The Natural Empire of the Oceanic Dragon
#68 - The Way of Shadow
That night, the kobold leader brought his people to Great Horn Town and quickly separated the male and female kobolds according to instructions, working through the night!
All to avoid being abandoned by the Dragon Lord!
In just one night, the underground canal extended ten miles from the riverbank!
This construction speed made Atilan begin to forgive their indiscriminate killing.
Okay, the kobolds are still useful, at least they are indispensable for building karez wells.
To plant more food in the desert, water-retaining karez wells need to extend to both sides of the desert. Atilan even plans to put a lid on the end of the Southwest River!
At the end section, dig an underground canal to turn the Southwest River from an open river to an underground river, and at the same time connect this underground river to the karez wells extending into the desert.
During the excavation of the karez wells, some well openings will be opened to facilitate the transportation of the excavated soil. After the underground canal is connected to water, nearby residents can draw water through these well openings.
Or draw water from those limited river channels that turn into open rivers. Of course, these river channels will be covered with stone slabs to reduce water evaporation.
Lista was very puzzled as to why the kobolds, who were sleeping soundly, were suddenly summoned to start digging underground river channels.
"Dragon Lord, what happened?"
"The food is only enough to eat for a month. Tomorrow morning, have the minotaurs under your command speed up the reclamation of farmland. You minotaurs eat the most, so do the most work for me."
"If there is no wheat and black beans to eat, then carrots and those green grasses will become your staple food to get through this period of food shortage. Do you think everyone will have emotions?"
Lista snorted a puff of white smoke from his nostrils.
"Dragon Lord, you are too kind. In the past, we had to fight other tribes while hungry. Now that we have eaten fine grains for a while, we have forgotten our roots? If anyone has any complaints, Dragon Lord, just hand them over to me to teach them a lesson!"
"Moreover, I think eating carrots and green grass is good for the stupid minotaurs and centaurs. I have observed the diet of the forest centaurs, and their proportion of meat is actually very small."
"Their food is mainly black beans, wheat, mixed with forest fruits, nuts, and green grass such as alfalfa. Compared with the centaurs recruited by the Dragon Lord from the wilderness, they are much smarter."
Atilan raised his eyebrows. Indeed, compared to the forest centaurs, the wilderness centaurs are more barbaric and ignorant, not to mention they are also stupid!
"In addition to the Earth Totem War Dance designed for us by the Dragon Lord, I have found that continuous consumption of plant-based foods such as soybeans and alfalfa makes my brain clearer."
"I forced some weak minotaurs to eat only plant-based foods and found that they not only did not become weak, but became stronger. Most importantly, they became smarter and could understand my instructions."
Eating vegetarian food can also make minotaurs smarter, then he has more reason to promote a vegetarian diet among minotaurs and centaurs. After all, meat provides protein and fat, and beans can also provide these two nutrients.
Atilan still remembers that alfalfa can become the king of pasture precisely because alfalfa is rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals, which can meet the growth needs of livestock and poultry.
Minotaurs and centaurs are also cattle and horses, and it is appropriate to feed them with alfalfa.
Most importantly, even if the wilderness soil is barren, the yield of alfalfa per acre is over 3,000 catties, and it can be harvested three or four times a year.
The purple cloud clover that Atilan planted earliest has reached the harvest period, and the second batch of alfalfa planted is also about to mature.
"The purple cloud clover is ripe. After harvesting, give a part to the centaurs to feed the sheep, and the rest will be mixed with black beans to make a stew to test everyone's acceptance."
Lista nodded vigorously, clenched his fists, and said threateningly:
"Don't worry, leave it to me. Whether they like the taste of purple cloud clover stew or not, they must eat it all for me."
"Let Qinglin Town transport some fish and lizards to adjust the taste of the stew. Although we are short of food, we have not run out of food, so we don't have to be so frugal."
"Add meat to the minotaurs and centaurs, but not to the kobolds."
Lista didn't understand why the Dragon Lord had such a big opinion on the kobolds. These days, he directed the kobolds to dig soil and build city walls, dig soil to level farmland, build docks, and plant fruit trees on the mountains. No one disobeyed.
They are much more agile than the minotaurs and centaurs.
Clearly, the kobolds are hardworking and willing to endure hardship. Isn't it just that they are born a little more? Why does the Dragon Lord want to squeeze the kobolds so much?
After explaining the work arrangements for the minotaurs, the sky began to brighten. Atilan prepared to catch a few fish in the Southwest River for breakfast, and just happened to see a forest leopard galloping across the wilderness.
Isn't this the leopard woman!
Fortunately, Atilan reacted quickly and tilted his head back sharply, so he was not caught by the leopard woman's claws. Of course, he inevitably collided with the leopard woman.
One dragon and one leopard rolled several times in the wilderness before stopping.
"Atilan, what are you doing!"
Atilan stood up awkwardly and said with a smile:
"I just wanted to say hello to you. I didn't expect you to have such a strong perception, and you realized that there was danger approaching from behind. Your first reaction was to turn around and pounce."
"Shouldn't a normal person's reaction be to accelerate and pull away, and then turn around to observe what is trying to sneak attack you? You pounced so rashly, aren't you afraid of not being able to beat it?"
The leopard woman transformed back into human form and patted the dust and weeds off her body.
"What's the use of accelerating? It will only make the other party more vigilant. My master told me that if you only find out that the other party is close to your face, it means that the other party is stronger than you."
"Running away is the most wrong choice. Immediately turn around and fight the other party, and try to use the other party's lack of vigilance to counterattack and injure the other party for the first time, so that you can fight for a real escape opportunity."
It seems that this is indeed the case. It seems that I can't just say hello to people from behind in the future.
"Who told you to really sneak attack just now? It's not that you were lucky that you weren't injured, or that I'm a little too weak."
The leopard woman suddenly became frustrated and kicked a stalk of alfalfa by the roadside.
"Planting pasture! Planting pasture! When will there be an end to such days! Why hasn't my black panther started to transform? That way I can also try to transform into a shadow panther and raise my level to level 10."
"It's not bad to be an expert if I can't become a druid master in this life."
Seeing the leopard woman's pitiful appearance, Atilan thought that the leopard woman had helped plant pasture for so long, and it wouldn't be too much for him to help nourish the black panther as a reward.
Of course, he can't make it easy for the leopard woman either.
"I can help you nourish the black panther, but you also need to plant alfalfa, purple cloud clover, and wild pea in all the places in the wilderness that can be planted with pasture, okay?"
The listless leopard woman instantly perked up.
"No problem! Isn't it just planting pasture? I, Sandri, will fight it to the end!"
The energetic leopard woman turned her head and pointed at Atilan, asking:
"Then when are you going to nourish the black panther? You can't really wait until I really fill the wilderness with pasture before nourishing it, right?"
"I'll go tomorrow, okay?"
"Okay! I'm going to plant pasture!"
Sandri howled and turned into a forest leopard. Atilan felt that her speed was almost doubled.
He hasn't asked how many acres of pasture have been planted, but thinking about the role of these pastures is to fertilize the fields. After the pasture matures, he will also have the kobolds crush the pasture, press it into the soil, and wait for the pasture to decompose as nutrients for the soil.
There are exquisite houses built by fishman architects in both Great Horn Town and Earth Fort Town, and unwashed minotaurs and centaurs are prohibited from approaching them.
Traveling back and forth hundreds of kilometers every day, even iron men can't stand it. The leopard woman can only let Taishan and the others help keep an eye on the black panther's movements. If the black panther has any abnormal behavior, let the Eagle King immediately pick her up.
She herself will also go back once a week. Fortunately, the black panther has not made progress under the nourishment of shadow energy for a year or two. The root cause is that the black panther's own physique is not strong enough.
The black panther instinctively resists being further nourished by shadow energy. More shadow energy is not only useless to her, but may even take the black panther's life.
This is why the leopard woman hopes that Atilan will nourish the black panther with the water of life.
The leopard woman is not good at mobilizing natural magic to turn into life force to nourish animals. Even if she has been working hard to nourish the black panther, the black panther is still stuck at the last step of transforming into a shadow creature.
Atilan can only say that he knows a little more about nourishing life than the leopard woman. He relies more on the天赋能力 of the Ocean Yadra.
Atilan has always liked this little black panther. He originally planned to cultivate the black panther. The half-sheep people cannot take the path of shadow warriors, but there are still two little fishman apprentices.
The two little guys are quite promising. They are already level 1 wanderers. Atilan sent them to the rainforest to find out information. The snake people are the ones they picked up.
When the black panther transforms into a shadow panther, its intelligence will also be correspondingly improved. Atilan wants to try to see if he can let the black panther walk the path of shadow and become a shadow panther shadow warrior.
Even if the black panther cannot completely walk the path of shadow, at least the little fishmen who follow the black panther to study can have enough understanding of shadow energy, so that they can choose whether to transfer to trickster or shadow warrior in the future.
The leopard woman came back last night. Seeing that Atilan also brought two little fishmen, she asked curiously:
"What did you bring them here for?"
"They are wanderers, let them follow the black panther senior to learn."
The leopard woman couldn't help but laugh. When did the black panther become a senior?
"Don't you even want the black panther to teach them the way of shadow?"
Atilan said indifferently:
"What's impossible? Barbarians can practice under the guidance of animal spirits, why can't wanderers walk the path of shadow under the guidance of shadow panthers?"
The leopard woman blinked ignorantly. Why does she think what Atilan said makes sense?
The black panther walked to the little fishman and sniffed. Compared to the lively No. 1, he preferred the calm and composed No. 2.
"Let's start."
The leopard woman nodded and beckoned to the black panther.
"Black Panther, come and sit down."
A large mass of emerald green water of life was condensed by Atilan, slowly accommodating the black panther, and the stars and dots of fluorescent green vitality merged into the black panther's body.
Change is coming quietly.
There will be another chapter of 4,000 words in the evening.
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