Chapter 149: Consciousness Projection, Q-version Xia Mingyu

Martha Territory, Wheat Field Village.

Noon, the sky was as clear as a wash.

The azure sky was illuminated by the sun, extending from the horizon to the end of the line of sight.

Xia Mingyu stood in front of a large wheat field planted with emerald green wheat seedlings, with Village Chief Maiken and a group of young villagers in linen clothes, holding sickles and ready for harvest, behind him.

"Hoo." He took a deep breath, bent down, and slowly placed his hand on the soft soil that had been baked warm by the sun.

The next moment, countless pitch-black flame clouds erupted from Xia Mingyu's body, rushing straight into the sky, like a monstrous torch that would burn through the sky itself!

With this as the center, the atmosphere trembled, and surging air waves blew in all directions, producing a deafening roar.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The villagers behind him were blown around like they had encountered a level-eight gale, but fortunately, no one was unlucky enough to fall onto the sharp sickles in their hands.

"The King's magic power has grown much more than when he came here last time. It is truly a talent comparable to the sun!"

Boge, who was the only one standing still, looked at this astonishing scene and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The sense of security brought by his previous promotion to Morning Star had vanished. He must work harder and harder to become stronger so as not to fall behind the King's pace.

Otherwise, as an attendant, if he still needed the King to protect his safety, it would be better to just slit his throat with a sword.

Rustle, rustle, rustle.

That was the wonderful sound made by countless wheat seedlings in the wheat field growing rapidly.

Their stalks grew section by section at a speed visible to the naked eye like bamboo shoots after rain, and the leaves stretched, split, and overlapped...

In just a few seconds, the emerald green waves submerged everything in the wheat field, and then the straight green stalks gradually turned golden, presenting a brilliant and boundless golden wheat wave in front of everyone.

"This is truly incredible!!"

Even though it was the second time he had seen it, this shocking scene still made Maiken, the village chief of Wheat Field Village, feel a tremor in his soul.

And the rest of the villagers, who were seeing the scene of the Five Grains Bountiful Harvest for the first time, had already begun to kneel down and shout about miracles.

No one knew better than these farmers in the fields how much energy it took to grow those golden wheat.

Weeding, watering, sowing, composting... the work was never-ending, but their hands and feet were often too tired to move, and their skin was cut by sharp wheat stubble, often adding new wounds before the old ones had healed.

Precisely because of this, facing the feat of the sage raising his hand and creating a large golden wheat field, they had even begun to believe that the sage was the incarnation of a god descending to earth.

Otherwise, how could someone be so perfect, so selfless and kind as if he were a living saint?

"Village Chief Maiken, time is tight. Please ask your villagers to cut faster. One-tenth of the harvested wheat will be left for them."

Xia Mingyu, who had exhausted all his magic power in one breath, whispered instructions under Miss Anliya's support.

"As you command, Sage." Maiken's waist almost bent to his knees, and he replied respectfully.

Then—

"Did you hear the Sage's words, you bastards!" Maiken turned around and roared at the villagers behind him.

His expression was fierce, and his attitude had almost undergone a 180-degree turn compared to when he was in front of Xia Mingyu.

"Give me all the strength you have! If anyone dares to be lazy, I will let the whole village know he is a slacker, and no good girl will ever be willing to marry him."

"Set off, cut the wheat!"

Roar, roar, roar!

The young villagers, with red eyes, waved the sickles in their hands and rushed into the wheat field to work hard, as tireless as plow oxen.

And Boge also held two sickles in his hands, turning into a residual image and rushing into the boundless wheat field.

Click, click.

Large swaths of wheat stalks fell down...

With the full work of the villagers and the assistance of Boge, a Transcendent, the collection and weighing of all the wheat ears were completed just as the sky was slightly dim.

In the village warehouse.

"A total of 8,021 pounds?"

Xia Mingyu listened to the village chief's report and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He remembered that the last time he fully activated the Five Grains Bountiful Harvest ability here, it only produced about 5,000 pounds of wheat.

By this calculation, his magic power had increased by at least three-fifths more than half a month ago?!

Although Xia Mingyu knew that after establishing the great achievement of saving Twilight City and gathering the power of 100,000 people to release the Heavenly Punishment Dragon Thunder to judge Ecus, his magic power had indeed skyrocketed, but no matter what, this number was too astonishing.

"A normal mage would have to meditate for three to five years to increase this much magic power, and I only used less than half a month..."

Xia Mingyu suddenly felt that his talent on the path of magic was not weaker than Tamerlane's on the path of the knight; both were earth-shattering and peerless.

If he could maintain this growth rate, let alone ten years, he could start preparing for an uprising within three years, raise his arms and shout, and openly raise the banner of resisting the King of Gluttony.

"Maiken, distribute one-tenth of the collected wheat to the villagers who cut the wheat, and pile the rest in the warehouse."

After temporarily suppressing the intense emotions in his heart, Xia Mingyu said.

He wanted to store this wheat in the internal space of the Starfire as soon as possible and then share it with Dorovai, who was far away in the Northern Region.

"Yes, Sage."

Northern Region.

The sky was overcast, and the lead-gray clouds, like a sheepskin robe soaked in water, pressed heavily on the boundless snowy ground below.

The drizzling snowflakes fell slowly, bringing a trace of coolness to the girl's smooth face.

"Finally here."

Looking at the slightly withered village in front of her, Dorovai muttered to herself.

After half a day of traveling since setting off in the morning, she successfully arrived at this village that was in the midst of a severe famine—Ice Deer Village.

After hesitating for a moment, she walked in gently.

Compared to its withered appearance, the interior of the village was a miserable scene of deathly silence.

At the doorways of the thatched houses on both sides, one could see children lying on the ground, looking at the sky with dull eyes.

Their bellies were strangely bulging, their skin stretched tight and shiny, like sheepskin bags filled with water.

Even the whites of their eyes were tinged with a dead-fish-like pale yellow, and their fingers left pale pits when pressed on their bloated arms, which took a long time to slowly rebound.

This miserable scene made Dorovai's heart palpitate.

Especially since she knew that no matter what, these children who carried hope and love would be saved by their parents at all costs, and if the children had become this way, it meant those parents...

Either they had already been starved to death, or they had completely lost their freedom and dignity, becoming slaves who could be bullied by anyone and suffered great torture.

"Damn it..." Dorovai gritted her teeth, and her clenched fists made her nails sink deep into her palms.

Even when she was seriously injured fighting a named monster in the past, she only frowned slightly and didn't feel any pain, but now, she felt as if her whole person had sunk into the boundless deep sea, entangled by seaweed in a pitch-black bay, struggling to breathe as if drowning.

In the past, she had mostly stayed in Snow Sheep Village practicing sword skills. Although she occasionally learned about the suffering of the people in the Northern Region from the conversations of other knights and the pleas of village chiefs who came to ask for help nearby, no amount of words could compare to the shock of seeing it with her own eyes.

At this moment, Dorovai finally understood completely why her father, Grand Duke Mason, would rather not be the King of the Principality and chose to resist the King of Gluttony even when he knew the result.

Presumably, at that time, he must have seen the same or even more miserable scene in his own territory!

There would never be any true lord who could tolerate such humiliation that was more terrifying than death.

"Today is the first day of making the oath. Ice Plains Castle is still a long way from here. I must continue to set off before dark today at the latest to have enough time to assassinate Lucas."

"But if I want to save these children, I must wait for the grain sent by the King, but the King didn't tell me the exact time. If it's sent on the second or third day..."

Dorovai fell into a dilemma for a time.

She began to regret why she didn't swear for a few more days. If she swore in the name of Mason, once she violated it, the noble blessing on her body might crack!

However, she really couldn't ignore the children with dull eyes in front of her and just walk away.

Perhaps she could return here after killing Lucas, but by then, someone would definitely have been starved to death in the snow during this period.

Even if only one child died because of this, Dorovai would feel that this was her sin.

"It's just a blessing. At worst, I'll lose it. The Crimson Fire can be promoted to Radiant Moon with a civilian blessing, and so can I!"

Dorovai made a hard decision. She would wait for the King to send the relief grain to save these children before setting off to kill Lucas.

Even if her noble blessing cracked because of this, she would have no regrets.

Because her father told her that a true noble does not lie in the blessing on their head, but in their superior morality and responsibility.

The girl distributed the remaining dry rations in her bag to the bloated children around her, then found a corner, sat on the ground leaning against the wall, and silently practiced her breathing technique.

On the other side, looking at the bags of wheat piled up in the warehouse, Xia Mingyu also began to act.

"Starfire, receive." He raised the ring and shouted loudly.

The next moment, a crimson circular light hole appeared abruptly in front of him, just like the scene where Ecus opened the product warehouse, only the hole he opened was larger and the color was different.

This scene made Xia Mingyu fall into silence.

Tsk, he thought that as long as he shouted "receive," the ring would flash red and collect all this wheat like the Golden Horn and Silver Horn collecting the Monkey King.

"Maiken, call someone to move the grain!" Scratching the back of his head, Xia Mingyu shouted helplessly to the outside of the door.

Tap, tap, tap.

The young farmers, following the sage's instructions, carried bags of wheat into the red light hole.

Only after the warehouse became empty again did Xia Mingyu return to the carriage with satisfaction, instructed Anliya to take good care of his body, and then activated the Starfire Connection ability.

"A single spark can start a prairie fire," he muttered with his eyes closed.

The next moment, Xia Mingyu's consciousness rushed toward another connection located in the distant north at a speed as fast as light, crossing that long distance.

Dorovai was immersed in the practice of the Lion King Breathing Technique when she suddenly felt a warmth on her right earlobe.

She took off the emerald ear clip, only to see the emerald gemstone inlaid on it flashing with green light.

Immediately afterward, before she could think of the reason, she saw a phantom figure slowly emerging from the gemstone.

"Dorovai, I'm here." The black-haired young man smiled.

Dorovai: "???"

The girl stood up from the ground in a panic, and the magic power flashed, shaking off the snow on her legs. A blush flashed across her fair face.

If she had known the King would come, she wouldn't have sat on the ground like a man; that was too ungraceful.

Although since she was ten, she had never learned the etiquette and dance that a noble lady should learn.

"Your Majesty, welcome."

Dorovai placed her right hand on her left shoulder and bowed deeply to the King.

"Your Majesty, what is this state you are in?"

Then, looking at the small Q-version Xia Mingyu floating in the air in front of her, the girl asked curiously.

At this time, the King's state was very wonderful. Not only was his figure illusory, but his body size had also shrunk to tens of centimeters high, which could be easily held in one hand.

Hmm, a bit cute.

Unlike the dignified and benevolent King in the hall, the current King reminded Dorovai of the seven rose dolls that the tailor had carefully made for her when she still lived in the castle.

"My body is still in the Southern Region; only my consciousness has come to the Northern Region through the connection I gave you," Xia Mingyu explained.

Then, looking at the children lying on the ground, bloated all over and unbearable to look at, his brows furrowed deeply.

Such a miserable scene, even hell might not appear, but it could be seen everywhere on this vast land of the Northern Region.

It really... makes one wish to hang the heads of those lords on the city wall and kill until the blood flows like a river!

Xia Mingyu's heart was boiling with murderous intent, but on the surface, he remained calm.

Useless anger should be left to the enemy. Facing his companions, he still wanted to show a side that could be relied upon as much as possible.

Perhaps clumsy, perhaps hypocritical, but it could always make his companions feel a little more secure.

"Dorovai, it seems that no one else can see me except you. Since that's the case, you should immediately take out the grain I brought and distribute it to these children."

"I have already shared the internal space of our two connections."

Xia Mingyu said quickly. He didn't want to see these children hungry anymore, not even for a second.

Hearing this, Dorovai immediately injected magic power into the emerald gemstone on the ear clip in her hand, and an emerald green light hole opened slowly.

She carefully reached her hand into the light hole and took out a heavy big bag.

She opened the bag, and the bag full of yellowish flour made her whole person so excited that she was about to jump up.

"Your Majesty, thank you for your help. With this bag of grain, Ice Deer Village can hold on for a few more days," Dorovai said gratefully.

However, this thanks made Xia Mingyu's expression become puzzled.

"What are you talking about, Dorovai? How could I only bring one bag of grain? There are hundreds of bags in the space, but only the first few bags are flour, and the rest are still wheat..."

Dorovai: "!!!"

After being stunned for a moment, the girl, who finally understood the content of the King's words, excitedly hugged the Q-version Xia Mingyu and spun around in the air.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The girl's smile was as moving as a poem or painting, completely devoid of the solemnity of their first meeting.

It was just a pity that the noble King was already about to be dizzy from this impact, which was like a roller coaster on Blue Star, and had no time to care.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 150 =====