Loli Witch – Volume 1 Chapter 17

 

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Well, having left the guild early due to the trouble that occurred, we thought it was unhealthy to immediately go back and confine ourselves in the inn, so we toured the town of Daryl.

“Look, Tet. I’ll buy some sweets at that stall, so cheer up……”
“Okay…… Majo-sama.”

Tet held my hand and grudgingly followed along while buying sweets and immediately eating them after.
After a while, perhaps as Tet got over her bad mood as she ate her sweets, but she started to smile, and we drew out our plans for now.

“Tet, should we receive a request outside the town starting tomorrow?”
“Starting tomorrow?”
“Yup, it’s about time we undertake a request. Then, first off, we’ll aim for D-rank by completing requests one by one.”

I had no particular purpose in coming to this world.
However, only D-rank adventurers or those with equivalent fighting strength are given permission to enter a dungeon managed by the adventurer’s guild.

You can do what you want if you have the social status that matches it. If there’s a magic tool that you want, you can challenge a dungeon and search for one.

And also—-

“Tet is a new species, an Earthnoid. It’d be easy for you to raise your rank and secure some sort of social status, making it easy for you to live.”
“What about Majo-sama? What is Majo-sama going to do?”

I was troubled when asked like that.

“Hmm. First off, if I’m an adventurer, I’ll accumulate money and save up, become stronger and increase my strength. Then, if I capture a dungeon or defeat a strong monster, I’ll get famous. Although we properly gathered everything we needed to protect ourselves efficiently, we didn’t think about the future.”

On that line of thinking, I wondered how long Tet could live as this new species.
Also, if she was treated as a demon, I believe it would be hard for her to live in the human world.

“I’ll probably be searching for a place where I can live peacefully with Tet.”
“As long as I’m together with Majo-sama, anywhere will be fun!”

I gave a wry smile seeing Tet being simple-mindedly happy.
Maybe 10 years later, or maybe 20 years later.
I’ll find a place that’ll protect the Tet and the unique me in this world.

From this moment onwards, this became my goal.

“Majo-sama. If we become adventurers, are we going to eat the dungeon core again? That’s super delicious.”
“Hmm. You’re fired up by the initial dungeon core, aren’t you? But since I want fame and honor for our sake, no can do.”

Also Tet. You become a new species after consuming a single dungeon core magic gem. If you consume a second or third one, what’s going to happen? I’m afraid, you know.

While thinking about such things, we headed back to the inn and had our meal as usual.

Initially, we slept in the same bed due to Tet’s request, but now it became normal and I always sleep while being embraced by Tet.
The morning arrived. We paid a week’s worth of lodging and headed towards the guild.
Then, we accepted a herb collection request, made our way to the plains north of the outskirts of the town and collected herbs.

The request entailed leaving the town and collecting 30 stalks of herbs that’ll become potion materials at the plains.
The reward is a cheap two large copper coins and can’t even take care of lodging fees, but it seems like the demand for potions has risen due to the preparations of the orc king subjugation, so they need a lot no matter how little it is.

“Just by creating a stalk of herb takes 20 mana with [Creation Magic] I see.”

I can complete this request by using my magic powers to cheat, but the rate of money earned for mana consumed was bad, so we honestly searched for herbs.

“Majo-sama~, there’s herbs over here too~!”
“Tet, good job! Well then, let’s carefully put it in the magic bag and go back.”

Tet’s unexpectedly special skill was being good at searching for things on the ground.
Thus, she was finding herbs one after another and I was carefully gathering the herbs following where she pointed at with the herb-use short dagger that I gave her.

The magic bag’s performance from the guild was greatly different, and from what I saw, the time in the pouch-type magic bag that I initially had progressed, but the bag had an extremely slow delaying effect that was 1/100 speed.
The dungeon magic bag held quite a bit, but the passage of time was that of a normal bag.

I put in a cold plastic bottle of tea, but it usually was lukewarm by the time I drank it. I did create a large amount to put in, so I didn’t notice until now. ¹

That’s why I decided to put the fresh important things into my time delay bag.

Tet searched for herbs really hard while I concentrated my magic powers to my eyes and surveyed the plains.

“Herbs with a lot of mana. Here’s one.”

By confirming the mana by putting the body strengthening to practical use, I was able to find the ingredients for the mana potion.
I harvested them one by one and when I got ten stalks, I tied them with a string and put them into my magic bag.
The collection of mana potion herb materials is a permanent request, and the rewards are higher than herbs used for potions with just 10 stalks giving five large copper coins.

“Well, it’s a demand from the small population of magicians, isn’t it?’

During the herb collection request, occasionally one or two stalks would be mixed in, so the guilds purchase them individually.
By the way, collecting these herbs for a request is quite F-rank like.

“Well then, Tet. How many did we gather?”
“94 stalks in total~! How about Majo-sama~?”
“40 stalks of mana potions herbs for me. With Tet and mine combined, we have enough for seven requests.”

To raise to F-rank from the lowest G, you need to complete 30 F or G-rank requests.
Therefore, Tet and I are doing it together, so we need to do double the requests, in other words, 60 requests.

By the way, the number of requests was set at 30 assuming that a beginner would complete one request everyday.

“We did 3.5 requests today. At this rate, we’ll raise our rank to F all together in around 10 days.”
“But, Majo-sama~? If we gather like this every day, won’t the other people be troubled? Also, won’t we run out of things to collect?”
“There’s no need to worry about that. As long as the roots are left for herbs, it seems like they’ll grow back in around three days.”

Also, since the appearance of orcs to the north of the town was recently confirmed, the adventurers of F-rank and below who’d normally undertake herb collection requests have resorted to requests within the town or collection from the plains to the south far from the forest. There weren’t many people to the north side of the town, where we were.

“Well then, let’s head back.”

Tet and I returned to the guild and delivered the gathered herbs.
Although herb collection was a cheap request, thanks to the time delaying magic bags, we were able to preserve the freshness and there was a demand, so rewards which were normally 26 large copper coins were slightly marked up and became 30 large copper coins (3 silver coins).

If converted to Japanese yen, 30,000 yen per day for two people is quite a good job.
Well, it might’ve been difficult if you didn’t have magic perception or high affinity with the earth like me and Tet……

“Well then, let’s go back to the inn. I have something I want to experiment.”
“Experiment?”
“Yup, an experiment to increase the magic powers I can use.”

After saying that, I returned earlier than usual to the inn, sat on top of my bed crossing my legs, and meditated to try to recover my mana.
I ate a Seed of Magic in the morning everyday, so my mana increased little by little even if I didn’t level up and was currently roughly 2800.

“Let’s try this. —-<<Creation>>! Magic Crystal!”

One method of recovering used mana for a magician is to recover it using a mana potion, but one more method is to save mana in a crystal called a [Magic Crystal].
With my creation magic this time, I created a [Magic Crystal]. ²

“Phew, it’s done…… but, it’s empty, isn’t it?”

What I created was an empty [Magic Crystal] that had no mana at all.
The amount of mana I consumed was around 2000, so how much can it replenish one’s mana? Depending on that, I was thinking about how many pieces I should make.

“Majo-sama? Why did you create this crystal to restore magic? Isn’t it fine if you use a mana potion?”
“Good question. As for my reason, you have to drink a mana potion. Also, when you drink too much, your stomach will get all flabby after all. However, you can invoke magic with the magic power from the Magic Crystal.”

Tet, who is tilting her head in confusion, seems to be unable to grasp things like getting a water belly or invoking magic with the magic power from a magic stone, which put a bitter smile on my face

“For the time being, I’m tired so let’s rest for a bit.”
“Understood!”

Then, by recovering mana by meditating, I poured the recovered mana into the empty [Mana Crystal]/

“Phew. I feel like I roughly saved 1000 mana?”

When thinking that the capacity was half of the consumed mana, it was roughly the same when I created Tet’s golem core.

If I save up my extra mana by creating Magic Crystals four times a day, I can use it for various things when the time comes. No, this can be used for the mana when using creation magic.”

If I used creation magic with my maximum mana + the mana I’ll save in my Magic Crystals, it’ll take time, but I might be able to create things I haven’t been able to create up until now.
Also, in the worst case, I think it’s fine to sell the Magic Crystal itself to make money.

After I finished inspecting it, I had my dinner with Tet and slept as usual.

If you are reading from a pirate or aggregator site, please read from the translator’s site: yado-inn (dot) com I have to put the link like this or else the bots will remove it, sorry 🙁

1. TL Explanation: She probably creates them in batches of like 100 or whatever, so although the time passes slowly, eventually the tea will still get warm, so she hasn’t really paid attention to the time concept until now.
2. It’s a bit confusing cause you might mix it up with “mana gem”, but that’s from monsters.