Chapter 77: Nerve Reflex Enhancement and Magic Potion Pricing

Besides the arrangements for the Elven Princess Anna, Lai Ang also has another important task arrangement for Ti Er.

"I have a troop of cave monster spiders under my command, among which two have reached fourth rank as monster spider leaders. Ti Er, I hope you can quickly produce the 'Monster Spider Magic Potion'."

"Cave monster spiders?" Ti Er's eyes lit up slightly; this is a quite rare monster tribe.

In the Emerald Dream, she had never heard of a few lords having cave monster spiders in their service.

Ordinary cave monster spiders are only first-rank strength, and the silver spider silk they spit out is also a first-rank material, usable only for making first-rank 'Monster Spider Magic Potion'.

First-rank magic potions have the greatest effect on first-rank and below beings, and also the highest success rate.

"Are there two fourth-rank monster spider leaders?" Ti Er glanced at Lai Ang.

It is exactly fourth rank.

Unfortunately she has already reached sixth-rank peak, so the fourth-rank 'Monster Spider Magic Potion' would not bring much improvement even if successfully consumed.

But something is better than nothing; for a powerhouse of her level, any additional strength increase is precious.

"As for the potion, rest assured, I can produce the fourth-rank 'Monster Spider Magic Potion' within three days, at most three days." Ti Er spoke with confidence.

She is a sixth-rank peak alchemist; producing a fourth-rank magic potion is easy for her.

"Then I'll wait for your good news." Lai Ang grinned.

Monster Spider Magic Potion can permanently enhance the nerve reflex ability of flesh-and-blood creatures.

And nerve reflex ability is very important for both warriors and spellcasters.

For the former, it can improve combat reaction ability.

For the latter, it can increase casting speed.

Under Lai Ang's gaze, Ti Er turned and left, the two pairs of blood-red wings behind her trembling slightly, floating and mysterious.

The next day, evening.

Grey Stone Dragon Fortress.

Inside the central dragon nest chamber, the black dragon that was closing its eyes to contemplate and hone its mental power suddenly opened its eyes and looked forward.

Teleportation light flashed, and Ti Er's figure emerged from within.

"Your Highness Lai Ang, the magic potion production is complete."

". This is really a surprise." Lai Ang, upon seeing Ti Er's figure, had already guessed this, but after she said this, he still felt quite surprised.

It's only been a little over a day since assigning the task to Ti Er, and it's already successfully made? Know that Ai Di, that guy, took a month just to produce a first-rank monster spider magic potion, consuming a large amount of silver spider silk to succeed.

By the way, Ai Di is already a second-rank peak alchemist.

From this, the difficulty of producing this magic potion is estimated to be relatively high even among those of the same rank.

It seems choosing Ti Er as a follower was truly picking up a treasure.

"In this hundred years, I can make good use (exploit) this blood-wing demon maiden." Lai Ang thought darkly.

Not saying more, ten thousand per year, over a hundred years at least earn it a million gold coins, which is not excessive, right?

Ti Er reached into her dimensional space and took out two bottles of silver magic potion.

Lai Ang gathered his mental power into a mage's hand, bringing the potion close.

Opening the silver bottle stopper (silver can preserve the potion's efficacy well).

The silver liquid emitted no scent.

Lai Ang did not hesitate, directly pouring the silver magic potion into his mouth. As his follower, Ti Er can defy his orders, but cannot perform any subjective harmful action toward him.

Once such a thought arises, Lai Ang can immediately sense it.

Upon taking the potion, there was no abnormality at first, but soon Lai Ang felt somewhat drowsy.

It did not resist the potion's power, but instead followed this drowsiness into a deep sleep.

Ti Er saw this, pointed a finger, and black shadow surged, naturally forming a recliner beneath her.

She lazily lay down, then reached into her dimensional space to take out a bottle of red wine and a book.

Lying on the recliner, the book floated before her, turning pages automatically, while she sipped some fine wine.

In his hazy consciousness, Lai Ang's awareness gradually became clear.

It slowly opened its eyes and looked around.

It clearly sensed that its thought speed seemed to have become a bit faster.

A very obvious change.

Obviously, the magic potion consumption succeeded.

"Success on the first try, Your Highness, your luck is quite good."

A lazy voice sounded.

Lai Ang followed the sound and saw at a glance the woman lounging on the recliner.

It did not respond immediately, but instead silently chanted a spell.

In less than two seconds, two azure shields appeared around the black dragon.

Third Circle Level 1 Spell: Tide Shield.

Lai Ang clearly remembered that, before taking the magic potion, using this third-circle level 1 magic, the fastest he could do was five seconds.

Now, however, he doesn't even need two seconds.

Of course, this does not mean Lai Ang's nerve reflex ability increased by more than double, because reducing from five seconds to two seconds is actually not that difficult.

What's truly difficult is reducing from one second to 0.0001 second.

Reaching 0.0001 second, which is a casting speed within one ten-thousandth of a second, in the magical world can be called an instant cast spell.

Instant cast spell does not mean zero-second casting; in fact, no existence can achieve true zero-second instant casting.

Because casting requires thought; even a holy realm mage, whose thought speed can erupt into billions of thoughts in an instant, still needs time.

To achieve zero-second casting, unless the caster can affect time, making time not flow during his casting.

This might be the realm of the divine, or perhaps even a divine being might not necessarily be able to achieve it.

Next, Lai Ang released several more spells, including max-level zero-circle tricks, and max-level first- and second-circle spells.

After reaching max level, these spells' casting speed basically reached within one-hundredth of a second; now, with the monster spider's magic potion enhancement, the casting speed has increased further, reaching about two-hundredths of a second.

Though the improvement seems slight, once this speed is reached, every minuscule change becomes extremely difficult.

For the strong, a difference of one-hundredth of a second may be enough to decide life and death.

"My nervous reaction ability has increased by at least over thirty percent."

Lai Ang stopped the experiment, feeling quite satisfied with the effect of this magic potion.

This thirty percent increase in nervous reaction speed, when placed on an ordinary living being, is the difference between genius and mediocrity.

In a sense, the "monster spider's magic potion" can be said to be a magic potion that enhances talent.

"How does it feel?"

The lazy woman on the recliner rose, smiling as she looked at the black dragon.

"Not bad." Lai Ang praised, then shifted his tone and asked, "What do you think would be a suitable price for this magic potion?"

The monster spider's magic potion can only take effect once per individual; Lai Ang has already gained its enhancement, so even consuming more fourth-rank monster spider magic potions afterward cannot increase his nervous reaction ability in the slightest.

Unless it is a fifth-rank or higher monster spider magic potion.

However, the total effect of the potion still cannot be stacked.

Drinking from first-rank to ninth-rank monster spider magic potions yields no difference in effect compared to consuming just a single ninth-rank monster spider magic potion.

Therefore, there is no truth to the idea that drinking the potion earlier yields more benefits; it merely grants the effect sooner.

"Ordinary fourth-rank magic potions in Emerald City average between ten and thirty gold coins." Ti Er stated a figure.

"If so, how about selling the monster spider magic potion for a hundred gold coins?" Lai Ang mused and then said.

"Your Highness, if you were to go into business, you'd surely not amount to much." Ti Er couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"If it's only a hundred gold coins, that would hardly match the value of such a rare magic potion."

"Then what do you say?" Lai Ang indeed didn't know much about this; he merely felt that a hundred gold coins per bottle of fourth-rank monster spider magic potion was already quite expensive.

A hundred bottles equal ten thousand gold coins, enough to buy a rare wood elf female slave.

If they were ordinary fourth-rank slaves, one could buy dozens more.

"If it were me," Ti Er smiled slightly and said, "Three thousand gold coins. And that's the lowest price—take it or leave it."

Lai Ang fell silent.

It thought Ti Er would say only a few hundred gold coins, but unexpectedly it was several thousand.

Indeed, its heart isn't dark enough; it's not suited for business.

"Is this price certain to sell?" Lai Ang still had some doubts.

Three thousand gold coins is truly a lot; Lai Ang's wealth accumulated over the years, aside from the two sixth-rank magic cores rewarded by the academy, amounts to only a few hundred gold coins, most of which were already spent purchasing Anna and over a dozen human slaves.

Ti Er first nodded in affirmation, then explained,

"Your Highness, you must understand that an alchemist capable of refining fourth-rank monster spider magic potions inherently possesses a noble status; that is the first point.

Second, cave monsters are rare, and those that reach fourth rank are even rarer; I estimate that even if all the lords of the Emerald Dream were combined, there would not be many fourth-rank cave monster subordinates.

Third, the amount of silver spider silk that cave monsters spit out each day is limited, which fundamentally limits the production of monster spider magic potions.

These three reasons combined make selling for three thousand gold coins not expensive at all; even for those with demand and no lack of money, you could sell for ten thousand gold coins and they might still accept.

Demand far exceeds supply, which to some extent grants pricing power.

"Then let's go with your price." After this lecture, Lai Ang also understood the rarity of the monster spider magic potion, thought for a moment, and then said,

"However, for now we don't need to sell; first produce a batch for our own use, then let's discuss how many bottles of this monster spider magic potion you can make per day."

"If the silver spider silk is sufficient, producing ten bottles a day is no problem." Ti Er answered.

"But in fact, there are only two fourth-rank cave monsters in the territory; their three days' worth of silver spider silk is just enough material for one bottle of magic potion,

Therefore, assuming no failure in production, I can produce one bottle of fourth-rank monster spider magic potion every three days."

"Every three days? That's fine."

"It seems I should have Ai Di and the others contract a few more cave monsters." Lai Ang thought to himself.

Using the power of the dragon veins, enhance the strength of those ordinary cave monsters that only have first-rank power.

For the sake of profit, those little dragons will surely not refuse.

Over the next few days, Ti Er turned all the accumulated fourth-rank silver spider silk from half a year into monster spider magic potions, and besides the silver spider silk as the main material, crafting these potions also consumed a considerable amount of fourth-rank magic stones.

Lai Ang naturally had no fourth-rank magic stones; the only ones he possessed, the hundred third-rank magic stones rewarded by the academy, had already been made into magic steel by Ai Di.

These magic stones were paid out of Ti Er's own pocket.

For this, Lai Ang also gave Ti Er a promise; from the subsequent sales of the monster spider magic potion, she would also be able to obtain a share of the profits.

Although he harbored thoughts of exploiting Ti Er deep down, considering her strength and status, on the surface he naturally could not go too far.

Moreover, if you don't let the cow eat grass but insist it keeps producing milk, its milking efficiency will also drop, won't it?

On the cold gray stone floor, the gray-scaled dragonfolk "Di Uges" and the black-furred hyenafolk "Hoge" sat cross-legged, heads bowed, fallen into deep sleep.

Shortly after, Hoge woke first, furrowing his brow, his eyes showing disappointment.

"Failed?"

A strong black dragon not far away watched Hoge.

Hoge gave a bitter laugh, looking ashamed, and said, "Yes, I failed. Hoge wasted the master's precious magic potion."

A bottle of silver magic potion fell before Hoge.

The hyenafolk lifted his head, gazing at the black dragon with closed eyes, his expression startled; he understood the master's meaning, his heart moved beyond measure.

Hoge took a deep breath, picked up the potion, opened the silver bottle stopper, and gulped it down.

Soon he closed his eyes, entered a deep slumber, and began to digest the potion.

Sensing Huoge entering a dormant state, the black dragon opened its dragon eyes, a flash of pain flickering in its pupils.

"Three thousand gold coins are gone," Lai Ang muttered in dismay.

But Huoge is a follower extremely loyal to itself; enhancing its strength is, to some extent, also an investment in itself.

So even though it was extremely painful, Lai Ang could only endure it.

Huh? Lai Ang's gaze fell on Diwugesi.

Diwugesi slowly opened its eyes, waking from the dormant state, it carefully sensed its own condition, and then its face, covered in fine dragon scales, was filled with joy.

Lai Ang also revealed a fierce, satisfied smile.

It seems it was successful.

"Master, I succeeded!" Diwugesi, seeing its master looking at it, hurriedly rose and respectfully reported.

"Moreover, I feel I won't be long before my battle qi can break through to Fifth Rank."

The fourth-rank monster spider magic potion also contains pure energy, and indeed it can have some effect on battle qi.

But this also indicates that Diwugesi was already on the verge of breaking through; it merely used this opportunity to shorten the time a little.

"Very good." Lai Ang nodded, now doubly blessed.

Now it has a total of five followers under its command.

First follower: gray-scaled dragon person Diwugesi (about to enter Fifth Rank).

Second follower: black-haired jackal man Huoge (Fourth Rank mid-stage).

Third follower: skeleton caster Ma Lei (Fifth Rank peak).

Fourth follower: blood-wing demon Tir (Sixth Rank peak).

Fifth follower: wood elf princess Anna (Fifth Rank early stage).

Can only say that talent is abundant.

"If I were a beast tamer, I'd surely count as an elite beast tamer," the black dragon grinned.

(End of chapter)