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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8409274" data-attributes="member: 93670">Some people have mentioned "real world knowledge" & "real world physsics", but I think there is another way of looking at it.  Specifically common knowledge about how magic works in the world.  There are a lot of ways to summon creatures & "can we eat it?  How?  What if we do it like this...".  The <a href="https://www.crunchyroll.com/overlord" target="_blank">overlord anime</a> from a few years back skips that particular question but it's one of the earlier experiments Ainz orders to be done with the reader getting the occasional tidbit about those & other experiments across the 14 or so light novels.  Here are some discoveries from this particular experiment I can remember:[/spoiler]<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If a creature is injured & magically healed the missing & damaged parts  are instantly replaced & the missing part vanishes... hmm.... what happens if the missing parts are not just forgotten blood spatter on the ground but currently doing something.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If creature A eats part of creature B what happens?... They both seem to be ok & the missing part is restored<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What happens if a creature lives for a long period of time on this vanishing food?... they seem to be ok & do not develop unexpected malnourishment  type conditions<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Can we preserve the missing part and then restore the original creature with healing magic  without making the preserved bit vanish?... Yes once we start preparing or cooking it for preservation the universe treats it as something new rather than just part of the original creature that would previously have vanished<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Interesting.... what if instead of treating creature B like food we instead use the hide to make armor or the parchment for a scroll?.... The creature  being allowed to heal naturally or being magically healed does not appear to impact the hide's capabilities in either case provided the normal physical & chemical treatments normally required to prepare the leather or parchment have begun.</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul>[/spoiler]With that kind of thing in place every conscript grunt would know that it pays to be nice to the casters able to summon even the weakest of creatures & probably learn why during the equivalent of basic training.  After all even if they can't find food or wind up stuck in a siege  with dwindling food it can be the difference between getting to eat  some of the summoned critters  that caster summons.  The details & limits of what kind of things will/won't work is going to be a really easy thing for anyone who can cast the spell to come across by the time they finish learning the spell too... venison might be a bit gamey but it beats the heck out of hard tack rations & similar just as summoning a whale into a courtyard will allow a whole lot of people to eat if the chefs are quick & don't kill it.  By extension there would probably be a lot of chefs & kitchen staff that know how to handle summoned creatures <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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