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Chapter 69 - The Moonshadow Wolf and the Magic Stone of Light and Dark

While Leonhard was bringing the meat of the Moonshadow Wolf he had hunted last night back to the base, Mireille finally woke up.

"Phew... I think I've recovered a little."

Various events swirled in her head.

"Master, please come back soon... I have so many things I want to tell you."

Adrian-san and Darius-san were risking their lives to stage a coup d'état just to get her master back. Adrian-san had even come back after cutting ties with her master once because he was a noble.

Master... I want to see you. Everyone wants to see you, Master...

Thinking about such things made her chest tighten, and she felt like crying. Leonhard-san spoils me, but right now, I'm the only alchemist. I have to do my best.

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Although she had been learning alchemy from her master for a long time, there were still many materials she had never seen and phenomena she had not yet experienced. Last night's events were a perfect example of that.

The terror of seeing a stampede for the first time easily surpassed her imagination. The wolves, which should have been far away, reached from the waterside in front of her to the tower in an instant. And their numbers and speed... she could only hold her breath.

If I had been caught in that, I probably wouldn't have been saved even if I used an alchemical item.

She experienced the threat of nature firsthand for the first time.

"A full moon... really is scary."

But if you change your perspective, you can also receive the blessings of the spirits at the same time. That spirit of light is a rare existence, so much so that it's treated as a fairy tale even in the world of alchemy.

The Wings of Light are famous for their high healing effects, but they're so rare that I'm hesitant to use them.

And since the magic power of ordinary materials also increases, the effect of the full moon is tremendous.

A number of things that could never be anticipated by theory alone. I'm really glad I was safe... though it was probably just luck.

Mireille let out a soft sigh and reached for the materials.

"The lives I have received... I will use them gratefully."

This was her first time handling a Moonshadow Wolf. They only appear on a full moon, and if they run in a group like this time, you can be killed before you have a chance to get any materials.

In the first place, you only encounter stampedes in environments like the Tree Sea.

When she appraised the magic core, it had the rare dual attributes of light and dark. Was it because the wolves of the dark run under the light of the full moon?

But... it's strange that they don't fight within the magic core despite having opposite properties.

When she tried to process it by putting it in a light-attributed stone, the darkness inside went wild and the stone went flying. When she put it in a dark-attributed stone, the light inside went wild, and ouch! It came flying at Mireille and cut her forehead.

Ugh, they're so unruly. This is a problem...

"Maybe I should just crush the 'Lucfia' and 'Nocfia' into powder and mix them."

Lucfia is a light-attributed stone, and Nocfia is a dark-attributed stone. Both are stones used for processing magic stones.

She finely ground the two and mixed them, adding the light and dark-attributed magic core of the Moonshadow Wolf. To that, she added the moon dew water she had collected last night and poured her mana into it.

"Solidify...!"

Surprisingly, this time the materials didn't fight each other, and it was completed with a soft glow. A magic stone with both light and dark attributes. Upon appraisal, it was an excellent item that could absorb both light and dark attacks.

But... I don't think there are any monsters that attack with both light and dark. It might be useful against mages, though.

"Ugh... if I spend my time on things like this, I'll probably get scolded."

She always wanted to try her hand at new materials. The fur and eyes couldn't be used until they were dry, so for now, she decided to mass-produce Sleep Orbs to defeat the monsters of the Tree Sea.

She quickly processed the Moon Dew Grass and Sleep Moss she had worked so hard to collect last night and kneaded in the stingers of monster bees. She shaped them into small bombs and channeled her mana into them.

"Alright... with this, the next battle should be a little easier!"