Chapter 16: And send to darkness all that stop me

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Y/N: "sigh Soooo bored... I really have to learn to pace myself when there aren't that many deliveries to do!"


Qiqi had gone out to pick herbs and currently Dr. Baizhu was tending to the Pharmacy in what was now a not-so-rare occurrence, as normally Qiqi didn't have much reason to leave the Pharmacy anymore now that I would go out and collect herbs as part of my morning ritual.

But it seemed that Dr. Baizhu had grown more daring with his plans for Qiqi because of this, so I've started to 'forget' to collect certain herbs so that Qiqi would be forced to go and collect them whilst I was on my delivery runs.

. . .

But now that means I can't distract myself from my boredom by heading out to collect herbs myself, and whilst I have gotten a bit of training with my weapon from Hu Tao, it wasn't too in-depth seeing as we used very different weapons from each other and I only worked with wooden training dummies.

Thinking of which, I do really want to try and get some experience in actual combat... to be able to defend myself and those who I care about, because as strong as I have realised that Qiqi is, she shouldn't have to defend me all by herself whenever we need to head into more dangerous territory.

I considered calling for Xiao, he said he could hear when his name is called, and he seemed pretty strong. He could definitely teach me a thing or two... but would he?

Nah, I don't think he would entertain the idea for even a second!


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After a while of mulling it over, I decided to head out to the wilds in hopes of finding a small batch of slimes or something, but a couple of hours have passed now and all I have been able to spot are groups of Hilichurls, and every single time there was at least one of the larger and much more deadly Mitachurls or the Samachurls that could use magic from afar.

I definitely am not at a stage where I could fight them safely on my own... I'm not even sure if I have it in me to beat a group of bog-standard Hilichurls! But Slimes... if I could only find some then I'd be up for giving them a go!

. . .

Maybe I should have taken Lan up on her offer for that Adventurer's Guild Training Mission after all? Although it was all the way up in Mondstadt, and Lan didn't seem to enthused about the Branch Master there and his antics... Cyrus I think she said his name was?


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Huh, that sound? Could it be...?


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