"Yes, it is indeed gone. The Night Beehive you purchased last time is already our last inventory." The clerk girl replied respectfully, "I'm very sorry." She bowed and apologized.
Angelet stood in front of the counter, frowning...
The place where he was was in a large pharmacy. The sunlight at noon shone in from outside the door and just hit his black leather boots.
At the counter in front of him, seven or eight clerks were busy attending to customers buying medicine. One of them was attending to Angelet.
"Your Grace Pharmacy is the largest pharmacy in the city. Do you have any branches in other areas?" Angelet asked again,
"I'm afraid yes, the night hive you bought last time is still the last remaining stock." The clerk apologized again, "I'm sorry to disappoint you."
"Then where did you get your Night Beehive from?" Angelet refused to give up. He had already visited five or six chain drug stores, and this one was his last hope.
"Night bee hives are abandoned beehives accidentally collected from nearby residents. There is no fixed purchase channel. If you really need it, you can find someone to try your luck in the surrounding forests outside the city to see if you can find night bees. We also
It all depends on your luck before you can buy it," the clerk explained.
"Okay." Angelet nodded.
After leaving the medicine store, he walked back along the street. In his mind, he was thinking about how to get more night beehives.
It has been more than a month since he last prepared the first bottle of sobriety potion. During this more than a month, he continued to collect night beehives from all over the city, but he only got two, and he declared that he was exhausted. Any medicine store
All the inventory was bought by him.
The two hives were lucky enough to configure three bottles of potions. Within a month, Angelet's mental power reached a level of 4.9. This was the help of the potions and the result of his own meditation. If Angelet could find another five or six
A hive will be able to meet the criteria for successful promotion.
But unfortunately, the entire city has run out of stock. If you want it again, you have to go out and collect it yourself.
However, no one can collect the hive while the night bees are still around. The night bees are highly venomous and are used to active at night. Their bodies are dark and difficult to detect. Every year, people are stung because they accidentally step into the territory of the night bees.
Death is a very difficult bee species to deal with.
Moreover, the most troublesome thing is that the traces of night bees are difficult to find. They like to migrate everywhere, and the hives will be dragged away by them, making it difficult to find.
When he returned to his residence, Angele unexpectedly discovered that a carriage was parked in front of the store. The carriage was decorated with sunflowers and white birds. It was the carriage of the city lord's palace.
A group of fully armed white-armored guards stood guard around the carriage. Several people who looked like minor officials stood aside respectfully and waited.
The alley was swept clean, and Tia happened to be delivering pies and drinks. She stood waiting outside the door with some restraint, and looked at the two black carriages with fear from time to time.
As soon as Angelet entered the alley, the officials rushed to greet him.
"Lord Angele, you are finally back. Lord Hailan has been waiting for you for more than an hour." These fat officials were all junior officials in charge of the nearby city. At this time, they were groveling and sweating on their faces.
Ever since Angelet went to the castle banquet last time, they knew that there was a very important person in their area. After several visits, they learned that Angelet didn't like to be disturbed, so they stopped visiting.
Start improving the environment around the store.
"Lord Hailan?" Angelet was slightly startled and looked at the black carriage in the alley.
"Dear Angelet, I heard that you were buying night hives everywhere, but you didn't even mention it to me if you needed it. Have you forgotten the friendship between us?" Hailan, who was wearing a white cloak, opened it with a smile.
He opened the curtain of the carriage and walked down to meet Angelet.
"How could it be?" Angelet smiled. "I just want to see if there is any medicine store in the city. If I can buy it myself, I won't bother you."
"Why bother? It's such a trivial matter." Hailan raised his hand, and a guard behind him immediately held up a black wooden box.
He took it and handed it to Angelet.
"There are several night hives here, I hope they can be of help to you." Hailan said with a sincere smile on his face.
Angelet took the box and opened it. There were eight night beehives neatly placed inside. The khaki balls were stuffed with black silk cloth and packaged very delicately.
"I do need these things, so I won't be polite to you." A hint of joy flashed in his eyes, he nodded slowly and closed the box.
"This is best." Hailan nodded, "I still have some things to deal with, so I won't accompany you."
"OK."
Angelet watched as the group of people escorted the carriage and slowly left the alley.
He opened the box again and scanned the night hives inside. Seven out of the eight looked a bit old, as if they had been aged for a while. Only one looked fresh, slightly brighter in color, and even slightly stained on the surface.
of blood.
Angelet frowned, picked up the honeycomb, and smelled it. A smell of blood entered his nose.
"Bloody smell, this gift is very heavy." He murmured in a low voice.
It was obvious that Hailan had sent people to collect this hive. The smell of blood on it was very light and seemed to have been cleaned. However, Angelet's five senses were much stronger than ordinary people, so he could naturally tell the difference.
He could imagine that for this very fresh night bee hive, Hailan at least lost a lot of manpower. According to the description of the medicine shop, normal night bees are very fast, about twice as fast as the average adult.
, if you are not a knight, it is difficult to avoid them. And the most important thing is that they are very small and poisonous, and their tail spines are very long. Generally, thinner full-body leather armor cannot stop them. Thicker leather armor is also too heavy.
It's hard to keep up with their moving speed.
And they like to be active at night, which makes it even more inconvenient to collect beehives.
In other words, the blood stains on it were probably left by knight-level masters. That's why Angelet felt that this gift was heavy.
"Although the Night Beehive can be found, there has been no news about the materials that were entrusted to Hailan for so long. It seems that they cannot be found. Sure enough, it is impossible for ordinary people to find those rare materials in the world." Angelet shook his head.
Take the box back to the store.
Tia was arranged to go to the yard to continue practicing, and he sat alone at the table. He carefully took out the night beehives from the box, soaked them all in a transparent liquid, and placed them in a large glass bottle.
The problem of materials has been solved, and now it’s time to calm down and speed up the progress of mental power. Eight night hives can produce at least eight bottles of potion. Coupled with the progress of meditation, reaching level 6 is absolutely no problem.
So Angelet simply stayed in the shop, not going anywhere, concentrating on preparing and taking potions, striving to meet the promotion standards.
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Time passed. Soon, more than a week later.
Angelet sat cross-legged on the bed with a calm expression. His luck was not very good these days, and he only had seven bottles of sobriety potions. But he managed to raise his mental power to 6.2. Originally, he thought it was 6.3, but it seemed that his physical strength was
A certain degree of resistance has developed towards the medicine, resulting in a somewhat reduced effect.
"Anyway, I finally met the qualifications for promotion." Angelet also breathed a sigh of relief.
He specifically told Tia not to come over today and to rest for two days.
I glanced at the crystal clock on the table, it was around 2:10 pm.
Angelet got out of bed, stood up, and took out the hidden graphite potion from a package in the room.
The potion is contained in a silver metal bottle, a narrow-necked bottle like a vase, only about the length of a palm, with a brown wooden stopper blocking the mouth of the bottle.
Angelet placed the graphite potion on the table.
Take out two flints from the desk drawer and rub them together to light the solid oil lamp. The oil lamp is very hot and looks similar to the earth's alcohol lamp, but it is filled with white solid grease.
A red flame suddenly lit up on the wick.
Angelet took out a large beaker, placed it on the black heating stand, poured a light red liquid into it, and then took out a test tube containing a yellowish powder.
Angelet poured some yellow powder into the beaker.
Silently, the light red liquid in the beaker quickly turned into dark blue, very turbid.
Angelet moved the oil lamp under the beaker and began to heat it.
Ten minutes have passed.
Strangely, the blue liquid in the beaker showed no signs of boiling, but the color became more blue, almost slightly black.
And the whole room was gradually filled with a faint floral fragrance.
Angelet nodded slightly, feeling that the heat was almost done, and then picked up the graphite potion put aside.