Chapter 206

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Bottling up the potions would be useless as what we needed to do was to distribute them through cups. After all, why would we bottle them if we made them exclusively for the people?

So after breakfast, I decided to quickly get done with this. We went to inspect the cauldron with everyone else, and what was left was a very slimy and purple-colored liquid.

It looked and smelled hideous… but after a closer inspection.

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[Mysterious Purple Potion (D-Grade)]

A mysterious Potion made from the materials from Giant Black Arachneia and several medicinal herbs. It possesses mysterious effects that have yet to be found. However, from looks alone, it seems hideous, it smells bad, and it looks disgusting.

However, apparently, it has the power to grant a greater resistance against specific diseases provoked by the Giant Black Arachneia, calm down pain, and possibly cure basic diseases that provoke fever and nausea.

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Interesting! The System Analysis Function is never wrong! It feels like an even more overpowered Wisdom sometimes, but let’s see, if things are like it says there, it should work, right?

So we had to give it a try. We decided to quickly give it to the five people that were in the worst condition, all elderly, and we also gave a cup to Syllis just in case, as he was outside the quarantine zone, so we could prevent him from getting it again and spreading it outside the quarantine area.

And after that, we decided to wait until tomorrow to see if the effects would work on the people.

Throughout the day, we spent it mostly overlooking the place. I decided to map out the surrounding area by abusing my Mental Mapping Skill and my clones, so I spread a few dozens of ghost snakes everywhere, alongside a few smaller clones which had the shape of tiny purple flames similar to Will-o-Wisps…

Ah, recalling those monsters gives me a strong sense of nostalgia. To think I used to struggle against those things, and I had to fight so many to level up and stuff… Ahh, good times- No, actually, those were not good times. I suffered a lot! I wouldn’t really want to go back to it. If anything, this nostalgia only makes me realize how blessed I am now… compared to back then. I have really come quite far.

I am pretty concerned about the spiders, as they seemed weak enough that we can handle them without much issue, but I fear that whatever is in the Dungeon where they are coming from is dangerous…

I also feel like I want to see what happened to the other rabbits that got attacked by the spiders… at the very least, I want to find their skeletons and give them a proper burial.

Haha… a ghost necromancer like me talking about giving proper burials to people? Who would have guessed…

Maybe I could even ask Emeraldine to purify the corpses or something so that any lingering bad spirit can rest.

However, if they would be willing enough, I guess I could also bring their souls back as Undead… maybe, but it depends if I can find them to begin with.

For now, I decided to just rest for the moment while spending time with my friends… well, they’re more like my family at this point.

Gofumin-chan was very cute today, too. Seeing this little goblin smile really makes me happy… And Takeshi and Laura too! The twins are becoming good friends with the other kids.

Sometimes I saw Bellerine wanting to join them as they played around, but she’s still quarantined… I want this to be done so everyone can interact and mingle together…

After we were done with this, we all quickly rushed toward our destination and began building our own place to belong. It’s not going to be easy, but… I have faith.

And about Emeraldine and everything else… well, since the kissing, she has been looking at me coquettishly sometimes… sometimes she blushes, other times she smiles adorably at me.

Partner and Lucifer might or might not have suspected something…

But for now, I want to concentrate on the main quest before doing any romantic stuff… so I will try to suppress my own feelings even more than they already are.

And then, in the morning of the next day, as I woke up with Partner cuddling with me, Syllis ran to my carriage and told me that there was good news.

The five people that were given the potions yesterday woke up without fever, and they even said they were filled with a lot of energy! Wow!

The potions worked, it seems. After closer inspection into their status, they were no longer sick either…

Now’s time for plan B!

I made a second quarantine area and moved the recently healed people there for caution, as they had already mixed with the infected anyways, even after healing, and then using my phantom clones, I began to distribute the potion to everyone.

Tomorrow we’ll see the results and then find out if things are doing okay.

If everyone truly gets better, then the potion was a success, and the people can be healed.

We’ll disinfect them and then burn everything that was in the quarantine zone, and so they will be able to finally join back with the rest of our people.

And that night, as everyone slept, my clones reached the dungeon at long last. The entire forest surrounding it was made into a land of spider webs, so it was very hard to get through all the stickiness.

But at long last, we had arrived.

I quickly lurked into the dungeon, finding it to be an immense underground cave filled with spiderwebs everywhere… and alongside that, spiders crawled everywhere and carried eggs with them, which had even more of them inside! Baby spiders slowly growing up…

As I moved deeper and deeper into the dungeon, a dark presence began to slowly emerge from its depths.

Using my Stealth Skills and Concealment, I slowly got there.

And what I found was…

Wait…!

That’s…

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