The Insider System

Chapter 239: 30 Potions

Watching the last of the potions he had brought disappear into the person they had picked to heal, Lake wondered if maybe he should go out now to get more. He had taken a break to let his Stamina refill and because he had wanted to take a break from the repetitive work mining a tunnel was.

His plan was to just sit around until he felt like getting back to work or taking a nap but he could probably just take a walk and pick up potions while doing so. Walking around the town was a better break anyway. "Those went quicker than I thought." They had only been able to heal eleven people before they ran out of potions.

"Yeah but with those people healed, all the people in critical condition are fine so we don't have to worry about anyone dying from their wounds anymore."

"If you had to guess, how many potions do you think you would need to heal the rest?" Lake wanted to have a goal in mind when he went back out to look. "20 would probably get everyone able to move but we would need over 30 to get everyone back to perfect condition."

Lake hadn't checked too much of the city on the way here so he was sure he would be able to get close to the 20 to get everyone on their feet but 30 was a real stretch. He might even have to go to another tier to get to 20 if he was unlucky. "Ok I'm going to go look for a while, I'll be back in around an hour."

Lake was able to walk out with Wezz not saying anything to stop him. It wasn't surprising because he wouldn't stop someone who planned to bring him a box of potions he needed either. Once he was far enough away from the base that he felt like they wouldn't have checked for potions, Lake turned Detector back on.

On the first street he walked down Lake was able to locate two health potions on bodies and one inside of a house. Taking a bag from one of the bodies to store them, Lake moved on to the next street. This street had less bodies but the houses were nicer so he had a good feeling that they would make up for the lack of people to search.

He was worried about the fact that the nice houses would most likely have people inside since they were nice enough to have defensive measures. He would go inside even with all those things being true though because it didn't really matter as long as he used Detector to look for traps.

Seeing the first potion in one of the houses, Lake got close to the window that would let him get in and out within a few seconds and turned Detector to look for traps. The window seemed to have some type of alarm set on it but Lake didn't care about something like that so he popped the window and grabbed the potion before climbing back out.

Going up to every house that Detector identified to have a potion to do the same as what he had done at the first house, Lake left the street with 4 new potions and this made his total 7. With his luck so far Lake started to think maybe he had been overestimating how hard it would be to gather the 30 that Wezz thought they would need.

He just needed to stick to areas with the nicer buildings and he would be able to go back soon enough to give them all the potions they would need. Moving to the next street because it seemed the houses in this area stayed nice for a few more streets he continued to break into house after house.

When he hit the 15 potion mark Lake decided to head back and hand over what he had so they could use them while he found the rest. He felt if he gave them 30 all at once they were likely to be less stingy while treating each person and waste some. Plus he had seen that identifying the best way to heal someone actually took a bit of time if you knew what you were doing.

He hadn't known this because he always just drank a large amount of a potion whenever he got hurt but when he was watching the people get healed earlier he had seen you could take the time to identify the parts of the patient that needed care and use less potion to heal them. But, like he said it took more time so him taking the first half of the potions to them now would let them get to work earlier.

Lake didn't wait for the leader to come out this time because the guards just waved him in. He didn't think they should be so careless but it wasn't really his problem if they got invaded by an imposter so he just smiled and walked in. Finding Wezz Lake handed over the bag and walked away before Wezz could say anything.

Lake didn't want to waste time in a conversation about this because he really shouldn't even be doing it. His first priority should be the tunnel and he was really just doing this to make himself look like a nice guy. Having a good public image would be helpful especially if he had to stay in the Metal Domain like he had been warned he might before he had even decided to come here.

Of course he didn't think the Demon Worshipers would be able to keep him here even if they formed a huge grudge against him but you never knew what they might be able to do if he wasn't careful. "Oh, wow there was actually another one on this street." Lake had come back to look for potions where he had left off earlier and found another potion on the same street he had left when he had found the 15th.

"It's good I came back here instead of moving on to the next street." Stopping Lake realized he had just started talking to himself out loud. There was nothing wrong with this, it was just that he had always been an internal monologue kind of person. "I wonder what changed?"

Like he said it didn't really matter but he did turn Mute on just in case anyone was around because he didn't want them to hear him. Walking to the next street after getting the first potion of the second set and a new bag to put them in, Lake noticed these buildings didn't really look like houses.

He had noticed that even stores and such had a part of them that could be used as a home but these looked more like warehouses. He guessed it made sense that a tier as large as this one would need a place to store all the goods the massive amounts of people that lived here needed.

He had a bad feeling about going inside though even if there was a chance he would find large amounts of potions or good food he remembered Wezz asking him to find the Demon Worshipers base. If he was them and needed the resources to keep an army he would set his base either here or in the center of town where the market was.

Wezz had his base near the market so that left these warehouses for the Demon Worshipers. Turning around to head to a new part of town, Lake realized why there had been less and less bodies as he got closer to here. Whoever was inside the warehouse was probably slowly gathering them so they could be turned whenever the gargoyles got here.

He had killed the gargoyles they were waiting on though so this would never happen unless they had a necromancer around. He found this plot intriguing and wanted to get closer to investigate but decided to keep with his plan to stay low key until he finished his tunnel.

Getting to a new part of town where the bodies were on the ground all over the place Lake started looking for potions again. The houses weren't as nice but the dead people made up for this fact and he was able to gather another five relatively quickly.

Most came from Demon Worshipers but Wezz had shown no sign that he cared where they came from so his feelings about the dark bottles holding healing potions didn't matter. Finishing his search Lake looked around and tried to think of how much of the city he had had to search to get the 30 potions.

He was pretty fast but he didn't think he had even covered a third of the city. It was good news he guessed, but only if there was another battle that left half of Wezz's men injured again. Returning to Wezz's base, Lake handed over the last 15 they had asked for and said. "I'll be back in a few hours to see how you all are doing so make sure to keep a room ready for me because I'll be sleeping when I get back."