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Chapter 17 Rose Fairy Insect!
Loren continued to take Xuefu shopping in the city.

Those who can live in the city are basically wealthy people, and the cost of living in the city is very high.

Besides the clothing store we just visited.

The city also has many shops such as restaurants, jewelry stores, potion shops, and flower shops.

After making a few inquiries, Loren learned the location of the Fragrant Flower Garden.

It's right inside the city.

The owner of the flower garden is a young woman.

Loren looked at the flowers scattered on the ground, his gaze lingering on the rose bushes.

He stepped forward and asked the flower shop owner, "Hello, beautiful lady, I would like to choose a bouquet of roses from your flower shop as a gift for my wife..."

"I'm sorry, the flowers in the Fragrant Flower Garden are only supplied to the fragrant flower shops in the city and are not for sale."

"You won't sell it for any price?"

"Yes," the woman said firmly.

"Seven gold coins!"

Even in the city, ten gold coins is an outrageous price.

A fine music box costs only three gold coins; a simple bouquet of roses certainly isn't worth that much.

The woman continued to shake her head.

"50 pieces!"

"gentlemen……"

"100 pieces!"

"..."

"300 gold coins, that's the most I can give!"

"Sir, please take your time choosing. You can only pick one bunch, so please don't damage the other flowers in the flowerbed."

The Rose Fairy Worm will be born tomorrow, and Loren must find that bouquet of roses as soon as possible.

Sandstone Town desperately needs a Rose Fairy Bug.

Because three varieties of rose-based potions are also grown in the castle.

Loren walked into the flowerbed and patiently selected flowers.

After becoming an apprentice wizard, Loren could sense magical energy without the help of spirit insects.

Not long after, Loren successfully found the bouquet of roses that exuded a magical aura.

"This bunch will do. Could you please put it in a pot for me? I want to take it home so my wife can enjoy it."

"Ok sir."

The woman helped transplant the roses into a pot.

She had no idea where Loren came from, this rich young master, who was willing to pay three hundred gold coins for a bouquet of roses.

She only knew that her flower nursery couldn't earn that much money in a month.

The woman didn't even consider the possibility of the fairy insect.

The probability of an Elf Bug being born is extremely low.

Having grown flowers for so many years, she had never seen a single flower teeming with fairy insects.

Upon receiving the potted plant, Liz and Xuefu breathed a sigh of relief.

They had already guessed why Loren had bought the bouquet of roses.

Xuefu was excited. "Loren, does this mean we can cultivate black roses on a large scale?"

"Yes, if the sprite worm is successfully born."

To cultivate potions, you need fairy insects.

Otherwise, the potion plant will gradually degenerate into an ordinary plant.

Loren returned to the inn with the rose, and now all he had to do was wait for the rose fairy worm to be born.

Back at the inn, Loren began to study wizarding tricks.

The sorcery model for the Lesser Illusion is simple, but how can the sorcery model be copied onto the music box?
Loren tried to concentrate his mental energy to carve magical models on various objects such as wooden blocks and paper.

Without exception, they all failed.

The two conditions for casting a spell, magic power and sorcery model, have clearly been met, yet the spell still cannot be cast.

He guessed it was a problem with the materials.

Ordinary items cannot achieve the same effect as the magic model.

The fundamental reason might be that these things cannot transmit magic.

What if it were an item with magical properties?

For example, magic jade, or magic plants.

Loren took out a magic jade and engraved a model of a secondary afterimage on it.

Surprisingly, this time the difficulty of the depiction was extremely high. It was clearly the simplest magic trick model, yet Loren spent a full half hour depicting it.

The moment the carving was completed, the words "Happy Birthday" appeared in the sky above the magic jade.

It worked!
The magic trick is consuming the magic power in the magic jade!
Once the magic power is exhausted, the effect of the trick will disappear.

In other words, he only needs to embed the magic jade engraved with afterimages into the music box, and opening the music box will reveal the illusion.

No, we also need a switch.

The magic jade will continuously supply magic power to the magic model until its magic power is exhausted.

Loren's desired effect was to channel magic when the music box was opened and to interrupt the channeling when it was closed.

Loren quickly came up with a solution.

Since the magic power is consumed by the complete magic model, wouldn't it be better to just isolate the magic model?

He cut the magic jade, which was engraved with a magic trick model, in two halves.

As soon as the magic jade was closed, the illusion reappeared.

If you insert an object like a piece of iron into it, the illusion will disappear.

The metal sheet acts like a plastic sheet between two batteries, blocking the flow of magic.

In this way, a simple switch is formed.

If he can use this method to create secondary afterimages, he can naturally also use cooling and heating techniques.

In other words, we are one step closer to the emergence of various electrical appliances!
The problem now is that once the magic power in the magic jade is exhausted, it cannot be replenished.

It cannot be used to store magic.

"Loren, why are you fiddling with that music box? Aren't you going to sleep?"

Xuefu's breathing training had ended, but she found Loren still playing with the music box.

Is that thing really that fun?

"You go to sleep first, I'll study it for a while longer."

Once Loren becomes engrossed in something, he wants to finish it in one go.

With the illusion music box nearing completion, he wasn't in a hurry to go to sleep.

Another half hour passed before Loren finally finished his masterpiece.

This music box could be considered an alchemical tool, though.

The music box costs three gold coins, and the magic jade costs five gold coins, so the total cost is only eight gold coins.

If you were to sell it, it would fetch at least 80 gold, right?

Or even higher.

There is no shortage of rich people in the city.

The next day, Loren successfully harvested the Rose Fairy Insect.

This is his fourth sprite insect.

Next up was Alan's birthday party.

The party was attended almost entirely by Alan's close friends.

Besides that, there are her relatives.

Sister Shirley, mother Lady Celine, brother Baron Riel.

The banquet was predominantly attended by women, with only a small number of women, like Xuefu, bringing male companions.

At the entrance of Rose Castle, Elan is personally greeting guests.

Loren and Xuefu stepped forward to offer their blessings.

Happy birthday, sister.

Alan looked somewhat surprised.

She hadn't expected Xuefu to bring Loren along.

She disliked Loren very much.

She was especially disgusted after Loren said she was wearing a tattered rag.

Now she didn't even have the heart to mock Xuefu anymore, and just glared coldly at Loren.

Upon entering the banquet hall, the banquet had not yet begun.

Shefellow led Loren to his brother and mother, and Baron Riel's wife was also there.

"Lady Celine, Baron Riel, Miss Linlin," Loren greeted politely.

Linlin nodded slightly to Loren in response.

Celine glanced at Loren coldly, without saying a word.

Baron Riel snorted coldly, then smiled as he looked at Xuefu, "My dear sister, it's been a long time."

Xuefu quietly took Loren's arm and smiled in response, "Mother, brother, sister Linlin, it's been a long time."

(End of this chapter)