Zachary unscrewed the bottle cap, and a rich aroma of alcohol instantly filled the entire private room.
Based purely on the smell, one could tell that the liquid in the bottle had a very high alcohol content.
If this were before the cataclysm, the only places a common person might encounter such a scent were at a hospital or a pharmacy, but now, not to mention the absence of ubiquitous pharmacies, even hospitals no longer used alcohol for disinfection.
Because of the earthquakes, what used to be fertile land had turned into wasteland, and with the resurgence of ancient creatures in the wilderness, no individual would venture to till the land there.
Most of the Plantation Areas in the wilderness were now regions designated by the Imperial Court based on the ancient military farming system; only the Imperial Court would undertake the ungrateful task of establishing agriculture in the wilderness.
