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Chapter 116 The Blind Fishman's Top Secret Recipe

"Thank you for your understanding, Master!" Richard's words immediately moved Fingart to tears, making him feel that he had chosen the right master.

Originally, he thought that after handing over a wisp of his soul essence, his future days would be dark and hopeless, like a miner in a mine, suffering exploitation day and night.

Little did he expect that his master would not only help him ascend to the high position of tribal prophet that he had always dreamed of, but also consider the issue of the tribe's survival from his perspective, for which he was extremely grateful.

At that moment, Fingart felt a surge of gratitude, realizing that he was truly blessed to have a master like Richard!

"Next, we need to do a few things. Please make careful arrangements for them tomorrow," Richard continued. "First, there's my identity."

Normally, I'll stay in your room and look through the few notebooks your teacher left behind. If I find any monsters, I'll go with you to hunt them down.

When you introduce yourself to others, say that I am a wandering human wizard from the Grey Dwarf region, whom you recruited.

Secondly, search for monsters as quickly as possible, especially focusing on the four types of monsters: Brain Eater, Troll Mantis, Mutant Crab Demon, and Demon Horned Frog.

Finally, you need to arrange for your people to collect golden fern berries and water-root grass.

"Oh, and please help me prepare a room in this stilt house of yours. Move all the utensils from your teacher's alchemy room over here."

Fingart listened attentively and nodded repeatedly.

However, upon hearing Richard utter the names of the four demonic creatures, she immediately trembled, staring at Richard in surprise and asking, "Master, are you perhaps planning to make Golden Horned Frog Eggs?"

Richard nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Indeed! I didn't expect that your tribe would have such a rare potion recipe. You know, a potion recipe that can slightly improve a person's wizarding aptitude is worth at least tens of thousands of magic stones on the surface."

"Master, the Golden Horned Frog Egg is a top-secret potion formula of our tribe, the result of generations of prophets of our blind fishman clan constantly trying and summarizing."

"I've been so busy improving my own strength that I haven't had time to study pharmacy. So, in terms of potion making, I... I probably can't be of much help to you, Master," Fingart said, rubbing his hands together somewhat embarrassedly.

"I'll handle the production of the Golden Horned Frog Eggs myself. You just need to help me find the monster," Richard said nonchalantly, waving his hand.

Fingart was taken aback and exclaimed in surprise, "Master, you...you're so young, are you already a master potion maker?"

It's no wonder Fingart was so surprised, because the potion of golden horned frog eggs is extremely difficult to make. Even if his teacher were to come back from the dead and make it himself, the success rate would only be 30%.

His teacher, the former murloc prophet, was a master of potions.

Richard smiled mysteriously and did not answer Fingart's question.

Although he had not studied potion-making, Richard had a general understanding of it because his mentor, Seras, was a renowned potion master of the Ignis school.

The potion-making of the Ignis School is similar to that of most academies on the surface. Its raw materials are mostly various rare herbs, supplemented with a small amount of monster organs or blood essence. Many potion recipes do not require monsters at all, and only require a few rare herbs to make.

However, the two top-secret recipes in the mind of the blind fishman Dibu are mainly made from the organs of monsters, supplemented with a small amount of rare herbs.

Richard found this phenomenon quite interesting; the surface and the Underdark were practically two separate pharmacology systems.

According to Richard's own judgment, this may be related to the environment in which the blind fishman tribe lived. Surrounded by monsters of all kinds, the fishman apothecaries were inspired to create a potion-making approach that was very different from the Ignis school.

As for the difficulty of refining, Richard was not worried, because he could obtain a lot of energy points when killing these monsters and collecting raw materials.

With the Inspiration Panel at hand, and prior experience in crafting alchemical bombs, as long as the raw materials can be collected, successfully creating these two murloc secret recipes will be no problem at all.

Over the next few days, Richard summoned a skeleton guardian to stand by his side at all times, and then he stayed comfortably in Fingart's house, watching Fingart busy himself with various tasks.

He practices meditation every day, and after finishing, he looks at the "Blind Clan's Potion Making Manual" left by the former murloc prophet, as well as Jenna's experimental manuscripts, and finds them quite insightful.

At that moment, Fingart entered.

"Master, our tribe's warriors have found a habitat for demon horned frogs, and it is currently the mating season for horned frogs. There are quite a few horned frogs that have successfully paired up at that habitat, so finding some demon horned frog eggs should not be a problem."

Fingart respectfully reported to the leader at the door.

Richard's eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this; he had been waiting for several days, and finally, he had received good news.

"Okay, gather everyone together. We'll set off in half an hour. Remember, you'll be responsible for collecting the Demon Horned Frog eggs yourself. The corpses of the ordinary Demon Horned Frogs can be used as blood offerings for the tribal sacrifices," Richard instructed.

Fingart's face lit up with joy, and he immediately agreed, slowly retreating to begin organizing his men.

Half an hour later, dozens of merman warriors led the way, while Richard, wearing a hood, openly led four undead summons beside Fingart.

Since Fingart had already introduced Richard's identity to the high-ranking merman warriors in the tribe, and since Richard's current actions were all aimed at helping the blind merman tribe, the other merman warriors didn't suspect anything.

About two hours later, the group quickly arrived at a lakeside spot in the dark lake.

Looking out, a thin veil of mist floats on the lake's surface, making it impossible to discern the size of the Darkwater Lake. According to Finnte, even the oldest hunter of the blind fishman tribe had not explored the entire Darkwater Lake, seemingly only a small part of it.

Upon hearing this, Richard thought to himself, "If that's really the case, then it's not a lake, it should be called a sea!"

On the shore of the dark lake, in a dense area of ​​aquatic plants, resembling reeds and water hyacinths, the area was completely obscured, and the croaking of devil horn frogs could be heard from within.

"Quack quack quack!"

The devil horned frog is solitary, except during mating and egg-laying periods. During mating, males emit loud croaking sounds to attract females.

Upon seeing this scene, Richard knew that the information the merman warriors had gathered was correct; the devil horned frog eggs must be found here.

"Let the ordinary merman warriors come back; they'll just be throwing their lives away. Let them provide support from the sidelines," Richard whispered to Finnte beside him.

After all, the current merfolk tribe is essentially his subordinate force, and too many casualties would weaken his own side.

Richard then cast a dark elemental shield on his skeleton archer and sent it to shoot arrows at a demon horned frog to lure it over.

During the mating season, devil horned frogs travel in large groups. If one is attacked, several, or even dozens, of them will immediately retaliate against the enemy.

Moreover, the Demon Horned Frog is a monster. Although it is a small monster, it is still the size of a washbasin. If it spits out venom arrows, it will basically kill an ordinary merman warrior with one arrow, without any hesitation.

"Whoosh!" The skeleton archer, shielded, fired an arrow from afar, accurately hitting a demon horned frog that was courting.

"Croak~" The injured demon horned frog was immediately enraged and called to four or five demon horned frogs around it, which then leaped towards the skeleton archer.

The demon horned frogs leaped nearly ten meters in a single bound, and in a few moments, they were not far from the skeleton archers, ready to spit venomous arrows. However, these few demon horned frogs had also separated from the main force.

At this moment, Fingart waved his hand, and the high- and mid-level murloc warriors immediately cut off the retreat of the four or five demon horned frogs.

Richard possessed another skeleton archer and activated the Multishot technique!

Fingart immediately unleashed his Water Arrow technique!

Seeing the situation was dire—the enemy, who had initially appeared as a single foe, suddenly outnumbered them—the demon horned frogs tried to turn and flee, but their escape route had already been cut off. With the assistance of numerous merman warriors, Richard quickly dispatched the four or five demon horned frogs.

[Is absorbable energy detected? Will it be absorbed?]

"yes!"

[Gained 113 energy points.]

Although each demon horned frog contributed only a little over a hundred energy points, the fewest Richard had ever encountered, it was still a lot. The continuous system boosting sounds made Richard overjoyed.

Only two mid-level merfolk warriors were grazed by the venom arrows, but they were quickly healed by Fingart's healing spell.

Following this killing pace, Richard and his team killed nearly a hundred devil horned frogs in half a day, clearing out a small area of ​​water reeds. Other devil horned frogs also began to flee to the center of the lake, which made it much more difficult to continue hunting them.

Richard also successfully gained 11534 energy points. However, the focus this time was not on killing the Demon Horned Frog, but on collecting raw materials.

Therefore, as Richard instructed, Fingart immediately went to check the distribution of the devil horned frog eggs in the water reeds.

After some searching, several nests of devil horned frog eggs that they hadn't had time to move were found.

Richard was overjoyed when he saw them. After a quick count, he found that there were about a thousand devil horned frog eggs, which was basically enough.

Now that they had enough, everyone began to return. After all, the Demon Horned Frog was too small; it would take hundreds of them to equal one large monster. Therefore, it was not the first choice for blood sacrifice.

Back at the merfolk camp, Richard couldn't wait to go to the alchemy room that Fingart had set up for him and start trying to make some.

(End of this chapter)