The Last Surviving Alchemist Wants to Live Quietly in the City

"Arrival ~"

"Ugh, my butt hurts…………."

Master descending from the back of Hiraki and Yagoo and Mariela descending as she slipped off.

What was brought to the master was the entrance to a cracked cave, dressed in a crumbling rocky mountain.

"Light."

As he followed his master into the cave after casting a spell of lights, crab crotch, the interior of the cave was a mineral vein with sparkling crystals popping out of the walls and floors. When I climbed for about four and a half minutes, the light was plugged in from the back, and I no longer needed the light to illuminate my feet.

"This is the Crystal Cave."

Buried on the wall seems to be a pure crystal. I guess I can get rich if I mine it. Before Mariella thought about it, a room appeared where crystals as far back as Mariella were disturbed, like all the transparent crystals were polished and arranged.

It's like a museum of crystals. With so many fine crystals lined up, the ceiling part of the hall, the ceiling of the cave, has holes to blow through and the sunset is plugged in. The sun is setting on the horizon, so the sunset from the ceiling is only about to dye the crystal red, but if the sun slips in directly from the top in the middle of the day, how blind will it be?

Even now that I haven't received much light, it's full of strange powers, and it looks pale and glowing.

"Looks like nobody's been here in 200 years."

My master crushes as I look around.

"Master, was this a famous place?

"No. My secret place. There are so many places where you can gather the magic of the moon. Mariella should keep it a secret, too.

Well, I'm taking the roots today, so I guess we'll be decades away from getting the next amount of clumps. "

He told Mariella where to keep it, but Mariella can't come alone to a place like this at the end of Rock Mountain, and I'm not sure she remembers it decades away.

The potion Mariella is trying to make using the moon's magic power is a very famous potion that is expensive to fly off. So Mariella thinks there's a way we can provide a stable supply outside of a place like this that can only be harvested once every few decades. The Imperial Capital said they had established a way to grow Renamaggia, and Aurora ice fruit could be grown with frozen magic props.

With that in mind, Mariella and her master had dinner while waiting for the moon to ascend to the center of the sky.

The moon seems to have risen to the highest point in the sky while Mariella, who was on the move, slept at last.

When my master woke me up and opened my eyes, a beautiful full moon was coming out of an empty hole in the cave ceiling. From a round moon without a single cloud, the moonlight drips down. In the light of such a moon, the crystal columns seem to flood the turbulent cave quietly with the light emitted by the crystal and the light of the reflecting moon.

There is no heat in the moonlight. Touching a glowing crystal only conveys the same hint of cold as a rock. No heat, no eyelids, but I feel that the quiet light of the moon is filled with forces that do not belong to anything.

This must be the magic of the moon.

"Mariella, get started."

"Yes, Master"

Mariella takes out a clear sphere so much that she rides one palm off her hip porch.

The sphere, which he told his master was "the true sphere of the point for lack of time", was taken from the tip of the "Floating Column in the Sea" on the fifty-fourth level of the Labyrinth. Apparently it was part of a lens that converged light.

It is presumed to have been large enough to hold, but because it is the largest shard of the recovered objects, the intensity of the collapse can be questioned.

Even if it's getting smaller, the material is a first-class product. Especially since the nature of converging and accumulating magic power is comparable to thousands of times that of normal crystals, it is very suitable for the purposes of the Mariellas.

Mariella walks out into the middle of the hall with the crystal ball in her hands.

Both the moonlight inserted from the ceiling and the light emitted from the crystal column converge into the crystal sphere in Mariella's hand as if sucked into the crystal.

It is a phenomenon in which water flows from high to low, something completely different from the phenomenon of reflection and refraction, but if anyone sees how it is from the solar to the light of the moon that comes together as a matter of course, they will think that it is the convergence point of light.

The moon's magic is not of any colour, it belongs to no one. So if you process it as a potion, you can give magic to someone who drank it.

The magic of the Moon is the raw material for Mana Potion, the secret medicine that restores magic.

It takes years and decades to pour down into the crystal and only while you are in the light of the moon can you transfer the stored magic. If the moon moves from the heavenly side, if the light of the moon weakens, it will not be able to be removed from the crystal as soon as possible.

"Shizuku of Life"

Mariella raises her right hand without a crystal sphere and points her palm toward heaven.

"Wind."

Bring Shizuku of Life to the wind and send it to a cup of hall. Turn it into smaller particles than fog, sprinkle it on crystals with the wind, and pull it back with the wind as it is. Like washing out the magic powers of the moon that remain in the crystal and collecting them.

As the master said, the crystal sphere that transferred the magic in the rootstock crystal emitted a swinging moonlight as if it even contained glowing water inside.

"Shall we rest here today and pick up Sieg tomorrow"

Mariella also spreads her fur to sleep next to her master, who sleeps defenselessly on the spreading fur, saying that this cave is safe.

"Master, the cave is a little cold."

"The truth is that the temperature changes less and it's warm in the winter. The ceiling is open. But I can see the moon and the stars, so it's not a bad view."

Mariella shrugs over to her master, who laughs even though she would be perfect if she had booze.

Sleeping together so close has been since a young day when my master took me away.

"Hey, Master"

"Hmm? What?"

"It's been a long time since you two spent time like this"

"Really? It's not like it's been a long time since Zeke's been out hunting and away all the time."

"Um, it is. Usually, there are people in the city."

"Oh, it's been a while since I've seen anyone around."

Even though I used to have no idea of people's signs or anything, it became clear as a feeling that a lot of people lived in labyrinth cities as the alchemy was proficient. Both the Shizukuishi of Life, which flows through the line and into the ground, and Shizukuishi of Life, which resides in the surrounding area, are becoming sensible, although they are really somehow. So.

"Hey, Master"

"What is it?

"You think I woke up a year ago because I was woken up. So, what about the master?"

"I wonder"

As Mariela had expected, the master would not say yes or no.

"Hey, Master"

"What?

"Wiglazil is a dragon species with wind attributes, right?"

"Around"

"The ground dragon of the local attribute, the red dragon of the fire attribute, the phylloilcus of the water attribute, and the wigglerzil of the wind attribute. You're all set."

"That's right."

These four types of dragon blood are also raw materials for a potion that works differently from the mana potion. Neither Filoloilcus nor Wigrazil was known as a dragon species, so it would have taken a great deal of time to align without a master.

My master doesn't give me any explanation, but Mariela somehow knew.

I've done all the errands. I probably got everything I needed.

"I've got it all..."

On Mariella's back, which is puffy and twinkly, the master gently turns his arm and slaps the child slowly to sleep.

"Just a little more, I have time. Enough to make a magic formation of temporary death."

Unlike usual, the master's voice is so gentle as to mercy the toddler. Mariella shook her head quietly.

"Put everyone down. I can't help you alone."

Two hundred years ago, someone was kind to Mariella, but her relationship was shallow, and she was not lost in escaping the demon forest flood (Stampede) with the magic of a single temporary death.

Although the only exception was the master, Mariella could not hesitate to use the magic formations of temporary death because she had left the demon forest cabin less than three years earlier and had no idea where she was.

But now.

"It's good to have so many important things"

"Yeah……………."

Mariella became very sleepy with her master's high body temperature and hands that flashed her back.

"…… hey, dude."

"Hmm?

"Now, don't be abruptly gone or..."

Mariella, who fell asleep, could not hear the reply of her master, who looked a little troubled.

Mariella and her master, who had been in the crystal cave earlier the next morning, had joined Zeke around noon.

Next to grabbing dozens of wiggler zills, Sieg and Yagoo were hanging out and seemed terribly tired, although there were no noticeable scratches thanks to the use of potions.

"Heh, good job."

Sieg, who was rarely praised by his master,

"I couldn't use the Spirit Eye and ended up knocking it down with a sword"

And he was puffing me.

Apparently, Sieg fought several herds as he scissored treatment and breaks.

"Uh, isn't that okay? If I could take him down. Here, drink one for your attention."

When the master gave Sieg an intermediate potion, he told Mariella to "crystallize" Wigrazil's blood.

"Ooh!? It's so tiny, but the dragon's blood could be pretty thick"

"The strength of the dragon species isn't just the size of your body or your attack power. These guys live long lives if they do. Well, even if you say you've lived a long time, your intelligence is no different than that of a migratory bird, and you just follow the wind in the long run."

"Heh."

Not sure, Mariella tries to "crystallize the medicine" with her hands on a pile of wigglerzills knocked down by arrows and swords while responding raw.

Even though the phylloilcus was as big as that, only a little dragon's blood crystal could be taken, and I went to the labyrinth many times to fill the bottle, but I got a bottle of medicine crystal for every bottle from Wiglarzil about Oyama. The wreckage of Wiglazil, which turned all the blood into a medicine crystal, turns into a dry object, like a dead leaf, like a peeled shell.

As Mariela tried to marvel, suddenly a strong wind blew in to sew between the rocks, and the wreckage of Wiglarzil flew a thousand slices into the sky like fallen leaves.

As he twirled, he rose to the sky playing around in the wind, which turned into a small bird figure, forming a herd and winging into the western sky with a cheeky roar.

"……, I'm back!

"So. those guys are like the wind embodied, so they don't die a bit or softly. I got dragon blood, so I guess it'll stay small for a while."

"Heh."

To Mariella, who is impressed, the master tells her, "Now, we're done with business".

Last night's conversation reminds me of Mariella feeling just a little lonely.

"Yeah. Master, Sieg, let's go home"

"Oh, hurry up and you'll be back in the labyrinth city by the end of the day."

"Yeah, I'm scared of rocking more..."

He's supposed to be tired of fighting Wiglerzill, but Sieg wants to go home early. Mariela looks so sorry for Mariela as she embarks on her master's riding yagoo, but she thinks that maybe she will have a chance to ride on Sieg's yagoo many times from now on.

(I'm probably not the only one woken up)

Remembering last night's conversation with her master, Mariella thinks.

Mariella understood for the most part that there was no basis for this, but it wasn't that long before her master Yagoo swayed her.