Messenger Bird

Before leaving Killer Lake, the Sorceress hinted that he should visit the Alchemy Room after the banquet.

Therefore, after leading the apprentices to the main castle hall, Ailin drank a couple of cups and then left Huus and the others behind.

We arrived at the second floor of the tower.

The door to the Alchemy Room was slightly ajar. After Ailin opened the door and entered, he found that Mary, unusually, was not refining the Essence Fluid.

She held a semi-transparent, palm-sized "bird" with complete concentration.

"This is a magical item to facilitate communication between you."

With a snap of her fingers, the Sorceress summoned another transparent bird that fluttered its wings a few times and flew toward him with remarkable realism.

After a moment of hesitation, Ailin extended his right hand and let it fall into his palm.

After landing, the peculiar little bird even used its translucent beak to preen its feathers.

Take a closer look.

The Crystal Bird's wings are uniquely adorned with crystal-clear, distinct feathers.

With a thought, he performed an appraisal on the Crystal Bird.

[Name: Love Message Bird]

[Type: Magical Item]

[Function: Activated by magic, a thought can be input to fly to another owner of a lovebird.]

[Note: During humanity's darkest times, they once conveyed the true feelings of a pair of lovers.]

To convey the true feelings of a couple in love?

Is it the Chief Executive and Lady Vesemir?

After glancing at the notes, Ailin looked up and asked curiously:

"Lady Vesemir, did you craft this prop?"

"A gift from an elf friend."

The Sorceress seemed unwilling to talk more.

Her eyes flickered as she glanced at the bird in Ailin's hand, a hint of reluctance in her gaze. However, seeing Ailin's apparent reluctance, she urged him on:

"No need to refuse. Ban Ade and Kaer Morhen are far apart, and letters cannot be delivered in time."

"Infuse it with magic; you need it more than I do."

With her refusal blocked and Ailin needing to stay in touch with Mary to stay informed about the Pact of the Wolves, she stopped being coy.

"Thank you, Lady Vesemir." He expressed his sincere gratitude.

Mary then realized the problem, and with difficulty, she shifted her attention away from the cute and delicate lovebird, and said in a sweet, high-pitched voice:

"Thank you, mentor!"

Then she asked, "By the way, mentor, such an exquisite prop must have a nice name, right?"

With a slight upturn of her lips, the Sorceress said with great interest, "They are called lovebirds."

Lovebirds... lovebirds...

Mary was stunned by what she heard, and subconsciously glanced at Ailin, who was looking down and channeling magic.

A faint blush crept onto her small, fair cheeks; she seemed lost in thought.

The Sorceress summoned him for more than just this one reason.

However, after Ailin and Mary finished trying out the lovebirds, she twirled her slender fingers, glanced at the oblivious Mary, pondered for a moment, and then sighed.

In the end, he didn't say anything more and just let him leave.

Back at his lodgings, Ailin was still pondering the meaning of the Sorceress's sigh, but after half an hour of thought, he still couldn't figure it out.

"Never mind, if it were something really important, Lady Vesemir would have told me directly."

Stop hesitating, and with a change of heart, open the Witcher's Handbook.

In the past few days, I've obtained a total of 17 Water Ghost Chests, two Foglet Chests, and two Ghoul Chests from monster hunting.

They were all small treasure chests, but Ailin still held the Goddess Meritellie Amulet with reverence.

Although the goddess wasn't home last time, what if she's home this time?

"Goddess Meritellie, please bless me with a gold drop!"

[Ding! 18 Water Ghost Chests, 2 Foglet Chests, and 2 Ghoul Chests have been opened]

One after another, streaks of light, some blue and some white, flashed by, and in the blink of an eye, twenty streaks of light flashed by.

Just as Ailin thought his luck was running out today, a purple light flashed.

"It's Ghoul treasure chest!"

Is it a potion recipe? Or a tool? Or a ritual?

The long-unseen, dazzling purple light made his heart race.

Finally, the light disappeared.

A familiar, bright red heart, throbbing, transformed into a piece of parchment before Ailin's eyes.

The mind jumps to the inventory.

[Name: Ghoul's Heart Essence Extract]

[Type: Potion Recipe]

[Refining Requirements: Alchemy LV4]

[Recipe: Ghoul Heart]

[Function: Increases strength]

[Note: Power! Power! Power!]

It really is Heart Essence Fluid formula!

The Witcher Company takes off!

Although it's only purple quality, the formula for Heart Essence Fluid is especially important to Captain Ailin!

Moreover, unlike the Drowner Heart Essence Fluid, which only increases strength by 0.1 and constitution by 0.2 per serving.

Although it's unknown how many portions of Essence Fluid are needed to reach the limit, two portions of Ghoul Heart Essence Fluid can increase strength by a little.

In terms of the magnitude of the attribute enhancement, it far surpasses that of the Drowner Heart Essence Fluid.

If we take the maximum of twenty portions of the Drowner Heart Essence Fluid, it can increase strength by a total of ten points.

It directly doubles the strength attribute of the legion members.

More importantly, when dealing with heavily armored human units, strength is the most suitable attribute for legion members to increase.

From the perspective of the ease of obtaining materials.

Although there are not as many Ghoul as water ghosts, they are still the most common monsters in the Northern Continent.

Because they are attracted to the smell of fresh corpses, they will appear near any newly dug graves and will also prey on living people when they have a numerical advantage.

So you can easily encounter them by just wandering around the city's cemetery or the battlefield.

The combination of these two aspects makes it arguably the most suitable Essence Fluid formula for the Witcher Company at present.

Moreover, Ailin himself was far from reaching the upper limit of Ghoul Heart Essence Fluid.

"Tsk tsk~"

"The lads in the Production and Construction Corps are really lucky!"

"I just finished using the Drowner Heart Essence Fluid, and now I can keep up with the Ghoul's Heart Essence Fluid."

Ailin exclaimed in admiration a few times, then pondered:

"I wonder how much the Ghoul Heart Essence Fluid increases the maximum strength? It would be great if there was no limit to the increase!"

After checking the formula, Ailin mentally opened the system messages.

[Rewards: Rotten Flesh*8, Lesser Experience Orbs *7, Experience Orbs *1, Fog Bead *1, Drowner Heart Essence Fluid *2, Drowner Whistle *2, Ghoul Heart Essence Fluid Recipe]

Um...

The other items you get from the treasure chests are pretty good too.

It can be used with at least rotten flesh.

Especially with the Fog Bead, paired with the Foglet Arm Bone, Ailin had a greater grasp on many of Ban Ade's plans.

After opening the treasure chest, he immediately used up two portions of the Foglet's Heart Essence Fluid and four portions of the Ghoul's Heart Essence Fluid.

[Attributes: Strength 32 (+1), Agility 31 (+2), Constitution 31, Perception 18, Mysticism 41 (+1)]

"Phew~"

He exhaled a breath of stale air, feeling the intense power surging within his body.

Ailin looked up.

As dusk approached, clusters of fiery clouds drifted leisurely across the sky.

"The banquet is almost over. Shall we call the members to try out their newly acquired legion skills?"

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