The Void Walker Starting from Xumi

Chapter 19, Hetala's Letter
Master Fugate, nice to meet you. I am your lovely apprentice, Hetala.

The academic atmosphere in Mond is really average, but fortunately, some alchemical experiments can still be done. By the way, I have become the chief alchemist of the Mond Knights.

Otherwise, even the noble ladies of Loefat could not escape the frequent aristocratic balls. Although she felt that her alchemy level was average, she did not expect that there was really no one who could beat her in the Mond alchemy world.

In such a huge country like Mondstadt, there is only one old bishop of the Church of Favonius who is a master of alchemy. I really don't know what to say.

Fortunately, I was able to train a few qualified assistants using the intelligence development potions I brought back, otherwise I would have really gone crazy.

In the past six months since I returned home, I have developed two potions that can be used in battle: [Wind Element Essential Oil] and [Wind Element Resistance Potion]. (Attached is the relevant paper and a list of alchemy processes and material ratios. Please ask your supervisor to help me apply for a patent at the Ministry of Education and publish the paper.)
I don’t know how your condition is now, mentor, and whether there are any signs of improvement.

I really miss the time when I studied under you, my mentor...

I still love your student Hetala.

Ferget nodded and said to Xia Mian: "Have you finished reading your letter? What does it say?"

"It's a secret between girls."

"What! Xiamian, you are a girl?" Kuru, who was also holding a letter from Hetala, looked at Xiamian in shock.

Fugate: “…”

Xia Mian: “???”

Xia Mian looked at himself. Although he did have the habit of being restrained, he hadn't been restrained for a long time. Although it was not D, it was definitely C, and C+. It was so obvious, couldn't you notice it?

"Don't you know that I often play with Samel, Hetala and others?" asked Xiamian.

"I just thought that you are more popular with girls. Batu and Baanka think so too." Kuru scratched his head and said.

The other two were quite speechless.

"If I had known earlier, I would have pursued Sameer." Kuru said with a sigh.

The two were even more speechless.

"What are you looking at?" Kuru looked at his teacher and classmates a little madly. "I once confessed to Sameer, and Sameer said she liked you."

"By the way, Xiamian, you must have told Sameer and Hetala about your gender, right?" Fuget said, touching his chin.

After reminiscing for a while, Xiamian said, "Hmm~ Hetala knew it a long time ago. As for Sameer...she probably found out about it two or three months after she became an apprentice under the mentor. At that time, I invited them to take a bath together...Now that I think of it, Sameer's expression was indeed a little strange at the time."

"I actually always thought you were dating both of them." Kuru looked like he was burnt out.

"I'm so pretty, have you ever thought that I'm a girl?" Xia Mian was very angry about this.

"I just treat you as a buddy." Kuru said with tears in his eyes. Judging from Kuru's expression, it seems that he can't change this idea.

"Teacher..." Xiamian looked at Fuget.

"...Actually, I didn't notice it at first. It was only during that sparring match...that I discovered it when I was moving it." Fugate said, scratching his head.

It seems that Xia Mian is about to become a dot-eyed person.

"Let's get back to the topic, dear Miss Xiamian." Fuget coughed twice and then said, "Is there anything worth noting in the letter Miss Hetala wrote to you? From the letter she wrote to me, I can see that her condition does not seem to be very good."

After all, they have been forced to develop alchemical potions for combat.

"Hmm~ Although she didn't explain her situation clearly, if I think about it carefully, just as Teacher Fuget said, Miss Hetala's situation is not optimistic. In addition to complaining about the daily noble ball and other things, she also asked me if there is a potion that can greatly improve combat ability."

"Hmm~ Significantly improve combat capabilities? The Fuget intelligence development potion should be able to do that, but it would be difficult for Hetala to refine it alone with her alchemical ability... and if the intelligence development potion was in Mond, the cost would probably be even higher." Kuru analyzed.

"So what she wanted was some principles of potions," Xiamian said, "and then she developed the potions herself using various local medicinal materials in Mondstadt."

"It's a very smart move." Ferget nodded and said, "But there's not much we can do to help her."

After all, they couldn't go directly to Mond. According to the time on Hetala's letter, the fastest way to Mond was by water, but it would take more than half a year. If they went by land, it would take even longer, a full two years.

"Let's do as Hetala said first. However, in this case, our trip, ahem~ our exploration of the earth veins will need to be postponed a little bit." Fuget said regretfully, and handed the paper to Kuru. "Mr. Kuru, this is Miss Hetala's paper. Please rewrite it and ask me to sign it."

Kuru nodded, took the paper and went to work.

Kuru studies theory, so he has written the most papers among the six apprentices. He is therefore most expert in this area and the possibility that his papers will be sent back for revision is very small.

And because they had traveled across the ocean, although they were well preserved, the letters that Hetala wrote to them were still a little moldy because they had not been specially handled.

Xia Mian stared at the mildew on the letter paper with some distress, muttering about inventing a kind of letter paper that could be better preserved and not be corroded by mildew.

Fugate shook his head and began to write a reply.

He mainly introduced the recent situation of himself and others, and said that the remaining two, Xia Mian and Kuru, had also graduated again, so she didn't need to worry too much.

In the middle, he talked about the Blood Moon Breathing Method and told her that it could be used to cultivate some strong people. As for the elemental power problem, it could be solved with elemental potions.

Finally, I reminded her to take care of her health.

Finally, he hoped that she could bring him some Mondstadt specialty materials. Although there were specialty shops in Xumi City, they were too expensive.

After writing, stamp and wax seal it.

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It only took Fugate and his team three days to complete the papers, patents and other matters.

Even the Mond merchant ship that brought the letter to Hetala had not left yet, so Fugate directly asked the merchant ship to deliver the letter, patent certificate and thesis approval certificate to Hetala.

After asking, Fuget found out that the merchant ship belonged to the Hetala family.

Of course, not entirely, but it still accounts for the majority of merchant ships.

Fugate also learned more about Mond from the merchant ship.

It was pretty much as Fuget and the others had guessed. The monster disaster in Mondstadt was very serious recently. The dragons and various high-level monsters that appeared out of nowhere made the Knights of Favonius who were defending Mondstadt run around in a hurry. They also proudly stated that Miss Hetala's alchemical potion was very important to them (the Knights of Favonius).

The main purpose of their merchant fleet this time is to purchase some basic alchemy books from the Church of the Holy Spirit, as well as a large number of alchemy materials unique to Xumi, so there are two teams of knights escorting them.

Fuget sized up the knight from a distance and could only say that he was worthy of being Mond's elite. His strength seemed to be close to breaking through LV40, so he was a genuine strong man.

You have to know that most of the thirty-man team in Xumi City are only at LV20, and only the elite are at LV20+. Moreover, most of those people break through with the help of evil spirits. They lack blood and energy, their vitality is depleted, and their potential is very limited.

On the contrary, this knight has abundant blood and energy, and is full of spirit. It is obvious that he has taken the orthodox path of secret medicine + training to break through. This path is not uncommon in Xumi. Most discipline officers break through in this way, but the cost-effectiveness of this breakthrough is not high.

After all, most of the Xumi people joined the Gilded Brigade because their families could not make ends meet, or they were desert people. How could they have the qualifications to use large amounts of secret medicines for training?

After delivering the letter and some gifts, Fugate and his companions set out for Daochenglin.

The first place chosen by Fugate for this trip was Daochenglin.

The Daochenglin area is the base camp of the forest rangers and a major source of many scholars of the Shenglun School. The land of the Liuchong Manor, where Fuget lived in the suburbs of Xumi City, was bought from a Daochenglin forest ranger.

I heard from Mr. Nizaent that the boy has now become a forest ranger because of his outstanding academic performance.

Although it is unclear what the necessary connection is between academic excellence and becoming a forest ranger, this is the current situation in Xumi in the abstract.

Fuget had no intention of changing this. At least for now, when King Dacishu was still alive, this administrative system was functioning very well, and there were rarely any cases of people being unworthy of their position.

Although Fuget and his men were very powerful, Fuget and the other two still hired a team of reputable Gilded Road Group as their escorts. This was mainly to avoid some unnecessary troubles. The number of people could effectively drive away small groups of monsters and most of the beasts.

This small team of the Gilded Brigade belongs to a mercenary group called Red King Shenwei. It is an ace team of twelve people, and the distribution of personnel within the team is relatively reasonable.

There are two camel breeders who work part-time as crossbowmen, and a logistics officer who is responsible for supplying supplies and doing accounting. The system has assessed the levels of these three to be around LV15+, making them ordinary people who have been through a lot of battles and are considered elite.

The leading team leader is a Spirit Wind Hunter who possesses a complete set of Eredal weapons and is at level 53. Normally, he cannot defeat Fuget, but he can probably deal with Fuget. After all, the Spirit Wind Hunter is a warrior specialized in perception.

After liberating the Eredr, he is much stronger than Fuget. The members of this Spirit Wind Hunter are no mediocre either. Except for a few logistics personnel, the rest of the combat team members are elite mercenaries holding the broken Eredr.

"Mr. Nathanales H. Fugate?" The Spirit Wind Hunter was a sturdy man. Although there was a tradition of training women to become falcons in the desert, there were also male falcons.

"I am Fugate." Fugate nodded.

"It seems that you don't need our protection." The Spirit Wind Hunter looked at the Eye of God that the other two, Fgate, had almost all hung on their waists.

"But it can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. Don't worry, we will give you enough money, and the place we are going this time is not dangerous." Xia Mian said.

"I hope so." The Spirit Wind Hunter then called on the mercenaries to follow.

It was Xia Mian who had contacted this group of mercenaries before, so both parties were quite familiar with each other.

According to Xiamian, this group of mercenaries were from a tribe that fled after the fall of Gul City, and they have had a cooperative relationship with the Temple of Silence for hundreds of years.

However, the Temple of Silence obviously cannot support this group of mercenaries alone. After all, the Temple of Silence is not having an easy time and has very little funding, so these mercenaries will also take on other people's work.

And the cost of hiring guards for Fugate this time can be reimbursed, so Xia Mian will act as a go-between.

The group's journey to Daocheng Forest was smooth. Apart from encountering a large group of migrating mushroom beasts which was a bit dangerous, there were no major problems.

The earth vein energy extraction device is also operating very well, with basically no problems.

Then everyone arrived at a small town called Huachengguo, where there were many practicing scholars of the Assumption School. It was said that they would connect to the World Tree through meditation and other methods, in order to obtain the knowledge of the Great Compassionate Tree King that was like the sun and the stars.

"Good day, friend, do you look familiar?"

"But we'll talk about this later. First, tell me what you are here for." Forgate and his group looked so aggressive, no wonder the forest rangers were wary of this.

A guy dressed as a ranger led a group of rangers and appeared in front of Fugate and his group.

Forest rangers are very common in Huachengguo, because this place was developed because of the frequent stay of forest rangers.

"It's Mr. Rhine. I didn't expect you to really become a forest ranger." Fugate stepped forward and spoke.

The leading ranger, Rhine, looked at Fuget for a few times before saying, "It's Mr. Nathan Rice. It's been a long time since we last met. But I'm only an apprentice ranger. I wonder why you're here this time?"

"As you can see." Fuget pointed to the machine on the camel's back, "We came to Daochenglin to do some research in the field of earth veins."

"That's good. There are quite a lot of poachers recently, so we're just in case." Rhine said.

The atmosphere between the two sides eased immediately, and the rangers called the mercenaries to go to some hotels in Huacheng.

Fugate started chatting with Mr. Rhine.

"I see there seem to be a lot of scholars practicing around here. What's going on?" Fuget asked curiously.

"Those are from some of the ancient schools of the Life Theory School. They can connect to the World Tree to learn." Rhine said, "These guys are quite stubborn..."

"But if Mr. Nathan Rice also wants to try it, there is no problem."

"Is this okay?" Fugate was a little hesitant.

Fugate wanted to know if there was a way to solve his problem in the World Tree. If there was, then he wouldn't have to build a mausoleum.

"No problem." Rhine said with a smile, "Actually, all scholars can learn this, but there are always very few people who are really willing to practice. It is said that talented people can quickly connect to the World Tree."

Fuget glanced at his two apprentices, nodded and said, "Then let's give it a try."

"This is phenol incense. This plant incense can stabilize the mind and allow people to enter a better state of meditation and connect to the World Tree." Rhine handed over an incense. "Consider it a gift from me. If you want to connect to the World Tree, just find a secluded place to meditate."

"Teacher." Xia Mian looked at Fuget with some concern. If she remembered correctly, Teacher Fuget's consciousness would not last long today.

"Don't worry, I won't try it today. You guys try it first. I'll mix some new aromatherapy tomorrow." Fugate said indifferently.

As a master alchemist, he knew how to configure the aromatherapy just by smelling it.

However, what puzzled him was how he could connect to the World Tree during meditation with just this incense.

The three of them found a quiet place, and there happened to be two people there, one was a mercenary, and the other was a scholar who was meditating.

Fuget searched a few more places speechlessly. All of these places had people in them, some with guards and some without. When he found the fifth one, he finally found a scholar who had just finished meditation.

The scholar greeted them warmly twice and then left.

“Aren’t there a lot of people meditating here?” Kuru said, scratching his head.

"Obviously this is the type of person who has no talent." Xia Mian looked around and said, "Okay, let's stay here."

At this time, Fuget had already entered a state of self-destruction. After observing the traces around him, he said directly in a voice without any ups and downs or emotions: "He is indeed a person without any talent. I guess he can't even enter a meditative state, let alone connect to the World Tree."

The two of them lit up the incense and went into meditation. Not long after, the mercenaries hired by Fuget also came over. Fuget, who was in a self-destructive state, signaled them not to speak. The mercenaries nodded and dispersed into the surrounding jungle.

The two of them quickly entered a state of meditation. There is also a meditation method in the Blood Moon Breathing Method, so they are not unfamiliar with it.

Time passed bit by bit, and finally the two woke up one after another.

"How do you feel?" asked Fugate.

"Hmm~ It's okay. I feel like a lot of knowledge has poured into my brain. I've learned a lot of very advanced alchemical techniques, as well as some combat skills about Hermanubis. However, most of these combat skills use staffs and greatswords." Xiamian said.

"I'm almost the same. I learned a lot of knowledge that I had never been exposed to before, including alchemy knowledge and elemental knowledge. It seems that a lot of it has been lost." Kuru said.

The chapter was reviewed, and I modified it immediately after seeing the notice

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