Hero Manufacturing Machine - Intermission - The Fruits Of The Pioneer Mission

"What is that?" Makishia asks, eyeing the walnut-sized nut I'm playing with in my palm.

"Oh this? These are the gains of the Pioneering mission." When I answer, she looks at the nut with interest. "It's smooth, like an artificial one. Is there any pulp inside?" "No, it's empty. See?" I flick it with my fingertips and hear a dry knocking sound. "So, these seeds are the gains of the mission?" She asks with a puzzled look on her face.

"It has a considerable size though."

"Yes."

"Anyway, it’s light."

"It seems so, doesn’t it?"

I hand it over to her and she checks. "It's not that hard to carry." "Isn't it empty anyway? Do you need to carry it?" "Yes."

"Oh, why?"

Iona, who had been listening to my conversation with Makishia, also seems interested in the mysterious fruit and joins in the conversation. "This is filled with mana. Well, it's only a tiny amount, though."

"Mana, really?" "Yeah." I nodded. "The amount is roughly one third of the amount of Mana Water. Mana Water recovers about six times the amount of medium-level magic, so that's two times the amount."

"Can you consider that a discovery?" "Yes. It takes a fair amount of work and money to refine Mana Water. I don't know how long it will take for these fruits to grow, but there are plenty of them." "So, this is what a pioneering mission is, discovering unknown things in unexplored territory." "Exactly." "Our children will also be on pioneering missions someday, won't they?" Iona said, putting her hand on her stomach.

"That's their duty"

I stopped there for a moment and continued.

"The conditions should be pretty good, after all, they're going to be the child of women overflowing with talent and they're descendants of me, the hero."

I said, trying to reassure them.

"However..." "What is it?"

"There hasn't been that much change in the territory in the last hundred years or so. It'll definitely be a huge job that will take decades, even centuries."

Even I, who am not very knowledgeable, know that the change is small. At most, it's just the Empire taking territory from fellow humans.

"Charles will have so many children. I'm sure they'll reduce the amount of time significantly!" "I hope so." It's just an unfounded wish. But at the same time, it's also a faint hope. My thoughts turned to the uncharted territory I'd never seen before

Chapter length 1083 characters.

Note: A small little chapter that appears to be during or sometime after volume 2.

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