Chapter 266: Events After I (1/2)
The day after the attack of the Siblings of the Strong Sword and the black-clothed n, I did as planed and stuffed my Dinsion Ho with goods, then went back to town, and reported the events last night while I handed over the goods.
Understandably, the people dispatched by the duke, especially Lilian-san, who I reassured that it would be safe for to go back, told , “You did sothing reckless again!” But I did get back safe, and the city did need to get back up its feet quickly, so in the end, they put the matter on hold.
Fortunately, eliminating was the last of the enemy’s plan, and no more attacks or attempts to obstruct the city were done. There were still so vigilantes and villains left behind, but everyone’s continued efforts and support eventually allowed, the city of Gimuru to beco stable again.
To that end, I took on various important jobs, and before I knew it, a week passed.
“I’m sorry to disturb your conversation, but…” [Lilian]
“What is it?” [Ryouma]
At the area of the forr slums was a place temporarily called the Food Production Base. I was helping out there with the production of extra food and the shipping when Lilian-appeared looking rather hurried. Just when I was wondering what was up, it turns out that Reinhart-san and the others were visiting from the imperial capital and were already at the security company.
“Isn’t that too quick? I heard the New Year was supposed to be an important period for socializing to the nobles, but it’s only been 4 days since the new year started.” [Ryouma]
“They only attended the most important ceremonies and moved up the rest of their schedule. Right now they’re being briefed by the governnt office and the guilds. They have other arrangents to deal with afterwards, but they would like to have a proper talk with you in the evening.” [Lilian]
“I understand. I don’t have anything scheduled, so I’ll wrap up my work today early. The ti should be just about right by the ti I finish working on these produce.” {Ryouma]
“Very well. One more thing, would you happen to know where Yurdum-sama is?” [Lilian]
“If you an Yurdum-san, he’s in the vegetable room at the third floor.” [Ryouma]
“The master and the madam have sothing they would like to discuss with him as well, so they would like for him to co to the security company.” [Lilian]
“Oh, I see, so that’s what’s up. Okay, I’ll bring you to him. Sorry, I’ll be right back.” [Ryouma]
“Alright. We’ll be proceeding with the shipping.” [Guild Helper]
After leaving everything to the helper from the guild, Lilian-san and I walked up the stairs with warning signs that read ‘Beware Monsters’ or ‘No Entry’.
“…It’s a wonder every ti I co here, but you really are farming inside a building.” [Lilian]
It’s like growing a plant in a pot.” [Ryouma]
As we climbed up the stairs, Lilian-san was drawn to a windowless room in which soil was laid out and light was produced by the magic tools in the ceiling. In that room, where even the temperature was maintained, potatoes were grown, and the goblins harvested them.
It was like a modern food production plant, but there was nothing high-tech about its appearance, as though soone just brought soil into an undressed concrete building and started farming.
“I understand it’s like a greenhouse, but it still feels off… I an, I can’t believe that the new kind of sli you ntioned recently would turn out to be these fields.” [Lilian]
“I was also surprised when the scavenger slis turned into Composter Slis and Fertile Soil Slis. I thought nothing would surprise anymore, but then they evolved in that.” [Ryouma]
The Composter Sli resembles a lump of soil, and the fertilizer it produces has turned into sothing like a compost. It also emits high heat during production. The nature of its fertilizer has changed, and now, it reduces the chance of “monsterification” when crops are over-fertilized.
It’s less efficient compared to scavenger slis when accelerating growth through wood magic, but different fertilizers have always been applied depending on the objective. It is By studying agriculture and understanding how to best apply the scavenger sli’s fertilizer and the composter sli’s compost that the quality of the crops can be raised.
As for the fertilizer soil sli, it too looks like a lump of soil. It’s not that much different from the water sli and the mud sli in terms of ability, but as it na suggests, its body is rich in nutrients suitable for plant growth.
Moreover, they feed off of the composter’s fertilizer, and they love it when you mix a little bit of the scavenger sli’s fertilizer too. Apparently, the combination of the two produces a mysterious synergy that increases growth efficiency. Having the weed sli propagate plants, like the white clover, that can restore the fertility of the soil makes them happy and produce a synergistic effect too.
My lack of agricultural knowledge is a problem, but with these slis that evolved into fields, I can better understand the state of the crops and have an easier ti growing them.
Interestingly enough, the fertile soil sli can also evolve to beco a soil sli, and vice versa, from soil sli to fertile soil sli. I pursued the subject so more and discovered that mud slis and sand slis that preferred the earth-attribute could evolve into soil slis too.
Therefore, it can be concluded that sli evolution isn’t a one-way process. I also discovered that different species can share an evolution, making it even more likely that the conditions for their evolution are affected by their preferred attribute.
That would explain why they have so many evolutions. Now, I’ve yet to prove that hypothesis, but I’m already more or less convinced by it. If the evolution of slis were to be represented in a correlation diagram of nas and lines, the diagram would be so complicated it would look more like a sh than a diagram.
But if so, then wouldn’t sli evolution really just be a change of state? In which case, would it even really be appropriate to call their evolution an ‘evolution’? …Well, that’s a topic for another ti. More importantly…
“There you are, Yurdum-san!” [Ryouma]
“Boss. Lilian-san is with you too, I see.” [Yurdum]
“How are you?” [Ryouma]
“This makes it the third harvest. It’s mostly thanks to your slis, but by now, we’ve produced enough harvest to start a store. The goblins do their part, but it’s really mostly because of that thing.” [Yurdum]
Yurdum-san looked at the goblins gathering vegetables and wryly smiled.
On the ground could be seen evenly spaced lines of giant parsnips called Passero and leafy vegetables that look like celery. Normally, they would have to dig them out every ti they had to harvest them, but the field themselves were slis, so the soil would just make way for them during harvest.
aning, the farming goblins didn’t have to dig at all. Because of that there was no chance of ssing up and damaging the vegetables, and all they had to do was to pick up the vegetables that would co out, making their job much easier and faster than normal farm work. The crops were root vegetables too so there wasn’t even the slightest chance of error.
“The way they farm… It’s like they’re trying to pick a fight with actual farrs. It sure is convenient, though.” [Yurdum]
“That’s hard to deny, but… More importantly, and I know this is a bit abrupt, but Lilian-san needs you to co to the security company.” [Ryouma]
When I inford him that the duke and his wife ca back and that they wanted to talk, his face twitched.
“I understand. I’ll go. But I’d like to get myself ready first.” [Yurdum]
“We have clothes prepared at the security company, so you can just change there.” [Lilian]
Yurdum followed Lilian-san with a ek expression and left the Food Production Base.
But before they left—
“Before we leave, please do rember to keep yourself from doing anything reckless, Ryouma-sama.” [Lilian]
“Yeah, just rember that the city storage isn’t empty, so the crops being produced here are actually just insurance.” [Yurdum]
—They made sure to remind not to do anything reckless.
I know it’s my fault, but it appears that my trustworthiness in regards to not being reckless has hit rock bottom.
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