Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 110: Plague (Part )

Ridok returned to his home with a lot on his mind.

His home is located on the outskirts of the border city of Holstein, where Ridok has several wooden longhouses. Next to the longhouses is a medicinal garden where many necessary herbs are grown, and there are also some poultry and livestock raised nearby.

If Lidok is not at home, this place will be left to the apprentice.

Because he accepted those poor people or slaves who could not even afford a basic disease-curing magic, Ridok's main income was actually working as an adventurer in the Minotaur Empire.

You can earn enough money to survive by killing monsters, and you can also collect medicinal herbs at will.

In fact, as an adventurer, Ridok is very successful. His combat power at the level of an abnormal person is enough to be compared with Fluder in a human country. Even in the Minotaur Empire, whose overall strength is far stronger than that of human countries, his combat power is at an upper-middle level.

A man like Ridok could actually live a very good life, at least he wouldn't have to worry about money, but now he can only live in a wooden longhouse in the suburbs and has to be self-sufficient in food.

But Riddock didn't care about such things. As one of the very few geniuses who had great enthusiasm for non-magical treatment methods, Riddock's goal from the beginning was to create medical skills that everyone could use and learn, so that curing serious diseases would no longer be the patent of magic casters, and ordinary people and poor people could also master the technology to treat themselves.

Of course, with the existence of something as convenient as magic, research on herbal medicine and surgery is very backward, or there are simply few talented people willing to work hard in this area.

All this time, Ridok had been exploring on his own, until he met Festus.

After opening the door, Ridok saw Festus sitting on a rough wooden chair, pounding medicine with a pestle. Next to him was a young man with a miserable wound on his arm.

The man's right arm was bent deformed backwards, and the broken ulna broke through the constraints of the skin and flesh and protruded directly.

However, the expression on the face of the man who was so seriously injured did not look very painful. He had a long wooden pole in his mouth, and some black paste was burning at the head of the pole.

At this moment, the man was greedily inhaling the smoke from the long pole that emitted other smells. With every inhalation he took, the painful expression on his face would weaken a little, and he would become more dazed.

Ridok knew what it was. It was the plant that Festus brought over, called poppy.

This thing can provide comfort to patients in severe pain, greatly reducing their suffering, and can also be used to increase energy and find inspiration.

The best part is that this plant does not contain any magical elements at all. It is a pure and truly ordinary plant that can be grown anywhere as long as the hydrological conditions are suitable.

Lidoke has already planted a lot of it in his own medicine garden, and he plans to promote it when he has the chance.

As for whether this plant is similar to those banned narcotic products, Lidok thinks it is completely different.

The so-called anesthetics and drugs are essentially a kind of potion with special magical effects (limited to the other world). What Festus brought are ordinary plants, which are completely non-addictive and can be said to be an ideal painkiller for the poor.

In addition to the man, there were more than a dozen people in the room waiting to see a doctor. Although their conditions were not as horrific as the man's, they were not in good condition either.

Most of them are humans, with a few other kinds of subhumans.

Although most humans in the Minotaur Empire were slaves, there were also humans who had limited freedom, or should we say, serfs. Although these humans also lived a miserable life, it was still much better than ordinary slaves, and they were allowed to own their own property. However, under the extortion of the Minotaur Empire and the wanton attacks of the Minotaur people, these humans could not accumulate any property, but could go bankrupt at any time and become slaves.

Of course, there are also cases where slaves become sick or injured and their masters will ask them to come to Lidok to try their luck.

Anyway, Lidoke doesn't charge any consultation fees for treating these people. It would be best if they are cured, but it doesn't matter if they are not.

Lidok took off his bird-beak mask, lit a pack of cigarettes, and began to treat these people.

Most people here have been treated by Festus before, and Festus's skills seem incredibly advanced to Ridok. Of course, this level of advancedness is limited to the category of herbalists.

After all, no matter how hard you try, patients with fractures or various other diseases need to rest, and only magic can have an immediate therapeutic effect.

After briefly checking the conditions of these people, Ridok and Festus fixed the man's broken arm.

Most of the injured who come here recently have external injuries. After all, even if the slaves no longer care about the pain, external injuries will still affect their movements, so the slave owners will allow these slaves to come and try their luck.

Then there were the ordinary civilians without citizenship. After the slaves worked with high morale every day, they were forced to increase their daily workload.

Injury is inevitable. Some people will choose to go directly to the infected and infect themselves with that special plague to relieve the pain. However, those who are skeptical about the plague will still come here to find Ridok, hoping to get his treatment.

After treating all the patients, Ridok left them in the room to rest, and he and Festus went to the medicine garden outside the house.

"How's it going? Have you made up your mind?"

Festus asked first.

"Are you sure that if you add a few leeches to the patients' diet, you can change the nature of the plague and make the strange excitement disappear?"

Ridok confirmed again.

"Of course. Weren't you the one who led the previous experiment? The effect is very obvious. Moreover, after eating leeches, the patient will pass on his or her normal state to other people, just like an infection."

"It will not work on people who haven't contracted the plague, only on those who have."

Lidok pondered for a moment again and then said, "Then the side effect of this plague is that the pain that had been ignored before will reappear, and the infected will be uncomfortable because of the sudden severe pain."

"We can say that this is a controllable plague. If it weren't for the fact that this effect might last for more than an hour, we could just say it's a cure."

"Okay, let's do it. We must let the residents of this increasingly crazy city know that it is a plague and not a good thing. What they should do is isolate themselves instead of deliberately infecting them."

Lidok made up his mind and decided to do it tonight.

(End of this chapter)