The properties of this Life Potion, compared with ordinary potions, were actually much closer to a True Word Spell like healing magic.
It was essentially a healing spell that could be carried around, then activated when necessary by pulling out the cork and pouring it into one's mouth.
That was incredibly tempting.
Many times, when soldiers suffered grievous wounds on the battlefield, whether they lived or died came down to a single healing spell.
If every soldier could have a bottle, then the death rate among Great Zhou soldiers on the battlefield would drop dramatically.
"Can this Life Potion—the most ordinary kind—be mass-produced reliably? What I mean is, I want every Great Zhou soldier to have a bottle when they go into battle. Is that possible?"
Zhou Xu didn't need to ask to know that Life Potions definitely came in different grades. Could the medicinal effects of leaves from a fifteen-hundred-year-old Life Spirit Tree and a three-hundred-year-old Life Spirit Tree really be the same? Those extra twelve hundred years couldn't possibly have been spent growing for nothing.
In Zhou Xu's view, the high-year varieties were out of the question, but surely the lowest-year ones could be mass-produced, right?
After all, he had visited the Life Spirit Tree plantations, so he knew for certain that there were very large numbers of low-year Life Spirit Trees.
However, the answer given by the Elf Alchemist was somewhat beyond Zhou Xu's expectations.
"If you only need one or two rounds of supply, there shouldn't be a problem. Our raw materials are still fairly abundant at this stage. But if you increase the frequency beyond that, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep up."
"..."
Without waiting for Zhou Xu to ask again, the other party began explaining.
"Life Spirit Trees are different from