Mercenary Wars

Chapter 80 Drawing Magic Runes
Blood Mage.

In most people's minds, this profession is the image of an "elegant blood elf mage wielding a longsword," noble, powerful, and handsome. Blood elf princes in various stories are almost all of this profession.

Having read a lot of information about Blood Elves, Gaogano has gained a deeper understanding of this class.

In the bard's tales, the Blood Mage's longsword is merely decorative, its main function being to flirt with women; but in real history, Blood Mages did indeed use swords to kill people.

Therefore, in Gao Jiano's mind, the image of a Blood Mage is actually more or less that of a "melee mage".

If a mage wants to engage in melee combat, they certainly can't rely on traditional survival skills. After all, while there are many powerful protective spells, those that are suitable for melee combat are very rare.

After reading the description of "Blood Regeneration", Gao Gano became increasingly convinced that this was very likely the core survival skill of the Blood Mage.

Of course, to confirm his judgment, he would need to translate the contents of the Blood Magic Notebook, and might even need to re-examine whether the parts that Pastor Green had already translated were accurate.

This is undoubtedly a very challenging job.

Previously, in order to remove the blood brand from the storage ring, he translated some content. On average, it took him nearly two days to translate one page while ensuring quality, even with almost nothing else to do.

The remaining content of "Blood Magic Notes" is about two hundred pages long, and it would probably take more than a year to translate it all.

Sharpening knives does not miss woodcutters.

So before officially starting the translation, Gaucano decided to give himself a magic tattoo.

He came to Darice's room.

"Coo-coo." A pale blue owl was being fed in Darliss's arms.

This little owl was only born not long ago, but being a magical beast after all, and with the careful nurturing of Gaugano and Dariss, it developed very quickly.

Gao Jiano had only seen it a few hours ago, and now, seeing it again, he felt it seemed to have grown even bigger, and couldn't help but ask, "Does Little Gu weigh a pound now?"

“Exactly one pound,” Daryls said, handing another mealworm to the little owl.

"Coo-coo-coo!" The little owl chirped merrily, fluttering its pale blue wings as it pecked a mealworm into its mouth.

Gao Jiano walked over and gently stroked its head.

After a while, he asked, "Daris, how good are your runes?"

Darlis continued feeding the little owl: "I can draw second-level magic runes, the quality of which is eighth-grade. The magic runes I am most familiar with can approach seventh-grade quality."

"You can draw eighth-level magic runes?" Gao Jiano was taken aback.

Although he already knew that Dariss's magic rune level should be higher than Marcus's, he did not expect it to be so much higher.

Marcus can only draw one-ring magic runes, and the quality of the runes is above level ten.

The most skilled rune masters in the Grey Eagle Mercenary Group can draw third-ring runes, but the quality of those runes is only ninth-grade. Rune masters who can draw eighth-grade runes are extremely rare in the entire Southsea Town.

The so-called "level" refers to the amount of energy that the magic rune takes up in terms of the human body's capacity. If a level 10 magic rune takes up 10 energy, then a level 5 magic rune takes up 5 energy.

This means that for magic runes of the same level, only one can be drawn for a tenth-grade quality rune, while two can be drawn for a fifth-grade quality rune.

The human body has a very limited capacity to withstand magic patterns, so you can imagine how important the quality of the magic patterns is.

The primary reason why Gao Jiano hadn't drawn magic runes on himself before was that he couldn't afford a magic rune artist who could draw high-quality magic runes.

After all, drawing magic runes isn't cheap, and cleaning them is even more outrageously expensive, and the process is said to be quite painful. Gao Jiano certainly didn't want to draw a low-quality magic rune, only to regret it soon after and have to spend a fortune and suffer greatly to have it removed and redrawn.

Darius: "What kind of magic runes are you going to draw?"

Gao Jiano thought for a moment: "Do you know the first-ring magic runes 'Stabilize the Spirit' and 'Open the Mind'?"

Darius nodded. "These are all familiar runes. If I had high-quality rune ink, I might even be able to draw them to a seventh-grade quality." "By the way, drawing these two runes requires shaving my head," she added.

Shaving your head is naturally simple.

High-quality magic rune ink is not easy to make; the quality of Blood Elf Beast Blood Magic Rune Ink depends primarily on the grade of the beast blood.

In order to obtain high-level beast blood, Gao Gano went to the Hunter's Guild, the auction house, and the black market several times, and finally bought two bottles of level 6 magical beast blood, one water and one fire, and made them into transparent magical ink.

Holding the magic ink, having shaved his head, and having bought a set of excellent magic artist tools, Gaucano sought out Daris.

Upon seeing the bald-headed Gaucano, Darlis's face couldn't help but show a hint of unease. She quickly coughed twice to cover it up: "Cough cough, boss, you should just lie down."

Gaucano lay down on the bed.

Darius then began to draw magic runes on him.

After several hours of drawing, the two one-ring magic runes, "Stabilizing Spirit" and "Opening Up Minds," were completed one after another.

Two lines of information also flashed through Gaugano's mind.

[Gained the Magic Rune: Steady Spirit]

[Level: First Ring (Seventh Grade)]

[Effect: Spirit +2]

……

[Gain Magic Rune: Broaden Your Mind]

[Level: First Ring (Seventh Grade)]

[Effect: Intelligence +2]

……

After finishing the drawing, Daryls couldn't help but say, "This is the first time I've used such high-quality ink. Boss, why don't you draw a few more?"

"I'll draw it again in a while," Gao Jiano said, while looking at the magic markings on his head in the mirror.

Although it's transparent ink, the newly drawn magic patterns are still visible. It will take a few days for these patterns to become completely transparent.

Darius: "What other magic runes are you planning to draw? You're level four now. If you draw one-ring magic runes, you can only manage three or four, maybe even four."

Gao Jiano took out a blueprint: "One of them is this, the second-ring magic rune 'Blood Regeneration'. You learn it first. I haven't thought of the others yet."

"Blood Regeneration?" Darlis took the blueprints curiously and looked at them, her expression gradually becoming focused.

After a while.

Gao Jiano asked, "Dalis, have you ever considered taking on some magic rune business?"

Darliss is so skilled, it's a real shame she doesn't use her skills to make money.

The only problem is that drawing magic runes requires prolonged close contact, and if someone discovers she is an undead while she is drawing the runes, that would be troublesome.

Daryls had clearly had the same thought: "I think so, but I'm worried that people will find out I'm an undead."

“Because of the persecution by Dato’ Sultan Isaac, I was unable to take on business for magic tattoos while I was alive,” she sighed. “I couldn’t take on business while I was alive, and I still can’t take on business after I’m dead, alas…”

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(End of this chapter)