Chapter 246 Gail Franklin
New Hui calendar year 997, August 31st, Earth Sunday.
The last night before the Hunting Moon.
Unlike those who went to the border for various reasons, Gale Franklin went the opposite way and smuggled back into the kingdom alone, returning to his hometown of Raven Town before night fell.
Raven Town is a relatively famous town within the Ceylon Territory.
There are also many villages and farmland near the town.
But the crops grown here are not common.
But all kinds of strange magic materials.
For example, there are several materials necessary for making magic scrolls:
Moonlight grass, madder, and silver leaf flower.
These special magic materials can also be obtained through planting, but they have strict environmental requirements, so they can only grow in a few areas.
Raven Town is a relatively special area in Ceylon Territory.
Merchants in the town mostly sell and purchase various magic materials, as well as provide preliminary processing of these materials.
A magic scroll blank to be copied;
Magical paints;
Potions containing special effects;
These are the best-selling and most mainstream products in Raven Town.
Gale's grandfather, Baron Franklin, was a potion master, and unlike a half-baked potion master like Hugo, Baron Franklin's potion preparation skills were ranked among the best in the Ceylon Territory.
The process of making potions is quite magical.
In addition to the various raw materials that are accurately prepared and added according to the steps, the most important point is the indispensable magical skills before the potion is formed.
The magic spell dropped by Sethe, the god of voodoo, is released at a specific time on the boiled semi-finished potion, so that it can finally be refined into a potion with the corresponding effect.
If this key condition is missing, even if the exact same materials are added, the final product may be just a pot of bad product that smells extremely bad and even smells of pollution.
The raw materials for refining magic potion can be described as various.
All kinds of magic materials are considered normal, and monster distortion materials are also very common;
There are also weird materials such as poisonous mushrooms and old heels that would normally turn the finished product into a pot of poison.
But with the blessing of the God of Voodoo, these things can finally be refined into various potions with wonderful effects.
The most popular [Heart of Anger Potion] among adventurers, trainee warriors who are stuck on the threshold of controlling anger can have a chance to break through to a first-level warrior by drinking one bottle at a critical moment.
Among its necessary raw materials is something very weird:
Salamander poop.
And the fresher the better, freshly pulled out the best.
Large potion shops in places like the capital of Reyak would even hire people to keep a few salamanders in captivity and use their time to defecate to refine potions.
Apart from the formulas for those potions that have been announced and recorded in the Book of Voodoo, the real money comes from the exclusively developed secret formulas.
This recipe is not only the raw materials, but also includes at which points of the steps the magic must be used to finally complete the refining.
The emergence of each new potion recipe may mean hundreds of attempts and tests, as well as the loss of a large amount of materials.
The overall level of the potion shops in Ceylon is definitely not as good as that in the prosperous royal capital. Most of the shops sell the common potions published in the Book of Voodoo. They are even limited by the materials. Common potions sometimes There will be outages.
The name of the potion store opened by Baron Franklin in Raven Town is easy to remember, it is called "Three-Eyed Raven Potion Store".
Baron Franklin, who is over 60 years old this year, is Gale's grandfather. His potion business is actually a bit informal.
He himself was first a level 3 warrior. After being canonized by the king and granted a manor, Baron Franklin first gave birth to Gail's father and then became a grandfather.
Gale's father is also a fighter, but at the age of 38, he is still in the second level and has no movement. It is difficult to say whether he can advance to the third level in the future.
Not to mention Gail Franklin herself.
Faced with the problem that no one could inherit the title of nobility, Gale's grandfather was not worried at all. In fact, he did not want his descendants to inherit the title.
Because Grandpa Gale has been running the potion shop in a sound and decent manner in the past ten years.
The other nobles relied on the income brought by the manor and did almost nothing. They could earn about 20 gold coins a year; Nearly 40 gold!
Even if the next generation fails to live up to expectations and cannot inherit the title, at worst they can continue the potion business and their lives will not be much different!
Some barons even had to come to discuss things in a nice manner, asking him whether they could get discounts on potions.
Gale's grandfather received the blessing of Sethe, the god of voodoo;
Gail's father also received the blessing. At least when it was passed down to his father's generation, the potion shop could still operate.
The problem lies mostly with Gayle.
His family told him every day that it didn't matter whether he inherited the title of nobility or the manor or not, the important thing was the potion store.
As long as the operation is good, the income will not be much worse than that of an ordinary baron, and the life can even be better.
And there is no need to worry about the danger of being drafted into the king's army and going to the front line during the monster red tide.
But Gale could see the "problem" in the potion store at home.
Regardless of whether it is Gale's grandfather or father, what they can refine are actually the magic potions that have been disclosed in the voodoo book.
Researching new potion recipes?
The cost of dozens of gold coins will not even make a splash!
I don’t have the background to do research.
Gale has noticed it.
Even though their own potion store has good income, it lacks core competitiveness.
These ordinary potions sold well in the past few years. That was because the old potion masters near the Ceylon Territory who mastered the magic of voodoo were getting older, and some of them retired or died.
The market happened to be experiencing a period of sluggishness, and a demand gap emerged.
The situation is similar to what Gale predicted back then. In recent years, with the emergence of new potion masters who master voodoo magic, competition has become fierce and demand has been saturated. His own potions have begun to be unsaleable.
Income begins to decline.
In the long run, the situation will probably get worse.
Therefore, Gale ran to Greenport.
He wanted to find new sales channels for his own potion shop, or other ways to change the status quo.
For example, becoming a level 3 mage.
There are certain similarities between mages and potion masters. High-level mages are more likely to be aware of the "appropriate" material ratios and steps in potion development.
After returning to Ceylon Territory with Peter, Gale has not returned home for this period of time because he discovered a new possibility.
The Church of Seeking Knowledge...seems to have a solution to the problem of unsaleable potions at home!
He found a new way to sell potions.
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(End of chapter)