by Zhuang Bifan
What? Life Potion! As he was a pharmaceutics Master himself, Hoffman's eyes lit up upon hearing Lin Li mention Life Potion. After all, the Life Potion was a Master-level potion, and totally not on the same level as the Healing Potion. Healing Potions could heal a patient by using his vitality. Thus, the patient still needed a period of time to regain his vitality even after he had healed his wounds. However, Life Potions would directly recover the patient's vitality. Although they couldn't allow the patient to fully recover immediately after drinking the potion, the patient could regain his ability to fight very fast.
However, the Life Potion also cost much more than the Healing Potion. It was possible that the price of 100 Healing Potions wasn't enough to buy even one Life Potion. As a true pharmaceutics Master, Hoffman could concoct a Life Potion himself. However, it was impossible to produce them on a big scale. One of the reasons was the rarity of the ingredients used, while the other was that he couldn't guarantee the success rate. Without his current pharmaceutics standards, it was difficult to even ensure a success rate of 50%. On the other hand, each failure in concoction meant the wastage of a large sum of money.
Thus, in the Glittergold Trade Union, only leaders such as Hoffman kept one or two tubes of Life Potions in case of emergency. Now, Lin Li took out a box of Life Potions just like that. If not for Hoffman's understanding of Lin Li, he would have thought he was kidding.
However, even though he knew Lin Li wouldn't lie to him, Hoffman still couldn't help but gasp when he saw the rows of light-green potions arranged neatly in the box, radiating a strong aura of life.
"T-this…." Hoffman was a little embarrassed to receive such a valuable gift. After all, he had asked Lin Li to collaborate in this exploration. He wouldn't be so embarrassed if they had made plenty of gains from it. However, the truth was that they were still empty-handed now. How would he dare accept such precious potions?
"Master Hoffman, this doesn't seem like you. I still have plenty of Life Potions, so just take them. Don't we still have to continue exploring the relics? It'll be advantageous to the exploration later if your men can recover fast."
"Haha! Then I will gladly take it." Hoffman didn't really want Lin Li to take back the potions. He ordered his men to take those Life Potions to heal the injured.
Almost all the injured men from Glittergold Trade Union and the Tower of Dusk were healed by the Life Potions. Such powerful potions were sufficient for them to regain their strength and power in a very short time. However, things were different for the Mithril Alliance and Caesar Family. They used the superfine Healing Potions produced by the Tower of Dusk. This was already the best Healing Potion they could find on the market, but how could that match the Life Potion? It was already very good if it could help to recover a person to half of his usual fighting power.
Joseph was already extremely unhappy over the fact that Lin Li managed to come out of the explosion alive. Now that he saw those two factions use Life Potions to heal the injured so lavishly, his face turned even more glum. However, the Mithril Alliance and the Tower of Dusk had been enemies for a very long time. It was already a feat for the two to collaborate in this exploration. Thus, asking the Tower of Dusk to supply some Life Potions to them was totally impossible.
Joseph secretly made up his mind that he wouldn't let go of any chance to deal with the Tower of Dusk in the following part of the exploration. As long as he could trap the Tower of Dusk's team in this mausoleum, he had ways to turn everything the Tower of Dusk currently had—its lands, businesses, and talents—into the Mithril Alliance's. As for whether he had the chance to achieve this, that was a question for later. Now, Joseph was having a headache over how to recover his subordinates' fighting strength.
Joseph wasn't the only one who was jealous of the Tower of Dusk and Glittergold Trade Union's lavishness. Claus from the Caesar Family also watched those injured men from the two factions take each precious Life Potion with jealousy. Looking at his own team, everyone was in a state of feebleness. Claus hesitated for a moment before clenching his teeth and walking towards the Tower of Dusk's side.
"President Felic, we managed to escape death narrowly thanks to you," said Claus awkwardly. This wasn't just polite words. Everyone present knew that the explosion of that monster had to do with Lin Li entering the pool.
"You're too polite, Patriarch Claus. We're all collaborating partners. If I hadn't done that, my own men would have been dead too." Although the Caesar Family had always sided with the Mithril Alliance, Lin Li didn't show a cold face to Claus.
Seeing that Lin Li didn't humiliate him, Claus calmed down a little. With a troubled expression, he continued, "President Felic, you see, the Caesar Family's side also has many people who are severely injured. It'll be very hard for them to recover their power with the Healing Potions alone. May I know if there're any spare Life Potions on your side? I'm willing to buy some at market price… No, higher than market price."
"What are you talking about, Patriarch Claus? Aren't we partners? Just take these 20 potions." Lin Li took out a small box and handed it over to Claus directly.
Claus was surprised by Lin Li's generosity. He was prepared to pay a large sum for those potions should Lin Li choose to overcharge him. Little did he know, Lin Li didn't even mention anything about money. He accepted the box, and sincerely replied, "You're too kind. How can we take these precious potions for free?"
"Don't decline anymore, Patriarch Claus." Lin Li didn't look reluctant at all to give out 20 Life Potions just like that. It was as if he had just given out some useless things.
As the patriarch of a clan, it wasn't suitable for Claus to say any exaggerated words of gratitude to Lin Li, even though he had asked for the potions shamelessly. After expressing his gratitude appropriately, he carried the potion box back to his team and started using the Life Potions to treat the injured.
After Claus left, Hoffman glanced at the Caesar Family's team, and asked Lin Li, "Master Felic, did you just give out 20 Life Potions for free?"
"For free? Not exactly. I've always loved to make others feel uncomfortable." Lin Li laughed and said no more.
However, Hoffman was an intelligent man. He immediately turned towards the Mithril Alliance's side. Seeing Joseph's increasingly glum face, Hoffman let out a sly smile. The Caesar Family was the Mithril Alliance's firm ally. Now that the Caesar Family managed to get help from the Tower of Dusk, it was clear how Joseph would feel about that.
Just as Hoffman thought, it was impossible for Joseph not to feel anything upon seeing Claus come back with a box of potions from Lin Li. He was very clear that with the Mithril Alliance alone, it would be difficult to deal with the Tower of Dusk, not mentioning the alliance between the Tower of Dusk and Glittergold Trade Union. What was keeping this exploration team in balance was the fact that the Mithril Alliance had allied with the Caesar Family.
However, now that the Caesar Family had gotten help from the Tower of Dusk, would they still commit to dealing with the Tower of Dusk in the future? Joseph also knew that the Caesar Family wouldn't be easily bought over by a few potions. However, whether the Caesar Family would give its all to fight the Tower of Dusk should the two alliances turn on each other was a question.
With the Tower of Dusk's Life Potions, the severely injured men from the Caesar Family quickly received the best treatment. With just a little bit of rest, they could recover about 80% of their fighting prowess. This scene made those from the Mithril Alliance extremely envious. However, Joseph would never bow down to seek help from the Tower of Dusk. He would only be humiliated even if he did that.
After each faction settled the problem of the injured men, the leaders of each faction led those who had recovered as well as those who hadn't been injured to continue searching the incubation room. After all, their real objective here wasn't to fight, but to make some gains from this relic site. Thus, searching for valuable things was the prime goal here.
Chapter 879 - Each Took What He Needed
However, the chance of finding anything valuable in the already deserted incubation room after the explosion was even lower. The gear that the team had eyed were almost completely destroyed in the explosion. Even the Time Domain which Claus had booked, the core of this incubation room, was destroyed. Even if they could find any valuable things, it could only be the spare parts.
Lin Li hadn't been too concerned with this incubation room at first. After all, he didn't even want the Time Domain, not to mention these parts that had already lost their function. However, the appearance of the Whispering God made Lin Li judge the value of this incubation again, especially since this Whispering God was very likely to have been created by Prince Brahere himself.
Unfortunately, the entire incubation room was turned into ruins now. Digging a rubbish dump would probably yield more valuables than this place now. Seeing that each faction's team had spread out to search the place inch by inch, Lin Li suddenly thought of the equipment which had held the black magical crystal back when he dived into the pool. He didn't know if there was anything left of it after the explosion.
However, just as Lin Li prepared to take a look at the pool, he heard joyful calls from the Mithril Alliance's team. Lin Li turned and saw a green spherical object with holes on it lying in Joseph's hands. Feeble murmurs came out from those holes.
Lin Li frowned a little, and relaxed his brows instantly. Back at the Endless World, after Paladin Francis had killed that Whispering God, someone had picked up the same thing was what Joseph was holding now. The system named it the Whispering God's heart. Be it its heart or brain, this green sphere was the Whispering God's essential organ. Those mind controlling whispers were produced by this essential organ. Thus, the Whispering God's special ability was also known as Heart Whisper.
Joseph didn't know the Whispering God, so he wouldn't know anything about the Whispering God's heart. However, just from the whispers alone, he could guess that the source of the monster's mind-controlling abilities was this thing.
This really was a treasure! Recalling the scene during the battle against the monster, Joseph looked at this sphere in his hands, and all the gloominess in his heart was immediately swept away.
Under the current Magic System, mental spells like Allure could affect people's mind, but magic that could control a large number of people like the Whispering God's whispers was unheard of. Although the scope of the mind-controlling whispers only extended to this incubation room in the battle just now, Joseph could totally visualize how the effect of the whispers could extend even further if it was used in a more spacious room. That would make it an invincible weapon! As long as he could find the right way to use it, it would become the most formidable weapon the Mithril Alliance possessed.
He could even analyze the principles behind how the whispers were produced, and create a new Forbidden Spell. As the one who had this magic, he would be a man of high status in the whole of Anril. Thinking of how much benefits this Whispering God's heart could potentially bring for him, Joseph couldn't hide the excitement he was feeling now.
Seeing that Joseph was holding the Whispering God's heart with inconcealable joy, Lin Li didn't feel any sense of jealousy at all. Instead, he shook his head with a smile. Lin Li could guess what Joseph was plotting from his facial expression. However, how could the secrets behind the Whispering God's heart be so easily deciphered?
Back at the Endless World, the Whispering God's heart which was left behind also stirred up a storm amongst players in the game as if an artifact had appeared. Everyone had the same thought as Joseph: they wanted to either use it to create a powerful magical weapon or analyze the powerful heart-whispering magic behind it.
What was the outcome? Lin Li still remembered that the last owner of that Whispering God's heart had been rumored to have put in immense effort to invite numerous NPCs from different fields who had reached the peak of Guru-level, hoping to crack the secrets of the Whispering God's heart. However, those NPCs didn't even do any research on the Whispering God's heart after they had seen it, and told its owner that it wasn't a realm mortals could reach. Rather than consulting them, he might have a better chance if he took it to the gods and prayed.
In the end, the owner of that Whispering God's heart didn't pray to the gods. Instead, he sold it to the system store out of anger. The most ridiculous thing was that the system only gave him one gold coin for it.
In the setting of the Endless World, there weren't any wars that destroyed a great amount of inheritance like in Anril. Thus, the amount of knowledge in all fields was significantly higher in the Endless World compared to Anril. If not, Lin Li wouldn't have had such a good life in Anril with his knowledge from the Endless World.
Not to mention Gurus who were a step away from becoming Divine Smiths, even a normal Guru was extremely rare to find in the current Anril. People who had reached Master-level were already at the peak of each field. In an environment with this level of knowledge, it was a fool's dream to obtain anything from analyzing the Whispering God's heart.
It wasn't exaggerating to say that even Highlord Osric from the Dark Age might not be able to grasp the skill to create these mind-controlling whispers. As for Prince Brahere who had personally created this Whispering God, he was undeniably a genius, and a true madman.
Lin Li knew that he possibly wasn't as talented as Prince Brahere, so he was naturally not interested in the Whispering God's heart Joseph was holding. However, the others in the team didn't know as much as Lin Li. Be it Hoffman or Claus, both looked rather jealous of Joseph's good luck, and ordered their men to search the room more carefully. Even a piece of garbage had to be properly examined.
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Just as Lin Li was walking towards the pool, Alan came close to him mysteriously, and carefully took out an item away from the Mithril Alliance and Caesar Family's view.
After seeing what Alan had taken out, Lin Li couldn't help but laugh. It was Claus' precious trump card—the form-mimicking magical bugs' hive. He asked, "Alan, how did it end up with you?"
It hadn't been long since Alan reached the Legendary-realm, so he was the first Legendary-mage to exit the battle. If not for the top-grade magical equipment he had carried, he would have fallen out of the Legendary-realm under the Whispering God's devouring of mana.
After exiting the battle, Alan stayed with the Tower of Dusk's team together with those Archmages who had lost their ability to fight. He didn't return to the battlefield anymore other than providing some aid to his surrounding comrades in times of dire crisis. Hence, Lin Li was curious how Claus' hive had landed in Alan's hands.
Upon hearing Lin Li's inquiry, Alan blushed a little, and replied, "All of us were thrown back by those shock waves during the explosion. I was busy casting defense spells for others, but this thing hit my head, so I just kept it."
"Oh, since this originally belonged to the Caesar Family, just return it to them," replied Lin Li with an unbothered tone.
Alan was rather surprised by Lin Li's words. After all, it didn't seem like the President's style to return a benefit that he had obtained. Although those magical bugs didn't help with anything in that battle, they still possessed level-24 power. If not for the fact that he was very familiar with Lin Li's mana waves, Alan would have thought that the President Felic in front of him had been replaced by another person back in the pool.
However, Alan never doubted Lin Li's words. He took the hive and walked towards the Caesar Family's team.
Originally, the Caesar Family was closer to the Mithril Alliance, so they didn't have any particularly good feelings about the Tower of Dusk. However, little did the Caesar Family's team know that the Tower of Dusk would provide them with Life Potions fo
r free. Their attitude towards the Tower of Dusk had changed slightly as a result. Without anyone blocking the way, Alan soon stood next to Claus. Who knew what the two had spoken about, but both made their way towards Lin Li's side afterward.
The magical bugs' hive was still with Alan. After Claus walked closer to Lin Li, he said with some embarrassment, "President Felic, I've heard that you have much expertise on mageweaths. This hive is useless in my hands now. Please accept my humble gift."
Originally, Claus would be able to control those magical bugs again after the Whispering God had been destroyed. Unfortunately, more than half of the mageweaths and magical arrays on the hive had been destroyed during the time the Whispering God had taken control over the bugs. Although the Whispering God lost its control over the bugs after the explosion and the bugs returned to their hive, Claus had lost the ability to control them again.
Moreover, this hive was an item from the High Elves' era. Although it wasn't anything important then, the mageweaths and magical arrays weren't easy to repair given the current level of skills in Anril. Thus, Claus was clear that this thing was basically useless now. Since the Tower of Dusk's men had found it, he might as well do a favor to the Tower of Dusk. After all, the Tower of Dusk probably didn't have the ability to repair it now. Hence, it wouldn't affect the balance of power amongst the factions in the exploration team.
What Claus didn't know was that no faction in Anril could match the Tower of Dusk in terms of expertise in inscription and alchemy. Although the people here perceived this hive to be a powerful magical tool, it was but a toy during the High Elves' era. Thus, it wasn't difficult at all for Lin Li to repair this.
Since Claus had said that he didn't want it, Lin Li naturally wouldn't decline the offer. After all, it possessed level-24 power. As long as they didn't meet an insanely powerful monster like the Whispering God, the hive would be useful.
Joseph saw that Claus and Lin Li had once again engaged in a conversation. However, his emotions weren't very affected by it this time, since he was still immersed in the joy that the Whispering God's heart had brought. His brain was full of images on how the Mithril Alliance, or rather his family, could become the most powerful faction in the Breezy Plains after he had figured out the secrets behind the mind-controlling whispers.