The main reason Feng Chou went to the El Chamber of Commerce was to sneak into the mage school and steal the school's magic materials. Once he got the materials, of course, he would find a way to sneak away.
Even if Darnell had sent four people to watch him, Feng Chou was still confident that he would be able to escape. People would always make mistakes, and even if they didn't make mistakes, Feng Chou could still create conditions to make them make mistakes. But spells were different.
With a range of hundreds of kilometers, it was almost impossible for Feng Chou to escape!
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This made Feng Chou decide to put down his magic research and improve his ability to protect himself first.
The next day, Feng Chou didn't go to the library or the lab, which was rare. Instead, he went to a potion shop in the business district.
There were two main types of goods in this shop. One was various alchemy materials, and the other was the basic potions for all kinds of mages' spells, which were the so-called spell hardeners.
Feng Chou saw "Counter the Enemy", "Magical Disguise", "Escape", "Jump", "Giant", "Shrink", "See through Invisibility", "Haze", "Invisibility", "Invisibility", "Fake Life", "Morph", "Tenacity", "Brute Force", "Lightness", "Ingenuity", "Erudite", "Spider", and "Darkvision". These were all low-level spell hardeners.
Mages would buy these hardeners and inject their own spells into the corresponding hardeners to form real alchemy potions.
Among these potions, "Brute Force" and "Lightness" were the most popular. "Brute Force" could increase the user's strength by 20 points for more than 5 minutes, while "Lightness" could increase the user's agility by 20 points. This kind of increase was subversive even for a middle-rank warrior.
The success rate of making alchemy potions mainly depended on the level of hardeners. It was said that before the Arcane Empire, the success rate of making alchemy potions was very low, so alchemy potions were very expensive.
During the Arcane Empire, the arcanists developed Pharmacology and Medicine Refinement Techniques, which greatly improved the standard of basic potions. Today, the success rate of making alchemy potions was above 90%.
It was precisely because "pharmacology" was able to analyze the effective ingredients in the herbs, and "medicine essence technology" made it possible to obtain high-purity effective ingredients, which made it possible to make accurate drug ratios.
Pharmacists would buy alchemy medicines from medicinal shops, and under the guidance of [Pharmacology], they would use some alchemy tools and special alchemy spells to purify the medicines and obtain the pure effective ingredients. On the basis of these pure effective ingredients, according to the precise ratio, they would compound the basic potions.
Because the extraction of medicine required the power of magic, the apothecary could only be a mage.
After a pharmacist had concocted a basic solidifying potion, they would sell it to a pharmacy at a price that was almost double the cost of the ingredients.
The potion shop would add another 10 to 20% on top of that and sell it to other mages.
After a mage bought a basic solidifying potion, they would inject their spell slots into the solidifying agent and make it into an alchemy potion. After that, the potion shop would raise the price by 70% to 80% and sell it to the potion shop. The potion shop would take these potions to the arcane shop outside the school and sell them for another 30% to 30%.
In this process, the biggest profits would always be in the hands of the mages.
Due to the small number of mages, magic items, whether it was potions, scrolls, or alchemy items, were all in the buyer's market.
Feng Chou looked at the price. A bottle of level one alchemy potion cost at least 30 crowns, and the more popular ones cost at least 50 crowns.
No wonder all the mages were filthy rich. A level-4 Warrior risking his life in the wild for a few days would only earn him a few dozen crowns. Even a level-1 mage could earn a few dozen crowns just by sitting at home and injecting spell slots into potions every day. Just the thought of it made people feel that it was unfair.
Perhaps this was the value of knowledge.
Leo's father clearly knew that his son's talent as a mage was extremely poor, yet he still spent a lot of money to send his son to a mage school. He probably hoped that his son could live such an easy and luxurious life.
Feng Chou patted his head and drove this thought out of his mind.
Feng Chou became more and more afraid of Leo's father. The more he learned about this man, the stronger his desire to avenge him. And revenge, for the current Feng Chou, was undoubtedly an extremely dangerous thought.
Feng Chou naturally didn't come to the potion shop to buy base potions or sell spell slots for money. He came to buy knight potions and mongoose potions.
Knight potions and mongoose potions were special potions that could only be produced by apothecaries.
Knight potions were used to stimulate the potential of a warrior's body and promote the strengthening of the body. To put it bluntly, if a warrior drank a knight potion before training, the effects of their training would increase exponentially. If a warrior could steadily use the knight potion for a long time, their constitution and strength would increase very quickly.
This potion could also quickly recover the pain and fatigue caused by training, so that the warrior could adapt to more intense and cruel training.
The mongoose potion and knight potion had similar effects, but the mongoose potion's effect was to promote agility.
Knight potions and mongoose potions were both level 1 potions, but the price of these two potions was the price of level 2 potions, nearly 100 crowns each.
Generally speaking, only level 4 warriors and rogues were willing to use this kind of potion to break through the bottleneck of an intermediate profession.
Feng Chou bought 10 knight potions and 10 mongoose potions.
In addition to these two potions, he also bought 30 stamina potions.
Stamina potions, in Feng Chou's view, were like advanced nutrition potions. Its role was to provide people with abundant energy and quickly restore physical strength under high-intensity physical activity.
The price of this potion was relatively cheap, only a dozen crowns each.
After buying the potions and leaving the market, Feng Chou did not return immediately. He went to his mentor Cheryl's house.
The one-month appointment with mentor Cheryl was just over. Although his magic attainments had long surpassed that mentor, he still had to put on a show. In the mage school, it was taboo to not respect the mentor. Once labeled as such, it was enough to make it difficult for an apprentice to move an inch in the school.
When he arrived at Cheryl's villa, Feng Chou unexpectedly found that today was the day when Cheryl answered the apprentices' questions.
Lisa opened the door for Feng Chou. When she saw that it was Leo, her eyes subconsciously looked at his chest. She stared at the advanced apprentice badge on Feng Chou's chest for a while, then looked up at Feng Chou with a complicated look. She opened the door and let Feng Chou in.