Return to the Ant Nest.
Round Cypress brought over the honey-pickled, ordinary Sea Blue Tree fruits.
"Dragon Cypress Ant King, Sea Blue Fruit…"
"Heard from Ink Orchid that it doesn't taste good?"
Dragon Cypress curled a tentacle, hooked out a fruit and studied it.
A drupe, roughly persimmon-shaped, and about the same size as a persimmon.
Sliced it with its claw tips to check.
The skin was quite thick, the flesh a bright purplish-red, didn't really have any fruity aroma.
Gave it a light taste—very sweet! Sweet to the point of being cloying.
The texture was average.
This fruit isn't tasty.
Still, sweetness means the flesh contains ultra-high energy.
Dragon Cypress: "We have to push large-scale planting of Sea Blue Tree, need to cultivate it en masse in the Areca Rainforest. Round Cypress, try mixing Sea Blue Fruit with Lotus Seed and Rice, refine and make it into Ant Honey to serve as a staple food for Blue Soldiers and Blue Ants."
Round Cypress: "Got it."
