Time consumes not only people's energy, but also people's spirit.

As a mercenary who has been engaged in adventure and combat all his life, his once strong and agile body gradually begins to become incapacitated, which is the greatest sorrow of their group.

In Jialan's mind, in the memory of foreign souls, there is a poem that can vividly describe the life of adventurers and mercenaries and other warriors, that is: "The crockpot is not broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle, and the children of the rivers and lakes are old, why should the bones be the hometown?"

The clay pot used to draw water will inevitably end up shattering next to the well because of the user's mistake;

Generals, here can be understood as warriors, mercenaries, or adventurers, who are always in danger, and who cannot escape the fate of killing or being killed by others;

Jianghu, Jialan doesn't quite understand this word, but he can roughly understand that it is an environment very similar to the mercenary world, so as an adventurous professional, the final destination must be to be disconnected from the environment that he has lived in for a lifetime, and people like them will care about where they will die in the end.

Whether it is an adventurer or a mercenary, except for a very few lucky ones, or losers who give up early, the situation of most of them in their later years is very bleak.

Even if they are lucky enough not to die in a dangerous mission, they will generally leave disability and serious sequelae, and they will rarely be able to sleep without pain, and most of them will be tormented by illness and leave this world gloomily.

The four old mercenaries of Iguana Fang are already relatively lucky examples in the mercenary world, they did not die in the minions of the monster, did not die under the enemy's sword, and after paying their lives for the mercenary group, they were able to get the support of the mercenary group, and they were not expelled from the mercenary group because of old age and decay, and died tragically under the eaves of a certain house on a cold night.

But it was their star luck and their sorrow, and day by day they felt their life force far away from them, and they could almost see the date of their death from their sickness.

As they get older, they also miss the health and strength of their youth more and more, and they also remember the time when they fought side by side with their partners again and again.

And Jialan's potion, although it can't really restore their health and youth, is enough for them to re-experience the years of burning passion and relive the blood boiling during the battle!

It can also allow them to make the most of their efforts for this mercenary group that has paid for themselves, to prove that they still have the value of living, instead of hiding in the shadows in decadence like a useless garbage, waiting for the mercy and charity of others, and waiting for death in panic.

Jialan didn't think of so much originally, but simply wanted to use the effect of the alchemy potion to improve the ability of the old thief, so as to avoid missing or encountering danger when probing information.

However, after feeling the ecstasy and mental strength of old Jimmy's use of those alchemy potions, Jialan made a wish to use the alchemy potions to help the old mercenaries complete the most embarrassing thing in their remaining lives, that is, the dignity of being a warrior.

Death and danger are no longer worth fearing for them, and they are more willing to die heroically in the battle to defend their honor like the adventurers who have appeared in their lives but disappeared like meteors instead of continuing to rot under the support of mercenary groups and become a group of useless waste dragging young people down.

Although the alchemy potion can bring amazing magical effects, but any kind of elixir has certain toxicity and side effects, which will inevitably cause damage to the human body, just healthy young people, their strong bodies and vigorous recovery power, can quickly recover the damage caused by the alchemy potion.

However, the bodies of the old mercenaries, who were already old and scarred, did not possess this kind of recovery power, so although Jialan's alchemy elixir could give them the ability to regain the ability equivalent to the peak state of their youth, it was at the cost of overdrawing their remaining lives.

Although she knew this, Jialan still decided to use her ability to help the old mercenaries restore their combat effectiveness, even if it was to hasten their death, which was a kind of respect for the old soldiers!

It's a pity that after waking up from Heng Bing, although the ban on exploring the mysterious realm was unexpectedly lifted, his spell-casting ability also fell back to the 0th order state from the original 1st order.

With Jialan's current strength, he can only use relatively rudimentary abilities, after obtaining the collection of the three old mercenaries, Jialan ignored his fatigue and carefully checked their equipment, these things are not a magic weapon, and the best ones are just ordinary refined products.

However, it is almost enough, in terms of improving the physical abilities of the old mercenaries, the primary armor potion, the primary tree skin potion, the primary bear tenacity potion, the primary cow power power potion, and the primary cat elegance potion...... and so on, the alchemy potion is enough for their strength to return to the peak state of their youth in a short period of time, and even several times the peak state.

In terms of equipment, Jialan's mastery of enchantment methods and rune burning is enough to raise these ordinary and even dilapidated equipment to a rather surprising level.

When the night is getting darker, the main moon of January, the "Vigilant Moon-Walrett", sprinkles the earth with a slight fluctuation of light gray moonlight, and the strange fluctuations often expose those hidden and dark places inadvertently.

(Lao Sao's note: The "Moon of Books - Laian" that appeared above is the main month of September, probably because of the description problem, the book review area generally reflects that Lao Sao gave the moon a strange name, but there are thirteen moons in this world, each with different special powers, and there will be a very important role in the later text, so it can't be the same as having two dogs at home, one is called Wangcai, and the other is also called Wangcai, right?)

Truth be told, January is not a good month for thieves, because no matter how much they try to hide their whereabouts, Walrett's strange fluctuations in moonlight will always make their figures stand out in the shadows.

But fortunately, old Jimmy's rich experience and the magical effect of the alchemy potions given to him by Jialan still allowed him to return safely, and he unexpectedly overfulfilled the task...... He's bringing the Browns back!

This made Jialan take aback, in his plan, he originally only planned to let old Jimmy find out the location of the Brown family and determine whether they were safe, and then he had already considered a series of plans and several sets of plans to rescue them.

Unexpectedly, old Jimmy just went out and brought all the Brown family back, in addition to praising old Jimmy's detection skills and ability to save hostages, it is estimated that the Brown family is just ordinary people with no special abilities, and the other party is not very vigilant against them, and the guards are not strict.

In any case, since it is always a joy for the Brown family to return safely, everyone happily welcomed the frightened family for more than two months, and learned the details of what happened from the frightened family.

The mastermind behind all of this is the Apothecary's Guild, who, by bribing the members of the Civil Council of Corland City, has made a deal with them to convince them to use their official capacity and power to assist them in this dirty kidnapping and extortion operation.

However, it was discovered that the Brown sisters, who had mastered the detailed recipe of the violet ointment, were bound by some mysterious magical contract, and could not tell them the formula data through words, words, actions, and demonstrations.

After even sending someone to secretly observe the operation process caused the Brown sisters to stiffen and unable to continue the action of dispensing the potion, the Apothecary's guild changed its strategy and detained the Brown family and let them continue to produce the potion, in order to lure out the "Master Lemli" behind the Brown family.

The Brown family, who had been trembling for two months, were recited from the Apothecary's Guild by Old Jimmy after using a primary human shrinking potion to reduce their body to half the normal size, except for the fat Aunt Brown, who did not cause trouble to Old Jimmy, who had used various alchemy potions.

The young Brown sisters were really frightened, and after holding back the tears for a while, they finally couldn't help crying: "Old... Teacher... They snatched the recipe for the potion!"

Although the people of the Apothecary Guild could not learn the detailed ratio of the formula by forcing the Brown sisters to ask the Brown sisters, it did not prevent them from figuring out the ingredients of the violet ointment when preparing the medicinal materials for them.

After all, violet ointment is only a primary medicine, and the medicinal materials used are not complicated, and there are only a few in total when the main ingredients and auxiliary materials are used.

Moreover, the Apothecary Guild was even able to gradually analyze the approximate dosage of violet cream from the amount of medicinal materials used by the scheming Brown sisters every day, but with these alone, they still needed to test it for a while if they wanted to fully grasp the formula and preparation process.

However, this time will not be too long, at most a few months, the pharmacists of the Apothecary Guild will fully master this formula, and at that time, with the power of the Apothecary Guild in Kelan City, this special potion formula will become their own.

Gently comforted the Brown sisters and the Brown couple, who were worried that Jialan would hold them responsible, and asked Captain Casey to temporarily arrange for them to stay at the Iguana Fang's station and have a good rest.

Jialan, on the other hand, after thinking for a while, smiled and said to Casey: "Since the Browns have been rescued, then we can let go of our hands to deal with the Apothecary Guild and that nasty Storm Wolf mercenary group!"

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Lao Sao: Yesterday my classmates got married, I went to help with photography, and then by the way killed all my classmates at the wine table, and after letting go of my classmates and his father, I fainted heroically, and I was called by my sister to pee just now...... So sorry, try to make up for it today!