Pale Emblem

Chapter 16 The Living Elixir
On the streets of Braun Town, there is a "farm", a small room with some samples of food for sale on the shelves, and only two or three guys entertain the guests.It's actually a shop, not a farm.

The backyard of Dr. Cole's pharmacy is a real farm.

It covers an area of ​​[-] acres, with colorful medicine fields, flat drying fields, and animal pens for raising various animals.The "people" busy in the backyard are a group of women Vertok has never met.

They are definitely not half-elves. Although they are similar in appearance, they both have thick eyebrows, big eyes, pointed ears, beautiful facial features, and good looks, but they are tall and muscular. Compared with slender half-elf women, They look toned and strong, especially with shiny skin, a healthy tan, and when they smile, they show their snow-white canine teeth.These characteristics give them a fierce and primitive temperament, which is completely different from the gentle half-elf waitress and the wild Hemer female warrior.

It's normal for Vertok to get excited when he sees something new.Dr. Cole was puzzled by his reaction.The Disa Alliance has a large number of barbarian slaves, accounting for about ten percent of the total population.Every major city has a barbarian slave for every twenty Dissa half-elves.The villages, towns, plantations, and mines that belonged to the city-state had more slaves.

Vertok lost his memory, so he didn't have any impression of common barbarian slaves, right?
"This is the barbarian I raised, haven't you seen it before?" Cole looked into Vertok's eyes, and immediately turned his eyes away to avoid looking at him.

Vertok gave an "oh" first, and asked without answering, "Why are all the slaves here women?"

An idea suddenly popped into Cole's mind. He introduced: "Barbarians and Orcs are different in appearance, like two different races. In fact, they are the same as Orcs. It's a bit like Half-Elves and Homer The relationship between the tribe and the Tagu tribe. Compared with the brutal and aggressive half-orcs who cannot be domesticated, the barbarians are smart and dexterous, and their temperament is quite docile. Within the Blackstone tribe, which is hostile to the alliance, the status of the barbarians is very low, especially the female barbarians. Their situation is miserable, and the living environment is not as good as that of the slaves of the Disa Alliance. Therefore, many barbarians would rather be slaves in the Disa Alliance than be oppressed and enslaved by the Orcs in the tribe."

"We must manage the barbarians separately from men and women, otherwise they will give birth to more young barbarians. The fertility of barbarians is inferior to that of half-orcs, but stronger than that of half-elves. Moreover, male barbarians are very strong, and if the alliance lets go Barbarian slaves multiply in the city-state, and the consequences will be unimaginable."

"The law of the alliance stipulates that ordinary families can only buy and sell barbarian female slaves, who are fully qualified for work such as planting, logging, and herding. Miners with armed guards can only buy strong barbarian males, but there is a limit to the number of slaves that can be purchased. Their fertility has to be banned, which can also reduce the aggression of barbarians."

"Barbarian female slaves are obedient and well-behaved, capable of physical labor, and are generally treated well by their masters. Some half-elf men even treat barbarian female slaves as personal pets, but they cannot have offspring together. This also leads to barbarian males hating us, They would raid plantations, loot wealth, and snatch barbarian female slaves. And most barbarian female slaves wouldn't follow them. Well, Blackrock raiders were mostly barbarian males."

Having said that, Dr. Cole clapped his hands, attracting the attention of the barbarian female slave.They put down their work and walked obediently in front of the master, lined up in a line, waiting for the master's lecture, and timidly peeked at Vertok.

At the end of autumn and early winter, the monsoon gradually lost its roaring strength, but it carried a bleak chill.Vertok has changed into warm winter clothes, but these barbarian female slaves wear leather collars around their necks. They only have a leather chest protector and a leather short skirt. They have a strong and proud figure and copper-colored oily skin The tough beauty of life blooms in the cold wind.Even though their facial features are a bit rougher than the beautiful half-elf women, their fit and strong physique makes most women envious.

The tall and sturdy stature of the barbarian slave girls and their strong and rough appearance form a strong contrast with their timid and docile demeanor, which makes people feel the urge to ravage them at will.

Cole put his hands on his back and said lightly: "The aesthetics of half-orcs and barbarians are opposite to ours. They like females who are fat and rough, and can give birth to several healthy cubs at a time. These barbarian slaves of mine are in the eyes of half-orcs and barbarians. They are all ugly females. Orcs of the Blackrock tribe have higher status than barbarians, males have higher status than females, and 'beautiful' females have higher status than 'ugly' females. But to us, the 'ugly' barbarian female slaves are the most valuable."

"Vertok, if you're interested, I can sell you the ugliest female slave here. Rona, come out."

Cole turned to Vertok and said, "Give me 800 gold towers, she is your private property, you can do whatever you want to her."

When the barbarian slave whose name was named heard this, she immediately looked at Vertok in horror, her sturdy body trembling.

Vertok moved his fingers on the seam of his trousers. He always remembered to beware of Dr. Cole. Although he wanted to probe the barbarian female slave in front of him, he still shook his head and refused: "I have no money."

"It can be billed."

Still shaking his head, Will insisted, "I don't have any money."

"It's a pity...you go back to work."

Dr. Cole waved his hand, and the twenty or so barbarian female slaves left here quickly.The barbarian slave named Rona ran the fastest and worked harder, as if she was afraid that Dr. Cole would sell herself again.

Vertok watched with a faint gaze as the barbarian slave Rona picked up a heavy stone jar and ran to the back of a hut.He was disappointed and thought to himself: My current strength is similar to that of a barbarian slave... I really want to sell her.No, Cole asked me to buy it, I won't buy it, I'll find someone else to buy it when I have money in the future.

Cole didn't care about a barbarian slave girl, and didn't really want to sell Rona to Vertoc.He was just trying to verify a guess.

Slim barbarian women are indeed despised by their peers, but they also think half-elves are ugly.Both barbarians and half-orcs feel that the more beautiful the half-elves are, the uglier they are.When Rona heard that she was going to be sold to Vertoc, she had to be very resistant.

This seems to indicate that Veltoc's charm is only effective for half-elves.

Cole is now more and more certain that Vertok's beauty traits are the result of human intervention, and the purpose behind the cultivation of him is unclear, but it should be related to the power struggle in the highlands.What is clear is that any highland clan that acquires Vertoc's beauty trait will significantly increase their dominance over the half-elf city-state.If used correctly, they can even influence other Highlanders.

From this point of view, Vertoc's value cannot be measured in money at all!
Cole no longer dared to think further. The most urgent task is to first find out what hidden qualities Vertok has in addition to his manifested beauty qualities?

"Vertok, as my assistant, you always have to have a certain understanding of pharmacy. Do you know pharmacy?" Cole asked.

Virtok's head was shaking like a rattle. He didn't plan to ask Dr. Cole about the Origin Blood Elixir formula, even though he had already told part of the formula to two unfamiliar adventurers.As for whether the medicinal formula would reach Cole's ears in the end, he had not considered it.

Cole was not surprised, nodded and said patiently: "I will briefly introduce pharmacy first. There are two categories of pharmacy in the alliance, common potions and secret potions. There is nothing to say about common potions, anyone can mix common potions. Pharmacy. Therefore, pharmacy generally refers specifically to esoteric medicine."

"The so-called secret medicine is a potion that extracts and enhances characteristics through a certain secret method. If you want to understand secret medicine, you must first understand what characteristics are and what is a professional."

"Everything in the world has different characteristics. The hardness of stone is a characteristic, the burning of wood is a characteristic, and your beauty is also a characteristic... We are accustomed to summarize the characteristics of half-elves into four directions, namely physique Towards, strength, agility, intelligence. For example, your beauty traits belong to constitution. But the common constitutions of half-elves are strength, resistance, tenacity, and so on.”

"When the traits of strength, resistance, and tenacity are raised to a certain level, specialties are formed. The process of improvement is called sublimation, also known as awakening. Half-elf awakened people condense special specialties by holding secret rituals, taking secret medicines, and teaching methods. The secret blood, he became a professional."

Vertok seemed to understand, but tilted his head, looking up and down Dr. Cole. "Knowledge Puzzle" only absorbs this information without feedback.But he really hoped that the other party could continue to talk, the more detailed the better.

Cole just briefly introduced the professionals, and the secret medicine is the focus behind.

"If it's just exercise, it's almost impossible for a half-elf's physical traits to sublimate to the level of an awakened person, let alone condense secret blood and become a true professional. Fortunately, the traits are the same... Come with me."

Cole led Vertok to the animal pen, where three huge tusk wild boars were lying on the haystacks, sleeping soundly.He turned his head and was about to continue the introduction, when he suddenly found that Vertok "swiped" and jumped on the fence, seemingly ready to turn in and touch the long-toothed boar.

"Quick, stop him!" Dr. Cole was shocked, and his voice was so sharp that it was deformed.

The three half-elf female slaves around him shot together, moved hands and feet, and dragged Vertoc off the fence.

"Idiot! Are you dying? These herbal wild boars are more ferocious than ordinary long-toothed wild boars. If you jump into the animal pen like this, they will think you are food!" Cole roared in horror, his cry The three wild boars in the animal pen were disturbed.They got up and walked slowly to the fence, sniffing with their long noses, as if looking for food.

Vertok squatted down, observed through the fence for a while, and asked in surprise, "Secret medicine wild boar? Are these wild boars secret medicine?"

Cole scolded Vertok just now when he was out of anger. After scolding, he felt guilty for no reason, as if he had accidentally offended the superior.He calmed down and explained in a gentle tone as much as possible: "The magic of life is to transform different things into a part of oneself. This is the gift of the mother of the earth...Come here a few people, feed the pigs and get medicine. "

Two barbarian female slaves came carrying a large pot and poured all the brown fodder into the fence.The three long-toothed wild boars came over immediately, burying their heads to eat, and humming happily.

"Wild boars are strong, and they eat almost everything. I use several special stone powders with some medicines to feed a batch of mud scorpions. The hardness of the stone powder can enhance the hardness of the mud scorpion's carapace. The wild boar eats it regularly. The mud scorpion carapace is the fodder for medicine, and at the same time enhances the strong and hard characteristics... Using life as the furnace, refining the characteristics, and obtaining sublimation is the secret medicine. Its effect is much better than those ordinary medicines prepared in flasks!"

The secret medicine is alive!
Vertoc was an eye-opener, but how should the living elixir be used?In his impression, medicine is for eating.However, how many days will it take to eat such a big wild boar?
Wild boar is a very greedy animal, always wanting to eat all the food into its stomach.In a short time, a large pot of pig feed was eaten cleanly by three long-toothed wild boars.Perhaps some drug in the feed came into play, and they soon collapsed to the ground, unable to move, their fat bodies still heaving up and down, as if they were in a dying state of unconsciousness.

After a while, Vertok was surprised to find that some lumps were raised under the thick bristles of the wild boar, and then dozens of bugs the size of an ordinary human thumb burrowed out from it.Their bodies are almost transparent, and their shape is roughly flat, but their translucent bellies are bulging, and the bright red blood beads that are striking like gems can be seen inside.

The half-elf maid took a small wooden box from her satchel, placed it on the ground, and opened the lid.The translucent bugs scrambled to get off the boar and into the small wooden box.

When all the bugs had crawled into the box, the half-elf maid closed the lid and presented the box to Dr. Cole with both hands.

Facing Vertok's curious eyes, Cole weighed the box in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face, and said lightly, "Kestuo blood-sucking worm... The blood-sucking beetles cultivated by the great pharmacist Kesto will parasitize animals. Under the skin of the worm, it feeds on the blood of the host for a long time and becomes a part of the host. When the host is on the verge of death, or smells the breath of the female insect, the Kesto blood-sucking worm will desperately absorb the essence of the host's blood, and then leave the host. "

"We use this characteristic of Kesto blood-sucking worms to extract and preserve secret medicines. Later, my maid will use amber solution to seal up these blood-sucking worms and sell them to armed caravans. Professionals with good constitutions take these The blood-sucking worms sealed in amber can activate the secret blood characteristics in a short time, reduce the consumption of secret blood, quickly replenish physical energy, enhance strength, and activate the ability of rock skin."

Handing the box to the half-elf maid, Dr. Cole said to Vertoc: "The adventurers in Braun Town sold me the medicinal materials that were not easy to preserve, and I used them to refine the secret medicine and resell it to the armed caravan. Like this A kind of rock skin medicine of average quality, each can be sold for about 90 gold towers. The medicinal pigs I raise are harvested once a year, up to three times, and each time they can harvest more than 20 rock skin secret medicines, with a total value of 2000 gold towers. The cost of making this batch of rock skin secret medicine is less than 700 gold towers. Of course, rock skin medicine only accounts for a small part of the secret medicine produced by the pharmacy."

"According to the trait resonance effect, only the fourth-level physicians who specialize in awakening intelligence can accurately grasp the dosage, the maturation time of the secret medicine, and the effect of the secret medicine. Those third-level physicians may be certified as third-level pharmacists by the academy after learning, but they It is no different from an ordinary pharmacist, there is no way to refine the awakening secret medicine, so you can only give me a hand."

Cole specially emphasized that the third-level pharmacist could not independently make the awakening elixir, which was to remind Vertok that only his fourth-level physician could prepare the awakening elixir in the whole town of Braun.If Vertok has questions about the Awakening Elixir, ask him immediately.

Vertok pointed to his nose and asked excitedly: "Look, can I become a third-level pharmacist? I want to learn how to prepare ordinary pharmacies."

Cole glanced at him strangely, and said ponderingly: "A pharmacist is a profession, not a professional. My personal maids all know some knowledge of pharmacy. In your spare time, I will let them teach you something... and Yes, don't harass my personal maid again."

(End of this chapter)