Wizard Earl

"Just as Connor was beginning to understand everything, the doors of the wooden building opened again, and a richly dressed, overweight middle-aged man adorned with jewels and a gaunt old man with a gloomy face wearing a traditional Odin robe walked into the auction hall and stood on the auction platform in the center of the hall."

With Cornelius's memory as a help, Connor immediately recognized the overweight middle-aged man as William, the president of the William Psionic Society and a senior wizard apprentice. The gaunt old man beside him, like William, also had the cultivation of a senior wizard apprentice. Although he didn't know who he was, he figured he must be from the Golovin tribe.

Standing on the auction stage, smiling as he surveyed the surroundings, Mr. William announced loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this Blue Stone Auction, jointly hosted by the William Psionic Society and the Golovin Tribe!"

"The gentleman beside me, though you may not have met him before, is someone whose reputation you are all surely familiar with. That's right, this gentleman is Mr. Kastevili, the Second Elder of the Golovin Tribe. Today's Blue Stone Auction will be co-hosted by the two of us!"

As William spoke, he pointed with his right hand to the gaunt old man beside him, introducing him to the fifty-odd wizards present. However, this Mr. Castulvili seemed rather aloof. He did not say a word during William's introduction, nor did he smile at all. He simply nodded to everyone around him, which was his way of greeting them.

After introducing Castulvili, William changed the subject, saying, "I know everyone's time is very valuable, so I won't waste any more time and will get straight to the first item in today's auction!"

At this point, William took out a blue flower from his spatial ring, a flower that had been growing on a crystal ball. Under everyone's gaze, it was clearly visible that the blue flower was incredibly beautiful and delicate, like a charming and alluring woman. Moreover, the flower's unique fragrance, along with its appearance, slowly drifted into the air, inhaled by everyone present, creating a mesmerizing and enchanting atmosphere…

Smelling the unique fragrance of the blue flower in the air, which smelled like both tulips and roses, and gazing at the blue flower growing on the crystal ball, a name came to Connor's mind—Pinsolio's Third Magic Flower!

As Connor recognized the blue flower, a high-ranking wizard apprentice sitting in a corner of the hall also recognized its true identity and whispered, "The Third Magic Flower of Pinsorio!"

"Sir, you have an excellent eye! That's right, the potion in my hand is the Pinsolio Third Flower. I believe few of you here know its origin and effects, so let me give you a brief introduction!"

"Everyone should know the name Pinsolio. He was a great apothecary of the Odin Empire a hundred years ago. He had a great passion for creating new things, not only new potions but also new magical elixirs!"

"Mr. Pinsolio cultivated fifteen new potions in his lifetime, and this blue flower in my hand, in chronological order, is the third potion he researched and cultivated, hence it is known as the Pinsolio Third Potion Flower!"

"I believe everyone can already smell the fragrance of this third demonic flower, which is like both a rose and a tulip. Let me explain the origin of this fragrance. Legend has it that this third demonic flower was created by Mr. Pinsorio using unpredictable methods to crossbreed two highly valuable medicinal herbs, the Blue Blood Rose and the Dutus Tulip!"

Just as Mr. William, standing on the auction stage, was about to continue his eloquent speech, a tall, powerful man from Odin's camp, possessing the cultivation of a high-level wizard apprentice, impatiently interrupted him, saying in a gruff voice, "Enough with the nonsense, William! Just tell me already, what exactly is the purpose of this so-called Pinsolio Third Magic Flower?"

Seemingly recognizing the burly Odin, William, despite being interrupted, remained unperturbed and said with a slight smile, "Since Mr. Juba is so eager to know the purpose of this Third Demon Flower, I will refrain from explaining its origins and proceed directly to its function!"

"Simply put, the Pinsolio Third Demon Flower has many uses, but its most important use is to extract its juice and replace the Black Forest Demon Flower in the Amon potion. The 'Fourth Edition of the Odin Potions Encyclopedia,' compiled by the Royal Apothecary Association of the Odin Empire and published last April, has confirmed that the Pinsolio Third Demon Flower has 81.65% of the efficacy of the Black Forest Demon Flower in the Amon potion. As for what the Amon potion is, I probably don't need to elaborate, right?"

Upon hearing William's words, the auction hall erupted in commotion. Except for a handful of people, everyone's gaze towards the vibrant blue flower in William's hand became intensely fervent. However, perhaps because no one had heard of the Pinsolio Third Demon Flower before, their intense gazes carried a hint of doubt, questioning whether this Pinsolio Third Demon Flower truly possessed the over 80% replacement rate for the Black Forest Demon Flower that William claimed…

In the wizarding world, especially the Odin wizarding world, the Amon Potion is renowned. It is a classic potion with very stable effects, used to help advanced wizarding apprentices become full-fledged wizards. According to incomplete statistics from the Royal Apothecary Association of the Odin Empire thirty years ago, advanced wizarding apprentices who used the Amon Potion to break through to the first level of wizarding had a 23% higher success rate than those who did not use it. This demonstrates just how powerful the Amon Potion is.

The Amon Potion requires seventeen kinds of magical potions, three main ingredients, and fourteen auxiliary ingredients, and goes through five processes to be fully refined. The other magical potions for refining the Amon Potion are all fine, but the Black Forest Fairy Flower, one of the three main ingredients, can only grow in the Black Forest in the far north of the Odin Empire, the foremost of the three forbidden lands, and cannot survive in other places.

Hidden within the Black Forest are unknown dangers that cannot be fully explained even now. Even a first-level wizard who enters but does not venture into the core area of ​​the Black Forest, and only wanders around the perimeter, has a survival rate of no more than fifty percent.