While Raymond's mind was in a mess, Lin Yun found the few Cat's Eye Stones hidden behind the wooden chest. After looking around and making sure that he didn't miss anything else, he called out to Raymond, "Raymond, come and help me."
After saying that, he didn't wait for Raymond's reply before leaving with the Cat's Eye Stones.
Raymond was left dumbstruck. 'You want to help me just because you said so? Do you think I'm that familiar with you?
Moreover, you have the nerve to ask me, an esteemed mage, to help you for such a cheap magic material? Do you think mages are cabbages on the side of the street that can be bought for two copper coins? '
It could be said that Raymond entered the Gilded Rose with a belly full of complaints.
"I'll say this first, don't look for me if it's too troublesome. I don't have that much mana to waste. Don't think that mages can squander it as they please. The mana consumed by us mages isn't something a Magic Apprentice like you can imagine. Hey … Did you hear what I said?"
Raymond complained for a long time, but he didn't hear any movement from the other side, so he curiously looked over.
Then, Raymond jumped up.
"Shit, what are you doing? Stop!"
Raymond raised his eyes and saw Lin Yun shaking a test tube with a thick red liquid inside. It was undoubtedly a red coral solution. Raymond's face paled when he saw this scene. The red coral solution was notoriously unstable. High temperatures and vibrations would make it produce fierce mana fluctuations. Moreover, those mana fluctuations were extremely frightening, completely disproportionate to the red coral's low price. If it exploded, it would be a disaster. Let alone this laboratory, even the entire Gilded Rose would be razed to the ground.
That was a destructive power that far surpassed that of a mage. It was dangerous and powerful.
For thousands of years, it was unknown how many people had tried to use this power. Countless sages had come one after another, hoping to grasp this dangerous and powerful power in their hands. Unfortunately, thousands of years had passed, and the red coral solution was still an unsolvable problem. Those sages who had come one after another had either died or been crippled in an accident.
In the last hundred years, the red coral solution had even become a taboo in alchemy. Any apprentice that had just come into contact with alchemy would be repeatedly warned by their teacher that there were many ways to deal with red coral, but it definitely didn't include dissolving it.
Red corals that could not be dissolved could only be considered an ordinary magic material. They had a relatively ordinary magic conductivity and could release weak magic power for two to three days. These two characteristics basically determined that red corals could only be used as low-level magic conductors.
Moreover, the production of red coral had always been high, and there were many times that the supply would exceed the demand. Thus, for so many years, the price of red coral had been kept very low. It was one of the cheapest magic materials in Noscent.
But once it became a solution …
As he thought of this, Raymond couldn't help turning pale. When he stopped Lin Yun, his voice even trembled. "Did you hear me? I told you to stop immediately … Fuck, what are you doing!"
Raymond couldn't continue speaking, because he clearly saw that bastard shake the test tube for a while, and then he really started to court death. He, he, he … He actually lit up an alcohol lamp, and then put the test tube filled with red coral solution in his hand into it …
'If I don't stop him, something big will happen!'
As he thought of the terrifying destructive power of the red coral solution, cold sweat trickled down Raymond's forehead. He didn't have the time to teach Lin Yun any alchemy knowledge and directly cast a Frost spell. The shortened incantation and the moving spell consumed a huge amount of mana. It instantly drained a third of Raymond's mana. For a mage, this was equivalent to losing half of their life.
But it was still better than losing his life. After spending a huge amount of mana, the speed and power of the Frost spell far exceeded what it had been in the past. Almost at the same time as the incantation, a bone-chilling cold filled the empty alchemy laboratory. Then, an icy blue light softly revolved around the lamp and extinguished it in an instant.
But it wasn't over yet. After extinguishing the alcohol lamp, that ice-blue light crazily grew like a vine, taking advantage of the situation to spread. First, it was the test tube filled with red coral solution, then it climbed up Lin Yun's right hand, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Yun's entire right hand was frozen.
'Fortunately, nothing happened …' Raymond wiped his cold sweat with lingering fear. That scene had been too thrilling. If he had come a few seconds later, the entire alchemy laboratory would have been blown up. 'That scoundrel really doesn't know what's good for him, playing with the red coral solution. It doesn't matter if you kill yourself, but don't implicate me, okay?'
Raymond was holding back his anger after being frightened. In fact, with Raymond's strength, that Frost spell could have been completely controlled. As long as he extinguished the alcohol lamp and froze the test tube, he wouldn't have been able to freeze Lin Yun's right hand.
'That's right, Raymond did it on purpose.
'That scoundrel doesn't know what's good for him, I have to teach him a lesson.
Otherwise, he would really think that a mere Magic Apprentice like him could be treated as an equal by a Mage. If it wasn't for his father, how could a Magic Apprentice like him, who was in debt, be worthy of being looked at by a Mage? Not to mention using that kind of tone to order me around. If it had been someone else, they would have already been frozen into an ice sculpture!
'I've been putting up with you for long enough!'
Raymond had already thought it through when he cast the Frost spell. He would first let that scoundrel freeze for an hour before being merciful enough to rescue him and teach him a lesson. That should be enough to keep that scoundrel well-behaved for a while. And if his father asked him about it later, he would just blame it all on the red coral solution's danger. In any case, he wasn't making it up. The red coral solution was dangerous to begin with. What he did was completely for the sake of Young Master Merlin's safety …
The more Raymond thought about it, the more he felt relieved. The more he thought about it, the happier he felt. So much so that he didn't even notice that the bastard didn't panic at all when he was frozen.
This was very normal. For Lin Yun, who had personally witnessed the destruction of the world, it was very difficult for an attack like the Frost spell to make him panic. Moreover, this Frost spell couldn't even be considered an attack. Raymond definitely wouldn't have thought that the person standing here was also a mage, and an abnormal mage that only took a few minutes to form a mana whirlpool. Even though Raymond had become a mage earlier than Lin Yun, the two weren't on the same level in terms of true strength.
Facing the Frost spell cast by Raymond that consumed a large amount of mana, Lin Yun didn't even use any spells to deal with it. He only mobilized the mana whirlpool within his body to form a thin layer of mana shield.
That mana shield was definitely very simple, because it didn't have any elemental arrangement, it was just a simple accumulation of mana. If it had been any other mage, that Frost spell would have frozen them into a block of ice along with the shield.
But it was clear that Lin Yun wasn't an ordinary mage.
Living at the end of the magic era for over twenty years, not only had Lin Yun grasped knowledge far surpassing that era, but it had also allowed Lin Yun to possess a casting ability far surpassing that era. That casting ability had nothing to do with one's rank, it was something that Lin Yun had obtained by risking his life in the most vile environments. In this era of Noscent, there was no mage more familiar with how to use magic in battle than Lin Yun. Escaping from the claws of Sand Beasts again and again, lingering on the edge of life and death again and again, hunting and being hunted countless times had long since made Lin Yun develop a kind of beast-like instinct. He didn't even need to calculate to know how to use the most mana to kill his opponent.
Just like that mana shield. It looked very rough, as if it couldn't withstand the impact of spells, but when Lin Yun used it, it just happened to block Raymond's Frost spell.
Not too much, not too little, just enough to block it.
Just as the ice mist dissipated, the mana shield was also exhausted. The thick layer of ice seemed to have frozen Lin Yun's right hand, but in fact, it only froze the mana shield. After the mana was exhausted, the shield disappeared and Lin Yun only lightly shook it, causing a large amount of ice to fall down.
"No way …" Raymond's eyes were wide open, he didn't dare to believe what he was seeing. 'This, this, this … How could this be possible? How could a Magic Apprentice resist a Frost spell with just his body? Let alone a Magic Apprentice, even a mage wouldn't be able to do so. Although Frost was a control-type spell and wasn't known for its power, it was still a 2nd Tier Spell. Even a daring mage wouldn't dare to resist a 2nd Tier Spell with just his body. How could that scoundrel dare to do so, and even succeed!?
'No, there must be something wrong here!
'Right …'
'Although that scoundrel is in dire straits, he is still Roger Merlin's son. In those days, when the Flashing Gold chamber of commerce was at its peak, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe them as wealthy. Roger Merlin doted on his only son so much that he even opened an alchemy shop for him to play in. How could he not prepare some alchemy items for him? Let alone alchemy items, he might even have a Magic Tool!'
The thing that blocked the Frost Spell just now was definitely a defensive Magic Tool.
'That's right, that must be it!
Otherwise, how could that scoundrel remain unscathed under the Frost spell?
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