Chapter 115: You are the first

I didn't expect she would also have such a tense moment.

Recalling what Babier had said to him, Luo De pursed his lips and shook his head.

"Since you are a scholar of the Vitalist School, can you make a poison that leaves no trace? If you can, I will wait here for your good news at this time tomorrow."

When she said those words, Babier's voice was extremely charming, and she even lightly licked Luo De's ear in front of so many people.

If it weren't for Luo De's strong composure, he would have lost face.

As for why she suddenly brought this up.

Then we must start from the current matriarch of the Tanite Tribe.

This old matriarch is quite aged, her authority no longer as strong as before, and she rarely shows her face anymore.

The matriarch no longer handles affairs.

Authority naturally fell into the hands of the nine elders in their prime.

In order to compete for the matriarch's position.

Babier and another female elder, Teiya, have been openly and secretly struggling against each other.

The Tanite Tribe is a matrilineal clan.

Male elders are not qualified to compete for the elder position.

But this does not prevent them from competing for the identity of the matriarch's husband.

In the Tanite Tribe, marriage alliances are also very important, and there have been more than one incident where the matriarch's husband turned around to control the matriarch, making her a puppet, and then seized sole power.

Babier is a very strong-willed woman.

Such a problem dooms her to be at a great disadvantage in her competition with the comparatively soft-natured Teiya.

Strong-willed.

This means she is hard to control.

Likewise, it also means that if one successfully forms a marriage alliance with Babier, it is more likely that they will end up being controlled by her and become her puppet.

Based on this reason.

Don't be fooled by Babier's current appearance of prosperity; in fact, her authority is weakening. Aside from her and Teiya, among the seven other elders, only two support her becoming matriarch, while the other five support Teiya.

Three versus six—this is an absolute disadvantage.

If this situation continues, Babier basically has no chance of becoming matriarch.

All of the above is information Nadixa gathered after using mind-reading on the people around her.

"The situation has actually deteriorated to this extent; no wonder she thought of using poison."

At first, Luo De thought Babier couldn't wait to take over and was preparing to kill the matriarch, who was on her deathbed, in advance.

But after Nadixa finished gathering intelligence.

Luo De then understood.

To say who currently least wishes for the matriarch to die suddenly, there is no doubt it is Babier.

Given her current situation in the Tanite Tribe.

Once the matriarch dies, she will definitely be unable to defeat Teiya, who has the support of five elders.

At that point, what awaits her will inevitably be a ruthless purge.

So she became anxious.

She wanted to use Luo De, this outsider, to obtain a poison never seen before in the tribe from him, assassinate those few elders, and then seize the matriarch's position.

These are also pieces of information Nadixa read from Babier's mind.

Her plan is very thorough.

In her conception, using food or drink, she would quietly poison Teiya to death.

She doesn't need to kill many people.

As long as Teiya dies.

Then no one will contend with her for the matriarch's position.

Then she would push the blame for killing the elders onto Luo De, who had completed the contract and returned to the Academy, and then simply destroy the corpses and erase the traces.

As for those other elders, after Teiya dies she will settle accounts with them one by one, at which point she can take all their authority into her own hands.

Even if this plan fails, Teiya doesn't die, or the investigation points to her, she still has other scapegoats to take the blame.

In short.

She will absolutely not put the charge of plotting to poison and murder the elders on her own head.

"What a good scheme."

"I knew it— in her eyes, everyone is a tool that can be used and then discarded."

Lying on the new bunk, Luo De clicked his tongue in admiration.

This is the new tent Babier arranged for him, brand new, second only in specification to the tents where the matriarch and elders reside.

Tonight's dinner was also made much richer under her arrangement.

Not only were there flavorful jerky and stew, but an extra cup of milk was given; if Luo De hadn't said he doesn't drink alcohol, Babier would have also sent some fruit wine from the rainforest region.

In the Tanite Tribe, where most people struggle to eat their fill, such a meal is absolutely a rare treat.

The bunk on which Luo De is now lying to rest.

Although it is still made of hard wooden planks nailed together, it now has a soft cushion, a pillow, and a brand-new blanket, making it much more comfortable to sleep on than before.

"Then are you planning to help her?"

Nadixa, who knew all of Babier's plans, asked.

"Help, why not help."

Luo De hehehe laughed: "I not only want to help her, but I want to help her with the best things, so that she makes this Tanite Tribe more and more chaotic."

Having said that.

He sat up, took out paper and pen, and wrote down the names of some needed materials.

The knowledge of the Vitalist School covers an extremely broad range.

One very important subject among them is pharmacology.

Different from the pharmacology of the Essentialist School.

The pharmacology of the Vitalist School mostly uses natural medicinal ingredients, preparing drugs through various methods such as decoction, steaming, and adjusting.

The drawback is that, unlike the Essentialist School's pharmacology which uses alchemy to easily achieve mass production,

The advantage is that formulas are endlessly variable; even a slight change in dosage can make the resulting drug's efficacy vastly different, giving it a natural advantage in treating ailments.

"Senior pharmacists have long abandoned the fixed mindset of formulas; they can completely tailor suitable medicines according to the patient's condition."

"Those stubborn Essentialists are different; the medicines they prepare indeed have stronger versatility, but they are all produced according to a uniform formula and dosage. Although they can also target specific ailments, because they use alchemy to make medicine, many irrelevant or even counteractive substances are forcibly added to the preparations, which sometimes causes their preparations to produce significant side effects. Therefore, they now basically prepare only versatile functional medicines, such as heat-resistance potions and cold-resistance potions."

"Therefore, when it comes to genuine medical pharmacology, our Vitalist School's pharmacology is more reliable."

These were the words Nafesis spoke when teaching Luo De pharmacology.

Listening to him say that.

These words were passed down to him by his teacher, and his teacher had heard them from his own teacher's teacher.

This already counts as a characteristic of his lineage.

One school excels at using pharmacology to treat ailments appropriately, while the other excels at producing auxiliary medicines with extremely strong functionality.

It's hard to say which is superior.

But Nafesis and Jules often still argue over this, eventually shouting at each other unresolvably.

However, their arguing never interfered with Luo De's instruction in the slightest.

Furthermore, pharmacology itself is a subject Luo De is very interested in; after a month or so, he has learned it quite well.

"Compound poison."

This is the poison formula Luo De prepared for Babeer.

Calling it a poison is not entirely accurate.

It is actually a bunch of nourishing ingredients, supplemented with several medicinal materials whose properties clash.

On the surface, nothing seems amiss.

But if all these things are added at once to food and consumed together, a person will collapse and die within a day.

Moreover, the drug effects of this formula are very long-lasting; it does not need to be taken all at once.

As long as one follows the duration of the drug's effect, consuming these ingredients over several days in sequence can also trigger severe poisoning symptoms.

Furthermore, since none of these ingredients are inherently toxic, even if one knows the symptoms, they wouldn't know how to antidote, and it's not easy to trace the perpetrator.

However, this formula is not considered a particularly rare poison recipe.

After all, Luo De has only studied for a short time; he hasn't yet learned many more advanced and complex formulas.

In fact.

Anyone who has deeply studied pharmacology will know how simple and easy it is to recognize this kind of poison formula that uses clashing medicinal properties as its basis.

Luo De is now exploiting the fact that the people of the Tanite tribe have low education levels, making it impossible for them to recognize this poison formula.

In order to buy a little more time.

He also deliberately added several very precious medicinal ingredients, the kind that are not hard to buy but are very expensive.

That way, even if Babeer wants to act, just gathering those few ingredients will take a period of time, enough for Luo De to continue his own plans during that interval.

"Next."

"It's time to get on with my own affairs."

Having finished writing the poison formula, Luo De stretched his limbs, placed his Void Terminal on the table, and then swaggered out.

Meanwhile, the few Tanite warriors that Babeer had specially sent to monitor him didn't even glance at him, as if no one had ever appeared before them.

The ability of dream manipulation is not limited to dragging people into dreams; shrouding the eyes is also its most basic use.

"My power transmission is limited; at most one hour, after which you must return."

This was Nadixa's deliberate reminder to Luo De before he left, to prevent him from getting carried away and forgetting the time.

"One hour."

"That's more than enough."

With Nadixa's power, Luo De easily evaded the guards' surveillance and chucklingly slipped into the darkness.

I don't know if it's because of the impending sandstorm, but for the past few days the moon hasn't been seen, and at night it becomes so dark that you can't see your hand in front of your face.

The tribe's busy time has long passed.

The tribesmen who finally got some leisure have either already gone to sleep or are still venting their abundant energy.

In this darkness filled with a mixture of snoring, shouting, yelling, loud laughter, and various other sounds, Luo De easily found his target.

They were the two bandits who had once kidnapped him.

At this moment they had already fallen asleep, their snoring louder than even the noisiest long-maned tiger in the rainforest region.

"You are the first."

In the darkness, Luo De gave a strange, grating laugh, reached out, and touched them both.

(End of chapter)