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Chapter 1408 - 614: Medicine God and Barbarian Sentry_2

Chapter 1408: Chapter 614: Medicine God and Barbarian Sentry_2

[You step forward to take the beast skin from the skeleton hand, which has some characters written in Star Spirit Language...]

["To the one who comes after me, if you are reading this scroll, it means I have perished. I have waited here in vain for over thirteen hundred years, never to see the rescue from my kin...]

A large section of text appears, and Mu You quickly scans through it.

This piece of beast skin meticulously records the life of this Fool and the reason he was trapped here.

This ancestral Fool, named ’Abi Prut,’ was a seventh-order Magic Potion Master. He arrived in the Sky High World with Dawn City over fifteen hundred years ago.

However, because of his status as a high-order Magic Potion Master, he did not venture out to explore and colonize like other Fool’s Ancestors. Instead, he remained behind with other Magic Potion Masters, carrying out the orders left by the Lord of Dawn City at that time: to study the pharmacology of the Sky High World.

All sorts of potions in the Sky High World originate from the ’Medicine God’ and his Believers. It seems that only followers of the Medicine God lineage possess the ability to transform various strange creatures’ materials into potions.

The Fools did not find the Corpse of the Medicine God, and it’s very possible that the authority of the Medicine God had been taken over by the Divine Beast. That means, theoretically, other creatures could no longer concoct potions in the Sky High World.

However, according to the conjectures of many Magic Potion Masters at that time, the Magic Potions Study system of the Star Spirit World might have been designed by the Medicine God himself. Therefore, there’s likely to be some relation between Magic Potions Study and the pharmacology of the Sky High World.

Thus, the Lord of Dawn City specially left a group of Magic Potion Masters behind to conduct research. If they could decipher the principle of potion-making in the Sky High World, there might be a chance to significantly enhance the overall Combat Power of the Fools.

Unfortunately, such research was not that simple. Trying to decipher the authority of gods with mere human wisdom was nothing more than a pipe dream. Dozens of Magic Potion Masters came together to delve into this field for over a hundred years, but still without any clue.

Over a hundred years passed, and the Magic Potion Masters either gave up hope early and hastened to the frontlines to join the battle, or they had been driven mad by this feeling of despair, descending into mental chaos.

Only Abi continued the research.

After another futile fifty years of research, Abi finally encountered a breakthrough.

One day, while gathering medicinal plants in the jungles outside Dawn City, he stumbled upon a barbarian, gravely injured and on the brink of death.

Abi kindly treated the Barbarian, barely preserving his life, and the two became friends. In their interactions, he learned the name of the Barbarian, ’Mu Luo,’ who was a Barbarian Sentry that had become separated from his tribe and could not find his way home, forced to wander outside for a long time.

With Abi’s medical treatment, Mu Luo slowly regained the ability to move and started to search for herbs in the jungle by himself. He made ointments using traditional methods from his homeland to treat his injuries.

It was precisely while watching Mu Luo create these ointments that Abi suddenly realized the difference between Magic Potions and Divine Medicine. It was impossible to completely decode Divine Medicine, but it was possible to take an alternate path by using Magic Potions Study to simulate the process and produce a secondary level of counterfeit divine medicine.

Afterwards, Abi humbly began to learn the barbarian’s traditional methods from Mu Luo, and from that extrapolated the uses of real ingredients. Combining these with the framework of Magic Potions Study, he eventually formulated an original system of potion-making with real materials.

Thirteen hundred years ago, just before Sky City was about to retreat to the Star Spirit World, Mu Luo finally created the first divine potion formula: Memory Potion, a potion specifically targeting amnesia.

This Divine Potion was specifically created for Mu Luo because he suffered from severe amnesia, often forgetting what Abi looked like, confusing him with other Fools, normally relying only on ’Wildman’s Tooth’ given by Mu Luo to recognize Abi.

The Memory Potion required a plant called ’Wisdom Tree.’ Its fruit was used as the main ingredient, and this type of tree only grew in humid climate-rich fertile areas.

Therefore, Abi had bid farewell to Mu Luo and teleported to Sky City here.

He had planned to gather the medicine and return, but who would have thought that in the time it took to step out, upon his return, Sky City had already hastily retreated with the other Fools back to the Star Spirit World.

Thus, Abi was stranded in the Sky High World, and he could no longer return to the original Dawn City area, as the two regions were too far apart. Without the teleportation from Sky City, relying on just his legs, he feared that he could never reach it in his lifetime.

Afterwards, Abi could only pitch camp and settle down near Gourd Mountain, hoping that one day, Sky City would soar once again, and take him back home.

Yet, even as life expired, the arrival of his kin was never witnessed.

Mu You sighed after reading it—Abi had persisted for more than a thousand years, needing only a few more years to meet descendants like them. It’s a pity... one can only say that fate plays cruel tricks, falling into darkness just before dawn.

["...I know I’m dying, and there are only two regrets in my life. One is that I couldn’t hand over my research to the City Lord, and the other is that I couldn’t fulfill my promise to Mu Luo...Before I left, I promised him that I’d return in no more than a month to cure his amnesia...I’d rather he forget this promise, but I know Mu Luo values his word; he said he’d wait for my return, foolishly waiting right there even if it means wasting away the rest of his life..."]

["I’ve made numerous ’drift bottles’, recording my location and deeds on beast skin and sent them out into the world with birds, hoping someone would fulfill the promise for me, but I know... the hope is slim..."]

["...Successor, please take this stone with you to the Divine Palace Forest to find Mu Luo, and tell him of my deeds...Abi would be eternally grateful..."]

This ’Mu Luo’ barbarian is obviously the one outside Dawn City now. Abi guessed correctly; the barbarian is indeed waiting there for his return, even though he has completely forgotten what Abi looks like, even Abi’s gender, eagerly approaching every Fool he meets, regardless of age or gender, asking for something.

What the barbarian is asking for isn’t some treasure, but the tooth belonging to him, once worn by Abi on his chest.

Mu You shook his head and continued reading; there were two more messages below.

["...Also, in this span of over a thousand years, I have not wasted my time. Here in this cave, I have continued to extrapolate on ’Magic Potions Study’, and finally made some progress. All my findings are recorded on those beast skins...Successor, if you are a Fool, please make sure to bring these scrolls back to the various City Lords, don’t let my hard work be forgotten..."]

Mu You, upon reaching this point, decisively controlled his character to collect all the scrolls on the bookshelf and extracted them into reality.

[You have acquired ’Magic Potions Study Insights*572’.]

A pile of scrolls exuding the scent of decay appeared before Mu You, almost forming a small mountain on the ground.

The people inside the room were all drawn by the commotion and turned their heads to look at him.

"What’s this? Have you emptied someone’s warehouse again?" the Watchman curiously came over to inquire.

Mu You didn’t have time to answer and hurriedly picked up the topmost scroll to take a look.

Thankfully, these scrolls were fairly well preserved; their text was still clear.

"Magic Potions Study and Magic Medicine Materials Comparison Table (27)..." the Medicinal Plant Gatherer caught sight of the scroll’s title and came behind Mu You to look without a word.

After a brief look, both showed signs of astonishment.

These were not at all the study insights Mu You had imagined but a kind of magic potion ’dictionary’, like a Chinese-English dictionary, translating each kind of real material into their corresponding magic medicine materials, allowing the user to understand the rationale of divine potions through the pharmacology of these magic medicine materials.

Without a doubt, it was a very rudimentary comparison and imitation. The actual potions produced would certainly deviate considerably, but the general direction was correct.

Therefore, as long as the Magic Potion Master’s level is high enough and they are skilled, theoretically there’s a chance to produce lower-grade real potions, that is, quasi-divine potions.

Moreover, with this ’dictionary’ comparison table, they no longer need to research from scratch for each formula. Anytime they acquire a type of Potion of Divine Power, they simply need to analyze the similar magic potion components and could then use this table to identify the corresponding real materials, subsequently brute-forcing the secondary formula for this type of potion.

For example, the Potion of Divine Power, currently only top-tier players with deep pockets like Mu You have the chance to use it; average Fools have no chance of getting their hands on it.

But once they have the formula, even if it’s just a lower-grade potion, with less Divine Power added than the original, its advantage lies in the potential for mass production, benefiting all Fools.

Eventually, everyone can gather their own materials to concoct the Potion of Divine Power, which could save a considerable amount of Divinity expenses.