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A merchant stumbles on a grotto, lost. He eats his last apple. The merchant plants the seeds the next day to provide food for future lost travelers. 

And so, the nymph Theanore is born.

She would grow from a tiny seed to a splendid apple tree. She would meet many friends. Theanore will try her hand at being a merchant like her father. And she will get to know her lifetime companion, the merman Marinus.

But as every farmer can tell you, apple trees live only for about 150 years and so, with her tree dried up, so will Theanore die.

 But before that, she will live.

The Apple Grotto Nymph (Dungeon Core Fairy Tale)

Darion brought down the pickaxe on the coal deposit and heaved. His fellow gremlins were giving him annoyed looks, but he was not going to give up on his quest for vengeance! This Yule, everyone would be getting coal!

When the bell chimed for the lunch break, a new addition to the workday, Darion rushed to put his first plan in motion.

The continent of Alerion was like a well-oiled machine. The building blocks were the different factories and breeding pens. This coal deposit just so happens to be the only one on the whole continent.

If something happened to it and the workers got blamed, then the supreme overlord would see that they were not to be trusted!

Darion still had the key for the supervisor cubicle. He had made a copy before he gave the keys back. He grabbed a box of cookies on the way to the cubicle and pretended to carry them for the new gremlin overseer.

Chapter 53: The mobs have spoken