Lord of Arcane

Chapter 407 The Princess Arrives
In the next few days, Xia Duo spawned several bags of wheat seeds one after another, until all the four acres of "demonstration fields" were planted.

At the same time, large-scale formal production began at the brick kiln. In order to increase the speed, Xia Duo ordered people to build several new brick kilns.

At present, these brick kilns are relatively small in size, and the bricks fired at one time are extremely limited, so it is difficult to make a breakthrough in a short period of time, and Xia Duo has little experience in this field, but it is not difficult to pile up the bricks quickly.

It's just that the number of workers needed has increased several times, and with the increase in manpower on the wooden house manufacturing side, this adjustment of human resources has actually affected Daxialing's autumn sowing this year, and even spring sowing.

However, Xia Duo plans to start the production increase mode for the Arcane Garden when the Tower of Time's energy reserves are relatively sufficient.In addition to dealing with the grain trade in Conifera City, it should not be difficult to get some rations for these more than 200 households in Daxia.

Of course, he will not put all his hopes on the Arcane Garden. Linshui Village must produce as much as possible by itself. Even if it is not possible now, it will catch up in the future.

He still understands that food and land can stabilize people's hearts.

And in the past few days, Xia Duo has completed nearly half of the "Development Manual", which are all things that he has personally experienced. He just needs to sort them out and polish them a little, add his own thoughts, and then record them down.

Xia Duo had a rough draft in his heart. If he didn't have a typewriter and handwriting limited his speed, he might have finished it long ago.

As for magic, he hasn't found any magic that can write yet, and he doesn't have time to study it by himself now. If he just controls the mithril pen to write on paper like manipulating the "ploughshare" and "flying sword", then it's better to just do it manually. It is convenient and fast!

In order to cope with the princess's inspection, Xia Duo temporarily slowed down his advanced plans and devoted more energy to the territory. In addition to patrolling everywhere on weekdays, he also personally led a team deep into the forest to clean up nearby creatures.

Of course, before going to bed at night, he will also use spells to continue to expand the "demonstration field". Regardless of the significance of the demonstration, this field is indeed a wheat field that can produce grain.

Right now is the tail end of autumn sowing, which is the last stubbornness of the summer heat. If the wheat seeds cannot be planted and germinated before the heat dissipates, it will be difficult for them to survive the whole winter.

It can even be said that if there is no spell to raise seedlings, no matter how many seeds are sown, there is a high probability that the final harvest will not have as many seeds!
……

On this day, Xia Duo had just seen the construction of the lord's villa, and came to the altar square. This is the largest brick consumption facility in the territory. At this moment, nearly half of the square has been paved with khaki bricks.

In the past, because it was a mud floor, even if the ground was a little uneven, it was not very conspicuous, but now that it is laid with neat bricks, the unevenness is highlighted.

Therefore, after the actual laying, Xia Duo will ask people to adjust it again. Up to now, the obvious protrusions have disappeared, but the overall ups and downs have become more obvious.

"The territory still lacks artisans!"

With a sigh in his heart, Xia Duo was about to go to the fields east of Linshui Village to have a look, but at this moment, Niya sent a message through Taling—the princess will arrive in a day or two!
It's "arrival", not "departure"!
However, in the magical world, departure is likely to mean arrival. After receiving the news, Xia Duo immediately became nervous. A grand arcanist really came to inspect!
I don't know if we should have a welcome ceremony or something?

However, thinking that his "Development Manual" hadn't been finished yet, Xia Duo immediately gave up the idea of ​​going to the fields in the east, and returned to the small tent to hurry up and write the manuscript.

As for the welcome ceremony, let’s forget it, mages are more pragmatic, no work, no matter how fancy they are, it’s useless.

……

The next afternoon, Xia Duo threw away the Mithril pen in his hand, shook his sore right hand, leaned back on the seat, and looked at the top of the small tent with a long sigh of relief:

"It's finally finished!"

Before, he only knew that the princess might come to visit before winter, and there was no exact arrival time, so he didn't need to hurry, and he could basically complete it easily.

But now that the time is suddenly drawn closer to his eyes, he can't help it.

Fortunately, the "Development Manual" has been completed, and the "demonstrations" outside are more meaningful than practical.

After resting for a while, Xia Duo walked out of the small tent. Before he had taken two steps, he suddenly noticed something, looked up to the east, and saw a gap in the sky.

There are traces of lightning flashing inside, and the gap is still expanding. Of course, as the gap widens, the traces of lightning also disappear, as if what Xia Duo saw just now was completely an illusion.

But the very obvious gap in the sky was not an illusion. He immediately realized that it was likely that the princess had arrived, and Xia Duo immediately sent a message to Layton, asking him to appease the people.

After that, he continued to send messages to the leaders of the various working groups and the small captain of the Territory Guard, asking them to appease their subordinates.

At the same time, he also checked his attire. The [Crimson Robe of Protection] is fine, and the [Pioneer Scepter] is fine. Arrived in the dimension bag.

Although he had expected the behavior of the great arcanist; even though the portable space was very secretive, Xia Duo still didn't want to use the portable space in front of them.

Not to mention anything else, the aura fluctuations when using the dimensional bag alone are difficult to disguise. In front of other mages, Xia Duo is sure to fool it, but in front of the great arcanist, it is better not to play tricks.

After transferring all the items that may be needed to the dimensional belt in advance, Xia Duo had time to observe the changes in the crack in the eastern sky.

It only took a few minutes from the time when the crack appeared to when the crack expanded into a circular channel like a flowing water curtain. Compared with Bishop Ambrill, it took a full morning to open the portal to the Shadow Plane.

It seems to cross the plane, but in fact the shadow plane is very closely related to the material plane, and it can only be opened with the help of the power of the Lord of Radiance.

And this portal is likely to connect Severton to Linshui Village. The distance that ordinary ships need to sail for several months has now become a step away.

The most important thing is that this kind of power is completely from the hands of humans. In other words, this is also the power that Xia Duo may master in the future.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo looked at the portal hanging in mid-air, his eyes were already full of anticipation.

"It's just that the portal has been opened, why didn't anyone come over?"

Through the portal that looked like a water curtain, Xia Duo could vaguely see the light and shadow fluctuations on the opposite side, like a human figure, but he was not sure.Compared with the portal when returning to the Tower of Time from the Arcane Union, this portal is obviously much blurred.

Of course, there is also the possibility of one-way visibility. Xia Duo remembers that there are techniques on how to see the opposite side through the portal in the Tower of Time, but this kind of knowledge is clearly classified as "not urgent, less important" category.

After a while, Leiden, who had calmed down the people, came to Xia Duo, "My lord, the people have started to work."

"Ah."

Xia Duo nodded. In fact, before today, he had imagined many situations, and the portal was of course one of them, but he really didn't expect it to appear in the sky.

A lot of related plans have been made, the most important one of which is-everything as usual.

(End of this chapter)