Above the mage!

Chapter 12 Spell Recipes
After confirming that Amy did not follow him, Gode wandered around the streets looking for a suitable shop.

In addition to being located in the city center, a city's commercial district also often develops around the city's palace, church or market square.

The same is true for Hogan City, where the commercial district is built around the city square.

Although it conforms to the laws of development, the street layout of Hogan City's commercial district is actually very chaotic and lacks unified planning.

There is only one main road, running north-south, leading to the city square.

There are several branch roads, forming several narrow alleys.

These alleys have a small flow of people, but the corresponding store rents are not high, so they hide many small businesses and workshops.

After going through several alleys, Gao De finally found his target.

This is a grocery store. Compared with other large stores with magnificent facades, it is much simpler and located in a remote area.

On the already simple door, there was an even simpler wooden sign.

There were a few words scrawled on it:
Pierre's Grocery Store, which sells all kinds of ready-made potions, sacred waters, medicinal herbs, and herb seeds;
Sell ​​various materials and ores (including magic crystals);
Sell ​​various low-level magic accessories and amulets;
Part-time item recovery and treasure identification.

Looking at the wooden sign that was full of the temperament of a small workshop, Gao De nodded slightly.

This is exactly what he needs.

When Godard walked into the grocery store, the owner Pierre was curled up in a recliner behind the counter, resting with his eyes half open.

It can be seen that the grocery store business is not very good on normal days.

"Please check if you need anything. Just because something is not on the shelf doesn't mean it is out of stock in the store. Some of the goods are in the warehouse at the back." The owner, Pierre, was an old man who looked very old. He clearly heard God's footsteps but did not even raise his head and just greeted him casually.

Gao De glanced around casually and found that although there were many items here and they were messy, they were kept very tidy.

"I saw a wooden sign at the door saying Items are recycled. Do they accept everything?" Gao De asked straight to the point.

"Of course not," Pierre shook his head, still not intending to get up, "This is a grocery store, not a garbage dump, so it has to be something of some value."

"Where are the potions?" Goder said as he browsed through the potions on display on the shelves. There were many varieties, but they were all level 0 potions.

"Let's take a look at the goods." Pierre became a little interested after hearing this. He finally opened his half-closed eyes and climbed up from the recliner.

Primary spider poison potion was not a rare treasure, so there was no need to hide it. Gao De immediately took out three small bottles of primary spider poison potion from the package and placed them on the counter.

"Primary Spider Poison Potion." A glimmer flashed in Pierre's eyes, which was a sign of performing the trick [Detect Magic]. He then nodded and said, "The aura is very bright, and the quality is good."

If one masters a spell, he can be called a mage apprentice, so the shopkeeper in front of him is at least a mage apprentice. Moreover, considering his age, even if his talent is poor, his strength is definitely higher than his own, Gao De muttered to himself.

"My purchase price for a set of primary spider venom potion is generally 30 silvers. Your goods are of good quality, so I will give you an extra 1 silver for each small bottle, so a set will be 33 silvers." Pierre directly offered.

This is definitely a very realistic purchase price. The long-term purchase price negotiated by Master Seda is only 40 silver (2 gold).

"Deal." Gao De was very satisfied and agreed immediately.

After paying and receiving the goods, Gao De did not leave. "Do you need anything else?" Pierre asked.

Gao De approached the counter and lowered his voice, "Do you have any spell formulas for sale?"

A moment of dead silence.

"In Sean, private trading of spell formulas is strictly prohibited." Pierre's politeness disappeared and became expressionless.

In fact, it is not just the Principality of Sean. Almost all countries on the entire continent have similar regulations, listing spell formulas as controlled items and restricting private transactions.

If a wizard wants to buy spell formulas, he can only go to the official wizard association or some officially permitted wizard organizations.

There are many reasons for this.

In the world before Gaode traveled through time, there were generally three types of controlled tools and items:

The first is items with strong lethality that may pose a strong threat to public security, such as firearms, ammunition, and controlled knives.
One category is items that infringe intellectual property rights, including pirated software, pirated audio and video products, etc.

The last category is items that can provide huge profits but the products themselves may cause harm, the most typical example being tobacco.

As for spell recipes, they actually meet all three of these conditions.

First of all, it allows the buyer to master spells with powerful lethality or destructive power, which is equivalent to "guns and ammunition", or even more powerful than them.

In addition, spell formulas are extremely profitable. After all, it's just a piece of paper + some words. It has almost no cost, but can be sold at an astonishingly high price.

The average price of a 0-level spell recipe is 6 gold, which is hundreds or thousands of times the profit. The average price of a 1-level spell recipe is as high as 25 gold. Because what it actually sells is knowledge, and paper is just a carrier.

Finally, spell recipes are too easy to forge, and private transactions cannot guarantee the authenticity of the recipes.

Once fake formulas spread, it will cause serious harm to the entire country - the reason why it is called a spell formula is that in order to master spells, in addition to hard work and talent, one also needs to take the corresponding magic potion.

Therefore, a complete spell recipe, in addition to spell introduction, spell model, and casting techniques, also includes the corresponding potion recipe.

If you buy a fake magic formula, you will make fake medicine. Not only will you lose everything, but there is a high probability that someone will die from taking the fake medicine.

Taking all of the above into consideration, countries have implemented strict control over spell formulas, which can not only increase national revenue, maintain market order, protect the "intellectual property rights" of mages, and prevent the proliferation of spells, achieving four goals at one stroke.

Of course, even with the strictest controls, it is impossible to completely prohibit the private trading of spell formulas.

Because the act of trading itself is difficult to identify.

For example, Master Seda teaches his apprentices tricks, which is obviously not considered a transaction and is allowed.

Therefore, many private transactions of spell formulas can be called teaching as long as there is no evidence. Who can do anything to you?
Of course, in most cases, mages would rather purchase spell formulas from official channels at high prices than choose private transactions, even if the price of private transactions is much cheaper - spell formulas from official channels are expensive, but they can guarantee authenticity. Who can guarantee the authenticity of spell formulas from other channels?

After all, the threshold for forging a recipe is too low, anyone can do it, and the materials needed for a potion are often much more expensive than the recipe.

Buying a fake recipe to save a little money, and then wasting more money to buy ingredients to make a fake potion is not worth it.

(End of this chapter)