Just as Nark was about to enter the storeroom, a skinny old man came from afar. Before he got close, he shouted, "Nark, give me 20 Hundred Knot Flowers. I need them urgently."
Nark stopped in his tracks, turned around, and said with a wry smile, "Master Markelyle, Joan has already taken away all the Lily Flowers. If you want them, I can only find five or six for you. Why don't you wait for the caravan to return?"
For any force, pharmacists were indispensable, and the Darkness Shrine was no exception. Although Sendros was an accomplished pharmaceutics Master, he was still the leader of the Darkness Shrine, after all. Hence, he couldn't spend all his time concocting potions. Besides, concocting potions was Sendros' interest, but it was not his pursuit. His true pursuit was to step into the Sanctuary-realm one day and become a Sanctuary powerhouse who stood at the peak of Anril. Hence, there was still a group of pharmacists who were in charge of concocting the potions that the Darkness Shrine needed daily, and Markelyle was the chief pharmacist of the Darkness Shrine.
Although Markelyle was only a level-17 Archmage, he had a high status in the Darkness Shrine because of his identity as the chief pharmacist. Even Sendros and the few high priests of the Darkness Council would be very polite to him every time they met.
However, in the past few days, Markelyle had been in a bad mood. He had gone to the warehouse several times to retrieve the herbs that he needed, only to be told that someone had taken all of them in advance. However, when he went back to ask the pharmacists under him, none of them admitted that they had taken the herbs from the warehouse without permission.
"Which bastard wants so many Lily Blossoms to go back and cook? Nark, did you sell all the herbs privately? If you don't give me an explanation today, we'll find a place to reason things out! "Markelyle said as he dashed forward and stomped his feet to vent his dissatisfaction.
With a bitter smile on his face, Nark pointed at Joan who was hiding at the side, and said to the exasperated Markelyle, "Master Markelyle, you can't blame me for this. You'd better ask Joan." As he spoke, he gave Joanne an apologetic look. He didn't want to be scolded by the old man for no reason.
Markelyle stopped scolding immediately, and turned to Johann. He glared at Johann fiercely as if he was going to devour him. Gnashing his teeth, he said, "Johann, right? Why don't I remember that there's a pharmacist like you in the Darkness Shrine? Don't tell me you've been eating so many herbs!?"
"Uh, Master Markelyle, you've misunderstood. This herb is not for my use, but for Master Felic. Besides, High Priest Sendros has instructed us to prioritize Master Felic's needs, so you'd better wait a little longer." Joan couldn't help but take two steps back. Under Markelyle's murderous gaze, he braced himself and explained.
"Felic? What Master Felic … sounds familiar." Markelyle was about to continue cursing, but after thinking about Joan's words carefully, he felt that he had heard of Felic's name before.
"Master Felic is the President of the Tower of Dusk, and he's also a pharmaceutics Master. High Priest Sendros also admires his pharmaceutical standards. This time, Master Felic seems to be preparing a potion for the high priest, so the high priest asked me to be his assistant. He also told me that everything must be done according to his needs, "Johann hurriedly explained.
"So … What a joke. What kind of potion would require so many herbs? The herbs you've collected these past few days are enough for me to prepare 100 Shadow of Darkness potions!" After hearing Johann's explanation, Markelyle recalled who Master Felic was, but his anger did not diminish. He took a few steps towards Nark, and snatched the list from his hand. After taking a look, he immediately flew into a rage, and couldn't help but curse, "What kind of pharmaceutics Master is he? How can these herbs be used together? And in such a large quantity? What is he trying to do!?"
Johann had some understanding of pharmaceutics, but he was not a real pharmacist. Hence, his pharmaceutical standards were probably only at the beginner level. Even if Sendros and Lin Li didn't tell him what potion Lin Li was preparing, he wouldn't be able to tell just based on his observation in the past few days. Besides, Lin Li had only been doing experiments to verify some of the techniques used to prepare the Tribute of Darkness. He had no intention of preparing a finished potion at all.
Hence, after hearing Markelyle's question, Johann was speechless. He could only mutter, "Master Sendros instructed me to do this. Anyway, it must be very important …"
"He's simply abusing the trust that High Priest Sendros has given him! I don't believe that the preparation of a potion would require so many herbs. I think he must have kept most of the herbs in his pocket. These heretics are indeed untrustworthy! " With his experience as a pharmaceutics Master, Markelyle immediately made what he thought was the most reasonable judgment of the truth of the matter.
"No, no, Master Felic isn't that kind of person." Of course, Johann knew that Felic wasn't that kind of person, because he had seen a large number of herbs turned into waste with his own eyes. However, it seemed that Felic might as well have kept them in his pocket.
"Hmph, I don't think you can get away with this matter. Take me to see that Felic and see how I expose his tricks!" Markelyle exclaimed as he stepped forward and grabbed Joan without any hesitation.
In the quiet laboratory, Lin Li frowned slightly and sat casually in front of a table. The pen in his hand was continuously moving on the paper, and the pieces of paper that were filled with various formulas were thrown aside. Finally, Lin Li stopped writing, and his brows gradually relaxed. He looked at the results of the calculations on the paper with a look of realization on his face.
Throwing the pen on the table, Lin Li stood up abruptly, and walked to the experiment table in a few steps. He then began to get busy again. After Lin Li used various techniques to process the precious herbs, they were refined into a juice that contained massive power. They were arranged neatly on the test tube rack, glistening with colorful rays of light.
At this moment, the door of the laboratory suddenly opened, and Markelyle dragged Johann in from the outside, only to see Lin Li getting busy in front of the experiment table. Johann struggled to explain and get rid of Markelyle so that he could report to Lord Sendros. However, when he was dragged into the laboratory, he finally knew that there was no turning back. Hence, he fell silent immediately.
In Johann's opinion, given Markelyle's temper, he would definitely start making a scene as soon as he barged into the laboratory. After all, he had been cursing and swearing along the way without stopping for even a moment. Clearly, he was extremely infuriated. Hence, seeing that he couldn't stop Markelyle from barging into the laboratory, Johann had no choice but to cover his eyes. As for what would happen, he decided to let him be.
However, to Johann's surprise, Markelyle did not explode like he had imagined ever since he pushed open the door of the laboratory. Instead, he was so quiet that he seemed to have deliberately slowed down his breathing. Feeling perturbed, Joan opened his eyes and carefully looked at Markelyle, only to see that the pharmaceutics master, who had just shouted that he was going to find out who the liar was, at this moment, looking at the figure in front of the experiment table with his mouth slightly agape. There was a strange glint in his eyes.
In fact, it was not uncommon for pharmacists to bully their employers for not knowing pharmaceutics and say that they wanted to prepare a potion that the other party didn't know about. It should be considered an unspoken rule. When Markelyle was young, he had also done such a thing before, and he knew that many of his peers were doing the same thing. Even if they were discovered, they would still say that it was for the sake of keeping the formula a secret. However, this time, Markelyle really couldn't imagine how crazy Lin Li was for him to be so blatant and undisguised.
However, when he really barged into the laboratory and saw the busy figure in front of the experiment table, Markelyle was immediately attracted to him. He temporarily put aside the thought of finding trouble with Lin Li, and kept his eyes fixed on Lin Li's every move. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Lin Li is really capable, but unfortunately, what he does is rather shameless.
Since Markelyle could become the chief pharmacist of the Darkness Shrine, he naturally had considerable attainments in pharmaceutics. At this moment, he was a little reluctant to step forward and interrupt Lin Li's operation in front of the experiment table. Lin Li's movements were smooth, and he looked at the superb techniques that he was performing effortlessly.
Of course, Lin Li knew that someone was coming. What he was doing at this moment was not enough to make him fall into a trance. However, he thought that no one in the Darkness Shrine would be able to find trouble with him, and thus decided not to bother about it. His hands did not stop moving at all.
"Stop … Stop, do you have a death wish!?"
Just as Lin Li was about to complete the final task and pour the juice from a test tube into the flask, Markelyle, who was immersed in Lin Li's smooth movements, suddenly snapped back to his senses. With a holler, he hurriedly cast a Magic Shield on himself.
Markelyle was not an undeserved expert. Although he had only seen the juice in the test tube, he could still determine the essence of the herbs based on the color and nature of the juice with his rich experience. Now, he was completely certain that Lin Li was adding the juice of the Fire Berries into the flask. It was not that the juice of the Fire Berries could not be used, but he had seen with his own eyes that Lin Li had added extremely explosive herbs such as the Bloodvine Black Flame Flower into the flask. At this juncture, adding the Fire Berries into the flask would be akin to throwing a spark into a barrel of gunpowder.
Lin Li is so skilled and skilled. How can he make such a low-level mistake in pharmaceutics theory!? Markelyle felt a tinge of appreciation for Lin Li's talent, but it was too late to do anything now. Once the small flask of potion exploded, its power would probably be close to the Legendary-level. After reminding Lin Li, Markelyle could only care about casting a Magic Shield on himself before watching the lava-like potion in the test tube being poured into the flask.
There was a soft sizzle.
The explosion that Markelyle had expected did not happen, and the colorful potion in the flask turned into a clear orange liquid with the influx of the juice of the Fire Berries. However, before Markelyle could relax a little, he saw the reckless young man doing something horrifying. He actually picked up the flask and shook it in front of him. After shaking it, Lin Li moved the flask closer to his mouth, raised his neck, and drank all the potion in the flask. He even stuck his tongue out and licked his lips as if the potion was delicious.
"It tastes like oranges." Lin Li put down the flask and turned around to look at the two people at the door of the laboratory. "Joan, where are the herbs I wanted? Why did you come back empty-handed?"
With a bitter expression, Joan hurriedly tried to explain.
"You want herbs? What do you think potion concoction is? Do you know what you've done just now? You …" Before Joan could explain, Markelyle had already rushed towards Lin Li with his Magic Shield in a bid to teach the reckless young man a lesson.
"This is?" Lin Li asked as he looked at Joan in bewilderment.
"This is Master Markelyle, the chief pharmacist of the Darkness Shrine." Joan introduced Lin Li to Lin Li while following Markelyle nervously, for fear that the old man would do something to anger Lin Li.
"Kid, do you know how dangerous what you just did was?" Upon hearing Joan introducing him to Lin Li, Markelyle couldn't help but curb his temper, puff up his thin chest, and raise his chin slightly when he spoke.
To Markelyle's surprise, Lin Li was completely indifferent to his identity as the chief pharmacist. In fact, Lin Li even ignored his existence, and said to Joan calmly, "Oh, didn't I tell you not to let anyone disturb you? Forget it, go and get the herbs. "
What? What! This young man is too arrogant! What does he mean by not letting anyone disturb me? I'm the chief pharmacist of the Darkness Shrine, and even Sendros is extremely polite to me. Yet, I'm being treated as an outsider here!? Markelyle initially wanted to give Lin Li some guidance, but at this moment, he finally couldn't help but get angry again.
"Who … Who is your teacher? You're too rude. I'd like to see who exactly it is …" Markelyle was about to curse, but to his surprise, Lin Li turned around and returned to the laboratory table, seemingly wanting to do some pharmaceutical experiments. He chased after Lin Li, only to see the piece of paper on the table next to him. At first, he just glanced at it nonchalantly, but as soon as he looked away, he suddenly realized something, and immediately turned around before dashing to the table.
"This, this is …" Looking at the piece of paper that was filled with various pharmaceutical formulas, Markelyle couldn't help but pant. He had also forgotten about the purpose of his visit.
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