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Published at 19th of September 2020 01:13:22 PM
Chapter 222

On the morning of the last day of my three-day break, I readied myself and then I waited by the entrance of the abandoned mine .

“It’s here!” [Ryouma]

A carriage passing through the Gimuru road was headed in my direction .

It was driven by the maid, Lilian-san . Beside her was Yurdum-san, so it’s definitely the carriage I’m waiting for .

I waved at them to get their attention, then I led them to an acceptable parking area . After that the three working girls, Maria, Fina, and Jane-san, alighted from the carriage .

“Good morning . ”

We exchanged greetings, and then the three girls from the farming village spoke .

“This carriage is really good!” [Jane]

“It’s really comfortable~” [Maria]

“Back in our village, we’d either walk or use a carriage that swayed a lot . ” [Fina]

“So it really is a good carriage . ” [Ryouma]

This carriage is one of the three carriages that parked at the empty lot of the store last night . It’s one of the carriages used by the members of the duke’s family . That’s why I thought for sure it would be an excellent performer .

“It’s good, alright . ” [Yurdum]

“I thought it might be . ” [Ryouma]

“It’s an old carriage scheduled for disposable, so please feel free to tell us if you need it . ” [Lilian]

“Thank you very much . ” [Ryouma]

They’ve already lent me a carriage, so if you include this, that makes two . Reinhart-san had them pass a message, saying, “It’s going to be busy from here on out, so please feel free to use these carriages to help you get around . ” That’s why they’re lending them to me like this .

Of course, it’s not only the members of the duke’s family and the carriages that I’m grateful for .

Although the married couple had to leave that night after picking up their children, until then, the employees were the ones taking care of their children .

Hence, in our absence, it was the employees who accompanied the guild master and the members of the duke’s family . They probably became curious as to why everyone was at my store, and in the course of asking questions and getting an explanation, they ended up asking me if there was something they could help with .

I was more than willing to accept their help since they were offering it, so today, the three girls from the farming village will be teaching me the basics of farming .

“Thank you for coming here despite your day off . I’ll be in your care today . ” [Ryouma]

“Ha ha ha! What are you being so stiff for, Boss?” [Jane]

“You’re always taking care of us~ It’s the least we could do~” [Maria]

“If anything we’re just happy to be able to help you, Boss . But why do you want to farm so suddenly?” [Fina]

“Ah, right . I haven’t explained that part, have I? Actually—” [Ryouma]

I didn’t tell them the parts about the God of Farming, but I did tell them that I’ve been basically brute forcing my wood magic, so if I could learn how to farm properly, I should be able to produce better results .

“So that’s actually a thing~” [Maria]

“We don’t know anything about magic, though . Will this really be alright?” [Fina]

“Don’t worry, Finchan . It’s more important to know about the subject of a spell . ” [Yurdum]

“Exactly . ” [Ryouma]

Just as Yurdum-san says— Wait .

“Yurdum-san, can you use magic?” [Ryouma]

“I don’t specialize in it, but I can use wood magic . I can also use some water magic though just enough to sprinkle a bit of water . ” [Yurdum]

“You’ll be a lot of help then!” [Ryouma]

If he knows about magic too, then I’ll be able to rely on him a lot . Looks like I still have a lot to know about Yurdum-san . I should use this opportunity to get to know him… Oh, right .

“Let’s not just stand here, please, come in . I’ve prepared a place for us to talk . ” [Ryouma]

Like that I led the five of them inside .

I brought them to a vast and level area in the western part of the abandoned mine . It was overrun with weeds just recently, so I’d cleaned things up in a hurry, but… it seems I made a mistake somewhere .

“…” [Everyone Else]

After all, the five people I brought, especially, the girls from the farming village, were all shocked .

“Is something the matter?” [Ryouma]

“Well, I mean, Boss…” {Fina]

“Is that a greenhouse over there?” [Jane]

Although some parts were normal terrain, it was already almost winter, so I thought it would be better if I built a greenhouse .

I built it with a plastic greenhouse in mind, but I used the sticky slime and the crust slime’s hardening liquid sheet, so it looks like a glass greenhouse— Oh, right! Glass is supposed to be really expensive in this country . If I use that much glass to construct something, it’s no wonder that they’re surprised .

“Ah~ So it’s not glass then~” [Maria]

“I was so shocked . ” [Jane]

“Come to think of it, the same material is used for the store windows . I should have known . ” [Fina]

“Personally, I think it’s surprising even then… It’s not common even for nobles to have a green house . ” [Yurdum]

Oh, really? That’s a surprise…

“For the mean time, please come inside . ”


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It’s cold outside, so I led them inside .

The greenhouse was surrounded with hardening liquid sheet, so the wind couldn’t get in, but the sunlight could still enter, so it was plenty warm . It’s hard for the air to circulate here, so it’s quite humid .

There are windows for ventilation above the two entrances and the sides of the greenhouse, so I could open them if needed, but I should probably start thinking about a way to regulate the temperature here .

“Alright, where should we start?” [Ryouma]

“How about you show us how you do it first, Boss .  I want to see how magic farming works too . ” [Fina]

“I understand!” [Ryouma]

I did as Finsan suggested and showed them how I normally farmed .

First, I softened the ground with earth magic, then I had the scavenger slimes build ridges on the soil while mixing in the fertilizer .

After that I had the slimes scatter the seeds, while I watered the ground with water magic, and then facilitated the growth with wood magic .

“And done!” [Ryouma]

Just like that a field of dandelion flowers was completed in the blink of an eye!

I chose dandelion flowers since the seeds could be turned into cooking oil, while the roots could be used for dandelion coffee, and the stem could be fed to the sticky slime and the latex slimes .

“…” [Everyone Else]

“Huh?” [Ryouma]

Everyone was quiet again .

“Umm…” [Ryouma]

“I don’t know what to say . ” [Fina]

“Magic sure is amazing . ” [Maria]

Finsan and the other two girls from the farming village were like ‘I don’t really get it, but it’s amazing!’ Or at least their reaction felt like that .

Lilian-san has seen me farm before at the residence of the duke’s family, so she wasn’t surprised, but she was wryly smiling .

As for the only guy in the group, Yurdum-san…

“Ha ha, what is this? Huh? Illusion magic?” [Yurdum]

He seems quite shocked .

“Yurdum-san? Are you okay? Is there anything strange about my farming?” [Ryouma]

“Strange? You’ve got to be kidding me! You made the flowers bloom in one go from a seed! Of course it’s strange! What’s more you flowered an entire field!” [Yurdum]

“P-Please calm down!” [Ryouma]


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It was hard to understand what he was saying because he was so excited, so I first calmed him down .

“Yeah, umm… Sorry . It was just too shocking . You must have a lot of mana, huh, Boss?” [Yurdum]

“There’s that too, but the fertilizer of the scavenger slimes plays a huge part . ” [Ryouma]

“In that case, that fertilizer and those slimes must be amazing . I’ve dabbled a bit myself with normal fertilizers like compost and mulch, and magic medicine to speed up the growth of plants, but a person’s worth of mana couldn’t possibly make an entire field bloom like this . Some medicine might be able to pull it off, but the strong ones also have worse side effects . Compared to that, this field looks really normal . You could even say it’s overflowing with life . A normal mage’s amount of mana shouldn’t be enough to make something like this happen . ” [Yurdum]

When I heard that, I turned to Finsan and the others for confirmation .

“We don’t use magic medicine at the village . ” [Fina]

“Those medicine are too expensive, so we can’t use them~” [Maria]

“After all, you’d need a lot of them if you’re going to use them for an entire field . ” [Jane]

But they just said that they didn’t know anything about it .

“Yurdum-san, you really know a lot . ” [Ryouma]

“My family has been serving as imperial court gardeners for generations, so I studied the subject a lot when I was young . ” [Yurdum]

No wonder he knows so much . But ‘Imperial Court Gardener’? Based on the words alone that sounds like a gardener who works at the castle, and if he’s from a family like that, then…

“Yurdum-san, you’re a noble? I never knew . ” [Ryouma]

“Yeah… I come from a baron’s household, but I ran away from home . I don’t have the right to use my last name anyway, and even if tell people I’m a noble, they just end up shying away from me . Sometimes I end up being unable to join a tournament and girls get scared too . So it’s already become a habit not to talk about it . ” [Yurdum]

There are certainly people who shrink back as soon as they find out you’re a noble .

That probably made it really hard to find people to test his skills against .

As for me, I don’t really mind, and I’m not the sort to try and expose a person’s history either .

“My dad was the one with the court rank, and he was a noble of the robe without any territory, so we weren’t really that much different from commoners . ” [Yurdum]

Yurdum-san wryly smiled .

“So just treat me as usual . ” [Yurdum]

And then he turned to Finsan and the others and said that .

He sure switches gears quick . He’s so quick Finsan and the others were still shocked .

“Are you sure?” [Fina]

“It’s totally fine! My dad just happens to work at the castle, really . He’s no different from your usual gardener, and I ran away from home anyway, so I don’t have any privileges or authority . If anything, the boss is the dangerous one with all the authority . After all, he’s connected to the duke and he even gets to work together with his people . ” [Yurdum]

“Now that you mention it!” [Fina, Jane, Maria]


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“That’s how you come to terms with his history? Really?” [Ryouma]

When realization dawned upon them, the three girls became shocked, and then they found themselves agreeing with Yurdum-san .

Even Lilian-san was quietly nodding .

W-What in the world? I mean it’s true that the duke helps me out a lot all the time, but…

“Of course, not in a bad sense . ” [Yurdum]

 

Anyway, I pulled myself together and brought the topic back to farming .

“I noticed that when you were farming, you never touched the crops again while they were growing . ” [Fina]

“Normally, you have to remove the weeds and prune bad sprouts~” [Maria]

“I see… I knew about pruning, but I didn’t know which sprout to prune . I mean in the first place, I don’t know what counts as a bad sprout . Since even the poorer ones I could just forcefully grow by pouring mana . ” [Ryouma]

“It’s true that wood magic can make a plant grow, but it requires a lot of mana and the rapid growth also puts a lot of burden on the plant . That’s why it’s usually done gradually and in stages across several days . That way the amount of mana consumed per plant and per day can be reduced along with the burden on the plants . Those with poor growth or those that’ve fallen ill can grow on their own or resist the disease, so it’s better if you don’t force them to bloom and instead skilfully assist them . ” [Yurdum]

They told me the problems in my self-taught farming magic .

“Let’s try growing a crop for real next! I brought a potato that’s already started to germinate from Shelmsan! If we plant this potato like this, it will turn into a seed potato too, so I’m sure it should be easy to grow!” [Jane]

“You too, Jane? I brought a soybean that can be grow with magic . ” [Fina]

“I brought some barley too~” [Maria]

Because of that I used the seeds the girls brought with them .

“Stop!” [Jane]

“This is when you should prune~” [Maria]

“As for how to distinguish between which to prune and which to leave—” [Fina]

“Ah, let’s replant the ones that grew poorly here . That should serve as practice for wood magic . ” [Yurdum]

I practiced how to farm with everyone’s help .

“When growing barley, this is the part where we step on them!” [Fina]

“We need to give enough time for this soybean to grow . ” [Jane]

They taught me how to grow crops I haven’t grown yet too .

While the crops grew quickly, I studied about the important parts and the various process I needed to do to take care of them properly .

As I came to learn one thing after another, I found out just how forceful my method of farming was . But that just meant I had more to study, and because of that it was a really fruitful day!

 

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