In the early morning of the next day, Dick went downstairs after washing up. In the corridor, he heard Russell anxiously shouting, "Carter, what's wrong with you?"
He hurried to the hall and saw Russell, Harden, Ruiwen and Master all surrounding Carter.
Carter sat on the chair next to the dining table with his head raised, his eyes closed, and he showed no reaction.
The white cat 'Furball' had already jumped on the table and licked the back of Carter's hand with his wet tongue.
From time to time, he would meow eagerly.
"What's going on?" Dick frowned.
"I don't know. When we went downstairs this morning, we found him lying here." Harden replied.
Ruiwen spoke slowly, "Dick, there is no need to be too nervous. I just used magic to check his body. He is fine for the time being, just unconscious.
"It should be the unknown potion that Master put into his body before, causing him to fall into a coma."
Dick gave Master a hard look, and the latter turned his head away as if feeling guilty, avoiding his gaze.
"Then what should we do? Ruiwen, can't your warlock's magic wake him up?" Dick was a little surprised by Master's attitude, but he had no time to think about it at this time and continued to ask.
"I'm afraid not, Dick, magic is not omnipotent."
"Then do you want to find Aode and the others?"
"To be honest, their spells are not as good as mine, so..."
"Is there no solution?" Dick asked anxiously.
"There is a way. Treating Carter with medical skills may help him get better and wake up.
"The best doctor on this continent is in the Oxenfurt Academy in Free City, but someone has to escort Carter there to find Oxenfurt Academy's professor. I believe Carter will wake up soon."
"Okay, I'll go." Dick replied without hesitation.
"Dick, let me go, I can do it alone." Russell patted his chest and said, "I see that you have been sparring with School of the Grizzly Bear recently and you have to learn alchemy knowledge, so I won't waste your time."
"But..."
Master said with a straight face as if he was ashamed, "I did this wrong, and I don't want to ruin the child Carter.
"I am still the leader of School of the Lynx, so I order Harden and Russell to escort Carter together."
Harden and Russell naturally had no objections, and then prepared their luggage. Harden borrowed a carriage from other demon hunters. Russell simply carried Carter on his back and left.
"Bring Furball with you, Carter will definitely want to see it when he wakes up." Dick picked up the white cat and reminded.
At the gate of the castle, before leaving, Russell smiled and said to Dick, "Dick, I originally wanted to spend Crown Festival with you, but it seems I can only wait until next year. But don't worry, we will meet again soon."
"Goodbye, two senior brothers."
After bidding farewell to his senior brother, Dick returned to the Demon Hunter's main castle.
He knew that this incident was indeed Master's fault, but the most important thing now was to save Carter, and it would be useless to argue with him.
Then Dick began to carry out his plan in an orderly manner. He studied with Alchemy in the morning and continued to practice with School of the Grizzly Bear in the afternoon.
About a week later, he discovered that he was able to tie with 'Boar' due to his strong physique. However, Fighting's skill had only improved slightly, so he changed his plan and indulged in the Alchemy experiment in the laboratory all day long.
A few days later, a prompt finally came from the panel:
[Sword Oil Making] (Proficient level), the sword oil gain effect increased by 10%.
Dick Press your temples gently with your fingers to relieve fatigue in the brain:
Potion Making has not been upgraded these days. It seems that it will take some time to upgrade from proficient level to professional level.
And I always feel that my talent in Fighting is much stronger than Potion Making, so Fighting can easily be promoted to professional level.
"You can't force this kind of thing." Dick comforted himself, stood up and stretched.
At this time, the door of a small room next to it opened, and Aode came out with a bottle of medicine in his hands with an excited look on his face.
"It's done?" Dick said in surprise.
"With me here, how can it not be possible?" Aode was so tired that the bags under his eyes were drooping, like an old Shar-Pei dog. He has been helping Dick study the medicine Broom Witch provided before, and he has achieved some results recently.
Dick When he thought of this 300-year-old man busy with himself all day long, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, but he still hurriedly asked, "What does 'should' mean?"
"I found through research that if you take this magic potion, as you said before, it is likely to produce several mutations. I suppressed some of the mutations, such as skin loss.
"And the toxicity of this potion has been reduced a lot. You shouldn't have any problems drinking it... right?"
At the end of the sentence, the corners of Aode's mouth turned down. He was actually not convinced.
"How about you study it further? I'm not in a hurry anyway."
Aode's eyes dodge, like a child who has done something bad, and he smiles sheepishly, causing the beard on his chin to tremble slightly:
"I have improved this potion by adding other magic potions. If you don't drink it now, it will be ineffective after today."
"... Hmm."
Dick hesitated when he heard this. He remembered that the last time he drank the witch's potion for purification, it cost 200 Energy Points, but now he only has 150 energy points.
But Aode swore that the toxicity inside has been reduced, and the consumption of harmful Energy Points numbers will logically be reduced as a result!
Do you want to take the risk and give it a try?
Furthermore, if your body is deformed, then immediately ask Ruiwen to transfer yourself to No Man's Land. Regardless of the rules, kill some Nekker to increase Energy Points.
Thinking of this, Dick suddenly had a clear idea, took the potion without hesitation and drank it in one gulp.
For a moment, Dick felt an indescribable bitterness explode on the tip of his tongue. The bitter taste was like the turbulent sea water with excessive sodium chloride, which instantly overwhelmed his taste buds and made him burst into tears.
Immediately afterwards, a heartbreaking pain hit him from all parts of his body, as if thousands of fine needles were piercing his skin at the same time, and were repeatedly inserted and withdrawn, endlessly.
The tingling sensation was densely spread all over his body, from his fingertips to his toes, every inch of his skin was being tortured, wreaking havoc back and forth on his flesh.
"Ah!"
Dick couldn't bear it anymore and screamed in pain, and his body began to shake left and right uncontrollably.
His steps staggered, knocking down several instruments one after another, and finally he fell heavily to the ground with a "plop", his body curled up into a ball, twitching continuously.
Upon seeing this, the surrounding warlocks gathered around and hurriedly raised their hands, preparing to use magic to help Dick relieve the pain.
At this time, Dick, although he looked miserable on the outside, was always staring at the changes in the panel.
Four or five minutes passed, and finally, a prompt appeared on the panel:
[Uncontrollable Elementary Steel Sinews and Iron Bones]:
Under the condition that the density remains unchanged, the strength of the muscles and bones increases to 3 times, and the bones will slowly and irregularly grow bone spurs over time. It takes 100 energy points to eliminate the negative characteristics.
[Elementary Extreme Leap]: The jumping ability is doubled.
The moment he saw the prompt, Dick used 100 energy points without hesitation. In the blink of an eye, only 50 energy points were left on the panel.
At the same time, [Uncontrollable Elementary Steel Sinews and Iron Bones] also successfully changed to [Elementary Steel Sinews and Iron Bones], and the negative entries finally disappeared.