In this day and age, it was becoming increasingly difficult to earn money.
Demand promoted the market, and the market promoted product innovation. The more developed a society was, the more resources there would be, making it even more difficult to casually earn money.
The most direct comparison would be that in the chaotic generation before the War of Dawn, food was a precious strategic resource that couldn't be bought with money alone. Relationships, connections, and diplomatic transactions all had to be involved in order to make large-scale food transactions between one country and another possible.
As for price … that wasn't even a consideration to begin with. If one wanted to import food from another country, one would have to be prepared to empty the country's treasury. One would be satisfied as long as there was enough to buy.
The so-called strategic resource of high-quality food was actually just a mixture of barley, chaff, mutated weeds, and weeds. It was already good enough that no one would starve to death. Since food preservation techniques were outdated and couldn't be stored for long, last year's food would have to be sold at a discount. Food that was two years old would basically be treated as trash.
In that generation, people had very low expectations. It was enough as long as they had food to eat. They never cared about taste or anything like that. It was already a miracle that no one would starve to death in a disaster year. Back then, food had to be eaten together with tree bark, grass, and weeds.
As for the high-quality food from back then … no farm owner would buy it even if it was fed to pigs.
Magical civilizations had some advantages that far surpassed technological civilizations, especially in the area of biotechnology. They didn't need to decode genes, nor did they need countless generations of hybridization and breeding. Magic could greatly shorten the time required. The archdruids and nature mages had an obvious advantage in this area.
In the early and middle stages of the War of Dawn, a new batch of plants that were resistant to cold, drought, and deserts were born. This caused the cold and barren Northlands, as well as the sand-filled western desert, to become the largest granary for dimensional warfare.
As time went on, the Aishi Empire no longer lacked food. Now that they were in the food business, they would have to compete in taste, design, target audience, advertising, nutritional value, and all sorts of other things. It would be far too difficult for them to stand out.
"Military food? You're saying that you want to interfere with the Mage Country's military food business? Do you know how many major arms merchants and magic societies are involved? Even if the military food business is only a side business that sells arms, the Mage Country will never allow an outsider to enter. "
Hearing Rorschach's arrogant words, Maria, who was invited, explained in annoyance.
Maria Stel, one of the thirteen captains of the Sweepers. She could be considered one of the upper echelons of a top-tier battle group.
Originally, she was only invited to drink tea and chat. When she heard from Rorschach that there was a money-making deal, Maria was quite interested. After all, the expenses of being a soldier were high. Which soldier would complain about having more money?
But now that she heard that it was related to firearms, and that it was only a marginal military grain business, she didn't even want to listen to the details and just shook her head.
"Sister Maria, perhaps you should listen to the details of my deal. You've also seen the half-dimension outside, haven't you? That's a gift from the Lord of Nature. That's the crop seeds that changed the entire world with improved resistance were all cultivated here. And after I took over this place, I made some discoveries …"
After successfully establishing this outpost, Rorschach began to explore and develop this unknown land.
In order to better adapt to the various environments and plant growth requirements, this place was divided into many individual areas. Rorschach directly used numbers to number each area.
Helios, where the Sunflower was located, was the first area. Helios was marked with the number one on the map. Every area was marked with one or more markers. They were the core of that area, and at the same time, they were also the most difficult to tackle.
Rorschach also made some new discoveries while exploring the second and third areas nearby.
In the second area, he encountered a strange high-level creature that almost wiped out all the explorers. Not only was the creature at the center of the third area able to communicate with each other, it was also quite friendly. It even showed the new owner the purpose of the third area.
Just as Rorschach said, it was a special ecological greenhouse. Not only did it preserve countless special crop seeds, it also kept the experiment records from back then.
"… I also know that the military grain business is quite difficult. After all, standardization has been introduced in this day and age. The nutritional value and taste of food are not much different. The competition is nothing more than connections, background, packaging, cost, and so on. But what I'm selling here is not ordinary military grain. After eating it, you can recover your magic power and be fearless of pain. Aren't you interested?"
Rorschach's words stunned everyone, but then someone laughed out loud.
"Rejuvenation Potion? Even if you're willing to sell it, we can't afford it. Military grain needs to be mass produced. Strategic resources like Rejuvenation Potions don't belong to the category of military grain. "
Potions that could heal physical injuries were not rare in the magical world. Users of Holy Light and Nature Mages could easily mass produce such healing potions. However, in contrast to the little red potions, the big blue potions in the game, the mana potions, had always been rare and precious in reality.
"… Also, you know about the Rejuvenation Potion. It sounds good and feels good to use it. Drinking too much of it will cause endless trouble. I don't want my sisters to be useless for the rest of their lives."
The little red potions and the little blue potions that were commonly seen in the game were not much different in nature. However, in the magical world of reality, it was a completely different matter.
Vitality was relatively easy to recover. The Holy Light and the power of nature could be converted from magic power. In the end, what was consumed was the magic power of the spellcaster. However, magic power itself was produced by the soul. It was a product of the soul.
Although the physical body would also be affected to a certain extent, the source was still the soul.
That was why Ansorenne's Descender could bring magic power to another world, but not the physical body. The warrior job class was naturally at a disadvantage in this aspect. Many battle techniques had to be learned from scratch. The muscle reaction and intuition necessary for battle would disappear without a trace. It was inevitable that their strength would be halved … Warriors basically had to start from scratch in both worlds, which was abnormally difficult.
Since magic power came from the soul, and the soul was something that couldn't be grasped, it was impossible to squeeze out more magic power from the soul.
It wasn't that there was no way to squeeze out magic power from the soul. The Master Alchemist's Rejuvenation Potion was a precious and rare mana potion.
It wasn't a good thing to say that it was precious and rare. This was because the ingredients were expensive and had a low cost-performance ratio. The mana recovery effect of expensive magic ingredients was rather poor, and there were too many unsolved mysteries related to the soul. Forcefully squeezing out magic power would often bring about serious side effects.
Insomnia and headaches were considered the mildest side effects. It was possible that one wouldn't be able to cast spells for a long time after the effects ended. And long-term consumption of Rejuvenation Potions would also bring about permanent magic power regression and terrifying side effects such as a decrease in power level. After all, this was the same as forcing the soul to produce as much magic power as possible.
Precious resources such as Rejuvenation Potions weren't viewed as extremely important strategic resources. After all, sometimes the difference between having magic power and not having magic power was the difference between life and death. And on a large-scale battlefield … the generals wouldn't care if you had any side effects from using magic power. If you couldn't win the battle, your entire army would be destroyed. If necessary, the generals would even force you to self-destruct.
The birth of miniature portable mana pools made it relatively easy for mages to obtain external mana pools. However, there was still a difference between a mage's own magic power and an external source of magic power. Not only that, there were far too many unexpected situations on the battlefield. There would always be a market for these useless yet terrifying potions.
Maria was one of the higher-ups in the witches' squadron. The aerial magic squadron was a high-level squadron with all mages. In fact, they were also equipped with a certain amount of Rejuvenation Potions. She clearly knew that these potions were related to the shady dealings of several large alchemist and magic clubs.
"Heh heh, those clubs made it sound so nice. What 1% side effect, what 2% side effect, what one-third side effect? Ptui! Sooner or later, I'll get justice for those retired sisters of mine! Ha. "
Maria was first indignant, but then she sighed softly. Her mood instantly became terrible when she thought of those sisters.
She also knew that she was venting her anger for no reason. Nobody took the advertisers' words seriously to begin with. Since she had already made up her mind to take the potions, she had already mentally prepared herself for the negative side effects.
But what made Rorschach rather surprised was that while Maria was complaining, she subconsciously glanced at Isabella … and Isabella also remained strangely silent.
Now wasn't the time to pursue the matter. Although Rorschach had many doubts and uneasiness, he still needed to explain some of his family's products.
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