Rise of the Dark Witch

early morning.

Warm sunlight shines through the window.

The birds that woke up early stood on the branches outside the window and "chirped" and stretched out their sweet singing voices.

"Um, ah ah..."

Macy, who still felt weak all over, rolled over on the soft and warm bed. She rubbed her eyes and sat up.

The first thing that caught her eye when she opened her hazy eyes was Luo Ya, who was sitting on the desk by the window, concentrating on reading books under the warm morning light.

Looking at Roja who was quiet and mysterious under the morning light, listening to the crisp sound of Roja's slender white fingers turning the pages of the book, thinking of Roja's madness last night, Maisie's face suddenly turned red. .

She secretly glanced at Luo Ya's thin but extremely handsome profile, "Obviously he looks so thin and his physical strength is not as good as mine, but I didn't expect that he is so capable."

Last night, in the middle of the journey, her consciousness had soared to the clouds and never came down.

In her confusion, she didn't even know when it would end.

But she had a vague feeling that she said a lot last night.

"You shouldn't have said anything too rude, right?"

After Mercy peeked at Roja's side face with fascinated eyes for a while, she got ready to get dressed and prepare breakfast.

Looking at the neatly folded clothes on the bedside table, and this set of clothes was not the one she wore last night...

Macy suddenly felt warm inside.

After getting dressed, Maisie, who couldn't bear to disturb Roja who was concentrating on reading and didn't want to break the quiet atmosphere, bowed slightly to Roja from a distance and moved gently toward the door.

"Messie." Roya's fingers suddenly stopped turning the pages of the book.

"Master Vic, what are your orders?" Maisie's waist suddenly straightened up.

"No need to cook breakfast, I have to go out later." Roja said.

"Okay." Macy nodded in understanding.

"Maisie, are you interested in pharmacy?" Roja asked.

"...Very interested!" After hesitating for a while, Macy nodded decisively and replied.

Not everyone can be a maid who can enter the Young Lion's Court to serve the Lord Apothecary.

Just like many counts and dukes, they will let the family heirs serve as personal guards for the king, and will send their children to serve as servants for princesses and princes.

The identities of the maids and attendants around the big shots are not simple.

If you want to enter the Young Lion's Hospital to serve as a pharmacist, you must first have a clean family background, be good-looking, and have a connection with the Pharmacists' Union.

Maisie's great-grandpa was once a senior pharmacist. Although after his death, there was no longer a pharmacist in their family, he still worked for the pharmacists union.

That's why she is qualified to enter the Young Lion House and become a maid.

The people who enter the Young Lion's Court as maids each have their own purposes.

Some people just take a fancy to the high benefits and benefits here and think it is better to make money here.

Some people think about snagging a pharmacist's rich husband, but the real wife dare not think about it. She can just be a mistress.

There are also some people who want to borrow seeds from pharmacists. If they can give birth to children with pharmacist talents, they will make a lot of money.

The purpose of Maisie entering the Cubs' Home as a maid is——

I want to be a pharmacist!

If you want to train a junior pharmacist, you need to hire famous teachers from childhood to adulthood and give you training with various medicinal materials. You need to invest at least a few hundred gold coins every year, and you need to continue investing for at least ten years to see the effect.

Investing so much money may not necessarily produce a junior pharmacist.

The amount of money required to become a pharmacist is too much, and it is simply not something a small and down-to-earth family like Maisie can afford.

That's why she thought about joining the Little Lion House as a maid, following the pharmacist, and helping him when he was making potions, thereby learning the pharmacist's knowledge and accumulating experience in handling medicinal materials and making potions.

But she had been following Vic for several months. Apart from letting her help with the medicinal materials when he first made the potion, Vic never allowed her to participate in the refining of the potion again.

It is simply a fantasy to want to learn potion knowledge through being a maid.

For this job that countless people outside were rushing to get into, Maisie's heart, which was extremely hot at the beginning, gradually cooled down.

Should she give up her career as a pharmacist and try to hook up with a pharmacist like other maids?

When she was at a loss, Vic, who had always been very indifferent to her, actually became interested in her?

Maybe it can change your destiny?

"How is that possible?"

"To the noble Lord Apothecary, there is no difference between us and ordinary maids."

"There are many women who are prettier than us, better off than us, and more capable than us. They are willing to be the mistress of the pharmacist. How can they like us?"

There are so many young and beautiful maids in the Young Lion's Home, and it may take even three years to find one who will be chosen by the pharmacist.

But Maisie felt that Master Vic was a little different from before. Maybe she really...

"When I'm not here, you can read the books in the room as you like," Roja said.

This sentence made Macy happy, but her eyes quickly darkened.

The books on the bookshelf in the room are all for people who have become pharmacists. People like her who have just learned some simple methods of identifying types of medicinal materials and handling them cannot understand them at all.

"Thank you, Master Vic, for your kindness." Although it was useless, since the master rewarded her, as a maid, she still had to thank her.

"There are three introductory books on pharmacy here. In addition to recording some common medicinal knowledge and processing methods, there are also several recipes and brewing methods for decoctions." Luo Ya pointed to the three books stacked on his desk. said.

"Introduction to pharmacy? Decoction?" Maisie was stunned.

In the Cubs Hospital, she often heard pharmacists discussing various advanced pharmaceutical knowledge, and she tried her best to write down the advanced pharmaceutical knowledge she heard on her notepad.

What's the point of working so hard?

She couldn't understand those advanced knowledge, let alone apply them!

What she lacks is an introductory course!

It is the preparation and brewing method of ordinary decoctions that are not even inferior medicines!

Looking at the three thick books that Roya gave her, her eyes suddenly turned red.

"Learn more from Master Vic! Thank you! Thank you so much!" In order to prevent Roja from seeing her tears, she quickly walked towards the door holding the books.

"Whoa!"

Because she was walking too fast, Maisie stumbled and stumbled, and the three potion books in her hands suddenly fell to the ground.

"don't want--"

Although books cannot be broken so easily, even if they are broken, it will not affect reading. However, Maisie felt as if she accidentally broke a precious glass vase, and her delicate little face suddenly turned pale. .

She glanced at Luo Ya and found that Luo Ya was still reading and not paying attention to her at all. While she breathed a sigh of relief, she still felt an inexplicable loss in her heart.

"To Master Vic, I am really just an insignificant maid."

After laughing at herself deep in her heart, Macy reached out and carefully picked up the fallen books.

Looking at the notes densely written on the pages of the book, Macy was shocked.

Her little hand lightly wiped the handwriting that looked still wet, and looking at the ink stains on her fingertips, Maisie, who was already about to cry, burst into tears.

…

Listening to the distant footsteps and feeling the cool breeze blowing in from the open door, Roja shook his head slightly.

"Is it necessary to be so excited?"

"Didn't I just spend ten minutes writing tens of thousands of words of notes in the book?"

"I even forgot to close the door."

Crunch——

Roja stood up and closed the door.

He could have used magic to close the door more conveniently and quickly, but there was no need because he was now playing the role of a skinny pharmacist with no physical strength.

Last night, with his weak constitution, he fought fiercely with Mai Qian for several hours. It was already an act that did not suit his identity in order to hypnotize Mai Qi to obtain information.

It’s better to do less of similar things in the future.

It's better not to do it.

Close the last book.

After a night of reading, he had read all the hundreds of books on the bookshelf.

I have to say it was quite rewarding.

In the past, Roya's understanding of pharmacy was just a wild idea. Although Witch Doctor Barney was quite powerful and should be at the level of a senior pharmacist, it was a pity that during his studies with Barney Witch Doctor, pharmacy only occupied a large part of the content he studied. A very small part.

His current level of pharmacy is entirely dependent on self-study.

This resulted in his knowledge of pharmacy being very partial. Much of his knowledge of pharmacy was intermittent and incoherent. He could only refine one or two specific types of conventional medicines, while the other medicines were all specially developed by him.

And the potion he specially developed can only be refined by him with the help of the certificate of two souls, so it is not popular at all.

After reading a book all night, Roja learned a lot about the basics of pharmacy.

"I learned more about pharmacy in one night than I did in the first half of my life combined."

"As expected of the Pharmacists' Union."

"As expected of the Young Lions' Home."

"I heard that there is a library open to the public in the Young Lions Academy? There are as many books related to pharmacies in it as there are stars? There are even methods for refining advanced pharmacies?"

“You must find a way to memorize all the books!”

Roja stretched and said, "Let's go to the mission building to get the potion mission."

Pharmacists living in the Young Lions Hospital have a quota of tasks every month and need to take tasks in the task building to refine potions.

If you fail to complete the task multiple times, you will be kicked out of the cub home.

And if you overfulfill the task and help the Pharmacist Guild refine a large amount of potions, your ranking in the Young Lions Academy can rise, and you can even enter the inner courtyard.

In addition to being linked to the welfare in the Cubs' home, the ranking is also related to the future after arriving in Green City.

After the pharmacists arrive at Green City, they will be distributed uniformly.

The most rubbish assignment is to be assigned to a place similar to the assembly line in the previous life, refining low-level potions day and night.

Low-level potions are in high demand and difficult to refine, requiring more manpower and earning less money.

Once you enter the low-level pharmaceutical assembly line, your future is basically hopeless.

How can I study after refining low-level potions at high intensity for twelve hours a day? No matter how good your talent is, it has been buried!

Entering that place, you can only earn hard money.

The next-level ones will be assigned to mid-level pharmacists or senior pharmacists as apprentices.

These people are trained as middle-level pharmacists in the pharmacists union, and they have a bright future.

As for the top allocation, only those in the inner courtyard are eligible.

That is to become a registered student of the Potions Master!

Expect to become a potion master!

Unfortunately, the number of places in the inner courtyard is limited, and it would be difficult for the Pharmacist Guild to expand the number of places, because the noble and great Potion Masters accept registered students not only based on their qualifications and talents, but also on whether there is demand.

No matter how talented you are, what's the use of being a potion master who doesn't want to accept students or guide students?

Therefore, the number of seats in the inner court will fluctuate every year.

Sometimes there are more than ten or twenty, sometimes there are not even one.

This year, the number of places in the inner courtyard is relatively small, with only five, and four of the places have already been taken, leaving only the last one.

"Do you want to fight for it?"

Roja doesn't need the so-called quota in the inner court at all.

He is a wizard, a being who must be treated with courtesy by potion masters, and he is also a registered student of potion masters?

Even if he is a closed disciple, he is not happy.

After Luo Ya drank the scented tea on the table in one gulp, he got up, changed his clothes and went out towards the mission building.

"Master Vic—" Maid Maisie chased after you, "You were injured just yesterday. I'm really worried about you going out alone. Please let me stay with you."

"Okay." Roja nodded.

"Where are you going? You're not going out again, are you?" Maisie asked.

"Go to the mission building to pick up the potion mission." Roja replied.

Roya and Macy walked towards the mission building while chatting.

The mission building that Luo Ya went to was located inside the Young Lions Academy. There were nearly a hundred pharmacists in the entire Young Lions Academy, so there were many people taking and handing over tasks in the mission building every day.

After all, it is related to the distribution after arriving in Green City, and it is related to one's own future, no one dares to neglect it.

The predecessor, Vic, was a lonely young man who devoted himself to studying pharmacy. He had no friends in the Cubs Academy, not even acquaintances he often talked to.

So after Roja entered the mission building, the other pharmacists just glanced at him and stopped paying attention.

Roja came to the counter, and the beautiful counter lady with a smile on her face immediately asked respectfully: "Dear Pharmacist Vic, what task do you plan to take on?"

"Bring me the mission about the primary potion and take a look." Roja said.

"Elementary potion?"

"Is there a problem?"

"No!"

As the top pharmacist among the many pharmacists in the Young Lions Hospital, Vic's pharmacy level is close to that of an intermediate pharmacist.

In the past, when I took on potion quests, I would always refine intermediate potions.

Now you actually plan to refine primary potions?

However, considering that Roya was injured and almost died yesterday, and his body is still in the recovery stage, it is normal that he cannot refine intermediate potions that require a lot of energy.

Soon.

A very old-looking book was handed over with the white hands of the lady at the counter.

Roja opened the pages of the book. There were many primary tasks in it, and they were all unlimited, which meant that you could collect as much as you refined.

After Roja looked through the entire primary mission catalog, he took over a dozen primary potion missions like ordering food, "Refining ten bottles of each."

"...Okay, okay." The lady at the counter was a little confused.

Why is taking a potion quest like ordering food?

Receive more than a dozen primary potions at once with completely different effects, refining methods, and refining materials?

What are you planning to do?

But since Roja, as a pharmacist, was determined to do this, they had no right to ask questions.

The lady at the counter took out Vic's mission file and prepared to write down the mission Roya took on this time.

The lady at the counter opened the task file and was about to write with a pen in hand. The hand holding the pen suddenly became stiff.