lost narrative poem

Chapter 173 Self-charging and secrets

It was only the next day that Xia Ran found out that the lord of Balgruf sent someone to find him yesterday, but it was nothing important, the main thing was to tell him that court mages have special treatment, and they can stay in Dragon Clouds Palace for food and lodging.

It's the same even if it's a temporary replacement, there won't be any discount... But he still declined.

Firstly, Tianji’s diet has not really developed much, it is still relatively primitive. I have already seen it at the banquet yesterday, such as apple pie, scallion bread, steamed mud crab legs...

The relatively good charcoal-grilled lamb chops and boiled beef are simply a waste of ingredients. It can only be said that Xia Ran is not an old glutton, nor does he have any strange skills of "God's Tongue", so we can only draw a conclusion. They are at least salted.

Secondly, because of the conversation with the temporary group leader yesterday, he also felt that he really needed to be wary of Ms. Whispering. It would be fine to clock in and go to work in Dragon Cloud Palace during the day, but if he lived in Dragon Cloud Palace at night...

It is difficult for people to not pay attention to wandering around there 24 hours a day. If it is not really inappropriate and inconvenient, he even wants to apply to Lord Balgruuf to work at home, anyway, it is not bad.

It was precisely because the food and accommodation conditions were not very attractive, so he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

Lord Balgruuf was not entangled either, so neither side delved further into this matter.

Xia Ran came to the palace mage's workshop, which he visited yesterday. It was originally a side hall of Dragon Cloud Palace, but it was remodeled. Laboratory and library.

This is also different from some of his impressions, but it is not important.

As a court mage, his daily task now is to carry out alchemy and create a special potion, which was mainly researched by Farenka before, and it is used to quickly ripen crops...

This not only lets Xia Ran know that Farenja is indeed qualified to be a court mage, but also has a deeper understanding of the reality of this world.This kind of alchemy formula that has nothing to do with the protagonist's attributes, skills, equipment, etc. will never appear in the game...

Moreover, Farenja's formula is very rigorous, probably because it has been optimized and adjusted many times, and the materials used are relatively common things.

The most important thing is that what Xia Ran was worried about didn't happen, that is, the order of adding each material, the interval time, and the specific quantity are very detailed in the formula.

It's not like some cheating recipes, which always teach people "add an appropriate amount of ××, "add a little amount of ××"...it's simply confusing, the ghost knows how much your "appropriate amount" and "a little" are , can't you give a standard value for reference? !

As long as he mastered the basic skills, he could make alchemy potions.

So after hesitating, Xia Ran put in the two D-level causal crystals obtained by slaughtering the dragon before, and strengthened the two auxiliary skills of "alchemy" and "enchanting"... After all, if you want to pretend to be a court mage next, you should try your best to behave It's better to fit the character design, just let that beautiful misunderstanding continue.

Magic skills and so on can be cultivated slowly. After all, even in Dragon Cloud Palace, there are almost no people who know magic well. Farenja has been disappearing all the time. Basically, no one can see what he is doing.

But if the most basic magical crafts are completely unskilled, there are many situations, and it is necessary to learn from scratch, then it is really too conspicuous... So these necessary investments cannot be saved.

As for the debts owed, there is always a solution, for example, he has not sold the dragon's blood yet.

There are still many alchemy potions that Farenja has refined before, so there is no rush, but Xia Ran still worked very hard and spent two days refining a large amount of these related potions—not just for daily use The task is also to better familiarize with new skills and increase proficiency.

No one knows that his alchemy has just been strengthened, and he is a proficient level right away. They all think that his skills in this area are quite superb. That is, when he tried it on the first day, because it was a new formula, Lu He failed ten times in succession.

This is completely acceptable, and after that, it is basically a hundred trials and one bottle is successful.

So no one found anything wrong, and Lord Balgruf was also very satisfied, feeling that at least during the period when Farengar had no time to look after him, the professional ability of this new court mage was still very qualified.

In this way, because of the willingness to invest in the early stage, Xia Ran took two days to master her job responsibilities very well, and performed quite well, no one could find any faults.

But he did not relax there, but continued to study other commonly used alchemy formulas, such as healing, disease resistance, detoxification, etc., and also tried to master some common enchanting formulas——

This is not difficult, his intelligence is very high, he can remember it with a photograph; his mental power is also very strong, he can better grasp the details when doing this kind of delicate work... coupled with the commonly used alchemy formula or enchanting The formulas are very basic.

Moreover, the enhanced proficiency level skills are the greatest guarantee. It can be said that as long as there are standard formulas for reference, there will be very few failures.

Anyway, that was the case, and in less than a week at all, he had already ensured that he could handle most of the situations.Afterwards, the process of using Farenja's library for self-study, improvement and recharging began.

The background of that court mage may not be as good as the entire organization of Winterhold College, but at least it is backed by the relatively prosperous Xuemanling in the sky, so the various manuscript scrolls, book notes, etc. Ran very useful stuff.

Basic, advanced, high-level... A variety of magical knowledge is classified according to different factions.

Besides, Xia Ran is not greedy, she still strictly specializes in illusion and summoning.Of course, he also looked at the magic discourse on the destruction system, and was going to teach himself the fireball technique... That's right, he was just going to learn a fireball technique.

After all, the previous temporary team had already set off, leaving Snowrun City for other places in Skyrim Province.They are going to complete their own mission goals, and the Dragon Priest Staff with Fireball has also been returned.

Xia Ran has to remedy this. Without a wand with its own skills, if he wants to release the fireball technique, he can only let himself master this skill.

In this way, in the midst of busy and fulfilling days, about half a month passed——

On the surface, it seems that Xia Ran hasn't made much progress, but he has systematically supplemented his magic knowledge through Farenka's collection of books and notes, and he has well supplemented the basic parts that he lacked.

At the same time, I have mastered hundreds of alchemy formulas and enchanting formulas. Although there are no particularly advanced and secret ones, it is not difficult for those who are willing to spend time, money and energy to collect them, but the point is that he is completely free. .

Even the materials don't need to be bought by himself, there are directly a warehouse full of materials for him to use to improve his proficiency, as long as the number of finished products is decent, then deliberately creating a few failure records, tasting a few bottles of potions or related materials will be fine. very simple.

Dragon Cloud Palace is simply heaven, Xia Ran has never found that studying is such a pleasant thing, there is no need to worry about anything, everything is prepared for herself.

I feel like a sponge, I don't need to think about other issues at all, I just keep absorbing knowledge and constantly improving my own level.

And this period of time was also very peaceful, there were no giant dragons to attack the city, and no lady whispering was watching, everything went so smoothly...

This also made him completely relieved——

Crow's mouth, poisonous milk, etc., are simply nonsense, and the previous few times were purely coincidental!

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"Illusion Department needs to buy Insight, Endurance, Battle Call, Invisibility..."

"The Summoning system needs to purchase three spell books for Summoning the Flame, Frost, and Storm. Maybe you can consider the flame pet, but it's a pity that there is no summoning demon..."

"As for the destruction system, let's buy a fireball technique first. I don't need the others for now, and I only have so much money. I'm going to clear the mission next..."

In the evening of that day, Xia Ran was wearing a mask and sitting in the mage's studio in the side hall of Dragon Cloud Palace. He was writing and drawing on a piece of parchment with the corresponding words, and made plans to purchase according to his existing money. The plan for the spellbook.

Farenja left behind a lot of spellbooks, from various factions, but Xia Ran couldn't use them directly, and didn't want to take risks.

Anyway, it's something that can be purchased formally with money, so there's no need to do unnecessary things, guard against self-stealing or something, and it doesn't sound good to say it. He still intends to honestly give the money, and then take away the corresponding spell book.

These spell books were carefully selected by him, because he felt that they were of great use to him, and they could be matched to make the ability system more self-consistent and complete, and to deal with more situations...

As for those advanced spells such as Berserk, Soothe, and Chaos, they were originally extended from the most basic anger, calm, etc., and the principles were similar.Xia Ran is more or less confident to comprehend these advanced spells by herself through the recent bad luck, so she doesn't plan to buy them in the form of spell books.

The reason why he bought the spell book now is because in Farenja's collection, he has read the notes on the two departments of summoning and illusion in this period of time, and he is going to go out to do some side quests to earn some money. Take points and crystallize it.

He doesn't intend to stay here as a court mage forever, but intends to continue his original goal——

Go to Winterhold College to concentrate on further studies.

Register all the spell books you want to buy, and then take out the corresponding number of gold coins. Xia Ran was planning to leave like this, but after thinking about it, she still went to the court chief Proventus with those spell books Check again.

He would rather be more cautious than leave any openings for himself.

The Dragon Cloud Palace was a little quiet this evening, and I don't know where the lord and others went. Xia Ran walked around a few times but didn't see anyone. She asked a few guards and asked, but she didn't get a definite answer.

With his current status, he can walk in Dragon Cloud Palace, but he has been avoiding it as much as possible in the past, so he doesn't know much about this ancient and huge castle.

Standing in front of the entrance of the stairs leading to the living area, Xia Ran hesitated for a moment, not sure if he wanted to go up.

At this moment, footsteps came from above, and a figure of a handsomely dressed boy appeared above. He was about to go down, and when he saw Xia Ran, he frowned in disgust:

"Another bum with nothing to do? Licking the soles of my father's shoes?"

"Your father... are you the child of the lord of Balgruf?" Xia Ran couldn't help raising her eyebrows. This seemed like a brat who hadn't been beaten by the society.

"Of course it's that stupid pig, otherwise who else would it be!" The boy's pale face showed a trace of contempt and hatred, "One day, I'll tear his face into pieces, and it's best to keep him away from me forever .”

Xia Ran suppressed her smile and narrowed her eyes slightly: "I think it's better for a child not to say such things."

It seems that it is not just the category of bear children. Is there something wrong with Lord Balgruf's family education? How did he teach such a thing?

"Don't think of me as a child, I know much more than you!" The boy suddenly became angry, "My father knows nothing about me, but I know more than he imagined!"

"Oh, that's amazing, but how did you know so many things..." Xia Ran said casually.

He hated this kind of person very much, and he couldn't beat him, but he still deserved it.

"Hmph, this castle is very old, many places are unknown, it has not been taken care of for a long time, and it hides many secrets..." The boy raised his head as if showing off, "I stole through those places. Watch and eavesdrop, and I met the Whispering Lady."

"...Ms. Whispering?" Xia Ran's expression changed slightly. Wait, why did this name get involved directly?

"She didn't tell me her name, but when I peeked through the keyhole of the door in the basement, she talked to me behind the door and told me more secrets..."

The boy said very angrily, staring at Xia Ran with a hateful look, it seems that Xia Ran's existence reminded him of something very angry, so he couldn't help saying such words——

"But I couldn't open that door, and then it was opened by a bum like you, but the lady disappeared...Damn it! I knew you bums couldn't be trusted!"

(End of this chapter)