Even Controlling The Weather

After arriving in the Elf Nation, we learned that this country had a pollution problem.

We treated the elf Lala we met by chance, and then moved to the village where she lived.

We quickly treated the village elder with a Purification Potion.

After that, we split up and had all the elves drink Purification Potions.

“Oh! My body feels light!”

“Amazing!”

“Even elves can’t use healing magic at this level!”

Ah, right. That’s true.

“Elder-san.”

“What may it be, Saintess-sama…!”

“Wow… what a complete turnaround…”

When we first came to this village, weren’t you hostile to me?

Now he approached me with a big smile, rubbing his hands together. Probably because I saved the village crisis. What a straightforward person.

“Can’t you use healing magic?”

Healing magic is quite advanced magic, and few can use it. But that only applies to humans with low magical aptitude.

Elves handle magic better than humans. I thought elves could at least use healing magic.

That’s why it’s even stranger. Why don’t they heal themselves with magic?

“Actually, due to the effects of air pollution, we have mana failure…”

“Mana failure… the illness where you can’t produce magical power from the mana absorbed into the body, right?”

“That is correct.”

Due to pollution, it seems they cannot use magic itself anymore.

For elves who control magic like limbs, losing magic is equal to losing their arms and legs. How pitiful.

“I wonder if mana failure can be cured with a Recovery Potion.”

I got curious and had the elder drink a Recovery Potion too.

Then…

“O-oh! I can knead it! I can knead magical power! A-amazing…!”

“Great. Then everyone, help distribute Recovery Potions.”

“““Yes!”””

With help from the slave girls and Cherge, we distributed Recovery Potions.

“Oh! I can use magic!”

“Incredible! Not only purifying miasma, but even curing an incurable disease!”

“As expected of the Saintess!”

Hm?

Incurable disease…?

“Elder-san.”

“Yes gladly!”

“I haven’t said anything yet…”

I want to ask what that first attitude was about. What a pleasant reversal.

Well, whatever.

“What do you mean by incurable disease? Mana failure is a difficult illness, but not an incurable one, right?”

“It used to be curable, but now there is no healer capable of curing mana failure.”

“Huh…? N-no one?”

“Yes. Therefore, mana failure had effectively been treated as an incurable disease.”

“O-oh… I see…”

Wait, there’s no one who can cure mana failure!?

“Master. Have you forgotten this is 500 years after your original era, and many technologies have declined? End of report.”

Cherge was right. R-right… I slept until a degraded future 500 years later.

But isn’t it really bad that no one can cure mana failure?

That means they can’t receive the benefits of magic, right?

Without magic, life would be incredibly inconvenient… Is the current world really okay…?

Well! No point thinking too seriously!

Right now I have to deal with the suffering people in front of me, not unseen people across the world. Otherwise I can’t enjoy my travels!

We used Recovery Potions to treat the elves who had mana failure.

After that, everyone was kneeling before me. Why?

“Saintess-sama, we sincerely thank you for saving us!”

When the elder bowed his head, the other elves expressed their gratitude as well.

What happened to elves hating humans…? Also I’m an alchemist, not—

“More importantly, we need to improve this polluted soil and air. Otherwise elves will fall ill again.”

“…Indeed. Even if miasma inside the body is removed, we still ingest it through food and water.”

Zenith was right. So we moved to fundamental treatment.

“Cherge. Advanced Potion please. No.2.”

“Understood, Master.”

She took out a potion bottle filled with sky-blue liquid from her maid apron pocket.

“…A new advanced Numbers potion?”

“Yes.”

I call potions with magical-like effects Advanced Numbers Potions.

As the name suggests, each is numbered and has different effects.

“Toka-chan. Can you throw this as high into the sky as possible?”

“Understood!”

Fire Drakekin Toka is the strongest in our party.

Toka wound up and hurled the bottle into the sky with full force.

Gyyyyuun! …That made quite a sound as it flew.

“Wow! Amazing! I can’t see it anymore!”

Daphne hopped up and down, her rabbit ears bouncing cutely.

“Cherge. Shoot it.”

“Understood. End of report.”

Cherge took out her gun and fired into the air.

We couldn’t tell from here if it broke.

“Direct hit. End of report.”

Robot maid Cherge’s eyes also have high-performance telescopic functions.

Once again, this golem is convenient.

“…Seyi-sama. What will happen now?”

“You’ll see. Ah, here it comes!”

“…R-rain clouds!? Even though it’s sunny!?”

The sky instantly turned pitch black…

Then heavy rain poured down.

The dense miasma in the air was washed away at once.

The heavy rain lasted only a short time and then disappeared.

“L-look everyone! The village miasma is gone!”

Yeah, it worked properly.

“…S-Seyi-sama… what was that?”

“The Rain Blessing Potion.”

“…Rain blessing?”

“It creates rain clouds through a chemical reaction and makes it rain. The rain contains Purification Potion components, so it purifies land and air within a certain area.”

“…………”

Zenith stared at me blankly.

Huh? Did I explain it too complicated?

The Rain Blessing Potion just spreads purification through rain over a wide area…

“S-s-s-so incredible, Saintess-sama!”

The elder suddenly shouted loudly. Noisy…

“Controlling weather with magic! Incredible!”

That’s what surprised you!?

Wait, controlling weather was the surprising part…?

“Huh? You can’t do that?”

“We cannot! Even elves cannot use weather manipulation magic! It is lost ancient magic!”

“R-really… I see…”

So that’s the level we’re starting from…

“Where did you learn such tremendous magic, Saintess-sama!?”

“Um… it’s not magic, it’s alchemy…”

“Haha! What a joke! I’ve never heard of alchemy making rain!”

Uhh… I’m doing it right here though…

Anyway, the Rain Blessing Potion solved the village’s soil and air pollution problem.

However… it isn’t a fundamental solution. We still have to deal with the artificer guild.