The Magus of Genesis

Episode 18: Pastoral Farming

"Sig, it's that way!

"Leave it to me!

Answering Mr. Purple's sharp voice, Sig, who stood in front of the fleeing deer, widened his arms wide.

"I'm strong!

As he steps on his feet with the spell, it sounds heavy and strong, unlike its tiny body. It is proof that fortification magic is firmly in place.

Now that he's grown up with Amata's teachings and is able to use enhanced magic...

"Wow!

It didn't work.

I looked up to heaven as Sig danced through the universe with a big poke up by a deer horn.

As he lowered his neck, the deer easily destroyed the wooden fence and ran away.

"Are you okay? Sig…………………"

"Yeah……………."

When he spoke, he rose to his senses.

His body, covered in all-body scales, is only sturdy with origami.

"Sorry."

"No, I don't have a choice. I knew I couldn't do it. It's not Sig's fault."

Not as a consolation. Just as a fact, I said so.

Sig isn't the only one who couldn't stop a deer at all. Because the same was true of Yuki, Mr. Purple, and Lin and Luca.

Beginning with a special classroom, ten years this year. Farmers developed extremely well, while livestock was barely doing well. The creatures of this world are too strong.

Of course, they're not the only ones who are strong. It's not very hard to keep this one in check, either. But when it came to catching him alive, the difficulty jumped as soon as possible.

It is almost impossible to cultivate it, even if it is viewed with even greater difficulty. If it's just a wooden fence, it's easy to destroy it and get away with it, and most importantly, the wildlife doesn't get used to people.

No matter how much you feed and take care of him, you will not forgive him or her, and as long as there is a gap to escape, he will quickly escape.

"Isn't it good with ravioli? I like it, Rabbit."

"Mm-hmm. But hey."

If Nina does it, she'll push the rabbit. Raptors are the only creatures that have succeeded in raising them. Even so, it's the same thing I don't miss about people, so it's hard to say that I succeeded in domesticating them. I'm just saying that a fence that can't be broken by the power of a rabbit could have been built.

However, there were fewer rabbit eating areas than I thought. Most of its appearance is fluffy hair. There are also many bones, and the amount of food that can be eaten is small for the very difficult amount of underwear. For one thing, there's no way to eat delicious without the hassle of it.

"Also, I'd love to have a blood-baked one."

"It's common to fail and cut your finger when cooking, but if you can cut your finger to cook, I'm sorry. I'd love to."

I said as I shook my head to Nina, who wandered with a sweet voice sometime before. Blood-burning is a method of cooking red dragon blood and burning ravioli from the body. The ravioli heated from the inside burns out the hair and completely goes through the fire, making the bones brittle enough to be eaten together. Nina says it's the best way to eat ravioli.

But this cooking method cannot be reproduced, of course, by magic, in a normal fire. Nina had been a lot of trial and error, but in the end she just found out that she had to use my blood.

"Now, you couldn't do it all…………………."

With his ears and tail hanging slowly, Luca put a big bat mark on the wooden plank in her hand. Big antlers, six-legged goats, horny mountain cats, tooth pigs. I tried to raise scaly frogs and large round worms, but none of them worked.

"Later...... armored bear?

"There's no way you can."

Nina suggests with a serious look, but this is a joke. She has a habit of giving a more serious look than she does when she makes jokes. Sure, armored bears are surprisingly delicious, but they are beasts among beasts. There's no way I can keep you locked up for what you think. Instead of a fence, even Ogi is such a monster that it folds easily.

"So, on the contrary... what about rats?

On the other hand, I was still worried about whether that was a joke from Mr. Purple, who said it with a serious look. Normally, it's nothing but a joke, but she's quite natural.

"The rats can't be trapped, and if they're trapped, you're not in this much trouble."

"Oh... if you ask me, that's true."

Apparently he meant it. Mr. Purple leaned his neck in embarrassment.

Rats are more of a problem than animals don't make it.

It would be nice if farming was working better, but I had great difficulty preserving it.

Rats eat preserved potatoes and wheat.

I also tried to build a high-floor warehouse based on my vague knowledge and make a rat return, but it was completely useless. The rats of this world will also be torn apart by rat repossession. Anyway, it's too aggressive.

It seems that it is vulnerable to low temperatures on boulders. If it is left in the ice room, it will be safe, but this time the wheat and potatoes will be hit at low temperatures. There is nothing I can't eat, but the texture becomes very bad due to the crunchiness.

The cat, which was popular as a pet in the world of previous life, was originally a livestock introduced with rat control, he said. I also tried to raise a horny mountain cat in anticipation of that, but it was a complete failure. That beast is more troublesome than an armored bear when it does poorly. The movement was extremely agile, the personality was extremely fierce, and the injured were about to leave.

In my memory, livestock and farming should have occurred almost at the same time, but I never saw any difference in difficulty. Well, it could be a unique problem in this world, and even at the same time, it's a story from thousands of BC. Though there could have been a difference of about a hundred or two hundred years.

"Livestock is really hard for a teacher not to make it..."

I had a complicated feeling about Luca, who frowned and said she was in trouble.

Says the oldest livestock in mankind was a dog. Its ancestors are more of a kind of wolf... than they call a wolf a dog who has been nostalgic and livestock to people. They were good friends of humanity until the modern age when I lived.

But there are no wolves in this world. There are no wolves, even though there are cat-like species, bear-like species, goats and deer. It's half a wolf like the girl in front of you. Speaking of which, you don't even have a horse. I have half a horse.

I don't know if the half race has filled the niche where the original seed should be, or if it has all evolved into half a person. But it seemed certain that he was not there.

They will be better friends of humanity than dogs. Extremely friendly, serene, intelligent race.... but too clever to treat livestock. Because it's no different from people.

Though I do not know if that will be fortunate or unhappy for mankind... or for them.

"Uh, I wish there were animals that wouldn't run away, right?

"Do you have any good ideas?

Sig asked Lin, who raised her voice unexpectedly. He used to deny Lynn's opinion without a headache, but he hasn't lately. I guess that means he's a little grown up, too.

"Yeah! You know, Behemoth!

"You're forced to!

On the arrow tip of that thought, Sig immediately truncated Lynn's opinion.

"I don't know if I can do that on a boulder... it's too big."

"It's going to be hard to build a fence that can surround it."

That being said, Sig wasn't the only one who thought so. Luca and Mr. Purple agree with him gently, too.

"Behemoth... Behemoth?"

I thought of Behemoth, who I once saw. Large mouth with long fangs. A cow-like horn on a face that adds molluscs and rhinos.

Although I have never measured it, its height is at least ten meters. He has a length of 20 or 30 meters. Almost four times the size of an African elephant. It's like having a silona gas whale on land.

- Although.

"You..."

Jito stares at me with her half-eyed eyes.

"You want to try it."

My thoughts were perfectly revealed.

No, 'cause I want you to think about it.

Is there a man who wouldn't be excited to have a creature like a dinosaur?

"Uh, seriously? Doctor..."

I say it with an unbelievable look on my face even though I can't believe Sig.

I was here. Besides, the man looked like a dinosaur himself.

He doesn't solve something called romance. Well, Rome is not in this world.

"Why? Sounds so funny! Brother, I want to try!