Chapter 108: Prepare to... set off
The next morning, Jiayi dragged the rest of the people out of bed and took Machi to check the information, while the rest went to buy horses.
After arriving at the association, the association had just opened. If Jiayi was earlier, he would have to wait outside. Even so, Jiayi, who came so early, still received a lot of strange looks. Although many mages were busy and didn't care about day and night, they had never encountered many mages who came to the association early in the morning. Of course, there were actually not many mages in the entire imperial capital.
Jiayi and his team increased the number of mages in the imperial capital by at least 30%.
He brought Macchi to the library. Jiayi and Peggy greeted each other and plunged into the vast sea of books to find every possible related book. Fortunately, travel notes are not precious. Except for a few, most of them can be read with Macchi's permission.
Next, Maqi went outside and Jiayi needed more permissions to search. The two divided the work and started a long search task.
In the afternoon, the rest of the people came over and helped them start searching for information together.
Fortunately, although there are quite a few books in the library, there are not many travel notes, only a dozen books. Moreover, the books at this time are not like online novels, with one or two million words or even tens of millions of words at any time. At this time, books at this time are usually only tens of thousands of words, and hundreds of thousands of words are considered to be masterpieces.
As a mage, quick reading is a basic ability, and you don’t need to pass it or forget it. So at night, they copied all the useful information they found. In order to ensure that they even read some books that might not be travelogues, and finally got some useful information.
Finally, Jiayi spent 8 points to borrow a magic book that specializes in survival in the wild. Generally, reading books does not require points in the library, but borrowing requires points. For example, the magic book, except for basic magic books, even reading requires points, but very few are needed.
This spell book records a lot of practical skills. In addition to basic pathfinding, there are also basic spells to identify poisonous plants, find water sources, and safe residences. Many spells here are not complicated, but they have only added some slight changes to traditional spells, but they are indeed very practical, especially for this newcomer.
Although Jiayi had been to the wild alone before and Im had specially trained in this area, he lacked experience after all, and he had a better sense of security as he had a book.
Maybe!
After returning to the residence, Jiayi saw the mounts they bought, five strong wildebeests, especially an iron-armored rhino. The iron-armored rhino was artificially crossed by Kodo beasts many times. It has the bloodline of Kodo beasts, with strong endurance, heavy burdens, and a good temper. Except for the slow speed, there are no shortcomings. Moreover, during the long journey, the speed defects were actually covered up by endurance.
Although it was a bit surprising for them to buy wildebeests, Jiayi could still accept it. After all, there are many knights in the imperial capital, and it is reasonable to have excellent wildebeests for sale. The three mages stood at the door, and few chambers of war would have the courage not to sell them. However, the armored rhinos are different. Many of these excellent carrier beasts can be owned by ordinary chambers of commerce. Even with the scale of the Valoca Chamber of Commerce, there are no armored rhinos because no chamber of commerce is willing to sell them. Of course, part of the reason is that the chamber of commerce mainly sells high-quality products and does not have that high requirements for transportation, so the demand for ironed rhinos is not so strong.
Without hiding his thoughts, Jiayi asked directly: "Chester, how did you come from this rhino? Someone is willing to sell it."
"It was considered a loan. There was a chamber of commerce that had some relationship with the family, so I borrowed an iron-armored rhino to come over. Some of the more bulky goods could be carried by it. I also bought an extra horse to use as a backup."
As he said that, Chester patted the rhino on the back, and the rhino roared softly. Although its body was huge, its voice seemed a bit delicate. It was probably because it was too strong and there was no need to use sound to show off itself.
Jiayi didn't expect that Chester was also related to the imperial capital. He had known each other for a month or two, but he had never heard him say that his family background was not ordinary. However, Jiayi didn't care about this. He believed that he would be better than all the aristocratic families in the future, although he didn't know where he suddenly came from.
At night, the magic light was lit up, and the excerpted article descriptions were drawn, and the map was started to improve the map on the map. In fact, it was just a rough estimate of where there was a mountain bun, where there were woods, where there might be a small river, and where there were even roads. The location was not accurate, but the details were indeed much richer.
Starting from the next morning, they started a big purchase again, and bought a lot of scrolls from the Mage Association, almost all the scrolls used in the Mage Association. Even though several people were still rich, this wave was a bit damaged. By the way, they also bought paper and ink and started drawing them themselves. Jiayi spent a day drawing more than 10 scrolls. Although the rest were not as terrifying as Jiayi, each of them also drew 5 to 7 pictures.
After two more days, they were finally ready to set off. In fact, according to Jiayi's intention, the preparation was not enough. At least he did not prepare much of his alchemy bomb. When building the blast furnace, the collected sulfuric acid was created for experiments. In addition, the remaining ones before, there were only 5 or 6, which made people feel insecure.
In order to make up for these sense of security, Jiayi bought a lot of materials. If there is any need, he would make it on site. It would be impossible to make alchemy bombs. Nitric acid and sulfuric acid are very troublesome. The nitroglycerin produced is not stable at all. It is simply a matter of blowing in such a noisy environment in the wild. Although there is not necessarily a danger on the shield. Then he upgraded the equipment. He originally bought a spider silk robe, but it was a whiteboard and had no enchantment. Now he has upgraded it to a robe with light body and rapid effect. Now he has spent all his money and even the spider silk robe is almost sold at a discount. Fortunately, he withdraws some money from the Chamber of Commerce, and it is not so bad that he sells the equipment.
After they were all ready, they arrived at the mine first, which was next to the Gaokulun Mountains, just the only way to the imperial capital and the college.
Here, Jiayi found a mountain and set up a positioning magic circle. This was given to him by Im. The positioning magic circle is equivalent to a beacon, which allows the mage to sense through magic at a long distance. If he gets lost or does not know the direction, he can sense the magic circle, calculate the angle, and determine the direction and distance by sensing the positioning magic circle. In order to be farther away, Jiayi blocked the signals in the other directions and concentrated all the signals within a 60-degree angle towards the academy. Unfortunately, even so, the distance of this positioning magic circle is only less than 200 miles. If it exceeds this distance, it cannot sense the positioning magic circle. It can only be said that it is better than nothing.
Chapter completed!