Chapter 7 Companions (2)
The small yard Jim said was quite good. Although there were only three bungalows, the environment was quiet and a few fruit trees were planted in the yard. Now it was when the fruits were ripe. Phyllis added five additional silver coins and bought the fruits still on the trees.
After a brief tidying up, Danica and Phyllis stayed here temporarily.
The little businessman who was traveling with him said it was right. The commerce in the town of Haka was indeed quite prosperous. At least Danica had herbs for preparing pain potions. And according to Philis’s meaning, she prepared some other potions for their adventure half a month later.
Although Phyllis has a detailed map of the ruins, it is not enough to just rush in like this. The mechanism traps of magic ruins often last for thousands of years without any problems. They need to prepare more.
"For example, how many days to have fun to maintain your spirit?" Danica said to Philis, who was half lying on the rocking chair. After living here, Philis often went shopping outside. The things in Haka town may not be very precious and exquisite, but there is a rich production here, and you can also find many interesting good things at roadside stalls.
"Didn't I buy it for you?" Phyllis asked.
Danica put a bottle of potion on the table and said, "Yes, but aren't we here to explore the ruins? You've been playing for ten days, haven't you been having enough?"
Phyllis sat up and said, "You're wronged me. At first I just wanted to take a break. After all, we just passed through a primeval forest and needed to accumulate energy and accumulate some physical strength. But just a few days ago, I made a special discovery, so I didn't decide to start the adventure."
"What did you find?" Danica asked, washing her hands.
Phyllis said a little serious: "Dani, do you remember there was a pedestrian in the carriage we were on when we came? It was the mysterious woman with a hood."
Danica thought about it and said, "Oh, you said she, remember, a pretty woman, what's wrong?"
Phyllis said: "I found out that she was also asking about the remains."
"Ah?" Although it was a little surprised, Danica's face did not change anyway. She still said carelessly: "So what? Maybe she also got a piece of news about the ruins by chance, so she planned to come here to explore."
Phyllis smiled and asked, "Do you think she looks like a kind of adventurer with thick skin?" The adventure ruins sound cool, but it is actually a very hard and dangerous job. No one knows what traps there will be in a ruin, and no one can guarantee that she can come out alive from the ruins. Although it is just a glance, the mysterious woman is obviously not a person who often runs in the wind, frost, rain and snow. Looking at her delicate skin, I'm afraid she doesn't even do outdoor exercise. How could such a person run to the deep mountains and forests for adventure?
Danica leaned against the table. Indeed, the woman was not like a person who was sleeping in the open and adventure. So what was her purpose for coming here and what was the purpose of inquiring about the information about the ruins?
Suddenly, Danica burst into laughter and said, "Do you think we are like those adventurers with thick skin?" They just said that the mysterious woman looked delicate and didn't look like adventurers, but what about them, they were probably the two girls who should be at home in the eyes of others and screamed when they saw mice.
Phyllis was stunned, then smiled and said, "This is true, but no matter what, that woman is quite mysterious. I have been checking her details during this period."
Danica asked, "Why, have you found anything?"
Phyllis frowned slightly and said, "I only know that her name is Cures Gad. She came from the southern coastal area. She now lives in Ore Street, not far from us."
The southern coast? This is the central and eastern part of the mainland, not close to the southern coast. Why is such a beautiful and delicate girl coming here so far? Just to explore that ruins?
Danica picked up the towel and folded it up, and asked casually: "Anyway, I've come here. Tell me what kind of ruins it is?" At first, Danica thought it was just a ruin of an ordinary ancient magician, but now it seems that the situation is a little wrong. This seems not just a simple ruin adventure, or that ruin is not simple.
Phyllis lay on the rocking chair again, and after a while, he said: "The information about this ruin was what I saw in an ancient book. According to that ancient book, this was the ruin left by a middle-level magician ten thousand years ago when the magic empire collapsed."
"Mid-level magician?" Danica asked strangely. Of course, the intermediate magician is already very powerful, but in the long river of history, this level of magician is not rare. What special relics can these guys leave behind?
"Yes, the intermediate magician." Phyllis said, "but this intermediate magician specializes in the undead."
Danica said in confusion: "There is a necromancer faction in the magician?"
Phyllis explained: "In the era of the Magic Empire, there was indeed a necromantic system, but the direction of their research made ordinary people look too evil and terrifying. Even when the Necromantic System was the most glorious, it was a niche faction, and it suffered a lot of criticism and blame. After the collapse of the Magic Empire, the leader of the Light Church was completely opposed to the Necromantic System. In this way, the Necromantic System completely lost its soil for survival and quickly dissipated, and the relevant classics were also destroyed or sealed."
"So there is information about the necrotic magic in that ruin?" Danica asked.
Phyllis nodded and said, "Yes, there should be many Necrotic Classics there, but we didn't go for those things. After all, you and I are not from the Necrotic Classic."
After pausing for a while, Phyllis continued, "We are looking for a ring..." She stopped just by saying this.
Danica didn't ask again, just nodded and said, "Oh, that's it, then when will we set out? Can't we stay here all the time?"
Seeing that Danica no longer delved into this matter, Phyllis was relieved and said, "Stop for two more days. Today is the 21st of October of the Bright Calendar. We set off on the 24th. I still need to prepare it. By the way, how are your medicines prepared?"
Danica said: "It's all ready and you can go out at any time. Do you want to see it?"
Phyllis stood up and said, "Okay, let me see the fruits of your labor these days."
Danica pointed to the two large bottles of white powder in glass bottles on the table and said, "This is igniting powder. Just a little bit of it is stained, and a spark will continue to burn. If it falls on a person, this flame can even burn the bones through. It's amazing, right?"
Danica was a little guilty when she was introducing her. She had too few medicinal materials in York Town before. She couldn't prepare many medicines, so she could only learn it in theory. When she came to Haka Town, where the medicinal materials were prosperous, she finally had the opportunity to make all the medicines she learned. But the medicine production is a very meticulous job. There are always various problems in the first actual operation. Most of the medicinal materials Danica bought wasted due to operational errors. These medicinal materials were all Phyllis' gold coins, which were gold coins! Many people in York Town had never seen what gold coins looked like in their lives. The maximum face value they could use was silver coins. Seeing the medicinal materials bought by these gold coins was wasted due to their own mistakes, Danica felt very distressed and felt a little sorry for Phyllis.
Phyllis nodded with a strange expression.
Phyllis' strange expression made Danica a little nervous. She continued to introduce: "This blue agent is called Solin. It is very volatile and can easily evaporate into gas when exposed to the air. People who inhale or even touch this gas will suffer from respiratory failure and die in pain."
Just as Danica was enthusiastically introducing the next potion, Phyllis couldn't help asking, "Are you a poison pharmacist?" Poison pharmacist is a pharmacist who specializes in the poison field, which is a rare profession.
"Poison pharmacist?" Danica asked in confusion, "What does it mean? I'm just a pharmacist." All Danica's pharmacist's knowledge was learned from the old pharmacist, and the pharmacist's collection of pharmacists was about toxic agents. Danica, who had been exposed to this knowledge, did not realize that there was any special point in her research in pharmacology.
Looking at Danica with a confused look on her face, Phyllis patiently introduced the basic situation of professionals to her, introduced the pharmacists roughly divided into several factions, and pointed out that poison pharmacists are rare, mysterious and dangerous.
"Oh, so that's it." Danica then realized how distant her research direction was. She asked, "Will poison pharmacists be recognized by the Pharmacists Association?" According to Phileas, recognition from the Pharmacists Association is not only a symbol of identity, but also can buy some rare special medicinal materials on the market at a relatively preferential price.
Phyllis thought for a while and said, "It should be possible. Although poison pharmacists are rare, they are not without them. And unlike scholars who advocate cults, poison pharmacists only provide weapons. Where are these lethal weapons used? Whether they are used to do good or bad things is determined by the user. Therefore, poison pharmacists have not reached the point where everyone shouts and beats them."
"That's good." Danica said. As for whether she would be treated the same way, she didn't care.
"By the way, I'll give you a good thing." Phyllis took out a brass ring from his pocket and put it on Danica's little finger right hand.
"What is this?" Danica flipped her fingers. The ring was a bit rough, but there were some magical inscriptions that looked very profound, and it flashed with extremely faint light.
Phyllis said: "There are twenty liters of space in this ring that can be used to hold these potions."
"Storage ring?" Danica said in surprise, "How to use this?"
Phyllis guided, "Try to focus on it, it should be very simple for a magician."
"Oh." Danica agreed and tried, but there was no reaction. After a while, she felt vaguely finding a door. After pushing open it, she came to a dark and boundless space.
This feeling of emptiness and depth, space and time completely disappeared scared Danica, and her attention jumped out of her ring. She asked with some heart palpitations: "Why is this completely different from the storage ring I imagined?"
Phyllis asked with a smile, "What should the storage ring you imagined should look like?"
Danica gestured for a moment and said, "A box in a square." She had seen the description of the storage ring in her book before, and often wrote about how many liters and how many cubic space there were inside. She had always imagined it as a concrete four-dimensional space. She never expected that the interior of the storage ring was as vast as the universe.
Phyllis's smile became stronger and she asked a question: "If you are talking about a cubic space, can your twenty-liter storage ring put down a half-meter-long one-handed sword?"
Danica looked at the ring on her hand and said honestly: "That's true."
Phyllis explained: "In fact, the so-called storage space is not in the storage ring. The storage ring is just a key, connecting to the endless void. The things we put in are actually in the endless void. The main function of the storage ring is not to maintain the storage space, but to build a channel that connects to the void. The channels built by storage rings of different grades have different carrying capacity, so some storage rings can hold a cubic cube, but some can only hold a few liters."
Danica said in a daze: "Can my ring hold twenty liters of things?"
Phyllis said: "It can be understood this way, but this statement is actually inaccurate. No master who is proficient in space magic can accurately create a storage ring of exactly twenty liters. This so-called twenty liters is actually a lower limit. After putting in twenty liters of things, the channel maintained by the storage ring will not collapse. But in fact, it may be fine if you put in twenty liters of things, but if you put in twenty liters of things, it may cause the collapse of the channel constructed by the storage ring. Your thing is still there, but it is just like a kite with broken strings, floating in the endless void, and there is no way to find it."
"By the way, there is another thing you need to pay attention to." Danica praised what the storage ring was about, and Phyllis said again, "The channel constructed by the storage ring connecting the void will be affected by many factors, such as a space storm, so if you put it in the storage ring, you may suddenly collapse yourself. Even if you put it in a little, it is far from reaching the lower limit of the storage ring. Although this is a small probability event, it has indeed happened, so we don't need the storage ring when storing things on a daily basis.
, especially some rare classics, materials, medicinal materials, etc. Storage rings are generally only used for short-term storage. For example, when we are going to conduct, holding too many things in our hands will cause great inconvenience. At this time, you can use storage rings to reduce the burden. In addition, the channels built by storage rings cannot carry things with too much energy, such as some powerful magic items. The energy contained in those things is too strong and cannot be carried by storage rings at all, so they cannot be put in."
Chapter completed!