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We were all sitting around an old black table that might have once been used by the old Demon King and his family as we enjoyed a tasty stew made of the greasy meat of the Giant Rats we had begun to raise. We cannot go overboard on eating them, or they’ll disappear in a flash, so we have already left a dozen that I had already tamed alone inside a small farm, where they live comfortably eating rotten wood and anything else. They’re even alright with eating trash too.
But despite all of that, their meat is very tasty. I guess they’re like pigs too, who just eat trash but have mighty tasty meat for some reason, mostly out of the grease they accumulate, which these fat rats also got so they can survive the winter.
These rats should be reproducing already, just like a little clone reported to me, so they’ll make more little rats that’ll grow up into healthy adults and make more and more rats. I know this is a bit bizarre, but you have to adapt to what you can use in the end.
Using giant rats as cattle is the only thing we can do in here where literally nothing else survives other than wild wolves, or bears, or even fiercer monsters.
Normal cattle animals would die out of the coldness and also reproduce way slower than monsters. Because giant dark rats are a monster, they can reproduce very quickly as long as they got energy and mana reserves. They’re made to flood the world and devour anything.
And then we can make an army of rats based on how fast they’re attempting to reproduce, and we flood the world with the plague! I will become the plague itself! Well, I think I already got some skills related to that.
Wait, is this why I could tame rats without problems despite them not being Undead? Perhaps my influence also extends to creatures “Related” to my element and nature.
And DARK rats are perhaps within the category of “related” to my elements, so maybe I had an easy time taming them, as I was obviously stronger than all of them, so surrendering was their only option.
But just surrendering out of fear and being tamed and acting gently with their master are completely different things. This only means that they were instantly tamed and made into my pets in an instant.
Ah, now I feel bad about thinking that I must eat my pets…
Well, I am already enjoying their chewy meat in this stew, so sorry, we don’t have any other option, rats! I hope that all of you that go to heaven will forgive me. I guess they’re going to Helheim, but I suppose it is the same. Souls are not tortured there. They just spend some time in complete hollowness, darkness, and coldness. Then, they’re cleansed of memories by swimming in an incredibly cold river, only to go back into a new body reincarnated without any memories of the past.
That’s how it works! Hel is not keeping the souls for herself and helps a lot in the Reincarnation Circle of this world by itself, so she’s a big help to literally everyone. I honestly don’t know how the other Gods don’t appreciate it, and on this Continent, they somehow see her as a villain? This doesn’t make any sense. She helps souls reincarnate. What more do you want? She’s doing the entire world a big favor.
But noooo, goddess of death bad!
*Sigh*.
Anyways, let’s go back to the present. We were sitting here discussing our daily lives in this newfound and slowly building Kingdom as Emeraldine came up with an interesting idea that, according to her, she had been planning to do for a long time.
“I’ve been thinking this for a while and slowly preparing, but I think with my Nature Spirit, it could be possible to find a way to enhance the growth of plants even in this environment…” said Emeraldine.
“Really?!” I exclaimed.
“Yes… But it’s going to be a bit hard. We’ll have to prepare what’s called a special closed space…” said Emeraldine.
Everyone looked at Emeraldine while raising an eyebrow. What did she mean by “closed space”? I am pretty sure I don’t have spatial magic to manipulate space and make a small dimension. That’s a bit of a stretch! My Shadow Storage doesn’t really count as space magic!
“Emeraldine, I cannot really make another dimension. I don’t have that kind of powers….” I sighed.
“Eh? N-No, I didn’t mean that! Geez…” sighed Emeraldine.
“What? Then what do you mean?” asked Catarina as she didn’t get it either.
“I wonder if she meant something like… a greenhouse?” asked Lucifer.
“Greenhouse?” I asked.
“What’s that?” wondered Partner.
“A greenhouse is a special closed space that you make to put plants inside. They can get direct sunlight from a transparent ceiling while being protected from the harsh environments such as cold, winds, plagues, and more…” said Lucifer.
“I-I didn’t know that was a thing…” said Silvio.
“Me neither. I have never seen something like that before.” Said Francesco.
“Interesting… So that’s what you want?” asked Catarina.
I remember it now. Back on Earth, there is also one of these things. They’re often called greenhouses, conservatory, and glasshouses… The ceiling needs to be made of glass if we don’t have material like transparent plastic.
“Yes, those things! I remember seeing them somewhere in a duchy I once visited. If you make them, we can put plants there without risking having them get frozen by the coldness of the outside world. Snow and other things won’t get inside. It should be big enough to maintain many plants though, so we can feed everyone…” said Emeraldine.
“Hm, that’s an interesting idea, but how do we craft such a thing? It does appear to be quite complicated. Making an entire greenhouse…” said Lucifer.
“This is a challenge greater than a Dungeon Boss….” I sighed.
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