Magic Cultivation

Chapter 34.5: A ghost pharmacy

"Well to simple put it, it's a*****e where well sell drugs to cute illnessess but we don't have such... but what we have is my healing magic, aren't uou interested in helping me sister Maria..?" I remember telling this to them but I wasn't sure if they fully agreed to it yet.

"Hmm... I want to but..."

"Oh come on sister Maria... we already heard this earlier from Nyx and that he wanted us to help him and weren't you the one who said that it was a steal for all the people to have their limbs and missing body parts back..?"

"I-I know Paul... but some just don't have a coin to spare..." I can feel and agree to what sister Maria said, but still I wanted my plans to progress much faster so I need all the help and money I can take.

"I know what you are thinking sister Maria, you can rest assure that every and single one of them can be healed..."

"Eh..? hear that sister Maria..?"

"Tsk... Paul!"

"Paul... Don't... don't interfere with what they are about to talk to... let's leave them be and talk it out, let's just listen to them"

"Hear that Paul..? Lisa is right let's leave them be for now"

"Arghhh... Y-yes but... my ears..! it hurts Ayesha..! have mercy!"

"Haha... uhm... like I said sister Maria I want to have this so called "pharmacy" but we'll only be opperating at night to keep our identity a secret and I need you as a "sister" to help me make an image that you are the one who's healing them... wait sister Maria aren't you a sister..? then can't you use healing magic..?" As I was hesling the beast man I remembered a fact, in the animr and novel sisters would have the power of healing magic because they are blessed by their god.

"No I cant, I'm only a sister on training I might be sent by the church but this is for experience... plus, I'm also just an orphan..."

"Your an orphan..?! A-aren't you a sister..?" I was shocked to hear this from sister Maria, I thought she was a sister sent from the church to manage an orphan so that means twelve are still small kids while Ayesha, Paul and Lisa are their big brothers then... that's fifteen, then with sister Maria that's sixteen so that means there are other sisters.

I got a big question mark on my head, I didn't know this was the twist when I "bought" companions.

"U-Uh-huh... it seems Lisa and the rest forgot to mention it to you... you should know that 1 gold coin is already the whole income of a normal commoner for a whole 4-5 years... ahem I'll explain to you how currency works then Nyx"

"1 Bronze coin- 10 Zen, in yuan is 100 yuan

Zen- The currency of the continent of eden.

1 Silver coin- 100 Zen, 5,000 yuan

1 Gold coin- 1000 Zen, 50,000 yuan

"Zen- 1 Zen would only buy you candies at a*****e wich would be, around at 50 yuan"

1 Big bronze coin- 20 Zen, 1,000 yuan

1 Big Silver coin- 500 Zen, 25,000 yuan

1 Big Golden coin- 4000 Zen, 200,000 yuan"

"Ahem, as I said Zen is the messurement of how much a coin value or a certain things value, like food if you buy pork it would usually cost 2 bronze coins which is 20 zen I know it might sound so expensive, but it is because bronze, iron, silver, and gold can be used in alchemy and magic or creating special weapons and armors so it isn't hard to imagine that the currency circulation is pretty bad that's why currency has a pretty high value and so morr does 1 god coin..." I hope Nyx and the rest can understand this while they are young so they won't take money as granted.

"Hmm... I didn't know that 1 gold coin would be so valuable... should I increase the fee for healing a limb then..?" Now I finally understand why those meager two gold coins was enough to buy the whole orphanage, I wasn't so shocked since back in the immortal world spiritual stones or QI stone are used as currency and I had billions of them since I couldn't use a single of them except for only cultivation.

"What..? I-I hope you don't take money as granted Nyx..." This kid, it might be reasonable for him to charge people so much as even the church can't do as only 1 gold coin for restoring a limb, it is already considered a miracle.

"Well, sister Maria as now I heard that money value so much then... it is only reasonablr for Nyx to charge so much..!" Hehe, if we can have so much money then I'm sure we can always eat good foods and travel around the world wahahahaha.

"Hmm, Mmn... Paul is right, and when I'm done I can use the rest of the money to help the village you know..?" I gave sister Maria a sly look and it maybe convince her but the two innocent angels just couldn't.

"N-Nyx..!" I saw Lisa's cute face begging me to not do anything such as extorting the people's money.

"A-Ahem... N-Nyx... I know you might want to have money at a young age but...but..." I couldn't help but sigh, with this two angels I just couldn't do such things as extorting but I just can't also be giving a free service I don't do donations like those weak a*s MC's on some harem novel and anime.

"I'm just joking, but still I want to help people..." I wanna do trading and let herbs and other goods that can help me have more money in a short time so I could go to my next plan, enhancing this village.

"Hmm... you said that earlier Nyx but... but I don't know what you mean by helping people..? is it healing them?" I looked at sister Maria, how naive and innocent I couldn't help but shake my head in disagreement.

"Nope... you'll see soon, anyway hesling this beast man's wounds is exhausting... Argh..." I wanted to act as if I was exhausted and try to convince them how tough it was to heal somebody, so I deliberately made my mana circulation slower to make my tegeneration spell weaker and appear to be slowly healing the beast man.

"Are you really exhausted..?" I heard Paul's question and was glad this lad had the same idea with mine and I winked to him to signal that we should make a fake conversation to make sister Maria, Ayesha and Lisa believe the two of us.

"Y-yeah... it's hard healing "SOMEONE"..."

"Huh... that must be tough Nyx... I hope you'll get a reward from god~"

"Yeah... I hope "WE" do..."

*BONK!*

"You two... I clearly daw you two winking at each other, sister Maria can't you put a spell to put this two into a state where they can only listen to us and not deny our orders..?" I didn't expected that Ayesha would notice our fool proof plan and used such violent move to KO the two of us.

After an hour later.

"Guh... I seem to have saw a beast attacked me..."

"Y-you too Paul..?" I noticed that the two of us were still lying of the wooden floor, this just confirms that our relationship started to get better.

After all that happen Lisa and Ayesha let my mom know I was at the orphanage playing with them and a few minutes later she took me away and I was quite hesitant to leave but my mom was already angry so I didn't dare resist, one could see my tearful eyes at those moment.

"Nyx how did you got to the orphanage so early in the morning..?" I looked at my mom and her tone was angry but her face was the exact opposite of her tone, she was probably angry because she didn't know where I was and she was probably concerned for my well being.

"I'm... sorry... I got up ealier and wanted to see places that I was familiar at and got to the orphanage and visited the children there..." I pouted and had a sorry face because I was really an i***t and almost died to a lesser demon.

"Haish... Nyx I'm not angry at you but mom has sensed an ominous aura earlier... and surr enough your father also sensed it and made the guards looked around the perimeter of the village to make sure no danger would befall us..." This kid is really so cute when acting like this, but I just can't help it it was only just yesterday that a big battle broke out a beast horde happened and god knows how much I fear for my beloved ones to be hurt.

Urgh... sure enough my mom and dad noticed that demon and made it there but they were too late to notice it, I'm sure they were so tired that they sleep comfily.

"And... and what did you find mom..?" I looked at my mom Zira and hoped that they didn't see me at the crime scene.

"Nothing... but I'm sure... it was a d-... no it was nothing Nyx" I saw my mom as she stopped her sentence midway and crouch down to fondle my hair, as she came closer and kissed my nose.

"Hehe, I got you Nyx..!" As I saw her genuine laugh her tender and motherly love, I once again remembered how sweet it was to have a family again and this time I had a father and my friends.

"Mom... nothing" As I was about to utter some arrogant words for a child who was only a week old and already has a body of a four year old.

I hugged my mom Zira as tightly as I could and almost made her felt as if she was being choked, I remember this time around I'm not gonna be selfish and protect them this time and make sure to teach them all my knowledge that I can impart to them.

"... I'm gonna protect you mom, both you and father... and all the people in this village" As I uttered this words it was full of my emotions, regeret, sadness, happiness, love and sorrow all my past emotions that I thought I forgot I got them back for the first time in this life and made sure this oath that I take shall the heavens be the witness and pierce even the space and time if any dare to lay a hand on my people, my family, my mother, my father, and my friends.

"I swear... I'll tear apart those who will harm others mercilessly..." I uttered this words slowly so that my mom wouldn't be afraid if some unknown spirit has possessed me

But to my surprise her look was full of shock and made the atmosphere weird.

"N-Nyx... just where did you learn those words..." This words are very familiar, I remember reading this words at the ancestral memorial back at my home... but that was the past hoe could this same words appear hear again, does that mean a great upheaval is about to begin..?

"N-no one..? why? what is it mom you looked as if you faw a ghost..?" I was looking at my mom and thought, maybe that was really a weird thing to say for a kid. Argh! it's more than weird dumbass!

"Nothing serious Nyx... it's just, promise me to never hurt innocent people no matter how unreasonable they are..."

"Mmn..." I nodded in agrerment and as if, bullying the weak is only for trashes.

after those fateful words we got home but we didn't go to our original house, as it was still not fully repaired this time we were invited to go to the Elder's house and to my surprise it wasn't a house but a manor located in the east side of the village and didn't have too many houses but it was more like building stablishments, we stayed in the house for the mean time as my mom and father was discussing the problem about the Baron, but I remember that won't happen anytime soon as I surely made sure to let him lay in bed of rocks the other day

The foods on the manor wasn't shabby but it wasn't to my taste either, it plain and simple such as vegetables, mush potatoes, roasted magical beast meat and bread and some wine but sadly I can only drink water. And what's more the meat are either roasted or soup and the soup is pretty bland as they rinse the meat after boiling it and throw away the juicy soup that the juices of the meat was just boiled and is being boiled once again, I asked my mom about this and knew that it was a noble man's practices of a healty food without any bacteria as they say but it wasn't right to cook this eay even a magical beast meat would be turned to an ordinary dish and the magical properties are slowly being poured away.

But after two day's I noticed that there are two girl's in this manor and is the grand daughter of the elder and their parents was reported to be missing and now they lived with their grand father, after wandering about the manor and the surrounding area and memorized the Terrain and I coincidentally meet one of the teo girls but only saw her peeking from a corner if the wall as I walked in the back yard.

After that I was bored so I told my mom to go out and play but it wasn't easy but in the end I got her permission but made me wait till the butler got sister Maria to pick me up and made sure I won't sneak anywhere, but I don't plan on sneaking anywhere as when we walked toward the orphanage sister Maria and I negotiated the terms and how to handle this "ghost pharmacy" and I explained that we will be moving to different area in the grannar village starting at night and make sister Maria my assistant to make the people of the village trust us a little bit more and not some person on a full on hood, meanwhile Paul, Lisa and Ayesha would do our bidding in the morning and spread rumours about a certain healing place that can help them make their limbs grew back or missing body parts and even maybe curing illnesses.

For a couple of days we continued this routine just enough to make some money for my next plan, and sure enough the people treated us like saints sent by god and paid us fairly and some even wanted to us even more but sister Maria didn't let me and made surr to remind me every time I looked at the money at their hands, but sure enough the rumours turned to both a good news and a bad news to the people.