The night was hazy, the pendant lamp on the living room ceiling emitted a bright yellow light, filling the room.
At the dining table.
Boiled Back Bass, Secret Pork Ribs Stead, Golden Shrimp Balls... Well, even though the shredded potatoes were cut a little too big, Nolan still managed to make it work.
Feeling a bit proud inside, I can still do it after all!
Eula and Amber sat opposite each other at the rectangular table, with Nolan at their side.
"Looks good."
Eula nodded slightly, giving a passing grade to the dishes on the table.
"Mm!" Amber sent a crispy shrimp ball into her mouth with her chopsticks, cheeks bulging as she said, "Sho ghood."
Mondstadt and Liyue used different utensils for als. They generally used knives and forks.
Eula didn't force herself to use the chopsticks she wasn't proficient with. She simply speared a crispy shrimp ball with a fork and didn't eat them one by one like Amber. Her soft lips opened slightly and took a dainty bite, fully demonstrating her graceful nobility.
They ate unknowingly, and soon the food on the table was finished by the three. Eula lightly dabbed the corners of her mouth with a napkin, while Amber leaned back against the wooden chair, satisfied.
Nolan had a faint smile on his face. As expected, the affection prompts jumped out in the character status panel, first Amber's:
[ Amber Has Developed Good Feelings Towards You, Obtained 90 Affection Points. Current Affection Level Lv.3 (260/300) ]
Almost level 4, very good. Then ca Eula's:
[ Eula Has Developed Good Feelings Towards You, Obtained 60 Affection Points. Current Affection Level Lv.2 (65/200) ]
It looks like they're both quite satisfied, if you guys are happy, I'm even happier. Nolan thought secretly.
After dinner and a short rest, Eula and Amber bid farewell to Nolan. Before they left, Nolan promptly handed this month's 100,000 Mora rent to Eula.
It counted as formally renting this courtyard now. The two didn't sign any rental contracts or agreents. Perhaps Eula was already quite trusting of him.
In the late night, there were only two books borrowed from the library on the bookshelf against the wall of the study room. Candle flas quietly burned under the glass lampshade.
Thanks to Miss Eula, he had the chance to get his own study. Nolan thought happily at the bottom of his heart.
After all, being in this kind of room dedicated to reading and studying, it was as if there was so kind of mysterious power, and it was relatively easy to enter a state of concentration and study.
At this mont, two recipes for elental potions were placed on the desk.
To adventure more easily in the wilderness and grind Adventure EXP, grasping powerful elental attack ans was very necessary. The Treasure Hoarders indirectly grasped such mighty elental power through potions.
Although these two recipes were sowhat unstable, and brewing them was a bit dangerous.
The main ingredient for this Pyro Potion recipe of the Treasure Hoarders was the stans of Flaming Flowers. Then Magic Crystal chunks and Luminescent Spine were added in a 3:2 ratio.
The Flaming Flower stans contained abundant Pyro Elents. They needed to be simred into liquid form first, then Magic Crystal powder was added to stimulate them into an active state.
This process could easily go wrong with a little carelessness.
Too much would make it explode, and too little would result in finding out after the finished product that the Pyro elents in the potion weren't active at all, completely unusable and wasted.
These materials weren't cheap. Any losses were in Mora.
The Luminescent Spine added at the end was an additive for "preserving" the potion after successful brewing. After all, the active Pyro Elents in a successful potion would dissipate even without use.
Luminescent Spine was needed to delay the dissipation.
Only when all steps were completed without any accidents could it be considered successful brewing of an elental potion, stored in a small container for use as a grenade.
The thod for brewing an Electro Potion was largely the sa.
The main ingredient was just changed from Flaming Flower stans to Electro Crystals, while Magic Crystal chunks and Luminescent Spine were still necessities. Finally, one more thing was needed, which was Lizard Tail.
According to the recipe, the role of Lizard Tail was to ensure no damage to the special properties during the Electro Crystal lting into liquid step.
After reading the detailed recipe, Nolan could not help but frown in annoyance.
The main issue was that the brewing process was too unstable. Without soone who had brewed dozens or hundreds of tis watching over, Nolan didn't dare ss around on his own.
He couldn't go find the Treasure Hoarders, could he? This thought oddly flashed through Nolan's mind.
Elental Potions weren't actually that rare. From his knowledge, the Knights of Favonius would carry so bottles when executing dangerous missions too.
And the one ensuring the potion supply of the Knights of Favonius was Miss Lisa, the librarian of the Knights of Favonius Library.
Nolan rembered that she had a talent in the ga called "General Pharmaceutics". Her skill in this area could be called Potion Master.
If he brought these elental potion recipes to ask Lisa for advice, he might get so thods to increase stability. But he couldn't just show up empty-handed.
The elental potion recipes themselves were definitely not sothing she could look at. After all, To Lisa, these were probably just shoddy beginner works.
Alright then.
Nolan went from one worry into another.
However, for such crude elental potions, he didn't need to find soone of Lisa's master level. The alchemists Timaeus and Sucrose at the crafting bench could probably solve it.
After all, brewing elental potions was also part of alchemy. Nolan knew Sucrose often needed so strange animal bones for experints. Asking her for help wouldn't be difficult, just bringing so monster bones would do.
As for Timaeus... hm, forget it. Since he could ask a cute girl, why involve so random guy?
Monster bones weren't hard to obtain. He could collect so when adventuring. No rush for now.
Having thought of a solution, Nolan breathed a slight sigh of relief. He temporarily put the potion recipes back on the bookshelf, then took out 'Favonius Swordsmanship - Fundantals' and started reading.
He was already familiar with 'Favonius Archery - Fundantals' so there was no need to read it further. Just raising it with Adventure EXP later would do.
Favonius Swordsmanship also had detailed illustrations and explanations, marking key points of every move.
There were signature Favonius starting poses, chopping strikes, sweeping strikes, stabbing strikes, finishing strikes, and so on.
The overall content was simple and easy to understand. He believed it wouldn't take much practice to grasp the basics.
In the long night, sleepless, Nolan concentrated on studying this "secret manual" of Favonius Swordsmanship.
Early morning, Nolan got up early and practiced Favonius Swordsmanship in the front courtyard with the scimitar obtained from the Treasure Hoarders.
Since it was also a one-handed weapon like single-handed swords, there might be so difference in combat, but practice was no issue. He also corrected his moves according to the book's contents while practicing.
Although not as good as having a teacher's guidance, it was enough to learn the basics.
(End of Chapter)
To be continued...
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