Chapter 2079: Blessing Spell

————Still about an hour left~~

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After the Time Acceleration stopped, the original Time Acceleration Zone suddenly became bright, and the winter wheat crop, which had looked orange-red, also became brighter, nearly orange.

And those heavy, drooping, plump ears of wheat seemed to be trying their best to show all the onlookers their most attractive qualities.

At this moment, Eriwen walked to the edge of the field, plucked a handful of wheat ears, rubbed them a few times in his palm, and then threw them forcefully toward the plaza. As the wheat grains scattered from his hand and flew toward the crowd, more wheat ears in the field behind him also broke away from the stalks under the influence of an invisible force and flew toward the crowd.

Very quickly, the first person caught a wheat grain. He looked like an ordinary craftsman, and after catching the grain, he didn't do anything extra and just stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Then, facing the expectant eyes of those around him, he said loudly: "It's plumper than ordinary wheat, and there's even a hint of sweetness! Master Bernumesis was telling the truth!"

This craftsman was just one of the countless people in the plaza who had received wheat grains or ears. Some who received ears, while verifying it themselves, also shared the extra grains with their companions nearby.

For a time, countless exclamations rang out in the plaza, along with the excited and eager shouts of those who hadn't received any grains.

Besides giving them to ordinary people, Eriwen also sent samples of the wheat ears to several of the viewing stands. Xia Duo received one separately. In fact, he didn't even need to examine it closely to understand that this stuff had a higher yield than the wheat currently grown in his Territory.

The quality might also be higher!

The most critical point was that the maturation period was shorter than normal winter wheat, being a mere six months, and these six months actually included the entire time from planting to maturity.

The germination process accounted for nearly half of that, which was three months; if that could be shortened, the time could be advanced even further.

Given the extreme cold environment just created by the Cormanthor Ambassador, Xia Duo really couldn't imagine the possibility of the other party having any waterproofing; it was impossible for normal climates to reach that kind of extreme state.

That is to say, when planting in Reality, it likely wouldn't need three months to germinate. If it could germinate in four or five days like ordinary wheat, then this cold-resistant wheat produced by Master Eriwen could completely be called "super wheat."

As for the yield, Xia Duo estimated that as long as it was cultivated intensively, the yield could reach at least three times that of the wheat in his Territory now, and if it were changed to other territories in Netheril, it might be more than three times.

In other words, this one item alone could allow Netheril to support three times the population it had when the climate was normal in the past. If one added the short maturation period, then—

Without a doubt, even if the climate environment worsened further, Netheril was very likely to usher in a wave of population growth.

The lords of Netheril might not be willing to give the high-cost grain grown in the Arcane Garden to their subjects, but if the subjects could grow high-yield grain themselves, they would definitely not mind obtaining higher taxes.

Even if the proportion left to the subjects was lower than in the past, in the face of high yields, they would still be able to obtain enough food to feed their whole family, and even support a growing population.

At this moment, Xia Duo really couldn't figure out any possibility of Master Eriwen failing, and this made him become even more vigilant.

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And on the viewing stands, after checking the Reality of the wheat ears one by one, the crowd also offered their congratulations to Master Eriwen one after another.

And the envoys of the various Northland nations, even the Cormanthor Ambassador who was still stuck in the middle, also offered their congratulations to Master Eriwen with a blank expression.

Although Elves are arrogant and also like to play tricks, to lie in public, in front of countless people, especially in front of envoys from other Elf nations, was something they could almost never bring themselves to do.

Subsequently, the Cormanthor Ambassador returned to the viewing stand, and Xia Duo prepared to go back with him, but Master Eriwen stopped him: "Lord Xia Duo, I need your help with one more thing."

"That Spell to bless ordinary seeds?"

"Yes."

Master Eriwen nodded, then turned around again and said to the crowd in the plaza: "Just now, a Time Acceleration Spell was used to demonstrate the growth of the new type of wheat, but it still required time in the end.

"Netheril has so much land, and we cannot instantly conjure up so many seeds, so we need to use a blessing Spell to make the current ordinary seeds also possess the ability to resist harsh climates. Next, I will demonstrate this Spell."

After finishing, Master Eriwen took out a Dimensional Bag, just about to take something out from inside, but then as if he had thought of something, he put the small bag away again, and then shouted to the crowd:

"Is there anyone here who can support me with some unground ordinary wheat grains?"

Asking for wheat grains from people who came to attend a grand meeting—if there really were any, it would be treated as something prepared through prior collusion, but Eriwen still asked this way.

Xia Duo also looked curiously at the crowd to the south, not knowing if they would really pick out someone who carried wheat grains with them. However, the plaza was noisy now, so he didn't put his mind to distinguishing it.

He only kept an eye on the changes in the Cloud Qi around him, as well as the state of the Order Cycle.

But as the protagonist of this grand meeting, Eriwen naturally wouldn't be like Xia Duo. He quickly picked a target, and then an anxious, excited voice that also seemed to be mixed with some kind of accent spread throughout the entire plaza—

"I opened a bakery in the Port District, there is wheat there, and it's not far from here. Wow, why did my voice become so loud?!"

That person seemed to be frightened by this anomaly, but immediately realized that he had become the lucky one chosen by Master Bernumesis, so he shouted excitedly a few more times:

"The Master chose me? The Master chose me! The Master chose me!"

"That friend, please go home and take some wheat now."

Eriwen reached out and pointed to one of the dense heads of people in the southwest direction of the plaza, and then a person who was constantly struggling with their limbs rose into mid-air from the crowd, accompanied by high-pitched screaming—

"Ah—I can fly, I can fly!"

After flapping a few times, that person, as if swimming, flapped and tumbled, flying crookedly toward the further west, and this also caused a commotion below.

There were all kinds of whistling, hat-throwing, and even people jumping up to try to grab the other person and fly along.

However, under Eriwen's pacification, the crowd quickly returned to normal. Before long, the person who went to get the wheat grains came flying back crookedly, carrying a medium-sized cloth bag.

He flew all the way to the ceremonial site and handed the cloth bag to Eriwen. Eriwen opened the cloth bag, turned back the opening, and showed the approximately one pound of wheat grains inside to the viewing stands and the crowd in the plaza.

Just at this moment, Xia Duo vaguely heard an extremely sharp female voice appear in the southwest direction of the plaza, as if scolding something, accompanied by the heckling of people nearby. Listening carefully, it was actually—

"Beike! You dead ghost, so stingy, why didn't you take more!"

Beike at the ceremonial site could not hear these words, but the Spellcasters on the viewing stands might not necessarily be unable to hear the woman's angry scolding through some Perception Spells.

Thus, almost simultaneously, many Mages showed expressions of disgust and contempt in their eyes, but there were also many who smiled knowingly, with no obvious bias.