"By the way, I don't see wooden buildings in this city. Why is it so?"
"That's right. There aren't any wooden buildings because a house made of wood is dangerous."
"Why are wooden houses dangerous?"
"No, you can't think of it normally, because you don't know when and who will cause a fire."
Ah I see.
Life magic exists in this world.
And, in that life magic, there is a spell called "Ignition" that can be freely used to set things on fire at any time, and anyone older than a child who has completed the baptismal ceremony can do it.
In a city surrounded by such walls, if there are many wooden buildings, would it not become a big fire?
Considering that, a brick house may be a little better in terms of safety.
"Speaking of houses, there aren't many windows in the buildings in this city."
"That's right. You don't need a window, right? You just turn on the light with [Lighting]."
"Everything is related to life magic."
"Oh, thanks to the blessing of the Lord."
Is it the blessing of the Lord …?
Is life magic that can be used by naming, which uses magic circles to function, really related to God?
However, magic that is so closely related to life certainly has great benefits.
The common sense I know may be out of place in this world due to the existence of magic.
However, even so, I think it's okay to have a few more windows.
It's not a prison, so if you have an open-looking building, you might be able to create something new.
"Well, that's right! A window! There may be more of a demand for glass window panes, than for glass silverware."
When I was talking to my father while looking at the city, I suddenly got an idea.
Glass tableware is beautiful, but in my father's words, it is "fragile and difficult to use."
It may not be a product for the general public to use.
In that respect, what about glass for windows?
Once given a spell name, it can be mass-produced like the bricks, and as long as buildings with windows exist, the demand itself may be everywhere.
There may not be a magic for making glass for windows, but it may be interesting to make one.
With that in mind, I left the city that I had visited for the first time in this life.
* * *
"Welcome back, Dear, Ars."
Father and I went around the city for a few days, bought various things that were needed at my parents' house with the money I got from buying and selling with the peddler, and finally returned to the village.
With this outing, the land of the forest is officially mine.
However, it does not mean that I will immediately move to the hideout and live alone.
A large number of fallen trees are left unattended near the building that was built as a hideout.
When carving out the forest, I cut off the roots of the trees to cultivate them.
The trees at that time were put together in some places, but they were just put on the ground and not in a storehouse or anything.
That's why the things we bought were the tools mainly needed by me, while in the city, such as carts for carrying the branches of trees and other carts for carrying the hatsuka stalks from the fields.
There were more things I needed than I expected.
Once again, my money was almost used up there, but this is probably the only time I will spend up so much of my total amount of money.
After all, from now on, the sales profit of Familiars will come in.
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For the time being, I decided to trade my Familiars under the name "Valkyrie" at a price similar to the peddler's dragon I saw before.
I remember that the peddler described the dragon as a "property."
It seemed to be true, as far as I looked in the city.
It seems that he earned a lot of money on his own for many years and finally bought the dragon-like Familiar.
It seems that your reliability as a merchant changes depending on whether or not you have a Familiar, and so it is also a kind of parameter in the industry.
A Familiar is such a useful creature, but if you buy one, you can't use it indefinitely.
Being a living thing, a Familiar always needs food, has limited physical strength, and naturally has a long life.
After all, a Familiar may be similar to a car.
An ordinary person would raise an egg by having it absorb their magical power at about the same time as it would take to produce a car.
However, I can hatch multiple eggs in a short period of time with [Magic Injection], and Valkyrie herself, my Familiar, has also succeeded in hatching eggs.
So to speak, it was possible to mass-produce and sell expensive cars, and the rights were officially recognized by the aristocrats. (TLN: The "cars" here are referring to the "Familiars", as you may know.
I can't stop laughing at my good fortune.
Let's make a profit by selling Familiars in large quantities from now on.
My mother was worried about what happened to me when we came back, probably because my expression was too loose.