Tobi returned to the desert 2 days after we logged back into TB.

During that time, we didn’t have anything planned so each one of us spent time as we pleased.

Yumir and I did some preliminary investigation about how to go about doing agriculture.

Riizu did some studying on crafting and stocked up materials.

Selene-san focused on blacksmithing as usual.

「…So, why is Yumir-dono collapsed over here?」 (Tobi)

「It would make me happy if you could guess what happened from the remains of that bottle lying close to her hand.」 (Hind)

「…?」(Tobi)

In one of the rooms of the Guild Home, Yumir was lying face down, and close to her the remains of a bottle used for potions were scattered around.

Ignoring that, Riizu was mixing medicinal herbs on the table at her own pace.

「I don’t get why, but for some reason, Yumir suddenly asked what the taste of the medicinal herbs tasted like.」 (Hind)

「Oh? Ah, I think I get it now thanks to that information. In other words, she drank it?」(Tobi)

「You are correct. It seems like a normal potion was quite tasty.」(Hind)

Because she liked the first one, she went on to immediately drink another one and that led to this situation.

She was only watching me and Riizu prepare the medicine so I can see why she would feel bored…

「Th-The first one…」 (Yumir)

「Oh, she woke up.」 (Tobi)

「The first potion tasted like an energy drink. However, this antidote…ugh…」(Yumir)

「Don’t you dare vomit. I don’t even know if you can vomit in-game but don’t you dare vomit!」(Hind)

「I-I’m fine.」 (Yumir)

While rubbing her back, I gave some of the scarce desert water to Yumir.

With this, she should be able to wash away the bitter taste from her mouth.

Good grief, she gets nauseous from riding camels and now from medicine.

「No one would think this is the person that won the tournament…」 (Tobi)

「This is quite the sorry state…」 (Hind)

「What an idiot. Without any doubt.」(Riizu)

「What did yo-…ugh.」(Yumir)

「Don’t shout. Don’t talk before it gets better unless you have to.」(Hind)

It seems like the antidote had a bitter taste and smelled like Chinese medicine.

Regarding the healing type potions, the effect doesn’t change whether you drink them or pour them on your body.

Those are facts that we already investigated before so…this was just curiosity from Yumir’s part.

「Now that I see it, you sure bought a large quantity of materials.」(Tobi)

Probably exhausted from his long journey, Tobi sat down and rested his back on the chair while looking at the medicinal herbs placed on the table.

Apart from the medicinal herbs, the table was full of tools used in compounding.

We could say that this room was a crafting room sort of like the blacksmith workshop. I wonder if it would be fine to call it the Apothecary room?

Apart from mixing, you could do things like: smash, dry and heat.

「Well, at this point we have more than enough money after all. For the time being, we should try making some and gain experience.」 (Tobi)

「Even if you were to buy the materials from the Trading BBS, it still ends up being cheaper than buying them from NPCs.

We have just started crafting them, so the effect is quite lacking though.」(Hind)

「Oh, I see. In that case, what’s this unfamiliar purple liquid in this bottle? It doesn’t look like a potion…」(Tobi)

「That’s poison.」(Hind)

The moment he heard the word poison, Tobi withdrew his hand.

Usually, most potions would have a clear blue color, however, this poison had a muddy purple color.

「Oh…Yumir-dono, under no circumstances you should make a mistake and drink this one.」(Tobi)

「…Even someone like me would be able to tell that something like that is dangerous.」(Yumir)

Probably having recovered a bit, Yumir replied like that while having some trouble breathing.

With poison being a status ailment I could probably heal it with『Recover』, but I don’t want to imagine what would happen to your throat if you were to drink it.

Just for the record, it seems like Riizu has a strong affinity for making poison.

If I had to say, she does seem like she has a hard time making healing items.

I’m better at making healing items so in a way, you could say we both perfectly split the work but…

There’s a chance that Riizu might get better with enough time so I want to take a wait and see approach for now.

「Well then, since Tobi is back, we should go and gather everyone. Tobi, can you go call Selene-san? I believe she should be in the blacksmith workshop.」 (Hind)

「Understood. What about you guys?」(Tobi)

「We’ll go after we tidy up over here.」 (Riizu)

When she heard that question, Riizu, who was concentrating on mixing the herbs, looked up and replied.

The contents within the mortar in Riizu’s hand were of a purple color…wait, is that poison again?

I’d prefer if she focused on healing items instead of poison though…

No wonder she was wearing gloves and a mask.

「Yumir-san is…*sigh*. Since she’s like that, I’ll leave her to you, Tobi-san.」(Riizu)

「Uuh…」(Yumir)

With that being said, we are going to hold a simple guild meeting.

Guess I’ll prepare a snack so Yumir can remove that taste from her mouth.

Our hunger meter has decreased quite a bit so it’s perfect timing.

「Fuhahaha!! I’m revived!」(Yumir)

「Yeah yeah. Now go and move on the meeting, Guild Master」(Hind)

「Hmm…Hind, I’ll leave it to you.」(Yumir)

「You are going to leave everything to me…?」(Hind)

Today’s menu was a fruit sandwich made from fruits bought in the market today and bread with fresh cream.

The freshness and smell of the fruit felt refreshing with each bite.

Right after taking a bite, Yumir was back to being cheerful and she forced the meeting on me.

The location was the lounge in our Guild Home, everyone was relaxing on their chairs while talking and drinking herbal tea.

「Seems like there’s no choice so I’ll do it. Let’s see…today they announced the next event.」(Hind)

「You are talking about the item contest right? I think this is Secchan time to shine.」(Yumir)

「Ah, yes. I was thinking to go with some armor or weapon…what is everyone going to do?」(Selene)

This was the information released in the website’s announcement.

After the overly serious fighting type event, it seems like they decided to go with an item contest event for the players that specialized in crafting to balance things out.

The contest was divided in multiple divisions, the one that drew the most attention was the weapon/armor division that put emphasis on its performance.

Other than that, there was one where it put emphasis on the appearance of the costume when worn. As for items, there were the healing type, crowd control type, buffing items, convenient items…they were divided into a lot of divisions.

「Our guild could be considered a jack of all trades…right, Guild Master?」(Hind)

「Umu. Let’s just participate in events without thinking if we’ll do well or not!」(Yumir)

「So she says. This time around, our focus will be on supporting Selene-san with her blacksmithing as our main priority, the other members will make something else based on their preferences…that’s what I was thinking of doing, what do you guys think?」(Hind)

Hearing our suggestion, Tobi and Riizu nodded.

It’s a shame that this time around there’s no cooking division but…I’ll look forward to when one is held.

「So, we’ll be focusing on the production side of the game for now. Mainly, we’ll be needing to help Yumir with agriculture so it would help a lot if you could help around whenever you find some free time.」(Hind)

「However, gathering materials for Selene-dono’s blacksmithing takes priority right?」(Tobi)

「Something like that. While we are at it, I’d want to explore areas we haven’t gone to yet with everyone.」(Hind)

「Thanks everyone. It would be nice if we managed to find something…」(Selene)

There’s the chance we might find some rare metal again, we might even be able to find some gems which would make Selene-san’s work so much easier.

She has the skills to match after all, depending on the materials she gets to choose from, I believe the results will have drastic differences.

「Anyway, that’s the gist of it. Seems like no one is against it so I want Tobi, Riizu and Selene-san to make plans on the items were are going to bring to the exhibition.」(Hind)

「Hmm? So that means that Hind-dono and Yumir-dono are going somewhere?」(Tobi)

「Ah..we are going out for a bit to welcome some new residents of the desert.」(Hind)

「That’s about it!」(Yumir)

Once he heard what we said, even more question marks appeared on top of Tobi’s head.

In order to explain it in detail, I opened my mouth again.