Chapter 18

※The cows I released last time were not eaten by everyone afterward.

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One afternoon, after eating the dragon steak and feeling full, I pondered in my office, "Hmm, what should I do...?"

Actually, a few days ago, I went to capture a legendary giant squid called a Kraken to make it a specialty of the Baybalon territory, but a problem arose.

First, defeating the Kraken was easy. Since it was known to eat anything, I tied a bomb to a cow and floated it on a small boat. The Kraken came to eat it, and as soon as it swallowed the cow, there was a huge explosion. After that, Alicia and I threw more bombs at it while it was weakened, and it died in about a minute. It was as fun as feeding carp.

After that, we swam in the sea, and I cast a healing spell on Alicia's head when she came close in a string bikini (it didn't work), and when I touched Klaus's well-defined abs, Bell had a hyperventilation attack. Overall, it was quite enjoyable.

--- But that's not important now. The problem is what happened after the Kraken.

After that, I tried to create baby Krakens from the meat and release them into the Baybalon territory's pond, but they quickly weakened and died. When I asked Ilina, who is knowledgeable about monsters, what went wrong, she answered while eating the corpse, "It seems this thing can only live in seawater. The meat is salty and delicious!" I didn't ask about the taste, though.

So, the Kraken breeding plan was unfortunately abandoned.

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But then,

"Is it okay to give up here...? No, no! As the capable lord Rize, I must do whatever it takes to develop the Baybalon territory!!!"

With strong determination, I stood up from my chair!

Yes, no matter how rich the territory becomes in terms of food, as long as there are no tourists, the bad reputation of Baybalon will never disappear. And as long as there is a bad reputation, it will be impossible to attract tourists!

To break this vicious cycle, we need many impactful attractions like "Baybalon Territory Specialty! Play and Eat with a Dragon!"

Ah, in that case, the only solution is to create a sea in the Baybalon territory!!!

If we have a sea, we can prepare "Baybalon Territory Specialty! Play and Eat with a Kraken!" and maybe even attract tourists who want to go swimming!

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So, the "Digging a trench to the neighboring territory with a sea and sharing seawater" plan begins!!! It's just creating a small depression in the ground, so it shouldn't be considered an invasion, right?!

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The "Digging a trench to the neighboring territory with a sea and sharing seawater" plan, which I came up with using my genius brain, was extremely difficult. After all, the distance from Baybalon to the sea is a few hours even on horseback. Digging a trench several kilometers wide and deep enough for a Kraken to live in was a truly arduous task.

Still, everyone worked with smiles, not uttering a single complaint, and followed me until the end, finding joy in their work!

Ah, thank you... thank you so much, everyone!!!

Thus, after a week of continuously casting a powerful healing spell that made 30,000 men feel refreshed and energized,

"O, oh... the sea...!"

"The sea! We've got a sea in our territory!!!"

Finally, the sea was connected to the Baybalon territory!!! Everyone was overjoyed! Together with the men, who had become super lean and muscular from the repeated use of the healing spell, we celebrated the territory's development grandly!

And, and, that's not all!

When I cast a healing spell on the surface of the Baybalon sea to see if it could become more nutritious, a large number of fish flowed in from the neighboring territory's sea!!! Now we can fish and catch as much as we want every day!

We also transplanted a lot of coral from the neighboring territory's sea, making the Baybalon sea rich and abundant!

...Actually, it's so rich that we don't really need the Kraken! I made a lot of baby Krakens, but unlike dragons, they look disgusting and can't become a specialty!

Alright, thanks to the healing spells I cast on the citizens, I've gotten used to the feeling of "manipulating life" and can probably mess with a squid's brain!

I'll engrave in their minds not to approach Baybalon and send them back to the neighboring territory's sea!

Bye-bye baby Krakens, see you again sometime!!!

※The neighboring territory's fishing yield dropped by 70%.

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