Karolyne Of Aion: Ceramium Medals

Ceramium medals are the newest medal available in the 4.0 update. They are needed (along with AP and a status of 1 star officer or higher) to buy the new Field Officer gear. If this gear is your goal, then you have to obtain ceramium medals. The lowest amount needed is 47 of them for the least expensive eternal pieces of armor: boots, gloves or shoulderpads. The traditional way to obtain medals in Aion is to attend fort sieges, successfully defending an already owned fort or overtaking a fort from an enemy (Balaur or opposite faction). Not everyone is able to attend sieges because they occur at specific times, so how can
medals be obtained? In an earlier post I showed one way to obtain them by trading in ceramium fragments to complete a base camp quest. In this post the way that I show requires that you use mithril medals for trade.
In the first quest, "But It Would Be Quality Sludge!", a quest given from a shugo npc named Benzarinrinerk at the Stonewatch Rampart base camp in Danaria, asks you to give a mithril medal and an item called
Noble Balaur Serum in exchange for a try at converting them to a ceramium medal. Now, I have to point out that I don't know whether or not this is a guaranteed medal. The quest reward is indicated as unknown, meaning no guarantees. I've only done this quest once, and I did get a ceramium medal when I turned the quest in. I'll take the quest again and report the outcome in a later post. Meanwhile, its another chance at a medal.
Oh I almost forgot! I wanted to tell you where to get the Noble Balaur Serum. It can be bought in Idian Depths for 25 ancient coins. Speak to the shugo named Sagirinerk in the bazaar (see pic below). He sells alot of cool items in addition to the one you need to complete this quest. The purchase is limited to 10 per day on the Balaur serum.
Update 12/31/13: Noble Balaur Serum can also be bought for 6,750 AP from a vendor in the Katalam fort.
The vendor is in the same room as the field armor vendors (see pic below).