Isabella's Joy

Eldrin went directly to the laboratory and inserted the metal badge into the alchemy table. Then a clear magic image appeared, which recorded Eldrin's income and expenditure for the month. The alchemy table was powered by magic crystals, and activating the badge required 5 points of magic. Eldrin now wanted to use all his magic to practice magic, and he was unwilling to waste it on activating the badge.

when he saw the first line of the bill . It said, "Update one magic puppet doll, totaling 1,600 gold coins."

The magic puppet was a steel statue that Eldrin used to practice fireball and other magic. When passing by the magic test field, Eldrin saw that a new puppet had been replaced . But such a thing would cost 1,600 gold coins? Eldrin had little idea about money, but he knew that his mother had lived in Rutheran Village for ten years, and all her savings added up to only a dozen gold coins. The fur of a large monster was only one or two gold coins in the city, but it would take adult hunters to risk their lives to hunt them. Perhaps the richest village chief would have a fortune of hundreds of gold coins, many of which were military pay and bounties accumulated when the village chief was in the army .

I just shot two fireballs and blew away 1,600 gold coins?

He began to recall all the details about the Iron Doll, and then found that the doll seemed to have no other outstanding features except that its defense was almost the same as the standard half-body plate armor . Little Eldrin had no idea yet, and precision was the fundamental reason why the Iron Doll was expensive. The defense error between ordinary magic dolls and military standard half-body plate armor was one to two energy levels, while the error of Deepblue 's Iron Doll was within one tenth of an energy level. The difference of one order of magnitude in error means a difference of nearly thirty times in cost. And energy level is a concept in magic, which roughly refers to the energy carried by a standard first-level magic missile.

Cold sweat continued to flow down Eldrin's forehead. The huge number made him almost unable to breathe. Rutheran Village is also the territory of the Holy Alliance. The currency is the same as Deepblue . 1600 gold coins is a debt that Eldrin can never pay back in his lifetime. He doesn't like to be in debt. This is a character inherited from Irene. The priests of the Moon Goddess don't want to owe anyone anything. The huge psychological pressure made Eldrin's eyes black. He finally calmed down and looked down slowly. As he thought, the prices of the consumables below were all shockingly high. For example, the unit price of the bottle of magic recovery potion was close to 500 gold coins. Seeing this, when Eldrin thought of the bottles of magic potions in the potion room in the warehouse area, he felt completely different. Those potions were labeled with performance and usage. Most of them were auxiliary potions for improving magic perception, affinity and recovery. They were mainly used by magicians to speed up the practice process.

coming to Deepblue , Eldrin had a preliminary understanding of the world outside the mountain. When he was in Yashan , he was shocked by the high prices of items, but compared to Deepblue , the things in Yashan were simple and cheap, as if they were free. For example, a bottle of mana recovery was only 10 gold coins in Yashan , but on Deepblue 's bill it was 500 gold coins, a difference of 50 times.

what Eldrin didn't know was that the magic recovery potion sold in the Yashan market only lasted for three hours, and the recovery acceleration effect was only 0.5 times. The potion he drank lasted for 24 hours, and the acceleration effect was 1 times. Similarly, the result of strengthening the comprehensive performance by 16 times is that the price increased by 50 times.

From level promotion to refining potions, and even in all walks of life, the later you advance, the more difficult it is to make progress, and the higher the cost of each advancement. Therefore, the pyramid structure is a universal structure in almost all fields, and the concept that little Eldrin just learned explains this principle from another perspective, the diminishing marginal returns.

At the end of the first page, Eldrin saw the total amount of his expenses for the month: a total of 18,000 gold coins.

Every two pages were income, and Eldrin only saw one line on it. The item was tuition subsidy, and the amount was 30,000 gold coins.

Eldrin had grown accustomed to large numbers when looking at expenditures... but he was still shocked by the size of the subsidy.

Not to mention 30,000 gold coins, just one day ago, 30 gold coins was a huge sum of money that little Eldrin had never seen before, and he didn't know how to spend it. Life in the mountains was self-sufficient, and apart from the need to buy cloth from outside, Eldrin couldn't even think of where else he needed to spend money.

But 30,000 gold coins... "That should be enough to cover the entire lab!" Eldrin, who had not yet recovered from his dizziness, looked at the huge alchemy lab and thought involuntarily.

But when Eldrin's eyes swept over every corner of the experiment, he got the exact answer. If the floor was paved entirely with imperial gold coins, then 333,300 gold coins could be used to pave the floor of this laboratory.

Little Eldrin shook his head vigorously, driving away these disturbing figures from his mind. 30,000 or 300,000 made no difference, they were both unimaginable sums of money.

And the 30,000 gold coins subsidy was just the beginning. There were several blank columns on the second page, with only the names of the major categories, but no income. It seemed that they would be the source of income in the future. It was just that the last column was a little difficult for Eldrin to understand, 'Isabella's Joy', what kind of income was this?

After calming down, Little Eldrin realized that the subsidy of 30,000 gold coins was not much. There were countless places to spend money in Deepblue . This was only the first month. He spent most of his time in class. He had only been practicing magic for less than a week. The materials he had consumed were pitifully few, but his expenditure had reached 18,000 gold coins. It was certain that he would be lucky to be able to maintain a balance between income and expenditure in the next month. After another month, 30,000 gold coins would definitely not be enough.

Eldrin didn't think about it any more. Although he still didn't have much idea about money, he at least knew that every day of studying in Deepblue meant the consumption of a lot of resources. Although there was a subsidy of 30,000 gold coins, Eldrin didn't think it was without cost. On the surface, it must be that Marquis Gordon had mobilized a lot of resources to be able to enter Deepblue and study under the Legendary Archmage . However, the deeper reason was that Irene had exchanged her life for Eldrin's opportunity. Continental history and political structure are also important courses for mages to learn, so Eldrin already had a preliminary understanding of the world of Norland. At least he knew that the position of the Legendary Archmage's personal student was something that countless big men in the empire dreamed of. Marquis Gordon's strength and status were not outstanding. To be able to get such an opportunity, he must have paid a higher price than other nobles.

There is no end to the exploration of the magic world. Eldrin silently stopped the magic image, because the consumption of magic crystals also requires money. He placed the badge in a conspicuous place. All the income and expenditure items have been engraved in his memory, even more firmly than memory magic, and then he plunged into the study of the magic world again.

Two months passed in the blink of an eye. Eldrin was immersed in the world of magic and numbers every day, and he hardly felt the passage of time. Now he has mastered the two innate abilities of wisdom and truth. The digital world is not only strange and boring, but also has many irreplaceable benefits. For example, as long as he is within his perception range, Eldrin can most intuitively understand the strength of others. For example, Minnie and Randolph, Isabella's other two students, are now level 5 and level 6 magicians, respectively, and are only fourteen years old. Minnie's magic power is 70, while Randolph has reached an astonishing 110. In terms of magic power alone, it is no different from a level 7 magician. Not to mention the level of the mage, the magic power of the two people is far beyond the magicians of the same level. This means that they have more spell slots than the magicians of the same level, which is the most direct difference in strength. Moreover, to be able to become Isabella's direct disciple, one's own blood must be special. Strong bloodline ability is a key factor that can determine the outcome of the battle in many high-level professional battles.

But every morning when he woke up, Eldrin would still see the blazing fire and his mother's figure in the firelight. Occasionally, there would be blood on the quilt, which was because he had bitten his mouth in his sleep.