rune hunter

Chapter 44 Breaking the Demon Arrow

"This is the potion of magic essence made by the teacher himself. It can greatly improve the effect of meditation. As a prize, it can only be exchanged for credits. You don't know how many students will go crazy for this bottle of potion, but they save slowly and spend quickly. Can’t make up so many credits.”

Holding two bottles of inconspicuous alchemy potions, Laurana narrowed her eyes with a smile, just like a little fox.

"This bottle is for You Jiali. She has a brother with outstanding talents who is very hopeful to be promoted from an apprentice to a real mage. If her father knows the news, he will definitely spare no expense. And that Mr. Viscount is out If he has enough flaunting in the aristocratic circle, we will release the second bottle of potion for auction. At that time, the noble gentlemen will at least increase the price of this bottle of potion for us by four or five times..."

Listening to Laurana's plan, Al's face was covered with cold sweat.By the side of this eldest lady, I don't know if I will be sold one day, and I will help her count the money.

"Since it is such a precious potion, why don't you keep a bottle for yourself?" El asked suspiciously.

"As the only disciple of the teacher for 20 years, do you think I will lack this potion?" Laurana gave El a supercilious look with a foolish look, and then changed into a serious face: "Actually, these two bottles I persuaded the teacher to take out the potion as a reward."

It turns out that you planned it from the beginning, Al slandered in his heart.Through the self-exposure of the eldest lady, now he can vaguely guess some of the clues.It's not impossible for Laorana to resell the potion directly, but doing so may take a lot of risk.And the potion flowing out in this way can be regarded as an official channel, which will not affect the image of the eldest lady in front of outsiders, and can raise the price in a disguised way.

As for the deeper considerations, El can't guess and doesn't want to guess, it will undoubtedly burn too many brain cells.Now he was thinking more about how to get Laurana to help him figure out a way, no matter what, the dinner tonight might be unavoidable.

"Brother El, are you not distracted again? It's impolite to think about other girls when talking with a lady." Laurana stretched out her hand and shook it in front of his eyes, pretending to be angry.

"Where is the lady?" El couldn't help but tease: "I only saw a genius alchemist, no, it should be a genius gold collector."

"It's really mean." Laurana giggled proudly instead of ashamed: "Did you forget that you also participated? Originally, people planned to give you a gift."

Although she said she was unwilling, the eldest lady still handed over a palm-sized black wooden box.El took it and opened it, and saw seven three-edged hollow arrows shimmering with cold light neatly placed inside.

"This set of magic-breaking arrows was handed in when I was learning metal smelting. Although it was rated as excellent at the time, it was of no practical value to me. It would be a pity to waste it, and it would be a pity to throw it away. In the end, I simply put it away. It was hung in the material storage room, but unfortunately no one has seen its true value until now."

"Oh? Could it be that the material of these arrows is unusual?" Seeing the familiar weapon, El finally became interested.The shape of these magic-breaking arrows is no different from the samples he saw in the store. Generally speaking, the magic-breaking effect of the arrows is due to the mithril doped in the metal itself.The greater the proportion of mithril, the better the magic-breaking effect, and the more outrageous the price will be.

In fact, this kind of weapon specially used to deal with mages or monsters can only be researched and used by mages themselves.For ordinary people, the magic-breaking effect is meaningless.Out of personal interest, El had the idea of ​​collecting, but with his current financial resources, he could only think about it.

Now that he got such expensive gadgets, El's first thought was to try their sharpness, but his instinct told himself not to act rashly, God knows what condiments the young lady added to it.

"The course of metal smelting was just an assessment of the production process and techniques. But at that time, I felt that this work was a bit too simple, so I asked Grandpa Powell to add three effects of armor piercing, puncture and bleeding to the hollowed out part."

Laurana blinked her eyes with an innocent expression on her face, but the words that came out of her mouth were creepy.

"Do you want to slay the dragon? Missy!" El nearly dropped the box on the ground with a shake of his hand. The magic-breaking arrow with the enchanted effect sounded terrible, but it still had such a vicious superimposed effect.Estimated based on El's own experience, if the arrow is replaced with a strong bow and crossbow, the arrow can at least pierce a small group of heavily armed city defense troops into blood gourds.Even the Flying Feather Raptor that was shot to death by the bear back then might not be able to block the arrow.

"I've been thinking before, why is that Mr. Kobold so surprised? The prophet should be indifferent to life and death, because in their eyes, the fate of everyone will eventually return to nothing. Tika is for you, brother El It is extremely important only because you love each other. To outsiders, she is still just an insignificant country girl. Unless...he sees a surprisingly large change in Tika's fate."

Laurana's tone finally became serious this time, she looked directly into El's eyes and said:
"I don't know why that kind of change will come about, but the so-called force majeure is always relative. In the face of unknown dangers, the best way is to improve your strength as soon as possible."

"You're right, thank you." El nodded, carefully putting the Demon-Breaking Arrow into his arms.With such a ferocious weapon, he was subconsciously relieved a lot.

"It's too alien to say thank you, Brother El, after all, you still have to protect my safety, don't you?" Laurana tilted her head and smiled, and turned back into a harmless little lady.But at this moment, El felt relieved to her. Since she was able to make such a vicious magic-breaking arrow back then, there must be no shortage of more terrifying things on the eldest lady.

While the two were talking like they were walking towards the library, El looked around casually and suddenly stopped.Sensing his abnormality, Laurana poked her head curiously and followed El's line of sight.

A gray mage tower located in the public academy suddenly burst into dazzling colorful halos, and a petite figure slowly stepped out from the blooming magic circle.Although there was a thin white scarf on his face, the long moon-white hair combed into a ponytail made El recognize the identity of the person at a glance.

The magician girl named Tiana has returned to her original appearance at this moment. She is wearing a brand new dark blue robe with multicolored gemstones inlaid on the cuffs.The robe was embroidered with complex silver thread patterns, and from time to time it shone with a faint light, which was close to the skin to set off the girl's graceful body curve.She was holding a jet-black staff whose material could not be seen. The top of the staff opened like a corrugated staff, and a huge colorless, transparent and shining gemstone was inlaid in the middle.

Although she didn't show her face, the moment she stepped out of the mage's tower, she showed a noble and holy aura that was hard to describe in words.When she opened her amber eyes, the world in the hearts of all the surrounding teachers and students lost its color, leaving only the unique angel.

Already accustomed to Tiana's ragged and downcast image, suddenly seeing her regain her original appearance, El swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, feeling mixed feelings in his heart for a while.

"Eh? Isn't that your old lover, Elder Brother?" Laurana rubbed her eyes and asked in a low voice in disbelief.

"Don't talk nonsense, we're just ordinary friends." El said sourly.

"It's true that a caterpillar has turned into a butterfly, and a chicken has turned into a phoenix. Unexpected, unexpected..." Laurana shook her head and sighed repeatedly, as if she hadn't heard El's explanation.

"Looking at this outfit, at least he is an Outer Ring Mage who has stepped into the Silver Secret Realm. He has achieved such an achievement at a young age. Compared with it, I feel ashamed."

Under the burning eyes of the onlookers, Tiana moved lightly to Antonio who was waiting for her, and smiled at each other.

(End of this chapter)