Chapter 217: Compendium of Materia Medica
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I'm Really Not the Demon God's Lackey Chapter 217: Compendium of Materia Medica

Lin Jie was livid.

He had been sleeping soundly and had a pretty lady teaching him spells in his dream. Yet, this sweet dream of his was disrupted by a loud bang, instantly waking him up. Upon heading downstairs, he had found the door to his store missing.

Besides having his door gone, a possible murder had also occured on the premises, with the murderer disappearing without a trace and only the victim left behind.

How could anyone possibly accept such a thing happening to them?

Putting aside the vile wrongdoings of the assailant first, Lin Jie would very much rather get justice deserved for the door that had been with him for three years.

Prima was slightly stunned and subconsciously glanced at the ‘cat’ which was still sulking beside the doorway… Referring to it as a cat was for simplicity's sake.

As for the assailant… wasn’t she eaten up by it?

If the cause was viewed literally, the person responsible for smashing the door was Prima.

Because the inertia she had when running, coupled with the swing of the dagger, had made her crash into the door, not only smashing it off its hinges but also leaving behind a big dent.

However, the root cause was still the result of the assailant’s assault, hence the true culprit was without a doubt the dark elf stalker.

Still, the young man before her continued to question the identity of the ‘culprit.’

With more thought, one could tell that this wasn’t a case of asking the obvious but a question with an underlying implication.

Prima’s mind quickly went to work as she recalled everything that occurred before she lost consciousness. And in an instant, she figured out what was going on!

The dark elf was hired to kill Prima; in other words, she technically wasn’t the root cause either and merely an ‘instrument’ being manipulated by someone else. Therefore, the true ‘culprit’ would be the client who hired her.

In this case, the aforementioned client would be Jerome and his fellow clanmates who wished to betray Walpurgis!

Furthermore, the young man had also mentioned the Ch

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Translator Notes

Compendium of Materia Medica - Li Shizhen

A Chinese pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen during the Ming Dynasty in the 1500s.
It is a work that lists the materia medica of Chinese medicine known at the time. It lists plants, animals, minerals, that were believed to have medicinal properties.

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