All of a sudden, Rhode felt he had truly become one of life's winners.
Cultivation of ghost mushrooms and Graveyard Mushrooms had been going smoothly already. Then he had unexpectedly acquired plague flowers, and, in yet another surprise, started growing felweed.
That meant not only could development of the Necromantic Potion intended to counter the Scourge proceed smoothly, but his plan to turn magic herbs into runes, with felweed as the main ingredient, could keep moving forward too.
Hmm? Something about this doesn't seem right.
A mage who knows necromancy, enthusiastically makes Necromantic Potions, and grows felweed in a patch of the Plaguelands to turn into runes...
Why does that sound like some bastard from the Cult of the Damned?
Pfft! Why am I calling myself a bastard?
As the saying goes, herbs themselves don't represent honor. I've seen the noblest... Forget it. Any herb that works is a good herb.
Now, then, Rhode needed two other things.
One was black lotus, an essential ingredient for making advanced Necromantic Potions.
The other was magical gemstones, such as rubies.
Both were scarce, especially magical gemstones.
Rubies, sapphires, and the like had seemed quite commonplace in the game in his previous life, but here they were pitifully rare.
Rhode had not given them much thought before, mainly because he had too few runes. Even if he got the gemstones, they would be useless.
But things were different now.
Once felweed could be grown in large quantities, the magic herbs he eventually harvested could fuel not only his game consoles and movies, but also the production of Magic Mechs and-Magic Equipment!
Those could be a tremendous help in improving his magical abilities, so he had to secure the materials if he got the chance.
Millhouse Manastorm had books on making Magic Equipment, but