Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Shortly after sending away the dwarves and elves, Harvey received the long-awaited "Magic Network Express Package".

This was a batch of rare seeds that he had ordered from the United Import and Export Company in advance before the Life Stone manufacturing plan.

When Harvey and his guards arrived at the botanical garden, Egno had already led the elf apprentices and researchers and began busy moving the seed bags that had just arrived.

The Life Stone is currently named "Harvest No. 1" and is fixed in the pharmacy laboratory of the botanical garden. Its magical growth-promoting ability and controllable characteristics make Egno simply unable to stop. He relies on it almost day and night to complete many experimental projects that have been blocked before. Now that he has the two major magic experimental artifacts of "catalysis" and "reduction" in his hands, he can finally display his talents and ambitions in magical botany and biology like Chris.

Seeing Harvey appear, Egno immediately put down what he was doing, stepped forward and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, the seeds have all been delivered. We compared them one by one with the list we gave them earlier, and basically nothing was missed."

The seed list was compiled in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture. Harvey was not involved at the time. "Oh? They actually found all the seeds? What seeds did they send over?"

Egno did not have the common cleanliness obsession of the elves. He rubbed his hands, squatted down, untied the sack of seeds, grabbed a handful of yellow grains from it, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, look, this is a specialty crop that can only be found in Breath of the Hills. The dwarves call it wheat."

Harvey nodded, picked up a seed from his hand with a complicated look, and sighed in his heart... Isn't this the corn that he was most familiar with in his previous life...

The yield of corn should have been much higher than that of wheat, but the dwarves obviously did not know how to fertilize and breed, so the corn kernels did not look big and full enough, and even looked a little shriveled due to improper storage. Harvey could even imagine the scene of sparse growth of corn grains on the corn cob. No wonder it has not been successfully popularized in the human kingdom.

But now that we have the Stone of Life, the situation is different. As long as the corn seeds can be successfully transformed into cold-resistant crops, combined with its original advantages of fast growth and low soil requirements, it may soon replace the enchanted wheat seeds and become the main food crop in the northern border area.

Seeing Harvey lost in thought, Egno quickly untied another sack and took out a fist-sized oval root crop from it. "Your Majesty, this should look familiar to you. The wild cassava that can be found everywhere in the wilderness is of the same family as it, but it is called sweet potato."

Harvey hummed and raised his hand to take it... It was a combination of sweet potato and taro, but the size was really small, and each one looked as if it was malnourished. It was a very common wild plant along the southern coast, but only in times of famine and war would people choose to pick, dig and eat them.

After all, compared to mature potatoes, this thing is slightly inferior in taste and satiety... But its advantages are equally remarkable. It is not picky about soil, is drought-resistant and cold-resistant, and can be used as a supplementary option for crop planting in mountainous areas. It does not have any special economic value.

Before Egno could continue to introduce the soybeans to him, Harvey suddenly spotted an opened sack filled with round grains. He rushed over and grabbed a handful, and asked in surprise, "Did they get soybeans too?"

Egno nodded. "Your Majesty actually knows its name. However, people in the West prefer to call it wheat beans. Not many people grow it... This thing cannot be ground and roasted like wheat. Eating too much will cause diarrhea or even poisoning..."

Harvey smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that it was because soybeans contained saponins. It seemed that the people in this world really would not enjoy this high-quality crop rich in high protein. All grain crops were regulated by the criteria of whether they could be ground into powder and baked. It was no wonder that severe famine would break out when natural disasters or wars occurred.

Soybeans can not only be grown on a large scale as an oil crop, but they are also a high-quality food ingredient rich in plant protein. Various processed soy products that do not require fermentation, such as tofu, bean sprouts, soy milk, etc., have very high nutritional value. After fermentation, they can also be made into delicious condiments such as various sauces and soy sauce.

The soybean meal left after oil extraction is also a high-quality livestock feed and can be widely used in livestock farming. Compared with the past practice of feeding herds with old wheat, the cost is saved many times more.

Of course, this wild bean seed also needs to be catalyzed and transformed by the Stone of Life so that it can become a highly cold-resistant food crop like wheat and cassava.

The crop seeds brought back from the South, just the corn and soybeans, were enough to satisfy Harvey. These could be transformed and quickly put into the land for large-scale planting, and would yield considerable results by next autumn at the latest.

"Are there any other crop seeds?" Harvey smiled bitterly as he watched Egnoton rummaging through the sacks. "If it's not a high-yield crop that can be grown on a large scale like corn and soybeans, there's no need to put too much effort into transforming it. Just keep a few samples in the botanical garden."

Harvey even saw the elf apprentices digging out a bundle of wild grape vines, and even some naturally light brown cotton fruits, a new variety of tobacco leaves that were a specialty of the Western Territory... and some that looked similar to the peppers in his previous life. When he took a bite with surprise, he found that it had the same flavor and texture as tomatoes, so Harvey tearfully named it chili pepper.

“Let the researchers and apprentices record and organize the planting methods and growth characteristics of each crop as soon as possible.”

"Mainly corn and soybeans, these two crops. We will continue to ask the United Import and Export Company to send us the seeds they have collected, and then transform them into cold-resistant crops as soon as possible. We will ask the Ministry of Agriculture to allocate a separate experimental field and see the results after sowing them."

Egno held the book in his hand and personally recorded Harvey's instructions. He asked in confusion, "Your Majesty, is the Stone of Life...only used to catalyze and transform grains? Will it..."

Wouldn't it be a bit of a waste? If such a magical growth-promoting device is used to catalyze the rapid growth of those rare potion plants, not only the territory's medical hospital and potion research institute, but also high-end research departments such as the Academy of Magical Sciences and the Alchemy Laboratory will benefit greatly.

Harvey certainly understood Egno's intention. He sighed and patted his shoulder. "I plan to use the first Life Stone only to catalyze ordinary crops. After all, food is the foundation of our development... But don't be discouraged. The elves and dwarves now know that we have mastered the technology to control the Life Stone. If they want to exchange this technology from us...then they have to continuously provide us with the raw materials for making Life Stones - golden tree hearts and earth crystal cores."

As long as the core technology is in his own hands, Harvey is not worried at all that the development of the research department will be restricted.