"I don't know."
Yan Huan shook his head.
"Do you usually study why you're taller than Hyacine?"
"Then let me answer first." Castorice smiled faintly.
"I once read a saying like this in a book."
"At first, the Earth Beast was no different in size from any other living creature, but it was all alone. It was simply too lonely."
"So it traveled to every corner of the world and devoured every life-form it encountered."
"As its heart gradually found fulfillment, its body grew larger and larger, until... it became what it is now."
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"You made that up, didn't you?" Yan Huan sounded unconvinced.
"Ah, yes." Castorice smiled.
"It was just that the teacher's question happened to remind me of that story."
Hyacine was a little frightened. "I feel like that answer would only make the teacher angrier..."
"..."
Anaxa fell silent.
Amid the tense atmosphere surrounding Castorice and Hyacine, he suddenly shouted:
"That's right! How did I not think of that?"
"Crops can hardly surpass the limitations of their species in size, but if alchemical techniques are used to connect or even fuse multiple crops together, perhaps something impossible can be created!"
Anaxa turned excitedly and looked at his large pot.
"You two, help me prepare the Alchemy potion!"
He pulled out a cloth sack filled with all kinds of alchemy materials.
"...Cloud Sheep Mane, Spirit Liquid of the Flower of Knowledge, Black Tide Creation claws, Solar Griffin Egg White, Chimera Horn, Golden Thread of the Romantic Demigod."
"And Sprite's Tail..."
"Hm?" Yan Huan glanced sideways. "Does the village chief know about this?"
Hyacine explained with a smile:
"Oh, that? Don't worry, it's a plant found in the labyrinth."
"It's only called that because it looks a lot like a sprite's big tail."
Afterward, Hyacine and Castorice set