Level 1 Strongest Sage ~

Book 10: Chapter 24: Effect of Katara's Drop

“So, we did try making it, but… is there a way to test whether this ‘Katara's Drop’ really works?”

Even if Luna followed the instructions written in the book to a tee, this item was a product that we got from lavishly using powerful materials.

If we missed anything, for example, then —

I couldn’t imagine just what effect it would have to Miu’s mom.

Yeah, my intuition might be telling me that it would be fine, but still, it’s kinda hard testing it on another human. It made me feel hesitant.

That’s the reason why I came up with the idea to test it out ourselves.

An item that could break any kind of curse —

I tried drinking a bit of it first.

However, it didn’t have any effect.

My status was —

Status: Cursed (Static Status) [ Fixed]

It was still the same.

Still, I felt a bit relieved.

It was precisely because my status was fixed that I had the power to do a lot of impossible stuff.

“Even if it’s an item that could break any curse, it wasn’t able to break Halt’s curse… so we’re not sure whether it will have an effect on that [Post Death Diffusion Curse] considering that they’re Evil God’s curse.”

— Yeah.

It’s only on my curse that it didn’t have any effect.

Maybe we did something wrong in the process, so there wasn’t any effect.

“Still, the [Static Status] curse cast on Halt doesn’t appear in this book, either. Maybe it’s a curse that is so powerful even Katara's Drop can’t break it?”

“Yeah, that might be so.”

That was also possible.

Maybe my curse was way too powerful that it wasn’t even something imaginable back when the deities created this world.

It wouldn’t make sense that it would have an effect of using mana infinitely as much as one would like, if that was the case.

“Even the methods of breaking the Post Death Diffusion Curse are also scattered here and there in this book, so I’m all for using it, but…”

It was a bit scary testing it on a human with fragile physical bodies.

I was thinking of testing it on Ryuushin, when —

“Halt! The method to test whether the item is made correctly is written on the next page.”

“Whoa. What should we do?”

“Er, let me see. First, prepare the fruit of Yggdrasil.”

“Alright, it’s ready.”

We still had stocks in the Spirit Realm, so I took the fruit of Yggdrasil from there.

“Pour mana into this fruit and turn it into a “seed”.”

I poured mana into Yggdrasil’s fruit until it transformed.

It started to glow faintly.

“Is this enough?”

“I suffered a lot when I made it and yet…”

Sylph lamented.

She also tried to make a seed, apparently.

“Well, that’s how it is. It’s Halt, after all.”

Not sure why, but it seemed that she had realized something on her own.

“Luna, what’s next?”

“Hmmm, plant it in the ground!”

I obediently dug a little hole in the ground and planted the seed there.

“Pour Katara's Drop on it — eh!?”

“Hm?”

Luna seemed shocked about something, but too late, I already put a droplet of Katara’s Drop on the ground where the seed was buried.

A sprout pushed out from the ground in that instant.

It was sheathed in an aura that was a tad familiar to me.

T-This feeling —

Yggdrasil!?

Seemed like we unwittingly grew Yggdrasil’s sprout.

“Katara’s drop… is an item that is necessary to make Yggdrasil sprout, apparently.”

“Heh, I see.”

“It has the same effect as the left-over bath water from our house.”

“Ahh, yeah.”

Hm? W-What?

— Then, did that mean we could’ve just used [Super Water], instead?

I named the leftover water from our bath as ‘Super Water’.

It was a fluid that contained enormous amounts of mana.

“Well, it’s not like we can have Miu’s mom drink left over bath water, so isn’t it fine that we made this?”

“Y, Yes.”

Let’s not think too deeply about how this fluid contained Youko’s fur and Ryuushin’s scale, alright?

I washed all the materials really well, so I decided to think that it would be fine. I also drank it earlier, and it didn’t taste weird.

It’s just that Seira seemed to blush while I was drinking Katara’s Drop. Oh, come to think of it, I had no idea how holy water was made.

Hey, Ms. Seira, how do you make this thing?

I tried asking discreetly, but she didn’t answer and just blushed more furiously, so I felt a bit sad.

Well, some things were better left unknown in this world, so I decided to just let it go and not think too deeply on it.

Afterward, we had Miu’s mom drink Katara’s Drop.

We managed to break her curse, thank goodness.

She didn’t have any problems with her body, apparently.

“Mr. Halt, thank you very much for healing my mother!”

“Yeah. Glad it worked out, Miu.”

“It is thanks to you that my body now feels as light as a feather. We are truly grateful to you.”

“You just got better, so please do not force yourself.”

“Yes. I do not want to make this child worry any more than this.”

“Oh, right. Miu, you used all your allowance when you commissioned us, right?”

“Yes, but…that’s alright. Mother got better, after all!”

Miu was a really good child.

“There’s something we need to request of you, Miu. If you agree, we’ll return this to you.”

I took out the bag of spina.

It had a little bit more than what we got from Miu.

We hadn’t reported the completion of the commission yet, so we didn’t receive the compensation yet.

That’s why I took it out from my own allowance.

“Even if I don’t get money, I’ll do whatever Halt and you all want! A, Ah, b-but, if I can… that is…”

“Miu can also do it. Can you take care of this for us?”

After saying that, I handed Miu a flowerpot with the tiny sprout of Yggdrasil sticking out of it.

I made that pot with Earth Magic.

“What’s this?”

“It’s a plant that can grow really big, but it takes a lot of time to grow. It might not even grow big enough even after Miu has children and grandchildren.”

“Do I just have to grow it?”

“Yup. You can just water it everyday. It’s fine even if it withers.”

There’s a huge chance that this plant would grow into a big Yggdrasil tree if we had it beside me. But then, it’d be a pity if we just let it wither on purpose.

And so, I feel a bit guilty, but I decided to push it on to Miu.

“I understand! I will raise this preciously!”

“Thanks, Miu.”

Miu accepted it.

It was said that the original Yggdrasil grew extremely slowly by absorbing the mana around it over an incredibly long period of time.

By the way, Yggdrasil sprout wasn’t worth much, apparently. No one would probably target this thing, but…josei

Just in case, I decided to borrow Sylph’s power to mask its aura.

Thanks to that, even I couldn’t tell that this sprout was Yggdrasil.

Moreover, just for another layer of protection just in case, I also placed magical circles that could summon the flaming knights in case of emergency onto Miu, her mom, and the Yggdrasil sprout.

Alright, this would do.

“Miu, the commission is completed with this. If you do not have any problems, then please sign here.”

“Y-Yes!”

I requested her to sign the guild’s commission form’s fulfillment confirmation column.

After Miu signed it—

“Yeah, it’s really Halt.”

“Can’t believe Halt’s really here…”

My older brothers Cain and Leon appeared.