Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 920 Planting Flowers and Vegetables to Build the Great Wall

No matter how much trouble Vera and "Master" have caused to the Time-Space Artifact... the activities of the undead in Calimshan are still unfolding normally.

They first cleared out the eastern side of the Alamer Mountains... This is mainly the work of the earth mages.

After all, after hundreds of huge Vulcan monsters ravaged, except for some relatively large metals and stones that remained on the ground, everything else could be said to have been burned.

On the ground, only the soil that has been burned by high temperature and has condensed into lumps is left, and there are cracks and gullies at the foot of the mountain... There are even some glass-like slags in some places, Hill guesses that it is because Karinshan's land is more seriously desertified, and it is close to the sea.

At the beginning, the earth mages just turned the soil 1 meter deep to the ground, but they soon found that the soil was useless... Not entirely because of the raging Vulcan monsters, but also because of the barren land of Calimshan. It matters a lot.

So they had no choice but to dig three meters below the ground. Only then did soil appear, instead of the waste soil that was two-thirds sand... But there was always fresh water flowing down Mount Alamer... more than ten kilometers away There is also a waterway from the lake of steam to the ocean.

Hill was a little surprised that the quality of the soil here was so poor... The Calimshan people probably never knew what it means to protect water and soil. It is estimated that they have been planting food here in the past, which is relatively labor-intensive, and they will give up when the crops are no longer harvested. This land, so there will be no nutrients in the soil within three meters of the ground.

The Vulcan does not do that much damage.

After the earth mage turned up the soil and the water mage let down a light rain that soaked the ground, Vera led the goblins out of the Huaguduo Hall and came to the foot of the mountain.

She waved her little flower stick, and used the innate abilities bestowed by nature with her followers... Surrounded by natural light, these flying elves turned into beautiful balls of light... Ali The land at the foot of Mill Mountain began to become fertile little by little.

No one can help them with this work, and the little goblins can only work hard for three days and three nights under the protection of the undead... It is because they are relatively large in number that they can transform such a large amount in such a short period of time. land.

The goblins have probably not done this kind of collective labor for tens of thousands of years... Queen Titania of the Happy Royal Court doesn't like hard work. She thinks the goblins are the ones who should be enjoyed by nature, so she bows her head to do the hard work It is better to leave this kind of thing to the inferior races of humans.

If Vera hadn't been imprisoned under the iceberg very early, her attitude towards Hill wouldn't be so good... Asking Hill to help her with work is what ordinary goblin nobles would do.

And under the powerful political skills of the Queen of Titania, no nobleman has the strength to lead so many goblins to do things... Nobles with such ruling power will either die or be abolished.

Vera never thought of staying with Hill completely at the beginning... She originally hoped to open a dimensional door on the floating castle leading to the House of Shades... But in the end she chose to settle in A Graia and even Auberon came along.

Although Hill didn't ask, he knew very well that there must be a lot of things... Even the upper elves like Vera and Oberon could choose to leave the eternal elf royal court and completely lose the Shade House to them. The blessing of... Hill's demiplane can have such a strong auxiliary ability, let alone a kingdom of God.

That queen's wrists are really strong... and it is true that she has no feelings for her husband and children.

Vera pinched her waist, stood in mid-air and looked at her results, showing a satisfied smile... She turned her head and looked at the Calishites who were hiding in the fortress to observe their actions, but had no intention of coming out to help , Changed his plan again.

These people aren't worth the good seeds she's spawning from Syl's seed sack... the common seeds the goblins bring from all over Toril will suffice!
Just as Vera was about to issue an order, she suddenly remembered Hill's words...don't blame those unlucky civilians for the stupidity of the Toril nobles...don't care even if they are a little stupid, they never have the right to choose their own lives.

This was why Vera was puzzled when she found out that Aglaia had taken in the refugees who escaped from Waterdeep and Neverwinter: Obviously Hill hated those two cities!
Although Vera still doesn't feel that human beings have anything worthy of her sympathy, she still changed her decision... Originally, she only planned to throw some wild flowers, weeds and even thorn seeds at random... She felt that the foot of the mountain was full of thorns , those in Calimshan who don't know how to respect nature at all will not be so easy to go up the mountain.

But after stopping to think for a while, Vera also understood that the people who were stopped by doing this were only those ordinary people who depended on the mountain to eat the mountain. Whether it was a real noble or a mage, they all had their own ways to clean up these thorns.

Now, although she still decided to plant thorns at the foot of the mountain, she also left a few roads up the mountain... and then planted bushes with edible fruits on the side of these roads, such as berries such as cloudberries, and then planted berries on these bushes. Some beacon trees and shadow crown trees are planted in the middle.

For commoners, these two kinds of trees are considered the most practical... The shadow crown tree grows very fast, soaring into the sky, it is very suitable for cooking. The shadow crown wood burns slowly and cleanly, and hardly produces smoke.After being ignited, it will burn more and more vigorously, and this kind of tree can be crushed with a little strength, and its fibers are very suitable for weaving ropes.

And beacon wood is a green waxy wood that emits greasy, choking black smoke when it burns, which can be used to light beacon fires... But most importantly, in Toril, the bark of this tree is often Used to craft low-level magic scrolls and books.

Vera turned her head and thought for a while, these things are not of high value to professionals... But to civilians, they are all the conditions for survival... Next to the sea, there are berries and fish, no matter what you can live down.

For the rest of the mountains, Vala decided to grow more thorns... She didn't need to think about the fields for the Calishites.

The Valar gave the Calishites a chance... as long as they came out to help when the Valar worked hard to reclaim the land: nothing they needed to do, but they had to show their sincerity.

Too bad these Calishites know nothing but peeping!If they can't even help each other, who would think about their future?

Queen Vera's kindness only goes so far... Hill has always only given those civilians or slaves who drifted with the crowd and could not control themselves a chance to survive, and never paid for food and shelter.

Queen Vera pouted, and made arrangements for her own decision... Planting flowers and grass, and planting trees and forests did not require much effort for the little elf, and it was almost done while chatting and laughing.

While the goblins were busy tending the land, the undead began to climb up the Alamer Mountains...and across the mountains was the only intact forest in Calimshan, the Forest of Mir.

But because of the chaotic rule of Calimshan, on the plain between the mountains and the forest, there are various fortresses, except for a city called Arivan... At the beginning, these fortresses were protected by the orcs who brought black terror. The integrity of Calimshan was destroyed, but now it is also because of these strongholds that the plain has been completely destroyed.

Ariven City has long been reduced to ruins. After all, most of the owners of those fortresses are fire elemental warlocks... The powerful fire spells used to deal with the orcs have now turned into raging flames burning on the elemental giants.

Life is always so impermanent... The only big city in Calimshan that still exists is the city of Mansaka, which is protected by the followers of Amaunata that flow down the River Calim.

In fact, the undead fleet passed by that coastal city... but no one left a look at the city that was waiting for the battle, and the city walls were filled with golden cannons. Well, this small city that seems to be covered with metal is not as attractive to them as Luskan... Anyway, the buildings there are very exotic.

What they are least interested in are high-rise buildings, not to mention the buildings in this city that Calimshan pushed to surpass Waterdeep City, they are only five stories high, and they are all row upon row, normal people would not be interested .

On the contrary, the people of Toril would still appreciate these rows of tall buildings with crystal windows... It's a pity that it is during the war, and Toril's caravans will just bypass the city unless someone Take a small boat to the Sea of ​​Glory to trade with these fleets.

Neither the Vulcan nor the Qishen are willing to go to the surface of the sea... Although Hill doesn't understand why the Qishen doesn't like water, he can only suspect that when they ruled in Calimshan thousands of years ago, they were attacked by the Lord of Storms. Talos' critical strike... The Lord of Destruction hates someone pretending to be the boss within his power.

Hill has read several books written by Talos believers... It is said that the Lord of Storms once fought against a group of huge vortexes of the air system ten thousand years ago. Of course, the Lord of Storms won a brilliant victory, and then he used some spoils Crafted a sub-artifact that can attract tornadoes.

Anyone who knows a little bit about qi and geeks can guess that their crystal nuclei are used.

Even Shar just let out a sneer when he saw the city wall: they all knew very well that the good old Akeber would never use lethal weapons.

Even his believers mainly use healing magic, and attack magic is basically only useful for the evil camp... Among the people in Mansaka this time, it is estimated that there are less than 100 true Akber believers.

What the undead are planning now is to transform the long top of the Alamer Mountains into a great city while the goblins are planting flowers and grass on the mountain little by little.

But Vera doesn't quite want to spend the money...

　The Shadowcrown Tree can be regarded as a towering giant in the national forest.The tree grows so rapidly (shadow canopy trees can grow nearly 2 feet a year if the climate is warm and humid enough) that some shadow canopy trees can reach heights of over 90 feet.A shadowcanopy tree that reaches 90 feet tall generally has a densely wrinkled trunk surface, and its huge trunk base will be 20 feet in diameter and wide.The shadow crown tree gets its name from the dense, pinnate clusters of leaves at its top.Shadow canopy leaves have ragged, finger-shaped edges, similar to oak leaves.The undersides of these leaves are bronzed throughout the year and the tops are dark green.In fall, these leaves will wither from the tops down to the roots.The foliage is densely distributed on the branches within the top 12 feet of the shadow canopy, and almost none of the foliage grows on the branches below this range.

　
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