Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 73 73. Helping you go home
Lan En finished his physical recovery in the morning and arrived at the alchemy classroom at noon.

At dinner time, Aliya returned to the door of the alchemy classroom.

In her hand she held two smoked fish sandwiches, grilled ham, baked apples and an oyster bisque.

A big plate full.

This is actually the amount of her and Lan En, because Aliya feels a little troublesome to eat after delivering the meal to Lan En.

Walking in the corridors of Arethusa College, Alia would always look left and right curiously.

Although her previous home wasn't the type that lacked lighting at night, it certainly couldn't compare to the Academy of Magic.

There are so many and bright candles in Arethusa Academy that it even makes the environment so bright that it doesn't seem to be illuminated by the light from the candles.

This is a small improvement made by the warlocks who discovered the principle of light reflection, using magic.

It is said that the mage who improved the lighting also left a self-portrait on the wall of the academy because of this contribution.

Aliya knocked on the door of the alchemy classroom and walked in.

Lan En had ordered that there would be no major alchemy experiments today, just knock on the door and come in, nothing would disturb you.

"My lord, I have brought your dinner."

Aliya could no longer look in through the glass opening of the door because she was carrying a large dinner plate.

So now when she entered the door, she saw Lan En sitting on a classroom chair, rubbing his face with both hands, looking dazed from exhaustion.

The whole classroom is not at all like "there will be no mess" when she was given a break at noon.

The mortar is full of all kinds of herbs that have been ground into a paste, and there is still half a bottle of indescribable liquid in the decanter, and the crumbs of dried herbs are scattered all over the table
"I'm so stupid, I'm so stupid, I only know that it takes ten hours to learn a potion, but I don't know how the ten hours are arranged, I'm so stupid."

This muttering made Aliya feel a little overwhelmed, and she called out again tentatively.

"grown ups?"

"Ok?"

Lan En put down his hands rubbing his face and raised his head.

The black blood vessels on his face and the light black deposits around the eye sockets made Aliya let out a small exclamation.

"Ah! My lord! What are you doing?"

Lan En was taken aback for a moment, then realized.

"Oh, don't be afraid. We witchers are over-drugged."

As he spoke, he hugged a beaker from the table at hand, picked it up and drank the milky white liquid inside.

Then those black blood vessels and orbital congestion subsided in a few breaths.

【Vitamin alcoholic drink with slight detoxification effect】.

That's what Mentos called Lan En's [White Honey] defective product.

There were a lot of mistakes in today's practice schedule, after all, it was the first time.

Lan En didn't expect that it would not be enough to use his extraordinary senses to identify the medicinal power of medicinal materials.

If you want to make a high-level potion, you have to recognize the crushed medicinal materials, right?Even if it is distilled, you have to recognize it, right?
In these cases, you still have to have the experience of estimating the potency of the medicine, right?
So what else is there to say?taste it!
Then a large bag of crudely processed medicinal materials was shaped into various shapes by Lan En.

Each one has to be smelled and tasted to accumulate experience about the potency of the medicine.

Yes, the proficiency of [Alchemy] has soared, and it is now 44%.

As for the limited medicinal materials such as honeysuckle and Heluli petals, Lan En can know whether the quality is good or not, and whether the medicine is strong or not.

With the alchemy formula to make discretionary increase or decrease, even some simple goods can be produced.

But the price is - even with the poison resistance of a demon hunter, after tasting this big bag of medicinal materials, the toxicity has begun to rise a bit.

As a last resort, in order to maintain this highly effective learning method, Lan En changed the first item to be overcome from [Swallows] to [White Honey].

It belongs to the simple antidote while tasting the herbs.

Fortunately, all of Lan En's expenses are borne by the 1500 Oren, otherwise he really wouldn't dare to waste things like this.

Roughly processed medicinal materials are no better than wild herbs, and the price increase is a matter of course.

Without this money, it is estimated that Lan En would have to squeeze toothpaste to improve his proficiency in [Alchemy].

If you have a small sum of money, you can buy medicinal materials and equipment, and then make, fail, save money and start over again, and the cycle repeats.

For a demon hunter who doesn't know how many commissions he can receive in a month, it may take half a year for him to learn how to refine a potion.

Work and study are two extremely time-consuming and costly things, let alone rushing together?
Fortunately, someone is now paying for his study costs.

"Don't worry about Alia, eat first, I will clean the classroom with you today."

Lan En rubbed his forehead and said.

He clearly said that the classroom wouldn't be too dirty, and he asked people to go back to rest, and in a blink of an eye there was such a mess.

Although the other party is now his attendant, Lan En is still very embarrassed.

The two cleared out a fairly clean table together and sat down to eat together.

The witcher glanced at Alia, who was acting normal, and narrowed his eyes.

This little girl knows many knight etiquettes and squires' duties and rules.

Although some of them are different from those of the northern countries, judging from the cumbersome rituals, they don't seem to be fake.

At most, it is due to differences in different countries.

In the final analysis, there is a set of aristocratic rules as the logic behind it.

But at the same time, a well-behaved servant at this time naturally eats at the same table with the person she follows without restraint.

Familiar with the rules of nobility, but can subconsciously ignore the class differences in these rules.

That is to say, in this set of rules, she is rarely in an inferior or unfavorable position.

The heir of a top nobleman?

While eating a smoked fish sandwich, Lane spoke to Arya.

"Tell me about your homeland, Arya."

"Ok?"

The little girl who was eating with puffed cheeks suddenly became alert like a squirrel and looked at Lan En.

"I don't want to go back!"

The witcher smiled knowingly.

She wasn't resisting going home out of fear or fear, at least not entirely.

More because of the fun outside, and the resistance to go home.

This shows that her family environment is actually quite good.

"I haven't asked how old you are yet, Alicia."

Lan En asked without raising his head while eating.

The girl just ate and didn't speak, Lan En didn't seem to notice anything.

"Look at your skeleton, nine years old? Ten years old?... Oh, it's ten years old. It's really a playful age."

The little girl's movements gave the answer, Lan En nodded and continued.

"You probably don't know how dangerous the world is for a ten-year-old girl, Alicia. After all, I beat the traffickers shortly after you were caught, and you haven't even seen them torture their captives." look like?"

"So, what the traffickers' camp makes you feel is excitement, probably at the moment when you jump off the boat, you are a little scared. But only for that moment."

"According to what you said, it has been four or five days since you left your family. In these four or five days, you have seen the witcher, magic, and alchemy. You feel that the world is novel and interesting, but your family is depressed. Boring. But, Arya."

Lane tilted his head at Aliya, who was sitting next to him.

"In these four or five nights, did you really not feel the fear of being helpless, and the nostalgia for your family?"

The little girl's chewing mouth gradually stopped, her hands slowly put down the food in her hands, and she didn't reply anymore.

"So, let's stop playing the Knight's Tale game and give me some information, Alia."

The witcher stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of the little girl, causing her to startle.

The witcher laughed.

"I'm trying to help you get home."

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