Chapter 388 Ghost Index

What makes people feel a little uneasy is that the spells that can use ghost wine as a substitute for spell materials are usually dark spells related to enchantment and undead, after all, what they need is negative energy.

No light spell uses negative energy.

But that's all. Gavin and his team can't stop selling and producing ghost wine because of its potential use.

Ghost wine has subsequently shown a series of characteristics such as difficulty in replication and many uses, so that even if it has major defects such as difficulty in storage and easy to spill, the market price is still soaring. The current retail price has reached 230, and it is usually not easy to buy.

At the ghost wine special auction, 10,000 bottles of ghost wine were auctioned.

At first glance, it seems like a lot of numbers.

But in the entire Falling Star Sea area, or even the entire Faerun.

Ten thousand bottles of ghost wine, divided among dozens of caravans, are really pitiful. Many big cities can only get dozens of bottles at best.

As for those who came to Gavin to ask for punishment because of the spillage problem, there was not even one.

Don't underestimate the power of these merchants.

Let alone whether the money in their hands can be used to make money, at least many merchants have a good professional level.

For the caster, blocking the flow of energy is not a particularly difficult task.

At worst, there are small steel bottles of healing potions.

This is very common in the market, but it is expensive.

At least it can stop the loss by packaging it in!

At worst, the cost can be spread over the selling price of ghost wine. For these profiteers, this trick is very skillful.

If the merchants can't even think of such a stupid way, they would have been eliminated by the cruel business competition.

"Success, success, congratulations Sir, we have found the best concentration and the best negative energy growth table." Daphne ran to Gavin at a speed that was almost running, with an expression that could not be concealed.

After the Midsummer Festival, dancing with fairies.

The shadows in the Vizeme Manor seemed to have undergone some kind of qualitative transformation.

The situation is very similar to that of Esteler and her daughter. It seems that a force of life has been injected into their bodies, and they show more and more human-like places.

Especially the earthbound shadows and the captive souls of Black Heather transformed by Esteler and her daughter.

Their transformation manipulators are not simply undead, but the combination of life and death.

They have the characteristics of life, but they manipulate the power of death.

Originally, they just lacked the core essence of life, but now they are injected.

At first glance, it seems that it was given by the goblins.

The real reason is still the dragon oak mother tree.

That night, the dragon oak mother tree and Vizeme Manor completed the real connection.

The two completed a certain degree of energy and essence exchange.

Vizeme Manor injected the power of death into the dragon oak mother tree - just like Gavin, this power is not in the body, but in the shadow, in the shadow of the dragon oak mother tree.

Don't think that the dragon oak mother tree is only related to life, death is also closely related to it, and its roots also need to absorb energy, especially those rotten substances, which are so large in size and have a particularly terrifying demand. When the power of death is integrated into the shadow and root system, it can strengthen its ability in this aspect and help it absorb quickly.

On the contrary, the dragon oak mother injected a force of life into the Vizeme Manor.

This force directly bound the Vizeme Manor to the vineyard, that is, the vineyard is also part of the Vizeme Manor.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the shadows that were originally bound to the Vizeme Manor can extend their range of activities to the vineyard. As long as the shadow of the vineyard is covered, they can appear at will.

The vineyard with tangled vines and more than one person high is very suitable for them to appear, even in broad daylight.

However, this feature is not very useful for other shadows except for a very small number of privileged people such as Esteler and Daphne.

Because they are a group of miserable shadow workers, the kind that work 24 hours a day, with a full schedule of work, how can they have time to wander around?

The one who benefited the most was Daphne, who directly activated the same virtual and real transformation ability as Esteler and her daughter, and had two forms.

This is related to their extraordinary professional level. Other shadows, even if they are closer to humans, have not activated this ability.

The specific situation remains to be verified later.

Compared to the entity, Daphne is in the shadow state most of the time, because this state is more convenient, whether in daily life or when doing research related to negative energy.

Especially the latter, the shadow state has a unique advantage.

"Great, the results are finally out. If it is a few days later, we will have to make a batch of ordinary wine first. We can wait, but these grapes can't wait." Gavin's expression also has an unconcealed joy.

As the saying goes, busy farming does not wait for anyone.

Especially since the scale of the Vizeme vineyard is so large, once the grapes are ripe, they will mature in large quantities together.

It just so happens that there are twists and turns in the brewing process of ghost wine, which is inevitably a bit overwhelmed.

"Lord, why don't you try the first bowl of ghost wine we brewed by ourselves? I think it tastes more unique than the previous batch, because it not only contains negative energy, but also mixed with life force, which is very beneficial to my other form." Daphne handed a bottle of ghost wine to Gavin.

The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

Gavin's mind was moved.

Could this be related to Leprechaun Midsummer Night?

Have the grapes from this vineyard in the Vizeme Estate become a little different? Stained with the scent of a fairy? Or the vitality of the Dragon Oak Mother Tree.

Should I use this batch of grapes to brew a batch of ordinary wine and see if there are any unique effects?

wrong.

This approach is generally wrong.

The grapes here, no matter how rich their life energy is, are only affected by the Fairy Wilderness and the Dragon Oak Mother Tree overnight.

It is impossible to compare with the grapes produced in the Elf Wilderness, let alone the grapes planted directly under the mother dragon oak tree or under the shade of the tree.

Making goblin wine is something that belongs to the goblin wilderness. To make it yourself is simply putting the cart before the horse.

The right way is to continue to dig deeper into the value of ghost wine and turn it into a unique signature of Chateau Vizeme.

As he shook the wine bottle in his hand, the liquid inside was not simply black, but had a lingering rich green color, floating and sinking in it.

That's right.

That was indeed the life force belonging to the Dragon Oak Mother Tree, although it was very thin.

Gavin thought, and these greens immediately began to gather in the wine bottle, forming the appearance of a towering tree. Who else could it be if it weren't the mother dragon oak tree.

The floating figure stands behind the black shadow of the Vizeme Manor. The two complement each other, making it even more classy.

He opened the bottle cap and took a sip directly from the bottle.

It still has the familiar refreshing taste, just as expected. It tastes really extraordinary when drunk in midsummer, and most of the summer heat is gone at once.

After swallowing, there is a sweet feeling that echoes between the mouth and tongue.

Only after entering the stomach can one notice the difference between new wine and old wine.

Old wine is just cold, the kind that slowly absorbs the heat from your whole body.

In addition to the coldness of the new wine, there is also a vitality that drifts with the current and lingers in the weakest part of the body, continuously warming and repairing it.

If used for evil activities.

New wine is definitely not as pure as old wine, because it is pure negative energy, and new wine is equivalent to being mixed with impurities.

But if it is used for serious purposes, such as as auxiliary training supplies for holy warriors, the value will be even higher.

That life force will play a supporting role in this process, and even help them spy on their own weaknesses and flaws.

Delphine added next to her: "The biggest role of this vitality is not here yet. It can play a balancing role in it, allowing a bottle of wine to contain more negative energy."

"Increase the upper limit of storage? How much can it be increased?" The negative energy contained in ghost wine also has an upper limit.

"The negative energy level can be increased to 5%." Daphne replied.

The negative energy scale is a standard developed by Gavin and others to measure the negative energy content of ghost wine.

This standard is basically the same as alcohol content.

That is, 100% is the limit - it is pure alcohol.

The negative energy level of 5% means that there are 5ml of negative energy in 100ml of wine.

Don't think that 5% is very low. This is invisible energy, not transformed by substances like alcohol.

It’s impossible to do it 100%. In that case, it would be pure negative energy instead of ghost wine.

The negative energy content of ghost wine sold at auction is about 0.1%.

Previously, when the energy was poured to the extreme, the level of negative energy was only about 3%. Now, based on the original level, it has increased by nearly twice, which is quite astonishing.

"Very good!" Gavin nodded with satisfaction, "What about the renovation work of the wine cellar with different levels of negative energy?"

The final negative energy level of ghost wine depends on the negative energy level of the external environment.

The higher the negative energy level, the higher the negative energy level of the final ghost wine.

At present, the negative energy level of Vizeme Estate is around 0.2%. If nothing is done, the most negative energy level can be produced is ghost wine.

This index can also be called the ghost index.

As long as this index reaches above 0.05, the probability of ghosts appearing here will be greatly increased. The higher the index, the greater the possibility.

The index was 0.1 before the Vizeme Manor was recaptured, and now it is 0.2, which has doubled.

Want to produce a more concentrated ghost wine.

Sending people to guide inside is one way, but the disadvantages of adding the leader's emotions are first, and the second is that the efficiency is too low.

Far inferior to injecting large quantities by yourself.

The method is not difficult, just build a sealed wine cellar and place a spirit-gathering array inside.

Gather enough negative energy and maintain a certain ghost index all year round.

For Daphne, this matter belongs to her own ability and she is very good at it, especially in a special environment like Vizeme Manor, it is naturally easier.

"The first group of 0.5, 1 and 2 spirit-gathering wine cellars have been arranged. The second group and 3 will be arranged together in ten days. However, going up further will far exceed the ability of the spirit-gathering array to gather negative energy. The energy is not dissipated as fast. In fact, the consumption of 3 is already very large. I used it as the core wine cellar, placed it in the center of other wine cellars, and sandwiched it with two 2, to barely achieve it. A wine cellar can accommodate a large fermentation barrel, and one barrel can contain two thousand ghost wines," Daphne replied.

The level of negative energy filled in Vizeme Manor has exceeded the outer area of ​​the Shadow Plane and is close to the central area.

Now the Soul Gathering Cellar is even more fierce, with a ghost index of 3, which has reached the concentration of the core area of ​​the Shadow Plane.

Ordinary people will turn into ghosts if they stay in it for one night.

"The total capacity of 14,000 bottles would be barely enough before the Fairy Midsummer Night, but it is far from enough now. At least one more group should be built."

According to the initial estimate, the grapes produced by the Vizeme Manor this year can only produce 20,000 bottles of ghost wine.

But according to the current situation, 30,000 bottles is not enough.