Choice

For two consecutive days and nights, I was in a state of mental concentration preparing incense, and I didn't forget to clean the library during that time.

Two days later, Green, who was in an abnormally excited state and had dark circles under his eyes, arrived at the trading plaza on the first floor of Black Tower with thirty bottles of perfume.

"Could you please help me consign these thirty bottles of perfume for one magic stone each?"

Green spoke to a wizarding apprentice who was studying a magic book.

The wizard apprentice was a very fat man. Although he wore a large robe, it could not hide his fat body. His eyes were almost squeezed into slits by the flesh on his face.

The fat man looked up at Green and asked in surprise, "Fragrance? What's that? I have plenty of nectar."

"Uh... it's a kind of potion that can change the essence of body odor and personality. It has a certain subconscious attraction to the opposite sex. It's a little gadget I invented."

Green gave a brief explanation.

"Oh? To attract the opposite sex?"

The fat man seemed interested and wanted to open a bottle of perfume to try it out, but Green quickly stopped him, saying, "There are two kinds of perfume, one for men and one for women. Using them indiscriminately could have the opposite effect."

Under Green's guidance, the fat man closed his eyes, gently opened a bottle, smelled it, and remained quiet for a while. Suddenly, the fat man opened his eyes and looked at Green with a look of surprise.

"What's the name of this fragrance? What a wonderful potion! I'm actually feeling a surge of adolescent excitement, like that inexplicable heart-pounding feeling of first crushing on a girl. It's such a strange experience!"

"Uh... a name? Let's call her Venus, the goddess of love."

Green thought the fat man's words were a bit exaggerated.

  

I smelled it myself, and although the fragrance was also very appealing to me, it was nowhere near as exaggerated as the fat man described.

Could it be because I've never truly been in a relationship?

Green used the mindset of a wizard to speculate.

"Venus, the goddess of love? Haha, what a great name! But I have a suggestion: how about selling this Venus of Love for two magic stones a bottle?"

The fat man was naturally happy that this rare potion could fetch a good price, as it meant he could get more compensation.

"Two magic stones for a bottle? Isn't that too expensive?"

Grimm looked at the fat man with some suspicion. In Grimm's opinion, spending two magic stones for a bottle of incense that would not improve any combat power was a huge waste.

The fat man, however, scoffed, "Anyone who can afford this kind of incense wouldn't care about a magic stone. Do you think everyone in this academy is a newbie still struggling for magic stones? Besides, who said I was going to sell this incense to those wizarding apprentices?"

"You mean... sell them to those great wizards!"

Green's mouth was wide open.

Seeing Green's startled reaction, the fat man couldn't help but marvel at how such an unsophisticated guy could invent such a wondrous potion!

What's wrong with wizards? Wizards are human too. And wizards with long lifespans are more likely to value such wondrous luxuries.

The idea of ​​using scent to attract the opposite sex, instead of just a fragrance, actually evokes a feeling of intense heat and excitement, like when you first get close to someone of the opposite sex.

Later, Green dragged his tired body back to his room, collapsed onto the bed, and slowly fell asleep.

After sleeping for a full day, Green finally woke up slowly.

After casually eating some spare dry rations, Green thought for a moment. It seemed that there was a very important lesson for him today, taught by a reputable wizard on the simple application of soul magic. This was a course to lay the foundation for wizards to cultivate companions and soul slaves in the future.

Green had previously neglected almost everything else because he was too focused on studying "Hunter Nose Modification and Scent Mapping," but now that the trial exam was approaching, Green had to hurry up and prepare.

However, attending the lectures required magic stones as payment, and I had used all of my one and a half magic stones to buy raw materials for making perfume.

After scratching his head in worry, Green walked toward Black Tower, intending to see how many bottles of potion the fat man who had given the guarantee had sold, as he was currently in dire need of magic stones.

"Oh... my dear Venus, the great inventor of love, you've finally arrived!"

The fat man rushed towards Green like a gust of wind, which completely stunned Green. How could he do that with his obese size?

Green quickly asked, "What's wrong? Is the fragrance selling well?"

"Not just good, it's amazing! I only recommended this Venus of Love to one wizard today, and after just a little experience, he was so delighted that he bought all thirty bottles!"

The fat man laughed excitedly, "He didn't even ask me the price!"

Green was dumbfounded. Was it really necessary to go to such lengths? It was just a fragrance he had invented by chance.

"Hehe, so I raised the price a bit more, saying it was three magic stones a bottle. But the wizard completely ignored me, just tossed me a mid-grade magic stone, and didn't even ask for change!"

The fat man grinned smugly and eagerly asked Green, "How's it going? Do you have any more perfume? I guarantee you'll have a booming market. I'll sell as much as you bring in, and I'll even sell it to other wizarding academies within the Seventh Ring Holy Tower area!"

He accepted the ninety magic stones handed to him by the fat man, ten of which were as payment for the consignment.

While excited, Green hesitated and said, "I can prepare incense anytime, but it will take me a lot of time and effort. Also, since the trial exam is approaching, and I don't lack magic stones right now, I plan to focus on improving my strength. In the future, I can only prepare some for you when I'm short of magic stones."

The fat man was a little disappointed, but he also knew how cruel the trial exam was, so he didn't try to persuade him further. He nodded and said, "I see... alright then. Leave me your crystal ball information, and we can keep in touch. My name is Digen, you can just call me Fatty."

"Um."

Later, Green quietly left Hessot Tower.

As someone who possessed a huge fortune of ninety magic stones, Green was somewhat uneasy, fearing that the wizarding apprentices might curse him to death out of envy.

Before, Green was penniless and didn't have to worry about anyone eyeing him, but things are different now...

"We have to put the issue of symbiotic parasites on the agenda. Fortunately, we had made some preparations beforehand and found a few decent samples."

Green jogged to the lecture hall, paid the fee for the magic stones, and was able to enter the classroom as he wished.

This was a wizard whose speech had a mechanical quality. Beneath his wide robe, his eyes appeared as two wisps of black mist, drifting and swirling, eerie and mysterious, making it impossible for others to tell whether this wizard was male or female.

This wizard seems to be quite obsessed with soul magic.

"Hehehehe, soul magic is the most sublime and elegant art of wizards, the most essential core of life. Do you know what those otherworldly creatures call us wizards? That's right, they call us world slave owners, which shows their fear of our control over soul slaves. This is the art of our great wizard souls..."

A class lasts for two hourglasses. For the first half of the class, the somewhat neurotic wizard about soul magic praised its greatness and its history in the wizarding world. Only in the second half of the class did he begin to truly explain the application of soul magic.

However, it must be said that this wizard does have quite unique and refined insights into soul magic. He put forward unique theories in many places that made Green feel enlightened and enlightened. It can be seen that this wizard is indeed very talented.

After the lecture, Green went straight to the Black Tower again, but this time he went straight to the seventh floor and stood in front of the wizard apprentice named Varo.

Varo's job was quite easy; usually only a few people came a day. Therefore, he remembered Green and chuckled, "Yo, have you collected enough magic stones?"

"Um."

Green didn't say much, and handed twenty magic stones to Varo. Varo accepted the magic stones without ceremony and chuckled.

"Alright, leave your crystal ball imprint with me. My mentor will still be here these few days. I'll call you when he leaves. Don't worry, I won't cheat you out of twenty magic stones."

After hesitating for a moment, Green felt that since this person was able to find such an easy job as a clerk on the seventh floor of Black Tower, he must have considerable influence, and it was unlikely that he would lie to him for twenty magic stones.

After exchanging the crystal ball markings, Green returned to the cabin, sat in front of the experimental table, and looked at the insects he had collected.

Green is making a decision about the companion insect.

In theory, almost any insect can be a wizard's companion insect, because the unique characteristics of the insect's soul will passively increase the wizard's resistance to curses and illusions. However, for the closest "partner" in a wizard's life, all wizards still hope that their companion insect can have some unique characteristics.

Of the seven types of insects Green collected, three could be ruled out. Green remained hesitant and undecided about the remaining four.

The first type of insect is called the carrion beetle.

These worms were collected by Green from a cursed wizard apprentice who died. After being cursed, the apprentice's body was devoured by these terrifying worms in a matter of moments. It can be said that carrion worms are extremely cruel by nature.

Therefore, Green paid attention and carefully collected some.

The second type of insect is called a horsefly snail, which is a parasite.

In spring, this insect is eaten by small coprophagous organisms from the droppings of wild cranes, and then parasitizes these small organisms.

However, the terrifying thing about this parasite is that it can cause small organisms it hosts to mutate, which can be simply put as having extra legs, extra arms, or the like.

Then, these mutated little creatures, because of their limited mobility, are easily eaten by wild cranes, thus completing a perfect "cycle" for the parasite.

Few people pay attention to these insects. Green only noticed them by chance when he was studying bloodline witchcraft, so he caught some after keeping an eye on them.

The third type of insect is called a moth.

This is a type of companion insect most beloved by wizard apprentices on the Wizarding Continent. This companion insect is not very aggressive, and when a wizard uses it as a companion insect, it has only one effect: to greatly increase the lifespan of the wizard apprentice, from two hundred years to three hundred years!

The fourth type of worm, whose name Green didn't even know, was one that he accidentally found in a test tube while throwing away trash, and there was no record of this mud-like amoeba in the library.

Green guessed that perhaps the insect was the product of a wizard's apprentice or a wizard's failed experiment.

Green has only discovered one function of this strange insect so far: it has a strong life force, similar to that of an earthworm. Even if it is cut in two, it can still live, and the two pieces will grow into two new life forms.

Four test tubes containing worms were placed in front of Green, and a thoughtful look appeared in Green's eyes. Which one should he choose?

After some hesitation, Green removed both bugs number one and number four.

Although man-eating worms are extremely aggressive, unless absolutely necessary, wizards generally do not use them to attack enemies of the same class unless they are wizards who specialize in cultivating companion worms. Therefore, in Green's view, the aggressiveness of man-eating worms is a useless ability.

As for the fourth type of insect, since Green guessed it was a failed product of a wizard or wizard's apprentice, this proves that there are successful products. Generally speaking, the abilities of successful and failed products are vastly different.

Moreover, the fourth type of insect has a very unstable factor, namely its reproductive ability. It seems that as a failed product, it has lost its reproductive ability. So, is it possible to keep cutting it in half artificially to reproduce?

With a sigh, Green looked at the moth.

Indeed, there is a reason why so many wizarding apprentices love their companion insects.

However, Green did not rashly abandon the horsefly, because Green had discovered an interesting phenomenon: the horsefly's ability to promote biological mutation was a force that promoted biological "evolution"!

Uh... although this "evolution" is a failed and deformed evolution.

However, since it was evolution, but no bloodline magic was used, this made some connections in Green's mind.

Perhaps this has some special connection to the witchcraft of "Nose Modification"?

Finally, Green decided to cultivate the horsefly snails on a live frog for a period of time, so that he could see the experimental results after obtaining access to a high-level microscope.

Thinking this, Green left the house for a moment and returned with a frog in his hand. He gently cut off one of the frog's hind legs to use as a normal living specimen. After stopping the bleeding, Green began to cultivate horseflies inside the poor frog's body...