The Strongest Assassin Reincarnates in Another World

Chapter 308 308 - A Stronger Cyclops

"What do you mean?" Aiden asked right away.

He wasn't sure if he had understood that correctly, they needed to find their own ingredient for the potion.

But... why?

"Exactly what I said, you told me that you wanted to open a potion shop. To do that, you will need to buy and find your own ingredients, so I decided to help you in that area," the director said with a serious expression on his face.

Aiden nodded hearing his reasons as it made a lot of sense, if he was to be completely honest.

He knew that when he would have to leave the academy, he would be on his own from the start all the way to the end of the trial which is why Aiden didn't complain simply nodding.

"And where do we find it?" Aiden asked as he, at least, wanted an idea of where to find Manatrum.

"In those woods, it's usually in trees, just make sure to look up and you'll probably find it at one point."

Aiden once again nodded in understanding as he asked one last question.

"Can we have some sort of example of what it looks like, just to make sure that we have the right thing?"

Aiden knew that the herb was somewhat blue, but that was it. He wasn't sure if he was going to be able to recognize it from far away, he would need a closer look for sure.

"Hmm, I guess I can. Oh, and... one last thing, just be careful there are some monsters in those woods," the director said as he disappeared instantly.

Just after disappearing, both Aiden and Garestsa received a piece of paper with the image of the plant on it.

David would have given them the real thing, however, he knew that there would be good chances for them to decide to cheat, and he didn't want such a thing to happen obviously.

"Alright, so what should we do now?" Garestsa asked as she got closer to Aiden.

It seemed that she was scared of the forest as she kept looking at it her eyes becoming rounder and rounder.

However, Aiden didn't even notice that as he started walking forward not even looking back.

"Well, we go explore the forest obviously."

Aiden had heard David telling them about the monsters, but that didn't worry him in the least as he knew that there weren't many monsters who he wouldn't be able to kill.

Also, Aiden knew that if this was considered the easiest potion to make, then the ingredient had to be easy to find. That was simply a fact.

The potion wouldn't be simple if the ingredient was impossible to find.

Sure, as time passed it might get dicier finding all the ingredients that are needed, but at the moment Aiden didn't think it would be one.

"You coming?" Aiden asked as he couldn't the slightest noise behind.

Garestsa then came out of her trance as she caught up to Aiden by running behind him.

***

While all this was happening, the director of the Magic Academy hadn't disappeared to a random place. 

He was currently keeping an eye on the two of them as he knew that there was some chance that they could get injured or hurt by the monsters inside the forest.

"Well, Manatrum isn't that hard to find, so they shouldn't have any problems. However, for the next recipes, there will probably be times when I will have to intervene if they go too deep inside the forest."

"I hope it won't happen, I know that Aiden is strong, however, there are some monsters in that forest that even I struggle against, so... I can't imagine him."

It seemed that even David wasn't confident in defeating every monster that was in there, so he could only pray that they wouldn't be meeting those at a later time.

Aiden, also, hadn't been wrong, Manatrum was quite easy to find as it was really close to the director's cabin. 

They could find a lot of trees close to the cabin, so from David's estimation... it should take them ten minutes to find it.

However, the problem was that finding it was only the first step, they needed to succeed in making the potion.

And, to be completely honest, David had made it look extremely easy compared to how it really was.

***

Aiden and Garestsa were still walking forward while looking in every single tree that was around them, in search of that little flower that had blue ends.

From what Aiden had seen, Manatrum wasn't a herb at all, it was a little flower that had blue ends.

'I got to admit that we're lucky to have that image,' Aiden thought as he knew that it would have been a lot more difficult to find anything related to that.

"How much time do you think finding Manatrum is going to take?" Garestsa asked Aiden as she kept being really close to him, probably scared.

"Not long as I said before," Aiden replied with a sigh as he had answered that question too many times in the last five minutes.

'Wasn't she supposed to be extremely talented, just why is she so scared of everything around her?'

Aiden rolled his eyes just thinking about it.

"Can't you get a little further away from me?" Aiden asked as her presence was starting to annoy him.

Sure, he could be used as someone to comfort her or whatever, but did she need to be in constant contact with her?

Garestsa became a little red because of what Aiden had asked her to do.

However, she complied still looking around them, wanting to spend as little time as possible.

But, not even a single second later, Aiden once again felt her touch.

"What do you want?" He asked, this time, really annoyed by her behavior.

"S-Sorry... but um, what's that?" She asked as she pointed forward.

And exactly where she pointed there was what seemed to be a monster, it was all green and had one eye.

Aiden had no difficulty remembering the name of that monster as he had fought such a monster in the past.

It was a Cyclops, the same monster that he had fought in the first trial. However, this Cyclops wasn't like the one he had seen in the past, from the looks of it... this one was much taller and much bigger.

'Yeah, I'm sure of it, this one is a lot stronger,' Aiden thought as he grasped his dagger tightly.

"Well this is gonna be fun," Aiden muttered next to the frozen Garestsa who kept shaking right beside him.

"Have you seen those before?" She asked, her voice trembling.

Aiden glanced at her with a lot of confidence engrained in his eyes as he said, "Only once, but it was much smaller. Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

Right as his sentence ended, Aiden dashed forward preparing himself to do as much damage as he possibly could.

He would make sure that he would be the winner of this fight.

He knew that there shouldn't be any problems considering how much stronger he had gotten since the very first trial that he had gone through.