Chapter 15 Scale Frog

Nie Yan went up and picked up the equipment dropped by the scale frog. It was a level 30 gold staff for mages, and a mid-level potion recipe.

Elemental Convergence Potion: After drinking this potion, the casting time of elemental magic skills is reduced by 10%. Required ingredients: Feng Ling Grass, Coagulating Potion, Decomposition Potion, Mercury.

This Elemental Convergence Potion can be made by intermediate alchemists. If this potion is successfully made, one bottle should sell for more than two silver coins, which is quite expensive at the current level. He opened the permissions for Niao Bu Sheng Dan. The potion recipes that he had previously obtained from the ghoul foreman had already been taken from his personal warehouse by Niao Bu Sheng Dan. Presumably, some had already been made and put on sale.

Obtaining a better recipe can often bring huge economic benefits to the pharmacy, and it can also attract a large number of people, driving the sales of other potions in the pharmacy. Nie Yan farmed monsters above his level, so most of the recipes he obtained were not available on the market.

Nie Yan put away this intermediate potion recipe, then threw the gold staff to Tang Yao.

Tang Yao's voice rang out. He frowned, and a very delicate voice came out.

"Yaozi *gege*, take me to level up, okay?"

"I'm farming monsters and leveling up on the level 50 map, I don't have time." Tang Yao was surprisingly not tempted by beauty.

"Yaozi *gege*, is it fast to level up on the level 50 map? Take me with you."

"I said I don't have time." Tang Yao hung up the voice chat with a snap. Life is lonely. When he said he was leveling up on a level 20+ map, no one believed him. Now that he's on the level rankings, there are still a bunch of people coming up to him saying he's leveling up on a level 50 map. So snobbish! Tang Yao is still quite rational about these women. It's okay to tease them when nothing's going on, but he won't put any effort into them.

That's just Tang Yao's personality.

Having been childhood friends since childhood, Nie Yan knew Tang Yao quite well. Although Tang Yao looks very flirtatious, he is definitely not the kind of person whose legs go weak when he sees a woman. It was like this in his previous life, and it's probably about the same in this life.

Tang Yao whistled, made it onto the level rankings, and just felt refreshed. Yu Lan and the others were asking how Tang Yao leveled up so fast. Tang Yao replied that he was farming monsters with Nie Yan, and they didn't think anything of it. In their eyes, Nie Yan couldn't be measured by ordinary standards, and they all envied Tang Yao.

After his level went up, the damage Tang Yao dealt when attacking scale frogs became more and more obvious.

Flames danced, and another elite-level scale frog fell to the ground. Nie Yan looked at the experience points. He was only a little bit away from level 13. Since Tang Yao got more experience points, Tang Yao's experience points gradually surpassed Nie Yan's. Nie Yan couldn't help but sigh, a mage's leveling speed is faster than a thief's, including when leveling in a team. Players get extra experience when they are red names while farming scale frogs, but the experience Nie Yan got was still not as much as Tang Yao's.

After killing three elite-level scale frogs, they wouldn't respawn until tomorrow morning. Nie Yan and Tang Yao continued to farm sub-elites, and their experience points soared wildly.

"I still haven't gotten what I want."

"What are you looking for?"

"This place drops the Murderous Maniac Medal, which is an accessory. It only has a certain chance of dropping when you're in a red-name state. If the red name disappears, there's no chance."

"Murderous Maniac Medal? What's it for?"

"The Murderous Maniac Medal is the best accessory in the early stages, and it adds to many attributes," Nie Yan said. If he had the Murderous Maniac Medal, it would be much more enjoyable to level up or PK in the future.

Nie Yan's equipment wasn't good enough, and he didn't have enough skills. This was because he hadn't run many dungeons, so he wanted to find this kind of relatively rare item to improve his attributes.

Tang Yao's level was rising sharply, which had attracted the attention of many people. He had just entered the top ten of the level rankings, and soon he leveled up, and soon he leveled up again. By the time he was about to go offline, Tang Yao's level had already reached level fourteen, only one step away from Po Tian, who was first on the level rankings. Nie Yan also reached level fourteen, but his level was not displayed.

The people of the entire Greenland Empire were talking about it.

"Did this Yaozi take aphrodisiacs? He's leveling up so fiercely!"

"Judging by his momentum, he's soon going to knock off Triumph's guild leader, Po Tian."

"Support Yaozi, knock off Po Tian!"

This kind of leveling momentum that was rising steadily was really terrifying.

Although Triumph was rich and powerful, had a powerful guild, and a strong network of contacts, they didn't do less clearing of the fields when they were leveling up outside. Their actions were too arrogant, which still aroused the dissatisfaction of many players. Therefore, there were still many people standing on Tang Yao's side.

The Triumph Guild was also busy. Under Po Tian's instructions, some guild members began to investigate who exactly Yaozi was. However, one thing was that this Yaozi didn't have any reputation before, and his level suddenly soared so fiercely. It might just be that he was lucky and found a suitable place to farm monsters and level up. Po Tian didn't take it to heart. After this period of time, if that Yaozi didn't have any strength, his level would definitely slowly drop. What was there to worry about? Currently, no one could shake Triumph, and no one could shake him. Being the first in level didn't mean being the first in strength.

In Po Tian's eyes, his opponents were Ban Xing de Hu Li, Ai Qing Sha Shang, and a few other people, but definitely not this Yaozi!

Tang Yao and Nie Yan killed the last scale frog and stopped when their levels were only a sliver away from level fifteen. The game would be closed in half an hour.

"I have to go to Carol first. It's too dangerous for you to be here alone. Go offline first, and we'll meet here again when we log on tomorrow."

"Okay. Do you have any activities today when you go offline?" Tang Yao asked.

"No, what's wrong?"

"A few old classmates from junior high said they wanted to get together. They're also playing Faith. If you want to build a guild, you can also call them," Tang Yao said. These few junior high school classmates of his used to joke around together and had a good relationship. Even after they were admitted to high school, they still kept in touch occasionally.

Nie Yan thought for a while and said, "It doesn't hurt to go out and get together." Recalling those days in junior high school, they were carefree and memorable.

"I'll call you tomorrow, then I'll go offline first."

"Bye bye."

Tang Yao went offline, and his figure gradually faded away. Nie Yan used a Return Scroll, and a white light flashed, returning him to Carol City. His backpack was now full of equipment. However, most of it was level 30 equipment. This equipment couldn't be sold now. Nie Yan planned to use all the equipment he had obtained to fill the guild warehouse. If the players saw a large number of high-level silver equipment and gold equipment in the guild warehouse, they would probably have no doubt about the guild's strength.

After sorting out his personal warehouse, he put the gems and other things together, and sorted out the other sundries as well. Nie Yan walked in the direction of the Starlight Potion Shop. He hadn't checked the operation of the potion shop for so long, and he didn't know how it was going.

Nie Yan's first impression of walking into the Starlight Potion Shop was that it was crowded. There were too many people, coming and going, endlessly, especially now that the game was about to close, and the flow of people was even denser.

Scanning the shelves of the Starlight Potion Shop, Niao Bu Sheng Dan's work was quite in place. The shelves were filled with a dazzling array of potions. Most of the common potions could be found, and some of the rarer potions were also sold in special cabinets.

Niao Bu Sheng Dan came down from upstairs, discovered Nie Yan in the crowd, and quickly whispered to Nie Yan, "Boss, you're here."

"How's the situation now? Looks like business is not bad," Nie Yan said, looking at the accounts in the Starlight Potion Shop. He was shocked. The Starlight Potion Shop's turnover had already reached fifty-six gold coins. The profit of the potion shop was still quite substantial. It could be described as making money every day. This was also related to the hot sales of anti-petrification potions. The sales of anti-petrification potions accounted for a large proportion.

"The operation is still normal. A batch of pharmacists has been recruited in the past few days. There are now twenty-seven primary pharmacists and one hundred and thirty-one pharmacist apprentices in the store. Our laboratory upstairs is not enough. And the store is too small, some players can't even squeeze in," Niao Bu Sheng Dan said, distressed.

Upgrading a level 3 shop requires 20 gold coins. Nie Yan thought about it and prepared to spend 20 gold coins to continue expanding the potion shop, and use the remaining money to grab one or two gold plots in other cities.

Many of the plots in Carol City have already been bought. Although there are some left, the appreciation space is not large. Buying those plots will not be useful in the future. Good steel should be used on the blade, so it is better to go to other cities.

"It is said that the Triumph Guild, Holy Light Flame, and Holy Adjudicators nearby have also opened potion shops, but they are still level 1 potion shops, and there are not many pharmacists, and it seems that there are not many people," Niao Bu Sheng Dan said with pride. The potion shops of so many big guilds have just developed, and their potion shops have already gone far ahead of the players.

"You should pay attention to the movements of your pharmacists, and be careful that they are poached," Nie Yan reminded. It would not be worth it if the pharmacists they worked so hard to train were poached.

"Well, I noticed this. I have signed a special agreement with the pharmacists upstairs. If they jump to other potion shops, they will have to pay more than five times the compensation. We have invested so much in them, if they jump ship, the compensation alone will scare them to death," Niao Bu Sheng Dan had the mind of a businessman.

"I'll go upgrade the shop," Nie Yan said. Since Niao Bu Sheng Dan had already thought of it, he didn't have anything to worry about.

System: Are you sure you want to upgrade your shop to a level 3 shop? This upgrade requires 20 gold coins.

Yes!

System: The shop has been successfully upgraded.

The Starlight Potion Shop quickly expanded, becoming more than twice as large as before, becoming a three-story building. The second floor was a laboratory exclusively for pharmacists, and the third floor was a warehouse. The shop suddenly became spacious, and the hall could be described as magnificent.

The rapid expansion of the Starlight Potion Shop will quickly open up the market in Carol City, seize the market share of potion sales, and become the leader in this industry.

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