Chapter 50: House Of Dravion
Kaelor walked across the gently ridged fields already tilled and darkened in preparation for wheat sowing. The air carried the earthy scent of upturned soil.
Around him, the sacks of wheat, tightly packed and sun-warmed had already been brought over by a few of the men. Nearby, the women were working diligently, their hands brushing across the soil as they marked rows and prepared tools.
But the moment Kaelor appeared, with Vi walking just behind him, the famed beauty whose name often drifted between lips in whispered gossip, every hand stilled. The rustling ceased. All eyes turned. Silence, sudden and reverent, swept over the field.
Kaelor crouched beside one of the sacks and dipped his fingers into the grains, letting a handful slip slowly between them. The grains fell in a dry, whispery stream back into the sack, but his mind was already elsewhere, calculating and imagining.
He already had plans to sell the coveted Starlight Rice to the Golden Scales Merchant Guild. But if he could now produce a special wheat as well, something rarer... something unmatched...
People from far and wide would flock here, abandoning their own wheat for his. He could feel it.
"System," he said, voice low and purposeful, "fuse a hundred wheat seeds."
[Cost: 5 FP!]
"Go ahead. Fuse it."
A faint blue glow shimmered in the air for a few seconds as the fusion process began. When the light subsided, Kaelor stared at what lay in his palm, a single seed, radiant and golden. It gleamed like a gold coin freshly minted, as if a sliver of the sun had embedded itself into the kernel.
[You have successfully created the Eonwheat.
A rare kind of wheat that draws ambient mana from its surroundings to nourish the land, transforming entire stretches of earth into fertile, loamy soil. Once consumed, it restores stamina and enhances mana perception temporarily. Long-term consumption improves fertility. Eonwheat glows faintly beneath moonlight and reaches full maturity in just three weeks!]