Crossing a path, Eli tightened his clothes and put the silver tar he carried with him in his arms.
He was heading to the market where herbs were sold.
The market is located in the east of King's Landing City. Eli needs to pass through the slums and urban areas before arriving. During this process, Eli chose to take the road.
After all, although this is the king's city, don't think that the shadows here are the same as the bright ones. There are many gangsters, thugs, and idle people in those dark alleys.
Soon, he came to the market.
After a brief question, Eli walked in towards a pharmacy.
"Are there any white song flowers?" In front of the oak counter, Eli knocked on the table and asked the people inside.
The teller was a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties with brown eyes and looked very weak, but when he heard Eli's voice, his eyes gradually began to light up, and he replied with a smile:
"There are some, there are 20 copper tars per white song flower."
So expensive!
"Why is it so expensive?" Eli asked. After the white song flower was stimulated, the aura emitted could only last for an hour. One is definitely not enough. It takes at least a week's worth, that is, seven.
Seven flowers are one silver tal and forty copper tal.
"Guest, you don't know about this white song flower. This flower grows in the dark places of the swamp. There are often poisonous snakes and scorpions around, so it is very difficult to collect!"
"Every single white song flower is hard to come by!" the clerk shouted.
"It's cheaper, I'll buy more." Eli ignored it and said directly.
"Are you a pharmacist?" the clerk asked curiously. You know, ordinary people don't need a lot of herbs at all, only those pharmacists do.
"no."
"Oh, I'm sorry." It wasn't the pharmacist, and the clerk wasn't so excited. Then he glanced at Eli's outfit and said, "Well, if you buy more than ten at a time, I can get five coppers cheaper per one. Tal, this is already a big discount, more than five, two copper tals are cheaper."
"Then give me ten." Eli said after thinking for a while.
Seven may not be enough, but ten should be almost the same.
And it's not a hassle if there are still white song flowers left in the time. White song flowers are one of the ingredients of many basic medicines, and it is a very common medicine material.
"Okay." The clerk smiled, then walked into the hut at the back, and when he came out again, there were ten more packed white song flowers in his hand.
One-handed payment, one-handed delivery.
Eli paid the money and left directly.
…
back home.
Eli took out the white flowers.
Baiquhua is an off-white flower with succulent petals and roots that hang down like tentacles. It is unimaginable that this seemingly ordinary plant can actually help perceive the elemental world.
Crush a white koji flower and put it into a container prepared in advance, and a faint herbal fragrance is immediately emitted.
Hearing this smell, Eli only felt his whole body for a while, as if his body was transparent.
Knowing that time is precious, Eli sat directly on the bed and started his first meditation of the day.
The refreshing smell filled the room, and Eli closed his eyes and began to perceive the elemental world.
In the haze, a little bit of element light began to appear in his consciousness, that is the element, but at this time there seemed to be a layer of separation between him and the element, which could be seen but not touched.
And the smell of white song flowers constantly stimulated Eli's spirit, shortening the distance little by little.
An hour later, Eli opened his eyes with excitement.
Although he still did not perceive the element world this time, he could feel that with the help of Bai Quhua, within half a month, or even less, he could definitely perceive the element world.
"almost."
White song flowers do work, but they are a bit more expensive.
If Eli has enough money at this time, he can even directly buy a large amount of white song flowers. I believe that he may be able to perceive the element world in less than three days, but life is helpless and poor!
But it doesn't hurt, as long as you are promoted to apprentice, everything will be fine.
…
ten days later.
"It's today." Eli looked calmly at the last white song flower in front of him.
With the help of Bai Quhua, Eli finally touched the boundary of the element world, even just one step away. Today is the day when he breaks through the first-class apprentice.
Crushing the white song flowers as usual, Eli fell into meditation.
In the consciousness of nothingness, Eli was like a ghost, surrounded by elemental particles that were almost clear, floating freely in the air.
Finally, suddenly, like an invisible film, it suddenly disappeared.
Eli and the element world no longer have any obstacles, and a large number of element particles instantly drown Eli, transforming the weak body that first came into contact with the elements.
At first, he wanted to observe this state carefully, but with the contact of the elements, he only felt that his head was getting heavier and heavier, and finally fell into a deep sleep after ten minutes.
It was late at night when Eli woke up.
"Is this the sorcerer's apprentice?"
Eli sat up, even with his eyes open, he could feel the looming elements around him.
It seems that his mental power has also achieved some breakthroughs, which makes Eli only feel that the surroundings are a lot clearer, and even if he thinks about it carefully, he can even recall everything that happened a few days ago. UU reading
Of course, these are not the happiest, and the happiest thing is that he can finally learn the zero-ring magic of fast memory.
"There is still time, everything is in time." Eli finally breathed a sigh of relief.
If he really didn't break through the first-level apprenticeship after three months, it would be really troublesome, but fortunately, it only took him a mere two months and ten days to break through.
To be honest, it has been a long time, but Eli feels that it is okay, after all, there is no other person around him to compare. Speaking of this, Eli found something strange.
That is, in the two months in the library, he has not heard any information about wizards at all, it seems that this is really a kingdom of knights.
"It seems that the owner of that book is not easy!" Eli thought of the author of that notebook, Sarin Metatlin, but didn't know who he was?
"Forget it, don't think about it anymore, let's concentrate on solving the magic model of quick memory first." After thinking for a long time, there was no answer, and Eli simply gave up. Anyway, these things have nothing to do with him at the moment.
Now his primary goal is to learn fast memory first.
According to the notes on witchcraft casting mentioned in the notes, Eli concentrated his mental power, and then used his mental power to draw a model of quick memory in his consciousness.
Because it was the first time, Eli was very careful with every step, but because he was still very unskilled, he finally failed in building the whole rune.
Since this did not consume much of his mental power, after reflecting and resting for ten minutes, he began to depict the model again. After three failures, he finally completely depicts the rune belonging to fast memory.
Quick memorization, learning is complete.