Chapter 4.2 (2/2)

Nash gently stroked his son’s head, and Pipin closed his eyes as if he enjoyed that.

[Today right, there’s a customer called Chaos-san who came over.]

[Chaos? I never heard of him, is he someone staying in town?]

[Yes. It looks like he came here for the first time. Chaos-san taught me a lot about the materials for making other potions, including the monsters in the harvest locations.]

[This b.a.s.t.a.r.d Chaos taught him this!] Nash’s att.i.tude towards him turned for the worst.

He tried to be gentle in order not to break to his cute son’s joyful face.

[You are really pa.s.sionate for this, Pipin. However it’s dangerous to gather materials on your own because of the monsters, okay?]

Nash tried to get his attention as much as possible.

[But that’s not all! Chaos-san really knows a really great deal. He taught me the recipe for mana potions and elixirs.] (TL: 霊薬, I tled that as elixirs.)

Nash tilted his head. He had heard of mana potions as they were used for recovering a magician’s mana. The materials to make them were simply not available in this region.

However he had not heard of elixirs.

[Pipin, what is ‘elixirs’?]

[It’s a potion that restores health and mana together.]

‘It’s amazing right’, Pipin’s beaming face was saying that.

‘That kind of miracle like medicine does not exist, and it’s more like a fairy tale to deceive Pipin—‘ Nash’s evaluation of Chaos dropped rock bottom.

He mildly admonished Pipin that he had been deceived, but his cute son said that there was no such thing.

So Nash decided to confirm there was nothing like that and asked him in detail about the recipe.

—- But all of the material names were correct and there were indeed named locations in his description. Furthermore there were names of lost ancient places that Chaos taught to gather the highest ranked materials.

Nash was tongue-tied.

How should I determine this —- Nash had a hard time judging the accuracy of the recipe. Apart from the highest ranked potion, the recipes to make the other mana potions and health potions were correct. And so he could not dismiss the highest ranked potions were lies.

Furthermore, Pipin strongly insisted that he was not lied to.

It was a really huge thing if it turned out to be true. The first thing was the location for creating elixirs. It was in the west of Meldor, a different place where Orc governed the north, and there were far less monsters in the west.

Ant there was only one kingdom, Castalla, that was researching subst.i.tute potions for the highest ranked potions. If the highest ranked potion was successfully manufactured it would be be an advantage in politics.

And even if there were problems in the recipes, it would still serve as good research right?

………. It might even be possible to build up great wealth from this.

In the end Nash was unable to judge and decided that he had to ask someone of higher qualifications. And so he took a pen and began writing

Author’s note: By the way, if potions are kept in the inventory slots, it won’t degrade.

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