In the next few hours, they visited several stalls in Lizard Alley, with Ron steadily improving his Herb Recognition experience points thanks to his precise identification skills.
At a stall specializing in rare plants, he found the third material on the list—Thirsty Dead's Tongue Moss.
This thing looked like a shriveled piece of gray tissue, covered with a layer of fine crystal structure, emitting an unsettling aura.
Its method of acquisition was extremely cruel—as Andre had mentioned before, it requires binding a living person in the desert to die of thirst, then extracting specific tissues from the corpse.
This inhumane practice makes it nearly impossible to obtain through legitimate channels, forcing one to seek it in the gray areas of the black market.
The stall owner was a hunched old woman, her skin exhibiting an unhealthy yellowish hue, with eyes sunken so deeply into the sockets that the pupils were almost invisible.
