CH 111.1

“The people in the city were screaming about the birth of a hero, but the man himself is living life at his own pace.”

Translated by Dawn

“The people in the city were screaming about the birth of a hero, but the man himself is living life at his own pace.”

A few days had passed since the attack of the demons, and the people of Orargrand, who were panicked by the sudden attack of the demons, had regained their composure. Many things had happened in the past few days, and even I could not hide my bewilderment.

First of all, the inhabitants of the city now recognized my face. Due to the battle with the demons, my face became known in the blink of an eye through rumors spread by the soldiers and adventurers protecting the town, and now there was not a day that went by that I was not accosted as a hero when I walked outside.

When I first saved the town, I was constantly being solicited by adventurers for parties, but that had stopped and I was back to my normal life as an adventurer. However, rumors of people’s lives never cease, and the fact that I was the owner of the Greg Trading Company became known, and the number of customers visiting the company increased even more.

The combination of the popularity of the products we were initially selling and the excitement of the birth of a hero resulted in a tremendous amount of accessories being produced per day.

In particular, the production of the scrunchie, despite being priced at a slightly higher level, was sold out in a single day. The number of golems in the workshop was increasing day by day, and now the number of golems in operation at the workshop exceeded one hundred.

“[Duplication], [Duplication], [Duplication]…”

What I was doing now was securing raw materials for the products we sell at Greg Trading Company. Let me talk about the general understanding of magic and alchemy in this world.

Generally speaking, magic was a mysterious phenomenon that creates natural things such as fire and water out of nothing, or simply put, it was the art of creating something out of nothing.

On the other hand, alchemy was generally understood to be a technique to apply some process to an already existing object, such as refining to separate iron ore into iron ingots and other impurities. The same could be said for smithing. Of course, since the process of creating iron ingots from iron ore could be done by blacksmithing, it might be easier to understand “Duplication” as a technique that could only be done by alchemy, in which the same object was created as the one that originally existed.

Through [Alchemy Modification], which I learned within the Nagartinya’s barrier, I became able to use the technique of [Duplication] and was able to copy the same object that originally existed.

In a famous alchemist manga, when something was created from nothing in alchemy, the price must be the same value as the thing to be created, which was the basis of equivalent exchange. In this world, however, the price paid for using alchemy was only magical power or materials related to the object to be created, and even if it failed, there was no penalty.

And the work I was doing with the Duplication was the mass production of magic quartz. Among the magic quartz that I had obtained, I selected a fairly large one, and just kept on duplicating it. I’d been doing this for the past few days, and when I came to realize it, I had developed the skill of [Increased speed of magic power recovery].

The objects to be duplicated were magic quartz, dark magic ore, Poison Mine Spider’s thread, iron ore, silver ore, fabrics purchased at the market, etc. The amount of magic power consumed to duplicate each of these items was negligible, but when it was in the thousands or tens of thousands, the amount of magic power consumed was not insignificant.

“Fuu, it’s not hard, but it’s a chore…….okay, let’s automate this one, too.”

Saying so, I immediately created several golems that used only [Duplicate] and immediately replaced them. With this, they would continue to mass-produce materials forever as long as their magic power lasted.

In order to prevent them from running out of magic power immediately, I put a considerable amount of magic power into the magic stones of the monsters in the deeper areas that I defeated when I left Nagartinya’s barrier and instructed them to replenish their magic power with the magic stones when they were about to run out of magic power.

I did a lot of things from the start, but this was not what I wanted to do today; I wanted to cook something new for the first time in a while. Recently, there had been a bargain sale of troublesome things with stupid nobles for bone dragons, and demons, so in order to do what I wanted to do here at a leisurely pace, I moved from the workshop to my mansion where the kitchen was located.

“Well, it’s been a while, but let’s get started! Let’s go, let’s go, Rolando’s Cooking Corner!”

Suddenly, it started with the title call of some program, but to put it simply, it was just cooking. And the dish was……panda…….not, it was bread.

The bread that had been my staple food until now was called black bread made from rye and other ingredients, and it tasted so bad compared to the bread that I had eaten in my previous life.

In particular, it was incredibly hard and tough to chew through. Nevertheless, I managed to eat it by sandwiching ingredients such as steak with black bread, but this time I decided to improve the bread situation, which was my staple food.

“Truly, it would be great to have some rice, but I haven’t found it yet.”

It was no exaggeration to say that rice was the soul food of the Japanese people, but at present, I had not been able to discover it. I did not know whether there was no such thing as rice in this world itself, or whether it exists but was not eaten in this world, but if it did exist, I would like to find it by all means possible.

However, since I had not found rice, I decided to give priority to improving bread, which was the staple food in this world. So, I immediately started baking bread.

“Let’s make delicious bread~, let’s make bread that lives~… I wouldn’t risk my life to make it though.” (+)

The preparation of the bread was done with phrases that I had heard somewhere before. The first step was the preparation of yeast for making soft bread.

Yeast, which was used to make soft, well-flavored bread. I often heard of yeast, but this time I was going to try a fruit-based yeast.

Boil an appropriate jar and dry it to remove the water. Fill the jar with an appropriate amount of water, and then put the fruit into the jar and let it stand for a while. This time, I would try using apples.

If I leave it as it stands, it would take three or four days, so to shorten the time, I used my specialty magic to bring it to a fermented state. Using Conversion Magic, which was a higher level of Space-Time Magic, the time required for fermentation was skipped, and in an instant, it changed to a state in which air bubbles were generated……the so-called fermented state.

Start scraping this with a cloth with a rough texture, and put some of the remaining apples in with the scraped ones. This completes the yeast used to make the bread.

The next step was to prepare the flour for making the bread flour. As a result of my visits to the market over the past few days, I was able to obtain some wheat, so I quickly worked my magic on this as well to make it into a good quality flour.

“I knew magic would come in handy.”

Admiring the fact that a process that took so much time and effort in my previous life on earth could be done with just one magic trick, I moved on to the next process.

Flour, water, and fermented yeast were added to a wooden bowl, and the time was shortened by magic to promote fermentation. Whenever the fermentation was complete, I would add more flour and water to make a certain amount of dough.

Store the finished product in a separate container. Now that the yeast was complete, it was ready to be used each time bread was made.

Add about one-tenth the amount of bread flour to the flour, then added water, salt, and sugar, knead well, and use magic to stimulate the first fermentation. The dough was then shaped and placed in a thick-bottomed iron square container prepared in advance, again using magic to promote final fermentation.

Once the fermentation was complete, all that remained was to bake the dough in the oven, but since it was difficult to adjust the temperature, this too was done by magic. Since I wanted to make sure the first baking was done properly, I took about 30 minutes.

“It was cooked well~”

After 30 minutes, the baking process was completed and the bread was removed from the container. I cut out a piece of bread and immediately decided to try it.

“Then, itadakimasu…nom, nom.”

The moment I put it in my mouth, the soft texture and sweet taste spread in my mouth. It was unmistakably the bread I had eaten in a previous life. The nostalgic texture and taste made me unintentionally reach for the next piece.

“I think the bread situation has improved for now. Next time, let’s use this bread to make that.”

I muttered to myself, and immediately took out what I needed from the storage. What I took out was, to my surprise, an egg. This was also obtained at the market.

The first step was to boil the eggs, which was also done by magically creating water, boiling it with fire magic, and then plunging the eggs into the water. After a few minutes, the eggs were removed and cracked open to find that they were well-cooked. Yes, it was a boiled egg.

Next, the boiled egg was chopped into small pieces, seasoned with salt and pepper, and placed between two pieces of bread to complete everyone’s favorite “egg sandwich.”

“Now for the real food. Nom…”

What did it taste like? Well, you didn’t need to ask me. After that, I mass-produced egg sandwiches to some extent and stocked them in Storage. Now that I had transformed from Space-Time Magic to Conversion Magic, there was no limit to the storage capacity, so from now on, I could store an almost unlimited amount of things. I missed the days when I used to operate with a magic bag in the beginning.

After I had finished mass-producing the bread and egg sandwiches, I noticed a reaction from the security golem I had deployed outside, so I used Remote Viewing to take a look outside and found a crowd near the entrance.

It seemed that they had been caught by the delicious smell of the bread I had made, and although they were blocked by the golems and had not entered the premises as expected, a considerable number of people were rushing in.

“I’ll have to watch out for the smell next time…”

I ate the finished egg sandwich like a hamster, taking into account what I would have to do next time.