The berserk gnoll giant had broken free from the tentacles, but the curved sword was already at its head!
The berserk gnoll didn't seem to know that a sharp curved sword was less than a foot away from its head. After breaking free from the tentacles, it howled without hesitation and swung its flail at Diff's head …
The curved sword slashed at the gnoll's helmet first. It was like slashing at a thin piece of wood. After the helmet was split open, the sword cut deeply into its head.
The curved sword went from the top of its head all the way to the nose of the berserk gnoll. The berserk gnoll giant was like a deflated balloon. It went limp in an instant, and the flail in its hand flew out and smashed into a tree.
Feng Chou awkwardly stopped in his tracks. When he realized that no one was paying attention to him, he sneaked back to the edge of the battlefield.
The giant gnoll fell with a loud crash, and the rest of the gnolls scattered in all directions. The humans cheered wildly!
Feng Chou looked at the fanatical crowd and couldn't help but feel a fire in his heart. Although there were no spellcasters present today, Feng Chou had already seen the "power" of spellcasters.
The scrolls that Diff and Walter used just now were all universal scrolls.
Before the Arcane Empire, only mages could use magic scrolls. At most, they could use higher level scrolls two or three levels earlier. Other professions couldn't use magic scrolls.
Universal scrolls were invented during the Arcane Empire, and were gradually developed after the Arcane Empire.
Common Spell Scrolls were actually just basic spell structures with control and guidance spell structures added on top of them. The advantage of this kind of Spell Scroll was that ordinary people could use and control Spell Scrolls to cast spells as long as they went through a certain amount of training.
The disadvantage was that they were expensive. Universal scrolls were usually twice as expensive as normal scrolls.
The "Rainbow of Morality" that Diff used just now was a level 5 universal divine scroll.
General divine spell scrolls were created by mages who specialized in making general divine spell scrolls. They would add external structures to ordinary divine spell scrolls and create divine spell scrolls that could be used by non-spellcasters.
The price of a level 5 divine spell scroll was around 1000 crowns, which was a huge sum of money for the people of this world. After all, an ordinary knight's fief only had a net income of 2000 crowns a year!
For a merchant caravan leader like Dave, such a huge sum of money was equivalent to half a year's income.
The 'Black Tentacle' spell that Walter used was a level-4 spell, and the price of the scroll was over 500 crowns. It wasn't a small sum for him.
It was no wonder that the two of them did not take out their scrolls until they had no other choice.
The humans in this world were physically weak, but they were able to dominate the world because of the advanced magic civilization.
This was also the cornerstone of the mages' status in this world.
After the cheers, everyone quickly calmed down and began to clean up the battlefield.
After a final count, a total of three mercenaries and two workers died in this battle, and eleven were seriously injured. As for minor injuries, except for Feng Chou and the two senior Rogues, almost everyone was injured.
Dave and Walter took out their backup potions and began to treat everyone's injuries.
Those with minor injuries were cleaned with ordinary non-divine potions and bandaged after applying them. Those with serious injuries were treated with minor injuries or minor injuries potions according to the severity of their injuries.
Minor injuries potions were potions that contained healing spells for minor injuries. Minor injuries potions were the same.
When he first heard of healing potions, Leo was like most people. He thought that since potions were actually potions that stored healing spells, why not just use healing scrolls?
There were two reasons for this. First, there were very few priests who were proficient in the art of copying scrolls. The art of copying scrolls was a very complicated technique even for mages with high intelligence. For most priests with average intelligence, it was even more difficult.
Second, priests did not have the ability to make universal scrolls. To turn ordinary healing scrolls that could only be used by spellcasters into universal healing scrolls that could be used by anyone, they needed the help of a mage. Once something was in the hands of a mage, the price would often double.
These reasons made healing scrolls not only rare, but also extremely expensive.
Making potions was much simpler. Priests only needed to go through some simple training to be able to seal and solidify healing spells in basic potions.
Basic potions were also known as spell solidification agents. They could solidify and preserve the power of spells in potions.
Of course, there were also difficulties in making potions. That was the mixing of solidification agents. Every spell required a different solidification agent. If there was a slight deviation in the mixing of solidification agents, the solidification would fail. Thus, the most important part of making potions was the solidification agent.
However, how to make the solidification agent was a pharmacist's job. Priests only needed to buy the corresponding solidification agent from pharmacists to make healing potions.
In addition, the solidification agent of healing potions, apart from being able to solidify the power of spells, also had a certain healing effect. It could also solidify some positive energy. When an injured person used the potion, the potion and positive energy would have a boosting effect on the healing spell, extending the duration of the healing effect. According to experiments, the healing effects of potions were actually 30% better than those of spells alone.
Because of these reasons, healing potions were much more cost-effective than healing scrolls of the same kind.
However, healing potions had a shorter shelf life compared to scrolls. They only had a shelf life of less than a year, unlike scrolls that could last for three to five years.
The lightest injuries in this group of heavily injured people had more than one medium injury. Minor injury potions and minor injury potions obviously couldn't cure them. These potions were only used to stabilize the injuries. The real treatment would have to wait until they reached Antalya and went to the church's hospital to ask a priest to treat them.
After all, the price of a basic healing potion was comparable to the price of a divine spell. Going directly to the church's hospital would save nearly half of the cost.
Although five people died, this result was enough to make Feng Chou click his tongue in wonder. In such a battle, if there were no healing potions, it would be considered good if three or four of the eleven heavily injured people could survive. Now that none of them died, it was no wonder these mercenaries were so fearless of death.
This battle also allowed Feng Chou to understand the advantages of various armors.
In Walter's mercenary team, except for a few Rogues, all the warriors were wearing medium armor. In Leo's memory, the price of heavy armor and medium armor in this world wasn't much different. The heavy armor in this world was actually the full-body plate armor on Earth.
This made Feng Chou feel a little strange. Logically speaking, a full body plate armor's defense was stronger and more comprehensive, especially when facing piercing attacks such as bows, spears, and spears. It was even more incomparable to the mid-sized armor that used chain mail. It was also not expensive, so why didn't the mercenaries wear heavy armor?
After seeing these healing potions, Feng Chou immediately understood.