Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

Chapter 726: Chapter 415: Who Would Make Things Difficult for a Book? _1
 

Since they were not thieves, everyone straightforwardly went searching it up, and quickly found the planting sphere. On their way back, Negris had Ange leave behind a small bag of Elf Beans and murmured something so that a young believer could take them.

“Spread the truth, may the God of Knowledge bless you,” Negris muttered.

With the Elf Beans in hand, the young believer lowered his head reverently towards them in the darkness.

On their way back, Negris gloated: “I have the most, the most followers.”

Durken groaned in irritation, “Stop bragging.”

“Lalala, whatever, the stronger Ange gets, the better off I’ll be. Now, I’m just a naked spirit, it feels so wrong. What if we get into a fight and can’t win, and Ange’s body gets destroyed, and my consciousness goes back, what will we do?” Negris lamented.

Durken nodded, “Yes, I also need to find materials to transform this body’s heart into a Life Box, so I can resurrect in case anything happens.”

“Huh? You have a Life Box, what about me?” Negris said in jealousy.

“You can disguise yourself as a book. Who would ever suspect a book?” Durken suggested.

“… That does make a lot of sense,” Negris replied. “A shiny appearance looks quite expensive, it might even be auctioned and end up on a bookshelf. I can escape when no one’s looking.”

After discussing these life-saving strategies, Negris suddenly said: “I have a few more believers praying. I didn’t get it wrong about that little guy. After he received the Elf Beans, he didn’t hide them away, but shared them with everyone and told everyone that they were a gift from the God of Knowledge.”

“That’s pretty good, this way Adult gains a few more devout believers,” Durken opined.

Negris sighed after a moment of silence, “Though, I feel like my Magic Crystal Card money somehow ended up in someone else’s account.”

The Magic Crystal Card is a tab keeping card issued by the Magician’s Guild. With this card, one can deposit or withdraw Magic Crystals in any Magician’s Guild, which is suitable for major transactions.

For instance, it’s not practical to carry around dozens of large boxes filled with millions of Magic Crystals, especially if you’re robbed, it would be troublesome.

Of course, Ange had a huge bag and felt it wasn’t necessary to set up a card for his transactions. Otherwise, surely he would be the Magician Guild’s most honored…guest.

Once they returned to their stone chamber, they immediately began studying the planting sphere.

“Have you tried opening it?” Durken asked Ji Li.

She shook her head, “I don’t even know how.”

“Don’t you see this large energy circuit switch and its structure? Of course, you press here,” Durken stated, promptly pressing on it.

“I’ve tried that. No response,” Ji Li answered.

Well indeed, there was no response, and Durken embarrassingly answered, “It probably has no energy. From what I can see, this structure can use Crystal Stone and Magic Power. We will need to find some Crystal Stones.”

Ange stretched out his finger to press the planting sphere, and Magic Power flowed into it. The power transmitted from afar was greatly consumed so each time only about Level 1, but there was vast amounts of it.

The Level 1 magic power was injected twenty times per second and after three to four minutes, the planting sphere was successfully activated.

Ji Li was astounded as she stared at Ange, “Isn’t the Holy Spirit supposed to use the Power of Holy Light? Why is the magic power so formidable?”

“Of course, this is our Holy Magic Skeleton who specifically practices magic,” Durken casually fabricated the answer while pressing the start button.

But still, there was no reaction.

“Something’s not right. Why isn’t it responding? Did something break?” Durken began to inspect and dismantle the planting sphere, looking for damaged parts.

But after the whole planting sphere was broken down into parts, he inadvertently swore out, “Kvada! This is a semi-finished product. Your disgusting ex-boyfriend fooled you with an unfinished alchemical tool.”

Ji Li gave him a deadpan look, “You can drop the ‘ex’. Plus, he Nwasn’t my boyfriend. Please don’t spread rumors.”

“Your dead friend tricked you. This thing isn’t finished. The most crucial part is missing. Here, we need a triggering excitation structure here, otherwise, the core cannot be ‘expanded’. The best thing to create an excitation structure would be a branch of The World Tree,” Durken pointed out.

Ji Li laughed out loud when Durken mentioned the World Tree, “The World Tree? Are you buying into lies of the knight novels too? You’re a master alchemist! You can’t seriously…”

Before she could finish her sentence, Ange had already handed Durken a World Tree branch, the latter had been actually addressing Ange.

Durken received the World Tree branch and asked in confusion, “Is there no World Tree here?”

“You’re also from here, aren’t you? Don’t you know? You can’t possibly tell me that this rotten wood is a World Tree,” Ji Li queried.

“I’ve been asleep for too long, so I’m not certain. There’s no World Tree anymore, is there? Well, you’re lucky. You’re about to witness the powerful decomposition ability of a World Tree branch.”

Durken fashioned a triggering structure and, using the remaining materials, improved the glove’s decomposition function, boosting the alchemy glove’s decomposition ability up a few levels instantly.

Half-believing, Ji Li put on the gloves, poured in magic power, triggered ‘decomposition’, and then pointed her finger at a gold coin.

Moments later, the gold coin turned into two kinds of particles: golden ones and larger, grayish-black ones.

Ji Li gasped in surprise, this decomposition ability exceeded her imagination, now she believed that the piece of wood was indeed a branch of the World Tree.

Then she immediately reacted: “Swindler! My gold coins are filled with lead! Counterfeit money! Swindler!”

She swiftly took out all the gold coins from her body and decomposed them one by one. Without a doubt, all of them were counterfeit coins filled with lead. Ji Li weeped Despairingly: “Swindler… counterfeits… swindler… counterfeits… all my hard-earned money, it’s all gone!”

Durken asked puzzled: “Aren’t you an alchemist? Why are you so poor? What did you do before?”

Ji Li shyly replied: “I mainly turned sand into blue stone powder for dyeing clothes.”

Ange and Negris didn’t understand but Durken immediately cursed: “Swindler, you deserved this.”

Then he explained to everyone: “Dyeing with blue stone made from sand will fade very quickly. The clothes you bought won’t last for few days before the color fades. Swindler!”

Ji Li said indignantly, “I can’t do much else because my skill is so poor.”

“Humph, you now have an opportunity, I will teach you something. If you still engage in this kind of deception, I will turn you into a wooden person to avoid tarnishing my reputation as the King of Alchemy.” Durken said menacingly.

Ji Li shuddered and cried subconsciously: “Yes, teacher!”

“Uh, you are the King of alchemy? Then what is Lord Holy Spirit?” Ji Li thought of another thing, and asked weakly, now nominally Durken is Ange’s student.

“God of Alchemy.” Durken casually said, adding in his heart: The god of the King of Alchemy.

While speaking, Durken’s hand did not stop. He forcibly refined the half-finished planting ball.

Assembling it into a ball, Durken held it in his hand and said, “Well, it’s done. This planting ball seems to be specifically designed for the void. Because there is no gravity and no air, many supporting structures are very light, I modified it a bit.”

“Fortunately, it couldn’t be activated. If it had been activated and completed, the fragile support structure would be crushed by gravity instantly and couldn’t be repaired. Moreover, I strengthened the excitation structure and made it semi-submersible, with most of it underground, which can use the temperature of the soil to adjust the internal temperature.”

Ange tilted his head.

Durken quickly picked the most important point and said: “It is best to bury it before activating it.”

Ange nodded and took over the planting ball. According to Durken’s words, he found a vacant sand ground, buried the seed ball deep into the ground, and then activated it.

Boom! It was as if a massive creature had sneezed inside the sandy ground, a ‘fountain’ made of sand shot up into the sky and slowly spread across the sky, dusting everything with sand particles.

A semicircular “sand dune” rose from the ground. As we approached, we could see that it was a giant semi-transparent sphere half-buried in the ground.

At least two-thirds of its volume was buried in the ground, with only a small part exposed, forming a semi-circle, like an upside-down basin on the ground. The yellow sand fell on it, dyeing it dull yellow. From a distance, it looked like just another sand dune – not conspicuous at all.

But if you find the entrance and look inside, you will discover it is a huge space.

Ange glanced at it: “Fifty meters in diameter.”

“Fifty meters? How do you know? Did you measure it with the Ring of Balance? Can you use the Ring of Balance?” Negris asked, astonished.

Ange nodded.

“I see. The Ring of Balance can measure what you see, you look here, and the counterbalance measures there. It’s just a transfer of information, like counting from one place and calculating in another.” Negris thought for a moment and then guessed.

Along with this calculation: “The diameter is fifty meters, the volume is V equals 4πR^3 divided by 3, equals six hundred fifty-four thousand one hundred sixty-seven… @ #, the space is not small.”

“Not only the space, look at these racks, they can rotate. Each one has a groove where soil can be placed to plant things. There are capillary water supply pipes. As long as you pour water into the water tank, it can automatically absorb water into the groove and accurately maintain the soil moisture.”

“As for other designs, I don’t understand, Lord, you have to explore on your own.” Durken said.

Ange’s eyes gleamed and he nodded briskly.

Negris sighed: “This is the end. Now he is attracted by this thing. When will he be willing to go find Your Majesty?”

The huge rack was divided into several areas by Ange for easy comparison. He then moved soil and sand from the outside, mixed them with insect ash, and dripped the insect ash liquid into the water tank.

Because of the multilevel three-dimensional space, the planting area inside the sphere equaled tens of acres of land outside. Moreover, the temperature is adjustable – even in the desert night, it isn’t afraid of low-temperature damage such as frost.

Ange’s only regret is that he couldn’t use the Instant Death Halo to accelerate the growth of the crops. He has to figure out a way to bring the Instant Death Halo over.

When it comes to planting things, Ange’s initiative greatly increased, and he has begun to think of ways around this.

Just then, the night sky outside the planting ball suddenly lit up with fire. Ange ran out and saw a fiery red meteor slashing across the dark night sky and hitting the ground, splashing brilliant fire in all directions.

After a long while, a far-reaching ‘rumbling’ sound that had already weakened several times came, along with a gust of wind, which was a shock wave forming a wall of gas after weakening.

“Eighth-Level Magic, Meteorfall, that location, it should be Desert Town.” Negris said anxiously.