"Bern! What are you doing here?" Falheim looked unhappy. In fact, since Brian refused his offer to return to work in the association and started working in Blind Pig Tavern, he didn't look happy. Bai En looked at his companion carefully. Today, Falheim looked extravagant in a purple damask robe decorated with mink fur, and Bai En keenly felt that he was ragged. It took him nearly ten minutes to persuade the shop assistant to let him in to see his companion.

"I think you might be able to help me." Bai En smelled. There was a strange smell in the room, the spice and the floral scent that is usually only found at funerals. Bai En wondered where it came from.

"Of course, I will do my best." Falheim looked at him cautiously.

Bai En thought, this guy has been waiting to see how much money he will ask him. "I need to see a doctor."

Falheim frowned, his doubtful eyes shifting from Bane to Elisa and back to Bane. Bai En can almost see the thoughts behind his forehead.

"You didn't ... was the trouble you caused this girl? Is there any trouble for your life?" Bai En smiled for the first time that day. "No."

"So what's the problem?"

Bai En soon told his friend about the person who died on the street, his own symptoms, and the long queues in front of the doctor's clinic and the Yodara Temple. Falheim put his fingertips in a tower, listened attentively, and occasionally picked up a brass incense ball and lifted it to his nose, taking a deep breath. Bai En immediately recognized the source of the smell in the room.

"What is that?" He asked with his chin raised.

"A fragrant pill made of briar and silver berries from a distant east. Dr. Paparoni-Dreixler assured me that the scent emitted is a treatment for all solvents and evil effects in air circulation The best medicine for you. Maybe you want to try it? "Falheim untied the iron chain around his neck and handed the hole-punched ball to Bane. The smell is very strong. He handed it to Elisa politely. She placed it under her nostrils and took a deep breath, and began to cough.

"It definitely cleans the nostrils," she gasped, tears in her eyes.

Bai En took the copper ball and took a deep breath. He immediately understood what Elisa meant. The smell pierced the air like a knife. They had a sharp mint smell, and almost immediately a warm feeling spread across his head and chest. His nose felt clearer and his breathing smoother.

"Very good," he said panting, returning the copper ball. "Can you help us contact this doctor?"

"Leave it to you ... woman." Falheim shook his head without catching the bronze ball, then pursed his lips seriously. "Of course, Bai En. You are my brother."

"What about Elisa?"

"She too." Falheim said lightly, then turned her head to Elisa. "However, can this lady taste the refreshments here? I have something to talk to my brother."

Eliza looked at Baine, saw that the other party nodded to herself, and after handing the bronze ball to herself, she obediently agreed to Falheim's request. Then someone who looked like a housekeeper took her to another house for a refreshment.

"You shouldn't have brought her." Falheim said after confirming that Eliza had left.

"I know," Bain pulled a chair away from Falheim. "But she was very worried about whether it was infected with the plague, and I don't trust these 'doctors' in Heidelberg."

"Stupid," Falheim sighed. "But if it's just an ordinary disease or plague, that fragrant pill will help her. You should have noticed it too."

"Yes," Bai En nodded. "Is a certain spell correct? That copper ball had some kind of magical aura when it was scented. It's not obvious, but it is. Are you sure this spell is useful for the plague? "

"Antalam thinks it's useful, and he also thinks this spell is more powerful than you might guess." Falheim replied after pouring himself a glass of wine.

"Antalam?"

"Yes, that Dr. Paparoni-Dreixler is superb, and more like the kind of" doctor "you have described. As for Antaratham, if not him, you think wild Where did Rose and Yinxianggu come from? Do you expect that doctor to buy medicines shipped from the East? I do n’t think he has such financial capacity. "

"He is also your business object in Heidelberg?" Brian asked curiously.

"That's right, he has some recipes for drugs and potions, and he should also be a spellcaster, but we are not sure whether his ability to cast spells depends on knowledge or his own ability." Falheim said after taking a sip of wine. "Antalam thinks this person has great potential, and ..."

"He wants to bring this doctor closer to the association?"

"Yes, this fragrant pill alone is enough to prove his ability. If it is not because of material and spelling problems. Antaratum even wants to use this as military supplies."

"It's hard to make?" Bai En asked again.

"It's not difficult, but it's not simple." Falheim shook his head. "It ’s mainly a matter of cost. There are still some time issues. The copper ball incense burner outside is still easy to make, so I got the design from him, and I might make further improvements when I return it to the association. But that fragrant pill is more troublesome, and it is not difficult to analyze the ingredients, but if it really depends on magic to enhance the effect, then it is a bit troublesome. At least Antaratme believes that ordinary fragrant pills can only treat simple diseases and plague."

"That's enough for the association, isn't it?" Bai En interjected. "If it can be provided to the army, at least don't worry, or at least reduce the probability of spreading the plague on the battlefield."

"Yes, the association also thinks so, but the materials are not so easy to obtain. These herbs can only be grown in the greenhouse of Antalatem, and several of them are actually potions, even if the scale of the greenhouse is expanded. The production is also limited."

"There must be a way for the association, otherwise you will not come back here so quickly." Bai En said.

"Yes, the association intends to cooperate with this doctor. The copper ball incense burner can be made by the association, much larger than the amount he made himself, and provides the medicines he needs. So he can focus on making those incense pills."

"I'm guessing that his output is probably not large. So the association intends to provide these only to formal mages? Or some talented apprentices?"

"In his words, if he focuses on making incense pills, he can make hundreds of them a year."

"But ..." Bai En said lightly. "There will always be one."

"However, he has other things to do. In gratitude for the generous move of the Fatalin Association, he can provide the association with one hundred incense pills every year. As a reward for making copper ball incense burners and providing medicinal materials."

"He certainly has more than this output." Bai En said affirmatively.

"Yes, but even if he can provide a thousand, Amen Cannon did not intend to force him. Both he and Antaratham thought the doctor was useful, and did not want the association to show the trait of like to force people who are capable . "

"In order to attract more capable people, it is understandable."

"So I came this time hoping to double this number, preferably to 300 per year, so that we can ensure that the association has sufficient reserves."

"Is there hope?"

"No." Falheim sighed and fiddled with the glass. "I can probably ask this doctor to hand out about 150 pills each year, that's all. But considering that he may have other drug formulas, it's not a big problem. The most troublesome thing is that I find There is no way to attract him to join the association. "

Bai En did not know the doctor, so he could not think of any way to allow a doctor with a special drug formula to join the association.

"What about the drawings I gave you?" Bai En tried to change the subject.

"Here I am," Falheim patted a hidden pocket of his jacket lightly. "Because of your drawings, I can only put down the recruitment of this doctor and start my journey back to Fatalin Island." He looked up at Bai En for a while, "Are you sure not to go back with me?"

"I? I don't want to do it yet." Bai En replied casually.

"Because of that woman?" Falheim asked, tilting his head and smiling. "It's hard to imagine that you will be because of a woman ..."

"Not all," Bahn interrupted Falheim. "There are other reasons."

"Okay," Falheim no longer struggled with women's problems. "I have read the drawings you handed to me. Some of the drawings of the steam tank were destroyed, but I guess the engineering department of the association can refer to it. The others seem to be of little use, I do n’t understand construction machinery. , But the musket association is also preparing to build a musket team. But the accuracy and range of this thing is really ..., this is not the key, this thing is really too expensive. "

"How expensive is it?"

"Building a musket team, 200 to 300 people, at least 10,000 gold coins are required. The annual maintenance cost is several thousand gold coins."

"so much?"

"Personnel ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ salary, training ground, camp, daily consumption, weapon wear, ammunition, gunpowder. Even uniforms, food, drinks, medicines, etc. It is simply a bottomless hole."

"Is there at least two Musketeers in Heidelberg?" White asked with some doubt. "Can't the association afford it?"

"Nearly half of the association's income is dependent on trade. If a war breaks out, I mean a direct war between the association and the enemy. The trade will basically be interrupted. And the other big head is Admiral Netska—" Falheim leaned forward and lowered his voice. "The private squadron. The bloodsail pirates are robbing the coast of Billbally and harassing the coast of Burtania according to Dean's plan."

"Dean intends to avenge the night owl?" Bai En immediately understood what Dean wanted to do. "Or the meaning of the association?"

"Amen Cannon means, but only Dean knows what he is doing. Few people know about it, so you better think it's better not to know."

"It's too obvious, Knight ... Bloodsail pirates have been robbing the coast during the Bill Pali War, and they can't guess that the association did it."

"In fact, there is no evidence, and they often change tactics." Falheim explained in a low voice. "They will give the looted wealth to the association. According to the previous agreement, in addition to the" tax "drawn by the association, the others are used to help Netska build more warships. And the population ... will use Other ships were transported to various city-states in Tirya, and then they exchanged merchandise, gold coins, or other slaves from them. "" Aren't Amencannon abolished the slave policy? "Bai En asked suspiciously.

"It is indeed nominally that the new slaves have become debtors. They have to work for five years. After paying the necessary" loans, "they are free men."