First Fortune

"What's he doing?" Lan Yu wondered curiously.

In the Troll Forest under the night sky, Lu Yang had fully recovered and was continuing to kill Trolls, not stopping until the morning of the next day in the real world.

Using a City Return Scroll, Lu Yang returned from the Troll Forest to St. Gall City and ran to the Goblin camp in the west of the city, where he found Bisel in the council hall.

"Buddy, you're back! How were the results?" Bisel was chatting with Settar about something, but when he saw Lu Yang, he happily walked over.

Lu Yang took out 200 Troll Bone Chains from his backpack and handed them to Bisel, saying, "I killed 200 in total."

"Oh, brother, you're really something! You truly live up to your size. Here are 40 silver coins," Bisel said, taking a bag from his waist and handing it to Lu Yang.

System Notification: You have received 40 silver coins.

Lu Yang was a little excited. Forty silver coins didn't seem like much, but it was only the third day since the server opened, and the game currency to real-world currency exchange function wasn't available yet. A large guild's liquid assets were only a few dozen silver coins, and the 40 silver coins in Lu Yang's hands could accomplish a lot.

"I'll come find you again tomorrow," Lu Yang said goodbye to Bisel. After leaving the Goblin camp, he went to the auction house in the east district of St. Gall City, planning to buy a large quantity of herbs for making Antitoxin Potions.

In Second World, players cannot pass through each other. That is, if a player occupies a spot, others cannot walk through them. For this reason, the commercial buildings in Second World are built very grandly.

The auction house in the east district was a landmark commercial building. The three-story auction house had a foundation area of more than 8,000 square meters, and the main entrance alone was 50 meters wide, capable of accommodating 10,000 players participating in auctions at the same time.

At this time, many players were already visiting the auction house, but most of them were lifestyle players, selling herbs, animal skins, ores, and other items they had collected.

On each floor of the hall, there were many NPCs who could help players with auctions, as well as equipment similar to bank ATMs, allowing players to participate in auctions independently.

Lu Yang found a self-service auction device, first putting the Silver-grade bow and arrow that Wokins had dropped up for auction, setting the price at a minimum of 50 silver coins, with no upper limit. Then, he selected the herb category and found Stone Root Herb, Withered Leaf Herb, and Silver Leaf Herb. These three herbs were the raw materials for making Antitoxin Potions.

Herb auctions at the auction house were generally in sets of 30, with only a small number of high-end herbs being allowed to be auctioned individually.

He looked at the prices of the herbs and found that the three herbs had the same price, with a maximum price of 10 copper coins per set and a minimum price of 3 copper coins per set, which surprised him.

He remembered that in his previous life, after players gradually obtained the Antitoxin Potion recipe through various channels, the price of herbs for making Antitoxin Potions rose all the way, with a set of herbs selling for 1 silver coin at its peak. To think the selling price was so low now.

Lu Yang spent 30 silver coins to buy 300 sets of herbs, and then Lu Yang came to the Apothecary Guild.

The Apothecary Guild of St. Gall City was the largest human Apothecary Guild, also located in the east district of St. Gall City, just northeast of the auction house, covering an area of about 5,000 square meters.

Players who wanted to learn Alchemy could only come to the Apothecary Guild to spend 5 silver coins to learn the basic Alchemy skill. Only after learning the Alchemy skill could they use various recipes.

At this time, there were only a few scattered players in the first-floor hall of the Apothecary Guild. When they saw Lu Yang, each of them had an arrogant look on their faces.

Being able to come to the Apothecary Guild to learn Alchemy on the third day of the server opening meant that Lu Yang must be an alchemist being cultivated with all the guild's resources.

Lu Yang knew that he would never have any interaction with these people in his life, so he didn't bother to pay attention to them, and went straight to the second floor. Like in his previous life, he chose the Alchemy master Bokens in the familiar ninth room.

"Hello, sir, I would like to learn Alchemy," Lu Yang said respectfully.

Bokens, a middle-aged man around 40 years old, was standing next to the bookshelf looking at books. He was wearing a purple-gold alchemist robe, which represented his level, indicating that he was a high-level alchemist.

"Young man, welcome to learn Alchemy, a profound skill. However, if you want to learn, you need to pay me a tuition fee of 5 silver coins before I can teach you," Bokens said.

"Of course," Lu Yang said, taking out 5 silver coins and handing them to Bokens.

Bokens took a beginner's Alchemy skill book from the bookshelf behind him and handed it to Lu Yang, saying, "Read it carefully, and you will find the true meaning of Alchemy in it."

Lu Yang took the book and chose to use it.

System Notification: You have learned Beginner Alchemy.

Alchemy Proficiency 0/50

This was the highest level that beginner Alchemy could reach. If he wanted to learn intermediate Alchemy after level 50, he would have to pay again.

Taking out the Antitoxin Potion recipe from his backpack, Lu Yang chose to use it again. After a burst of light, the Antitoxin Potion recipe disappeared, but an Antitoxin Potion icon appeared in his alchemy skill bar.

System Notification: You have learned to make Antitoxin Potions.

"Sir, I would like to rent an alchemy room," Lu Yang said.

"Of course, it's 1 silver coin per hour," Bokens said.

Lu Yang paid the silver coins, and Bokens used magic to send him into the alchemy room.

The alchemy room could increase the success rate of alchemy by 1%, which was very important for many ordinary players, but it was useless to Lu Yang.

He rented the alchemy room not because he valued the 1% success rate, but because the alchemy room had a large alchemy furnace that could refine up to 30 bottles of medicine at a time, saving the time wasted by making them one by one.

According to the official settings of Second World, players also needed to do it themselves to refine medicine, decocting herbs, adding potions, and producing chemical reactions. On average, it took 5 minutes to make one bottle. Lu Yang didn't have that much time to waste, and using the alchemy room was the best choice.

After igniting the fire under the alchemy furnace and waiting for the water in the furnace to boil, Lu Yang took out Stone Root Herb, Withered Leaf Herb, and Silver Leaf Herb from his backpack, and put a set of each into the alchemy furnace.

It was not easy to make 30 bottles of potion at once. Ordinary players simply did not have this ability. As long as one step went wrong in the process of making the potion, the potion would be ruined.

However, this was not difficult for Lu Yang. As a mage in his previous life, and a top mage at that, one of the most important compulsory courses was Alchemy. In his previous life, Lu Yang was an Alchemy master, but this Alchemy master was not something Lu Yang actively wanted to learn, but was forced out by the game.

Mages were too expensive. It was okay to enter dungeons now, without having to take medicine and use high-level potions, but after level 50, mage players had to bring potions and elixirs to dungeons, otherwise the spell damage would not be enough to kill the boss.

But an elixir was too expensive. Lu Yang was just a poor kid at that time. In order to save money, Lu Yang, with the help of a few brothers, slowly learned how to make elixirs. Recalling the experience at that time, it was both sad and a little happy. Perhaps that was pure friendship.