Mystery: Becoming a Creator Through the Doorway

Chapter 65 Grynt: Aleister has a great character

That night.

In Queens, at Viscount Grelint's mansion, Grelint was having dinner when he suddenly received an unexpected gift.

"Viscount, just now, Mr. Aleister came by."

The butler stood bowing beside the dining table, holding an object wrapped in red velvet in both hands: "This is what he left behind."

Grynt was momentarily taken aback when he saw what the butler presented.

He put down his knife and fork, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and asked, "Mr. Aleister? Where is he?"

"He's already left," the butler replied. "He said he was just passing by and didn't want to disturb your meal, so he asked me to give this to you."

Grynt was a little annoyed and couldn't help but complain, "Oh, how foolish! Didn't I tell you to treat Mr. Aleister as an important benefactor and a true friend? Why didn't you try to keep him here, or at least inform me immediately?"

In Ruen's social etiquette, visits can be roughly divided into three types based on their formality: "intimate visits," "semi-formal visits," and "formal visits."

Generally, semi-formal visits are between friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and neighbors, and require prior appointment to confirm the time. Usually, a few days in advance is sufficient.

Formal visits are between people meeting for the first time, people of higher status, or business partners. They must be done through formal invitations or letters, which need to be sent well in advance (e.g., at least 10 days in advance for a banquet) and waiting for the other party's reply.

Intimate visits, on the other hand, are appropriate between family members, close friends, and intimate acquaintances. They generally do not require a formal invitation and can be spontaneous, verbally agreed upon, or even uninvited. However, it is considered very impolite if the relationship is not close enough.

As instructed by Grynt, his butler and servants were to treat Aleister's visit with the rules of "intimate visit."

"I'm sorry, sir."

Faced with the master's accusation, the butler did not immediately refute anything, but instead bowed his head and respectfully admitted his mistake and dereliction of duty: "In fact, we did want to do so, but unfortunately, Mr. Aleister did not give us the opportunity - he did not even get off the carriage, but had his personal male servant hand the things over to us."

Grynt was stunned for a moment, and his anger immediately deflated by half.

He sighed and waved his hand, "Never mind, let me see the thing."

He was still very curious about what the gift Aleister had given him was.

Moreover, considering his incredible divination skills and his recent worries, Grelint began to have some guesses and expectations about what might be in this gift.

The butler stepped forward and gently placed the object wrapped in red velvet on the dining table.

Grelint reached out and lifted the red cloth.

It was a palm-sized tin box, deep and heavy, with a smooth surface that gleamed with a metallic sheen in the candlelight.

Grynt gently opened the box, and the contents inside immediately came into view.

The box was divided into four sections, with a semi-transparent crystal, about the size of three soybeans, placed in the first section.

It is light blue, like solidified seawater, and reflects a faint rainbow under candlelight, so beautiful that it reminds one of poison dart frogs or poisonous mushrooms.

The remaining two areas contained several thin, hair-like tentacles, each about an inch long, completely transparent, and emitting a very faint fluorescent glow.

He counted the whiskers and found there were seven in total.

Recalling the apothecary's potion recipes that he already knew by heart, Grelint's pupils contracted slightly, his heartbeat quickened slightly, and he felt a little dry in the mouth.

He had already guessed what those two things were!

If he wasn't mistaken, the former was the venom crystals of the crown jellyfish, while the latter was its tentacles.

After obtaining the horn of an adult unicorn Pegasus from Audrey, Grelint has been trying to acquire 3g of the remaining main ingredient for the Apothecary's Potion—the venom crystals of the Crown Jellyfish—through various connections.

In addition to the main material, there are also 7 tentacles of the crown jellyfish as auxiliary materials.

These were major problems that had been troubling Grynt for days, and he had no clue how to solve them.

Some things simply cannot be bought with money or connections.

Or perhaps, Grelint's connections weren't strong enough to get them within the circle.

He had considered asking Aleister for help, or using that favor to obtain the later potion recipes and the first few ingredients.

But after hesitating for a few days, Grelint ultimately couldn't make up his mind.

It was precisely at this moment that Aleister's gift so effortlessly solved his immediate problem.

Aleister didn't even stay for a meal.

Grynt took a deep breath to calm himself down.

His gaze immediately fell on the fourth area, which was the fourth quadrant of the box.

At that moment, there was a folded piece of paper lying there.

He reached out and picked up the note, unfolding it with a slight pressure from his fingertips.

There were only two lines of writing on the paper, the handwriting as elegant and composed as the man himself: "I met with a distant relative the other day and learned that the Viscount had been searching for this item. I mentioned it casually and obtained both. It was just a small matter since I was passing by, so don't worry about it."

—Aleister

Although Abraham's family had declined, it was still the family of angels they once belonged to, so it's not surprising that they collected some spiritual materials.

When Anjou met Abraham for the first time, he thought of Grelint.

Although he mainly relied on his own efforts to cheat and swindle, Grelint still provided him with considerable help when he first entered this world.

So he just mentioned it casually and didn't have much hope, but he still managed to get them from Abraham.

At the gathering in Isengard, Anjou could have mentioned that he needed them and used that as an excuse to acquire them.

However, there happened to be a "pharmacist" from the life sciences school at the gathering, and his request to purchase the main ingredients for a pharmacist would attract his attention, so he thought about it and decided against it.

Grynt, of course, was unaware of these intricacies. He simply stared at the two lines of text, his gaze fixed on them, feeling a faint sense of gratitude for Aleister's thoughtfulness in remembering him.

Aleister was already a benefactor to him by selling him the potion formula.

Often, the connections that ordinary people can't find even after begging and pleading are simply a matter of someone casually mentioning it.

When your benefactor meets with your relatives and is busy with their own affairs, they might still remember your problem and casually ask you a question on your behalf.

Aleister is a good man with a great character!

As for Grynt, regardless of what Aleister thought, the last time someone cared about him was probably before his father passed away.

He didn't even bother to eat. First, he instructed the steward to carefully prepare a return gift, and then he immediately and carefully mixed the apothecary's potion.

After taking it, Grelint successfully became a Sequence 9 "Pharmacist" and immediately set off to report to Aleister with a return gift.