The Noble Lady Without Magic Aims to Become an Adventurer! - Chapter 70

The next morning, I woke up to the aroma of breakfast. Fars had prepared our meal—it was the same as yesterday, but the warm drink was especially comforting in the chilly morning. After packing up the tent, we resumed our exploration.

Today, we still had fifteen Magic Rabbits to hunt, so we started searching for areas where they might be found.

While ordinary rabbits live underground in burrows, Magic Rabbits gather in groups in grassy areas. Perhaps their aggression makes them less of a target for predators.

“There they are,” I said, spotting a cluster of Magic Rabbits.

Arnold-senpai and Fars immediately sprang into action, slaying the rabbits with their swords. I couldn’t help but think that using an area-effect spell would be more efficient, but I kept that to myself.

While they handled the rabbits, I resumed my search for insects. I scanned the ground carefully but found nothing—until I noticed a well-spun spiderweb on a tree. Judging by the thickness of the silk, it had to belong to a Black Spider.

I gently shook the web, and a small spider emerged from hiding. Picking it up, I infused it with magic to test its reaction.

To my surprise, instead of bursting like the other insects I had tested, the spider began producing silk.

Although I couldn’t see magic directly, I could sense that this silk was imbued with magical energy. The more magic I channeled, the more silk it produced. It seemed the spider was releasing stored magic through its silk. Could this be a groundbreaking discovery?

Excited, I placed the spider into a bottle containing plants and hurried over to Senpai.
“Arnold-senpai! Look at this!”

Both Arnold-senpai and Fars were covered in blood from their rabbit hunt, making for quite the gruesome sight.

I cast a cleansing spell to clean them up before showing them the bottle.
Arnold-senpai glanced at it, looking puzzled. “Marloa, what’s so special about this spider and these plants?”

Fars continued to carefully process the rabbits.
“Senpai, it’s not the plants—it’s the Black Spider I want you to see.”

“It’s just a Black Spider, isn’t it?”
“Watch this.”

I picked up the spider and infused it with magic. It immediately produced silk, which shot toward Senpai’s face.

Arnold-senpai quickly brushed the silk off and inspected it closely.

“I can’t see magic, but I have a feeling this silk is imbued with magical energy. It’s also surprisingly tough. Couldn’t it be used as a material?”

“Let’s see…”

Senpai sheathed his sword and examined the silk carefully.

“I can’t confirm the magic, but it does feel unusual. The silk is tough and resistant to breaking. This might be something Yele would be interested in. Let’s bring it back.”

“Understood.”

While it was disappointing that this wasn’t Senpai’s area of expertise, the idea of Yele-senpai finding it intriguing made it worth bringing along.
After processing the rabbits, we resumed our search for the elastic material Arnold-senpai wanted. Fars found a few items with promising elasticity.

When I mentioned a tree outside our village that produced a sticky sap that hardened into a bouncy substance, Senpai grew interested. He collected samples from several trees, excited to research them further in the capital.

Our tasks completed, we began our journey back.
The return trip took another full day by carriage. Exhausted from camping, I fell asleep almost immediately. Fortunately, no magical beasts appeared on the way back, and I awoke refreshed as the carriage approached the capital.
I muttered to myself, “We should’ve asked Yele-senpai to come pick us up since we brought back something for him.”

“You’re right,” Fars agreed.

Arnold-senpai sighed, clearly exasperated by our suggestion to use Yele-senpai as a chauffeur.
We returned to the guild and reported our completed requests.

“Lady Roa, Sir Fars, congratulations on your promotion to C-rank! To reach B-rank, you’ll need 200 points.”

We handed over our guild cards to finalize the rank-up process. I wondered if I could reach B-rank before graduating. From this rank onward, lower-tier requests wouldn’t provide rewards.
Afterward, we headed to Arnold-senpai’s research room in the royal palace. As always, the place was a mess.

Back in the academy, Fars and I used to clean it regularly, but that was no longer possible. We quickly tidied up enough to sit down.
Senpai had already sent a magical messenger bird to Yele-senpai, and just as we settled, there was a knock on the door.

“Arnold, I heard you went on a material hunt. Why didn’t you invite me?”
“If you came, Yele, there’d be no forest left.”
“…”

He had a point. Yele-senpai was far too overpowered.

We began unpacking the materials we had gathered, separating items meant for Arnold-senpai and Yele-senpai. I also showed them the strange mushroom I had collected.

“This mushroom caught my eye, so I brought it back. Do you think it’s useful?”

Both of them stared at the mushroom in the jar as if trying to burn a hole through it with their eyes.

“It doesn’t seem useful for alchemy,” Arnold-senpai said.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s too risky to use without more information. Submit it to the royal scholars—they’ll be thrilled to examine it. It might even be a new species.”

The mushroom was promptly assigned to the scholars. Meanwhile, Yele-senpai eagerly accepted the bottles Fars had brought, delighted with their contents.

Then came the Black Spider. When I handed the bottle to Arnold-senpai, he opened it and picked up the spider.

“Yele, take a look at this. I think it might have magical applications.”

“It’s just a spider. There’s no way it’s useful,” Yele-senpai said dismissively.

Arnold-senpai infused the spider with magic, prompting it to shoot silk at Yele-senpai’s face.
Ah, that was definitely on purpose.

“Hey! It got on my face!”

Yele-senpai brushed the silk off in annoyance, but then paused to examine it.

“Wait… This silk is imbued with magic! Let me see that spider!”

He snatched the spider and began experimenting with it, channeling magic repeatedly to produce more silk. It seemed he had found his new favorite toy.

Unfortunately, the victim of his experiments was Fars, who became the target of all the silk. With a resigned expression, Fars muttered, “Of course.”

“If we can mass-produce this silk, it could be incredibly useful,” I suggested.

“Like for what?” Yele-senpai asked, intrigued.
“Well, for starters, it could act as a conduit for powerful magic, serve as a material for enchanted robes, or be used to embroider magic circles.”

Both senpais looked at me in astonishment.

“Interesting ideas, Marloa. I’ll incorporate them into my next research project,” Yele-senpai said.
“So, you’re going to keep the spider?”

“Hmm, its ecology is still unclear. I’ll send it to the scholars and have them figure out how to breed it.”

With a flick of his magic, Yele-senpai sent the spider to the scholars. They were probably in for quite the surprise when it suddenly appeared.

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