Earth With Dungeon: Saving the World With an Economic Boom

tmindedly and wipe the sweat under the scorching summer sun.
It’s hot.

“Hey, you know, corn can be used for various things, right?”

“Huh? Yeah, I think I’ve heard something like that.
You can grind it into flour, right? I remember hearing about making cornbread or something like that.”

Shingen looks at the corn seeds planted in the field and asks about it.
Yeah, I’ve been wondering about it too.

The reason I chose corn this time is because of that.
The reason for adding it to the lineup is that.
I think we can ground it into flour and use it to make tortillas or cornbread.
The “I think” part is uncertain and a bit scary.

I don’t want to deal with wheat yet.
There’s a possibility that the people in the inner city will intervene.
The same goes for rice.
There’s a mysterious sense of obligation that comes with rice cultivation, like having to make rice paddies.

It’s not something I randomly thought about because once we turned the harvested crop into seeds.
It grows at the same rate as an ordinary crop.
Considering the future, I want to grow them normally and have rice paddies prepared as well.

I don’t want the staple crops we can cultivate to attract attention.
But I still want to secure staple crops.
After much deliberation, I settled on corn.
Once it’s dried in the sun, all that’s left is grinding it with a mill.

Having preserved food is essential.
Choosing corn as a crop that the people in the inner city wouldn’t be too interested in was a last resort.

Little by little, I need to expand our influence without attracting too much attention.
Small businesses are a pitiful existence.

“It seems we can also use it as animal feed, but that’s for later, right?”

“Not just animal feed.
But we’re still struggling with today’s meals.
…It’s good that we can have conversations like this, though.”

Yeah, I agree with Shingen’s answer.
It means we have some breathing room if we can discuss things like animal feed.
It’s a matter of mindset, I suppose.

“In any case, it will take time for them to grow.
We’ll clear this area in the next few days.
Let’s grow potatoes there.”

“Potatoes and corn.
It’s good to have more vegetables we can store for a long time.”

“Yeah.
We can regularly purchase wheat flour and vegetables from the inner town now, so let’s observe the situation for a while with this.”

We’ll accumulate more cores, increase our funds, and expand the market.

With those preparations completed, it’s time for our next move.

[Let’s conquer the Bug Dungeon and obtain dungeon cores.
The dungeon that spawns Lesser Mandragoras and Worms is at the same level as the Goblin King’s dungeon.
I’ve gained some skills that I want.]

[I see… Understood.
With our current strength, it shouldn’t be too difficult.
We have fighting spirit and assault rifles, after all]

We won’t let our guard down, but we’ll be fine.

Well then, shall we conquer the Bug Dungeon?