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Chapter 646 Gathering Many Materials
Chapter 646 Gathering Many Materials
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Ding!
[You've gathered several Materials!]
[The power of the [Alchemist] Subclass has enhanced their Rank!]
[You've gathered [Red Coral Tree Branch (C Grade)] x26]
[You've gathered [Green Coral Tree Branch (C Grade)] x18]
[You've gathered [Blue Coral Tree Branch (C Grade)] x21]
[You've gathered [Yellow Coral Tree Branch (C Grade)] x23]
[You've gathered [Red Coral Tree Fruit (D Grade)] x11]
[You've gathered [Green Coral Tree Fruit (D Grade)] x12]
[You've gathered [Blue Coral Tree Fruit (D Grade)] x10]
[You've gathered [Yellow Coral Tree Fruit (D Grade)] x12]
"Look Sylphy! I found these weird mushies." Mist said. "Can we eat these?"
Mist suddenly brought some mushrooms I had not seen before. They were slimy, transparent, and covered in goo. They had small tentacle-like tendrils growing around their cap.
"What are these?!" Aquarina seemed surprised.
"Dunno but I found a ton of mushies around that place!" Mist said.
"Yeah there's a ton!" Zack said, calling us over.
We quickly moved there, finding tons of mushrooms. They were so big, glowy, and transparent, it left me slightly shocked. They were a brand new material I had never seen before, but much like the fruits from the corals, it was more than the eye could see.
"Nobody of you guys ate it right?" I asked.
"Not yet, but maybe we can roast them?" Mist wondered.
"Hmm, perhaps, but don't try to eat them raw, these things might look like mushrooms, but they're actually a type of jellyfish!" I said, everyone was shocked.
Yep, the description was right there.
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[Mushroom Jellyfish Polyp (D Grade)]
The small Polyp of a Mushroom Jellyfish, which is a widespread race of Jellyfish monsters that have grown to develop a sessile form, absorbing nutrients from their surroundings, parasitizing the roots of corals more often, or draining mana naturally flowing inside water-based dungeons. They're not aggressive but most of their species are highly poisonous, and when they reach maturity they turn into giant terrestrial Jellyfish monsters.
This Polyp is a small and nonpoisonous kind that feeds on Coral Tree's roots nutrients and mana flowing in the air. They're still normally not good to eat raw, but if boiled, they can be surprisingly delicious. It has high healing properties if processed into potions.
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I showed everyone this description, which I quickly wrote into letters using Word Magic, which is a simple magic that helps at drawing letters using Magic Runes. Everyone was left surprised and terrified at the same time, Zack quickly dropped all the ones he was carrying with himself.
"What? They're jellyfish?! Ew!" He quickly dropped it all.
"I feel betrayed…" Celeste sighed. "Everything here really is not what it seems to be, huh?"
"Well, it did said its tasty if boiled, no?" Mist wondered, drooling a bit while wondering about the taste of a new food.
"You're suggesting eating that?!" Zack was horrified.
"I mean, we do eat squid… isn't it similar?" Mist asked.
"I have never eaten jellyfish before…" Sighed Zack. "But they say they have a weird tasteless flavor."
"Come on, we can try out new stuff today, we've got more ingredients than I thought. Heheh, even the poisonous ones are useful materials! Poison-type materials are always useful in alchemy!" I happily harvested more materials.
Ding!
[You've gathered several Materials!]
[The power of the [Alchemist] Subclass has enhanced their Rank!]
[You've gathered [Mushroom Jellyfish Polyp (C Grade)] x31]
[You've gathered [Poisonous Purple Mushroom Jellyfish Polyp (C Grade)] x21]
[You've gathered [Earthy Spiky Mushroom Jellyfish Polyp (C Grade)] x22]
[You've gathered [Electrifying Mushroom Jellyfish Polyp (C Grade)] x23]
Once we were done foraging, we ended encountering some more monsters in the way, not as ferocious as the previous eels though, they were smaller and seemed to live together with the ecosystem here. We found several species of walking fishes the size of rats, some even adapted to resemble monkeys, with big arms and legs. We also found several wandering crustaceans, crabs, lobsters, and the like, which we grabbed greedily.
I saved the poisonous ones for alchemy while leaving the edible ones to prepare something tasty now that we had everything. I quickly started a large bonfire and began cooking something. I wanted to make a seafood stew, so I added a few Blue and Red Crabs, some Walking Lobsters, shellfishes we found stuck to the coral trees, and some polyp mushrooms that were not poisonous.
Lastly, I added large chunks of eel meat and sea snake meat, tons of spices, and left it all boiling it silently. The smell of all the seafood merging together was quite appetizing. As for the rest of the meat? Merely roasting it would do, but I wanted something more… elaborated, so I brought out a pan and started warming some oil while cutting thirty centimeter big chunks of sea snake meat and eel meat.
Then, I used some eggs and breadcrumbs and dipped them on it, frying them after dipping them on eggs and breadcrumbs with some salt, the smell of fried fish was enchanting, and I also decided to fry some large fillets of sea snake on butter too, made back home by our farms of cows.
FRSSSSHH!
The sound of the meat frying really made us lose our patience, we were growing hungrier! I also decided to boil some rice to accompany everything, and brought out several accompanying sauces, including mayonnaise and tartar sauce, some inventions I created using Alice's knowledge from Earth. We found Knight Shrimps, tiny Tier 1 Monsters that fight together in armies like ants, which Zephy hunted, so we even made tempura shrimps.
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"Crunch! Yummy! They're so crunchy…!"
Zephy was filling his tiny cheeks stuffing himself with his hunt of the day, he hunted tons as well, and ended growing stronger as a result, his Magic Circle and Physique all raised to Tier 1 Rank 5 due to his efforts.
Defeating monsters grants magic power which enchants physique and a bit of the magic circle. Elves have both growths quite synchronized, so we can even get magically stronger by defeating monsters, although it gets slower after Tier 2.
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