"Swish...swish..."
Beyond the stone-paved salt pans where the lesser demons toiled, a vast expanse of azure sea and golden sands unfolded before Ira—a sight too beautiful to behold.
The sound of the waves crashing against the sand is really beautiful.
The weather is quite nice today, with sunshine that's a precious thing in winter... but the coldest time is long gone, and spring will be here soon, and the weather will gradually get warmer.
At that time, the harvest at the seaside will be greater.
As Ira thought this, he stepped onto the soft sand, looking at the crabs and seabirds on the beach, as well as the little mounds and tunnels buried in the sand. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the videos of beachcombing from his previous life.
How about trying beachcombing?
People living by the sea will take advantage of low tide to search for shellfish lying on the sand and creatures on the rocks, and they can usually harvest and catch a very good amount of meat.
Thinking this way, Ira felt that temporarily using shellfish to supplement the meat reserves in the Demon King's territory was a good option, and strictly speaking, it wasn't a technical task.
All you need is the ability to dig holes and find the bulges on the beach where seashells are hidden.
But before that, Ira needs to confirm whether the amount of shellfish on the beach is worth his suggestion to have the monsters go beachcombing at a specific time, and there is no way to confirm the density and edibility of the food.
It would be quite ridiculous if nine out of ten types of shellfish and sea urchins that you catch were poisonous.
"【Fourth Wing Pillar】"
As Ira chanted this, the mana belonging to a certain succubus, residing on his spine, instantly proclaimed its existence. As a small section of the ring-like incantation on Ira's neck was consumed, wings resembling tattered gray cloth appeared on his back.
"【Succubus】"
Using the World Spell as a link and the monster Mana as a symbol, they communicate with the World Tree.
"【span】"
Using language as a trigger, it traverses the universe, takes control of world politics, and thus brings judgment upon itself.
...
[Fourth Wing Pillar - Succubus - Wingspan]
After such chanting, a pair of illusory succubus wings appeared at Ira's waist. The wondrous mana, a blend of pale purple and pink, rapidly coalesced from the world itself, forming a long whip resembling a rose vine.
This is the [Fourth Wing Pillar (Melee)]. The moment the wings unfold, the [Armor] that matches the monster Mana will also appear. The succubus is undoubtedly... a whip.
Go!
Accompanied by Ira's shout, he wielded a long whip, using Mana, whose origin was unknown—whether from Sirina or Little Ti—and displayed the ability mechanism he had already understood. The pink and purple Mana rippled forward like a shockwave.
This mana seemed to have no destructive power. Although it bypassed a large area of sand, it did not burn the ground and gravel into sparkling transparent glass like it would when using the power of the [Crimson Dragon].
Just as the Crimson Dragon has its own fighting style, the Succubus naturally has its own fighting style.
"rustle……"
"rustle……"
After Ira made a gesture of mana that seemed to have no meaning, about ten seconds later, accompanied by the trembling of the sand, one by one, white and yellow "nose" emerged from the sand.
The dense clusters of sand, sometimes peeking out from the surface and sometimes retracting, are enough to kill someone with trypophobia on the spot.
Ira walked slowly over, gently reached out and pulled a long, clam-like seafood out of the sand, then casually grabbed two other shellfish that looked a little different.
"It seems the beachcombing was a success. If this kind of yield is possible during this season, then perhaps beachcombing can serve as a stable source of protein for the Demon King's territory. It's just uncertain whether it's poisonous."
As Ira analyzed this, he reached out and poked the flesh protruding from a conch shell. Watching the flesh retract, he sensed something and looked behind him... There, Vera was slowly walking towards him.
Or rather, it floated over.
Vera probably didn't want sand in her shoes and didn't want to walk on the beach, so she cast a levitation spell on herself. Although there was nothing wrong with it, was she going a bit too far in abusing magic?
"You've come at the right time. Please help me check if these seafoods are poisonous."
Vera was taken aback by Ira's request. She had only come to chat with Ira. She pointed to herself in confusion and asked, "Do I have to test for poison? But while liches are excellent materials that can't die, that's also why they can't test whether food is poisonous."
"..."
"I didn't mean for you to test the poison. Aren't you born in a port city? Just use your common sense to understand."
"Well, but I'm not a commoner, I'm a nobleman..."
"..."
That makes sense. After all, Vera is a noblewoman, so she wouldn't be sure which seafood was edible and which wasn't; she was simply responsible for eating it.
Perhaps her understanding of the toxicity of seafood is not as profound as Iraq's.
"However, it's not really a problem for monsters~ Even if it's poisonous, it won't kill them as easily as humans. At worst, we can cure them and just test the poison on the lesser demons."
As Vera said this, she helped hold the clams and shells that were exposed to the air, and looked at the succubus wings on Ira's back that looked like tattered cloth, and said, "No matter how many times I see it, the governor is outrageous."
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