Chapter 227 227. One year later, the journey of the apprentices
A year has passed since Croya decided to drastically transform the northern territory.
After Miffin's help, the Kingdom of Norland almost acquiesced in Croa's control of the northern territory - in name, it was still assigned to Croa, who had already entered the count with great momentum. Moyer.
In just one year, Earl Kermoyer has controlled all the nobles in the entire northern territory, except for the Duke stationed in the Terenas Mountains.
In order to prevent them from affecting his farming plans, Croya was very friendly and sincere and sent his apprentices to invite them one by one.
He has renovated the island that originally hosted them in the sea for these nobles. They will be absolutely safe, have no worries about food and clothing, and will be as warm as spring no matter how the weather changes.
Of course, it is impossible to leave.
However, he also very kindly announced that he could accept the descendants of these noble families to join his army of apprentices for learning.
If you do well enough, you can serve as a garrison lord in certain places.
Now he is already a fifth-level archmage. In addition, he is also related to Prince Mifein and Archmage Celesti of the Mage Association, and his status is already unbreakable.
Anyone with some brains would choose to join Croya's command. Following such a powerful mage, the future would definitely be much better than being a minor noble.
Under such circumstances, which can be said to be the right time, place and people, if there is no way to make drastic changes to the northern border, it will definitely be Croa's problem.
Fortunately, he and his men are very capable. As the saying goes, "If you want to get rich, build roads first."
Croya's first order was not to carry out planting operations in various areas, but to ask them to start from the Terenas Mountains and build a road connecting to Han Cao Island, which was large enough to accommodate ten carriages. The royal road.
After one year, the road was finally completed.
If this road was really built according to this medieval civilization, it would probably be impossible to exhaust all the farm servants in the northern border to death.
But with the help of magic and Warcraft, there is no problem even if we move mountains and reclaim seas. Now is the time for acceptance——
Apprentice Jamie stands on a vehicle like From the top of the van's car, looking into the distance, a road paved with white rocks could be seen as far as the eye could see.
Surrounded by the surrounding vegetation and rocks, it can be said to be white and glowing, like a holy white road leading to the heaven where gods live.
The apprentices around him all had extremely dark skin, as if they had been digging coal for several years. They could not tell that they were actually noble mages and knights.
Looking at this road, they all recalled the hard work they had endured during this year, and felt very sad and emotional in their hearts.
“Don’t look, let’s go.”
Jamie looked at it again and smiled: “According to our plan, we will test the smoothness of the road along the way. Pick up the brothers in various territories.
We are still very pressed for time and have to get to our home before Lord Croya’s birthday party.”
Hear him. After saying that, the surrounding apprentices quickly got into the cars one by one - these bread-like cars were all sketches drawn by Croya himself.
The entire body is made of a special alloy, and the wheels are made of magic rubber. It can travel at full speed on any terrain and can transform when necessary.
It is a kind of large golem.
Their mission is to pass through this road that Cloya once traveled on a carriage, pick up other apprentices who are doing farming work in various territories along the way, and pick up specialties from various places, and return Go to Hanjiao Island to give a gift to Chloe for her birthday.
After getting in the car, they drove quickly on the white road, which was extremely smooth, with various scenery constantly changing on both sides of the road.
“The smoothness of the road is good.”
"The repairs are good."
"The thieving construction team and the wind-eroded sandworms are really awesome."
Since the car basically drives automatically, they observe more The most important thing is whether the road will deform under the weight of the wheels, the road signs on both sides of the road, and the magic patterns hidden under the road...
The result is not bad, after all, the Stealing Rat construction team is responsible for the entire process. Yes, these monsters are more serious than humans.
After all, many times they dig tunnels and lay roads for their own nests. Whether it is reproduction or safety, they dare not compromise.
Soon, they arrived at the first stop.
This place is called Gray Stone Ridge, which is a complex gray stone mountain. It is far away from the ocean, there are very few water sources around, and the wind blowing is extremely dry.
But it happens that in such an area, some extremely special magic plants can grow, for example...
"You are here!"
Apprentice Lina Chong He waved his hands excitedly at the convoy: "Come here quickly, they are about to open now, let's pick some of the best ones and bring them to Lord Croya!"
Hearing this, Jamie and a group of ten people quickly jumped out of the car and followed Lina into the cave. They saw a pool of stone lotus blooming in the cave that was filled with blue light and was about the size of a football field.
The surface of each petal of those lotus flowers has the rough texture of stone, but when it blooms, the lotus pod wrapped inside briefly emits a vibrant earth-yellow shimmer, and even the rock petals change. It's crystal clear, like crystal.
An indescribable and strange fragrance echoed in the cave, and soon attracted a large number of butterflies to gather here. Those butterflies with phoenix feather patterns danced around the lotus, and the scenery was extremely spectacular.
“It’s a good planting!” Jamie praised: “This is the main ingredient of the rock lotus perfume sold by Master Croa in the royal capital and abroad. The wives of the princes and nobles went crazy buying it. ”
In fact, the popularity of these perfumes is very exaggerated. Because of the quiet fragrance, not only the noble ladies of the human race are buying them, but also some men of the elves are buying them.
Each lotus flower can produce about thirty bottles of perfume, and each bottle of perfume can be sold for a high price of twenty magic crystals.
The person who can arrange Croya here is someone he trusts more.
“Hehe.” Lina smiled proudly, “I would also like to thank Mr. Croya for arranging these wind feather butterflies and the magic field roots at the bottom of the lake. I don’t know what thing provided the magic power. It can actually extend directly from Hanjiao Island to here."
An apprentice on the side couldn't help but said: "What can't the omnipotent Lord Croya do?"
< br>Although this sounds neither scientific nor magical, the apprentices all nodded in agreement. It seemed that for Croya, none of this was surprising.
The Wind Feather Butterfly is a butterfly that lives on high mountains. It can absorb the "essence of rocks" and is an excellent catalyst for these stone lotuses.
With a catalyst, they can achieve three crops a year, but the wind feather butterfly's ability to adapt to the environment is quite poor.
In other words, Croya improved them and applied some adaptive abilities learned from the insect swarm, so that they could barely survive for a while.
The gap between one crop every two years and three crops a year is extremely huge. This lotus pond alone has created huge profits for Croya.
After bragging about Croya, the apprentices searched for a while in the rock lotus pond, and finally selected the largest lotus to take away.
When they left, the people living here in Greystone Ridge mustered up the courage to come around. One of them, an old man with gray hair, offered a gem with trembling hands.
"Sir, this is a treasure in our village. It was obtained by a knight among our ancestors in the Ash Mountain."
"It was the lord who gave us freedom so that we can Farming and grazing allow us to survive."
The old man lowered his head respectfully and said in a nervous tone: "We are willing to dedicate it to the lord!"
"..."
Lina didn't expect such a thing to happen suddenly. To be honest, although Croya took away all the nobles who ruled these areas, the farm servants would live more freely.
But there is still a big gap with Hanjiao Island.
She returns to Hanjiao Island every week to report on her work, so she doesn’t think it’s that special. Unexpectedly, in their eyes, Lord Croya is almost like a saint.
She couldn't help but glance at Jamie.
The latter had a smile on his face. Although he didn’t know what this thing was, he still stepped forward to catch the crystal clear blue gem quite solemnly: "The lord will definitely like this gift. ."
He glanced at Lina after holding the gem. Lina immediately understood and stepped forward and said: "You have presented a gift to the Lord. I will ask the Lord to send a tree spirit guard to bless your land."
Farm Servants Thank you immediately and joyfully.
But the apprentices had to go on their way, so they left directly.
With the addition of Lina, one more car was added to the convoy. They continued to move forward and came to the second, third, and fourth stations.
During this period, they successively obtained some fish, pine nuts and crystal watermelons from Green Water Lake Ridge, Squirrel Territory, Crystal Cave Territory and other places, and continued to move forward.
After passing these four territories, it was already the second day and half the journey had been walked.
They looked at the scenery along the way in the car and sighed with emotion: "There are no people living in these large tracts of land... Too many people really died in that snowstorm."
Half of the journey, which is over a thousand kilometers, there are only four developed human settlements. The rest of the area is covered with overgrown vegetation and rampant monsters.
I want to know how low the population of the North is.
"That's why adults choose to let the magic beasts and magic plants take care of that area together. Are we almost there?"
"We are almost there."
"Here. , isn’t it here!”
The apprentices’ cars stopped in front of a vast plain. The area in front of them was about ten hectares, almost entirely covered with grass.
Floating in the green grass are some jellyfish-like elves with gauze-like wings. They collect the scattered magic power and provide magic power to the magic plants on the ground that are slumped in the sun.
Those magic plants all have roots exposed to the ground. None of them are long and thin. They are all flat like human feet, with small fruits hanging from the roots.
At first glance, it looks like an upside-down tree.
They can even run around freely, enjoying the gifts of sunshine and rain in this field freely, waiting for themselves to grow big enough, and then be taken to various fields to take root and grow. .
These are all magic plants called knob beans.
Under the tireless experiments of the apprentices, this special magic plant has determined its effect on increasing the fertility of the field. After comparison, its effect is better than other magic plants.
So this kind of tube bean was planted on a large scale.
Then, with the help of Orpheus Oak, this kind of tummy bean inexplicably gained the ability to move at will, and was brought to this "tummy bean ranch" for free range.
So of course the person guarding this place is——
"Teacher Oak!"
As soon as Jamie approached the edge of the Gnome Ranch, there was a sudden rise in the ground. The huge roots surrounded the edge of the field of more than ten hectares in just a few seconds.
It's like a fence has been raised in the pasture, immediately isolating the green grass inside from the outside.
What’s even more outrageous is that there is almost no magic fluctuation, and all those roots rise up. The apprentices don’t dare to think that if they are attacked like this... they would just close their eyes and wait for death.
“You are here.”
A tree man over one meter tall walked out of the tree roots. Its leaves are green, but the trunk is covered with wrinkles. Like dry bark.
The apprentices all saluted it respectfully.
There is no other reason. This oak teacher is not only a good friend of Lord Croya, but also a powerful God's Favored One - it guards the only road to the deeper parts of the North. At the same time, the Gnome Beans were also kept in captivity.
On the entire Hanjiao Island, it is the only one with special magic that allows magic plants to walk freely. I heard that it still teaches elf magic, but almost no one can learn it.
Jamie said: "Teacher Oak, Lord Croya's birthday is coming soon, so we would like to invite you to return to Hanjiao Island with us."
The beauty in Oak's eyes The light brightened up, and his tone became excited almost immediately: "My friend's birthday is coming...I also prepared a gift for him!"
I don't see what it does, but the boundless space behind it In the field, some ears of wheat filled with blood suddenly grew.
They are inconspicuous in the entire field, but there are some tiny insects growing on the ears of wheat.
They are all plump, lying on the ears of wheat and eating the ears of wheat, with bloody pupae hanging one after another around them, which looks very strange.
That is...
"Elf Blood Silkworm?" Jamie said in surprise.
"Yes, I started cultivating these little guys when I came here a year ago, just to prepare a gift for my friend."
Orpheus Oak faced Those blood silkworms waved their branches (hands), and the blood silkworms immediately began to spin silk. The blood-red silk threads were intertwined in mid-air, just like the most diligent and skilled weavers.
Soon, an extremely gorgeous robe was formed.
There are patterns of flowers, plants and trees on it, as well as the changes of clouds, mists and rivers, which are vivid and lifelike, as if they are real scenery.
While spinning these silks, the originally plump blood silkworms seemed to be squeezed dry. When the robe was weaved, the silkworms were completely withered and turned into something like a dead tree and vine that fell to the ground.
"Thank you for your hard work, I will let you be reborn in my roots and embrace..."
The Orpheus Oak waved its branches again, causing the field of wheat ears and silkworm chrysalis to sink together, wrapping them with its roots.
As an elemental creature, the Elf Blood Silkworm can only spit out a fixed number of silk threads in its lifetime. After spitting out, it will die immediately. Unless there is enough life force to breed it, it is impossible to be reborn.
After taking the robe, Orpheus Oak took out a small model. After injecting magic power, it quickly grew in size and turned into an open-top wooden sports car.
It sat directly inside, and then waved to the apprentices: "Let's go quickly, we will be in trouble if we can't catch up with our friends' birthdays!"
"Oh, here we come! ”
The apprentices quickly got into their own cars and drove into the field, during which they also harvested many ripe berries and grass seeds.
These fruits are nourished by the magic power of the Orpheus oak tree and the divine power of the Mother Earth. Both the taste and the magic power contained in them have a level of three to four.
The surrounding vegetation was still helping them move forward, so even an area of tens of hectares could be crossed in just a few minutes.
After passing the Tudu Pasture, they crossed a bridge and could already see the surging Terai River and the extremely regular fields on both sides of the Terai River.
There are not only common staple crops such as wheat, potatoes, and corn growing there, but also vegetables and fruits such as cabbage, tomatoes, green onions, carrots, etc.
They are all arranged neatly, and from a distance they look like a colorful picture, extremely beautiful.
This is one of the most important areas of Croya, where all the crops he cultivated are planted. At the same time, the population here is also the largest in the north.
With just a quick glance, you can see the huge golem farming in the fields and the ordinary people sitting on top of the golem who are controlling the golem for farming and harvesting.
After training, even ordinary people can skillfully control these golems without worrying about the difficulty of farming and harvesting.
When the apprentices and Orpheus Oak saw the scene here, they couldn't help but stop and look up into the distance.
They all know that all the crops growing here are edible, and under the care of Mifein, the Sons of Harvest, and Rhea, they can ripen five times a year.
At this moment, it is the third ripeness among the five times a year.
They are going to pick up Mifein, Rhea and others here, and collect the best and enough fruits, vegetables and crops to take back, so that Croya can taste the fruits of their efforts.
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