222 Lucien’s Wish (2/2)

A streak of green light came out from Iristine and the light covered the land. Soon, seedlings grew out from the just seeded oats. As the prince and the princess took turns to cast Harvest Spring for two rounds, within ten minutes, the oats on this piece of land had a really good harvest!

For apprentice druids, they needed to cast their apprentice-level spell for at least a month to achieve something like this.

”Mr. Tyrel and Mr. Urine, please measure the amount of elements contained in the soil now,” said Lucien. As the leader of the experiment group, Lucien didn't need to do the work himself.

Watching Tyrel and Urine being busy with measuring the soil, Iristine said in a slightly confused way, ”I understand that human beings need to hunt animals to feed themselves, but what I don’t understand is, now that you people know how to grow grains and vegetables, why human beings are still killing animals for their meat? And in many cases human beings are killing animals not to feed, but just for fun, which is such a horrible thing to do.”

Seeing that Lucien did not respond, she said to him seriously, ”Mr. Evans, you’ve got enough money to buy bread, vegetables and fruits, so why do you still want to eat meat? So many animals could have survived if more people refused to eat meat.”

Lucien answered casually, ”Firstly, human beings and elves are physically different. We need meat. Secondly, if there are any animals dying out, please tell me, and I’ll try my best to protect the species. Thirdly, most animals we’re eating right now are from farms, not the wild. We raise them in order to eat them.”

Iristine was not really following Lucien, but she knew that there was just no chance for her to change this arcanist’s mind.

”You human beings just won’t give up your desires,” she said.

Lucien did not fight back, but stared at the good oats in front of him. As so many people in this world were still starving, Lucien believed that surviving and growing was their current priority.

Lucien had a pretty good impression of Malfurion, the druid's grand elder. In Lucien’s mind, Malfurion’s effort toward increasing the production of crops was definitely admirable, which was just like how the Church overthrew the ancient magic empire which slaved people back in the days.

Even though Lucien was very careful with his every step and always wanted to protect himself first, he still wanted to make a contribution to Malfurion’s great work to save more people in this world.

Moreover, when more underclass people could benefit from the power of magic, the ruling of the Church would be shaken for sure, which in turn was good for sorcerers themselves as well.

Since Lucien arrived in this world, he experienced all kinds of inconvenience in his life here compared to his original modernized lifestyle. If he was capable, of course Lucien would like to advance the development of human society here.

”Mr. Evans, there is less nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the soil,” Tyrel and Urine reported.

Lucien came back to reality from his ambitious wishes and then nodded. ”Then, we gather materials which contain those elements for further alchemical product design and the simplification of the magic structures. What we also need to do is to divide this field into sections, so we can look at how those elements make a difference to the crops.”

The other groups were doing the same thing now. Lucien wondered who could first figure out the secret of fertilizers.

Making basic fertilizers was simple. Treating phosphorite with sulfuric acid could do the job, and the congress was already capable of producing sulfuric acid in a steady volume with magic circles. However, it was not easy to understand why sulfuric acid plus phosphorite could work here. Without theoretical support, Lucien did not think that they could achieve a significant progress any time soon.

There were still other ways to improve yield in crops, such as irrigation system and cross-breeding. However, the former was already on the Congress’ agenda, while the knowledge involved to produce cross-breedings was still very challenging to Lucien. Furthermore, he was also not sure whether cross-breeding technique worked the same here in this world where magic plants and creatures also existed. Much more work needed to be done in this field.

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The Bright Hall in Lance, the Holy City.

A knight in a whole set of silvery-white armour was kneeling on one knee, ”Your Holiness, the Congress of Magic is right now attempting to intrude on the realms of God, reaching their filthy hands to the holy truth of the world. So hereby I venture to make the request: we shall start the Second War of Dawn! We shall declare a full-scale war against the Congress of Magic!”