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Chapter 117 Usage and Efficacy

This made Richard fall into deep thought. "If you calculate it this way, with a thousand devil horned frog eggs and various rare raw materials, I can only harvest 150 finished products. At three pills a day, that's only enough for fifty days, which is far from my expectations."

It seems that those 5000 energy points cannot be kept. At the very least, the skill "Golden Horn Frog Egg Crafting" must be upgraded to the Master level, which is the same level as the previous Murloc Prophet.

In that case, the success rate would be over 30%, which would be barely acceptable.

After much deliberation, Richard decided to continue improving his mastery of the Golden Horned Frog Egg crafting skill.

[Host detected crafting Golden Horned Frog Eggs. Do/Do you consume energy to gain inspiration for crafting Golden Horned Frog Eggs?]

Richard didn't hesitate to drag the slider to 5000 and select "Yes!"

After returning from the dream, Richard checked the panel and saw the skill: Golden Horned Frog Egg Crafting (Master 11%).

This immediately made Richard frown. Although he had indeed been promoted to the Master level, the percentage displayed was only 11%, which was much lower than expected.

5000 energy points were spent, and this is all the improvement!

As expected, after reaching the Master level, the speed at which the control level of the [Skill] Golden Horned Frog Egg Making increases significantly after reaching the Master level.

"However, there are at least a thousand devil horned frog eggs here. If we calculate based on a 30% success rate, we can make 300 finished products."

Taking three pills a day is enough for me for a hundred days. According to the "Blind Clan's Medicine Making Manual", after taking Golden Horned Frog Eggs for a month, drug resistance will gradually develop, and after three months, there will be basically no effect.

Being able to slightly increase my affinity for dark elements within three months is already quite good.

Any formula that can improve a wizard's aptitude, even in a very small way, is extremely precious in the wizarding world.

If it weren't for a stroke of luck, I would never have obtained this recipe.

Having made up his mind, Richard began refining the golden horned frog eggs in the alchemy room.

Half a day later

Richard looked at the small bowl full of golden horned frog eggs in front of him and smiled with satisfaction.

The success rate is close to 35%, which is a little higher than expected. After taking it for three months, I should still have about 70 or 80 pills left. At that time, I can give them away or use them to exchange for items.

Since he already had enough Golden Horned Frog eggs, Richard decided not to spend energy points to upgrade this skill for the time being.

My thoughts return to the present.

At that moment, an incredibly enticing aroma wafted from the bowl full of golden horned frog eggs.

Richard's mouth watered instantly, and a voice inside him kept urging him, "Eat it, eat it all!"

Composing himself, Richard muttered, "Tsk tsk, I couldn't have it in my dream, but I can now!"

Using two fingers, Richard carefully picked up a golden horned frog egg. At that moment, he keenly noticed that the characteristics of the egg wall had changed.

The egg wall has now become brittle, like fried chicken skin, unlike its previous soft and elastic texture.

However, you can't use too much force, because it seems that if you do, it will burst!

Richard put it in his mouth, took a gentle bite, and immediately experienced a burst of pleasure.

At the same time, all the taste buds on the tip of your tongue are immediately occupied by an incomparably delicious flavor.

My entire mouth was filled with comments like "Delicious! Tasty! Fantastic!"

After a while, a strange feeling emerged from deep within my body, as if my body had received some nourishment.

At this moment, Richard felt that his perception of dark element energy particles in the outside world had become slightly more acute.

After taking two more pills, Richard was quite certain that consuming the Golden Horned Frog Egg would make his body slightly more sensitive to dark element energy particles in the outside world.

It seems that what the merman's notes said was true. These golden horned frog eggs do have a certain effect on increasing dark element affinity. Although the increase is small, it adds up over time.

After all, it's been three months. Even if it's just a little bit every day, it adds up to quite a lot over three months.

Moreover, Richard discovered that this was probably the best-tasting potion he had ever taken. It was delicious and could also increase his affinity for dark elements. There probably weren't many good things like this in the world!

However, consuming three golden horned frog eggs a day will achieve the best results.

If it weren't for the instructions in the notes that eating more than once a day was useless and that the refining process was extremely troublesome, Richard would have already eaten all the Golden Horned Frog eggs at once like candy.

Reluctantly, Richard carefully placed the remaining golden horned frog eggs into a glass jar and preserved them with great care.

"Thinking about it carefully, if the previous merman prophet of the blind merman tribe hadn't gone to the surface, he would never have been able to obtain the merman tribe's top-secret formula with his current strength."

For the next few days, Richard continued to stay comfortably in Fingart's house. After finishing his meditation practice each day, he would either study the merfolk's potion-making knowledge or read "The Blind Clan's Array Manual," living a rather carefree life.

After several days, Richard could only roughly understand the teleportation array set up by the previous merman prophet, but he was completely unable to set it up in detail.

However, Richard wasn't in a hurry. He would eventually get the hang of it by slowly learning. Besides, he had already scanned the teleportation arrays at the hidden cave and the fishman tribe camp.

Of course, these past few days haven't been entirely fruitless; Richard has been able to roughly discern the differences between the two teleportation arrays.

After carefully examining the runes on the two teleportation arrays, Richard concluded that the merfolk tribe's teleportation array was a main teleportation array with location and teleportation functions.

Richard was quite certain about this after talking with Fingart.

This is because the previous murloc prophet spent a fortune to set up this teleportation array before leading a large number of elite murlocs on an expedition.

Prior to this, the merfolk tribe did not have this teleportation array at all.

From this perspective, the previous Murloc Prophet was no ordinary person; he had already considered the possibility of defeat and thus prepared a way out for himself long ago.

But an unexpected incident still occurred!

Richard picked up the three-headed serpent statue in his hand, played with it for a moment, and then looked at the teleportation array image scanned from the hidden cave.

Basically, he confirmed the function of the three-headed serpent statue; it was likely some kind of magical artifact that could be used to guide the location of a teleportation array and trigger automatic teleportation.

The teleportation array in the hidden cave should be a sub-array.

In other words, assuming you have learned how to set up a magic circle, you can teleport to the merman tribe camp at any time by setting up a sub-magic circle at the location you want.

However, teleportation is too costly; it takes one high-level magic stone plus six mid-level magic stones to teleport once in one direction.

You should know that many second-level wizard apprentices in the Ignis School don't even have that much in their entire fortune.

Moreover, based on what Richard has learned about magic arrays in the past two days, the energy required for this teleportation is linked to the teleportation distance.

This means that if a sub-array is set up in a more distant location, then when teleporting over, it may require not just one high-grade magic stone, but two, or even more high-grade magic stones.

(End of this chapter)