Those Magic Days

Chapter 5: Breaking Through Gold

The Apothecary store was way North of Leon Towers he isolated himself from the rest of the village on purpose and many unsavory characters asked for his healing potions many of those said unsavory characters were questionable in much detail. Philip dismounted off of Moonlight, he knocked on the door four times. The store had a sign up above that Neapolix Moment Crest Emergency Apothecary owned and run by the Greencrest Family. The window opened to revealed an olive tan 28 year old man with brown curly hair that was greying at the tips and melted into his beard that barely started falling off his chin, his eyes are merry, his arms twice as thick as Philip's and his voice even deeper as he greeted the young Prince.

"What's up young man?"

"I need to have the Aqua Regia potion ingredients and tools, Monsieur Greencrest." Philip told him. Moonlight shook her head.
"It will be all right, Moonlight, I've survived Dragonfire nitric dragon-fire to add."

The door unlatched and swung open for the Prince.

"How are you going to pay for that, sonny?" He asked. Philip slammed a bag of silver pieces on the counter after the walked behind it as he walked up to it.
"Will that cover it, sir?" asked Philip. "I'll be back more than once we still haven't found the person responsible for the curses, lately, sir."

The man counted the silver pieces there were 30 Hexagon shaped coin like pieces.

"Yeah, how much do you need to make Aqua Regia Potion?"

"Enough to make two batches. One for each exit of the mines, Monsieur." Philip answered. He searched through his drawer and put out a half filled lunch bag with a tin container filled with 2 part concentrated powdery nitric acid, and fiddled with another drawer in the counter in front of Philip. He pulled out a white firmly sealed bag labeled concentrated hydrochloric acid powder. He got a frame caged square giant tin box and opened it up it was the same size of a tin breath mints box today and he put the white bag in there. The bag had said 6 parts hydrochloric acid. The apothecary sealed up the second tin pail and placed in the paper bag. He clapped his hands all his windows opened up.

"Come on handsome boy!" He called to Philip. Philip shivered that was a weird action that just happened to him. Being able to clap open the windows like that. The smell of both concentrated powders was awful now that it had reached his nose. He wished it didn't have to be this way.

"You're in love, deeply, aren't ya?" The older man asks. "The world never moves forwards with anything, but love if ye didn't do this your love would be risking it would she?"

"Yes, if her parents didn't know any better, sir, how do you know so much about me?" inquired Philip.

"The glow in your cheeks and eyes are more telling than you realize, but walking will get one further down the road than talking, young one." Monsieur responds. They approached an odd looking hut home behind the apothecary store with a cauldron over a firepit, and flask bottles with lids sitting on clear trolleys made straight from peculiar black volcanic glass on ivory stained wood. There was a roof between the store and the half standing hut and cauldron.

"Never ever brew this near metal, it will destroy the metal. Best wash your hands in the river nearby when you are done also don't touch your eyes afterwards right away until  they are washed your hands that is. This cauldron is made of raw iron rock ore, sonny. There's a Sodium spell on the inside dear."