Chapter 32

The monsters have invaded the land.

Then we just have to fight the monsters.

But when famine strikes, we end up battling the allies and comrades we fought alongside.

Nothing is more sorrowful than not being able to eat.

Title: Come See the Cherished Field I Made!

(Drought- cracked field meme)

If you’ve seen it, get lost.

– The field where the spirits are alive, it’s so dry ㄷㄷ

– How can it crack like that and still be so perfectly round?

ㄴ It’s like the gods decided to poke my field with a scepter or something?

ㄴ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ f*ck

– Author) It’s just that the soil is trash.

ㄴ Blaming the soil for not being able to grow anything.

ㄴ Where did you farm this?

ㄴ Author) Fron.

ㄴ It’s freezing cold there, right?

ㄴ What were you expecting to grow well with that?

ㄴ Author) f*ck, then where should I do it?

After cracks formed on the existing land, everyone started to cultivate new fields.

But there’s a reason why those places have never been fields before.

– Ah, this is boring, I’m out ㅅㄱ

ㄴ Don’t leave!

ㄴ If you leave, the gallery is done for.

Most people tasted the bitter fruit of failure in their farming attempts.

The soil lacked nutrients.

There were two options left.

1. Face off against randomly generated monster plants while farming monster plant meat and doing double labor.

2. Pour all stats into hunting monsters and take the hardcore difficulty route to tank the build.

Title: Nah, ㅋㅋ I’m not doing what you want~

(Meme of a clown spreading arms and smiling brightly)

Just end it if it gets bad~

– Please, just stop with the rage…

– Big decision, stop!

– Do you know what the opposite of suicide is?

It’s living, ㅋㅋ So you should think big and live too, right?

ㄴ What kind of ridiculous nonsense is this?

ㄴ This is practically shoving it while mocking.

ㄴ Author) D*ckhead, ㅋㅋ

ㄴ Ah, ㅋㅋ survived by scraping through.

ㄴ So this is what it was all for, ㅋㅋ

“Oh, so it’s three now.”

The grim reality remained unchanged.

Moreover, when the food crisis hit, people even began to touch what they couldn’t eat.

– You can just peel the bark and boil the insides, ㅇㅇ

– How to eat grass roots.jpg

– Mud is somewhat edible too.

To prevent this situation, I set the lowest price at the marketplace and released the lowest-priced products.

Instant noodles that used to cost 300 won per serving were a prime example, and for drinking water…

“This isn’t negotiable?”

No matter how cheap I tried to set it, there were limits.

So, I had to just sprinkle tap water.

– It’s water!

– The Head of the Gallery has gone mad!

– No, this water price is insane, why is it so cheap?

– Damn, it’s that Head of the Gallery again… I must worship him…

In another world, magic wasn’t such a rare subject.

If you boiled the tap water with fire magic, it wouldn’t matter; this alone could solve the immediate problem.

– Head of the Gallery☆) Just make sure to boil it, okay?

– Head of the Gallery☆) Or you’ll get a stomachache, ㅇㅇ;

Of course, things like germs were neither known nor acknowledged here.

But at minimum, people knew from long experience that boiling it would hurt less.

“That’s common sense.”

So, I just left a note saying to boil it.

ㄴ Are you really an angel?

ㄴ Wow… really wow.

ㄴ Head of the Gallery special) Even after giving such clear water for free, you still worry about giving someone a stomachache.

– Head of the Gallery, I used to drink rainwater and stagnant water because there was none before you came, but I’m fine.

ㄴ I’ve even drunk muddy water, ㅋㅋ

ㄴ For real, I’ve been chased by monsters and drank like a dog, and that amount is just holy water, ㅇㅇ

– The Head of the Gallery is just so damn nice.

ㄴ The brat only knows the Head of the Gallery…

ㄴ Thanks to the Head of the Gallery, I’ve gained strength and even got revenge on that monster bastard.

ㄴ For real, I’d be willing to die for the Head of the Gallery.

At first, I thought it was a joke, but feelings toward me were deepening.

Is a strange religion going to really form around this?

“Well, that’s a bit much.”

I dismissed the useless thoughts and looked for Gallum, the knight who had saved me last time.

He was a knight of the Adrian Empire and was now leading the Adrian Revolutionary Army.

So far, he seemed trustworthy.

He had just gained his knight title and decided to help the commoners instead, so there was that.

“The kid is nice.”

Title: Knight Gallum, come here!

Author: Head of the Gallery☆

(Meme of sacks piled like a mountain)

– Lloyd) What is this?

– Head of the Gallery☆) This?

If I solved the immediate issue, it was time to teach how to catch fish.

– Head of the Gallery☆) Everything.

All the answers were right here.

The overpowered magic that multiplied the limited population of a failing game by several times, the Haber Law.

One of the resulting products was nitrogen fertilizer.

– Lloyd) Oh sh*t, this is fertilizer.

ㄴ Lloyd) I love it!!

– What?

– Fertilizer…?

– F*ck, I want one too!

The other Gallum, who was listening to the conversation, began to react vigorously as well.

They weren’t ignorant of the reason either.

The old soil had cooldowns; it couldn’t be continuously farmed like in modern times.

– Lloyd) I will gratefully receive this…

– Lloyd) But what is nitrogen?

ㄴ For real, I’ve never heard of nitrogen as fertilizer.

ㄴ Isn’t it all the same as poop when you think of fertilizer?

That’s when the question came in.

– Head of the Gallery☆) Oh, that?

– Head of the Gallery☆) There’s this nitrogen in the air, and it’s in a triple bond. You have to break it with a strong force to make an ammonia compound to use it. That’s called nitrogen fixation, and that’s how it transforms…

I was going to explain somewhat, seeing they just expected to use it as is.

– Lloyd) ???

– Ammonia? Nitrogen fixation?

ㄴ I don’t know what it is, but it sounds cool, ㅇㅇ

ㄴ It sounds like a top-tier magic name.

– Do the magicians understand it?

ㄴ Ugh… shamefully, I don’t get it…

ㄴ They say he’s a Great Magician, so it must be true… not a single word understood…

ㄴ How advanced magic could it be that no one understands…

“Seriously, you magicians of all trades.”

They misunderstood in a completely different direction.

If I could really use such godlike magic, wouldn’t I have played a game like protecting my dignity in the rabbit hole?

A slight misstep could flip the genre upside down, making sleep unobtainable.

But explaining it as not being the case was just a hassle.

So, I opted for a compromise and explained.

– Head of the Gallery☆) Well, something like that ㅇㅇ…

ㄴ Isn’t this skill you made?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery☆) It was created by a guy named Fritz Haber.

ㄴ Oh! Then what sort of magic did that Great Magician develop?

ㄴ Head of the Gallery☆) Making bread from air.

ㄴ What?

ㄴ Are you insane?

– Then!!! What’s your relationship with that Great Magician, or that transcendent being, Head of the Gallery!!!

“Umm.”

The population limit that had been blocked by Fritz Haber’s research was released from 2 billion to 8 billion.

So, essentially, I could also say I was a product of Fritz Haber’s research.

– Head of the Gallery☆) Product.

After stating the facts, I posted it.

“Now, I guess I’ll have to wait about a month…”

Using the fertilizer doesn’t instantly improve the quality of the soil.

While waiting, there was only one thing I could do.

“Guess I’ll just do some gallery work.”

Lying on a bed made of straw, I began my day of gallery work.

Of course, it was something I did daily.

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Concept post) Before and after comparing nitrogen magic.jpg

(An image of parched, lifeless soil)

(An image of rich, dark brown soil, seemingly alive)

Magic used: Nitrogen Magic

Casting time: One month (Other actions available)

Effect: Transforms dying land into the most fertile soil.

In my life, I haven’t seen soil this fertile very often.

Standing here alone makes me feel so good; it’s the best;

For real, I think you could just scatter some seeds and they would automatically grow.

– Wow, I’d believe this is just a different meme.

– I’m a farmer and I feel so happy I could go insane.

ㄴ For real, am I allowed to even touch this? That thought crosses my mind, ㅋㅋ I’m freaking happy!!!!!

– Ahh, just gullible Gallums, ㅋ

ㄴ ㅋㅋ Do you think it could just happen like that?

ㄴ For real, even a few high-ranking magicians would probably die just using the mana… ㅋㅋ

ㄴ Lloyd) But it doesn’t use mana, right?

ㄴ Does that make sense? No matter how much it’s the Head of the Gallery…

ㄴ I even have a proof-of-use meme too.

ㄴ (Meme of actually using fertilizer)

ㄴ F*ck, how did you do that?

ㄴ My apologies.

ㄴ Turns out you really were a little girl Great Magician.

For a month, the marketplace was filled with lowest-price related items.

Most relied on the marketplace to solve the food crisis, and astonishingly, my income was also modest.

“Didn’t the companies sell low-priced items for no reason?”

Even the Gallums, who used to shed tears feeling the lack of mana pills, bought them up saying they were great.

Thanks to this, I got to see a profit that was slightly higher, not even lower than before.

– So, what’s the usage?

ㄴ Lloyd) 1. Sprinkle it 2. Occasionally mix in some soil, that’s it.

ㄴ Doesn’t that sound like… it shouldn’t be possible, right?

ㄴ ㅋㅋ What even is drifting?

ㄴ Because what the Head of the Gallery has shown so far has really been shocking… you never know, right?

Furthermore, the ease of the usage played a big part.

What was medieval fertilizer like?

Mainly using human waste and animal dung.

And even that was often scarce.

Thanks to this, parasites were basically a passive feature of life in the medieval times.

– Why doesn’t it smell, what is this?

– It looks like it’s granulated, so it’s easy to sprinkle, and not dirty at all…

– D*mm, I’ve seen it and I’m forced to worship…

The change among agricultural workers was remarkable.

The first reactions were skeptical, but they transformed into rabid fanatics, making it impossible not to take an interest.

Among them, the race that showed the most intense reactions after witnessing the soil change was the elves dying under the World Tree.

– What the heck is that?

– Wow; ㅇㅅㅇ;; this is totally epic.

– This is truly amazing, what is it??

ㄴ They’re all saying that again. Just eat your rice.

Full-Peel Elf: What is this, Head of the Gallery!!! / Not read

Jokester Head of the Gallery!! / Not read

h3s32r / Not read

11 / Not read

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(Full-Peel Elf sent a gift! Check it out!) / Read

You jerk / Read

Head of the Gallery☆: ㅋㅋ I’m sorry;

And soon, I received a message from the Deputy of the Gallery.

Full-Peel Elf: (Image of the World Tree wilting)

Full-Peel Elf: (Image of pests on the World Tree)

Full-Peel Elf: Please help. If the World Tree dies, all elves will die!

Full-Peel Elf: If we have that fertilizer, we can save the World Tree!

Full-Peel Elf: I’ll do anything, so please!!@!

“This can’t be fixed with just fertilizer…”

I took my eyes off the gallery and looked at the corner of the iron bars.

There stood F-Killa, staring boldly at me.

Insects need insecticides, so what about crops?

“Pesticide knows the answer…”

The answer lies right there.

– Ah, ㅋㅋ I want to kill those damn bugs.

– Now that the ground is rich, the bugs are going crazy…

– ㄱㅊ Bugs are protein too.

Just then, as if the newly fertilized crops were being moved, pests began to appear one by one on top of them.

“Now’s the time?”

It was a perfect timing.

I started browsing the shop under the pesticide and insecticide categories.