Chapter 75: New Topic

After Huodun tied the person up with nylon rope, Mali bent down to pick up the magic scroll that fell on the ground, but he didn't feel any magic fluctuations from it.

Hmm, is it actually a fake?

But thinking about it, it was normal. A Second-Circle magic scroll was worth nearly a hundred Gold Eagles. If the lord who was about to go bankrupt could really afford this money, he wouldn't have sent his subordinates to rob.

Mali looked at the unconscious knight again and shook his head. Blind loyalty is no different from stupidity.

Weier carried the knight, who was tied into a zongzi, onto the car and put him in the corner of the cargo hold, then picked up the sword that fell on the ground.

Ever since his long sword was cut off by the Cyclops with an axe, he hadn't found a handy weapon. As for using the Mithril he got to forge a divine sword, this idea sounded very tempting, but he didn't know when it could be realized.

Weier could only spend twelve Silver Shields at the nearby town market to buy an inferior hand-and-a-half sword as a weapon, but it never felt right to use.

In comparison, the one he picked up now was much better. The blade length was 1.6 meters, and the weight was about 3 kilograms. It was Weier's favorite feel, and there was a curved finger guard above the cross guard.

Allowing the user to safely place the index finger in front of the guard so that the angle can be controlled more accurately when performing a stab.

The only fly in the ointment was that the Ke En family crest was carved on the hilt, letting everyone know who the owner of this sword was.

But it should be able to be polished off.

Weier held the new sword and came to Mali, saying, "I want to buy it, but I don't have that much money on hand for the time being. Can I use a part of Mithril as collateral?"

The bandit's things naturally didn't need money, but Ke En was knocked down by Mali. According to the rules of the Leiwateleisi Continent, this sword was also Mali's spoil of war.

Mali said, "You just take it. Anyway, others in the team can't use it."

Except for that knight sword, Huodun and the others also collected some pocket money from the corpses, but the number was not large, only less than twenty Silver Shields, which was far from the harvest of the Cyclops time.

Mainly because among these people, except for Ke En who was considered a noble, the rest were all militia, and they didn't have much money on them.

But if he had to pick one as an opponent, Mali still preferred to fight with people, because the weapons in his hands were basically special attacks against people, and the uncertainty of monsters and mythical races was too strong.

Experiencing that fierce battle with the Cyclops also made him realize that ordinary firearms and ammunition might have damage discounts when facing supernatural creatures.

During this journey, he was also actively thinking about countermeasures.

Smearing poison on the warhead like before was naturally a means, but he also had to consider that some monsters might have high poison resistance, which might not always be effective, but it didn't hurt to continue digging deeper along this line of thought.

Mali then told Liweier about this idea.

The old alchemist was also very interested in this topic and asked Mali if he had any more specific requirements.

The first thing Mali thought of was the lizardman's tail. Those lizardman tails had strong regenerative functions and could grow back in a very short time after being cut off.

If the bullet could also possess regenerative ability and continue to grow in the target's body after hitting the target, then the power would be increased by at least one level.

It just so happened that he also kept half a lizard tail in the refrigerator.

Additionally, Mali also contributed three electric batons, wanting to let Liweier try to see if he could purify the discharge characteristics of the electric batons and create bullets with electric shock effects.

Besides the materials needed for research, he also provided corresponding 【Principles】 to the old alchemist.

The electric baton side was mainly the circuit design of low-voltage to high-voltage, as well as the high-voltage pulse discharge mechanism.

As for the lizardman's tail, because this was a monster unique to the Leiwateleisi Continent, Mali didn't quite know how they healed themselves, so he could only give some suggestions from the biological perspective of cell division and differentiation. As for whether it could be done, he didn't have much confidence.

Afterward, the old alchemist devoted himself to research.

Mali drove Ke En to Luanshi Bao and showed the crime evidence on his mobile phone to the Alchemy Association and the Rose Alliance trade stronghold there. Afterward, he didn't wait for the result but continued to drive towards the target location.

During this period, there was also good news.

With continuous practice and the help of a magic scroll worth 10 Gold Eagles, Mali finally successfully released Flame Art and summoned a small flame in front of him for the first time.

This small flame was about the size of a fist and had no lethality. Except for some ignition and lighting functions, it had almost no other uses, and it required a long chanting time. Mali couldn't release it stably every time now.

But even so, this was still the first magic he learned, and it was quite commemorative!

And Mali didn't know if it was his illusion, but after learning this magic, when he saw fire again, a trace of intimacy would rise in his heart.

However, what to learn next made him fall into trouble. Mali was very interested in Shield Spell and Detection Spell.

It was just that with his elemental affinity, these two spells were not easy to learn.

Finally, considering that life-saving was important, and he had used a Shield Spell magic scroll not long ago, he had accumulated some experience, so he chose Shield Spell as the next target.

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Mali spent ten days running the road that other caravans needed two months to walk and arrived at the destination of this trip — Yongran Cheng.

The reason it was called this name was because the town was covered with large and small dirt pits, and these dirt pits burned day and night. That was where the locals refined and produced tar.

Unlike other cities, most of these refineries were monopolized by the ruling family of Yongran Cheng, the Ilunwood family, and the remaining small part also had inextricable connections with the Ilunwood family.

Therefore, in fact, there was only one seller of tar in Yongran Cheng.

"Ilunwood, I have some impression of this surname," Liweier said. "They seemed to be merchants before, and later stood on the side of the Gudi royal family in the Thorn Rebellion, providing a large sum of money and grain to Dulan Sanshi, who was almost at a dead end when he was still a prince.

"Dulan Sanshi used this money and grain to recruit troops and buy horses, finally defeated the rebels, recaptured the Wangdu, and took revenge for his father. As a reward, he sealed Yongran Cheng to the Ilunwood family afterward, and they also changed from merchants to nobles."

"Wow, this is really an inspiring story," Xia'er said.

This time it was Meilisha and Huodun's turn to stay behind to guard the vehicle, while the half-elf girl and Weier accompanied Mali and Liweier into the city.

"Be careful, the Ilunwood family is cunning and greedy," the old alchemist warned. "Dealing with them will not be easy." ===== CHAPTER 76 =====

"Be careful, the Ironwood family is cunning and greedy," the old alchemist warned. "Dealing with them will not be easy."