Chapter 246 Gail Franklin

24th Franklin

New Huili Year 997, August 31, Saturday.

The last night before the arrival of the Hunting Moon.

Unlike those who went to the border for various reasons, Gail Franklin went the other way and sneaked back to the kingdom alone. Before the night fell, he returned to his hometown, Raven Town.

Raven Town is a relatively famous town in the territory of Ceylon.

There are also many villages and farmlands near the town.

However, the crops grown here are not common crops.

Instead, they are various strange magic materials.

For example, several materials necessary for making magic scrolls:

Moonlight grass, madder, and silver leaf flowers.

These special magic materials can also be obtained through planting, but the requirements for the environment are more stringent, so they can only grow in a few areas.

Raven Town is a relatively special area in Ceylon.

The merchants in the town sell and purchase more magic materials, and provide preliminary processing of these materials.

Blank magic scrolls to be copied;

Paints with magic power;

Potions with special effects;

These things are the best-selling and most mainstream products in Raven Town.

Gail's grandfather, Baron Franklin, is a potion master, and unlike Hugo, who is a half-baked potion master, Baron Franklin's potion preparation level is ranked among the best in Ceylon Territory.

The process of making potions is quite magical.

In addition to the various raw materials that are precisely blended and added according to the steps, the most important point is the divine arts that are indispensable before the potion is formed.

The divine arts cast by the voodoo god Seth release the semi-finished potion at a specific time, so that it can finally be refined into a potion with the corresponding effect.

If this key condition is missing, even if the same materials are added, the final product may be just a pot of extremely smelly and even polluted bad products.

The raw materials for potion refining can be described as varied.

Various magic materials are considered normal, and the distorted materials of monsters are also common;

There are also strange raw materials such as poisonous mushrooms and old heels, which will only turn the finished product into a pot of poison under normal circumstances.

But after the divine power of the God of Voodoo is blessed, these things can finally be refined into various potions with wonderful effects.

The most popular [Angry Heart Potion] among adventurers, a trainee warrior who is stuck at the threshold of controlling anger, has the opportunity to break through to the first-level warrior by drinking a bottle at a critical moment.

There is a very strange thing in its necessary raw materials:

The feces of the fire lizard.

And the fresher the better, the effect is best when it is just excreted.

Large potion shops in places like the capital of Reyak will even hire people to raise a few fire lizards and refine potions according to their excretion time.

In addition to the part of the potion that has been published and recorded in the voodoo book, there are formulas available for inquiry, and the real money is the secret formula developed exclusively.

This recipe is not only about the raw materials, but also about the nodes in the steps where the divine arts can be used to complete the refining.

The emergence of each new potion recipe may mean hundreds of attempts and tests, as well as the loss of a large amount of materials.

The overall level of the potion shops in Ceylon Territory is definitely not as good as those in the prosperous capital. Most of the shops sell the common potions published in the voodoo book. Due to the limitation of materials, common potions are sometimes out of stock.

The potion shop opened by Baron Franklin in Raven Town is easy to remember, called "Three-Eyed Raven Potions Store".

Baron Franklin, who is over 60 years old this year, is Gale's grandfather. He is actually a bit unprofessional in the potion business.

He was first a level 3 warrior.

After being canonized by the king and awarded the manor, Baron Franklin first gave birth to Gale's father and then became a grandfather.

Gale's father is also a warrior, but at the age of 38, he is still at the second level and it is hard to say whether he can be promoted to the third level in the future.

Not to mention Gale Franklin himself.

Faced with the problem that no one can inherit the noble title, Gale's grandfather is not worried at all. In fact, he does not want his descendants to inherit the title.

Because Gale's grandfather has run the potion shop very well in the past ten years.

Other nobles rely on the income from the manor and do almost nothing. They can earn about 20 gold coins a year;

The Franklin family can earn nearly 40 gold coins a year from the Three-Eyed Raven potion store alone!

Even if the younger generation is not motivated and cannot inherit the title, the worst thing is to continue the potion business, and life will not be much worse!

Some barons even have to negotiate in a good tone, asking him if he can get a discount on the purchase of potions.

Gale's grandfather was blessed by the voodoo god Sethe;

Gale's father was also blessed, at least when it was passed down to his father, the potion shop could still operate.

The problem mainly lies with Gale.

His family members kept talking to him every day, saying that it didn't matter whether the noble title and the manor were inherited or not, the key was the potion shop.

As long as the business was well run, the income would not be much worse than that of an ordinary baron, and life could even be better.

And there was no need to worry about the danger of being recruited into the king's army to the front line during the monster red tide.

But Gale could see the "problem" of the family's potion shop.

Whether it was Gale's grandfather or father, they could only make the potions that were already published in the voodoo book.

Researching new potion formulas?

The cost of dozens of gold coins would not even make a splash!

There was no foundation for research.

Gale had already noticed.

Although his own potion shop had a good income, it lacked core competitiveness.

These ordinary potions sold well in the past few years because several old potion masters who mastered voodoo magic near Ceylon Territory were old, and some retired or died.

The market just happened to have a period of transition, and there was a demand gap.

The situation was similar to what Gale predicted back then. In recent years, with the emergence of new potion masters who mastered voodoo magic, competition was fierce, demand was saturated, and his own potions began to sell poorly.

Income began to decline.

In the long run, the situation might get worse and worse.

That's why Gale went to Greenport.

He wanted to find a new sales channel for his potion shop, or other ways to change the status quo.

For example, becoming a 3rd-level wizard.

There are certain similarities between wizards and potion makers. High-level wizards are more likely to perceive the "appropriate" material ratios and steps in potion making.

After returning to Ceylon with Pete, Gale has not been home for a while because he discovered a new possibility.

The Church of Knowledge... seems to have a way to solve the problem of unsalable potions at home!

He found a new way to sell potions.

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