#196 - Section 196

With a wave of his hand, Allen immediately enveloped Nick.

The water swiftly washed over Nick's body, and Allen had to change the water spheres several times to suppress the sour stench.

"Someone, take this disgusting potion maker away and scrub him thoroughly."

As Allen spoke, a dozen maids appeared and dragged the high-level potion maker away.

"Nick, come find me after you've been cleaned up."

After saying that, Allen turned and returned to the castle.

"Grandpa Edward, please prepare hot water for me."

Allen said to the old butler, Edward.

"At once, Your Grace."

Edward immediately instructed the maids to prepare hot water for Allen.

Allen took a comfortable bath, and Edward had already instructed the female housekeeper to prepare dinner for him.

"Your Grace, this is roast lamb chops, just delivered from the Sadler Ranch in the southwest. It's a lamb that was born a month ago and ate some early spring pasture. It's said to be extremely delicious."

Before Allen, a steaming plate of lamb chops was emitting a tempting aroma.

Allen sat comfortably on the sofa, surrounded by a dozen maids holding drinks, or fruits.

"Your Grace, would you like the maids to perform some dances for you?"

"Or music?"

The female housekeeper said very respectfully.

Allen thought for a moment and said, "Is there a band? If so, I wouldn't mind relaxing."

"Very well, Your Grace, everything has been prepared for you."

The female housekeeper clapped her hands, and immediately, a small door at the back of the dining room opened, and a band holding the characteristic instruments of this world walked in.

Because the instruments were different, the music of this world was different from Allen's previous life.

However, the melody and beauty of the music were roughly the same, which made Allen feel very relaxed and comfortable. "Wah wah wah wah!"

As Allen was listening to the music and eating dinner, a small purple thing chirped and flew in.

This was the grape fairy, Fenny.

This little thing has loved to sing since she was little, but unfortunately, this little fellow is tone-deaf, and the songs she sings are really indescribable.

However, being tone-deaf doesn't affect Fenny's confidence, and she still loves music very much.

At this moment, this little fellow didn't know where she heard the beautiful music and came over. "Wah wah wah wah."

Fenny circled Yue Duo a few times in surprise, and then saw Allen not far away.

Fenny cheered and flew towards Allen, sat on his shoulder, and swayed her little legs, humming along with the music.

Allen smiled slightly. Although this little fellow was tone-deaf, she was still his fairy.

He touched Fenny's head and continued his dinner.

After dinner, Nick appeared in front of Allen again.

At this moment, the potion maker had changed his appearance. His messy and sparse hair had been neatly combed, but he was a little bald.

The beard on his face had also been shaved clean, and his clothes had been changed. The sour smell was gone.

The air suddenly became fresher. "Oh, Nick?"

Allen had just come out of the dining room when he saw Nick waiting at the door. "Your Grace."

Nick looked up slightly, the only thing that hadn't changed were his bloodshot eyes. "Let's go, let's talk in the study."

Allen led Nick into the study, while Fenny ran off to play with the band. "Very well."

Nick's voice was slightly hoarse.

After entering the study, Allen sat at his desk and let Nick sit wherever he liked. "You said before that there was a shortage of high-level potion makers?" Allen said, stroking his chin.

"It's not just high-level potion makers, Your Grace, but also some intermediate-level potion makers are not enough," Nick said wearily.

After taking a bath, he became much more sober, and he didn't grieve and cry in front of Allen without regard for etiquette.

"It seems that our potion maker team can't keep up with the pace," Allen sighed. His potion maker buff was not enough?

This made Allen a little confused.

However, the main reason was that Allen's territory had expanded too quickly, so that the potion maker team had not had time to expand and grow, and had to face a larger territory.

Even Nick felt it was too much.

So he came to Allen to complain.

"How about this, let's recruit a batch of potion makers, Nick? How about I leave this to you?" Allen said to Nick.

"That would be great," Nick said gratefully.

"Your Grace, do we need to continue to develop the reputation of the Potion Maker Holy Land? Or should we be more low-key?" Nick asked.

"Recently, some potion makers in the royal capital seem to have heard of our Holy Land's reputation and think we are not worthy of the name," Nick said: "I heard that before the war, those potion makers wanted to come here to see if there was such a magical power, but because it was too far away and too magical, they never really believed it."

"It's just that the Northern War was being fought at the time, so those potion makers didn't come here, but now that the war is over, I heard that some high-level potion makers in the Norton Kingdom are coming south to take a look..." Nick said here, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "What do you think...?"

Allen smiled slightly when he heard this: "Then let's keep them."

"Alright!" A gleam of light appeared in Nick's eyes.

In the current situation, what the Duchy of Allen lacked most was high-level potion makers.

The huge dragon-type potions were waiting for high-level potion makers to make.

Some advanced potions for the Golden Knights also needed high-level potion makers to make.

The most terrifying thing was that he didn't know what method Allen used.

Recently, the Golden Knights of the Duchy of Allen had an explosive increase. With only three high-level potion makers, they really couldn't handle it.

Now that Allen nodded, it would be much easier to drag a few more high-level potion makers into the water.

"Then I'll go down and prepare. They will arrive here in about a month, and I have to prepare in advance," Nick said excitedly, standing up.

Allen nodded and let Nick leave.

Nick's appearance gave Allen some ideas.

Indeed, recently he had only focused on the development of military strength and agriculture, and had not paid attention to the development of other professions.

This caused an unbalanced development situation in the Duchy of Allen. "It seems that I have to pay close attention to other aspects," Allen said softly.

Chapter 289: The Secret of the Ancient Forest (4)

Early spring arrived, and the accumulated snow began to melt. In just a few days, the climate of the entire duchy warmed up a lot.

At this moment, Allen was riding Saffy in the sky. "Saffy, this is it."

Allen patted Saffy's neck and said softly. "Roar!"

Saffy roared loudly and immediately landed from the sky in a vast forest on the southeast side.

This was the Aluk Forest in the southeast of the Duchy of Allen.

Originally, Allen thought this forest was just an ordinary forest, but he was wrong.

There were towering trees here that were dozens or even hundreds of meters high.

There were also strangely shaped flowers, plants, and vines.

It looked like a strong fairy-tale color, with more beauty than the Stranfoss Mountains.

Of course, the beauty was only superficial.

Dangers lurked in the dark.

Just in the sky, Allen felt wisps of powerful life force flashing from the depths of the Aluk Forest. "Magical creatures?"

Allen raised his eyebrows slightly. He jumped off the dragon and stepped on the land of the Aluk Forest.

There was still a lot of snow here, but it was melting. "Well, there seem to be a lot of magical creatures."

Allen could feel several magical creatures moving in the distance as soon as his mental power was released.

At the same time, Allen could sense the movements of his sky cavalry and wolf cavalry.

They had been active on the periphery of the Aluk Forest.

However, Allen's figure riding the dragon was still very conspicuous. Soon after he landed, the wolf cavalry and sky cavalry approached. "Your Grace."

These were the knights that Allen had released to help the dwarves find their clansmen. "How's the progress?" Allen said, raising his eyebrows slightly.

"We have searched almost the entire periphery, and only found a dozen dwarves," a knight said respectfully.

Beside him was Red Steel, who looked happy. For the dwarves, the survival of any clansman was a great joy. "You've searched almost the entire periphery?"

Allen smiled: "Then it's time to start exploring the inside?" "Your Grace!"

Hearing Allen say this, Red Steel on the side suddenly said: "Your Grace, just the periphery is enough."

"The dwarves will not enter the interior of the Aluk Forest." Red Steel's words made Allen smile slightly: "Why is that, Red Steel?" "Because there are terrifying monsters in the depths of the Aluk Forest!"

Red Steel said with some fear: "Those monsters are active in the Aluk Forest, but no one can find them. They come from an unknown place. According to legend, if you encounter them, you will never return. Many monsters and beastmen often disappear in the forest, and their rotting corpses will appear in the forest."

"They are very terrible. Every time they appear, they take away some lives. Almost no monsters are willing to approach the depths of the Aluk Forest."