Volume 10, Chapter 2 - Bodyguard Quest and A Ball
The day after revealing my Ryui's and Magi-san's Ric?ur's adult forms, I went to Obaba's pharmacy and purchased the 【Intermediate Pharmacist's Tech Book】 after which I started to decipher it with 【Linguistics】 Sense.
I spent the whole day deciphering it, then headed to 【Atelier】's workshop in order to prepare materials. After that, I started preparing items for one of the delivery quest's from Obaba's pharmacy board - 【Delivery of Resistance-Granting Potions of Four Types (30 of each set)】.
"Um… If I'm not wrong, materials for 【Fascination Resistance Antidote】 were Antidote Grass, Discharm Grass, Herb, Distilled Water, Shiyu Fruit and——"
Deciding on 【Fascination Resistance Antidote】, 【Strife Prevention Drug】, 【Dusk Resistance Drug】 and 【Rage Sedating Drug】 for the four types. The 【Fascination Resistance Antidote】 I was preparing materials with a recipe in my hand, was decreasing or completely nullifying the effect of 【Charm】 and 【Poison】.
According to that recipe, in addition to necessary materials normally used for making antidotes for each bad status, a food item which was Shiyu Fruit, was required.
Shiyu Fruit could be collected in the forest North of the First Town, it was very similar to a plum.
When you eat it, in addition to recovering Satiety you also receive a weak, temporary resistance against 【Charm】 and 【Poison】.
Also, other similar fruits were 【Tou Fruit】 which granted Paralysis and Stun resistance, 【Cold Crimson Glory Vine】 which granted Confusion and Anger resistance, as well as 【Mountain Apple】 which granted resistance to Sleep and Curse.
"Since I'm done with deciphering the other recipes as well, I can start making them. But that'll decrease the number of fruit items I have in stock by quite a bit."
I often used fruits for making sweets and other food or even eaten raw, so their consumption was quite fast.
If in addition to that, they are used as materials for potions, the remaining stock would be insufficient.
"Once the event ends I'll have to seriously go look for saplings for fruit trees. But for now let's make 【Fascination Resistance Antidote】, though, how do I go about making it?"
For the time being, let's make it according to the recipe.
I added Antidote Grass, Discharm Grass and a Herb in the same amounts and mashed them in the mortar. Afterwards I added distilled water, poured everything into pot and started to boil it.
Then, I had to pay attention to managing the temperature, but the overall procedure was the same as that for making an ordinary Antidote Potion. However, with the Antidote Grass and Discharm Grass were mixed, both effects should have cancelled each other.
In this case, when I looked at the liquid inside, it appeared as a low quality Antidote.
The Antidote Grass effect has been lowered because Discharm Grass was contained inside as well.
At that point, I added Shiyu Fruit's juice I squeezed out, then mixed well. But even with that done, the formed liquid still remained as Antidote.
"It feels a little strange. Let's try drinking some."
I put a finger inside the mixture, then licked it to check the taste.
"Hmm. I guess it tastes like a watered-down plum juice? Just a little bit sweet?"
It being a potion aside, it's tasty? I thought as I filled a potion bottle with the liquid and did the finishing touch.
"Fuhh——【Magic Power Bestowal】!"
A pale light moved from my hand and onto the potion, and was sucked inside it.
The potion's colour changed, and the moment I saw it had divided into two colours, that of Antidote and Discharm Potion, they gradually mixed together to turn yellow. The finished potion's colour was yellowish-green, coloured similarly to Shiyu Fruit.
Fascination Resistance Antidote 【Consumable】
Resistance 【Poison 1, Charm 1 (25 Minutes)】
I managed to make the first resistance potion, but I felt like I could still improve it.
What about using finished potion for mixing?
I mixed complete Antidote and Discharm Potion in ratio one to one, then added Shiyu Fruit juice before mixing. Afterwards I used 【Magic Power Bestowal】, but the result was a low-quality resistance potion.
Next, I used the herb item from recovery-type herbs, Medicinal Spirit Grass and Water of Life instead of distilled water.
In addition to that, I mixed it while changing temperature patterns and the timings of when I add materials. As a result of that, and of using higher level materials the effect had improved, but I also learned that the effect changed depending on material balance.
For example, when adding 1 Antidote Grass and 1 Discharm Grass——
Fascination Resistance Antidote 【Consumable】
Resistance 【Poison 1, Charm 2 (25 Minutes)】
——This was the result.
Also, the effect time increased and decreased depending on the temperature and how long the mixture was heated up, and affected the resistance in inversely proportional manner.
"Hmm. If I play around with it too much, it'll turn hard to use. Let's make them using the standard way while using higher level materials."
I decided so, and started crafting 【Fascination Resistance Antidotes】.
And the potion resulting from that was——
Fascination Resistance Antidote 【Consumable】
Resistance 【Poison 2, Charm 2 (35 Minutes)】
Other than that, I also thought of playing around with 【Alchemy】 and 【Synthesis】 to see if I can make it with completely different materials, but for the time being I crafted 30 【Fascination Resistance Antidotes】 of this quality.
Thirty of each of the three other potion types were made with the same procedure and completed when I applied 【Magic Power Bestowal】 to all of them.
"Okay. With this I'll have 10 Quest Chips. What's left is to take Yellow Potions, Demon's Wonder Pills and Holy Mountain's Magic Water from the store's stock, 15 of each, for 13 Quest Chips in total."
Since I already had 32 Quest Chips, after delivering these I would have 45 of them, getting close to my goal of 50 in total.
"Still, even with all the quests I have remaining at Obaba's place, I'll barely reach fifty."
I cleaned up inside 【Atelier】 and headed towards Obaba's pharmacy in order to deliver the items.
As I left the store, the town's scenery seemed to have a much brighter atmosphere as compared to the first day of the event.
I couldn't clearly tell what was different, but the faces of NPCs behind the falling snow, seemed to appear happier.
The winter quest event's objective was to solve the problems plaguing the town.
Half of the event has already passed, the town's NPCs might have changed because players solved many problems.
As I thought so, I checked one of the quest boards installed around the town, looking for errand-type quests.
In that moment, an announcement from OSO Development Department has appeared on the quest board.
『Current completion rate of the event's quests——56%
The release of special mobs and their suppression quests will happen at the end of the event.
The abilities of the special mobs will depend on quest completion rate, the higher completion rate the lower stats and abilities will the mobs have.
When the special mob suppression is complete, an additional reward shall be distributed equally among all players.
Further details will be exposed at later date.
——OSO Development Department』
The content was concise and as I looked at it, the number for the quest completion rate had brokoen down to become 57%.
"The event advanced quite far. I need to do my best as well."
Since the amount of chips I was aiming for wasn't so high, I picked several errand-type quests which had a pretty bad reward efficiency and headed for the pharmacy.
When I stepped inside the dimly-lit store under the evening sky, tending to the store wasn't the owner Obaba, but a young female NPC.
"Welcome."
"E-eh? Did I mistake stores? Where's Obaba…?"
"Granny is in the workshop in the back. In the evening it's always me tending to the store."
After listening to the explanation of the pretty girl with round eyes, I nodded convinced. Still, this girl looked completely dissimilar from Obaba, who looked like a typical witch with her eagle nose.
While I stood there for a moment, stumped, Obaba walked from the workshop to the front with steady steps.
"What, you're here? What do you need today? Did you come to deliver items? Or maybe to buy materials?"
"A-ahh… I came to deliver items."
"I see. Then pull 'em out."
Relieved that Obaba was blunt as usual, I arranged the potions specified for delivery on top of the counter.
Obaba and I watched Obaba's granddaughter as she checked the potions on the counter.
"A good girl, isn't she? She's doing her best to take over after me. She's cute, thoughtful and hard working. And she's turning into a beauty like me."
"I can agree that she's cute and a hard worker, but… does she really resemble you?"
I said and compared Obaba with the girl.
"What's with that look on your face? Her hair and eyes have similar colour. And she looks just like me when I was young."
"Is she, now…"
Certainly, their hair and eye colours looked to be the same. If Obaba in her youth looked just like this girl, thinking that this girl would come to look the same as this eccentric old woman, it made me feel that time is really cruel.
"All right. There is no problem with their quality, I receive the delivery."
"You too are very talented and easy to teach, it's worth spending my time on."
"Then I will count on you to teach me new drug recipes next time."
I asked Obaba to teach me the new recipes I haven't tried myself yet and received the 13 Quest Chips of reward from her granddaughter. When I left the store it was already dark outside.
On the way back to 【Atelier】 I stumbled upon a strange sight.
A long line of players extended from an a single alley and continued all the way near the place the pharmacy was located at.
"What is this queue…?"
When I looked ahead to where was the queue leading, there, I saw a luxurious mansion.
In front of the mansion there was a brick wall and a steel gate where player parties have gathered in pretty rows.
On a first glance, there were at least fifty people here, and, gathering on the side were temporary parties.
In front of the queue stood an elderly male NPC wearing butler clothing, as well as a young butler who guided the parties into the mansion.
"This must be… some kind of quest."
I approached the players who were busy making temporary parties and listened to what the quest is about.
"We're looking for temporary party members to do the【Party Infiltration & Escort】 quest, which can't be found on the quest board! It's a bodyguarding quest. To complete the quest we need to protect the VIP from enemy NPCs who make assault on the party. There is an equipment restriction during the infiltration and armour is forcibly changed into party clothing with low defence power, moreover, only one weapon can be used. It's a quest with harsh restrictions."
Other than that, this quest was a starting point of a chain quest, but the quests ahead still were not completed by anyone.
"And finally, the reward for this quest is 100kG and 5 Quest Chips for each participant! Anyone who would like to join our party, please come over here!"
After listening to the entire explanation by one of the recruiters, "oh, there are quests like that, too
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