322 Kind offer (1/2)
Starting with the liquor part by itself, it was just a juice of a specific fruit squeezed out and mixed with the pulp of a common plant otherwise used as a painkiller. From what I realised during the show, the liquor was only responsible for the initial relaxation, with the real magic happening thanks to the boiled leaves.
Surprisingly enough, it was Leicar who explained those things to me, as if it was a common knowledge instead of a state-keeping secret!
But soon later, I got to learn the true reason why it was kept in the open.
Chrilaka Fruits, from which the liquor was squeezed out, were foreign to this island.
Outside of a few plants in the Overlord's mansion, they all came from his travels through the neighbouring island tribes, with one of them already on the verge of forming a stable alliance with this local powerhouse through a marriage!
But the best part had yet to come as Leicar started smiling as he continued to reminiscent the great values of both the Overlord's daughter and her destined partner.
Using this time gap where I couldn't learn anything usefull, I employed Bonger to help analyze the entire process from a more scientific view. Just from the methods, those people were using to obtain the final product, it was apparent that they lacked any tools or even the basic ideas about what was really going on inside the pot.
What came out as the greatest surprise from the system analyze, was that not only those leaves that they were using were only subpar in effects when compared to some common herbs I saw while strolling through the forest earlier, but this liquor thing actually left most of the valuable parts of the fruit untouched!
Even though I could only put a single, fresh through my analytic tool, it was still more than enough to pinpoint the fact that it was its soft shell that contained the most of the anaesthetic agent!
Taking a closer look at the plump fruit the size of a small apple, I realised that it wasn't the fruit but a nut! While its shell was already soft, from what Leicar told me before, it would gradually harden, with the increase of the force trying to squeeze it out, making the process of producing the liquor quite an annoying one.
From his words alone I deducted that some people tried to get rid of the shell while it was soft to save the trouble later, but the end product wasn't nearly as good as normal, making all the attempts to fix the production process obsolete.
But that didn't mean I couldn't improve it myself!
Oh, how much I hate the fact that I don't have any storage rings! With just a single, small one, I could just snatch a single nut, move it to my private garden and regrow it there, while making sure to improve its quality!
But that was all in the sphere of plans for the future.
Right now, as the sun finally overcame its shyness and started peeking out from below the horizon line, it was a high time for me to pay a visit to this so-called overlord!