Above the mage!

Chapter 367 [Comfortable Sleep +] and New Spells

Coming out of the training room in the magic hall, Gao De returned to Haiyinrong Orphanage.

Rongguyuan was short of clothes and food, but it was not short of rooms.

In addition, during this period of time, there were matters of association registration and crew recruitment, and Gao De found it troublesome to travel between the two places, so he simply chose to settle down in Rongguyuan.

As soon as I got back, Aisha and Dr. Danika knocked on the door and came in.

"I have already drafted the apprenticeship contract, take a look." Elsa handed over a piece of parchment first.

If you want to put on a show, you have to do it all. After the association is registered and the charter is finalized, it is also necessary to design the contract text.

However, Goder did not worry about this matter anymore and left the entire process to Dr. Danika and Aisha.

At the same time, it can also be used to see Elsa's abilities.

Although I knew that she had received royal education since childhood, was well versed in governing knowledge, and was extremely good at these official twists and turns including the standard formats of documents, but knowing it was one thing, and it was still necessary to see it with one's own eyes.

".Party A (Chaoyu Children's Aid Association) promises to provide crop planting skills training to Party B (orphans of Haiyinrong Orphanage). Party B must serve Party A's overseas plantation for 10 years, during which time he will enjoy food and accommodation, basic medical care and a subsidy of 1 silver dragon coin per week."

At a glance, it is so comprehensive that it does not look like a forged contract to deal with official review in Lagos. It looks more like a real formal contract.

"Thank you for your hard work." Gao De thanked.

"It's just a small matter." Elsa said truthfully. As long as she knew the general requirements and standards, she could draft such a document in a few minutes.

"How is the crew recruitment going?" Gao De asked again after putting down the documents.

"According to your request, we need to recruit loyal and confidential crew members, especially the captain. Therefore, we have chosen Cornwall Village and Breedy Village as the recruitment areas. These two fishing villages are relatively isolated from the outside world, so it is easier for the fishermen there to build loyalty."

"Finally, we found an experienced old captain. More importantly, he was once a believer of the Tidetalkers sect. However, the caravan he served later went bankrupt, he lost his job, and no longer believed in the sect." Doctor Danica reported in a serious manner.

Wow. It really has some of the traditions of our ancestors. The so-called faith is to believe in it when it is useful, and to disbelieve it when it is not.
Gao De complained in his heart.

"Did he agree to sign a long-term employment contract?" Gao De confirmed.

In his opinion, if one wants to recruit loyal and confidential crew members, the selection of target groups is certainly important, but what is truly binding is a long-term contract with a high penalty for breach of contract, using economic means to constrain loyalty.

Not everyone is like him, a loner who is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. After signing the contract, if he really doesn't want to do the job anymore, he can just leave.

"We offered him a five-year employment contract, and he agreed without even asking for anything extra," Dr. Danica explained. "After the Spiritual Marrow Fever, many people lost their jobs, so..."

So there is no choice, you have to support your family.

"The captain is from Cornwall, so we recruited the first and second mates from Breedy," Aisha added, "and then asked the three of them to recommend other crew members through their personal networks."

“Because the salary we offered was not low, and considering the current depressed economic situation in Lagos, a long-term contract was actually a guarantee for them, so it went smoothly.”

"We have already recruited most of the people. We just need to get familiar with each other and make preparations. Then, once the materials you need to purchase are in place, we can set sail."

Gao De nodded slightly.

This is the advantage of choosing the right person. During the whole process, apart from paying the money, all the trivial matters were basically handled by Elsa, Dr. Danika and Harland, so he didn't need to worry too much.

He thought for a moment, looked up at Doctor Danica, and changed the subject, "Doctor Danica, can you teach others the [Healing Technique] you have mastered? If so, I would like to buy the spell formula from you."

This is not an idea that just popped up out of nowhere.

When Gaode discovered that Doctor Danica was performing the [Healing Spell] in the Makoko District, he had already begun to think about the spell formula of the [Healing Spell].

Putting aside the so-called rare title of the spell, [Healing], as one of the few healing spells in the low-level energy-shaping system, has a wide range of applications, which has already made Gaode very eager for it.

When you go out, who can guarantee that you won’t encounter any trouble?

After joining the Sea Sentinel, getting injured is inevitable, so it is really necessary to master such a spell.

Not to mention, he now has a "BOSS" to fight.

Aldrich is a second-ring mage. Even if God has the best timing, location and people, he is not sure of winning.

Before such a battle, if you can master the [Healing Technique], it will be an extra trump card.

But at that time, he and Dr. Danika were complete strangers.

In this situation, asking to buy spell formulas is a very presumptuous thing to do, and if you meet a wizard with a bad temper, you may even make an enemy.

But now that they have some intersection, Gaode will go straight to the point.

Doctor Danica thought for a moment and said, "[Healing Technique] is actually a family spell. Logically speaking, it is not allowed to be passed on to outsiders."

"But," she said generously, "Now that even the Principality of Xidian no longer exists, let alone my family, these regulations naturally do not need to be strictly followed."

"Please wait a moment."

After saying that, Dr. Danica retreated.

Half a quarter of an hour later, she walked in solemnly holding a yellowed, slightly old booklet.

"When I fled from my family, I hadn't mastered this spell yet, so I took the spell formula with me when I left."

"Fortunately, otherwise, after so much time, I can still write the spell model, but I definitely can't remember the formula of the spell potion." Doctor Danica said self-deprecatingly as she handed the booklet to Gode.

After the spell model is successfully constructed, it will remain in the sea of ​​spells forever and can naturally be easily replicated.

But if you are not careful, it is not easy to remember the paired spells and potions after a long time.

For a wizard like Dr. Danica who was once from an aristocratic family, spells and potions should be ready-made, without the need for her to collect raw materials and mix them herself. It would be impossible for her to tell her the formula of the potion.

Gao De took the booklet and took out money from his pocket.

A first-level spell formula is worth about 25 gold. [Healing Spell] is particularly precious, so it is not excessive to sell it for 40 gold.

But Danica stopped Gode's action and said, "Sir, compared to a spell formula, a kind heart is the most precious. I don't know how to thank you for your willingness to help the children. It's just a spell formula that I can't use anymore."

Goder looked at Dr. Danica.

The latter responded with a sincere smile.

"Thank you." He didn't insist.

"5 elderberry leaves, 1 teaspoon dried calendula petal powder, 5 crystals of rotten sea salt."

Although he had just returned, in order to master the [Healing Technique] before "fighting the BOSS", Gao De immediately left Rongguyuan and headed straight for the city center.

The largest magic material stores in Lagos are all located here, so it shouldn't be a problem to gather the main and auxiliary materials needed for the [Healing] spell potion.

This was indeed the case. In the first store, he bought all the two main ingredients needed for the [Healing] spell potion, and four of the five auxiliary ingredients. The only thing missing was the last ingredient, tumbleweed condensate. However, tumbleweed condensate was not a rare item, so Gaode successfully bought it in the second magic material store.

The total cost is 39 gold coins.

——Rare spells What is rare is the spell itself, so the spell formula will have a premium compared to ordinary spells, but the main and auxiliary materials required for spell potions are still very common and there is no premium.

After returning with a full load, all the ingredients were "cooked" in one pot, and a small bottle of emerald green potion was freshly prepared.

On the eve of leaving Dorne, Goder obtained a total of three new spell recipes, [Disguise], [Comfortable Sleep], and [Quick Digging].

Nearly two weeks later, the spell models of [Disguise] and [Comfortable Sleep] have been successfully constructed.

[Quick Dig] It’s almost done.

Now, Gaode simply gave up halfway, temporarily abandoning the [Quick Digging] that he had not yet mastered, and turned to [Healing].

However, it is worth mentioning that [Comfortable Sleep], which was originally regarded by Gao De as a powerful sleeping pill with no side effects, brought him a small surprise after Feng Ling Yue Ying added points:

[Comfortable Sleep+] (Necromancy, 1st level):

You can cast this spell just as you are about to rest. While under the spell's influence, the subject enjoys a restful night's sleep.
Additional: When the recipient is in a comfortable sleep state, the speed of mental recovery will be significantly improved. For every hour of comfortable sleep, the recipient can obtain the mental recovery effect equivalent to 1.5 hours of sleep without the treatment.

It was upgraded directly in one fell swoop, from an ordinary first-level spell to a minor magical skill.

Except for a few rare potions that can help mages recover their mental strength, in most cases, mages can only recover their mental strength by resting.

When a mage consumes too much mental energy, he will often become devastated and need several days of good rest to recover.

It goes without saying how practical the additional effects brought by [Comfortable Sleep+] are.

In particular, sleep is a long-term thing. No matter how small the improvement is, it will be exaggerated when accumulated. Not to mention that a 1.5-fold improvement itself is not small.

呲!
In the furnace, sparks burst and scattered like fireworks, drawing bright tracks in the hot air, and finally fell to the bottom of the furnace and turned into dark red dots.

A burly, bearded middle-aged blacksmith was concentrating on the blazing furnace in front of him.

In the furnace, orange-red flames rolled wildly, and a piece of bronze emitting a faint glow was gradually turning red.

The young apprentice at the side was trying his best to pull the bellows.

The powerful airflow from the bellows made the flames in the furnace soar higher and the temperature rose sharply.

There was a pungent smell of burning heat in the air.

Under high temperature, chalcopyrite softens at a speed that is almost imperceptible to the naked eye. In addition to the increasingly rich red color, its surface also flows with a strange yellowish light.

The temperature in the entire yard was astonishingly high. Even in the freezing cold month, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down the foreheads of the apprentices pulling the bellows and the blacksmith holding the hammer.

Beads of sweat rolled down their cheeks and evaporated instantly on the ground, leaving only faint water stains.

However, Gaode, who was watching from the sidelines, felt good.

Because he had already given himself a lesson on "endurance environment".

After a long time, when the temperature was almost right, the blacksmith carefully used a pair of special tongs to take the softened chalcanthite out of the furnace and placed it on a huge iron felt.

The surface of the iron felt is bumpy, which are the marks left by countless hammering.

Then, he raised the hammer in his hand high. There were runes engraved on the hammer, and the runes were glowing slightly.

The middle-aged blacksmith took a deep breath, his arm muscles tensed and his blood vessels bulged, and with a whistling sound, he smashed the hammer heavily on the bronze.

Each knock made a dull and powerful sound that echoed in the yard.

His sweat also fell on the edge of the furnace and turned into white steam rising up.

Every time the hammer falls, the bronze undergoes subtle deformation.

Under the continuous hammering, some impurities were shaken out of the bronze and fell like black powder.

At the same time, the structure of chalcopyrite itself becomes denser and its composition gradually becomes more uniform.

After about thirty hammerings, the originally soft bronze had cooled down a bit, and the luster on the surface became dull, and it was no longer as easy to shape as it was at the beginning.

The burly blacksmith quickly put it back into the furnace in one go.

Then, he straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to Gao De: "Sir, chalcedony itself is hard and cools quickly. According to your requirements, to ensure that the composition of chalcedony is as uniform as possible, and the amount of impurities in each part is almost the same, it must be forged in this way for at least five times."

Gao De nodded slightly, not surprised.

This is the request he made.

Brite must be refined and forged continuously until the final forging and weighing shows that its weight has not decreased at all, which is considered qualified.

——This state indicates that 99% of the impurities in chalcopyrite have been removed.

The reason for such high requirements is not that Gaode has obsessive-compulsive disorder, but that this is necessary if he wants to create a rune construct.

The most important and core part of rune construction is undoubtedly the runes and the magic circle.

But this does not mean that other aspects are not important. On the contrary, the requirements for raw materials of rune construction are much higher than other extraordinary equipment.

In the old rune system, there is a well-known theory: when making rune constructions, if the raw materials themselves are not forged enough times and the quality is not high enough, it will be difficult to successfully make the rune construction.

As to why this situation occurs, there has been no universally recognized and unified conclusion.

But in the new rune system pioneered by Ho-Sei, the answer to this question is obvious.

If the forging times are not enough, the amount of impurities in different parts of the same material will be different, which will also lead to differences in magic resistance.

A slight mistake can lead to a huge error. This slight difference will lead to the failure of the rune array.

The apprentice, who had just rested for a while, at the blacksmith's signal, once again vigorously pumped the bellows.

The bellows made a creaking sound.

The fire burned brightly.

However, as a magic-conducting material, bronze has a different texture from ordinary copper and iron. It will take at least a quarter of an hour to reach the forgeable stage again.

This is just the bronze used to make first-level rune constructs, which is a first-level magic conductive material. It takes longer to forge higher-level materials.

(End of this chapter)