"Today is the day! We have pushed through an attack in Genesis and we have the best possible potion materials to put everyone at ease. Running low on mana? Have a mana potion to keep up with your work and skills. Feeling under the weather after recovering from a curse? Have a health potion. Looking to boost your affinity with water to make sure you can defend against any potential danger? Grab an affinity potion. Those are the tactics we need you to use today." Trish stood over a group of young rchants that had been chosen by the alchemy guild.
"Ha, this is easier and easier the more I listen. We are going to play on fear and keep the sales rolling." One young rchant saw the way they were advertising and knew that this was the case.
"Yes and no. You are taking advantage of the situation, yes. But you are selling peace of mind. So people feel they could be attacked at any minute. So will buy a weapon, others will build a basent to hide in, and so…will buy potions so they can have a fallback. Just because so co to us does not an all will." Rey made it clear that this was a tactic that many others were using. There was competition.
"The guild master is right. Listen to her well and you might be able to et the requirents we need. A contract selling the potions from this guild is on the line. You have ten packages to sell. Good luck." The old master alchemist had been advertising Rey as the guild master every chance he got. It was just as well since she was already known as a hero.
"I swear, all of them are going to call guild master every second of the day. You're lucky you're old and breakable or I would teach you a lesson." The attitude that Rey gave back was not enough to deter the old master alchemist. He instead found it hysterical and laughed until Trish shook her head.
"We finally have our rchants starting sales and you two are ssing around. We need to keep the alchemists we have working on portions to stock up. The classes are going to start tomorrow. I will be teaching a course on basic elven herbs. You have yours on the science of affinity potions. We need to be ready." The research that the old master alchemist had been so diligently studying had beco the focus of his classes. He felt that doing it this way would expand the guild's reputation and cent his research in to history.
"I still can't believe that you are just giving up your research so easily. I thought you would hold on to it for dear life." Rey felt that all their work was just being handed away since it was a class. But she did understand the draw it would have to budding alchemists.
"Well, what if I was to tell you that I have a first version of a fire affinity potion. I will be starting with that tomorrow. Co and sit in before the class you will be teaching." The old master alchemist broke the news of his secret making Trish and Rey were both very interested.
"Pffft, I plan to be very busy with my class. Every single alchemist that walks in the door will be learning how to go out and find their own herbs whether they have fighting skills or not." The simple goal that Rey had was to make the guild mbers tougher. They would need to go out and find their own herbs one day, especially if they wanted to understand the environnts the herbs co from. The herbalists wouldn't be letting just anyone wander through the fields without experience first.
"I doubt you will have many fighters. So use the explosive potions and those blinding ones I taught you. If they co from my class then to yours they will see how my herbs and your potions combine. It will be even better if they attend the affinity class and learn hope enhancing a certain affinity can improve the potions they make." Trish was happy with the three subjects since all of them would be able to co together in so form or fashion.
"Rey, I just helped them drop off those new tools you ordered. I have to say, those dwarf alchemists are professional at creating new tools. I have learned a lot!" Rodney headed out the door and Rey smirked.
"That was a good kid. He was just working the front desk in the forge building when we t him. But here he is running around as one of the important mbers of the crafting guild. He even supervises multiple orders and teaches people to deliver them." Trish was very impressed that Rey had connections in a way that got them discounts with the newly forming crafting guild.
"Ah, they made a new cauldron just the other day. I had to pay a decent material cost but a low workmanship cost. A very fair deal. Now I have a personalized cauldron just for darkness elental materials." The old master alchemist had already set his sights on the darkness affinity potion theories he had.
"Another one? That's the fourth one this week. I think you have a problem. But I want them too." Rey thought this was a crazy expense but couldn't help but admit her own desire.
"Ha! I will have them as busy as much as I can. There are so many new potion possibilities now that I have figured out the affinity potion experints. So much more to co." The old master alchemist tapped his pocket where his theories were written in a journal. Both Trish and Rey were tempted to snag it from him to read and try themselves.
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