Chapter 696: Chapter 431 Lord of Tilamei (5.2k Combined)_2
"The Willi Family wants a tenth of the harvest just for the little bit of Magic Stone they provide...hmph."
After skimming through the documents, Johnson roughly understood the prices these families or schools were willing to offer.
Still too low... Johnson shook his head, tossed them aside, and didn’t plan on responding to any of them.
Apart from top-notch forces like the Tate Family, he hadn’t yet made any contracts with any other forces.
Since autumn planting had just begun, and it was more than half a year until the harvest, those forces lacking food would only become more anxious than him.
At that moment, a dark shadow quietly entered the study.
"What is it?"
Johnson looked up and asked calmly.
"Just now, three High Rank Wizards arrived at Golden Barley to visit Colin."
"Do you have more specific information about those three wizards? Are they members of the Tate Family?"
"Not sure." The shadow shook its head.
Johnson frowned. That mixed-blood councilman, apart from the Nois side, what other High Rank Wizards could he know?
After a slight contemplation, Johnson didn’t delve deeper but instructed, "Let the spies investigate the identities of those High Rank Wizards without exposing themselves."
He was wary of the Tilamei Plain, but his caution was limited, and most of those spies were already in place before he planned to take over the Tilamei Plain when its farmlands were still intact.
"Are the serfs ready?" Johnson asked.
"We have basically bought enough serfs," the shadow paused, "but it cost quite more than expected."
"Those slave traders couldn’t acquire serfs in the Tilamei Plain, so they raised the prices substantially."
"By how much specifically?"
"About twice our original estimate."
Johnson furrowed his brows slightly, silently noting this for the new councilman, and instructed, "Now that we have enough serfs, organize the cultivation of the fields and prepare for the autumn planting as soon as possible."
"Yes." The shadow quietly dispersed.
Johnson pressed his hand against his forehead, feeling somewhat uneasy.
"Three High Rank Wizards... who could they be?"
Johnson’s confusion didn’t linger for long.
The following day, an announcement from the Supreme Council and information from the spies reached him simultaneously.
"The farmland pollution has been resolved?!" Johnson clutched the Supreme Council’s announcement in his hand tightly while the shadow beside him cowered on the ground, quiet as a cicada in the cold.
The study looked no different from the previous night, but at this moment, Johnson felt everything before his eyes was so displeasing!
Bang!
The luxurious rainwood desk shattered upon impact, and the council announcement in his hands also turned into dust, his face darkened with storm clouds.
The shadow beside him instinctively lowered its body even more.
Buzz—
A Communication Crystal that fell from the broken desk flickered with light.
After taking a few deep breaths, Johnson reached for the crystal and asked coldly,
"What is it?"
"Master, Councilman Nickler from the Tate Family has come to visit, saying it’s about discussing the previous food purchase..."
Crack—Bang!
The white Communication Crystal was instantly turned into dust by the surging Magic Power, and Johnson, unable to contain his anger any longer, bit his teeth and hissed,
"Colin—Leonard—!!"
...
Compared to the stormy and oppressive atmosphere in Johnson’s study, the Tilamei Plain was currently enveloped in a grand and joyous mood.
Today was a cloudy day, with dense clouds covering the sky.
Step, step—
Across the vast and bleak farmlands, knights and conscripted serfs lined up at required intervals, scattering colorful Crystal Fragments from the pouches on their left waists onto the ground, then sprinkled a few seeds from the bags hanging on their right onto the Crystal Fragments.
Colin hovered in the Sky, the entire view of Tilamei Plain clearly visible beneath him.
Now, a kilometer was no distance for him, and every detail on the ground was as visible as if it were right before his eyes.
Looking slightly down into the Sky, more figures of wizards hovered above different farmlands of Tilamei Plain.
They seemed to be very close, but in reality, they were quite far apart, even the two closest wizards were probably more than ten kilometers apart.
They all quietly waited for the knights and conscripted serfs below to complete the preparatory work.
High Rank Wizard Welber near Golden Barley glanced down at the farmland below, then looked up at Colin’s somewhat blurry figure above, filled with immense admiration.
When he first witnessed Colin killing a Second Rank white-gray monster, he was already greatly surprised, but now, just a few months later, the wizard with whom he used to take turns on duty had become a figure unreachable for him...
However, what Welber found even more unbelievable was Colin’s plan for action today.
Could he really resolve the farmland pollution?!
If it wasn’t for the assistance order issued by the Supreme Council in Colin’s hands, he wouldn’t have believed it.
In fact, up to now, he still found it hard to believe...
"What are the lords doing?"
At the edge of the distant farmland, passing civilians saw the scene and began to grow curious.
Since the farmland was polluted, the famously golden wheat seas of Tilamei Plain had been reduced to grey and white ruins.
When the golden wheat sea was still there, no matter the season, there were always people coming to enjoy the scenery, and serfs would shuttle back and forth, working hard.
But now, this place had few visitors, and this grey and white wasteland emitted an unpleasant atmosphere, and no one wanted to linger.
However, because the farmlands were right next to the city, there were always people passing by for various reasons.