After the first mission our group got into a really intense and exhausting routine, when Ana immediately took to our second mission on the same day, we delivered the report of the first one giving the whole group only one night's sleep to rest and get ready for the next mission, I hadn't realized that this would be my routine for the next few months.
Sometimes I had more rest time during a mission than the few hours I was given between missions, Ana always kept the team going even when a team member was seriously injured, as Fim was seriously injured when he was pierced by an enemy spear when blocking an enemy stronger than himself, spear pierced the right side of his body and adding to the other more superficial punctures he suffered during combat in his arms and legs.
During that mission we had to split into two groups to eliminate a group of soldiers from the neighboring kingdom who started to cross the border of the southern region of the kingdom to hunt a rare magical beast. The combat power of the blue flower deer is not high for a level three beast, but its element of life has an amazing trait, capturing the blue flower deer can be worth much more than some level five magic beasts.
To many traders who are extremely willing to spend immense fortunes to gain a few more decades of life, capture this magical beast alive and make it go through a cruel process to striate its vital essential that has the property of prolonging the lives of warriors and mages. gray or black core.
This life element material has already been used in a lot of research by several famous alchemists who tried to create potions that could make the effects of blue life essence able to affect the life outlook of more powerful warriors and mages. Any alchemists who achieved this would be seen as an incredible source of wealth and power, being able to give several decades more life to many powerful warriors and mages is an incredibly valuable bargaining chip.
The blue essence that can be extracted from the deer of the blue flowers and an unusual life element material, its most striking feature and its light blue color is very unusual for a life element material to have this color that is also present in the deer's antlers in in the form of blue flower petals they are spread over the entire horn of the deer, the stronger the magical beast is, the more petals it will have on its horn and the greater the effect of the blue essence.
I understand the greed that spurred the unit of enemy soldiers across the border to scratch the deer, but it screwed up many people and put all the preparation for the war that both countries are waging to a halt. If this violation of the border becomes public, the war can start immediately because of these idiots.
That's why our team that was in the southern region was sent to kill them and completely destroy any traces they may have left behind, it wasn't hard to find them anymore when the battle happened, we had to divide our group without knowing what each side could face.
At the end of the day, we had captured the deer and killed all the enemy soldiers and destroyed their bodies, but we had to deal with some problems like the End being the worst among them. Even with Abel's treatment of him his condition was serious, and traveling with him only helped his injuries get worse, but he survived in the end.
When we washed the deer with us, I had plenty of time to study this fascinating magical beast and because of that I think I understood why he is such a unique magical beast.
Unlike many magical beasts, the blue flower deer cannot be raised as a tamed magical beast even though they are very tame, alchemists have never been able to come to a conclusion on why this happens, but deer raised indoors cannot produce the essence. blue which is the reason they want to raise the deer in controlled locations.
Because of this and so difficult to research the blue essence, it caused the deer we captured to be targeted by several different people and this caused a lot of annoying problems.
During this time, I believe I found where the blue essence is produced, many alchemists studied the deer antlers as they believed it was where the blue essence was produced but they were never able to prove it.
I was able to discover the truth because I could see the flow of mana and life element energy in the deer's body, the deer's antler is really a fundamental part of that flow because it attracts and modifies the mana from the air through the antlers, but what alchemists don't know and that his brain is also used during this process.
I confirmed this when I saw the brutal process that the deer was used to striate the blue essence, a professional butcher from the adventurer's guild was hired to extract the blue essence from the deer. It was brutal the pain the deer had to suffer for the blue essence to concentrate on their antlers before they were ripped off with the deer still alive killing it in pain.
When the deer was targeted by the butcher's blade which made shallow and deep cuts to cause the deer great pain, I could see that the pain caused the deer's life energy to concentrate in its horn, but I also saw its brain mana enjoying for the horn.
The deer didn't die because of the pain of its antlers being ripped off but because their antlers contained almost all of their mana and elemental energy at that moment, the deer's body literally died because it ran out of mana to sustain its body's functioning.
This is pretty cruel, after the horns are ripped off the blue essence drips from the base of the horn which is discarded after that. The horn is hollow after the blue essence is harvested and no one has found any use for it after that, they are used as decoration or proof that the blue essence has been harvested.
Because of that I had no problem getting the antlers that contained many natural runes, but even with my eyes I couldn't learn much from these antlers but when trying to imitate the mana flow that the deer used on its body, I was barely able to do so. the horns work.
I think the main reason for this is because I'm not a life element user, if I combine the mana with the life element, I think I can make those horns work again, I don't know if I could refine more blue essence or something like that more it's a good project for after the war.
After that most of the missions we took were to eliminate potential threats, anything that could disrupt the stage of the war that was being prepared should be eliminated, at least that's what I realized.
We eliminated several groups of bandits who were trying to recreate their sources of income, as the pursuit focused on them that started in the south ended up with many criminals who were hiding in the kingdom.
It is normal for a kingdom to have several types of criminals, but if there is a chance to eliminate them before they can create their bases and hidden routes and it is also normal for the army to want to kill them so that not even a criminal can use the war period to contaminate the kingdom, the job of finding targets is not at all difficult now for two reasons, as criminals are creating or recreating their bases their movements are not that hard to find and it is also quite obvious that there are many people in the kingdom will support and helping the military which has greatly helped the military to identify targets for our missions.
During those months I think we killed more than five groups of smugglers and seven groups of thieves who were robbing and blackmailing trading groups all over the kingdom. Among all these criminals the dumbest were those who tried to threaten trade groups and alliances, I don't know why they thought this would be a viable method of doing business in the current climate of the realm.
Most traders today are trading goods that will be used during war, materials to make potions, medicines, armor, weapons, magic tools, sets and rune matrices are being the main market for traders.
Trying to interrupt or disrupt this type of merchant is the same as attacking the logistics of all adventurers, mercenaries and a good part of the nobles who will fight during the war who are the biggest buyers of small and medium sized trade groups since the largest groups Trading is dealing with the demands of the kingdom's army.
The missions to eliminate this type of criminal have become hotly contested or to the point that more than once we have had our target eliminated or captured by groups of adventurers or noble houses.
When we weren't hunting human targets, our missions were to eliminate groups of magical beasts that might be attracted to the battlefield, most of the magical beasts we hunted were notorious for being scavengers.
Our current mission is such a mission, Ana chose it because she thought it would be an easy mission, but unfortunately it will be the last mission on our team.