The Wizard World

"No?"

"Yes, it is indeed gone. The night beehive you bought last time is already our last stock." The clerk girl replied respectfully, "I'm very sorry." She bowed and apologized.

Angelet stood in front of the counter, frowning.

The place where he was was in a large pharmacy. The midday sun shone in from outside the door, just hitting his black leather boots.

At the counter in front of him, seven or eight clerks were busy receiving customers who bought medicine. And one of them was receiving Angelet.

"Your Grace Pharmacy is the largest pharmacy in the city. Are there any branches in other areas?" Angelet asked again.

"I'm afraid it is. The night beehive you bought last time is still the last one in stock." The clerk apologized again, "I'm sorry to disappoint you."

"Then where do you get your night beehives from?" Angelet didn't give up. He has run five or six chain drugstores, and this one is the last hope.

"Night beehives are abandoned beehives collected by accident from nearby residents. There is no fixed purchase channel. If you really need it, you can find someone to try your luck in the surrounding forest outside the city to see if you can find night bees. We also It’s all about luck.” The clerk explained.

"Okay." Angelet nodded.

After leaving the pharmacy, he walked back along the street. But in his heart, he was thinking about how to get more night beehives.

It has been more than a month since the first bottle of sobriety potion was prepared last time. During this month, he kept collecting night beehives all over the city, but he only got two, and it was declared exhausted. All of the stock was sold out by him.

The two beehives were lucky enough to prepare three bottles of potions. Within a month, Angelet's mental power had reached 4.9. This was the result of the potion and his own meditation. Six hives are enough to meet the criteria for a successful promotion.

But it's a pity that the entire city has run out of stock, and if you want it again, you have to go out and collect it yourself.

However, no one can collect a hive while the Night Bee is still around. Night bees are highly venomous, and they are used to being active at night. Their bodies are pitch black, making it difficult to detect them. Every year, people are stung to death because they accidentally step into the territory of night bees. It is a very difficult bee to deal with.

Moreover, the most troublesome thing is that night bees are hard to find. They like to migrate around, and the hive will be dragged away by them, so it is very difficult to find.

Back at the residence, Angelet unexpectedly discovered that there was a carriage parked in front of the store. The body was patterned with sunflowers and white birds. It was the carriage of the City Lord's Mansion.

A group of heavily armed white armored guards stood around the carriage. A few people who looked like small officials stood aside respectfully and waited.

The alley was cleaned up, and Tia just came to deliver pies and drinks. She stood outside the door and waited cautiously, looking at the two black carriages from time to time.

As soon as Angelet entered the alley, the officials hurried up to greet him.

"Master Angelet, you are finally back. Master Hailan has been waiting for you for more than an hour." These fat officials are all small officials who manage the nearby urban area, but at this moment they are humble and sweaty.

Ever since Angelet went to the castle banquet last time, they knew that there was a very important person in their jurisdiction. After several visits, they learned that Angelet didn't like to be disturbed, so they stopped coming. Start to improve the surrounding environment of the store.

"Master Hailan?" Angelet was slightly taken aback, looking at the black carriage in the alley.

"Dear Angelet, I heard that you are buying night beehives everywhere, and you don't even mention it to me if you need it. Have you forgotten our friendship?" Hailan, wearing a white cloak, smiled and opened the door. Open the curtain of the carriage and walk down to meet Angelet.

"How come?" Angelet smiled. "Just check to see if there are any medicine stores in the city. If you can buy it yourself, then I don't need to bother you."

"What's the trouble, it's such a small matter." Hailan raised her hand, and a guard behind her immediately brought up a black wooden box.

He took it and handed it to Angelet.

"There are a few night beehives here, I hope they can help you." Hailan had a sincere smile on his face.

Angelet took the box. Open it and have a look. There are eight night bee nests neatly placed inside, and the khaki-colored balls are stuffed with black silk cloth around them, and the packaging is very delicate.

"I really need these things, so I won't be polite to you." A look of joy flashed in his eyes, he nodded slowly, and closed the box.

"This is the best." Hailan nodded, "I still have some things to deal with, so I won't accompany you."

"OK."

Angelet watched as the group escorted the carriage and slowly left the alley.

He opened the box again and scanned the night beehives inside. Among the eight, seven looked a little old, as if they had been around for a while, and only one looked fresh, with a slightly brighter color, and the surface was still faintly stained. Bits of blood.

Angelet frowned, picked up the hive, and smelled it. A bloody smell penetrated his nose.

"The smell of blood, this gift is very heavy." He murmured in a low voice.

Obviously, this honeycomb was collected by Hailan. The smell of blood on it was very faint, as if it had been cleaned, but Angelet's five senses were much stronger than ordinary people, so he could tell the difference naturally.

He could imagine that Hailan lost at least a lot of hands for this very fresh night hive. According to the description of the people in the medicine shop, the speed of a normal night bee is very fast, about twice that of an ordinary adult. If it is not a knight, it is difficult to avoid it. And the most important thing is that they are very small and very poisonous, and their tail spines are very long, which can't be stopped by generally thinner full-body leather armor. Heavy leather armor and the like are too heavy, and it is difficult to keep up with their moving speed.

And they are nocturnal. This makes it even more inconvenient to collect hives.

In other words, the blood stains on it were probably left by knight-level masters. That's why Angelet felt that this gift was heavy.

"Although the Night Beehive can be found, the materials I asked Hai Lan for so long have not been heard, so it seems that I can't find them. Sure enough, it is impossible for ordinary people to find those rare materials in the world." Angelet shook his head, Take the box back to the shop.

Arranged for Tia to go to the yard to continue practicing, and he sat alone at the table. Carefully take out the night beehives from the box and soak them all in a transparent liquid. Place in a large glass jar.

The material problem is solved, and the next step is to settle down and speed up the progress of mental power. Eight night beehives can at least configure eight bottles of potions, plus the progress of meditation, it is absolutely no problem to reach 6.

So Angelet simply stayed in the shop, didn't go anywhere, and concentrated on preparing and taking the medicine. Strive to meet the promotion criteria.

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time flies. Soon, in over a week.

Angelet sat cross-legged on the bed with a calm expression. These days, his luck was not very good, and he only prepared seven bottles of sobriety potions. But at any rate, the mental power has been raised to 6.2. Originally, he thought it was 6.3, but it turned out that his body had developed a certain resistance to the medicine, which caused the effect to drop a bit.

"Anyway, I finally met the promotion requirements." Angelet also breathed a sigh of relief.

He specifically told Tia not to come over today and to rest for two days.

Glancing at the crystal clock on the table, it was around 2:10 pm.

Angelet got out of bed, stood up, and took out the hidden graphite potion from a package in the room.

The potion is contained in a silver metal bottle, a thin neck bottle like a vase, only the length of a palm, and the mouth of the bottle is blocked with a brown wooden stopper.

Angelet put the graphite potion on the table.

Take out two flints from the desk drawer, rub them together and light the solid oil lamp. The oil lamp is very hot, and its appearance is similar to the spirit lamp on the earth, except that it is filled with white solid oil.

The red flame immediately ignited on the wick.

Angelet took out a large beaker, placed it on a black heating stand, poured a light red liquid into it, and then took out a test tube containing a yellowish powder.

Angelet poured some yellow powder into the beaker.

Silently, the light red liquid in the beaker quickly turned dark blue, very cloudy.

Angelet moved the oil lamp under the beaker and started heating it.

Ten minutes passed.

Strangely, the blue liquid in the beaker didn't show any sign of boiling, but the color became bluer, almost slightly black.

And the whole room gradually filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.

Angelet nodded slightly, feeling that the heat was almost ready, so he picked up the graphite potion that was put aside.