ALL NOVEL 34: Moonlight Grass and Claire Grass
Before Ren returned to the capital, everyone pitched in to harvest edamame.
In the front yard of the mansion.
We’re short on time this time, so let’s pull out all the plants and stuff them straight into the magic bags!
Boil some water and pick the beans just before boiling.
And don’t forget the salt!
Time was tight, so I quickly threw a fruit medley set into Ren’s magic bag.
Huh? Why is Kyle also taking out a magic bag?
Do you have no sense of the impertinence you showed to your tender, young me?
You received punishment?
That’s punishment from Father and Grandpa, right?
I didn’t get punished!
Shoo! Go over there!
You stinker!
Seeing this, pitiful Ren shared a bit of fruit.
Ren is so kind.
Don’t be fooled by bad people, okay?
Ren and the others hurriedly departed for the capital two days later.
They’re going to meet up with Reynard, who left ahead of them on the way.
Good luck to both of them!
By the way, Kyle will be entering knight school in September, so he won’t have another long vacation.
Goodbye, Kyle. Don’t come back!
Burton, sprinkle some salt!
Huh, you can’t because it’s valuable?
I’m sorry.
I won’t say it again.
After Ren left, the servants eagerly harvested soybeans in the back field.
It seems they’ve settled on pulling up the entire plant for storage.
Well, go ahead and have a cold ale.
But be careful not to drink too much!
You’ll get scolded by the ladies!
Some of the harvested soybeans were sent to the Margrave’s house.
We can’t afford to earn the displeasure of Grandpa!
The noisy days are over.
Shall we relax in the room today?
Plant Cultivation Skill, who hasn’t had much to do lately, it’s your time to shine!
Without me noticing, the skill level had reached twenty-seven.
Huh? A mute function has been installed?
Thank you very much.
I want to increase the production of Moonlight Grass and Claire Grass that I stored in the warehouse.
Claire Grass needs clean water, so it grows well in the plant garden’s paddies, right?
The problem is Moonlight Grass.
Doesn’t it need to bathe in moonlight to extract its medicinal properties?
“Moonlight Grass / Grows on steep cliff walls. Blooms white double flowers under the full moon’s light. Leaves and roots are highly poisonous. / Only the flowers bathed in the full moon’s light have detoxifying effects. Effective against all poisons.”
I was surprised when I saw the Plant Appraisal!
It was completely different from what I had imagined!
It would be dangerous if I used it without knowing.
If you mistakenly boil the leaves like other medicinal herbs and drink them, you wouldn’t just detoxify; you’d die instantly.
Wait, what? If you accidentally ingest both the flower and the leaves together?
“If an equal amount of leaves and flowers is ingested simultaneously, their effects will cancel each other out.”
Huh? So in the end, trying to detoxify will result in death from the original poison?
Even if you worked hard to collect it, it wouldn’t make sense…
In the first place, if it’s not a flower on a full moon night, whether you know it or not, you might not survive anyway…
Truly a case of working hard but reaping little.
Moonlight Grass, with its angelic appearance, was a devilish herb.
Come to think of it, isn’t there a plant called Angel’s Trumpet that’s also highly poisonous?
Actually, many ordinary plants have toxins, so always wash your hands after touching them!
The habitat aside, with such high toxicity, it was an impractical item to casually cultivate in the garden!
By the way, can it be cultivated in the botanical garden?
“Possibility confirmed. Shall I create the required vegetation area?”
Huh? Create a vegetation area?
Like, conjure something out of nothing?
Huh? No?
Could it be a kind of rock garden?
Anyway, I placed an order with Plant Cultivation Skill for a rock garden!
I was wondering about the full moon… and as I stared at the screen, a Moonlight Sprite appeared fleetingly in the night world!
Oh, it was a sprite adorned in a faint moonstone-colored light.
An application of light magic, perhaps?
But wait, I know this.
The moon doesn’t shine on its own, right?
Thinking that, a sparkling Moon Sprite appeared, holding a large staff with a sun emblem, and started dancing hand in hand with the Moonlight Sprite!
I stood gaping, watching the scene through the screen.
The glittering effects twinkling in the night sky were fantastical!
Hmm, fantasy!
So, a special area was created for Moonlight Grass and Claire Grass!
In the Moonlight Grass area, you can see the sprites dance every time you peek.
Occasionally, other sprites join in, forming a joyful circle dance.
It’s like a fairy tale dance, so cute.
When Moonlight Grass blooms, the Moon Sprite emits light from the round moon staff it holds, enhancing the medicinal properties of the flowers. The green sprites then harvest the flowers.
Moonlight Grass, blooming faintly and emitting light on moonlit nights, is truly beautiful.
I just realized, isn’t my skill ridiculously amazing?
Wow…
Now, what worries me is the paddies for Claire Grass, right?
“Claire Grass grew in clear streams. Blooms crystalline blue flowers resembling glass. Flowers shatter upon touch. Difficult to handle. Crush the crystalline flowers for concoction. The medicinal effect of the flowers fades within about an hour after crushing. Has purifying properties, equivalent to holy water. When mixed with Moonlight Grass, it synergizes to dispel curses and purify. Effective against zombies and liches.”
Wow!
Claire Grass is tricky too, not just Moonlight Grass!
The ones Grandpa picked had flowers attached!
Grandpa is amazing! He knew, didn’t he?
Truly the wisdom of age?
Supposedly planted in paddies, but somehow it turned into a winding, beautiful stream, with countless Claire Grass crystal flowers shimmering blue along the water’s edge.
And in the flowing currents, numerous blue sprite spirits were swimming… Or rather, being carried away?
It’s like river sprites instead of river kappa…
Everyone’s so free.
Where is my botanical garden heading, I wonder?