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Chapter 15 - Druid Spells (Start)

“Are there any medicinal herbs we can harvest during early winter? “

At noon, as Druid Jeff ate the roast meat, he looked upon Rumont and said: “sure, there’s the 9-Leafed Gra.s.s, however, it’s quite rarely seen within the forest. You have to be careful when you gather herbs, you absolutely can’t dig the roots as well, otherwise, there won’t be anymore growing in the later years. This could be considered our duty as druids! “

“9-Leafed Gra.s.s? “ Rumont pondered, it was definitely a precious type of herb, he recalled the entry from the herb compendium.

If divine spells were used in conjunction with an appropriate amount of finely grounded 9-Leafed Gra.s.s, you could produce a portable flask of a basic level healing potion, with an effectiveness of 3 months.

Based on it’s one time use, the medicinal efficacy was quite high, especially good against injuries. Using divine spells could rapidly heal a person’s body, however, it cannot help replenish the body’s deficiencies. As a result, medicinal herbs are exceptionally appreciated.

Due to it’s healing efficacy, humans flocked en ma.s.se, leading to a scarcity of this medicinal herb within this region.

In recent years, the Church of the Agricultural G.o.ddess have attempted to use manpower to cultivate this.

Rumont restrained his thoughts, waiting for for Jeff to finish eating before asking: “Can I follow you to gain some experiences? “

“Sure, normally I wouldn’t, however, since you’re technically my disciple as well as being a full-fledged druid, I should show you around for some learning. Let’s go, we’ll go to the bas.e.m.e.nt. “

Druid Jeff did not refuse, while cleaning up the dishes. Seeing that there was n.o.body in the surrounding area, he first closed the outside gate, before he opened the door at the back. As they went underneath, they eventually arrived at an underground room.

Rumont, upon seeing Jeff’s slightly mysterious behavior, developed a headache, as if meeting the prerequisites for this reflex.

Jeff soon stopped in front of stone door.

“Is it inside? “ Rumont scratched his head, not understanding why he was lead here. Without a doubt, he was quite curious as to how this underground room was constructed in such a manner. Is Jeff not only a single man, how was it possible that he excavated this large underground s.p.a.ce?

Jeff gave off a mysterious smile, his hand pressed on a secret location. Immediately, the giant stone gate started to raise up slowly. It revealed a pa.s.sageway, able to accommodate the height of a person and width of several people. Jeff lead the way in. Since he didn’t say anything, Rumont neither asked, following him into the gloom.

Advancing in, a breath of warm welcomed them. The area was not gloomy as he expected, on the contrary, a clean fragrance permeated the air. Rumont was dumbstruck when he saw the place.

This was a s.p.a.ce of 200 square metres, sectioned into several rows of clay beds, each clay bed was piled with thick fertile soil. All kinds of plants could be seen.

In the centre was an altar, but he could not make out which G.o.d. A very plain and simple altar, with a mysterious symbol engraved onto it; it was releasing pure Nature essences.

Up top on the stone ceiling, was a sunlight releasing crystal.

“What is this? “ Rumont’s mouth wide open. Wasn’t this a greenhouse?

“Rumont, you’re quite astonished, ha ha, this is my self created, Nature insulated greenhouse. Used to especially culturevate the seeds of the few rare plants! “ Jeff, misunderstanding Rumont’s surprise as shock, expressed a smile, feeling proud of himself.

“It….It’s really amazing! “ Rumont grabbed his hair, speechless. He possessed the Shennong Horn to act as a greenhouse, but this fellow had a manmade greenhouse.

Turning around a few times, he let off an expression of envy, as his eyes once again landed on the altar, he asked: “What is that? The royal altar? “

“Hehe, you’ve guessed wrong, that’s the Origin Nature altar. I obtained this back when I reached Rank 5. “ Jeff proudly said, as he fiddled with the ring on his finger.

Rumont took notice of the ring, it appeared to be a very common, silver ring, adorned with a floral pattern. However, within his vision, the ring had a halo of white dazzling light.

He couldn’t help but be wonderfully fascinated by the ring. Noticing his somewhat absent starring, Jeff subconsciously hid the ring away.

“What…...is that? “ Rumont was a touch embarra.s.sed, as he pointed to crystal in the ceiling.

“That is a sunlight crystal, after being under the sun for 3 days, it can then reliably release a day's worth of sunlight. Thus, I have 4 sunlight crystals, to rotate the illumination so that it can sufficiently sustain the Nature insulated greenhouse.

Rumont was silent as he listened, wasn’t this basically a solar powered jacklight?

On display underneath, was a large growth of 9-Leafed Gra.s.s, in addition, there was Peaceful Gra.s.s, Syrup Blossom, Bewildering Rock Shrooms, Rainbow Bush and so forth. All plants that were rarely seen, Rumont was dazzled by this sight. Jeff was completely satisfied with Rumont’s current expression.

It took Rumont an hour’s worth of time to inspect over these herbs. In the end, the complacent Jeff was magnanimous, gifting Rumont a small pouch of 9-Leafed Gra.s.s seeds.

A few minutes later, the pair withdrew from within.

After exiting, Rumont looked over at his comrade, who was curled up on top of the wooden bed under a wolf’s pelt, slumbering deeply with his face scrunched up.

Being almost exterminated from last night’s battle with the goblins, it revealed that the trio were severely lacking in combat; not only in strength, but also in a lack of experience.

Dealing with the goblins soon after, was already a type of luck, furthermore, receiving treatment from a druid, was a blessing.

Presently, Nick was no longer in mortal danger, yet he continued to sleep without waking. They could only wait until tomorrow, when Jeff was recovered, to try and fully cure him with the healing spell.

Although Jeff was amiable at the moment, yet if the debt wasn’t repaid after a month, the results……

Rumont unconsciously had a thread of worry arising.

Seizing the opportunity, Rumont, at once went to consult with Jeff on the magics of a druid. Perhaps Jeff was feeling good, he explained: “it’s actually really simple, once a druid forms a Heart of Nature, during attentive meditation, you will eventually see the Heart of Nature’s core. In practice, it will have many runes, each rune represents a Nature spell, you only need to pour in the power. “