Chapter 380 Energy Absorption Technique
Last year, Harland discovered the Snow Crystal Lake, which has a natural magic well inside. Because there is no magic circle to gather, a large amount of magic escapes from the center of the Snow Crystal Lake. Along the Snow Crystal Lake area, many places have high magic concentrations.
Such areas containing magic can be developed into magic plant plantations.
Although there is a small magic well inside the Crystal Lake, the magic concentration around the lakeshore is relatively low, far less than the plantation inside the Mage Tower. Without the various temperature and humidity control arrays inside the Mage Tower, it is impossible to effectively convert the energy in the magic crystal, and it is impossible to plant medium and high-level magic plants, but it is possible to plant magic plants with very low magic demand.
Poisonous Aconitum is a kind of plant with very low magic demand.
Since last summer, Harland's magicians have traveled all over the shore of the Snow Crystal Lake and found sixteen places that can be developed into magic plant plantations.
Among them, five plantations with higher magic concentrations are planted with boiling flowers.
Boiling flowers are auxiliary materials for refining Tenghui potions, and the price of one plant is about one gold coin. One acre of magic plantation can grow 240 beads. The boiling flowers planted in Harland Territory exceeded 80 acres last year.
Eighty percent of the land in the three magic plantations controlled by the territory is planted with this magic plant. As for the moonlight grass, another auxiliary magic plant for refining Tenghui potion, it is mainly planted in the tomb of Princess O'Flan.
The tomb of Princess O'Flan is a large magic well, and the internal environment is very suitable for planting magic plants with negative energy attributes.
Although Harland Territory cannot control this tomb, Richard has a small amount of cooperation with Princess Marta. With the permission of Princess Marta, Richard and the Dawn Church divided the area and built a magic plantation outside the princess's tomb, planting a large number of magic plants such as moonlight grass.
The magic plantation in the princess's tomb was successfully developed, and Harland Territory can refine Tenghui potion and be self-sufficient in raw materials.
The five plantations with high magic concentration have a total area of more than 60 acres. If all of them are planted with boiling flowers, even if they are sold, they can get 14,000 gold coins, which is a considerable extra income.
The cost of building a 60-acre magic plantation is very low. It only needs to hire a dozen farmers, build a few buildings near the plantation, and send a magician to patrol and guard it regularly, with a maximum of dozens of gold coins per year.
The remaining eleven magic plantations are not suitable for planting boiling flowers because of the low magic concentration, but can just make poisonous aconite.
The eleven magic plantations have opened up a total of 306 acres, and each acre can plant 300 poisonous aconite plants. More than 90,000 poisonous aconite plants have been added in a year, and more than 90,000 bottles of potions can be refined.
More than 90,000 bottles of potions will undoubtedly be of great help to the development of the wilderness in the Harland territory.
In late June this year, the poisonous aconite can mature. With sufficient mosquito repellent potions, the number of contract slaves who died from mosquito bites will be greatly reduced, and the cost of developing new territories will be reduced a lot.
After Harland Territory has passed the climax of developing wasteland, this potion can be exported.
A bottle of potion can be sold at a low price of one gold coin, and a large amount of gold coins can also be obtained. The insect repellent potion will become another flagship product of the potion department.
Not long after Richard returned, Harland Territory once again ushered in good news. After five years of accumulation, Sofia's magic level has improved again and she has been promoted to the second eight-ring magician in Harland Territory.
Sofia is four years older than Richard. She is already 39 years old this year. Although she has taken very good care of herself and her skin is still smooth and white, her condition is not as good as when she was young.
For a woman who loves beauty, aging is gradually coming, and it is difficult to accept it in her heart.
The window period for Sofia to maintain her beauty may be only five or six years, which is over 45 years old. Even if she lives a life of luxury and takes good care of herself, aging will eventually come.
In recent years, Sofia has approached Richard several times, hoping to go to the Magic Kingdom of Markholm together to trade some water of life to prolong her life and keep her youth.
However, the Harland Territory has been facing war, and neither of them can leave. Sofia went to the Markholm Magic Kingdom alone to seek the legendary treasure of the Water of Life, but Richard was worried.
A 39-year-old eight-ring wizard, in the Markholm Magic Kingdom, is considered a young and promising first-class figure with the opportunity to break through the legend.
In the magic desert of the Grant Kingdom, it is even more rare in hundreds of years.
The Grant royal family has been passed down for more than a thousand years, and only one legendary magician appeared six hundred years ago. It was thanks to the planning of this legendary magician that the Grant family successfully backstabbed the Venus family and became the master of this country.
After nearly six hundred years, the Venus family ushered in a genius, Elena, who was promoted to a legendary magician.
After Elena was promoted to a legendary, if it were not for Brener's cunningness and his own promotion to a legendary third-level knight, who calculated this person, I am afraid that the Venus family would have had the opportunity to control the government of the Grant Kingdom more than ten years ago and then successfully usurp the throne.
Sophia was promoted to the first level in five years, and Undine has been promoted to the eighth ring for thirteen years, but the bottleneck is still very solid, and there is no possibility of promotion.
Although elves and half-elves have a long lifespan, it is much more difficult for them to advance than humans.
The blood of immortality increases lifespan, but it is also a shackle for the promotion to the extraordinary.
In human history, there are people who were promoted to legends in their thirties, but the youngest legend in the history of the elves is over 280 years old, and the youngest legend of the half-elf is also over 80 years old.
Half-elves like Wendyni, who have pure blood, often live to about 240 years old. Although she is over 60 years old, normally she can be Margaret's grandmother, but for half-elves, it is equivalent to the maturity of blood, which is equivalent to the age of 27 or 28 years old in human terms.
A 60-year-old half-elf can still maintain a youthful appearance for 60 years. Because of their long lifespan, elves and half-elves are naturally able to learn more knowledge in magic learning, and are often all-rounders who are proficient in various magic.
Before Sofia was promoted to the eighth ring, the magic research team she led made another major achievement.
By studying the magic structure inside the energy-absorbing stone and the magic crystal, the research team led by Sofia, through a special magic rune structure, first converted the magic energy in the magic crystal into the energy-absorbing stone, and then used the magic furnace to melt the magic crystal into a standard module, and finally transferred the magic energy to the standard magic crystal through a transformation array.
The standard magic crystal made in this way will be exactly the same size and weight.
This invention of Sofia has greatly promoted the standardization of logistics.
When magic crystal ore is dug out from the ground, it is irregular in shape. In the past, magicians usually need to cut magic crystals before using them, and try to make them the same size.
Doing so will cause a lot of waste, and it is difficult to make comprehensive use of the irregular magic crystal waste cut off.
After all, magic props need to be replaced as many times as possible. If the magic crystal is irregular in shape, the port for embedding magic crystals cannot be installed.
For hundreds of years, alchemists have also agreed that the ports for embedding magic crystals have been standardized, and the size and shape are almost completely equal.
Over the years, many magicians in the Dawn Plane have studied the use of irregular magic crystals, and the first method they thought of was fire melting.
Magicians want to melt magic crystals and then shape them.
Unfortunately, the material of magic crystals is not easy to melt, and there is still powerful energy inside. Once melted with fire, it is easy to cause an explosion.
The method of fire melting has been used for many years, and magicians have studied a variety of alchemical potions for melting, but have never succeeded.
In addition to fire melting, magicians have also developed a special alchemical material, polymerization potion, which can be used to shape irregular magic crystals. Unfortunately, the price of polymerization potion is no less than that of high-grade potions, and the cost of use is too high, so it can only shape precious magic crystals with high purity.
The research team led by Sophia, through a special transformation array, transferred a large amount of magic crystal power to the energy-absorbing stone, turning the energy-filled magic crystal into an empty magic crystal, and then heated the empty magic crystal through a high-temperature alchemy furnace, melted the blank magic crystal at high temperature, and used the transformation array again after shaping and cooling to charge the magic energy into the blank magic crystal.
This method avoids magic explosion, can make use of discarded irregular magic crystals, and has a very high bonus to the efficiency of magic crystal use.
According to statistics from the mining department of Harland Territory, irregular magic crystals dug out from the original ore often waste one-third of cutting. This technology is equivalent to effectively utilizing one-third of irregular magic crystals.
After researching the irregular magic crystal smelting technology, Sofia created a brand new seven-ring magic energy absorption spell with reference to the internal structure of energy absorption stones, energy absorption runes, and the internal structure of magic crystals.
This new spell has a great restraining effect on the energy-shaping magic. However, to release this spell, you need to prepare in advance, carry a high-standard energy absorption stone, or modify your body organs to transform your body organs into the same characteristics as the energy absorption stone.
After creating this new magic and opening up a new research channel, Sofia's meditation feedback immediately improved greatly. Her mental power increased by two points in just one month, and she was promoted to an eight-ring magician very quickly.
After being promoted to an eight-ring magician, Sofia's mental power increased to thirty-seven points, which is higher than that of ordinary nine-ring magicians.
According to the research of the Markholm Magic Kingdom, a battle mage who has no talent for magic research and has not refined potions to improve mental power often has a mental power of thirty-three points after being promoted to the ninth ring. With this level of mental power, there is basically no hope of being promoted to a legend.
In fact, magicians who can usually be promoted to the ninth ring have some adventures. Although the potion to improve mental power is very precious, one or two can usually be obtained. The mental power of ordinary ninth ring magicians is usually around thirty-six or thirty-seven points.
Some lucky ninth ring magicians can even exceed forty points of mental power and have a chance to hit the legendary bottleneck.
After Sophia married Richard, thanks to Richard's knowledge and guidance in his previous life, she was very smooth in the process of studying magic. She made three major research results and increased her mental power by as much as eight points through magic research.
Thirty-seven points of mental power is not the peak for Sophia, because Sophia has already put the legendary Styx potion on the agenda.
Two years ago, the tomb of Princess O'Flan was discovered in Harland Territory, and a large number of soul crystals were seized by hunting the undead.
The formula for refining the Styx potion is very simple, mainly soul crystals, moonlight grass, and dragon blood fruit.
There is the tomb of Princess O'Flan in the territory of Harland Territory. There are many high-level blood grass in the tomb. As long as Richard makes an exchange request, Princess Marta will definitely agree.
The Harland Territory also has a lot of soul crystals in stock, but only a portion of the dragon blood fruit was purchased last year.
Since last year, Sophia has personally refined some low-level Styx potions every month. In a year, the Harland Territory has successfully refined more than 40 low-level Styx potions.
A magician can take up to three Stygian potions in his life. After taking a high-level Stygian potion, taking a low-level Stygian potion again will not work.
The effect of low-level Stygian potions is very general. It can only increase mental strength a little, and it will affect the second time.
The effect will be halved the second time, and it will continue to be halved the third time. In order to avoid affecting the effect of legendary Stygian potions, Sofia and other high-level members of the Mage Association did not take medium and low-level Stygian potions.
This year, Sofia is still refining Stygian potions. Because Harland has a two-legged flying dragon and dragon blood fruit is also planted in the magic plantation, the raw materials for refining Stygian potions are self-sufficient. Sofia has also successfully refined more than a dozen medium-level Stygian potions, which fell into the hands of Anne, Butler, Adrian and others.
In the war with the Undead Lord two years ago, Harland did not seize high-level soul crystals. Although there were more than 20 high-level undead creatures among the undead, Richard used starlight bombs to directly blow the high-level undead creatures into ashes in order to avoid increasing casualties.
Although she had no high-level Styx potion to practice with, Sophia still had confidence in refining the legendary Styx potion.
Now Harland Territory already has a legendary soul crystal. A few days ago, Richard personally went to the princess' mausoleum and exchanged a thousand magic crystals for an eighth-level moonlight grass. Now only the high-level dragon blood fruit is left.
There are many dragons in the Dawn Plane. Although high-level dragon blood fruits are scarce, they occasionally appear in cross-border auctions.
Richard and Sophia discussed that they would participate in a cross-border auction after the summer grain was stored. If they bought high-level dragon blood fruits, Sophia would start to refine the legendary Styx potion.
If the legendary Styx potion is successfully refined, it can increase 60 points of magic power. Whether it is given to Sophia or Wendy, it can greatly improve their qualifications and make it easier for them to break through the legendary bottleneck.
However, Richard is temporarily preparing to let Sophia use it first. After all, a wife is always closer than a sister. Moreover, after Sophia uses it, her mental power will exceed 40 points, and she can also awaken a talent, which will have a greater bonus to combat power.
Even though Harland has the enemy, the Undead Lord, he still has a chance to seize the legendary soul crystal. If there is another chance, he can leave it to Wendy to use.