Chapter 218: A Changed Impression of the Viscount’s Daughter
Deep within the Arend Island Labyrinth, Leon carefully inspected the Labyrinth Breeding Pool.
Two months had passed since the losses incurred during the battle with the Earl, and the number of Magical Beasts had already recovered considerably through reproduction.
“……Mr. Fenrir, judging by the current trend, we should be able to resume our previous level of production starting this month, and output should catch back up very soon.” Simon respectfully reported while following beside him.
Leon thought for a moment, then shook his head: “No, for the second half of the month, keep things the same as before. We still need to focus on expanding the breeding scale, with increasing the number of Magical Beasts as the priority.”
When he had served as a Cadre under the Earl, his production strategy within the Labyrinth had been to maintain the scale and control the number of Magical Beasts. Once there were too many, they were slaughtered as quickly as possible and processed into Magic Essence, while breeding and reproduction were limited strictly to what was necessary to maintain their numbers, keeping the Labyrinth’s Magic Essence output at a relatively stable level.
On one hand, back then only Rena could extract Magic Essence, and he could only occasionally help out, so there had been an upper limit to Magic Essence production. On the other hand, during that period, because the Earl’s restrictions had existed over him, he had subconsciously disliked that situation and had never developed any intention of expanding further.
But now, he had to prepare to absorb the Earl’s remaining territory. That meant that in the future, he would have to rely on production from this Labyrinth to satisfy demand across all of that territory. If a commercial war had to be fought during the process of absorption, then sufficient output would be even more necessary.
And now, among the Witches who could participate in production, besides Rena, there were also Weiss and Sally. In theory, Magic Essence output could be increased to three times its original level.
For now, he had to seize the time to expand the breeding scale and lay the groundwork for increased production first, otherwise the future production shortfall would only grow larger.