Korra looked at Airl suspiciously, looking a little unsure. He hesitated for a long time and asked: "Why do you want my herbal medicine? Do you want to steal my business?"

Arrow: "Hahaha, why would the Adventurer's Guild steal the doctor's business? We make money for each other and it's too late to help each other. How could we want to harm you? After our guild obtains those herbs, we will use them to refine some healing potions. But.

Please rest assured that we will never compete with you, the doctor!"

"Why? Because you just said that the consultation fee for treating a patient here is about 1 silver coin. But selling a bottle of my treatment medicine costs five silver coins. Moreover, ours

Healing potions can only treat open wounds and actual injuries. They cannot cure diseases or bring the dead back to life. Think about it, if someone in our town gets sick or suffers some minor injuries, they will come to us for flowers.

Will I sell a bottle of healing potion for 5 silver coins? Or will I spend one silver coin to see a doctor?"

This reason was indeed enough to convince Cora, but after thinking about it, the doctor was still a little confused: "It sounds very reasonable... but why do you want to sell 5 silver coins? If you are like me, you are selling

If it’s 1 silver coin, wouldn’t I make no profit?”

Ai Luo shook his head and could only say that it was a small place and it was really troublesome to explain it to these small town residents. But in order to make money for cooperation, he still smiled and said: "Doctor Korra, I don't think you will be able to cooperate with me."

Should the adventurers set out together to explore those secret places? Therefore, when the adventurers are injured and in urgent need of medical treatment, it is impossible to get help from a doctor immediately. At this time, their only reliance is some therapeutic medicine or

There is someone in the team who can do healing magic."

"Ignore those who know healing magic. With healing potions, the life safety of adventurers can be greatly improved. And general healing potions can be used under economic conditions to get adventurers back into business as quickly as possible.

Fight or adventure."

"And the healing potion refined by our guild is precisely because of this principle, so it can be sold so expensive. If you really want me to sell it cheaply and steal business from you, I won't do it. It is refined through alchemy.

The healing potion does not only require sufficient herbs, but also requires sufficient magic power in the surrounding area. Under normal circumstances, after refining the potion once, the magic power will decrease accordingly, and it will take several days to recover. Moreover, it also requires the expenditure of a magician.

Modulate it with your own magic power. The cost alone is far beyond the value of a silver coin."

"So, the customers of our guild's medicines and Dr. Korra's clinic are two completely different customer groups. You are targeting small town residents, and we are targeting adventurers. There is no conflict with each other.

.Since our customer groups do not conflict with each other, how can I compete with you for business?"

Doctors may be regarded as a profession with a relatively high level of education in Pelican Town, right? Even a barefoot doctor is the same.

Korra tilted his head and thought about it, and after a long time he seemed to finally accept this theory. But in the end, he still asked: "Then why do you want me to provide it? Can't you pick me yourself?"

Ai Luo wanted his guild members to pick them, but he had no choice. The education level of the two members at the back was really too low. It was already very good to be able to identify the herbs. The level of picking really made Ai Luo helpless.

But these things cannot be said just like that. He immediately smiled and said: "That's not because our guild only has these people now, and there are other tasks that need them to complete. And it takes a day to enter the Shining Forest to collect herbs.

, it’s really a waste of effort.”

At least, the doctor finally let down his guard a little. After Ai Luo drew up the power of attorney, wrote his name on it, took out a dozen coins from the money bag hanging on his belt, and finally reluctantly gave in.

The commission price of 5 silver coins was collected.

"Well, we enjoy working together!"

After putting away the power of attorney, Ai Luo continued to keep a smile on his face. Korra put down the pen and thought for a while and said: "Well, since you are willing to buy it, there are some herbs in my clinic now, do you want to buy them?

?”

"Of course I'll buy it! And we need fresh ones. You can just ship them to us directly without drying them."

After Korra stood up, Ai Luo sent her to the door and added: "In addition, since our mission this time only has five silver coins, we need to make more preparations, and the commissioning time may be longer.

I hope you don't mind waiting a little."

Hearing this, Korra's expression suddenly dropped, but at least he didn't continue to say anything. He just muttered: "I hope it won't take too long. If autumn passes, many herbs will be gone."

"Haha! It won't take long, don't worry."

With Airl's relief, the barefoot doctor finally left. About two hours later, he pulled his old carriage over and unloaded a basket of herbs.

To be honest, these herbs were picked very well. Compared to the little girl like Coco, who picked them clumsily, Korra used professional tools to pick them, and they were well placed in categories. It gave people a very comfortable feeling at a glance.

.

Immediately, Ai Luo bought some morning star grass, polymer flower and tear-eye vine needed for the therapeutic aerosol. He also bought some forest thorn seeds, which cost almost the price of one silver coin.

It's also because now considering that Coco's magic power is not strong, there is no way to make alchemy quickly. Otherwise, Ai Luo really wants to wrap up all the herbs in this cart and refine it slowly.

After seeing off the students and finishing dinner, Ai Luo watched Coco refine three bottles of therapeutic aerosol in the alchemy room. The little girl was quite up to her best, and under Napa's guidance, she used the forest thorn seeds and the three herbs to refine the aerosol.

I made a bottle of magic aerosol, which solved the problem of Cocoa's battery life a little bit.

——September 23, 1301, food expenses: -1 silver, 1 copper, 9 iron, Slime King extermination commission: 5 silver, herb purchase: -1 silver, alchemy glass bottle: -2 copper, balance: 83 gold 8

Silver 6 Bronze 7 Iron——

King Slime, this is not the problem that Arrow wants to solve at all.

Although he could only think about this in his mind, it did not prevent the guild leader from thinking positively about the damage this monster could cause to the guild.

Even if Brad and Coco's equipment has been upgraded and their combat experience has become a little richer, it is still not the time to face the Slime King.

Slime is afraid of fire, acid, freezing and many other magics, and is also afraid of alchemical products such as salt water potions. To be honest, this kind of monster is not a big problem for a mature guild. But the magical power of your own guild

However, it is lacking in this aspect. If you want to refine this kind of magic props, it will also cost a lot of money. It is obviously not suitable to spend it on slimes. Especially the Slime King, this kind of monster is stronger than ordinary slimes.

But it's not just a dozen times bigger. Maybe it can also use some simple magic, and its ferocity is unknown.

However, this does not mean that the problem of King Slime will not be solved.

Early the next morning, Arrow went to the tool store and bought a lot of animal traps from the long stick boss. Although these traps were not as lethal as the spike traps made by Cream, they were still adequate.

"I really don't understand you more and more."

In the guild hall, Napa's head was taken out of the bowl full of milk. It raised its paws to lick, rubbed its face, and wiped off the milk stuck on its beard, looking at it with an uneasy look.

Aero was playing with the animal traps on the floor.

"Don't tell me you plan to use these traps to deal with those slimes. And I've said it many times, if you let me go with you, those slimes won't matter to me.

What a troublesome thing."

Ai Luo checked these animal traps one by one, picked up one and opened it, and after confirming that the trap was normal, he continued to respond with a smile on his face: "I have said it many times, purely relying on your words, my guild

Sooner or later, the dominance will be completely transferred to your hands. And as creatures like us, if we don't use our brains all the time, our brains will become dull and must be run frequently to prevent them from rusting."

Feeling a little tired, Ai Luo put down the trap in his hand and stood up, exhaling a long breath. He stepped forward and closed the door of the guild, then he was able to take off his hat and shook his head, so that his blond hair could smoothly

Sprinkle it down.

"It's so hot, I really need to cut my hair...but how about just cutting it a little shorter? I'm a little reluctant to cut my hair short completely."

The girl lifted her hair to allow the heat to dissipate from the back of her neck. After she felt a little more comfortable, she continued to squat on the ground to check these animal traps.

"Where are our guild members?"

Napa continued to watch Ai Luo's actions boredly and asked casually.

"Thanks to yesterday's advertisement, Coco continued to help people look after the stalls. Brad helped deliver goods to the next town. The two of them probably won't come back until after dinner. Napa, you

Can you come over and help... lend a hand? The mechanism of this trap... is so strong! I... can't break it open!"

The cat was lying on the cushion, looking at the president's beautiful face that turned red. He pressed hard on the mechanism of a trap with both hands, but could not open it.

It sighed, slowly floated over and circled around the trap, raised its tail, and slapped the trap sharply, finally opening the trap smoothly.

"Ariel, there is something I want to confirm with you."

Napa flew back to the girl and stopped in front of the girl. The pale golden fur gave off a warm luster, but its sapphire blue eyes did not look so gentle -

"After this period of observation, I have to admit that you are quite an interesting guild leader. Note that I did not say that you are 'competent', but that you are interesting."

"Many of your working methods are very different from the way the Adventurer's Guild operates that I know, and sometimes they are even completely opposite. I also admit that it would be difficult for a person like you, who has no martial skills and no affinity for magic, to be the leader of the Adventurer's Guild.

The president is a little embarrassed for you. But just like the last time we faced the corpse eater, I think you should trust me more."

The president put away the opened trap again and continued to check the next one. He smiled while looking at it: "Didn't I say it at the time? Trust this thing——"

"No, listen to me. According to my observation, it seems that you don't deliberately don't need my help because you simply don't want to rely on me and the guild will become my dominant one. You are insisting that you must do it yourself.

There seems to be some persistence in this matter that I can't understand."

"You have to earn 1,000 gold coins in three years. According to ordinary people's understanding, in order to earn this money, you will definitely use various simple and easy methods. For example, using my power to complete some tasks faster and more conveniently,

This is safer and more efficient. It can even be said that you only need to ask me to enter the mine with you, and I can hunt down two or three of the corpse-eaters you mentioned and dig out their gold nugget hearts.

It will take you a few days to collect 1,000 gold coins."

"However, you did not do this, nor did you make any request to me in this regard."

"On the one hand, you are very anxious to collect money, but on the other hand, you do not use these methods that are very simple and easy in my opinion. This is not an explanation of 'not wanting others to understand the way you work'.

of."

"So, Ariel, Ariel Garcia. What does your three years of 1,000 gold coins really mean? What is the reason why you would rather risk your life than take a shortcut?"

While Napa was talking, the blonde girl was always squatting on the ground, checking the trap with her back to it. Her actions were very cautious, and her eyes were very focused, as if she didn't listen to what the cat monster said at all.

Although there was always a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, this smile seemed to be fixed on this face by nature and could not explain any thoughts in her heart.

It wasn't until all the animal traps were checked that the girl stood up and stretched. She looked at the eight traps on the ground with great satisfaction and nodded.

"Ariel Garcia!"

Seeing that the other party didn't reply, Napa couldn't help but raise her voice.

"Of course I have my own approach. You just need to know that I will try my best to achieve my goal of a thousand gold coins. Now nearly three-quarters of the first year has passed, and I haven't even earned 100 gold coins yet.

Come back, you have to believe that I must be more anxious about my own goals than you are."

She turned around and ran her fingers around the end of her blond hair. After confirming that the hair on her fingertips was slightly split, she shook her head helplessly to make her hair spread out more and not stick together due to sweat.

..

"So, could you please stop asking so aggressively? I allow us, the guild members of Mermaid Song, to have our own little secrets. It would make me uncomfortable if you keep prying into my secrets like this."

Napa stared at the blond girl. After a moment, the cat shook its head helplessly, flew back to the cushion on the counter and lay down: "Girls from poor families don't mind whether their hair is split. You must have suffered."

Good etiquette education is not something that can be developed in just a few years of school life in Lao Teng Shu Academy, but etiquette education that has been instilled in you since childhood. Since you never want to say it, I won't ask. I just want you.

Know that I don’t want to pry into your secrets, it’s purely as a friend, and I hope you won’t get into trouble because you are too aggressive.”

After a pause, it spoke again——

"Just like that corpse eater, and that Merlin. You should know that if there was even the slightest mistake in the last mission, your funeral would have been days away."

The girl was stunned for a moment. She looked at the little kitten, as if she wanted to confirm whether its words were sincere or just perfunctory.

After a long time, she turned around, suppressed the emotions in her heart and turned around again: "Well, thank you. Also... would you like to help me cut my hair a little? Cut off the parted part,

But don’t cut too much.”

Since forming the guild, this was the first time Napa heard this girl requesting something from him. The cat raised his head from the cushion and looked at the girl in front of him with a slightly apologetic smile, and didn't think much about it.

, and flew over slowly.

The power of magic flew slowly in the hall, and the wind elves gently brushed over the golden hair tips with a gentle touch, removing the hair that was no longer manageable. After cleaning, these gentle wind elves came from

Agitate the girl's blond hair from bottom to top, blow it away as much as possible, and open up the hair strands that are condensed due to sweat, just like a blower to bring you a refreshing feeling.

After everything was cleaned up, Arrow put his hair back up and covered it with a hat. He took a broom to clean up the broken hair on the floor and threw it into the kitchen fire to destroy the evidence.

"So... Napa, would you like to go out with me to complete the mission of destroying the Slime King?"

Napa had just laid down on the cushion when she suddenly heard the guild leader's request.
Chapter completed!