Kora looked at Arrow suspiciously, a little unsure. He hesitated for a long time and asked, "What do you want my herbs for?" Are you trying to steal my business? ”

Arrow: "Hahaha, how could the Adventurer's Guild rob the doctor's business?" We make money from each other, and it's too late to help each other, how can we want to harm you? When our guild obtains those herbs, it will be used to craft some healing potions. But don't worry, we're not going to steal business with the doctors! ”

"Why? As you just said, the fee for a patient on your side is about 1 silver coin. And my healing potion costs five silver coins to sell for a bottle. Moreover, our healing agents can only treat open wounds and actual injuries, not diseases, nor can they bring the dead back to life. Think about it, if someone in our town got sick and had some injuries that weren't so serious, they would come to us and sell us for a bottle of healing potion for 5 silver? Or will they ask you to pay a silver coin to see a doctor? ”

Such a reason was indeed enough to convince Kora, but after thinking about it, the doctor was still a little puzzled: "Sounds like it makes sense...... But why are you selling 5 silver coins? If you sell 1 silver coin like me, won't I make no money? ”

Arrow shook his head, he could only say that it was a small place, and it was really troublesome to explain to the townspeople. But in order to be able to make money and cooperate, he still smiled and said, "Doctor Kora, I don't think you should set off with the adventurers to explore those secret realms, right?" Therefore, it is impossible for adventurers to get immediate help from doctors when they are injured and in urgent need of medical treatment. At such times, their only reliance is on healing potions or someone in their team who can heal magic. ”

"Those who can heal magic don't care about it first, and if you have healing potions, then you can greatly improve the life safety of adventurers. And the general healing potions can be used in the economy to get adventurers back into battle or adventure as soon as possible. ”

"And it is precisely because of this principle that the healing potion refined by our guild can be sold so expensive. If you really want me to sell cheaply and steal business with you, I won't do it. The healing potion that relies on alchemy is not only enough herbs, but also requires abundant magic power around it. Under normal circumstances, after refining a potion, the mana will be reduced accordingly, and it will take a few days to recover. In addition, a mage is required to use his own mana to concoct it. The cost alone is much more than the value of a silver coin. ”

"So, the clients of our guild's pharmacy and Dr. Kola's clinic are two completely different customer groups. You're targeting the townsfolk and we're targeting the adventurers, and there's no conflict between you. Since our customer base is not in conflict with each other, you say, how can I compete with you for business? ”

Doctors may be regarded as a profession with a relatively high level of Chinese in Pelican Town, right? Even barefoot doctors.

Kora tilted her head and thought about it, and it seemed that it had been a long time before she finally accepted the theory. But in the end, he still asked, "Then why do you want me to provide it?" Can't you pick it yourself? ”

Arrow wanted to let his guild members pick them, but he had no choice but to do it, the cultural level of the two members behind was too low, and it was already very good to be able to identify those herbs, and the level of picking was really helpless. But these things can't just be said, and he immediately smiled: "That's not because our guild is the only one now, and there are other tasks that need to be done by them." And it takes a day to enter the Shining Forest to collect medicine once, which is really a waste of effort. ”

To put it mildly, this doctor can be regarded as letting down his guard a little. After Eero drew up the power of attorney, he wrote his name on it, and took out a dozen coins from the money bag hanging from his belt, and finally managed to scrape together the commission price of 5 silver coins.

"Well, we're happy to work together!"

After putting away the power of attorney, Airo continued to keep a smile on his face. Kora put down the pen and thought about it for a while and said, "So since you are willing to buy it, then there are some herbs in my clinic now, can you buy them?" ”

"Of course! And we need fresh, you can ship it to us without drying it. ”

After Kora got up, Arrow sent it to the door, adding, "Also, since we only have five silver coins for our mission this time, we need to do a little more preparation, and the commission may take a little longer." Hopefully you wouldn't mind being able to wait a bit. ”

Hearing this, Kora's expression suddenly dropped again, but he didn't continue to say anything, just muttered: "I hope it won't be too long, if autumn passes, then many herbs will be gone." ”

"Haha! It won't be too long, don't worry. ”

With Arrow's relief, the barefoot doctor finally left. After about two hours he came with his old wagon and carried a basket of herbs from it.

To be honest, these herbs are very suitable for picking, compared to the clumsy plucking of Cocoa, Kola is picked with professional tools, and they are all well sorted and arranged, which gives people a very comfortable feeling at a glance.

Immediately, Airo bought some of the morning star grass needed to heal aerosols, aggregator flowers and tear-eyed vines. I also bought some thorn seeds, which cost me almost one silver coin.

It is also because now considering that the magic of cocoa is not strong, there is no way to quickly alchemize. Otherwise, Arrow really wants to wrap up this cart of herbs and slowly refine them.

After sending the students off and finishing dinner, Arrow watched as Coco re-refined three bottles of healing aerosols in the alchemy room. This little girl is quite competitive, and under Napa's guidance, she has made an additional bottle of magic aerosol from the forest thorn seeds and those three herbs, so that the problem of cocoa's endurance can be regarded as a little solved.

- September 23, 1301, food expenses: -1 silver, 1 copper and 9 iron, King Slime extermination commission: 5 silver, herbal procurement: -1 silver, alchemical glass bottle: -2 copper, balance: 83 gold, 8 silver, 6 copper and 7 iron——

King Slime, this is not a problem that Eero is trying to solve at all.

Although these words can only be thought about in the heart, it does not prevent the guild leader from thinking positively about the damage that this monster can do to the guild.

Even if Brad and Coco's equipment has been upgraded a bit, the two of them should have a little more combat experience, but it is still not the time to be able to face King Slime.

Slimes are afraid of fire, strong acid, freezing, and many other magic, as well as alchemical products such as salt water potions. If anything, this kind of monster is not a big problem for a mature guild. However, the magic power of his guild is lacking in this aspect, and if he wants to refine the magic props of this kind of magic power, it also requires a lot of cost, and it is obviously not suitable to spend on slimes. Especially King Slime, the strength of this monster is not just more than ten times greater than that of ordinary slimes. Maybe it's going to have some simple magic, and it's not known how ferocious it is.

However, this is not to say that King Slime's problems should not be solved.

The next morning, Arrow went to the tool shop and bought a bunch of traps from the stick boss. Although these traps are not as lethal as the spike traps made by Cream, they are still good enough.

"I'm really getting more and more confused about you."

In the guild hall, Napa's head was fished out of the bowl full of milk. It lifted its paws to lick it, rubbed its face, wiped the milk stuck to its beard, and looked at Arrow with a look of unease as he fiddled with the traps on the floor.

"Don't tell me you're going to use these traps against those slimes. And I've said it many times, if you let me do it with you, those slimes aren't a nuisance for me. ”

Arrow examined the traps one by one, picked up one and broke it, and after confirming that the machine was normal, he continued to respond with a smile on his face: "I've said it many times, relying purely on you, sooner or later, the dominance of my guild will be completely transferred to you." And we humans are creatures, if we don't use our brains all the time, our brains will become sluggish, and we must work constantly to prevent rust. ”

Feeling a little tired, Arrow put down the trap in his hand and got up, letting out a long breath. He stepped forward and closed the door of the guild so that he could take off his hat and shake his head so that his blond hair could be spilled smoothly.

"It's so hot, it's time to cut your hair...... But how about cutting it a little shorter? I was a little reluctant to cut my hair short. ”

The girl ruffled her hair so that the back of her neck could dissipate heat. Wait until you are a little more comfortable before continuing to crouch on the ground to inspect the traps.

"What about our guild members?"

Napa continued to watch Arrow's actions boredly, and asked casually.

Thanks to yesterday's advertisement, Coco continued to help people look at the stalls. Brad was helping to deliver goods to the town next door, and the two of them would probably not return until dinner was over. Napa, can you come over and help...... Hitchhiker? The machine of this trap...... So sturdy! I...... It's a bit hard to break! ”

The cat lay on the cushion and watched the leader's pretty face flush, and pressed the trap with both hands, but could not open it.

It sighed, slowly floated around the trap, raised its tail, and slammed it towards the trap, and the trap was finally able to open.

"Ariel, there's something I'd like to check with you."

Napa flew back in front of the maiden and stopped, her pale golden fur glowing with a warm sheen, but her royal blue eyes didn't look so gentle—

"After all this time of observation, I have to admit that you are quite an interesting guild leader. Notice that I'm not saying you're 'competent,' but that you're interesting. ”

"Many of the ways you work are very different from the way adventurer guilds I know operate, and in some cases they are completely opposite. I'll admit that it's a bit embarrassing for you to be the leader of the Adventurers' Guild for someone like you, who has no martial arts skills and no magical affinity. But just like the last time you faced a ghoul like this, I think you should trust me a little more. ”

The president put away the broken trap again, continued to check the next one, and said with a smile as he looked at it, "Didn't I say it then?" Trust this thing—"

"No, you listen to me. From what I've observed, it doesn't seem like you don't need my help because you don't want to rely on me, or because the guild will become my leader. You seem to have some incomprehensible attachment to insisting on doing it yourself. ”

"You have to earn 1,000 gold coins in three years, and according to the general understanding, in order to earn this money, you must try to use all kinds of easy and easy methods. For example, using my power to complete some tasks faster and more conveniently, which is safer and more efficient. You can even say that you just need to ask me to go into that mine with you, and I can hunt down two or three of the corpses in your mouth and dig up their nugget hearts, so that you can scrape together 1,000 gold coins in a few days. ”

"But you didn't do that, and you didn't ask me to do so."

"You're in a hurry to scrape together money, but you don't use these methods, which seem to me to be very simple. This is not something that can be explained by the argument that you don't want others to understand how you work. ”

"So, Ariel, Ariel Garcia. What does it really mean to have 1,000 gold coins for your three years? What is the reason why you would rather risk your life than take shortcuts? ”

While Napa speaks, the blonde girl is always crouched on the ground, her back to it checking for traps. Her movements were cautious, and her eyes were focused, as if she hadn't listened to what the cat monster was saying.

Although there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth all the time, it was as if it was born on this face, and it didn't say anything about what was in her heart.

It wasn't until all the traps had been checked that the girl got up and stretched. She looked at the eight traps on the ground with great satisfaction and nodded.

"Ariel Garcia!"

Seeing that the other party didn't reply, Napa's voice couldn't help but sound.

"I naturally have my own way, as long as you know, I will do my best to meet the expectation of a thousand gold coins. Now that the first year is nearly three-quarters of the way through, and I haven't even earned back my 100 gold coins, you have to believe me must be more anxious about my own goals than you are. ”

She turned her head and wrapped her fingers around the ends of her blonde hair, and after confirming that the strands of hair on her fingertips were slightly split slightly, she shook her head helplessly, making her hair more spread out a little more, not sticking together because of sweat.

"So, can you please stop asking so aggressively? I've allowed all of our merfolk song guildmates to have their own little secrets, and it's not comfortable for you to always come and hear my secrets. ”

Napa stared at the blonde girl, and after a moment, the cat shook her head helplessly, and flew back to the cushion on the counter and lay down: "A girl from a poor family doesn't mind if her hair is split ends, you must have received a good etiquette education, and it is not something that can be cultivated by a few years of school life in the old Tengshu Academy, but a etiquette education that has been exposed to it since childhood." Since you never wanted to say it, then I won't ask. I just want you to know that I'm not trying to get into your secrets, it's purely out of friend's mind, and I hope you don't get too aggressive and do anything. ”

After a pause, it spoke again—

"It's like that ghoul and that Merlin. You should know that if you made the slightest mistake in your last mission, your funeral would have been several days away. ”

The girl was slightly stunned for a moment, and she looked at the kitten, as if to confirm whether it was sincere or purely perfunctory.

After a long time, she turned around, slightly suppressed the emotion in her heart, and turned her head again: "Well, thank you." Other than that...... Would you like to cut my hair a little bit? Cut off the bifurcated parts a little, but not too much. ”

It was the first time Napa had heard the girl ask for something since she had formed the guild. The cat looked up from the cushion and looked at the girl with a slightly apologetic smile on her face, and without thinking too much, it flew over slowly.

The power of magic slowly fluttered through the hall, and the wind elves skimmed the golden ends with a soft touch, removing the hair that had become unmanageable. After being cleaned, the gentle wind spirits stirred up the girl's blonde hair from the bottom up, blowing it away, opening up the strands that had been congealed together by sweat and refreshing them like blowers.

Once everything was clean, Arrow put his hair back up and put on his hat and covered it. He took a broom to clean up the broken hair on the floor and threw it into the kitchen fire to destroy the evidence.

"So...... Napa, would you like to go out with me to complete the mission of destroying King Slime? ”

Napa had just fallen down on her cushion, cold, when she heard the guildmaster's plea.

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