"Mr. Xia Nan, I-I'm terribly sorry!"
In the spacious meeting room, Molly spoke while gasping for breath.
Just three seconds earlier, Xia Nan had heard a rush of urgent footsteps outside the door with his own ears. When they reached the doorway, they suddenly slowed again, as though the girl was afraid of disturbing him, and she gently pushed the door open.
Her short golden hair was stuck to her cheeks and the bridge of her nose by the fine sweat beading on her fair face. Molly's head was slightly lowered, and her face was filled with apology.
"The alchemy shop on the second floor doesn't have any Purification Potion in stock. I asked the gentleman in charge of sales, and he said our River Valley Town Adventurers Association is relatively remote, making restocking difficult. Also, potions related to Purification Potion sell comparatively poorly, nowhere near as well as products like Healing Potion and Resistance Potion."
"On top of that, there are no Beastmen settlements near Thin Mist Forest, and cases of Beastification Syndrome infection may not appear even once in many years. Because of that, the corresponding Purification Potion was removed from the restocking list many years ago."
Hearing that, Xia Nan felt disappointed, but his mood did not fluctuate much.
After all, ever since he had set the Beastmen Investigation Quest as his target, he had already used his spare time to search through the shop himself and found nothing.
Right now, he had merely been thinking that Molly, as a staff member of the association, might have access to channels he did not know about.
Now it seemed the other party was powerless as well.
"What about scrolls? Does the association provide exchanges for corresponding Magic Scrolls?"
"Yes, sir. We do."
When Xia Nan asked that, Molly