Yerus said that he was a potions master, much to the confusion of the others, and this "potions master" sounded quite unfamiliar and everyone didn't understand what it was. Oude looked at the clerk with inquiring eyes, and found that the clerk was also at a loss.

However, Oude was a more old-fashioned person, and he faced Yerus, "I don't care if you are an herbalist or a potions master, in short, there is an order from the Shang Alliance, your gold-inlaid rose herb shop has a total of five men, according to the requirements of the order, all shops with more than three men must provide one person to join the new army of the Shang Alliance." ”

Hearing Oude say this, Yerus's expression was extremely exaggerated, his eyes widened, and his face was full of innocence, "Where do I have five guys, do you see that I can stuff five people in this store?"

Oude looked around, and indeed, the small shop was full of bottles and cans filled with unknown liquids, and it was unlikely that there were five other people. He turned to the clerk, who had provided the clerk, and if there were no five people here, it could only be that the clerk's record was wrong.

The clerk stammered and pointed to Yerus, "When your shop was registered, you filled in five guys, I remember it very well." I asked you why you want five guys in a herb shop, and you yelled at you, I still remember!"

Hearing the clerk say this, Yerus slapped his head suddenly, "Oh, I remember, there is such a thing. I would study a few potions, and there was a shortage of experimenters, so I hired a few people to help with the experiments for gold coins, and when I registered, I became a buddy. ”

Oude breathed a sigh of relief and recognized it: "Okay, what about them?"

Yerus didn't speak, his eyes were very strange, and Ode asked again, "What about them?" Yerus muttered, "Probably, maybe, maybe, I remember, 2 went to the doctor for food poisoning, and one ran away with a hand burned by potions, and the other two, who were scared, slipped away at night before the experiment was completed, and took away the deposit of 2 gold coins I paid them!"

It turns out that Yerus is really a potions master, as he said, a very rare profession that few people will know about except for the well-informed hunters of the former Adventurers' Guild. The potion master, on the other hand, is different from the magician, although he has a magic word, but he is also different from the herbalist.

Herbalists, who study the preparation of herbs, are the assistants of doctors, using the natural properties of herbs and the properties of some mixed herbs to prepare decoctions to cure diseases and injuries. Potions masters are different, the things they configure are not used to heal diseases and injuries, but the things they configure will have some magical power. Because many people don't understand and think that what they do is magic, that's why they are called potions masters.

Of course, by mistake, people have also come into contact with the true meaning of the Potions Master. The potions they configured, unlike ordinary herbs, were affected by the magic elements in the process of configuration. According to the research of the Magic Empire, the so-called magic is actually the different forms that magicians use to arrange the elements of magic in the macrocosm by using mental power. And in addition to spiritual power, some special combinations of herbs will also produce such an effect. As a result, a whole new profession began to flourish in the Magic Empire at that time, and this is where the Potions Master came from.

Unfortunately, the Potions Master appeared too late, before and after the outbreak of the First Continental War, the Potions Master was just a baby in his infancy, and before the day he could grow and grow, the Magic Empire collapsed. Without the support of the Magic Empire, the research of potions masters became a petty fight among the people, and for many years, the so-called "potions" they concocted were often used by civilians to play tricks.

It is also for this reason that the Adventurers' Guild does not pay much attention to the existence of Potions Masters, and they survive.

Of course, these sources, the clerks of Oude and the town of Zur, they naturally do not know, and of course Yerus will not tell them. It's just a matter of figuring out what happened to the so-called five guys of Yerus.

Yerus was young, and his teacher was a long-established potions master, but he had never achieved much. And Yerus was a potions apprentice with a great brain and a great courage, and he dared to do any experiment. After the death of his teacher, the unrestrained Yerus became even more unscrupulous in his research on potions, designing many whimsical potions.

However, Yerus cherished his life so much that he did not dare to try it lightly, so he came to the remote southern town of Zur Town, bought the "Gilded Rose Tavern" as his laboratory, and on the way, he coaxed a few beggars and brought them all the way back to Zur Town to become his experimental assistant.

The potion that Yerus experimented with was a shrinking agent. This potion, according to Yerus, is able to shorten a person's height by a part, such as a person who is 1.8 grams tall, and drinking his shrinking potion can shrink to about 1.6 degrees.

"Who's going to drink it? who wants to be short!" said the clerk, who sounded nonsensical.

Yerus smiled, "How can no one drink it, it's very marketable." Runaway slaves, erring aristocrats, all love this thing. ”

However, the effect of the shrinking agent is only as Jerus said, and the actual experimental results are not satisfactory. According to him, the first two people who drank it, of course, fainted to death with unbearable abdominal pain, but not only did they not shrink, but their limbs skyrocketed a little, and they looked like they had lost their human form, but they were a bit like raging bears. The third person, saying nothing, did not dare to try again.

Angry, Yerus, had to force the other party to drink, in the scuffle, the man knocked over a bottle of "potion" on the table of Yerus, and then his hand was stained with the potion, and after a while, a wisp of green smoke drifted by, and the man's hand melted.

Hearing this, Oude asked puzzledly, "You said, that guy with an injured hand, does that mean that his hand touched your potion and melted?"

"yes, isn't it just melting? Hey, now these people, who have taken my gold coins, have no dedication at all, and they dare not try such a great potion to try. That night, the last two people ran away as well, and I had no choice but to get the three of them to the doctor, and then I was left with no one here. Yerus looked unhappy.

"And you're going to stay here these days?" the clerk continued.

"Yes, I've been immersed in my potion recipe these days, and it stands to reason that there shouldn't be a problem, and I don't know if it's because the fire wolf has an extra claw, or if the flamingo has a little less tail feathers, or if my own 'Gromu's Blood' (Note 1) isn't pure enough, anyway, it shouldn't be, my shrinking potion recipe must be fine. ”

Oude suddenly stretched out his hand to stop the clerk who was about to speak, "So, you also smuggled feathers from flamingos in order to research potion recipes, right?"

Yerus didn't realize the trap in Oude's words, "Yes, it's not easy, I hired a mercenary and spent 20 gold coins to let him go to the adventurer's guild and steal twenty tail feathers, it's so expensive, it hurts." Oops, it's okay if you don't say it, but I feel distressed when you say it, and the experiment lost half of my feathers from flamingos. ”

Oude and the clerk looked at each other, and said to himself, "I'm afraid this man is not a fool."

Although it is clear, Ode's mission still needs to be completed, he has come to the town of Zur to recruit soldiers, and now he is short of the last two places in this gold-encrusted rose. Oude probed left and right for a while, and finally had to bite the bullet and say, "Yerus, the order of the Military Committee of the Shang Alliance is here, and I can't help it, in short, two people are needed to join the Shang Alliance army now." Since your buddy isn't here, I'm afraid you'll have to go on it yourself. ”

"Ah, how can that be!" As if frightened by Ode's words, Yerus hurriedly shook his hand, "No, no, no, I'm still here to study my potion! ”

Seeing that she was not cooperative, Oude sneered, and was about to step forward to use force, but he didn't expect the clerk on the side to suddenly say on the side, "Yerus, your gold-encrusted rose now owes almost 20 gold coins to the rent of the city hall of Zur Town, you see ......"

"That's so much!" Hearing the clerk say this, Yerus hurriedly rushed over, "Why are there so many, clerk, you see that I don't have so many gold coins on hand now, or you go to Bryd next door and ask, he is my friend, he must be willing to help me advance some gold coins." ”

"Hmph", the clerk sneered, "Brad, I'm afraid you're thinking too much." You owe us 20 gold coins to City Hall, and Brad probably owes 25. You also want him to help you out. ”

"Ah," yerus cried out, "what then?" ”

At this moment, Bled, the blind man next door, actually came to the gold-encrusted rose. Although he was blind, for some reason his movements were completely unrestricted, and Oude's brow furrowed, always feeling that something was wrong. "Captain Ode, I heard the clerk call you that. Excuse me, how many people are missing from your conscription order?"

Oude looked at the order in his hand and said in a cold voice, "Two of you!"

Brad smiled charmingly, and both the clerk and Ode couldn't help but shiver, "Okay, I'll join the army with Yerus." Anyway, we can't afford to rent this shop. ”

Of course, in exchange for joining the army, the town hall of Zur took back the use of the two shops in the gold-encrusted roses and the end of the fear, and did not collect the missing gold coins. Yerus and the blind Brad also became the new soldiers of the Second Army of the Business Alliance, and their squadron leader was Captain Oude.

Looking at a blind man like a woman and a fool who was addicted to herbs, Oude was a little annoyed, these two people were brought back, and they had to be scolded to death by the regiment commander. But there is no way, the current situation of the business alliance, all the business alliance people, must be united.

Note 1: To commemorate a game I used to like, Grom's Blood is a common herb for you, so borrow it here, don't blame it.

A few words: The recent content, the pace is a little slower and a little fragmented. But please watch the officials patiently, after all, these contents are some important foreshadowing and clues to connect the past and the future. Wish you all well!