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Leyton's mouth twitched, and his gaze casually swept around the shop.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw the chubby Beast Tamer bend down and rummage through the counter, pulling out several light blue small bottles and handing them over, winking with an expression that said, "I understand."
"Alright, I have something to do outside today, so I'm closing up. Here are a few remaining potions. You know how to use them; just sniff them before the event. It's very convenient."
"Alternatively, you can pour the medicine into a snuff bottle, so no one will know you need to take drugs for excitement, but this is not convenient for storage and will waste most of the liquid."
Leyton was speechless for a moment, then casually took out a few one-pound notes from his pocket and handed them over.
"Hey, buddy! Isn't this too little money? It's only enough for one bottle." He grumbled with some dissatisfaction on his rounded face.
"Then just one bottle..." Leyton said with an even tone.
He felt his expression management was about to fail; he shouldn't have come. He should have just waited for this guy to retrieve the probability dice.
"Alright then~ Honestly, I thought I could clear out all the remaining stock. I can't use all this myself."
The chubby Apothecary grumbled as he handed a light blue small bottle to Leyton, putting the rest directly into his own pocket.
After casually taking the small blue bottle handed over by the chubby Apothecary, Leyton turned and left the herb shop, his figure gradually merging into the Darkness of the alley outside.
The chubby Apothecary glanced in the direction Leyton left, pouting and muttering:
"What an impolite fellow. Are the adventurers on the sea all so rude now?!"
Behind the chubby Apothecary, the somewhat plump owl standing on the cabinet lowered its voice and said with a very wary tone:
"Darkwill, that person just now was very scary. I only observed him for a while, and I felt my emotions starting to rise abnormally."
"I know. That guy is most likely a Beyonder. His vitality and spirituality are very active, far exceeding ordinary people."
"Bayam is getting more and more dangerous. I must leave here, old man."
"The old man should be fine. He's been arrested for so long; if something were to happen, it would have happened already. Besides, I don't have the ability to rescue him from the Governor's Mansion."
"Sigh~"
Darkwill muttered, then suddenly sighed.
He stood quietly in place, dazed for two minutes, then, as if making a major decision, he vigorously nodded his somewhat round head.
After hastily packing some items into his rural witch doctor's robe, he took the chubby owl, closed the shop Door, and walked out of the alley through a patch of shadow.
After he left the alley, the shadow where no light reached suddenly distorted, and Leyton, who had just left the folk herbal shop, walked out of it.
"It seems I arrived just in time..." he murmured to himself with a smile, then strode out of the alley.
Following his spiritual intuition, he strolled to Enmat Street.
Just as he reached the street corner, a carriage quickly drove past him, and an off-white dice tumbled and rolled to his feet, landing with a single dot facing up.
Thud!
The sound of a heavy object hitting the ground rang out the next moment. Leyton slightly raised his eyes and saw Darkwill, who had just sold him aphrodisiacs, trip himself in an incredible posture and fall onto the street, dizzy and disoriented, unable to stand up for a moment.
"Heh..." Leyton chuckled softly, bending down to pick up the dice with the single dot facing up.
The moment his fingers touched the dice, Darkwill, dizzy and disoriented on the ground, suddenly shifted forward a distance, and his chubby palm slapped Leyton's forearm.
The off-white dice rolled out of his hand, landing two or three meters away, with that striking single dot stubbornly facing upwards.
Rejecting me? It rolled to my feet; I thought you wanted to fall into my hands... Leyton straightened his back, his gaze fixed on the dice with the single dot facing up, while also being wary of any danger that might appear around him.
"What are you doing? That's my stuff!"
Darkwill's round face contorted with a somewhat ferocious expression due to pain. He stretched out his chubby right hand and firmly grabbed the hem of Leyton's dark robe.
Just now, seeing that the dice he bought for one pound was about to be picked up by someone, he moved his body forcefully in his haste, accidentally twisting his waist.
Rumble!
Suddenly, a silver-white bolt of lightning shot out from the sky and struck directly.
The moment his intuitive premonition sounded, Leyton wanted to leave his current position, but his movement was delayed by Darkwill's tight grip on the hem of his robe.
Pale blue flames instantly ignited around him, like a cage. The silver-white lightning then struck, solidified within the pale blue flames, and then exploded violently.
Boom! Sizzle~
Tiny silver-white electric arcs spread everywhere, creating a sizzling sound.
On the ground directly in front of Leyton, there was a scorched patch, and bricks were blown apart.
Darkwill, who had been grabbing his lower leg, was already disheveled, his body still trembling, with wisps of white smoke and a burnt smell rising from him.
Leyton stood still in his previous posture without moving. Although he had shifted the lightning's strike point, the chaotic electric snakes still caused a strong numbing effect.
The intensity of this lightning bolt is quite high; it definitely wasn't caused by natural reasons. Was I discovered? It shouldn't be possible, otherwise, it wouldn't be as simple as just one strike.
As he pondered, the surrounding pedestrians had already skillfully avoided the area, quickly hiding indoors and observing outside through their Doors and windows.
The people of the Rorsted Archipelago are already skilled at avoiding various sudden situations. In this matter, I deserve credit. Leyton calmly mused inwardly.
A police officer patrolling nearby saw this scene and quickly ran over. He cautiously pressed his right hand on the gun holster at his waist and asked from a distance:
"What are you doing? What happened here?"
"I think we should first send this gentleman to the Hospital; he was quite severely injured by the lightning just now."
"As for what happened, it was probably just being struck by lightning out of nowhere!"
Leyton looked at the police officer, then pointed at Darkwill, whose hand was still tightly gripping the hem of his robe.
The police officer's gaze towards Leyton was full of wariness, as if he was looking at some terrifying terrorist. His legs unconsciously retreated a few more steps, and he said in a serious voice:
"You wait here; other police officers and medical personnel will arrive soon."
Here on the sea, people generally believe in the Lord of Storms. Being struck by lightning out of nowhere is usually attributed to angering the Lord of Storms, being abandoned by God, and punished.
"Okay..." Leyton nodded slightly, then casually tugged at his dark robe, pulling the hem free from Darkwill's hand.
A somewhat hesitant gaze, mixed with surprise and fear, lingered on him.
Leyton turned his head and followed the gaze, seeing a somewhat chubby owl on a lamppost on the side of the street, its eyes full of human-like emotions as it observed him.
He smiled slightly at the owl, then took his still somewhat stiff steps towards the gas lamppost where it was perched.
When the lightning struck just now, the probability dice was hit again and landed here. Leyton's gaze was fixed on that striking single dot.
He could already confirm that this dice was deliberately making things difficult for him. Does it want to drive me away, or even kill me, with a continuous string of bad luck? Did it sense danger from me? Or is there another reason?
"Stop, don't move anymore!"
Behind him, the police officer who had been wary of him seemed to sense danger and quickly drew the gun from his waist.
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