Moon Witch, embark on the journey!

She had never expected to get such an answer. Anessa's girlish face flushed instantly, and her terrifying aura had disappeared without her noticing. At this moment, she moved her mouth to say something.

But Luna stood up immediately, not giving her a chance to attack:

"It's getting late. I have to go back and rest early."

Before leaving, she said as if talking to herself:

“I don’t think I’m a purely good person.”

"If it's someone close to you, even if they make some unacceptable mistakes... I mean, they're not particularly outrageous."

"I'll just pretend I didn't see it."

48. Half a year

The result of a moment of talking nonsense is that you will be exhausted for the next week.

“Haaaaaa—”

Luna stretched her body, looked at the pile of alchemy materials in front of her, and sighed:

"It's finally over."

"No, it's not over yet."

At this time, a cold and ruthless voice came from behind. Anissa with short brown hair used her mental power to examine the pile of materials that Luna had initially processed, and glanced at her:

“After we process this batch, there’s more material waiting behind.”

"How can this be so outrageous? Teacher, are you going to create an army of puppets?"

"Recently, there are more and more signs of blood clan activities in the surrounding area. The organization has assigned tasks to each alchemy master, and they must submit a certain number of results within half a year."

"Half a year?"

Luna was a little dazed. Although Anessa's words seemed to be casual, they undoubtedly revealed important information.

She imagined that even many formal wizard apprentices could not get such news, not to mention those poor civilian apprentices who knew nothing.

Once a war breaks out, it means a sharp drop in the prices of various raw materials, and a sharp increase in the value of finished products such as potions, alchemical items, and magic scrolls.

If she wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money, she must prepare in advance.

"Teacher, an apprentice like me shouldn't be sent to the battlefield, right?"

Luna still had some hope, but Enissa immediately denied it:

"That's impossible. Every wizard in the organization must play a role. The organization's training of you is not free... Maybe wizards with enough power can be exempted from this."

Enissa was not a wizard from the family. She was born a commoner and her bloodline was mutated. Perhaps this was also the reason why she chose Luna instead of the other family apprentices.

Of course, a top-level wizard like her is capable of forming a family on her own, but she is still far behind an ancient and prestigious family with a real heritage.

For example, the Helit family, which Luna is more familiar with, not only has a top formal wizard like Grein, but generally has more than one formal wizard in the same generation. They can also directly or indirectly influence nearly double-digit formal wizards through the friendship of their ancestors and various channels.

The real decision-making layer of the Dark Ring is essentially formed by several families like this. Unless one day Enissa breaks through again and becomes an advanced wizard, it will be difficult for her to access the core secrets.

"So you are very busy, Master. Would you consider finding me a junior sister?"

Luna's eyes sparkled as she suggested that it was mainly because she couldn't stand being exploited. With new people, she could act like a senior and oppress others.

"You alone are as good as three or four other apprentices, and I can't stand average-looking guys hanging around in front of me."

"That's it..."

The delusion of exploiting her junior sister was shattered. It seemed that she still couldn't escape the life of hard work.

However, there are also benefits to working more. The tasks given by Anissa are mainly puppet parts. Luna was also forced to accumulate a lot of relevant experience.

It’s just that the blueprint for the puppet is still in the works, and because Luna has made some improvements herself, the progress is much slower than expected.

What she didn't know was that during the alchemy apprenticeship stage, almost no one would improve the finished product right away like she did. Those who dared to do so were either reckless or true geniuses.

"If you can make that puppet and break through to the advanced apprentice level before you turn 20, you will have the opportunity to become an elite apprentice."

"Elite apprentice..."

If most apprentices are consumables in wizard organizations and are not valued, then elite apprentices are trained as the backbone of the next generation and have a status close to that of formal wizards and some special privileges.

Because of age restrictions, there are usually no more than ten elite apprentices in an organization at the same time.

"Claire is also an elite apprentice, right?"

The fourteen-year-old high-level apprentice had a second-level bloodline and created his own unique witchcraft based on his bloodline. Only now did Luna realize that Claire's claim of being a genius was not a lie.

As long as the elite apprentices survived, they would almost certainly become official wizards, and they were not just ordinary official wizards who waited for years. Several well-known top official wizards in the organization had similar honors more than ten or twenty years ago.

"Bloodline will seriously affect your growth after you become an official wizard, but it will have little impact during the apprenticeship stage. You'd better widen the gap with the bloodline geniuses as soon as possible."

"Teacher, I have never thought that I could not become a formal wizard. You can wait and see."

Anessa did not dislike this kind of confidence. A smile flashed across her lips, and then she became stern again:

"Then why don't you go back and meditate! You are already way behind in becoming a mid-level apprentice!"

"Yes Yes Yes......"

.......

"This is what we agreed upon before. Ten alchemical bombs - Thunder and Fire Type II."

Luna came to a shop in the apprentice trading area and handed a small package to the apprentice who looked middle-aged.

The other party carefully took the package, opened it and looked at the dark spheres for a while, then picked up a pair of alchemical lenses to observe them carefully, and then put it down gently.

"Ms. Luna's alchemy skills are truly amazing. Alchemical bombs of this level can usually only be made by formal wizards. Most apprentices can't even make a basic type 1 thunder and fire bomb independently."

Thunder and Fire Type 1 has about the same power as ordinary apprentice-level witchcraft, and cannot be controlled like witchcraft. It must be thrown or deployed in advance. It is actually quite useless and not of high value.

However, the power of the Thunder and Fire Type II alchemical bomb has been raised to a higher level, which is no longer comparable to that of ordinary apprentice-level fire bomb techniques. It is generally similar to a powerful magic trick that can only be released by high-level apprentices using certain secret methods or props.

Although it still has the defects of this series of products, it makes up for it in terms of power, and is an item that can threaten high-level apprentices to a certain extent.

"The market price is twelve magic stones each. Our store can buy these ten for one hundred and seven magic stones. I guarantee that this is the highest price in the area."

"Well, that's it."

Luna didn't care much, she didn't have time to set up a stall by herself, and the shop also had to pay rent. These shops were usually run by some wizard families, who sent some apprentices with little potential to run them.

The average alchemist would probably spend 70 or 80 magic stones, and the profit would be limited. But with Luna's success rate, this one transaction could earn nearly 80 magic stones.

"Miss, are you interested in joining the family behind me? We have recently built a small alchemy workshop with complete equipment..."

"No, I'm in a hurry."

Luna has been working very hard over the past six months, and has done much more than just this.

49. Production begins

Luna then went to several more shops and sold the alchemy and magic medicine items she had in batches.

As an apprentice, her manufacturing efficiency is undoubtedly extremely scary. If she concentrated all of them in one place to sell them, it might cause some problems, and people would speculate about her outrageous success rate.

"This set of primary healing potions costs us 80 magic stones, which is already very good. If it weren't for the recent increase in the price of magic potions, it would definitely not be possible to reach this price..."

When Luna walked out of the shop, she had more magic stones in her hand.

The trading market here is crowded with people at this moment. Many apprentices are walking hurriedly, buying or selling various items, showing a brief scene of prosperity.

The news from the top of the organization gradually spread that there have been many incidents of blood clans attacking wizards in the surrounding areas, and signs of various dark creatures appearing are also common. These news can no longer be concealed and have caused a series of chain reactions.

In the past six months, she has accumulated a lot of alchemical items and finished potions. Now that the war is approaching, she is selling them all at a high price.

Correspondingly, the prices of various materials and raw materials that could not directly improve combat effectiveness and survival rate dropped sharply. In order to save more tubes of potions and scrolls, many apprentices took out all the good things at the bottom of their boxes.

"Keti Ore is on sale now, all purchases are 20% off!"

"The price of Ruby Flower has been reduced. Now it only costs three magic stones a flower!"

Luna now has more than 400 magic stones in her hands, which is an unimaginable number for most apprentices. She also needs to purchase another batch of raw materials to prepare for the final production of the alchemy puppet.

"Luna, you're out shopping too?"

She looked up and saw two girls, Jie Li and Senna, who were also carrying large bags and shopping in the market. When they saw her, they ran over through the crowd.

"When did you two become so close?"

Senna snorted and said with some pride:

"You've been staying in your mentor's lab the whole time. No matter how much we call you, you won't come out. So we have no choice but to go out on missions by ourselves. We made a lot of money on the last two missions!"

"Teacher Anessa has assigned a lot of tasks, and I have no other options."

"Luna, has your mentor ever told you that there will really be a large-scale war?"

Jie Li seemed a little worried.

"It's basically confirmed. You can tell by looking at the current scene."

The three of them were chatting on the side of the road. Luna's slender arms were holding a large bag of freshly bought materials. She tilted her head slightly and looked at the two girls:

"I have a stockpile of potions and alchemical items. I can sell them to you at a discount below the market price, but the quantity cannot be too large."

Before Jie Li could even hesitate, Senna said bluntly:

"That's awesome! You are worthy of being our little alchemy genius!"

"Don't say that about me."

Over the past six months, Luna has been taking basic alchemy classes continuously and has already completed most of the theory for the apprenticeship stage without having to stop.

She occasionally performed very well in the practical sessions of the class, which gradually attracted the attention of the instructor, who even hinted that he wanted to take her as his apprentice.

Of course, after learning that her mentor was Anissa, she never mentioned it again.

In fact, Luna's potion-making skills have reached a level that most apprentices cannot reach, and she can refine most apprentice-level potions.

It was just a little inferior to alchemy. In this aspect, Luna deliberately acted mediocre in order not to cause too much sensation.

"I've left all the extra potions and alchemical items in the dormitory, and have them under the care of Number One. You can go get them, I'll be staying with my tutor for the next few days."

"Hehe, you are indeed good sisters! I knew you wouldn't forget us!"

After saying hello, Luna went around in a hurry to buy materials. She spent about half of the magic stones she had before leaving with satisfaction.

"I have invested more than 300 magic stones in it. I hope I won't be disappointed."

By the evening, Luna finally returned to Enissa's mansion.

She was already very familiar with the place. She used the badge to open the door with ease, followed the path through the gloomy garden outside, and came to the main entrance of the castle.

"Teacher? Are you there?"

No one answered. Luna shook her head and walked straight into the castle.

There was no one inside, and except for some alchemical puppet maids that were still operating, the rest was lifeless.

In the past two or three months, Enissa has been going out more and more frequently. Or rather, all the official wizards belonging to the Dark Ring have become busy, each of them is out on missions.

These are naturally related to the vampires who are constantly provoking and their activities are becoming more and more frequent.

According to what Anissa revealed, some vampires were captured during the constant battles, and some important information was found from a baron vampire prisoner who was captured some time ago.

This group of vampires most likely came from outside, not outside the Dark Ring, but outside the entire Dusk Alliance.

It is said that in another place called the Dark Night Continent, there are many dark races active. The base camp of the blood clan is also there. For some reason, one of the branch clans of the blood clan was forced to migrate a long distance and crossed the dangerous open sea to come here.

Then they chose the area near the Dark Ring where dark elements were abundant, and planned to build it into their new home.

If it was just for some resources or some conflicts, then there might be a possibility of negotiation. But the struggle for territory and survival would be a life-and-death struggle.

Luna is still unclear about many specific details, but it is completely certain that this war will not end soon.

Da da.

She walked in the dim castle, not daring to explore those unfamiliar places. Led by the beautiful but cold puppet maid, she came to Enissa's alchemy laboratory.

In the past six months, Anissa herself may not have spent as much time as her.

"Number Two, help me put my things away."