Fa Biao De Wo Niu
Chapter 487 Potion of Life's Winter (Second update today!)
Feeling the Bloodshadow Warriors leave and gradually walk away, Nie Yan breathed a sigh of relief, canceled his Fake Death skill, stood up again, and entered Stealth.
He glanced around. Not a single Bloodshadow Warrior noticed that he had come back to life. They were still wandering around on patrol.
Nie Yan stealthily walked towards the tent area ahead. There were small paths between the tents, about two or three yards wide, and several Bloodshadow Warriors passed by from time to time. It wasn't easy to hide in this tent area. In ordinary stealth, it would be easy to be discovered. Nie Yan used the Gnome Transformation skill on the Gnome Ring. His body quickly shrank, becoming only about a third of its original size. The surrounding things suddenly became huge, as if he had arrived in a world of giants.
Nie Yan stuck to the corner of the tent and stealthily moved carefully towards the distance.
One by one, Bloodshadow Warriors passed by not far from Nie Yan, but none of them noticed the gnome in the corner. Nie Yan didn't know how long he had been traveling between the tents when he reached an intersection. Two teams of about seventy or eighty Bloodshadow Warriors were walking towards him. With so many Bloodshadow Warriors passing by, it would be easy to discover Nie Yan's existence.
Watching the Bloodshadow Warriors get closer and closer, Nie Yan couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He had nowhere to go. He glanced at the tent next to him, and there was a figure shaking inside the tent.
Nie Yan flashed and walked into the tent, hiding behind the curtain. Generally, Bloodshadow Warriors would not enter these tents. He could wait for these two teams of Bloodshadow Warriors to leave before going out.
Nie Yan looked at the environment he was in. The tent was about 10x10 yards in size and seemed extremely spacious. In the center of the tent were cabinets, and these cabinets contained strange and various crystal bottles of different sizes. The crystal bottles contained colorful liquids, which appeared mottled and blurred under the refraction of light. These cabinets were about two people tall, dividing the tent space into several areas. There was also a table in the distance, on which were placed many things such as bottles and jars. In the center of the table was an experimental rack, on which was placed a volumetric flask. A light blue liquid was constantly boiling, bubbling, and a wisp of white smoke drifted from the mouth of the volumetric flask into the air.
This was clearly an alchemist's laboratory.
Just as Nie Yan was thinking about this, a burst of rapid footsteps came from the side. Nie Yan quickly hid behind a cabinet and looked towards the source of the footsteps. He saw that the person who came was very short, only reaching the waist of an ordinary person, with a stubbly beard, a face full of wrinkles, and wearing a somewhat tattered red robe, which also had holes left by burning from potion experiments. This short old man should be the alchemist of the Bloodshadow Legion. When he passed by Nie Yan, he muttered something to himself, but he was speaking the Rocky language, a very small language, which Nie Yan could not understand at all.
The old alchemist walked towards the table in the distance, seemingly preparing to concoct some potion.
Nie Yan threw an Identify at the old alchemist.
Alchemist Affleck (Bloodshadow Legion Member): Level 90 Special NPC, Cannot Attack, HP 500/500.
This was a strange NPC. Generally, once an NPC's alchemist level reached Master or higher, the main system would automatically set the NPC as unable to attack. If one forcibly attacked the NPC, one would be severely punished.
Nie Yan remembered that if he forcibly attacked a production profession NPC of Master level or higher who had no attack power, he would violate the scholars' spirit treaty of the Atlanta Continent, and he would no longer be able to use any special items, blood bottles, or the like. The scholar's spirit referred to the fact that if an NPC's skill in a certain production profession reached the Master level or higher, he would enjoy certain privileges.
This NPC was a member of the Bloodshadow Legion. Nie Yan didn't dare to show himself easily. If he revealed Nie Yan's position, that would be troublesome.
Nie Yan scanned this extremely disorganized potion laboratory, searching with a treasure-hunting mind, to see if there was anything good.
In such scenes, there were often some pretty good things to be found.
Many of the bottles and jars in the laboratory were not labeled with names. Nie Yan, who knew nothing about potions, simply ignored them. He began searching through the cabinets, his movements very light, not daring to make any noise.
Just then, a Bloodshadow Warrior wearing golden armor lifted the curtain and walked into the potion laboratory.
"Respected Master Affleck... Is the Lifechill Potion I requested ready yet?" The Bloodshadow Warrior in golden armor asked. He spoke in Ancient Common, somewhat haltingly and difficult to understand.
The short alchemist Affleck replied in Ancient Common, "In the second drawer of the third cabinet."
Their Ancient Common language was not very proficient, but they could barely communicate.
The conversation ended, and the Bloodshadow Warrior walked towards where Nie Yan was hiding.
The other party was getting closer and closer. Nie Yan guessed that this guy was at least an elite level. With his strength, he was no match for this Bloodshadow Warrior.
Seeing that there was nowhere to hide, Nie Yan looked up. The top of the cabinet above did not touch the top of the tent. Nie Yan jumped up high, stretched out his left hand, shot out a strand of spider silk, the spider silk stuck to the top of the cabinet, and with a leap, he jumped to the top of the cabinet and hid himself.
Unexpectedly encountering such a scene, Nie Yan couldn't help but feel a little nervous. The Bloodshadow Warrior seemed to have noticed something. He glanced around and searched the potion laboratory, but found nothing. He showed a blank expression and began to search through the cabinet according to the instructions of the alchemist Affleck, and found what he wanted.
He took the item, said goodbye to the alchemist Affleck, and walked out of the potion laboratory.
Just as Nie Yan was about to jump down from the top of the cabinet, he suddenly noticed that on the top layer of the opposite cabinet, there were several tattered sheepskin scrolls. He didn't know what they were, but they were somewhat old. Because they were not cleaned often, they were covered with a thick layer of dust.
Nie Yan's heart moved. The main system usually set up various treasure hunting possibilities for players. These sheepskin scrolls must have something strange about them!
Nie Yan leaped towards the top of the opposite cabinet. The distance between the cabinets was about three yards. Nie Yan jumped over, landed easily on the top of the opposite cabinet, and held on firmly, his movements very light, without making a sound.
He bent down and scooped up the sheepskin scrolls. He looked at them. There were two in total. These two sheepskin scrolls were the recipes for the Lifechill Potion and the Basic Vitality Potion.
The Lifechill Potion was a potion that increased the effect of ice magic. It had a very strong ice magic amplification effect. After drinking a bottle of potion, the ice magic was amplified by 30% for thirty seconds. It belonged to the category of advanced potions and required an advanced alchemist to make it.
However, players' knowledge of the Lifechill Potion was not limited to the effect of ice magic amplification. This potion was simply an excellent recipe for advanced alchemists to break through to master-level alchemists. Because every time an advanced alchemist successfully made a bottle of Lifechill Potion, they could gain two skill proficiency points, which was more than ordinary advanced potions, and the raw materials were relatively easy to find. A level 60 player team could get dozens of copies by going to the Frosty Snow Mountain, so the Lifechill Potion recipe was highly sought after by advanced alchemists.
However, since the Lifechill Potion recipe was relatively difficult to find, the price of such a Lifechill Potion recipe was quite high, and few advanced alchemists could afford it.
Seeing this Lifechill Potion, Nie Yan's first reaction was that it wouldn't be long before the Starry Night Potion Shop would give birth to the first master-level alchemist!
With this Lifechill Potion recipe, an advanced alchemist could break through to the master level within half a month.
As for the Basic Vitality Potion, what was a little different from ordinary instant HP recovery potions and instant MP recovery potions was that the Basic Vitality Potion could simultaneously recover HP and MP, and it was instant. This was very refreshing for magic classes. In battle, they were often short of both MP and HP. Using instant HP recovery potions and instant MP recovery potions separately would be too time-consuming. Using a bottle of Basic Vitality Potion would simultaneously restore 35% of HP and 35% of MP, allowing magic players to instantly restore some combat power.
In the later stages, players' HP and MP would often be six or seven thousand, seven or eight thousand, or even tens of thousands. Using a bottle of instant HP recovery could restore hundreds or one or two thousand MP. It would be better to use a Vitality Potion, because the recovery of the Vitality Potion was calculated as a percentage.
The Basic Vitality Potion belonged to the master-level potion category, and the general master-level recipes were very expensive and rare.
Nie Yan remembered that in his previous life, he and a large group of friends had cleared a level 100 dungeon more than twenty times before they were lucky enough to get a master-level recipe. After selling that master-level recipe, the money they got allowed their group to upgrade all their equipment by a level.
The Basic Vitality Potion required a master-level alchemist to make. The Intermediate Vitality Potion and Advanced Vitality Potion would probably require a grandmaster-level and great grandmaster-level alchemist to make. Nie Yan calculated that the cost of a bottle of Basic Vitality Potion would be about 20 gold coins, and a finished product could be sold for about 50 gold coins on the market.
Generally, Vitality Potions, like instant recovery potions, were used to save lives and would only be used at critical moments.
Nie Yan put the two recipes into his backpack and looked at the information of the Starry Night Potion Shop. Since the Ni Ren Tribe unified Carol City, the number of advanced alchemists in the Starry Night Potion Shop had increased sharply, reaching as many as thirty-seven. Many advanced alchemists saw the development potential of the Ni Ren Tribe and the Starry Night Potion Shop and joined one after another, which made the alchemist team of the Starry Night Potion Shop expand rapidly. But the only thing that was a bit of a pity was that the Starry Night Potion Shop did not yet have a master-level alchemist. Nie Yan made up his mind that he must cultivate a master-level alchemist as soon as possible, which was very important for the development of the Starry Night Potion Shop!