Wizard Farming Guide

Chapter 21 Fossils Turn into Mud

Building a town from scratch is never an easy task, no matter the era.

This would have been especially difficult in the Middle Ages, when technology was scarce and people relied almost entirely on manpower.

As planned, a thousand-strong pioneering knightly order was receiving a steady stream of supplies from the fortress.

It takes one to two months to clear wasteland and establish a village.

It will take at least three years to form a relatively complete urban construction.

Due to the harsh environment of the North and the threat of barbarians, the pioneering knights' development strategy was to abandon farmland for cultivation and build small defensive fortresses around the castle.

This will reduce the construction time of towns and allow defense facilities to be built quickly.

To alleviate the initial pressure on the pioneering knights, the king specifically emphasized in the pioneering decree that taxes could be waived for the first three years after the territory was established.

Rhodes was pleased with this policy, after all, in his plan, his territory wouldn't just be a lonely castle.

Once he had established his position, the soldiers and villagers of the group climbed Pingdingshan Mountain and set up camp there.

The massive cleaning campaign thus began.

Before construction could begin, they had to clear away obstacles such as trees and protruding rocks near the summit.

At the same time, the ground was continuously leveled to make the uneven and terrible ground of Pingdingshan truly smooth.

Using the crows' bird's-eye view, Rod took out a map and drew an aerial view of the mesas.

And plan the famous area above it according to the appropriate location, and conceive the next construction ideas.

The center of Pingdingshan will be the castle area, with an area tentatively set at 20 mu, or more than 13,000 square meters.

Behind the castle, there are about 400 acres of land that will be used as magic fields for growing crops in the future.

Based on planting three rounds of high-quality highland barley per year, the annual yield is 1500 kilograms (3333 pounds) per mu.

An adult male only needs one pound of high-quality barley per day to fully meet his food needs, while women and children need even less.

After the construction of these 400 mu of "magic fields," the grain output on Pingdingshan will be enough to feed more than 4000 people, achieving self-sufficiency.

Pingdingshan is steep on three sides and insurmountable. All that is needed is to erect a tall city wall in the middle of the gentle slope leading up to it.

Even considering the worst-case scenario, even if the town at the foot of the mountain is eventually captured by the barbarian army.

As long as the natural barrier of Pingdingshan can be held, the castle can hold out for a long time and will not be trapped.

The remaining 300-plus acres of land will be used as residential areas.

Residential houses and various production buildings were constructed around the castle, providing vitality.

After initially sketching out a plan, Rhodes instructed the soldiers and villagers to focus on cleaning up the environment within the residential area.

The plan is to first build houses for everyone who will be living there.

We'll talk about the castle area later. According to Rhodes' plan, the final project will be quite large, so building it in the early stages would be a waste of time.

"Noah, Holmes, you two will lead your knights and forty soldiers to clear the wild animals from Mesa Hill and the surrounding area."

Rhodes summoned the two men and assigned them tasks.

The North has abundant prey resources, but this also means a large number of predators.

Not far away, in the jungle on the mountaintop, there was a pack of more than twenty winter wolves, led by an Iceblade Wolf.

Startled by these intruders, they crouched and lurked in the distance.

The flock of crows in the sky could clearly see their location.

"Follow the ravens; they will guide you to the location of your prey."

Rhodes stretched out his arm, and the first raven landed on it.

After the raven cawed loudly at the soldiers, it spread its wings and acted as a landmark in mid-air.

"Yes, sir." The two men led their soldiers into action.

After setting off, Holmes and the other soldiers looked at Raven with obvious doubt in their eyes.

But Rod's previous prestige was enough for them to choose to trust him, and no one raised any questions.

After the soldiers left, Rod looked at the villagers busily cleaning up the area.

Some of the able-bodied men of the militia wielded axes to cut down trees, while others dug up large stones and loaded them onto carts for the maned horses to pull away.

The women cleared nearby bushes and rubble while preparing to start a fire and cook.

It looks like a decent project, but the real challenge is the construction of the houses.

"Transporting bricks and stones from the fortress here is time-consuming and laborious. At the current rate, it would be good if we could clear a space in a month and provide small wooden huts for four hundred people."

Rhodes estimated the progress, but as for the castle and city walls, they seemed like a pipe dream at the moment.

Fortunately, Rhodes's expertise as a wizard lies in solving these kinds of problems.

He arrived at the area designated as the Demon Field, which was currently a barren sandy land with an uneven surface and piles of various stones.

It looks like even weeds would have a hard time surviving there.

Under Rod's command, large quantities of trees and shrubs cut down by the villagers were continuously transported and piled up here.

"The first issue is with Mada."

Rhodes recalled his knowledge about the Demon Field.

From a wizard's perspective, the soul is not unique to humans and animals.

Flowers, trees, mountains, rivers, and seas—all things possess a spirit.

He gazed at the plants on the sandy land, and as their roots were severed and they were freed from the earth's constraints, glimmers of light, invisible to ordinary people, were emanating from them.

Slowly drifting towards an unknown higher place.

He chose to light it, and flames rose from the tinder, spreading to the small branches, the bushes, and finally igniting the trees.

With deliberate indulgence, the fire grew larger and larger, and the raging flames surged and raged in the cold wind.

A burst of inspiration burst forth amidst the crackling sounds.

Standing before the raging flames, Rhodes opened his arms, and subtle magical energy emerged from his body, transforming into thin threads invisible to the naked eye.

They intertwined and tangled together, like a fishing net, enveloping the burning fire.

The magic was too weak to interfere with reality, but with skillful manipulation, it completely restrained the natural spiritual light emanating from the trees.

As Rhodes pressed down with his right hand, the natural spiritual light was slowly pressed into the earth.

Earth vein spiritualization!

This is a large-scale environmental witchcraft that, under the guidance of a shaman, uses natural spiritual energy to activate dormant ley lines.

This transforms it into a magical field capable of rapidly absorbing nutrients and nurturing the growth of magical plants.

Although Rhodes' own power was weak, it was enough to move the vast power hidden in the earth.

Under his guidance, the surface of the sandy land, covering an area of ​​about one acre, began to tremble.

The rubble above kept bobbing, as if an earth dragon was churning below.

But after a brief period of intense activity, nourished by the constant flow of natural light, this activity gradually diminished and eventually lost its momentum.

The soil in Pingdingshan is terrible, containing a lot of sand and gravel.

It constantly hinders the spiritualization of the earth's veins, trying to drag them back into a slumbering stillness.

Rod initiated another preparation, raising his left hand.

During the spiritualization process, the sandy soil suddenly cracked open, like a gaping mouth.

It absorbs the large amount of ash generated during the burning process, as well as the magic power accumulated within the trees.

Alchemy: Fossils Turned to Mud!

The sandy land began to churn once more, the already activated ley lines greedily devouring the ash from the grass and the magic power of the trees.

This process crushes and digests the stones and gravel in the body, turning them into fertile soil.

(End of this chapter)