Chapter 385 Legendary Styx Potion
The dragon blood fruit tree is a special magical plant. This magical plant not only needs to grow in an environment containing magic power, but also needs to be watered with dragon blood for the fruit to mature.
Ripe dragon blood fruit is very helpful for purifying dragon blood and treating injuries.
Dragon blood fruit is not only crucial for the cultivation of dragon-born monsters, but also a material for refining a variety of potions. A high-level dragon blood fruit is often worth about 7,000 to 8,000 gold coins.
There are many dragon-born creatures under Ramos. In order to cultivate these dragon-born creatures, the legendary dragon collects dragon blood fruit trees. After more than 200 years of accumulation, there are more than 100 trees near the dragon's nest.
In addition to these more than 100 dragon blood fruits, more than 30 magical plants are planted inside the dragon's nest. These magical plants are of different grades. The most valuable one is a sky crystal flower, which has reached the first legendary grade. If it is refined into a potion, it will be of great help to knights and warriors to break through the legend.
According to the terms agreed upon by Richard and Grand Duke Jonathan, after the dragon is driven out, the Dragon's Nest, a medium-sized magic well, will be left to the Jonathan family, but the magic plants in the Dragon's Nest will belong to the Harland Territory. In addition, the gold, gems, and magic crystals in the Dragon's Nest will be divided into two and one, and the dragon descendants and magic beasts under the command of the legendary dragon will be captured by both parties. Whoever catches them will be subdued.
In this battle, the Jonathan family was hit hard by Ramos, with about a thousand casualties and more than three hundred officers and soldiers killed. The losses of the Harland Territory were relatively light, with no more than one hundred casualties and only a dozen deaths. Without paying much price, they won this battle.
Although the Jonathan family suffered heavy casualties, the results of the battle were also very good. They subdued more than eighty half-dragons and captured more than twenty terrain dragons. The Harland Territory also seized the opportunity, killed seven wyverns, captured twenty-three wyverns, and emptied the wyvern's nest and obtained six dragon eggs.
Perhaps because they had seen the power of the starlight bomb with their own eyes, the wyverns captured this time were easy to tame. With this batch of wyverns captured, the wyvern cavalry of Harland County will be expanded to about thirty people.
After capturing the dragon's nest and winning the battle, Richard and Grand Duke Jonathan divided the spoils and quickly returned to the territory.
There are a lot of floating treasures in the dragon's nest, and the dragons like to collect shiny treasures by nature. Although Harland County only got half of the dragon's nest treasure, the value is almost incalculable.
First of all, there are gold coins. Ramos has been a legend for more than a hundred years. He is notorious in the Grant Kingdom. He has penetrated into various territories many times to plunder, and the gold coins he robbed are as high as about three million.
Now these three million gold coins are all cheap to Richard and Grand Duke Jonathan, and each of the two families has received 1.5 million gold coins.
One million and a half gold coins is undoubtedly a large amount, which exceeds the annual income of an ordinary duke.
In addition to gold coins, a large number of jewelry was counted in the Dragon's Nest, totaling up to 20,000 pieces, but these jewelry are not easy to cash in and the price is not easy to estimate.
Both parties also divided the jewelry into 50% and prepared to sell it slowly in the territory.
Lord Harland received more than 10,000 pieces, and if all were sold, they could recover about 200,000 to 300,000 gold coins.
In addition, there are about 40 tons of natural gold in the Dragon's Nest, and Lord Harland received half of it.
Twenty tons of gold, plus 6,000 empty magic crystals, can be minted 500,000 gold coins. However, Lord Harland does not have the right to mint gold coins. If this part of gold is handed over to the Grant royal family, it can only be exchanged for 300,000 gold coins. This shows the huge profit of minting gold coins.
Coinage tax is a very important income for the great nobles. Richard is not willing to challenge the Grant family and is not going to mint gold coins in the short term. This batch of gold is of little use to economic development. Richard plans to hand it over to the Grant royal family as soon as possible, exchange gold for gold coins, and then use gold coins to buy food and population.
In addition to gold, there are also a large number of magic crystals in the dragon's nest. These magic crystals are of different levels, and they are converted into about 160,000 standard magic crystals. Harland Territory received half of them, totaling 80,000 standard magic crystals.
This batch of standard magic crystals greatly strengthened the treasury of Harland Territory.
Finally, there are more than 1,000 natural gems and more than 120 magic gems, and Harland Territory received half of them. The value of the gems is difficult to assess, but the lowest value is about hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
In this battle to defeat the dragon, Harland Territory captured the dragon's nest. Including various magic plants, the loot captured is worth up to 5 million gold coins, which is undoubtedly a rare harvest.
No wonder human lords are keen on defeating dragons. If the dragon is slayed successfully, plus the value of the dragon's nest magic well, the income is enough to make a duke's territory reborn.
Returning to the territory, the magician of Harland Territory immediately transplanted various magic plants. Harland Territory built three magic towers and opened up magic plantations around the Snow Crystal Lake, with enough space to transplant magic plants.
The most important of these magic plants are the legendary Sky Crystal Flower and several high-level Dragon Blood Fruit trees.
Because the magic power of the Mage Tower in Harland is sufficient and the level of magic plant cultivation is quite good, this batch of magic plants was successfully transplanted.
After successfully transplanting the magic plants, Sophia is ready to start refining the legendary Styx Potion, and Richard took out a large amount of gold coins to continue purchasing food and population.
This spring, Richard led his troops south and bought about 50,000 serfs, then robbed the Kingdom of Delong and captured 360,000 people. Although a group of old and weak died on the way, more than 400,000 people entered Harland in the spring.
It took Harland's civil service system about three months to settle the 400,000 foreign population.
After finally taking a breath, Richard once again prepared to buy a large number of people.
This time Richard did not plan to go south, but to trade directly with Duke Duran. He used one million gold coins to buy about 200,000 serfs.
This year, Duke Duran's income from going south to hunt for grass and valleys was second only to Richard, and he captured more than 100,000 people.
It was very troublesome to sell these serfs in a scattered manner, and the cost of investment was not low. It was better to sell them to Richard all at once. Even if the goods were delivered to the door, more income could be earned.
In order to earn the one million gold coins, Duke Duran even sold some of the contract slaves in his territory.
In addition to taking out one million gold coins to buy slaves, Richard also took out 200,000 gold coins to buy a large amount of grain in the northern border, and the purchase volume was about 100,000 tons.
Purchasing 100,000 tons of grain can not only feed the extra 200,000 people, but also enrich the grain depot.
After returning to the territory in late August, Richard has been busy all the time. By the time the population trade was settled, it was already mid-September. Sophia had made all the preparations and started to refine the legendary Styx Potion.
The formula of the Styx Potion is relatively simple, with only three materials, moonlight grass, dragon blood fruit, and soul crystal. From the third-level primary Styx Potion, the sixth-level intermediate Styx Potion, the ninth-level high-level Styx Potion, to the legendary second-level Styx Potion, the formula has not changed.
Dragon blood fruit and moonlight grass are two magical plants, with one positive and one negative magic energy, one yin and one yang, all for the purpose of exerting the power of soul crystal. Compared with various complex potions, the legendary second-level Styx Potion is of a high level, but it is not very difficult to refine.
After various experiments in the early stage, a potion apprentice with sufficient magic power can successfully refine a third-level primary Styx Potion.
Before refining the legendary Styx Potion, Sophia had refined hundreds of primary and intermediate Styx Potion without a single failure. Sophia has a very clear understanding of the magic principle behind this potion. Even though it was her first time to refine a legendary potion, Sophia was still confident.
After all, Sophia was already an eight-ring magician, and had been promoted to a senior pharmacist for many years. She also had a unique understanding of the essence of magic. Compared with the senior pharmacists in major magic organizations, her level was even higher.
In order to refine the legendary Styx potion, Harland County invested a lot of resources. Not counting the legendary soul crystal, the market price of a high-level moonlight grass and a high-level dragon blood fruit was about 26,000 gold coins.
In addition, in order to refine the legendary potion, Harland County improved the potion workshop and made a batch of special potion refining tools. Richard not only invited Wendy, a senior alchemist, to help, but also invested about 40,000 gold coins.
If the refining failed, the loss would be so great that even the wealthy Harland County would not be able to bear it in the short term.
Although the pressure was not small, Sophia was full of energy. She calmed down her somewhat excited mood, took the materials for refining the potion to the alchemy table, and opened two magic furnaces at the same time. She first added the prepared special solution to the magic furnace, and then put the moonlight grass and dragon blood fruit into the alchemy furnace.
The alchemy furnace is powered by magic crystals and can release extremely high-temperature magic flames. After testing by the scientific researchers in Harland, the temperature of this blue magic flame can be raised to about 3,000 degrees, which can melt various metals.
Blue flames ignited on the magic furnace, and soon the blood grass and dragon blood fruit were refined into liquid.
Seeing that the temperature had reached, Sofia opened the third magic furnace, put the legendary soul crystal into the furnace, and then shut down the No. 1 and No. 2 furnaces.
The temperature of the magic furnace was very high. In just a dozen minutes, the soul crystal turned into a milky white liquid.
Sofia poured the soul crystal solution into a special transparent thickened beaker.
This beaker is a special magic prop made by Undine. It uses a lot of magic crystal materials. It can not only isolate the temperature, but also allow various medicines to be fully mixed. The cost of a beaker is about 3,000 gold coins.
Without waiting for the medicine to cool down, Sofia poured the blood grass solution and dragon blood fruit solution into the transparent beaker at the same time. In an instant, a violent reaction broke out in the beaker. The medicine turned into black, white and red in an instant, and a large amount of steam gushed out from the mouth of the beaker.
Sofia urged the magic power in her body, and a series of magic lights were released from her bare hands. The magic light wrapped the alchemical beaker, and the beaker emitted a dazzling white light. It lasted for more than ten minutes before the three medicines were completely fused, and a cup of light red medicine appeared inside the beaker.
This time, the legendary Styx potion was made for Sofia. Seeing that the potion had been successfully refined, Sofia took the potion decisively.
After taking the potion, Sophia suddenly felt hot and cold, and her expression became hideous and painful, as if she was being eaten by countless insects. This was a kind of pain above the soul.
Sophia had a strong willpower, and at this moment, she could only grit her teeth and hold on.
When Sophia was refining the Styx potion, Richard and others were around. After she took the potion, Richard immediately began to observe her physical condition.
Through mental power detection, Richard found that Sophia's magic power was getting stronger and stronger, almost more than doubled.
This situation suddenly appeared, and Richard immediately knew that Sophia's mental power had broken through 40 points, awakening the talent of magic power doubling.
For a magician, magic doubling is a powerful talent. After awakening the magic doubling talent, the same mental power can be doubled. Generally speaking, only a magician with outstanding talent, whose mental power breaks through 40 points before the ninth ring, can decide this domineering talent.
Of course, there are many legendary magicians whose mental power breaks through 40 points before the ninth ring, such as Elena of the Venus family, who also awakened this talent.
According to normal standards, taking a legendary Styx potion can increase magic power by about 60 points.
The ratio of mental power to magic power of ordinary magicians is 1:10. Sofia has outstanding talent, and the ratio of mental power to magic power is 1:12.5. In this talent, Sofia is better than Richard.
After all, Sofia is a rare talent of superior magic talent. Richard not only cannot compare with Sofia in elemental intimacy, but also has a slightly lower ratio of mental power to magic power.
Taking a Styx potion, ordinary people can increase their mental power by 6 points, but for Sofia, the mental power can only increase by about 4.8.
After being promoted to an eight-ring magician, Sophia's mental power increased to thirty-seven points. It stands to reason that if her mental power increased by 4.8 points, her mental power would increase to 41.8 points.
Unfortunately, after the mental power exceeded forty points, the effect of taking the Styx potion would be weakened by about half. In the end, Sophia's mental power only increased by four points, reaching forty-one points.
After awakening the magic power multiplication talent, according to the standard of the attribute panel, Sophia's magic power has reached 1025 points, far exceeding that of ordinary nine-ring magicians.
After awakening the magic power multiplication talent, Sophia's combat power increased by about one time. At this time, her magic power was already better than Pansy Grant of the Grant family.
Pansy Grant of the Grant family, who has been promoted to a nine-ring magician for more than ten years, has only 38 points of mental power, and the ratio of mental power to magic power is also relatively ordinary, with only 380 points of magic power, which is less than half of Sofia's magic power. Although Pansy has mastered several nine-ring magics and has more magical means, the difference in magic power is too great, and the combat power is naturally far inferior.
Mages like Richard and Sofia who have mastered the talent of multiplying magic power have far superior combat power than ordinary nine-ring mages. Their power is equivalent to that of a weakened legendary mage. The only thing that cannot compare with a legendary mage is the elemental body and legendary spells.