The Sea is filled with dreams
“But still, I can’t just give up now.”
After a few days, I started a new initiative on the beach.
It does not need to be all the way in the sea, but there no one watching me here, and I can eat seafood as I please.
“Since there also a lot of salt in here.”
What I try to do now is the application of original magic in earth magic.
Now, as I have a large amount of seawater as material that I can use as much as I like, I am conducting an experiment to make salt with magic.
It just that this magic technique was also written in the book that master left behind.
When adventurers run out of salt, soil, or a mass of rock; flora, fauna, and even monster corpses will do.
It contain a small amount of salt and in many cases it can be refined by magic.
Humans are odd one’s, even with sufficient food, there some cases of losing appetite and dying just because it was not salty enough.
Salt is really important for human.
Back to the topic, I had succeeded in obtaining salt without a problem, much faster and in a larger amount with the magic trick written in book made by master.
Even if it’s not up to 99.9% sodium chloride, I can make a clear distinction between white, silky salt with salt that look a bit yellow and rock salt ones.
“I mean, I can even make a living by selling salt.”
While thinking of such a thing, I am not satisfied with just this.
I am planning in reviving those seasonings with this salt as material.
“From miso first.”
Let alone our territory, soybean’s also a popular crop in this world.
Feed livestock, cook it together in soup, and you can eat it with wheat rice porridge as cereals.
Since the price is also cheaper, I managed to get one sackful worth from the people within the territory who cultivated it in the field near their residence.
The price is the rabbit`s fur and meat I captured by myself.
Now I can make miso from the soybeans and salt as material.
There is no miso in this world so I need to make it into perfection by myself, but luckily that magic exists which could be helpful.
There are also some veteran mages that are able to brew wine instantly with grape as material prepared by themselves.
The others like wheat as material for ale, sugar as material for rum, and also honey for mead.
This world knows the mechanism for carbohydrate changing into alcohol, there exists a mage that brewed alcohol with various material.
The process of brewing that normally takes long time, can be preformed instantly by magic.
If you honestly think that it quite absurd from such brewing sources to brew alcohol, then you are not wrong.
Why, because the taste of a professional wine cellar is after all the best, there some mages who sometimes makes alcohol putting professionals to shame, but this time it can’t match the quantity.
They mostly self-made brewing alcohol for hobbies or to enjoy it with family.
That said, it was common for drinkable brewed alcohol to be done in such short time.
So it should be possible for miso to be brewed.
“First is miso. And then progressing in fermenting tamari and finally brewing soy sauce with magic. My dreams will come true.”
I began making miso at once.
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“Hahaha…I can’t believe it was this hard…”
Before I finally completed miso and soy sauce, I recalled the amount of hardship in this one year.
It should have been easy to make it with magic.
I don’t need that many, I just want it for my own share.
If I can return to the past, I would like to warn myself with such a remark.
I knew how to make miso from grandma in rural area who self-made it a long time ago.
I actually helped her several times.
In practice, it was unusual entrusting boiling the soybean into magic.
Otherwise, it was easy to convert it into boiled beans with magic.
And it was okay until mixing the following materials, but I failed in the following fermentation.
Materials will rot no matter how much magic you put into it.
In the past, the biology teacher in my high school days asked us while having a chat during class the difference between fermentation and rotten.
Everyone gave various answers but the correct answer is like this.
Fermentation and rotten is just the same phenomenon.
Fermentation is useful and spoilage does harm to humans.
Thus, I was wasting a lot of spoiled soybeans while exchanging soybeans with rabbits I hunted every day, and it reached to the point of being seen by strange looks.
Still, after thousands of failures, I had somehow succeeded in producing miso.
And repeated the same failure with soy sauce.
I mean, for success once in several times, no matter how difficult the magic for advanced level in master`s book is, and despite I can successfully develop various other original magic techniques.
I can’t believe that I kept failing in producing miso and soy sauce.
Its just that for soy sauce, it was a kind of failure were there was no progress, just like tamari.
Since I still exchanged soybeans everyday, I was seen with strange looks.
Because soybeans were exchanged too much, the territory`s people stopped using soybeans as meals.
Instead, they might have noticed that they can eat meat everyday from exchanging rabbit`s and wild boar’s meat with me.
They may have questions on what I use it for, but I was pretty much the lord’s son.
I am not really exploiting them by equal exchange so I usually exchange depending on my mood.