66: Chapter 65 Purchasing Potions 66: Chapter 65 Purchasing Potions After a good night’s sleep, Lu Hong went to the town’s only magic potion shop.
As for why Lu Hong was so tired yesterday, it’s hard to say.
Just as Lu Hong stepped into the magic potion store, he triggered the shop owner’s visitor alarm system.
“Alert!
Alert!
An idiot has entered!
An idiot has entered!” A voice like that of a drake echoed non-stop throughout the empty shop.
Lu Hong’s face was streaked with annoyance.
What kind of contraption was this?
And, calling the custors idiots, is that really okay?
“Hey!
Brat, get out of here.
You haven’t reached the Second Transition yet; what do you need magic potions for?” The potion shop owner was currently livestreaming a potion-making session and didn’t even look up.
“Can’t I prepare a bit in advance?” Lu Hong glanced around the town’s only magic potion store.
The potion shop was very rudintary, the entire store cobbled together from roughly hewn wooden planks.
Aside from the owner’s workbench, there was not a second place to sit.
Even the potions for sale were just strewn haphazardly on the ground.
So bottles had broken, and their contents leaked through the gaps in the wooden floorboards.
“Scram, scram, scram!
Don’t disrupt my potion-making.” The potion shop owner seed to be no businessman at all, constantly trying to shoo custors out the door.
“Hey, who does business like this?” Lu Hong silently assessed the disordered magic potions on the ground; they were mostly just first and second-level potions.
It seed the skills of this potion shop owner weren’t particularly good.
As Lu Hong spoke, the potion shop owner’s hand shook, and the potion concoction failed: “Damn it!
You’re here to ss things up, aren’t you?”
Clearly, the potion shop owner blad the failed concoction on Lu Hong: “Get out now, or you’ll compensate for this failed potion.”
“I’ll pay, no problem, but first you need to prepare a few bottles of fire-resistance potion for .” Seeing the ingredients in the owner’s hand, Lu Hong estimated they were probably only first-level potions, not even worth a few dozen silver coins.
Lu Hong didn’t care about this small amount of money; getting a fire-resistance potion was key.
“Fire-resistance potion?” The potion shop owner paused, hearing this request for the first ti.
After all, resistance potions weren’t sold often, and within the entire Continent of God’s Grace or even within the empire, there weren’t many places where a fire-resistance potion was needed.
“Yeah, is there a problem?”
“Of course, there is.
What do you need a fire-resistance potion for?
Don’t tell you want to challenge a Fire Mage and use it to cheat?” the potion shop owner speculated.
“Do I look like that kind of person?” Lu Hong scoffed coldly.
Did he need to cheat to beat soone up?
The potion shop owner scrutinized Lu Hong seriously, finally saying, “Well, you kind of look like it.”
Alright, there’s no reasoning with this guy!
Lu Hong didn’t want to argue about this any longer, so he said, “Do you have them or not?
If you do, hurry up and give a few bottles.”
“You should know, once you use a fire-resistance potion, your resistance to other elents will weaken.
It won’t be good for you,” the potion shop owner kindly advised.
“I already said it’s not for a duel.” Lu Hong spoke impatiently, “It’s just for exploring a place.” As for the potion shop owner’s warning, Lu Hong, being a duel expert, certainly understood what it ant.
In essence, the owner was saying that if you used a fire-resistance potion against soone and they changed attributes, even the lowest level of another attribute spell could cause great harm, making it a loss rather than a gain.
“Not a duel?” The potion shop owner murmured, then stared intently at Lu Hong, “Are you planning to go to the Sea of Flas?”
“How did you know that?” Lu Hong asked, almost imdiately feeling silly for doing so.
The Sea of Flas was the only place in the Continent of God’s Grace with fires hot enough to warrant the use of potions.
“Do I even need to guess?
But if you really want to go to the Sea of Flas, I’d advise you against it.” The potion shop owner advised with a kind heart, “A few years ago, several adventurers reached the pinnacle of the Second Transition and bought more than twenty bottles of fire-resistance potions to hunt for treasure in the Sea of Flas.
Sadly, they never returned.
Those were high-level adventurers, and even they died there, so you might as well forget about it.”
“How do you know they never returned?” Lu Hong asked curiously.
“Of course, I know.
They took on a commission from when they bought the potions.
It was a high bounty, and they would have co to if they had returned,” the potion shop owner explained.
“Maybe they didn’t find the item you commissioned, so they didn’t co back,” Lu Hong suddenly chid in, channeling the spirit of a stickler.
Hearing Lu Hong’s argunt, the potion shop owner’s face darkened: “Get out of here, and do it quickly!”
Lu Hong sighed and said, “My mistake, but you can’t just turn away a paying custor, can you?”
“I don’t want to earn it.
That place isn’t for ordinary people, and you’re not suited.” The potion shop owner said and lowered his head again, ignoring Lu Hong and continuing to make potions.
“I…” Before Lu Hong could say anything more, two rcenaries, dragging a big sack, pushed open the door of the potion shop.
“Welco, two handso gentlen!” At this mont, the magical device emitted an ethereal and sweet voice.
What the hell?
Why is it so different from when I entered?
Lu Hong glared at the slightly glowing Array on the ground and the sound-emitting device on the wooden wall beside it with a gloomy expression.
He really wanted to smash it!
“Hank, just like last ti, a hundred bottles of second-level healing potions and thirty bottles of magic power recovery potions,” the rcenary said, bending down to pick up the scattered potions on the floor without waiting for the response from the potion shop owner.
“Just take them yourself,” potion shop owner Hank didn’t even look up, seemingly accustod to the business and not bothering to attend to the other party.
“Hey, old Hank, I told you during our deputy squad’s last fight to add so flavor to these potions.
Did you add it?” the potion-fetching rcenary asked at this ti.
“Don’t bring that up.
Just to make that little wench Louis a strawberry-flavored potion, I wasted a load of ingredients and almost couldn’t cover the costs,” Hank snorted coldly, clearly displeased with Louis.
“Ah, hahaha.
That, on our way here, our deputy commander also told us to let you know, if strawberry flavor is hard to make, then try vanilla flavor, she likes that too,” the rcenary friend clearly didn’t read the room, insisting on relaying Louis’ ssage.
“Tell her to reimburse for the cost of the materials I developed for her last batch first!” Hank’s hand trembled as he spoke, and there goes another concoction, spoiled mid-process.
“This one’s on you guys too!” Hank said fiercely, slamming down the small potion bottle on the table.
“Here’s the money, count it,” the rcenary packed up the potions and tossed a money bag at old Hank.
Hank caught it, shook it, and said, “You’re still missing the one I just ruined.
Pay up!”
“Damn you’re tough!” The rcenary clearly didn’t dare to offend old Hank, reluctantly pulling a few silver coins from his own pocket and dashing off.
“Co back!
That’s not enough!” Certainly, the cost of that potion was more than the few silver coins, but seeing the two rcenaries escape, Hank didn’t chase after them, after all, there was still soone else in the shop.
“Why haven’t you left yet?” Hank asked impatiently.
“If you don’t sell the potion, I’m not leaving,” Lu Hong stubbornly said, knowing that these potions would be of great help in entering the Sea of Flas, and for such a life-changing promotion, it was best to endure.
“Not selling, no matter what you say!
Get out now!” Hank started to physically shove him out.
“I’ll pay double the price, is that still not enough!” Lu Hong, pushed to the door by Hank, stepped on a magic array on the ground, triggering the alarm once again.
“Alert!
Alert!
An idiot has entered!”
“Alert!
Alert!
An idiot has entered!”
“Alert!
Alert!
An idiot has entered!”
“Can you turn this damn thing off!” Lu Hong was fuming with anger.
Hank snickered three tis, saying, “I think it’s got a point.”
“It was old Caesar who asked to sell this, is that okay now!” Lu Hong finally spoke up reluctantly, having been previously told by Lai Li that rely ntioning his father’s na would avoid any trouble.
Was Lu Hong the type to leverage other people’s influence?
It was the other way around.
With this sentint, he had delayed until now before finally playing the Caesar card.
Hearing the na ‘old Caesar,’ Hank paused, then slapped the noisemaker against the wooden wall to pieces.
“I’m not paying for that,” Lu Hong said weakly, as Hank’s reaction was exaggerated.
“Why didn’t you say so earlier?” Hank turned and went to a corner of the shop, grabbing a handful of blue potion bottles and stuffing them into Lu Hong’s hands, “This is a fire-resistant potion made from ice-heart grass.
Take care of it, it may not be of high grade, but it’s rare on the market.”
“You have ice-heart grass here?” Lu Hong was sowhat shocked, ordinary fire-resistant potions were easy to find, but they were nothing compared to those made with ice-heart grass.
Ice-heart grass wasn’t particularly rare, but it only grew in the Snowy Region.
The Snowy Region, located in the Empire’s north, had experienced severe frictions with the Empire during the early stages of territorial expansion and the conflict continued until today.
Therefore, not many things from the Snowy Region made it into the Empire, and the fact that Hank could get ice-heart grass ant he had his ways.
“What’s so surprising about that?
It was a gift from old Caesar.
Just take these potions with you.
After all, Caesar helped fund my research in the beginning, so consider it repaynt,” Hank said generously, evidently not interested in making money.
So, it was Caesar who funded the materials.
Lu Hong cocked his head, thinking Hank was not as remarkable as he had thought.
“Then I’ll take them,” Lu Hong waved and turned to leave the potion shop.
Yes, this ti the magic device sizzled twice and could no longer call out ‘idiot.’
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