I Was Told, “I Can’t Leave the Territory Management to You, Brother-in-law!!”, So I Restarted My Adventurer Life in My Mother’s Homeland – Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Adventurer Experience
  The next day, Eld went to the Guild with Millenia and Jaylot. During breakfast, they were discussing what to do today, and Millenia suggested that she wanted to see what adventurers do.
 
  “Ah, Aniki!! Good morning!!”
 
  As they entered the Guild, Maclaine greeted them loudly. After being rescued in the dungeon before and trying to make a move on Marie only to receive a fist of fury from her, Maclaine started calling Eld”Aniki”and Marie”Ane-go.”His followers did the same. Some refused, so the number of his followers had halved.
 
  “Good morning. I told you to stop calling me Aniki.”
 
  “It’s only natural for me to admire the person who awakened me as Aniki. I look forward to your continued guidance.”
 
  Maclaine bowed respectfully. Eld thought to himself that it was probably Marie who awakened him, and it was probably into masochism, but he didn’t say it out loud because Millenia and Jaylot were there.
 
  Millenia and Jaylot were frightened by the suddenly appearing hairless man and hid behind Eld. It wasn’t that Maclaine was ugly. However, that was when he had some hair. His face, now without even eyebrows, gave an indescribable fear to those meeting him for the first time.
 
  “Ah, right…… Just don’t cause any trouble and do your job.”
 
  Saying that, Eld headed towards the counter where Sophia was.
 
  “Do you have any simple jobs?”
 
  He called out to Sophia. Sophia looked up and saw Eld, then her eyes widened as she saw Millenia and Jaylot clinging to him from behind.
 
  “Eh, are these Eld-san’s children……?”
 
  “That’s what you thought? They’re too old to be my children. They’re my younger siblings, though we have a significant age gap.”
 
  Hearing that, Sophia breathed a sigh of relief.
 
  “Ah…… I was surprised. Um…… Simple requests…… We have herb gathering and Snow Rabbit subjugation.”
 
  “Then I’ll take both of them.”
 
  Eld took off the Guidance Stone from his neck and held it up to the crystal tablet.
 
  “Yes, this is fine. Thank you.”
 
  Eld confirmed that he had received the requests by looking at the record. Then, he took the two of them to the West Forest.
 
  “Well, first, herb gathering, but this forest really has no shortage of medicinal herbs.”
 
  As soon as they entered the forest, they saw a cluster of medicinal herbs.
 
  “We just have to gather these?”
 
  Millenia said as she picked up a herb.
 
  “Yeah. Leave the roots and take the whole stem. It would be easier if we could grow them in our garden. I wonder why they only grow in pots.”
 
  Eld said as he took out a string from subspace.
 
  “Eh? Because unlike here, the amount of earth magic power in Onii-sama’s garden is low, so medicinal herbs won’t grow, right?”
 
  Millenia said as if it were obvious. Jaylot, who was also picking herbs, was surprised by her words.
 
  “Eh? Is that so?”
 
  “Yes. The earth magic power is absorbed by the magic stones in Onii-sama’s house, so the magic power is lower than in other places. That’s why I think even if you plant medicinal herbs, their magic power will also be absorbed and they won’t grow.”
 
  Magic stones are artificial stones that store magic power. Eld’s house was equipped with magic stones for the preservation of the house, and these magic stones were designed to automatically absorb the surrounding magic power. Eld was surprised to learn that the magic stones were absorbing the earth magic power, even though he knew about the existence of the magic stones.
 
  “So, that was the reason……”
 
  He had tried many times, changing the fertilizer and such, but if he was fundamentally wrong, they wouldn’t grow no matter what he did.
 
  “So that’s why the herbs grow in the soil that’s been moved to the pots because the magic power isn’t absorbed……”
 
  “? You didn’t realize that?”
 
  Millenia asked, looking puzzled. During their chat last night, Jaylot had also heard Eld talk about it and didn’t understand why, so he was very curious as to how Millenia understood it.
 
  “Millenia-neesama, could it be that you can see the flow of magic power?”
 
  “Yes, of course.”
 
  Millenia said again with an expression that said it was obvious.
 
  “I’ve been wondering for a while now because you’ve been accurately blocking magic in mock battles, but so that’s what it was.”
 
  Normally, the flow of magic power is invisible to the human eye. That’s why people try to read the flow of magic power using magic perception. However, very rarely, there are people who can perceive magic power with their five senses. Millenia was a rare talent who could see magic power with her eyes.
 
  “Oh my. Isn’t that something everyone knows?”
 
  “Hey, hey…… You should have studied that too……”
 
  Eld held his head in his hands.
 
  “I guess I really need to make you review everything from the basics……”
 
  It seems like she has a certain level of academic ability, but the basics seem to be missing, and Eld thought about what he would have her review later. Of course, that’s something you learn after entering the academy, so it’s not something she should be studying now, but Eld himself had learned all the basics before entering the academy, so he assumed she needed to memorize them too. As a result, Millenia was forced to go through unnecessary hardship.