Full-Time Wizard: Starting with Harvesting Wheat

"We quickly realized that it might be a side effect of her overusing her abilities."

Eloi finally couldn't resist and picked up the beer to drink.

……

In the silent, deserted mountain forest, the girl's eyes showed fear as she endured the pain coming from her back, but her pale face betrayed the fact that she was extremely weak.

"Blood... so much blood..." Young Eloi stared blankly at the back of Theresa; it wasn't his blood.

It was the bone spurs growing from Teresa's back that brought blood from her body!

"Teresa, let's go find the priest..." There are no doctors in town, so in this situation, the only option is to find the priest for some temporary treatment.

"No, no!" As Teresa gritted her teeth and uttered these words, the bone spurs on her back gradually bent, transforming into the shape of a crescent moon with sharp tips, making her look particularly terrifying.

Eloi swallowed.

He knew that taking Teresa to the priest now would reveal the truth about her physical transformation to everyone.

People will see her as a monster.

At that time, the girl's situation in the town will become increasingly difficult.

Damn!

Eloi pounded his thigh.

She was the one who saved him, so why was he treated like this?

"What can we do?" The two children sat helplessly on the rocks at the edge of the cliff. Fortunately, Teresa's back wound stopped bleeding.

After much deliberation, Teresa finally proposed a solution in a somber mood.

"This isn't a normal human organ..." she murmured, "I think I should cut it off."

……

"I see. So, your final decision was to cut off the bone spurs growing in her body." Roy pondered something. "It seems that this is the only way to prevent her from being so controversial."

"Yes..." Eloi sighed deeply, "but I didn't expect that bone to be so hard, and at that time we were too weak."

"I kept hitting it with stones, and even secretly took the hoe from home and broke it. Only a little bit of the bone came off."

"That was just the tip, the thinnest piece of bone. If it were closer to Teresa's back, it would be impossible to cut it off."

Roy nodded.

Since the bones of the Uruk elephant can be used as one of the raw materials for dragon tooth steel ingots, their hardness is naturally extraordinary. Even blacksmiths have to put a lot of effort into processing them, let alone two children, who would have no way to deal with them at all.

Eloy continued,

"I came up with a plan to cut the bone off."

"A blacksmith shop?" Roy guessed.

"Yes, back then, Gray's Blacksmith Shop was still run by Gray's father. Dragon Tooth Steel Ingots had not yet been created, but it was already one of the top blacksmith shops in Blackwater Territory."

"I thought the treatment of bones should be similar to that of metal, so I went to ask the blacksmiths. They showed great interest in the bone spurs on Teresa's body." Eloi shook his head. "I handed Teresa over to them, which was the most regrettable decision I ever made."

"From your perspective at the time, no one knew what would happen next, and besides, you were just a child. You did your best," Roy comforted you.

"I pushed her into the abyss." Aloy clearly couldn't forgive herself. "The real abyss."

"They learned about Teresa's abilities and showed some interest," Eloi continued.

"At this point, if we just make use of it, we can create a lot of benefits for them, can't we?" Roy remarked.

Eloi gave a wry smile: "If they had truly used Teresa's abilities to create value, things might be better than they are now. It's a pity that those blacksmiths only think about how to improve their craftsmanship and produce better materials."

His Adam's apple bobbed.

"Afterwards, the bone spurs were indeed cut off by Gray and the others, without injuring Teresa's back. Although a small section of her back remained, it was not noticeable when she was dressed. And no one would intentionally lift up Teresa's clothes to see her figure."

"At first, things went smoothly and all was well," Eloi recalled. "Teresa sometimes treated the injured people, and the bones stopped growing back. We guessed that ordinary treatments don't promote bone growth, and that proved to be true."

"Then one day, the blacksmith's men suddenly came to Teresa's house and took her away."

"They want bones, more bones."

Aloy's eyes were filled with intense fear.

"They plunged sharp swords into their own apprentice's body, inflicting severe injuries, worse than when I fell off the cliff. Only in this way could they draw out Teresa's full power."

"I didn't witness the scene firsthand, but you can imagine the despair Teresa felt at that moment."

"She couldn't have just stood by and watched him die, could she?" Aloy's expression turned manic. "After she saved him, the bone grew back, so those blacksmiths enthusiastically chopped it off again."

"This kind of thing happens again and again."

Roy shared his insights, while also revealing some information he had gathered: "Perhaps they incorporated bones into the casting of metal ingots and then discovered that this material effectively increased the strength of the metal."

"You're right." Eloi nodded slightly. "Back then, apart from necessary orders, all the blacksmith shops were busy with an experiment: incorporating bone into metal."

"When I went to the tavern to get wine for my father, I could hear apprentices boasting that they were about to forge a perfect material that was superior to all the materials available at the time."

As it turns out, they were right. Nearly twenty years after its creation, Dragon Tooth Steel Ingot remains the king of all alloy materials, unchallenged by any other.

Who would have thought that the greatest contributor to all of this was actually a little girl?

Eloi took a sip of his drink, then hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.

Roy keenly sensed that the next topic would undoubtedly be the girl's disappearance.

"Perhaps they wanted to control Theresa as a source of raw materials, or perhaps Theresa began to resist; in any case, they locked her up."

Now we've finally gotten to the crucial part.

"Is this the only missing person case that has occurred in Longya Town in the past twenty years?"

"The rumor is that she has gone missing. The sheriff has successfully tracked down to the blacksmith's shop. If we take one more step, we will find Theresa's whereabouts."

"but?"

"He's been bribed," Eloi said.

Bribery is a very common practice in this world.

The town's sheriffs, being unmanaged, were among the easiest groups to bribe.

"Well then, one last question," a deep voice came from beneath the armor, "Where is Theresa now?"

That was Roy's ultimate goal.

Find Teresa.

Is this related to him?

Objectively speaking, they are actually unrelated.

Subjectively speaking, he couldn't tolerate the fact that a girl's life of more than ten years had been destroyed.

If this were in modern society, it would probably be a major case that would trigger a strong reaction.

Roy's eyes, hidden beneath his armor, were fixed on Eloi, awaiting his answer.