Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 96 Separately

Mrs. Maria left in the early morning of the seventeenth day, and if the messengers had not come and rushed her back, she would probably have stayed a while longer.

Claude followed her for 17 days as a chef, oh, no, a test assistant. In addition to producing seven magic books and thirty-five blank magic scrolls, it is mainly about learning how to operate the machines handling those medicines in the pharmacy lab and learning primary pharmacology at Mrs. Maria's fingertips.

Thanks to Lady Maria's selfless teachings, Claude meditates every night on a carefully cooked meal to express her gratitude, which is why Lady Maria delayed her return journey to Wangdu and remained in the forest. She has stated more than once that although she is surprised by Claude's gift in magic and pharmacology, she still feels that Claude's best future should be to be a chef...

But Claude also learned a lot about Lady Maria these days, and this lady is actually a foodie. Well, that might be a little rude, Mrs. Maria being a food lover, a food taster. Perhaps it was the superior life in the palace adopted by Sterling IX as a child that made her a culinary habit, a common food she could eat, but only for the sake of hunger and the convenience of her journey.

This time she rushed to White Deer Town to acquire the specimen of the Niros crocodile without a large number of servants and her own escort. The main concern was that her traveling with a big banner would attract the attention of the hearts and minds so that she would have a fluctuation in the acquisition of alligator specimens.

Some time ago in the woods, her meals were all bought by the butler Ludhan in a carriage to the old tavern in town. Although Pierre, the chef at the old tavern, cooks well, the dishes he specializes in and the restaurants that the king is famous for are no different. For Lady Maria, it belongs to the cocoa type, and she has eaten enough of these dishes in the King.

So when I visited Claude's house that day, Mr. Morsan said that Claude would cook some delicious dishes that he didn't have out there to impress Mrs. Maria and leave her for dinner, regardless of her identity. For a grocery eater, oh, for a gourmet, tasting dishes you haven't eaten is the most important and happiest moment. What is your identity? Can you eat that...

Claude did not disappoint Lady Maria, and the dishes he had baked that night were indeed something she had never heard or seen in the King, especially the concept of stir-frying, which was unheard of in the world. Steamed, boiled, roasted, fried, mixed, roasted These are the six ways chefs in the world must cook, but not sautéed.

Claude naturally pushed all of this onto a note she had read, which Lady Maria thought was in Claude's journal of the sorcerer, perhaps the way those sorcerers were cooking and cooking. Mr. Morsan thinks this could be his second cook's notebook. He bought this recipe last time, so it's no problem to like cooking.

Claude actually cooked all the dishes he'd cooked in his past life, and when he was home making them for his mother's brother and sister, he had to think about wasting and replacing them. Because for Mr. Morsan, cooking is commendable, but wasting too much is intolerable. The money in the house is not from the wind...

Claude in the woodland doesn't have to think about wasting anything. Lady Maria loves food. She doesn't care how much she pays for a plate of food. Even some condiments Claude can't find, but she can tell her name or what substitutes she can use, and then tell the butler Ludhan to buy them.

Claude thinks Lady Maria's essence is to eat first, and she likes to talk to Claude after she finishes a dish and write it down in preparation for bringing it back to the King so her private chef can learn how to cook it. During this period, they often argued because the recipes in the Claude newspaper were often a little wine, a little salt, so Lady Maria was involved for half a day, and Claude had to make it clear, which and a little indicated how much to put...

Mrs. Maria's second identity was as a pharmacist, and every time Claude was coached in pharmacology and trials, she became very serious and completely different from the usual friendly appearance. One of Claude's favorite words to refrain from learning about drugs and experimenting with them is that carelessness and negligence should not be tolerated, because any tube of refined synthetic drugs could have a stake in an innocent human life...

Registered magicians are Mrs. Maria's third identity, which she does not take seriously. She admitted to Claude that when she was young, she had to learn because she found it amusing to see those registered magicians perform magic tricks, and as soon as she found out that she really had a magical gift, she started learning meditation and magic, and now she's a second-round alchemist.

In fact, Claude didn't know what kind of magician Lady Maria was, and most of the basic spells she engraved were harmless. The only combat spell was the first-degree lightning shackle, which was also found in the palace's inner vault, and Sterling X gave it to her because he feared that his little sister would not be able to defend herself.

Magic makes life a little more convenient for Lady Maria, just as she likes to light the beads of light. It doesn't really matter if she has magic or not. Just like she brought Claude in to help her with the alligator specimen, it was Claude who did it, and she just had to move her fingers, which was much stronger than her own bamboo knife to scrape the muscles on the skin mask.

Mrs. Maria's last identity was that of a noble lady, and that was what she most neglected, as she quickly forgot her noble identity, as she had become a dedicated pharmacist when she entered the pharmaceutical laboratory. Mr. Morsan said it was not a myth that she often spent several days in a pharmaceutical laboratory doing research. Had it not been for Claude's reminder, this Lady Maria would have lost track of time and eaten because of experimentation or research.

Claude was fortunate to have met the first magician, Mrs. Maria, from whom she had received much information about the common sense of magic and the current state of magic in the kingdom. Most importantly, Mrs. Maria was not obsessed with magic and had no crush on the five basic spells that Claude had learned. At the same time, she carefully taught Claude to learn about primary drugs and how to make them and handle them...

From her, Claude has learned to make magic books and magic scrolls and how to make a Niles crocodile's skin film into standard plaintext paper. The only regret is that, because Mrs. Maria has no interest in magic, she can only brief Claude in general on the magician's situation in the Kingdom and the countries of the continent. Like the underground magic market she was talking about, she knew, she was there, but she wasn't very interested in it, only sometimes she went for a walk because she lacked the materials to do the drug trials.

But in the light of what Mrs. Maria said, Claude also generally understood her situation, so long as no one found out she was a magician, she should be fine. If you encounter another magician, be careful not to reveal your spells and basics. Mrs. Maria said that there was no peace and friendship among wild magicians, and that it was not uncommon for kings to greed each other's magic and magic materials, resources and wealth to kill each other.

Lady Maria sent Claude a finished magic book and five magic scrolls, such a magic book could be sold to 50 gold kroner in the King and five gold kroner in a blank magic scroll. So, although Lady Maria bought this Niros crocodile specimen from Sir Fox for forty-five gold crowns, she made seven magic books and thirty-five blank magic scrolls enough for her to go back and earn a fortune.

It would have taken Mrs. Maria half a month to prepare herself for a drug lab in the woods to make this crocodile specimen into a parchment and return to Wang Du, but with Claude's help time would have been much more extensive. Not only was the Magic Book and Magic Scroll finished, but Mrs. Maria had plenty of time to teach Claude to study and conduct the drug trials.

Under Mrs. Maria's guidance, Claude learned how to engrave magic on magic books and seal magic on magic scrolls. Mrs. Maria also sealed her only battle spell lightning bolt on a magic scroll and gave it to Claude for self-defense.

In fact, the lightning shackles are not very powerful, and they are only 10 meters away. The magic effect of this spell is to strike a person with a lightning bolt, and the damage is equivalent to taking a stick, the most consequence of which is minor injury, and the point is that this spell can paralyze people for more than a decade.

Mrs. Maria, unfortunately, is a first-degree spell that Claude can only learn when promoted to a two-ring scribe. She sent Claude the magic scroll of the spell to defend him. Because she thought putting on this bolt of lightning would paralyze the enemy for more than a decade, but she didn't expect to paralyze the enemy for more than a dozen seconds so that Claude could form a deadly injury and threat to the enemy...

Unconsciously, Claude regarded Mrs. Maria as the teacher of the classroom who taught students with great diligence in her previous high school life, and under the guidance of Mrs. Maria, she was truly pleased with her appreciation, for example, for her hunger and thirst to absorb all the new knowledge of the different worlds, and for her hard work in cooking those foods for Mrs. Maria in her previous life.

But the messenger who came to make Claude feel better had to be interrupted. The letter said that the second prince's princess was more than eight months pregnant. It was to be hoped that Lady Maria would return to the king as soon as possible to give the princess another check-up. Mrs. Maria had to end her leisure time in the woods and prepare herself for the trip in the early morning of the next day.

On the evening before the trip, Mrs. Maria called Claude, entrusted the guard of the forest farm to Claude in front of Mr. and Mrs. Theorie, the forest man, and gave him the Claude key to use all the equipment in the drug lab and the materials that had been prepared.

Claude understands that Mrs. Maria is doing this for her own good, and that there is no need to worry about others finding out who she is as a magician in the woods, much freer than practicing meditation in the small attic of a big red brick house.

Another reason is that Mrs. Maria does not want Claude to interrupt her studies in pharmacology, and the only difference between a good pharmacist and a primary pharmacist is that there is too little practice, be it the refining of synthetic drugs or the handling of medicinal materials, which takes time to accumulate and self-awareness.

Mrs. Maria gave Claude a note with an address.

She said that although there was no underground magic market in the three southwestern counties, there was an underground acquisition point from which magic materials and resources were collected in the area. Claude, if you have anything you need to buy in the future, can go to this address, which is an underground acquisition site in White Deer Town in the underground magic market, which is said to have been in place for about a year. Lady Maria, although she knows, has not been there.

Claude put this note away and gave it to Lady Maria an envelope, which was his farewell gift to Lady Maria.

There are five sheets of paper in the envelope, four of which contain magic hands, precise control, decomposition and fusion magic character array structures, and the other one contains a few sentences, meaning that if Mrs. Maria learns these four puzzles, she can purchase magic materials to set up the alchemy magic character array.

Although the Lady is not passionate about magic, it cannot be denied that these four spells can play a role in the alchemy spell array. Mrs. Claude did not want Mrs. Maria to reject her farewell gift because she could perfectly use the spell to test the drug in the Alchemy Character Array and then reverse the test steps and effects to improve the formulation and handling of the drug.

Mrs. Maria sighed after reading the letter, but closed it.

The next morning Mrs. Maria took the butler Ludhan out of the woods in a carriage, and Claude stood in front of the woods and watched as the carriage traveled further down the hill until it disappeared.