I opened a clinic in the Abyss World

August left first to go back to class; he was equally helpless regarding the curse on Kasha.

However, he promised Charlotte that he would keep an eye on news from within the Light Magicians Association and would compile some information about the Mist of Resentment for her, which she could obtain from him the next time she went to Calva.

See, it's not necessarily a bad thing to curry favor with powerful figures occasionally.

"Disciple, I have cured your friend. You should become my disciple now." As soon as August left, Adolf looked at Vivian with a smug expression and said.

Jacques smiled as he looked at Vivian, this exceptionally talented girl who was about to become his junior sister.

Vivian asked earnestly, "You said I could stay at the Abyss Medical Clinic, and you wouldn't announce to anyone that I'd become your apprentice, right?"

"That's right, these are the conditions I proposed myself. As long as you become my disciple, I will keep my promise." Adolf nodded.

"Master!" Vivian called out sweetly.

"Good disciple, very good." Adolf grinned from ear to ear, took out a spatial ring inlaid with pink diamonds and handed it over, saying, "This is your master's gift for your apprenticeship."

Charlotte's eyes widened in disbelief. The pink diamond, sparkling and as big as a fingernail, must have cost at least several million copper coins. It was clear that the internal space of that spatial ring was quite large.

This master is so generous; he's almost tempted to become his disciple.

"Thank you, Master." Vivian happily accepted the ring, put it on her finger, and it shone brightly. Then she turned her gaze to Jacques and called out expectantly, "Senior Brother."

"Junior sister, this is a small gift from me. It's not as precious as Master's, but I hope you won't mind." Jacques proudly took out a stack of talismans from his spatial ring and handed them to Vivian.

"Thank you, senior brother. I don't mind at all. The talismans you gave me are very useful." Vivian smiled as she accepted the stack of talismans, which numbered about twenty or thirty, and put them into her spatial ring.

"Master, do you need any more apprentices?" Charlotte couldn't help but ask timidly.

Adolf glanced at him and said, "If you had come to me three years ago, I probably would have given it serious consideration."

Vivian becoming Adolf's apprentice was a joyous occasion, and for Charlotte, the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.

His status as the Grand Elder of the Adolf Physicians' Association at least allowed him to understand this enemy better.

Adolf took Vivian aside and began to arrange the teaching schedule with great enthusiasm.

A moment later, Charlotte felt a cold gaze fixed on her. Turning around, she met Adolf's dark-faced gaze.

  

"Good heavens, you've really squeezed my naive and inexperienced apprentice dry. He sees patients at the clinic in the morning and has to go to the apothecary to concoct medicines in the afternoon," Adolf said in a deep voice.

Charlotte said without changing her expression, "This is not something I'm forcing. It's a good thing for young people to be ambitious. Besides, there's still time in the evening."

Vivian nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, I like my current job, Master. How about we study magic tonight? It won't interfere with my earning money."

Adolf's face darkened even more. What kind of apprentice had he found? He was being sold out and was even laughing as he helped the seller count the money.

In the end, Adolf had no choice but to cooperate with Vivian and come to teach her magic for three hours every night.

"Goodbye, Master, Senior Brother." Vivian saw Adolf and Jacques to the door, closed the clinic door, and waved the sparkling pink diamond spatial ring on her hand in front of Charlotte. "Isn't it sparkly?"

"It's going to blind me," Charlotte said with a hint of bitterness. "How big is the internal space of this ring?"

"About... about the size of the hall," Vivian said after a moment's thought.

Charlotte fell silent. The hall was about fifty square meters in size and had a ceiling height of five meters, which meant that Vivian's spatial ring was at least 200 cubic meters.

The space ring on his hand currently only has 3m³ of space.

"Thank you, you saved me again." Martha said solemnly, looking at Charlotte and Vivian.

"Why bring this up? We're friends," Vivian said with a smile.

"You got injured while helping me gather herbs, so it's only right that I save you," Charlotte said gently.

Martha nodded and said, "I've decided. I'll work at the potion workshop for an extra month as a way of repaying you."

Charlotte did not refuse her offer; no capitalist can refuse a reliable source of labor.

After a quick dinner, the tired girls went back to their rooms, while Charlotte, unable to sleep, went to the laboratory.

The three gold-eating rats in the cage stayed put, clearly wary of the seemingly delicate but thorny grass, and therefore dared not approach the bars.

"If we plant this grass outside the city walls, will it be able to deter magical beasts from approaching to some extent? Is it effective against those demonized magical beasts on the night of the Red Moon? And is it effective against high-level magical beasts?" Charlotte couldn't help but wonder.

Charlotte quickly checked the materials encyclopedia but couldn't find this thorny herb, so its medicinal properties were unknown.

However, based on Martha's own experience, when she went out of control due to demonic possession, she rolled into a haystack, got pricked by thorns, and regained her sanity.

It is evident that this thorny grass can, to some extent, cure demonic possession.

I just don't know how effective it will be when refined into a potion.

He named this thorny grass "networm". When he transplanted the grass that morning, he was accidentally pricked and had already experienced that pungent feeling, which was even worse than that of the nettle.

Take a small amount of nettle grass and simmer it in a small pot to make a green medicinal liquid for later use.

Charlotte decided to venture into the wilderness again tomorrow morning.

Martha had just encountered a necromancer and almost lost her life, so he dared not let her venture into the abyss again at night.

However, there are not enough gold-eating rats for the experiment at present, so he has to go there himself and catch a few more.

The night of the red moon is the day after tomorrow, and he needs to make some preparations in advance.

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, Charlotte said goodbye to Vivian and went into the wilderness alone.

He had obtained the location of the Gold-Eating Rat's den from Martha, a rocky mountain fifty miles to the west on the outskirts of the wilderness.

In less than an hour, he found a black stone mountain full of holes. The black stone was rich in iron and extremely hard, but it had been gnawed into holes of different sizes by the gold-eating rats.

These caves are only half a meter high, making it difficult for people to enter.

Moreover, because the stone is hard, the previous method of kicking over the stone to force the gold-eating rat to appear is no longer effective.

So Charlotte took a bewildered Anna out of her pocket, placed her at the entrance of a hole, patted her head, and said, "I've been raising a cat for a thousand days, now I'm using it for this one. Anna, go and chase all the mice out of here."

"Meow?" Anna glanced at him.

"I'll reward you with a roast chicken when we get back at noon," Charlotte promised.

"Meow." Anna nodded human-like, then strode into the cave with her head held high.

Moments later, a large swarm of gold-eating rats fled in panic from their various burrows, numbering in the hundreds...