Chapter 6

Elsa clearly didn’t believe Tang En’s nonsense.

“Elsa!”

A shout came from a distance.

“I’m here!”

Elsa responded, and Tang En’s heart stirred. “You’re called Elsa? Are you a militiaman from Ellington?”

“That’s right.”

Tang En frowned. “If you’re a militiaman from Ellington, why weren’t you there when the town was attacked?”

Elsa stomped her foot, her face full of anger. “It’s all because of that stupid pig lord! Worried about his own safety, he ordered Ronnie to call us all over.”

“Lord? Ronnie?”

“Lord Hog is a complete fool!”

Elsa said angrily. “And Ronnie, as the captain of the militia, spends his days just like Hog’s private soldiers, it’s very disappointing.”

“What’s wrong with me, Elsa?”

The young and fiery Ronnie walked over. “Who is this gentleman?”

Elsa, holding Elia, huffed. “He’s the alchemist Mr. Tang En. If it weren’t for him, Elia would have met with an accident.”

“Thank you, Mr. Tang En, but this is our Ellington matter, and we are confident we can handle it ourselves.”

Ronnie spoke in a perfunctory tone, looking at Tang En with obvious displeasure. If it weren’t for him, he would have been the one to take the credit, and he would have an easier time explaining to Bock.

“Is that so? But I think you can’t do anything except protect that pig lord.”

Elsa mercilessly mocked Ronnie, making him very embarrassed. He turned and vented his anger on Tang En. “By the way, you appeared so conveniently. Could you be an accomplice of the bandits? Hmm? No, with the current dangerous situation, you must be investigated. Mr. Tang En, you’d better submit to arrest willingly.”

Looking at the stunned Tang En, Ronnie felt very pleased and continued, “Once we investigate and confirm that you are not involved, we will let you go.”

This guy... is his brain full of mush!?

“Ronnie!”

At this moment, Hog’s private soldiers arrived and asked sternly, “Where are the bandits!?”

“The bandits have all been killed by me!”

Ronnie shamelessly took the credit for himself, then pointed at Tang En. “This guy is suspicious, I need to investigate his identity.”

The private soldiers immediately looked at Tang En with unfriendly expressions, tightening their weapons.

Elsa shouted, “Ronnie, that’s enough!”

“Mr. Tang En is not a bad person...”

Elia timidly supported Tang En, but was scared and缩进了艾尔莎怀里 when Ronnie glared at her.

“Stop!”

Fiona hurried over and shouted, “How dare you—”

Tang En quickly gave her a look, and Fiona was taken aback, swallowing her words.

“Huh?”

When Ronnie and Hog’s private soldiers saw Fiona, their eyes lit up, and they said lecherously, “What’s your name, miss? It’s very unsafe outside now, why don’t you come back to the lord’s residence to rest?”

Fiona said coldly, “Fiona, Fiona of the Golden Rose.”

Ronnie was taken aback, drew a cold breath, and became more respectful. “You have a surname... Are you a noble lady?”

Although Ronnie was lecherous, he knew that a noble lady was beyond his reach. Besides, Ellington was so remote that this was the first time they had seen a noble lady besides Lord Hog.

Fiona snorted, “Tang En is a master alchemist hired by my Golden Rose family. You dare to doubt his identity, I will make sure your lord punishes you severely!”

Ronnie was in a panic, “Miss Golden Rose—”

Hog’s private soldiers secretly tugged at Ronnie and said, “Miss, please talk to our lord, we can’t make decisions.”

“We will talk to him, but not now.”

Tang En said indifferently, “There are so many injured residents, and you are wasting time here.”

Ronnie snorted, “We don’t need your reminder.”

Hog’s private soldiers also said disdainfully, “Those commoners are dead, so what? They can’t compare to a single hair of the lord.”

Although Tang En knew that the social hierarchy in this world was very clear, he found himself still too conservative.

However, this was his own territory, and the population was already small. He couldn’t just sit by and watch them die.

Tang En thought for a moment and then said to Elsa, “If you don’t mind, can you help me gather the injured in this square? I have medicine that can treat them.”

Elsa was overjoyed, “Can you really!?”

“Of course.”

“Ronnie! Give me ten people, and you take the rest to put out the fires, clean up the damaged houses, and search for the injured!”

Elsa gave an order to Ronnie without any room for doubt. Although she wasn’t the captain, her command ability was strong, and her combat skills were top-notch, so everyone was used to following her orders.

Ronnie reluctantly took the people and went, while Elsa led ten others and Elia to move the injured.

“Do you really plan to treat them?”

Fiona asked in a low voice, “If you really have healing potions, there’s no need to waste them here.”

Tang En looked at Fiona with a half-smile, “Do you think this is a waste?”

Although Fiona didn’t speak, her eyes clearly showed her thoughts.

“Fiona, you need to understand that an opportunity to win people’s hearts so easily is priceless.”

Fiona still couldn’t quite understand. Tang En was about to become the lord here, so why should he care about the hearts of ordinary residents?

Hog’s private soldiers were not under Ronnie’s command, so they didn’t leave but hid nearby, watching Tang En and Fiona. Someone had already run back to report.

“What? A noble lady and an alchemist passed by and drove away the bandits?”

Hog’s mouth gaped open in surprise. In this remote place, Ellington, a noble would come? And an alchemist?

“That’s right, now the alchemist plans to treat the injured commoners.”

“When did alchemists’ potions become so worthless?”

Hog frowned, his eyes darting around, and said, “Continue to watch them, report any news immediately.”

“Yes!”

On the square, Elsa had already worked with the residents to gather the injured. A quick glance showed that there were hundreds of severely injured, not to mention the lightly injured.

The square was filled with moans of pain. Elsa looked at Tang En with anticipation. These people had often taken care of her, and seeing familiar faces in pain was heart-wrenching.

Tang En roughly counted the number of injured and was a bit at a loss. He didn’t have many vials of healing potion in his backpack. Although there were materials in the warehouse, he couldn’t just pull them out of thin air to make potions on the spot.

Now he could only test the effect of the healing potion and see how many he could save.

Tang En pretended to search in his chest, and a light flashed in his hand. He took out a vial of super-effective healing potion from his backpack and fed it to the injured person beside him.

The severely injured person, who was almost dead, had just taken a small sip, and several large wounds on his body instantly healed. His broken arm regrew in the blink of an eye, and he looked as if he had never been injured.

Holy crap!?

Tang En was stunned by the powerful effect of the healing potion. Before he could recover, he heard Fiona’s shrill scream, which made him jump.

Tang En was startled, “What’s wrong?”

“This, this, this...”

Fiona pointed at the crystal-clear, bright red super-effective healing potion in Tang En’s hand, trembling and unable to speak.

Tang En was taken aback, “It’s a healing potion, what’s wrong?”

“Goddess, Goddess’s blood... This is the blood of the Goddess!”

Fiona’s face was full of shock, and she was completely flustered. “You actually have the blood of the Goddess— and you’re using it to save these commoners!?”

Fiona had seen the blood of the Goddess at an auction before. Several major families had paid a huge price to compete for a small vial of it, and a single vial sold for a million gold coins!

If it weren’t for the dramatic change in the person who drank the potion, Fiona wouldn’t have been sure that Tang En had the blood of the Goddess!

This was more than just wasteful and extravagant. It was said that only the Holy Church had a small stock of the blood of the Goddess. A single drop could save a severely injured person, with an effect comparable to a divine resurrection spell, and the most amazing thing was that the blood of the Goddess had no side effects!

Many alchemists’ healing potions had side effects if taken continuously over a short period, and their effects would weaken over time. The blood of the Goddess, however, had no side effects and could restore a person to their best condition!

This priceless treasure, he, he actually used it to treat these commoners!?

Fiona didn’t know what to say. After all, she was only Tang En’s business advisor and had no right to criticize the lord’s actions.

The blood of the Goddess?

Tang En looked strange, as if he had been drinking the menstrual blood of the Goddess, which made him a bit nauseous.

Fiona, in a rage, said, “Do you know!? If you sell the vial of the blood of the Goddess in your hand, you could buy at least half of Ellington!”

“Oh, I see.”

Tang En nodded indifferently, “I didn’t realize it was so valuable...”

“It’s not just valuable... Wait, what are you doing!?”

Fiona thought Tang En finally understood the importance of the blood of the Goddess, but then she saw him walk to another severely injured commoner and give him a small sip, making her stomp her foot in pain.

“Of course, I’m saving people.”

Tang En said matter-of-factly, “No matter how precious the potion is, if it’s not used, it won’t have any value, right?”

“You, you... Sigh...”

Fiona sighed, truly speechless.