Book 5: Chapter 46: Witch's Potion |
In the small building, Tia Dalma was holding a crystal ball in her hands.
The image in the crystal ball clearly showed the strength of the people who were fighting.
Even Tia Dalma, who once was sea goddess, had to admit that as mortals, the strength of this group of visitors was really strong.
The four adventurers who were being attacked were not weak, but they couldn't be the rival of team Break Blade.
Team Break Blade was one of the strongest teams in the Slums District, even if compared to an average team in the Common District, their strength may not be worse. Not to mention Shen Yi also sent the T-1000 to participate in the war, there was also a set of tactics and equipment that had previously dealt with team Strike The Blood, even without Shen Yi, it would be enough to solve many problems.
Tia Dalma turned off the crystal ball.
The fight continues, but she has no need to look further.
She stood up and took a lizard out of a small jar next to her, and squeezed its belly. A few drops of liquid came out of its mouth, she put them into a small cup. At the same time, she said, "You have a good team, but they are not enough to deal with the nine Pirate Lords."
"I never said that I had to deal with them. Getting a piece and killing the Pirate Lord are two different things, right?"
"But every Pirate Lord has their own needs, and for any Pirate Lord, the piece will not be the most important and indispensable thing in their lives. If sorting is needed, I guess it will not be in the top three of anyone. For a Pirate Lord, the piece is nothing compared to power, money, fame, and life."
"Can you give them these?"
"I can deprive these."
Tia Dalma took a deep look and took some black powder out of the can of her hand. This time she did not make fun of the other side.
Those who could destroy One-Eyed Giant, have strong fighting power, and hold her in need of bargaining with her, were at least qualified to say such things.
After tearing a small flower snake and removing its bitter gallbladder into the cup, Tia Dalma finally took some herbs, smashed them, and squeezed the juice into the cup.
Putting the cup in front of him, she said, "Drink it."
Shen Yi carefully carried the cup and put it under his nose. He smelled a pungent odor.
"Don't dare?" Tia Dalma looked at him and said in a mocking tone.
Shen Yi replied indifferently: “I’m not a timid person, but I’m not a person who could be stimulated to drink something look like a poison. The point is I haven’t found any reason to drink this cup."
Tia Dalma sat down: "I need to test your guts."
"Then I refused." Shen Yi pushed the drug back: "Because this reason is not enough. My guts are not prepared for the test, only for the obvious rewards and benefits that can be obtained. My courage is visible if I know what benefits I can get from risking. I don't know your medicine. It may be good to drink it, but I'm willing to give it up."
"You are a person who knows how to give up." Tia Dalma puts something in the medicine and then pushes it back: "If you can restrain your greed, we can talk about it again. I can't accept your price, but I can give you other things that may help."
The sound of fighting outside has been significantly reduced.
Shen Yi thought about it: "First I need all relevant information about the Pirate Council."
"You will have that."
Shen Yi gently picked up the medicine and drank a small sip. It felt creamy, like a snake sliding down his own throat.
Bloody Crest prompted:
"Witch's Potion – After drinking, all of your attributes will be permanently increased by 2 points, randomly increasing the trigger rate of a certain ability by 50 percent."
"This potion contains the curse of the witch Tia Dalma. In twenty days, if you cannot lift the curse, permanently reducing the trigger rate of a special effect by 75%, permanently reducing the Vitality by 30 points. If your Vitality is not enough, you will be obliterated.”
"You drank some of Witch's Potion, adding 3 random attributes. Your only special effect ability is Winged Serpent Martial Art, and the chance to trigger special effects increases by 1%. If you can not lift the curse within 20 days, your Vitality will be decreased by 3 points, and Winged Serpent Martial Art will be lowered by 1 layer."
This bottle of Witch's Potion was also very special, not only it could increase his attributes but also greatly enhance the chance of triggering special effects. However, the curse was also very serious, it turned out to be 1.5 times the reverse retaliation.
When he opened the task list, Shen Yi saw that one thing clearly spelled out the solution to the curse:
"Curse-Repealing Potion: Can repeal a curse after use. Exchange requires 180 Glory Points."
Tia Dalma's fingers moved to that row and gently erased the original handwriting, so the replacement price of Curse-Repealing Potion became – one Piece of Eight.
Shen Yi smiled: "One piece worth 300 Glory Points. Am I suffering a loss in this exchange?"
Tia Dalma laughed and said: "The adverse consequences are removed. The benign effects can still be preserved. You should know the value of this potion."
Shen Yi also laughed: "If you still have, I want them all"
"As long as you can get more pieces, I can give you up to two bottles, but you can't use them again."
"No curse?"
"No curse."
Shen Yi nodded. "Well, my second requirement is that I need you to give me some help in advance."
"After drinking it, you will get what you want."
As soon as he looked up, Shen Yi drank all the medicine left in the cup.
He felt like that a flame was burning in his lower abdomen.
Sticking out his tongue and adding a remnant to his mouth, Shen Yi slowly said: "It tastes good."
"You drank the Witch's Potion. Your Winged Serpent Martial Art's trigger rate increases by 3%. For each layer, the trigger rate increases by 3%. All attributes increase by 2."
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Out of the small building, the battle outside has ended.
Adventurers didn't like to clean up such battlefields, but they extremely liked to search the corpses.
After counting the loots, Hong Lang was very disappointed and kicked a kick on each corpse: "Waste! Garbage! These trashes have reached Common District, yet there is nothing good on the body."
Although he was not a pirate, the greed and ferocity he demonstrated by this moment were even worse than any pirate in the world.
Then he walked to Shen Yi and said loudly: “These four people are like being robbed by pirates. They're beggars! Half of the harvest is all kinds of potions, and the rest is broken equipment. Sh*t!"
They got twelve items, four of which were remedies, namely: 3 bottles of medium Recovery Potions, 2 bottles of medium Healing Potions, 3 bottles of medium Quick Recovery Potions, and a bottle of Healing Potion. There was also two kinds of medicines, namely Wound Stitching Medicine and Bone-Fixing Cream.
In the remaining six, there were two pieces of ordinary trinket: a ring and a necklace that add 2 points of an attribute. Two pieces were weapons, but they are all ordinary Rank D. Hong Lang cursed: "I really don't expect the Common District also have such poor. No wonder killing them is so easy."
"There is always better than nothing." Shen Yi said lightly: "The healing potion is life, and we just lack this."
"That is what it is." Hong Lang threw two things to Shen Yi: "These two are the only good things."
"Discount Card (Rank C): Use this card to purchase items in the store, you will get a 10% discount. This card is a consumable item and is limited to the purchase of an item that is Rank CC or below. This card cannot be used in stacking."
It turns out to be an item that could lower the purchase price.
Shen Yi praised and said: "Interesting, this is not bad, it can save 1,800 BP."
"Scroll of Divine Blessing: After being used, give invulnerability to all skill damage within 5 seconds. This scroll can affect up to seven people."
This was a very good life-saving item. This kind of item was generally the most difficult to obtain, mainly because adventurers tend to use them first. This adventurer's reaction was a bit slow, so Hong Lang and others chose to focus him in a sudden attack. The result was that he didn't have time to save his life, thus this scroll fell into Shen Yi's hand.
"What about you? How is it?"
"300 Glory Points for a piece. That mean woman refuses to raise the price." Shen Yi answered lightly.
"This one will report to the Master, report to the Master! You say bad things about the Master behind her back!" The sharp screams suddenly sounded above his head. When the group looked up, they saw a multicolored parrot carrying three colored pheasants screaming at the head of Shen Yi.
It was the dubious parrot that had previously mocked Hong Lang as a coward.
"This is……"
"You have seen the introduction of it." Shen Yi smiled lightly.
"Fancy Parrot: A big-mouthed parrot that can bring good fortune to its owner, but it cannot change its fate. Features: Fond of gossip. Exchange requires 1000 Glory Points."
"Are you joking? This trash parrot worth a thousand Glory Points?" Jin Gang frightened.
The parrot was angry: "Have you seen such a handsome parrot?"
"…"
All people were silent.
Shen Yi sighed and replied: "I don't know either. I told Tia Dalma that if she wants me to get enough pieces, she had better be generous. So she lent it to me and said it would give me luck, although I didn't see where it was like to bring good luck. Unfortunately, on this issue, I did not qualify for bargaining.”
"Borrow? Are you not afraid to break the rules again? I don't want to see the space manager again." Wen Rou worriedly asked a question.
"Since this is borrowed, naturally I must return. These are borrowed money, which won't leave this world. It's unlikely that the city doesn't allow even this."
"…" All people were silent again. If everyone could borrow money, then "catch a wolf with bare hands" business was too good to do.
But they didn't know that Shen Yi has done a lot of this since the first moment he came to Bloody City. Although he has paid interest, he has always been able to increase his own strength one step ahead of time and increase his chances of completing difficult quests.
Without these investments, whether he could accomplish those tasks was still a question.
"You just borrowed this parrot?" asked gently.
"In fact, there are still some…" Shen Yi thought to answer: "There are some small props."
"Like Mana Potion?" Hong Lang asked excitedly.
"No," Shen Yi shook his head. "Tia Dalma is a very mean woman. She doesn't lend any of the items that might be consumed in battle."
"About this, this one agree!" The parrot on the head suddenly shouted, "She is indeed a very mean woman, stingy, greedy, and selfish!"
Hong Lang stared blankly at the parrot: "Why do I think it's a better choice if you borrow the Scythe Mantis?"
The parrot was very angry: "That's a stupid insect who can't even speak! How can it be compared to this noble one who has wisdom?"
"I would rather replace your wisdom with combat power." Hong Lang rudely rebutted.
"This noble one is not going to fight! It is what the lower creatures do!" The parrot announced loudly.
This sentence almost let everyone fumble, even Shen Yi's face has changed a bit.
Do I really get a waste?
In general, wisdom and combat effectiveness were the key considerations in estimating the value for machines or pets. In other words, the smarter a machine or a pet at the same price often means that its combat effectiveness was lower.
In the same way, when an intelligent creature showed disrespect to the battle, it often did not mean that it's a strong creature who didn't want to fight, but that it couldn't fight at all.
As for this parrot, it didn't look like being strong enough.
Taking into account that the price of those props is entirely determined by the witch himself, this parrot will not be deliberately used to trick people, right?
The four people looked at the parrot and then spoke in unison: "Do you borrow any other props?"
