Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1725 Starry Sky Ink Nightmare Blood
There are a total of seven paintings, of which only two are relatively complete, and the rest are like graffiti works of mentally ill patients, with distorted brush strokes and diffuse paint, and it is only possible to vaguely identify whether it is a person, an object, or a certain scene.

And the two relatively complete paintings are only "relatively complete". Compared with the normal paintings on the main plane, the [Old Illusion] formed by the transformation and condensation of the ether plane still looks very distorted.

One of the two paintings is a scene of farmers farming the land, the picture is bright, with more yellow and blue patches; the other is a painting of a dark forest somewhere, where the trees seem to have grown tentacles entangled with each other Together, in the depths of the forest, a crooked tower can be vaguely seen.

The contrast between the two paintings is strong, and Xia Duo originally intended to prefer the first one, but thinking of what the stall owner said just now that someone found the real secret of the main plane through these [old illusions], he moved both of them to In front of myself, ask:

"On these two pictures, how many gold coins are there in total?"

"My lord, you can just give 500 for these two pictures." Barry replied flatteringly.

"can."

Xia Duo didn't bother to bargain, and directly took out a 500 gold coin denomination of the Arcane Federation exchange voucher. As a veteran who often mixed in the market, Barry could tell the authenticity of the voucher at a glance.

But I checked it carefully before putting it away, "My lord, the 500 gold coins have been received, and these two paintings are yours."

Xia Duo looked at the two paintings, but he didn't put them away immediately. The current plane environment is an overlapping state of the main plane and the ether plane, and the two [Old Illusions] can still be maintained normally.

But if it was put away, the 500 gold coins that were just given out would be in vain.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo turned his head and looked at the stall owner who had just interrupted at the booth next to him, "I need two scrolls to solidify [Old Illusions], go and buy them for me, and I will pay you when I come back!"

The man probably didn't expect Xia Duo to come here, and he froze in place for a moment, and then he realized that he was at a loss with a bitter face, "My lord, this, this——"

"What? Are you still afraid that I will run away?"

Xia Duo wanted to tease him, but then he thought, if he has the leisure to tease people here, he might as well go back and finish making [Mysera] earlier.

"Come on, don't make me say it a second time."

After finishing speaking, Xia Duo threw over a 500 gold coin exchange voucher. In fact, he could probably guess what the principle of the hardening spell was, but if there was an example for reference, he would know better.

After taking the money, the stall owner immediately changed his attitude, "My lord, wait a moment, I'll be right back."

"Ah."

Speaking of which, when Xia Duo came, he passed by the shop opened by the Austrian Federation, but that shop was more about buying ether specialties than selling them.

And at that time, he only asked if there was any news about the spirit matter, but he didn't expect that it was related to the solidification of the [Old Illusion].

After the stall owner who received the money left, Xia Duo continued to ask Barry, "Introduce these flesh, bones, and fur!"

He just spent 500 gold coins, which is already considered a big customer for an ordinary small stall. Compared with before, Barry's attitude at this moment is definitely more than twice as enthusiastic!
"My lord, these are the blood of the Leap Beast. If you are full of aura, you can make starry ink. They have a high degree of compatibility with the design of force fields and plane-related magic elements. They are generally used to make teleportation scrolls."

Barry pointed to the blue-black liquid that was sealed in a glass bottle on the booth and introduced it to Xia Duo, and Xia Duo nodded repeatedly.

In the past, his upgrade speed was too fast. Although he knew that different magic scrolls required different inks, in fact, he seldom used some specific inks, and even made scrolls very rarely.

The general-purpose ink doped with five-color gemstone powder is often used in production. Of course, it is only relatively general-purpose. In fact, it is necessary to choose the type of gemstone powder doped according to the elements involved in the spell.

At the same time, there is a more serious problem - expensive!

For example, [sand crystal graphite water] is needed to make fireball scrolls. This ink contains not only the "sand crystal" in the name, but also a relatively small proportion of ruby ​​powder.

It sells a small bottle of 1 gold coins outside, and one bottle can only draw two scrolls of fireball. If it fails once in the middle, the cost will be doubled directly.

Generally speaking, most mage tower organizations will make all kinds of ink by themselves. Of course, if it is cheaper to buy it outside, they don't mind buying it from outside.

Because of some undisclosed special materials or formulas, the ink purchased from outside is not necessarily more expensive than the materials purchased by oneself. Of course, the premise is that there are other competing products on the market.

If there is no competing product, then naturally it can only be decided by others.

"Then how much do you sell this bottle of leap beast blood? How much starry sky ink can you probably make?"

"If an adult wants this bottle, you can take it away with just a hundred gold coins. This bottle can be brought back to the main plane, and no additional hardening spells are needed. As for how much starry sky ink can be produced—"

Barry shook his head sadly, "It's not something that a small person like me can know, but I heard people say that even if you use the blood of leap beasts with thin aura to make star ink, you won't lose money."

The blood aura of the Leaping Beast at Barry's booth wasn't abundant, but it wasn't too thin either. Xia Duo could tell that the stuff this guy was selling was pretty solid.

Unlike other stalls, some people bought blood that had completely lost its magical aura and was no different from dead things. If they dared to sell it, they were really not afraid of encountering an alien version of Liu Huaqiang.

"Currently, only leap beasts can be hunted stably in base 3, but occasionally there will be some other beast materials brought back by mages from outside, but the only thing that gets to me is this small bottle that is said to be from 'Nightmare' blood."

At this time, what Barry introduced was a transparent vial on the edge of the booth near his feet, but inside it was not in the liquid form of blood, but a wisp of black and red smoke, flying up and down in the bottle, gathering and dispersing indefinite.

Xia Duo noticed the bottle very early on. At first he thought it was something like [Ether Fog], but unexpectedly Barry said it was [Nightmare Blood].

However, the contents in the bottle did not show any special aura. Although the caster's perception in the etheric plane would be weakened, it was still easy to tell whether there was something there or not.

Either the contents of this bottle are just a gimmick, or there is something magical about it.

"Nightmare blood, how many gold coins do you need?"

"Only 500 gold coins." After finishing speaking, Barley added an additional sentence, "The price that the mage sold me was 500 gold coins, and I didn't earn a single coin from you."

"500 gold coins? Can this thing be brought back to the main plane?"

"This—to tell you the truth, this bottle of [Nightmare Blood] cannot be taken to the main plane, and there is no way to solidify it for the time being. Someone once tried to solidify the magic scroll of [Illusion of the Past], but it failed."

When Xia Duo heard this, he immediately lost interest. Obviously, [Blood of Nightmare] and [Illusion of the Past] are not the same thing. If so, at least part of it can be solidified and taken away.

(End of this chapter)