Chapter 856 - The Cottage in the Forest
Chapter 856 The Cottage in the Forest
The Black Forest.
There was a spot that had been left wholly untouched and yet to be excavated.
Tall and firm trees filled the area, covering the forest in a pitch-black shade with their dense foliage.
The black dirt of the earth was hardly exposed as a dense cover of fungus and moss grew above the ground. Of course, there were even more thorny brambles, bushes, and magical vines that crept everywhere.
It didn’t matter what time of day it was. A light shroud of black mist lingered in the place, making it seem as if it was a magical forest.
Yet, a crude cottage abruptly stood there in this strange no man’s land; it was a stark contrast to the surrounding environment.
A door creaked as a beautiful lady in green robes emerged from within the cottage. She held in her hand a mysterious staff decorated with strange patterns.
A dense shroud of nature power spread outward. Part of it stimulated the moonwell’s roots to continue growing, while another seeped into the dirt and the air, changing the environment around the well. Yet another portion of the nature power gathered within the well, condensing into droplets of green liquid containing a peculiar magical aura.
Just as Melinda fell into a strange trance-like state of meditation and hallucination, a blast of fire rose in the corner of the clearing.
The fire went as fast as it had come.
When it erupted, it did not harm the plants around it at all. In fact, it didn’t even startle the elven priest, still lost in her prayer.
When the fire faded, Greem’s tall and handsome figure appeared on the spot.
This cottage was one of his magical experiments, made to demonstrate the wonders of the moonwell as a magical facility of the elves.
Judging from the current effects, this was the only place to have succeeded. The other two locations had both failed.
Of course, there were many possible reasons for the failures, but the most suspicious one of them all was Melinda’s identity as a priest.
She was the only elven priest to have been abducted back from Faen. The other two locations were being looked after by an elven mage and a druid, respectively. They also possessed nature magic much like Melinda, but unfortunately, their moonwells had withered, bit by bit.
Of course, the experiment here with Melinda couldn’t be considered a complete success!
According to a sample that Greem had taken, the moonwater produced here was completely different in nature to those produced in the Faen Plane.
According to the Chip’s analysis, the concentration of the new moonwater was 230% more than that of the Faen moonwater.
That meant that any adept that drank the new moonwater would have the elementium balance within their body disrupted by the magical aura, causing their magical power to go berserk.
The new moonwater was not only not a life-saving cure, but a deadly and lethal poison!
However, given the unique nature of the new moonwater, a sort of strange magic essence could be obtained if the water was put through a unique process of extraction.
This magic essence was a powdered form of the essence of magical power. It was an extremely precious magical material in high-grade alchemy and could provide high-grade magical items with the unique attribute of automatic magic regeneration.
In the high-grade markets of the World of Adept, every gram of magic essence could sell for two thousand magical crystals.
Given the production rate of moonwater from this moonwell, as much as fifty grams of magic essence could be extracted every month.
Of course, the Chip’s investigations and calculations provided Greem with a new line of thought.
If the refinement process could be improved, the magic essence powder could be further refined into Empowered Magic Essence. Empowered Magic Essence could allow ordinary individuals with no magical talent to possess magical power and step upon the path of becoming an adept.
That was what Greem truly had his eyes set on!