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"Oh, those are some pretty solid sandals. Here you go, kid, take it."

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　With that, the vendor hands me a coin.

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　I took it and was stunned.

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　The pile of sandals I had painstakingly made had been sold for a few coins.

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　Of course, the coins I received were not gold or silver coins that looked valuable, but only copper coins that were slightly chipped at the edges.

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　Even though the stalks of the hatuka, the material used to make sandals, were available in abundance, it seemed as if we would never be able to buy weapons with these coins.

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　However, it does not mean that the peddlers are ripping off the customers.

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　It is simply that the unit price of sandals is too low.

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　So, I research what I can buy from the peddler for a better price.

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　I guess it is because I am about 5 years old now.

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　At that age, people would say that it was amazing that I had made such a large quantity of sandals, but I pushed my way through and asked around, trying to get some information.

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　I tried to push through and asked around to get some information.

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"Alright, ....... Let's try it like this."

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　A few days after I finished talking to the peddler.

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　I was working in the back of the house.

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　I don't know if I can do it yet, but I'm going to experiment to get an alternative source of income to the sandals.

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　I spent a lot of time talking to the peddler, who was very reluctant to talk to me, and the information I obtained seemed to be very promising.

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　It was the cultivation of mushrooms.

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　There is magic and magic exists in this world.

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　And I didn't know until now that there is a medicine to restore magic power that can recover it in a short period of time.

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　However, the magic restoration medicine is not widely available.

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　It is because of the raw materials.

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　The most important ingredient for making restorative medicine is magic mushrooms.

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　The most important ingredient to make a medicine to restore magic power was magic mushrooms, which can only be found in the forests during a limited period of time.

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　The only way to make the potion is to collect the mushrooms that grow in the forest, but the amount of the mushrooms is not enough.

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　Since I was still a child and not old enough to go into the forest, why don't you try it when you are a little older?　The topic came up toward the end of our conversation.

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　But it was a business opportunity for me.

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　I realized it when he showed me the actual magic mushrooms that he happened to have in his possession.

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　I thought, "This is not a shiitake mushroom.

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　Seeing the magic mushrooms, I had a flashback of my previous life.

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　I had actually cultivated shiitake mushrooms before.

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　It was a simple cultivation using some kind of home cultivation kit, not a serious one.

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　However, if this magic mushroom grows in the same way as shiitake mushrooms, there is a good chance.

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　We decided to start an experiment for this purpose.

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　The mushrooms are not a full-fledged mushroom.

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　Basically, a mushroom is a fungus, not a plant.

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　The fungus grows inside the tree and uses the tree itself as a source of nutrients for its own growth.

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　Therefore, it is possible to cultivate mushrooms artificially by creating conditions that facilitate the growth of the fungus.

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　First of all, I procured a log from a lumberjack in the village, a kind of tree from which magic mushrooms can be obtained.

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　I thought about going to cut the log myself, but it would be too hard to cut the tree and bring it back home.

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　Moreover, they would have to be dried for a few months before they could be used for cultivation.

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　On the other hand, the lumberjacks had dried logs as stored materials.

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　I picked out a few that looked good and brought them home.

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　There is a reason why logs are dried.

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　The wood dries from the outside and the inside is still moist.

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　If only the outside of the tree is dry and the inside is moist, the growth of fungi is bad.

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　Therefore, it is necessary to dry the wood properly.

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　On the other hand, it is not good if the tree is too dry.

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　It is also necessary to have a moderate amount of moisture.

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　For this reason, they are placed in a shaded area behind the house.

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　The next step is to embed the fungus into the log and wait for the fungus to multiply inside the tree.

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　However, even if we do this as is, it will probably fail.

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　Therefore, I would like to add a method that was never used in the previous life.

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　That is to pour my magical power into the log in which the fungus is embedded.

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　Mushroom fungus is nothing more than a parasite growing on a tree.

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　And since they are magic mushrooms, they must contain a lot of magic power, which means that they are taking magic power from the tree, right?

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　Then, I might as well pay for the magic power instead.

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　It was an experiment based on such an unproven hypothesis.

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　I injected different amounts of magic power into each of several logs and watched to see if they would grow.

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　My life consisted of waking up in the morning and tending to the fields while the sun was still up, and at sunset, after injecting the logs with magic power, I would spend the night making sandals under the light my mother had provided.

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　After a while, I found that only three magic mushrooms had appeared on one of the logs.

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