Master Of None

"Why is it that Walker told us to head back to the beast tamer's post and isn't here? He never uses the party chat function because we all are seeing each other so often." Remey was annoyed. She and Onyx had just made a huge find of burnt light leaves. But they had to quickly gather them to rush back to the post.

"Brother must have his reasons. He will need to tell us when he gets here." The fact that they had found a lot of the ingredients that they needed made both more relaxed overall. Bit Onyx was slightly annoyed that he wasn't getting more materials that the lava field had to offer.

"I was going to look for some crag tree seeds. They are very hard to grow but if I can find the right herbalist, then we can grow sprouts. There are skills that let an herbalist dwarf a tree. It's perfect for harvesting the flaming flower petals from the crag tree. They can be used for fire elemental potions. Especially ones that heal burns. It's a unique medicine that causes the fire elemental mana to be pulled from the body instead of enhancing it."

Since Remey was in full teaching mode, Onyx kept his attention on her words while looking around. He could learn about the herbs and potions that he had been dragged in to making. He knew that Remey would not allow him to wander off while she made the potions for him.

"Remey, what about those herbs? They are being brought in to feed the tamed monsters, but are they not able to be used for anything?" The piles of herbs were harvested so that the tamed monsters could eat them or even use them as bedding. What Remey and Onyx had been blind to was the potential that they could be used for potions as well.

"Onyx, start exploring. If you find something good I will make you an extra few potions." Remey moved with lightning speed. She had become curious and started to ask the tamers in charge of the monster's resting stalls questions. She was going to find everything that she needed regardless of what was going on.

"Well, the crumbling grass is just that. Grass that grows fast, dries out in the heat, and crumbles. But it is good for bedding since it helps keep pests away. It would be even better if we had more water around here to make it a paste. Then we could add it to some gaps in the doors.' The tamer was very knowledgeable about the uses of the crumbling grass.

"Then it should be alright if I take some for alchemy experiments?" Remey had the idea that she might be able to make a paste or pellet that would keep away bug type monsters. That way the alchemy guild could sell them to the merchants and travelers.

"We harvest twenty or some of these wagons a day. The grass grows back before we even have half a day to use it. Just don't take from the wagon over there. That's a little rarer." The rule caused Remey to become more interested. She looked and saw that the crumbling grass was much older. It had a tougher exterior and was still attached to some roots.

"I did say to leave it alone. This is a wagon full of mutated crumbling grass. They get rough outer shells and take up a lot of space. We don't know why it happens but we pull it up every chance we get and dump it in to magma to get rid of it. We can't let it spread. It could take over the whole field."

"Even better for me to experiment with then. I would say it has taken on a stronger earth elemental affinity instead of a stronger fire elemental affinity. That way it can resist the wind and still stay together. I bet inside there are seeds instead of staying on the roots. There's a weird step in evolution that herbs go through where they both grow from roots and seeds at the same time." Remey grabbed a few and broke them open. Her point was proven by the tiny black seeds that fell in to her hand.

"Fine, just a few. The rest will be burned soon." The tamer just shook his head wondering if every alchemist was like this. But he had too much work to do to worry too much. Remey didn't seem to be someone that would go out of her way to make trouble for their harvests.

"Remey! I found apples." Onyx called out to Remey mentally. He was looking at the foods that some of the fire elemental monsters ate. One such monster stall had strange apples in front of them.

"I wouldn't go playing with those. Unless you are a magma turtle, you will be hurt pretty badly." The tamer nearby pointed out the red turtles eating the apples in one bite. "Those are volcanic apples. Hard to get to but very nutritious for the lava dwelling magma turtles here. They eat them with one bite and absorb the poison fumes inside. If you pop one accidentally you are as good as gone." The tamer looked to love the turtles a lot since he was willing to risk the danger to feed them.

"Are they hollow on the inside or do they have little pockets of poisons surrounded by white parts?" Remey was going in to full analysis mode to discover everything possible about this new fruit. It wasn't that she saw any potential alchemy uses but there was always a possibility. And where there was poison there could be an antidote made against it. That way the alchemy guild could sell it to the taming guild. The potential was endless. Rmeey became so focused on this that she didn't even notice when Walker, Su, and Midnight arrived back at the outpost.

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