Stray Chapter 170: Self-charging and secrets

Xia Ran didn't know until the next day. Yesterday, Lord Balgruuf sent someone to look for him, but it wasn't an important matter. The main thing was to tell him that the court mages had special treatment, and they could stay in the Longxiao Palace. among.

Even if it's a temporary replacement, there won't be any discounts... but he still refuses.

At first, the food in Skyrim has not developed much, and it is still relatively primitive. I have seen it at the banquet yesterday, such as apple pie, green onion bread, steamed mud crab legs...

The relatively good charcoal-grilled lamb chops, boiled beef, etc. are simply a waste of ingredients. It can only be said that Xia Ran is not a glutton, nor does he have any strange skills of "God's Tongue", so he can only get Come to the conclusion that they at least put salt.

Secondly, because of the conversation with the temporary head yesterday, he also felt that he really needed to beware of Ms. Whisper. It would be fine to check in at Longxiao Palace during the day, but if he also lived in Longxiao Palace at night ...

Wandering around there 24 hours a day, it is difficult to make people not pay attention. If it is not really indecent and inconvenient, he even wants to apply to Lord Balgruuf to work from home, anyway. Not bad.

Because it's the accommodation and other things, it's not very attractive, so he didn't take it to heart at all.

Lord Balgruuf wasn't bothered either, so neither side got to the bottom of the matter.

Xia Ran came to the palace mage's workshop, which he visited yesterday. It was originally the side hall of the Longxiao Palace, but it was remodeled. There is a not too advanced office, followed by alchemy experiments. Room, Enchanting Lab, and Library.

This is also different from some of his impressions, but it doesn't matter.

As a court mage, my daily task now is to perform alchemy and make some special medicine, which was mainly researched by Farenja before and used to quickly ripen crops...

In addition to letting Xia Ran know that Farenja is indeed qualified as a court mage, it also deepens her understanding of the reality of this world. This alchemy formula, which has nothing to do with the protagonist's attributes, skills, equipment, etc., will not appear in the game at all...

And Farenja's formula is very rigorous, probably optimized and adjusted many times, and the materials used are relatively common things.

The most important thing is that what Xia Ran was worried about did not happen, that is, the recipe explains in great detail the order of adding each ingredient, the interval time, and the exact amount.

It's not like some stupid recipes that always teach people "add **** appropriate amount, "add **** a little"... It's just confusing, the ghost knows how much your "appropriate amount" and "a little" are Can't you give a standard value for reference? !

As long as he masters the basic skills, he can make alchemy potions.

So after hesitating, Xia Ran still put the two D-level karma crystals obtained from Dragon Slayer, and strengthened the two auxiliary skills of "Alchemy" and "Enchantment"... After all, she is going to pretend to be a court mage next. It's better to try to be as human as possible, and just let that beautiful misunderstanding continue.

Magic skills can still be cultivated slowly. After all, even in the Longxiao Palace, there are basically no people who know magic. Farenjia has disappeared all the time, and basically no one can see what he is what to do.

But if the most basic magical craftsmanship is completely unskilled, and the situation is full, it will be too conspicuous if you need to learn it from scratch... So these necessary investments cannot be saved.

As for the debts, there will always be a way. For example, he hasn't sold the dragon's blood yet.

There are still a lot of alchemy potions that Farenjia has refined before, so he is not in a hurry, but Xia Ran still spent two days very hard, refining a lot of these related potions - not only In order to cope with daily tasks, but also to better familiarize yourself with new skills and increase proficiency.

No one knows that his alchemy has just been strengthened, and he is at the proficient level as soon as he gets started. They all feel that his skills in this area are quite superb, that is, when he tried it on the first day, because it was a new formula , so one after another failed a dozen times.

This is completely acceptable, and after that, it's basically a hundred trials and a hundred spirits, and a bottle of refining is successful.

So no one found anything wrong, and Lord Balgruuf was also very satisfied, feeling that at least during the period when Farengar had no time for him, the new court mage's professional abilities were still very qualified.

In this way, because of the willingness to invest in the early stage, Xia Ran took two days to master her job responsibilities and performed quite well. No one could pick out any faults.

But he didn't relax, but continued to study other commonly used alchemy formulas, such as healing, disease resistance, detoxification, etc. At the same time, he also tried to master some common enchanting formulas——

This is not difficult, his intelligence is very high, he can remember it; his mental strength is also very strong, he can better grasp the details when doing this kind of delicate work... plus the commonly used alchemy Recipes or enchanting formulas are very basic.

And the enhanced proficiency level skills are the biggest guarantee. It can be said that as long as there is a standard formula for reference, there will be very few failures.

That's it anyway, it's not even a week before he can be sure he can handle most situations. After that, the process of self-learning and charging by using Farenja's library began.

The background of the court mage may not be as good as that of the entire organization of Winterhold Academy, but at least he is a relatively prosperous Xueman collar with his back to the sky, so the various manuscript scrolls, book notes, etc. in the library are all It is very useful to Xia Ran.

Basic, advanced, advanced... A variety of magical knowledge is classified according to different factions.

Besides, Xia Ran is not greedy, and is still strictly specializing in illusion and summoning. Of course, he also looked at the magic discussion about the Destruction Element, and was going to teach himself about fireball art... Yes, he was just going to learn a fireball art.

After all, the previous temporary team has already set off, leaving Snowrun for other parts of Skyrim. Going to complete their own mission goals, the Dragon Priest Staff with Fireball has also been returned.

Xia Ran has to make up for it in this regard. He doesn't have a staff with his own skills. If he wants to release fireball, he can only let himself master this skill.

In this way, in the busy and fulfilling day, about half a month has passed——

On the surface, it seems that Xia Ran has not made much progress, but he systematically made up for the knowledge of magic through Farenja's collection of books and notes, and made a good supplement to the basic parts that he lacked.

At the same time, I have mastered hundreds of alchemy formulas and enchanting formulas. Although none of them are particularly advanced and secret, it is not difficult to collect them as long as they are willing to spend time, money and energy, but the point is that he is completely prostitution.

He doesn't even need to pay for the materials himself. There is a warehouse full of materials that he can use to improve his proficiency. As long as the number of finished products is acceptable, he will deliberately create a few failure records and taste a few bottles of potions or related items. The material is also very simple.

Longxiao Palace is simply heaven. Xia Ran has never found that studying is such a pleasant thing. You don't have to worry about anything, and everything is prepared for him.

I feel like I am a sponge, I don't need to think about other issues at all, I just continue to absorb knowledge and improve myself.

And this time was also very peaceful, no dragons came to attack the city, and no Whispering Lady was staring at it, everything went so smoothly...

It also completely relieved him-

What crow's mouth, poisonous milk, etc., is completely nonsense, the previous few times are purely coincidental!

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"The illusion department needs to purchase Insight, Stamina, Battle Summon, Invisibility..."

"The summoning department needs to purchase three spell books: Summoning Fire Samurai, Frost Samurai and Storm Samurai. Fire familiars may also be considered, but unfortunately there is no summoning demon..."

"As for the Destruction Department, just buy a Fireball spell first, the others are not needed for the time being, and I only have so much money, so I will go to the next task..."

This evening, Xia Ran was wearing a mask, sitting in the mage's workshop in the side hall of Longxiao Palace, writing and drawing on a piece of parchment with the corresponding words, according to the money she had available to make plans to purchase spellbooks.

Farenjia left behind a lot of spell books, from all factions, but Xia Ran couldn't use them directly, and didn't want to take risks.

Anyway, it's something that can be bought with money directly, and there's no need to do more useless things, keep stealing or something, and it's not good to say it, he still intends to give the money honestly, and then take the corresponding spell book.

These spell books are carefully selected by him, because he thinks that they are of great use to him, and they can be matched to make the ability system more self-consistent and complete, and to cope with more situations...

As for those advanced spells such as berserk, appease, chaos, etc., they were originally extended from the most basic anger, calm, etc., and the principles are similar. Xia Ran has some confidence to comprehend these advanced spells by herself through the recent bad supplements, so she does not plan to obtain them by purchasing spell books.

The reason why I bought the spell book now is because in Farengar's collection, he has already read the book notes on the two lines of summoning and illusion in this period of time, and he is going to go out and brush the branch. Missions, earn points and crystallize out.

He doesn't intend to stay here forever as a court mage, but intends to continue his original goal-

Go to the College of Winterhold for further education.

Register all the spell books that you want to buy, and then take out the corresponding amount of gold coins. Xia Ran was going to leave just like that, but after thinking about it, she still took the spell books and went to the palace manager Pu Luo. Wantus reconfirmed.

He'd rather be cautious than leave a hole for himself.

Longxiao Palace was a little quiet this evening, and I didn't know where the lord and others went. Xia Ran walked around a few times and didn't see anyone, and asked a few guards, but he didn't get a definite answer.

His current identity can actually walk in the Longxiao Palace, but he has been trying to avoid it as much as possible in the past, so he doesn't know much about this ancient and huge castle.

Standing in front of the entrance of the stairs leading to the residential area, Xia Ran hesitated, not sure if she wanted to go up.

At this moment, footsteps came from above, and the figure of a gorgeously dressed boy appeared above. He was about to go down. After seeing Xia Ran, he frowned in disgust: /

“Another idle homeless man? Came here to lick the soles of my father’s shoes?”

"Your father...you are Lord Balgruuf's child?" Xia Ran couldn't help but raised her brows. This seemed to be a bear child who had not been beaten by society.

"Of course it's that stupid pig, or who else could it be!" The boy's pale face showed a trace of contempt and hatred, "One day, I'm going to tear his face apart, and it's better to keep him forever Don't come near me."

Xia Ran restrained her smile and narrowed her eyes slightly: "I think it's better for a child not to say such things."

It seems that it is not only the category of bear children. Is there a problem with the family education of Lord Balgruuf? How to teach such a thing?

"Don't think I'm a child, I know a lot more than you!" The boy suddenly became angry, "My father doesn't know anything about me, but I know more than he can imagine!"

"Oh, that's amazing, but how do you know so much..." Xia Ran said casually.

He hates this kind of person very much. He can't fight, but he still needs to be beaten.

"Hmph, this castle is very old, and many places are unknown. I don't know how long it has been taken care of, and it has hidden many secrets..." The boy raised his head as if showing off, "I passed Those places peek and eavesdrop, and I met Whispering Lady."

"...Ms Whisper?" Xia Ran's expression changed slightly, wait, why is this name directly involved?

"She doesn't tell me her name, but when I was peeking through the keyhole of the door in the basement, she spoke to me behind the door and told me more secrets..."

The boy said very angrily, staring at Xia Ran with a look of hatred, it seems that Xia Ran's existence reminded him of something very angry, and he couldn't help saying such words come-

"But I couldn't open that door, and it was opened by a homeless man like you, but the lady was gone...damn! I knew you homeless people couldn't believe it!"