Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 44 Everyone Survived
When Ron woke up from the darkness again, he was already in a wooden building, lying on a bed covered with a blanket and two layers of quilts on top of him.

"Hey! Hey! He's awake! Ron's awake!"

He seemed to hear the goblin Driver's noisy shouting, but Ron's hearing was a little damaged, and the sound sounded as harsh to him as the renovation work next door late at night.

"Don't... make noise..." Ron muttered. In a daze, he seemed to see a little girl who looked like a doll walking towards him.

Oh, that's not a little girl, that's a grown halfling.

"You're awake. How do you feel?" Benny looked at Ron worriedly. She reached out to touch his forehead. Fortunately, although he was still having a fever, it was not that hot anymore.

"How did we get back?" Ron groaned. "Who else is back?"

"We're all back. Although everyone is injured, they are far from dead!" Sera's loud voice came from somewhere unknown, and it sounded full of energy.

"You are the most seriously injured right now," Victoria also approached the head of the bed, "We almost all passed out after falling down. Driver was the first to wake up and find us. He even sent some small animals to climb up there and guide Kalade and the others to rescue us."

She didn't like mice very much, so she used "small animals" instead of this description.

"I didn't pass out. In fact, I fell down after passing out and was woken up by the impact." Ivy smiled bitterly. Ron heard her voice and guessed that she was lying in bed like him. "But both of my legs were broken. I can't move at all."

"Thank goodness for your tower shield." Karad said happily, "If it weren't for that big shield, we wouldn't know how to carry you up here, especially you and Ron!"

"It's good that they're all alive..." Ron said weakly, "Where's the Bully Wug? Did he cause you any trouble?"

"I didn't see any Bullywugs. They seem to have all left," said the hobgoblin. "I think that's good. They really like to collect some valuable trinkets, and now they belong to us."

"Where's that little Swampmaw?"

"It fell with us. I saw it disappear into the cave with my own eyes," Ivy took over the conversation. "I know what you are still worried about: Mindatis, he is dead, and the 'murderer' is you."

"You are simply a god of war!" Sera limped over with a cane. When she fell, the barbarian who was wearing almost no armor was obviously hurt, but she was also much tougher than the others. "When you get better, you must tell us how you managed to beat a shrewd man to death with your bare hands?! Do you know how surprised I was when I saw it!"

"It's not that difficult, I just used some herbal knowledge." Ron forced himself to cough a few times. The medical methods in this world are still very powerful. Even with injuries like his, he can breathe and speak normally now. As for the fever, Ron guessed it was a microbial infection.

"Both he and I were injured. While hiding, I discovered two types of moss in the cave: one is non-toxic, and the other is highly toxic and can cause severe contact dermatitis." "It's not fatal, but when I attacked the wound and caused symptoms such as erythema, papules, swelling and numbness, Mindatis would have thought it was caused by blood loss. If he had brought a healing potion, he would have drunk it."

"A remnant elf who wants to revive the Hailan Empire will not be short of money. He must have potions on him," Lavinia came over. When Victoria helped Ron up, she gave him a bottle of alchemical mixture of unknown origin. "But I don't understand. The ingredients in the healing potion won't react with some kind of poisonous moss."

"Indeed, it won't," Ron said, feeling much better after drinking the potion. "But you know what? Most of the antigens of contact dermatitis are simple chemicals, which are haptens. They must be combined with carrier proteins to form complete antigens in order to cause sensitivity in the body."

"The combined substance will combine with the alkaloid of a herb in the healing potion to form a weakly acidic intermediate. After that, the juice of the vine wrapped around my hand is a weakly toxic substance. But when it combines with the intermediate in the blood, it will become highly toxic, causing ventricular arrest, the heart to lose its normal ejection function, and the brain blood flow to be suddenly interrupted, resulting in loss of consciousness."

"If rescue is not timely...it will cause sudden death——Why are you looking at me like that?"

Sera looked at Kalade and the others with a confused look in her eyes. Even if Ron's explanation skipped the most professional part, they still couldn't understand it. In fact, even Lavinia, who was familiar with herbal medicine, felt her scalp tingling after listening to it.

"You came up with this when your lung apex was damaged?" Lavinia looked at Ron as if he were a monster. "I really want to dig your brain out to see what its structure is!"

"Maybe it was a temporary flash of inspiration when he was short of oxygen?" Ron smiled. "It was mainly because I didn't find any natural poisons, and I couldn't beat him, so I had to make my own."

"It's better not to do this kind of thing," Victoria glanced at Ron worriedly, "Let alone Dartis, the symptoms caused by you alone are countless. If I hadn't discovered that I could use the Lesser Restoration Technique after I woke up, Bonnie alone wouldn't have been able to save you."

"I will definitely not do this again," Ron expressed his sincere gratitude to the two pastors, "Thank you for your help, otherwise I would definitely not survive."

Ron knew exactly how dangerous it was, but he had no choice but to do it. Who would rush in with fists if they could be a wizard?

Except for the Four Elephants monks ()

"By the way, speaking of Mindatis, we thought you had to see this," Victoria pulled out a gemstone ball that emitted a bluish-purple glow from her bag, "We found this near where you guys were fighting. It's the key he used the lightning beam on."

"We feel that as the main fighter in this only fierce battle, only you are qualified to use it - but let's wait until you feel a little better. After all, we don't know what is inside, and what the requirements are for opening it."

"I'm honored." Ron took the cleaned gem and played with it in his hand. He could easily sense the effect of this magic item:

[The holder is immune to lightning damage and can release up to six lightning bolts per day, automatically recharging one to three times every morning. Current remaining: two]

(End of this chapter)