Chapter 231 Small Town Shop
The night hunter’s office is going to be established in the town, which is not good news for Mu Hua.

How should I put it? It's like when you are in a remote mountain area and you suddenly have to pee, you just find a place to do it, and no one will care if you are seen by others.

But the Night Hunters are more positive, and they will make a big deal out of things that should be very ordinary.

For example, if Mu Hua had a conflict with someone in the town, any normal person would deal with it by determining right and wrong, and as long as there were no injuries, even if a fight broke out, everyone would try to reason with each other first.

But it would be troublesome if the Night Hunters saw this, especially when the identities of the conflicting parties were adventurers and settlers.

When the two sides fight, the adventurers must be at fault first! If the settlers suffer any loss, these night hunters will jump even more fiercely than the one who suffered the loss.

Contribute manpower and effort to uphold justice, and use force to suppress the situation if possible. If force is not effective, use various legal aids.

In a word, the process won't be complete until the adventurer calls me daddy.

As long as someone they identify as "supernormal" does something in the human world, they are more nosy than the guards.

To some extent, the Night Hunters gained their reputation among the Settlers by suppressing adventurers in the human world.

This naturally leads to most adventurers not liking them very much.

The appearance of Ronald and others seemed to represent that Bear Pig Town had already received attention from all walks of life.

Unlike Weir, Mu Hua doesn't want to have too much interaction with these night hunters who may be sent to set up offices in new places.

As I said, you have to make friends with dogs. It may look impressive when you scare people, but if you get bitten by a dog, you must have no regrets.

He pushed Ronald and the others away with a bit of arrogance, and heard Will say that he had just seen a few vampires go to the magic materials store.

Mu Hua was curious about how the vampires in the villa got along with the people in the town, so he simply went to the magic material store in the town.

Marzi Selma, although she may be just an ordinary person, she is an old lady who looks more like a witch than any witch Mu Hua has ever seen.

She has a very conspicuous hooked nose, a hunched body due to old age, some age spots on her face, and often wears a loose wizard robe.

Selma's image is very different in the town, and she usually has some strange smell of magical materials on her body. Both her appearance and temperament are very similar to the witch in the story.

I heard that when she was young, she worked as a maid for a witch. After the witch died, she came to the town to settle down.

Because she would teach the children in the town some precautions about magical items and magic materials, many middle-aged people in the town today received her guidance when they were young.

Although her image is a bit scary, her reputation in the town is not low.

Because she had five dead husbands, no one dared to marry her daughter. This also made Selma seem a little mean in recent years.

"Hi, Selma, how's business lately?" Walking into the magic materials store located in the best location in town, Mu Hua greeted the old lady behind the counter.

"Damn Adventurer's Guild, I'm about to be forced to close down by it. Mu, you should suggest the academy to come to me to purchase goods, and I will give you a satisfactory commission." Facing Mu Hua who was looking around after entering the room, Selma started complaining.

"Ha, there aren't many people in this town who buy magic materials, and the Adventurer's Guild doesn't sell apple pie." Mu Hua walked to the counter and said with a smile.

Bear Pig Town is originally a remote town, you can't expect the magic materials here to sell well.

When there were many ferocious bear pigs around the town, Selma would provide the townspeople with poison for hunting bear pigs, and some materials for setting traps also sold well.

However, as the bear pigs were hunted to extinction, the magic materials in Selma's shop were basically unsalable.

Although it has a sign that says "magic material store", in fact, well, the apple pie from Maltz's magic material store is very popular among the townspeople...

"Damn it, can't you see that I have customers here? No one will use magic fruit to make apple pie, so don't even think about getting me to buy your magic fruit." Selma said angrily in response to Mu Hua's teasing.

The layout of Selma's store is like a small supermarket. There are many bottles and jars of things on the shelves, and even some "parts" taken from living creatures.

There were two men in the store at that time. Mu Hua walked in and looked at them, but did not greet them.

Although the two vampires look no different from humans, the whites of their eyes have a faint silver metallic color. As long as you have a little knowledge of blood race, it is easy to tell them apart.

Unlike what Mu Hua imagined, these two vampires were not students of the Dusk Courtyard, but two outsiders.

"Hehe, Selma, don't be like this. The magic fruit is just a small suggestion. Look what gift I brought you." Mu Hua flipped his hand, took out an item and said to Selma with a smile.

Vampires can also have legal identities. As long as they don't cause trouble, there is no problem for them to take a bath in a public bath. Mu Hua is not a policeman, so naturally he can't question them about anything.

"Your suggestion makes Sam nervous. He's afraid that I will steal his fast food restaurant business. Damn, they have forgotten what happened in the past... huh?" Selma muttered and complained. When she saw the items that Mu Hua placed on the counter, her eyes narrowed.

"The whole Mandela herb?" Selma looked at Mu Hua in confusion.

"How is it? Do you like it?" Mu Hua asked with a smile while sitting on the swivel chair in front of the counter.

"This thing is not easy to collect. The whole herb is expensive. What? Do you want me to help you pursue Athena?" Selma asked Mu Hua after picking up the whole herb of Mandrake and looking through it. "... No, it's just a gift for you. I collected a batch and I can't use it for the time being." Mu Hua twitched his mouth and hurriedly rejected Selma's question.

Although Selma looks like an old witch now, for BearPig Town, she was also a hot girl who had seen the world when she was young.

Selma must have been very popular when she was young, otherwise it would not have been possible for her five husbands to have died in a row.

Athena is Selma's daughter. I heard she is very beautiful, but because Selma's marriage history is so exaggerated, no one dared to marry Athena.

In desperation, Selma let her leave the town, apparently intending to let her find a husband outside. People in the town were not very clear about the details, but they only knew that she seemed to have not been able to fulfill her wish so far.

Mu Hua was not sure whether Selma's daughter was pretty or not, but the name Athena was a homonym of Athena.

Including the name Ikaros. In this world, such names are usually given to witches when they give up their original lives and change their names.

Selma obviously gave her daughter a witch's name. Thinking about the five old fathers-in-law who might be going to hell or heaven, Mu Hua was also a little afraid of Athena.

"Tsk, coward." Seeing Mu Hua's expression as if he was afraid that she would misunderstand, Selma clicked her tongue.

"I'm going to sell this in the store. Look, I should be able to free up a counter for you. Do you want to bring some potions and leave them here?" Selma's expression was disgusted, but her tone was much calmer than before.

"Forget it. Many aspects of potions are hard to say. Do you have the qualifications to sell potions? I don't want to cause you any trouble." Mu Hua shook his head.

"I'm just an old woman, what kind of trouble can I get into? I sell some physical strength potions, soul potions and the like, who can arrest me?" Selma was quite tough, and she acted like a troublemaker but she didn't want to be too serious.

Some people like to describe the people as kind, honest, and simple, probably because they want the people to have this kind of personality.

But how can people be born with a certain character just because of their status?

Perhaps "cunning" is the character that has always accompanied the people, and the degree of their cunningness is directly related to the comfort of their lives.

This is what is meant by "poor and bad mountains and rivers produce unruly people". The worse the living conditions are, the more unruly people become.

Of course, this does not apply to those who believe that the people should be simple and kind, and thus live their own lives in the ditch.

"No, I don't have time to do those things." Mu Hua spread his hands.

Selma glanced at Mu Hua with disdain, found a wooden box covered with silk cloth to put the whole mandrake grass away, and did not mention the topic of helping him sell potions.

In the past, Mu Hua would buy potion materials and brush up on potion recipes, but as his own magic improved, Mu Hua had less time to refine potions.

The effects of most low- and mid-level potions can actually be achieved through magic, while the materials for those potions with magical effects are both expensive and difficult to buy.

Mu Hua wanted to challenge alchemy, but the main materials needed to refine the magic stone were magic cores and magic stones. For the time being, he just threw those things directly into the Burning Source Furnace. Now Mu Hua would feel bad to use them for alchemy.

Expecting to make a comeback through alchemy? Oh, by the time he makes the Philosopher's Stone, the materials he consumes will probably be enough for him to save up a basket of Hundred Refinement Secret Stones.

The only magic potion that Mu Hua can currently make is the Clairvoyance Potion. He has not even succeeded in refining the Life Potion yet.

Unless he could get some special potion materials, such as some blood from his own students, he would also brush up on the recipes for life potions.

Life potions, youth potions, strengthening potions without side effects, and even warping potions that can increase lifespan, potions are not completely useless, but the main materials for making these potions have long been stolen by genuine alchemists.

As for those magic potions that can be mass-produced in the outside world, Mu Hua will make some as emergency reserves. At most, he will leave some in the hotel as a convenient service for the hotel.

Mu Hua doesn't need certification to sell potions. If there are quality problems with the potions, the Night Hunters can just come and arrest the person.

Mu Hua was chatting with Selma. Two vampires in the store took some magic materials to the counter to pay, and asked Selma to take some magic materials that would not be placed outside.

When they asked about the price of the whole mandrake herb, Selma flatly refused. Without further communication, the two of them glanced at Mu Hua and left the store.

Whole mandrakes are not considered precious because they make a soul-damaging noise when dug, and their main problem is that they are difficult to pick.

The places where this kind of herb can be used are often not very "kind", such as curse potions, or the refining of corpse demons.

"Mu, I smell a sense of mockery from them. I don't like them very much." The two left the store, and Selma told them why she didn't want to sell them mandrakes.

"Can you smell this too?" Mu Hua was surprised.

"Women's intuition," Selma said.

"Woman? Selma, you... are really brave." Mu Hua had a strange expression on his face as he looked at the age spots on Selma's face.

"Damn it! Is there anything else? If not, just watch the store for me. I'm going to make an apple pie." Selma's old face turned red, and she was somewhat exasperated.

(End of this chapter)