Chapter 237: Herb Village (2/2)

Their herb cultivation techniques and the maintenance techniques are not taught to anyone that easily and they would rather die than give that knowledge away if they are forced.

Right, now Sam is inside a field that is under the imperial authority and he is checking the boundaries of the field. Actually, the village is guarded because it is one of the important resources in the empire, but with the shadow mice as long as the person doesn't have a higher cultivation level than a Nascent, then they are safe.

The person who is in charge of this village's security is actually only a Nascent at the initial stage. So, this operation is as good as done.

At this moment, Watt and others are scouting some other areas of the land. The land is so vast that it is almost impossible for people to be at all places at every instant of time.

And this time is the shift changing time and along with the fact that there are no attacks for at least the past decade, they are extremely lax.

After scouting the area, the four of them left the field and went into the nearby forest to discuss.

Sam explained the plan and they are good to go at the night time, but there is a beast that has to do its job before they could proceed.

This beast was caught by Sam on his way here and it is an extremely versatile beast that can even survive in the territory of a Level 6 and Level 7 beasts because they are too troublesome to catch even if their residence is known.

This is a Drunken Mole. That is right, this is a mole and it is extremely good at digging in every direction.

It is extremely similar to a normal mole. The Drunken mole is only a given nickname given by humans due to its infatuation towards the wine. It likes to drink alcohol more than an alcoholic.

So, Sam caught it by baiting it with a huge vat of wine and when he showed the amount of wine, he can provide it directly obliged and made a contract with him.

That night, this Drunken mole which is named as the Drunkard is on tiresome duty.

It went deep into the ground with a Space jade collar to store away the earth it dugout.

The drunken mole actually lives alone unlike a general mole, and it makes its home by digging a huge way down underground and this process will be slow and it is not because of the digging speed rather the method it uses to throw away the earth. Far away from the hole.

Now, this problem is taken care of everything goes smoothly.

Sam noticed that the formations around the fields are not exactly complex and he knew the reason. They don't want to mess up the energy flow of the spiritual energy too much so that it wouldn't affect the herbs inside. And particularly the formations wouldn't cover the underground part of the field, which made it easier for the mole to do what it is best at.

After it dug the hole, it came back, and now it is the turn of the shadow mice and the Zoi termites.

The shadow mice made some small holes inside the large hole that the drunkard made so that the small lines will spread all over the field.

Then they took out glass bottles poured the fluid in the main hole and the liquid started spreading all over the field.

At this moment, a bullet was shot by Sam in the night and it created a nick in the formation, enough for the termites to enter the field.

The guards who are on guard are alerted by the bullet sound and made their way towards Sam's spot only to find nothing.

They were alerted and distracted with the small commotion and started searching for the intruder.

But what they didn't know is the termites that are slowly moving inside the formation are having a feat of their lives. The herbs are slowly withering.

”Is the liquid the same thing you used on the general?”

Philip asked Sam curiously.

”No.”

”What is the difference?”

”What I dropped under the field is the concentrated urine of the yellow-skinned monkeys. It has a corrosive effect on the vitality and it doesn't have much effect on the bodies of humans and other beasts. But for the plants, the constant or concentrated application will corrode them and this is due to some microorganism in the urine.

What I used, in general, is a cocktail of microorganisms from the feces of the Raccoon, mucus of the koala, and the urine of the monkeys.

Mucus has an ability to resist the attacks of the spiritual energy, the koalas will use this mucus to stop their predators from using the spiritual energy, and the bacteria in the feces has a high rate of reproduction while the effect of urine I already explained.

These three organisms will make it hard for them to heal because they are wounds or poison they are living beings and the vitality that the healers emit will be consumed by that cocktail and they will grow reducing the effect of healing on their host. The organs will slowly rot away by the long duration and the fast reproduction inside the host.

If the body is not disposed of properly, there is a chance it would spread, of course, that is on the premise the person who is touching lets his guard down and let the spiritual energy make way to the organisms without any resistance.”

”Doesn't that mean, given enough time, it can kill any person?”

”No, a healthy person might notice in the initial stages, that is my I made an attack on the general and used the poison as the distraction. With the burns and the poison, the general is in his weakest stage letting the cocktail grow.”

”Damn, it must suck so hard to be your enemy.”

”That is actually true.”