Chapter 166: Vivian

After Dolly left, Su You headed to the tavern, planning to recruit some NPCs first.

Since it wasn’t mealtime, the tavern was empty—there wasn’t even any sign of Meck. Who knows where he’d gone or what he was up to.

Su You skillfully opened the recruitment panel. She barely glanced at it for a few seconds before directly selecting an NPC to recruit.

【Vivian】

Gender: Female

Age: Young

Loyalty: 65

Affection: 25

Talents: Medicine (85), Magic (70)

Skills: Novice Physician, Novice Healing Magic

Traits: Drug Sensitivity (increased success rate for medicine-related checks), Malicious Personality (takes pleasure in provoking strong emotions in others)

Profile: 【Vivian’s father comes from a long line of doctors, while her mother is the daughter of a famous performing troupe leader (including but not limited to: magic, acrobatics, theater, etc.).

Under her father’s influence, Vivian displayed an exceptional talent for medicine and studied the craft under him from a young age.

But this was just due to her natural talent—it didn’t really suit her personality.

Vivian was born with a mischievous, almost devilish temperament. Rather than quietly healing the sick, she much preferred playing pranks—not for the process, but for the outcome.

She also loved standing on stage, putting on jaw-dropping performances, and relished seeing all sorts of intense emotions on the faces of her audience—whether it was shock, tension, fear, or panic.

During one acrobatic performance, Vivian sneaked onto the stage and got injured, but was unexpectedly discovered by a magician in the audience, who noticed her magical talent. With the promise that she could perform on stage if she studied magic well, Vivian joined the Mage’s Guild.

Unfortunately, after Vivian “graduated” from the Mage’s Guild, her mother’s performing troupe disbanded for various reasons, and her dream of performing on stage was shattered...】

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Even without considering Vivian’s personality, her two skill talents alone were enough for Su You to make a quick decision.

Although Yue could barely fill the role of a healer with her water magic, water mages have the weakest healing abilities. In terms of healing power, it goes: Healing Mage > Light Mage > Water Mage.

Yue’s healing magic could only close wounds, not restore health, so its effect was quite limited.

What’s more, Vivian also had physician skills. This made Su You, who had been debating whether to build a clinic in the territory due to the lack of a doctor, decide immediately.

And to be honest, Vivian’s negative trait wasn’t even that bad... She just enjoyed seeing people scared, right?

Su You not only had ways to satisfy this little quirk of hers, but could even use it as a reason for Vivian to stay.

After recruiting her, Su You left the tavern and gathered materials to build a clinic at the edge of the residential area.

The materials for the clinic were the usual trio—composite wood planks, composite stone slabs, and marble bricks.

Although Su You needed marble for the statue and probably shouldn’t be using it up, the amount on hand wasn’t enough for the statue anyway, and now there was a quarry... so it didn’t matter.

【Consume Composite Wood Plank x5, Composite Stone Slab x5, Marble Brick x5 to build a Clinic?】

【Construction in progress: Clinic. Estimated time: 300 minutes】

Besides the clinic, Su You also used some wood planks to repair a few houses, bringing the total number of residences up to ten. That way, there would be enough space for new recruits tomorrow.

Once the buildings were set up, Su You took the quarry construction card, two level-one storage pouches, and some materials and tools, and headed straight for the mines.

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“Lord, this is...” Laike stared in surprise at the quarry building that had suddenly appeared before him, but didn’t seem to think a structure springing up out of nowhere was all that strange—just a bit surprising.

After Su You explained the quarry’s function, Laike immediately realized it was similar to the lumber mill.

“This is for you. Take good care of it. It works like a wooden cart, but can only store three types of items.” Su You handed him a storage pouch, then looked around as if searching for something.

“I’ll take good care of it,” Laike replied, understanding its use and nodding earnestly.

He didn’t ask where the pouch came from, simply slinging it over his shoulder.

“Where’s Lyle?” Logically, Lyle should be around here, but Su You didn’t see him anywhere.

“Are you looking for Lyle, my lord? He’s over by the stone gate ruins you sealed earlier... Said he wanted to keep an eye on the place in case something happened.” Although Laike thought this was unnecessary and rather dangerous, he couldn’t talk Lyle out of it, so he just let him be.

Anyway, since he was nearby, if anything happened over there, he’d hear it.

“Got it.” With that, Su You headed toward the monster spawn cage, reminding Laike before leaving to start mining marble.

The warehouse still needed about 120 more pieces of marble to build the statue. With Laike’s speed and the new quarry, Su You figured they’d gather enough marble soon.

Laike: “Understood, I’ll get right on it.”

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Just as Laike said, Su You found Lyle by the monster spawn cage.

He was chopping wood while keeping a close eye on the cage, his expression complicated, as if lost in thought.

When he saw Su You approach, he stopped what he was doing.

“This is for you.” Su You handed him a storage pouch and repeated the explanation she’d given Laike, mentioning that Laike had one too.

Lyle was clearly much sharper than Laike. He immediately grasped the value of this seemingly ordinary pouch and understood the trust Su You was placing in them.

“This is really valuable.” As a player, Su You was used to having inventory space—twenty slots, no less—so she couldn’t fully appreciate how precious this pouch was to them.

For Lyle, this was an item on par with the “spatial magic” that only high-level mages in legends could use.

“It is, but you both deserve it.” Although the brothers’ loyalty and affection hadn’t maxed out at 100, the lowest was already 97. With numbers that high, it was only a matter of time before they reached full value, and it wouldn’t take long.

Besides, Su You wasn’t blind—she could see how much the brothers had contributed to the territory.

If it weren’t for them, Su You would have been exhausted just gathering materials on her own.

Hearing Su You’s words, Lyle was deeply moved.

(End of chapter)"

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