"Certainly."
Aweit pondered briefly and nodded in agreement.
"Handle it. Give the Kingdom of the Lake some compensation and transport a batch of food there."
"At your command!"
Gillim bowed to the ground. Then, he raised his head once more.
"Your Majesty, based on the latest intelligence, we can infer that the gems of the Kingdom of the Lake are produced in large quantities by some method that doesn't require a vast labor force for mining..."
"Hmm? Large-scale production?"
Aweit paused, somewhat surprised.
"Are you saying that the Lake Gems, so hard and exquisite..."
"Exactly."
Gillim nodded in affirmation.
"The Lake Gems, there is a ninety percent chance, are some kind of man-made creation."
"Is that so!"
Aweit was actually a bit astonished. He had seen many Lake Gems, and the treasury also held many. He had once greatly admired the stable quality of these gems. Now it seems that it might be as the Chief Intelligence Officer had said...
