After putting in my request for the Intelligence Guild I made my way home. A small little cabin on the outskirts of Enceross, the capital of the Yexirean Empire. This little cabin used to house my master, me, and his other apprentice. I am glad to be back but I had no time to spare. I went straight down to the basement. 

To an ordinary person, if they went down to the basement, it would look like your everyday basement; old items and trinkets and stuff you don’t want. However, to a mage, the basement would look like the perfect place to make potions, the alchemy lab. That is due to a disguise spell. This is the only location where I can safely make the prolonging cure. 

The Isrier flower has nine petals and each petal counts. Why? Because one petal equals one vial of the medicine I need to take. One dose lasts a month, which means that one single flower holds nine doses. Nine extra months to be able to live unless I found more. 

Making the cure isn’t easy. It takes roughly a week to dry the petals till it is turned to liquid. The beginning process is simple; first, you have to dry the petals and individually crush them into a fine powder, which takes roughly a day. Meanwhile, the petals were drying, so I decided to enter the Plame forest to stock up on some firewood. 

I carry a wood basket on my back and pick up branches that have fallen off the trees. I follow the trail deeper into the forest and eventually stumble upon a resting place. It is a small field my master and I stumbled upon when we went to practice my magic when I was younger. My master had made chairs and a small table in the middle of the field and wild flowers have since bloomed around the rest area.

I place the wooden basket against the table and sit down on one of the chairs. Look around me before I take off the little pouch that was attached to the belt I wore and it slowly expanded. I take out the food I had packed for the trip, a strawberry sandwich, and a chicken and lettuce sandwich.

The chicken and lettuce sandwich was a dream. It had been a while since I last had any meat and I felt full pretty quickly. I am saving the strawberry for later. I sit and look around my surroundings for a while before I continue further inside the forest for more firewood that is able to burn for days.

I find maple trees and find the ones that are ready to be cut down, but before that, I make sure I can get some maple syrup from the trees before they are made into firewood. I take out the axe from the wood basket and chop some wood.

It’s late at night by the time I get back home. The wood basket is filled to max capacity and I feel very fatigued. I fix myself a warm bath and relax before I check up on the petals, I have to make sure no moisture enters the chamber the petals are left to dry in.