The natural empire of ocean dragons

Chapter 22 Dark Night Stars

I followed the two murloc warriors for thirty kilometers in a straight line, not far from the place where Attilan usually absorbs water elements. With the challenge level of the nearby beasts, the murlocs were simply serving food here.

The fishmen have been able to use cost-effective, environmentally friendly, low-energy consumables for twenty years, but the old fishman ordered them to go to such a dangerous place to collect river mussels. How much food can the lost labor value of a dead fishman buy?

In addition to wheat flour, the satyrs brought back wheat seeds from this transaction.

Attilan planned to open up farmland to grow wheat in the wilderness south of the forest. In fact, the yield of rice would be doubled if it was planted on land close to lakes and rich in water resources.

But it is a pity that the satyrs have not found rice seeds, and have never even heard of rice as a food. It is estimated that there is no rice in the entire continent, and even the wild rice straw before the domestication of rice has not been found.

Some of the precursors of millet, foxtail grass, have been discovered.

Rather than taming foxtail grass, Attilan could optimize existing wheat seeds.

Optimizing seeds is a long process. If you cannot increase the yield per mu, you can only increase the number of acres of land. As long as two hundred acres of land are opened in the wilderness, even if the yield planted by the fishmen is only half of that of the halflings.

In addition to feeding the existing murlocs, there is still something left over.

The problem is that there are many races in the wilderness that make a living by plundering. For example, many of the people who help Attilan transport food are plundering and being robbed.

The most common race in the wilderness is gnolls, followed by centaurs and tauren. There are also other races living sporadically, but they are not as numerous as the above three.

Jackals don't like to eat food, but centaurs and tauren don't mind. The two hundred acres of wheat grown by the fishmen is simply a gift from heaven to them.

People and horses came and went like wind in the wilderness to collect information about the plunder targets. Two hundred acres of land was not a small amount. Coupled with the ditches needed for irrigation, the investment in this project was huge.

Attilan doesn’t want to lose money!

The habitat of the river clam and the big black snake has arrived. It seems that the river clam and the big black snake are not good. The big black snake has been swimming around just because he wants to eat the river mussel meat!

A group of small fish were driven by the big black snake to the river mussel. When the river mussel opened its shell to catch fish, the big black snake shot out like a sharp arrow, trying to kill the defenseless river mussel.

Fortunately, the river clam closed its shell in time, allowing the big black snake to bump into the shell.

River mussels are too big to feed themselves by eating plankton and algae, so they must attack small fish.

Over the years, the river clam has become a magical creature by absorbing water elements. It is much more attractive than ordinary creatures. No wonder the big black snake has been unwilling to give up for a long time.

The big black snake took a fancy to mussel meat, and Attilan also took a fancy to snake meat.

A ghost maneuvered Attilan around behind the big black snake. The big black snake was still coveting river clams. The greed for food made the big black snake lose its caution.

He has been entangled with the river mussel for a long time. The river mussel has no lethality to him. The clam shells will not kill him, but will give him the opportunity to bite the mussel meat and inject poison.

The big black snake was concentrating on looking for an opportunity to inject poison. Attilan rushed out from the darkness and gave the big black snake a hard hit on the head with his claws, knocking him out.

He pulled out the venomous fangs of the black snake, turned to the fish man and said:

"Move up the river clam and go back with me."

The four murlocs cut off the water plants and tied up the river clams, then dragged the river clams and followed Attilan back to Qinglin Town.

Attilan did not kill the big black snake directly, because it was a magical snake and could be used to practice magical cooking skills. Once the magical beast died, part of the magic in the body would dissipate.

There are some techniques in magic cooking, which describe how to handle magic ingredients to reduce loss.

Of course, killing the magical beast and eating it quickly will not lose much magic power, but the nourishing effect is definitely not as good as making it into magical food, so Attilan only knocked out the big black snake first.

In order to safely return the clam to the clam field, Attilan had no choice but to accommodate the fishman's speed, and hit the big black snake's head several times in the process before returning to Green Scale Town.

"Mepp, look what good things I brought back!"

Looking at this three-meter-long black snake, the satyr could not conceal his inner excitement as he stroked its smooth scales.

<divclass="contentadv">"Magic Black Snake, good stuff, what are you going to do?"

"Of course it's for making soup. I specially brought back lake water rich in water elements from deeper in the lake. Have you finished the kitchen utensils I asked you to make?"

In order to retain the magic power of the ingredients to the maximum extent, magic cooking requires the use of special kitchen utensils treated with magic.

The satyr sighed:

"I used up all my magic power and only made a few pottery pots, which are perfect for making soup. We can try a few different recipes."

Magic cooking is actually similar to brewing magic potion.

The satyr prepared the snake meat and put it evenly into clay pots, adding only lake water and snake meat, adding honey, adding fungus and mushrooms, and finally adding all the suitable ingredients that could be found and stewed it into a big stew.

The magic snake dish was ready, and Attilan finally had time to focus on the big river mussels. At this time, the river mussels had been placed in a separate mussel field.

The old fish man looked at the river clams on the shore with some worry.

"what happened?"

"Dragon Master, I feel that such a big river clam must not be raised to death. I am just thinking about how to provide it with the most comfortable environment."

Attilan nodded and said with a smile:

"I'm a Druid, leave it to me."

Druids have the ability to communicate with animals. If ordinary river clams are unable to communicate, such a big river clam should already have some ignorant consciousness, otherwise the big black snake would have succeeded.

Being suddenly transferred to a strange environment and the water was still shallow made the river mussel feel insecure and panicked inside.

Attilan released gleaming green light to appease the river clam, and told it through the animal communication spell that it could stay here peacefully, that someone would provide it with food, and that it only needed to cultivate pearls.

Release goodwill to calm down the river clams. Attilan only wants pearls and does not intend to eat clam meat, and he also supports painless pearl retrieval.

When the river clam learned what a pearl was, the river clam was a little excited. It hoped that Attilan could help it take away the pearl in its body.

The process of cultivating pearls is not pleasant for river mussels, but river mussels cannot remove the impurities embedded in their bodies by themselves. They can only secrete a substance to wrap the impurities, and finally a pearl is formed.

In fact, pearls are clam stones!

Under Attilan's comfort, the clam slowly opened its shell and quickly locked the position of the pearl. With a slight hook of its claws, the clam did not feel much pain, and a dark pearl fell into Attilan's hand. .

"Perfect, so perfect!"

A pearl with a diameter of five centimeters, the dark surface shines with dots of blue light under the sunlight.

"Dark Night Stars! This name is a perfect match!"

Attilan stuffed another grain of sand into the clam shell before it closed.

This time it was not embedded in the mussel's flesh. Attilan taught the mussel how to secrete nacre to wrap the sand and guide the water element to wash away the pearl.

The next time the pearls produced by the river mussels will be more round and more magical.

Looking at the dark night star in Attilan's hand, everyone held their breath because it was so beautiful and the light was breathtaking.

Because of this, Attilan realized that the river clam was not ordinary, it was a mirage with the ability to perform illusions!