A few days later.

During the day, the weather was clear and sunny, and the sky was cloudless.

Richard was on the table in the laboratory and the main laboratory, flipping through the wizarding book "The Monroe Chapter", and after reading it for a long time, he frowned and walked to the side.

"Squeak" opened a wooden box and took out several rings with magic patterns carved into it—all bought from the underground market, his eyes narrowed slightly, thinking about how to transform it.

After temporarily vacating the cemetery a few days ago, Richard had some ideas about how to conduct a second cemetery expedition.

The failure of his first graveyard expedition was, in a sense, a revelation of some of the problems with his current combat style: he relied heavily on melee combat for the sake of efficiency, so he lacked enough ranged spell attacks.

This is advantageous against some ordinary wizard apprentices, and can even be crushed. Even if you face a genuine wizard, as long as you pay a certain price and get close enough distance from the other party, you can fight for a short time, or even kill. Like the mysterious organization, Suomon was killed by him by twisting his head in an unexpected way.

But there are pros and cons.

In this way, it is very difficult to deal with large-scale enemies, such as those beetles in the graveyard.

In hand-to-hand combat alone, it would take days and nights to kill all the beetles. There's almost no margin for error – if you make a mistake, you're going to be swallowed up by a beetle.

This is not to say that the path he chose before was wrong, it can only be said that the enemy he is facing is changing, and he has to make some corresponding changes. Ring 1 and Ring 2 are no longer sufficient to meet all needs, and a new Ring of Demonic Pattern needs to be added to adapt more comprehensively.

So how many new magic fingers should be added? What spells should be depicted on the newly added magic rings, and how should these spells be analyzed?

Can you use the combination of low-ring spells to unleash the power of high-ring spells?

Can you try to modify the magic pattern so that it can be released using free energy elements instead of mana, so as to adapt to the way the apocalyptic wizard casts spells?

Richard kept thinking.

In the corner of the lab, Pandora glanced at Richard and happily scrubbed the test tube.

"Whoa", the test tube is broken, it's okay, change to a new one and continue to scrub.

"Whoa", the test tube is broken again, it's okay, change it to a new one and continue to scrub.

"Whoa", the test tube is double broken again, it's okay, let's continue to wash it with another one.

"Whoa......

The test tube shattered again......

After washing for a long time, Pandora frowned and tilted her head, looked at Richard and asked, "Richard, are there still test tubes? ”

Richard: "Well, this ......"

......

In the blink of an eye, it was a few days later.

"Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow......"

Pandora had already begun to scrub the beaker, as she had already washed the tubes.

Next to him, Richard looked at the contents of "The Chapter of Monroe", frowned and thought, and from time to time held a quill pen to write and draw on the table. Occasionally, I heard a crisp "bang" sound from Pandora's position, turned his head to look over, covered half of his face, and his expression twitched slightly, as if he had some toothache.

At this time, there was a knock outside the courtyard gate.

"Bang bang bang, my dearest friend, I...... I've got you delivered......"

The voice floated from outside the courtyard gate, and Richard only knew that it was Alex when he heard it.

Looking at Pandora, Richard instructed, "You continue to brush the beaker here, well, brush slowly, I'll show up and see." ”

"Oh. Pandora nodded in response, and Richard stepped out.

Walking into the courtyard and opening the door, Richard saw a tattered carriage parked in the street outside, and Alex, shaking his fat flesh, staggered down with the help of a groom who was too old to go to the grave, carrying two stacked boxes.

Richard got out of the way and let Alex into the courtyard and carefully placed the box on the ground.

"Whew-"

Alex put down the box, let out a long breath, wiped a handful of sweat, and said to Richard: "My dearest friend, Your Excellency Richard, I have done it for you when you commissioned me to make glass tubes. Look at it, they are all good glass tubes, and there is no better glass tube in the whole of White Rock City. If you don't believe me, I can swear - in the name of my great ancestors!"

Richard glanced at Alex, didn't believe the black-hearted fat man's words at all, stepped forward, opened the box, and carefully inspected the goods.

The box is arranged horizontally and vertically, and one box is 256 glass test tubes.

Alex was next to him and said for fear that Richard would not know how to count: "My dearest friend, Your Excellency Richard, I have a heavy hemorrhage this time, for the sake of our friendship, I have given you six more glass test tubes in each box, two boxes are 12! 12 pieces!"

"Yes. Richard answered, took a glass tube from the box, put it in the sunlight, and squinted at it.

Alex danced loudly and said: "Your Excellency Richard, you look at the transparency of this glass tube, you see the fineness of the workmanship, it is definitely the best of the best! ”

Richard chuckled and was speechless, because he could see that the quality of the glass test tube could only be regarded as average, although it was not inferior, but it was not excellent. However, he really doesn't have high requirements for glass test tubes, as long as they can meet the expected standards and can be used, after all, the fate of these test tubes will mostly become the souls of Pandora's men, good and bad, the gap is not too big.

With this in mind, Richard put the glass tube back into the box, looked at Alex and asked, "How much does this box of glass tubes cost?"

"That's, it's ......" Alex held out two fingers, and Richard looked calm.

Alex rolled his eyes, and immediately two fingers turned into five.

Richard raised his eyebrows subconsciously: This is a bit too shameful.

Alex sensed Richard's emotions and said quickly: "Well, that's not five silver coins, and certainly not two silver coins, it's actually ...... Two and a half silver coins, yes, two and a half silver coins. ”

To prove that he had thought so in the first place, he made the previous gesture again.

"Two!" said two fingers first.

"Half!" held out five more fingers.

"Look, it's really two and a half silver coins, and I didn't lie to you, Your Excellency Richard. Alex was extremely "honest" and said.

"Two and a half silver coins. Richard's eyes blinked, and he said slowly, "I think your price is a little bit higher, Alex." ”

"Huh? this ......"

"In my opinion, according to the quality of this glass tube, that is, about one silver coin, one and a half silver coins is already the limit. ”

"This, this......" Alex sweated at the tip of his nose, "but ...... Maybe the price of the glass factory has risen......"

"Uh, that's right!" Alex suddenly thought of something, and ran out of the yard quickly, ran to the broken carriage, took a small box from it, and ran back with it in his arms.