Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Mentor Zoe
"Night vision potion?" Tang Li widened her eyes in surprise. So, it doesn't mean that you can't kill monsters at night in the magical continent?
If you think about it carefully, it seems that NPCs don't just stay in the safe zone at night. It may be more of a lifestyle habit, such as three meals a day, or going to bed at sunset.
The principle of the night vision potion is probably to give the user the ability of night vision, so that they can see the activities of monsters at night and are not affected by the sudden increase in monster combat power at night.
The primary potion takes effect for 30 minutes.
"So the actual reason why the monsters' strength increases dramatically at night is because we can't see them, so they appear to be more lethal?" Tang Li slapped the potion formula on her body with a strange look on her face. She thought that the monsters' strength really increased dramatically at night?
This explains why killing monsters at night, whether in terms of experience gained or drops, is no different from killing monsters during the day.
Don't worry about whether the monsters' strength really increases dramatically before you get the night vision item in the game settings. Anyway, this is how the game is set up.
"Killing monsters with night vision will drop night vision items. Isn't this the same as killing flying monsters during the day and getting combat flight skills?" This is important information. I'll give you an example when I get back.
Since night vision potions can be dropped at night, perhaps other night vision items can also be dropped. If the gang can fight monsters at night, it will have a lot more time to level up than other players.
These are all advantages. I don’t know if anyone else knows about this. I have never heard any players mention it in the forum.
But it's normal that no one mentioned it. No matter who knows this kind of news, they will hide it and not tell others. They will hide and develop secretly among themselves, right?
I heard that camps have been upgraded to small towns one after another in the past few days. Apparently, there is no shortage of smart people everywhere, and everyone is secretly working hard.
"Now is not the time to think about this." Tang Li patted his head and saw that Xirang had picked up all the remaining equipment on the ground. He picked up the return to city talisman and planned to take the little guy away.
Although she got the night vision potion, it was not yet a finished product. The wilderness was still very dangerous for her. Killing the troll bird leader raised her level by one level. After working hard to fight monsters all day, she couldn't be sent back to the resurrection point for free.
This is what I thought intellectually, but some mistakes occurred in actual actions.
"I really want to verify my guess." Tang Li took out the jewel key from the treasure chest from her backpack. Relying on the faint light of the night and her remaining memories, she cast her gaze towards the top of the waterfall where she came from.
Although she had never been close to any troll nest, her intuition told her that she might have been misled from the beginning. There was no box in the troll nest that could be opened with a gem key.
As expected, the antidote is near the poisonous snake, so what she really wants to find should be where the gem key was found.
"Inside the waterfall?" Tang Li was a little annoyed. "Why didn't I think of such an obvious place before? I should have reacted immediately."
I'm so sorry about the Journey to the West I watched when I was a child, and various TV dramas whose names I remember or not.
"Give it a try. If I'm unlucky and die, the worst that can happen is I can just fight more monsters tomorrow." She now has the night vision potion, so she will have more time to fight monsters in the future.
Tang Li returned Xirang to the pet space, carefully bypassed the troll bird's territory, and slowly groped her way towards the top of the cliff in the pitch-black environment.
After an unknown amount of time, Tang Li finally returned to the top of the waterfall.
After resting for a while and eating something to replenish his energy, Tang Li did not stay for too long. He quickly found the place where the key was dug out based on his memory.
"Let's see if we can get in." Amid the sound of the rushing waterfall, Tang Li hesitated for a moment and then rushed into the water curtain.
The good news was that she got in, but the bad news was that there was only a thick stone wall behind the water curtain, and the place to stand was not even wide enough for a complete foot.
Tang Li was lying on the wall like a gecko, with the water pulling at her from behind, a cold stone wall in front of her, and most importantly, it was pitch black in front of her.
But after all, we have come this far, and it would be a bit unhappy to give up now. Tang Li sighed, took the key with difficulty, and moved slowly, groping left and right on the stone wall.
Finally, Tang Li’s hard work paid off and she found a place that looked like a keyhole.
Carefully align the jewel key with the hole and insert it, then carefully rotate it one circle.
With a "click", the stone wall in front of him slowly split to the sides.
"Ah--" The sudden movement almost made Tang Li lose her balance. Fortunately, at the critical moment she dodged and stepped into the slowly opening door, thus avoiding being washed into the pool by the water.
After standing still, Tang Li finally had time to look around the place that she had found with so much difficulty.
Unexpectedly, after the stone wall was opened, it was not a vast water curtain cave with a huge space, but just an ordinary and simple cave of about ten square meters.
But when I think about the cliff behind the waterfall where the troll bird lives, I feel that an ordinary cave is a more reasonable setting.
The entire cave is full of traces of human activity. It looks like it was the result of someone blasting it out with magic and then manually leveling the bottom.
Apart from an exquisite large bed that was out of tune with the entire cave painting style, and a box placed on the bed, there was nothing else in the entire cave.
It seemed like a shelter chosen in a hurry.
Ever since she missed the Water Curtain Cave, Tang Li has been reflecting on herself. Now when she saw such a cave, she immediately came to her senses and thought of the TV series she had watched before. But unfortunately, the other party did not play according to the routine this time.
"Shouldn't there be a corpse or something?" Tang Li was very dissatisfied.
"What's the point of keeping something like bones? Will it be used as a toy by a necromancer after being discovered?" A half-translucent green-robed witch emerged from the box. The large brim of her hat covered her face, making her look particularly mysterious.
"Uh..." To be honest, Tang Li was scared.
Even though she had seen many scary things like zombies, theoretically her mental strength should be quite strong, but in fact, from her previous actions, it can be seen that she is not a strong person in the general sense with super strong will. Moreover, for a flower grower, ghosts are still too much.
Tang Li subconsciously ignored whether her current state could be considered a ghost.
Fortunately, she quickly remembered that this was a game world, where even necromancers existed, so it was reasonable for ghosts to appear!
As long as it's not a ghost like Dongfang, everything will be fine. Tang Li blinked and waved friendly to the senior... ghost in front of her: "Hello, I am Adventurer Lucky Star."
"Lucky Star?" The witch laughed. "Isn't it ridiculous to give such a name to a hapless person covered in curses?"
"Or perhaps it's just a pitiful person's beautiful delusion?"
Miss Witch sat leisurely on the bed, propping her head on the box with one hand and tapping it twice with the other hand. "No matter how you look at it, it feels quite pitiful."
If you knew my experience, my birth age and the deaths I have committed, you would know how lucky I am to be able to stand here now. Tang Li touched his nose and was not going to argue with the witch who seemed to have a very poisonous mouth.
"Thank you for sympathizing with me, so...we..." She couldn't continue the witch lady's words. Tang Li didn't intend to talk too much about her physical condition. She just wanted to collect her reward quickly. However, the NPCs in the holographic game were no different from real people. Tang Li didn't have such outstanding and smooth communication skills. She didn't know how to naturally shift the topic to the rewards, so this hesitant scene appeared.
"What?" The witch tilted her head in confusion. She had never learned mind reading in her life, so naturally there was no way she could understand Tang Li's thoughts from her inexplicable and meaningless words.
"That's... that's it," Tang Li closed her eyes and gave up. "I worked so hard to find this place. According to the normal routine, shouldn't there be a reward?"
I said it out loud!
Such a dry conversation... Even though she knew that the NPC was very smart, at this moment she still hoped that the NPC would not be too smart. After going through the general process, could she give her the reward?
It's late at night and she really doesn't want to chat, so why not just give her the reward?
"A reward?" The witch raised her lips and gently tapped the box under her pillow. "This is my lifelong learning, which I am very proud of. I will only pass it on to students I approve of, and I won't give it away as a reward."
"Then how can I become a student recognized by you?" As long as the other party left a question to talk about, she could continue. Tang Li breathed a sigh of relief and asked readily.
As for the other party's attitude, Tang Li didn't care at all. How could such a thing, which was obviously a mysterious grand prize, be easily obtained by players? It was normal to set up an assessment.
For the ultimate reward, she is willing to take on any challenge!
"You decided to become my student without even asking me what I have learned in my life?" The witch smiled.
"You're a forest witch, and so am I." Isn't this a professional match? Do I need to ask again? Tang Li glanced at the other person's green robe and looked as if it was a matter of course.
"I am indeed a forest witch," the witch said, giving Tang Li a strange look. "But you are a little cursed creature. It's obvious that being a cursed witch or a bloody witch would be more suitable for you, right?"
"No, I prefer farming and cooking, and I've also recently started to enjoy refining medicine." Although she no longer has a body, let alone bloodlines, when Tang Li mentioned her favorite things, the passion for farming and plants that belongs to a flower grower in her bones still surged. "I like the forest witch the most."
The witch lady sat up straight at some point, and seeing Tang Li's undisguised recognition of the forest witch's identity, she smiled her first genuine smile of the day: "You, little one, do have good taste."
"In that case, take out the finished potion and your cooking product. Let's see it."
"Okay." Tang Li took out the red and blue potions and various cooked foods that she had recently made and filled the witch's bed with them.
"..." After taking a look at her messy bed, the witch was silent for a moment before she reached out and picked up a red medicine.
The tiny fragments of starlight almost filled the entire potion, making it look mysterious and beautiful like an expensive work of art. If it weren't for the explanation, it would be hard to imagine that this was actually a magic potion.
The witch paused for a moment on the debuff of the potion, then picked up the other potions one by one to check.
After looking at all the potions, she said nothing and picked up the cooking food next to her.
There was still a long silence. Suddenly, she picked up a steamed bun and put it into her mouth tentatively. When she took the first bite, the witch seemed to pause, and then continued chewing with pretended calmness.
Although she didn't know how ghosts ate, the steamed bun in her hand was indeed disappearing little by little. Tang Li stared with wide eyes beside her.
"The purity of the potion is basically over 95%, and the energy contained in the cooking seems to be greater than that of ordinary food... Do you think I'm praising you like that?" The witch's gentle voice suddenly changed. She pulled Tang Li and roared in frustration, "Even if you're affected by the curse, you possess such outstanding talent as a forest witch, and you can only achieve this level?"
Look what she discovered, something that can steadily guide the genetic laws of plants, allowing them to develop in the desired direction.
What a wonderful ability! In an instant, countless potion formula inspirations appeared in her mind. If she had this ability when she was alive, she would definitely have obtained the title of the number one pharmacist earlier!
No, let alone the number one pharmacist, if she had this ability, all the pharmacists except her tied together would not be enough for her to beat with one hand. She would be the god of the whole world, and everyone would have to kneel at her feet and wave money to beg her for medicine. Even the annoying abyss monsters would be driven away by her!
"Even if it's a curse, you can't just go this far. It's one thing to say that the potion is such a mess and has only such a minor effect. It's obvious that most of your energy is spent on cooking, which is of no use other than replenishing your body's energy. Cooking..." The witch paused suspiciously. "Okay, I admit that what you cook is indeed delicious, even the most delicious thing I have ever eaten in my life, but potions are the most useful, aren't they? In this dangerous world."
"Hmmmm..." Tang Li, who was held by one hand, covered her ears and could only nod as if she had lost her soul.
Miss Witch was really excited. Her ears were still buzzing and I couldn't hear what she was saying.
After a long while, the two resumed normal communication.
"It's true that I like cooking, but I've also been interested in potions recently. I also have an interesting idea, which is to combine the two..." Tang Li admitted that when she first entered this world, she did have the idea of just playing around, but she had played the game for so long and invested a lot of real feelings in it. She had obviously become serious in the later period, so why was she still scolded by the witch lady?
Tang Li felt so wronged.
She is also very serious about potions, but her level is still low and she doesn't have a full understanding of potions yet. Even if she wants to change something or make a potion that satisfies Miss Witch, she has to understand it roughly before she starts.
Just like she improved the wheat gene, it was because she knew very well how important deliciousness was to the subsequent cooking process, but the same problem applied to medicinal materials and potions. She had no systematic concept at all. The most she could do was to enhance the efficacy of the medicine. For more than that, she knew nothing and had no idea where to start.
"I'll go to the main city to see if I can buy relevant books when I get back." Facing the witch lady's death gaze and the hand that had never let go of her lapel, Tang Li stood up decisively and blinked her eyes to indicate that she would try her best.
"Reading more is indeed a good idea. It's a good idea to put your words into practice. Besides books, I think I'm the only one who knows the most about potions," the witch said, gently smoothing Tang Li's clothes. "I declare you've passed the test. Under the witness of the magic network, from now on, you are the apprentice of Zoe, the forest witch, the number one pharmacist in the Magic Continent."
The Magic Weave is a special entity that transmits magical power. For any creature that uses magic, any decision involving the Magic Weave is absolutely serious and authoritative and cannot be violated.
Of course, the magic network is reflected in the game as the system.
System: [Holy Mage Zoe would like to accept you as her apprentice. Do you agree?]
Agree, agree, agree!
Tang Li quickly clicked to agree, then asked curiously, "Teacher, are you also a Holy Mage?"
You are so modest that you didn't even mention it when you introduced yourself.
The mage system in "Magic Continent" is a very common setting of apprentice, junior, intermediate, senior, great magician, magician, grand magician, holy magician, and god of magic.
Before reaching level 20, magic players are considered apprentice magicians and need to pass assessments before they can be upgraded to junior magicians, otherwise they will be stuck at a certain level. It is said that the higher the level, the more levels are required to upgrade, and the easier it is to get stuck at a certain level.
This is also a very realistic setting. Just like children can graduate from kindergarten after playing for three years, they need to study hard for six years in elementary school to learn the basics. In junior high and high school, they need to learn more and more things. If they don’t learn well, they may give up their studies directly. The subsequent universities, graduate students, tutors, professors, academicians... are even more distant.
From this, we can see how shocked Tang Li was to see a living (not really?) Holy Mage appear before her.
"Yes, I didn't achieve the breakthrough to God of Magic because I was addicted to potions. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accepted you as my disciple with such regret." Mentor Zoe wiped away nonexistent tears with regret. Seeing Tang Li's sudden change in expression after hearing this, she immediately changed her tone. "But even if I became a God of Magic, I might not be able to see you alive. After all, many Gods of Magic have fallen in this turbulent era."
"Okay, let's get back to the point," Mentor Zoe said, her face straightening. "The times we live in are both fortunate and unfortunate. The unfortunate part is, of course, the invasion of the Abyss Monsters, but also because of that invasion, for the sake of the survival of all races on the continent, magic tomes that were once only accessible to a select few have become accessible to everyone. You can learn the magic tomes of forest witches in any larger magician's guild. If you can't learn them, you'll be lucky enough to explore the wild for a while longer, and maybe even pick up a tome someone has left behind. So I won't teach you much about magic. All the good stuff is right in front of you. As long as you're motivated, you can learn it well."
"All I can really pass on to you is my experience as a pharmacist. This kind of understanding cannot be learned by reading books, so do you have anything to say?" Seeing that Tang Li was hesitant to speak, Teacher Zoe frowned.
She has said so much, will the child suddenly feel too much pressure and stop studying?
Then she would be really angry.
"I want to say," Tang Li paused, as if organizing her words, "the abyss monsters have been driven back underground. Although there are still some remnants, the war is over and everyone is slowly getting better. So, teacher, you don't have to worry anymore..."
"Is the war over?" Mentor Zoe was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief. "That's great."
"Yes." Tang Li told her about Baiyin Town and the people living in the town.
"That sounds great! This is exactly what I imagined life would be like after the Abyss Monsters were driven out." Instructor Zoe placed her hands on Tang Li's shoulders, her eyes serious. "But even if life slowly gets better, you won't slack off. You'll study hard, right?"
Humph, does she think she doesn't know what this child is thinking?
She didn't want to leave her inheritance to someone with good talent just because of the war. She clearly made such a decision because she truly recognized the other person.
Otherwise, she could just give the inheritance directly, why would she specially ask the Demon Network to witness it?
"Yeah." Looking at such a pair of eyes, Tang Li actually understood what the other party wanted to express. Although she always called NPCNPC, Tang Li knew in her heart that she had never regarded the indigenous people in the game as NPCs. This time, it was the same. She made a promise to her teacher with extra seriousness.
In fact, she doesn't know what else she likes besides cooking. In this case, it seems like a good idea to inherit a career that such a lady truly loves.
And refining medicine is really interesting, isn’t it?
For the sake of their common love, she will complete the idea of combining cooking and alchemy and let it shine in this world!
"What a good child, the teacher was right about you." Miss Zoe hugged Tang Li with emotion.
“…” Although it is true that she respects the teacher very much, if you take into account the years when she was asleep, it is hard to say who is older.
"Goodbye." The forest witch said goodbye softly and disappeared completely from this world.
"Goodbye." Tang Li murmured as she looked at the empty cave.
The box on the bed had been opened at some point, and inside was the staff carrying the inheritance. Although Tang Li had come here for this purpose in the first place, she did not take it immediately.
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