Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton
Chapter 1331 - Chapter 1331 Chapter 892 How Could My Ancestor Be So Foolish

Chapter 1331: Chapter 892: How Could My Ancestor Be So Foolish? Chapter 1331: Chapter 892: How Could My Ancestor Be So Foolish? “Silver coins? Of course, I know about them,” Ange, an ancestor of the Silver Chamber of Commerce, once gave it a silver coin. It seemed like everyone had one. When he handed it over, he said, “Owning this silver coin allows you to mobilize resources up to one hundred thousand Demon Crystals within the Silver Chamber of Commerce, and mobilize the power of an entire city’s branch. Although you won’t need it, everyone has one. Consider it a token of trust, keep it.”

So, Little Bone nodded.

Silver Ingot said, “That’s wonderful. I am the current president of the Silver Chamber of Commerce, Silver Ingot, the one-hundred-twentieth descendant of the founder. I would like to hire Lord Summoner to protect me on my journey to the Land of Equality. I can offer a commission of twenty thousand Soul Crystals. Is that acceptable?”

Little Bone tilted its head, looked at its nursery, then back at Silver Ingot. Although it knew nothing about the Land of Equality and Soul Crystals were of no use to it, it still nodded.

The descendants of the Silver Coins were in danger. Even without a commission, it would still offer its protection.

Seeing Little Bone agree so readily, Silver Ingot breathed a sigh of relief and gratefully said, “Thank you, Lord. We set off tomorrow. As is customary, I will pay half the commission upfront and the remainder upon arrival at the destination. Here are ten thousand Soul Crystals.”

Silver Ingot took out a bag from the carriage, containing ten thousand Soul Crystals.

Little Bone took the bag back to the nursery, first stuffing a Soul Crystal into the eye socket of the Big Bird, and the rest into the palm of its hand.

As a tree-planting skeleton of Ange, how could it not have a Storage Space? Little Bone had a large one in the palm of its hand, capable of holding many items.

It continued planting the remaining seedlings. Thanks to its rapid death technique, Little Bone had nurtured several bundles of seedlings, all with roots, and with a very high survival rate.

Silver Ingot and two guards set up a bonfire at a distance, used the carriage to block the night wind, and wrapped themselves in blankets to lie down, preparing to sleep for a while. After a day’s journey and a night of intense events, they were utterly exhausted and desperately needed some rest.

However, even though they lay down, neither Silver Ingot nor the guards felt sleepy; they remained alert. Silver Ingot occasionally cast his gaze in Little Bone’s direction, his face betraying contemplative thoughts.

Unable to hold back, Guard Gangya asked in a low voice, “Boss, why spend so much money on a Death Summoner? Is he worth that much? Two thousand Soul Crystals could hire an army.”

Silver Ingot replied, “An army can be hired, but can it be trusted? It would be good if they don’t end up robbing and burying us.”

Gangya added, “Indeed, trust. Is this Death Summoner more trustworthy than an army? That summoner has never shown his face from the beginning, letting this skeleton stay in front. What if he quietly kills us?”

Silver Ingot didn’t know how to explain. Should he tell his guard that ‘the clan training had given him insight’?

He could only explain from another angle, “We have no other choice. Now there are only us three left. Relying just on you two, it’s impossible to protect me all the way to the Land of Equality. The Land of Equality is the only hope for the Commerce Guild to turn things around. We can only take a gamble. I believe in my own judgment. I won’t misjudge. This summoner, he’s trustworthy.”

Gangya sneered, “Boss, do you even know what his name is?”

Silver Ingot opened his mouth and then hesitated. Right, he had actually forgotten to ask the other person’s name?

But as a businessman, embarrassment was nothing. Silver Ingot silently shifted the topic, “Oh, you have good eyesight. Look at that skeleton, where did it put the bag? Did it bury it?”

“Not at all. I didn’t see it dig a big hole. The bag did disappear. Was it moved by someone? Did you guys see anything?”

After a night of suspicious thoughts, dawn broke.

As the sun rose, the Big Bird eagerly reassembled its body, transformed into a Two-legged Bird, and ran wildly across the field. Being disassembled at night almost suffocated it. It had never noticed before, but after experiencing the joy of running, it couldn’t bear to return to merely scraping forward with its jaw.

Silver Ingot and the two guards were woken up by the noise and were astounded when they saw the darting Two-legged Bird outside, “Is that… the skull we picked up yesterday? So, it has legs? We almost used it to make soup.”

When Silver Ingot and his party were ready to set off, Little Bone picked up its bone club, mounted the Two-legged Bird, and followed behind the carriage.

Seeing this, Silver Ingot knew that ‘the summoner’ still didn’t plan to show himself, which somewhat worried him. But since there was no ‘summoner’ to begin with, no amount of worry from Silver Ingot would make Little Bone turn into a summoner.

Soon, they entered the desert and began walking deeper into its vast expanse.

The location they were currently in was already within the boundaries of the desert, where Sand Creek Town was situated, a small town established in the desert with the Sand Creek River flowing through it, so there was no shortage of water.

However, due to the poor water retention of the sandy soil, the surface was extremely arid, making it impossible to grow food crops, only plants like sand dates and sea buckthorns, or some deeply buried tuber plants.

Nonetheless, food was still scarce, and the old captain had to visit the Starburst Array in the sky every month to stock up. It was closer to reach the Starburst Array by airship than to the nearest major city, as the closest major city was a thousand kilometers away, while the Starburst Array was just four to five hundred kilometers above the ground.

Because of the airship, the desert wasn’t a desolated forbidden zone. Instead, it was sporadically dotted with villages and small towns where residents primarily relied on mining and hunting for their livelihood, with most of their food being transported from outside.

However, these were all on the edges of the desert. Deeper into the center of the desert was an extremely hot area known as the Sea of Death.

Passing through the Sea of Death, one would reach the edge of the map where sunlight couldn’t reach; flipping over, they would enter the dark side of the world, a region eternally devoid of sunlight.

There was a Plane Barrier at the boundary, and airships couldn’t get close; they could only cross it on foot. The destination of the silver ingot was in the dark-side’s Land of Equality, where the ancestral silver coins left behind a wealth and power sufficient to rebuild the Silver Chamber of Commerce several times over.

It had to be said, Ange created a very peculiar world, a sunlit side similar to the Master Plane and a dark side similar to the Abyss Dimension, seamlessly connected without any barriers.

Apart from the Plane Barrier at the border, there was nothing preventing these two sides from connecting, including the Plane Barrier, which only restricted flying units like airships, but one could simply walk across it from the ground.

Due to gravity, you even wouldn’t feel like you were flipping over; you would just keep walking, then wonder why it got dark, and then keep walking, wondering why the daylight wasn’t returning. Oh, you had reached the dark side.

They were quite lucky, encountering no dangers along the way, and comfortably flipped to the dark side, entering the legendary Land of Equality.

In legend, this place was flattened by the Divine Power of the God of Equality and Balance, so even that it looked as if it were paved with tiles because its surface seems so level.

If you spilled oil and took a fall, you might just slide from one end to the other, so naturally, no life could exist there, not even a blade of grass.

“I need to find a Magic Array here,” said the silver ingot.

“Pfft–Magic Array? How long will that take to find?” Hearing his words, the two guards almost went crazy. Gangya asked, “Does it have any distinguishing feature? Does it glow? Or is it just a Magic Array etched on the ground?”

The Land of Equality was incredibly flat as far as the eye could see, but its area was not small at all–possibly one-third the size of the desert.

They had spent over ten days crossing the desert, and searching for a Magic Array over such a vast area would be a massive task. It would be manageable if the Array glowed, but if it were just an ordinary Array etched on the ground, it would be a Herculean task.

Silver ingot gave a slight smile, “How could my ancestor be so foolish?”

While speaking, he took out a silver coin, stood it upright on the ground, and then rolled it forward.

Little Bone cocked his head; the silver ingot’s coin resembled the Goblin Silver Coin given to him, though the material seemed slightly different.

The silver coin rolled on, never falling over, continuing forward like a wheel.

Rolling this way and that, they followed it for a long time, rolling continuously for three hours. Suddenly, the silver coin stopped swerving and started rolling straight in one direction. After another hour of rolling, it finally stopped, spun a few times, and fell to the ground.

Clear lines could be seen on the ground, outlining a large Magic Array. The spot where the silver coin stopped was precisely the core of the Magic Array.

Silver ingot couldn’t help but feel that his ancestor was very impressive, but Adams inside the bone staff was knowledgeable and almost peed himself in fright, “Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could it be so precise? Even gods can’t do that. A range of hundreds of square miles, and the error is only a few millimeters?”

“This couldn’t have been made, unless there was the ability to measure dimensions with a glance. Otherwise, it’s impossible to be this precise. Someone must have found this flat terrain and then threw down a bunch of balls, letting them roll to the lowest point, and then built a Magic Array at that lowest point, this has to be it, this must be it,” Adams quickly came up with a reasonable explanation.