The next morning, after breakfast, a team set off from Fergus Castle and headed towards the Black Earth Forest.
Gray, Bernal, and Ellis rode at the front of the procession to lead the way.
Under the protection of soldiers in armor and guards in battle uniforms, there was a two-horse carriage from the Sidney family. In the carriage sat Pearly, Master Dulu, Caroline, and Sarah.
Viscount Fergus was not among them. Originally, he strongly suggested that he take Master Drew and Pearly there, but she was rejected by Pearly because she "didn't want to trouble the Viscount too much." In the end, the Gray brothers were sent to lead the way.
Of course, Sarah was not included. This guy had never been to the Black Earth Forest before. This time, he begged to go because he heard there was something fun to do.
"Sister Polly, you are so kind!"
Gray and others initially disagreed. After all, she had not yet practiced blood magic and had no ability to protect herself. In the end, it was the Marquis's daughter, Pearly, who overcame all objections and took her with her.
"As promised, you must listen to my arrangements and don't wander around at will, otherwise, I will have to keep you in the carriage!"
Perhaps because she has always been the youngest in the family and has not been able to enjoy the treatment of an older sister, she was immediately defeated when Sarah called her "Sister Pearly" a few times and took this drag bottle with her.
"Yes, I know, Sister Pearly."
Sarah nodded one after another, but her eyes were already looking outside the carriage, with excitement flashing in her eyes.
In front of the team, Gray was riding a red-blooded horse. While leading the way, he looked at the eight Sidney family guards wearing white battle uniforms.
Although the horses ridden by eight people are not comparable to red blood horses, they are definitely rare and excellent horse breeds.
They moved neatly around the carriage, protecting the carriage in the middle. Their movements were extremely coordinated, and even the horses' strides were very consistent. It was obvious that they had been extremely professionally trained.
The reason why Gray paid attention to these people was not because of their uniform way of marching, but because of their strength.
The clothes of the eight people were obviously a higher level than that of ordinary soldiers, and they also had a sharp temperament that ordinary soldiers did not have. If Gray had predicted correctly, the eight of them should all be people who had practiced blood magic and had strong strength. It shouldn't be too bad.
One person in particular was the leader, a middle-aged man with a white face and no beard. His face was always expressionless, but his eyes flashed sharply from time to time when looking around.
Being stared at by the other party, Gray actually felt a cold and extremely dangerous feeling in his body. This man's strength was at least that of a fierce-blooded warrior, maybe even more than that.
More than an hour later, the team arrived outside the black soil forest.
The carriage could no longer move forward. Master Dulu, Pearly and others got off the carriage, and under the protection of guards and soldiers, began to walk towards the black forest.
Because they knew they needed to hike, Pearly, Caroline, and Sarah wore long clothes, trousers, and flat boots, which would not affect their movements.
"Wow, Sister Caroline, what kind of flower is this? It's so beautiful!"
"Sister Polly, look at the leaves of this tree. They are round, do they look like coins?"
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At first, Shala was very interested. She looked left and right, and everything was extremely fresh in her eyes. However, as time went by, her face began to turn bitter.
The forest terrain is much more difficult to walk than on the flat ground, and the walk takes more than half an hour. How has this girl ever experienced it before? It immediately tastes like pickled eggplant.
In desperation, Gray had no choice but to carry her on his back. The little girl was 1.5 meters tall and weighed just over 80 kilograms. With Gray's current physical condition, it would not be troublesome.
More than an hour later, a wooden house appeared in the field of vision of Gray and others. It was the former residence of the wanted criminal McCarthy Thompson.
There were ordinary soldiers in the team, and the marching speed was not very fast, so it took more than an hour to arrive.
"Is this the house?"
After Master Dulu looked at the house, he opened the door without hesitation and walked in.
Then his eyes stopped on the bottles and cans on the long table in the middle of the wooden house. He picked them up and looked at them one after another, especially the ones with residues inside. He looked at them carefully, wondering what the other person was looking for
"What is Master Dulu looking for? We have searched this house last time. Except for manuscripts and a few bottles of potions, we found nothing else related to refining medicine."
Caroline wondered.
"There are no specific refining steps in the manuscript. The teacher wants to use the residues on these containers to deduce the order of addition and processing method of the animal control medicine. This will save a lot of derivation time."
Pearly explained.
Everyone nodded suddenly. They didn't expect that Master Dulu had such means. No wonder they couldn't ask them to bring him here.
In order not to disturb Master Dulu, everyone dispersed and looked around the room randomly.
Gray glanced at the furniture in the room, and his brows couldn't help but frown slightly.
"Gray, did you find something?"
This small movement of Gray was noticed by Pearly. It would be better to say that she had been observing Gray. She was somewhat curious about this viscount whose talent was only slightly inferior to her elder brother.
"Someone has been here since we left."
Gray spoke up.
"Has anyone been here?"
There was some doubt in Pearly's voice, and she didn't know the basis for Gray's judgment.
"Someone has indeed been in the room before because the furniture in the room has been moved."
Bernal also discovered this, paused slightly, and expressed his guess.
"There are several villages near here. I think it is possible that hunters from nearby have been here!"
This guess was indeed very reasonable. Everyone did not continue to delve into this issue and continued to wait for Master Duru.
There is nothing valuable in this room. They had already rummaged through it when they came last time. They can return after Master Dulu has studied the bottles and jars.
"Interesting treatment, genius idea."
After a short while, Master Dulu seemed to have discovered something and said to himself.
"What a pity for McCarthy Thompson..."
"With this guy's alchemy talent, it's not impossible to become a master of alchemy in the future, but it's a pity that he has to touch the taboo..."
After muttering to himself a lot, he looked away from the bottles and jars and looked at Pearly.
"Girl, I already have some ideas for refining the animal control potion, and I plan to restore it as soon as possible. I estimate that I will stay here for a few days. Would you like to return to Sidney Castle first, or wait for a few days with me? Will I return with you?"
"Then I will stay here for a few days. Then I will return with the teacher and read those biographies."
Pearly smiled slightly, then looked at Bernal, Gray and others and said.
"Sorry, the teacher and I will probably have to mess around at Fergus Castle for a while!"
"It's our pleasure!"
Bernal said with a slight smile.
Both Master Dulu and Pearly have extremely high status in the Sidney family. If they can make friends with these two people, it will obviously be of great benefit to the Fergus family.
Apart from anything else, if they could develop a relationship with Master Dulu and sell some extra magic potions to them, the Fergus family would make a lot of money.
(End of chapter)