I kissed the statue at the beginning and I vomited all over the floor

On the north side of the gray haze forest, a human figure who had escaped from the frozen plains was shaking off the snow on his body.

The flying snow covered the faces of several little squirrels watching the fun nearby.

"Oops, sorry, sorry, I didn't see you little guys."

After saying this, the human figure stood up and adjusted and fixed the heavy weapons behind him.

"I remember the druids' order was... aha, let me throw a branch to find out the direction,"

After irresponsibly confirming the direction, this unruly-looking figure walked deep into the forest.

Behind him, a chilly breath drifted into the forest on the north wind.

The squirrels, who had finally cleaned the snow off their faces, sensed some unspeakable danger and started screaming and running away.

……

In the Oak Hall, Ivan, who didn't know how to use magic to keep warm, sat by the burning fireplace, warming himself by the fire and chatting with Xiling.

In his opinion, letting the half-elf lady replace Bol to handle government affairs was a terrible decision.

Xiling's administrative ability is not as good as Philohill, who works as a clerk next to her.

Regardless of whether this long-legged, cold-tempered half-elf is capable of doing the job, Xiling has the habit of trapping herself as a pendant when she starts working.

Wouldn't this definitely delay my plan of imagining a life of cheats in another world?

I finally figured out how to cook in a big stew pot...

Alas, there is no way, who made Xiling a leg beauty with a queen-like voice...

After shaking his head and thinking about random things for a while, Alvin spoke.

"What was the first question?"

The expression under the hood of a certain half-elf lady was unpredictable.

You didn't even understand what the question was, and you spent a long time pretending to be in deep thought.

Do you think my stick is not hard enough?

With patience, Xiling repeated the problems facing the station. Although this human had a bad personality, he was indeed smart.

"Due to the Priest's self-willed behavior and your extravagance, the food in the base is now in short supply and only enough to sustain for ten days."

"Me? How could I be extravagant?

Xiling, you can’t slander someone just because they have long legs!”

"Alia said you took a lot of ingredients from the warehouse and made several big pots of black stuff."

"..."

"I heard from Senna that she didn't even want to touch the scavengers she summoned..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Leave some room for yourself, for the future..."

"Please speak Common!"

Philohil swiped his chin with the end of the quill pen and looked at the two little ones with a smile.

After a while of thinking under the coercion of the spear stick, Alvin suddenly asked Xiling back.

"Do you want to solve the food problem in the long term, or do you want to just get through the winter in the short term?"

"Ok?"

Xiling, who had never thought about the long or short term, was stunned by the question again.

“If it’s just short term, it’s easy.

We sent people to ask the Wasteland Tribe for food. Although they don’t have much food, it should be no problem to provide food for 50 people.”

Ivan held out his hand, enjoying the warmth of the fireplace.

“But this will make us dependent on the element of survival.

To put it bluntly, if the orcs in the wasteland are unhappy one day, or if the cult recruits too many people at once, we will still face the same problem. "

Hearing this, Philohill, who had been silent nearby, suddenly brightened up his eyes.

"Sir Ivan, do you mean to make the base capable of producing large quantities of food?"

“No, to be precise this is just one of the purposes;

If we want to solve the problem of insufficient supplies in the base in the long run, we must start by revising the doctrine analysis. "

"what?!"

Now, Philohill was also stunned.

She had just become a druid not long ago, and those concise and clear interpretations of the doctrines were her "enlightenment readings" for understanding the doctrines. She had finally memorized them all...

“Have you noticed that the teachings are usually simple and pure, that everything has spirits and everything is balanced.

The analysis is about the complex rules and principles of action, and it is very narrow compared to the original point of view that the doctrine is intended to convey.

For example, the doctrine mentions that druids need to be self-sufficient in maintaining the balance of nature. This concept is great and emphasizes not to make excessive demands on nature.

As a result, when it comes to analysis, it becomes a prohibition on druids from engaging in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production and fishing. Isn't this suspected of misinterpreting the doctrine? "

"But," Xiling was much more familiar with the doctrine than Philohill, and she didn't understand what Ivan meant by 'misinterpretation'.

“But aren’t planting and hunting excessive demands on nature and disrupting its balance?

What's wrong with a druid cutting off excess from the natural cycle and using it as food...

Wait, this is the theory of evolution you mentioned earlier!"

Ivan nodded and said, "Yes, I remember saying at the time that this behavior may seem to be maintaining balance, but in fact, you are destroying the opportunity for natural evolution.

If we go back to the doctrine itself, maintaining balance and being self-sufficient, there is no mention in the entire doctrine of prohibiting druids from engaging in production, right?

I think it was because the person who wrote the doctrine at the time could not achieve a production method that did not interfere with the natural cycle that he added such restrictions. "

"A production method that does not interfere with the natural cycle?" Philohill chewed on these words carefully and asked in a low voice:

"Is this possible?"

Ivan smiled gently, his smile full of confidence.

“You can ask Senna how we did it in the Northwest Wasteland.

That production technology is just the first step toward allowing plants to grow without relying on soil;

The second step is to let the wasteland orcs start using the "nutrient solution" raw materials produced by themselves, instead of continuing to consume the raw materials of the haze forest.

In this way, the planting process of the wasteland orcs becomes a self-sufficient small cycle.

Although it is not so easy to avoid all links from intersecting with the overall environment, but——

Once a small cycle is truly established in the production process, then the total output of this cycle, when added together, will probably not interfere with nature as much as planting a grain of wheat.”

"So what are your plans?"

"Let the druids start ecological agriculture, obtaining a large amount of food from the small cycle of creation without affecting the large external cycle.

This way, everyone’s food won’t just depend on the overflow of the Haze Forest itself.”

"Creating another natural cycle within the natural cycle... Alvin, are you planning to become a god..."