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Reaching the farm, they lend a hand right away. Getting dirty along with the miners and farmers while pus.h.i.+ng ignite stones on the cave ceiling ranging from twelve to twenty feet above their head. Although Mogranius could reach the farest points through flying, Eric helping as well showed solitude with his people. Instead of just looking at workers as peasants and his royal highness never bending down work, he got dirty along with them.

While they were in the cave, they noticed right away that it was easier to breathe in now.

With tens of holes on both sides of the cave, breathing in fresh air became good for everyone. For the farm, farmers and also the rest of the town. Air can flow easily all the way down.

"Stefan"s ideas are genius. If Gaster Kingdom is to thrive, you should appoint him as the King there."

Said Commander Alia.

"Oh i will for sure. The little man showed King worthy bravery this week as well."

Replied Eric with a slightly proud tone.

Stefan seemed to be ignoring the world around him and thinking again. As usual. Basically tuning out whatever they both said.

"Well it looks like he is on his own world for now."

Said Eric and asked

"At my farm, we usually harvested the crops at month nine of every year. It"s been six days since that month started. How many months are there left for all of the crops to grow here?"

"Our civilization was out of touch from the outside world for thousands of years yet we still have names for the month instead of just using numbers to describe them. Fascinating."

Said Commander Alia in slight sarcasm and continued

"However. The month that roughly translates too "Rich month" is about twenty days away. This month is the longest one of the year here in ignis and it is proudly holding its name.

"But from the looks of it, we will be lucky if even with all these improvements the crops grow in time for the rich month."

Said Eric.

A couple of hours pa.s.sed, and with all the effort of the farmers, the miners, the Gang and Commander Alia put in, they were done.

The Farm was s.h.i.+ning in a purple manner, providing light for all the crops and the light each ignite gem provided was reaching fifty meters far yet the glow was to gentle on the eyes. It didn"t even force anyone to blink.

The head miner approached Commander Alia and informed her of the results.

With great manners and discipline he explained everything in detail, without paper he seemed to have memorized it all.

After explaining it all, he returned back to his duties.

Commander Alia turned to the gang and said

"Well things turned to the best at last."

"Do tell."

"At last?"

"We still have much to do."

These sentences were heard from the group one by one.

And Commander Alia replied

"Well to start with, the Ignite gem barricade in the mine is no more. The miners broke through every gem deposit there is.

Which of course means the miners can continue mining out iron ores. We only have enough Ore and Ingots to forge full body armour for roughly twenty men. We need all the ores we can get."

"So you are telling us bad news wrapped with good news. Perfection."

Said Mogranius in obvious sarcasm.

"Well at least i have good news to tell. I still can"t figure out how two all powerful Fire Wizards let Chan escape."

Said Commander Alia with sarcasm beating the rate of the one Mogranius has.

"You try Fighting off a beast weighing a ton!!!"

Said Mogranius in anger. Rather funny to watch.

"You got attacked by a Source Bear? This is not your day."

Added Stefan.

"Wish i could see Mongranius" face when he realized he couldn"t blast fire."

Added Woldemir.

"Cutting to the case. Almost three hundred Ignite gems were used to light up the entire farm. Good for us as well. Because we found only four hundred in total."

Said Commander Alia after interrupting their slight arguing.

"More would of been left over if you didn"t order the workers to throw them down the Volcano. Miss perfect."

Added Mogranius.

"True. Miss perfect could also "accidentally" throw you down the Volcano as well oh dear "wise one"."

Replied Commander Alia in a sweet threatening manner which left Mogranius speechless and a bit terrified.

"Well if each Calidum Lutum considers saving up their bucket of fruits and vegetables, we can buy a bucket of food for each one and still have thirty ignite gems left."

Added Stefan who seemed to have already done the calculations.

"My people can eat a lot at once, but one bucket of food keeps them well fed for a week. They can stretch a bucket for two weeks. Plus we still have food from the last harvest. We may pa.s.s this without any losses."

Added Commander Alia with enthusiasm on her tone being adorable to hear. The tough strict girl softening up.

"Tough lady getting soft?"

Added Mogranius.

"I don"t recall being soft."

Said Commander Alia.

"Getting to the Case, carrying seven hundred buckets of food is no easy task. We need more horses. Not to forget more Wagons."

Explained Stefan.

"A Cheap Wagon costs about Three Hundred Gold coins. But even if we buy a good quality Wagon, we still need two more to carry all of that food."

Added Woldemir.

"Meaning we need to spend two thousand gold coins on better bigger Wagons instead of cheap ones. We need three. Plus horses who can get the job done are surely not cheap. With luck it would be good if we get two for a thousand gold coins in total."

Added Stefan.