Improved Nutrient Quality and Mana Potion
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It’s been two weeks since I went to the streamlet by the royal capital to collect them. My medicinal herb garden is doing very well. I check on them from time to time and water the herbs with water mixed with nutrients.
[Eternal Grass]
Classification: Plant
Quality: Good++
Details: Especially high in nutrition. Contains nourishment in both its leaves and roots. Full of life and leaves are healthy.
[Mana Grass]
Classification: Plant
Quality: Good++
Details: Contains mana, can be used as an ingredient in medicine. Full of life and leaves are healthy.
I decided that it was time to use the Eternal Grass that I had spotted and collected outside of my plans as a nutrient ingredient, so I pulled out the Eternal by its roots, tore off a few leaves each of both Mana Grass and Eternal Grass, then headed towards the laboratory.
I chop the Eternal Grass and Mana Grass as prep work. Then, only the roots are finely chopped, then I put everything into the distilled water.
Next, I put the beaker on top of the heating magic tool and started heating it.
Small bubbles began to form on top of the water, clinging to the sides of the beaker.
[Nutrient]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: Normal–
Details: The active ingredients are on the weak side.
When I let it sit for a bit longer, the bubbles grew larger.
[Nutrient]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: Normal-
Details: The active ingredients are slightly on the weak side.
When I let it sit even longer, the water started to burble sometimes.
[Nutrient]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: Good+
Details: The leaves’ active properties are well-extracted. The root’s components have not been fully extracted yet.
Hmm, what should I do? Boil them? But, boiling has never gone my way…
First, I’ll try lowering the temperature of the magic heating tool and try maintaining the temperature at a non-boiling point.
I left the mixture as is, then as the sand reached the bottom of the hourglass after turning it over six times.
[Nutrient]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: High
Details: The leaves’ and root’s active properties are well-extracted. A very good item.
Hmm, I wonder what it is? The quality went from Good++ to even better than: High.
I wonder if there is something that I missed with Appraisal?
‘Maybe it’s necessary to inspect it? I guess I can only wait for Appraisal to level up…’ I wrote in my notebook.
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Oh right, Father has been expecting my mana potion.
The recipe for mana potions consisted of Mage Herb, Magic Gem, Mana Grass, and Water.
[Nutrient]
Classification: Plant
Quality: Good++
Details: Absorbs mana from the atmosphere and stores it in the leaves. Mesophyll is thick, full of life.
I wonder if this quality is good.
[Magic Gem]
Classification: Gem
Quality: High++
Details: Mana crystal obtained from a monster’s body. Somewhat small but mana is well-condensed.
Err, let’s check [Introductions to Alchemy]…
“Put the Mage Herb, Magic Gem, Mana Grass in water, then heat it. Stir gently so the components extracted above the Magic Gem change properly.”
Let’s give this a go!
I chopped the Mage Herb and Mana Grass as prep work. Then, I put everything, as well as the Magic Gem, into the distilled water.
Next, I placed the beaker on top of the heating magic tool and began to heat it.
Small bubbles began to form on top of the water, clinging to the sides of the beaker.
From hereon, I slowly and carefully stir.
[Mana Potion]
Classification: Medicine
When I let it sit for a bit longer, the bubbles grew larger.
[Mana Potion]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: Normal–
Details: The active ingredients are slightly on the weaker side.
When I let it sit even longer, the water started to burble sometimes.
[Mana Potion]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: Normal-
Details: The leaf components are well-extracted. The active ingredients are still on the weaker side.
Most likely there was no need to boil the mixture… I lowered the heating temperature and let the temperature of the medicine die down.
Then, as I kept stirring while watching with Appraisal the entire time, the quality just kept getting better and better!
[Mana Potion]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: High
Details: Excellent amount of mana recovery. 1.5 times better than usual products.
First, I filtered the medicine from the beaker and transferred it to a vial. Since I was still in the experimental stage, I made a somewhat smaller amount, so this was roughly enough for five vials.
Hmm, I wonder if I should report this to Father.
Incidentally, when I made a regular potion using the leaves from my own field, it turned out like this:
[Potion]
Classification: Medicine
Quality: High
Details: An excellent article boasting 1.5 times the recovery amount of usual products. Gentle, sweet taste.
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“1.5 times more effective! Isn’t that magnificent!”
I reported this information to Father when he came back home, and he was giving out very high praise.
I was told that the common duties of the mages and knights are to weed out the monsters that appear in our territories, and to go on expeditions to kill monsters when they receive requests from their respective territories (unless there’s war or something similar).
It’s a big problem when your mana is depleted in a close fight during a subjugation. That’s where you consume mana potions, but it seems like the difference in the amount of recovery per potion is huge. Well of course, it’s better to drink just one vial than to open two vials and take your time in a close fight.
“Daisy, can you make this regularly?”
Father was very excited.
“I made them from the herbs in my fields, so I can hand them over if it is around once a week.”
Father nodded with satisfaction at my reply.
Father enthusiastically said, “I’ll negotiate with the government to buy it tomorrow!”
He was very determined.
Father said stuff like, “This is our chance!” when he negotiated.
“I would like to expand the fields so that I can get materials on a regular basis…”
Father today was lenient. He easily gave permission for the expansion.
