Chapter 17: Wizard's Notebook!

More than an hour later, the caravan passed Tianehu.

Confirming the distance was sufficient, Gervas ordered everyone to stop.

While letting his subordinates rest, he took Lei Meng alone and headed upstream along the stream of Tianehu.

The upstream of Tianehu was not far; it took only a little over ten minutes to reach the source of the stream.

Here stood a rocky hill over thirty meters high, belonging to the stern tail end of the Death Mountain Range, though it was no longer dangerous.

Gervas searched around the cliff for a moment, then pretended to ask Zhuiyue, "Zhuiyue, what exactly did you bring us here to do?"

Immediately, he mentally guided Zhuiyue in a direction.

Zhuiyue let out a long neigh and voluntarily walked toward a patch of grass beneath the cliff.

As they approached, Lei Meng immediately discovered a dark cave entrance behind the grass and vines.

"My lord, there is a cave here!"

"So there really is a discovery. Zhuiyue, well done!" Gervas immediately offered praise.

Zhuiyue: "..."

"My lord, someone must have stayed in this cave; there are traces of excavation and carving here."

"Then let's go in and take a look!"

Right then, the master and servant took torches from their horses, lit them, and entered the cave together, with Lei Meng in front and Gervas behind.

The cave was not deep; after advancing more than ten meters, they encountered a rotten fence. Passing through the fence gate, the interior suddenly opened up.

Inside, there was actually a hidden world: a limestone cave fully four or five hundred square meters in size.

"My lord, there is a stone house over there!"

The light inside the limestone cave had already become sufficient, as sunlight shone from above, making it no darker than outside.

At this moment, in the center of the limestone cave, stood a stone house.

The two immediately approached the stone house.

With a creak, the stone house door was pushed open, dust filled the air, and after waiting quite a while, the two entered the dust-covered room.

The stone house was divided into two rooms; the outer room had simple furnishings, consisting only of a bed and a table with chairs.

But upon entering the inner room, Gervas saw a long table with numerous clay bowls, cooking pots, and transparent test tubes made of crystal.

Besides these, there were also many animal bones, furs, and so on.

Finally, Gervas fixed his gaze on five vials of reagent and a beast-skin notebook on one side of the long table.

He first carefully picked up the beast-skin notebook and found the leather soft and intact, not rotted by the erosion of time.

"Dino Body-Refining Potion?!"

Opening the notebook, Gervas was immediately captivated by the text written on it.

This was a notebook recording the formula and preparation process of the "Dino Body-Refining Potion."

The text recorded that this wizard named Dino, over a period of three years and through several refinements, finally achieved the optimal ratio for the Body-Refining Potion.

This not only allowed the medicinal properties to be fully utilized but also ensured the potion was safe, stable, and free of side effects.

Of course, this was not the true preciousness of the notebook.

Body-Refining Potions for Great Knights or Title Knights were not scarce in this world; as long as one had money, they could be purchased at any merchant in any city.

However, unlike Body-Refining Potions specifically for Title Knights, this wizard Dino researched a Body-Refining Potion specifically for ordinary people.

Ordinary people have bodies that have not undergone long-term training and have always suffered from malnutrition.

If you give them a bowl of ginseng soup to nourish them, perhaps it would bring many benefits.

But if you give them a hundred bowls of ginseng soup, they would dare to die right before your eyes.

Therefore, the weak cannot tolerate tonics; this is the same in this world.

And this wizard, through the ratio of different herbs, made the potion mild, preventing it from exploding violently.

The reason for using the potion on ordinary people was also simple: it was crafted for nobles.

More accurately, it was crafted for great nobles.

In this world where might makes right, great nobles must constantly strengthen their military power to protect their wealth and status.

And military power, although high-end combat strength consists of Guardian Knights and Armed Knights.

Yet to obtain Knights, one must also draw from ordinary soldiers and Knight Squires.

Therefore, if the speed at which ordinary soldiers and Knight Squires become stronger can be increased rapidly, this allows a great noble's power to expand within a short time, reaching a new level.

After all, the foundation of a great noble is beyond what a minor noble can imagine.

At their status, what they lack is no longer gold coins, but the speed of cultivating Knights.

Therefore, this Body-Refining Potion targeting ordinary people is absolutely more precious to great nobles than those potions that can only be taken starting from Great Knights.

Gervas looked at the corner of the table nearby; there were two bottles of fiery red potion contained in crystal test tubes, matching the description of the final product in the notebook exactly.

And according to the notebook's own account, this wizard Dino produced a total of ten bottles of potion in his final batch.

Five bottles were left in the stone house as a reserve, while the other five were taken out to the Duke Lieshi Marquisate.

Because he had cooperated with the Duke Lieshi Hou Jue family multiple times before, and the human trials for the potion were also completed in the Duke Lieshi Marquisate; after this final refinement, the potion was sold to the Lieshi family.

"Duke Lieshi Marquisate? Could it be the current Duke Lieshi family? That is the only possibility. My memory holds no impression of a Hou Jue Lieshi, unless he is not a noble of the Griffin Kingdom!"

However, as a modern person, seeing the notebook end abruptly here.

It was obvious that an accident occurred after this wizard went out, and he never returned, causing the potion and the notebook to fall into his hands.

Therefore, regardless of whether it was the Lieshi family he knew, he must hide this notebook and the potion well.

After all, such a great family crushing the current Storm Marquisate would be no different from crushing an ant.

Taking two vials of the potion and the notebook, confirming there were no other discoveries inside the stone house, Gervas exited the stone house exactly as he found it, and then left with Lei Meng.

They even reached the cave entrance and re-concealed the opening.

When Gervas returned with his entourage to Wheatfield Town, it was already midday.

Although many locusts were still active among the grass along the way, they were basically gone from the farmlands.

All that remained was to expand the area by driving the ducks, and the locust disaster could be completely eradicated.

"Good heavens, look quickly, what is that on the carriage?"

"It looks like a crocodile, but why is the crocodile fire-red?"

"What crocodile? That's a magic beast lizard. I think I heard of it before; it seems to be an Iron-Shell Lizard, with fire-red scales just like that!"

"Ah, a magic beast? But how can a magic beast be so small?"

"Why even ask? It's a magic beast cub, far more precious than an adult magic beast. An adult magic beast can only be killed to eat its meat, but a magic beast cub can be raised to become a battle pet or mount. I've heard they are worth at least a hundred gold coins!"

"Good heavens, worth a hundred gold coins? That must be so many gold coins, I can't even count them on my two hands..."

Amidst the rising and falling exclamations, the caravan deliberately slowed its pace, also to highlight the heroic image of Lord Gervas.