The Witch's Wandering Alchemist's Diary

Chapter 94 The Mad Witch's Blood Fruit [4k]

After collecting these herbs, Lou Le did not rush to refine them into medicine.

Because the magic book can be used to automatically refine the items, Lou Le usually throws the magic book into the alchemy workshop at night, sets the target, and then goes to sleep.

By the time you wake up, all the potions will have been prepared.

This also doesn't prevent Lou Le from taking the magic book out during the day.

However, after a busy evening, people who looked like butlers started coming in one after another, specifically asking for a mixture of Strength Stone Skin Potion and Succubus Horn Powder.

Lou Le was a little confused by this, so she asked one of the housekeepers, "Where did you all hear this from?"

The steward began with a barrage of boasting: "Master Mage, your reputation is known throughout Graystone City; who doesn't know it?"

Then he played the victim, saying, "Viscount Gottfried showed off quite a bit at the Grand Theatre with the succubus horn powder he bought from you."

"That fragrance is truly invigorating; no other floral scent can compare. My husband has lost face so badly that he immediately came to instruct me to buy succubus horn powder from you."

"oh."

Lou Le nodded, finally understanding why.

After Limela scraped off ten grams of powder and put it into a bottle, the busy work for tonight was finally finished.

Lou Le took the opportunity to check the gold coins in his hand, which numbered about four thousand five hundred.

However, there are only one hundred witch coins.

Although Lou Le can recover 146 magic points a day, some of this magic is needed to make potions, while some is lost due to his addiction to magic.

One can probably only draw out about fifty magic points a day.

The remaining magic power will be used to prevent anything from happening in the future.

That evening, Lou Le threw the magic book into the alchemy workshop, letting it begin automatically refining the existing potions.

Because she was tired after a long day, Lou Le took a shower and prepared to go to sleep alone.

But in the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door.

"Um?"

Lou Le directed Xiao Bai, who was standing in his room, to open the door.

Limera stood outside the door, looking somewhat embarrassed. "Miss Lou Le," she said, "I don't feel well. It seems like something went wrong when I was scraping powder off the succubus's horn."

Lou Le glanced at Limeira, somewhat helplessly.

The next morning, after washing up...

Lou Le and Limeira were about to go shopping, so they parked the carriage here and hung a sign outside.

The names and prices of the medicines were clearly marked. Visitors only needed to push the gold coins through the window, and the little white servant inside would take the medicine from the shelf and hand it out.

It's essentially a self-service vending machine.

However, after the bone horse was removed, Lou Le used bone shaping techniques to create the shape of a saddle on its back.

Then I sat down.

Limela walked beside her.

Because she became a druid, she developed a subconscious aversion to undead creatures.

If it were any other druid, they would most likely engage in a fierce fight.

However, the streets of Graystone City are quite nice, all paved with flagstones. Even the alleyways and lanes that aren't paved with flagstones are dusted with ashes every day.

Of course, it is not mandatory.

These ashes are from cooking fires in every household, and there's nowhere to dispose of them, so they're simply thrown on the street.

Over time, it becomes a habit.

The inner city is mostly a commercial area with a wide variety of shops.

Urban residents with virtually no agricultural land tend to become small vendors or artisans. This brings immense convenience to Graystone City, resulting in a much wider variety of goods available.

There are several streets dedicated to selling vegetables. Some specialize in ornamental vegetables, some in seeds, and some are for retail.

The storefronts selling ornamental vegetables are more upscale than those selling retail vegetables.

This is probably because the merchants who sell these ornamental vegetables specifically supply wealthy women, or people with some property.

Lou Le arrived at a rather deserted place.

This is the street where seeds are sold; seeds for fruits, vegetables, and other vegetables are purchased here.

Although it may look deserted, it can be packed with people when it's bustling.

"Master, what would you like to buy? I know this place best!"

A young man dressed in a hemp robe immediately ran up to the bone horse.

He kept promoting himself: "I know about the druid-improved seeds, as well as various vegetable seeds that are rare here."

Lou Le glanced at him: "I want a type of tomato seed, but it can't be too ordinary. If you can find it, I'll reward you with a bottle of healing potion worth three gold and two silver coins."

The man's eyes lit up: "Master, please come with me. I know a merchant who specializes in selling tomato seeds, but we call them 'blood fruit' here. Because they're as red as blood, not many people like to eat them, especially families who believe in gods."

As he spoke, he walked ahead to lead the way.

He kept introducing the various shops on both sides, talking about what seeds they sold or what secrets they had.

He seemed to be putting in a lot of effort for a bottle of healing potion.

After all, its value is three gold pieces and two silver pieces.

However, in Lou Le's mind, the value of the medicine was very low.

Magic Power > Witch Coins > Coins > Potions.

Magic is the foundation of spellcasting. Witch coins can be used to generate dungeons, while coins can be converted into witch coins and used to enhance one's talents.

As for medicine, it can only be sold for money.

Since there's no way to directly influence his own strength, he has the lowest value to Lou Le.

Furthermore, herbs can grow on the land, but gold coins cannot.

Therefore, she was very generous when giving out the medicine.

The shop was very small, located at the end of the street.

The shop looked quite dilapidated. As soon as the young man entered, he exclaimed, "The Master has arrived!"

A person immediately emerged from inside, dressed similarly to the young man. However, he was wearing leather shoes instead of wooden clogs.

The young man said to the other man, "Quickly go and bring out the blood fruit seeds from your house, and show them to the master."

The boss immediately bowed and said, "Alright! Please wait a moment, Master."

Before long, he brought out several pots of tomato seedlings, all of which were covered with fruit.

"Master, these are all the Blood Fruit seedlings I have."

The boss pointed to the tomato seedlings.

Lou Le took a few careful glances, observing with the Eye of Grandet.

[Ordinary tomato seedlings]

It is a plant: "A common tomato seedling, very vigorous, and not easy to die after being planted."

(Note: But it's just a regular tomato seedling.)

Shiny tomato seedlings

It is a plant: "A tomato seedling with a very smooth exterior, which produces some attractive fruits."

(Note: But nothing really happened.)

These tomato seedlings are all ordinary stuff; they're only good-looking and not very useful.

It would be very damaging to try and magicalize these ordinary tomato seedlings.

It will cost a lot of blood, bones, and hair.

Lou Le asked, somewhat troubled, "Aren't there any other tomatoes?"

The boss was really having a headache; he didn't have any other tomato seedlings.

However, he also thought to himself that his own tomato seedlings were the best.

Why is this monk still not satisfied?

"I don't want ordinary tomatoes, but tomatoes with legends and stories. Or maybe they're different, tomatoes with special energy."

Lou Le stated his clear requirements.

After racking his brains, the boss still couldn't think of any tomato seedlings that would meet Lou Le's requirements.

But the young man suddenly said, "Master, I know of a tomato that might meet your requirements!"

The boss glanced at the young man, somewhat puzzled.

Even I, as an expert, don't know this, so you do?

But the young man couldn't wait to say, "It's the Mad Witch's Blood Fruit! I heard this story when I was a child."

He looked at the boss and said, "Boss, you probably know this too. When I was little, my mom often used this story to scare me."

After hearing what the young man said, the boss suddenly realized what was going on.

Lou Le looked at the two of them, signaling them to hurry up and speak.

The boss said, "More than ten years ago, there was a noblewoman. For some reason, on her wedding day, she was suddenly kicked out of the house and humiliated. Moreover, her original family was unwilling to accept her."

"Afterwards, she became a beggar and disfigured herself. She then applied for a job as a cook and used the blood fruit to poison her husband's family, causing the noble family to die completely. And then she tried to use the same method to poison her own parents."

"Her maid recognized her as the young lady, and that's when the truth finally came out."

The young men chimed in, saying, "If it's just like that, it's a very common, ordinary vendetta. We see this kind of thing all the time in Graystone City, it's nothing special."

"However, the noble family died in a very strange and bizarre way."

"They were all hanging upside down in a room, their bodies wrapped in cotton bandages, like insect cocoons."

"Moreover, the upper part of the cocoon is white, and the lower part is red. The blood and oil of the nobles are constantly dripping down."

"Beneath these cocoons of corpses were pots of tomatoes. From then on, tomatoes were called Blood Fruit in Graystone City."

"That's right."

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "My business has plummeted since that incident. Because the room was covered in strange patterns, that woman was called a mad witch."

"No one dared to lay a hand on that mad witch, because she said she would curse whoever killed her! After thinking about it, they chased her into the forest, throwing away even the pots of tomatoes. They left her to fend for herself in the forest. But recently, someone saw an old witch with filthy white hair and a body as withered as a corpse wandering in the forest."

Lou Le thought about it and realized that this kind of tomato might be exactly what he wanted.

She reached out and took out a bottle of healing potion, then tossed it to the man: "This is your reward, you two can divide it yourselves."

After saying that, he steered the bone horse toward the tavern in the commercial district.

Most taverns that offer quests are affiliated with mages. After all, without a mage's support, you can't get mage quest requests.

Adventurers simply cannot come.

Therefore, there are three large taverns in the inner city, all located around the Mage Tower.

Lou Le didn't go near Marco's tavern. To put it simply, she didn't have a very good impression of Marco.

I was the one who brought news of your apprentice back then, and I also have the dual identity of a mage and an alchemist. Why do you seem to dislike me?

The first tavern was called Chica's Tavern. Chica's means lush or abundant, often referring to herbs or similar plants.

When Lou Le went inside, he found that most of the quests posted on the walls were for herbs. However, there were also a few adventure and hunting quests.

The bone horse was placed next to the door, and Lou Le and Li Meila went inside.

The bartender approached eagerly; "Master mage, would you like to issue a quest?"

"Um.

Lou Le nodded: "I want traces of the Mad Witch. If you can find her, you can come here to exchange her for a healing potion. If the information is accurate enough, I can provide an even better potion."

"Don't worry, Master Mage," the bartender said happily, "your quest will be completed by a swarm of adventurers."

Lou Le added, "I also collect various crops, but they must be special crops, with legends or stories behind them. Like the Mad Witch's Tomato. My rewards are as described above, ranging from healing potions to mana potions worth nearly twenty gold coins that can help me connect with other mages."

"However, you must wear the crop for me to examine first. If it's just a story I heard by chance, then I need to verify it. Only if it's true will I pay you."

The bartender took out a piece of papyrus and began writing furiously. Once finished, he showed it to Lou Le: "Is this alright?"

Lou Le glanced at the contents, and they were almost identical to what he had said.

"Can."

She nodded in satisfaction.

The bartender said, "If you'd like, we'll hang the finest furs on this wall to make it the most eye-catching feature."

It looks like there will be extra charges.

Lou Le took out a bottle of healing potion and placed it on the counter. The potion shimmered alluringly in the candlelight.

"It's always hanging there. My carriage is the witch's carriage by the lake in the inner city. When you get there, you'll clearly recognize it because it's decorated in an elven style."

"If you have any news, just come find me there."

After saying that, Lou Le left the tavern.

She and Limera went to another tavern called the Decapitation Tavern, which had many kobold and goblin heads hanging outside.