Chapter 399: The poor state of the Sandy Town (1/2)
Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce
Leo and the others were toured around the entire Sandy Town by the enthusiastic Mayor Jong.
First, they visited the medium size farmland in the south. Just from the sky alone, they already saw the state of this farmland. The only word that can be used to describe the Sandy Town farmland was miserable.
Indeed, it was. Aside from a few greens that he can spot from a few tens or so of meters apart from each other, the other plants were practically wilted. Aside from that, the soil was showing an obvious sign of not being watered regularly as the grounds were already cracking due to the heat of the sun.
Though they could still see a few farmers from the Sand race were still trying their best to save this farmland, watering and putting some fertilizer on the plants.
But, even with that, when the time of harvest comes, he could already guess that they would only be able to harvest a few hundreds or so of what they have planted, which, considering the total numbers of inhabitants of the Sandy Town, is obviously not enough. No, it's very far from enough.
”This is the great farmland of the Sandy Town. This farm stretched for 10 kilometers, with tens of thousands of different plants that can grow in the desert planted yearly.” Mayor Jong introduces.
All of a sudden, Mayor Jong frown as he said, ”However, due to the war in Silver Kingdom, we were unable to buy enough supply of water for farming purposes and it is also impossible to hire some Mages who are good at using Water Element Magic spells since all of the Mages in Silver Kingdom are either busy fighting or evacuating,” He paused to heave a long sigh and he continued, ”To temporarily fix this problem, we can only order a few of our Mages to be in-charged of watering the farmland, which in turn, decreases our soldiers guarding the wall and causing a few blindspots where Magical Beast could exploit and hence they could secretly launch an attack inside of the Sandy Town.”
”We have already lost a few hundreds of people because of that. And if this continues on, we will surely be forced to abandon the Sandy Town and look for a better place.” Mayor Jong shook his head helplessly.
”Aren't the Sand race supposedly good in any desert environment? It was even stated in the book that if a team has someone from the Sand race with them, then exploring the desert wouldn't be a problem as they could easily find water underground.” Leo can't help himself from asking.
Just like what the Sand race name implies, they were people that are experts when it comes to dessert. In fact, the majority of their people even live in deserts.
So, he was really curious as to how was the Sand race in the Sandy Town not able to do what they were said to be experts at.
”In the past, the Sandy Town had a bountiful supply of water as we have three underground rivers connected to our wells. But, as time goes on, the water of the river started decreasing and decreasing. From three rivers to two rivers, and then from two rivers to only one river. Until finally, those three rivers were emptied,” Mayor Jong explained, ”We tried looking for more water sources, but aside from some small caves with a few barrels worth of water inside, we were unable to find any more underground rivers.”
”Apparently, there were actually only three rivers nearby us to be found and nothing more.” Mayor Jong pointed at the north as he continued, ”Our river came from that direction. So, we tried sending a few Mages through the underground river, hoping that we can find another source.”
”What we found though was something very shocking,” Mayor Jong's face turned solemn, ”Out of the twenty people we have sent, specifically ten 3 Star Magical Knights and ten 4 Star Mages, only two people were able to return bearing with them a shocking discovery.”
”The exact reason why the three rivers connected to our wells stopped supplying us the water wasn't because there was no longer any water, but rather it was actually because they have become a nest of Sandstone Mother Spider.”
Leo and everyone's face darken the moment Mayor Jong mentioned the name Sandstone Mother Spider.
In the Magical Beast Spider species, the spiders are separated into different types. The ordinary Magical Beast Spiders, which are those in the No Star to 2 Star. Soldier Spiders, which are those in the 3 Star to 4 Star. Knight Spiders, which are those in the 5 Star to 7 Star. Mother Spiders, which are those in the 8 Star to 9 Star. And Lord Spiders, which are those that had broken through to Galaxy level.