Chapter 12 Spell Formula
After confirming that Amy did not follow, Gothe wandered around the streets, looking for a suitable store.
In addition to being often located in the center of the city, a city's commercial district also has another characteristic, which is that it is often developed around the city's main palace, church or market square.
The same is true for Hogan City, where the business district is built around the city square.
Although it conforms to the law of development, in fact the street layout of Hogan City's commercial district is still very chaotic and lacks unified planning.
There is only one main road, running in the north-south direction, leading to the city square.
There are several branch roads, forming several narrow alleys.
These alleys contain many small business shops and workshops because the flow of people is not large and the corresponding store rents are not high.
After Goode walked through several alleys, he finally found his target.
This is a grocery store. Compared with the magnificent facades of other large stores, it is much simpler and its location is also remote.
At the already simple doorway, an even simpler wooden sign was erected.
There are a few words scrawled on it:
Pierre's Grocery Store sells all kinds of finished medicines, divine water, herbs, and herb seeds;
Sells all kinds of materials and ores (including magic crystals);
Sells all kinds of low-level spell accessories and talismans;
Part-time item recycling and treasure identification.
Looking at the wooden sign with the atmosphere of a small workshop, Gothe nodded slightly.
This is exactly what he needs.
When Goude walked into the grocery store, the store owner Pierre was curled up on the recliner behind the counter, resting with his eyes half open.
It can be seen that the business of grocery stores is not very good.
"See for yourself if you need anything. If it's not on the shelves, it doesn't mean it's not in the store. There are still some goods in the warehouse at the back." The store owner Pierre was an old man who looked much older. He clearly heard Gothe's footsteps but he didn't even raise his head and said hello casually.
Gaode glanced around casually and found that although the items here were numerous and messy, they were very tidy.
“I saw on the wooden sign at the door that it says items are recycled. Do you accept everything?” Gaode said straight to the point.
"Of course not," Pierre shook his head, still not intending to get up, "This is a grocery store, not a garbage dump. It must be something of certain value."
"What about the potions?" Gothe said while browsing the potions displayed on the shelves. There were extremely many types, but they were all level 0 potions.
"Look at the goods." Pierre became a little more interested after hearing this. He finally opened his half-closed eyes and got up from the recliner.
The primary spider poison potion is not a rare treasure. There is no need to hide it. Gothe immediately took out three small bottles of the primary spider poison potion from the package and placed it on the counter.
"Elementary Spider Poison Potion," a glimmer of light flashed through Pierre's eyes, which was a sign of casting [Detection Magic], and then he nodded and said: "The aura is very bright, and the quality is good."
If you master a spell, you can be called a mage apprentice, so the shopkeeper in front of him is at least a mage apprentice, and at his age, no matter how talented he is, his strength must be higher than his own. Gaode muttered secretly.
"The purchase price for a set of primary spider poison potions in my group is usually 30 silver. Your goods are of good quality. I will give you an extra 1 silver for each vial, making a set of 33 silver." Pierre directly offered the price.
It is definitely a very real purchase price. The long-term purchase price negotiated by Master Seda is only 40 silver (2 gold).
"Deal." Gaode was very satisfied and agreed immediately.
After handing over the money and delivering the goods, Gaode did not leave.
"Do you need anything else?" Pierre asked proactively.
Gothe approached the counter and lowered his voice, "Do you have any spell formulas for sale here?"
There was a moment of dead silence.
"In Xi'an, private trading of spell formulas is strictly prohibited." The politeness on Pierre's face faded and he became expressionless.
In fact, not only the Principality of Xi'an, but basically all countries on the entire continent have similar regulations, classifying magic formulas as controlled items and restricting private transactions.
If a mage wants to purchase spell formulas, he can only go to the official mage association or some officially approved mage organization.
There are many reasons why this is so.
In the world before Gaode's time travel, there were generally three categories of controlled items:
The first category was those that had strong lethality and might pose a strong threat to social security, such as guns and ammunition, controlled knives.
The first category was items that infringed on intellectual property rights, including pirated software, pirated audio and video products, etc.
The last category is items that can provide huge profits and the product itself may cause harm, the most typical one is tobacco.
As for the spell formula, it actually meets all three conditions.
First of all, it allows the buyer to master spells with powerful lethality or destructive power, which is equivalent to "guns and ammunition", or even worse.
In addition, spell formulas are extremely profitable. In the final analysis, they are just a piece of paper + some text. They cost almost nothing, but they can be sold for astonishingly high prices.
The average price of a 0-level spell recipe is as high as 6 gold, which is already hundreds or thousands of times the profit, and the average price of a 1-level spell recipe is as high as 25 gold. Because it actually sells knowledge, and the paper is just a carrier.
Finally, spell formulas are too easy to fake, and private transactions cannot guarantee the authenticity of the formulas.
Once the fake formula spreads, it will cause serious harm to the entire country - it is called a spell formula because mastering the spell requires not only diligent practice and talent, but also the consumption of the corresponding magic potion.
So a complete spell recipe, in addition to the spell introduction, spell model, and casting techniques, also includes the corresponding potion recipe.
If you buy a fake spell formula, you will make a fake medicine, which will ruin your fortune. It is a high probability that someone will die if you take the fake medicine.
Based on the above, various countries have implemented strict control over spell formulas, which can not only increase national income, but also maintain market order, protect the "intellectual property rights" of mages, and avoid the proliferation of spells, killing four birds with one stone.
Of course, no matter how strict the control is, it is impossible to completely prohibit the private trading of magic formulas.
Because the act of trading itself is difficult to identify.
For example, Master Seda teaches tricks to his apprentices. This is obviously not considered a transaction and is allowed.
So many private transactions of magic formulas can be called teaching as long as there is no evidence. Who can do anything to you?
Of course, in most cases, mages would rather buy spell formulas from official channels at high prices than choose private transactions, even if the price of private transactions is much cheaper - the spell formulas from official channels are more expensive, but they can guarantee the authenticity. Who can guarantee the authenticity of spell formulas from other channels?
After all, the threshold for formula fraud is too low, everyone can do it, and the materials required for potions are often much more expensive than the formula.
In order to save a little money, I bought a fake formula, and then wasted more money to buy materials to prepare a bottle of fake magic potion, which is not worth the gain.
(End of this chapter)