Chapter 133: Mana of Ninety-Six Percent Purity
After a brief moment of thought, Leon gave up on the idea of increasing manpower in this laboratory.
"How about this? I’ll build another Apothecary Room outside. There are actually some Apothecaries in River Valley County. I’ll pick two reliable ones and bring them over. For the potion-mixing work that doesn’t require you personally, we’ll hand it all over to them. As for the number of Magical Beasts, keeping it at the current level will be enough," Leon said.
"What? Not expanding production anymore?" Rena said in a teasing tone.
When Leon had first approached her for cooperation, his very first demand had been to expand production—then expand it again, and again—until it had reached its present scale.
Now, the number of Magical Beasts was so large that they even had to specially purchase corpses through Underworld channels to feed them in order to ensure the purity of certain products. Of course, Leon had handed that portion of the work over to Simon and the others, so he did not need to handle it personally.
"It’s already enough for us." Leon smiled faintly, and then the smile gradually faded. "Rena, the Mana we’re producing now supplies the Earl, as well as the Magical Potion trade in River Valley County and South Harbor County. And then there’s the processing of Magical Beast materials. Every quarter now, we’re making more than twenty million."
"You said a few months ago that we’d only made ten million in total—" Rena was slightly startled.
"It’s already exceeded thirty million now, and it’s still steadily increasing." As Leon began extracting Mana, he turned his head to glance at Rena. "Half of that is yours. Have you thought about how you’re going to spend it?"
"The three million you gave me before is still hidden away, and I haven’t even dealt with it. Even if you give me more now, I wouldn’t know what to do with it. Just keep it with you," Rena said after thinking for a moment, shaking her head.