Chapter 95 - A Good Reason
"You are welco to kneel before ," I joked.
After all, the last ti I joked, it sure turned out well for .
"I think I really just might do that," Neia continued staring at with widened eyes.
Well, that sure was unexpected. I guess developing a homade elixir is a bigger deal than I thought.
I an, sure the elixir is a legendary potion mostly spoken of in myths which can literally heal any mortal healing wound sustained in a level 3 System and below, but chill, it's just a damn potion.
Anyone can make it at ho.
As long as they have the required knowledge and materials, that is, which they usually don't.
"Nah, just kidding. Making the Dragon Princess kneel before would be a bit boorish of ."
Not to ntion that usually, royalty kneels only before a God, and I refuse to lower myself to that position.
"I-I still can't believe it. Did you really succeed in making the legendary Elixir? The one that can heal any wound, cure any disease and purge any curse?"
"Yup, that one," I nodded.
Unless this world has a different Elixir.
"…Hold on, I need so ti to process this," she clutched her forehead.
I would seem my strategy to divert her mind from our previous discussion worked wonders.
"Sure. Just relax and make yourself ho. I'll take a bath in the anti."
By which I an just find a corner to sit quietly in, then go away after so ti.
"H-how can you be so relaxed about this?"
"I just am," I said while taking out a towel and a new pair of trousers and shirt.
God, I love these clothes.
While Neia was having a discount identity crisis, I entered the bathroom.
It was slightly cold today so I also turned the hot water knob along the cold one to have a nice, lukewarm shower.
Today was a good day so I wanted to sing, but had to refrain because I had an unwanted guest inside my room.
I guess this is how a couple feels when the condom breaks and they get an unwanted pregnancy.
Wait, how do the people of this world even handle them?
Do they have proper facilities with trained dical professionals who help in aborting that child, or do the mothers just chant 'Foetus yeetus'?
Gotta look into it soti later.
After so ti, I finished my shower ca out, only to find Neia still silently sitting on my bed.
"Still haven't processed it?"
Oh gosh, don't tell this woman is going to make a big deal out of it again.
"Oh, and hello Mr. Cat."
"ow."
"Don't you have a ho to go back to?"
"ow?" The cat sitting beside Neia (who, by the way, looked exactly like those philosophers of the past who just sat on a rock and wondered 'to be or not to be') tilted its head.
"I hope you have the money to pay your rent."
"…"
"What, you really thought I'd let you just freeload off ? Grow up, cat. We live in a society."
"Are you really asking a cat to pay rent to live with you?" Neia abandoned her brooding mode and asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Huh, you are right. I can't do that."
"Exactly-"
"I'll ask the owner for the rent."
"…Why do I even care…" Neia sighed.
"Do you know where the so-called witch lives?"
Mr. Cat is her familiar, so she should handle it herself. If she wants to care for it, then she gotta pay up.
I'm not running a fucking charity here.
"Noelle should know about it."
Wow, I wasn't aware that our Dragon was useless.
"Aight, I'll go and ask her then."
"Would you please leave the cat alone? Don't we have a more important topic to discuss?"
"Oh, right, you are still having your existential crisis."
She's acting like this is the first ti a literal 12-year-old child has achieved sothing far beyond what he should be capable of.
In case you weren't aware, we call such children geniuses, Neia.
I sotis worry about this woman's narrow worldview.
"What else am I supposed to have?" She scoffed.
"Just handle it like a mature adult."
Ez.
Though I guess that's a bit too much to ask of her, considering her recent actions.
"This is how a mature adult would act!" She exclaid. "Do you have any idea of the weight of what you have accomplished?"
"Enlighten ."
"You have found a way to create an Elixir, sothing which can bring people back from a near death state."
"Uh-huh."
"If you can find a way to mass produce them, you'll turn the current war on its head. All of us will turn into undying soldiers; we will no longer need to worry about how many n we will lose while planning dungeon expeditions because we will have elixirs to save our lives. Your discovery has the potential to finally give us the hope we so desire."
"Well, unfortunately for you, it's currently impossible to mass produce the Elixirs."
Their extrely overpowered abilities is the reason Elixirs are so hard to produce. A way to mass-produce them would literally break the System.
In fact, Elixirs are so broken that making them on a global scale will raise this world's chances of surviving this Great Filter by as much as 10%.
10% may not seem like much but one has to rember that the previous probability was 0.000001%, which ans that Elixirs alone could increase the chances of survival by 10,000,000 tis.
So yea, against all odds, I guess Neia is actually not behaving like an overreacting baby.
Huh, did she experience character developnt in a re half an hour? What is this, a good fantasy novel?
"Oh…" Neia let out a disappointed sigh. "But they're still going to be incredibly useful. As long as you can manufacture enough of them to give one to every key person, it will still help out a lot."
"I see."
"Just think of it. Let's say on our next 4-star expedition, sothing goes wrong and our life is endangered."
"That sounds oddly realistic."
And given their luck so far, I'd say the chances of sothing like this happening are more than I'd like to admit.
"Right? So let's say that to get all of us out of that dungeon alive, Azell puts his own life at risk. He succeeds but ultimately loses his life. Do you know how badly that would affect this country?"
"I haven't had the pleasure to know that yet."
"Azell is the backbone of the reforms the Guilds are going through. If he's gone, the bridge between the Royal Family and the Guilds would break. They will go back to keeping each other in check, which will reduce the number of resources we have to invest in the war. We will lose all the progress we have made so far."
"I understand."
I guess Azell is more of a big deal than I thought.
Oh right, the man's a motherfucking Regressor. I almost forgot about that.
Fuck.
"There are many other key figures like that who help run the system. Your invention would help save their lives, and consequently the lives on many others."
"Nice."
Fuck, looks like just this one ti, I cannot bla Neia for overreacting.
What has my life co to.
F.
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