Chapter 017 Western Fantasy Town 8

Lucy, who suffered from severe injuries for a whole month, was only thirteen years old.

The residents of this world must learn to be independent and regard themselves as little adults after they turn eight years old.

There are many eight-year-old adventurers. The Locke that Xie Yunsui has met is only about twelve years old, but he has been following the adventurer team in and out of Villanstai for three years.

Thirteen-year-old Lucy has studied swordsmanship seriously. This time she followed her classmates to Villansted, not only to complete the adventure mission assigned by the school, but also to improve the family's finances.

This was not the first time Lucy went to Villansted, so Edmund and Martha did not try to stop her. But this time, a nightmare came.

Lucy was lying in a closed little room. The window gaps were nailed shut tightly, ensuring that no wind could enter the room. The thin Lucy was wearing thick warm clothes and covered with three quilts. Even so, she was shivering from the cold, and there was even a layer of white frost on her eyelashes.

Matthew took one look and confirmed, "Those are claw marks from an Ice Fang Wolf. Although an Ice Fang Wolf is a Tier 1 magical beast, its lethality is immense, almost comparable to some Tier 2 beasts. Most importantly, their attacks leave behind a violent energy. The one on Lucy's body is the Ice Fang Wolf's icy aura."

Xie Yunsui pondered, "Just like the fire breath left by the flaming winged beast?"

Matthew nodded: "Yes."

He had extensive experience in this area: "To treat injuries like this, you must first use an exorcism potion, then a blood-replenishing potion, and finally a recovery potion to completely heal it."

This whole process will cost at least 5 gold coins.

But looking at this small house, although it is very clean, it still reveals the poverty and shabbyness.

Edmund and Martha's clothes were covered with layers of patches.

Martha reached down and half-pulled down the back of Lucy's collar, revealing three claw marks so the pharmacist could see them more clearly.

Xie Yunsui stretched out his hand and touched the exposed scratch on Lucy, absorbing all the icy energy from the wound.

This amount of violent energy is not as much as the one in Harold. Fortunately, the energy is less, otherwise Lucy would not be able to survive for a month.

Martha only saw that Xie Yunsui seemed to have just touched the wound, and the icy energy disappeared.

Martha:?

She was shocked: "You, what did you do?"

Xie Yunsui saw Lucy frowning, and she seemed to be waking up. He said, "Please check her injuries first."

Martha quickly lowered her head and saw her daughter's eyelashes tremble slightly, and then she opened her eyes.

"Mom?" Lucy smiled palely. "It's great to be able to see Mom soberly."

Edmund, who was secretly wiping his tears at the door, rushed in and hugged Lucy: "Lucy, you're awake! That's great!"

"Wow, wow, wow." He finally couldn't help crying out loud, and stood on tiptoe to hug his daughter and wife tighter.

This dwarf man must love his wife and daughter deeply.

Xie Yunsui tried hard not to look at his trembling feet, for fear that he would accidentally laugh out loud.

It's such a touching scene.

Lucy cried for a while inexplicably while being held by her parents, and then she felt the heat coming from her body.

It seems... not cold anymore?

No longer feeling like you're frozen in the snow?

Lucy was so hot that she took off her thick cotton coat and felt the wound on her back: "Dad, Mom, is my injury healed?"

Only then did Edmund and Martha remember to introduce Charles to her.

"It was Lord Ciel who saved you. He drove away the energy left by the monster for you."

Lucy was held in Martha's arms. Hearing this, she curiously glanced at the black-haired man who had always been silent.

He is very tall and slender, more handsome than the most handsome senior in the school. His pupils are the same black color as his hair. He looks mysterious but not scary. Instead, he gives people a strange sense of security.

Lucy stood up, gently stroked her chest with her right hand, and bowed her head slightly: "Thank you, Sir Ciel, for saving my life."

Xie Yunsui waved his hands helplessly: "I told you not to call me Sir..."

Edmund then remembered that he had to pay for the treatment, but his family… He asked stiffly, “I wonder how much the treatment will cost?”

Lucy also froze, afraid of hearing some unbearable answer, and clung tightly to her dwarf father.

Harold announced loudly from the back: "One gold coin!"

The family of three first held their breath, then seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and then looked at the bare house and breathed a sigh of relief again.

The grown dwarf was about the same height as his 13-year-old mixed-race daughter. Xie Yunsui seemed to be looking at two pitiful children, and his heart softened for some reason. "I heard Edmund is a carpenter? Perhaps you can use your craftsmanship to make something for me."

Edmund's green eyes suddenly lit up. "Of course! I couldn't ask for more! I can make a lot of things!"

Angus also breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Things made by dwarves have a long service life. They are definitely good things!"

The dwarves' talent enables them to master various mechanical skills, and the products they make are exquisitely crafted.

Xie Yunsui customized two 1.8-meter-long beds, as well as a large wardrobe, a chest of drawers, several tables, chairs, and benches, five containers, and an exquisite rocking chair. Edmund also gave him a set of multifunctional household farm tools.

Xie Yunsui always felt that he had made a profit this time, and maybe he could leave something for this dwarf, such as an apple?

Edmund felt that he had made a profit and was thinking about making something small as a gift to the benefactor who saved his daughter's life.

He had been running the business in Klein for many years, but his customers were dwindling.

Because the products he made had a long lifespan, after everyone around him bought a round of products, Edmund's business became bleak.

At first, he had enough savings to send his daughter to the academy to learn swordsmanship, but now he can't even afford to buy potions.

As for Matthew and others who followed him, when they saw that Xie Yunsui had made so many daily necessities, they finally confirmed that he really wanted to settle down here.

Dolores Pharmacy.

An adventurer handed over the ordinary apple in his hand, his eyes full of anticipation.

In front of him was a pharmacist girl with hair as wavy as the sea, and also Dolores, an extremely talented intermediate pharmacist.

She graduated from the Pharmacist College in the royal capital at a young age and was promoted to an intermediate pharmacist in just a few years. She clearly had a bright future, but she was willing to open a shop in the remote Klein.

Many adventurers were saved by her, and they were grateful and admired her.

Dolores stared at the apple in her hand with her clear blue eyes. She mobilized her magic power and slowly sensed that the apple contained abundant healing energy.

"Blood-replenishing potion, energy-replenishing potion, recovery potion..."

Dolores quietly counted the potions that the energy in the apple could replace, and the more she counted, the more frightened she became.

This apple alone might not be as effective as any of the potions she mentioned, but if you eat two apples in a row, the effect will be almost the same.

"Where did this come from?" Dolores asked.

"I bought them from other adventurers for 5 silver coins each."

Dolores took out five silver coins and gave them to him: "I want them."

The adventurer chuckled. He had only spent three silver coins. "I originally wanted to give this to Lady Dolores. Is this apple really that useful?"

Dolores said, "If this apple had been available when the monster wave arrived, twice as many people would have survived."

Adventurer: “!!!”

Dolores was right. Although this apple could only replace basic potions, it happened that even basic potions were in short supply back then.

Dolores asked again: "Where did this apple come from?"

The adventurer was stunned: "It seems to be brought by adventurers from Villanstai."

Dolores: "Villanstead?"

Villanstai is a large forest, and perhaps some of the plants have mutated, causing apples like this to grow.

Dolores nodded, then turned around and asked the apprentice pharmacist in the store to go to the Adventurer's Guild to post a task for her, asking to purchase such apples at the price of 5 silver coins each.

The trainee pharmacist stared blankly: "...It's just an apple."

Dolores smiled and said, "You can think of it as a pure energy material for refining medicine."

The trainee pharmacist was stunned. A material for refining medicine with pure energy?

Wouldn't that save a lot of mana?

The problem that is bothering trainee pharmacists nowadays is that every time they make a potion, the magic power in their bodies will be drained away. Often, before a potion is even brewed, the magic power can no longer sustain it, often resulting in the entire potion being ruined or even exploding.

They could only help Dolores use magic to process some medicinal herbs, and then intensify their practice to accumulate more magic power.

The preparation of potions requires the constant use of magic to fuse various herbs and materials. The properties of these herbs and materials are different, and just using magic to sort out the properties consumes a lot of magic.

Materials with pure energy do not require much magic to guide them. They will naturally merge with materials of other attributes and can be adapted to materials of various attributes.

The trainee pharmacist's eyes lit up when he saw this ordinary apple, and he hurried out to the Adventurer's Guild.

5 silver coins for an apple is very expensive, but 5 silver coins for alchemy materials are quite cheap.

The trainee pharmacist was running as fast as he could.

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Since Edmund's construction would take at least two days, Xie Yunsui stayed in Klein for two more days.

I was bored these two days so I wandered around. After tasting countless delicious foods that were all disappointing, I finally decided not to indulge my taste buds anymore.

Just the simplest white bread will do, it's only 10 copper coins.

Thinking that I wouldn’t be able to go out in the future if I opened a shop, I took the opportunity to go to various grocery stores and buy what I needed.

"This book is 1 gold coin, this one is 3 gold coins, and this one is 10 gold coins."

Mrs. Frieda from the shop pointed at books that were thicker than the last and quoted prices.

Xie Yunsui felt a pang in his heart when he looked at the "Pharmacy Encyclopedia", which was said to be a must-have book for junior pharmacists.

"Just these three?"

"Oh? You want to buy the full set of ten?" Mrs. Frieda was surprised. "Usually, they're purchased separately. Junior pharmacists only purchase the later books when they're confirmed to be promoted to intermediate pharmacists."

Xie Yunsui thought he'd make the trip if he could, perhaps he could get a discount on the complete set. He asked, "How much is the complete set?"

Mrs. Frieda counted on her fingers: "1 gold, 3 gold, 10 gold, 30 gold, 50 gold... 200 gold, a total of 824 gold. If I buy the whole set, it will only cost 800 gold."

Xie Yunsui fumbled with the 40 gold in his pocket for a moment before finding his voice: "Just... the first three are fine."

Mrs. Frieda happily wrote out the bill and handed it over.

14 gold coins were lost at once. Xie Yunsui took a deep breath and remained calm. This was all free money and he didn't spend any effort on it.

Out of curiosity about how a book could be sold for 200 gold, he asked what the 200 gold book looked like. Mrs. Frieda did not lose patience and pointed to the book in the middle of the grocery store and said, "That's it."

Books with only their title pages opened look like exquisite stone sculptures.

Xie Yunsui was stunned when he saw the book which was almost as long as his height.

If it's this one, 200 gold doesn't seem expensive.

Who on earth would buy a book about sculpture to take home and read?

This is almost 200 kilograms. Do you charge by kilogram?

Xie Yunsui looked calm and composed, but he walked out the door roaring in his heart.

He still had a few monsters in his hands and urgently needed to go to the Adventurer's Guild to replenish his health.