I've been summoned for a year.

The season goes round and spring comes again.

That said, it's only the end of winter now.

The climate around Wangdu is mild compared to Japan, but the cold ones are cold.

That's why I keep pulling indoors.

"Sai, are you making potions again?

Jude is the one who's been calling me like I'm scared.

How many times has this exchange taken place?

"Yeah, I am. Recently, there have been more orders."

"Isn't that overmade?

"Really?

Jude sighed deeply as she tilted her neck as she saw the potion placed in front of her.

You don't have to be so shy.

It's true that more orders have been placed.

The potions, which were initially wholesaled only to the Third Knights, were now also wholesaled to the Second Knights and the Court Demon Division.

That and this is because rumors have come to be known within the royal palace that potions made in the laboratory are highly performing.

That's not the only reason.

With the increase in demons in recent years, demand for potions has also increased in the market, and they continue to be thin all the time.

Then I know you're talking about increasing the supply, but it's not that easy to solve.

There are a limited number of people who can make potions stably, and a limited number of potions that those people can make in a day.

Potions are a must even for the Knights of the Royal Palace to go on a demonic crusade.

As demons around the Wang capital increased, so did the number of potions needed.

However, no matter how much it is supplied to the Royal Palace as a priority, there is no reason to monopolize the market potion.

Based on such a royal palace policy, it seemed difficult to increase it any further, although the quantity delivered had increased compared to before.

Light injuries were natural healing, and further injuries were also compensated for by the efforts of the sorcerers who could use sacred attribute magic.

It is the potion made in the laboratory that emerged there.

If it is also effective, the daily production is no less than that of a drug store in Wangdu.

There's no way the Knights, who endured a chronic lack of potion, wouldn't jump at this.

"I don't think this is because of how many more orders I have."

"For once, I'm thinking about the quantity and making it."

"Really? No matter how much, you won't come to order so much advanced HP potion. Will the director scold you again?

Slippery in front of you is that potions are also advanced in potion.

Sometimes the herb itself, which is an ingredient, is expensive and rarely used.

Of course, the number of orders from the Knights is not that high.

Yet the reason I made it in large quantities was because I wanted to level up my pharmaceutical skills.

Potions need to be made to increase the level of pharmaceutical skills.

But at my level now, if I didn't even make advanced potions, they wouldn't go up.

The medicinal herbs for advanced potions are expensive, and the director tells me to refrain from making them, so I was careful for once...

Um, was it a lot after all?

"Are you sure you don't want to make other orders from the Knights?

"Then I already made it."

"Huh? Already?

"Most of the orders were junior or intermediate potions."

Jude has told me before that the number of potions I make in a day is very high compared to the average pharmacist.

That's enough for a regular pharmacist to finish making the amount in a day.

I'm thinking that this probably has something to do with the high level of my foundation.

From what I hear, there aren't even 10 foundation levels for people making potions in alleys.

Differences in basal levels are expressed in the amount of HP and MP as they are.

It takes magic to make potions, so perhaps people with more MP can make more potions.

I don't know how much difference there is in the total amount of MP between people with 10 basal levels and me, but I'm guessing it's quite different.

"Sai, I need to talk to you..."

Rumor has it, I don't know.

The director came to talk to Jude.

Looks like it was for me, but my gaze is nailed to the advanced HP potion on my desk.

Shit.

Found it before I cleaned it up.

"I don't mind your enthusiasm for work, but would it be a little too much?

"Excuse me."

As I told Jude, I make it considering the amount to be wholesaled to the Knights.

The potion in front of me now can't be picked up in a single order, but it's enough to be picked up in two or three orders.

Does the director understand that, too? I don't get big eyeballs.

However, it is also understandable that I would like to complain if I lined up so sloppily.

Therefore, I honestly apologized to the director who looked at me with the expression (or so on) that probably contained the fright.

"Well, it was just fine. Talking is about potions."

"What's wrong with you?

Somehow the director of serious expressions frightens me that this time he will be squeezed into grandeur.

Correcting his residence and taking a listening stance, the director began to talk about the continuation.

"We stopped making potions for a while."

"Huh? Why again?

Actually, it's hard to arrange herbs for ingredients.

"Yeah!?

The director's story is that the amount of herbs brought into Wang Du this fall was significantly less than usual.

It seems that there was a very small amount of herbs brought in from a certain region, which is one of the largest producers of herbs, and that is why there is a shortage of herbs going out to Wang Du?

They were also making an effort to make sure that the quantity was delivered to the laboratory as planned, but at last it became more difficult.

The contact that the order could not be received for a while arrived at the director earlier.

"You've been in a lot of trouble."

"Right. For once, I heard that there might be a shortage from around autumn, but I didn't think the order would be stopped."

"Is the suspension of the order going to be prolonged?

"I don't know for sure, but the story from the store seems likely"

"You're in trouble..."

In the region in question, many herbs were shipped, not only in lower grades, but also as materials for intermediate and advanced potions.

Generally, it is relatively easy to cultivate herbs that serve as ingredients for lower potions, regardless of the land.

Intermediate, however, makes cultivation a little more difficult.

I don't grow inside on normal land, and trying to grow it takes a lot of work.

I can be raised in the lab because, biased, the researchers are using various means.

It is said that the region grows as a local industry in one of the few lands where medicinal herbs that serve as ingredients for intermediate potions grow without much effort.

And because some forests are native to many medicinal herbs that serve as ingredients for advanced potions, they also ship them together?

These herbs are brought into the king's capital after appropriate treatment has been applied.

However, the timing of being transported may deviate slightly because nature is relevant.

So the director also thought that the time had slipped away when less quantities arrived than usual at the beginning of the fall.

However, even in the middle of the year, arrivals did not recover, and the lack of herbs still seems to persist.

It was not only the director who expected something to go wrong, but also the Royal Palace clerks.

You think an investigation team went to the area a while ago to investigate the cause from the Royal Palace?

"What do you do with orders from the Knights?

"We'll have to stop ordering for a while."

"Okay."

The director explained the whole thing and went back to the director's office.

Good point, so me and Jude decided to get back to their work, too.

Nevertheless, the making of potions was treated here more than I was told to discontinue.

Think blurry while cleaning up the tools you were using to make it.

Around Wang Capital, the number of demons seems to have decreased compared to temporary, but the crusade continues.

The amount of potion used may be decreasing, but it is not no longer necessary.

If the shortage of herbs continues like this, something will go wrong in time.

Before that problem came up, I hoped that the shortage of herbs would be eliminated.