"Demon… what?"
Ethan looked completely confused, but he still grabbed the emerald-green seed.
Immediately after, the golden light disappeared.
Only when Ethan saw the prompt on the seed did he finally understand what it was for!
[Demon Seed, Fire Dragon Flower: After planting it into the ground, it will fire countless dragon-flame shells. Not only can it help you defend against invaders, it can even serve as a very convenient siege cannon. (After being planted, it withers after one hour of continuous attacks.)]
[PS: Fire Dragon Flower seeds are hidden inside the leaves of withered Fire Dragon Flowers. You must dig them out before the Fire Dragon Flower self-ignites, otherwise the seed will be burned and destroyed.]
'Fire Dragon Flower?'
'Why does that sound a bit like the fire pea shooter from Plants vs. Zombies?'
'So this is a demon seed. Not very interesting at all.'
"A demon seed is a type of plant seed that, once planted, can help with sieges, defense, and even saving lives," Mr. White quickly explained, "It's just a pity that these seeds have a certain degree of randomness. Before planting them, it's very hard to know what variety they are."
"Fire Dragon Flower," Ethan said it flatly.
But Mr. White, who had been confidently explaining things, froze with a shocked expression, "What?"
"This one is a Fire Dragon Flower seed, and it's the kind that spits out dragon-flame shells," Ethan thought Mr. White hadn't heard clearly, so he quickly explained again.
But Mr. White widened his eyes and stood there stunned for a long while before stammering out, "No… no way…"
"How did you know this demon seed is a Fire Dragon Flower?"
"As far as I know, in the entire Mist City, aside from wood-element archmages, there's only one other profession that can easily tell the type of a demon seed."
Ethan asked curiously, "What profession?"
"Appraiser!"
Mr. White continued explaining, "In Mist City, there are quite a few mages who work in support-type professions."
"After all, compared to going out of the city to face all kinds of magical beasts, support-type professions are much safer. And many items brought back by heroes usually need to be appraised by appraisers before their value can be determined."
"This kind of demon seed is one of the types that's very worth appraising."
"Although Fire Dragon Flower isn't the most valuable demon seed, its convenient portability and highly efficient defensive ability make it very popular with the military."
"So if you had this seed appraised by an appraiser just now, then you basically struck gold."
"Opening demon seeds is just like opening blind boxes. Before appraisal, they're all equivalent in value."
"One seed can sell for five hundred thousand dragon coins."
"If what you open turns out to be a trash seed, like an energy flower seed, then its value drops sharply and it's only worth one hundred thousand dragon coins. Add the appraisal fee, and you lose about five hundred thousand dragon coins on one seed."
"But if you open a top-tier seed, like the Strangling Vine, then you've hit the jackpot."
"One seed can be sold on the black market for five million dragon coins."
"However, it usually can't be freely traded, because this kind of seed will be uniformly purchased by the military for city wall defense. The purchase price is three million dragon coins."
"So…"
"After getting a demon seed, many people will go find a wood-element mage and try their luck, using plant affinity to sense whether the seed might be a Strangling Vine, or some other high-value demon seed."
"If the wood-element mage's advice is that the chances are slim, most people won't go for an appraisal."
"After all, the chance of losing money is much higher than the chance of making money."
"So what Mr. White means is…", Ethan said, feeling a bit confused, "that wood-element mages actually can't accurately determine the type of a demon seed either, and can only guess?"
"More or less."
Mr. White nodded, "But after a wood-element mage communicates with the plant seed through magical affinity, the accuracy of their judgment is still over fifty percent."
"Fifty percent…"
Hearing that, Ethan sneered twice.
'What the hell is the difference between this and gambling big or small? It's ridiculously blind.'
And yet he could tell the seed's type just by looking at it. Wouldn't that make him even more impressive than a wood-element mage.
No wonder Ethan looked down on that trash fifty-fifty identification rate of wood-element mages.
"Lord, that probability is already very high."
Mr. White laughed, "You probably don't know this, but almost all demon seeds look exactly the same. If you don't rely on a wood-element mage's plant affinity to communicate with them, the chance of blind guessing doesn't even reach ten percent."
"But, that said…"
"Lord, could it be that you're also a wood-element mage?"
"Me?"
Ethan said casually, "I'm an all-element mage."
After saying that, Ethan directly condensed a Grand Fireball in the palm of his hand.
Although his Grand Fireball was a bit weak, when condensed in his palm you couldn't really see its power anyway. As long as he could form it and it looked intimidating, that was enough.
This time, Mr. White's eyes went completely wide, "All… all-element mage! That's impossible!"
"Lord, do you know that in the entire Mist City, there are only two people fortunate enough to become all-element mages? One is the National Archmage, Lord Merlin!"
"And the other is the Mist City Grand General, Alexander."
"Other than these two, there's no one else who's an all-element mage."
From Mr. White's words, Ethan finally began to slowly realize the bug in this game.
'It seems a bit too broken.'
Because other mages or professions seemed to rely on training from a young age or slow learning over time, with experience accumulation speeds comparable to the real world.
But players like them, who had transmigrated here, could easily learn all kinds of skills through scrolls.
For example, magic skills. And as long as you successfully learned them, it didn't matter what element they were. There was no conflict at all, and no such thing as lowering experience gain.
You just learned them, period.
Just like Ethan. The skills on him now spanned from magic to assassin, then to warrior and archer types. It could be said he had everything.
There was basically nothing he couldn't learn.
Well, not exactly. Many of the villagers couldn't learn dual-element magic. Up to now, among his subordinates, only seven villagers had successfully learned the freezing skill.
As for Grand Fireball, not a single one had learned it successfully. Only White Eagle, after devouring a fire spirit and transforming into a naturally fire-attributed being, managed to learn it.
But no one else seemed to succeed, 'Could this be because of restrictions?'
"There is one more, actually."
Mr. White said, "But no one knows his real name. They only know he's the rebel leader outside the city, someone who calls himself the Salted Fish King. And the rebels under him are a group that call themselves something like the Bomb… Gang or something. Anyway, a bunch of very strange people!"
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