He's looking towards me, his eyes are crystal clear and filled with determination. There no sign he would back down even after hearing my explanation.

“Please just tell me, where it is and I will retrieve it myself,” there is no trace of politeness and dignity earlier — a looks full of resolve, doesn't even slightly care about his unsightly appearance.

“Didn’t you hear me already, each of them is very rare in the wild and have a great effect with itself. The owners — you heard it right, there is different owner from each plant, they are the elite of elites. An elder in Aracorv clan, Shamans in —.”

“Enough!” I try to explain it better but get cut off by his shout, “I know who are they and how influential they are, but I have enough power to steal from them.”

“I doubt you even understand, I know you are very talented reaching this stage in young age but you still —.”

“Doctor, you have a family too right,” he says with a little nasal voice as though he wants to cry, “Do you will give up to protect them when your enemy is stronger than you?”

“Because, hell — I won’t,” he shouts, I see his sister — Venicia's trembling hand, even when she tries to stay stoic while he says that, “Doctor, this is our only hope.”

When looking at his appearance, he reminds me of my past self and to be honest — what he says touch my soft spot — I probably do the same thing if this happens to my family. I hesitant for a moment, whether tell him or not, which probably send them to their death, but that just last for a second — at the end, I choose to tell him.

“Okay, Dana give me a paper,” after hearing my words, Dana immediately gives me one.

I put on some thought then finally writing the list of ingredients and possible owner in this world.

“Fourth elder of Aracorv… the shaman…those elder on the north,” I mumble reading list one by one to make sure there nothing left and then give that paper to him, “Okay this is the list ingredients.”

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His eyes are gleaming after receiving the list and bowing to me once again, “Thank you doc, then I will go search those immediately.”

I stop him after looking at him who want to put that into his bag, “Wait a moment, that’s just the list ingredients, you can’t just give her raw like that.”

I write another list, this time how to process the ingredients to become a proper medicine and then give it to him. His dumbfounded face can be seen clearly and he asks, “Why?”

“What do you mean why?” I tilt my head.

“Why you give me this? I mean, aren’t doctors same as alchemists, protect their special formula.”

He right to some extent, some of them are like that and just bequeathed their knowledge to their disciple. After all, this knowledge is their lifeline, there is no way they give it willy-nilly to other people, it’s normal to surprise by this too kind gesture.

“How do you want to process those ingredients then?”

“I’ll come back here and ask you to refine it.”

I sigh hearing his question, “You know, if I’m a bad guy, I probably will add many plants in that list just to con you after hearing your question.”

Hearing my statement, he just laughing while letting out his smile as though I said something funny.

“It’s okay, I have the ability to tell whether you say truth or not, and you never tell a single lie since you checking my sister. However, if you con me to gather other plants, what I can do is grit my teeth and gather it anyway — because you are the one who has leverage here.”

This time I'm the one who got astounded, there no trace of him using any skill — either he has the bloodline to do so or he just that good. Nevertheless, even though that ability isn't common, but it isn't rare either, so my shock doesn’t last long.

“However, I still don’t understand why you give me this recipe without slight lies,” he says curiously.

I shrug my shoulder, “Let’s just say I try to curry favor to someone who has a chance to stand on the top.”

“Fair enough,” he says and then silent for a moment looking into my eyes, “I won’t forget this favor, thank you.”

Looking at his situation, it overlaps with my past life image — a naive self when thinking power alone can solve everything. After that, I take a time, think for a moment about how he wants to steal to get those ingredients.

“Instead of stealing from them, maybe you can try asking. I'm sure they wants do you a favor too after noticing at your potential,” I advise him a safer route.

There is a chance those people will feel threatened by his existence, but I'm sure he has some backing behind him — at least I think so. I'm sure those people on top smart enough to notice that this type of power is impossible without powerful assistance behind him.

“It already way past that,” he shook his head with a helpless smile.

Looking at his expression, I understand that he has problems with those people. Noticing that, we let out another sigh.

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