Pale Emblem

Chapter 17-Awakening
The front hall of the pharmacy is the residence of Dr. Cole and the half-elf maid, and the backyard is the secret medicine farm. Several houses have also been built to serve as storage rooms, dispensaries, and dormitories for barbarian female slaves.

The weather is getting colder now, and more and more adventure groups are returning to Braun Town from the wild. Dr. Cole treats the wounded at Braun Town Medical Center every day. He doesn't stay in the pharmacy for a long time.The pharmacy is basically managed by a few beautiful half-elf maids, who instruct the sturdy barbarian slaves to do some rough work, but the half-elf maids handle the key work of preparing the potions in person.

Dr. Cole would come over every day to check the status of the living secret medicine, and occasionally propose an improvement plan for the medicine ratio.He basically didn't ask about such trivial matters as the processing of medicinal materials and the preparation of common medicines.Half-elf maids can be done independently.

Vertoc was tasked with guarding the drug storage room, and even with such a simple task, he was assisted by barbarian female slaves.He was in a state of idleness in Cole's apothecary, wandering around the yard every day, accompanied by at least one half-elf maid.

The apothecary workshop, which was forbidden to outsiders, was not fortified against Vertoc, except for Dr. Cole's bedroom, and the half-elf maid was willing to accompany him wherever he wanted to go.

Of course, Vertoc doesn't waste time in vain. He spends most of his time in the storage room and the dispensary, learning to identify medicinal herbs, or watching half-elf maids prepare potions.

These two places were kept spotlessly clean by the barbarian slaves. Every object in it, from the wooden floor covering the floor to the patches for protecting the walls; from the largest cabinet to the smallest oil lamp, their materials, shapes, and placement were all perfect. Very sophisticated.The most luxuriously decorated rooms in the Adventurer's House are crude by comparison.

Vertoc had a sense of déjà vu in Cole's pantry and pharmacy, and thought that was where the pharmacy should be.

If it wasn't for the "review" that he had to do every night, he would have just stayed in the herbal storage room, and didn't have to run back and forth between the hotel and the pharmacy.

What really attracted Vertok was the wide variety of medicinal herbs in the pantry.

The Adventurer's Home has a long-term task of purchasing medicinal materials issued by Dr. Cole. Adventurers can sell the collected medicinal materials to the pharmacy workshop in Braun Town at the corresponding price on the task list.

In fact, Dr. Cole's purchase price of medicinal materials is lower than the purchase price of the armed caravan, but he pays a sum of money to the adventurer's union every year. If an adventurer makes a deal with Cole, it is regarded as completing the adventure mission, which can improve the union's respect for himself. evaluation of.With the exception of a few particularly rare herbs, adventurers sell general herbs to Dr. Cole.

Over time, there are hundreds of medicinal materials stored in the storage room, involving plants, animals, minerals, and even several special humus and animal feces.Every cabinet in the storage room was full, and the smell in the room was particularly strong. Fortunately, Vertok's nose had adapted to the environment here, and the smell of various medicinal herbs did not trouble him.Instead, he had to take the initiative to sniff the scent, trying to identify each medicinal herb with his keen sense of smell to see if they could evoke his memories.

The closet in the storage room is very high. In order to get the top medicinal materials, the barbarian slaves had to use a ladder to take out samples of medicinal materials from the top cabinet and give them to Vertok to distinguish.

Although he hasn't been here for a long time, the barbarian female slaves have realized that this half-elf with a particularly "terrifying" appearance and temperament is particularly valued by the master, and his status is higher than that of several half-elf maids.At the very least, the half-elf maid has hardly refused his various requests.

Therefore, the barbarian female slaves are very afraid of Vertoc, avoid him as much as possible, and dare not offend him.

Vertok did not regain his memory, and his mind was very simple. He might really think that he was working for Dr. Cole.In fact, he was the only one who was kept in the dark.

However, these are just the wishful thinking of Boss Bartom, Dr. Cole and others.

It's true that Vertok is innocent and simple, but he has an unbelievable ability and good habits.Every night, through the "golden light group" of the conscious world, from the perspective of a third person, he carefully "reviews" the experience of the day, and reflects on the gains and losses of the day.

People who know how to reflect can't be stupid.

Especially after mastering the secret shape of the golden toad, Vertok's "review" experience became clearer, and his thinking became more acute.On the first night he came to work here, he found that Dr. Cole did not need an assistant to watch the door, and then came to a conclusion that he had already made:

Dr. Cole has a ghost on his mind and may have bad thoughts about himself.

Virtok, who was born intelligent, told no one about his judgment on Dr. Cole, and he was unwilling to lose such a good job.His response was to speak as little as possible to Dr. Cole.

However, the simple Vertoc did not list half-elf maids and barbarian female slaves on the list to be guarded against.

Whether it is a half-elf maid or a barbarian female slave, they are obviously not the same person as Dr. Cole.And they are very polite to themselves, and willing to provide all kinds of help.Obviously, they are all good people.

So, Vertoc asked the half-elf maid and the barbarian female slave about the formula of the source blood medicine, hoping that they could help him identify the specific medicine name.

If you don’t understand, ask more people. It’s never wrong to have more people and more power.

As for the relationship between the half-elf maid, the barbarian female slave and Dr. Cole, Vertoc had never considered it at all.

Cole did not accidentally learn the formula of the blood source medicine from the servant's mouth. He was both happy and depressed, but in general he was depressed.

On the one hand, Vertok provided only the names of uncommon medicinal materials in the pharmaceutical formula, but he did not know the appearance characteristics of the medicinal materials, nor did he have the specific process of processing the medicinal materials.Knowing such a medicinal formula is equivalent to not knowing.

On the other hand, he couldn't understand why Vertoc could tell anyone the formula of the medicine, but he refused to tell himself.Even if he rammed sideways, Vertok would never open his mouth.

Dr. Cole couldn't remember, what did he offend Vertok?

The boss of Bartom couldn't say the reason. He could only attribute the reason to the fact that Vertok, who was pure, liked to look at his face and ordered the menu. Cole was too ugly, and his first impression was that he was not a good person.

The innkeeper's speculation made Dr. Cole even more depressed.He didn't think he was ugly, but he had to admit that pretty half-elves were always particularly attractive.

But in terms of beauty, Cole has confidence in the half-elf maid he has carefully cultivated.Since Vertoc is also a vulgar person who likes to look at his face, the half-elf maid will win his favor.Cole secretly instructed several half-elf maids to take good care of Vertok and help him recall the details of the potion formula.

The half-elf maids were happy to accept this order. They discussed taking turns taking care of Vertok. Today happened to be Britney's turn, the half-elf slave girl who was "harassed" by Vertok the day before yesterday.However, she heard about Vertok's experience and knew that it was actually a misunderstanding. She not only forgave Vertok's rude behavior, but also sympathized with him.

Britney had taken off her mask, her beautiful face was full of worry, watching Vertok bend down first to smell the medicinal samples on the table, and then put both hands on the edge of the table, her eyes half-closed and her body swaying. Yes, it looks like he's about to faint.

"Mr. Vertok, Mr. Vertok, are you okay?" Britney reached out to support Vertok and asked with concern.

Virtok shook his head, recovered from the trance state, looked at Britney in surprise, and said, "I'm fine."

Britney frowned her carefully groomed eyebrows and whispered uncertainly, "But you don't look very comfortable... Are you really okay?"

Virtok suddenly realized, shook his head and said, "Oh, I see. Yesterday, Susannah was also worried about my body being uncomfortable, but it wasn't..." After saying that, he glanced left and right to confirm that Dr. Cole was not here, so it was mysterious. Xixi asked: "There is a golden light group in my mind that no one else can see, and all my memories are in it. As long as I try to think about something, the golden light group will appear. For example, I smell The smell of medicinal herbs, when I recall the smell carefully, I can see the golden light group. Others think I am distracted, but I am actually thinking about something... By the way, have you heard about the golden light group?"

There are indeed several hallucinogenic herbs in the pantry, but they are all pre-processed so that the hallucinogenic effects are so restrained that they don't make people dizzy just by smelling them.Moreover, the medicinal material Vertok just smelled was heather, a common vine medicinal material, which itself was not much poisonous.But when he smelled the heather, he would still feel dizzy and shake, which had to make people doubt his physical condition.

Another maid, Susannah, told Britney that Virtok would get dizzy when he smelled any of the herbs.Britney saw it with her own eyes, and she couldn't help but worry, she wanted to tell Vertok aloud:

You are really distracted, but hallucinations can still occur when you are distracted, which may be due to a mental problem.

Britney smiled reluctantly, and said in a softer voice, "I have never heard of the 'Golden Light Group'. Mr. Vertoc, you have identified all the medicinal samples here, we can rest for a while. In the snow season, there will be several new medicinal materials in storage, and I will accompany you to identify them at that time."

In fact, the half-elf slave girl's judgment is not wrong. The "golden light group" that no one else can see, only Vertok can see it. Isn't that an illusion?

When Vertok was distracted when identifying medicinal herbs, he was really distracted.Although he handed over the odor information he smelled to the "golden light group" in the conscious world for processing, his mental state was highly focused, and he couldn't even control his body effectively.At least in form, this is mind wandering.

The problem is that the frequency of Vertok's mind wandering is too high, and it is accompanied by hallucinations. The half-elf slave girl judges that his amnesia has affected his mental state according to general medical common sense.

Vertoc didn't realize that his way of thinking was not on the same line as the other half-elves.

In the past two days, he worked hard to distinguish various medicinal materials, without any worries, and without any concealment, the efficiency of distinguishing medicinal materials was surprisingly high.Dr. Cole has smelled all the more than 300 kinds of medicinal materials stored by him twice, and 39 kinds of medicinal materials have been rewarded with "knowledge puzzles" to awaken Wiltok's memory of them.Among these medicinal materials, three more medicinal materials successfully corresponded to the names of medicinal materials recorded in the source blood medicine formula.

A total of 25 medicinal materials were used in the source blood medicine formula, and Vertok only remembered 3 kinds, and he had not yet recalled the processing and configuration process of medicinal materials.It is basically impossible for him to prepare the source blood medicine.

Without the source blood potion, the effect of practicing the source blood secret method will be very poor.

This was very frustrating for Vertok, but he was not entirely without gains.

Judging from the feedback from the "knowledge puzzle" in the past two days, Vertok has realized that he was proficient in pharmacy, but pharmacy is a huge and complex knowledge system. Memories are pieced together.

"Knowledge Puzzle" also gives a solution to the problem, either continue to stay in Dr. Cole's pharmacy workshop, and slowly piece together the pharmacy memory bit by bit through continuous observation and learning.However, knowledge of esoteric medicine is of little use in retrieving memories.Because the "knowledge puzzle" only absorbs the relevant information of the pharmacy, but does not have any feedback.This is enough to show that pharmacy is a new thing, not Vertok's memory.

The most efficient way is to learn the writing first, and then go back and learn the knowledge of pharmacy.

Words are the carrier of knowledge. To learn knowledge through words, Vertok will get twice the result with half the effort.

Vertok hesitated.At present, the desire to learn writing is not strong enough for him to give up the job.The half-elf maids in the pharmacy workshop are all very good people, and the food they make is quite delicious, and the "animal secret medicine" raised by the barbarian female slaves is also deeply attracted to Vertoc.

He was worried that he would resign after only two days of work, and Dr. Cole would replace him with an assistant. Wouldn't he be unable to come back?
Vertok was in a dilemma, but there was a group of barbarian slaves laughing and frolicking outside the house.He walked to the window curiously, raised his hand and pushed it open, and was surprised to find that two half-elf maids were leading Piru, the adventurer's house, across the courtyard to the dispensing room. A group of barbarian slaves followed them. The gloomy Piru pointed.

"Piru was caught stealing." Britney came over, grinning, and said, "He hid in the pharmacy for two days and one night. In fact, we found him long ago, and we waited for him to start stealing. He caught it on the spot."

Vertok asked blankly, "Grab Piru, and then what?"

"Of course punish him severely." Britney covered her mouth and snickered, her big eyes gleaming.Catching thieves is one of the few pleasures of a half-elf maid. She couldn't help but want to watch the fun, so she urged, "Mr. Vertoc, do you want to see how the master punishes the thief Piru?"

Vertok nodded quickly and said, "Let's go and see..."

Pirou, the shop assistant, was a close friend of Vertoc in Braun Town. Out of concern for his friend, he hurried out of the house, only to find that Pirou was gone.

Britney chased out and led Vertok into the dispensing room in the corner of the backyard.At this time, poor Piru was firmly tied to a long table, and the doctor Cole and several other half-elf maids surrounded him and kept busy.

Seeing Vertok coming in, Pirou immediately shouted: "Vertok, save me, oh..."

Dr. Cole stuffed Piru's mouth with a cotton towel, and joked: "It's noisy... You're a worthless kid. If you are caught stealing, you will be punished quietly. It's a shame to yell."

Fat cook Sarah had told Vertok that it was wrong to steal.Vertoc agreed with Sarah's statement, but the situation Pirou faced, he always felt that something was wrong, so he said cautiously: "Mr. Cole, I remember that you allowed Pirou to steal, you shouldn't punish him."

Sometimes, Vertok is simply like a beast, and Cole was worried that he would make trouble, so he called all his personal maids over.Vertok put forward such a logical view, and Cole responded with enthusiasm: "Even if I didn't allow others to steal my things, wouldn't the thief come to steal my things? If the thief steals something and is caught by me , shouldn't I punish him?"

Vertoc nodded hesitantly, agreeing with Cole's statement.

Dr. Cole added: "Look, whether I allow theft or not has nothing to do with whether I punish the thief. My agreement with Pirou is that what he stole here belongs to him, and I will not pursue it afterwards, but If he was caught stealing, he had to be punished. I never said, give my things to Pirou."

Vertok nodded again, but he stepped forward and said loudly: "You have a point, but I didn't say to abide by your truth!"

He had clearly expressed his intention to attack, but the maids did not respond rationally.Cole began to suspect that his special connection with the half-elf maid was about to expire.

The combat effectiveness of a professional physician is almost non-existent, but Cole masters a special method that can strengthen his close bond with his personal favorite maid.This method is not a secret in the Alliance Highlands. It is rooted in the blood of the Dissa half-elf. Half-elf males and females can imitate the spouse relationship between the Taku and Hemer tribes, and both parties can be sublimated together.However, the Earth Temple in the main city made some changes using secret rituals and secret medicines, turning an equal partnership into an alternative affiliation.

Cole never worried that his pet maid would betray him.But he won't know that Vertoc's natural charm is a kind of blood suppression for Dissa half-elf, but he has not fully released this unique quality.

Half-elf maids like Britney who have been transformed by secret methods have biased self-awareness and relatively weak willpower.They are particularly vulnerable to Vertok's subtle influence, and hardly hostile to him.

Seeing that Vertok was about to be rough, Dr. Cole said in time: "You might as well ask Pirou's opinion whether he wants you to save him?"

A maid took off the towel that gagged her mouth, Piru gasped for breath, and the expression on his face changed, with fear and some anticipation.He struggled for a long time and said with a sad face: "Vill, I am willing to accept the punishment, you don't need to worry about me... Uncle Cole, will I die?"

Cole was full of anger, and asked angrily, "Stinky boy, how much money have you saved?"

Pilu licked his lips and said gruntingly: "I didn't save much money, 500 gold towers... Oh, no, 600 gold towers. That's all, I won't lie to you."

Cole nodded and frightened him gloomily: "Boy, if you die, all the money you save will belong to me, and I will admit that I am unlucky. If you survive, your 600 gold pagoda will still belong to you. I, then, you owe me 2400 urn."

"Go, bring the awakening secret medicine..."

After instructing the half-elf maid, Dr. Cole turned his head and said to Vertok cheerfully: "Vill, now there is an opportunity for you to see how professional doctors use secret medicine to help ordinary people awaken."

(End of this chapter)