Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang

"It's true! The green locusts turned into swarming locusts!"

"But... nothing even happened! How could green locusts suddenly become swarming locusts!?"

"What sort of sorcery is this? We need to look at the others inside—huuuaaagh!"

Mandok Shingun let out a startled cry after peeking into the mosquito-net enclosure Yo-hwa had made. Elder Geolhwang and Hwa-eun also bent down to look and came away with stunned expressions.

After all, we had only placed green locusts inside yesterday.

"You didn’t... cast some secret technique overnight, did you?"

"No, I didn’t do anything. I simply left them as they were."

"Wait, could it have been that powder you sprinkled on the grass yesterday?"

"Yes! That powder!"

They even remembered the fine dust I had sprinkled the day before.

But no—that powder merely accelerated their transformation. It didn’t cause it.

"That powder just shortened the time it takes for them to change. It didn’t turn them into swarming locusts."