The burly man outside the door picked up his weapon and started smashing Leah's shop.
Even the magic potion placed at the door was not spared.
They were all smashed to pieces.
The azure potion flowed onto the ground, and the entire ground was filled with the smell of money.
Leah watched their atrocities with indifference and instead acted very calmly.
"Ms. Leah, don't you need to stop it..."
The voice behind her sounded a little anxious. She knew the value of those potions. Even breaking one bottle would be a loss.
Leah sat calmly on the chair, watching the thugs continue to make trouble.
"It doesn't matter, let them smash it."
"The more you smash, the more you lose."
Of course, Leah knew that too.
These people are at most a group of scoundrels sent by others. How could they possibly pay compensation?
Feeling that the time was almost up, she touched the wizard's hand on her right hand, stood up and was about to go out.
"What are you doing!?"
A voice came from outside the door.
Leah was slightly stunned. Someone is brave enough to do something righteous?
She stood inside the house and looked out.
A blonde lady with an aristocratic temperament stood beside the carriage, cursing at the group of tattooed men.
Who is that?
Leah looked up and took a closer look at the familiar face of the blonde girl, and she already had the answer in her mind.
The Duke's daughter?
Why is she here, is she just passing by?
Or... was it simply intentional?
Erica, the Duke's daughter, has been extremely talented since childhood and is still famous today.
Some people believe that her future achievements will surely surpass that of the former genius Victor.
Including the last time, if Victor had flirted with a girl from another family, it wouldn't even be worth making the headlines.
But Erica's public influence is too great.
Leah thought to herself:
I'm afraid that her kindness here this time will cause another wave of news hype.
...
In fact, Erica didn't think too much about it.
Although it was a day off, she had no intention of studying at the academy after Victor left.
Because except for Victor, the level of other teachers is really too poor, even worse than her own.
Taking advantage of today's break, she also took a day off to go shopping and give herself a day of rest.
It's also for the purpose of relaxing.
As a result, I heard the servants at home mentioned in private conversation that the Cravener family opened a prop store in the east city area of the royal capital.
Cravenner, that was Victor's last name, of course she remembered it.
But, east city area...
Erica was very interested, but the store was in east city area, quite far from her.
Her family lived in Midtown, which was full of aristocrats like Erica.
The capital was so big that she couldn't finish visiting the entire central area in one day.
But she decided to go and have a look anyway.
What does Professor Victor's store sell?
As a result, she took a carriage for more than half an hour to get here, and saw a group of people destroying things in front of the prop store.
Hanging above the store is the family crest of the Cravener family, which is indeed Victor's property.
It's not very big, and compared to other bustling shops, this alone is enough to deduct a lot of points.
But she wasn't here to give scores. When she saw someone smashing the store, Erica instinctively became angry.
"What are you doing?"
With a delicate cry, she got off the carriage, like a young lady surrounded by stars.
Many passers-by saw her and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"It's Erica Du Crox!"
Simply put, there is no one who does not know this beautiful and kind-hearted young lady.
She would always give food and gold coins to the poor to help them through their difficulties, and she would never bow her head and show mercy to the evil people.
"It's the eldest daughter of the Duke's family! Run!"
The sturdy man in the lead saw Erica and shouted to the others around him, and they were "scared" and left in a hurry.
Leah glanced at the clerk behind her, and suddenly, she felt a gust of wind passing by behind her.
When she looked back, there was no one there.
After doing all this, she put on a smiling face and went out to greet people.
"Ms. Erica, thank you for your help!"
"I am a weak woman, and I am really scared when encountering such a thing. If you hadn't come, I really don't know what to do."
Erica looked at Leah while listening to her crying.
The woman in front of me is very beautiful.
She has a tall and slender figure, and her facial features are exquisite and perfect.
Especially the mature charm of the other person made her, a young girl, feel ashamed.
She was about to say there was nothing to thank her for, but when she looked down, her eyes suddenly paused and stayed on Leah's hand.
Is that Victor's glove?
Erica clearly remembered seeing Victor on his first day.
Because there were many magic stones on it, and this kind of gloves was first seen on Victor's hands, she paid special attention to it.
The glove was never seen again.
This glove appeared on this woman's hand?
Erica couldn't be sure it was the same pair, after all, the shapes of their hands were completely different.
"So, she's Professor Victor's family?"
Thinking of this, Erica felt that the woman in front of her was a little pitiful.
Those people must have come looking for Victor because of his notoriety, but the girl in front of him has to bear the consequences.
She looked at the debris on the ground and the leaking medicine, thought for a while, and decided to compensate the woman in front of her to calm her emotions.
"I'm sorry that something like this could happen in the capital. I will compensate you for all your losses today in the name of Du Crox."
"Please count the losses of these items, and if there are any left, I will buy them all."
"Oh?"
When Leah heard Erica's generous words, she held her chest with one hand, touched her face with the other hand, and smiled.
Du Crox has the ability to win people's hearts and minds in her bones, she is worthy of being the daughter of a duke.
Although, she is only seventeen years old.
"Ms. Erica, let me confirm, do you really want to compensate me for my losses?"
"You have to understand, it's not cheap."
Before Leah could respond, Erica had already called the maid and prepared to pay.
Leah looked at her with a smile and quoted a price:
"One thousand geo."
These losses, one thousand Geo?
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is already a very expensive price.
But Erica thought it was reasonable and signaled the maid to pay.
As a result, I heard the other party add one more sentence.
"One thousand geos per bottle."
"What?"
The maid's hand holding the money paused slightly.
Erica felt like she had heard it wrong.
Not to mention Erica, even passers-by found it very strange.
What a joke, a bottle of potion costs one thousand geos?
Is the water in your bottle made of gold?
The maid calculated the price and was slightly stunned. Erica also looked embarrassed at this time.
For Erica, this money is just a month's pocket money.
However, money cannot be spent in such an unclear way.
Now she understood why Victor was so hated.
He is a complete profiteer!
Without waiting for her response, Leah said with some embarrassment: "Although I really want you to compensate me, the head of the family said that one person can only buy two bottles a day, no more."
Is there such a rule?
It was also the first time that Erica heard of selling something in limited quantities.
Especially when planning to pay compensation, the other party actually doesn't want to ask for more.
She thought about it for a moment and realized that the head of the family the other party was talking about was obviously Victor.
However, only two bottles can be purchased, which makes Erica very interested.
Could it be that this thing really has some magical effect?
So, she picked up a bottle of potion that was still intact and asked Leah:
"What effect does this thing have?"
Leah looked at her and smiled, then explained to her:
"To restore magic power."
Erica couldn't believe it.
She had never heard of such a prop that could restore magic power.
She wanted to buy a few and take them back to study, but the fragments all over the floor made her hesitate.
But soon, Erica made up her mind.
Once words are spoken, they can be spilled. Besides, Victor has taught her so much knowledge.
So what if she spends the money as compensation today? Just consider it as getting even with Victor!
So she said directly.
"I am Professor Victor Cravener's student. Since I saw his store suffer losses, I can't just ignore it."
"I will compensate you with the cost of the medicine plus the cost of the labor, but there is a prerequisite."
Leah raised an eyebrow when she heard Erica's words.
"I want to buy all the remaining potions as well."
She cares more about magic than anyone else.
So, she planned to take it back and study it.
When Leah heard this, she looked back at the remaining goods on the shelf.
Only ten bottles were left intact.
Seeing this, she no longer cared about the rules Victor mentioned and nodded.
Victor said that he was not afraid of someone figuring out the ingredients of the potion because no one could make it except him.
Leah thought that this was something that could only be made by some special magic, and since the other party said so, she naturally wouldn't worry about any business secrets being disclosed.
"Since Miss Erica is so generous, I won't refuse."
"Then, after accounting for labor and cost, each broken potion bottle costs three hundred gigao, and the rest is the original price."
Hearing this, Erica readily agreed.
"make a deal."
Leah handed the ten bottles of potion to Erica's maid, and reached out to take the compensation and the normal potion money handed to her by the maid.
Looking at Erica in front of her, Leah was amazed. Spending a huge amount of money just because she was Victor's student?
I don't know what kind of magic potion the guy who dug open her chest and whose whole body and heart were black fed to this young lady.
After Erica left, Leah took out fifty bottles of potion from the store again, still priced at one thousand geos, and continued to sell them.
When the passing wizards saw her take out another fifty bottles, half of them fainted.
So you still have stock.
...
In the alley.
The thugs who had smashed the store earlier were lying in a corner, half dead.
There were different wounds on their bodies, and the scene was extremely tragic.
"Who ordered you to do that?"
The masked man was wearing a cloak, revealing only the upper half of his face and emerald green pupils.
She held a wooden sword in her hand and pointed it at the head of the tattooed burly man in the lead.
He fell to the ground with all his limbs broken.
The pain made him want to faint on the spot.
But the wooden sword hanging above his head still made him scream out in panic.
"Yes...it's Duke Levi! It's Duke Levi!"
He couldn't wait to reveal the mastermind behind the incident in order to buy a chance of survival in front of the masked man.
Bang!
The wooden sword was swung down, and the tattooed man finally fainted as he wished.
Then, she grabbed the man's feet and dragged him out of the alley, step by step.