Chapter 280 Leaking Magic Power
Suddenly, there was a hurried knocking sound on the room's door. It was Amelia, carrying materials for potions and a mortar, along with Alicia, who was also holding some equipment.
"I heard Miss Sara collapsed. I brought the potion materials, tools, and a small distiller."
"That's a big help. Ah, that distiller is mine."
Rihito arranged the tools on Sara's desk, using the maidens as assistants to quickly mix the potion. He planned to create distilled water with magic, but with Alicia bringing the distiller, he could do several tasks at the same time.
The 3 of them quickly made the potion for Sara and handed it to Maria.
"Here you go, Milady. This is your medicine. Once you drink this, you should feel better. It will probably be very bitter, so please wake up and ask for Elma like you usually do."
Maria lifted Sara carefully, making sure the unconscious Sara wouldn't choke as she gently gave her the medicine.
"If this medicine works, it will temporarily lower Miss Sara's fever."
"Only temporarily?"
Robert asked Rihito with a serious expression.
"Right now, Miss Sara is going through a process of examining a vast amount of experiences, including memories from her past life, to adapt them to her current body. This is a very taxing process on her body, especially her brain, which is why she has a high fever."
"Is it something like a fever from overthinking?"
"Umm. It's a bit rough to call a sudden fever in infants 'wisdom fever.' The causes are various. That said, I have to admit that it is somewhat close to the symptoms of wisdom fever that Sir Robert imagines."
As Rihito tried to clean up the equipment he used to make the medicine, Amelia and Alicia took over, packing up the equipment and heading to the washing area with the help of a servant.
"The medicine from earlier has a slight effect of slowing down the brain's processing speed. I think it will lower to a mild fever for about half a day. If a high fever continues for too long, the body won't hold up, so for now, we just lowered the fever as a symptomatic treatment. However, this also means that memory processing will slow down, so the time until she wakes up will be longer."
"Why does it take longer to wake up?"
"It's because memory processing is prioritized, which puts most of the body's maintenance functions on hold. Even when people move or talk, their brains are processing various things."
"So, in other words, right now Sara is trying to remember and think about so many things that she doesn't have the energy to live her normal life?"
"That's right. When Miss Sara wakes up depends on when she decides to stop dwelling on problems that have no answers. If she gets stuck in a negative loop and keeps thinking about the same things, she may never wake up again."
In the next moment, a chill ran down Rihito's spine. Sara's magical power began to leak out.
"This is bad! Mike, Pochi, Sedrick, help me out. I'm sorry, but could you absorb Miss Sara's magical power?"
The fairies hurriedly approached Sara and began to drain her magical power. Small black panthers were being born one after another at Sedrick's feet.
"Mr. Rihito, what happened to Sara?"
Robert called out in a panic.
"There's a ridiculous amount of magic flowing into Miss Sara. Her body seems to sense a critical situation and is absorbing more and more magic. The amount exceeds what is needed for processing memories. Excess magical power is leaking out, and it's an unbelievable amount. This is not the magical power of an 8-year-old child. If she were conscious, she could use magic or channel her power into magical tools, but since she's unconscious, she can't release her magic on her own."
At that moment, Mike screamed.
"There's a limit to how much we can drain. We need to think about where to use this magical power."
As Mike muttered, Pochi reacted.
"Then let's quickly make some wheat. We were planning to make it until we run out of magic anyway."
"But there are no plants to use here. How are we going to move Miss Sara in this state? We can't use the fairy paths like we do!"
"I'll drain Sara's magic to the limit, fly around the area, and toss them into Sara's spatial storage. Mike and Sedrick can take them out at the wheat warehouse."
Rihito initially watched the fairies discussing this in silence, but as the conversation became more specific, he started to feel anxious.
"Um, can you tell me why you're talking about wheat?"
"Well, Pochi was planning to turn a lot of the bushes and weeds in the development area into wheat. We have no choice but to move it up."
"Um... Miss Sara's health aside, do you think doing something so unnatural will just make things worse, or is it just me?"
"I think this will be an exception. If we keep going like this, a lot of Roisen citizens will starve to death."
"W-What does that mean?"
Sedrick, who was in charge of information, carefully explained the current wheat problem happening in Avalon, Roisen, and the Coastal Union to Rihito, who didn't understand the situation.
"No, no, using fairy plant replacement should be done on a smaller scale, right? Like creating seeds that are hard to get. Why does Sara want to do it so boldly? And her magic power is insane."
"Right now, Miss Sara's magic power is greater than that of the king of this country."
"Sara is like a dragon."
"Yeah. I didn't want to hear that. What is it with this ultimate weapon vibe...?"
Rihito couldn't help but hold his head in his hands at Sedrick's explanation. In short, if they left Sara alone like this, the surrounding land could become a wasteland.
"I understand for now. You guys can also enter Miss Sara's storage space, right?"
"Yeah. Sara often asks us to help carry her stuff. It's obvious she has to use it."
"I see. Well, I guess it's a silver lining. Knowing Miss Sara, her capacity must be pretty large."
"Hmm. If it's a space that stops time to prevent deterioration, it could easily hold all of Grandchester territory."
"Then, isn't it fine if we don't take it out?"
Mike responded to Rihito's opinion.
"We're okay with that, but if Sara doesn't wake up for some reason, no one will be able to bring her back. Is that alright? I don't think Sara wants that."
The fairies are attached to Sara, but at the same time, they understand that since Sara is a living being, she will eventually face death. They just feel joy in being close to Sara and fulfilling her wishes.
"Well, that's true. Marquis Grandchester, it seems a large amount of wheat has arrived. Do you have any empty warehouses? The harvest in the territory is already finished, right?"
Robert answered this.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, we have plenty of space in the storage warehouse. Plus, we needed to have at least a facade of a warehouse, so the Sophia Merchant Guild should have some empty ones too."
"...I accidentally listened in, but this is confidential information about Grandchester, right? I realized I'm more involved than I can say about Miss Sara."
"Haha, with this, Mr. Paracelsus can't leave Grandchester now."
"Sir Robert, you have a bad smile."
"Oh, my apologies."
At that moment, Pochi interrupted.
"Robert, tell me the ratio of wheat types. We need to hurry, or Sara won't last!"
"That's serious!!"
Robert hurriedly told Pochi the ratio of wheat that could be harvested in Grandchester, and Pochi moved to the village where the ergot incident had occurred. She thought that if it was a thicket they would eventually develop, it wouldn't be a problem if it disappeared completely.
However, following Robert's advice, they moved a bit deeper into the area so that the settlers wouldn't notice, and they started converting plants into wheat, tossing them into the storage space in the direction where there were no people, away from the village.
Mike and Sedrick also decided to take out wheat from the Sophia Merchant Guild's warehouse as instructed by Robert. Pochi kept pulling out the wheat by type and organized it properly with the golems that were at the main residence.
Robert, who gave these instructions, decided to mobilize all the bureaucrats related to supplies, starting with Pollux, the agricultural officer, to begin organizing the storage warehouse first thing in the morning. He planned to accurately grasp the necessary amount of supplies and create documents to borrow the same amount of wheat from the Sophia Merchant Guild without interest. Of course, he also intended to arrange for the actual transportation of the wheat from the Sophia Merchant Guild to the storage warehouse.
Marquis Grandchester had the attendant waiting outside the room bring him writing tools to draft a letter, quickly writing to the king to obtain permission for wheat exports to Roisen. While he didn't specify the exact damage situation, he noted the pressure the Coastal Union was putting on Roisen and their actions against Grandchester, suggesting that Avalon might be the next target after Roisen.
"Well, if we don't get permission for the wheat export, we can just return it to Sara's storage to prevent spoilage and sell it as goods from the Sophia Merchant Guild. But if possible, I hope we can export it to Roisen. I don't want to see innocent people starving, even if they are from a neighboring country."
He decided to entrust this letter to Prince Andrew, who is scheduled to depart the next day.
Author: Mr. Rihito might have accidentally slowed down the processing speed, so we can't rule out the possibility of magic overflow! Isn't this a medical mistake!?
Rihito: No, if such a high fever continues, the body can't handle it. There's a chance of lasting damage.
Author: But the amount of magic was unexpected, right?
Rihito: Who would expect there to be a dragon!
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