Chapter 27: Making potash.

Chavu decided to start with the simplest thing on the list which Alaric had given him: soap. He had made most of his own soaps, so he knew how to do that.

First, he needed to make the potash. The Naga called his trusty gnomes to himself, and they lined up.

"We will be making soap," Chavu told them with a grin. Yes, the system could manufacture soap for everyone, and it did, but that costed mana. Chavu did not want to waste his mana on something like soap.

"How?" Odette the gnome asked. She had thought that soap was something only the system could make.

"Well, first, gather as many fallen branches and leaves as you can. I will have the system create some containers for burning," Chavu planned to have just ten ventilated cylinders. There was no need to pay the blacksmith, when the system had told him that he only had to give out 100 mana for all five.

"And then?" Another gnome asked, his little hand in the air.