The slaves didn't notice anything weird as it was already evening time. Everyone had went back home to make dinner and take rest.
After teleporting and casting pest for more than 2 hours, Ash finally returned To the space.
Ash underestimated the destructive power of the pests to the crops. Five large bugs that never stops gnawing the the wheat, the damage is hard to imagine. that night, there are many wheat plants that has become just a pole rod.
More frightening is that those large bugs, after gnawing a wheat, has not disappeared, instead crawled onto other wheat plants.
Ash just this evening, has placed enough pests to more than a five hundred places of wheat fields, 5 bugs on each wheat plant. This mighty insect army had began to develop, already has eaten the wheat plants in those 500 acres of wheat fields.
Ash went into the space and eat dinner and slept, so naturally he did not know what's happening outside. Upon daybreak, slaves starts to work on the fields, mainly to remove weeds and kill bugs if they find any.
Right now, the farming season is not on a busy stage, therefore, the slaves are relaxed while going to the field to inspect them.
Ash let the pests on that land, as a slave started to inspect, he looked stupid, scalp tingling.
Large insects was gnawing on the young wheat plants, basically seeing no complete plant at all, leaving only a green straw.
Suddenly, a slave responded, shouts loudly while keeping the wheat on hand, while stamping the pests on the ground.
With the slave's action, other slaves begun to throw the pests on the ground and trample them with their feet.
The supervisor has gotten sober, complexion not looking good, looks around. He did not go along with the slaves to kill the pests, instead, turned around and ran back to their village.in the small village, scaled wildbeasts are being raised. They are usually used for farming, but in case of emergency, can be used as a ride to deliver messages.
Just that the supervisor have seen, these bugs didn't just infested a small area. He looked around and has seen that a large area of wheat fields had been attacked already. Although not sure of the scale of damage, but one thing is for sure, if the pests won't be suppressed the soonest possible time, there will be a big reduction in the grain yield in the Ica plains.
What the supervisor does not know is that, like him, many of the supervisors around Ica plains are already doing the same thing, riding scaled wildbeasts to run toward the relay station of the Purcell clan.
The reason why the slaves gives in so much effort to suppress the pests infestation is that if their grain harvest was to be reduced, the amount of food they obtain also gets reduced. In turn, their life would not be too good, if food is reduced, they will also be sad.Every village has a relay station placed by the Purcell clan. It is like a small inn, usually used as message relay stations, the place is also where they give aid to the slaves and be used as granaries during harvest time.
This is how the Purcell clan control the whole of Ica plains. Whenever there's any sign of trouble, they can obtain the news the shortest possible time.
The situation in the relay station of the Ica plains was a very common occurrence throughout the duchy. It was almost regarded as an open secret because the stationmasters were usually a clan member, in which many benefits through the embezzlement.
Although the Purcell clan was handling the situation poorly, it doesn't mean they don't care. As long as the normal operation of the relay station was maintained and the amount of the slaves dying was minimal, they won't say anything about it. The clan will enforce a heavy punishment if these were not met.
Just within a single night, the whole Ica plains crops was eaten by the pest. Purcell sent fire mages to deal with the pest problems but it was too late. Everything was ruined, eaten by the pest.
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Ash woke up in the morning. During breakfast he told what he did in Ica plains. Green and Eva was very supportive of decision. Ash and others was too shocked to see the entire Ica plains crops now had become empty fields with green straws.
Ash didn't expect the effect of pest to he this great. Ash was only thinking of ruining a part of Ica plains to pressure the Purcell clan. This was completely out of his expectations.
" I didn't expect the pest to be so powerful. I never intended to make the salves so miserable. I have no plan on making the innocent salves strave and die." Ash was regretting his decision. He shouldn't have acted rashly.
" Young master, I think we should help the Purcell clan with food supplies otherwise hundreds of thousands innocent slaves will die due to hunger." Green said. One side Green was happy to see the miserable situation of Purcell clan. Another side of him wanted to help the salves.
Ash nodded. "Meg, from now on focus on planting more corn. And let all the salves processes the corns we already have in the inventory. I will also sent a 100 shadows of mine." Ash shadows can work without taking any rest. They can speed up the whole process.
" We should have few weeks before things get serious. Before that happens Grandpa I am confident that we could process enough corn for the slaves. By the Grandpa where is the new seeds?" Ash wanted to level up the space to increase the space farming land, which would also increase the food production.
[ New seeds Have been found.....
New seeds Have been found...
New seeds Have been found... The space have leveled up. Improving the seed quality.... New and improved seeds can bought from the space. The space level has reached 15.]
[ 5,000 acres of farming land have been unlocked. 2 acres worth Papper seed, 2 acres worth tomato seed, 2 acres worth mango seeds have been rewarded by the space. The number of spirit beasts raised, have increased. The harvesting time for the crops have been reduced by 1 hour. ]
Ash wasn't that excited with the space level up. After all, no sort of new function have been introduced by the space. Ash planted bamboo rice and corn in 5,000 acres framing land. Ash now owned a large area of farming land. His inventory was stocked up by various vegetables, and oil fruits.
After doing everything Ash sighed relief. Ash didn't forgot to detoxify 50 acres of land. Since the space had level up the amount of land Ash can detoxify had also increased.
Ash found that the number of lighting rabbit he can daily raise had increased to 800. The number of Fire fish and Wind Roc also had increased. 500 Fire fish, 4 wind Roc.
Ash also got another piece of information from Beru. The inner part of Carrion Swamp is very different. The inner part has thousands of small islands separated by small river. Everything was covered in 7 colour fog or mist. Even the water and plants was extremely venomous. Currently Beru and his team had captured 17 islands.
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Name:- Ash Anderson
Wealth:- 20.9 million BCG
Chakra reserve:- mid ANBU rank
Powers:-
Crystal release
Tenseigan
Rasengan
Shadow Clone Jutsu
First five gates of the eight inner gates
Ruler's Authority
Shadow Extraction
Shadow Preservation
Shadow Exchange
Monarch's Domain
Longevity
Immunity
Detoxification
Tenacity
Immense amount of strength
All versions of Chidori
Lightning Release Chakra Mode
Wood release
Flying Thunder God
Hell Stab
Total number of Shadows:- 13,240