Mercenary Wars

Chapter 32: Funeral Prelude
Gao Jianuo lay on the bed, touching the seventh-level storage ring on his finger and thinking.

He is extremely poor now.

With only a few silver coins left on him, he couldn't help but recall the days when he was a slave in Driftwood Town and had to eat coarse food in his hometown in the countryside.

So after calming down from the joy of obtaining the seventh-level storage ring, Gao Jianuo only thought about three things.

Make money, make money, and make money!

In fact, for him, the space in the seventh-level storage ring was obviously excessive, and he simply didn't have that many things to put in it.

Therefore, he considered selling the seventh-level storage ring and buying a third-level storage ring so that he would still have a lot of cash on hand.

Gao Jianuo was not quite sure how much a seventh-level storage ring was worth, but he had some understanding of the prices of low-level storage rings.

The price of a first-level storage ring is about five gold coins - ordinary people prefer to describe it as "five hundred silver coins". If workers grit their teeth, they can still afford it.

According to Gao Jianuo's subjective understanding as a time traveler, the consumer positioning of a first-level storage ring is probably similar to that of an ordinary private car in his previous life, or slightly higher.

A Level 2 storage ring has twice the space of a Level 1 ring, but costs about four times as much. So, roughly speaking, a Level 7 storage ring would be worth at least a hundred gold coins, equivalent to a top-tier luxury car.

If a young worker who earns a few thousand yuan a month accidentally gets a top-of-the-line luxury car, the rational choice is of course to sell it. Gao Jianuo has a similar idea.

But he didn't dare sell it.

He is a first-level pharmacist who hasn't even officially obtained the pharmacist badge, but he actually has a seventh-level storage ring?

Ferraro was not a peaceful and prosperous world. In this world where ordinary people usually had to write a will before going on a long journey, Gao Jianuo did not dare to let others know that he had such a thing.

So he could only keep it for himself and claim to the outside world that it was a first-level storage ring to avoid attracting too much attention and speculation.

Selling the storage ring is not realistic, so think of other ways to make money.

Selling magic pattern ink and inferior wind orbs?
It seemed okay, but if you wanted to make a lot of money, you had to get a lot of Warcraft blood, which was also a bit eye-catching and easily reminded people of blood elves. If you were to be targeted by the church, the trouble would not be less than selling the storage ring.

Is there any way that is easier to operate and can make more money?

After much thought, Gao Jianuo gradually realized that simple operation, quick money and safety might be an impossible triangle and it is impossible to have them all at the same time.

If you want to make a lot of money, you either have to have the skills or be willing to take risks.

He has skills, but not much.

He dares to take risks, but not too much.

Gao Jianuo then took out the "Blood Law Notes" and looked through it, wanting to see if there was any way to make money that was more suitable for his physique.

After flipping through it, his gaze gradually stopped.

"Fake mixture..."

A flask is a high-level potion, made with plants from the Forgetfulness family, and boasts powerful effects. Some flasks can even permanently affect the user, such as the Refined Wisdom Flask, which permanently increases intelligence, the Titan Flask, which grants height and strength, and the Elder Flask, which extends lifespan.

Generally speaking, only alchemists could create potions, or rather, only those who could create potions were worthy of being called alchemists. Gao Jianuo was just a pharmacist, so naturally, he didn't have the ability to create potions.

However, "Blood Law Notes" records something called "pseudo-mixture". The production cost and threshold of the pseudo-mixture are far lower than the real mixture, but it can also have a strengthening effect on the user.

Of course, the enhancement of the pseudo-mixture comes at a price, and it's not small, such as shortened lifespan, impaired intelligence, infertility, gender fluctuation...

"Gender fluctuation" was Green Priest's translation. Gao Jianuo was not sure if it was accurate, but it looked quite terrifying. He himself was definitely unwilling to take the fake mixture, but according to the author of "Blood Mage Notes", the fake mixture was quite popular during the blood elf era.

Especially a pseudo-mixture whose only side effect is shortening life.

In the eyes of some radical blood elf adventurers, shortening their lifespan is not a side effect at all - they would not live to see their natural death anyway.

To this end, some blood elf pharmacists specialize in researching and creating fake mixtures, then selling them to aggressive adventurers for profit. The author of "Blood Mage Notes" did this in his early years and apparently made a lot of money.

There are similar things in the human world today, but they are milder than the blood elves' pseudo-potion, have fewer side effects, weaker effects, and high material costs, so they are not popular.

Gao Jianuo looked at some pseudo-mixture recipes.

Pseudo-mixtures do not require high-end materials such as forgetfulness plants. Low-level monster blood and herbs will do, and only a small amount is needed.

The only troublesome part is that you need to master spells before making pseudo-potions.

Not only fake mixtures, but making real mixtures also requires magic. After all, the full name of the mixture is "magic synthesis potion". Many alchemists even write spells in the "materials" column when writing the recipe.

Fortunately, the spell required for the pseudo-mixture, "Simple Activation", is only a first-level spell, so it shouldn't be difficult to learn.

Seeing this, Gao Jianuo was puzzled.

Do you want to try making a fake mixture?

The difficulty is acceptable and it should be able to be sold at a high price. As for the risks... he is not sure.

But no matter what, "Simple Activation" is worth learning. After all, it is one of the few spells recorded in the "Blood Magic Notes" that he may currently master. In addition to being used to make pseudo-mixtures, Simple Activation can also be used to improve the quality of ordinary potions.

In addition to "Simple Animation," there are six low-level spells: the cantrips "Blood Collection," "Dismemberment," and "Pseudo-Cooking," and the first-level spells "Blood Arrow," "Burning Blood Rush," and "Blood Disguise." These aren't strictly black magic, so they're available for learning.

Let’s learn the spell first.

With the blessing of "Return to Youth", Gao Jianuo is confident that he can learn these seven spells within a year.

Thanks to recent translation and study, he can already read a small amount of blood elf text directly, at least he recognizes the numbers.

So he flipped through the entire book again, including the untranslated parts, and found that the spells recorded in "Blood Magic Notes" seemed to be up to the fourth ring, which was enough for him to learn for a long time.

Putting "Blood Law Notes" aside, Gao Jianuo picked up "Funeral Prelude" instead.

Since he bought this book, he has only read the introduction and has not read the main text yet.

The author of "Funeral Prelude" is Randolph, who is known as "the person who knows the history of blood elves best in the entire continent". He is also the dean of Axe School of Magic.

This book is a classic by Randolph and is an indispensable must-read for anyone who wants to understand the culture and history of the blood elves.

Open the book.

The first page of the text contains only one sentence.

"Life is the prelude to a funeral."

This sentence touched Gao Jianuo deeply. He continued to turn the pages and was gradually attracted by the content. He was amazed at Randolph's unique writing style and his extensive knowledge of blood elves.

So he spent most of the next few days reading "Funeral Prelude" until Ryan came to him after delivering the letter.

(End of this chapter)