Now, the two of them are already familiar with each other, so they no longer use formalities and just call each other by their names.

"Of course not. I specially bought a villa not far from your mansion. It's only a few hundred meters away from here." Richard said with a smile.

"Haha, oh, I remember now. It seems that the villa was originally owned by a wealthy businessman. I heard that it has been vacant for a while. I didn't expect that you bought it. That's good. I will definitely come to visit you often."

When Disol heard that Richard bought the one nearby, he immediately became happy.

The villa in Tug City is very valuable. If Richard had not earned ten high-level magic stones from Gorkan, he would probably not be able to afford this villa.

But Richard must have a large independent area to conduct some secret alchemical experiments, so buying a villa is his only option.

Of course, Richard could choose to buy a manor outside the city of Tug. At the same price, the area would be much larger than the villa in the city, but what Gorkan said had already made Levi alert, so it was naturally impossible for him to purchase a villa outside the city.

The location of my current villa is in the center of Tuge City, which is quite safe.

"By the way, Levi, there will be a gathering of several of my good friends in a few days. Um, it can be considered a salon. We usually exchange some experiences on puppetry, potion making, etc. at the gathering, and also trade some rare materials during the gathering."

"Are you interested in joining us?" Disol patted his head.

"Okay, Desol, I'll join in." Richard nodded.

Richard was quite interested in the wizard gathering that Disol mentioned.

At present, it is difficult for his strength to continue to grow rapidly. Through communication between wizards, perhaps he can discover some unexpected surprises.

Three days later. During these three days, after listening to Gorkan's description, Richard not only made alchemical bombs step by step, completed the tasks of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood as required, and accumulated contribution points.

At the same time, Richard successfully entered the huge data room of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood with the mithril emblem and began to look up information.

Some of the information about the Scorched Earth Secret Realm belongs to the bronze level authority, some belongs to the mithril level authority, and a small part even requires the refined gold level authority to query. This part is currently inaccessible to Richard.

But the information of bronze-level and mithril-level permissions combined is enough for Richard to understand the basic picture of the Scorched Earth Secret Realm. These contents in the data room can not only be compared with what Gorkan said, but are also much more detailed than what Gorkan said.

The Scorched Earth Secret Realm, an ultra-large multi-layered secret realm, is suspected to have once been the entrance to an underground passage leading to the lava world. Judging from the sealing technique, it is in the style of ancient times. According to incomplete historical records, it should have been sealed after a war between ancient wizards of various races and elemental creatures.

That great war was mentioned in many ancient books, and they corroborated each other, making them quite reliable.

An introduction to the main elemental creatures in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm. The most common one is the fire element, which looks like a ball of blazing flame, about two to three meters high, with a flame crystal inside. It has the strength of a mid-level wizard at level one, and its innate witchcraft is fireball and flame shock wave. Its weakness is that it is easily hurt by water energy. The giant fire element, as the name suggests, looks like an enlarged version of the fire element, about five to six meters high, with flame essence inside. It has the strength of a beginner level two wizard, and its innate witchcraft is group fireball and ignition. Its weakness is that it is easily hurt by water energy. Seeing this, Richard smiled. It seems that his previous guess was correct.

Most of the elemental creatures in the Scorched Earth Secret Realm are fire elements, and their weakness is that they are easily harmed by water energy. The Tokar Lake Murlocs that he has taken in as his vassal will seem to be able to play a good role by then.

It's just that the strength of the murlocs under his command is a little weak at the moment. The strength of the murloc prophet Gorkan has reached the level of a formal wizard, which is barely qualified.

But Fingart is currently only at the limit level of a third-level wizard apprentice. It would be great if he could go a step further.

If I had two formal wizard-level helpers who were good at water magic, it would be much easier to act after entering the Scorched Earth Secret Realm.

As for the problem of automatically dispersing according to the rules of the secret realm after entering? Large wizard organizations including the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood have already thought of some solutions to this problem.

For example, the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood created a special magical device for transmitting sound, the Listening Stone, which can be used to communicate in areas with low interference environments, thereby gathering team members.

If the two people in the secret realm are not far apart and the environmental interference is not serious, the witchcraft marks left by the first-level wizards on each other can be used to communicate directly.

This morning, Richard did not go to the alchemy room of the Gray Dwarf Brotherhood headquarters again, or go to the headquarters' data room to look up information, but waited at home.

Yesterday, Desol asked Richard to attend a formal wizard salon together.

The nature of this salon is small-scale, informal gathering among friends, with only six or seven people, all of whom are considered good friends of Dessol.

Although from the perspective of mental power, Richard is only a beginner-level wizard, due to his outstanding performance three days ago, some of Disol's friends are very interested in him.

Therefore, several people contacted Desol, hoping that he could invite Richard to attend the exchange meeting together.

Otherwise, if he relied solely on his own strength, Richard would have to reach at least the middle of level one to have the opportunity to participate in such a high-end salon.

The agreed location for the salon is in a large villa, which, according to Dissor, is the private property of his good friend and salon founder, Ms. Fana.

As soon as he entered the door, Richard saw a gray dwarf lady dressed in gorgeous clothes, greeting him at the door.

The lady was wearing a puffy skirt, a sculpting belt, and an open-necked top, revealing a large area of ​​snow-white skin, which immediately caught Disol's gaze for a long time.

The gray dwarf lady said in a delicate voice, "Master Disol, Master Levi, please follow me. The master is waiting for you inside."

Richard was quite surprised that the other party could call out his name. It seemed that the host had been prepared. Although the lady's voice was a little unbearable for him, looking at Disol's expression, he knew that he liked this kind of delicate voice very much.

At this time, Disol whispered in Richard's ear: "How is it? Not bad! This is Fana's housekeeper. I asked Fana for it many times, but she refused to give it to me."

Richard was speechless for a moment. Do you think you don’t have enough concubines at home?

He looked Disol up and down, shook his head, and sighed, the gray dwarves' physique is really gifted. If it were an ordinary human, let alone a dozen, even a small amount would not be enough to handle!

After a while, the two followed the noble lady all the way to a magnificently decorated hall. On the walls around the hall were hung the heads of many powerful monsters. This was very similar to human nobles, who all liked to show off their own strength through the heads of their enemies.

On the dining table in the middle of the hall were some fruits and delicacies neatly arranged, and four wizards who were obviously at a high level of the first level were chatting.

"Disor, you're finally here!"

"Disol, you are late today. I guess this person must be Master Levi?" A graceful lady who was less than 1.2 meters tall walked over.

This... This is too short! Shocked, Richard began to carefully observe the lady in front of him.

Her shoulders were much narrower than those of Disor's dozen concubines, and not strong, but her face was delicate, without the bulky feel of ordinary gray dwarf women.

To Richard, the whole person felt like a smaller version of a normal human woman.

Disol obviously noticed the shock in Richard's eyes and laughed, "Richard, this is Ms. Fana, a very rare dwarf witch. Moreover, her knowledge of puppetry is probably the most profound among us."

As expected, they are not of the same race as the dozen or so concubines of Disol. They are dwarfs!

After carefully recalling what was recorded in the books, it seems that the gray dwarves and gnomes had the same ancestor in ancient times, but gradually evolved and differentiated into two races.

It was also the first time that Richard saw a living dwarf. He couldn't help but be very curious and looked at him a few more times.

"Master Levi, according to the dwarf tradition, staring at a lady is not very polite." Ms. Fana blinked her big eyes that were totally inconsistent with her body shape.

"Hey, Master Fana, I'm really sorry to meet you for the first time. To be honest, this is the first time I've seen a dwarf witch."

"Please forgive my offense. By the way, this is a small gift I specially prepared for the beautiful lady."

Richard coughed to cover up his embarrassment, and took out a small glass jar from his arms. Inside was a golden granular object, which was more than a dozen golden horned frog eggs.

"Hey! Are these the golden horned frog eggs that made Sir Richard famous a few days ago?" Fana's eyes lit up and she happily accepted Richard's small gift.

"It's really beautiful. Thank you, Master Levi. I'll be honored to receive it."

Sure enough, women of all races like shiny things.

Fana immediately opened the lid of the glass jar, carefully picked up a golden horned frog egg with two slender fingers, and looked at it curiously.

Richard knew that it was not because the dwarf lady Fana in front of him was greedy, but according to ancient records, in the etiquette of the dwarves, the gifts given by the guests must be opened on the spot to show respect.

The next second, Fana put a golden horned frog egg into her cherry mouth.

As soon as she chewed it, her beautiful eyes suddenly brightened!

Just now, Fana took a light bite and immediately experienced a kind of exploding pleasure.

At the same time, all the taste buds on her tongue were completely occupied by an extremely delicious taste.

The whole mouth is screaming "Super delicious! Delicious! Great!" all the time.

The next second, Fana took out another pill and put it in her mouth.

After eating three pills in a row, he stopped and sighed: "Sir Levi, you have given me a big problem!"

"Oh?" Richard asked with a puzzled look.

"Your golden horned frog eggs are so delicious. I realize that the delicacies I prepared for you are just rubbish and should be thrown into the trash." Fana said pretending to be sad.

Suddenly, everyone present burst into laughter.

Richard also started laughing.

I haven't encountered such a relaxed atmosphere for a long time.

Richard also thought carefully about why he chose the golden horned frog eggs as a small gift.

First of all, I was attracted by the extremely delicious golden horned frog eggs. Anyone who has never eaten it before will be shocked when they try it for the first time.

Secondly, it is difficult to make. Of course, Richard does not think that he is the only one who can make it, but if other alchemy masters make it, the selling price will definitely be extremely high, so as a gift, it is in line with his identity as an alchemy master.

Finally, if you place more than ten of them in a scattered manner, it can be used as a gift. The cost is negligible to Richard. After all, the devil horned frog eggs are not valuable, and the biggest added value lies in the alchemist's superb skills.

Although all those present were official wizards, taking golden horned frog eggs had basically no benefit to the body. Unlike when they were wizard apprentices, it could enhance a person's sensitivity to external dark element energy particles.

But its excellent taste and slight benefits are still very popular.

After a brief greeting, Disol and Richard followed Fana to the center of the hall and sat down.

Fana jumped onto the high chair with a light leap and said, "Now that everyone is here, let's start our exchange meeting. First, let me introduce Master Levi."

"Master Levi, this is Wizard Snisa, who is good at puppet making."

With Fana's introduction, the exchange meeting started in a pleasant atmosphere.

For Richard, since it was his first time to attend such a wizard gathering, he just listened throughout the whole process and rarely expressed his opinions.

Moreover, after listening for a while, he felt that it was very helpful.

"Disor, I think the biggest difficulty in your last proposal to install a water magic jet device on the obsidian combat puppet is the energy problem."

"Water crystal cores are rarely produced in the Underdark. Even if a jet device is installed, the cost is estimated to be very high." said Wizard Snisa, who is also a gray dwarf.

Obsidian combat puppet? Richard's ears twitched. He had also briefly read the introduction of puppetry in the past few days and knew that this kind of puppet could be considered an advanced combat puppet.

The characteristics of obsidian mean that the Obsidian Combat Puppet is highly resistant to all types of witchcraft, and is one of the preferred combat puppets for first-level wizards who are generally good at puppetry.

Whether fighting other wizards, monsters, or elemental creatures, the Obsidian Battle Golem can do the job.

The only drawback is that the Obsidian Combat Puppet is a purely melee puppet and has no long-range attack capability, so it will be at a disadvantage when encountering an opponent who is prepared in advance.

But what did he just hear? To install a water magic jet device on the obsidian combat puppet?

The difficulty of installation is probably extremely high, but it seems that the wizard Snisa in front of him already has a basic idea.

Li Jue felt that he really needed to consider learning puppetry.

After all, as long as you consume a small amount of mental energy, you can control a powerful puppet, the advantages are self-evident.

If I could also possess one or even multiple advanced combat puppets, I believe that exploring the scorched earth secret realm could be put on the agenda sooner.

Although owning an advanced combat puppet does not mean that you have to make it yourself, it is obvious that no wizard will be completely confident in a puppet made by someone else. At the very least, the wizard who controls the puppet to fight must have some knowledge of puppetry.

Otherwise, if he suddenly goes berserk or rebels during a battle, you’re doomed.

Therefore, most wizards who control puppets to fight are masters who are proficient in puppet making. Even if they buy puppets, they will check them carefully to find the secret doors left by the makers.

As the discussion continued, Richard heard more about puppetry.

Of course, the above discussion is limited to ideas or directions, as well as opinions on material replacements in some parts, and does not involve the complete production drawings of a puppet.

If you want to buy the complete production drawings of a puppet, or buy a puppet with a strong personal style, you need to wait until the second part of the party, the trade fair, when you can trade freely.

"By the way, Angeles, I have an idea about the cleansing potion that we discussed last time that can shorten the residual period of blood essence." Fana talked freely.

Hey! The Qingling potion can shorten the residual period of blood essence? This immediately shocked Richard. There is actually such a potion.

After listening to the lecture, Richard finally understood that this medicine has existed for a long time and its efficacy is not as strong as Richard imagined. It can only reduce the residual period by about one fifth.

That is to say, the original five-month residual period of blood essence was shortened to four months after taking the Qingling potion.

How should I describe this effect? ​​It is definitely better than nothing, but it is just better than nothing.

This time, Fana and the others discussed the idea of ​​improving the potion by replacing some of the raw materials of the Qingling potion to achieve a stronger effect.

"By the way, Master Levi, the pharmacy branch is your area of ​​expertise. Would you like to express your opinion?" Fana turned to Richard and said with a smile.

"Ms. Fana, it is quite difficult to improve the formula of the medicine. I may need to conduct a lot of experiments before I can give accurate advice." Richard said after thinking for a while.

Intuitively, Richard thought that Fana's suggestion of replacing one of the ingredients, honeysuckle, with water hyacinth was quite feasible.

But with something like medicine, once one of the raw materials is changed, a chain reaction will occur.

At present, Richard also has a vague hunch that the possibility is quite high, but if he wants to confirm it specifically, he is still unable to do so and needs multiple attempts.

"Hey! Master Levi also thinks that my plan is feasible? That's great!" Fana looked at Richard with excitement.

"Master Levi, would you consider cooperating with me, you and Angeles? The three of us will work together."

Richard pondered for a moment. Although he could improve the Qingling Potion successfully by himself with the help of the inspiration panel and spending some time, sometimes it was necessary to increase his foundation in Tug City through some cooperation and making some friends.

Richard nodded immediately to show his agreement.

"That's great! Come on, Master Levi, cheers, and happy cooperation!" Fana raised her glass happily.

(End of this chapter)