There is a "farm" on the street in Braun Town. It is a small shop with some grain samples for sale on the shelves. There are only two or three waiters to entertain the guests. It is actually a shop, not a farm.
The backyard of Dr. Cole's pharmacy is a real farm.
It covers an area of thirty acres, with colorful medicinal fields, flat drying grounds, and stables for raising various animals. The "people" busy in the backyard were a group of women that Wiltok had never seen before.
They are definitely not half-elves. Although the appearance of the two is very similar, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, pointed ears, beautiful facial features, and good looks, they are tall and have plump muscles. Compared with the slender half-elf women, they appear toned and strong. They are strong, especially with shiny skin that is a healthy tan, and their lips are full, and when they smile, they reveal their white canine teeth. These characteristics give them a ferocious and primitive temperament, which is very different from the gentle half-elf waitresses and wild Hemer female warriors.
It's normal for Vertok to be excited when he sees something completely new. Dr. Cole was confused by his reaction. The Disa Alliance had a large number of barbarian slaves, accounting for ten percent of the total population. There is almost one barbarian slave for every twenty Disa half-elves in major major cities. The number of barbarian slaves in villages, towns, plantations, and mines affiliated to city-states was even greater.
If Vertok loses his memory, he doesn't have any memory of common barbarian slaves, right?
"This is the barbarian slave I raised, haven't you seen it before?" Cole looked into Wiltok's eyes and immediately looked away to avoid looking at him.
Wiltok said "Oh" first, then asked without answering: "Why are all the barbarian slaves here female?"
Cole suddenly had an idea in his mind. He introduced: "Barbarians and half-orcs are different in appearance, just like two different races. In fact, they are the same kind as half-orcs. It's a bit like half-elves and helmer." , the relationship between the Taku tribe. Compared with the rough and aggressive half-orcs who cannot be domesticated, the barbarians are smart and dexterous and have a docile temperament. In the Blackstone Tribe, which is hostile to the alliance, the status of the barbarians is very low, especially the barbarian females. Their situation is miserable. Worse than slaves of the Disa Alliance. Therefore, many barbarians would rather be slaves in the Disa Alliance than be oppressed and enslaved by the orcs in the tribe."
"We must manage the barbarian slaves separately from men and women, otherwise they will give birth to more little barbarian slaves. The fertility of the barbarians is not as good as that of the half-orcs, but it is much stronger than our half-elves. Moreover, the bodies of the barbarian men are very strong. If the alliance If barbarians are allowed to multiply in the city-state, the consequences will be disastrous."
"Therefore, the laws of the alliance stipulate that ordinary families can only buy and sell barbarian female slaves. They are fully qualified for work such as planting, logging, and herding. Only mine owners with armed guards can purchase strong barbarian men, but there is a limit on the number of slaves they can buy. , but also use drugs to block fertility, which can also reduce the aggressiveness of male slaves."
"Barbarian female slaves are docile and capable of working, and are generally treated well by their masters. Some half-elf men even regard barbarian female slaves as personal pets, but they cannot have offspring together. This also causes barbarian men to hate half-elves. They will attack plantations, plunder wealth, and snatch away barbarian female slaves. Most of the barbarian female slaves are unwilling to follow them. Well, the raiders of the Blackstone Tribe are mainly barbarian males."
As he spoke, Dr. Cole clapped his hands to attract the attention of the barbarian female slaves. They put down their work one after another, walked obediently to their masters, lined up in a horizontal line, waiting for their master's instructions, and timidly peeked at Wiltok. .
At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the monsoon gradually loses its roaring power, but brings with it a desolate chill. Wiltok had already put on warm winter clothes, but these barbarian female slaves all wore leather collars around their necks. They only had a leather breast protector and a leather skirt. Their strong and proud figures and copper-colored shiny skin were all visible. The tenacious beauty of life blooms in the cold wind. Even though their facial features are rougher than those of the beautiful half-elf women, their strong and toned bodies are the envy of most women.
The tall and sturdy bodies and strong and rough appearance of the barbarian female slaves form a strong contrast with their timid and docile demeanor, which makes people have the urge to ravage them at will.
Cole put his hands behind his back and said calmly: "The aesthetics of half-orcs and barbarians are opposite to ours. They like females with fat bodies, rough temperaments, and the ability to give birth to several healthy cubs at a time. These barbarian female slaves of mine are in the eyes of half-orcs and barbarians. It's extremely ugly. The status of the orcs in the Blackstone Tribe is higher than that of the barbarians, the males have a higher status than the females, and the 'beautiful' females have a higher status than the 'ugly' females. But to us, these 'ugly' barbarian female slaves are the most valuable."
"Virtok, if you are interested, I can sell you the ugliest female slave here. Lorna, come out."
Cole turned to Wiltok and said: "Give me 800 gold pagodas, and she will be your private property. You can do whatever you want to her."
When the barbarian slave whose name was called heard this, she immediately looked at Wiltok with horror on her face, her strong body trembling.
Wiltok moved his fingers on the seam of his trousers. He always remembered to be wary of Dr. Cole. Although he wanted to explore the barbarian slave girl, he still shook his head and refused: "I have no money."
"You can keep accounts."
Weir still shook his head and insisted: "I have no money."
"What a shame...you guys should go back to work."
Dr. Cole waved his hand, and the twenty-odd female slaves quickly left as if they had been granted amnesty. The barbarian slave girl named Lorna ran the fastest and worked harder, as if she was afraid that Dr. Cole would sell her again.
Wiltok watched with ghostly eyes as the barbarian slave Rona picked up a heavy stone jar and ran to the back of a small house. He thought sadly: My current strength is about the same as that of a barbarian slave girl... I really want to sell her. No, Cole asked me to buy it, but I won't buy it. When I have money in the future, I will find someone else to buy her.
Cole didn't care about a mere barbarian slave girl, and he didn't really want to sell Lorna to Vertok. He just wanted to test a guess.
Slender barbarian women are indeed disliked by their peers, but they also think half-elves are ugly. In the eyes of barbarians and half-orcs, the more beautiful a half-elf is, the uglier it is. Therefore, when Lorna heard that she was going to be sold to Wiltok, she was very resistant.
This seems to indicate that Wiltok's charm is only effective on half-elves.
Cole is now more and more certain that Wiltok's beautiful qualities are the result of human intervention. The purpose of cultivating him is unclear, but it should be related to the power struggle of the famous families in the Highlands. What is clear is that if any prominent highland family acquires the beauty trait of Wiltok, their dominance over the half-elf city-state will be significantly enhanced. If they can use this beauty trait correctly, they can even overwhelm other highland noble families.
From this perspective, Wiltok's value cannot be measured in money at all!
Cole no longer dared to think further. The top priority was to figure out, in addition to the manifested beauty qualities, what other hidden qualities did Vertok have?
"Wiltok, as my assistant, you must have a certain understanding of pharmacy. Do you know pharmacy?" Cole asked.
Wiltok's head shook like a rattle. He had no intention of asking Dr. Cole about the formula for the source blood potion, even though he had already told two adventurers who were not familiar with part of the formula. As for whether the potion formula would eventually reach Cole's ears, he didn't even consider it.
Cole was not surprised, nodded, and said patiently: "Let me briefly introduce potion first. The alliance's potion has two categories, ordinary potions and secret potions. There is nothing to say about ordinary potions. Anyone can prepare ordinary potions. Pharmacy. Therefore, pharmacy generally refers specifically to esoteric medicine."
"The so-called secret medicine is a medicine that extracts and improves characteristics through a certain secret method. If you want to understand secret medicine, you must first understand what characteristics are and what a professional is."
"Everything in the world has different qualities. The hardness of stone is a quality, the ability of wood to burn is a quality, and your beauty is also a quality... We are used to summing up the qualities of half-elves into four directions, namely physical fitness oriented, strength oriented, agility oriented, intelligence oriented. For example, your beauty trait belongs to the physical oriented trait. But the common physical oriented traits of half-elves are strength, resistance, toughness, etc."
"When the characteristics of strength, resistance, and tenacity are improved to a certain level, expertise is formed. The process of improvement is called sublimation, also known as awakening. The half-elf awakened person condenses the expertise that contains characteristics by performing secret rituals, taking secret medicines, and teaching methods. With the secret blood, he became a professional."
Wiltok seemed to understand. He tilted his head and looked Dr. Cole up and down. "Knowledge Puzzle" only absorbs this part of information, without feedback. But he very much hoped that the other party could continue to talk, and the more details the better.
Cole just briefly introduced the professionals, and the secret medicine was the focus.
"If it's just training, it's almost impossible for a half-elf's physique and traits to be sublimated to the level of an awakened person, let alone condense the secret blood and become a true professional. Fortunately, the traits are the same... You follow me."
Cole led Wiltok to the animal pen, where there were three huge tusked wild boars lying on the haystacks, sleeping soundly. He turned his head and was about to continue the introduction, when he suddenly noticed that Wiltok "swiped" and jumped onto the fence, apparently preparing to climb in and touch the tusked boar.
"Quick, stop him!" Dr. Cole was shocked, and his voice was so sharp that it was distorted.
The three half-elf female slaves beside him took action together and moved Wiltok down from the fence.
"Idiot! Are you desperate for your life? These secret medicine wild boars are more ferocious than ordinary long-tusked wild boars. If you jump into the pen like this, they will think you are food!" Cole yelled in fear, his cry The three wild boars in the animal pen were startled. They got up and walked slowly to the fence, sniffing around with their long noses, as if looking for food.
Wiltok squatted down, observed for a while through the fence, and asked in surprise: "Secret medicine wild boar? Are these wild boars a secret medicine?"
Cole just scolded Wiltok out of anger. After scolding him, he felt inexplicably guilty, as if he had accidentally offended someone in authority. He composed himself and tried to explain in a gentle tone: "The magic of life is to transform different things into a part of itself. This is a gift from Mother Earth... A few people came over to feed the pigs and get medicine. "
Two barbarian female slaves came over carrying a large basin and poured all the brown feed inside into the fence. Three tusked wild boars immediately came over and ate, grunting happily.
"Wild boars have strong qualities, and they have a diverse diet and will eat almost anything. I mixed some special stone powder with some medicine and first fed a batch of mud scorpions. The hardness of the stone powder can improve the hardness of the mud scorpion carapace. Wild boars eat it regularly The feed prepared from the mud scorpion shell improves the strength and hardness traits at the same time... Using life as a furnace to refine the traits and obtain sublimation is the secret medicine. Its effect is much better than those ordinary potions prepared with flasks!"
The secret medicine is alive!
Vertok's eyes were opened, but how to use the living secret medicine? In his impression, medicine is only for taking. But, how many days will it take to finish such a large portion of the secret medicine?
Wild boar is a very greedy animal, always eager to eat all the food in its stomach. In just a few moments, a large pot of pig feed was completely eaten by three tusked wild boars. Perhaps some kind of drug in the feed began to take effect. They soon collapsed on the ground unable to move, and their fat bodies were still heaving up and down, as if they were in an unconscious state of death.
After a while, Wiltok was surprised to find that there were some bumps under the wild boar's thick mane, and then dozens of bugs the size of a human thumb came out of it. Their bodies are almost transparent and roughly flat in shape, but their translucent bellies are round and bulging, and you can see bright red blood drops inside that are as eye-catching as gems.
The half-elf maid took out a small wooden box from her satchel, placed it on the ground, and opened the lid. These translucent bugs scrambled down from the wild boar and got into the small wooden box.
After all the bugs crawled into the box, the half-elf maid closed the lid and presented the box to Dr. Cole with both hands.
Facing Wiltok's curious gaze, Cole weighed the box in his hand, with a satisfied smile on his face, and said lightly: "Costuo blood-sucking beetles... The blood-sucking beetles cultivated by the great pharmacist Costo will parasitize animals. Under the skin, it feeds on the host's blood for a long time and becomes a part of the host. When the host is on the verge of death or is fed the breath of the female insect, the Costo blood-sucking worm will desperately absorb the essence of the host's blood and then break away from the host."
"We use the characteristics of the blood-sucking worms in Costo to extract and preserve the secret medicine. Later, my maid will seal these blood-sucking worms with amber solution and sell them to armed caravans. Those professionals with good physiques will take these medicines The blood-sucking insects sealed in amber can activate the secret blood properties in a short period of time, reduce their own losses, quickly replenish physical energy, enhance strength, and activate the ability of the rock skin."
Passing the box to the half-elf maid, Dr. Cole said to Wiltok: "The adventurers in Braun Town sold me medicines that were difficult to store, and I used them to refine secret medicines and resold them to armed caravans. Like this A rock-skin potion of average quality can be sold for about 90 gold pagodas each. The medicinal pigs I raise are harvested once a year, up to three harvests, and can harvest more than 20 pieces of rock-skin secret potion each time, with a total value of 2,000 gold pagodas. And the cost for me to make this batch of secret medicine is less than 800 gold pagodas. Of course, the rock skin medicine only accounts for a small part of the secret medicine produced by the pharmacy."
"According to the trait resonance effect, only fourth-level doctors with awakened intelligence expertise can accurately grasp the dosage of medicine, the maturation time of the secret medicine, and the effect of the secret medicine. Those third-level doctors may be certified as third-level pharmacists by the academy after studying, but they It’s no different from an ordinary pharmacist, he can only give me some help, but he can’t refine the secret medicine for awakening.”
Cole specifically emphasized that the third-level pharmacist cannot independently prepare the secret awakening medicine, which is equivalent to reminding Wiltok that only he, a fourth-level professional doctor in the entire town of Braun, can prepare the secret awakening medicine. If Vertok has any questions about the secret medicine, ask him for advice immediately.
Wiltok pointed to his nose and asked excitedly: "Look, can I become a third-level pharmacist? I want to learn how to prepare ordinary medicines."
Cole looked at him strangely and said in deep thought: "Pharmacist is a profession, not a professional. My personal maids all know some pharmacy knowledge. After you work, I will let them teach you some things... and Yes, please don’t harass my personal maid again.”
