9
The scene at the dining table was quite touching, especially the pinky promise scene.
Eris, in her innocence, had no idea her life was getting shorter day by day.
Each of her wishes essentially expressed a desire to live for thousands of years.
After playing with the little girl until she took her midday nap, Gavin gave Kariette a meaningful look.
“Kurt, Holly, follow me.
No one else,” Kariette commanded before leading her siblings into the study.
The four of them settled down to discuss.
“I’m surprised you managed to procure ingredients from the magical world.”
“It was my plan,” Gavin, looking haggard and lifeless compared to his demeanor in front of his daughter, admitted he hadn’t slept or rested, overwhelmed by stress.
“Your plan?”
“I planned…
to cook for my family if I returned.
But I couldn’t do it.”
“Why couldn’t you?” Holly’s blunt inquiry made Kariette and Kurt turn their gaze towards their feisty younger sister.
“My family vanished without a trace, like they were erased from this world.
I didn’t contact anyone because of this,” Gavin shared, his voice laden with sorrow and despair.
He appeared utterly drained, powerless, and weak, so much so that even Kariette was surprised.
The young man held his head and continued.
“My exhaustive search for clues turned up nothing.
Everyone said my family had moved away five years ago.
I’m exhausted, but my wish came halfway true with Eris.
She’s the only family I have left,” he sighed.
“Until last night when your sisters told me the truth, I didn’t know that the last member of my family might have less than two years left.
I’m devastated!
I’ve slain demons, vanquished devils, rid the world of countless corrupt beings.
Why would the gods repay me like this?
They’ve taken my family and now want to take my daughter too!” Gavin, his anger palpable, rose to his feet, only for Kariette to urge him to sit.
“Calm down.”
“I am calm…
just furious,” Gavin bit his lip, drawing blood.
“I pored over the medical documents all night, especially Jokerface’s reports.
I refuse to believe there’s no cure for Eris.
I stared at them endlessly in the dark, fruitless.
She seems normal but suffers from severe complications.
She absorbs nutrients poorly and also suffers from a severe eating disorder, but fortunately, it hasn’t reached the final stage.
All of these factors impact her physical development.
When she turns five, her immune system will fail, and her body will stop growing.
Her life cannot continue, like a lamp that’s about to—”
“Enough!!
Stop talking,” Holly covered her ears, unwilling to hear more.
She’d had enough!
Every time their older sister invited those experts, their diagnoses echoed Gavin’s words almost verbatim.
She didn’t want to hear it anymore.
Kariette remained outwardly calm, but inside, she was trembling, especially since these words came from the second most reliable person after Jokerface.
The maternal heart within her almost couldn’t bear it, not wanting to hear it, but more painfully, the speaker was the child’s real father.
How agonizing must it be for him to detail his daughter’s dire prognosis?
Kurt wanted it to stop too, but he was quicker on the uptake than his younger sister and understood their older sister better than anyone else.
Besides them, the person most in agony was Gavin, yet he continued his diagnosis with an increasingly pale face.
“So, there’s no cure, but at least I saw some insanity Jokerface let slip through the medical documents.”
“…” A grim feeling crept over Kariette, like she was on the verge of scolding someone.
“That damn doctor didn’t mention another possibility that could extend Eris’s life because he didn’t want you to cling to false hope.”
“…”
“…”
What?
Holly, who had been blocking out the conversation, noticed her siblings’ changing expressions and removed her hands from her ears.
“What do you mean?
Extending Eris’s life?” Kariette couldn’t maintain her composure.
She was hopeful.
“You must not lie to me… Understand?”
“Yes!
You…brother, from now on, I’ll respect you as one of my own.
You know that joking about this isn’t right,” Kurt expressed excitedly, trusting his brother-in-law immensely, unable to contain his hope.
‘Can he really save Eris?’ Holly doubted.
“It’s not called treatment.
It’s better described as extending time,” Gavin maintained his grave expression.
“Tell me now.
What joke is Jokerface playing on me?
I’ll freeze him!” Kariette was dead serious, but Gavin shook his head.
“Jokerface never says anything he isn’t sure about.
This method is theoretically possible but practically unimaginable.
Do you think someone like him would tell you an impossible cure?”
“And what Jokerface couldn’t do, can you?”
“Jokerface is just a medical sorcerer!
But I’m not just that.
I’m a war sorcerer, a medical sorcerer, a formation sorcerer, a foretelling sorcerer, a master of magical cuisine, a master of crafts,” Gavin listed his expertise, leaving the others speechless.
Were there sorcerers who were experts in many fields like this?
“Listen to me.
The problem that caused Eris’s death was that she was unable to absorb nutrients and was disturbed by the mysterious energy flow from the abnormal magic core.
It prevented her from developing further, and her immune system failed.
We can’t control the flow of mysterious energy that killed Eris, but we were able to grow her body and normalize her immune system.”
After listening to Gavin’s words, the three siblings began to think about it and then agreed.
“But what can we do?
Brother, we have money, we can support you!” Kurt asked first, but Gavin shook his head.
“You guys saw it.
Eris can eat magical cuisine, and she seems to get along well with it.
I checked with my magic, and the nutrient absorption process works normally.
In other words, the magical cuisine can allow Eris to build an immune system and thrive.”
“Good!
This is great.
My niece will grow up happy!” Kurt was so happy that tears flowed from his eyes.
Holly breathed a sigh of relief.
But Kariette saw where the problem lay and spoke up.
“Jokerface was right.
In theory, it’s very simple.
But in practice, it is impossible.”
“Huh?” Kurt and Holly were stunned.
They didn’t understand.
“We can’t find that many ingredients from the magical world.”
“But we have money.
We can buy ingredients from the magical world.
It’s not just you and brother-in-law who have been to the magical world.”
“But not everyone can bring back things from the magical world.” Kariette closed her eyes and sighed again.
She would have to spend a little more time explaining to her younger brother and sister.
“When we come back, our power is reduced to that of a level one sorcerer.
Plus, we couldn’t bring anything with us, not even a little bit.
But there are loopholes.
People with alternate dimensional magic will not be affected at all.
Items stored in alternate dimensional magic will not be erased.
Each person can hold a very small amount of stuff inside.”
“As your older sister said, during the final battle, was there anyone greedy enough to take cooking ingredients and put them into the alternate dimensional magic?
It’s a war, you will only put secret weapons or top-notch weapons.
How many people put a lot of magic ingredients in alternate dimensional magic?”
“You did?”
“I prepared well because I can choose when to return,” Gavin said, feeling really disgusted with himself.
He felt very sorry for Kariette when he said he could choose when to come back.
“Even if someone were to bring back the magic ingredients, they must have been sold or accidentally ended up in someone’s stomach, because the ingredients have an expiration date.”
“Ah…” Kurt started to feel hopeless again.
What was this?
He thought there was a way to help.
In the end, he was back to start.
“Then go back and get some more.”
“If I can do that, why am I stressed out here?” Gavin looked at Holly with disdain.
Even if he were a Sorcerer King, he wouldn’t have the ability to teleport to another world.
“But you probably have a way, right?” Kariette asked with anticipation.
“Yes.” A short answer, but it made a big impact on everyone in the room.
Kariette smiled and reached out with both hands to grab the young man’s legs and shake them hard.
“What must I do?”
“If you can’t bring it, you have to produce it yourself.”
“Are you going to build a farm to produce ingredients from the magical world?”
“Yes.”
This is crazy!
Kariette couldn’t believe it.
“Build a farm to produce ingredients from the magical world.
Can you do that too?” Kurt asked curiously.
“It is theoretically possible.”
“But it can’t be done in practice,” Kurt said, heartbroken.
Kariette nodded.
“Not quite at all.
I saw the possibility even though I was in the magical world.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have brought back all kinds of seeds from the magical world.”
“…”
“First, I need to change the soil layer to be the same as the magic world, including water, food, minerals, and natural energy, which must be as abundant as in the magic world.
There should be no pollution, and the mana flow must be constantly flowing.
Additionally, there must be enough space to grow all the plants I bring back,” Gavin explained in quick succession.
Sounded easy, but actually, it was not possible.
It was like trying to take plants from another world and grow them in a different world.
How was that possible?
Even durians could not be grown in cold countries.
What to do with plants from another world?
The difficulty was even higher than growing potatoes on Mars.
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