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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)

They had argued about the secret getting out, but finally Theanore had won and had gotten up her negotiator skill to expert.

She hadn't gotten a new level thanks to it, but she had gotten the option to get things from the sales catalogs of both grandpa Thinker and Alina! And Theanore hadn't even known that they had them!

But, as underhanded as it was, Marinus had talked Theanore into simply giving the news to the newspaper instead of publishing a new book.

He had managed that by pointing out that they had discovered only two new things, how to use both their hands for the enchantments and the clovers that could be absorbed into the enchantment fountain.

Marinus wrote the two small notes and sent them with Larriel to the chief editor of the newspaper of Mirstone.

They also sent a letter to grandpa Thinker telling him the secret, since it was his book that had taught them about enchanting.

Chapter 56: The start of something lucky!