Chapter 50: Unknown Scroll

Putting down the letter that Master Seda had written early but hadn't had time to send, and would never send, Gao De was silent for a long time.

To the apprentices in the medicinal garden, Master Seda was an absolute "big villain," an evil person, and an abuser.

But to Master Seda, he, like Gao De, was just a "victim" struggling to reunite with his wife and children.

And now, to Master Seda's wife and children, Gao De had become the villain.

Realizing this, the emotions in Gao De's heart became incomparably complex.

Even though he clearly knew that if he hadn't resisted at the time, he would be the one dead now.

This was a game where only one person could live.

Gao De's resistance was justified, and no one could find any fault with it.

But after reading Master Seda's family letters, Gao De still felt unbearable, and still felt guilty toward the woman far away in Bremen City who had been waiting for her husband to return for more than ten years, even though they had clearly never met.

This was something that flowed in his bones and would not be easily erased by a single transmigration.

After a long silence, Gao De finally let out a long breath.

"I was right to kill Master Seda, and I am not wrong to feel unbearable; there is no conflict between the two."

He stopped struggling with it.

He decisively picked up the last item taken from the wooden box.

That mysterious scroll that looked like a spell scroll.

The scroll was made of fine animal parchment, with edges luxuriously and carefully inlaid with gold leaf.

At both ends of the scroll were inlaid two exquisite silver scroll clasps, engraved with complex patterns.

Between the clasps was tied a slender ribbon, the color of which was a deep violet, with flowing patterns carefully embroidered in gold thread.

Gao De untied the ribbon and unfurled the scroll; a faint fragrance wafted toward him.

It was the fragrance brought by the preservative made of special herbs and magical materials, which kept the ink on the scroll as fresh as ever despite the passage of time.

It was just that Gao De did not recognize the characters written on the scroll.

"It should be some kind of magical script."

Gao De examined it carefully and made a judgment.

And in the lower right corner of these magical characters, there was an exquisite stamp.

The stamp was circular, and the main pattern was a bird with spread wings standing on an open book.

The bird's feathers, the magical symbols faintly visible on the book pattern... every detail was lifelike, as if ready to jump out and become reality at any moment.

And above the bird was a tiny diamond pattern.

"Don't recognize it." Gao De examined it for a while and confirmed that he did not know the origin of this stamp.

"Written in magical script, but not a spell scroll." He had checked it at the first opportunity; the magical script on the scroll did not contain magical power and was only used as the most ordinary script.

"The scroll itself is so exquisite; it looks expensive at a glance. Could it be some high-rank potion recipe?" Gao De guessed: "Or is it some document? After all, it is specially stamped."

After studying it carefully for a while and gaining nothing, Gao De finally stopped this time-wasting behavior.

Thus, all the inheritance left by Master Seda was fully inventoried: one apprentice manual.

Two cultivation methods.

Five spell formulas.

Two complete Rank 0 potion recipes, one incomplete Rank 1 potion recipe.

Twenty-one family letters.

One scroll of unknown purpose and origin, and a full 50 Saint Xi En gold coins.

The harvest was so rich that Gao De wanted to do a somersault on the spot. After fiercely waving his fist to vent the excitement in his heart, Gao De opened his cabinet and hid the three potion recipes inside.

These were treasures; unlike spell formulas, which were hard to sell, they could be sold directly when necessary to exchange for a large sum of money.

The gold coins were better kept in a secret compartment in the bedroom so he could sleep peacefully at night.

There was no need to be so concerned about the apprentice manual, cultivation methods, and twenty-one family letters, so Gao De put them back into the wooden box.

As for the scroll of unknown purpose and origin, Gao De thought about it and felt he should pay a little attention to it, so he finally hid it in the depths of the cabinet.

After dripping the last drop of green spider venom into the potion bottle in his hand, the churning liquid gradually calmed down.

Faintly, a gray-green magical aura flashed through the liquid.

Potion complete!

"2 gold coins in hand!" Gao De skillfully bottled the Primary Spider Venom Potion he had just prepared in the large potion bottle.

Although he had just obtained a huge sum of 50 gold coins, this did not make him arrogant and thus abandon the daily preparation of a set of Primary Spider Venom Potion.

One was a long-term trickle, and the other was a windfall, a one-time deal.

Gao De could still distinguish the difference between these.

Windfalls don't happen every day.

If one treats a windfall as normal income, or even deliberately pursues windfalls, and abandons one's original "career," something will go wrong sooner or later.

What's more, 50 gold coins seem like a lot, but if there is no continuous output, with the increasing expenses of the medicinal garden, this so-called "huge sum" would be squandered in just half a year.

"From now on, meat can be eaten without limit; I'll really supplement my body, and the staple food can also be changed from rye bread to wheat bread."

"Of course, only I can be so extravagant; after all, this is my private income..."

Gao De was not worried that his act of eating alone would cause dissatisfaction among other apprentices in the medicinal garden.

In fact, he had always had this right, but Gao De couldn't get past his own heart, so he had always eaten and drank with the apprentices.

"However, since I have money on hand, the food for other apprentices in the medicinal garden can also be improved by a grade; there is no need to be as stingy as before."

"Hmm, adding a meat meal for everyone every two days—seven people, one pound of meat is enough; one pound of meat is 7 copper, which is only an extra expenditure of 9 silver a month; it's acceptable."

Gao De calculated in his heart and made the decision.

It had only been a month, and he had already led everyone to eat meat every other day.

Thinking of this, Gao De still felt quite pleased.

"Pierre's reminder cannot be forgotten; I must prepare more food in the medicinal garden. If something really happens, whether it's running away directly or using it as emergency rations, it's better to be prepared."

Whenever there is a natural or man-made disaster, "food prices" will inevitably rise; this is a consensus.

Today's work is finished.

After Gao De stretched, he couldn't wait to pull one out from the five spell formulas on the table.

【Fire Bolt】 (Evocation, Rank 0).

"Good, that's you."

Gao De had quite an impression of Fire Bolt.

This was the spell Master Seda used to kill the subterranean wolf-rat that invaded the medicinal garden, and it was also the spell that led him to "seek his own death."

The power goes without saying.

At least at the cantrip level, Gao De believed that in terms of lethality, 【Fire Bolt】 definitely ranked high, surpassing his 【Acid Splash】.

After all, "Introduction to Magic" also said: among all school spells, evocation spells have the strongest destructive power.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 51 =====