Oden explained,
"For example, the Icefield Grass and Coldwater Stone in your hands—both are auxiliary medicinal ingredients. Without a specialized core to pair them with, anything you make will be useless."
"What kind of pairing is missing?" Lu Yuan asked.
"For example, the core of a Frost Aggregate," Oden explained. "If you can find one, pair it with that Ice Skull of yours and add your other current materials, you might be able to make an Eerie item I once heard about. Making potions would work too."
"Frost Aggregate." Lu Yuan repeated the name.
He thought about it. He did not seem to have heard of it before, but with the word Aggregate in its name, he roughly knew what sort of thing it was. It was probably another kind of inexplicable corpse, or something formed from Eerie creatures fused together.
It did not sound easy to deal with.
"A Frost Aggregate is a kind of Eerie adhesive that lives in snowy mountains. It's quite rare. Ah, but it won't be easy to find. Of that whole box of yours, only the Ice Skull can barely serve as a core."
Oden added, "But it's still not enough. Without something better to link it all together, it's just a pile of miscellaneous scraps."
Lu Yuan sighed as well. There was nothing he could do.
Still, although he could not use them to make potions, he could combine these simple materials and make some Eerie items for practice.
At the very least, Lu Yuan could still manage that.
Just as the two were talking, there came a sudden knock at the door. Knock, knock, knock.
Who was it?
Who would come looking for him at this hour? Lu Yuan went to open the door in confusion. The person standing outside made him