Chapter 95: Deathweed

"You don't know it, which is normal. Generally, herbalists may not be clear about the value of this thing." Ursula explained, "Just by hearing the name, you should know how dangerous Deathweed is. Don't touch it with your hands. Let me take it out for you."

While looking for suitable tools in the box, Ursula said, "Deathweed... It may be very much in need by some forces in Stormwind City. But my suggestion is, don't get involved with them. Don't let them think that you can help them find Deathweed. Otherwise, your actions in Stormwind City will be much more troublesome than now. Jess, you are already one of us. Don't take on another burden."

"The people of SI:7 are not particularly proficient when dealing with groups like ours because of their distrust of magic, so they lack relevant talents. But for roles like thieves, assassins, and killers... In short, burn these herbs."

She held a long pole clamp in her hand, grabbed the edge of the torn bag, and looked at Jess and said, "This isn't your own bag, is it?"

"This is a gnoll's bag." Jess said, "This is the problem, Ms. Ursula Drin."

Ursula asked, "You encountered gnolls?"

Jess nodded and said, "Not only did I encounter gnolls, but I also found their alchemy room. In those alchemy rooms, they are conducting some kind of experiment. There are many murloc corpses. They are experimenting on murlocs. I don't think the ultimate goal of the gnoll tribe is just to poison those murlocs."

Ursula asked, "Do you mean that the gnolls want to poison Sentinel Hill or Moonbrook?"

"It's not certain yet." Jess said, "Can you tell what they are planning to make with these herbs in the bag?"

Ursula stirred the herbs inside with a fork, shrugged and said, "There are many possibilities. These herbs can be made into drugs that are extremely fatal to casters but have little harm to ordinary people. They can also be made into venom that is put into water to pollute the water source. In short, it seems that something is still missing. There is Deathweed, a large amount of Deathweed, and Briarthorn, a lot of weeds, Mageroyal... I can help you pick out all these herbs related to making mana potions."

"Thank you." Jess handed the bag to Ursula and said, "Should I give this bag to the Wizard's Sanctuary and let them report to the king?"

"Even if you let the king know, what can that kid do?" Ursula sighed and said, "Now the war in Redridge Mountains is intense. I heard from rumors that gnoll warlocks used dark magic to attack Stonefort. Just a few days ago, Gage was planning to go there and see if he could get some clues for new spells. In short, in this situation, how can the kingdom still have troops to send to Westfall to hunt down a group of gnoll alchemists? There are already enough troops guarding the trade route from Moonbrook and Sentinel Hill to Westfall Station."

"Do you know the new gnoll leader over there in Westfall? It is said that he has already wiped out two mercenary squads. But besides mercenaries, what else can the king do? I guess he almost doesn't even have the ability to hire outsiders to solve the crisis. Now Hogger's bounty is only thirty silver coins. This is still after an increase. What kind of people do you think thirty silver coins can attract?"

When Jess heard about thirty silver coins, he was a bit tempted. But thinking of Hogger's strength that he encountered that day, this thought immediately disappeared.

Judging from the few battles he has experienced, Hogger's pure strength is far greater than that of any ordinary gnoll and far greater than that of the elf ranger. According to Greed's perception, Hogger may only be slightly weaker than the shaman in Redridge Mountains when he uses wind elements to increase his strength.

And in terms of Hogger's degree of madness and ferocity, if that shaman were to face Hogger, he might not have much chance of winning.

After all, orc shamans need to constantly communicate with elements when using such power, and this is very exhausting. As for Hogger's energy... As the leader of a group like gnolls who advocate absolute violence, it can be said to be bottomless.

Thinking about it this way, even someone like him would give up these thirty silver coins because of Hogger's strength, let alone stronger mercenaries. This bounty is indeed a bit low.

He remembered that when he was at Stonefort, Arien, the king's secretary, told him that the national treasury was now in a very difficult situation and could not take out ten gold coins to reward the heroes of Stonefort. Maybe these thirty silver coins were taken out reluctantly.

"It's short of some Silverleaf." Ursula pressed her waist and asked, "Do you plan to buy it from me or buy it outside?"

"Buy it from you."

"Four silver per pound."

Jess remembered that the purchase price outside was two silver and fifty copper. He immediately asked, "You even cheat your own people?"

Ursula smiled and said, "I guess you have sold herbs to that Lumir outside, right? If you buy from her, the price is even higher than mine."

Jess rubbed his forehead. He didn't have much money left now. Buying some Silverleaf would be a real bleeding expense.

"You make it for me first. See how much Silverleaf is used. I'll pick some more and reimburse you. What do you think?"

"Don't delay too long."

"Okay."

"By the way." Ursula said, "What about the thing I asked you to do? How did it go? Don't tell me that you didn't even see the murlocs and just ran back when you encountered gnolls."

"I didn't see the murlocs." Jess took out the largest one of the three scales he brought from Yuanli and said, "But I picked up this thing."

"Naga's scale!" Ursula narrowed her eyes and asked, "This... is so beautiful."

"Picked it up by the sea."

Of course, Jess wouldn't say that he still had a bag of these things at home.

But looking at Ursula's appearance at this time, he kind of regretted not bringing back the Naga's head. But at that time, looking at the head at night, he felt that his sanity was almost depleted.

Ursula held this scale and said, "This kind of scale is an excellent enchanting material for frost magic. Jess, a robe made with it can increase frost resistance and strengthen affinity with water elements, increasing the power of a caster's water magic. How many did you pick up?"

"Where are there so many scales to pick up?" Jess asked, "How much can this one sell for?"

"This one is in very good shape." Ursula said, "If you give this to me, I won't charge you for the Silverleaf. What do you think?"

Jess frowned and asked, "Won't you cheat me?"

Ursula smiled and said, "Although this thing is rare, the demand is not great. Only those frost spell practitioners in the Wizard's Sanctuary can use it. Or it can be used to make poison. Yes, this kind of thing also has a certain toxicity. Even if you go out and sell it, it's hard to sell it for a price of ten silver coins. I just... need it for some formula experiments I am currently doing. As long as you give it to me, I will make six mana potions for you. I will add the insufficient Silverleaf for you. And I will return the remaining materials to you. What do you think?"

"Okay."

"Come and get your potions tomorrow morning, Jess."

Coming out of the Slaughtered Lamb, Jess had already planned to go to the tailor shop in the mage district and ask. He had so many scales. Although there are not many as big and complete as this one, but... Even if each can only be sold for one silver coin, it is also a sky-high price of thirty or forty silver!