Chapter 32
Chapter 32
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 32
Chapter Title: Nitrogen Fertilizer Miracle
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Monsters invaded the land above.
So just slay the monsters.
But when famine hits, you end up turning on the allies and comrades you fought alongside.
Nothing's more miserable than going hungry.
Title: Check Out My Precious Field Before You Go!
(An image of a field cracked wide open from drought)
Saw it? Now scram.
- The field where the spirit died and stopped breathing ㄷㄷ
- How does it crack exactly like that?
ㄴ It's perfectly round in the middle like it got scooped out
ㄴ ㄹㅇ Did a god punch right into the field or what?
ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ wtf
- Poster) The soil's just trash
ㄴ Blaming the soil when you couldn't grow shit
ㄴ Where'd you plow your field?
ㄴ Poster) Fron
ㄴ Isn't that a freezing cold place?
ㄴ What were you even expecting to grow well there?
ㄴ Poster) ㅅㅂ Then where should I do it?
After cracks appeared in the old land, everyone started plowing fields in new spots.
But there's always a reason why a place never had fields before.
- Ah, this is boring, I'm out first, peace
ㄴ Don't log off
ㄴ If you quit, the gal's done for
Most failed at farming and tasted the bitter sting of despair.
The soil lacked nutrients.
They were left with two choices.
1. Go all-in against random-spawning monster plants, farm monster plant meat, and roll cultivation two-for-ones.
2. Dump all stats into monster hunting, then climb the trash build tree on hardcore mode.
Title: Yeah ㅋㅋ I'm not doing what you want~
(A clown spreading both arms wide with a big grin image)
Just kill yourself and be done~
- Please stop with the hardcore slave grind...
- Big decision, halt!
- Know what the opposite of suicide is?
Live! ㅋㅋ So buck up and live big, yeah?
ㄴ What kinda nonsense is this?
ㄴ This is basically mocking while shoving you off the cliff
ㄴ Poster) You bastard ㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴ Ah ㅋㅋ Got triggered and survived
ㄴ That was the intent ㅋㅋ
“A, that's three now.”
The gloom doesn't change.
And when food shortages hit, people inevitably start touching things they really shouldn't eat.
- Peel tree bark and boil the inside, works fine ㅇㅇ
- How to eat grass roots.jpg
- Mud's pretty edible too
To prevent that mess, I set market prices to the absolute minimum and flooded it with cheap goods.
Instant noodles at 300 won per serving were the star, and for drinking water...
“This one's non-negotiable.”
Even at rock-bottom prices, there were limits.
So just dump tap water on them.
- Water!
- Judak's lost it!
- The water price is insane, why so cheap?
- Damn, Judak again... I have to worship him...
Magic wasn't some rare study in this isekai.
Boil tap water with fire magic and drink—that solved immediate problems.
- Judak☆) But boil it first, mandatory
- Judak☆) Or you'll get the shits ㅇㅇ;
Of course, no one here knows or cares about microbes and such.
But everyone knew from long experience that boiling made you less sick.
“Obviously.”
So I just posted to boil it first.
ㄴ Are you a real angel?
ㄴ Wow... just wow
ㄴ Judak special) Gives out such pure water for free and even worries about tummy aches
- Judak, before you came I was a galer drinking steady rainwater and stagnant puddles, and I was fine
ㄴ I even drank mud puddle water ㅋㅋ
ㄴ ㄹㅇ Chugged like a dog while fleeing monsters, that stuff's basically holy water ㅇㅇ
- Judak's just ridiculously nice
ㄴ You who only knows galrers...
ㄴ Thanks to Judak I got strong enough for revenge on those monster bastards
ㄴ ㄹㅇ I'd die for Judak instead
At first I thought it was jokes, but feelings toward me are deepening.
What if they actually start some weird religion?
“That's going too far.”
Pushed aside useless thoughts and looked for the knight galer I saved last time.
He was Adrian's knight, now leading the Adrian revolutionaries.
Still trustworthy so far.
Hard to fake ditching a hard-earned knighthood to side with commoners.
“The kid's got a good heart.”
Title: Knight Galer, Come Hither
Poster: Judak☆
(A mountain of sack piles image)
- Lloyd) What's this?
- Judak☆) This?
With immediate issues solved, it was time to teach them how to fish.
- Judak☆) Everything
All answers were right here.
Earth's busted-game population cap multiplier, the cheat magic: Haber process.
One result: nitrogen fertilizer.
- Lloyd) Oh fuck, this is fertilizer
ㄴ Lloyd) I love you so much!!
- What
- Fertilizer...?
- ㅅㅂ Gimme one too!
Other galrers listening in started reacting wildly.
I got why.
Old soil had cooldowns—you couldn't farm it nonstop like modern times.
- Lloyd) Thanks so much...
- Lloyd) But what's nitrogen?
ㄴ ㄹㅇ Fertilizer's fertilizer, but nitrogen's new
ㄴ Isn't fertilizer just shit and stuff?
Then the question came.
- Judak☆) Oh that?
- Judak☆) There's nitrogen in the air, triple-bonded. Gotta break it with force into ammonia compounds to use it—that's nitrogen fixation. Only then can it...
I wasn't just saying "use it"—I tried explaining properly.
- Lloyd) ???
- Ammo-what? Nitrogen fixation?
ㄴ Dunno what it is but sounds badass ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Totally some high-tier spell name
- Mages get it?
ㄴ Ugh... shameful but no...
ㄴ Calls himself archmage and it's real... didn't understand a single word...
ㄴ What circle spell is this that no one knows...
“No, you all-knowing magic theory nerds.”
They got the wrong idea completely.
If I could really use that OP magic, would I be playing rabbit hole defense games?
One slip and the genre flips—sleeping wasn't relaxing lately.
But explaining it wasn't worth the hassle.
I went with a vague compromise.
- Judak☆) Eh, something like that ㅇㅇ...
ㄴ Your skill?
ㄴ Judak☆) Fritz Haber made it
ㄴ Ooh! So what magic did that archmage invent?
ㄴ Judak☆) Making bread from air
ㄴ What
ㄴ Insane
- Th-then!!! What's your relation to that archmage—no, transcendent being, Judak!!!
“Uh.”
Haber's research blew Earth's pop cap from 2 billion to 8 billion.
So yeah, I'm basically a byproduct of Haber too.
- Judak☆) Byproduct
Told the truth, then closed the post.
“Now I gotta wait about a month...”
Fertilizer doesn't magically fix soil overnight.
One thing to do while waiting.
“Gal time.”
I flopped on my straw bed and started galling all day.
Business as usual.
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Quality Post) Nitrogen Magic Before/After Comparison.jpg
(Dry, crumbly soil image)
(Fertile brown soil that looks alive image)
Magic Used: Nitrogen Magic
Cast Time: One month (can do other stuff)
Effect: Turns dying land into prime fertile soil
Never seen soil this fertile in my life.
Seriously the best; just standing here feels great;
ㄹㅇ Seeds'll grow if I just toss 'em
- Whoa, I'd believe this was fake
- I'm a farmer and I'm about to lose my mind happy
ㄴ ㄹㅇ Do I even dare touch it? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ So freaking happy!!!!!
- Ugh, you gullible galrers ㅋ
ㄴ ㅋㅋ That actually works?
ㄴ ㄹㅇ Mana cost alone would've killed high mages ㅋㅋ
ㄴ Lloyd) No mana used?
ㄴ Makes no sense? Even for Judak...
ㄴ I spread it myself, proof pic
ㄴ (Image of spreading fertilizer)
ㄴ ㅅㅂ How?!
ㄴ Sorry
ㄴ She's a real beauty archmage
Market overflowed with cheap essentials for a month.
Most solved famine relying on it, and surprisingly, my income was solid.
“Why do you think corps sell at loss leaders?”
Even galrers skimping on basics snapped 'em up happily.
Profits weren't down—they were up a bit.
- So how do you use it?
ㄴ Lloyd) 1. Spread 2. Mix into soil occasionally, done
ㄴ No way... it can't be that simple
ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋ What's with the drift?
ㄴ Judak's stuff always seems impossible... so maybe?
Plus, the dead-simple usage helped.
What was medieval fertilizer?
Mostly human and animal shit.
Even that was scarce.
Parasite infections were a passive in status windows back then.
- Why no smell? What's this stuff?
- Looks like pellets, easy to spread, clean...
- Damn, saw it again, must worship...
Especially ag workers flipped hard.
Skeptical at first, now like crazy cult fanatics—no ignoring that.
One race reacted most wildly to the soil change.
- What's that~?
- Omg ; ㅇㅅㅇ;; Total game-changer
- Real king of kings what is this??
ㄴ Everyone at it again. Eat your rice
The dying World Tree elves.
Fullpi Elf: Judak what is this!!! / Unread
Juㄸkak Judak!! / Unread
ㅎㄴ32ㄷㄱㅇ / Unread
11 / Unread
1 / Unread
(Fullpi Elf sent a gift! Check it!) / Read
You bastard / Read
Judak☆: ㅋㅋ Sorry;
Soon after, message from Fullpi.
Fullpi Elf: (World Tree withering image)
Fullpi Elf: (Pests on World Tree image)
Fullpi Elf: Please help. If World Tree dies, all elves die!
Fullpi Elf: That fertilizer could save the World Tree!
Fullpi Elf: Anything, please!!@!
“Fertilizer won't cut it for this?”
I looked away from the gal to the cell corner.
F-Killer stared back proudly.
Bug killer for bugs, so for crops?
“Pesticides know the answer...”
Right there.
- Ah ㅋㅋ Wanna kill those buggy bastards
- Soil fertile now, bugs going wild...
- Sure, bugs are protein too
Perfect timing—pests started showing on transplanted crops in the now-fertile fields.
“Now?”
Spot-on timing.
I hit the shop, digging into pesticides and agrochem categories.