71 Episode 71: Lost Herbs and Great Loss (1/2)

When we got back, we were asking the sailor on the Goodluther to look into the herbs that Mr. Carm and the others had just collected.

People from seaside countries along the way asked me to sell the airship as a trade item, but I politely refused because I wasn't an empty island technology.

”Phew, there are quite a few herbs to sell, but they're still weak for eyeballs”

”Nooo, is that right...”

In the end none of the herbs I brought were decisive, and Mr. Carm and the others drooled to regret it.

If the country's upper echelons are not convinced, the trade itself may be suspended.

”This came...”

”Hmm, the trade with airships is fascinating...”

This is why I don't want anything, which subtly makes the air of negotiation heavier.

Hmm, all the herbs I've picked are the same as Mr. Carm's herbs...

Oh, but there was a herb that I didn't get to look into just one type.

But this isn't even such a rare herb.

Well, let's hear it for once.

And that was then.

”Captain Carm. Huh!

Several knights descend from the sky in a hurry.

”What is it!?”

Mr. Carm scolds his men for intruding on important negotiating venues.

”Also, sorry! And yet my men!

”Calm down! What happened to your men?”

Mr. Carm drinks a panicking knight and makes him explain what happened.

”Yes! While exploring Morijima, my men were attacked by demons and ripped off their arms!

”Hey, what is it!?”

Everyone on the spot fades into a sudden shocking report.

If you look, one knight accompanied by his companion was on his knees groaning.

Show me the wound.

Soon the sailor sees the knight's arm.

”The demon who ripped his arm off ran away, and we didn't have all sorts of drugs. We can only tie the wound and stop the blood...”

”This is not good. If you don't heal him soon, he'll bleed to death.”

”Huh, can you fix your arm?!?”

The sailor shakes his neck to the side in the words of a knight worrying his companion.

”I don't think so. A potion that grows arms is like a legendary elixir. If I could at least get my arm back, I could have connected it in the finest potion, but which one of these herbs is here...”

”Oh, no...”

”Let's at least disinfect the wound and stop the blood with healing magic. That way only life will be saved.”

”Come on, please”

To the words of the sailor, Mr. Carm asks for his remorse.

”Okay, let's do whatever we can...”

”Um...”

Yeah, I think it would be one shot if we used healing magic that would heal flesh defects better than sole.

I speak to the sailor, sorry to break into some strangely serious air. [M]

”What? Now it's a matter of fighting for a moment!?”

”Excuse me, I need a missing area... no, how about using this herb more than that?

That's when the idea behind my brain flashed.

Instead of fixing it with restorative magic, I was wondering if it would be a good trade eyeball if the injury was fully treated with a potion using medicinal herbs.

I take the medicinal herbs from the magic bag that have not yet been appraised and show them to the sailor.

”Mm? What the hell is this? It's a plant I've never seen, but is it a herb?

That? You don't know, Mr. Sailor?

”This is the Tecan grass that we often use to make high potions.”

”... Tekan grass!? Is that about that Tekan grass that was lost in the great loss of herbs?!?”

Huh? Tecan grass lost herb?

I mean, you lost a lot of herbs. What!?

”Uh, what's with the massive loss of herbs?

”Don't you know the great loss!?”

I don't know.

”The massive loss of herbs is the sudden outbreak of an epidemic hundreds of years ago in which many plants withered. Some of the plants that died in the incident included rare herbs, which were named the Great Loss.”

Heh, there was such a case.

”I have also been told that it has prevented many medicines from being formulated in the past and that many human lives and drug recipes have been lost”

Wow, it was a crack and a heavy case.

”Did Mr. Liliera know?

”Yeah, for once. When I was an adventurer in Hekiji, my senior herbalist taught me. You can sell drugs and herbs that have fallen dramatically due to a huge loss, so if you find them, they'll tell you to take them home.”

Heh, yeah.

Because of what happened hundreds of years ago, or did Mr. Liliera seem to have no idea at first, and is it a level of fame among researchers?

”But it was normal in Morishima, wasn't it?

”Hey, what!?”

I'm surprised the sailor rounded his eyes.

”Oh well. Morishima is far above the ground, so you didn't suffer from the epidemic disease of great loss!

As far as it goes, if you ask me, maybe so.

There were ball rabbits on the empty island that we didn't see on the ground, and it's not strange to have plants that have survived all along on Morijima.

”Doctor...”

”Ha!? How about that?”

He was an excited sailor, but Mr. Carm called me back.

”Uh, no, um. Anyway, I said high potion, but can you make a high potion out of Tecan grass? Sure, it'll heal your health and lost blood, so it'll be great for treatment, but it'll take you a long time to make hyppotions that are more difficult to combine, right?

Huh? It was such a major high potion recipe in my last life, you really don't know?

And the hypothesis is more difficult to mix? That's funny.

I think a little grown up pharmacist's apprentice will be able to make it soon enough.

... Oh well. Did you lose a lot of recipes with the herbs in the big loss?

Then it wouldn't be strange if the recipe with Tecan grass was gone.

Hmm, the Warcraft Forest and the Inner Ocean are made, the sky continent is gone, or even the great loss of plants?

Oh, and there was something like Lost Magic and Lost Items, and there were all kinds of events going on while I was a little dead.

But I'm also concerned that there are cases in those cases where demons were involved.

Either way, now I have to explain how to make hyppotions.

”Well, if you mix this herb with the extracted air grass, you can make a hypoposition.”

”Is that all you need to make it!? Meeg grass, ahad grass and baggy grass would be all you need to formulate your hyppotion? Or is Aer grass a cheap herb that you usually get?!?”

”Yeah, you can even make that recipe, but it's cheaper and faster with Tecan and Aer grass, right?

Oh, now that we're dealing with lost medicinal herbs, doesn't that mean it's cheap?

I don't have time for this, and I think I should actually make it work.

”Now I'm going to actually make it up to you, so check out what you've done. Mr. Carm, may I have a bunch of air grass there?