The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 52 Part 1
Aiza and Remia
When I come to, I find myself lying on a bed. My body is heavy. It seems that since I had exhausted my magical energy until it was completely empty, it has not fully covered yet. For the time being, let’s try saying the line.
「I don’t know this ceiling.」
Alright, now let’s check my belongings. Even the ring is still there, so it doesn’t look like anything has been stolen. Well, most of my belongings are stored in storage, after all.
I put on my shoes and leave the room. It seems that I am on the second floor, and delicious smells are drifting over from downstairs. It is just before noon. It seems that I have ended up sleeping for quite a while. There was also the exhaustion from the trip, so I guess it was only natural.
When I go downstairs, the mother and daughter that I helped on the main street are in the kitchen and notice me.
「Aah, thank you very much for your help the other day. Thanks to you, my daughter’s life was saved. I really don’t know how to thank you… Remia, say thank you.」
「Umm, thank you very much for saving my life.」
The girl bows her head. She is a cute girl with dark hair and blue eyes, just like her mother. She will probably turn into a very beautiful woman in the future. From the way she speaks and her demeanor, she must have a pretty good upbringing. I also sense a bit of elegance from her.
「Yeah, you’re welcome. My name is Sei. I just arrived in this town for the first time yesterday, you see. I don’t know anything about Mahra. If you don’t mind, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me a little bit about it.」
「Yes, I’d be happy to. My name is Aiza and my daughter is Remia. We have prepared some meal for you, so please have some first.」
Currently, it is about eleven o’clock, which will make it a slightly early lunch. The meal is bread and soup, huh. Not enough at all.
「My bad, I’m a big eater, you see. I’d appreciate it if you could roast this for me. Let’s eat together. Please roast it all.」
I take out about five kilograms of meat from storage. After hunting it in the labyrinth of Magt, I stored it in storage at a low temperature, so it should last a few more days.
「All of this? And we can have some too?」
「Yeah, it will probably go bad in a few days, so I’d like to eat it up today. This is the meat of the big-mouth lizard I hunted in the labyrinth of Magt. I can guarantee its taste.」
「Oh my, frog meat is the mainstream around here, so other meats are high-class items, you see.」
According to Aiza, since a large amount of frog meat is steadily obtained from the labyrinth, frog meat is relatively inexpensive and tasty. It is exported to various towns in the territory, and the entire territory seems to be quite prosperous. The same is true for Amberlius, but cities with labyrinths that are not too difficult, large, and producing a lot of resources are extremely rich.
「I’m thinking of going into the labyrinth tomorrow.」
「You’re a porter, aren’t you, Sei-san?」
「Yes, I’m a porter, but I’m also an adventurer. For better or worse, I’m an iron-class adventurer, after all. For tomorrow, I’m planning to explore the shallow stratums by myself to see what it is like. When the weather gets a little warmer, I’ll be able to pick medicinal herbs in the forest, so I’m thinking of trying to accept medicinal herbs gathering requests.」
「I see. If you need medicines to restore your strength or magical energy, I can concoct it for you as long as you have the ingredients.」
「Concoct?! Are you a leech, Aiza-san?」
「Yes, I work for a big company, not an individual. That’s why, if you don’t mind waiting until I’m done with my work, I can compound it for you, but with the ingredients you can easily get in the forest, I don’t think you can make a very effective medicine. Well, something on the level of first aid, I guess.」
Oooh, how lucky. If things go well, maybe I can ask her to teach me how to concoct medicines. I have copied the books pertaining to medicine manufacturing in Amberlius, so I know the ingredients needed and a rough idea of how to concoct it, but I was worried because I didn’t know the details of the process.
As expected, just as the saying goes: the good you do for others is good you do yourself.
「I see. How does it compare to a lower-grade potion?
「Hmm, at best, I guess it’s about one-third as effective as a lower-grade potion. It doesn’t have an immediate effect, it works slowly, and it tastes terrible, so you need to sweeten it. And that sweetener is also costly.」
I have a lot of golden bee honey, so there is no problem with the sweetener. But for it to have one-third of the efficacy of a lower-grade potion, that is way too little. As expected, does it amount to first aid only?
「Can’t you make medicines with high efficacy?」
「It seems that in the olden days, there were adventurers who would go deep into the forest and get ingredients with high medicinal effects, but I’ve never heard anything of the sort these days. Even if they are the same type of medicinal herbs, the ones that can be found deep in the forest have higher effectiveness, but it seems so dangerous that no one can go there.」
「I understand. I have a favor to ask you, Aiza-san. I will get the ingredients, so I hope you can teach me how to make medicines.」
「Huh, rather than me making it for you, you want to make it yourself, Sei-san? I think it’s going to be difficult. In medicine manufacturing, there are steps that require quite a lot of magical energy, so even in our company, we hire a number of magicians to handle the process. You also need to have a pretty high proficiency in magical energy manipulation….」
「In that case, you don’t have to worry. To begin with, my magical energy capacity is incomparably higher than other porters, and my proficiency in magical energy manipulation is also high. The reason why I lost consciousness after using healing magic on Remia yesterday was because at that time I had spent quite a lot of magical energy, after all. Please, Aiza-san. I’ll do anything to repay you back, so please teach me how to make medicines.」
「Umm, that’s….」
「Mom, Sei-san is the one who saved my life, you know? Can’t you do something about it?」
「Remia… You’re right. I don’t mind teaching you. However, only if you keep it a secret, because this is supposed to be something that mustn’t be taught to anyone, after all.」
「Yes, I promise.」
「For an adventurer, what you’ll need will be medicines that restore your strength and magical energy, right? In that case, although the effects of the medicines may vary, I think even you can make them, Sei-san.」
「Are the other medicines not good?」
「Yes, medicines for illnesses, for instance, to make it you need to keep the effect constant, while also appraising the ingredients. A leech has a skill called medicine knowledge, which allows them to appraise ingredients and know in what ratio they have to concoct the ingredients in their mind. In comparison, when it comes to medicines that restore strength or magical energy, I believe it doesn’t really matter if the effect is high or low.」
I see. If a medicine for a disease has a low effect, it won’t work, and if it has too great an effect, it will end up turning into a poison, so there is no way they will allow amateurs make it, huh.
「I understand. I’ll keep it a secret and I’ll get the ingredients. There are still two or three weeks until we can start harvesting medicinal herbs, so when the time comes, please take care of me.」
After that, as we have a leisurely meal, they tell me about Mahra.
It seems that due to the warrior order boasting extremely powerful strength, the public order of the town is extremely good. There are frequent premise searches, villains are sometimes cut down on the spot, and public executions are common occurrences. Incidentally, it is only those with the rank of count or above who can call their knights knight orders, and since this town is ruled by a viscount, they are called warrior order.
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