my armed maid

Chapter 14 13: Stimulant Potion

Cube Street is a famous "black street" located in the center of Linfeng City's red light district. It is occupied by a large number of seemingly legal armed men. Even the always strict mounted police do not want to come here to meddle in other people's business.

Nolen got on the carriage with fifty bottles of primary healing potion and followed the address left in the order to No. 97 Cube Street.

This was a magnificently decorated restaurant that was currently closed. Nolen walked up and patted the door.

This place is both a red light district and a night market. As lively as it is at night, it can be deserted during the day. Naturally, he was not welcomed when he came in the morning.

He waited patiently for a few minutes, and then a waiter rubbed his eyes and pushed open a crack in the door from the inside, and said angrily: "What do you want to do so early in the morning?"

"Tell 'Old Wolf' that his goods have arrived and ask him to come down and inspect them."

Only then did the clerk see the Ouroboros badge on Nolen's chest clearly. His expression immediately became respectful, and he bowed and said, "Sir, please go inside and sit down for a while. I'll call someone right away."

Nolen took a seat in the box with a box of potions and waited for a while. The middle-aged man who came to the workshop to place an order a few days ago arrived late with another alchemist.

"You are very punctual."

The middle-aged man looked at the young alchemist apprentice. No, he should be called an alchemist now. He already had the Ouroboros badge on his chest.

"You are my first customer, so you won't be careless."

Nolen leaned on the back of his chair and pointed to the medicine box, "The goods are all there, you can check them out."

The middle-aged man glanced at the alchemist beside him, and the alchemist stepped forward and began to test the quality of the potion.

"I didn't expect that in just a few days, you would actually become an alchemist."

The middle-aged man's eyes were glaring, "There are not many teenage alchemists. Maybe you are not exaggerating. Your ability is indeed stronger than Asti."

Nolen shrugged: "It is stupid to use age to measure a person's strength. I hope my partners will not make such a stupid mistake."

The alchemist quickly inspected the goods and nodded slightly towards the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man counted two gold coins from his arms and pushed them over: "According to the market wholesale price of four silver and fifty coppers per bottle, fifty bottles is two gold and 25 silver.

"I have paid a deposit of 25 silver before, and this is the final payment - the remaining two gold coins."

The conversion ratio of gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins in the Roland Empire is 1:100:10000. Nolen accepted the gold coins and was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he took a leisurely sip of tea and waited for the middle-aged man to speak.

He knew from the beginning that these fifty bottles of primary treatment potions were just a cover, and the middle-aged man did not come for that that day.

Because for common medicines like primary treatment medicines, you only need to place an order at the front desk.

And if you want to interview the alchemist in the workshop, you must have some secret and special needs.

As expected, the middle-aged man continued the topic: "It's a pleasure to cooperate. My name is Lao Lang. This is our family's consultant Shaman. Like you, he is also an alchemist."

"Nolen Vishes." Nolen nodded to his colleague.

"I've heard of you." Sharman's voice was hoarse. "The Alchemy Society certified a young alchemist two days ago. That person must be you."

"it's me."

"Very good." Old Wolf clapped his hands, "Now that your strength has been recognized by the society, unnecessary testing between us has been saved. To make a long story short, Mr. Nolen, I would like to invite you to have a long-term cooperation with us. ."To introduce myself again, I work for 'Harrison'.Mr. Harrison is the controller of the underworld and the talker of the red light district. Of course, he also has an apparent identity, that is, the president of the Linfeng City Mercenary Guild.

"We have abundant resources in our hands that you can't imagine. As long as you are willing to cooperate with us for a long time, you can use our resources at your disposal. Even some precious alchemy materials can be obtained for you."

Lao Lang's expression was very confident, and he was indeed very confident in the power behind him.

In fact, there were more than one or two alchemists attracted by his generous rewards.Alchemist is actually a very expensive profession. Every time you do an experiment, you consume a lot of valuable alchemical materials, and experiments... often fail.

"I'm happy to make friends with you." Nolen nodded, "Let's talk about the current situation first. Do you have any current needs?"

"We want you to improve a potion recipe."

The person who spoke this time was alchemist Sharman. He took out a tube of dark red potion from his arms and handed it to him, "This is a stimulant potion that we obtained through some channels. Its effects are as significant as its side effects. "

Nolen took the potion, and the book of omniscience in his mind automatically turned the pages. Sharman continued to explain next to him:

"This stimulant drug can put the user into a state of excitement in a short period of time, reducing pain and strengthening strength. However, after the effect of the drug ends, the user will enter a long period of weakness. In addition, it will make the user addicted and Hallucinations occur, and the cost of refining medicine is relatively high.

"Therefore, we believe that the formula of the potion must be improved before this alchemical potion can be used on a large scale. Unfortunately, we lack an alchemist who specializes in potion, so we plan to cooperate with you."

Nolen opened the cork and checked the liquid in the test tube, and quickly came to the conclusion: "The hallucinations are caused by the addition of poppyrin to the formula of the drug. It is a highly effective analgesic and can increase the level of excitement when combined with other ingredients." .

"As for the high cost, it is probably because there are some expensive and low-utilization materials in the formula. We can try to replace them with more affordable materials in the future - so what improvements do you hope to make to the formula?"

Sharman spread his hands: "What Mr. Harrison means is that he hopes that this bottle of stimulant potion will have stronger potency, smaller side effects, and lower refining costs."

Nolen laughed and said: "The idea is very good, but unfortunately this requirement fundamentally violates the principle of equivalent exchange in alchemy. When choosing a pharmaceutical formula, you can often only choose two out of three in terms of efficacy, side effects and cost. And can't take both into account.

“If you want to choose a cheap and highly effective medicine, it must have corresponding side effects; if you want to refine a perfect medicine with high efficacy and low side effects, then its cost must be high.

“Of course, now that pharmaceutical theory is more standardized, our first priority in researching pharmaceutical formulas is to minimize side effects as much as possible, and then balance the efficacy and cost.

"For example: It is also a treatment potion. The efficacy of a high-level treatment potion is qualitatively improved compared to that of a primary treatment potion, but the refining cost is also extremely high. You cannot expect to use the cost of a bottle of primary treatment potion to achieve the efficacy of a high-level treatment potion.

"So the idea is very clear - you tell me the maximum budget for refining this bottle of potion, and I will improve the formula within this range. Based on your budget, I will decide how effective the medicine is."

As both an alchemist, Shaman naturally understood what Nolen meant. He fell into a strange brief silence, and then slowly said:
"For us, if we can ensure high efficacy and low cost, we don't have to worry about side effects."

"Huh..." Nolen narrowed his eyes, "Alchemists are responsible for their own works."

"No, the alchemist only needs to be responsible to his employer. In this transaction, we will pay and you can use your brain. Other than that, you don't have to think about anything, and no one will cause trouble for you."

"I'm afraid this goes against our professional ethics."

"We can add money."

"make a deal."

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