The Outer God Needs Warmth-Chapter 217: Lost Dream (12)

A week had passed since the international conference, and it was the weekend.

As the weather grew colder, many joyful things happened!

The thing is, I’m getting warmth more frequently!

Hehe.

Oh, and no, the Royal Academy hasn't turned into a slaughterhouse.

There hasn't been much change at the Royal Academy.

Unlike the schools I know, this academy doesn’t even have the concept of going on school trips or retreats. It’s quite a static place.

The most that’s happened is a duel between two boys and one girl in the dormitory, where both boys ended up seriously wounded, or someone tried to sneak into the girls' dormitory for a night but got caught, causing a commotion.

But that’s what happens when young men are put together in dormitory-like settings.

In other words, it was peaceful.

However, for the Harvesters, who are burdened with poverty, the situation is different.

The Harvesters are sending me warmth.

It’s not a weak warmth that comes from killing animals or insects; it’s proper warmth.

Yes, it means they’re killing people without restraint.

There wasn’t really a riot, though. They’re using justified violence.

They are killing thieves and harvesting warmth from them.

Currently, many of the Harvesters in Brightshin are engaged in transportation. The purple hair and white skin, or blue skin, alone convey trust.

The need for trust means that trust is often lost.

Jobs for Harvesters have appeared, but they’re jobs that come with the risk of death.

As always, in the world where people live, people are the cheapest consumables.

The reason these consumables are used up?

It’s because the outside of the city is full of thieves.

Originally, thieves were rare in this world.

That’s because the wilds in this world are too dangerous for thieves to survive.

A village without a certain level of soldiers and equipment can’t last a year before it’s swallowed up by the wilderness.

Of course. Daegon’s advance force couldn’t set up a proper base. This is the kind of world where such monsters roam.

But the number of thieves has increased.

Even transportation workers have been attacked inside supposedly safe villages.

The Harvester who was just starting out in transportation didn’t know much, but I recognize the faces of thieves.

Those who went bankrupt after gambling while doing merchant work, only to end up rotting in the Brightshin slums before becoming Harvesters.

Those who were caught in the clockwork transport machinery while working and lost their legs, eventually dying in the slums.

The memories of Harvesters who have such pasts shine.

Many ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) of the people now attacking outside were originally ordinary people. It shines in their memories.

These are the people who chose theft instead of continuing their family businesses.

This shows how serious the situation has become.

Harvesters encounter these thieves.

And to survive, they kill the thieves.

Then, warmth flows to me.

It’s still fall, but this is happening.

Winter will come soon.

The winter in this country isn’t harsh.

This country’s weather is temperate, with rain even in the middle of winter. Snow falls only once every few years, making it a pleasant place to live.

However, that doesn’t mean the weather is always suitable for plants to grow year-round. Like most countries, when winter comes, food production halts, and people rely on stored food to get through the season.

Thus, food must be stocked before winter arrives.

If there’s no food, even if there’s a hunt next year, people will attack others immediately for food.

Harming others to survive is an instinct. From a biological standpoint, thieves aren’t inherently bad.

From a social perspective, however, they are.

Thieves appear in most places.

Oddly enough, fishing villages seem to be the safest.

Actually, it’s not so odd.

The sea has plenty of food. If you can eat somewhat grotesque creatures, you won’t starve to death.

In other words, the fact that ordinary citizens in other villages are turning to thievery means that food is becoming scarce everywhere.

There’s no mention of a famine in the memories of the Harvesters or warmth carriers.

So, it’s likely related to the impact of the current business. I had suspected there would be an impact eventually. But it came faster than expected.

Even if someone recklessly smashed a clockwork machine, it would still be possible to harvest something. And the event occurred in mid-fall.

At least, they should have been able to harvest food this year...

But is it really this soon that there’s a problem with food? To the point where people are turning to theft out of hunger?

I check the memories of the Harvesters from Brightshin.

Among those who are working hard, the Harvesters who aren’t. They’re starting to fear buying food more and more.

The people in the slums are trembling in fear, wondering if they’ll survive the winter.

The price of groceries keeps rising.

And it’s not just food that’s the issue. Fuel prices are also soaring. This world hasn’t transitioned from wood to coal.

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So, they’re using firewood.

Since the citizens emotionally destroyed the clockwork machines, the price of firewood inside the capital has been skyrocketing.

Even though the weather is mild, it’s still too cold to survive without heat.

It seems that using the clockwork machines would solve the issue, but people can’t use them.

To avoid the cold and restart the machines, the media has exaggerated the fear.

The clockwork machines themselves aren’t bad, but the ones made by specific companies have been branded as murder machines, instilling fear.

But there’s no clockwork machine in the capital untouched by those three companies.

In essence, they’re unusable.

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If someone does use them, it’s because the cold is severe enough that they’re ready to face death.

But do you know?

Not all clockwork machines commit murder. Accidents caused by power sources only happen when over-concentrated power sources have been running for a long time, like in Vern City.

As I’ve heard, problems don’t arise immediately.

Trust in the media will drop. There might even be riots.

Hunger and cold. In other words, food and homes are destroyed. Accidents will definitely happen. These accidents will certainly cause many deaths.

A lot of warmth.

Hehe.

I can just wait for that day to come and enjoy the warmth harvested from the thieves killed by the Harvesters.

Ah.

In the meantime, I found something.

The Heavenly Demon Arts.

Yes. That technique has left the hands of the Harvesters.

Compared to the Heavenly Demon Arts in the memory of a person from the second world, it’s very insufficient, but it clearly shines as the Heavenly Demon Arts.

The Heavenly Demon’s single stroke.

It really works.

It’s a short and simple record, enough to be called a single stroke. I don’t quite understand how the Heavenly Demon Arts can be used with this.

Originally, there were dozens of scrolls of the Heavenly Demon Arts held by the Heavenly Demon and Eunjae.

And to understand that, you’d need dozens of volumes of background knowledge.

To put it simply, learning university-level mathematics requires the high school-level math you learned beforehand.

But reading just one page and solving university-level math problems is what this is like.

And it’s not just used by Harvesters from Brightshin.

Some of the surviving Harvesters from Vern City are also using it.

They’re using completely different parts of it.

But.

Both are the Heavenly Demon Arts.

What exactly did the Heavenly Demon leave behind for me?

I don’t understand.

But, if I can use it, I will. With a powerful martial art, the Harvesters will harvest more warmth!

Hehe.

In that sense, I’m thankful.

I briefly thought of the Heavenly Demon and buried it in my memory as I looked out the window of my room.

Compared to when I first arrived here, the scenery has changed a lot.

Now, above the tightly packed buildings, the once blue sky has turned gray and dull.

Smoky haze rises from all corners of the city. If this continues, the future where smog will cover the capital is clear.

No, no.

The smog won’t cover the capital. Some memories are shining. As the shining memories suggest, unlike the faded memories of the world, this world has magic.

And anyone can use it as long as they practice.

The maximum output depends on talent, but those who reach that maximum are extremely rare.

In other words, some level of magic can be used by anyone if they practice. Magic that warms the body is very simple.

No, strictly speaking, it’s slightly different.

If magic is about causing specific physical phenomena with mana, then most living beings in this world are using magic.

Just as mitochondria in cells create energy from oxygen, a creature’s body is magic.

This isn’t unique to the third world.

At least, according to Daegon’s memories, every world is like that.

The only exception is the world in the faded memories.

That’s the only exception.

Yes.

Anyway, people in the third world can use magic to warm their bodies to survive. Temperature can be solved.

But there’s something that magic can’t fix.

Food.

It’s just as expensive today as it was yesterday. It keeps going up. Already, people in the slums can’t afford to buy food because the prices have risen too much.

That means food is scarce.

Collapse is near.

I watch the bright red sunset outside the window, changing the intense cold into a faint chill with the warmth steadily sent by the suffering Harvesters.

Soon, instead of the red sunset, I can almost see flames rising from there, and I can’t help but look forward to it.