"What is crystal ginger? You really need to ask?" Rey was shocked that Walker had not heard of it before. She knew he had read a lot of the books in the library, especially the ones that were left from the previous alchemist owner of the mansion.
Walker's look said that he wasn't going to deal with the sarcasm as he took the small sli cores from the others. "Pssh, Crystal ginger is a species of ginger that absorbed too much mana while it grew. It stops being a cooking ingredient and instead develops a special property for unique mana potions."
So it just makes better mana potions? If that's it then why did you run so fast? We could just buy it then." Gil was completely lost in why having one better ingredient was so amazing. Rey could already make high mana potions without this crystal ginger and they worked fine. They didn't need rare and fancy ingredients when they could make do with what they had.
"If you listened and let finish you wouldn't sound sooo dumb now." Gil managed to tick off Rey by interrupting her with his opinion.
"Please just ignore Gil. I have never seen you rush so fast. What makes it a unique mana potion?" Su stepped in as the diator for this situation. She had no problem pushing aside any tension to find the facts in the situation.
"Crystal ginger is unique because it basically ford super small mana crystals out of plant material. aning that the potions it is made in to have a chance to permanently increase the consurs' mana. It is also one of the only dicines for soone with mana bleeding disease." Rey had only even heard of this herb since it was so rare.
"When I was little I saw the old man explaining that if his apprentices ever see any of this to spend their entire life's earning on it then whatever they have in them. The fact that these slis uncovered so is enough to cause a stampede of alchemists to co digging. They even ate so."
Rey looked like she was ready to shed tears seeing that so crystal ginger roots had started to decay. Her hands began to swiftly harvest the roots that were still undamaged. "Can we save pieces by cutting off the decay?" Walker now understood the rarity and reaction Rey had when she realized what it was. He could only think of trying to get as much as possible.
"Well you can but if you do that you are going to cause the mana to bleed out. It pretty much makes it useless anyway. Just dig up the roots that are here. Leave the regular ginger, they might beco crystal ginger in a few years." Rey was still digging up roots looking for remaining crystal ginger roots.
Walker joined her along with Gil and Su. Midnight prowled around keeping watch for more enemies. Onyx seed to be staying in his tattoo form resting more and not coming out. Walker had half a mind to wake him and as for help but realized that onyx would have trouble digging for the roots so he shook the thought from his head.
"Oh, I found one." Gil held up a shiny tan root the size of his thumb and quickly buried a regular ginger root back in to the ground. Reney grabbed it and gave it a hard look while turning it n her fingers.
"Walker, store this and this." She tossed the two roots she had to Walker revealing that she had found one the size of her open palm.
Unfortunately, they started to dig around but only found so decayed pieces and regular ginger. If Rey had not seen the crystal ginger when she did it was sure to have been completely dissolved by the small purple slis. "I am going to store the purple sli bodies not. I will use an old coin bag for the cores, I feel like our collection is going to get bigger and bigger as we get closer to the massive sli.
After looking for a short while more Rey was finally satisfied that they had found the only crystal ginger there was to be found here. She was already going over potion recipes and thinking about the possibilities the party could have if they drank a unique potion.
Su had been curious about sothing since Rey said it in the first place. "Rey, what is mana bleeding disease? I have never heard of it and we had many healers try and diagnose my mother's illness. Not one ever brought that up."
"Well, I am not surprised. Mana bleeding disease is where a person's body can't hold on to the mana they produce. Those that have it will have their mana bleed from their body at all tis. If they don't live stationary life they will end up low on mana and never co out of a coma."
"Wait so they would need mana potions at all tis?" Gil heard Rey's explanation and started to add up how much gold it could cause to afford to fight such a disease.
"Sothing only they very rich could survive. Not to ntion the people who don't have a system and can't even control their mana." All Walker could hear was that this was a disease that could easily end a life. Not only that, but if soone wanted to function they needed to constantly throw gold around for mana potions which was a whole ss in itself.
"Exactly. It is very rare though. The odds of eting soone with it are less than once in a lifeti. I am sure we will never et soone with it." Rey brushed it off making it seem like a complete impossibility.
"I guess it's good that such a terrible disease is rare. If it was common then it would be a huge problem for a kingdom." Gil could only imagine how many people could fall to this disease. Even nobles would eventually turn out of potions of gold to buy potions.
"Ugh, we are a huge ss after digging around in the dirt looking for all of that crystal ginger." Su was just noticing all the much she had gotten on her armor and shields.
"When we find a place to rest later we can try and clean up. There is plenty of water to use my grand elental manipulation to make so water balls for cleaning." Walker thought it would be a worthwhile use of his magic if they could get a little cleaner at so point.
Wow, the trees are really affected in this area." Re realized that the path that the decay was leading through was bringing the party in to a scraped area. The trees were much closer together but the problem was that the passing massive sli had infected many of them with decay. The branches were starting to rot off and if they were not cut from the main tree then the decay would destroy it.
"We should start to cut the decaying branches to try and save the trees. If we leave it like this the forest could lose thousands of trees. Look how close they are." Su made very good points. By slowing their pursuit they could take the ti
Not a single one argued with what she thought they should do, it was the right thing. If the forest continues to take damage as it was then many would lose their lives. Even more so than the goblins, they had just befriended would end up extinct regardless of being hunted or not.
The party brandished any blades they had to cut away the branches that were going to spread the decay. The smaller branches and sapling had already gone too far but the party still had the ti to save the larger trees.
Walker saw that the decay was so powerful that it was infecting the very center of the branches. The decay was working from the inside out. He realized that so of the smaller trees were also too far gone and went in to chop them down completely. This took the party so ti but they were still able to make slow progress forward.
Looking back after a few hours their path had a strip of decaying branches and trees neatly piled up away from the edges where the healthy trees grew. They had made a big difference in a short ti. The worrying part was that the decay was very intense for the small number of slis that had been there. "You guys don't think another party has co through where and hunted any larger slis?" Gil spoke these words as he kicked so mud in front of him. He had found what seed to be tracks, and they were not from a monster.
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