Chapter 19: Magic Crystal

  "No matter what, you guys saved my life. In the future, if there's anything I can help with, I definitely won't decline..." Although Lin Chen seemed to have taken the lifesaving incident lightly, this warrior still insisted on saying so, after all, a debt of gratitude for saving one's life is something that even if Lin Chen didn't take seriously, others wouldn't be able to ignore either.

  "Can you lend a hand?", Lin Chen, who had not been paying much attention to the conversation, felt a slight stir in his heart upon hearing this sentence. He then asked, "How much do you know about the situation in Luorixin Forest?"

  "The depths of the Setting Sun Forest I don't know much about, because most of the magical beasts inside are above level 4, but the outskirts of the Setting Sun Forest, I'm quite familiar with. After all, I'm a mercenary and have been through there for several years..." The warrior replied, although he wasn't clear why Lin Chen asked this question.

  "Do you know where the Bone-tempering Flower is in the Sunset Forest? Or which area has more medicinal herbs?" Lin Chen asked, secretly delighted to hear that the warrior was quite familiar with the outskirts of the Sunset Forest.

  "Tempered Bone Flower?" The warrior furrowed his brow, a thoughtful expression on his face. He shook his head reluctantly and said, "I've been in the Sunset Forest for so long, but I've only heard that someone accidentally picked a Tempered Bone Flower half a year ago. As for whether there is any now, I don't know. If there really was a place with Tempered Bone Flowers, I think it would have been taken by others already."

  "Oh, that's it then......" Hearing the warrior's words, Lin Chen and Xia Lu were both extremely disappointed. But thinking about it also made sense. If even a mercenary knew where to find the Bone Tempering Flower, wouldn't it have been taken by someone else already? Could they still be waiting for the two of them to arrive now?

  Looking at Lin Chen and Xia Lu's disappointed expressions, the warrior seemed to have thought of something, hesitated slightly, before asking: "You're looking for the Tempering Bone Flower, are you continuing it for someone very close to you?"

  "Uh, a very important person...", looking at Xia Lu's appearance beside him, Lin Chen nodded seriously and said in a low voice.

  "Since that's the case, I'll tell you some news, but be careful yourselves...", The warrior nodded his head and said seriously: "If you really need the Tempered Bone Flower, I think there is a place where it should be, but that place is extremely dangerous".

  "What a place! Where is the Bone Flower?", Xialu, who was beside her, heard the news of the Bone Flower and asked excitedly with a look of agitation on her face.

  "In the depths of the Setting Sun Forest, a pharmacist is hiding, said to be a perfect-grade pharmacist. He has planted many medicinal herbs in the depths, if it's said that Bone Tempering Flower exists, I think he should also have it planted."

  Upon hearing Xia Lu's words and seeing her anxious appearance, it was clear that Lin Chen and the others were in dire need of the Tempering Flower. However, as soon as this was mentioned, the warrior's expression turned grave: "But that perfect-level pharmacist is a lunatic who has lost all sense of morality, a wanted criminal being pursued by the Empire, extremely dangerous, and he also has a great swordsman and a great demon mage escorting him."

  "Wanted criminal? Two master-level professionals guarding? A madman? ", Hearing the warrior's words, Xia Lu's face darkened for a moment. Perfect-level pharmacist, Xia Lu knew exactly what this meant.

  A perfect pharmacist, enough to make anyone treat him with courtesy, if he hadn't really done something outrageous, the empire wouldn't have declared a wanted notice for a perfect pharmacist, after all, this is a great loss for the empire.

  "Hmm, we know, thanks for the intel...". Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's heart secretly made a plan, nodding his head towards the warrior and saying as he turned to leave with Xia Lu.

  "Wait a minute...", the warrior spoke up, looking at Lin Chen who was about to leave, causing him to stop in his tracks. The warrior held out the small half-bottle of healing potion that remained in his hand and offered it to Lin Chen, "This is your medicine, I still have some left, you take it back."

  "Never mind, it's just a small bottle of medicine, you can keep it yourself." Seeing the half-empty bottle of medicine, he actually wanted to return it to himself. Lin Chen smiled and waved his hand indifferently, while secretly marveling at the value of medicine in this world. If it weren't extremely expensive, this warrior wouldn't have done so.

  "Alright, since it's like that, I'll just swallow my pride and accept it," Hearing Lin Chen's words, the soldier hastily nodded his head. Although it was only half a bottle, the medicinal effect of this small half-bottle was several times stronger than those ordinary healing medicines on the market.

  Having this is almost like having an extra life, which is absolutely tempting for mercenaries who have been walking on the edge of knives all year round. What do mercenaries pursue? Only three things: equipment, medicine and women...

  Since Lin Chen said that this small bottle of medicine was given to himself, the warrior didn't pretend to be polite and nodded to accept it. Immediately after, he ran quickly to the side of the Flame Wolf King's corpse, took out a sharp dagger, inserted it into the wolf king's brain, dug out a thumb-sized pale red crystal-like object, and handed it over to Lin Chen, "This flame wolf king's magic crystal, you must take it. Otherwise, I will really feel guilty."

  "Magic crystal?", Lin Chen was taken aback as he looked at the magic crystal dug up by the warrior, nodded and took it over. The pale red magic crystal, only the size of a fingernail, felt warm to the touch. At the same time, Lin Chen lowered his head and nodded secretly.

  Flame Wolf King Magic Crystal: Living material, can be used for inlaying, medicine making.

  "Can it be inlaid?", The flame system's magic crystal can be used to refine medicine, Lin Chen understands this point, and it can also be inlaid, Lin Chen also understands, but what Lin Chen didn't think of was that the magical beasts in this world actually have such a thing as magic crystals.

  "Does every magical beast in this world have a magic crystal?" Lin Chen nodded while looking at the data of the Flame Wolf King's magic crystal, and then asked the puzzled warrior.

  When Lin Chen asked such a common sense question, the warrior looked at him with some surprise, but didn't say much, just shook his head and said: "No, only magic beasts above the third level have magic crystals, and the energy contained in the magic crystal of a third-level magic beast is too small to be of any use. Only magic beasts above the fourth level do magic crystals have an effect."

  "Oh, I see, I understand now......" Lin Chen nodded and said in a daze.

  If other magical beasts have magic crystals, then Lin Chen has killed so many magical beasts along the way, wasting countless materials, it's a pity. Now hearing that only third-tier or higher magical beasts have magic crystals, and third-tier magic crystals are useless, Lin Chen nodded, feeling a bit more at ease in his heart.

  "Demons and humans in this place share a commonality, before the third stage, they cannot exert elemental power, so they cannot condense demon crystals. Only those who can exert elemental power can condense their own demon crystals..." At this time, Lin Chen heard and nodded, walking up to give a detailed explanation.

  "Oh, I see...", nodded Lin Chen, then turned around to bid farewell to the warrior before heading deeper into the Sunset Forest. If he really couldn't find the Tempering Flower, he would go to the depths of the forest to look for that pharmacist. This was Lin Chen's current plan.