Alex's exclamation caught everyone's attention.
"It's what?" Bladedance asked with a confused look.
"Elixir?" the old man asked, swiping his own palm on the surface of the giant root. It came back sticky, just like the other two, and he immediately tasted it. When he did, his eyes went wide in surprise as well.
"Elixir! This is Elixir!" he shouted. "And it's so much thicker too. More condensed than anything I've ever prepared."
"What are you guys talking about?" Bladedance asked.
"This root is covered in Elixir," the old man said. "You know, the Elixir that makes your body strong."
"I know what an Elixir is," Bladedance said with an annoyed look. "I thought you mentioned that Elixir came from the beasts. Isn't that why I have so much within my body?"
"The Elixir your body has does come from the beasts, but the beasts get it from somewhere else too," Alex explained. "They have to go down to a region of sludge underground where they absorb the Elixir from."
