Chapter 218 – The Good Guy and the Bad Guy

Early in the morning, Jace arrived at the door of the Slaughtered Lamb Tavern carrying a bag containing his cloak.

He planned to visit Larson’s clothing store as soon as he emerged from the slaughtered lamb.

Walking into the tavern, surprisingly, there was no one there.

Zare poked his head out from behind the counter and asked, “Who?”

“Do you just ask who the guest is every time?” Jess asked.

“You brat.” Zare pointed to the door and said, “Didn’t you see the sign, what time is it, who opens their eyes first thing in the morning and runs to the tavern to drink? Someone with such a strong addiction to alcohol can’t open their eyes at this point in the morning in the first place.”

“Okay.” Jess said, “Are they all there?”

“So are those guys.” Zare said, “No one’s there but Ursula.”

“Okay.” Jess said, “It’s Ursula I’m looking for.”

Zare said, “That’s not good enough, Jace, she’s been in the basement all this time and rarely goes out at night.”

“I see, I’ll go down then, have a good day of business.”

Jace said and left the counter.

Zare grunted as he set his glass up and said, “Welcome back, Jace Sesso.”

Jace looked back at him and nodded, continuing on to the basement. Passing through the layers of metal cell doors, Jace looked at the passageway here and felt like he should have gotten a little magic rune, or a blindfold like those forests around Quel’daniel to cover it up a bit, or else it would have been too easy to spot.

Just as Zare had said, the basement hall was empty, but the sound of gurgling water could be heard in the passageway beside it, along with the subtle movement of wooden spoons against the walls of the crucible.

Jace walked up to the door of the alchemy room and watched Ursula squatting in front of the boiling crucible in a little undershirt, staring intently at the curled pages of a book with a spoon in one hand, in the manner of an old forest hag.

“Ms. Ursula.”

Hearing a voice behind her, Ursula snapped her head back to see Jace and sighed, “I thought the two of us were friends.”

Jess asked a little confused, “We’re just friends, why do you say that.”

“Why didn’t you tell me when you left?”

Ursula said going back to the pot and stirring it twice, pouring some unreadable liquid into it to cool the boiling pot all at once, and leaning back against the shelf behind her.

Her long black hair was soaking wet against her scalp and covered in soaked sweat, as if she’d just run out of the shower in a little tank top that should have been see-through and shouldn’t have been.

Jace scratched his head and said, “I told Galdus, he said something pretty scary, something about screwing me if I don’t come back or something like that, so how dare I stick around here much longer.”

Ursula gave a bitter laugh and said, “Galdus is that way, tell me, what will it take to make it up to me?”

Jace sighed and asked, “Is this all about compensation?”

Ursula glared up and said, “I helped you make medicine and told you how to get mana potions …… and also promised to teach you alchemy, but in the end, you left for two months without even saying a word, you are also too not taking me seriously.”

“Forget it, you little brat, what you want is nothing.” She laughed softly and said, “Say, what did you come to see me for, it’s not just to say hello, is it?”

When Ursula said that, Jace was at a loss for words for a moment.

What she said really wasn’t too much at all; she had asked for her help before and left without a goodbye, and it did seem like too much of a slight.

“I’m sorry …… Ursula, it was my fault.” Jace said.

“Say what you have to say, don’t we reciprocate? Isn’t that the spirit of the Dagger Society?” Ursula said with a bit of a sneer, and after that she began to organize the materials on the cabinet.

Jace nodded and said, “I’ll get right to it then, do you have any more Shadow Protection potions here?”

“Five silver bottles.”

“Ah ……”

“And you want to take it for nothing?” Ursula glared back, “It’s fine if you don’t take the materials, it’s nothing for me to help you make a few bottles for free of something so simple and straightforward, ah, right, you’ll be doing it yourself so you don’t even have the materials …… You kid really want to take it for nothing, don’t you? This time how have to help me do something.”

Jace leaned against the wall behind him and said, “So what do you want me to do for you, tell me and I’ll try to help you.”

“I need a little gunpowder.” Ursula said.

“Huh? Gunpowder? Gagin wants to rebel against the soldiers, huh?” Jace asked.

Ursula shook her head and said, “What I want is not those inferior crude gunpowder, but a special kind of gunpowder, Black Iron Dwarf’s gunpowder to be exact.”

“What’s different about Black Iron Dwarf gunpowder?”

“I heard the Copperbeard Dwarves say that the Black Iron Dwarves infused their gunpowder with some from the bottom of the Black Stone Mountain, special fire elemental energy, making their firearms quite outrageous in power, and now I need a material that can trigger intense combustion, and I’ve tried a few that don’t work well, including general gunpowder, so I want to take a look at their secret weapon… …”

“Isn’t this too much?” Jace said, “You want me to have a Dark Hearth City adventure?”

He thought to himself “I’m still figuring out how to kill Hogg right now, and you’re directly telling me to go fuck Blackstone Abyss, wouldn’t that be a move that’s a double blitz and triple crush?

“Of course not.” Ursula said, “you just go to the north side of the Red Ridge Mountain to see, don’t have to go to that plain, look for the abandoned camp of the black iron dwarves, see if they have any gunpowder left behind on the line, before because of the matter of the war of the orcs, quite a lot of black iron dwarves villages and camps, and even mines have been thrown directly there, and now they’re over there with the orcs to tangle with the …… even less time to recover the lost land, this is not just let you pick up the leakage?”

“As long as?” Jace said, “You think I don’t know what state that area is in? Tell you what, I’m going to try, I don’t guarantee that I can really get it, and if I do, you’ll have to do my medicine for free from now on ……”

“Yes.” Ursula said.

Jace asked unhappily, “So you know it’s dangerous enough, right? Why else did you agree so quickly?”

Ursula couldn’t help but let out a laugh when she heard him say that and said, “It is indeed dangerous, so what else do you think we should do? How about this?”

She gave a sudden tug on her tank top halter, and Jace’s heart poofed violently as he watched his right snow-white breast pop out at once.

Jace covered his right eye, rubbed a handful of his face and sighed, “Ursula, I value our friendship, can you not make us as confused as those of them.”

Ursula pulled the straps back and looked at him and smiled and said, “Why are you so unamused? What a sweet, nice young man.”

Jace said bitterly, “It’s not a matter of good chap or bad chap, I want the potion! It wasn’t my offer to see it, it can’t be against the potion!”

“Here you go here you go!” Ursula scowled back as she pulled open the cabinet and took four vials of Shadow Protection Potion and packed them into a small child and added a Mana Potion and shoved it at Jace saying, “One more for you.”

Jace nodded, “Thanks, I’ll get you more herbs.”

“Okay, okay, that’s all secondary. Remember me, don’t give me a sneaky discount like last time, watch out for me ……” Ursula lifted her spoon and shook it.

“So what, it’s pretty, just a little small.”

“Get the fuck outta here! Get out!”