The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick up Trash - Volume 6 - Chapter 313

Chapter 313:

Purple Magic Stones

“I DON’T KNOW WHERE WE ARE…and I’m too scared to even think about it,” Druid murmured.

I gave him a strange look. He didn’t know where we were?

“But we’re at the main cave of the Snakeys. It’s a very big, roomy cave.”

“Uh, yeah, I know that, Ivy. It’s okay…”

It seemed like a part of Druid was still uncomfortable being this up close and personal with monsters. Which was strange, since there was no need to fear the ones Sora and Ciel said were safe. I stretched my spine and leaned back against the serpent behind me. It wasn’t terribly big, so it was just the right size to lie against.

“I sure am stuffed,” Druid sighed, rubbing his stomach.

I smiled and nodded. “Yeah, it was all so yummy that I ate more than I should have.”

After we met up with the herd of serpents, they shared their catch with us. These monsters had extra-long legs, and we’d never encountered their kind before. I hadn’t even seen them in my books, so I asked Druid what they were, but even he didn’t know.

We asked the serpents if the food was safe to eat, and they said it was, so we went ahead and joined in the feast. It was quite a surprise, though, that we’d stumbled upon the serpents’ homeland on our way to Hatata Village. I turned my eyes forward and spotted the Snakey who had brought us there, contentedly lounging on the cave floor. I slightly lifted my gaze toward the wall behind it, where unfamiliar magic stones the size of human heads were embedded. They were quite transparent, and they had a beautiful purple color. From where I was seated, I could see about three of them. From that, I could tell that the walls held many other magic stones. I wondered how many there were.

“What’s up?”

“Oh, nothing. Just thinking that they never cease to amaze me every time I see them…”

Druid followed my gaze and nodded. Purple magic stones had the power to break curses. With the sheer number of them here, we could definitely overcome any curse thrown at us.

“If this many magic stones got out into the world, people would freak out,” Druid said.

“Well, they are huge. And so transparent, too.” They would certainly cause quite a fuss.

“That’s not the only thing.”

“Hm?”

“Purple magic stones can break curses, but they can also inflict them.”

Whoa, really? So he’s saying that anyone with purple magic stones this big could go on a cursing spree?

“Well, that’s terrifying.”

“Yeah, we’re lucky the serpents are guarding these stones.”

“Yes, we really are.”

As we stared at the magic stones, the lounging serpent stretched out its neck toward me and dropped something by my feet. It was a clear purple magic stone. And it was the size of a large fist to boot.

“Um…what is this for?”

I had a very bad feeling. I hoped I was mistaken. I cast a soft glance on the serpent in front of me, and it nudged the magic stone toward me with its nose. It was making the same kind of movement Ciel did when it was giving me a present. What’s more, the serpent’s eyes were sparkling hopefully. Maybe it had mistaken our interest in the magic stones for a desire to have some.

“Um, I’m sorry, but we weren’t staring at these because we wanted them. We were just thinking, gee, we’ve never seen magic stones like these before…”

Even as I was talking, the serpent continued to roll the stone toward me with its nose. I glanced at Druid next to me, and he nodded in defeat.

“Thanks.”

When I held it in my hands, I could tell just how big it was. It was the largest magic stone I’d ever seen. It sure was pretty, though. As I looked inside the stone, I noticed that its center was colored a bit differently. Is it white? No, silver?

“Thanks, serpent,” Druid said. “I promise we’ll only use this to break curses.”

Curses, huh…? What a scary and sad word.

I reached into my magic bag and took out the magic box where we kept our valuables. I opened the lid and… Wooow… Before my eyes was a pile of sparkling potions, along with red and blue magic stones you could see right through. Each and every item was always so beautiful, no matter how many times I looked at them.

“Seeing all these rarities in one box…it’s jaw-dropping,” Druid said.

He was right, and it was about to get more impressive.

“And now, our latest addition…” I added our new magic stone to the collection and shut the lid. Would the day ever come when these magic stones would see some action?

“Oh! We still haven’t researched this color of stone yet, huh?”

“That’s right. Maybe we should have Sol see if it can extract magic energy from it? There’s no reason not to.”

“Sure. Hey, Sol, come over here.”

“Pefu?”

Sol stopped playing with the black orbs and toddled over to us.

“Sorry to interrupt your game, but I wanted you to test something out for us.”

I started to pull the purple stone out of our magic box when I felt a shadow appear in front of me. I looked up to see that a different serpent had brought over another purple magic stone in its mouth.

“What’s wrong?”

The serpent lowered its head and dropped the magic stone by my feet. It was smaller than the last, and it was a more opaque shade of purple. I picked up the stone and looked at the serpent.

“Are you letting me borrow this?”

The serpent nodded in reply. I thanked it and set the magic stone in front of Sol. The slime stared hard at the stone…then, after a while, it jiggled.

“Didn’t work?” Druid asked.

“No, I don’t think it did.”

Since magic stones filled magic items with energy, they definitely had magic energy inside of them. We had tried many times to see if Sol could extract the energy from them, and every experiment thus far had been a failure. It didn’t look like Sol would be able to do it. It was puzzling, since magic stones did have magic energy inside them…

“Thanks, Sol. Again, sorry I interrupted your playtime.”

“Pefu!” Sol cheerfully bounced back to the black orbs. I sighed a little as I watched it go.

“It’s too bad. We’re surrounded by all this magic energy…” Druid sounded quite vexed. “So, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking…” he continued, staring hard at the magic stone in my hand.

“Yeah?”

“Well, I was wondering if maybe Sol can’t extract the energy from magic stones because you need more than one element.”

More than one element? The purple magic stones we were looking at had the power to break or inflict curses. They had no other use besides that.

“But the magic energy that Sol eats is always, well, mixed in color,” Druid said.

Multicolored magic?

“So you’re saying if we mix the magic from red and blue stones…then Sol might be able to eat it?”

“Maybe. I just have a feeling that it would work if we mixed more than one kind of magic.”

Now I get it.

“Anyway, it’s a nice theory, but there are no magic stones like that.”

Huh?

“There aren’t?”

“If such a versatile magic stone existed, it would be a cultural phenomenon. It would be in the books, too.”

He was right.

“And in all the books I’ve read, there wasn’t a single entry about a magic stone that could be used for multiple purposes.”

“Maybe it does exist, but it’s just heavily guarded, like these big purple magic stones.”

“Even if that were true, we’d have a hell of a time finding it.”

That’s true. Even if such a stone were out there somewhere, it would be quite an ordeal to find it. Especially when we didn’t even know whether or not it existed in the first place.

“So, I guess extracting energy from magic stones is a dead end after all,” I sighed.

“Well, if we happen to find any other rare magic stones, we can still test them out. Besides, we can’t be sure that what I’m saying is correct. There might be other factors we don’t know about.”

“Yeah.”

We were still far from solving Sol’s food problems. I looked down at the magic stone in my hand. There wasn’t even a magic item that could extract energy from these stones. Too bad, when there was so much magic energy around us… It really was a shame.