"Xiao Ti?"

Within three seconds of Ira's soft question, a lovely figure appeared in Ira's room, moving from blurry to clear, kneeling on one knee in front of Ira, who was reading a book.

From the direction of the training ground, the voice of Ira, whom they were paying special attention to, was captured through the virtual realm, and then they traversed to Ira's front. The whole process took only three seconds.

As I said before, being a male servant is truly a waste of his talents.

Tikkap waited for Ira's instructions, but after a long time he didn't speak, the succubus raised her head and found that Ira was just staring at her... Her face couldn't help but turn red.

"I'm sorry, I was just wondering if Mana, with her innate talent for traveling through the void, is different from ordinary succubi."

Realizing that Tekapo's face had turned red, Ira quickly said this. He walked behind Tekapo, looked at the cute male succubus whose body was stiffening, and said, "Please do not resist."

As Ira said this, she immediately realized that her words could easily be misunderstood, so before the other party could think of another way, she explained, "Next, I need to touch your monster characteristics and extract a portion of your mana."

No sooner had she finished speaking than Ira reached out and grabbed Tikkap's tail...

"Hmm~"

"..."

Ignoring the other's strange cries, Ira immediately released his grip after obtaining a portion of the mana. He also ignored Tikkap's flushed face and didn't think about how the other had felt.

Ira sensed the mana flowing through the wing pillars and seemed to find nothing different—no matter which wing pillar it was on, it was no different from the mana of a normal succubus.

"Xiao Ti?"

"yes!"

Where is Shirina now?

Tikkapu, whose face was still flushed from hearing Ira's words, paused for a moment, then vanished into nothingness on the spot. About six seconds later, he reappeared and said, "I'm in the kitchen, discussing ingredients with Mr. Rem."

"Thanks, you can continue with your work now."

As Ira said this, he walked straight out of the room. He was starting to find servants useful, but perhaps only for Little Ti... [Virtual Realm Travel] was indeed a very convenient ability.

"Ha~ Hoo~"

Tikkap calmed the turmoil in his heart, took a deep breath, and reached out to rub the spot on his tail where Ira had grabbed him. His body gradually faded and disappeared from the room.

To be honest, the feeling of being exploited by Mana is... particularly peculiar for a succubus.

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The kitchen door wasn't closed. As soon as Ira reached the door, she heard Mr. Slime's voice. He said in a helpless tone, "Little Slime reports that the food reserves in the territory are seriously insufficient."

"The food supplies in the Demon King's castle are barely enough to sustain us, but the residents of the Demon King's territory have no surplus food to eat. Eggs, milk, goat milk, and meat have almost all been consumed!"

Judging from what Lem said, it seems that he is not only the head chef in the castle, but his slimes are also involved in the cooking of food throughout the territory... rather than simply leaving a portion of the ingredients for the residents.

However, there's a crucial point in his words—although the rations might not be very large, do the monster residents actually have the opportunity to eat meat on a regular basis?!

What an amazing place this is!

Ira was somewhat shocked. If it were the Empire, the poor or slaves would be overjoyed to receive a white bread as a gift from a nobleman.

So the monsters in the Demon King's territory can eat meat?

"Not only that, the only vegetables left are carrots, and the castle's share is also reduced to carrots and cloud vegetables. Meat, eggs, and dairy products also need to be planned. The residents of the Demon King's territory will only be able to eat blue scutellaria mushrooms and carrots every day from now on, until the caravan arrives in at least six days."

Lym sounded somewhat frantic, as if the Demon King's territory was currently in a state of "sufficient staple food (blue scutellaria mushrooms), abundant carrots, but other necessities were scarce."

But you really care about the situation of the residents within your territory...

Thinking this, Ira narrowed his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel a little more favorably disposed toward the Demon King's territory... Such concern, even if it was out of the idea of ​​"protecting one's own property," made him feel comfortable.

The caravan six days from now?

If a country's food supply depends on caravans, then that country's structure is extremely unhealthy... No, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is the food plentiful, but the food variety is lacking?

In Iraq's past world, it was not uncommon for countries to be both major food exporters and importers in order to ensure food diversity... But in this world, at least the Empire does not need to import food.

The dwarves have to constantly import food because many of their crops cannot be grown there.

Moreover, if the races and their territories in the area controlled by the Demon King do not enter this state of feigned compliance and no response, they should be paying their harvests to the Demon King's territory.

If there were no war, there would be stable trade routes with elves, dwarves, and orcs, so there would be no need to wait for caravans to arrive... Generally speaking, caravans might not carry enough food for trade.

But actually, you can just feed the blue mushrooms to the monsters in the Demon King's territory.

If humans were to go from a high-quality life to a low-quality life, they would easily rebel. However, given the inexplicable loyalty of monsters, unless their own race's leader rebels, they would obediently wait to die even if they had nothing to eat.

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