Isekai Walking: Volume 1 [Complete] by arukuhito

Author:arukuhito
Language: eng
Format: epub

The next morning, Chris and I left the city together and headed for a nearby prairie. It was the nearest gathering spot to the town and just two hours away on foot, but few people went there. The reason was simple: the herbs grew in the middle of a vast grassland, so they were hard to find.

“You really want to gather herbs here?” Even Chris could hardly believe it.

I walked around, looking for a fertile patch. A common feature of healing herbs was that if you found one, it frequently wasn’t alone. I spotted one with Appraisal and discovered quite a few more around it. “I bet there’s a lot growing in this area.”

Chris followed my gaze curiously. “You’re right. How’d you know that?”

“Well, I have pretty good eyesight. I can probably find more if I look around. You want to focus on this spot, Chris?”

“Sure. I’ll search here,” Chris said after a moment’s hesitation.

“I’ll check around the area a little more, then.” Here I parted ways with Chris and embarked on my own gathering. In addition to the healing herbs, the place was filled with mana and vigor herbs as well. Mana herbs always fetched a high price, and from what I’d seen looking at price listings, vigor herbs tended to go for a bit more than healing ones.

My plan on this occasion was to collect what I needed to fulfill the quest and use any leftovers for making potions. The potions would be a going-away present to Rurika and Chris when we parted ways, and increasing my Alchemy proficiency would let me create something else I wanted to make.

I looked around me with Appraisal activated. Words popped up in speech balloons, displaying the names of each kind of grass.

I collected healing, mana, and vigor herbs in order of priority. There was a lot of new growth here, so I didn’t hesitate to take all the mature ones I found. My previous experience using Alchemy led me to pay great attention to the herbs’ freshness so that I didn’t end up with an Item Box full of dud potions. Even then, the relative obscurity of the spot meant that I never seemed to run out of good herbs to collect.

Ah, but would it be suspicious if I only turned in high-quality herbs? I wondered. Maybe I should mix in some low-quality ones as well...

I stuffed the herbs for the quest into my preservation bag and the rest into my Item Box. Since I’d been using Dimension Spells for the whole journey, the skill level had already risen to Lv. 4. The higher my level, the longer the things in the Item Box lasted. Or maybe the passage of time itself slowed there?

Appraisal was the skill I used most, but I also occasionally used Parallel Thinking to activate Detect Presence and Hide Presence so I could increase my proficiency in those. These gains were minimal, but every little bit helped.

Once I’d collected a sufficient number of herbs, I’d have liked

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