Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi

After removing the curse from the cow, Ye Nai retraced her steps back to the Otherworld, then closed the transmission port she had just used, and opened a new one again, also located inside another pen.

Ye Nai lifted the petrification curse from the flock of sheep frozen on the ground. Taking advantage of their dazed state just after waking, she unhesitatingly cast the puppet curse.

Under the spell's effect, the flock obediently moved around and was finally successfully locked into the pen. After Ye Nai lifted the curse, the sheep immediately returned to their lively and active nature, and right in front of Ye Nai, a few sheep tried to escape. After a few attempts, the prickly bushes finally taught them to behave.

Satisfied, Ye Nai nodded slightly at the properly settled cattle and sheep.

The warriors standing on the road who witnessed the entire process cheered in unison.

Ye Nai returned to the road to look around for a while and realized there were still things left unfinished; the cattle and sheep lacked feeding troughs and water troughs.

She immediately opened a transmission port straight to Beigen Village and used a few fruit salts to rent unused livestock feeding troughs and water troughs from the villagers.

With enthusiasm, the villagers cleaned the feeding and water troughs and helped move them to the temporary pen through the transmission port.

When they saw the group of warriors standing on the road, they quickly bowed, set down the items without lingering, and hurriedly returned the way they came.

Ye Nai was also quite bold in filling the water trough, not even taking out the ton barrel water tower, simply filling the trough directly.

Probably sensing the freshness of the water, the quietly grazing cattle and the bouncing sheep all came to the trough to drink.

The feeding trough remained empty for now as it was nighttime in the Secret Realm—only water was given, not food, until daylight.

"Alright, I'll leave the cattle and sheep to you. Leave one for slaughter; I'll let the villagers try to see how much meat they can keep," Ye Nai earnestly instructed.

"Okay," the two company commanders replied in unison.

After reaching an agreement with the company commanders, Ye Nai turned back to converse with the commander.

"Commander, do you want to visit the Otherworld?" Ye Nai extended an invitation.

"Sure, I haven't seen the Otherworld's scenery yet," the commander gladly accepted.

"How about we pick a place with natural scenery, do you like cliffs and sea water? We can pick seafood too," Ye Nai further suggested.

"Sounds great," the commander nodded with a smile.

The two of them separately confirmed that their security and accompanying subordinates were nearby. Ye Nai shut off the excess transmission ports and then, before the commander, opened a dozen new ones.

Both sides checked the security, each taking turns to inspect the portals, eliminating those with unsuitable time and location, leaving only those that matched the cliff-viewing the sea, and ensuring the time was either early morning or evening, avoiding glaring sunlight.

The commander selected one from the remaining options. As Ye Nai proceeded through, she quickly set up a small apricot-colored canopy and tables and chairs, ensuring everyone had a seat. There were also several large fruit platters filled with various Otherworld fruits, along with fruit knives and disposable plates and forks.

"Please try them; these are top quality wild fruits from the Otherworld," Ye Nai warmly invited everyone.

"All wild fruits?" The commander examined the various sizes and colors of Otherworld wild fruits with interest.

"Considering the agricultural level of the Otherworld, the fruit source relies only on wild fruits. Estate owners will plant some fruit trees on their land, but the quality and yield are unstable. Any lord with stable, high-quality fruit production holds a significant status in the community," Ye Nai explained.

"With such weak agricultural productivity, it has been opposing us for so many years." The commander frowned slightly.

"They leverage the time difference. According to Blue Star time, the Otherworld citizens send a food batch roughly every six or seven days. The Otherworldly on Blue Star can't consume such a large amount, resulting in severe wastage. I made rounds on Blue Star and lost count of how many of their food storages I've looted," Ye Nai mentioned casually.

"Adding in the time difference, it's been three thousand years on the Otherworld side. This has become part of the planet's ancient history and culture. The agricultural products have to contribute to a special world, which only accepts selected citizens. Those who can't leave are at the bottom, only providing labor and sustenance to the upper class. This information is also class-restricted, known only among the middle class and above, so the real lower class has no clue about these complexities," Ye Nai introduced the situation in the Otherworld in detail.

"Well, our Blue Star has become the upper-class world in the eyes of the Otherworld citizens," the commander sneered.

"Isn't it reminiscent of a cyberpunk novel's class structure? The cattle-like citizens live in an utterly dark lower class, where the top tiers can occupy the upper spaces with sunlight. Though the Otherworld nobles haven't established such a strict hierarchy, it's somewhat similar. To live on Blue Star, one must spend gold coins to buy a spot, which is exorbitantly expensive. Just within the Selsa United Kingdom, which I've overrun, a spot costs five hundred gold coins. I haven't checked other countries' prices, but I'd surmise they're not much different," Ye Nai continued.

"Haha, I suppose those who spent money to buy spots on Blue Star don't have much of a good life either. Without a real lower class, they become the lower class and have to do the hard work they're unaccustomed to," the commander unhesitatingly deduced the daily life of ordinary folks on Blue Star.

"Yes, skilled laborers couldn't afford the travel money, so those middle-class who thought they could become the upper class had to do those jobs, but they couldn't manage it and didn't even understand the technical criteria. The newly built cities aren't as grand as their hometowns, especially the Royal Capital, densely populated with garbage and sewage everywhere," Ye Nai described the city conditions for Otherworldly on Blue Star.

"Even if they were quite tall and occupied more land per capita, didn't countries with significant areas of urban land directly utilize them? Did they build elsewhere?" The commander queried.

"Some cities they relocated and rebuilt, others they constructed anew on the foundation of old cities, erasing any trace of the previous cities," Ye Nai stated.

"Such thorough demolition! The construction waste from our reinforced concrete isn't easy to handle," the commander shook his head slightly.

"Wizards can do it with the restore spell. Originally developed by alchemy wizards who found it distressing to waste high-grade materials when botching something, it can reduce losses by restoring flawed items to some original materials. Alchemy materials are costly, regardless of the level of the alchemy wizard; the restore spell is a fundamental skill," Ye Nai reminded everyone not to forget the Otherworld wizards.

"Hmm? Can something already processed be reduced back to raw materials?!"

This statement by Ye Nai piqued the curiosity of everyone present, and they listened intently.

"Yes, it's within the scope of alchemy, governed by the conservation of energy, equivalent exchange, like a chemical equation, following strict balanced requirements. Transforming raw materials into new objects is a material conversion, and the same applies when undoing flawed work to raw materials, so long as one accepts the inevitable losses in between," Ye Nai elaborated on.