CHAPTER 394: CHAPTER 36 RESPECTING VERA’S NOBILITY

"Ah... choo~"

Sleepy-eyed, Yila woke up from his bed... It was truly rare; he had a decently good sleep last night. Recently, he hadn’t been able to get a proper rest.

It was also very rare for him to wake up normally in his own bed...

Always busy, dealing with matters related to Calamity, his life had become quite hectic... though he didn’t particularly enjoy this kind of busyness.

*Thinking this*, Yila picked up his clothes from the bedside and put them on... Through the window next to his bed, he saw Satan Ye, who had woken up early, training horse combat with Lodya.

It seemed like Satan Ye was getting stronger gradually... He hadn’t been slacking off.

On the contrary, Yila hadn’t taught Satan Ye for quite a long time. From a teacher’s perspective... whether as a nation-ruling teacher or a combat teacher, he had been a bit negligent recently.

He needed to catch up on some lessons after this...

(Satan Ye: Hmm...)

*With such thoughts*, Yila walked out of the room simply, intending to complete the automation of agriculture after having something to eat... an automated magic wand assembly line encompassing watering, weeding, and fertilizing.

Professor Topps had already completed the technological reforms on the automation magic wand, the next step was implementation... Goblins and some interested other races were working hard at it, while simultaneously conducting research and technological exchanges with the Demon King Territory in multiple nations.

The forces of the Main Plane seemed to have united.

In this way, the farmland might expand at an incredible rate... Additionally, they needed to improve the starch conversion of Blue String Mushrooms, aiming to replace wheat and develop foods like "Blue String Mushroom Bread."

Send Wenresa and her group to Hell to introduce Molten Lava Fish, which could grow and reproduce without feeding, to the Main Plane.

In a world where Mana existed, if they genuinely wanted to fully expand productivity, it would be a terrifying extent... although someone had to provide the Mana to liberate productivity.

However, the recently born infants all had very great Mana Adaptability... According to the legend, this was actually the normal situation during the "Age of Gods."

Unlike the period after the "Death of Gods" that Yila was familiar with, where Mana Adaptability was extremely uneven...

...

"Good morning, Mr. Yila..."

Mr. Lime greeted Yila as he walked into the kitchen, then commanded the bouncing slimes behind him to serve breakfast in front of Yila... But Yila’s attention was elsewhere.

After a simple nod to greet Mr. Lime, Yila looked at Vera, who was sitting beside him and eating voraciously. His gaze paused on her left arm... or rather, where her left arm should have been,

now occupied only by an empty robe.

"Vera, what happened to your arm? Was it bitten off by a Big Sea Beast?"

Yila asked casually as he put a warm pastry into his mouth... The filling seemed to be some kind of fruit, sweet and pretty good.

*In fact, there was no need to particularly worry about Vera’s injury... Ultimately, Vera was a Witch Demon. Even if she lost an arm, she only needed to replace it with parts*,

"Ah... erm... yes."

But Vera’s ambiguous response made Yila turn his head slightly... feeling that her attitude was a bit off.

At this moment, Ernie also walked into the kitchen, waving to Mr. Lime for breakfast, and coincidentally heard Yila and Vera’s conversation. She simply told the truth: "As for Vera, she sacrificed her arm to obtain the ’Primordial Technique’..."

"..."

Looking at the lowered head of Vera eating, and the questioning look of Yila, Ernie, while watching Mr. Lime prepare breakfast, continued: "I mentioned before that the woman was a ’Primordial Mage,’ who sacrificed her name... in exchange for the ’Primordial Technique.’"

"This indicates more than just her original name being forgotten by the entire world. Even if she tried to give herself any ’name’ after that, it was impossible... So she could only use ’surname’ or ’title’ to represent herself."

"This is the Primordial Technique, the ultimate product of the fusion of alchemy and magic..."

Ernie explained and pointed to Vera, "To protect the Pure White Tower, Vera sacrificed her left arm in exchange for a part of the Primordial Technique called ’Heaven and Earth White,’ allowing her control over the dead without consuming Mana."

In other words, only the ’Summon’ portion would consume Mana... filling the land and sky with eerie white bones and pale corpses, a very fitting name.

"So that’s why I saw... so many skeletons moving things?"

Yila said while resting his chin on his hand, recalling the skeletons he saw moving metallic magic wands... He thought it was Professor Topps and his mage students using summoning spells to move stuff.

It turned out to be Vera...

"..."

"Yes, that’s it... I felt I lost so much, I might as well make full use of it."

Vera said, looking very aggrieved, pouting, "If I had known you could do that, summon a bunch of tentacle monsters to eat away the Calamity, I wouldn’t have made the trade... Perhaps the Pure White Tower wouldn’t have collapsed."

Seeing Vera looking like a tearful cat, Yila had no choice but to pat her head sympathetically...

"So, are you unable to change your body now? Or will your arm still be unusable even if you change bodies?"

To Yila’s question, Vera finished the last bite of her Blue String Mushroom salad, pouted, and nodded, "The physical arm won’t work, but Mage’s Hand or a steel arm can still be used..."

*That doesn’t seem like much of a loss, as she at least got a useful skill.*

*Thinking this*, Yila ate and glanced at Ernie, who had also started eating. He said, "An arm made from Mana could probably be bought for a good price... I recall that before I came to the Demon King Territory, the Empire had developed something similar."

"I vaguely remember it was during the development of a certain ruin, where they found the prosthetics of the previous Keltic empire that could form a virtual arm with very little Magic Power... but it was quite expensive and rare..."

Yila said, looking at the sullen Vera, he could only shrug helplessly.

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"Miss Vera and Mr. Yila... the family from the Empire named ’Yaylimeinoceyatos’ has sent a gift specifically for you, saying that..."

Youyou said, taking out a cloth bag from behind her, and upon opening it... there was a metal ring similar to a collar, and below that, half a bag of dried green seaweed, dried fish, and dried shellfish.

"’An arm for your honor,’ along with the food you liked as a child..."

"..."

"Yay!!!"

Vera cheered, putting the ring on her amputated arm, and with a simple input of Mana, a light blue arm appeared where her original arm was... honestly, as rudimentary as ’Mage’s Hand,’ but sufficient for use.

However, she was clearly happy for another reason...

Vera: "Yila, try this! I loved eating this dried fish when I was a child!"

Yila: "Alright, alright~"

...

Being accepted back by her family, this was a signal conveyed by them... For Vera, this acceptance from her family must have been a truly joyous event~