ARCHDEUS

FARMS & FURIOUS(2)

Rain can feel changes towards himself over time.  He never imagined that one day he would have the opportunity to get training to become a warrior, moreover this was not to become an ordinary warrior but to become a knight capable of using aura.

Although his training is strange, for example, he is currently ordered to work on land. Rain never felt that working the land could make him a knight but because of this the command was better to obey him.

After he finished, his master again ordered him to plant some seeds that looked very striking and strange.

"So you plant according to my instructions. that seed in the first row, for the next seed in the next row," said Alex.

"Master, so this seed will later become a magic plant that soldiers often use?" asked Rain curiously.

Alex shook his head first before giving an explanation.

"No, if you mean the plants used for healing potions or Spell Casting, the plants we grow still have not reached such a high level. It's still level E and D so most of them are just tertiary materials for industry as well as low-level medical."

Alex chose to buy 4 types of E level magic plants and 2 types of D level. Magic plant level E is:

Rage Hand is a magic plant that can be used to make buff drugs for soldiers.

Eucalyflos, a magic plant used to remove mouth odor and prevent cavities.

Primal Noc is a magic plant that is often used as an ingredient to cure diarrhea and mild curses.

Iceberg Grass is a plant that is often used for ice or water element type magic beast food.

The two D level plants are:

Bloody Mushroom is a plant that is often used for blood deficiency diseases and derivatives.

Nightmare Inferna is a plant that is often used to make paper as a low-level magic scroll.

While everyone was focusing on farming, Alex sat down while thinking about his next move. Actually as the figure of Archdeus, it was not difficult for Alex to take care of the magic plant. Moreover, his status as a noble child made him need not think about regarding the flow of capital at least for now. But what makes Alex fret is how he can maximize the profit from his plants.

All the plants Alex made were nothing special, all were very commonly marketed magic plants. So in such cases, the profit obtained will depend greatly on the equilibrium market price.

The market is probably stable at the moment. With high demand as it enters spring and farmers still in planting status, inflation rates tend to rise.  But in the future when the harvest season arrives, an explosion in the quantity of food goods or the harvest of magic commodities will cause a fall in prices.

Actually for some plants such as Primal Noc and Bloody Mushroom, the success to get customers is quite large considering the low sanitation in this world. But for plants like Iceberg Grass or Nightmare Inferna will be very troublesome. These two plants were materials in the magic industry so ideally the target market would be the magicians. If you look at the background of Alex who comes from the orthodox sword family, not to mention if you count Alex's relationships that are almost zero. Obviously Alex would be hard-pressed to get a buyer especially these two magic plants.

After they grow crops, Alex wants to mix all the ingredients that have been there.

There was one thing Alex forgot.

In making all these materials, it takes steps that require a magical approach. Alex can certainly do it but what Alex has to deal with is how does he explain to his subordinates the knowledge he has?

Moreover, Erline, the female knight assigned to guard him seemed to have long observed him.

Erline never spoke much while here, chances are he kept silent due to the annoyance of being reassigned to keep Alex.

Of course his frustration is quite reasonable. He was a graduate of the royal military academy, had the status of a knight and was always assigned to a spacious and luxurious mansion, as well as being, Now he had to go on duty to the countryside just to look after a young master who wanted to live as a farmer.

Moreover, Erline also wondered how this young master could plant a magic plant. His young master came from a family of swordsmen not sorcerers nor magic florists. So it was certain that his young master did not know at all how to plant a magic plant.

Alex made a decision, finally,

Forget it, it's better to stop.

Right, Alex chose to be a fool. Rather than having to explain at length the origin of his magic knowledge appeared and to dispel any suspicions it was better that he did not need to mix all these ingredients.

Just let the magic plant die and assume the first attempt at planting has failed.

There's still a price to pay for all this...

Huh ...my precious money should just disappear.

There is one thing Alex has forgotten.

How to explain where he knew the right material to plant this magic plant from?

***

Ravouille, Capital of the County of Otilia

A scorching day with the song of the birds and the cheers of the spirit of the soldiers colored the earth. This beautiful day is unfortunately a contradiction of the current state of the County of Otilia.

Eugenie de'Pauline Otilia, the current countess of the throne.

Unlike the ranks of the noble houses in the Kingdom of Archania, the county leader of Otilia adheres to the matrilineal system. In addition, the dynastic name of the County of Otilia or the house used is actually the name of the founding mater, the House of Firenzia. This was in contrast to other noble houses that gave their dynasties names by following the names of the regions they controlled.

This was the policy of the Main Dynasty, the Augustus Dynasty, which reigned on the throne of the monarchy. The goal was to create exclusivism in every noble house. So that ideally all noble houses would only control their initial land and not expand the territory or coup against the kingdom. But in reality, that doesn't help at all.

Fief war in fact is increasingly intense. The use of the name of the territory as a dynastic name, such as the House of Fertiphile and the House of Morhust, is nothing more than a mere tradition.

However a rather special condition prevailed in the County of Otilia.

As outlined earlier, the County of Otilia was the only territory controlled by a matriarch. So that if there is a change, call it an event that is even a trivial thing can turn into big news.

This is due to the misogynistic and patriarchal civilization of society. So if there is an incident call it like this:

BREAKING NEWS: THE COUNTESS OF OTILIA, MATRIARCH OF OTILIA, OFFICIALLY USED FLORENZIA HELENA DE'CHARLE AS THE NAME OF THE DYNASTY THAT REIGNED IN THE COUNTY OF OTILIA

There must be a lot of people who fire beards.

For example:

"Based on women, how dare you get out of the kitchen!"

"We are gods. Now women do not play their role to care for babies. It's a sign of the apocalypse!"

"What's? Matriarch of Otilia changed the name of her people following the name of the founder of their dynasty? Do they want to rival this great Augustus Dynasty?!"

Eugenie heard the dignitaries of his territory from military officials to civilians in the hall. But he didn't like the atmosphere in this room.

Everyone looks too apathetic.

Well, even though the county is ruled by a dynasty from the mother line but still 95% of its officials are men. In fact all the dynasties of the lower nobility of the viscount down were patrilineal dynasties.

In short the female supremacy of a matriarch was nothing more than a contradiction of all existing men.

They want this dynasty to fall!

Eugenie knew this but he could not act.

He can't do anything.

He also knew that every year his dynasty continued to weaken. Coupled with the interaction of people between regions has caused patriarchy which is the most common understanding for people to become increasingly common in the region of Otilia.

"Mrs Matriarch, we must immediately withdraw the soldiers from Lyouse City as soon as possible."

A military official with various badges on his chest spoke confidently and confidently.

Lyouse is a fortress city like Lenastronople. Although the city was not very strong, it was still an important defensive base.

"No way! What do you mean we should just hand over the city without a fight?"

Another military official denied.

"Not like that.  We're gonna do the scorched earth plan. It was the most ideal plan. With the number of soldiers from Prince Peter and the Canadians, this is far more than the number of soldiers we have. We have to reduce their numbers" the military official said.

The other party was silent and assumed that it was not a bad plan.

But besides that, no one disputes the plan anymore.

Eugenie is an eques who received his education from the Royal Military Academy. He knows military strategy.

Indeed, the plan to burn down the city is much easier but in reality, Lyouse City is on topography humus which is very suitable for agriculture.  Moreover, now it was not winter, it had now entered spring so even though the other party had failed to make an attack, they could still retreat easily and return to Lenastronople as soon as possible.

Eugenie was sure they deliberately wanted to make this region fall.

He also suspected that the casus belli was closely related to these people.

A sudden attack in winter. By attacking the city that had few warriors and it happened that Lambert was leading the region at that time.

Don't-don't!

Suddenly the door of the hall opened wide and a girl in a red dress stood in front of the door.