Chapter 187 - Four Black Lotuses
The six mercenary corps were indeed strong. Even a terrifying magical beast like the Firewolf had failed to bring them much damage. There were no more than ten corpses on the ground, and most of them were low-level adventurers. The Firewolves came in packs of hundreds, so it could be said to be a complete victory for the mercenary corps in eliminating them with such losses.
But Lin Li dared not be negligent in the slightest. It wasn’t a good thing that the Firewolves were hanging around the woods. This meant that the magical beasts on the Fire Plume Ridge had been thoroughly enraged by the invaders—the six mercenary corps. He clearly remembered that there were no traces of life in the woods when he came yesterday afternoon, but today, a pack of Firewolves suddenly appeared here…
Since the Firewolves could run freely, other magical beasts could also appear in areas where they should not appear…
The expression on Lin Li’s face was somewhat grave. He took off the crossbow from his back, and carefully loaded it with a vampire fang. Then, he quietly walked through the withered and yellow forest with Sean.
They were lucky enough to cross the woods quickly. There were two roads ahead of them—one was a maze of the cave, and the other was the road that six mercenary corps had traveled.
Lin Lin chose to follow behind the six mercenary corps with no hesitation. With them opening the way ahead, it’d be much better than groping alone in the maze of cave.
The two men quietly followed the six mercenary corps at a distance neither too far nor too close—just enough to see the battle ahead through the Warlock’s Eyes.
“Four black lotuses…” Lin Li couldn’t even control his limbs as he looked at the four black lotuses. This was what every pharmacist dreamed of. At least 90 percent of them could not obtain a petal even after exhausting their whole life.
But, at present, four blooming black lotuses were placed in front of him…
Calm down, calm down, this is too undignified. I’ve seen the world! Lin Li desperately sucked in his breath, trying to calm himself down. But he had just sucked in the hot air into his lungs when the fellow who told himself to calm down had already plunged himself forward. One of his hand passed through the burning flames, grabbing the root of the black lotus, and tugged at it hard. In an instant, the black lotuses, along with the soil, were pulled from the ground…
Harvesting black lotus did not require any skills. The only thing worth noting was that it was best to prepare a place with enough fire magical element when harvesting it; otherwise, the black lotus would likely wither without the nourishment of fire magical elements.
The black lotus petals that Sean got at the beginning lost a large part of their efficacy because there was no place where the fire magical element was strong enough. Otherwise, with Lin Li’s strength as a pharmaceutics guru, he could definitely concoct something more powerful than the Elixir of the Sages even with a few black lotus petals.
To be frank, Lin Li was still unable to create a man-made space full of fire magical element with his current ability. This was a propriety of a legendary-mage. To some extent, this was tantamount to creating a magic field of one’s own. In this field, the creator could even change the rules of magic operation, such as duration…
However, it didn’t matter. Without the magic field, there was still the Ring of Endless Storm.
The Ring of Endless Storm was a true artifact. Although Lin Li still did not know what power it possessed, one thing was certain—in the space of the ring, time seemed to be stationary; Lin Li once tried to throw a pocket watch into the Ring of Endless Storm. After a month, he found that the hands were still in their original positions…
That was probably the reason why a frog couldn’t fit into the Ring of Endless Storm that possessed infinite space. Why? Because frogs were living things; putting them into a space where time stopped flowing violated the basic rules of the world.
Until the four black lotuses were put into the Ring of Endless Storm, Lin Li still couldn’t believe that all this was true…
From the time when he discovered the few petals of black lotus in Jarrosus until he met Sean and learnt that the Fire Plume Ridge was where he could pick the black lotus, and then tried every means to get the Fire Salamandrid skin—all of this had taken up an uncountable amount of effort and attention from him. But, Lin Li never felt there was anything wrong with it.
On the contrary, he thought that all of this went without saying. The black lotus was such a precious herb that it should take so much effort and attention.
He was even prepared to spend more of them on it after coming to the Fire Plume Ridge…
However, with the six mercenary corps coming to the peak of the Fire Plume Ridge, everything seemed to become easier all of a sudden.
With a simple jump and a simple stretch of the hand, the black lotuses were in the Ring of Endless Storm. It was simply like a dream…
The feeling of having struck at thin air 2 made Lin Li confused and uneasy.
“Let’s go, we’ll leave first.” Lin Li planned to leave with Sean after putting the four black lotuses into the Ring of Endless Storm. The uneasiness hovered in his mind, constantly making him feel that something was not right. With this subconscious sense of crisis, he did not hesitate to believe in his intuition.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Felic, you can’t go back.” But, at this time, there was a sudden frivolous laughter behind him.