The Cheat Plant Mage Hides to Live a Slow Life!! ～ I’ve Been Banished from the Court and Want to Raise a World Tree but my Territory is too Strong～ - Chapter 36

Plant Mage 36

Flowerkin (1)

The next morning, I went out to the field to check. Of course, that’s after I make sure that nothing had changed in the mysterious seed X pot.

Taking one look at the field, I tilted my neck.

「Areh?」

In the corner of the small field, there’s an apple tree. A small, red, sour apple tree.

What’s puzzling is what’s next to it.

「……hnn? How did this grow here?」

An unfamiliar plant is growing in one corner of the field.

It was shriveled and wilted but it might have been some kind of vegetable or medicinal herb.

The leaves are heart shaped and pretty.

「Hmmm, it looks like a berry plant.」

Berry plants, which are used to make potions, have different colors of berries depending on their use and rank. However, it is difficult to distinguish them from each other because their leaves are all similar in appearance. There is even a profession of sapling identification.

I think this one is probably a spring berry with peach-colored berries. I’m quite fond of them because they taste just like raspberries. I’d like to give it the “raspberry-like” award.

「Well, it doesn’t have much healing effect though.」

The ingredients for potions used by adventurers who fight armies and monsters are red berries, blueberries, and the extremely valuable golden berries.

Compared to these, spring berries have little healing effect. Even when made into potion, they are not expected to have any effect on human bodies and can only be turned into sour juice.

「Who planted this?」

There was nothing like this yesterday and it couldn’t have grown this much in just one night.

This is a mystery. The mystery of a mysterious plant.

I looked around.

Suddenly, something moved in the corner of my eye.

I saw a small figure hiding in the shadow of the big rock that I had almost crashed into yesterday. Or rather, I also heard small footsteps.

「Eh, a person….?」

The mountains to the east and the desolate land.

That’s about all there is here. How can there be people?

…..supernatural phenomena?

「Eh? That would be scary!?」

What if it’s a ghost?

I’m not good with that kind of thing.

But what kind of ghost would plant something?

The only one guarding the field is me.

I approached the rock with trepidation.

「W-who’s there? I know you’re there and I don’t want to be rough.」

I am good at extermination but not good at using force.