You’re a fool
Princess Ailee led the subjugation team and started moving to the point where Miner disappeared.
The tunnel is deep.
In the dark and silent passage, only the rustling of armor and the sound of footsteps resounded.
Meanwhile, Ailee’s gaze was always on the Miner who was leading the way and guiding the way.
“Leon, aren’t you curious?”
“What?”
“How can the miners survive on only minerals?”
Leon put his thoughts together for a moment in response to the question.
Leon had his own answer to that, but there was no reason to tell Ailee about it.
“Why are you curious about that?”
“If you can understand the principle, the subjects of the kingdom will not starve to death.”
I thought it was a simple curiosity, but surprisingly, Ailee was seriously exploring Minor’s eating habits.
When everyone ridiculed the Miner as a race that eats dirt, Ailee was seriously thinking about exploring and using the principle.
For the people who have no food and are starving.
“…because of microbes.”
“yes?”
“Miners have multiple camouflages. Like a cow chewing the cud. And the reason cows chew cud is to break down cellulose, a plant fiber that cows cannot digest directly. Cows live in the stomach, called the rumen, which can break down cellulose. Minors are the same.”
Miners also have a rumen, where they grow microorganisms.
The only difference was that the type of microorganism was different from that of cattle.
The microorganisms they grow in the rumen are chemically synthesized bacteria that decompose metal oxides to obtain energy.
In it, ‘chemoritotropes’, bacteria that feed on inorganic compounds, grow together, and only pure minerals can be extracted from the ore.
“Microorganisms, are you growing in your stomach a small, invisible creature?”
At Leon’s explanation, Princess Ailee’s eyes widened to the size of a candle.
“Of course, it’s not that even the miners are aware of it.”
“Then how do you know all this?”
“Personally, I did research because I was curious.”
Ailee was at a loss for words at Leon’s reply.
Ailee also studied magic as a direct disciple of Archmage Rebecca Meredith, who was said to be the second in the Philo Kingdom, and had seen and heard many things as she was in the position of a princess.
Among them, there were reports of research results showing that the microbes that Leon referred to, small invisible creatures entering the body and causing diseases, and research on means to treat them were reported.
However, it was the result of many wizards researching for a long time in the Lab of the Tower, and it was by no means something Leon could know.
Above all, even what she reported through the tower was not as coherent as Leon said.
The knowledge that this 11-year-old boy was interested in was more valuable than the research that many wizards had attached to the expensive research facility of the tower.
‘Your teacher was right.’
Leon is by no means a mere dragon.
Although the Yongin tribe was born with overwhelming talent and instinctively able to handle mysterious magic, however, magical knowledge did not automatically accumulate.
Leon’s extensive magical knowledge served as proof that he was not only born with talent, but also honed his academic abilities to reach the present level.
“Well, then there you are. Can’t we grow those microbes in a human’s stomach?”
Leon thought about it for a moment, but then had no choice but to shake his head.
“Perhaps human antibodies will cause rejection. For the miners, that’s possible because they’ve evolved in that direction. Also, if you want to breed microorganisms in your stomach, you need to create a special environment, but the human stomach won’t even meet that condition.”
In response to Leon’s answer, Ailee put on a grassy expression on her face.
“I’m sorry. If that was possible, the kingdom’s food problem would have been solved.”
Leon also shook his head at Ailee’s reaction.
The Radiant Continent had a greater food shortage than in the Middle Ages on Earth.
That’s right, at least on Earth, there were no monsters set up outside the walls to annihilate humans.
Due to the invasion of the Demon Realm, the number of monsters that have increased over the past 100 years has shrunk human agriculture.
In order to cultivate enough fields for people to live and grow crops, the land inside the fortress walls was not enough, even if it was not enough.
In the end, in order to cultivate a field, a space had to be created outside the fortress wall, but there was no way for the hungry monsters to leave such a field unattended by the powerful.
Fortunately, grains such as rice, barley, wheat, and oats are not easily touched by monsters, but if you subdue monsters in paddy fields and rice fields because monsters are attacking you, the blood will contaminate the ground, making the crops inedible or costly. The cost of purification was inevitable.
Naturally, over the past 100 years, crops on the Radiant Continent had to decrease day by day, and in the winter when there was nothing to eat, countless bodies were scattered on the streets.
There is only one option to avoid starvation.
support as a soldier.
At least the military doesn’t starve to death.
Although it is possible to die of starvation after going out on the battlefield to subdue the demonic siege, at least at every meal, so many boys have no choice but to risk their deaths to join the soldiers.
Of course, that amount is not enough.
One potato at a time, it is only served twice in the morning and in the evening.
In fact, only enough food is rationed to prevent starvation.
It was a topic that Leon, who had never been worried about starving to death even if there was always a shortage of food since the days when he was confined in an attic, had never seriously considered it.
‘However······.’
If you think about it, the solution is surprisingly simple, isn’t it?
The principle of the Pure Potion, which Vincent would be working hard on with Mary’s support, was the rapid activation of metabolism.
In other words, it is said that spraying on plants promotes growth.
You might think that the navel is bigger than the belly to use a potion, also called the life of a spare bee, just to grow crops, but that was the advantage of the Pure Potion in the first place.
It is cheaper than the existing potions and the effect is good.
It’s a good opportunity
“sister. There is a potion I am researching with my friends right now, would you like to hear a story?”
Leon brought up the story in a good or bad way.
However, Ailee, who had already guessed that Leon’s level of academic knowledge was comparable to that of the researchers at the Tower, showed great interest.
“What?”
Leon soon explained about the Pure Potion.
The fact that if we can develop it, we may be able to minimize the damage of war and also solve the food shortage.
In addition to that, he also talked about mana potions that have already been developed.
There was no reason why Leon had to tell Princess Ailee about this.
‘Of course, the main customer of the potion has no choice but to be the magic tower. Especially in the case of mana potions, it only works on circles, so it doesn’t help at all to recover Aurors.’
Although it was not Leon’s intention, the development of the mana potion helped to expand the military power of the tower.
‘But then you’re a loser.’
It’s a thing that Leon squeezed his head into, and the Parostel family can see the benefits.
Rather, the intention was to keep Leon’s profits and minimize the Farostel family’s interests by giving the powers of the Pure Potion and Mana Potion to the royal family, not the aristocrat.
And Princess Ailee seemed to have already liked Leon, but she thought that it would be faster if they were tied to each other in a profit-and-loss relationship rather than a simple emotional relationship.
In other words, it is to put a string on Princess Ailee.
So that the Parostel family should not touch Leon recklessly.
When Leon had such a deep heart, Ailee couldn’t help but be astonished.
He had already heard about the mana potion through his master, but he could not believe that he was developing a potion that embodies the power of life through alchemy.
Of course, it wasn’t a story that the potion had been completed yet, but Ailee was already sending trust towards this little genius.
“Then the story…”
“You can share it with Mary Goldberg, the young girl at the top of Goldberg. I am a major shareholder who supported the development cost of Pure Potion.”
And Leon threw the whole complicated story at Mary.
It was enough for Leon to develop a pure potion and arrange a deal with Princess Ailee.
Other than that, it wasn’t Leon’s area of expertise, and it just gave him a headache.
The reason why Mary was brought into this business in the first place was because they needed someone to handle such a business.
“It’s a monster!”
And as the conversation was to a certain extent, a warning bell went off from the vanguard.
“500 meters ahead, at least 50 enemies! Approaching this way!”
At that voice, Ailee’s expression changed.
With a determined expression and gait, he strode forward and checked the situation.
500 meters is not too far away.
A distance that even an uninhabited person with a low level of about 3 stars can run in 30 seconds.
It was a situation where an inexperienced commander might be in a hurry, but Ailee made a quick decision after examining the appearance of the approaching monsters.
The type of monster was a spider type.
Usually spider-type monsters are sensitive to vibrations, so they do not make footsteps, but the sound of footsteps coming from the spider-type monsters that are now approaching was resounding heavily on the floor.
Considering their size of about 4 meters left and right, their true identity is probably a C-class monster, Keriot.
It was a monster that boasted a thick metal exoskeleton and breakthrough power, often called a chariot spider.
After understanding the situation, Princess Ailee raised her wand and shouted.
“Let’s go straight to battle! Soldiers with shields, step forward and spread the line of deterrence! The wizards are divided into two groups, and the first group spreads a barrage of magic to block the attack of the monsters, and the second group uses defensive magic to assist the soldiers!”
Fast and accurate instructions.
The subjugation squad, which had never been in harmony with each other, moves like one giant creature under her command.
The line of deterrence formed in an instant and the wide-area magic that developed over it floated to mind.
“Fire Blast!”
“Blade Storm!”
“Thorn of Us!”
The tunnel is shaken by the magical bombardment that continues for a while.
Miner, who took on the role of the guide, shouted while looking at the ceiling with an anxious expression.
“Stop, stop! More than this, the tunnel will collapse!”
Naturally, even wizards could not ignore the guide’s warning, and as soon as the magic bombing ceased, the keriots poured through the dust clouds.
Obviously, a large number of keriots must have been killed or injured in the magical bombardment, but it seemed that the speed of their charge had not been slowed down at all.
The warriors with shields raised their aurors with a determined expression and collided with the rushing monsters.
Kugugung!
The first wave stops at the line of deterrence spread by the unmanned.
And the defense magic of the wizards blocks the second wave that jumps over those colleagues and uninhabited people.
But the number was not enough.
Because all the wizards were blinded by their merits and prepared offensive magic to kill monsters, there were relatively few wizards who prepared defensive magic.
If it wasn’t for a tunnel, more than half of the monsters would die from the attack magic, and the uninhabited alone would have been able to stop the monster’s rush, but this happened because the attack magic had to be canceled in case the tunnel collapsed.
Then Leon, who was watching the scene from behind, stepped out.
“Restoration.”
little girl.
At Leon’s voice, a cat ran towards the tidal waves of monsters and jumped into the fragments of the shattered defensive magic.
And as if turning back time, the pieces of defensive magic gathered again and began to be restored.
A metaphor often used to describe entropy is a broken cup.
A cup that is dropped and broken on the floor increases the number of cases and entropy because each piece can take various states, and the law of nature is that entropy never flows in a decreasing direction.
It’s like the cup doesn’t stick back on its own.
But such a law is meaningless before the spirit of order.
A being who rules the number of all cases and controls the probability to create miracles.
God’s Dice.
When defense magic breaks and scatters, the magic shield does not disappear.
It was just broken up into small pieces that couldn’t be used as a defensive wall.
Dice is a reconnection of broken materials against the laws of the world where entropy is increasing.
That is the restoration magic restoration.
In front of that miraculous magic, the demons could no longer advance and had no choice but to stand still.