I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 442

"So, what am I supposed to do, Mr. Ars?

"Sorry to bother calling, Kyle. Actually, Kyle needs your help. It's an improved rice variety."

"Rice is the grain Brother Ars brought back from the east, right? If it was grown over there, why don't we just grow it?

"Hmm, well, I'm going to grow it. But I'm not convinced of the variety at this point. I want to make better rice if I can."

Nelson Wetlands in Balgas's reign.

There I called Kyle.

The goal, as I told Kyle, is to improve rice varieties.

I think the rice I got in the east is closer to Japanese rice than varieties such as Thai rice.

When rice was cooked with pot-shaped magic tools, a full-flavoured and delicious meal was prepared.

But with the memory of my previous life, I wasn't entirely satisfied with the taste.

Somehow, it was more like ancient rice than modern rice I used to eat in my previous life.

Perhaps the world's rice has not progressed so far in terms of variety improvement.

Probably, I think not only the taste but also the yield per land is small.

That's why I decided to make rice, so I decided to try to improve the variety.

It is cold around here, so the flavor and yield are the same, but it would be good if it could be used for cold resistant varieties.

"Variety improvement? In the old days, when you were still in Vulcan Village, Ars was doing a lot of things, right? Many times I've heard Brother Hector say that Hatzka and other vegetables and wheat can be changed to make good things."

I see. I've been doing a lot of research before. After I became a knight and gained territory, I gradually ran out of time. I wonder if Brother Hector would let his men do it right now. "

"Then why don't you ask your brother Hector, not me?

"You have no idea how much rice my brother Hector likes farming. Besides, I'd like to eat delicious rice if I could. That's why we have to ask Kyle. Can you help me?

"Well, if that's the case, let's get this over with. There are other jobs. Spirit-san, please."

I'll ask Kyle to improve the rice varieties.

Kyle agreed to that.

And Kyle summons the Spirit.

Kyle's Spirit is different from the Fontana [Ice Spirit Summon] I use.

We summoned the spirits of the plant, the woodsperm, which Kyle contracted directly in the northern Vulcanian forest.

This woodsperm manipulates plants in general, and as a leader, there are magical things called [Protective Plants].

Kyle can quickly stretch the surrounding grass just by asking the wood sperm.

This time, Kyle's Wood Spirit will help us improve the breed.

Here's how it works.

I planted rice in the fields I made, and Kyle ordered the woodsperm to grow rapidly.

Then, carefully selected rice from the harvested rice is planted again and grown rapidly.

Repeatedly, we are going to end the breeding process in a short period of time, which would have taken years to decades, or longer.

"But then, shall I make a new magic? Perhaps it would be better to create a spell like Rapid Growth to increase the yield?

"... no, I think you should stop. If you do that, the land dies."

Kyle suggests creating a new magic.

Certainly Kyle, who has a contract with the woodsperm, may be able to make magic to grow plants quickly.

However, the proposal was rejected.

Because Kyle's wood sperm can only grow plants rapidly, but that's all.

Plants absorb nutrients and moisture from the land as they grow.

Even if it could grow rapidly with woody sperm, the nutrition of the land would still be gone.

Once or twice, even if the Spirit's mysterious power was fine, it would be terrible to repeat it over and over again.

If the harvest can be accelerated by magic, the land may not be able to grow again if it dies.

Humans are selfish, and if they can, they keep doing whatever it takes to strangle them.

In that case, Fontana's land could be desertified in the near future.

That's exactly the future I don't want.

However, this is not the case with this breeding improvement.

Because Kyle isn't the only one doing it, and I'm here.

If it's my magic [soil improvement], I can restore the power of the soil in an instant.

Even if Kyle's wood sperm grows rice rapidly, the land will probably not die.

"So I pour water into the [soil improvement] fields and plant rice. Kyle then grows rice on the woody sperm. So let's mow it and use the seeds from it to plant the next one."

"How do we sort the seeds?

I see. The original purpose is taste, but it takes time to find out which one to eat. Sort only heavy objects that have sown in salt water and sinked to the bottom, and then use the one with a lot of magic. Ah, I'll summon the Spirit too. "

"Huh? Ars Brother Summons is Ice Spirit, right? What are you gonna do?

"I don't know how effective it is, but when rice grows rapidly, it adjusts the ambient temperature. I would like it to be a variety that is as resistant to the cold as it is in cold summer. Well, Fontana was cold before that."

I see. Well, then, how ready are we? Time to grow for the first time. "

Oh, thank you, Kyle.

This is how Kyle and I began to improve our rice varieties while Vargas and the others were growing fields in the wetlands.

The unprecedented way of improving varieties over many days has produced rice that is larger in size and more resistant to the cold than rice obtained in the east, and is still rich in magical amounts with high yields.

Thus, cultivation of new varieties of rice, to be called barca rice, began in Shinda, where wetlands were being developed.