Poison had always been humanity's trump card against large beasts and monsters.
Creatures with venom sacs, such as spiders and snakes, were the primary source of poison for most hunters.
Anyone who killed a venomous snake or spider could dig an intact venom sac out of its corpse and preserve it in a sealed container for a time.
However, limited by conditions and the environment, these toxins would gradually spoil and rot before long, eventually becoming a pile of meaningless garbage that reeked of blood.
Therefore, obtaining toxins had never been difficult for the humans of Azerath.
The truly difficult part was refining, drying, and storing them.
Moreover, toxins like snake venom and spider venom, which were mainly protein-based, were not particularly effective when applied to weapons.
Especially when hunting large creatures, it often took more than a dozen arrows and a long wait before the target was gradually eroded by neurotoxins and finally collapsed, unable to move.
Thus, Allen had little interest in this primitive method of using poison.
Compared with protein toxins of complicated composition, he preferred the simple, brutal chemical toxins contained in plants.
At the very least, the latter were easier to refine and could also be harvested or cultivated on a large scale.
However, due to limitations in manpower and technology, the poison workshops within Allen's territory had never produced much, barely enough to sustain their own consumption.
At this moment, in a small room occupied by only ten people, three men were stuffing large quantities of green vines, leaves, and roots into wooden barrels, crushing them, then adding water, heating, and stirring.
The remaining women wore protective suits made from gelatinous material boiled from slime corpses as they carefully squeezed out the pale green liquid and mixed it with another pale yellow solution.
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