Chapter 2313: Drawing them in (1)
"How’s it going?"
As the old farmers asked this, they didn’t waste any time looking at the fields that I had been working on.
It was as if they already couldn’t wait to start planting in this place.
Though it wasn’t as if they didn’t have a reason for this.
During the time that I’ve been here, I already reclaimed quite a bit of farmland.
As more and more farmland was being reclaimed and more resources were being brought in, it was even easier for me to reclaim the land. The only real thing that was needed was time, but it was easy with the stopwatch.
The hardest part of all of this was hiding the existence of the stopwatch and using it while making sure that no one found out.
This was made even harder by the fact that they kept following me around.
It wasn’t that they were suspicious of me, it was that they had accepted me as one of their own and kept trying to get me to join them for events.
The worst part of it all was that they were trying to introduce me to their grandchildren...
Since I was a specialist that had been sent by the capital to help reclaim the land, it was only natural that they would think that I had a high position in the capital. But that alone wasn’t the only reason that they were trying to introduce me to their grandchildren.
The other part of it was that they were truly grateful to me.
As part of the disguise that I had was to hide the fact that I was married, they thought that they would help me out since I was still single.
It didn’t help that my disguise was also handsome.
But I still made it work since I was able to sneak away most of the time and use the stopwatch. Even if they were watching, I had figured out a way to hide the effects of the stopwatch.
It turned out that with my divine energy, I was actually able to control the size of the time controlling effects. So I was able to lower it so that it only affected the ground around me without affecting anything above the ground.
Only when they looked at the ground like this, I wasn’t able to keep it going.
Since these old folks were touching the ground and even tasting the dirt, it would be dangerous to keep using the time accelerating power. Or else I might actually kill some of these old people.
They were already near the end of their life, it really would be hard to explain if they suddenly started aging even more.
But it was clear that they were very satisfied with the land that they were looking at.
"It seems like we’ll be busy for the next few days." All of the old farmers happily said this even though it meant that there was hard backbreaking work waiting for them.
After all, none of them were actually afraid of this work since it was work to reclaim the land that they once called their home. For them, this was something that was very meaningful and had value.
So they were ready to work hard to plant everything.
Of course, it was hard work since it was much more land than before that had been reclaimed.
The one thing that I found was that as time passed, there was more and more healthy dirt to help me reclaim the land.
At the same time, I discovered that by flattening the space of control released by the stopwatch, I was also able to increase the size of that space. That meant that I was able to reclaim even more land at the same time.
It really seemed like it was only a matter of time before we completely reclaimed this entire area.
There were even talks about building a village in this place once more.
Of course, that was something that required more time before it could be done.
However, news about this place had also reached the racial alliance and they were getting ready to send people to inspect this place. It wasn’t just the Kite Kingdom that had been affected by the corruption energy waves after all.
There was a lot of land that needed to be reclaimed from the effects of the corruption energy, so there were a lot of people that wanted this method.
But the prime minister made sure to stall them until I was done here.
On the surface, the excuse was that we still hadn’t finished reclaiming the land after all.
Still, it was very good news for the racial alliance.
"Ah! There are monsters attacking!"
When I was about to help the old farmers with planting their crops, we suddenly heard this cry in the distance.
The moment that this cry rang out, there were soldiers that came over to help protect the old farmers. They were farmers, they weren’t fighters, so there had been protection that had been sent.
But in this case, the prime minister had sent over extra people because they were old farmers. He really did handle these matters properly that one couldn’t say anything about how he handled it.
However, instead of remaining with the old farmers, I went to see what had attacked this place.
It was surprising that anything would want to attack this place since it was a place that was devoid of life. Even if we were reclaiming the land, it wasn’t as if this place was suddenly filled with life.
It would still take a while before there was anything worth attacking that appeared in this place.
When I came closer, I found that there was a strange aura that was coming from in front of me. At the same time, I could tell that this was a familiar aura.
Then I saw some familiar things appear in front of me, these things were the monsters that were currently fighting the guards that came along with us.
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