However, when Joanna heard Chen Rui's words, she looked at him in surprise. Then Joanna faced Meluti and said respectfully: "Mr. Meluti, maybe - there are really treasures nearby!"

“Hmm?”

When Meluti heard this, she was slightly stunned, and then stared at Joanna with Chen Rui in confusion.

After clearing his throat twice, Joanna explained: "You know, in the past, it is possible to say that there are treasures here within the scope of the king's ruins!"

"What is the ruins of the king?"

Chen Rui immediately asked Joanna curiously. When Joanna heard this, she glanced at Chen Rui, then sneered and asked, "Is it interesting to keep pretending to be stupid?"

Chen Rui was speechless. He really didn't know why he had been pretending to be stupid when he arrived at Joanna's place?

"The ruins of the king, also known as the King's Battlefield, were once the place where humans and orcs broke out in tragic wars! Many years ago, the dragon was still in a sleepy state, and the development of human beings also reached its peak and continued to expand outward!"

Meluti took the initiative to explain: "At that time, under the leadership of King Leo, the human army invaded the orc territory and defeated the orc army's legion, King Leo established a huge fortress on the orc territory. The fortress was called the Miracle Fortress, but the good times did not last long. The orcs destroyed the Miracle Fortress a few years later, and then the orcs turned the entire Miracle Fortress into ruins, and re-established their homes on the ruins!"

Chen Rui lit his head when he heard this.

Joanna kept looking at Chen Rui, and she sneered in her heart. Looking at this guy, he pretended to be like that!

"And the king at that time, His Majesty Leo, ordered that he would not retreat and resist the orcs to the death, but the orcs were coming in full force, and the human legion could not resist at all. At that time, many soldiers chose to retreat when facing the orcs-" Meluti said with a serious expression: "King Leo saw that the defeat was decided, but he still did not order to retreat. In fact, it was impossible to withdraw at that time, so King Leo used a taboo evil magic to refine his men, including Leo himself, into undead. Until today, there are still many undead wandering in the center of the king's ruins. They will attack all living things entering the center of the king's ruins!"

"This king is cruel enough!"

Chen Rui had no choice but to sigh and refine himself and his subordinates into undead. This—

"If the dragon hadn't woken up from its sleep later, all races on the continent would have been forced to join forces, otherwise, humans and orcs might have broken out into a larger and more tragic war!"

Meluti finished explaining and continued: "And from ancient times to the present, people have mixed opinions about King Leo's behavior. Some people praise him for his courage to never retreat, while others call him a demon! And it is said that there are endless treasures in the center of the King's Ruins! However, no one can enter the center of the King's Ruins! Even the legendary wizard cannot do it!"

"Okay, let's not discuss the issue of the King's Ruins now." Meluti finished speaking and asked again: "Captain Joanna, may I ask, do you know how to alchemy?"

"Won't!"

Joanna shook her head, and after answering, she asked back, "I'm very curious, why did Lord Meluti ask me if I can do alchemy?"

"If there is an alchemist, you may be able to detect what is wrong with the land here!" Meluti said: "According to the old people in the village, they had paid money together before and went to the Alchemist Guild to ask the Alchemist to find out the problem, but the only one who came here was to train an alchemist apprentice, and the alchemist apprentice could not find out any problems!"

"Those capable alchemists are all people with eyes on their heads. They are simply short of them and have not seen them with their nostrils!" Joanna said: "It is not an ordinary difficulty to invite them!"

Meluti did not refute Joanna's words.

"The game system is generating temporary dynamic tasks, please wait-"

"Task generation, publishing-"

"E-level difficult task: find out the reason why the land becomes barren, time limit: twenty days, task completion reward: 800 experience, 800 gold coins of the game, and failure punishment: unconscious for fifteen days, the body enters a weak state."

A mission appears again?

And it is an E-level difficult task?

Still have time limits?

Chen Rui was surprised. He didn't know anything now. How can I find out why the land became barren?

Moreover, the reward for this E-level task is obviously better than defeating Joanna's E-level difficult task, but correspondingly, the better the reward, the higher the difficulty!

"If you want to invite a junior alchemist, you have to ask for hundreds of gold coins. If you want to invite an intermediate alchemist, you may have to spend thousands of gold coins. If you want to invite a senior alchemist, the price is probably-" Joanna stopped talking and looked embarrassed. When Chen Rui saw this, it was nothing strange. Meluti said two days ago that although the magician and knight professions in this world are the most popular, the most profitable among all professions is the alchemist!

An intermediate alchemist can sell hundreds or even thousands of gold coins whenever he sells it. However, it is much more difficult to become an alchemist than a magician!

Can Andrea be considered a genius, right?

But according to Meluti, even Andrea had learned alchemy from the great alchemist, but in the end, the great alchemist said that Andrea had no possibility of becoming an alchemist. It was precisely because of this that Andrea finally chose to practice magic and practice the way of knights at the same time!

"Although I brought some money here, it was only about a thousand gold coins, and this was something I had saved quietly over the years!" Meluti said with a slightly ugly expression now: "If the problem of barren land can be solved, I will find another opportunity to eliminate the robbers occupying the mine veins and mine the mine veins. I think I should be able to upgrade this village to a small town in the shortest time! Complete the family assessment!"

The family assessment that Meluti accepted was to upgrade this poor village to a small town within two years!

However, the most basic requirement of a small town is that the per capita income is more than 60 gold coins and a long-term population of 5,000.

When Chen Rui heard this, it would be impossible to accept it. The money that Meluti had saved secretly over the years actually had nearly a thousand gold coins. Chen Rui was very curious about how much pocket money this Meluti had in the Duke's Mansion in a year?

"Ahem—"

Chen Rui coughed lightly, gritted his teeth and asked, "How about you, let me find out the reason why the land becomes barren?"

When Joanna and Meluti heard this, they both widened their eyes. The two of them stared at Chen Rui with surprise. Then the two women looked at each other and blurted out in unison and asked, "Are you an alchemist?"

"No, but I can learn alchemy! Start from scratch!"

"..." Joanna was speechless for a while before speaking seriously: "Do you think alchemy can be learned just by wanting to learn? If everyone could learn alchemy, then I would have learned alchemy long ago. Moreover, there must have been alchemists everywhere on the continent. Alchemy rune weapons and alchemy potions would not be so expensive!"

Chen Rui heard this and blinked at Joanna, then smiled and said, "Captain Joanna, what you can't do doesn't mean I can't do it. Maybe what if I can really learn alchemy?"

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Chapter completed!