The speaker is the owner of a shop selling magic potions and various alchemy materials, named Ricky. Because Ricky often goes to Yege Tavern for a drink after closing, he is very familiar with Xu Yue who often goes there.

In Talumia, alchemy, as a magical discipline, is closely related to magicians.

The magic potions and magic items that can be made by alchemy are all sought after by spell casting professions and adventurers, so there are many magicians who learn this branch of magic.

The main output of the alchemy industry is magic potions. As a mercenary who licks blood on the edge of the knife, he is very popular with various magic potions that can increase his strength. Generally, mercenaries entering the deep forest of Ye Ge will buy some potions to defend themselves.

Xu Yue didn't come from Ricky's shop. First, because he had no money to buy anything, and second, he didn't have anything to sell to Ricky. This time his purpose was to find the magician Ricky mentioned.

Oward once promised to give Xu Yue a chance to learn magic. This opportunity was to use the means left by Oward to him that he could buy magic books from any branch of the Magic Guild or from magicians registered with the Magic Guild.

Because the road is blocked by heavy snow, it is impossible to go to the magic fan guild in the nearest city in a short time, so he can only try to find a magician who is stuck in Komodo Town due to heavy snow.

He had been paying attention to the people in the town before, but there were few mercenaries and adventurers coming here to do missions this season, and mages, as a rare spell casting profession, are even more rare.

So after waiting for more than ten days, there was no news, so he almost had no hope for it.

But things just happened so coincidental. When you gave up hope, you suddenly found that the turning point appeared in front of you. A magician actually came to the only alchemy shop in the town to buy things.

Xu Yue judged that the magician probably had been doing tasks with others in the Night Song Forest before, and just came back today. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to come from another place to the town of Komodo when the road was blocked.

After thinking for a while, Xu Yue directly raised her foot and walked into the alchemy shop.

This is a small house about twenty square meters. The walls beside it are rows of wooden shelves. Bottles containing various liquids are carefully placed in special slots on the shelves to ensure that these bottles will not fall off due to shaking. The distance between the shelves two steps further forward is a long counter. At this time, a middle-aged man with a rosy face was talking to a man wearing a hooded robe.

This middle-aged man with a rosy face was the owner of the store, named Ricky Bert. At this time, he was helplessly scratching his half-bald Mediterranean hairstyle with his hands, and his fat face was full of helpless expressions.

"Can't you think of a solution? If I order it here, I can pay 20% more." The customer in a hooded robe said anxiously.

Ricky smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry to the customer! I really can't help it. If I order the goods, I have to go to the store in the city to purchase the goods. The damn weather makes all vehicles impossible. Your request is to ask for goods within two days, which is simply impossible!"

After hearing this, the other party was obviously disappointed. After seeing this, Ricky kindly suggested: "I think you can go to the tavern in the town to publish a task to buy pure containers. There are still some scattered mercenaries doing tasks here. If the price you give is high enough, I think there may be someone who is willing to go to the city specifically for this. However, it is unlikely to fight back and forth within two days. Although it is unlikely that someone will take on this task, it is a little bit of a solution."

After hearing Ricky's words, the man in a hooded robe could only nod helplessly. When he turned around and left, he saw Xu Yue who had just entered, a look of surprise flashed slightly on his face. Obviously, he felt a little surprised to see the Chatners here. However, he soon stopped paying attention to these things, but walked towards Yege Tavern with annoyance.

"Hi! Ricky, how is the business?"

Xu Yue did not rush to chase the magician, but greeted Ricky.

Ricky smiled when he saw him, then shrugged helplessly and said, "Don't mention it, look at the streets of Komodo town this season. There are only a few scattered mercenaries, not as many people as Kate's Tavern. Alchemy potions can't be sold at all. I finally encountered a big business, but I have no goods here."

"Well? Was that a magician just now? What do he want? Although your shop cannot compare to the big shops in the city, it is also of all kinds. Is the things he bought very differently?" Xu Yue asked casually.

Ricky shook his head helplessly and said, "It's not considered a magician. His robe should be a high-level magic apprentice. What he wants is a pure container with a purity of about seven scales. If I have a few below three scales, I can't get one of the seven scales in this year. The only one I was bought just a month ago."

"Oh? Pure container? Is that kind of thing very rare?" Xu Yue asked curiously.

At this moment, he was thinking about how to get some information about the magic apprentice who had just left from Ricky to prepare for the next contact.

"Ordinary low-scale pure containers are of course not rare! But high-scale pure containers are treasures! Let me tell you, this pure container is..."

Anyone who knows Ricky knows that his dream when he was young was to be an alchemist. Although it turned out that he really didn't have the talent to become a mercenary, his love for alchemy has never diminished.

After being a mercenary for more than 20 years, Ricky's strength has not increased much, but he has learned a lot of alchemy knowledge. Now that he is old, he has opened a store selling alchemy items in Komodo Town.

Usually whenever someone talks about alchemy items with him, he will immediately turn into a chatterbox and talk about alchemy endlessly. Although he can't even make a bottle of the most basic magic potion by himself.

Seeing Ricky talking about alchemy, he couldn't help but think of a mistake. He forgot that he talked endlessly when he talked about alchemy.

But since he started talking, he was embarrassed to leave immediately, so he could only deal with it without saying a word. But as he listened, his attention gradually became concentrated, and his eyes showed a look of surprise.

According to Ricky's description, Talunmiya's nature often produces materials containing relatively high purity elements due to its special environment. For example, the magic cores in the fire monster are almost all composed of high purity fire elements.

Two leaves in Yege Forest, a drop of water containing high-purity water elements are wrapped in two leaves.

Because these materials are generally in very dangerous places, it is difficult to collect them themselves, but it is even more troublesome to preserve them well after collection.

For example, if a material containing high-purity water elements, if the concentration of other magic elements contained in the container material you use to hold it is higher than a certain limit, it will cause pollution to the water element material.

Light will reduce the purity of the water element that hits the container, greatly reducing the alchemy effect and value. In severe cases, it will directly cause the water element material to be completely scrapped.

However, the concentration of magic elements in the world of Talumia itself is very high, and various elements are almost everywhere. They have penetrated into every substance in this world. It is almost impossible to find a substance that does not contain any magic elements to make an absolutely pure container.

In fact, alchemy was not so widely used in Talumia in its early days. The reason is that it cannot be preserved well after collecting high-purity magic materials, which greatly reduces the success rate and effect of alchemy.

The potions refined at that time could only cure minor problems such as headache and fever, let alone healing injuries and increasing combat effectiveness.

This situation was not completely changed until an alchemist discovered a mineral called the Forbidden Demon Stone.

The Forbidden Magic Stone has a dispersing characteristic, which can disperse magic elements within a certain range according to its own qualities.

This dispersion is not a complete expulsion, but reduces the concentration of all types of magic elements within a certain range. The higher the quality, the stronger the dispersion ability of the forbidden magic stone, and the greater the range of influence.

The alchemist named Davils Portman initially tried to use this forbidden magic stone to make containers for alchemy materials, but finally found that although the forbidden magic stone itself does not contain magic elements, it also dispersed the magic elements contained in the magic material itself, and the material turned into waste.

Later, Davils changed his strategy and used the low-concentration area formed by the Forbidden Magic Stone to place some already made containers. The miscellaneous magic elements contained in these containers will slowly dissipate in the area of ​​this low-concentration magic element, and finally approach the average level of magic concentration in this area.

However, the disadvantage of this method is that it consumes too much time. According to Davils' calculation, a container made in a normal environment can be reduced to the original 90% magic element concentration in a magic-forbidden area with a concentration of 50% magic elements, it takes one to two years to reduce the original 80% magic element; it takes three to five years to reduce the original 80%; it takes eight to ten years; it takes sixty% or even at least twenty years. This is so inefficient that it makes people crazy.

After repeated experiments, Davils found that if the elements contained in the material that makes the container can be activated and formed early in the Forbidden Demon area, then the materials will quickly dissipate a large number of magic elements during the forming process, and the speed is hundreds or even thousands of times faster than the speed of dissipation of directly placed in the finished container. Moreover, the lower the concentration of magic elements in the Forbidden Demon area, the faster the speed.

After a lot of attempts, Davils found that the container made of glass is the most pure in an equal environment, and the speed of being infected by external elements after leaving the forbidden area is the slowest.

When he made his discovery public, it caused a sensation. He was immediately presented to the altar. He named the container made by this method he invented as "pure container", and formulated ten levels based on the amount of magic elements contained in the container. The first level is the lowest and the ten level is the highest.

It was the emergence of pure containers that changed the entire history of alchemy.

After ensuring the purity of the materials, alchemy developed at a rapid pace. The alchemists achieved one result after another, constantly making the alchemy higher and higher status in the Talumia continent. Until today, it has been completely integrated into people's lives and occupy an important position.

Later, with the development of alchemy, an alchemist even invented a magic array that can amplify the forbidden magic stone. This magic array can nearly double the effect of the forbidden magic stone.

But even so, the Forbidden Magic Stone is really rare. The annual output of this magical ore is not enough to create a table even if the whole continent adds up.

Moreover, once the forbidden magic stone leaves the environment in which it was born, the effect of forbidden magic will gradually decrease. Even the best-quality forbidden magic stone can only be used for thirty years and will become waste. Therefore, this thing is basically a strategic resource for various countries and major forces, and ordinary people cannot obtain it at all.

If it weren't for not destroying the environment of the birthplace of the Forbidden Magic Stone, a new Forbidden Magic Stone would have been formed in a few decades, it would probably be that Talunmiya would have no Forbidden Magic Stone.

"You know, pure containers below three scales are quite common, while pure containers with three to six scales are very rare and the price is relatively high. Pure containers above seven scales are specially used to carry high-value alchemy materials. The price of pure containers alone is very high." Ricky was already excited at this time, and his face was red.

Xu Yuesen even doubted whether the two plateau-like red skin on his face were often formed like this. After all, this place is not a high-altitude area.

"So that magician just now discovered very precious alchemy materials, but he did not prepare a pure container that could hold the materials?"

Ricky nodded and emphasized with a little jealousy: "Not a magician! Just a high-level magic apprentice." It is obvious that he has always been resentful of his lack of the qualification of a magician, so he feels envious, jealous and hatred when he sees the magician.

But soon he threw this feeling aside and said with a sigh: "It's a pity that I don't know whether this magic apprentice is lucky or unlucky, so he actually found a lava flower. If this lava flower is not collected and preserved within three days after collection, both the medicinal effect and the elements contained in it will dissipate. It has been a day now. A container below six scales cannot guarantee the purity of this grade of material at all, but my only pure container with seven scales was sold before."

Xu Yue nodded after hearing this. The magic apprentice's luck was really good. He was lucky enough to find a rare item with great value, but in the blink of an eye, he had to watch the item turn into a worthless waste.

This process is like giving you a huge sum of money, but in the end I found that there was a debt of the same value with this huge sum of money. In the end, I paid off the debt and it was just as painful as it was just to be happy.

"By the way Ricky! How do you measure the scale of a pure container? Do you have to go to a professional institution to measure it?" Xu Yue asked casually. In fact, his hands hidden under the counter were almost sweating at this time.

"Haha, it's not that troublesome. Alchemy has become very convenient to develop to this day. You can measure it with just one piece of test crystal. And this thing itself is very cheap, so everyone in mercenaries have one. This can prevent them from buying fakes." Ricky said as he took out a piece of white crystal the size of a thumb.

He personally demonstrated it, and saw that he gently touched the test crystal an empty glass bottle placed on the shelf. Suddenly, a green light column appeared in the crystal and continued to spread to one end. There were ten scales on the crystal, and the green light column walked to the third scale and stopped.

"This shows that my pure container is three-scale. The pure container can reach up to ten scales. The higher the scale, the fewer magic elements in the container, the purer it is, of course the higher the value."

"But there are fewer pure containers with seven scales. Eight scales are generally only available to people or forces at the level of large mercenaries or level six magicians. Nine scales are not available in the market, and are usually occasionally used as auction items at some auctions. Ten scales are generally used by the powerful men at level nine or royal families to preserve high-quality materials, and they are not circulated on the market at all. Once each pure container with ten scales is made, it will be immediately snapped up by top-level strong men."

Xu Yue kept listening to Ricky's speech with a smile, without any impatience.

There is such a good listener, Ricky said it very much. At the end, when Xu Yue said she wanted to buy a test crystal and went back to play, Ricky gave him one directly and invited him to visit his alchemy collection next time.

After saying goodbye to Ricky, Xu Yue walked around casually as usual before returning to his house. As soon as he closed the door, his expression changed immediately. After opening the space door with a bit of eager expression while he was nervous, he quickly walked through the space door.
Chapter completed!