Chapter 685: Chapter 57: The Territory’s New Extraordinary Agricultural Achievements and Vigorous Development (Part 2)

"Thanks to your guidance, Lord, the number of fish in Lake Reiflin has greatly increased, mainly due to the fishing during the three fish migrations this spring. This year is unlike previous years; we were better prepared, deploying as many as 20 large fishing vessels and casting nets hundreds of times. We caught six Light-Scaled Fish alone, and over 40,000 ordinary fish. I estimate there are at least 200,000 adult fish in Lake Reiflin now."

"Estimate?" Su Li asked curiously, "Does your Dawn Church not know how many fish are in there?"

Vandar shook his head. "Now Lake Reiflin is too large, already over 20 miles long, more than 10 miles wide. With various fish fry, shellfish, river crabs, and lake shrimp, we estimate there are millions of living creatures, but other than the Algae Heart Sage, no one knows the exact number of lives in there."

Without waiting for Su Li to inquire, Vandar voluntarily explained, "The Algae Heart Sage is a type of Essence of Nature in the lake from our Dawn Church, composed of lotus root and algae, forming a humanoid torso. It can float on the water’s surface, with an old face appearing on its surface, and roots entwined by glowing worms exuding a mint-scented marsh gas."

"It has an extreme cleanliness obsession and will strangle anyone who dumps garbage into the lake, even us from the Dawn Church are no exception. But it will generously reward those who sacrifice high-quality fertilizers (e.g., Magic Pearls and fermented acorn pulp). It can attract many lake creatures through the mint-scented atmosphere and worms, then continuously throw these creatures to the shore to reward the sacrificer. Its presence also makes the lake’s creatures more active and prolific."

Su Li suddenly understood and asked, "Is this a type of Essence of Nature you summoned with the Dawn Secret Box?"

Vandar nodded, "That’s right, in the past two cycles, we have successively summoned the Father of Grains and the Algae Heart Sage to promote the development of the territory."

"Wonderful," Su Li smiled, asking, "So how many acres of fertile land do we currently have for the Blood Sacrifice?"

"We now have exactly 2,500 acres."

"Calculated at a yield of 2,000 jins per acre, that’s 5 million jins of grain."

"Even with a population of ten thousand in the territory, that still leaves 500 jins of grain per person annually."

"What does this mean? It means that just these 2,500 acres of Blood Field can ensure the entire population of Hesse Territory has a per capita grain consumption far exceeding expectations in a year."

"A Divine Spirit’s nuclear-powered farmland truly defies all logic."

"Of course, in this dark and desperate world, it’s impossible to truly distribute it per capita."

"A large amount of grain and crops in the territory are needed to feed warhorses, griffins, and provide knights with various meats."

"While the extraordinary world does provide extraordinary capabilities for production in the territory, most of it also gets allocated to maintaining the extraordinary power system. Everything has a cost and a price. Otherwise, why would a Baron’s Territory be able to support over 1,000 elite knights?"

"And to solve this problem, we still have to get to work on the extraordinary system."

Su Li then asked, "So, can you tell me about the growth of other extraordinary crops? Have we made any progress with our extraordinary vegetables?"

Extraordinary vegetables, this time a gift from Philis, delivered by Knight Bertrand to Su Li, included 10 jins of Deep Blue Ears, 5 jins of Traveler’s Onion seeds, 5 jins of Moonlight Cabbage seeds, 5 jins of Frost-Talking Peas seeds, and 5 jins of Stone Skin Pumpkin seeds.

"I must say, as a Grand Elector’s Territory in the Sulande Province, even though it is already dilapidated, casually finding something in the treasury ruins is wealth that Hesse Territory might not gather in decades."

"These extraordinary seeds greatly enriched the farming repertoire of Su Li and Hesse Territory."

"There’s no need to say much about the Deep Blue Ears; it is one level higher than the highest-level Emerald Green Ears currently in Su Li’s possession."

"The Moonlight Cabbage is closely related to professions such as rural physicians and night watchers. Its leaves are silver-blue, with veins flowing like moonlight, and the center blossoms emit a faint glow. It must be planted beside pure streams, relying on the lunar phase cycle to regulate growth rhythm. Over-fertilization may cause magic power loss." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"When its leaves are crushed and applied externally, they can accelerate wound healing (akin to a low-level Healing Technique), but it must be used within one hour of harvesting. Meanwhile, night watchers hang them under eaves, believing they can dispel Chaos Corruption, avoiding attention from vampires, beastmen, or chaos demons."

Vandar said, "We’ve already planted the Deep Blue Ears in the new purple Spirit Field, which is nothing to worry about. This year, you guided us to find a new batch of Rainbow Hail Crystals, providing the territory with a piece of purple Spirit Field approximately 100 square meters in size. Once this batch of Deep Blue Ears matures, it will provide Divine Chosen Knights with abundant Spiritual Energy, allowing them to activate the Divine General state at any time in battle, and maintain it for over 10 minutes. In the long-term consumption of such Deep Blue Ears, the probability of Divine Chosen Knights breaking through to Legendary Level will gradually increase. However, it cannot exceed the energy limit provided by the Deep Blue Ears."

"In other words, consuming this Deep Blue Ears continuously can increase the probability that Divine Chosen Knights can breakthrough to Legendary Knights. For example, if one’s chance to breakthrough was originally 25%, long-term consumption of Deep Blue Ears could raise that probability to 40%. However, the energy provided by the Deep Blue Ears can only guarantee a 15% boost, without being able to consistently raise the probability to 20%, 35%, or even 100%."

"Of course, Vandar doesn’t know how much this probability can actually be increased; the rank of a Legendary Knight is indeed too high, far beyond what a champion-level druid like him can fathom."