Chapter 129 Potion

Moku got out of his carriage and saw the sun was already rising. Once again he passed the night without closing his eyes. Even so, his body still felt fit but the amount of meat he ate was increasing every day.

Moku understands this because his body's metabolism utilizes energy to not sleep from the nutrients he eats. Moku doesn't have a problem with this deficiency because every meat he eats is also useful for progressing Dragon Breath Cultivation.

Currently, Moku is still very far from reaching the third gate. However he wasn't in too much of a rush, with the number of mutated animals he killed while clearing the route, Moku had enough meat supply until he reached the third gate.

Moku racked his brains about what he had to do today. It was too soon for him to return to the Mind Realm. It will take a long time for Mak Lampir to solve the symbols in Nerphyl's painting.

The monsters currently really need his existence, especially Goku and Boku, who he still has to supervise the third level of breathing technique. Moku didn't want to lose these two genius orcs just because they were carried away by the current of the river.

Remembering Boku and Goku, Moku remembered the task he gave Luna. It had been more than a month since he last saw his adoptive sister.

Luna locked herself in the lab and focused on developing a potion that could awaken the inner eyes of the orcs. Previously Moku had told Luna his hypothesis, about the scent released by alraune that could provoke the orcs' gender recognition instinct.

From that hypothesis, maybe Luna has made a lot of progress. Especially all the alraune in the Moku family only focus on helping Luna in her research.

Moku decided to check the potion-making progress. Goku and Boku are still seriously injured it will take a few weeks for them to recover and be able to train again. However, with the advancement of medicine of the alraune, they will probably recover within 2 weeks.

Luna's lab is located in the center of the camp and is one of the most guarded carriages beside the food supply and cold clothes carriages. This carriage is twice as big as a passenger train and is even bigger than the Moku carriage itself.

Moku thought of Luna would not be out of her lab for months so he asked the goblins to renovate Luna's carriage so that it has a bed and a laboratory at the same time.

Even so, based on the reports of the alraune who followed her, Luna never used the bed the goblins made and instead used it as a place to put her files. While Luna herself just fell asleep on her desk when her eyes couldn't be open anymore.

Moku knocked on Luna's carriage door and said her identity. The alraune who was in charge of helping Luna opened the carriage door and welcomed Moku.

Moku remembers this alraune's name is Lilinnell "Good morning Lilinnell, is Luna awake yet?" Moku asked.

Lilinnell nodded "Good morning Moku, Luna just fell asleep, she stayed up all night because she found the right ingredient to make the potion you asked for."

"Hmm? Didn't I say that the scent of Alraune's body can cause the orc's gender-recognition instincts to go berserk? Can't you make your scent the main ingredient of the potion?" Moku asked.

Moku followed Lilinnell into the carriage and he saw Luna sleeping on her desk. They didn't lower their voices when they spoke because they knew that Luna who was already asleep would not wake up even if there was a volcano erupting next to her.

Lilinnell handed over a stool and invited Moku to sit down. She walked to the back and prepared fruit juice for Moku. While her hands worked, Lilinnell answered Moku's question,

"We've tested your hypothesis on one of the stup--kind orc, but after he relished the scent of alraune with his eyes closed he only showed signs of dizziness and vomiting. The gender-recognition instinct you said didn't happen because he was still in control of his body."

Lilinnell placed a cup filled with fruit juice in front of Moku, "That's why we hypothesized to really activate the orc's gender recognition instinct, we should be able to overrule the other four senses too. Now we have been able to find the right material for the senses of taste, hearing, and last night Luna managed to find material for the sense of touch"

Moku drank the juice of the fruit and his forehead wrinkled due to the sour taste on his tongue, "So now what you need is the main ingredient for the sense of sight?"

Lilinnell nodded and sat on the stool in front of Moku "You're right. But it looks like that material will never exist in this world. Or if you want to force it then you can take the core of an alraune's body. After all, it seems our body is also one of the ingredients to awaken orcs' gender recognition instinct." said Lilinnell while looking at Moku with narrowed eyes.

Moku took a deep breath, then he looked into Lilinnell's eyes seriously "You can stop looking at me like that. Luna is my adopted sister, and the alraune is my people. I will never use your body for the advancement of the orcs. Even though I am an orc myself and I admit that I have a bias against my own race, but I'm not a mad leader who would slaughter his people for potions"

Lilinnell took her eyes off Moku, then she said in a small voice "Excuse my impudence"

Moku shook his head "It's okay, as an alraune, it's natural for you to have doubts about orcs. I'll forget about this and I hope you don't think about it anymore.

By the way, what kind of material do you need in this category?" Moku asked.

"Ah, we need a--"

"A material that is made of a tangible form but has an element of unreality" Before Lilinnell could answer Moku, Luna who had just woken up from her sleep interrupted.

Lilinnell got up from her stool and took water and a towel. Luna wiped her face which was filled with drool that stuck to her cheek.

"What do you mean by an element of unreality?" Moku was confused by the term he first heard.

"Hmm... To deceive the orc's sense of sight, it takes an object that looks like a real object and logically is a real object. The orc's mind assumes that the object is real, but to awaken the instinct of gender recognition it requires objects that are not only real but also unreal." Luna spoke with vocabulary and grammar that was impossible for Moku to understand.

His forehead was wrinkled and his brain was spinning trying to digest Luna's words but based on Moku's experience with Bulan this effort was useless.

Therefore Moku asked once again "Hmm.. can you give an example?"

Luna understands that her words are complicated and Moku politely admits his failure to understand but does not blame Luna's complicated explanation. Luna was silent for a moment to look for an easy-to-understand case example, after finding it she explained to Moku slowly,

"An example is me... hmm... to be more precise the alraune... For those of us who don't have genitals, this body is a perfect body. We ourselves use feminine pronouns to describe ourselves.

This is not because we consider ourselves to be women but because alraune is a creature capable of producing offspring from its body. So even though we reproduce by dividing ourselves, this ability is a gift that can make us be considered as a woman.

Even though I don't have a child myself, based on the experience of other alraunes, an alraune who already has offspring will have an inner closeness to her child like a mammal mother to her child. So even though we don't have a female gender, we are still a woman.

Even so, the absence of these genitalia will make our true identity will be confused. Then the offspring that we produce also cannot be said to be our true "children" because by their nature they are another ourselves.

This is what I need to complete the main ingredient for making inner eye awakening potions."

Moku slightly understood what Luna meant, he held his chin and repeated Luna's words one by one, "...something that can be said to be real but at the same time cannot be said to be real...." Moku concluded.

Luna nodded and was slightly amazed by Moku who easily understood her complicated explanation.

Moku suddenly smiled and looked at Luna with sparkling eyes "Luna, looks like I can find what you need!" Moku said excitedly.

"Oh really?!!" Luna was surprised, "Then can you take it immediately?! I know you will need this potion in the near future" Luna recalled Ornell who told the Palaka to return of the girl to the tribe and the awakening of Boku's dragon prana.

Moku smiled, "Then I'll be leaving soon. Ah, while I'm gone I hope you take care of my body and don't touch it." Moku stood up and sat on Luna's bed which had not been used for a long time.

"Take care of your body?" asked Luna.

"Yeah.. hehehe.. I leave it to you then, Bhimasuta Form Active! [Bhimasuta Armament: Kasutpada Kacarama]"

Moku hastened his plan to return to the Mind Realm.