Chapter 87: Burrowing Worms
The Frost Unicorn did not stay in the village for long.

After giving the Knight's Medal, it trotted briskly into the woods and disappeared for a while.

However, according to what Rhodes heard from the female warriors in the village, the other party did not actually leave.

It just likes quietness and doesn't like staying in crowded places.

For the next period of time, the Frost Unicorn will serve as the guardian of the village and live in the woods not far away.

Come forward when necessary to protect the village.

Hearing this, Rhodes felt relieved.

His eyes swept over the remains of the crushed dragon servants on the battlefield and he no longer worried about the safety of the village.

This also made him decide that it was time to leave here.

The village headmistress came over with a complicated expression, holding a white fur scroll in her hand.

She said, "Outsider, this is the map from the village to the royal city, the road to the audience. Since the guardian messenger has chosen you, perhaps the fate of all this has already been determined."

Looking at Rhodes's face, the village headmistress handed over the map helplessly.

The other person was a man, who Sanxue had picked up from outside not long ago.

Theoretically speaking, he shouldn't have been able to go there.

However, the other party had just saved the village not long ago and was recognized by the guardian angel, so the village chief could not find a reason to refuse.

Rhodes didn't care about her complexity and took the map with interest.

Both the powerful Eternal Winter City and the mysterious princess will affect the security of the North in reality.

He knew that he had to understand the situation as quickly as possible and do everything possible to strengthen himself.

The Ice and Snow Guardian was already on him, and with a map showing the direction in hand, he was ready to set off.

Rhodes was not very familiar with other people in the village.

Apart from the dwarf blacksmith, the only ones who really had to say goodbye were the three sisters.

Daxue and Erxue only felt a little sorry for his departure, but they didn't feel much.
But Sanxue stood there uncomfortably, with reluctance and loss in her eyes.

After hearing Rhodes' farewell words to her, Sanxue wiped her eyes, forced a smile, and waved goodbye to him.

"Goodbye."

In reality, Rod opened his eyes in the room.

Although he would be representing the village on the journey to the audience, most of the evening had passed after he dealt with the group of dragon servants.

After leaving the village for some distance, he was forced to return from the afterimage of the North.

Thinking of Sanxue's loss when they parted, Rhodes felt a little uncomfortable.

But he knew very well that he could not stay in the village for long.

It's a matter of sooner or later.

He got up and went to the bathroom. After washing his face with cold water, Rhodes regained his spirit under the stimulation of the cold.

He patted his cheeks, went to his laboratory, and put the materials in order.

After entering the research state, my originally chaotic mind gradually calmed down.

"The mottled divinity, this high-level spirituality from the dragon servant, may be able to solve my current troubles."

In front of the test bench, Rhodes took out the harvest he got from the afterimage of the northern border.

Taking an ordinary dragon servant as 1 standard unit, he obtained a total of 52 units of mottled divinity from the wolf-type dragon servant.

As well as two spiritual inheritances: [Spinning Sword Skills] and [Wolf Head Roar].

The mottled divinity has been purified by meditation and can be directly absorbed by him to strengthen himself.

But Rhodes was in no hurry to do so.

Instead, he took out the quartz bead that contained the soul of the ice-breaking beast.

Combine the mottled divinity with the quartz beads, put them into the blood of the ice-breaking beast, and rotate them again to separate the magic power.

With the more powerful spiritual adsorption ability, the magic jelly obtained this time is of much higher purity.

The color is dark gray.

And there are no mixed colors spots like before.

According to previous experimental records, Rhodes selected healthy cold-soil earthworms and continued the experiment.

After conducting multiple experimental controls, he found that the regeneration buds of the cold-earthworms grew most actively when the ratio of pure water to magic jelly was 15:1.

After the regenerated buds were fully differentiated in the stimulating fluid, Rod picked them out.

Soak it in the high-quality barley nutrient solution, allowing it to continue growing and grow into a complete body. Before I knew it, it was already noon.

The warm winter sunshine poured into the house, dispelling the cold and allowing Rhodes to slowly come back to his senses from his immersed state.

He looked at the only surviving individual in the nutrient solution.

Compared with the original cold-soil earthworm, this earthworm's body has undergone tremendous changes.

The body length doubles from 20 cm to over 40 cm.

The epidermis changes from a soft, fragile light brown to a tough and extremely flexible dark grey.

After Rhodes tried, he found it difficult to cut its skin with an ordinary blade.

It is also able to stretch itself up to two meters without damaging its body.

As Rod lowered it above the hardened ground.

In less than ten seconds, it used its powerful head to push open the soil and drilled down to less than one meter.

The constant movement loosens and aerates the deep soil.

"From now on, your name is Borer Worm."

Rod named the newborn burrowing worm based on its characteristics and took it back to the laboratory.

Repeat its cultivation process according to the recorded experimental report.

In the following experiments, nine out of ten cold-land earthworms were cultivated and successfully evolved.

Seeing this result, Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief.

Once you’ve confirmed that the process works, you can happily announce that your experiment was a huge success.

Judging from the huge amount of blood provided by the Icebreaker Beast, it was enough for Rhodes to breed thousands of burrowing worms.

When the time comes, they will be released into the river valley plains to help him cultivate farmland while the tribe will reproduce on their own.

There is a solution to the biggest problem of labor shortage.

In the following days, Rhodes mobilized the icebreaker and the yak herd from Hekou Town to Pingdingshan.

He stood in the road to greet them.

When they saw the yak herd arriving, they fed the golden biscuits into the mouth of the eager icebreaker.

Then he looked behind them and saw the various goods on their backs.

The most important of these was the new agricultural tool made of high-quality steel in Mole Town, a new type of short curved plow.

The current mainstream agricultural tool in the Kingdom of Rosa is the heavy wheel plow.

Simply put, it is a small cart with a pair of wheels at the front, a metal plow installed in the middle, and oxen or horses pulling in front to plow the land.

Heavy wheel plows are very heavy, but also wide, so they can plow a wider area of ​​land at a time.

The presence of wheels can lighten the burden on livestock and reduce resistance.

But it is too bulky and has structural problems that make it inefficient.

After considering it, Rhodes decided to use the curved plow from his hometown.

It is flexible and efficient, and also easy to transport.

After it is completed in Mole Town, it can be quickly transported to Pingdingshan.

After all the yaks and farm tools arrived, Rhodes transferred the construction team of the Pingdingshan city wall over, a total of 500 people.

A group of people gathered in the river valley plain and officially started the plan to reclaim arable land.

As for the city wall, there is no need to worry.

After more than three months of expedited work, the main body of the granite wall that protects the road up the mountain has been completed.

All that remained was the construction of fortifications.

Including the placement of crossbows, catapults, stone-shooting weapons, the allocation of large towers, etc.

Rhodes also planned to build a barbican above the city gate to further reduce the risk of the gate being breached.

But these are plans for the future.

Currently, the city walls, combined with rows of crossbowmen, already have basic defensive functions.

In contrast, Rhodes recalled the prophecy circulating in the afterimage of the North.

An ice storm that froze the earth.

Next he had to prioritize ensuring the supply of food.

(End of this chapter)