Chapter 150.1
Kirli Trading Company
Where did you get this?”
That day, one of Kirli Trading Company’s foremen, a man called “Jed the Apothecary,” was confronted by a pair of strange women.
The Kirli Trading Company, which controls 70% of the food, liquor, and other necessities of life in the desert town of Cutlass, has various divisions, but the “apothecary,” of which Jed is the head, buys materials collected by adventurers from the Hogloss Trading Company, processes them into medicines, and then sells them to adventurers and wealthy residents.
Then, Jed heard a strange rumor. It was then that a pair of young women he had never seen before came to him selling potions.
Basically, “medicine shops” buy materials, but not medicines. If the medicines were still usable, they would sell them to the poor residents at a high price, instead of offering them to the public.
However, these young women left what they considered to be lower-grade potions free of charge.
Although they were of a lower grade, these potions could restore a person’s weakened strength, close wounds, and heal shallow wounds in a few days without leaving any scars. Not only that, but unless it was special, even illnesses could be cured after only a few days of sleep.
In this world, where the greater the magic power, the less likely one is to get sick or injured, recovery potions were the most familiar medicine.
However, even at the lower levels, a potion would cost a silver coin. Especially in this desert town, it is a luxury item that costs three silver coins.
This is because the ingredients are scarce. If it were a country or region with a lot of nature, there would be no problem, but only monsters are living in this desert, and it would not be easy to collect them.
Alchemists who could create potions were also rare. It was not because there were few alchemists, but because it was safer and cheaper to work in a normal country than to work in an illegal town in a desert like this.