Second candy
The middle-aged man was named Andre, and he was a pharmacist in the town of Whitelock.
The lights in the room came on, and Violet sat in the consultation seat. She took off her hood and looked at Andre with her emerald eyes without emotion.
Andre sat across from Violet, with no intention of entertaining her.
"What are you doing here?" He looked drowsy.
Violet said nothing, she looked around the pharmacist's room.
On the left side of the door stood a wooden shelf filled with unknown bottles and jars; on the right side was a distillation machine; a rectangular table was placed horizontally under the window, with beakers and measuring flasks on the table, and indigo liquid in a U-shaped tube hanging on an iron rack. I wonder what experiment Andre was doing.
On the examination table across from the table, two dice lay next to the knife used for bloodletting.
Violet reached out and picked up the dice. "My hands are itching to play a couple of rounds with you."
Andre, who had been half-dead just now, suddenly came to life. He stood up and kindly led Violet behind the screen. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Which castle's treasure do you want information about this time?"
"I don't want their treasures, I want the best potion you have." Violet glanced at Andre.
"I have so many precious potions here."
"Then I want them all."
Looking at Violet strolling leisurely, Andre gnashed his teeth in hatred.
Andrei, a well-known black market pharmacist and information peddler, has few hobbies but a gambling addiction. His favorite haunt is the casino, where he rarely loses money. If the casino owner hadn't needed Andrei's potions, he would have been blacklisted long ago.
But ever since she accidentally won the first time she bought information from him, she had to gamble with him a few times to buy information from him. If she won, he gave her the information for free, but if she lost, the price doubled.
Violet had no objection to this, after all, she had never lost.
But Andre has been losing for more than ten years. It's not that he hasn't tried to cheat, he has even done things like robbing robbers. Unfortunately, not only is his gambling skill no match for Violet, he can't beat her in a fight either, so he can only suffer defeat until now.
It had been nearly a year since Violet had asked Andre for information. Andre had spent the past year diligently honing his gambling skills, hoping that one day Violet would show up and avenge his past defeat. Now that Violet had arrived, demanding his own potion, Andre gave her a sinister smile, everything under control.
Violet and Andre were quite familiar with each other, and seeing the other's expression, she knew that he was up to no good. She took off her cloak and draped it over the back of a chair. "I advise you not to tamper with the potion. It's something you don't want to experience a second time."
Andre's thoughts were exposed, and he pretended to be calm and said, "I won't take down my own sign."
"You want my potion, what about you? What's your bet?" Andre abruptly changed the subject.
Without any hesitation, Violet took out a crystal box. The box was crystal clear and the items inside were shining with an ice-blue light.
When Andre saw the blue light, his eyes widened and his voice stammered, "This... this is..." His face was full of disbelief.
"Mermaid heart." Violet's voice was flat, as if it was just a crystal bead.
Legend has it that the heart of the mermaid king in the deep sea is an ice-blue gem. If people on land eat it, they can not only breathe freely in the water, but also control schools of fish and possess the power of the deep sea.
"Where did you get it?"
Violet didn't answer. She tapped the crystal box with her finger. "Want to bet?"
"Bet! What to bet on!" Andre was so excited by Vilt's calm tone that he wanted to give it a try.
"Dice, quick."
The dice cup shook again and again.
The oil in the lamp hanging on the wall burned less and less, and the night sky outside the house changed from deep darkness to a ray of orange light.
Andre sat opposite Violet, his eyes cloudy and his hair frizzy. He had lost the night.
The dice cup for the last round was opened, Andre [4,3,5], and Violet [5,2,6].
Violet's dice number is slightly higher than Andre's.
"Ten games are over." Violet spread her hands, which were already filled with various potions.
Andre was speechless. He and Violet agreed to play the last bottle of potion for ten rounds. Whoever won the most games would win. Throughout the ten rounds, Violet had just beaten him by a little bit each time.
Just a little.
Andre knew that Violet did it on purpose, but he could not change or resist and could only accept it.
"This is the universal potion I made with great effort. It is worth more than ten times what you have on hand. You won it all, so just give me back the rest. You have emptied my pharmacy." Andre began to bargain.
Wei Erquan pretended not to hear. She picked up a glass bottle containing a transparent medicine. The label hanging on the bottle mouth read the purpose of the medicine - [Treatment of dry cough and fever].
"Your universal potion can cure everything?" asked Violet.
"As long as you're still breathing, drinking this potion will allow you to escape death." Andre held the golden reagent bottle reluctantly. "This is the only one I'll ever take."
"Give it to me." Violet bent her index finger and tapped the table lightly.
Andre wanted to say something, but there was a suffocating pressure all around him, which made him unable to utter a word. He could only hand over the universal potion in his hand with trembling hands.
Velvet took the potion and put the other items on the table into her space ring before leaving. She put her hood back on and nodded politely to Andre. "Thank you."
It was still dark outside, and Violet disappeared into the shadows.
It was not until Violet left that the pressure surrounding Andre suddenly dissipated.
The man who had just been timid in front of Violet suddenly straightened his back, "Damn it!" Andre angrily swept the dice and dice cup on the table to the ground, kicked the cabinet with his feet, smashing many empty bottles and jars.
After venting his anger on these dead objects, Andre sat back in his chair, touching the empty medicine box and feeling heartbroken. "That's my most valuable potion. As expected, nothing good ever happens when I run into her!"
"Black-hearted! A compulsive gambler! No moral principles!"
Andrei cursed, and suddenly looked around the room that he had made a mess. His eyes narrowed, "I asked you to marry the princess, let's see how you do it!"
The next morning, news suddenly spread through the town of Whiterock: the renowned pharmacist Andre had gone into seclusion in Whiterock. He had created a unique panacea that could cure all ailments and injuries. However, a dragon learned of this and attacked Andre late at night, stealing the potion and destroying his pharmacy. The pharmacist's fate remained uncertain.
The townspeople, having never seen a dragon before, were skeptical of the rumor and couldn't believe that a pharmacist as formidable as Andre could actually live in seclusion in their town. But when someone visited Andre's pharmacy, they found shards of glass scattered across the floor, burnt rare prescriptions, and even a large hole in the wall! This was clearly not something an ordinary person could accomplish.
For a moment, the town was in panic.
Violet had no idea that she had been inexplicably blamed. At this moment, she was taking the packaged potion, changing back to her original form and heading to the palace.
Princess Evelyn's bedroom is wrapped in defensive magic. Since the dragon descended on the day the princess was born, the defensive magic in the princess's bedroom has never been lifted, and it is repaired and thickened every year.
The defensive magic couldn't stop Violet, but she hovered in the air for a moment, just tore a small hole in a defensive magic at the balcony, and gently placed the potion on the balcony.
After doing all this, Violet shrank her body and hid in a tree nearby. Her golden pupils stared at the balcony, hoping to see any movement in the room.
However, she waited for a long time before a maid who seemed to be doing her daily cleaning came to the balcony.
When the maid saw the potion that Violet put down, she was confused at first and then frightened. She ran away quickly with the potion in her arms.
The curtains on the balcony swayed twice as the maid left. Violet leaned over to see more, but she could see nothing except the green plants by the window.
Violet lowered her head somewhat discouraged, clenched her paws, and left in disappointment.
The maid who was tidying the princess's bedroom in Saint-Debirin Castle found a package on the balcony of the princess's bedroom. Although she didn't know where these things came from, she did not dare to delay and quickly informed the queen.
The queen is not an ordinary person like the maid. She knows some magic and can clearly sense the dragon's breath outside the package.
That damn dragon didn't even try to hide his intentions!
The queen turned pale and smashed her favorite bottle of perfume.
meeting room.
The Knight Commander was reporting to the King about his unsuccessful search for Princess Evelyn when the door to the meeting room was pushed open by the Queen. She stormed in, her eyes red. She threw the potion package in her hand to the King and then asked the Knight Commander, suppressing her voice, "Has the princess not been found yet?"
The king and the knight commander felt the dragon's breath on the package when the queen came in, and their faces changed.
"My apologies, Your Majesty. I failed in my duty." The Knight Commander was the first to admit his mistake. "But, as you know, with the Princess's abilities, if she doesn't want us to find her, we're helpless. This matter itself is a secret..."
"What should I do?" The queen could no longer count on her own calmness and elegance. She covered her face and cried out, "My Evelyn, she's not even eighteen years old. She's out here all alone, with no one to take care of her. And she's been..."
"Julia, calm down first. Things may not be as bad as you think." The king put his arm around the queen's shoulders and asked her to sit next to him. He whispered to comfort her.
But the king's comfort is one thing, and the current situation is another.
As Knight Commander Jack had said, Princess Evelyn, though young, was already one of the kingdom's foremost sorcerers. If she wanted to avoid being found, she had countless ways to delay. There was also a way to find her: the Grand Wizard would simply set up a locating magic circle. However, that would quickly spread word of the princess's absence from the castle. While that might be fine for others, the only concern was that word would reach the dragon. Unable to outpace the dragon's speed, the king had to spread a false rumor about the princess' illness and secretly dispatch a rudimentary search.
"What's inside this package?" the king asked, seeing that the queen had calmed down. "Have you seen it?"
"It smells terrible. I won't look at it," the queen said angrily.
The king had no choice but to open it himself. However, just as he stretched out his hand, Jack said, "Your Majesty, please let me open it."
The Knight Commander was afraid that there might be something dangerous inside the package.
The king nodded.
He placed the package on the ground with a serious face and opened it carefully. The dangerous items that the Knight Commander had imagined did not exist, but instead there were bottles of potions.
There is a label hanging on the mouth of each bottle of medicine, which tells what disease it can cure.
The most special thing was a potion in a golden bottle, wrapped in a letter. Jack checked each bottle to see if it was safe before handing it to the king and queen along with the package. "It's all potion, and there's a letter."
"Medicine?" The king and queen looked at each other.
They all knew that the evil dragon was secretly watching Evelyn, but they didn't expect that the other party would actually find so many potions to send over.
This shows that the dragon really cares about Evelyn's health and may not harm her. It also means that the possibility of the dragon letting Evelyn go is much smaller.
The queen thought she even saw the pitiful scene of her daughter dying in the deep forest many years later. She turned her head away and tears welled up in her eyes again.
The king opened the letter in the package and after seeing the contents he picked up the golden potion bottle and examined it.
[Princess Evelyn,
When I heard that you were ill, I was very anxious and worried, so I went to look for many medicines, hoping that they could help your condition.
The golden potion bottle contains a universal potion crafted by pharmacist Andre. According to him, even a severely injured person with only one breath left can be saved by drinking this potion. If other potions can heal you, be sure to keep the universal potion for future use.
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There were many dry greetings and hellos at the end of the letter, and for some reason there was also a "sorry". The king was not happy to see the strange dragon's sweet words to his daughter, and only paid more attention to the panacea mentioned in the letter.
"Andre... no wonder." The king had heard of this man's name in his early years and knew that he had been active in the black market for many years.
The king once sent someone to him to buy the whereabouts of the evil dragon, but unexpectedly, the man's expression changed drastically when he heard the word "evil dragon". He even paid money to ask the person sent by the king to leave, and then disappeared from the black market.
Just as the king was thinking, a man dressed as a junior magician walked in with a scroll in his hand.
"Your Majesty, we have received a report from Whitelock Town that a dragon has attacked a pharmacy in Whitelock Town. The whereabouts of the pharmacist Andre are unknown, and his life or death is uncertain." The junior magician said as he handed over the scroll in his hand.
There were also magically drawn potions on the scrolls, and those potions were exactly the same as those now on the king's desk.
The relationship between the dragon and Andre seemed a little different from what the king had initially thought. He asked, "Are you sure it's the dragon?"
"A big hole was knocked out of the pharmacist's house by an unknown object, and there were footprints in the shape of dragon claws at the scene." The junior magician said, showing a photo of the scene recorded by photo magic.
The king and queen observed carefully and nodded, "Jack, ask the royal guards to send a team to the town of Whitelock to investigate, and send another team to search near the palace. If they find any trace of the evil dragon..." The king did not finish his words, and his unspoken meaning was obvious.
Jack immediately understood, "I understand."
The queen took the king's hand, hoping that this time she would get good news.
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After Violet went to the palace to deliver medicine to the princess, she turned around and returned to Whitelock Town without leaving in a hurry.
The town of Whiterock is more prosperous than the previous one, and the residents are more willing to watch magic shows. After performing on the street for three days, Vilt has received three private performance invitations, two school performance invitations, and an invitation to a theater opening performance.
She was still dressed in men's clothes, with a pretty face and a brilliant performance, which attracted some rich ladies to stop and watch. She became a little star in the town of Whitelock.
After finishing her street performance in the morning, Violet ate the cheapest dry food and carried her magic box to the homes of nobles to perform magic tricks to entertain the children.
The shadow of the dragon's attack on the pharmacist has not yet dissipated in the town of Whiterock. When Vilt passed by the shops or even when pedestrians passed by her, she could hear many residents talking about this matter.
She had intended to pretend she hadn't heard anything and walked past quickly as usual. As she passed a group of people, she suddenly heard a familiar voice, "Did the dragon really attack the pharmacist?!"
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