"Thank you, sir, I will listen to your orders. ”

Alan thought for a moment, but decided to give in, otherwise the Hepburn family would not be so easy to stop, and from his own point of view, he also hoped that this matter would end as soon as possible, and not continue to go deeper, otherwise it would not be beneficial to himself, once the identities of Sergei and Fresnel were exposed, it would be a big trouble, and it might affect the trip to the south for revenge, so he would rather lose the high profits of the potion trade than continue to fight with the Hepburn family, but in this way, the arrangement of his original plan to rely on the pharmacy business to ensure Steven's life has changed, fortunately, there are still some smuggling businesses, although it is not as profitable as the pharmacy, but the profits are not bad, but after all, it can't see the light. I can't say that he can only return to his old business, but these are not in a hurry to decide, everything will be said when he returns from the south for revenge.

"Alan, you also got the recipes for those potions from the elves, right?"

Just when Alan thought that this matter was over, Hollanster suddenly looked at him with a grim face, his eyes shining brightly, and asked in a stern tone.

"Why do you say this, my lord? The potions in the recipe are all for human use, and the elves have nothing to do with what these potions do, and with the current relationship between humans and elves, even if the elves really have the formulas of these potions in their hands, it is impossible for us to use them. ”

Hollanster's expression startled Allen, but he immediately calmed down and retorted with a prepared rhetoric.

"Then tell me the truth, where did these potion formulas come from, and why can't even the Hepburn family's potions be compared to them. ”

Seeing that there was some truth in what Allen said, Holland's expression softened slightly, but his gaze was still extremely sharp.

"My lord, this is a long story, I visited an underground monument five years ago, when I was a student at the Yus Academy of Magic. ”

Alan said almost without thinking, knowing that any hesitation at this time might arouse Holancest's suspicions.

"My lord, I've heard about this experience of Allen, when Allen sacrificed himself to cover his companions, it was once rumored to be a good story in the mercenary world. ”

Halfway through Allen's words, Herbert interjected, but his words were explained to Holancest, so that Hollander understood that Alan was not making up a story, and that there was indeed such a history that everyone knew.

"Yes. When I was on the verge of life and death, it was my wife who saved me and took care of me for many years before I recovered. I had obtained a parchment scroll in the underground monument that recorded some methods of refining potions, and although I put it away, I did not pay much attention to it, for I was neither a pharmacist nor a businessman, and had no interest in refining medicines. So I've been carrying it with me, but last year there was a chance that Kevin Borg acquired a large number of elf plants during the one-sided war, which was originally intended to be used for pharmaceutical money, but who knew that the effect of the extracted elixir could not meet expectations at all, Kevin once wanted to dispose of these elf plants, but because the Hepburn family's bid was too low and delayed, I just finished the task of suppressing bandits and returned to understand the matter, remembering the parchment scroll that had been dusty for many years, and took it out, I didn't expect that the potion refining method recorded on the parchment scroll was very effective, and the extracted potion effect was very ideal, and it was precisely because of this that the interests of the Hepburn family were violated, met with their crazy retaliation. ”

Allen's scar had forgotten the pain before it was healed, and he began to fool Holland again, and this time he was not worried about the flaw, because the parchment scroll that the old man Hepburn gave him was absolutely secret, and no one else knew about it except for the old man's son Rick, and other things were real.

"Alan, are you saying that the recipe for the potion on the parchment scroll preserved in an ancient monument is better than the recipe of the Hepburn family now?"

After listening to Allen's words, although Holland didn't find any obvious flaws, he always felt that something was wrong, and then he quickly found the suspicion, the things in the monuments, as little as a thousand years, more than ten thousand years, it is difficult to say whether such a long time ago can be preserved, let alone the effectiveness of the things recorded in it, he does not believe that the formula of the potion thousands of years ago will be more advanced than the current one, because the potion is different from some other things taught by the gods, he is the crystallization of the civilization of the intelligent race on the continent.

"My lord, although the ancient monument is very old, but there have been signs of human activity in the last few hundred years, at first I did not know who left this parchment scroll, but then someone went to the monument to explore, and when they left, they not only destroyed the entrance mechanism of the monument, but... And after killing all the nearby villagers, I asked the adults to help track down the arrow cluster of the purchase records was left at that time, judging from the clues I got now, the murderers should all be people from the Holy See, which shows that the people who were active in the monuments should also be people from the Holy See, so this parchment scroll should have been left by the Holy See. ”

Allen's eyes were red and his voice trembled as he spoke, and he had kept this sad past in his heart, almost never telling it in public.

Hollanster and Herbert have not spoken for a long time when they see the sad things that touched Allen, although they both know that Allen's wife was killed, but the specific experience is the first time they have heard of it, they can feel that Allen's sadness is by no means a disguise, and the whole thing seems to be reasonable only if it is explained in this way, because for the study of potions, the Holy See has been engaged in hundreds of years, and has been in front of the entire continent, and no other person or force can surpass it, originally the mysterious race of elves may be able to do it, which is why Holranster still has doubts about this matter, but if these formulas are left by the Holy See more than four hundred years ago, perhaps the most correct explanation, because it was the heyday of the Holy See, and in the subsequent civil war between the North and the South, the civilization created by the Holy See was almost disconnected, and it was not until Tishepburn came to power that it regained its glory.

"Alan, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to let you bring up the past..."

After a moment of silence, Hollanster said apologetically.

"It's fine. ”

Alan shook his head.

"Alan, don't be sad. You have already got the clues of the murderer, as long as you follow the clues, I believe that you will soon be able to get revenge. ”

Herbert walked up behind Allen and comforted him by patting him on the back.

"Thank you, Archmage. I will only stay for a short time when I come back this time, and then I will quickly head south, following the clues and searching for the enemy until I find them. ”

Alan restrained his sadness and said in a deep voice.