Book 9: Chapter 34: Strongest Maid and Yggdrasil

Book 9: Chapter 34: Strongest Maid and Yggdrasil

What a pity.

I couldnt help but feel depressed at the sight in front of me.

This underground space that was a treasure trove had turned into a junk house of ordinary stones.

The ores here had grown day by day.

Normally, it would take a very long time for a stone to absorb mana and transform into orichalcum or magic ore, but that wasnt the case for the stones here. They were transforming at an alarming rate.

It was probably due to the leftover bath water flowing into this place.

I didnt notice this whenever I took a bath, but I discovered it when I tried to check and fix the broken pipe. I sensed a tremendous energy coming from the bath water that had been leaking out.

Huge amounts of Halt-samas mana had been dissolved into the drainage water.

Such a copious amount of mana had probably transformed the soil and stones in this space, turning them into rare ores such as orichalcum, adamantite and even scarletite.

If we could mine this properly, then it would probably far more than what H&T Corp mined from all the mines it owned combined.

And yet

Most of these precious ores had reverted back to being ordinary stones all because of these roots.

The giant tree that had suddenly sprouted in the middle of the courtyard stretched its roots deep into this underground space and sucked all the mana out of the rare ores.

I couldnt help but feel bloodlust against these roots.

Well, it was also my fault for misjudging the timing for mining the ores.

The ores were growing so well that I decided it would be fine even if we postponed mining them.

Halt-sama wouldve surely praised me if I managed to extract an enormous amount of ores.

It was a mistake to wait for the time when I could mine the maximum amount of ores possible, out of greediness for Halt-samas praise.

If I reported that the underground space I made had turned into a rare mine, then Halt-sama might have praised me already then.

I really couldnt help but regret my folly.

By the way, not all of the rare ores had reverted back to being mere stones.

The scarletite was still there, unchanged.

It was named as the immutable metal, after all.

Its mana being absorbed by the roots shouldnt be enough for it to return back to being a stone.

Scarletite was the rarest of all ores.

However, its market value was also the lowert.

Thats because it was a stone that couldnt be processed.

It couldnt even be mined, to boot.

Tools that could mine scarletite didnt exist in this world.

.Ugh, just what am I doing against a plant?

What a mess.

I was irritated just because I missed the chance for praise from Halt-sama.

Even though there was no point in doing this.

I extinguished the flames covering me.

At any rate, I should tell Halt-sama about the possibility of mining scarletite for now.

If its Halt-sama, then he might come up with a method to process immutable metals, even.

In that case, then he might even praise me!

I felt a bit positive as I left the underground space behind me.

H-Halt-samawhat is this?

Tina, listen! Sylph and Luna apparently planted Yggdrasil in the courtyard, and then it suddenly trembled

Halt-sama was standing in the middle of red fruits that almost buried the entire courtyard.

Fruits had suddenly fell from this tree in droves, apparently.

Halt-sama, Luna and even Sylph, the Wind Spirit King, had been standing here, but the fruit didnt fall on them so they werent injured.

There was a word that bothered me.

Y-Yggdrasil? T-This is Yggdrasil?

Yup, seems like it.

The Yggdrasil that was supposedly only growing in my birthplace had sprouted in Halt-samas mansion without notice.

By the way, Yggdrasil bore fruits only once in a thousand years.

These scarlet fruits had the effect of boosting the status of whoever ate them.

As for the more specific effects, it could extend lifespans and dramatically raise the status.

If this giant tree was truly Yggdrasil, then these scarlet fruits should be the Yggdrasil fruits.

And to think that there was this much

There were probably more than a hundred of them, as far as I could see.

Huh?

C-could it be.

Is it because I said you have to prove your worth?

A bright red fruit fell in front of me, as if to answer my question with a yes.