Demon Sage

v3 Chapter 10: candle man

? Push open a wooden door carved with a beast with fangs and claws.

Richards Murphy, known as the top pharmacy master of Beluye, who developed two new potions, the blood drop potion and the blood-activating potion, stepped forward.

He had just sold all the blood-activating potions in his hands at the Alien Market, and he made a lot of money. He should have been in a good mood, but the smell of wax oil from the inside made his face even more gloomy after the door was opened.

This is a high-style house, but there is no heating in this room, not even a relatively basic fireplace. Only wooden tables of different heights are arranged in a seemingly messy but regular way.

Brass candlesticks with white candles almost filled the room. Not all of them were lit. In fact, only one-third of the candles were lit.

Richards glanced roughly in a circle. If he remembered correctly, every time he came over, the number and position of candlesticks lit by candles deviates from the last time. He is not a person who pursues perfection. But looking at the sparse and disordered candles, he always felt a strange sense of imbalance in his heart.

Coupled with the wax oil that dripped or slipped down the body of the candle after being burned, the wooden table that looked very good was imprinted with messy marks, and this uncomfortable look and feel was even more obvious.

"Mr. Murphy, count the days. Today should be the first day your blood-activating medicine is on the market. How is the situation?"

A voice came from the shadows ahead, and a man in a black cloak was sitting behind the innermost table.

"It's very popular. In just over half an hour, those blood-activating potions have been sold out. There are still many people who want to order from me, saying that if there is a new finished drug product, it will be provided to them first... "

"You should still remember the agreement between us?"

Richards was interrupted by someone behind the long table.

"Of course, remember that you provide the formula, and I am responsible for catching vampires and making potions. Each person is limited to one bottle, and each sale must be limited... and you will get 70% of the final revenue, and 30% of mine."

Outsiders think that Richards Murphy has already saved a lifetime of food and drink by relying on these medicines. How do they know that he is actually a part-time worker. Although he earns a lot, he looks at a lot of money. The feeling of having pound in your pocket and having to take it out again is really uncomfortable.

"Just remember, I came to you to remind you, don't miss the vampires in the vampire castle that you discovered this time, you can catch as many as you can, and if there are no accidents in the future, you need to expand, these Vampires are good raw materials, you can release the news, a living vampire can be exchanged for a bottle of blood drop potion and a bottle of blood potion."

Once a vampire dies, their blood will be completely inactive within a few minutes. If these monsters that have survived for hundreds of years lose their active blood, they will immediately turn into mummified corpses. When the sun shines, they will become fly ash. Worthless, so only living vampires are worthy of incarceration.

"I took your words down."

Expanding production means an increase in production, which is equivalent to an increase in income. Richards couldn't help but think of the scene of sleeping on a pile of gold pounds in his dream.

"Your Excellency Candle, in fact, many people in the recent market have been eyeing my business. This month alone, there have been three waves of people who came to steal the formula... In addition, the blood drop potion and the blood-activating potion itself The core materials come from those vampires. If you want to expand production, you must have a bigger place to store these monsters, and we are responsible for these things. The government has to manage, and you have to find a special place and hire more Manpower, I won’t talk about the energy and effort of these things, I should do things for you, but the money that will be consumed is not a small amount, so I just want to…”

The candle was the name that the man behind the table told Richards himself. Richards was clear enough about what he meant inside and outside the words.

"Modify profit sharing?"

The existence behind the table directly said what Richards was thinking. Without saying a word, he lighted the brass candlestick with his fingers, as if he was thinking. The wax oil fell on his fingers without realizing it. The silence continued. The time was not long, and after ten seconds, he said again,

"You didn't tell me that when you were just an ordinary heretic."

"Hey, it was back then, and now is now. At that time, I never thought that your business would be as good as it is now. Now there are competitors everywhere, and every aspect has to work hard. I am you again. The only spokesperson of this industry, you know the pressure that it is under, if there is not enough financial support, it will undoubtedly be difficult to operate."

Now that some words have been said, there is no need to hide them any more, emphasizing the identity of the only spokesperson, and Richards now has this confidence.

The person in front of him only collects money, and he manages the external affairs himself. If he hadn't had to get the prepared medicinal liquid from him every time, Richards would have thought of a way to get rid of him and go it alone. , This person is hanging himself on the basis of a formula he has, and he takes this 30%, which is indeed a little less.

"Then... let's divide it into fifty-fifty."

Richards's eyes lit up with this answer. In his heart, he thought that he would gain a level of improvement. He didn't expect that the other party's opening was such a big concession, which made him a little uncomfortable for a while.

"But I have a condition, that is, you must do well this time, and you must catch more than 10 vampires, otherwise my proposal will be invalid."

"no problem."

10 living vampires, it is obviously difficult to rely on themselves, but if you can hire those alien teams, it will be different, if you are lucky, the chance of success is not small.

"Then it's settled, please come back."

"Goodbye, Lord Candle."

After exiting the door, Richards looked much better than when he came.

"It turned out to be a paper-paste flower shelf... After a little test, I compromised. It seems that there is no need to be so afraid of him. Hmph, it would be great if those two formulas were my own."

Richards doesn't know anything about the preparation of medicines. When producing medicines, he is mostly doing it according to the operation manual given to him by the candle man. The core medicines have not been touched at all. It gave him the illusion that as long as he could get the formula, he could easily configure these two potions.

If so, what's up with that weird guy behind the door?

Sometimes it's like that, when you take a step back, others take a step forward.

Your compromise, in the eyes of others, is cowardice and cowardice.

It's just that Richards didn't know that the weird pharmacist was not as bad as he thought.

As the footsteps departed, behind them, a bulging mass of wax oil crawled towards the people inside as if it had come to life, followed the legs of the table to the table and gradually spread out, and then pieced together characters one by one. .

Exactly what Richards said before.

"Sludge is just mud. Things that are so low to the bone, even if they are mixed with gold dust and put in a porcelain bowl, will not become a good thing after all, it will only tarnish those good things..."

With just a swipe, the handwriting made up of wax oil on the table disappeared completely in a second.

**

On the second day of coming to Beiruye City, the whole morning was the shopping time. According to the list that Anthony made last night, he walked to each store one by one.

After lunch, I purchased some scattered items, and it was not completely ready until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Looking at the large carriage in front of me, the carriage at the back is obviously larger than the ordinary carriage. Although it is still made of wood, there are a lot of rivets and iron sheets at the joints, and the wheels at the bottom are also equipped with anti-slip accessories. If If you look closely, you will find that there are some mechanical structures in the center of the chassis, like a protruding metal bucket, which is specially used to place firewood to heat the interior of the car. In front of it are three tall horses, all of which cost a lot of money. of.

There are still a lot of things piled up on the roof of the carriage at this time. After covering it with a rain cover, it has to be tied with ropes twice~lightnovelpub.net~ I should be sleeping in the wild tonight, and I will not know when that time comes. Can this car be squeezed? "

In this kind of weather, it is naturally impossible to get a bed and lie down on the ground, otherwise the low temperature in the second half of the night will definitely wake anyone up from freezing or never wake up at all.

"At that time, everyone can't be crowded in the carriage. The two of us and Lilo have to take turns to watch the night. After all, we are not going to the scheduled route this time, but to participate in the search for the blood clan castle this time. There might even be a sneak attack by vampires at night."

Riding on another horse, Anthony said, holding the reins in one hand and the whip in the other.

Donald didn't call everything together immediately after returning from the Pagan Market, but chose to tell them about it at breakfast this morning.

Anthony and the others didn't have any opinion, and they all said that Donald could call the shots.

That being the case, the Quesser Mountains were also on their way to the next city anyway, so there was no reason not to take a look.