Chapter 19, Hetara’s letter
Master Fugate, I am your lovely apprentice Hetara.
The academic atmosphere in Mondstadt is really very average, but fortunately, some alchemical experiments can still be done. By the way, I have become the chief alchemist of the Mondstadt Knights.
Otherwise, even the noble daughter of Loefat would not be able to escape from the frequent noble dances. Although she felt that her alchemy level was average, what she did not expect was that there was really no one in the Alchemy world of Mondstadt who could beat her.
In the huge Mondstadt, there is only one old bishop of the West Wind Church who is a master of alchemy. I really don't know what to say.
Fortunately, I used the intelligence development potion I brought back to train several qualified assistants, otherwise I would really go crazy.
In the six months since returning home, I have developed two potions, [Wind Element Essential Oil] and [Wind Element Resistance Potion] that can be used in battle. (Attached are relevant papers and a list of alchemy processes and material ratios. Please ask your tutor to help you apply for a patent in the Teaching Council and publish the paper.)
I don’t know how your condition is now, tutor, and whether there are any signs of improvement.
I really miss the time of studying under your mentor...
I still love your student Hetara.
Fugate nodded and said to Charmian: "Have you finished reading your letter? What's in it?"
"It's a secret between girls."
"What! Shamian, are you a girl?" Kulu, who was also holding Hetara's letter on the other side, looked at Shamian in shock.
Fugate: "······"
Xia Mian: "??"
Xia Mian looked at his own. Although he did have the habit of restraining, he had obviously not restrained himself for a long time. Although it was not D, he definitely had C, or C+. It was so obvious that you couldn't even notice it. ?
"Don't you know that I often play with Sameer, Hetara and the others?" Shamian asked.
"I just thought you were more popular with girls, and Batu and Banka thought so too." Kuru scratched his head and said.
The other two were quite speechless about this.
"If I had known, I would have gone after Sameer." Kulu said with a sigh.
The two of them were even more speechless.
"What expressions are you looking at?" Kulu looked at his tutor and classmates in a panic. "I once confessed to Sameer, but Sameer said she likes you."
"Speaking of Charmian, you must have told Sameer and Hetara about your gender, right?" Fugate said, touching his chin.
Charmian recalled for a while and then said: "Well~ Hetara already knew it. As for Samer... she should have been two or three months after she became an apprentice under her mentor. At that time Only then did I realize that it was me who invited the two of them to take a shower together... Samer's expression was indeed a bit strange when he said that."
"I actually always thought you were in love with the two of them." Kulu said as if I had burned out.
"Speaking of how good-looking I am, have you never thought that I am a girl?" Xia Mian was very angry about this.
"I just treat you as a buddy." Kulu said with tears in his eyes. Judging from Kulu's appearance, this concept probably cannot be changed.
"Mentor..." Charmian looked at Fugate.
"...I actually didn't notice it at the beginning. I only discovered it later during the sparring battle...when I was carrying it." Fugate scratched his head and said.
Xia Mian seemed to be turning into pea-eyed.
"Back to the topic, dear Miss Charmian." Fugate coughed twice and said, "Is there anything noteworthy in Miss Hetara's letter to you? You can see her in the letter to me. The situation doesn’t seem to be very good.”
After all, they have been forced to develop alchemical potions for combat.
"Hmm~ Although I didn't explain my situation clearly, but if you think about it carefully, as Tutor Fugate said, Miss Hetara's situation is not optimistic. In addition to some complaints about daily noble dances and other things, she just asked me about anything. There is no potion that can greatly improve combat capabilities.”
"Hmm~ Significantly improve combat ability? Fugate's intelligence development potion should be able to do it, but it is indeed a bit difficult to refine it alone with Hetara's alchemy ability... And if the intelligence development potion is in Mondstadt, The cost may be even higher," Kuru analyzed.
"So what she wants is the principles of some potions." Sharmian said, "Then she completes the potion development by herself through various local medicinal materials in Mondstadt."
"It's a very smart approach." Fugate nodded and said, "But there's not much we can do to help her."
After all, it is impossible for them to go directly to Mondstadt. According to the calculation based on the time on Hetara's letter, the fastest way to Mondstadt is to take the water route, but it will also take more than half a year. If you take the land route, it will cost It takes even more time, a full two years.
"Let's do what Hetara said first, but in this case, we need to postpone the time of traveling, ahem ~ we go out to conduct earth line inspections." Fugate said regretfully, and said the paper part Passed it to Kulu, "Mr. Kuru, here is Miss Hetara's thesis. Please rewrite the paper and ask me to sign it."
Kuru nodded and took the paper and went to work.
Kulu studies theory, so he writes the most papers among the six apprentices, so he is the most specialized in writing papers. The possibility of his papers being written back and revised is very small.
And because of traveling across the ocean, although it was well preserved, the letter Hetara sent them was still a bit moldy because it had not been specially treated.
Charmian stared at the mildew on the stationery with some distress, muttering about inventing a stationery that could be better preserved and not corroded by mildew.
Fugate shook his head and began to write his reply.
Mainly, he introduced the current situation of herself and others, and said that the remaining two Charmian and Kulu had graduated again, so that she didn't have to worry too much.
In the middle, he talked about the Blood Moon Breathing Method and told her that she could use the Blood Moon Breathing Method to cultivate some strong people. As for the problem of elemental power, she could use elemental potions to solve it.
Finally, he reminded her to pay attention to her body and so on.
Finally, he hoped that she could bring him some Mondstadt specialty materials. Although there were specialty shops in Sumeru City, they were too expensive.
After writing, stamp and seal it with wax.
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It only took Fugate and the others three days to complete the thesis, patent and other matters.
Even the Mondstadt merchant ship that carried the letter to Hertara had not yet left, so Fugate directly asked the merchant ship to deliver the letter, patent certificate, and thesis certificate to Hertara.
After Fugate asked, he found out that the merchant ship belonged to the Hetara family.
Of course, not entirely, but it still occupies a majority of the shares of the merchant ship.
Fugate also learned more about Mondstadt from the merchant ship.
It is quite different from what Fugate and the others speculated. The monster disaster in Mondstadt has been very serious recently. The dragons and various high-level monsters that escaped from nowhere have made the Knights of the West Wind who are guarding Mondstadt exhausted. They are also very proud to express , Miss Hetara’s alchemy potion is very important to them (Knights of the West Wind).
The main purpose of their merchant ship team this time is to purchase some basic alchemy books from the Order, as well as a large amount of Xumi-specific alchemy materials, so there are two teams of knights in their team to escort them.
Fugate had looked at that knight from a distance, and he could only say that he was worthy of being one of Mondstadt's elites. His strength was about to break through LV40, and he was a real strongman.
You must know that most of the thirty-man group in Xumi City are only at LV20. Only the elite have LV20+, and most of those people broke through with the help of Erling. They have insufficient blood, exhausted vitality, and very limited potential.
On the contrary, this knight is full of vitality and energy. It seems that he is following the orthodox path of secret medicine + exercise to break through. This path is not without Xumi. Most discipline officers break through in this way, but this breakthrough is not cost-effective. Not high.
After all, most Sumeru people join the Gilded Brigade because their families can no longer survive, or else they are desert people, who have the qualifications to use a large number of secret medicines to train.
After sending the letter and some gifts, Fugate and the others set off on their way to Daochenglin.
The first place Fugate chose for this trip was Daochenglin.
The Daochenglin area is the base camp of the forest patrol officers and is also a source of many scholars from the Shengron School. The land of Fugate's residence on the outskirts of Xumi City, Liuzhong Manor, was purchased from a Daochenglin ranger.
I heard from Mr. Nizant that the boy has now become a ranger because of his outstanding academic performance.
Although it is not clear what the necessary connection is between academic excellence and becoming a ranger, this is the abstract status quo of Sumeru.
Fugate has no intention of changing this. At least now, when King Daci Shu is still alive, the operation of this administrative system is very good, and the so-called mismatch of virtue rarely occurs.
Although Fugate and others are outstanding in strength, the three of Fugate still hired a team of reputable gilded road regiments as escorts. This is mainly to avoid unnecessary troubles. The number of people can be good at driving away small groups of monsters. and most beasts.
This small group of gilded brigade belongs to a mercenary group called Red King Shenwei. It is an ace team of twelve people, and the distribution of personnel in the team is quite reasonable.
There are two camel beast breeders working part-time as crossbowmen, and one logistics person is responsible for material replenishment and accounting. According to the system's appraisal, the levels of these three are probably LV15+. They are ordinary people who have experienced battles for a long time and are relatively elite.
The leader of the team is a spirit wind hunter who possesses a complete Erling weapon with a level of LV53. Normally, he cannot compare with Fugate, but he can probably deal with Fugate. After all, the spirit wind hunter is specialized in perception. warrior.
After liberating Erling, he became even stronger than Fugate. None of the members of this Spirit Wind Hunter were mediocre. Except for a few logisticians, the remaining combat team members were all elites with broken Erlings. Mercenaries.
"Mr. Nathan Rice H. Fugate?" The Spirit Wind Hunter is a majestic man. Although there is a tradition in the desert of taming women to become falcons, there are also male falcons.
"I am Fugate." Fugate nodded and said.
"You don't seem to need our protection." The spirit wind hunter looked at the God's Eyes hanging on the waists of the three Fugates.
"But it can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble. You can rest assured that we will provide you with enough money, and the place you are going to this time is not dangerous," said Shamian.
"I hope so." The spirit wind hunter then called on the mercenaries to follow.
It was Xia Mian who had contacted this group of mercenaries before, so the two sides were relatively familiar with each other.
According to Sharmian, this group of mercenaries are also from tribes that fled after the destruction of Gul City and have had a cooperative relationship with the Palace of Silence for hundreds of years.
But it is obvious that the mercenaries of the Palace of Silence cannot afford to support them. After all, the Palace of Silence is not having an easy time, and its funds are very low, so these mercenaries will also take over some of the work of other people.
Fugate's hiring of escorts for this trip was reimbursable, so Charmian would make the connection.
The group's trip to Daocheng Forest went smoothly. Except for the somewhat dangerous migration of a large group of mushroom beasts, there was nothing major.
The ley line energy extraction device also operates very well, with basically no problems.
Then everyone arrived at a small town called Huachengguo, where there were many practicing scholars of the Sheng Lun sect. It was said that they would link to the World Tree through meditation and other methods, in order to obtain the knowledge of the Great Merciful Tree King, which was like the sun and stars.
"Good day, my friend, does it look familiar to you?"
"But we'll talk about this later. First let's talk about what you are here for." Fugate and his group were so aggressive that it was no wonder that the rangers were wary of this.
A guy dressed as a ranger led a group of rangers in front of Fugate's group.
Rangers are very common in Huachengguo, because this place developed because rangers often stayed there.
"It's Mr. Rhine. I didn't expect you to actually become a ranger." Fugate stepped forward to talk.
The leading ranger, Rhine, looked at Fugate for a few times before saying: "It turns out to be Mr. Nathan Rice. I haven't seen you for a long time, but I am just a trainee ranger. I wonder if you are here this time?"< br>
"As you can see." Fugate pointed to the machine on the back of the hump beast behind him, "Come to Daochenglin to do some research related to the field of earth veins."
"That's good. There have been a lot of poachers recently, and we just did it just in case." Rhine said.
The atmosphere between the two sides immediately relaxed, and the rangers called the mercenaries to some hotels in Huachengguo.
Fugate chatted with Mr. Rhine.
"I see that there seem to be many scholars practicing around here. What's going on?" Fugate asked curiously.
"Those are the guys from some ancient schools in the Life Theory School. Those guys will link to the World Tree to learn." Rhine said, "These guys are quite disobedient..."
"But if Mr. Nathan Rice also wants to try it, there is no problem."
"Is this okay?" Fugate was a little hesitant.
Fugate wanted to know if there was a solution to his problem in the World Tree. If there was, then he wouldn't have to build a tomb.
"No problem." Rhine said with a smile. "Actually, all scholars can learn this, but there have always been very few people who are really willing to practice. It is said that talented people can quickly connect to the World Tree."
Fugate glanced at his two apprentices, nodded and said, "Then let's try."
"This is the phenol incense. This plant incense can stabilize the mind, allow people to enter a better state of contemplation, and connect to the World Tree." Rhine handed over an incense stick. "Count it as my gift to you. If you want to link to the World Tree, look for Just a secluded place to meditate.”
"Teacher." Charmian looked at Fugate with some worry. If she remembered correctly, Tutor Fugate's conscious time was running out today.
"Don't worry, I won't try it today. You guys try it first. I'll just prepare some new aromatherapy tomorrow." Fugate said nonchalantly.
As a master alchemist, he knew how to configure this aromatherapy as soon as he smelled it.
But what puzzled him was how he could connect to the World Tree during meditation with just this aromatherapy.
The three of them found a quiet place, and it turned out that there happened to be two people staying here, one was a mercenary and the other was a meditating scholar.
Fugate looked for a few more places speechlessly. Without exception, there were people in these places, some with guards and some without. When he found the fifth place, he finally found a scholar who had just finished meditating.
The scholar greeted him warmly twice and left on his own.
"Aren't there a lot of people meditating here?" Kulu said, scratching his head.
"Obviously this is the kind of person without talent." Charmian looked around and said, "Okay, let's stay here."
At this time, Fugate had already entered a state of self-destruction. After observing the traces around him, he directly said in a voice without any fluctuation or emotion: "He is indeed a person with no talent at all. He probably has not even entered a meditative state, let alone It’s said to be linked to the World Tree.”
The two lit incense and entered meditation. After a while, the mercenaries hired by Fugate and the others also came over. Fugate, who was in a suicidal state, signaled them not to talk. The mercenaries nodded and dispersed into the surrounding jungle. .
The two of them quickly entered a meditative state. The Blood Moon Breathing Method also included meditation methods, so they felt no stranger to it.
Time passed bit by bit, and finally the two of them woke up one after another.
"How do you feel?" Fugate asked.
"Hmm~ Not bad. I feel like a lot of knowledge has poured into my brain. I have learned a lot of very high-end alchemy techniques, as well as some combat skills about Hermanubis, but most of these combat skills are used It's a staff and a sword," said Charmian.
"I'm about the same. I've learned a lot of knowledge that I haven't come across before, including alchemy knowledge and elemental knowledge. It seems that a lot of it is knowledge that has been lost." Kulu said.
The chapter was reviewed and I revised it immediately after seeing the notice
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