Overlord: Hail the King's Birth
Chapter 56

Recovery Potion Crafting: Three Possibilities

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It was nearly evening.

Tang Zheng had consumed seven stalks of Hot Grass before the color of the Alchemy Solution finally stabilized into a wood-yellow liquid.

He tested how well it healed wounds, and the effect far surpassed simply covering a wound with medicinal powder.

Seeing this result,

Tang Zheng showed no joy. Instead, he frowned slightly.

After thinking for a moment,

he drained the little mana he had just recovered and cast Item Appraisal on the Alchemy Solution he had made.

Buzz—

Item: Inferior Alchemy Solution

Effect: A solution made with the herb "Hot Grass." It had hemostatic and disinfecting effects, and drinking it restored a tiny amount of 1 HP.

(It could not be stored for long. Its effects would completely vanish within an hour.)

Looking at the information revealed by Item Appraisal, Tang Zheng frowned even more deeply.

Even with an Alchemist and Potion Maker profession of a higher level than Nfirea's, the potion he produced could only be described as inferior?

Tang Zheng had obtained the Potion Maker profession from Nfirea because he wanted to make his own potions and improve his endurance in battle.

But now, it seemed he had been thinking too simply.

He knew too little about herbs. The medicinal properties of different herbs, whether they could be combined, the proper dosage—all of those were problems.

Knowledge like that alone would take time to master. It was not as simple as activating a skill and kneading out a potion directly.

And time!

That was precisely what he lacked most right now.

The Alchemy Solution he had made was merely a shortcut that fully brought out an herb's medicinal properties.

It did not even count as a low-grade potion!

Potions in the New World and potions in the game YGGDRASIL were, in truth,

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