The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99 Moss Tea

Karl looked at how the moss grew, down the top of the logs, and the one side, but not the bottom or the other side. If he wanted it to keep growing, he had to leave enough in the right spots that it didn't ruin the moss bed too badly.

So, he cut diagonal stripes across the log, removing thin strips amounting to half of the moss on each log, while leaving the rest securely attached. That should grow back over, he assumed, and then it could be harvested again.

"Where did you learn that?" Dana asked as Karl cut the careful strips from the moss.

"I'm actually just guessing here by the way that it grows. But I'm only taking half, and leaving the other half in the way that looks like it will grow back the fastest. Moss spreads from the edges, you see, and only grows well on the sunny side. So, if I only take half and leave as many good edges as possible, then it looks like this.

That should be the fastest pattern to grow back, and by my guess, I've cut nearly twenty kilos of wet weight moss from this one tree. I haven't even touched the other ones yet, and we've got enough to fill all the warriors and the witches requests. I just need to grab a little for Thor here, and we can be on our way to the next spot." He explained.

"I don't suppose we could spare a bit more... There is an awful lot of it growing here." One of the warriors suggested.

The witch closest to Karl nodded in agreement. "The Academy expects you to provide for your own when it's not a standard part of the growth plan, and it's not like they accept these items as a trade in, at least not from the first years who are supposed to be looking out for themselves first, but normally, we would never see so much of an Awakened Rank resource in one spot.

If this was up on the market, we would be rich. Well, until we all got arrested for trafficking controlled substances to the masses, but you get my point. We could earn plenty of favours from the other students in class if we had a bit to trade them, you know?"

"Alright, I will harvest another log." Karl agreed with a smile.

He cut the same stripe pattern on one log, and then had Thor quietly move the log hidden behind where he was working into the beast space. A beast his size would need a lot of the moss to equal out to a cup of tea a day, and a bit added to his usual diet every morning would help him grow big and strong.

But even the Lightning Cerro realized that the herb should be rationed. He ate a lot of higher rank plants as his general diet, but this one was special, and the effects were limited, so it was more of a treat than a basic staple of the diet.

The second batch was spread the same as the first and stuffed into backpacks, while Karl looked at the map to see what was up next. They were going to go around the battle from earlier, and that would bring them to one of two spots. Either a spot that might have another strengthening herb, or one that was known to grow crystals that helped focus and increase the mana pool growth rate.

Karl decided to lead them to the crystals first, in the interest of fairness. If anything went wrong later, at least they should all have gained something from the trip that way. It would also help the clerics that they had rescued, so they wouldn't go home empty-handed.

The signs of monsters got more prominent the further that they went, and Karl began to question whether the intel was wrong, or if this was actually what they considered a low-risk area in the wilderness.

"I saw some unique plants in the clearing. They're not on the list, but I recognize them from the botany books that I had to read." She informed the team. _{fгeewebnovёl.com}