Chapter 24: Go with the Gadfly
Translator: John Cui Editor: Zayn
Having committed himself to manufacturing the perfumes for two consecutive days while
keeping his library cleaning work, Glenn had been exhausted. But he was high-spirited. He
dashed for the trading market in the Black Tower with his 30 vials of newly-made aphrodisiacs.
“Will you please sell these 30 vials of perfumes for me? You can sell them at one magic stone per
vial,” Glenn asked politely a fat boy who was reading a sorcery book at the time.
“Perfumes? What kind of perfume? Come on, I’ve got all the nectars in the world and they smell
great.” The boy raised his head quickly. His eyes could barely be seen because they were mostly
covered by the dewlaps around his eye sockets.
“It’s a little creation of mine. It stimulates sexual desire when sprayed on. And there are vials
for both females and males.”
“Aphrodisiac!” The boy suddenly sounded interested and was about to try one.
“Be careful! It backfires if you pick the wrong one.”
Following Glenn’s instruction, the boy sniffed at the one for males and indulged himself in the
scent for a while. He then opened his eyes and exclaimed:
“Wow, this is fantastic!” The boy continued. “What do you call it? Have you got a name for it yet?
It did remind me of the ecstatic first love. It’s fabulous!”
“Well, the name...” Glenn stuttered for he had never thought that the perfumes should be
named.
“How about we call it the Love Vial?” The boy became feverish at the name.
“Love Vial, brilliant! Let’s name it that! ”
“But it’s worth more than one stone per vial, don’t you think? Let’s make it two,” said the boy.
“Two? I don’t think the pupils can afford that much!”
“Oh, my boy, there’s no way you’d think that I’m selling it to those pupils only, do you?”
“What? The sorcerers, too?!” Glenn inquired.
“Exactly! We all have our desires, the sorcerers included.”
“Okay, then. We price it at two stones per vial and I will knock ten percent off the sales to you.”
“Then we have a deal.”
Glenn woke up early the next day. He then gobbled up something and got ready to go to the
trading market. He needed the stones for another reason. He had a Soul Sorcery class that
afternoon and the lecturer was a well-reputed sorcerer, who would introduce the basics of Soul
Sorcery, which would help you lay the groundwork for raising Symbiotic Insects. But one magic
stone would be needed for admission.
But now Glenn did not have a penny. The one and a half stones had been consumed on buying
the necessary ingredients for manufacturing the aphrodisiacs.
“Oh, my dear! Here you are! The inventor of the Love Vial!” The fat boy was very swift in
welcoming Glenn.
“It sold well?” Glenn asked keenly while wondering how a person as fat as him could manage
such agility.
“You have no idea how well it went! I introduced one vial to a sorcerer. He loved it and bought
all the vials. He even paid me an intermediate magic stone[1] and left without asking for the
change! Do you have more of these? I am planning to expand the market a little bit and sell it to
other schools!” The boy rambled on as he handed Glenn a bag of magical stones.
“Well, I don’t know. I mean, I can’t make it now because I’m busy preparing for the imminent
First-years Sorcery Test. But still, I will make some when I am low on magic stones.” Glenn
declined the offer as he counted the stones in the bag.
ate the dung, the Gadflies would enter the mollusk’s body and lived in its intestines. One thing
one needed to pay heed to was the fact that the Gadflies caused the mollusk’s genes to mutate
which, as a result, grew extra legs or feet and caused difficulty in the movements. They were
then more likely to be eaten by the crane. Finally, the Gadflies came back to the cranes.
The third one was Diaphania, a much-preferred Symbiotic Insect by the sorcerers. Although
they had little ability to attack but they could prolong the nurturer’s longevity, in some cases,
by even 100 years.
After weighing the cons and pros of the above-said three Symbiotic Insects, Glenn concluded
that Corpse-Eating Insects were too cruel for him so he ditched them.
Now Glenn was stuck between Gadfly and Diaphania. Glenn believed that Diaphania had been
favored for a good reason. But he was more interested in Gadfly because of the mutations
involved, albeit not good ones.
“Mutation was basically an evolution, and when the Gadfly caused a mutation in its host’s
genes, it was clearly not through the Hematology Sorcery. So did it have something to do with
olfactory enhancement?” Glenn kept thinking.
Then Glenn decided to experiment the Gadfly on a live frog.
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Footnotes:
One intermediate magical stone equals and can be converted to 100 magical stones on the
Sorcery Continent.
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