As Jas shifted his attention toward the silvery-gold resins on the nearest cedar tree, Cassian and Nyxrael also shifted their gazes to the silvery-gold resin.
"Finally found it," Jas murmured softly.
"That resin?" Cassian asked, curiosity flickering in his eyes.
"Yeah. This should be the one." Jas nodded his head and reached his hand out toward the resin.
Jas scooped a small amount of the silvery-gold resin with his fingertips and brought it closer to his nose.
He took a slow breath. The mont the scent reached him, his eyes lit up.
It carried a clean cedar aroma, but it was far richer than anything he had slled before. It was fresh like cold mountain air, yet softened by a gentle sweetness from the resin. Beneath it lingered a faint herbal warmth and a soft smoky note, creating a calm, grounding fragrance that felt naturally refined.
"This scent..." Jas whispered, almost in disbelief, as this was still unprocessed, yet the aroma was already this strong. "It’s perfect."
Cassian and Nyxrael were curious and scooped a small amount of the nearest resin. They were also pleasantly surprised by it, especially Cassian, as he had slled this kind of sll from his wife’s perfu before, but its scent was inferior even compared to this raw resin that he had just sniffed.
"How did you even know this resin could be used in perfu?" Cassian actually had no idea about this kind of thing since he only used perfu when he attended a banquet or an important eting. It was also because his wife forced him to use it.
"The Roselune village chief taught a few things about it," Jas replied with a grin. "Though he wasn’t certain either. He just told to bring back any resin or flowers I found so I could experint later."
"I see." Cassian nodded his head, then murmured softly as he rembered sothing. "But I’ve passed through this place before. Why haven’t I ever slled this?"
"Is it because of that thin layer covering the resin?" He mumbled to himself as he squinted his eyes and looked at the thin white layer.
"It should be so, since you won’t be able to sll the scent properly unless you break that layer which traps the scent inside." Jas nodded.
"Seems luck is on our side today. We haven’t even searched that long and we’ve already stumbled upon this." Cassian smiled satisfiedly.
"Let’s explore further. We can collect these in the future since they won’t be running anywhere anyway." He said eagerly, as if treating the Blackfang Mountains as his backyard.
Subsequently, they continued the search deeper into the Blackfang Mountains. 10 minutes later, they arrived at a massive valley.
On their way here, they ca across a few dozen flowers, and Jas just took them since he had already made an excuse about taking any resin and flowers he would co across.
So of them were actually spiritual herbs, while the others were poisonous flowers that could even be used to kill strong people.
Looking into the distance, Jas saw a particular tree that stood out. Its size wasn’t that big compared to other huge trees that he had co across. However, its pale-blue bark that seed to shimr lightly under sunlight was the one that caught his attention.
Its deep green leaves were slender with a faint bluish tint at the edges. Clusters of bright azure-colored berries hang beneath the branches like small glowing droplets.
"Those are Azuredew Berries." Cassian said when he noticed that Jas was looking at the Azuredew Berry Tree.
He then continued, "I pick so occasionally and share them with the knights. They’re a rare delicacy."
Jas raised an eyebrow, feeling curious about it, and went over as he wanted to have a taste.
Just as he was about to jump and take the fruit, he stopped as he heard another notification from the system.
He was pleasantly surprised that apparently, the Azuredew Berries could be used as the alcohol base.
aning that it beca the equivalent of modern ethanol used in perfury. Let alone, it had its own specialty, as its aroma contained a mild fruity sweetness, a fresh floral undertone, and a crisp dew-like scent.
Turning Azuredew Berries into alcohol was also an easy feat, as the ti needed to fernt them wasn’t long, even faster than making alcohol with other things. After that, it needed to be distilled to refine and purify the alcohol once, and the result would be a clean, smooth, lightly fragrant alcohol.
Jas then told Cassian that he wanted to take so for delicacy and experint subjects in case they might find a surprise in doing so.
Cassian naturally didn’t mind and just let his son do whatever he wanted while he also took so Azuredew berries for himself.
Afterward, they continued their journey while taking note about the location of the things they had found in case they would be useful in the future.
A few minutes later, Cassian slowed down their pace and eventually stopped near a huge entrance cave.
"There’s a Legendary Rank Beast inside. Usually, the place where a Legendary Rank Beast resides has a natural treasure. So—"
Before he could finish his sentence, the white jade token on his waist trembled, aning that there was soone who wanted to contact him.
When he checked who had contacted him at this ti, he was surprised that it was his brother, and he said that the crown prince would arrive within ten minutes.
"It’s from your uncle, the crown prince will arrive in ten minutes." Cassian chuckled as he glanced at Jas.
"Oh? It’s unfortunate, but let’s go back and continue again in the future then." Jas clicked his tongue in disappointnt.
"Let him wait a little. There’s no need to rush just because that entitled kid is coming." Cassian waved his hand casually as if he didn’t take the crown prince seriously at all.
"Stay here for a mont. I’ll take a quick look inside and see if there’s any good treasure inside." He said before vanishing into thin air imdiately.
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