Chapter 1329: Villager Mutual Aid Association, New Natural Druid

The 【Daxia-Saville Passage】 starts from the Tower of Time in the south and reaches the White Sheep and Grey Rabbit villages in the southern part of the Savile Territory in the north, with a planned width of 500 New Meters and a total length of 25 New Li.

From the warming of the weather after the harsh winter until now, in the nearly three months that have passed, the efficient Daxia Territory residents have already completed nearly a quarter of the development on the southern side.

At this moment, Xia Duo is flying in the sky and can clearly see a mottled-colored middle zone below that is starkly different from the verdant forests on both sides.

Although there are still many trees on it that have not been cleared away, it at least already has the appearance of a passage.

And at the end of this mottled-colored middle zone, the residents who are not on shift are still continuing to work, constantly felling the trees ahead.

Further north, there is only a narrow, long strip of felled trees at the planned width of the 【Daxia-Saville Passage】, looking like two straight rulers extending all the way to the north.

Because Xia Duo is flying in the sky at this moment, even without deliberately casting a specialized long-distance vision Spell, he can still see that a clear forest middle zone has also appeared at the end of this passage under construction, extending to the north.

It is just that Xia Duo can also tell that the development progress on the Savile Territory side is not as good as on the Daxia Territory side; both sides started work at about the same time, but the efficiency is nearly half as low!

The number of people might be a factor, but Xia Duo believes more that it is the Daxia residents' infinite expectation for the future, as well as the Development Department's more accessible command and coordination system, that makes their work efficiency far exceed that of the north.

"Laidun, according to the plan, it should be possible to open up the north-south passage before winter, right?"

"Yes, my lord, it is currently being carried out according to the plan, and it is even slightly ahead of schedule; there will definitely be no problem before winter."

"But leveling the land is a big trouble!"

Xia Duo is not the kind of lord who has never been to the grassroots; he knows very well what a real forest looks like. Even if the trees are cut down, there are still tree roots underground.

Besides the trees themselves, there are also various stones of different sizes on the ground blocking the way. Removing the stones, the ground itself also has undulations.

Cutting down trees is only the simplest step in the 【Daxia-Saville Passage】 project. Subsequent tasks, whether it is timber collection, clearing, land leveling, compaction, or paving with bricks, all require consuming more man-hours.

According to the prior plan, the passage would be completed within three years, but as it looks now, the previous plan might have been a bit too optimistic.

It takes more than half a year just to open the passage; can it really be completed within the planned time later on?

Thinking of this, Xia Duo once again cast his gaze to the north, dozens of Li away; Daxia Territory's previous plan did not include the Savile Territory.

If the north were included, perhaps it could be advanced quite a bit, but Xia Duo is not satisfied with just advancing it a little; he wants more!

It is not just limited to this project itself!

……

"I see Yatewude, let's go down!"

After notifying Laidun, Xia Duo brought the two of them down to the southeast corner of Code Plaza.

From here to the south is a field of green wheat; the wheat that successfully survived the harsh winter is now desperately absorbing nutrients, showing the most vigorous vitality to the outside world.

Of course, Yatewude did not come from the wheat field, but from the direction of the 【Daxia-Saville Passage】 in the north. The reason for landing on the edge of the wheat field was just to stay away from other residents.

Just like that, while waiting for Yatewude, Xia Duo and Laidun continued to chat about the planning of the Territory's development, facing the vibrant wheat field, and neither of them felt that time was passing slowly.

About ten minutes later, Yatewude appeared before Xia Duo with a child in his early teens, "Lord, Yatewude is late!"

"Not late, I was just talking to Laidun about the Villager Mutual Aid Association you established in the north!"

"My lord, you already know?"

Yatewude stroked his grey-white beard that had grown to his chest with one hand, and a look of self-pride could not help but reveal itself in his eyes, but facing the lord who gave him inspiration, he still did not dare to show off too much.

So he immediately poured out everything he had done before—

"My lord, although development teams were organized in the north, they relied more on people from the Adventurers Guild to organize. Saier Town Mayor implements your Indication very firmly, but among the people below, there are too many slippery ones.

"When I was carrying out legal education work in White Sheep Village, I often heard villagers who had accepted development tasks complaining, saying that some people in the Adventurers Guild and the Town Hall often deducted development subsidies for various reasons.

"Some of them reported it to Saier Town Mayor, but in the end, they couldn't get their subsidies back. I sat in on a trial scene of a law-enforcing Priest once; the villagers did indeed sometimes not do their work well, but more often, those petty officials were too harsh!

"Even Saier Town Mayor, most of the time, can't do anything about those people; after all, strictly speaking, what they did was not considered wrong.

"I gained the respect of many villagers because of legal education. I felt that I shouldn't let down their respect, so I organized the Mutual Aid Association to unite many villagers and negotiate more specific subsidy standards with the organizers of the development.

"The officials of the Savile Territory knew that I came from Daxia Territory and was directly responsible to you, my lord, so they quickly compromised.

"Because of this, I gained higher prestige among the Savile Territory residents participating in the development, and so, they began to take the initiative to ask me about the content of the New Natural Philosophy.

"Now, many of those Savile Territory residents participating in the development have accepted this thought."

After finishing, Yatewude coughed lightly again, "Lord, I have another piece of good news to tell you!"

"What news?"

Xia Duo glanced at the slightly deliberate Yatewude, and a thought suddenly rose in his heart: it couldn't be, could it be—

At this moment, Yatewude took a deep breath, reached out a hand and sent it in front of Xia Duo, and then a Holy Power Light Orb glowing with pale green light was born out of thin air above his palm.

"My lord, look! I have regained Holy Power! It is the true Natural Holy Power!"

At this moment, Yatewude could no longer suppress the joy in his heart; his grinning mouth almost reached his ears. At the same time, he pushed the child who had been silent beside him to Xia Duo and continued to say:

"My lord, this is Fanni. He has already perceived the Natural Will. Perhaps it won't be long before the Territory will have one more true Natural Druid!"

"Fanni?"

"My—my lord, it is me."

Little Fanni looked at Xia Duo blankly and bowed. Only then did Xia Duo notice that this little guy was actually Lude's son.

And Lude was one of the first batch of new residents who followed him to develop the Territory, and also one of the fifty people he personally granted land to at the first land-granting ceremony three months ago!

"Little guy, don't be afraid. The lord is the person who protects everyone, and also the person most worthy of everyone's trust! Come, tell Uncle Lord, what does the Natural Will you perceived look like?"

Xia Duo touched Fanni's little head and said softly.