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Chapter 87 - Ill Tidings (Part 2)

Wondering if it would be all right, Yuri took out his homemade potions from his Storage, via his magic bag, and lined them up. He had made them with great enthusiasm, partly as practice for his Pharmacology skill, so there was a number stored away that surprised even him. He hesitated to take them all out, so he only produced a small portion... but even that seemed to be a lot. A man who had been staring with wide eyes deliberately picked them up...

(Ah... I missed it with Kudol-san, but... so that’s what it looks like when someone else uses Appraisal...)

After five years of mountain life, Yuri’s Appraisal skill had reached a considerable level. Perhaps because of that, he could clearly tell that the man was using the Appraisal skill.

The man looked at the potions again in surprise, but after appraising all of them at a furious pace, he began to sprinkle them on the seriously injured without a word. Drinking them would be more efficient, of course, but for those who lacked the strength to even drink, just sprinkling them on would have an effect...

As Yuri was vaguely watching the scene, a man who looked like a staff member turned to him.

"Hey!! Are there any more potions!?"

"Ah, yes. If homemade ones are fine..."

"Give me everything you have!!"

Well now... Yuri thought, as he took out more potions. Of course, if he took out all of them as the man said, it would likely surpass the inventory of an apothecary, so he held back a little. After a lavish distribution of seven to eight potions per seriously injured person, and two to three for the lightly injured, for a total of over twenty potions, it seemed the injured had been saved.

"Sorry about that, kid. ...But it looks like they’ll make it, thanks to you."

"No... that’s fine, but... is it okay to use so many like that? The dosage... won’t it exceed the prescription limit?"

"Yeah. The side effects will be bad, but it’s better than dying. Besides... it’s harsh on them, but we need them to report what happened."

Ah, I see, so that was part of it, Yuri thought in understanding.

"You’re... Yuri, wasn’t it? I heard you’ve been hanging around our beginner’s workshop?"

"Ah, yes. Thank you for having me. ...Um..."

"Oh, my apologies. I’m Naval, the guild master here. We’ll have the guild pay for the potions you gave us later."

So he was the guild master, Yuri thought.

"Ah, no... they’re just homemade, so... if you could consider it payment for the workshop fees..."

"I can’t do that... They seemed quite effective, too. I can’t treat them the same as regular potions, but on the other hand, I don’t know the proper price, so I was honestly at a loss. In that case, I’ll take you up on your offer. Is double the price of a normal potion acceptable?"

"No... I mean..."

"We have our principles, you know. We can’t just take them for free. So, do me a favor and accept it."

"...If you put it that way."

"But still... for someone who can make such effective potions, why are you taking our beginner’s workshop?"

"Ah, no... I think it’s probably not my fault they’re so effective, but an issue with the ingredients. I used herbs I gathered at the foot of the mountain, almost immediately after collecting them."

"I see... If you used fresh herbs from Salt-Sour Mountain, that could happen..."

The guild master seemed to accept Yuri’s explanation, but just then, a guild staff member came to call him, saying the injured, the three with relatively minor wounds, had stabilized and wanted to give their report.