Seeing the room slowly turning against her, Esmeralda knew that she was fighting a losing fight. Therefore, she knew that she should retreat now.
"Hah…," she laughed bitterly. "You think that this kind of thinking is going to last? You think that the other Apothecaries will believe everything you're trying to say?"
Esmeralda had hit directly what Evie was worried about. Modern medicine was something that fought with the very basics of apothecary itself.
It was very much possible that the rest of the apothecaries they met would have the same attitude that Esmeralda had with modern medicine. They would reject it, even if they knew deep down that it was the truth.
After all, it was what they knew. They had already trained in it their entire life. Abandoning it now was simply idiotic.
