conditions, the apprentices below looked at each other, obviously hesitant.
Looking at their hesitation, Mokla frowned under his cold mask and couldn't help but raise the stakes: "If everyone is willing to help, after the matter is completed, in addition to the reward given by the city lord, I will personally give each of you a petal of the flower of the dead!"
"Okay... In that case, I'll follow you guys for once."
After hesitating for a while, sitting in the corner, White-bearded Xilar patted his chest, and the huge sound continued to echo in the spacious room.
"Let me join in... It's a good opportunity to collect some orcs' blood." Aisha nodded and finally spoke.
Sitting next to her, Sid didn't say anything, just nodded silently.
Among those present, only Athir had not expressed his opinion.
"Athir, didn't you ask Kosis to help you investigate the mutant orcs some time ago?"
Looking at Athir, Mokla also understood that the magic stone was not very attractive to Athir, an "apprentice of potions", so he said directly: "Our target this time is a large tribe of orcs, there may be some clues about mutant orcs in it."
Hearing this, Athir lowered his head slightly, seemed to hesitate for a while, and then nodded to show his agreement.
"Very good, then please come on time."
Looking at Athir, Mokla also nodded and said to the apprentices around him.
After this matter was finished, the apprentices present left and walked away in different directions.
"Lord Athir..."
While walking on the road, a voice calling suddenly sounded in my ears.
Hearing the sound, Athir's hand holding the reins paused for a moment. After stopping the horse, he turned around and looked behind him.
Behind them, some knights in leather armor were riding horses, guarding the central carriage and rushing towards Athir and others.
When they came closer, a tall woman in a white robe walked out of the carriage with a little magical power on her body. It was Aishar.
"Master Aisha, what can I do for you?"
Looking at Aisha who was walking in front of him, Atier asked with some confusion.
"Lord Athir, do you have time to talk to me alone?"
Standing there, Aisha showed a charming smile on her face and invited Athir.
After taking a quick look around and looking at Aisha in front of him, Athir nodded and agreed to the other party's invitation.
"You wait here for me." He said to Elder beside him, then rode his horse and quickly walked to the side with Aisha.
"There's no one here anymore. You can tell me what you want to say now."
Looking at Aisha, Athir spoke directly.
"Lord Athir is an apprentice of pharmacy, right?"
After hearing what Athir said, Aisha pondered for a while before speaking: "Lord Athir, I wonder if you are interested in getting a potion formula."
Hearing this, Athir was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted: "What potion?"
"A unique sobering potion." Aishaer said, "Mokla has just introduced it. The magic I practice in my own school is a unique blood magic."
Athir nodded to show that he understood.
"Blood magic is a rare branch school in ancient times. It is said to come from a powerful bloody world and is very powerful." Looking at Athir, Aisha explained slowly: "Although this blood magic is powerful, it will also bring some problems while casting. It will cause some confusion to the caster's mind, and it needs to use a specially configured sobering potion to suppress it."
"Because our school has declined and the inheritance has been broken, although the formula of the sobering potion still exists, there is no pharmacist anymore."
"So, you want me to help you make a sober potion?"
At this point, Athir also understood a little.
Listening to Athir's words, Aisha nodded: "Yes, you are the only pharmacist I have come into contact with in all these years."
"Besides, it's a win-win situation."
At this point, she smiled. "Although the Sobering Potion was developed specifically to suppress the confusion when casting blood spells, many of the concepts above are also good for reference."
"It's not a loss for you to get a potion formula like this for free."
Aisha smiled and said, "You just need to promise me that after you make this sobering potion, you can give me some for free in exchange for the potion formula."
After hearing this, Athir pondered for a while and then said, "It's just a basic potion... If the ingredients for the potion can be gathered together, I have no problem making it."
"But I have a request." He looked at Aisha in front of him with a smile on his face: "I am very interested in some things in your school. After I refine the sobering potion, if possible, I hope to enter your school to learn something."
"Of course, knowledge is expensive."
After a pause, Athir added: "As the price of learning knowledge, I am willing to pay a one-time payment of 100 magic stones, and when I learn the advanced knowledge of your school, I am willing to exchange it with equal knowledge."
"And in this case, you can rest assured and don't have to worry about me deliberately not refining the sobering potion."
After hearing this, Aisha's ugly expression recovered, and she showed some hesitation and began to think seriously.
Generally speaking, wizards of a school tend to be more conservative and attach great importance to their own heritage. Under normal circumstances, they will never let the knowledge of their school leak out.
However, from the fact that Aishar was willing to give the potion formula passed down in her school to Athir, it can be seen that although she belongs to a school wizard, compared with wizards of other schools, she does not take the outflow of her school's knowledge as seriously as other wizards.
Moreover, one hundred magic stones was a huge sum of money for her.
Although the Sobriety Potion is also a potion recipe, it is only a basic potion, and it is specially developed to address the problem of casting blood spells. It has no effect on other wizards.
If such a potion formula were to be taken out, it would be less valuable than the satiating potion in the eyes of those pharmacists. It would be considered a high price if it could be sold for dozens of magic stones, but it would not even be worth a hundred magic stones.
In addition, Athir used the same advanced knowledge to trade, and all these conditions added up, finally made her make up her mind.
"Okay." After thinking for a long time, she nodded: "But let's make it clear in advance, I can exchange that knowledge, but I will not teach you the unique spells and secrets of our school."
Listening to her words, Athir nodded, not caring about it.
The reason why he paid the price was that he only wanted the knowledge circulated in the other party's school. As for those spell templates, although he cared about them, he did not take them seriously.
For wizards, knowledge is the foundation. Although magic is powerful, it is only a means of applying knowledge and is not as valuable as knowledge.
Moreover, as an academy wizard, Athir himself has no shortage of spells.
Having reached a consensus on the deal, they quickly left the place and each followed their guards back to the city.
Half a month later.
As the time agreed with Mokla arrived, Athir walked towards the agreed place.
When they got there, the knight who had greeted Athir last time was already waiting there, apparently waiting specifically for Athir to come.
After seeing Athir coming, he hurried forward with a respectful smile on his face: "Lord Athir, the city lord is already waiting inside."
Athir nodded, asked Elder and the others to stop outside, and then walked straight inside.
When we walked inside, Kosis and Mokla were already sitting there, apparently discussing something.
"Haha, Athir, you're here."
When he saw Athir, Kosis stood up with a big laugh: "You're here really early. It's still early for us to set off!"
"Hasn't anyone else come yet?" Looking at Kosis, Athir was a little confused.
"They will be here in a while." After listening to Athir's words, Kosis shook his head and said, "You can rest for a while. When we set out later, we will have to walk a long way."
Hearing this, Atier nodded, looked at Mokla who was sitting next to him, and then sat aside.
After a while, when several other people came over, Kosis looked at the sky and finally decided to set off.
A team of more than a thousand people began to move out, slowly walking out of the huge training ground.
(End of this chapter)