Section 86 The Witchcraft Hot Spring
On the map of the southern mining area, Lance learned that the Hot Spring Valley is not a special name for a canyon famous for hot springs, but a general term for some continuous and dense canyons distributed in the northwest of the southern mining area.
The terrain of these canyons is very strange, directly connecting to the lava underground - perhaps because it is close to the abyss, the strata are relatively light and thin.
This special environment has created the unique advantage of Hot Spring Valley. The hot springs here are almost everywhere, and the valley is filled with water vapor all year round.
A small number of hot springs have magical springs mixed in. Most of these demonized hot springs cannot be soaked directly, otherwise there will be a probability of being contaminated by the chaotic magic power; but after treatment, it becomes a good place for wizards to recover, recuperate and even meditate.
While vigorously building the southern mining area, the Eastern Parliament also developed many witchcraft hot springs in the Hot Spring Valley that were specially provided for wizards.
Rejecting the gracious invitation from the wizard guarding the entrance, Lance began to wander around the southern mining area alone.
In the mining area, there are the most wizards.
These wizards all came for the facilities of the Hot Spring Valley, and a small number of them needed some special ores and went directly to the southern mining area to try their luck. After all, a southern mining area permit can be much cheaper than some rare ores.
It was late at night, and Lance did not immediately find out about the mysterious fruit, but chose to open a hot spring hotel with a better decoration and check in.
The hotel service was very thoughtful, especially when Lance held the Speaker's warrant for the Eastern Parliament. The store manager specially sent a female wizard apprentice to serve Lance.
Lance did not refuse because he needed a lot of information. If there was no local, it would be troublesome to inquire around. Moreover, there was no well-informed place such as a tavern.
If you can make some news from this female apprentice, you can save a lot of energy.
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"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
After staying for half an hour, a knock came from outside the door.
Lance quickly closed the book he was reading and said, "Come in."
"Hello, the private hot spring you booked has been purified. Our store manager recommends that you enter the pool within three hours. If the five hours pass, the water that has just been purified will easily fall into slight pollution again."
The person who came was the female apprentice who was responsible for serving Lance. He still remembered that her name should be Isa.
Lance nodded. He put away the books casually, and under Isa's service, he simply changed his clothes and went to the hot spring area.
The witchcraft hot springs on the Marce Defense Line have actually been well-known in the wizarding world throughout the continent. However, Lance never thought of it before. Now that he has met it, he naturally cannot miss it. And he just took this opportunity to make confusing words from the maid.
Isa led Lance through strange doors and reached the deepest part of an open-air canyon.
While walking, Lance could feel the enthusiastic magic and spell factors here - you should know that this is not a common thing.
If the spell factor in a place is relatively active, this is normal, because the spell factor is not magic, it is just a small matter with a magical foundation. In many parts of this world, there may be a large number of spell factors; but magic is a completely different matter.
Magic itself is composed of witchcraft factors, but its nature is very different from that of witchcraft factors. It has strong aggressiveness, active nature, and has the ability to infect.
In addition to wizards with strong mental power, ordinary animals and even humans, because their mental power is not enough to control magic power, once they touch the magic power emitted by some demonized items, they can easily fall into a demonized state.
For example, when Lance just traveled to this world, the frost demons killed when rescuing Poirot's team were one of the products of demonization. This kind of demonized creature was not innately demonized, but was influenced by some special items acquired. The shadow particles emitted on the Arcane Ring are just a kind of magic factor, and only the magic power in the items it releases regularly is the root of demonization.
If a place is filled with a lot of magic power, it must be a very terrifying place.
If a person with insufficient mental power approaches this place, there are only two possibilities - being injured by the bursting magic, or simply being demonized, losing his mind, and becoming a chaotic creature dominated by magic.
At this time, Lance finally realized why the owner and maids of the hot spring hotel were at least wizard apprentices. Because ordinary people were simply unable to do this job.
The reason why magical hot spring valleys appear in the southern mining area is because of the intersection with the abyss. You must know that magic itself is a representative of the power of chaos. As for the abyss, it is obviously synonymous with chaos.
The close relationship between the two sides is difficult to explain clearly in simple words, and even some legendary wizards do not understand the rules here.
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At the deepest part of the hot spring hotel, a clean pool appeared faintly in front of Lance.
Isa respectfully opened the thin curtain and signaled Lance to enter.
Lance walked in and found that it was a pool of boiling pool water. The color of the pool water was a little dark brown. Surprisingly, unlike the large amount of magic power floating in the air, as soon as he walked into the room of this pool, Lance could only feel a large amount of magic factors, but could not feel any magic power.
"So that's what they call purification. It's about eliminating the chaotic magic in the air and water, leaving only rich and pure spell factors."
Lance entered the pool and felt the medium and high water temperature.
Although the water in this pool is boiling, it is obviously because of the addition of some special medicinal materials, the boiling point of the pool water drops sharply. In fact, according to the feedback from the fox, the temperature in the pool is about forty degrees, and ordinary water cannot boil.
Under Isa's introduction, Lance understood the reason for doing this. Through the continuous boiling and injecting cycles, the extremely high concentration of spell factor in the pool water can be maintained, thereby providing the wizards with the best environment.
In such an environment, the effect is very significant whether it is recovery or meditation.
Lance made a rough estimate and meditated in the witchcraft hot spring every day. Although he absorbed ordinary spell factors, his efficiency was almost as good as Lance's use of the Eternal Bottle.
You should know that the shadow particles have a very high degree of fit for Lance, which is equivalent to the level of quasi-genius!
In other words, if a wizard with an ordinary qualification can meditate in the witchcraft hot spring, his meditation efficiency will not be worse than that of those so-called geniuses!
This is the power of resources!
However, Lance also realized that this way of cultivation is undoubtedly very luxurious. According to the charge for 50 magic stones per hour in the witchcraft hot spring, ten hours of cultivation a day will cost 500 magic stones. In a month, the magic stones used for cultivation alone will exceed 15,000.
This is only one month. If you want to use the witchcraft hot spring day and night for years, you don’t know how much wealth you need to withstand squandering.
When Lance thought of this, he felt a little moved: He was still very lucky. Although his physique was not sensitive to most witchcraft factors, he was lucky enough to get the Eternal Bottle.
The shadow particles provided by the Eternal Bottle made him stand on the starting line with those geniuses, instead of watching those people throw themselves farther and farther away during the long journey of the wizard.
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After understanding the specific effects of the witchcraft hot spring, Lance lost interest in this novel thing.
Before the effect of the Eternal Bottle was lost, he had no need to use such a luxurious way of cultivation.
And he did not forget his real purpose in coming to this place.
"Isa, I heard that there are some weird people living near your Hot Spring Valley. Can you tell me about their interesting things?"
Lance asked.
Isa wore a thin bath towel and tilted her head, saying, "Are you asking those Drews? Those weird people who live in the dark woods all day long but have strange abilities?"
Lans' eyes lit up: "It's them, I'm still very interested in strange things."
Isa held her chin: "It seems that every guest who comes here is very interested in the Drews, and you are no exception. In fact, I don't know much about the Drews. I only know that the big men in the parliament have some agreements with them, and some other gossip, and I don't know whether it is true or false."
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In the following days, Lance visited a small gathering place for wizards called the Hot Springs town during the day, and continued to enjoy the witchcraft hot springs at one hot spring hotel at night.
After a few days, Lance had a certain understanding of the mysterious fruit that Mark Forty-seven mentioned.
The Drews in Isa's mouth are the owner of this mysterious fruit - others understand it so, but the Drews themselves do not view it so.
In fact, judging from the news that Lance found, the Drews are a very strange group. They are very similar to humans, but have completely different languages and cultures. They live in a grand canyon in the southeast of the Hot Spring Valley, which is extremely vast and even a dark forest inside.
The Drews worship a plant that looks similar to a palm tree, but is regarded as a god by the Drews. They call it [Anzura].
The fruits that Anzula bears regularly every year are regarded as gifts of the gods by the Dru people.
According to rumors, once an ordinary person takes Anzura, he can greatly improve his physical fitness and obtain one or even two supernatural abilities at the same time - and these abilities have nothing to do with witchcraft.
Some people even say that the Eastern Parliament and the Drews signed an agreement, which roughly stated that the Drews would sell half of the annual output of Anzura to the Eastern Parliament at a high price in exchange for protection of the Eastern Parliament. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!