Chapter 47: Dark Circles
Carlos took Anderson and the three Hunter brothers out of the dark and damp dungeon, bought some clean coarse cloth clothes and shoes on the street, and led them to the alchemy hut in a hurry.
Cook the orc wears a straw hat on his head, a light gray long-sleeved large linen coat, black cloth shoes on his feet, and a scarf covering his face, wrapping himself into an overdeveloped man.
The elven girl Vivien consciously followed behind Cook, and the big man blocked it, and when she got into the carriage, she was not noticed by the three hunter brothers.
Only Anderson sniffed his nose lightly, frowned imperceptibly, and looked around suspiciously.
Murray, the shorter hunter, has not fully recovered from his injuries, but he is fine, and for the first half of the month in the mountains, he will be Cook and Vivien's full-time groom, and the other three will each ride an armed horse.
The dwarven light knight Maclean, who also came out to see him off, and Anderson saw the aura of light emanating from Maclean's body, and he no longer had the slightest doubt that Carlos had made a promise to complete the mission.
"Teacher, since you arranged for Cook and Vivien to return to the Rodney Mountains, why don't you bring that magical beast with you, there is an awakened magical beast staying in the human world, aren't you worried?"
Carlos watched the horses leave, and said to the old alchemist Du Buyi, who was silent next to him.
"Who said he wouldn't return together?" Du Buyi looked at Carlos, then looked up at the sky.
"Yes, why didn't I see it......" Carlos looked up at Du Buyi in dismay, and gradually looked up at the sky following the old man's gaze, and suddenly shrugged up, and the dwarf McLean interjected beside him: "Its wing wounds heal quite quickly." ”
A two-headed monster with a lion's head, a sheep's body, and a snake's tail in the sky hovered high above Yanjing Town, and after a while, with a long roar, he retracted his wings, and the crossbow arrows fell straight down to the ground like a string, reaching a height of about 100 meters from the roof of the alchemy hut, and opened his wings again and flapped his arms, flapping his wings into the sky, as if to say his last goodbye.
"——! dragon...?"
Carlos was dumbfounded, his mouth growing into an O-shape, incredulous.
"Haha, when I met him in the Droni Mountains earlier, I thought he was a dragon. Dwarf McLean said with a smile.
"Isn't it a dragon?" Carlos asked with a sideways face as he saw the monster disappear into the gray clouds.
Maclean's muttered something inexplicable in the language of the dwarves.
Carlos didn't understand what the dwarf McLean was saying, only that he was thrilled to think that he was roommate with such a behemoth monster.
"Oh, Carlos, I recently lost something in the alchemy room, did you take it? Du Buyi said suddenly.
Carlos's face turned red when he heard this, and he tried hard to raise his head, as if he was trying to see through the clouds, looking for the figure of the two-headed dragon demonic beast, and did not dare to make eye contact with the teacher's inquiring gaze.
"What's that, teacher?" asked Carlos, pursing his lips and casually.
"Mist Potion! However, since you lost it, you can refine some more for the teacher!"
The old man's gently fluttering words made Carlos shake, the refining of the mist potion is not difficult, but it is so cumbersome that it is suffocating, according to the preliminary introduction of alchemy, just the final sublimation step, it seems that it will take most of the day, and in the process of alchemy, you have to keep an eye on it at all times, and constantly add the concoctant.
Carlos's alchemy time passed very long, and the boring and tedious process was infinitely pulling the progress of time.
Especially after integrating into Du Buyi's strange routine, in just one week, Carlos grew deep dark circles under his eyes.
Ten days after returning to the Alchemy Hut, Carlos lay tired on the bed, and the mist potion could finally be skillfully refined, but his thin body was also squeezed and a little thinner.
Carlos whistled, and after a while, in the woods of the alchemy hut, as soon as the fire was extinguished, De Ligt quickly climbed onto the windowsill of Carlos's bedroom, looked into the eyes of his younger brother for a long time, and then asked strangely: "You were beaten by your teacher?"
Carlos saw that there were still oil stains on the corners of De Ligt's mouth, so he was angry, and gritted his teeth and said: "In the future, when I am guilty, can you not play and barbecue in the woods, the damn smell of meat is all wafting over, who can sleep?"
De Ligt couldn't straighten up with a smile, pointed to the woods behind the mountain and said to Carlos: "Don't blame the big brother, it's the dwarf who has been barbeconing crazy recently, I'm just taking an autumn breeze and eating it by the way, or the big brother will also help you order it?" The freshly roasted spotted leopard has very chewy meat on its legs. “
Carlos asked suspiciously, "You said it was the dwarf Light Knight McLean who was barbeconing in the woods?"
"Yes, big brother can still lie to you, since the last time I saw me alone in the woods vigil slowly leaning on a hare, he took the initiative to go to the mountains and forests to catch a deer, peel the skin and cut the meat by dividing it by two, and roast it on the fire, I wondered where this dwarf came from, but don't say it, the dwarf seems to be a natural hunter, if you don't say that he is a knight of light, I probably think he is a senior old hunter.
It had only been a few days, and the wild beasts in the woods had almost run away, and it was quiet at night, and I hadn't heard a tiger howling or a wolf howling in the mountains and forests for several days. ”
De Ligt gave a slow explanation.
Carlos's eyes were pricked up, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly said to De Ligt: "Haven't you been training the Night Watchman lately? ”
"Will this work?"
De Ligt was a little moved, in fact, he had been tossing and choking enough recently, he had to keep an eye on training during the day, and at night he had to keep vigil at the alchemy hut according to the orders of his father, Baron Murray, which was indeed a bit unsupportable.
De Ligt scratched his head, "But in what name did you ask him to help?"
"In the name of what you want, give money. ”
"Would a knight of light agree to such a thing for some gold?"
Carlos looked at De Ligt with a look of disbelief, Carlos rolled his eyes, didn't bother to explain and said directly: "Just try it, Uncle Julio, the mine overseer, is very obsessed with gold." ”
De Ligtmo rubbed his chin and waved his hand to make it happen, then rolled out the window and prepared to leave.
"Wait!"
Carlos hurriedly called out to him.
Then, dragging his tired body, he kept writing with a quill pen in a small notebook, and after a while, he tore off the written page and handed it to De Ligt, who was already half leaning out of the window.
Then he didn't say anything, and fell asleep in the soft bed.