Chapter 84

[Mana stat +10 permanently]

[One-time consumption]

[Mana replenishment rate +100% for 20 minutes]

[Effects cannot be stacked]

[Stamina +5]

[Mana +5]

[One-time consumption]

[Defense increased by 100% for fifteen minutes]

[Effects cannot be stacked]

“Word will soon get out.” Zara said with a complicated expression on her face, “Protecting you would be difficult if it were revealed that you created those crops.”

“What do you intend to do then, Senior Zara?” I asked. Since we were alone, I took a shot at addressing her without her noble status, and she didn’t mind one bit.

“For now, I have silenced the soldiers who worked on the crops with you. With most of the crops gone with your ability, we can claim it as a miracle or a monster plant.” Zara said after a moment of thought.

I had to reveal to her that I could store some objects in my magical space. But only to her, not to her children. Except for my family, only she knew. And she didn’t know the full story either. I had just said that I could store some stuff, and luckily, to her knowledge, there was a space magician with the same ability, so it was covered.

Anyway, the problem at hand was the matter of crops. They were too good, and soon, the attention of the kingdom would turn to this town, where magical crops grew out of nowhere.

While no one knew who grew them, completely shutting every mouth was also impossible. There were merchants in this town who had seen those things. Merchants of the town and merchants from outside the town. Sure enough, the entire story would be out by evening at the latest.

“So we’re not selling them?” I asked.

“No.” She replied, “With the appearance of such things, the kingdom’s attention on us would be entirely different. The tax would be the last thing on the royal family’s mind.”

Made sense. Why focus on something like that when there existed vegetables as big as a man and worth ten people’s food could not only replenish mana and increase your defense, but also increase one’s mana and stamina permanently once?

“Then what should we do?” I asked.

“You will make more of them.” She replied before she asked, just to be sure, “You can make more, right?”

“As you have seen, not all of them have the same effect,” I replied.

That was correct. Not all crops gained the special effects. Less than half of them were without the permanent increase effect. Although Zara didn’t have an exact appraiser like me, she came to that conclusion after feeding some to her children and herself the magical crops. Zara and her son gained permanent stats while the other son and Cassandra didn’t. Well, Cassandra didn’t gain from the potatoes but did gain a permanent mana increase from Kale.

She also gave me some for my family, and I only took those that were laced with the special effect, and left the rest with her after we arrived at the mansion. By the way, the crops I left at the temporary farm were also those that didn’t offer permanent effects.

But we couldn’t take care of every aspect. They would easily find out that someone worked on that farm, and if that was somehow investigated, there was a great chance everything would be revealed. But that was a chance we had to take. We had to work as soon as the crowd was dispersed by the soldiers, so we could work. Since the town’s people had already seen the number of crops, we stored another batch in Zara’s mansion. The one without permanent effects.

Just so we could show the evidence when we’d be asked. After all, the number of crops decreased after the crowd was dispersed by the soldiers. It raised a question, didn’t it?

With what we could deal with taken care of, we obscured the rest as much as we could. I was told to leave for the day and spend the day with my family. I was also told to expect some guests later in the day. Not the friendly kind either.

For now, the matter of growing our own batch was left for the future, and Zara said she would let things pan out first to see if it was safe or not.

And so, I returned home. Since it was still early morning, the family had gone to sleep after Zara and I left, and their curiosity was curbed.

Since everyone was sleeping and my sleep was too far away, I decided to get to work with the brief window I was granted.

I went to my room and checked the pending notifications from the last night that I had dismissed since I was too tired last night and too rushed when I was woken up, and everything that followed was too urgent for me to focus on anything else.

[Success!]

[After repeated failures, you have finally created the product you so desperately wished for]

Quite an exaggerated way to put it.

[You are the first to introduce the concept of machinery in this world]

[A perfect blend of magic and engineering]

[You have made…]

[Please name the following product]

That was a little off-putting.

Anyway, I inspected the vest in my hand. Well, it was kind of a vest. The main inspiration for the design was from an item I used to have back in my original world. The posture correction belt. The shape and design were the same.

Only, while it went under the breasts in the original design, in my design, it covered the breasts of a woman, and since it had good elasticity, women of different bust sizes could wear it easily.

It worked like a bra, pushing the breasts of the women upwards but also caging them more uncomfortably than a bra, so I doubted women would be able to wear it for longer periods of time. That was intentional since I didn't want women to cover their breasts all the time.

The blend of these things was the vibration. That’s correct. I used the technology of a vibrator and made this one to vibrate. At first, I wanted to make one like an item that could activate when mana was put into it, but the structure was too complex and it was impractical, also, given that one could run out of mana quite quickly, and there were also unawakened women in this world, it was better to design it this way.

Of course, I didn’t intend to make it public. The major goal of making such an item was to create something that never existed before, so I could raise the mastery of my skill to SS rank, which…

[Congratulations]

[Creation (S) has leveled up to Creation (SS)]

[Creation (SS) 0.7%]

[More complex and complicated structures can now be created]

[Organic or living organisms cannot be created]

[As long as the user can form a complete structure of an item or create parts of it, any inorganic product or item can be made]

“Haa… Finally.” I reveled in joy after the second objective of curing my son was completed.

There were only two more objectives left. Hopefully, I will be able to get them done sooner.

[Would you like to name the product ‘Finally’?]

‘...No.’ I replied before I said, ‘Just name it 'Fantasy reliever'.’

[Acknowledged]

[Product Fantasy Reliever has been added to the Glossary]

Ignoring the chest belt since I was no longer interested in it for the time being, I checked what else I could do. The next steps that followed of the process of body reformation were very crucial. In the third step, there was a slight chance of mistakes, while the fourth one, the main one, had no chance of an error.

What could be done to facilitate that?

I spent around an hour mulling over things and finally came up with a plan. I didn’t know how it would affect the others, but for now, I needed to see if I could do something about it.

And the answer to that question was present in…

“Ugh, it’s awful,” I said as I pulled out the monster's body from my inventory. I had to relocate to the forest due to the awful stench, but this process was necessary. There were a few things that I couldn’t just make up about it. This monster seemed human-like, quite a lot. It was just bigger than an average human, but many body arts increased one’s size.

Not to mention, there was something familiar about these beings. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but buried deep inside my memory, something from one of my previous lives, something from one of those worlds. It reminded me of that.

And sure enough, as I began to cut into the monster, I was met with only one conclusion.

“So that’s what it was.” I couldn’t help but say out loud.

~~

Somewhere far, far away from Jack. Inside a pristine castle, in a room adorned with white marble, sat a woman of unparalleled beauty. She took a whiff of the fresh morning air coming through her room’s window and picked up the stone before her.

“Grow well, my little ones. Mommy can’t wait for you.”

~~

I was thinking of ending the volume here, but that would have been too quick. Well, just consider a teaser of a villain.