Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 182



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Offering Tribute to the Archmage Chapter 182

Slime [4]

Episode 182.

Although Ukinna was a gnome, she seemed to have similar characteristics to a witch.

“Why are there so many jars?”

Ukinna knew how to write, so there were various pictures and writings drawn on the rough parchment, but it was difficult to understand what they were.

But I was able to get a general idea because there was a picture, and it was about the manufacturing technique for making slime.

Slime was closer to magic than Ukinna’s magic.

It was a kind of familiar.

I remembered the magician who experimented on the Nol in the land of Gradas. There was also a part that was somewhat similar to the magic of the familiar, who crushed the rocks and fed them to it.

That’s what it means to use a strange stone.

Another curious thing is that the manufacturing process part was closer to golem magic than familiar magic. The parchment was bound together with strings to create a picture book-like structure.

Is it like a grimoire?

“They grow it to a certain size, force it to divide, then separate the nucleus and put it in a pot to dry…? What the heck is this?”

The drawing is quite detailed.

It was drawn so densely that it seemed like it was meant to be left to someone or something.

Although he was a gnome, his drawing skills were pretty good.

To be honest, he draws better than Ronobe.

While Ronobe only draws Zolarman, Gnome is a guy who knows how to draw very detailed pictures.

Should I say it was delicate? Anyway, Ronobe took Ukinna’s parchment into his bosom.

“Slime making.”

I don’t know if I’ll ever use it, but it wouldn’t hurt to keep it.

This isn’t all you need to pack.

medicinal herbs.

There was also something about Prume.

This was about management methods, and it seems that they had conducted several experiments with Prume. There were several pictures of herbs and people cut up, but they were marked with an X.

“Did you try to raise Prume by killing people?”

It seems that they were trying to grow Prume by turning people into fertilizer.

It seems that Ukinnado was also growing Prume just like Ronobe. Perhaps the ones with an X mark were ones that had failed. He cleared away the ones with an X drawn on them and took out the ones that were intact.

“Hmm…? Slime?”

Herbs and slime are depicted.

It was a small slime.

The next chapter had slime and some unknown writing, and it seemed to say that slime was something needed to cultivate Prume. To know more clearly, it would be a good idea to show this information to Yonterion…

“Slime…”

Ronobe’s gaze turned to the stacked jars. Ukinna broke one jar and took out the slime. Then, wouldn’t there be another slime inside?

“Did you make more slime?”

I opened the jars and found one.

As expected.

“Is that a slime baby? This one still has a core.”

It feels like looking inside a fertilized egg, with tiny blood vessels and the nucleus in the center still fluctuating.

What should I say? It’s slime, but it feels like looking at a slime that hasn’t been completed yet.

You could tell at a glance that it was a chick that hadn’t fully grown yet.

-Plop plod.

It wiggles its body as if it feels threatened, but because its body is made of slime, it doesn’t feel particularly threatening. It’s like watching a newborn baby having difficulty moving its own body.

“hmm.”

Ronobe thought about it for a moment.

Slimes are monsters that eat people.

In any case, it is a creature that is better killed.

‘but…’

Ronobe looked at the slime, then looked back at the field of Prume and pondered.

To raise a Prume, don’t you need slime?

Besides, this guy is still a baby.

I wonder if it can be tamed enough.

If you look at Ukinna’s parchment, you can see that you need slime to raise Prume. I don’t know what the connection is, but it seems like slime and Prume have a mutually beneficial relationship for each other’s growth. That’s probably why Ukinna’s Prume grew so well.

“I said the one I have is at least thirty years old, but judging by its size, wouldn’t it be safe to say it’s fifty years old?”

The presence of magic is also incomparably rich compared to the Prume possessed by Ronobe.

Looking at the picture on the parchment, it seems like it would be possible to breed them easily.

There are large pictures of the prunes and their fruits, as well as pictures of newly sprouted small prunes.

There’s definitely slime there too.

“Let’s leave it here for now.”

I decided.

It’s for the prom.

Slime and Frume. And the gnome hideout. It seemed like a good idea to have them all.

“I’ll leave them here for now and raise them, and then when I finish my work in the North and return, I can take them all with me to the hopper.”

Anyway, the slime guy still had more time to grow, and it seemed better to leave Prume alone rather than digging it up for no reason.

“Just in case, feed some familiar powder to the slime too.”

This is the third after Aekku and Liam.

It’s still a young one, so I can’t give it much, but it’s better than not giving it anything. From my experiments so far, it seems that when you give it the rock powder imbued with Ronobe’s magic, the person who eats it feels affinity for his magical presence.

If things go as expected, this guy will definitely notice Ronobe’s presence later on.

“I really hope so.”

The reason Ukinaga took out the slime’s core and held it for himself was probably to hold onto the lifeline of the thing, unlike the one he called his son.

It feels similar to the way a fierce dog is raised by being beaten.

But Ronobe can’t do that.

Because the slime’s core seemed to die if it was too far away from the main body.

“This is the best.”

Make a slime your familiar.

This was the best.

As I rubbed my fingers together like salting fried eggs and dropped the rock dust, the slime shuddered.

“Is it delicious? I used to only eat the weird food that gnomes gave me, but this tastes heavenly.”

-Plop plod.

It wiggles inside the jar as if to say so.

“Would you like this too?”

When I dropped a bottle of potion on it, it shook even more. It was a stream of consciousness thinking that since it was good for the body, it would like slime too.

It looks better than I thought.

I really like the way it trembles.

“There’s a lot to do.”

Ronobé carved the gnome’s stick into a dagger and stuck it next to Pruemé.

“Totem of the Fall.”

I put in the totem of Manchu.

It will help the growth of the Prume and keep away the bad things. I also planted a totem of Manha next to the Prume field just in case. I thought that the puddle of water that gradually rises would also help the field.

“It may be a little far away, but it will spread its roots on its own when it needs water.”

For now, this was enough.

And finally.

“Grimoires and strange stones… there are a lot of them.”

There are quite a few grimoires and strange stones that Ukinaga has killed or collected.

There are five rocks.

There are four grimoires.

“Money is something that comes and goes away. The money that was gone is now appearing again!”

Even if you offer the grimoire as a tribute and sell the strange stone, it’s ridiculous to only get a few dozen gold coins.

‘Sell half and keep half.’

Still, it’s not bad.

Because gold is necessary.

Ronobe thought as he gathered the harvest.

Kael said, “We will divide the gains from the dungeon fairly.”

“Honestly, I think I did everything.”

Do I really have to share this?

Even on the battlefield, you get different rewards based on your merits. What’s more, when you enter a dungeon, each person’s merits are different, so if you divide them equally…

“It’s not even the Communist Party, so that’s a bit much.”

However, that doesn’t mean a man can say two things with one mouth.

‘If it’s Kael, he’ll definitely find fault with what I said in front of the dungeon.’

But that’s it.

Isn’t this a dungeon?

“This is Ukinna’s room… not a dungeon.”

Strictly speaking, it is a part of the dungeon, but in the original language, ‘ah’ is different and ‘uh’ is different.

Still, it was hard work.

“I guess you could just hand me this one.”

This is the Prumeda I bought at an auction house in a glass bottle.

This one should be enough.

Ronobe chuckled as he carefully dug up one of the prumes planted in the field.

*

Same time.

Kael Jerba waited for him, casting a second halo of light across the ceiling.

‘I didn’t know that a gnome would use slime. It was so different from what I expected.’

The slime was strong too.

When Kael was in Djerba, he participated in the slime subjugation.

But that is only participation.

I haven’t been able to put up a proper fight.

I thought it was nothing special, based on the story told by the side wizard who fought the slime, but it was stronger than I thought.

Maybe it was because the slime was raised by gnomes that it was stronger.

Anyway, it was Kael’s mistake.

‘I did it because Moki Slime said that Lorraine’s herbs were a must.’

There are no herbs either.

All that is present are the rusted equipment of soldiers and two grimoires dropped by the wizard.

That’s all I got.

Even if this is just a harvest, it is a harvest, but I can’t help but feel regret.

If there was a place to pin my hopes on, it would be the crevice in the rock through which the gnomes had escaped, but it was so small that the only way to find a place was to break the rock.

“How is it?”

“The passage is long and complicated. The rock is also hard and does not look like something that can be broken down in a day or two.”

Kael furrowed his brows at Mick’s words.

It’s unfortunate, but there’s nothing we can do about it.

‘Whatever’s in there, I guess I have to give it up.’

In the first place, he wasn’t even able to do anything.

The one who took action was none other than Ronobe Hopper.

Anyone could tell it was him.

“It’s truly an amazing magic…”

“Freezing to ash. If that happened to me, ugh, just thinking about it is terrifying!”

“We were able to survive thanks to Mr. Hopper’s magic. Respect him.”

Thanks to this, Hopper’s private soldiers were in high spirits. It was only natural that their morale would rise when their lord was performing brilliantly using incredible magic.

‘No matter what comes out, it’ll be hard to claim ownership.’

Even if you try not to show it, you can’t help but feel upset.

Ronobe Hopper.

Things kept getting messed up because of him.

Kwak. In his clenched fist, the sight of his knights who had died in vain and the soldiers who had been taken away still lingered before his eyes.

‘No matter how you look at it, it’s a bad relationship.’

It was his own fault, but if he hadn’t sought out the bandits, he wouldn’t have died in vain. He wouldn’t have attempted a surprise attack with the disciple of the great wizard Ashwald with him. Kael, who had never had any luck meeting him, couldn’t be described as unlucky.

“I hear footsteps!”

They all raised their shields and drew their swords.

Everyone stopped laughing and chatting while checking out the loot. At that moment, even holding their breath, they desperately hoped that someone would come out of the crevice in the rock, Ronovei.

A white raccoon appeared.

Even looking at it again, it was an amazing transformation magic.

‘Such a small transformation…’

Wizards who use transformation magic are not common, but they do exist if you look for them.

However, most of them end up becoming beasts of similar size to their original body, so changing to such a small size is not as easy as you might think.

‘Fire and ice, and even transformation.’

The more you look, the more you see the types of magic he possesses.

It’s like having at least three grimoires and knowing how to use them.

Magic is something that you never know the end of even if you handle just one for your entire life, but Hopper’s talent and skill in handling three at the same time cannot be denied as a fellow magician.

“How was it, Sir Hopper?”

It would be inappropriate to say that something had happened, as it would mean that as a nobleman he was greedy for wealth. The best way to think about it was to think about how things were between them.

Ronobe Hopper looked at Kael and handed him a herb from his arms.

“There was nothing else, but this one. Let’s share this.”

“This is…!”

Lorraine’s Herbs!!

Kael’s heart raced.

A medicinal herb that is difficult to obtain even if you have money.

It was Lorraine’s herb.

For a moment, I wanted to ask if there was anything else, but I couldn’t.

He went there alone during that time.

There may be other more treasures.

But the moment you say this, if he catches you, there’s no way to find out right now. You’ll just end up suspecting him for nothing.

It wasn’t a good look to only suspect him when he was so active.

“How would you like to distribute it?”

“I need gold. How about Sir Mick?”

“I also have enough gold screen.”

“Then how about I buy it for thirty gold coins? Considering the distance and time it takes to get to the auction house, and the time it takes to register and wait, thirty gold coins seems like a reasonable price.”

But Hopper shook his head.

“Fifty.”

“You’re too expensive! You can get something this size for thirty.”

“I risked my life to bring it to you. Fifty coins.”

“… but.”

“Fifty! If you don’t need it, don’t. I’ll have to sell it at an auction house I know.”

“If you hand it over to me, I can hand over the gold right now!”

“Duke Kael needs herbs right now for his magic test, but we don’t. I guess you forgot that.”

“…”

Kael is still only fifteen years old.

Although he pretended to be carefree, he was still a young nobleman who did not know the ways of the world.

“… do it at that price.”

Kael ordered his knight to bring gold coins from the carriage.

Fifty gold coins.

It’s expensive, but there’s no other way.

Aren’t Lorraine’s herbs something that are hard to obtain even with money?

‘I just need to get a White Commendation in the Kingdom Magic Exam. If I just have this…’

I hope you can get a high score.

Then, fifty gold coins is not that much of a waste of money.

“After taking my share, here’s the rest.”

“Oh! Forty. I got it, Sir Mick. Let’s split it in half.”

“You can take more, Sir Hopper, since you took the trouble. I’ll only take ten.”

“Really? You don’t have to do that…”

“You have to manage the territory and go to the North, right? Sir Hopper needs the money more than I do.”

“Wow! You’re on a whole other level than the guy who just makes torches and receives distribution! You’re truly a saint!”

Mick tried hard to suppress his laughter.

Because I saw Kael hiding his trembling fists.

“Okay, then let’s clean up and go back.”

“”yes!!””

*

Green wizard.

Bedino hugged the clothes and other items his colleagues had dropped and cried.

He was a man who shed many tears.

“Where do you plan on going?”

“I plan to return to the capital for now… I also need to report to my colleagues.”

“Then let’s join together. We are on our way to the royal road anyway, and it would be better if there was someone who knew the way.”

“thank you.”

That night.

Ronobe sorted out what he had.

‘I’ll leave the rocks here because I’ll have to grind them into powder.’

The grimoire can be offered as a tribute.

After all, the grimoire is difficult for Ronobe to use.

It was decided to divide the grimoire and weapons that came out of the cave, not the secret room of Ukinna. One more grimoire fell into Ronobe’s hands.

This time, I obtained a total of five grimoires.

There are five monsters!!

My stomach felt like it was going to burst.

“Hehehehehehehe!”

And one more thing!

Ronobé buried his nose in the prunes he had taken out of the serpentine coffin and inhaled their scent.

“To Prume!!”

Considering the slime making technique and the slime itself, there was no more valuable reward.

But don’t be surprised!

It’s not over yet.

“Hmm~ haa…”

As I inhaled the fragrant and pure scent of the miracle as if I was on drugs, my body felt buoyant and my pupils dilated. A kind of awakening effect appeared and I fell into a deep sleep.

Naturally, the path of dreams appeared.

“Frume, the best.”

Ronobe calmly walked around the road and stopped at one road.

“The path changes as you walk. The path of an animal is like that too.”

The path in your dreams becomes stronger and more diverse the more you walk on it.

Then wouldn’t this road be the same?

The way of the bug.

Ronobe was troubled as he watched the bug path swarming with all sorts of bugs.