Chapter 115 113. After being promoted to second grade, herbalist
Black Amber fell silent.
After a while, she said:
"Anyway, I have never heard that the Demon King is sealed in the academy. But even if I am a professor, it is impossible for me to know all the secrets of the academy. I will start from this aspect and launch an investigation. Including consulting the principal."
After a short silence, Black Amber brought the topic back:
"Child, you provided very critical information, I will give you a reward."
"Okay, okay, reward!" A wind chime-like voice The ghost jumped up.
"Wait a minute," Black Amber noticed something was wrong, and asked one more question just to be on the safe side, "Are you representing Russell now, or are you representing Russell's contracted spirit - the wind chime yourself?" "Myself." The split soul that looked like a wind
chime He stopped jumping, but because he had already left the ground just now, he was suspended in the air.
Black Amber was speechless for a moment and explained:
"I said that to Russell just now. I mean, I will give Russell a reward."
Feng Chime angrily raised his fist in protest:
"What do you mean, you won't give me a reward? I was the one who put myself in danger and risked my life to eavesdrop on the conversations of the cultists! Do you know how thrilling and dangerous the scene was? If I were discovered, I would be dead!" "Uh..." Professor Black
Amber He tilted his head. He wanted to say that you were dead, but he still didn't say it.
"Okay, Wind Chime, what reward do you want?"
Wind Chime thought hard for a while before replying:
"I want to scare others and draw strength from their fear. Oh, by the way, under Russell's suggestion, I'm now trying to make a horror short film. But the response is not as good as I expected. This is a ghost film with real female ghosts participating. Isn't it scary enough..." Black Amber patted the desk patiently, listening to the wind chime and finished
complaining , then slowly said:
"So, Feng Chime, you mean...the school needs to assist you in filming a horror film?"
...
Russell himself came to Professor Black Amber's private office.
"Russell, you should know why I called you here today, right?"
"Of course I do." Russell nodded vigorously, with a faint smile on his lips, looking calm and confident.
"Are you here to discuss with me the future plan of the school to assist me and Feng Chime in shooting horror films?" "
Uh, uh, uh, no..." Professor Black Amber was a little surprised, "Actually, what I want to say is that I can help you get it in advance. Now you have the knowledge scroll for the second grade. You can be promoted to the second grade and learn 'Herbology'." "
Of course, we can also discuss the shooting of horror movies, but let's talk about it later." Professor Black Amber said out of rigor , added.
As he spoke, Black Cat patted the bell on his neck.
Amidst the jingling of bells, the desk drawer opened on its own, and an emerald-green, slightly glowing scroll floated in the air toward Russell.
——Of course, from the perspective of spiritual vision turned on by Russell's mind, this scene is not so magical. It was just a ghost with a crooked neck who opened the drawer and handed the scroll to Russell.
"Thank you."
After receiving the scroll that exuded a faint emerald light, Russell did not rush to absorb the power of the scroll. Instead, he took out 30 college gold coins from his dimensional pocket and handed it to Professor Black Amber.
"This is the tuition fee and textbook fee for the second grade."
As a result, Russell only had about two college gold coins left on hand, and he became poor again.
In order to get closer to Russell, the son of the prophecy, Black Amber joked with a smile:
"You seem to be poor again now? Are you heartbroken? My child."
Children from ordinary families like this have worked hard to collect tuition fees and teaching materials. It was empty again overnight, and I must be feeling quite emotional in my heart...
"I don't feel bad, I made a profit." Russell looked calm.
"Why?" Black Amber asked doubtfully.
Russell briefly reviewed the logic:
"According to my simple knowledge of economics and what I have learned in the past few months, the actual market price of the second-year knowledge scroll is definitely not only 30 college gold coins, but between 30 and 60 college gold coins. "
College The main reason why he is willing to sell the second-grade scrolls to us at a cheap price is because if he wants to be promoted to the second grade, teaching fees and teaching material fees alone are not enough, and other conditions are also needed. For example, collect at least 30 bonus credits.
"In order to collect the bonus credits, it is not enough for students to just rely on their classroom performance. They must help the college with tasks and work for free.
"In other words, the price of part of the second-year scroll is actually paid when I do the tasks and collect the credits. . If I fail to advance to second grade, or if I accumulate more bonus credits than I need to advance to the next grade, those credits will be wasted.
"But now that I have successfully been promoted, I have no loss, and even made a profit.
" In a sense, those students who have never been promoted to the second grade, but have accumulated bonus credits, may have accumulated bonus credits that far exceed the promotion credits. A student in grade who needed it paid part of the cost of this scroll on my behalf without knowing it and with absolute compliance. Of course, most of these hidden benefits were earned by the college, but if you look at it dialectically, I didn’t enjoy it at all. "Just like when I see an elevator advertisement in a hotel elevator, I would think that those people who made impulsive purchases because they saw the advertisement actually paid for part of my hotel stay..." "Stop it, stop it." Black Amber stopped him
. Russell's random ramifications.
Even after being in contact with Russell for so long, she still couldn't get used to Russell's brain circuitry.
Russell unhurriedly unfolded the "Herbology" scroll and read it carefully.
He seemed to have gone back to more than five months ago, when he saw the scroll of spiritualism in his first psychic class. But now the boy is much better than he was half a year ago.
As Russell read, the mysterious and obscure symbols and words on the scroll broke away from the scroll and floated in the air. They poured into Russell's eyes one after another and implanted themselves in his soul and heart.
Russell closed his eyes, a slight drop of sweat appeared on his forehead, his body and mind seemed to be immersed in a storm, trying hard to accept the knowledge and magic rolling in his brain.
The level of power and knowledge contained in the second-grade scrolls is much greater than that of the first-grade scrolls.
If he hadn't been half a second grade spiritual master, this wave of spirituality would have washed him away!
real world.
The original emerald-green scroll became empty because all the knowledge on it ran away. The color also changed to monotonous pure white and became waste paper.
Russell sat on a wooden chair with his eyes half-closed. He rested for almost half an hour before he basically digested the knowledge and power contained in the scroll and opened his eyes again.
Now he probably has just finished reading dozens of books, and his mind is filled with complicated pharmacological knowledge. To master this knowledge and apply it skillfully, it takes a long time of practice.
Much of the knowledge in the second-grade scrolls is based on the knowledge of first-grade psychics. If Russell had not mastered first-grade psychics before, he would have learned many basic occult knowledge and witchcraft principles. Such vast and majestic new knowledge will probably cause him a lot of mental problems.
It turns out that the knowledge in the scrolls of each grade is based on the previous grade, which means that you cannot skip a grade and absorb higher-level knowledge scrolls... Russell has a better understanding of the academy's specialty, the knowledge scroll.
In addition to the supernatural knowledge itself, the magic power contained in the scroll also promoted Russell's spiritual cultivation level from the half-step second-year level to the early second-year level!
Russell is now a second-year powerhouse, and can be called an elite transcendent in the junior college.
He rubbed his sore temples and roughly sorted out the knowledge contained in the herbalism scroll.
Slightly different from what Russell initially guessed, the pharmacological knowledge of herbalism is not limited to "herbal medicine" in the general sense, but a set of pharmacological operation logic based on the principles of witchcraft.
Minerals, plants, animals, and even man-made objects can be used as medicine.
Its core logic is "complementing form with form", emphasizing the symbolic meaning of medicinal materials at the conceptual level rather than their chemical properties.
For example, carrots are used in preparing night vision potion - this may be related to the effect of carrots in treating night blindness and the fact that carrot slices resemble eyes. Russell also suspected that this was related to the setting of the game "Minecraft".
Similarly, the juice of bloodroot is red, so it can be used to treat blood diseases; saxifrage can crush the surrounding rocks during its growth, so it can improve kidney stones; the seeds of comfrey are shaped like poisonous snakes and can be used to treat blood diseases. It can be used to cure snake venom and can be used to prepare poison.
In addition to treating conventional diseases, Russell also knows how to prepare a variety of secret medicines, which requires the use of different supernatural and ordinary materials, and the material cost is not low. During the preparation process, you also need to inject your own spiritual energy to make these extraordinary potions truly effective.
Typical secret potions include invisibility potion, night vision potion, flying potion, poison potion, healing potion, etc.
In addition, this pharmacological knowledge can not only be used to prepare secret medicines, but can also be used to perform evil magic.
For example, Professor Black Amber mentioned the "Method of Transferring Misfortune" before. After drinking the potion and pouring out the dregs, diseases, misfortunes, toxins and curses can be transferred to enemies who step on the dregs.
For example, using human bones, toads, pufferfish and poisonous plants, you can prepare a poison that transforms the user into a voodoo zombie that obeys you. Similar to the methods of Haitian wizards. Russell suspected that this was the precursor to the genuine ability of the undead and life systems to control the dead.
For example, a charm that can make one person fall in love with another person. The subject needs to take medicated powder mixed with another person's nails and eyelashes to make the subject fall in love with that person.
They are all quite evil!
Of course, what Russell now possesses is only the basic knowledge of performing such evil spells. If he wants to be truly proficient in these spells, he will need to practice for a long time.
In addition, Russell's psychic vision has also been enhanced. In addition to being able to see ghosts and some normally invisible spirits, when concentrating on observing a person, he can also observe the general physiological state of the human body and know whether the target is sick and where the disease is. location.
This seems to mean that there is a correlation and a unique internal logic between the entire necromancy and life major courses.
Because of the improvement in spiritual cultivation level, Russell's original psychic skills have also been strengthened, and he can also have a second contract spirit.
Seeing that Russell had basically digested the knowledge, Professor Black Amber said:
"Russell, you should be aware that the knowledge of herbalism contains a lot of evil-looking elements. These techniques are denounced as evil arts in many cultures and regarded as Taboo."
(End of chapter)