It is already starting to snow. Looks like my reward will need to wait. The city wall building has also halted, no sane mind would spend hours braving the snow just to stack a couple of rocks for below 1 silver coin.
During this season. There will be more people heading out to hunt, since most hunters will not spend too much time hunting, decreasing meat supply. So butchers will work from home; they wait for people to bring their hunt in, and get the commission to remove inedible parts like animal hide, bones, liver and intestines. Usually, they will help to toss the last three items. But for us, we chose to only toss the intestines. "Livers are actually edible if eaten in small amounts." I have to specifically tell my parents that. There is no telling of possibility of food poisoning when they start to eat liver in large amounts.
This is the time of the year that all intelligent beings call truce. Be it elves, werewolves or goblins. Nobody knows know elves are going to survive in the forest. Goblins ran out of human hide to wear. Werewolves… we humans also want their fur.
Change of weather can be a cause for someone feeling unwell. Especially for mum's case. Dad didn't say anything about why Maera is like that. Galan usually prepares this leaves and that flowers to mix. A commonly known remedy for fever.
But we have a situation. Winter hit slightly earlier than expected and we didn't stash enough of this and that. We highly doubt our ability to find some flowers that is supposed to be buried with thick snow by now.
We held a family meeting.
Galan: "Guys, we ran out of this and that, any suggestions?"
Me: "Borrow or buy from neighbour?"
Mum: "Make fire hot again!"
Galan: "Tank through it."
Mum and I looked at Galan.
Galan looks back at us.
Galan is kicked out of the house.
While my suggestion sounds logical, no one decided to lend us any. Understandable. A medical supply is always a crucial supply no matter where you go. They don't want money from that.
While I am thinking about mum's suggestion of making fire hot again, i think her fever burnt her brain. Still, unless I make some charcoal. It is doable, when the wind slows down.
No sympathy given to dad's suggestion. He is basically saying we can do nothing.
Night, Dad is subjected to sleeping on woodshed. Leaving me to take care of mum for the night. Stop, my brain, stop generating me those random six dights.
I dug under my bed. That tab of paracetamol is still there. Let's try if it still works.. I drugged mum's drink and mixed some sugarcane goo in, and gave that warm water to mum on request.
This should be the first paracetamol in this world from the other side. Congratulations mum, achievement unlocked. But I am taking this to my grave.
In less than an hour, mum already felt better. As expected from scientific research. But still. It seems to work too well. I don't recall it being fast relieve. Maybe it is just too strong for inhabitants in this world.
Mum has asked me on how did she actually felt relieve so fast. Damn, she is sharp. She thinks it was me since I am the centre cause of different findings.
I blamed it on the goo. "It definitely has to be it. Don't you also feel that your mind is clearer when eating some?"
It has to be that. Sugar is essential for human immunity system. Just like how humans need food.
It is definitely not paracetamol. As expected from me, I am such a genius.
From there on, I decided that whenever mum's fever is up again. I'd give her just 1/8 tab in the goo water. Why does the goo water no longer work so well? Hmm, i don't know. 30g limit per week, and I am only using like just a gram so so for 8 days. As expected from me, I am such a genius. When the week is almost over. I'd summon a piece or two cookies from earth. Now that is what I call food, compared to the tasteless stuff here.
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You can gain muscles with frequent training, intense or not. Sometimes, you can even trick your body to think that it is exercising. Since it works for muscles. It definitely works for mana circuit.
My weekly summon limit is a surge of mana usage that drains me so hard that I can drain a week's worth of mana. My mana capacity has exponentially increased since then. As told to me by mother. My capacity can now support 5kg summon. Mother seems to be busy, but she will definitely respond to my request whenever I make any. And I am then told I can actually support 5kgs already. Stop with the one or two piece of cookies already. Get a pizza or something!
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Speaking of mana, I am always pondering. If people who is not revealed to have cooking ability can still cook. Me who has no fire affinity should also be able to use fire, maybe just bad.
Imagine your mana that changes to the element you seek and release out immediately. Is what the teachings of the basics go. Human is ~70% water. If anything this should be the easiest. Water release!
Yes and no.
Yes. Water did came out.
No. It is just a few drops.
Is that my armpit sweat actually?
Now let's try metallic. Metallic is one that doesn't really do release. Shouldn't be that bad.
I have a encyclopaedia brain. I know there are different metal. I visualise each mana to protons neutrons and electrons. One finger turned iron, the other turned gold. But I am unable to turn my whole palm to iron. But hey, if I can choose which finger to apply mana….. hehe. But I will leave that for another time when I have a better control and capacity for mana.
Hmm, now I got the answer I desired. It isn't really cannot. But it is more like impractical.