Witch Redemption

After pondering for a moment, Li Lan took out the green crystal magic core from the simulated chaotic remains and placed it on the magic book.

With a flash of light, the icon reappeared, with the same black text underneath. Just as Li Lan had thought, even magic cores have different qualities. "That's right, the better the quality, the more expensive it is, so there needs to be a distinction."

Remembering the price levels she had seen on the Magic Core Exchange, Li Lan had a clear idea of ​​what was going on.

"Next, we will extract the so-called life elements."

He pulled over the spellbook, opened it to the corresponding page for his secondary profession, and instinctively used "Element Extraction." Just as his right hand stretched out above the remnants of the simulated chaos, the spellbook suddenly shone brightly.

On the open magic book, a large amount of dazzling green fluorescence swirled and gathered wildly, completely coalescing in less than a second, transforming into a single emerald green crystal droplet that rapidly fell onto the magic book.

The green glow had vanished, and on the secondary profession interface, a six-pointed star icon the size of an eraser appeared on the right side of the previously blank magic book, with a teardrop shape in the center. Below the icon were the words in gold: "Weight of Life Element 0.5 grams."

"Only 0.5 grams..." Feeling extremely embarrassed, Li Lan frowned as she looked at the number. It would take killing a thousand Mimic Chaos to collect 500 grams. It was not easy, not easy at all.

Furthermore, what is the source of this fire? Could it be the remains of these demons?

Looking at the large amount of corrosive liquid on the ground, Li Lan was troubled by the lack of a suitable container to hold it. After considering it for a while, she had no choice but to give up and decided to find a way to confirm it later.

"How is it?" Lana finally couldn't help but ask curiously after seeing Li Lan fiddling with it for a while.

Li Lan gave a brief explanation, and then the two continued walking. "Yesterday, I forcibly pulled this core of simulated chaos into the space of the magic book to unlock this secondary profession. Perhaps you can give it a try."

After hearing what Li Lan said, Lana became even more eager to try. After all, neither of them could see the other's magic books, and it was difficult to imagine what the situation was based on just one side's account.

So, in the following time, Lana killed another Mimic Chaos and stored the Intelligence Core into her grimoire.

"how?"

"It's done! It's just that my secondary profession is a bit strange. It's marked as a one-time secondary profession. Oh well, it's good to have it."

As expected, Lana's magic book also included the sub-profession "Life Creator," which made him quite excited.

At this moment, the two had arrived at a patch of green ghost ivy. After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Li Lan had an idea and took the initiative to approach the dark green bushes.

Chapter 29 Secondary Profession: "Pharmacist"

"Karen, what are you doing?"

"Gathering some herbs might allow us to sell them for some money in the city."

Li Lan said that he remembered that number 47 mentioned that the "business competition" between adventurers and witches was extremely fierce. The days after the Crimson Night Torrent were fine, but the closer it got to the Crimson Night Torrent, the more intense the "business grabbing" would become.

Sometimes, when all else fails, you can consider collecting relevant herbs; at least you can sell them for a little money. After all, if you're really struggling, finding something to do is better than wandering around aimlessly.

"Okay, I'll get some too."

Lana has been incredibly brave these past two days, successfully acquiring more than ten magic cores, which will sustain her for several days.

At this moment, it was just a whim, like Li Lan's, to put into practice some things that might be done in the future.

According to the "Dawn Continent Pharmacopoeia," the Green Ghost Vine is the main ingredient for making low-level recovery medicines. It is widely distributed and easy to collect.

This is also why the price of this stuff is extremely low; the normal price is five catties for one brown. If a witch were to take this medicine to a pharmacy to sell, it would be a bit awkward, as she might need to collect around twenty catties to sell one brown. This is also the main reason why, as mentioned in item 47, "even after a whole day of collecting, you can't sell more than a few browns."

After collecting the herbs for a while, Li Lan placed them on the open magic book.

A flash of light appeared, and the moment the herbs disappeared, the magic book suddenly became blank. Li Lan watched in astonishment as a large number of black traces swirled like a vortex, eventually reassembling a series of information.

"Green Ghost Vine"

Confirmation of pharmacological knowledge

Professional qualification certification passed

"Claim the conditions for unlocking the Priest sub-profession, Pharmacist, and unlock the skill tree."

A series of words appeared on the magic book, but quickly turned into dust and disappeared. The magic book returned to silence, but the personal information on it had changed. The sub-profession had unknowingly added the item "Pharmacist".

"Karen, what happened?"

Lana noticed that Li Lan was standing there in a daze after storing the herbs in the storage space of the magic book, and asked her curiously.

"I've unlocked another secondary profession..."

"What the hell?" Lana was quite dumbfounded. How could this guy unlock all sorts of secondary professions so easily? Yesterday it was Life Creator, and today it's something else? She really didn't know whether to say he was just incredibly lucky.

"It's a pharmacist, let me take a look."

After speaking, Li Lan clicked into the corresponding secondary profession page. Unlike the simple page of the Life Creator, the "Pharmacist" series of skills included three skills: "Herbal Identification", "Drug Synthesis" and "Pure Gathering".

Aside from the introductions to these three skills, the other areas are not as empty as the Life Creator area; instead, they contain a large number of crafting recipes, ranging from recovery potions to all sorts of strange potions, and even Viagra.

Li Lan also noticed that each herb in each recipe had a blackish-gray icon, which made it difficult to discern what the herbs looked like. A light click could even reveal detailed descriptions, down to the distribution of the herbs.

"The recovery potion requires the following herbs: Green Ghost Vine, Mo Grass, and Mist Grass. There are quite a few needed, but they are all distributed in the Moli Defense Forest. Among them, the harvesting time for Mist Grass is strictly limited."

Although she was quite surprised to suddenly unlock such a secondary profession, Li Lan is a very adaptable person. She immediately accepted the setting and found what she wanted in no time.

After all, he still owes Ryan and the other two adventurers six bottles of recovery potions, and he's currently worried about when he'll be able to pay them back.

He was also very clear about one thing: the recipe looked easy, but apart from the green ghost vine, the other herbs were very difficult to collect. He didn't know when he could collect them all, or what to do after he did.

………………

Li Lan quickly explained her situation to Lana in detail. However, to their great surprise, when Lana stored the herbs in the magic book, the situation did not occur as Li Lan had described, and the "Pharmacist" unlock information was not triggered.

"It seems the most important reason lies in the professional qualification certification, or rather, only priest-like professions can have such a secondary profession?"

Lana quickly grasped the key point and guessed.

"It's possible. Since I have this opportunity, I plan to give it a try."

This world is full of malice towards witches, and they are blackmailed in all sorts of ways. Li Lan knows very well that the two of them often can't even afford recovery medicine. If they could be self-sufficient, it would greatly improve their survival ability.

"Tell me roughly what herbs you need, and I'll try to get them."

Now that it's confirmed that Li Lan is likely capable of making various recovery medicines on her own, Lana naturally won't let such an opportunity pass by. Only through close cooperation between the two can they secure a greater chance of survival.

"Mo grass and mist grass, these two are not easy to get."

Li Lan naturally wouldn't stand on ceremony with Lana at this moment, since they were all in the same boat. "Mist Grass is located south of the Mori Defense Forest. Once you cross it, you'll reach the ruins of Mo City. That area is very dangerous. Senior No. 47 repeatedly warned us to avoid setting foot there. Furthermore, this herb requires harvesting between six and nine in the morning, so there are strict time requirements."

"Well, we'll have to wait until we pass Level 5 before we can consider that."

Even with her powerful race and class, Lana still felt a little uneasy after hearing about this region. "Then, we can accumulate more Green Ghost Vine and Mo Grass."

"Hmm." Ultimately, the level is still the biggest problem. After learning that upgrading the magic book would increase the witch's own strength, Li Lan and Lana already had a strong desire to upgrade.

"Then let's proceed as usual, let's split up."

When facing the simulated chaos, Li Lan was clearly not as efficient as Lana, but it was still better than both of them suffering the experience penalty together. In the end, if you want to improve your strength quickly, you still have to rely on yourself.

"I only have 6 uses left for my professional skills. I'll be waiting for you at the city gate. Be careful."

Lana is also a cautious person. When facing these monsters, she usually goes all out and rarely roams this area once she has few skills left.

In contrast, Li Lan was in much more pain, but he dared not tell his accomplice about his difficulties.

Because he knew very well that he was the one holding them back. Only by keeping his distance from Lana could the two of them become stronger as soon as possible, access the secrets of this world, and have enough strength to face the ever-present threat of death.

………………

It was past seven o'clock in the evening when I returned to the witch's residence, and it was already pitch black outside.

Li Lan sat wearily on a gray down chair in the living room, making the most of his time to refresh his knowledge about this world. He needed to familiarize himself with the terrain of the entire Mori Defense Forest so that he could handle the upcoming activities more effectively.

On the other side, Lana was also studying almost day and night, and two or three hours passed in the blink of an eye. It was the hunger in their stomachs that brought them back to their senses.

Dinner was the same as always: black bread. It wasn't that Li Lan and Lana particularly liked it, but rather that they didn't have much money to enjoy food.

The magic cores obtained through the painstaking hunting of mimicry chaos are only worth one brown, equivalent to one white loaf of bread, or two black loaves of bread.

Knowing full well that she had been ripped off by those unscrupulous merchants, Li Lan still had no choice but to grit her teeth and accept it. She could now understand the helplessness of those witch predecessors. Faced with prejudice and differential treatment, they had no choice but to endure it.

"The experiments on the Creator of Life and the Pharmacist will have to wait until later. The experience is really troublesome right now. I suspect that the experience required to upgrade a magic book from level two to level three may more than double."

Taking advantage of a moment of free time, Lana grumbled.

Indeed, it takes 1,000 experience points to advance from level 1 to level 2, while the experience required to advance from level 2 to level 3 may be 3,000 or even 5,000.

The two had never experienced it and were unaware of it; number 47 had not been mentioned either, so they could only take it one step at a time.

“Possibly,” a few agreed, and Li Lan painfully chewed on the “black chew stick” as she shared her guess. “Anyway, I level up slowly, so I can just follow your lead. By the way, if you reach level nine, remember not to rush to level up; control your experience.”

Li Lan remembered the last words entrusted to him by number 47, so she casually reminded him.

Level 10 is the time when the Gray Mist Grimoire advances to the Silver Grimoire. "Crimson Night Torrent" is the day of "Witch Hunt," and all witches who possess the Silver Grimoire have a high probability of dying on this night.

Li Lan didn't dare tell Lana this secret directly, so she could only mention it vaguely.

Lana nodded, subconsciously keeping Li Lan's words in mind, and then continued flipping through the book in her hands...

For a full ten days, Li Lan and Lana rarely returned to their own room. During the day, they searched for and hunted low-level monsters, mimicking Chaos, in the Mori Defense Forest. When they returned at night, they stayed in the living room to supplement their knowledge.

During this time, Lana finally leveled up to level 4 and learned two new skills.

At this point, the two of them understood exactly how much experience was required for the earlier levels.

The accumulated experience required to advance from level two to level three is indeed five thousand, while the requirement to advance from level three to level four is an even more outrageous twenty thousand. Perhaps driven by her eagerness to win, Lana, unusually, took a risk due to her impatience. Several days ago, she almost died in the northern part of the Mori Defense Forest. If Li Lan hadn't happened to be in the northern part that day and provided timely assistance, Lana would probably have perished there.

In other words, the recovery medicine that No. 47 gave to Li Lan and Lana has been used up. Now, the two not only have little money left and are living in poverty, but they are also starting to feel restricted when going out. Neither of them has much confidence to take on any deep adventures.

March 27, 10003 (Gregorian calendar), the 16th day since I transmigrated to this world.

The Witch Cult's previous mention of Li Lan and Lana's teammates is finally coming.

………………

The steam train from Kate, the capital of the British Empire, crossed the massive high walls of the inner city and finally stopped at the train terminal in the border region.

This morning, the train was chartered by the Empire's Witch Order, and the only passengers were a large number of Survey Corps soldiers and ninety-seven witches.

"Whoosh—hiss—"

When the steam locomotive stopped, it emitted a large amount of steam, which attracted the attention of some residents who were working nearby.

A large number of burly men in gray-green military uniforms, carrying steam rifles and exquisite bayonets, walked out of the train carriages in an orderly fashion. They were divided into eight teams, each led by a major general dressed in black general's uniform, and hurried towards the city wall of the defense zone.

Perhaps intimidated by the chilling aura emanating from these soldiers, everyone present, whether ordinary residents or adventurers, retreated three feet away, actively avoiding the soldiers' sharp gaze.

Shortly after the soldiers left, nine elderly women, around sixty years old, and a young man wearing a black trench coat with red trim, emerged from the section of the train known as the "VIP carriage."

The elderly women were dressed in black and white maid-like uniforms, their aged faces framed by sharp, eagle-like blue eyes. The young, handsome blond man, on the other hand, squinted, a bright, sunny smile constantly on his face. As he alighted from the car, he slightly pulled down his top hat, attempting to shield himself from the warm sunlight.

Of course, people's attention only lingered on these two people for a moment before they noticed the unusual nature of this carriage!

Chapter 30 New Teammates