Chapter 433

Of course, it was certainly not as powerful as the magic they originally specialized in.

Under the two women's coordination, a large earth-based magic was cast.

Only a rumbling sound was heard, and the entire Shanfeng collapsed inward.

Immediately after, Princess Chenxi and Luomina each struck out, killing countless skeleton monsters.

The threat of the skeleton monsters was completely eradicated.

After this incident, Luomina and Princess Chenxi became even more cautious.

Now, thousands of winged elves had already cleared the dangers ahead, while they guarded the western region.

The elves' reclamation speed became unprecedentedly fast.

In just over ten days, they had reclaimed all the way to the westernmost point designated by Luomina and Princess Chenxi.

Of course, they had so far only carved out a single line fifty kilometers wide and one thousand kilometers deep within the Dark Forest.

Then they began reclaiming northward along the boundary line set by Luomina and Princess Chenxi.

This was Luomina and Princess Chenxi's newly devised method.

It was equivalent to first marking out the boundary, then gradually consuming the area within.

With the skeleton monsters eliminated and no powerful dark creatures present in this area, this method was far more efficient, because once the boundary was set, the interior became relatively safe, greatly accelerating reclamation.

When the elves reached the westernmost point, Luomina and Princess Chenxi jointly cast a spell, temporarily "reviving" those giant trees and moving them to adjacent areas.

Through this method, a hundred-meter-wide, treeless zone was left between the reclaimed Holy Flame Forest and the unclaimed Dark Forest.

This zone served as a buffer line between the Holy Flame Forest and the Dark Forest.

Of course, without a barrier, the dark aura would still seep through.

So Luomina and Princess Chenxi began jointly setting up a barrier.

The barrier was laid along the edge of the Dark Forest, its sole purpose being to block the dark aura.

Temporary barriers they could set up effortlessly, but this semi-permanent barrier, meant to last many years, required many precious materials to establish.

Fortunately, the Night Elf clan possessed these rare items.

Once the barrier blocked the dark aura, the hundred-meter zone became effective: when sunlight fell upon it, no dark creature dared cross.

Yet the boundary of the Holy Flame Forest was not here—it lay over a hundred kilometers away from the barrier; this hundred-kilometer stretch served as the buffer zone, to be planted with vast numbers of ancient trees for defense.

Now, the width of the Holy Flame Forest from east to west had reached a full two thousand kilometers!

It was more than double the east-west width of the Loki Forest!

And its north-south length would be even greater!

Yet due to its enormous area, the entire reclamation would still take considerable time to complete.

Meanwhile, in the south, the sorghum of the Hunhe Duchy, after being accelerated by cultivation, had ripened in vast swathes.

"Ha ha, so much sorghum—we're going to get rich."

In the Hunhe Duchy, a minor noble looked at the vast fields of sorghum on his land and smiled happily.

To earn more gold coins, this minor noble had even filled the courtyard of his small castle with sorghum.

Now, these sorghum crops had finally reached harvest time.

The minor noble quickly hired a large number of commoners to harvest the sorghum.

As soon as the sorghum was harvested, it was hauled away by an eager noble from the Hiling Kingdom.

This harvest earned the minor noble a full two thousand gold coins.

If he had planted rice instead, he could have earned at most one thousand gold coins.

As soon as the sorghum was harvested, the noble immediately hired commoners to plow the land, fertilize it, and plant a second crop.

The climate of the Hunhe Duchy was excellent, and with the Church's acceleration, multiple harvests per year were possible.

"Ha ha ha, this time we've really hit the jackpot."

The minor noble counted the gold coins in his bags, so delighted he stayed awake all night.

"Tomorrow, send someone to buy a hundred jin of Hiling Kingdom's sorghum wine. Oh, and their sugar is quite good too, as well as milk."

The minor noble planned.

During sorghum harvest season, there were countless nobles like him in the Hunhe Duchy.

Every noble happily counted their gold coins.

Their eyes shimmered with the golden glow of coins.

Their incomes had all increased substantially.

You could say they had made a fortune.

Then the next day, they poured vast sums of gold into purchasing Hiling Kingdom's sorghum wine.

The price of this wine had already risen, nearly doubling or tripling since its initial rate.

But the higher the price, the more people bought it.

The milk recently shipped from the Hiling Kingdom was also excellent, and many nobles bought it.

Though expensive, they had earned so many gold coins—why not spend them?

Moreover, the gold coins they earned were of excellent purity and bore magical protection, perfect for spending their stored Hunhe Duchy coins.

There was also white sugar, which similarly drew fierce interest from the nobility.

Additionally, in the luxury market, diamonds from Yan Country began trending among nobles, some of whom spent thousands of gold coins for them.

To the people of the Hunhe Duchy, Hiling Kingdom's gold coins were being steadily drained away.

Yet in the temples of the Hiling Kingdom, in the eyes of Lin Yan's several Holy Maidens, it was the Hunhe Duchy's gold coins that were being steadily collected.

The price of sorghum had been maximized.

Sorghum was used to brew wine.

Since the sorghum grown in the Hunhe Principality is sweet sorghum, the stalks are used to make sugar, and this sugar-making technique was naturally passed down by Lin Yan—Hunhe Principality cannot replicate it even if they try.

Milk and diamonds also flow continuously into the Hunhe Principality.

Thus, although the Hunhe Principality appears to profit from sorghum sales, its gold coins have been drained away by the Hiling Kingdom and Yan Kingdom through far more profitable means.

More importantly, no one in the Hunhe Principality has yet realized the crisis.

The land within their borders still used for grain cultivation has fallen below 10%!