Chapter 142 The Sudden Thorn Wheel (Two Chapters in One)

Ryan thought about it, then joined the crowd and slowly checked things out.

Although there were many stalls in the Bat Market, Ryan didn't dare to buy easily.

Perhaps the items on the stalls were more affordable, but they required a pair of eyes that were knowledgeable and could discern the authenticity.

At present, Ryan still didn't have them.

Fortunately, there were also many formal shops along the street. From the various signs hanging on the top of the shops, Ryan could easily tell the main business of each shop.

Relatively speaking, these formal shops with fixed locations should have better credit.

Ryan observed several shops in a row, and finally found a pharmacy with relatively large traffic, with herbs, beakers and test tubes painted on the sign at the door, and walked in.

The tellers inside were three teenage boys with bright eyes, two of whom were serving customers.

Seeing Ryan coming in, the idle boy took the initiative to step forward and greeted him warmly: "Sir, welcome to Patricia Pharmacy, what do you need?"

"Do you have hallucinogenic gas?" Although the other party was just a little boy, Ryan did not underestimate him and directly told him the poison gas that Endry used in the battle last time.

Ryan couldn't detect it before, but now with the improvement of his mental power, Ryan can basically judge from the other party's mental state and appearance that the boy's mental power is beyond that of an ordinary adult male.

I just don't know if this is innate or the result of practicing basic meditation.

But obviously, the other party can't be treated as an ordinary little boy.

"Um, sir, there is." The little boy looked at Ryan with a slightly surprised look.

"Price?" Ryan said concisely.

"The price of 1 fluid ounce of hallucinogenic potion is 25 imperial gold coins."

The boy took out a bottle of dark liquid from behind the counter, and there was also a small package of paper wrapped in something, which seemed to contain a powdery object.

Ryan did not ask, but waited for the boy to introduce himself. After all, he would be exposed as soon as he opened his mouth. In a strange place, it is not too much to be cautious.

"Sir, this bottle is a hallucinogenic potion, and this package is the corresponding amount of medicine. Once injected, it can quickly volatilize the hallucinogenic potion and form hallucinogenic poison gas." The boy introduced.

So that's it.

Ryan was still thinking that if this hallucinogenic potion was like gas, it would evaporate as soon as it was opened. In that case, it would be quite troublesome for him to put it in the emerald ring.

Unexpectedly, there is such a thing as a medicine.

"I want a smaller amount." Ryan looked at the square bottle in the other party's hand, which was obviously much larger than the bottle he searched from Endry at that time.

"Then there is only this kind, 0.2 fluid ounces, priced at 5 gold and 6 silver." The boy exchanged a thumb-sized bottle from the cabinet behind him.

Looking at the bottle the boy took out this time, Ryan nodded.

This is similar in size to the bottle he found on Endri, and it should be just about the capacity of the emerald ring at a time.

"Give me 5 bottles."

The little boy was obviously stunned. He didn't understand why the customer wanted to buy 5 small bottles. Obviously, it would be more cost-effective to buy a large bottle.

After all, the same volume, but the price is cheaper.

But the little boy looked at Ryan and obviously didn't dare to ask in detail.

"Okay, sir."

"Do you have golden sunflowers?"

"Yes, sir"

"What about the wings of nocturnal vampire bats?"

"This. We have it too." The little boy was obviously a little nervous. He guessed that the gentleman in front of him might be a pharmacist who mainly focuses on negative energy. You know, many pharmacists in this direction have bad tempers.

When the boy was preparing the materials Ryan needed, Ryan also looked around the room.

Ryan was surprised to find that he seemed to have seen many potions in the merit exchange book.

This reminded Ryan of the so-called pharmacist master in the Royal Pharmacist Association. His identity was probably not so simple, and it was highly likely that he would not be an ordinary person.

After all, the advantages of high mental power in preparing potions are obvious. Whether it is the control of material quality or the delicacy of various operating techniques, it is very helpful.

In addition, the production of some potions is obviously not something that ordinary people can have, such as advanced potions.

If you think about it carefully, the strength of the empire is unfathomable, and he only sees the tip of the iceberg!

"Okay, sir, all the materials you need are ready." The boy respectfully put a black linen bag on the counter and said to Ryan.

When Ryan came out of the pharmacy, he was already holding the big bag in his hand.

Ryan glanced down, and when he thought of such expensive materials, all of them would be used to feed the dog, his mouth twitched slightly.

Just now, Ryan bought all the raw materials for the mutant growth potion at one time, such as golden sunflowers, nocturnal vampire bat wings, scavenger wolf claws, etc.

Of course, even if the finished potion is made, it is not used on Ryan himself, but on "Cookie".

Ryan just calculated the cost. Even if the production was successful at one time, the cost of each unit fluid ounce of the mutation growth potion would be close to 12 imperial gold coins.

Considering the probability of failure and the need to continue using the medicine for three months, Ryan bought 10 portions of raw materials at one time.

This cost 120 Imperial gold coins, which cost Ryan nearly one-third of the 500 Imperial gold coins he had just received.

Working part-time as a pharmacist?

It's too expensive in the early stage!

In addition, if he doesn't add skill points, Ryan doesn't know what his success rate is.

After purchasing the materials needed for the plan, Ryan was in a good mood.

Since he came to the Bat Market, he also planned to stroll around, understand the situation, and see if there are any books related to witchcraft that can be purchased.

Soon, he saw a lot of stall owners selling various unknown herbs and raw materials.

From time to time, there would be customers stopping to check the materials carefully and whispering to the stall owners.

Ryan tried it once. He pretended to stop to check the materials and wanted to eavesdrop, but the other party saw Ryan also stopped and immediately kept silent.

However, Ryan was not discouraged.

This was something he had expected. If the Bat Market was originally a place for wizard apprentices to gather and exchange supplies, then it was obvious that most of the customers here were wizard apprentices.

Even a first-level wizard apprentice has a mental power far beyond that of an ordinary person. How could he be easily eavesdropped by Ryan?

After Ryan took a look around, he found that the Bat Market was not actually very big. It was only a hundred meters in front and back, the size of a street.

In addition, the things sold here were all strange, including the eyeballs of some creatures, dried lizards, and various strange plants, most of which Ryan did not recognize.

So, Ryan naturally could not find anything good here.

At the same time, for the witchcraft that he wanted to collect, Ryan looked around, but he did not find a store that sold witchcraft alone. However, he saw ancient books similar to those brought by Jenny in several grocery stores.

At first, Ryan was quite excited, but after just flipping through two pages, he found that these ancient books were either pure travel notes or incomplete diaries of a wizard apprentice, with too many missing pages, making them completely unreadable.

This made Ryan a little disappointed.

In addition, the other party's offer also made Ryan speechless. These ancient books written in Akkadian cost three to five hundred gold coins, and the incomplete wizard apprentice diary was priced at nine hundred imperial gold coins.

Looking at the time, Ryan decided to return to the Crowley family mansion first.

When Ryan came out of the Bat Market and entered the carriage, the coachman couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Sir, are we going back now?"

"Yes."

"By the way, sir, why did you stay in the bakery for so long? The baker level of the host's kitchen is much better than that of the bakery on the market." The coachman hesitated and still spoke.

Ryan was stunned by this.

What he saw was clearly a fortune-telling shop, not a bakery. Could it be that

For a moment, Ryan seemed to have thought of something.

Sure enough, the bat symbol contained some mysteries, and it seemed that it could only be seen after meeting certain requirements.

After a brief thought, Ryan felt that this judgment standard might be spiritual attributes.

It is likely that a person's spiritual attributes have reached a certain level before he can see the bat symbol and the door of the fortune-telling shop, and thus enter the market.

If it is an ordinary person, it is likely that he will not be able to see the bat symbol at all, and naturally he will not be able to find a way to enter the bat market.

Ryan nodded slightly, thinking to himself that this automatic screening mechanism is quite good.

Just as Ryan was riding in a carriage on the way back to the Crowley family mansion.

Meist County City.

In the Norman Baron Family Mansion.

With the help of the divine blood, Dennis, who has entered the quasi-knight level, is trying on a dress with the help of a servant.

He looked at his handsome self in the bronze mirror and was very satisfied.

In a moment, he will attend the Crowley family's dinner.

The theme of the dinner is to celebrate the joining of a guardian knight of the Crowley family.

Although Dennis didn't know where the Crowley family invited a formal knight as the guardian knight of their family, he didn't care much about it.

Because he knew that the biggest problem of the Crowley family was that they couldn't find a suitable person to marry. After all, no formal knight would choose to marry into the family.

Dennis has also begun to prepare advanced potions, which will take a month at the fastest and three months at the slowest. Dennis also plans to impact the extraordinary.

As long as he enters the formal knight, he is almost sure to win the marriage with the Crowley family.

That Miss Jenny, in Dennis's heart, is far inferior to Baroness Crowley - the beautiful widow.

When he thought of the plump woman, Dennis couldn't help but have a few more charming thoughts in his heart.

Although the other party is not as important as Claire in his heart, it is more than enough as a short-term spiritual sustenance.

As for Tina, her status was too low. To be honest, Dennis was a little fed up with her.

At this time, the door of his room was suddenly pushed open. Just when Dennis wanted to scold her, "Which servant is so uneducated?", Baron Norman in hunting clothes walked in.

"Dennis, you can cancel your dinner schedule."

"What?" Dennis was stunned and confused for a while.

"The new guardian knight appointed by the Crowley family is Ryan."

"Ryan? But I don't know a knight named Ryan." Dennis frowned and thought, but he still didn't react.

In Dennis's mind, Ryan was still not equated with a formal knight.

"It's Ryan, the son of a farmer in Shining Gold Town." Baron Norman said in a deep voice.

"What, Ryan, a pariah, has entered the extraordinary and become a formal knight?"

Hearing the news from his father, Dennis was extremely surprised. His eyes suddenly widened twice, and his mouth was so wide that he could almost stuff a whole apple directly.

After being stunned for a long time, Dennis came back to his senses and asked, "Father, shouldn't he be dead?"

At this point, Dennis remembered that there were servants around, and he immediately stopped talking.

Baron Norman waved his hand, and immediately, the two maids who were helping Dennis put on a dress immediately left the room.

At this moment, Baron Norman and his son were the only ones in the room.

"The news just came from Black Sail yesterday. Phil Kratz failed to kill Ryan because he didn't find a suitable opportunity to attack Goldshire." Baron Norman explained.

"The damn Black Sail pirates are too dishonest! If they had killed Ryan as agreed, this wouldn't have happened." Dennis said angrily.

"You can't blame the Black Sail Pirates. I've learned about the situation. The Black Sail and other pirate groups have some kind of agreement with the Black Flame Church, so they decided to attack several towns at the same time."

"However, I heard that Hamilton, the sheriff of Goldshire, severely damaged the Black Flame Church a few days ago. This should be the reason why the Black Sail Pirates did not continue to attack Goldshire."

"However, Dennis, as you said, the opponent's progress is too fast, a little abnormal." Baron Norman thought for a while and continued.

"It seems that we have to get rid of him as soon as possible!"

"After all, if we wait until Ryan passes the canonization exam and becomes an official noble of the empire, it will be a lot of trouble to kill him."

"Once a formal noble dies abnormally, it will be difficult for the investigation force sent by the empire to deal with it."

"Father, are you finally going to do it yourself?" Dennis' eyes lit up and he looked at Norman expectantly.

You know, his father has been invincible in his heart since he was a child.

He firmly believes that as long as his father is willing to do it himself, Ryan will definitely not live beyond tomorrow.

"No." Baron Norman shook his head and said.

"I have to find an old friend for help."

Meist County City.

In the Bat Market.

A tall customer in a black robe came to a store with a star, moon and sun logo on the door.

"Old friend, long time no see!" Baron Norman took off his hood, smiled, and greeted enthusiastically.

"Hey! Norman, you are a rare guest. Why did you think of coming to me today?"

In the shadow at the other end of the room, an old man in a black robe and gray hair raised his eyebrows and looked at the suddenly appeared Baron Norman with surprise.

The boy serving on the side was very discerning. He immediately hung a sign of suspending business at the door and closed the door.

"Old friend, I came to you this time to ask you to make a move." Norman sat opposite the gray-haired old man and said seriously.

"Norman, you know, I haven't made a move for a long time."

"Of course, Adams, as a rare wizard apprentice who has mastered the spell system, I know the price of asking you to make a move." Norman said in a deep voice.

"This is the goal. I hope you can solve the other party as soon as possible."

Norman handed a thin file to the old man.

After returning to the Crowley family mansion, Ryan wore a silver-gray chrome iron knight plate armor and ended the appointment ceremony amid the crowd's onlookers and applause.

Then, there was a dinner party for drinking and bonding.

However, at this time, Ryan was thinking about going home early. After all, he had a lot of things to do, such as forging a blood-marked steel warhammer and upgrading the blacksmith's professional level.

Also, he had to familiarize himself with the production process of the mutant growth potion.

Although Ryan had purchased all the raw materials and understood the production process written in Akkadian, he still needed to study it carefully before actually making it.

So, Ryan hurriedly dealt with the dinner party, and under the resentful eyes of Baroness Crowley and Jenny, he left first and returned to his home in Shimmering Gold Town.

But before leaving, Jenny told Ryan a good news, that is, her best friend Agatha seemed to have ancient books written in spiritual language (Akkadian).

But Agatha had no way to take the precious ancient books out of the family library.

It seems that the only feasible way is for Ryan to go with Jenny and then read the books in the library. Agatha promised that this could be done.

Ryan immediately said that it was no problem, and tentatively scheduled to go to the Wiggins family where Agatha was with Jenny three days later.

Returning to the carriage in Shimmering Gold Town, Ryan thought quietly.

His thoughts are also very clear now.

At present, he has entered the right track of the knight's path, and he can improve step by step in the future.

But if he only has the means of a knight, when he faces various strange enemies in this world, his means of dealing with them are still too simple.

Let’s not talk about others. For Endri, if his mental power was a little higher and he could cast one or two more low-level witchcrafts, Ryan and Hamilton would have been in trouble in the Elim Mine.

In addition, if Ryan had not grasped the weakness of the Black Flame Apostle whose body was like rubber and could suddenly stretch, he would not have been able to defeat him simply by relying on the sword.

It can be said that if it were not for Ryan, any other senior knight would have died on the spot!

On the other hand, it is obvious that the Black Flame Cult has more than one apostle-level master, or in other words, the other party should have people or means stronger than the apostle level.

Therefore, Ryan thinks that by quickly improving the levels of other professional panels, such as blacksmiths and dog trainers, accumulating a certain amount of skill points and attribute points, the combat effectiveness of wizard apprentices can be improved.

After all, the power of the entry-level contact witchcraft, ‘Scorching Touch’, alone amazed Ryan.

As for witchcraft, Ryan believed that he would eventually find some by constantly collecting.

So, it was not contradictory to prepare skill points in advance.

After returning home, Ryan found that it was already ten o'clock.

After thinking about it, Ryan decided to contact Lagre to forge the war hammer tomorrow, and after he sorted out the newly purchased materials today, he began to practice the Giant Bear Breathing Method and Basic Meditation Method every day.

As soon as the practice was over, Ryan fell asleep quickly.

Suddenly, Ryan, who had just fallen asleep, woke up suddenly.

Just now, the lv3 level of danger perception reminded him that there seemed to be danger approaching.

This made Ryan get up and check immediately. When he looked through the window, he saw that the whole town of Shining Gold was slowly rising with mist.

At first glance, it was normal to have mist on the night of the Frost Moon, but Ryan keenly noticed that the mist was actually a faint black and quickly became thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This immediately made Ryan's heart tremble.

Immediately, he began to put on the chrome-iron knight's plate armor, and carried the glimmering giant sword and bronze war hammer on his back.

Just when Ryan had just finished fully armed, he saw that the fog around the window was so thick that he couldn't see the place ten meters away.

There was something wrong with this fog!

At the same time, the sense of danger in Ryan's heart became stronger and stronger.

After thinking about it, Ryan quickly walked to his sister Mint's room, picked up Mint who was still sleeping, and went downstairs.

He quickly knocked on the door of his parents' room.

"Knock, knock, knock"

"Who is it?" Mother Emma's lazy voice sounded, while father old Ryan was sleeping very deeply and snoring at the moment.

"It's me, mother, Ryan."

"Huh?" Emma, ​​who opened the door, was startled when she saw Ryan who was fully armed. She was originally sleepy, but she woke up all of a sudden.

"Ryan, what are you doing?" Mother Emma's eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Ryan who was holding her sister in her arms in surprise.

"Mother, wake up father. Also, take care of Mint."

"There's something wrong with the fog around. Stay in the room and don't come out." After Ryan handed Mint to his mother Emma, ​​he pointed to the thick, almost pitch-black fog outside the window and said.

Emma also felt something was wrong when she saw it.

Because the fog at this moment seemed to be constantly changing tentacles, seeping into the cracks of the door and windows.

Moreover, these strange fogs actually showed a faint black color.

Suddenly, Ryan's heart was alarmed!

"Boom!!!"

I saw a pair of huge iron spike wheels with a diameter of one meter, rotating at high speed, directly piercing into the wall on one side of the kitchen, and quickly cutting.

The structure of Ryan's house could not withstand such an attack of such intensity. Suddenly, two large holes were exposed, mud splashed, and smoke and dust rose!

"Ah!!" Mother Emma screamed in fear.

"Hurry, hide!" Ryan pushed his mother Emma and quickly locked the door.

Then, Ryan took off the glimmering giant sword on his back and rushed out of the door.

Although there was thick fog outside, fighting in a cramped house was not conducive to Ryan's use of the power of two-handed weapons.

In addition, Ryan also wanted to see what was attacking!

Because the enemy's high-speed rotating thorn wheel stirred up the thick fog, an area was immediately cleared, which allowed Ryan to basically see the enemy's appearance.

Ryan's pupils shrank suddenly.

What the hell is this monster!

In front of him seemed to be a giant metal girl doll made of metal and nearly three meters tall.

The weird thing is that the opponent's head looks like a closed-eyed girl with twin ponytails, and the lower body is a cylindrical long skirt shape with a small top and a large bottom, and the soles of the feet are stepping on two high-speed rotating rollers burning black flames.

The hinged end of the two arms, that is, the position of the palm, is the high-speed rotating metal thorn wheel that just attacked the wall of Ryan's house.

"Riding on a hot wheel and wearing twin ponytails?"

Ryan was stunned!