Chapter 21: Food Catastrophe of the Demon King’s Territory

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“Little Ti?”

Three seconds after Ira asked so softly, a cute figure appeared in Ira’s room from blurry to clear. He knelt in front of him, who was reading a book, on one knee.

From the direction of the training ground, he captured the call of Ira, who he paid special attention to, through the Void World. Then, he shuttled in front of him. This process only took three seconds.

As expected, it was really a waste of talent to be a servant.

Tikap waited for Ira’s instructions, but after waiting for a long time without saying anything, the incubus looked up and discovered that he was only continuously sizing him up… He could not help but blush.

“I’m sorry, I’m just wondering if the mana of an incubus with such a natural Void World travel talent would be different from usual.”

Realizing that Tikap’s face had turned red, Ira hurriedly said. He walked behind him and looked at the cute male incubus whose body was a little stiff. He said, “Please don’t resist.”

As he spoke, Ira immediately sensed that his words could easily be misunderstood. Before the other party could think of anything else, he explained, “Next, I want to touch the special area of your body and extract a portion of mana.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ira reached out and grabbed Tikap’s tail…

“Ah ~”

“…”

Ignoring the other party’s strange cry, after Ira obtained a portion of the mana, he immediately let go. He ignored Tikap’s red face again and did not think about how the other party had felt just now.

Ira felt the mana circulating in the wing pillar and did not seem to discover anything different. No matter which wing pillar it stopped on, it was no different from an ordinary incubus.

“Little Ti?”

“Yes!”

“Where’s Celina now?”

Hearing Ira’s words, the cherry red on Tikap’s face that had yet to subside was stunned. He directly teleported and disappeared on the spot. About six seconds later, he reappeared and said, “In the kitchen, discussing the problem of ingredients with Mr. Rhyme.”

“Thank you. You can continue with your work.”

As Ira spoke, he walked out of the room. He was beginning to feel that the servant was useful, but it might be only limited to Little Ti… [Void World Travel] was really a very convenient ability.

“Ha ~ Hu ~”

Tikap calmed the throbbing in his heart like this. He took a deep breath and reached out to rub the place on his tail where Ira had grabbed him. His body gradually faded and disappeared from this room.

To be honest, the feeling of mana being extracted… was especially strange to the incubus.

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The kitchen door was not closed. As soon as she reached it, Ira heard Mr. Rhyme’s voice. He said in a helpless tone, “The little slime reported that the food reserves in the territory are seriously insufficient.”

“The ingredients in the Demon King City can barely support it, but the residents of the Demon King’s Territory no longer have any excess ingredients to eat. Eggs, cow milk, goat milk, and meat have almost been exhausted!”

From what Rhyme meant, it seemed that he was not only the chef in the castle. The slimes under him were also involved in the cooking of the food in the entire territory… and not simply leaving a portion of the ingredients for the residents.

However, there was a very important point in his words. Although the approximate amount would not be too much, did the demon residents usually have the chance to eat meat?!

What kind of terrifying place was this?!

Ira was a little shocked. If it was the Empire, the poor slaves would usually cry and be grateful for the gift if they could eat the white bread rewarded by the nobles.

In the end, all the demons of the Demon King’s Territory could eat meat.

“Not only that, there are only carrots left among the vegetables, and only carrots and cloud vegetables are left in the share of the castle. The meat and egg milk also have to be rationed. The residents of the Demon King’s Territory can only eat blue mushrooms and carrots every day after that. We have to wait at least six days for the caravan to arrive.”

It sounded like Rhyme was a little crazy as if the situation in the Demon King’s Territory was in a state where he had only enough main food (blue mushrooms), plenty of carrots, and other things.

It had to be said that they really cared about the situation of the residents of the territory…

Thinking of this, Ira narrowed his eyes. He could not help but have a good impression of this place in the Demon King’s Territory… Such concern, even if it was out of the thought of “protecting his assets”, made people feel comfortable.

Merchants were coming six days later?

If a country’s food source needed to be maintained by caravans, the structure of this country was extremely unstable… No, that did not seem to be the case.

Was there enough food, but what was insufficient was the diversity of food?

In the world of Ira’s past, in order to ensure food diversity, it was not uncommon for countries to be both food exporters and food importers… However, in this world, at the very least, the Empire did not need food imports.

The dwarves had to continuously import food because many crops on their side could not be grown.

Moreover, if those races and the territories under the control of the Demon King did not enter this unrecoverable state, they should pay the harvest to the Demon King’s Territory.

If there was no war, they would also have a stable trade route with the elves, dwarves, and orcs, so they did not have to wait for the caravan to arrive… Generally speaking, it was possible that the caravan did not bring enough trade food.

However, the demons of the Demon King’s Territory could just eat blue mushrooms.

If it was humans, it was very easy to rebel from a high-quality life to a low-quality one. However, with the inexplicable loyalty of the demons, unless the boss of their race rebelled, they would obediently wait for death even if they had nothing to eat.

This was the concept of race.

As for the bosses of the various races in the Demon King’s Territory, who were the few he had seen in the morning court, no matter how he thought about it, no one would rebel, so he did not have to worry about this at all.

At the very least, Ira felt that they could definitely let the subjects endure for the time being.

“It’s indeed a very bad situation.”

As Celina spoke, she also took this situation seriously and said, “I’ll report it to the Demon King. It seems that the formation of the hunting team needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible. I’ll explain this to everyone at the morning court meeting tomorrow.”

“I understand.”

In response, Rhyme seemed to think of something. He continued, “When can Mr. Ira’s fertilizer be used? What’s the approximate harvest for the next quarter?”

Unfortunately, Celina was not very clear about this question. As she walked out of the kitchen, she replied, “I’m not sure, but next quarter… the harvest will definitely be much better than now.”

Hearing Celina’s words, Rhyme looked relieved. He said, “Thank Mr. Ira for me… No, I’ll thank Mr. Ira personally later.”

“The entire Demon King’s Territory should thank… Lord Ira?”

Walking out of the kitchen, Celina saw Ira waiting outside. She was first stunned by surprise, then regained her maid etiquette. As she bowed, she asked him, “Good afternoon, Lord Ira. Are you here to see Mr. Rhyme?”

“No, I’m here to find you.”

Ira went straight to the point. “Let me touch your tail.”

“…”

“Eh?!”

“No, that’s not what I meant. Please give me some of your mana.”

Amidst Celina’s shy surprise, he corrected her calmly…

However, it was actually a little strange to say this.