The Blood Pill, being a step better healing pill than the one heart pill, was naturally more difficult to produce. It required silver nettle tea leaves, red lantern flowers, red lantern seeds and purple spirit grass. Just as the one heart pill, it required the brewing of the nettle leaves into tea, but the purple spirit grass should be boiled in this tea before the flower was added.
The improved method of the one heart pill would actually turn this pill into a poison, congealing the blood inside the body. Leo had found this out when he had fed the experimental pill to a dying bird only to accelerate its death by mistake. He was quite remorseful and realised how dangerous his experiments could be... that did not stop him entirely though, just that he became more cautious learning as many details as he could about each herb and pill to lessen accidents.
Instead, he had found that this one improved with the quality of the red lantern ingredients; the flower should be at its peak, no disease nor wilting and the seeds were actually better if very old and dry. These old seeds minimized the risks of turning the pills into poison as it was the liquid content in fresh seeds that caused problems and the amount of healing tea old seeds could soak up was maximised.
Leon used the traditional method first, but picked out the driest seeds that he had received from the Herb bundle he had received from Herb Hall for later experiments. As it turned out, a lot of them were dry. Unfortunately, the flowers were not in peak condition either. After a few failures, he managed to get the hang of creating this pill and successfully made ten pills before he was unable to continue.
The following day he created five and lost two. He was upset about the losses, especially as he would have to go and collect more herbs for these pills. So he created some other pills that he had made before so that he could get more herbs. He spent the rest of the evening yawning as well as carving decorative pieces for the hut. He was living there, he might as well improve it.
In the end, he took two weeks to create fifty Blood pills and three Improved Blood Pills, the latter ones he carefully hid away.
Leon visited the Herb Hall to hand in the completed request, he wasn't sure if this right or not, but had not noticed any other way in the diaries. The seniors were surprised to see him when he last visited the hall to grab more herbs, as if they were not expecting him or had forgotten about him, but now they did not bat an eyelid. They did not need to concern themselves about this one, Caprian was no longer paying them to cause trouble.
As the request was from teachers of the inner school of the warriors, however, the seniors did not take the items from him summoning Teacher Sagi instead. Leon waited quietly for the teacher and was surprised to see that the man had brought with him an inner school warrior.
"Leo, this is Pike, one of Teacher Corne's students," Teacher Sagi introduced. Leo had written that if a teacher took a liking to a student, they would receive much more comprehensive tutoring than other students, who could just show up for lectures when they felt like it. "Pike, this is Leo, one of the more reliable students in the alchemy school. If Teacher Corne wants items in bulk in the future, best simply find Leo."
Pike nodded and bowed to Leon, who flushed slightly red and bowed awkwardly back. Pike clearly had the shape of a warrior from stories, broad of back and muscular and with golden skin. Unlike most of the students, the length of his chocolate brown hair barely reached past his shoulders. "Nice to meet you," Pike greeted.
"N-nice to meet you too," Leon replied quickly, but Pike did not react to his stutter. "Oh, th-the Pills!" He took the blanket from the basket, the only thing he had to hold the jade bottles in and revealed the fifty blood pills, five pills to a bottle.
Teacher Sagi looked a little flabbergasted. "Do you not have an interspatial pouch?"
Leon helplessly wondered what that was so could only reply no. Pike covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing, his bright eyes sparkling, and took something from his belt. It was a pouch no bigger than his fist. "Here, I stored the knives in here. You can keep the pouch, I don't need it." Leon took the bag curiously and opened it up thinking that a set of knives could never fit in such a small space. His eyebrows almost disappeared into his hairline as he saw that the inside space of the little bag was many, many times bigger than the outside. Pike tried not to snicker over the boy's innocent reaction. What sort of country bumpkin was this? He took another pouch from his belt and placed the jade bottles into it. He then turned to Teacher Sagi and begged his leave.