Forests Don't Support Idle Goblins

"But before you..." Musa looked at the goblin in front of him with a sad tone. Although the goblin smiled confidently and sunnyly, making it impossible to equate him with the ferocious little monsters that ordinary people talked about, this smile gave Uncle Musa a hallucination. He seemed to see the confident, sunny, and sometimes quirky young man from before sitting in front of him.

"It's just a small problem." Charles waved his hand. "We can definitely handle it in the future, and Vivian has a magic teacher, doesn't she?"

"Speaking of which," Musa quickly put away his sorrowful expression, "Miss Vivian is currently in Plantagenet City."

Charles frowned. "What's she doing there? Isn't that little idiot wanted too?"

Uncle Musa gave a warm smile, recalling Vivian's previous letters and their several exchanges. "Miss has grown up; she's no longer the girl you used to tease."

"She can tell the difference between a live crab and a dead crab now?" Charles raised an eyebrow, recalling his past playful antics with his sister. This made Uncle Musa laugh heartily, further confirming that the goblin in front of him was indeed young master Charles.

"She went to the capital for you, Master Charles." Uncle Musa chuckled and leaned forward. "In her letter to me, Miss Vivian said that she was going to the City of Goldflower to find an arcane archmage. She wanted to use divination and prophecy to confirm your situation, or even find you."

"Well, it seems that the archmage was indeed quite powerful." Charles smiled and spread his hands, meaning that he hadn't been found yet.

"No," Musa waved his hand with a smile, "The archmage only confirmed a few times that you were in the forest and even predicted that you would not be in any immediate danger, but they could not confirm your specific situation. The letter said that there seemed to be some powerful force preventing them from visiting you."

"Powerful force?" Charles pursed his lips. This answer was somewhat unexpected, but Sophia had mentioned the divinity she had discovered during her mind-reading. "What powerful force prevented others from probing me?"

"But I'm not in any immediate danger, am I?" He didn't dwell too much on the "divinity" hidden behind him, but was very interested in divination. "In other words, I won't have any problems leading my men on their campaigns through the forest."

"Well, young master, you know I don't know much about magic," Musa said with an apologetic smile. "For specific details, I think we'll need to ask someone who knows magic, or just ask Vivian directly."

After saying that, he looked Charles up and down.

Charles knew that the other man wanted to ask Vivian if there was a way to solve his goblin transformation problem, but Uncle Musa didn't want to upset him, so he didn't ask. He smiled and said, "It's nothing, don't worry too much about my current situation. I think I can ask Vivian about the prophecy, but let's not tell her about my goblin transformation yet. On the one hand, even if we tell her, she probably won't have any good solutions. On the other hand, the goblin identity is still a great help to me right now."

Agatha had previously mentioned to him that resolving the evil transformation curse was extremely troublesome. If he told Vivian, it would undoubtedly push his sister into a dangerous situation. It would be better for him to focus on developing his own strength first, and then contact those powerful archmages to solve the problem once and for all after his sister's personal strength had steadily improved.

"Should we not tell Miss yet?" Uncle Musa frowned. "Wouldn't that...?"

"It's nothing, uncle. She's practicing magic now and needs a safer environment. I've heard that magicians sometimes cause some kind of magical plague, and if it happens too often, it can even kill people. I'm doing fine now and will be safe for the foreseeable future, so there's no need to put her in danger."

"You two siblings are really something," Musa sighed. "When you used to argue, the whole castle could hear you. Now that something's happened, you're always talking about each other."

Charles looked at Uncle Musa in front of him. He heard the man talking about his sister. Although he had never met her in person since he transmigrated, only having a picture in the necklace pendant, he felt a surge of comfort at the thought of his sister after merging his memories. "It seems that bringing her those pretty seashells every time I went back to the castle was still useful."

Musa smiled and shook his head, looking at him like he was watching a child, but then he immediately remembered something, "Oh right, Vivian's letter specifically mentioned Red Bull."

"Red Bull?" Charles paused, taken aback. "Did you give her some when you brought it back?"

"Yes, not only did she drink it, but her teacher and that arcane archmage in the royal city also drank it." Musa's tone was somewhat excited. "I'm so sorry, I burned that letter after I read it. If only it were still here."

"That's nothing, safety is more important," Charles immediately waved his hand and said. He wasn't someone who didn't know what was important. "What's the assessment of Red Bull in the letter?"

"Well, the letter said," Musa recalled for a few seconds, "that it was a shocking aphrodisiac drink."

Charles was stunned. He leaned back slightly, never expecting to hear such a comment from Uncle Musa.

"I've had it a few times, and apart from feeling excited, I didn't really feel anything special," he muttered, then glanced down at himself.

"Miss Vivian said that Red Bull can quickly restore energy, which has a better effect on magical mental power. As for aphrodisiacs," Musa thought of what was said in the letter, and shook his head with a smile, "it was said by that arcane archmage. He meant that Red Bull can accelerate blood flow and effectively relieve fatigue. If it is combined with some deer blood, it can have an aphrodisiac effect, and this effect has no side effects."

"This..." Charles was speechless. He never expected that the drink he created to turn his subordinates into "oxen and horses" would have such a strange "unexpected development".

"The letter also said that a blue, star-shaped alchemical drug is popular in Golden Flower City now. It's said to be an aphrodisiac, but it has significant side effects." Musa's smile faded, and he held up two fingers. "It's only this big, but one piece costs two gold coins."

"Two gold coins?" Charles raised an eyebrow, then he remembered someone, "That arcane archmage, could it be named Afif?"

"Yes, that's what the letter said," Uncle Musa thought for a moment, then nodded.

Charles's lips twitched, and he immediately said, "Go back and write a letter right away, telling Vivian to stay away from that old lecher. No, I'll write it myself."

I highly recommend "The Forest Doesn't Keep Idle Goblins"! Go straight to the exciting parts.