"What's going on? How did you get such a serious injury?"
"I thought you would be back within five days, but now seven days have passed. Lina even came to me to ask about you yesterday."
When the fat man Baus saw Kay walking into the store, he hurriedly came out from behind the counter and looked Kay up and down and asked.
Seven days had passed, which meant that Kay had been in a coma in that cave crevice for nearly three days.
No wonder he felt weak all over after waking up.
His tired and heavy body made Kay only briefly talk about his encounter with an attack.
Although Kay didn't reveal much in his words, the fat man Baus could still feel the danger he encountered this time.
"I knew it. I told you to take on simpler garrison tasks earlier."
"You've already got a formal black magician as your backer, so why are you still working so hard?" The fat man Baus babbled incessantly.
Kay and the fat man had different ideals and pursuits, so he didn't say much, but urged, "Hurry up and check how many black gold my harvest this time is worth. I'm in a hurry to go back to the academy to submit the task."
Sure enough, Kay's words finally made Baus shut up.
When it came to money, this guy became energetic.
After helping Kay unload the trophies from his body, he immediately started checking.
Kay's return to Mosobula City this time had at least 30% less harvest than when he just left the Gray - White Valley.
Fortunately, the claws of the Green Jaw Feather came in pairs. After calculation, there were still more than thirty left in the end, and it wouldn't be a problem to take out twenty to hand in.
Kay didn't lose many of the Green Jaw Feather's beaks, only two were lost.
After selling most of them to Baus, Kay kept seven for himself.
Three Green Jaw Feather eggs were the main gain of Kay's trip.
According to Baus, although there were no black magicians raising this kind of magic - transformed creature in the underground world now, some larger sub - human tribes had actually figured out a relatively primitive method of taming magic - transformed creatures.
The three Green Jaw Feather eggs in Kay's hands were definitely top - quality goods that those sub - human tribes were vying to buy.
If he was asked to negotiate, just these three Green Jaw Feather eggs, each might be sold at a high price of 100 black gold.
After listening to Baus's introduction, Kay's expression was very complicated.
Just now, he still hated the underground sub - humans deeply, but in the blink of an eye, he was going to earn money from them?
However, Kay's entanglement didn't last long. He was an absolute profit - oriented person.
Moreover, the gray dwarf who attacked Kay might not be a member of the sub - human tribe that bought these three Green Jaw Feather eggs.
Who knows, after these sub - human tribes grow stronger, they might even help him destroy the tribe where that gray dwarf belonged.
In the underground world, racial conflicts have always been relatively common.
The humans in Mosobula City, because of the hidden protection and suppression of black magicians, don't have so many troubles.
But those native underground sub - humans and dark creatures will never stop annexing and conquering.
After some bargaining, Baus estimated that this batch of goods from Kay was worth nearly 500 black gold coins, which was twice as much as Kay's original expected income.
Mainly because of those three Green Jaw Feather eggs, Kay didn't expect them to be so valuable.
Of course, those sub - human tribes wouldn't just want to raise three Green Jaw Feathers when they buy them back.
Taking the three newly hatched Green Jaw Feathers as the basis, to harvest more Green Jaw Feather eggs and adult Green Jaw Feather mounts in the future is their real purpose.
The sub - human tribes around Mosobula City are generally not tall.
Although adult Green Jaw Feathers aren't suitable as mounts for humans, they are just right for those sub - humans.
Because the amount of black gold involved was relatively large, Baus couldn't pay Kay the full amount immediately.
He could only give the money to Kay after he sold all these things.
Baus mentioned that he could pay Kay an advance payment first, but Kay didn't accept it. Instead, after unloading the things, he was ready to return to the academy immediately to report.
Before walking out of the shop, Baus called Kay to stop.
"Hey, catch this."
"Consider it a gift from me. Recover from your injuries well!"
A small red potion was thrown by Baus. Kay recognized that it was a low - level recovery potion made by Mary.
Without saying much, Kay waved to Baus and hurried towards the academy.
Kai stepped into Mentor Mosesdo's laboratory once again. Mosesdo's pale yellow eyes ed Kai up and down with great interest.
"Hey, you little fellow, you really know how to get into trouble."
"Just a mandatory college task, and you came back with injuries all over again." Mentor Mosesdo as he spoke to Kai.
Faced with the mentor's slightly mocking ridicule, Kai's face turned red and he lowered his head awkwardly.
Before coming to the mentor, he had already been severely reprimanded by Lina.
Fortunately, this time there was no real danger. After a check-up, no sequelae were left.
It's just that his skin injuries will take some time to heal.
Even the seemingly terrifying scratch on his neck wasn't that serious. Except for the paralysis toxin from the blue moss which was a bit troublesome, it wasn't a serious injury.
Kai remained silent, and Mosesdo didn't say much more.
However, before entering the laboratory, he added, "Hmph, I won't use the Body Regeneration Magic for you this time. Feel these pains well and see if you dare to be so reckless in the future."
After saying that, Mentor Mosesdo went straight into the laboratory and ignored Kai. Instead, Kai's two senior brothers and sister came up to him and asked about his condition with concern.
Kai quickly seized the opportunity and told Sister Phil that he wanted to learn from her the method of making nutritional potions.
He also mentioned to Senior Brother Zorro if he could find time to give him some guidance on alchemy.
To ask the two senior brothers and sister for help, Kai naturally had to pay a price.
Magicians have always pursued equivalent exchange. As long as Boss can successfully sell that batch of goods, Kai will have the financial resources to pay the two senior brothers and sister.
If worse comes to worst, Kai also has some good things on hand.
Whether it's the crystal core of the saltwater crocodile or the low-level crystal core of the Green Jaw Feather King, he can take them out as a reward to thank the two senior brothers and sister.
Kai has long understood that money is ultimately an external thing, and real strength is what truly belongs to him.
And for magicians, knowledge is power.
Phil agreed to Kai's request without hesitation.
The production process of nutritional potions is not complicated. Instead, Kai wants to learn from her to make nutritional potions, which makes Phil, who has always been not very good at cooking, have a special sense of excitement and satisfaction.
Senior Brother Zorro over there didn't agree so readily.
He pondered for a moment before replying, "I'm currently working on an alchemy experiment with my mentor recently. I probably don't have time during the day. I can only teach you at night."
There is no distinction between day and night in the underground world, but the basic concept of time is still based on the surface.
The Black Magic Academy has corresponding bell signals for each time period, and the rest and class times of magic apprentices also follow this time principle.
Both senior brothers and sister agreed to Kai's request, and neither of them mentioned what reward they specifically wanted, which moved Kai quite a bit.
In fact, this was also because Mentor Mosesdo had specifically instructed them before to give Kai more guidance.
The mentor himself didn't have time to teach Kai, so he had to rely on these two disciples who started earlier to help share some pressure.
With an excited mood, Kai, whose injury hadn't fully healed, returned to the side room where he lived.
Today, at the mentor's place, he mainly meditated on mental power. Before he fully recovered, he probably couldn't help the mentor with experimental research either.
Sister Phil left soon, and only Senior Brother Zorro watched Kai enter the side room, thought about it secretly for a while before leaving.
"Sure enough, as I thought, did the mentor accept Kai because he saw the shadow of the second junior brother in him?"
"Except for that head of golden hair, what's more similar is the temperament and style of doing things..."
Thinking of the junior brother who unfortunately fell thirty years ago, Zorro sighed softly.
Among the several disciples under Mentor Mosesdo, the most promising one should have been the second junior brother.
Moreover, like Zorro, the second junior brother followed Mosesdo all the way from the Western Islands to the Dark Region.
As for the third junior sister Phil, the fourth junior brother, and the fifth junior brother Kai who were later accepted by Mentor Mosesdo, they were all newly accepted after arriving in the Dark Region.
When it comes to the energy and emotion invested, the second junior brother who has already fallen was the will heir that Mentor Mosesdo truly recognized.
With a sigh, Zorro turned and entered the laboratory.
Recently, he and his mentor have had a heavy alchemy task because the two vice deans over there in Shadow Valley have already started urging....
In front of the smaller experimental table, Kai stared intently at a section of the Green Jaw Feather Claw that had been fixed in front of him.
He was holding a triangular pyramid-shaped magic fine cone in his hand, which was a gift from Senior Brother Zorro a few days ago.
The fine and complex patterns became more and more as Kai held the fine cone and carefully the surface of the Green Jaw Feather Claw.
When these subtle patterns gradually covered two-thirds of the Green Jaw Feather Claw, Kai's mind relaxed a little, and elemental disorder appeared instantly.
The originally ordinary Green Jaw Feather Claw suddenly emitted a burst of high temperature, not only melting part of the steel sheet support on the experimental table, but also the patterns that Kai had spent several hours painstakingly were completely destroyed.
Feeling that the weak elemental power in the Green Jaw Feather Claw was also exhausted, Kai was a little discouraged. He slapped the bird claw in front of him on the experimental table and said depressedly, "Failed again!"
This was already the third Green Jaw Feather Claw that had been scrapped in Kai's hands. Considering the texture of one Green Jaw Feather Claw, it was enough for him to try to the magic pattern three or four times.
That is to say, Kai had already failed more than ten times before!
Sure enough, there is no natural genius in this world.
Even though Kai was praised by his mentor and senior brother for having a certain talent in alchemy.
But he still couldn't immediately make any magic props, even if it was just to attach a simple Sharpness Technique to the Green Jaw Feather Claw.
This was also because the Green Jaw Feather Claw, as a material, had a certain elemental property itself.
If it were replaced with other magic steel or ordinary metal, without sufficient elemental power inherently, alchemists would have to inject elemental power into them personally.
The risks and energy instability involved here are higher, and the failure rate is also greater.
I really don't know how many failures those regular alchemists have experienced before becoming real alchemists.
No wonder Sister Phil, who has a lively personality, is not interested in alchemy.
Consecutive blows really easily make people lose confidence.
But Kai's discouragement didn't last long. He shook his head to get rid of the negative emotions and began to reflect on the mistakes in his previous operations and what could be improved.
He considered not only his own problems, but also the experimental table in front of him and the Green Jaw Feather Claw that had failed twice before, all within his scope of consideration.
After a while, Kai picked up a Green Jaw Feather Claw again. Instead of starting immediately, he said to Lina who was quietly reading magic books beside him, "This experimental table is indeed a bit small. We should put the matter of moving back on the agenda."