Master Of None

Chapter 2197: 2197. Crossed Paths

Chapter 2197: 2197. Crossed Paths

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"I came because I need your help getting some of the new herbs you have. Mainly just one that's growing." Remey had managed to track Alma down.

Originally, Alma had been moving toward the fire elves so she could speak to them, but as hse had, she found herself being caught by Remey. Ignus just stood with them, not saying much, more like he was the one being dragged along. A somewhat comical thought to Alma.

Ignus was the older and more powerful dragon after all. Dominator dragon at that.

"So you went out hunting for me?" Alma found this funny since she was sure that Remey must have run through quite a few different places trying to catch up to her. Especially since there were many places to go on her to do list.

"And to make sure you had the time to help me, we made the arrangements with the fire elves and the dragonkin to have a space for the snow elves, frigid ice elves, and the water elves to have a chance to learn from their records once they have been copied."

"Wait, what!?" This had been an argumentative point.

Not because there was the information being hidden, no, it was because the different elf villages had started acting as if they were being repressed by the fire elves since their records had been somewhat damaged in their recent history before they came to Genesis.

The snow elves were a separated group of ice elves that had left their village to form a new one. This came about as they originally believed that genesis was a place that would go against the purity of their mana. It made things much more confusing because that led the ice elves to take on an older name for their specific kind of elf. The frigid ice elves.

Both groups had gone to the water elves who had similarities with them and decided to act as the middle group to keep the younger snow elves and the frigid ice elves from fighting. Basically saving the snow elves from getting their butts handed to them by their elders. Not that they couldn't do with some heavier handed education and reprimand.

"It was the snow elves that claimed that there were hidden documents referencing how the ice and snow elves, or the frigid whatever, were able to use their fire mana to counter them and weaken their magical skills that used water mana in the form of ice."

Alma was still trying to understand how something causing a lot of arguing had just been solved so easily. "The fire elves were angry at this,m but Ignus and the dragonkin told them that they would help translate and make copies of all their magical training and historical documents. It was easier for them to help that way."

"Then we went to the water elves and told them, the frigid ice elves said they accepted that causing the snow elves to be angry but without basis. Then Current came by to say hello and made it clear that he would have one of his daughters come by to babysit the snow elves if they caused trouble. Apparently they are very afraid of a glacial dragon. I didn't know that Current's daughter had become a glacial dragon rather than an ice dragon. We could have had a party."

The way that Remey just easily moved through this like she was telling a quick story was too much for Alma's mind to handle. She was easily beyond confused but also felt much better finding that one of the more annoying ongoing issues had been tightened up.

"Plus, weren't the fire elves making copies for the Genesis archives anyways? The other elves will have access in a few weeks anyways. The same as they will to the rest of the older texts not at all related to the magic side of the fiore elves and their history after every elf split up. Even the battle arts that might help find new classes."

And then Remey just shrugged her shoulders and grabbed Alma's shoulders. "So the herbs I need are the ones that you thought were extinct but we found seeds that the angels had stored away. Mostly because they couldn't grow them but you could."

The angels handing over seeds to the elves and Genesis as a whole had come when they heard about the demi-human farmers' knowledge about farming. They wanted to expand farms themselves so they traded the seeds they had stored since they lacked the knowledge to farm them.

Surprisingly, some had been herb seeds from a vault an alchemist gathered years and years ago. Herbs that were either close to extinct or had been thought to be extinct in both continents. But that would be a story for another day.

Before Alma even had a chance, Remey had conjured up the flame dragon wings she could make at will and dragged her toward where she knew the herbs she needed were. Ignus just followed along. The look on his face told Alma that he was going whether he liked it or not, but he didn't appear unhappy with it at all.

"How did you even know where they were? And why did, ah, I made rules that none of these herbs could be taken until they weren't considered endangered for potential extinction." Alma felt like she had set herself up for this one. She should have known that Remey would be after them.

"I just needed these red maple sprouts. Not all of them, just five of them for a special process I need to do. It's nothing that can't be reclaimed by having a proper herbalist create new sprouts from the branches when they grow. We can boost one of them so you can take off branches to grow whole new trees."

Remey was still pushing Alma for the sprouts.

"The sprouts have the most potent aged fire mana within them. So much so that they won't burn even when pure fire mana touches them. That's how good they are. And that's what I need. Even just one leaf from five sprouts is fine, I can make do."

"Um, Hi Remey, Ignus, Alma..." Walker's curious voice brought the three's attention to Gil and Walker standing at the end of the small treetop nursery. The two looked more lost and surprised than Alma had been when she found out that Remey and Ignus had solved a problem on her to do list.

"We were just exploring these nurseries since they were valuable. Walker said that some of these are false flame maples and the seeds had been mixed. So we were separating them. They actually have no fire affinity at all." Gil tried to explain why they were here since it would look like he was giving the herb sprouts away to Walker if he didn't.

It wasn't that Alma would hurt him if he did so, just that he knew very well she would not be happy. And if he didn't keep her happy, well, everyone knows how that would go for the husband.

"What!? False flame maples? Aren't they able to absorb fire mana but they just push it down to the roots causing a weird crystalized root like the aged ginger roots found in desert oasis? That could be very useful. I wonder if the condense crystallized roots have fire affinity strong enough to make potions that draw out or help process fire mana if it's too dense within the body." Now Remey was brainstorming new potions for treating a body with too much fire mana within.

While her mind was always working on potions like this, Remey had this first thought completely because there had been a few people suffering from what had begun to be called mana sickness. People who were not adapting as well to the denser and purer manas flowing in to the world now that balance was restored.

They had build ups of certain manas they had affinities for within their bodies which had yet to adapt. Causing them to need special healers and mages to help move the manas along naturally. Or else they would be trapped with various ailments related to the mana they had issues with.

"Since I don't think I have any control over any of this, just do what you want. Walker, thank you for helping. Your appraisal is definitely better than the basic appraisal most people are getting after using the all around appraisal magic scrolls made based on your skill. We might improve that later as we learn more. Gil, since you have this covered, why don't you help with my next task. There are still some new archers that are in a class with a master archer right now." Alma smiled and Gil realized he was not able to escape now.

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