32 Cut

"Well, well. It's heavy, but I have to do it."

When I came back to the village and packed my things.

I have to do something that doesn't feel very good from now on.

It was a task of cutting the horns of a service beast.

All three of the Valkyrie species dedicated to the noble Fontana family were cut off.

I suddenly wonder if I didn't have to cut three heads.

But I couldn't complain at the scene, I could only look at it.

As my father was worried about, we also need to make sure that the horned beast doesn't die of debilitation.

I've been worried about this for days, but there's no point in postponing it until I get back to the village.

If you're going to do it, you'll have to do it quickly.

So I decided to cut the horn of the beast.

I raised Valkyrie the first time, and then I raised five beasts the second time.

Of those five, two were hatched from eggs with direct magic.

The other three were given Magic Injection by the first Valkyrie and hatched.

And this time, I dedicated three of them to the nobility that Valkyrie raised.

In other words, there are two of them that I grew up with.

This time I decided to cut the corner of one of these heads.

The reason is simple.

Because I thought we could compare the course of each one by cutting off one horn and the other beast under the same conditions.

If cutting the horn is obviously premature, you should stop cutting the horn.

When I first used the metal blade I bought in the city, I cut the corner of the creature...

But when I think about it, I think I've cut deer horns in my previous life.

Sure, if there were horns, there would have been a problem with deer fighting each other in those horns, leading to serious injuries.

For now, I don't see any fights between the beasts who were born, but that may happen in the future.

Above all, I thought it might be better to think of the service beast as a commodity livestock rather than a pet-like family member.

Maybe you shouldn't name it too naughty.

"All right, let's do it. I'm sorry, but please be patient and don't get mad."

That's how I started to cut corners with a white hair standing quietly.

It was very difficult to cut two corners with a good hardness.

But you understand what I'm saying, you stubborn beast.

And finally, the second horn fell on the ground.

"Hmm. I didn't expect this to happen...."

A few days have passed since I cut off the horns of the Service Beast.

For now, the individual with the horn cut is fine.

There is no particular tendency to complain of illness and be weak.

In the meantime, I was relieved to say that there seemed to be nothing.

But then a new fact came to light.

It turns out that the Horned Individual can no longer use magic.

Not only the original magic I use [leveling] and [soil improvement], but also the life magic [drinking water] could no longer be used.

When I happened to witness an individual with horns drinking water, I finally realized that magic was out of use.

What has happened to this?

What we now know is that while individuals with horns still use all magic, individuals without horns do not use magic at all.

However, when I concentrated my magic on my eyes and observed the Servant Beast, it didn't seem that the magic was gone from the flesh.

Is it a word that explains the current situation that there is magic but it is not usable?

As a matter of fact, this is something I learned later, but it seems that the same can happen to humans.

Of course, humans don't grow horns.

Instead, they say humans can't use magic if they lose both hands.

This is what my father told me, but on rare occasions on the battlefield some people lose both hands, and they will spend the rest of their lives without magic.

Lifestyle magic, such as Lighting and Ignition , may not be activated without a hand, considering that you can cast a spell after pointing your finger at the place where you want to activate the magic.

And for Valkyries, horns may play that role instead of hands.

"... this might be valuable information in a way..."

Cut the corners of the Valkyries and you won't be able to use magic.

This information seems to have only disadvantages, but it seemed to me to have disadvantages.

Because I remembered that a merchant said he had never heard of a magical beast.

I may be there, but I can't imagine what would happen if magic seeds suddenly appeared in the non-magical service animal industry.

It may cause trouble.

But there's a bigger problem than that.

This is because I raised a kind of servant beast named Valkyrie that can be mass produced using the magic of Magic Injection as long as there are only servant beast eggs.

Because I'm the only one who can raise you, you need to buy it from me.

If you can mass produce the same Valkyrie beast without me, you won't need to buy it from me.

In other words, it means that my exclusive profits will disappear.

"All right, let's cut the horns of every beast we sell to a merchant."

So I decided to cut two horns before shipping the Service Beast.

Since the appearance after the cut is hidden in the body hair and the cut marks are not even visible, it looks like a creature similar to the horse of the previous life, and I even think that it was originally born in this shape.

If there was no impact on life expectancy, I decided to continue this corner-cutting work.