I'm a mage, what's wrong with loving farming?

Chapter 280: The Birth of the Druid in the Southern Garden

Southland Garden.

To be more precise, it can only be regarded as the prototype of the Southland Garden.

When the first group of residents from the southern border arrived here, the mages were working hard to build an ecological magic dome that suits the southern climate.

This is actually a test.

Although many magical plantations for farming had been built in the North before, the area, scale and even the accuracy of magic data were not as high as the requirements of this dome.

After all, the warm sea breeze brings absolutely advantageous planting conditions, and all the apprentices need is to further build on this foundation.

The magic parameters inside the dome now need to be modified and calculated by the apprentices.

Jacob got off the boat trembling with fear, and this is what he saw:

The wizards in the distance were wearing light work clothes, carrying boxes one after another, climbing up and down like construction workers.

From time to time, the leader would roar:
"Sera, you can even get the readings wrong?"

"These weather crystals aren't meant to be stored here!"

"Salat, if you make a mistake again, go and raise a guinea pig!"

On this huge island, as far as the eye can see, the usually high and mighty wizards are working like ants, looking no different from ordinary people.

Just as the boy was still watching with great interest.

An exceptionally tall woman came over, glanced at the card in her hand, and looked over these people.

“You are the first inhabitants.”

"We will help you build your own houses and villages. Just follow me."

After saying that, she turned around decisively.

There were still some nervous people who looked at each other, but finally followed obediently.

After passing through the construction area that was as chaotic as a construction site, we arrived at a garden full of various ferns and the ground was wet and muddy.

The air here is moist and humid, and it seems to smell a little itchy in the nose, but also has a very comfortable feeling.

The eyes of the people from the southern border suddenly lit up.

This, isn’t this the taste of their hometown?

Muddy soil, humid air, covered roads, all kinds of plants that grow almost overnight, and insects and animals crawling under the leaves.

For outsiders, such an environment is simply unbearable. The humidity alone is enough to make you irritated. Even the clothes you hang may grow mushrooms.

But for them, it is their hometown where they have lived for several lifetimes.

Several people immediately burst into tears.

The woman glanced at them and said, "Do you feel any difference here compared to your hometown?"

Yagob said boldly: "Master Mage, I feel that it is a little drier here than at home."

"Oh?" The woman was a little surprised: "Have you received any basic education?"

“Yes… yes.” Jacob tried to straighten his chest. “In the past, a priest from the Church of Mother Earth opened a school in our village.”

"Is that so?" Apprentice Lina looked around thoughtfully, and muttered to herself, "It often rains in the southern region, and the sun is very hot..."

As she spoke, she took out a crystal slab, drew a topographic map on it with her fingers, and then wrote and drew on it.

The moment she stopped, a few gray-black clouds suddenly floated in the sky, covering the sky and the earth.

She shouted to the dark clouds: "Please, the annual rainfall must be stabilized at more than 2000 mm. This is the basis. If necessary, we can increase it."

A few beautiful phantom-feathered cloud snakes poked their heads out from the dark clouds, as if nodding. The next second, lightning flashed from the dark clouds, accompanied by the sound of thunder.

The raindrops fell drop by drop.

"..."

The people from the southern border looked at this scene in shock, letting the raindrops fall on their bodies without noticing it.

What? It's raining already?
Is this the power of the wizards?
"Basic education really needs to catch up."

Still, Lina couldn't help but hold her forehead with her hand and casually cast a few spells to help these people block the rain.

It would be troublesome if you get sick after taking a hot shower and then get caught in the rain. It would definitely slow down your progress.

You know, she had finally snatched the leadership of this mission from Ryan who was about to return to the island, and she was eager to do something big.

The rain floated for a while, and then the dark clouds were dragged away by the phantom cloud snakes, followed by the somewhat scorching sunlight that projected down from the dome.

They still have many tasks to do. The entire ecological garden needs them to carry out rainmaking work like this, so of course they have to leave quickly.

Some of the accumulated water was quickly evaporated by the sunlight, but before the sun could shine, plants and mist blocked the sunlight, preventing the water from completely evaporating.

The air suddenly became much more humid and hotter than before.

In just a short while, the humidity in the air had obviously risen again, which made the residents of the southern border feel more intimate.

Yes! This is the southern border where they live.

Lina nodded with satisfaction and asked Jacob, "How about this?"

The latter quickly replied: "It's much better than before...but I still feel something is wrong."

He scratched his hair, unable to tell what was wrong.

Lina knew why.

Although the humidity and temperature are tried to simulate the real southern border, the concentration of magic in the air and the magic field emitted by various magic plants are factors that affect the environment.

Those will require long-term debugging work to complete, and there is really no rush now.

"But this kid is quite clever." Lina glanced at Jacob and waved at him: "Come here."

"Master Mage."

Jacob was startled, and quickly trotted to Lina's side, with a humble and submissive look.

Lina said nonchalantly, "When you have time, go to the Basic Training Primary School to learn some courses. I like you, and perhaps the construction here will require your help in the future.

The Lord will not treat you unfairly."

The so-called basic training elementary school is actually a place to provide popular science and education to these ordinary people who are not apprentices, so that they can have a basic understanding of magic and be able to cooperate with the wizards to carry out some basic construction.

If I have to say, it is actually similar to the squire academies set up by those knightly orders. In essence, they are all for better assisting the extraordinary people in their work.

If I have to say the only difference, it is that these extraordinary people in the North can at least take care of themselves. They are not the kind of masters who need maids/butlers to help them even do laundry.

Of course, this is also a training base for reserve apprentices.

Perhaps many people have certain talents, but they are buried for various reasons. Fortunately, Cloya has enough resources and can simply set up a few such schools.

Anyway... even if we build ten schools like this, and add in a series of expenses like meal allowances, the price is still not as much as the money the mages spend on a few experiments.

For example, there were mountains of failed alloy materials, magic crystal plates that failed to be engraved for some reason, and magic devices of poor quality. Even with the advanced technology that Kloya had obtained from various places, losses were inevitable.

These are the root causes of headaches for mages, and are also the fundamental reasons that limit the advancement of most mages.

If Croa did not have such a rich sea area that could be called the "Promised Land" for exploitation, and the mermaids were super stay-at-home people who stayed at home and dreamed every day, it would be absolutely impossible for it to develop so smoothly.

Magic costs money!
However, in short, the school, which was not a big deal for Croa, made Jacob stunned on the spot and tears flowed down.

He...he can learn too?
Able to learn knowledge!

Without saying a word, he knelt down in front of Lina.

Seeing this, Lina's mouth twitched, and she used the magician's hand to forcibly pull him up, and said seriously: "These are all the favors given to you by Master Croa." "Study hard and don't let the master down."

"Also, now you start building the house!"

In fact, Lina was not good at dealing with such situations. She always felt that it would be awkward to be asked to kneel down and kowtow solemnly. She was obviously not a big shot, so how could she be worthy of such a big gift?
Jacob, who was pulled up, wiped his eyes with his sleeve. Even before he met the Duke of Hanjiao, his loyalty to him had reached an unimaginable level.

The others were also eager to try what was going on - they were not very old and of course they also wanted to go to school and learn knowledge.

But they were still a little hesitant and decided to wait and see.

So in the following time, they began to build their own home.

The buildings in the south are actually very different from those in the north, because the ground is too humid, and there are often snakes, insects, rats and ants running around.

Therefore, the construction of houses actually has to be carried out at high places - most residents choose to build houses between the aerial roots of a huge banyan tree in the southern border.

This is the only garden in use and there is actually only one transplanted large tree. Its trunk requires dozens of people to hug it. Its crown is so big that it seems to be able to cover the sky, and its aerial roots stand on the ground like pillars.

In order to transport the giant tree smoothly, Croa could only use the channels of the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce.

The purpose is to reproduce the scenery of the southern border more realistically and comprehensively - this kind of rain banyan tree is very important.

People from the southern border came under the big tree and began to dig the soil. They used the soil, banyan leaves, and the flowing sap and soil, and while the soil was not completely hard, they quickly made the soil into pillars for building houses.

Building materials made from banyan tree sap can effectively isolate the overly humid and hot air from the outside, and even have a series of functions such as repelling mosquitoes and insects.

Even without the help of magic, the generous nature has given them what they need to survive.

This is the survival philosophy of their ancestors in the South, so naturally they don't need the magicians from the North to interfere.

At most, we will have to build some infrastructure such as pipelines in the later stage.

Lina watched from the side for a while, then turned and left, removing all the surveillance equipment in the area and taking them away.

——This was what Croa had told her personally. Other places can be monitored, but places where people live cannot.

Although this garden in the southern border is his property, he would not want to see people and animals living in it, just like the eco-bottles he made in his spare time.

Through the transparent glass, everything inside is clearly visible - as if you are an observer and a person looking down.

This is actually very immoral. Not only will it make him feel more and more perverted, but it will also make him feel that he is increasingly out of the scope of being a human being.

……

After Lina leaves, this completed area of ​​about one hectare will be the future residence of a part of the residents of the southern border.

They are the gardeners of this garden and also researchers of the South Territory. Although Kroya has never been to the South Territory, the wild growth environment of the South Territory makes him feel that perhaps something different will be born there.

For nature, wild growth is actually a good thing, regular growth is also a good thing, but being in the middle is a bad thing.

There are too many standardized areas in Croa's northern border, and he really wants to see if this southern garden can bring him some surprises and new discoveries.

Fortunately, the god of luck has always favored him.

Inside the South Garden.

——After working hard for half a month, Jacob finally moved into his own tree house.

He nimbly climbed up the rope woven from vines and entered the birdcage-like house fixed between the aerial roots.

The house is not big, only about ten square meters, but it has everything that should be in the house, all of which were made by his hard work day and night over the past few days.

Absolutely made of pure wood.

When he lay on his bed after a hard day's work and looked out the window at the night sky, he was filled with excitement.

Although he left his hometown, after coming here, he not only received supply packages every day, but also could go to school to study. Even if he had to work late at night, he would not feel any fatigue.

"It's so nice here...Mother Banyan Tree."

He habitually touched the only place on the wall that was not covered with wooden boards. That was the white aerial roots of the banyan tree, and his voice was full of emotion.

In the dark night, these white aerial roots will emit a faint glow, illuminating a dark room and a starless night.

Jacob grew up in such an environment since he was born. He ran in the forest looking for food during the day and fell asleep at night feeling the light of the banyan tree.

In most areas of the entire southern border, rain banyan trees are called "mothers" because they give so many people the possibility to survive.

There are even some beliefs that have been extended to this: the elderly will smear banyan tree sap on their newborn babies, believing that this will allow the banyan tree mother to protect the children.

Well, it is said that children who are smeared with banyan tree sap in this way will rarely be harassed by mosquitoes, rats and ants, and even their chances of survival in the forest will increase.

Although I don't know what the basis is, and this kind of tree doesn't have obvious magical fluctuations, it has been passed down from generation to generation after all.

Yagob stroked the aerial roots of the banyan tree. The rough texture was like his mother's rough and calloused palms in his memory, and the aerial roots exuded a warm breath.

It’s a reassuring feeling.

Slowly, he fell into a deep sleep. Before falling asleep, he was still thinking about what he had overheard today from a few mages discussing about meditation.

The boy who muttered to himself until he fell asleep did not notice that emerald green spots of light appeared one after another on the surface of the banyan tree's aerial roots, lightly surrounding and enveloping him.

As time went by, the number of light spots increased, gradually filling the entire room, and then flowed out through the open windows.

They fluttered in no pattern, like naughty children, flickering under the banyan tree.

Soon the entire banyan tree began to glow. This giant banyan tree, which looked ordinary but was actually thousands of years old, emitted an emerald green glow in the dark night.

There are also dark clouds and water vapor gathering towards it.

Since all the surveillance equipment in the area had been removed, the change was not noticed at first until it was accidentally seen by apprentices who were working late at night.

"what is that?"

"Quick, go check the magic readings!"

"Go get Mr. Oak!"

The apprentices put down their work and gathered outside the garden, wisely not going in directly.

After all, they didn't know whether this change was good or bad. The data on the instruments in their hands that could detect magic power were jumping wildly, sometimes high and sometimes low.

To be honest, they haven't seen such complex magic readings for a long time. The magic readings in all areas of the North have stabilized.

Instability means that there may be good things in it, or it may be very dangerous, and everything is unknown.

Oak came over quickly.

It stood outside and looked at the place where the southerners lived. It quickly figured out the changes in the magic inside, and its eyes were full of confusion and surprise.

If it felt correctly... there was a natural breath here, and this natural breath seemed to be accompanied by pouring water vapor and dark clouds in the sky.

That is magic, but it is not the use of magic power to forcibly constrain the formation of elements, but the natural and spontaneous gathering of elements.

"Druid?"

"Nature Druid?"

It suddenly thought of a possibility.

Legend has it that some people who are favored by nature will also gain the favor of nature and master unimaginable natural magic.

That is a genuine druid recognized by nature, a natural walker of nature, and is fundamentally different from the earth.

A druid's employment requires the recognition of nature, which is different from those who just learn some natural magic and call themselves druids.

But what’s strange is that for such a long time, there hasn’t been even a druid in the North. How come they suddenly appear now?
What’s even more amazing is that it’s actually a “Storm Druid”.

Why is it?
Are these people from the southern border more favored by nature?

It pondered for a moment and was about to step into the area, but when it was about to enter, the banyan tree stood up.

Thank you for your support~


(End of this chapter)