The Plan of the Terminally-Ill Wife's Divorce (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 96

After finishing our conversation, we decided to focus first on resolving the so-called “Curse of the Gods.”

“It’s not without reason that people are collapsing. Malnutrition and anemia—it’s anemia, not some mysterious plague.”

Lusterless hair, white lines on fingernails and toenails, and pale eyelids all indicated severe iron deficiency.

In a place where boiled eggs were considered a luxury meal, adequate nutrition was simply impossible.

They’d feel weak every time they stood up and keep fainting. Though it wasn’t a specific disease, some might never wake up again. With weakened immunity, they caught every minor illness.

Moreover, without knowing the cause, no proper treatment could be administered.

The environment wasn’t healthy enough for childbirth, so birth rates must have dropped too. Women of childbearing age, unaware of the real cause, couldn’t conceive—and naturally, everyone blamed it on “the Mountain God’s wrath toward the Mountain Tribe.”

From a modern perspective, where food was abundant, it was shocking how something as simple as inadequate meals could be so terrifying.

It was a problem that could be solved by descending the mountain and eating properly, but since it stemmed from nutritional deficiency, merely supplementing the missing nutrients was only a temporary fix.

“At the very least, anemia can be treated with iron supplements.”

Iron oxide was plentiful in the local soil, but we couldn’t just feed dirt to the children.

Inkheart used his spirit energy to aid the collapsed villagers’ natural recovery, but he knew nothing about nutrition—so he couldn’t grasp my explanation.

“Anemia? But no one’s lost significant blood—why would anyone have anemia?”

A sudden thought struck me, and instead of explaining further, I clicked my fingers together sharply.

“A Spirit King should be able to grind down metal, right?”

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