Chapter 127 - The Mage Guild’s Attack
Chapter 127: The Mage Guild’s Attack
“That’s right. That is the nine-color ginseng, but that’s not the point.”
Watson nodded affirmatively as he pointed at the flowerbed. “Look carefully. What has become of the medicinal herbs in the flowerbed?”
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed and found that some of the medicinal herbs growing well in the flowerbed had turned yellow. The leaves were drooping as if the nutrients had been sucked away. On the other hand, the nine-colored glazed ginseng looked dazzling with the light it emitted.
“See? That is why I said that it’s not good to speed up the ripening of the crops,” Watson said.
As a modern man, he possessed agricultural knowledge that far surpassed that world.
For example, he knew how to decrease the erosion of soil and water, control pests, and so on. The farming methods in that world were very crude. They were using the three-thirds system of land commonly used in the Middle Ages. Large plots of good land were used to grow crops, the bad ones were used for idle farming, and the rest of the land was used to develop animal husbandry. On the one hand, they could sell the farmed livestock for money, and on the other hand, they could use the beasts’ feces to restore fertility to the land.
That was a very crude system. It did not have the science of modern agriculture processes at all, so the productivity in many parts of the kingdom was very low.
Watson had the convenience of system fusion, and at the same time, he had a vision that transcended the times, which caused his words to leave the Demoness Bandit Gang leaders stunned.
“How did it become like that? Isn’t the higher the level, the better?”
Greed could not understand it. A high-tier medicinal herb could actually absorb the nutrients of a low-tier crop.
She felt that her worldview had been overturned. She would usually plant some crops when she was in the bandit gang because of her ability. She would watch them grow and reap the joy in her heart. However, she had never thought about that problem when she was planting the crops.
She was not only shocked by the method that Watson had used. He knew that Watson had mysterious magic that could fuse with the Great Sin Mask, which they could not handle. She did not expect that Watson could also fuse with other things.
“It’s very easy to fuse herbs. If I want to do it, I can turn all the herbs in the flowerbed into gold-tier herbs. But is that really necessary?”
Watson pretended to be deep in thoughts.
Of course, it was necessary.
It was not that he did not want to fuse all the herbs in the flower bed into gold-tier; they did not have enough herbs. In addition, the guards would inevitably bump into each other during training, so they needed those herbs. If he were to fuse all the herbs into high-tier goods, they would not have enough normal ones, and he would also be reluctant to let others use them.
“Any other questions?”
Greed remained silent.
He convinced her. If Watson did not do anything and only used words to criticize her, she might not be satisfied. However, Watson had used facts to shatter her pride.
“Capella, tell me., any other problems?”
Watson turned his head and asked Capella. She said, “There’s also Sloth and Wrath. They shattered the furniture when they were cleaning the room! I spoke to them about it, but they refused to accept the punishment.”
“Alright, I admit that it’s our fault for destroying the furniture, but our speed is at least a hundred times faster than the other maids! They can clean one room, but we cleaned 100 rooms. From that point, we should be forgiven for what we did.”
Wrath did not speak so harshly when she saw what happened to Greed.
However, she still insisted that she was right. It was inevitable that there would be mistakes in the pursuit of speed. One could never have the best of both worlds.
“Those are all excuses.”
Watson shook his head. “Come with me.”
As he spoke, he led everyone into the manor and arrived in front of a specific bedroom.
He raised his hand and spread the combat aura wings on his back. The color of the wings was cyan, which meant that he was using wind-elemental combat aura.
After a few seconds, he circled the bedroom at a breakneck speed. The whistling combat aura turned into a strong wind and rolled the furniture. Immediately after that, the combat aura wings on Watson’s back changed from cyan to blue as thick vapor covered the furniture, the walls, and every crack in the room.
After the water washed through the room, the combat aura on Watson’s body changed again—it turned into a dazzling golden color. The rich sunlight shone onto the room; it evaporated the water flow quickly. The room emitted the smell of the sun.
Fresh, clean, and neat, and even the furniture reflected light.
“I only need less than a minute to clean the room, but look, did I damage the furniture?”
Watson clapped his hands and retracted the combat aura wings on his back.
“You—”
She opened her mouth in anger. She wanted to say that Watson had used three different types of combat aura in such a short period—he was a monster. If she had the strength of such a monster, she could also clean the room in a minute without damaging the furniture.
However, after she thought about it, she still did not say it out loud. She defended herself because she was stronger than the servants in the manor. Since Watson was stronger than her, he could also do things that she could not do.
“Don’t think that because you are silver-tier warriors, you can belittle these trivial tasks. One would need specific skills to do them well! I think any of our housemaids are better than you. Do you acknowledge that?”
Watson looked around him, and the Demoness Bandit Gang leaders fell silent.
“From now on, learn well from Capella. Don’t let me hear such things again. Otherwise, Blackmoon Castle will be kind enough to send you to Hell.”
Watson’s voice was loud and clear. The Demoness Bandit Gang leaders looked at each other and lowered their heads in fear.
Just as Watson had said, they looked down on maids because they thought they were more powerful. It seemed like they had to reflect on themselves.
“Capella, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
Watson gestured to Capella before he turned around to leave.
“Yes, Young Master Watson.” Capella looked at Watson with admiration and respect. It was just as what she had expected of a young master. If she could not handle someone, then he would take care of it immediately.
However, she did not know that Watson had sighed discreetly.
“Fortunately, I have the fusion system and have mastered all the different elemental combat aura. Otherwise, I would not be able to subdue those people! After that incident, they would still be a little more obedient. Otherwise—”
Watson decided that he did not need to fuse them as human fusion was equivalent to killing them. He was not willing to do that unless he was truly angered.
Suddenly, he heard shouts from the guards from outside the castle.
“Young Master Watson, something terrible has happened. We received news from a manor owner that Monte Town’s Mage Guild has recruited mercenaries and formed an army. They want to destroy Blackmoon Castle and demand an explanation for Elder Folson’s death! Our spy could ride faster, so he was ahead of them. He reported that the Mage Guild would arrive in a day.”