271 – Madness of the Invitations
Yang Feng said with a smile: “I will give you 20% of the proceeds from the potion auction. The remaining 80% will be spent on the magic college.
To build a magic college, you needed a lot of money. Although Morrince 2,867th promised to let Yang Feng establish the magic college, but he would not provide any funds. Yang Feng could only rely on himself for everything.
Money was the biggest problem. Without enough gold coins, you could not recruit Wizards as teachers. Whether equipment or materials, all required money.
Garça showed an excited smile: “Good! Earl Ian, rest a.s.sured, the whole of St. Tulan City will know of the potion auction."
As the 6th prince, although Garça earned a lot of money every month, but his expenses were equally great. The monthly salary of his subordinates alone would leave an ordinary aristocrat speechless. More gold coins meant that he could recruit more subordinates.
Yang Feng turned his eyes and then said with a beaming smile: “I have a proposal. Your Highness, please start a rumor first, and then sell invitations. Each invitation is to be sold at 200 gold coins, for a total of 5,000 invitations.”
Garça was slightly surprised, and exclaimed: “Selling invitations!”
In the Morrince Empire, there had never been a case of people who organized auctions to sell invitations. In Garça’s view, Yang Feng was crazy about money.
“I am a Grand Pharmacist. Among the potions that I am going to auction, there is a potion capable of restoring your youthful appearance for 18 days.”
Garça’s eyes brightened. A potion capable of restoring your youthful appearance for 18 days would make countless n.o.ble ladies compete for it.
“There is also a potion similar to Dragon Stamina.”
Garça showed a slight smile. That potion would definitely be favored by greater aristocrats.
“There is a potion capable of promoting you to a Knight in one leap!”
Garça’s eyes lit up and flashed with excitement. Many Knight families would fight over this potion.
“Also, there is a potion capable of having level-3 Apprentice Wizards break through the spirit force bottleneck and promote to official Wizards in one fell swoop!”
Garça’s body trembled slightly, and his eyes shone with excitement and greed.
Although the Weave made it difficult for the Feisuo Plane to produce Archwizards and above, but it also facilitated the sp.a.w.ning of countless Apprentice Wizards.
Unlike official Wizards, level-3 Apprentice Wizards were easy to recruit. A potion capable of having level-3 Apprentice Wizards break through the bottleneck and become official Wizards would absolutely cause countless people to fight over it.
Yang Feng continued with a smile: “Is an invitation for an auction with this many miraculous potions worth 200 gold coins?”
Garça laughed loudly: “It’s more than worth it!”
For ordinary aristocrats, 200 gold coins was great wealth. However, for true greater aristocrats, this bit was not worth mentioning. Some greater aristocrats who paid particular attention to luxury, would spend thousands of gold coins or even 10,000 gold coins per meal. For the sake of an auction with so many miraculous potions, people would vie over the 200 gold coin invitations.
The St. Tulan City, in the back garden of a luxurious villa.
An 18- or 19-year-old youngster was practicing swordsmans.h.i.+p. He was focused, and every one of the moves were performed in earnest.
A bearded, burly man looked at the youngster, and regret flashed in his eyes.
“Stop! That’s enough for today.” Just when the youth was getting all sweaty, the bearded man shouted.
The youngster heaved a sigh, and almost collapsed on the ground.
A beautiful maid came over and handed the youngster a hot towel.
The youngster stared hopefully at the bearded man and asked slowly: “Teacher Jay, do I really have no hope at cultivating qi?”
Jay smiled and s.h.i.+fted the subject: “Young Master Carl, you’re going to inherit the Salamander Family even if you’re not a Knight. There will be countless Knights serving you. When practicing swordsmans.h.i.+p, you should take it as doing a work out.”
With an unwilling expression, Carl said in a somewhat shrill voice: “So I really cannot cultivate qi! I can’t accept this! My ancestor, Salamander, practiced magic and martial dual cultivation. The qi and magic methods in the family are all the best in the world. Then why, why can’t I practice cultivation? Why?”
Jay’s eyes glimmered with pity. He watched Carl grow up, so he knew how much effort Carl had put into cultivating magic and martial arts.
No matter what, Carl never gave up on practicing cultivation, and he was several times more hardworking than many aristocratic youngsters.
However, Carl’s talent was lacking, and even with the best methods that the world had to offer, he still wasn’t able to cultivate magic and martial arts. If nothing unexpected happened, he could only achieve the advanced Warrior rank in his lifetime.
The maidservant standing next to Carl suddenly said: “Young master, I recently heard that there is a Grand Pharmacist called Ian who is going to hold a potion auction in the St. Tulan City. Reportedly, one of the potions can promote you to a Knight, another one can allow you to cultivate magic, and yet another one can restore your youth.”
“What, there is a potion that can promote you to a Knight?!” Carl’s eyes burst out with a brilliant light, then he looked up at Jay with eyes full of hope and asked expectantly: “Teacher Jay, is there really a potion that can make you a Knight?”
Jay hesitated for a moment before saying: “The power of magic is miraculous, and pharmacy is full of mystery. Perhaps there really is a potions that can turn you into a Knight.”
Magic was a mysterious, broad, and profound existence. Even Legend Wizards couldn’t claim that they knew the entire extent of magic. Although Jay was a Sacred Swordsman rank powerhouse, but he didn’t know much about magic.
Carl asked expectantly: “Jesse, how can I attend the potion auction?”
Jesse hesitated before saying: “I heard that the invitation costs 200 gold coins and that there was a limit of 5,000 invitations. Now, the price of an invitation has been inflated to 300 gold coins.”
Carl smiled slightly and said: “Go get Mr. Luke.”
Jessie gave a curtsy and took her leave
Shortly after, a middle-aged man in butler uniform and with neatly combed hair, who appeared to be very capable and experienced, came up to Carl and said deferentially: “Young Master Carl, what are your orders?”
Carl, carrying the imposing aura of a superordinate, said faintly: “Go get me 5 invitations to the potion auction held by Master Ian.”
Luke replied respectfully and took his leave: “Yes! Young master!”
In a magic laboratory.
A young man dressed in an Apprentice Wizard robe stared at a pale golden invitation in his hands as if it was his life, then his eyes flashed with madness and he mumbled: “A potion that can make you break through the bottleneck and promote to an official Wizard! I must get it!!”
In a room of a luxurious villa.
A middle-aged n.o.blewoman who no longer looked young – even heavy makeup could not hide her age – looked in a mirror and recalled her lost youth. She held a pale golden invitation in her hands, and whispered: “A potion that can restore your youth for 18 days!! I must have this potion!!”
In front of a grocery store of the 6th Prince Garça was a long queue of people, which extended for several kilometers. The gazes of the people in the queue were full of anxiety, as they watched the grocery store and waited for it to open.
There were more than 30 security officers at the entrance of the grocery store in order to maintain law and order.
Finally, the door of the grocery store opened slowly and a voice came from inside: “There are only 500 invitations today.”
“Why?!”
“Weren’t there supposed to be 5,000 invitations?”
“Why are there only 500 invitations left!”
“…”
The crowd went into an uproar.
2 burly men came out, overlooked the crowd, and said lightly: “Please maintain the queue and enter the store orderly! Each person can purchase up to 2 invitations!”
The security officers took out their batons and stared fiercely at the crowd outside.
No matter how the people outside complained, there was no use. The people in the front of the queue started entering the grocery store.
Every time a person came out of the grocery store, there would be a dozen people surround them and shout: “220 gold coins, I’ll give you 220 gold coins for an invitation!”
“I’ll give you 250 gold coins for an invitation!”
“I’ll give you 280 gold coins for an invitation!”
“…”
Numerous people argued and offered their prices in an attempt to purchase an invitation to the potion auction from others.
Some people sold their invitations and earned hundreds of gold coins. Even more people, after buying the invitations, left under the escort of experts.
The 500 invitations from the grocery store were quickly sold out. Then, a secondary market for reselling the invitations was formed at the door of the grocery store. The invitations circulated continuously as if very precious commodity. Numerous people fought to get an invitation.
Numerous aristocrats, greater aristocrats, Wizards, a.s.sa.s.sins, Knights, and Druids of the St. Tulan City fought to get an invitation. Yang Feng’s potions were of a great temptation, as they could fulfill their wishes.
On the Feisuo Plane, the majority of magic knowledge was in the hands of major forces, with very little knowledge reaching the rest of the world. Pharmacy was a branch of alchemy. To produce a potion, you had to grasp a lot of magic knowledge, use a lot of precious extraordinary plants, and throw magic stones into the mix to act as the catalyst.
A Grand Pharmacist had to be a Great Wizard rank powerhouse or above, yet not every Great Wizard rank powerhouse or above was a Grand Pharmacist. Consequently, Grand Pharmacists were very few in numbers. On the Feisuo Plane, people who studied magic hardly had the time to get distracted by other things, after all.