Chapter 76: Nervous Response Enhancement and Potion Pricing

In addition to the arrangements for the Elf Princess ‘Anna’, Leon also has another important task for Tiel.

“I have a group of crypt spiders under my command, among which there are two fourth-level spider leaders. Tiel, I hope you can make the ‘Spider Potion’ as soon as possible.”

“Cave spiders?” Tiel’s eyes lit up slightly. This was a very rare group of monsters.

In the Emerald Dream, she had never heard of any lords having crypt spiders loyal to them.

Ordinary burrow spiders are only first-level in strength, and the silver spider silk they spew out is also a first-level material, which can only be used to make first-level “Spider Potion”.

First-level potions have the greatest effect on creatures of level one and below, and have the highest success rate.

“Are there two fourth-level monster spider leaders?” Tiel glanced at Leon.

It is exactly the fourth level.

Unfortunately, she was already at the peak of the sixth level, and even if she took the fourth-level ‘Strange Spider Potion’ successfully, it would not bring much improvement to her.

But something is better than nothing. For a strong person of her level, any improvement in strength is invaluable.

“Don’t worry about the potion. I can make the fourth-level ‘Monster Spider Potion’ in three days, at most three days.” Til said with confidence.

She was a peak sixth-level alchemist, and making fourth-level potions was a piece of cake for her.

“Then I’ll wait for your good news.” Leon grinned.

The spider’s magic potion can permanently enhance the nerve reaction ability of flesh and blood creatures.

The ability to react to a situation is very important for both warriors and spellcasters.

For the former, combat reaction ability can be improved.

For the latter, it can increase casting speed.

Under Leon’s gaze, Thiel turned and left, the two pairs of blood-red wings behind him trembling slightly, elegant and mysterious.

The next day, evening.

Graystone Dragon Castle.

In the central dragon’s nest room, the black dragon who was meditating with his eyes closed to sharpen his mental strength suddenly opened his eyes and looked forward.

A teleportation light flashed, and Tiel’s figure emerged from it.

“Your Highness Leon, the potion is ready.”

“This is really a surprise.” Leon guessed this after seeing Tiel’s figure, but he was still quite surprised after Tiel said this.

It’s only been over a day since the task was assigned to Tiel, and it’s already been successfully produced?
You have to know that it took Eddie a month just to make a first-level monster spider potion, and he consumed a lot of silver spider silk before he succeeded.

By the way, Eddie is already a peak level 2 alchemist.

From this, it can be seen that the difficulty of making this potion is probably relatively difficult among potions of the same level.

It seems that choosing Tiel as a follower is really a treasure.

“In the next hundred years, I have to make good use of (exploit) this blood-winged demon girl.” Leon thought secretly in his heart.

Without saying too much, ten thousand a year, after a hundred years, it can earn at least one million gold coins, which is not too much, right?

Teal reached out and took out two bottles of silver potions from the dimensional space.

Leon gathered his mental power into a wizard’s hand and brought the potion closer.

Open the silver stopper (silver can preserve the potency of the potion well).

The silver liquid didn’t smell like anything.

Leon did not hesitate and poured the silver potion directly into his mouth. As its follower, Tyr could disobey its orders, but he could not do anything to harm it.

Once this thought arises, Leon will be able to sense it immediately.

There was nothing unusual when he took the potion for the first time, but after a while, Leon felt a little sleepy.

It did not resist the power of the potion, but instead followed the sleepiness and fell into a deep sleep.

When Tiel saw this, he pointed his finger and a black shadow surged, and a recliner naturally formed under her.

He lay down lazily, then reached into the dimensional space and took out a bottle of red wine and a book.

Lying on a recliner, with a book floating in front of me and turning pages automatically, I sip some fine wine.

In the chaotic mind, Leon gradually became conscious.

It slowly opened its eyes and looked around.

It clearly felt that its thinking speed seemed to have become faster.

Very obvious change.

Apparently, the potion had worked.

“You succeeded on the first try. Your Highness is very lucky.”

A lazy voice sounded.

Leon looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman lying leisurely on a recliner.

It did not respond immediately, but silently chanted a spell.

In less than two seconds, two dark blue shields appeared around the black dragon.

Third-ring, level 1 spell: Tidal Shield.

Leon clearly remembered that before taking the potion, it would take at least five seconds for him to use this third-ring, level 1 magic.

Now, it doesn’t even take two seconds.

Of course, this does not mean that Leon’s nerve reaction ability has increased by more than two times, because reducing it from five seconds to two seconds is actually not that difficult.

The real difficulty is to reduce it from 1 second to 0.0001 seconds.

A casting speed of 0.0001 seconds, or less than one ten-thousandth of a second, can be called an instant spell in the magic world.

Instant spells do not mean casting in 0 seconds. In fact, it is impossible for anything to achieve true instant casting in 0 seconds.

Because casting a spell requires thinking. Even for a Sanctuary Mage, whose thinking speed can generate billions of thoughts in a single thought, it still takes time.

In order to achieve a 0-second casting time, the caster must be able to influence time, and time will no longer flow during the casting period.

This may be the realm of gods, or perhaps even gods may not be able to do it.

Next, Leon released several spells, including a full-level zero-ring trick, and full-level first-ring and second-ring spells.

After these spells reach the maximum level, the casting speed basically reaches less than one hundredth of a second. Now, with the improvement of the monster spider’s potion, the casting speed has been further improved to about two hundredths of a second.

It may seem like the improvement is not much, but after reaching this speed, every tiny change is extremely difficult.

For the strong, a difference of one hundredth of a second may be enough to decide life or death.

“My neural response ability has improved by at least 30%.”

Leon stopped the experiment and was quite satisfied with the effect of the potion.

This 30% nerve reaction speed, for ordinary creatures, is the difference between a genius and a mediocrity.

In a sense, the ‘Spider’s Potion’ could be said to be a talent-enhancing potion.

“How does it feel?”

The lazy woman on the recliner stood up and looked at Heilong with a smile.

“Very good.” Leon praised, and then changed the subject and asked, “How much do you think this potion should be sold for?”

The monster spider potion can only take effect once on an individual. Leon has already gained the improvement from the potion. Even if he takes more fourth-level monster spider potions in the future, he will not be able to improve his nerve reaction ability even a little bit.

Unless it is a fifth-level or even higher-level spider potion.

But the overall effect of the potion still cannot be overlapped.

The effect of drinking a first-level monster spider potion and then a ninth-level monster spider potion is no different from the improvement obtained by drinking the ninth-level monster spider potion only once.

Therefore, there is no such thing as drinking the potion earlier to get more benefits, you just get them in advance.

“The average price of an ordinary fourth-level potion in Emerald City is between ten and thirty gold coins.” Tiel gave a statistic.

“In that case, how about selling the Monster Spider Potion for a hundred gold coins?” Leon said after pondering.

“Your Highness, if you become a businessman, you will never make it big.” Tiel couldn’t help but roll his eyes.

“If it’s just a hundred gold coins, it’s not worth the value of this rare potion.”

“Then you say.” Leon really didn’t know much about this aspect. He just felt that one hundred gold coins for a bottle of fourth-level monster spider potion was already very expensive.

One hundred bottles equals ten thousand gold coins, which is enough to buy a rare female wood elf slave.

If it is an ordinary fourth-level slave, you can buy dozens of them.

“If it were me.” Thiel smiled and said,
“Three thousand gold coins. And that’s the lowest price. Take it or leave it.”

Leon was silent.

It thought that Tiel would only mention a few hundred gold coins, but it turned out to be thousands.

Sure enough, its heart is not black enough and it is not suitable to be a businessman.

“Are you sure it can be sold at this price?” Leon was still a little skeptical.

Three thousand gold coins were really a lot. The wealth that Leon had accumulated over the years, apart from the two sixth-level magic cores rewarded by the academy, was only a few hundred gold coins, and most of it was spent on purchasing Anna and a dozen human slaves.

Thiel nodded affirmatively, then explained,

“Your Highness, you have to understand that an alchemist who can refine the fourth-level spider potion is already of noble status. This is one reason.

Secondly, crypt spiders are rare, and those that reach the fourth level are even rarer. I estimate that even if all the lords in the entire Emerald Dream are added together, there probably won’t be many fourth-level crypt spiders under their command.

Thirdly, the amount of silver spider silk spewed out by the burrow spider every day is limited, which essentially limits the production of the spider potion.

Taking all three reasons into account, selling it for 3,000 gold coins is really not expensive. Even if you sell it for 10,000 gold coins to someone who has the need and is not short of money, they might be able to accept it.”

Demand far exceeds supply, which gives us pricing power to a certain extent.

“Then I’ll pay you the price.” After this “sermon”, Leon also understood the rarity of the strange spider potion. After thinking about it, he said,

“But you don’t have to sell it for now. Make a batch first and use it on our own. How many bottles of this strange spider potion can you make in a day?”

“If there is enough silver spider silk, ten bottles a day will be no problem.” Teal replied.

“But in fact, there are only two fourth-level burrow spiders in the territory. The silver spider silk they produce in three days is enough to make a bottle of magic potion.

Therefore, if I don’t fail in making the potion, I can make a bottle of fourth-level spider potion every three days.”

Three days?
OK.

“It seems that I should let Eddie and the others contract a few more burrow spiders.” Leon thought to himself.

With the help of the power of dragon veins, the strength of those ordinary crypt spiders that only have first-level strength can be improved.

For the sake of making money, those little dragons will definitely not refuse.

In the next few days, Tiel used all the fourth-level silver spider silk that he had accumulated for half a year to make magic potions for the monster spider. In addition to the silver spider silk as the main material, a lot of fourth-level magic stones were also consumed in making these potions.

Naturally, Leon didn’t have a fourth-level magic stone. The one hundred third-level magic stones he had, which were awarded by the academy, had long been made into magic steel by Eddie.

These magic stones were purchased by Tiel himself.

In response, Leon also made a promise to Til that she would also be able to get a portion of the profits from the sale of the monster spider potion.

Although he wanted to exploit Thiel in his heart, he could not go too far on the surface considering the other party’s strength and status.

Moreover, if you don’t give the cows grass to eat but force them to continue producing milk, their milk production efficiency will be reduced.

On the cold gray stone floor, the gray-scaled dragon man ‘Diugs’ and the black-haired werewolf ‘Hogg’ sat cross-legged on the ground with their heads lowered, falling into a deep sleep.

After a moment, Hogg woke up first, frowning with disappointment in his eyes.

“Failed?”

A strong black dragon was watching Hogg not far away.

Hogg smiled bitterly and said with a look of shame, “Yes, I failed. Hogg wasted the master’s precious potion.”

A bottle of silver potion fell in front of Hogg.

The werewolf raised his head and looked at the black dragon which had closed its eyes. He was stunned for a moment, then he understood what his master meant and was deeply moved.

Hogg took a deep breath, picked up the potion, opened the silver stopper, and poured it into his mouth.

Soon he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep, starting to digest the potion.

Sensing Hogg entering a dormant state, the black dragon opened its eyes, and a look of pain flashed in its pupils.

“Three thousand gold coins are gone,” Leon thought to himself, feeling unlucky.

But Hogg is an extremely loyal follower, and improving his strength is, to some extent, an investment in itself.

So even though it was extremely painful, Leon had to endure it.

Ok?
Leon cast his eyes on Diugs.

Diugs slowly opened his eyes and woke up from his deep sleep. He carefully sensed his own condition, and then his face covered with fine dragon scales was filled with joy.

Leon also showed a hideous smile of satisfaction.

It seems to have been successful.

“Master, I succeeded!” When Diugs saw his master looking at him, he quickly stood up and reported respectfully.

“And I feel like it won’t be long before my fighting spirit breaks through to the fifth level.”

The fourth-level monster spider potion also contains pure energy, which can indeed play some role in fighting spirit.

But this also shows that Diugs was already close to a breakthrough, and he just took this opportunity to shorten the time a little.

“Very good.” Leon nodded, doubly happy this time.

Now it has five followers under its command.

The first follower, the gray-scale dragon Diugs (about to enter the fifth level)

Second follower: Black-haired jackal Hogg (mid-level 4)

The third follower, Skeleton Spellcaster Mare (Level 5 Peak)

The fourth follower, the blood-winged demon Tyr (level 6 peak)

The fifth follower, the wood elf princess Anna (early fifth stage)

All I can say is that there are a lot of talented people.

“If I were a Beast Tamer, I would at least be considered an elite Beast Tamer, right?” Black Dragon grinned.

(End of this chapter)