Chapter 343: Scraping Away a Layer of the Ground Too

When he had flown up earlier to count the skeletons, Seeing Ange had already been a little suspicious—the terrain and size here were just like the Holy Kingdom, except without those buildings and without the planar barrier.

"The Kingdom? The Kingdom Fortress? Here?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked doubtfully as he followed Seeing Ange around in a circle, even walking to the edge of the flat surface and looking outward.

As expected, it was a hemisphere identical to the Kingdom; if there were a planar barrier, it would become a perfect sphere just like the Holy Kingdom.

"It really is identical, Feti. What kind of place is this?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"The Undying Fortress," Feti said.

"The Undying Fortress? Why does it look exactly like the Holy Kingdom?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Feti said with a touch of disdain: "You mean those Holy Light bugs? Yes, I snatched it right out of their hands. They used to call it the Fortress of Light. The witch and I took it together and renamed it the Undying Fortress."

"I was planning to use it to approach their Kingdom Fortress through the void, leap over, and snatch the Kingdom Fortress too. Too bad the God of Forgetting blocked me." Feti said, somewhat unwillingly.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked in surprise: "You mean this plane can move? In the void?"

"Of course… uh, I don't actually know if it can still be started. The witch's people were the ones handling it; I was only in charge of fighting." Feti hesitated the moment he thought about how over a thousand years had already passed.

After searching around, he really couldn't find any place to activate it. Could it be on the inside?

But the interior requires the Kingdom Staircase to enter, otherwise one would have to dig out a deep pit. On second thought, forget it—even the Kingdom Fortress hadn't been figured out yet, so where would there be spare time to dig a pit.

There's not even a planar barrier here. If we're going to do anything, it has to be the Kingdom Fortress. That fortress also has the ability to move through the void; back then it moved through the void to hover above the Abyss of Rest.

"Forget it, we'll research it later. Let's go first." Lest complications arise overnight, Lord Nai Ge Li Si quickly said goodbye to Feti, afraid he might remember those soul crystals. But when he turned his head, Seeing Ange and the others were gone again.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si felt a headache coming on: "Where did they go again? That damned skeleton."

Sigh, already used to it. Seeing Ange wouldn't change anyway. After grumbling a few sentences, Lord Nai Ge Li Si flew up helplessly. Sigh.

The moment he took off, he saw them—near the center, Seeing Ange and the other two were driving the skeletons away. The slow ones got their heads thumped by the little angel wielding the Archangel's Staff, going thump thump thump.

After driving all the skeletons away, Seeing Ange scraped open the breathing earth on the ground and dug up the soil beneath.

"What are you doing?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si suddenly had an ominous premonition. This place was at the central region of the entire plane, equivalent to the position of the Gods' Plaza in the Holy Kingdom, where there was fertile divine soil—divine soil that could grow divine trees.

Sure enough, what Seeing Ange dug up was divine soil, and he piled it to the side.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si was about to lose it: "You don't mean to scrape all this soil away too, do you? Do you know how heavy this soil is? How much soul flame would be wasted?"

Feti was stunned after hearing that: "Dig away the soil? This… you come here once and won't even leave me any soil? Where would I sleep then?"

"No, no, there's not much of this kind of soil—it's gone once you leave this area." Lord Nai Ge Li Si quickly said, afraid Feti would get angry.

Angry wouldn't be the word—just felt it was excessive. Even the ground had to be scraped away?

Everything else could be negotiated, but when it came to the great matter of farming, how could one give up? To avoid wasting soul crystals, Seeing Ange took out magic crystals and, through a teleportation array, sent three hundred thousand tons of divine soil to the World Transit Station.

Thanks to the World Transit Station, at least ninety percent of the magic crystals were saved.

The Withered-Bone Skeleton followed along too. Feti projected himself onto it, looked at the desolate scenery around, and said in surprise: "When did the Abyss of Rest become so desolate? Where's the Golden Road? The Grain Road?"

"Didn't I say I wouldn't let you come along? How did you get here again?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si said helplessly.

"You scraped away my land and you won't even let me send a clone over to look around? Where am I supposed to sleep then?" Feti replied with full justification.

"Fine, fine, fine, look around if you want, but don't bring your main body over." Lord Nai Ge Li Si urged.

"Got it. I really can't figure out why you keep guarding against me. We used to be so close—have you forgotten me?" Feti said sadly.

Back then it had been good friends with Lord Nai Ge Li Si; its Flash technique had only been comprehended under Lord Nai Ge Li Si's guidance. To think that meeting again, it was guarded against at every turn—truly heartbreaking.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si was extremely embarrassed. He really had forgotten. God knows why the Sovereign had erased its memories—even the effect of the Mark of Forgetting had been cleared, yet its memories couldn't be restored.

As for the matters concerning Feti, he had still asked Duroken about them, but his private friendship with Feti—Duroken wouldn't know about that either.

"Probably an after-effect of the Mark of Forgetting. Give it some time and I might remember. Just stick with me, don't wander around. Nobody here knows you—one punch and they'd knock you apart." Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

Feti had projected onto a Withered-Bone Skeleton—not very durable against a beating.

Just as he was about to say something, Seeing Ange suddenly turned back and beckoned to him: "Send Anthony to haul grain."

"Haul grain? Where to haul grain?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si was completely thrown off by Seeing Ange's sudden words.

But he soon knew where to haul it from—Dragon-Fall Lake. Seeing Ange stomped down with one foot, and the salt-tolerant rice by the lake grew at breakneck speed, skipping the last month's growth cycle and quickly bearing rice ears.

Until the grain ripened, only a quarter of the Quick-Death Aura had been used. Seeing Ange paused it, then moved it to another area and started it again.

Just like that, one cast of the Quick-Death Aura could be used four times. At a rate of six hundred mu per use, once per hour, Seeing Ange ripened all the rice around Dragon-Fall Lake.

Anthony, who had rushed over upon receiving the news, slumped down by the lake, looked at the golden rice ears, and burst into loud laughter—everyone could hear a sense of relief in it.

"Hahaha, my lord, you came just in time. The previous grain was almost used up. If I couldn't get more, I'd have had to use my ultimate move." Anthony laughed.

"What? You still have an ultimate move?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked in shock.

During this period, he had watched Anthony at his wit's end, exhausting every means, scraping together everything that could be scraped. And now he said he still had a move?

"Hahaha, just kidding, just kidding. Where would I still have a move?" Anthony played it off with a laugh and skipped the topic.

"Yeah, right. Your face doesn't look like you're kidding—you were definitely planning to draw a knife on someone." Lord Nai Ge Li Si curled his lip.

At this point, Lord Nai Ge Li Si's heart suddenly jolted. He knew who Anthony had wanted to draw a knife on. At a time like this, who else still had surplus grain?

The Church of Light!

PS: These past two days my wife caught a cold and was coughing, so I spent two days running to the hospital. She coughed at night, and I didn't sleep well either—dizzy and muddled, my mind a blank. Posting one chapter first, will make it up tomorrow.