What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 12.12. Iron-Eating Kaba

All eleven Kabamon have been taken to Kroa's laboratory—which is really just a rather secluded room.

The items needed for a real mage's laboratory, such as magic arrays, energy pillars, mental energy amplifiers, elemental pools, and stabilizing beakers, are all beyond his current means.

To master the profession of mage, you need to spend a lot of money.

Of course, they can't afford to buy Kroya right now.

But...

"I hope it works as I'm thinking, so I can quickly convert the accumulated ore into silver coins."

Kroa muttered to himself as he entered his laboratory and examined each of the Kaba Beasts lying on the floor in an extremely Zen-like state. Through the Astral Spirits, he could confirm that almost all of them had the idea of ​​"seeking excitement".

This idea is the source of what can be imprinted.

"Let's start with you."

Kroa sat directly in front of the largest Kaba, gently stroking its head with her fingers, while her mental energy penetrated deep into its Protoss body.

I saw the celestial body of Kabamon, which looked like an anatomical diagram.

With the help of the Crimson Song and the Firefly Algae of the Thirsty Sea during this period, his mental strength and magical power have greatly improved, and he will soon be able to advance to the level of a second-level mage.

Therefore, the engraving was relatively easy—he first chose to engrave "tempering" on the teeth. This magic is actually more of a strengthening magic; it doesn't actually turn the teeth into steel, but rather increases the hardness of a certain part of the body.

It is said that as one's cultivation level and magical power increase, one can transform from the most basic ordinary steel to refined steel, star steel, and other magical metals.

Its defensive and destructive capabilities have also been greatly enhanced.

Of course, Kroya's current understanding and spell model construction can only be the most basic steel.

Following the method he used to imprint the sunflower and the thirsty sea algae, he began to imprint the "hardening" magic on the teeth of the Kaba Beast Star Spirit.

At first, everything went smoothly, but after only half of the inscription was completed, Kabamon suddenly started whimpering and nudging its head against Kroa's body.

The astral body, which was originally a calm blue, suddenly turned into a somewhat dry, pale red.

"Hmm."

Kroa had no choice but to extend her mental energy further to soothe the Kabamon.

Under his soothing touch, Kabamon seemed to have adapted to the discomfort of the mark and finally calmed down, quietly letting Kroa do as he pleased.

About ten minutes passed.

A prompt appeared—

[Imprint successful, Kabamon - Fang (Hardened)]

After accumulating enough magic power, the Kabamon can strengthen its teeth at any time, the extent of which depends on the amount of magic power and the quality and quantity of iron it absorbs.

"This...this is the innate magic of magical beasts!"

Kroya slapped his thigh, suddenly realizing what was going on.

Isn't this imprint a talent spell that can give magical beasts something they don't have?

Monsters are born with some special spells, but it is extremely difficult to teach them more spells.

Only some high-level learning scrolls and the Church's "Blessing" scroll can allow monsters to learn more spells.

As a result, he just casually let Kabamon learn it, and it even cost him some mental energy... It's terrifying.

After completing the engraving of the hardened material, he continued to engrave "magic forging" on the stomach of the Kaba Beast. This magic is essentially to extract impurities from low-grade ores through magical vibrations.

This is a common method used by low-level mages to process materials.

The complexity of this spell model was actually not too bad; it wasn't extremely difficult. Plus, I had already calmed down the Kaba Beast, so it only took about ten minutes to successfully imprint it.

[Imprint successful, Kabamon - Stomach (Magic Forging)]

[When a Kabamon ingests a refinable ore, it can process, refine, and expel the ore by emitting magical vibrations from its stomach.]

Kabamon will develop a strong craving for ore.

[Impurities in the ore will be digested a second time by the Kabamon, with a certain probability of strengthening its body organs.]

With the prompt, Kroya's attempt was half successful—the next step was a small test.

He got up, picked up a piece of white iron ore the size of a head that had been prepared beforehand, and placed it directly in front of the Kabamon.

I originally thought I would have to command it with my mental power, but when this Kabamon saw the ore, its tiny green bean eyes immediately lit up.

Just like a person who has been starving for days and nights suddenly seeing a table full of delicious food, it began to gnaw on the ore without hesitation.

"Crackling!"

The ore with white iron spots on its surface was easily crushed by its row of tiny teeth, just like a steamed bun.

Then he swallowed it without hesitation.

It became happier and happier as it ate. It devoured a head-sized piece of ore in less than a minute, and then nuzzled its head against Kroya's palm, still somewhat unsatisfied.

He made a "whimpering" sound, like a tough guy being affectionate.

Other Kabamon who witnessed this also gathered around, surrounding Kroya and making the same noise—clearly, they were also eager to try after seeing their kin enjoying such a delicious mineral feast.

Kroya was both amused and exasperated.

"Don't rush, take it one at a time!"

He offered a helpless reassurance and began to imprint them one by one. Fortunately, his magic power was plentiful, and the thirsty sea glow algae served as batteries.

Otherwise, imprinting eleven Kaba beasts at the same time would be a huge undertaking.

He was truly experiencing both pain and pleasure.

After about an hour, all eleven Kaba Beasts had been imprinted with the two mage models: "Rigidified" and "Magic Forging".

They didn't need Kroya's instructions at all; they simply devoured all the ore Kroya had prepared—thanks to the powerful stomachs of magical beasts, even swallowing some stones was no big deal.

As long as the pyrite inside that they cannot process can be broken down and discharged, it's not a big problem.

Kroya watched them devour the ore, and after a while, confirming there were no adverse reactions, he took them outside.

He didn't want to see a bunch of Kaba beasts excreting in his laboratory.

Heading to the back of the castle, near the lake where they often stayed, the Kaba beasts slowly walked onto the grass and began to excavate ore.

The excrement of these herbivorous magical beasts wasn't too disgusting, especially since Kroya had instructed them not to eat any grass all morning in order to help them digest the ore better.

So what they excrete are small, uneven white patches that reflect sunlight, lying quietly on the grass.

"The quality is quite good." Kroya stepped forward, picked up one, and examined it, a thought suddenly occurring to her.

The quality of these refined ores seemed to be almost the same as the ores he refined himself. Once they were melted down and made into iron ingots, they could be sold directly.

With that in mind, he immediately decided to take these Kaba beasts to the warehouse—there was a huge pile of unprocessed ore inside!

Let's also take a look at their daily digestion limits so we can make better use of them.

(End of this chapter)