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Chapter 11 - Chapter 11: Crop and planting method

"Palpatine before i want to buy yellow potatoes seeds can i keep it in the system space?" [No host. Because you don't have storage space in the system, so it will spawn next to you. If you had an interspacial item then it would be stored in the interspatial item.]

Callum thought about how to plant the potatoes seeds without any suspicion. On earth potatoes were discovered in South-America high up in the mountains near lakes. From his own experience he can plant them potatoes pretty much anywhere. So Callum sneaked back in the castle, grabbed an shovel, an axe, an hoe and went back to his training spot.

"Palpatine buy me five kilograms of yellow potatoes seeds and one kilogram of fully grown yellow potatoes." [Certainly host. One kilogram yellow potato seeds costs 5 system points and one kilogram fully grown yellow potatoes costs 25 system points. Host will have 150 system points remaining.]

Five bags of yellow potatoes appeared before him. He used around an hour with the shuffel and hoe to create the perfect spacing and distance for the rows(he recommended spacing within the row is 10-15 inches (25-38cm), while distance between rows ranges from 28 to 36 inches (70-90cm).

He placed half of his yellow potato seeds in the first row he created. Next he began to sit and meditate. He tried to us the force to lift the shovel. Force lift(common) seemed to increase in percentage the more he used it. He tried to use the force make an row similar to the one he made earlier. Suddenly he heard an notification.

[Ding. Host has learned a two new skill. Meditation(Common) and Force Control(Common).]

"Very nice. Now i can train in the force and raise the succes of my quest at the same time."

Callum then began again to use the force to make an second row. After two hours he was done with making the second row. Callum was drenched in sweat. He placed the remaining yellow potato seeds except five and went back to the castle. Sneaking back in the castle, callum grabbed an bucket and went to the well. He used the water to clean himself up. Then he went to his courters and went to sleep.

The next day Callum rose at sunrise. He put on his clothes, grabbed the fully grown yellow potatoes and went outside. One of the things he needs is an good fertilezer for the crops. He had an idea for the fertilizer. He learned that while watching Dr Stone. Calcium carbonate. From what he remembered from Dr Stone it is widely used amendment to neutralize soil acidity and to supply calcium (Ca) for plant nutrition. It's made from crushed seashells. He thought of about his journey. There were many seashells in the harbor where they met captain Villads.

He walked to the kitchen, asked the staff if he could cook something in privacy and the staff left. With all the yellow potatoes except one he wanted to show to ezran. With the potatoes and the ingredients he made a little batch of famoes potato dishes. Gnocchi, Fries, Placki ziemniaczane and Gratin Dauphinois. He was done in two hours, put the dishes on an tray and went to the throne room. In front of the throne room stood two guards.

"Halt prince Callum. The king is now reading messages from the last two months with the high counsel member Opeli." "It is very important. Could i take an half hour of king Ezrans time?"

One of the guards went inside of the throne room. After five minutes the guard came back. " You may enter the throne room prince Callum."

Callum went inside of the throne room were Ezran sat on the throne with Bait on his lap, Soren the crownsguard on the right, on the left the tracker Corvus and Opeli standing with the crow master reading messages from the last two months. "Callum did you sleep well? You said you had something important to discuss and what do you have on that tray? It smells amazing."

"Yes i did sleep well. Thank you. The thing is this." Callum showed the yellow potato. "Callum you wanted to meet because of an weird looking plant of some sort?" "Yes Ezran. Yesterday i couldn't sleep so i went outside. I walked through the forest near an cliff and then i found an strange looking plant sticking out of the ground. I dug it up and it looked like this. So i took it back with me and cooked it. I haven't had any symptoms that i'm sick so it's not poisonous. I made some dishes with this."

He placed the dishes on the table. Soren first grabbed some fries. "As crownguard i have to taste king Ezran's food." Said Soren while drooling. He ate them and everyone saw him beaming with happiness. "This is so good Callum. Can you make more." The rest of the people present also tasted the dishes while looking towards Callum in expectations.

"At the moment no. I have removed the seeds yesterday and already planted them. I will regularly check on the plant to that i can see if they grow exceptionely fast."

"Prince Callum why is this so important for us to discuss. Not that i don't the taste of an newly discovered food, but this is hardly as important as reviewing the messages." Said Opeli with a little bit of sas.

Callum looked at Opeli with an raised brow and an face that said if she was stupid. Before Opeli could continue Callum said.

"Of course it's important. We are trying to have peace with Xadia. Years ago Viren and King Harrow Killed an magma titan to have enough food for the winter. We can't do this anymore if we want peace, so if we can produce the same amount without using dark magic we can have peace and enough food. So what i thought was that we should research on how we can produce more crops, how an crop grows faster and how we can store food through the winter."

Everyone looked at Callum with wide eyes. They didn't expect this from him. All of them had noticed he had changed, but didn't think it was this much.