Chapter 18

Allan was in the middle of a small and dark alley, the buildings to the sides were sad to see and the ground was littered with garbage and dirt, nothing to do with the wide and clean main street of the city.

In front of Allan was a small shop with a crooked sign in which words could barely be seen, if you concentrated you could read 'Roderick's shop for potions and other concoctions'.

That's right, Allan was in front of the alchemist's shop.

As he stared at the pathetic exterior of the store, Allan remembered his conversation with Fred.

...

Seeing Fred Allan's reaction, he said surprised:

"I've heard that animal bones are used in potions, so I wanted to sell him the rabbit bones."

Fred stared at Allan for a few seconds after which he sighed and said:

"For a moment I thought you were one of those guys who wanted to learn alchemy, personally I would not recommend that you get too close to that person"

"Why? Allan asked with genuine confusion.

"Let's just say his reputation isn't exactly good, but it's also because he hates foreigners," Fred replied as he prepared to put his knife on the table.

"For some strange reason most foreigners end up contacting him in one way or another, and most of these foreigners are not exactly known for being calm and considerate to others, without offending" said Fred when he noticed who he was telling the story to. story.

"None takes" Allan replied without offense, after all it was the truth.

"What do you mean, he has a dubious reputation?" Allan asked, suspecting where this story was going.

"Roderick, the alchemist, was not born here, one day he appeared out of nowhere and set up a shop in one of the worst areas of the town.

Strangely none of the people in the area wanted to know anything about his after his first visit to ... collect taxes "

After trying to remember a little more Fred continued:

"The gossips say that Roderick is a practitioner of black magic and that he cursed those thugs in a terrible way that made them not even able to walk upright after hearing his name.

After these rumors spread, the citizens wanted to expel Roderick from the town, imagine when someone stopped them, to everyone's surprise, the person who stopped them was our mayor !!! "

"That's weird? Allan asked.

In Allan's opinion, a mayor who stopped an angry mob to save someone deserved admiration, but the expression on Fred's face was one of surprise, not admiration.

"Let me give you an example, it would be more likely that a meteor shower with the same number as the inhabitants of our city would fall on us and hit each person living here at the same time with the force and size necessary for each meteorite to kill the person on whom it fell and that we all die that our mayor saved someone by chance "said Fred with clear contempt for the mayor.

"You don't seem to like him very much," said Allan.

"That fat man has not moved from his residence since he took office, the person who takes care of most of the problems of the city is the chief of the guards, Captain Smith" answered Fred.

"But if he's useless, why don't you put in a new mayor?" Allan said.

After all, Tutorial Island does not have him like a king or an army, if the inhabitants of the town do not like the mayor and the captain of the guards, the only military power in the town, is the one who takes care of all the It would be reasonable for matters to have expelled the mayor from office.

"Beats me" said Fred crossing his shoulders "Politics I suppose, not something a butcher like myself can meddle in, but we are straying from the topic, let's get back to Roderick."

Fred told Allan that after the mayor reassured the citizens of the city, he promised that Roderick would not cause any problems, and that if he were to happen the mayor himself would kick him out, since then few people have seen the alchemist outside his shop and no similar incident has ever been heard of.

The story was clear to Allan, Roderick had a mysterious background that even the mayor had absolute terror of, together with the rumors and suspicious behavior of the alchemist it is inevitable that some players feel that there is some hidden quest with great rewards for the person who gets to solve it.

This has caused the players to invade the store, and considering Roderick's antisocial attitude it was inevitable that what happened.

After saying goodbye to Fred, Allan headed to the alchemist's shop.

...

After finishing remembering, Allan walked slowly into the store.

CREACK

The wood of the door was rotten and the sound it made against the floor was unpleasant.

Upon entering, the first thing he saw were shelves on both sides of the room that covered what Allan guessed were the windows as there was hardly any light entering the interior of the store.

The only source of light came from a small floating crystal on a table a little further on where Roderick is supposed to receive customers, but no one was there.

Allan approached the reception and when he got to the table he said:

"Hello! Is there someone?"

"Here"

"AHHH !!!"

Suddenly a voice was heard behind Allan due to which Allan let out a little high-pitched scream or not.

Probably not.

Allan turned and saw a person a short distance from him, staring at him and with most of his body wrapped in what looked like some kind of robe.

Before Allan could say anything, he realized he had a dagger touching his neck, it would be just a flick of the wrist to make his head fly off his shoulders.

"What are you doing here stranger? Yours are not welcome here "said the figure hidden in the shadows of the store as that pair of bright eyes continued to watch his every move.

"Are you Roderick, the alchemist?" Allan asked.

Suddenly the dagger came a little closer to Allan's neck making him bleed.

"You have not answered my question" continued the figure in the same tone that has been throughout the conversation.

"I came because I heard that alchemists buy animal bones for their potions," Allan said as he remained calm.

After all, no matter how realistic, Allan's life is not at risk, so players can maintain a degree of peace of mind when faced with situations like these.

"And what do you have?" asked the figure.

"Rabbits," Allan said sincerely.

"I'm not interested, come back when you bring at least s wolf"

Swish

You are dead

Allan woke up in his capsule, opened his eyes, got up form the capsule and said:

"That could have been better"