Chapter 51 Expensive "Appraisal Technique"

The word "Hyóla" means "trumpet" in Elvish, and many sound transmission and communication spells use this word as the starting character.

The 0-ring "communication spell" Joan cast at this moment is the most basic communication spell, which can transmit the caster's words a hundred feet away, and only a few recipients designated by the caster can hear his whisper.

The communication distance of this spell is too short, and it is usually suitable for indoor secret communication. For example, when a meeting is held, small groups in the audience can use this spell to form a "private chat group", even if they say bad things in front of the speaker on the rostrum, they don't have to worry about being heard by the other party.

Joan cast this spell at this moment to talk to Kandy who was separated by a wall. At first glance, it seems that this is superfluous, so close, it is not more convenient to open the door and shout than tossing spells to transmit sound? Joan's main reason for this move is to try out whether the newly learned spell is effective, and another reason he does not want to admit is that he always has inexplicable anxiety when communicating face-to-face with people—especially girls of the same age like Conti. If he is nervous, he uses letters or spells to communicate indirectly. Because he has enough time to think about his words in advance, and he doesn't have to face real people, his emotions will be much more stable, and his words will be more clear. organized.

"I'm going to Dr. Kelandil's laboratory, and I'll sleep there at night." Joan squeezed the buzzing and trembling copper wire, thought for a while, and added: "Come back tomorrow morning and have dinner together, good night."

The copper wire resonated with Joann's words like a tiny tuning fork until he finished. After a brief silence, the copper wire trembled again, and at the same time, Candy's soft words sounded in Joan's ear.

"Got it! I'm going to visit Mr. Tire later, and then I'll go to the woods to see Mira and Gray before I come back to sleep. You should pay attention to safety in the laboratory. Rest early and see you tomorrow."

Joan nodded, as if Kandy was right in front of her eyes. After another minute or so, no other words came. Joan folded the copper wire into a coil and stuffed it into his pocket, then picked up the linen backpack and went out the door.

It was about eight o'clock in the evening, and under the gloomy night, there were few pedestrians on the street. Joan quickly walked across the street and came to the laboratory set up by Mr. Galandil in the northeast corner of the town. This is a single-family wooden house far away from residential areas, with the meandering Delin River behind it. Everyone knows the risks of alchemy experiments. The laboratory is located in a remote area close to the river for safety reasons. What if there is an explosion? It will not harm the townspeople.

Joan took out the key to open the door, walked into the laboratory, and lit the candlestick. All kinds of glassware are listed on the neat laboratory table, and rows of neat test tubes and beakers glow like jewels under the candlelight. However, when Joan took out the big pearl presented by Nick Jing from his coat pocket, these glass vessels immediately paled in comparison with the real pearl.

Joan walked to the laboratory bench and put the pearl into the mortar. Picking up the stone pestle, he looked a little hesitant.

In these days, in addition to 0-level tricks such as light, repair and communication, he also devoted a lot of energy to learning the newly acquired 1-level spells, including magic weapons, magic missiles, electric claws and identification. The first priority is "identification".

"Identification", as the name implies, is a spell to identify magic items. This spell is quite special. The normal casting time takes 1 minute. If it is paired with a 10-minute casting ritual, the spell will gain two additional benefits while retaining its original function——no need to consume spell slots, and no need to prepare in advance .

Qiao An only has two 1st-level spell slots in total, so it is natural to save as much as possible, and identification is not a combat spell, so it is not a big deal to spend an extra ten minutes on the spell-casting ceremony. What really made Joan feel the pressure was that this spell had very strict requirements on the casting materials and ritual details: each casting required at least one pearl, crushed and ground into powder, mixed into wine, and fully stirred with an owl feather drink.

pearl……?

That's right, at least one pearl will be consumed every time an identification technique is cast, and what's more terrible is that the identification effect is closely related to the quality of the pearl, and the identification information obtained by using inferior pearls is relatively vague, and may even cause the spell to fail. According to the suggestion given in the spell book, a pearl worth 100 gold coins is a relatively safe choice.

Joan has three unidentified magic items from the lizard man shaman, so it stands to reason that he needs three ordinary pearls worth 100 gold coins, or... one large pearl worth 300 gold coins.

Joan played with the beautiful and round pearl in his hand, hesitating for a while. 300 gold coins is not a small amount for his embarrassing economic situation. If the value of the identified item is not as good as this pearl, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Joan turned his gaze to the experimental bench. On the stage were two small medicine bags sewn from snakeskin, and a belt engraved with magical runes. These three things are all the spoils he and Gray got from killing the Lizardman Shaman Chud in the swamp a week ago. Joan can sense the fluctuation of magic power, but he can't see what kind of magic effect it contains. In this case Under the circumstances, casting the "identification technique" is the best choice to solve the mystery - the premise is that the value of the item to be identified is at least not lower than that pearl.

"It doesn't matter that much!"

In the end, Joan couldn't resist the temptation of curiosity, put the pearl into the mortar, held the pestle high and smashed it down.

Snapped! The pearl shattered, and Joan's heart twitched. Suppressing the regret of grinding the pearl, until the original plump and round pearl was ground into off-white powder.

Joan poured the powder out of the mortar and served it in a glass beaker, then mixed it with white wine and stirred it gently with an owl feather until the liquid in the glass became cloudy. Throwing down the feather, Joan gulped down the mixed liquid in the glass, feeling like drinking a glass of spicy mud, and the rubbed throat was slightly stinging.

Joan put down his wine glass and wiped the corner of his mouth. Ignoring this glass of cocktail worth 300 gold coins, I immediately began to perform the spell-casting ceremony of the identification technique.

Chanting mantras for a long time with the spell-casting gestures is a great test of the caster's spirit and physical fitness. Fortunately, Joan's concentration was strong enough, and his physical condition could withstand the ten-minute spell-casting ceremony, and he finally completed this rather complicated spell as he wished.

The effects of alcohol and pearls were not revealed until now. Joan was a little drunk, and the objects in front of his eyes became hazy. At the same time, strange hallucinations appeared in front of his eyes. Some objects became extremely dim in his vision, while some objects emitted bright light—such as Two medicine bags and a belt are placed on the test bench at the moment.

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