Chapter 62 Keeping Secrets

"what!"

The shrill scream woke Richard from his sleep.

When Richard woke up, he could only see Lucy kneeling on the ground with a terrified look on her face, covering her mouth with tears in her eyes, looking extremely terrified.

So Richard looked at himself in the mirror.

Richard was so tired after coming back last night that he fell into a deep sleep without even cleaning himself up.

Therefore, the bloodstains on Richard's body were not cleaned up.

So, when Lucy discovered that there was someone resting in Sir Richard's bedroom, she thought of checking out what was going on.

When Lucy opened the door, she saw that Richard's body was covered in black and red blood. There was a bloody hole on the chest of his leather armor, and there was blood at the corners of Richard's mouth.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to think of it as a murder scene.

Looking at the blood on his body, Richard felt nauseous. He really didn't know how he could sleep yesterday. It seemed that he was really too tired.

I didn't expect that my momentary laziness would lead to Lucy discovering the secret of my injury.

I wonder if Lucy will report this to Jenny.

But Richard still comforted him: "This is fake blood."

As soon as he said this, Richard felt that his statement was not convincing. After all, he was a wizard, not an actor. Was he creating so much realistic fake blood just to fool his maids?

Lucy looked at the huge amount of blood on Richard's body, her eyes revealing a strong distrust. Although she was just a maid, she had witnessed the war between the lord's army and the Ouyun soldiers, and she could still distinguish real blood from fake blood.

"real."

Seeing that Lucy didn't believe him, Richard opened his shirt, wanting to show Lucy that his chest was not injured.

Anyway, the wound has been successfully healed with the treatment of the blessing of life yesterday, so it shouldn’t be visible that there was an injury, right?

"I go!"

Richard exposed his chest, leaving a circular scar with radiating scars of skin tears around it, which looked very scary.

I didn't expect that the blessing of life could not repair the scar.

Although some people believe that scars are a man's medal, Richard could only feel that his originally fair skin had become very ugly, and he couldn't understand why anyone would like this.

And now, Lucy would definitely not believe Richard's explanation.

Thus, Richard and Lucy came to a stalemate.

Richard was embarrassed that his lie was discovered, while Lucy was shocked by Richard's horrible scar.

Finally, Lucy calmed down and spoke, "Master Richard, don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your injury."

"Thank you."

Richard then realized that Lucy was actually very brave and smart, and already knew his concerns.

But it's true that, in terms of treatment, being with Richard is naturally much better than being in the Fast family.

In addition to buying her clothes and letting her rest, what made Lucy even happier was that she could feel respected by Richard, respect for her as a maid.

"Master Richard, you don't have to be so polite, and I think you'd better put on your clothes first."

Lucy calmed down, but then her face started to turn red because she could see Richard's bare upper body and could already feel the heat from her breath.

"what?"

Richard looked at his upper body. Because he was relatively thin, he could vaguely see the outline of his muscles, but it still couldn't compare to a muscular body. He didn't know what there was to be ashamed of.

Besides, as a maid, has Lucy never seen a man's upper body? It's a bit surprising!

"I'd better go take a shower first."

Richard did not put on the bloodstained clothes. He found a set of clean clothes and went to the bathroom. Fortunately, there was alchemy equipment that could provide hot water all day long, so Richard took a comfortable bath.

By the time Richard came out dressed, an hour had passed.

What a rare waste!

Normally, Richard would not take more than twenty minutes to take a shower, but this injury made him want to take a short rest.

Anyway, it is impossible to hunt the Water Arrow Frog now. The power of the Water Arrow Frog King is still vivid in people's minds. If Richard had not run fast, he would have become a ghost in the Water Arrow Frog King's belly.

We can only wait for the mercenaries to come and let them touch the mine.

When Richard returned to his bedroom, he found that the bedding on his bed had been replaced with new ones, and the clothes he had taken off earlier were gone.

It must have been taken care of by Lucy.

Richard would definitely not wear the leather armor again after it was beaten into that state, but that doesn't mean it has no value. If he equips it with a breastplate and sells it to mercenaries, he should be able to fetch dozens of gold coins.

But thinking about the dozens of water element magic crystals in his hand, Richard felt that he should change his mentality.

I am now a third-level wizard, and my ability to make money is far beyond what I used to be. A mere few dozen gold coins are not worth wasting my efforts on.

So, Richard felt at ease and took the trouble to burn this rare leather armor with the high-temperature flame of the second-level fire element magic.

The wizard's level increases too quickly, and this equipment is no longer able to deal with Richard's current opponents.

This time, the Water Arrow Frog King easily used his tongue to pierce the leather armor. Richard also needs to change into better equipment.

"Well, there should be a lot of level 3 black-faced monkey hides. I wonder if I can buy some?"

Li Jue felt that there was still a good chance. After all, compared to leather armor with excellent magic resistance but low physical defense, the warrior profession prefers metal armor with high physical defense. As long as a wizard makes magic resistance enchantments for the armor, the metal armor can also obtain a high magic resistance defense.

As for where to buy it from, of course it’s from the rich woman Margaret.

Last time, so many animal hides were harvested. In order to prevent corruption, the three leather shops in Teet Town must have been working hard to tan the beast leathers.

One of the leather shops is a subsidiary of the Futong Chamber of Commerce behind Margaret.

Speaking of which, it seems that Margaret is still on the business trip recently and has not come here for meals in the past few days.

However, Richard knew that Margaret would definitely return to Teet Town within a few days.

A large number of mercenaries are rushing towards this place, which will not only bring many orders to the Futong Chamber of Commerce, but the monster materials hunted by the mercenaries will definitely be sold in the nearby town of Teet.

Margaret would never miss such an opportunity to make money.

Thinking of this, Richard suddenly thought of a good way to obtain water arrow frog meat and water arrow frog skin.

That is to purchase it directly from the mercenaries. After all, the amount of dart frog meat is very small. If the mercenaries don't know that dart frog meat can significantly increase affinity for the water element, even if Richard purchases it, it won't cost much gold coins.

As for the water arrow frog skin, apart from Richard wanting it, it should only be used by some wizards with special needs.

And the most important point is that the mercenaries' hunting efficiency is definitely much faster than Richard alone.