I Quit Saving the Academy Heroes

Mana Stone

Kwajik.

My sword flew between the foreheads of the goblin that was charging at Felice, and smashed his head.

When I looked at her casually.

Felice was staring at me for some reason.

“Heh, heh… ”

She lets out a surprised breath.

“ha… ”

I sighed and walked towards her.

“Louis, Louie… thanks… ”

“Hey, are you out of your mind?”

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As I drew the sword stuck in the goblin’s head, I spoke sharply to her.

“What are you doing in battle?”

“sorry… ”

“Why, do you think we can ignore goblins? So is that so?”

she shakes her head

“not. It’s not like that… ”

But she couldn’t speak any more.

What the hell were you thinking?

The woman I know is not the type of person to be so careless, no matter how insignificant the enemy is.

“… be careful.”

I just said that.

Felice nodded again.

“Thank you so much… ”

“It’s all done!”

It looks like Felice was trying to say something.

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Just then, Master and Aine appeared from among the bushes.

“… What happened?”

Did he notice something awkward in the atmosphere?

Master asked carefully.

“Nothing happened. Oh, did I miss anyone?”

“Of course, disciple!”

she says proudly.

When it comes to searching for and following signs, no one is better than Master here.

If Master says so, then it must be so.

I quickly glanced at the two of them.

Fortunately, neither of them looked particularly hurt.

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Just in case, I asked Aine.

“Hey, are you okay? You didn’t get hurt while catching a goblin, did you?”

“Oops! What do you see me as! I’m fine!”

Aine gets mad at my joke.

“Wait, my son.”

“Yes?”

“Why don’t you ask me if I’m okay?”

what is it

Master’s face now… It seems a bit crooked though.

‘Well, of course it’s the mood.’

There’s no way that Master couldn’t be pissed off just because he asked Aine.

Anyway, I answered.

“Well… I’m only dealing with goblins, isn’t it rude to ask Master if it’s okay?”

“Oh, was it like that?”

It was only then that the expression was understood.

In fact, there are some people who almost endangered themselves while dealing with goblins.

I looked around at the corpses around me and said.

“So, shall we start?”

I grabbed a goblin corpse and first cut off its right ear.

“Everyone brought their right ear and mana stones… Oh, you know how?”

In an instant, I remembered that it was the first time I had come to do a homework with Master.

So I looked at her and asked.

“You’re asking the obvious, disciple!”

She picked up a goblin corpse and began dismantling it with skillful hands.

Originally, it was a rule to cut off the right ear and take it for proof in such a monster subjugation.

Of course, some monster corpses are very useful.

Skin, bones, blood, flesh, eyeballs, organs, etc… In the case of a high-level magic beast, it has a tremendous effect.

Because of that, it is also very expensive.

So there are many cases where adventurers carry the whole right ear without having to cut it off.

That’s the case of the gargoyle-like beast I missed the other day, and these goblin-like corpses are useless.

That’s why, in the case of such a monster, it’s easy to cut off the right ear without carrying the whole thing to prove the completion of the request.

Of course, we have video recording artifacts paid by the academy.

That necklace was only for the academy to check our task completion.

The adventurer’s guild needed a way to check it out, and that was this ear.

Anyway, I went through his right ear and pulled out the mana stone.

“Ugh… ”

Also, I still hate this.

Still, compared to the beginning, I got used to it a lot.

To be honest, for modern people living in the 21st century, digging through the corpses of demons and taking out the mana stones was too terrible.

Still, this is all money, and I can’t do it.

I said earlier that the goblin’s corpse is useless for anything.

There is only one exception, except for the mana stones in its body.

A mana stone is literally a crystal that contains mana.

This is in the body of every beast.

Therefore, no matter how low-level beasts are, when they are captured, they are not without money.

Of course, the goblin was like a goblin, even though the mana stones in its body were small and inferior in quality.

Mana stones do not only come from beasts, but exist in nature in the form of minerals.

And such mana stones were of the highest quality, and the price was very high.

Instead, things like the small mana stones I just got from the goblins and the mana stone powder that Leo used to craft the scrolls are not very expensive.

So, the main thing people use is mana stones from the beast.

Even people who want high-quality things, unless they are very rich, use mana stones from high-level witches.

For reference, similar to mana stones, there are crystals that contain magic instead of mana.

Since the last invasion of the Demon King happened hundreds of years ago, the magic stone was an object that could not be found even if we were looking for it now.

It’s a big deal if you keep things like that at will.

“Looks like it’s all over here!”

Aine shouts.

As she said, all the goblins around the place where Felice and I were fighting were finished.

“Master, the rest… ”

“Follow me!”

Following Master, we disposed of the corpses of goblins scattered throughout the forest one by one.

“This is the last!”

“Wow, it was hard… ”

I muttered.

It’s not serious, it really seems to be more difficult to deal with than combat.

“Then let’s go to the Adventurer’s Guild building!”

So shouting, we started to run through the forest.

On the last nest investigation mission, I went straight to the academy without stopping by the guild.

If it was confirmed at the academy and the mission received from the guild, it would probably have been notified of its completion.

But is it too much work to handle all missions like this?

The low difficulty missions received from the guild inform the cadets in advance to report to the guild branch.

This mission was like that.

In addition, the guild will buy mana stones anyway, so we headed to the guild building in the village we arrived earlier.

“welcome!”

As the four of us approached the counter, the receptionist greeted us with a beaming smile.

“You are academy cadets! Is it an assignment?”

I nodded.

“Yes, that’s right.”

Perhaps there were other cadets who came here for assignments besides us.

“Here you go… ”

I placed a sack containing the request form and goblin ears on the counter.

She opened the bag and checked it for a moment, then nodded.

“Has confirmed!”

Eventually, she stamps the request form and returns it to me.

“Hey, this too… ”

I put another bag on the counter.

“It’s a mana stone from a goblin. Please buy it.”

“Yes, please wait!”

She pulls out the scale from under the counter.

After opening the sack and checking the quality of the mana stones, he weighed them.

After checking the paper with a lot of writing on it and calculating, he handed me the price of the mana stone and the reward for completing the quest.

“Here it is!”

“thank you.”

“Then, goodbye!”

I left the guild building, called the coachman who said he would be at the inn earlier, and boarded the carriage again.

Inside the wagon, the compensation and mana stone sales were divided into four.

“I deserve this… ”

“shut up.”

I put the money into the hands of Felice, who was saying strange things.

Apart from not liking her, she definitely took part in this assignment.

These calculations must be done thoroughly.

“If this is a little bit more herbs… ”

Aine muttered like that.

The fact that herbs could not cure her sister’s underlying disease, she did not dare to say.

It’s a fact that Aine knows now.

Still trying to help alleviate the symptoms.

“Disciple, you can cancel the appointment I made earlier! I just ate it every day, so I’m going to buy it today!”

He smiled at the Master who said that.

“Oh, I look forward to it!”

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“I got a successful bid this time, but the price is… ”

“I have already checked the documents. The price seems to be going up lately.”

“Yeah, I think it’s because we’re collecting supplies.”

“Twitch!”

Count Franz Wallenstein is blown away by the butler’s report.

“Let’s stop buying for the time being. There may not be enough money to go into the investigation.”

“Are you okay though? Superlative mana stones are very precious, so whenever they come out, it’s better to get them somehow… ”

“The important thing is research. Just keep in mind that this is just for emergencies.”

“Yes, sorry.”

The butler bows his head.

“No, I’m even sorry.”

The gray-haired old butler had been serving the Wallenstein family since the days of the previous Count or Duke.

So, he was also participating in Count Franz’s plan.

At the death of the previous duke, he also had a grudge against the imperial family and the nobles of the empire.

“I understand your feelings. I’m sorry too. If I collect a little more, I think I can blow up the Imperial Palace… ”