A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 96 Amazing Little Inventions

"As expected, what was bound to happen will happen."

Looking at the battle report in his hand, Jiang Shuzhou was not surprised at all.

The Alliance of Saints and the Alliance of Mages clashed in the Storm Sea, and the Fifth Fleet was completely annihilated by the enemy's main force.

However, the Mage Alliance was not far behind; the death of one of their high-ranking paladins was a significant loss for the Alliance of Saints.

The Mage Alliance has now slowed its attack on the Murloc Kingdom and is currently in a standoff with the Alliance of Saints.

Large quantities of supplies are being sent to the front lines, and support from within the alliance will also arrive.

However, the main focus is on replenishing supplies; high-level mages shouldn't even think about it. Unless both sides intend to engage in a full-scale war, there won't be many reinforcements from high-level forces to prevent the situation from escalating.

The large-scale allocation of resources also brought some benefits to Jiang Shuzhou, such as the stacks of magical materials in his room.

These add up to about eight thousand gold coins, which is already the limit; any more would break the rules.

Most of these materials are of low quality, mainly first-tier, and even mixed with a lot of cheap apprentice-level items.

But the value they can create is far greater than eight thousand gold coins.

Alchemy is a skill that turns the rotten into the magical. Its ultimate goal is not equivalent exchange, but creating something from nothing.

This is why the Alchemist's Badge is a tilted scale.

Jiang Shuzhou intercepted these materials not to make money.

His main motivation was to better study alchemy. After successfully becoming an alchemist, the sense of urgency disappeared, and he was now able to study alchemy without such utilitarian motives, purely enjoying the pleasure of creation.

"My lord, you summoned me."

Hayes looked somewhat tired; the players' enthusiasm had left him feeling exhausted.

"This is the seal I made. You can use your blood to acknowledge it as your own, and then you won't need to come here every day to get the sorcerer's seal."

Jiang Shuzhou casually tossed a jade seal to Hayes. These days, not only Hayes was extremely busy, but Jiang Shuzhou was also forced to get busy. After all, he was the commander, and without his mage mark, he couldn't do anything.

Frustrated, Jiang Shuzhou finally found a solution after carefully studying and searching through various alchemy books.

That's an automatic seal. As the saying goes, one generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade. The troubles that Jiang Shuzhou encountered were naturally encountered by his predecessors as well.

So an elder invented the automatic seal.

Whether you input magic power or battle aura, unless you input divine power, the automatic seal can generate a mage mark. Through iterations, the current version can even add some notes to the mage mark.

Information such as who made the mark and when it was made is readily available.

Incidentally, the jade was hand-crafted by Jiang Shuzhou using alchemy.

The total cost is several times higher than buying a finished product directly from the market.

It doesn't matter.

What I enjoy is the pure process of creating something entirely by hand, from scratch.

Hayes took the seal and breathed a sigh of relief. At least he wouldn't have to run around every day, which would save him a lot of time.

There's something strange about this seal.

Most seals on the market are round or oval, and are mostly made of metal.

The one in my hand, however, is shaped like a square official seal, and its material is warm and lustrous jade.

Regardless, Hayes still liked it very much, since the more valuable the material, the higher the lord's regard and recognition of him.

Unfortunately, Hayes would never have imagined that Jiang Shuzhou was doing this purely out of personal preference. "If I don't get an official seal after becoming an official, wouldn't that be a waste of my position?"

Of course, the same applies to blood oaths; in fact, you can use battle aura.

Besides these, he has some other works like this, but some of them were his own ideas and are not yet fully developed.

Take an automatic rocking chair, for example. As soon as a person lies down, it will rock automatically to lull them to sleep. The downside is that it rocks faster and faster, which can shake a person's brain to its core.

There's also a blanket that's 100% designed to prevent you from getting cold; it will immediately cover you up again if it detects that someone has left the blanket's coverage area.

The downside is that you might find yourself wrapped up like a mummy the next morning, unable to lift the blanket at all.

Jiang Shuzhou has many more small inventions like these, some to satisfy his creative desires, and some simply because he didn't do them well enough.

Jiang Shuzhou thought of his previous conversation with Master Jia Wei.

"Venerable Navis, do you still have the electric chair you made before?"

"What electric chair? Isn't that a chair that can detect lies?"

"So the side effect is detecting lies?"

"?"

"I saw the person across from me get an electric shock after saying just one sentence, and I was wondering if this thing was an electric chair."

"That's because he lied, and that's the punishment I set."

"That's absolutely right, Master Navis, you're a true genius!"

"The arbitration commission will issue five warrants. When the time comes, we'll put these things in the plaintiff's and defendant's seats, and anyone who dares to lie will be electrocuted."

Okay, although Jiang Shuzhou's original intention was to use it for interrogation.

However, in a sense, this can be considered as using it in the right place.

Let's shift our focus from creating magical items back to making potions. There are too many bizarre creations; they're damaging his reputation.

Based on existing knowledge and the needs of some mage groups, Jiang Shuzhou has decided to research a new potion.

The drug's name is tentatively set as a shaping agent.

Its function is to temporarily soften the body. During this period, the user can change the shape of their body according to their preferences, and can define their own body.

The main target customers are young monks who are anxious or dissatisfied with their body shape and appearance. These monks are naive and rich, and are much easier to fool than those cunning old men.

They are also willing to pay for their body shape and appearance.

Jiang Shuzhou happens to be the last inheritor of the Flesh and Blood Evangelical school. Isn't this the right approach?

The Blood and Flesh Gospel is best known for its expertise in physical modification, and its knowledge of related taboos is countless. Jiang Shuzhou can simply take some, modify them, and refer to them, and that will be enough for him.

Without further ado, they opened the system and began searching through the lineage of the Flesh and Blood Evangelicals.

"I see."

"good."

"Hehehe."

"You can do that?"

Jiang Shuzhou's whispers echoed in the office, signifying the imminent birth of yet another invention.

"I hope he's alright."

Miles, who was passing by, felt a chill run down his spine and his heart race. His keen senses told him that this was not a place to linger.

Master Navis was indeed exceptionally talented. While other alchemists were still copying others and following the recipes step by step, this master had already begun to create his own.

The things I created before, although their functions were rather ridiculous, were actually useful, and could still be used with optimization.

Now it's even more incredible; the things he creates are so dangerous that even I feel threatened. It's true that none of the genius alchemists are normal.

Thinking of this, Miles quickly left the place of trouble, afraid that he might accidentally fall into the same trap as last time.

He was the first user of the automatic rocking chair, and that's a truly sad story.

I won't go into details here; it's all too painful to talk about.