Sam and his group just went on with the first day as they leveled their fields and got them ready to be plowed the next day. They took their daily rations and went to their arranged residence. A wooden shack.
A wooden shack has to be shared by three people and they got two shacks side by side. Even though most of them are destroyed, farmers couldn't do anything but fix them and use it by themselves.
Sam and the group came into contact with the bread for the first time which was made from the local wheat. Only after eating it did they understand the effects of the wheat.
The wheat is full of spiritual energy. Even though the density is not high and at their level, it is not that beneficial, for low-level cultivators it can work wonders. Particularly, the Acolytes and Novice cultivators. Great realm cultivators can enjoy little benefits, the Grand realm cultivators can at most use this replenish themselves, but it would be hard for them to cultivate.
And from what Sam heard from the discussions, this is the lowest grade of wheat. They also learned that the wheat grown in the surrounding areas is of this grade only and most of it will be shipped to the council and them distributed among the cities.
In exchange for that large quantity, the villagers will get a smaller quantity of higher grade wheat which will help them in cultivation.
Most of the cultivators in the village are Great realm and since they are all farming by themselves without any aid, they can at most work one acre all by themselves without over exhausting.
For the people that have to cultivate extra land due to them keeping their women, work together with their friends and cultivate that extra land.
The group felt quite bad for these farmers. They had recently sold their harvest to the council and since the harvest is good enough, they got a decent amount of higher grade wheat. They didn't even revel in their celebrations before this happened. Now all the high-grade wheat was taken away by the minotaurs and they are stuck with these rations.
But the group themselves are satisfied for now because eating this bread is speeding up their recovery.
But it will still take three days before they could confidently leave this place without any mishaps.
Thinking like that, they laid down closed their eyes in exhaustion.
Meanwhile.
Somewhere deep in the Minotaur's territory. A person is sitting inside a room with the Minotaur king.
The Minotaur King is a person who activated two elements, which is extremely rare in the Minotaurs and he activated earth and fire at that. He has a great defense and powerful offense. He is ahead above all his peers. He even got a chance to leave this place and get rid of his banishment, but he wanted to become the king here and rejected the offer.
Right after he broke through past the Consummate realm, the previous king left the place and finished his banishment, and gave up the throne to the current king.
At this moment, this current Minotaur king with his gigantic body of 8 feet is sitting in front of a Pale-looking man.
The man has extremely pale skin and red eyes. He is extremely attractive and any woman that made eye contact with him is bound to blush. He has such weird charm and the ink-black hair has a faintly red hue.
He has a faint smile and looked at Minotaur king as if he is sitting in front of a pleasant scene.
"How many villages did you occupy until now?" The young man asked in a melodious voice. There is a faint chill in that voice as if he is made of ice.
"We occupied twenty and by now the Dwarven troops would be moving. Currently, we are targeting only one territory. We share borders with another one too. Do you want us to make a move there?"
"No, don't spread your forces too thin. Just start a war and gradually increase your force.
Occupy this territory first, the other territory will be taken care of through other means.
Just do as I said, then you will get the most fertile lands of the Dwarven territory and you would be the first king who solved the food problem of the Minotaurs in the Banished realm and more of your race will be qualified to get rid of their banishment."
"Why are you doing this for us? Just who are you? What are you?"
Minotaur king asked the questions that are bugging him since the start of all this.
"You don't have to know. I am only here because there is something in the Dwarven territory that I need and they wouldn't give it to me anyway. So, I need your help taking it.
In this way, you would get what you want."
"You are just a Pre-transcendent that is why it is bothering me so much. How can you promise all of this?"
"I might be weak, but everything I said and made you do, did you lose anything from that?"
"No."
"Then just keep on doing what I told you to do."
At the same time, on the other side of the continent, within the territory of Orcs.
A person in a dark cloak is sitting in front of the Orc queen.
"Have you decided on my proposal?" The person in cloak asked in a dreary voice.
"I don't believe that you are so generous to us. What do you get from this?"
"I have something that Dwarves wouldn't be willing to give away. Anyway, the dwarves have the most fertile lands and they even have enough vegetation and wildlife. If you get that, you can improve your life, you will get more meat and have better places to stay."
"I will give my decision tomorrow." The Orc queen said with some hesitation.
"Okay then, I hope you would make a correct decision otherwise only Minotaurs will benefit from this."
The black figure left.
While the night was full of discussion on the other two ends of the continent. Sam who slept for the first time in a long while, woke up and got ready to live his life as a former for the next two days.
The group has their spiritual energy increase a bit and they can use their elements and the spiritual energy to a certain extent. Even though the situation wouldn't change, for now, they can at least increase the speed of their work.
They went to the fields and Sam used his newly gained earth element through the large plow and dragged it. With that, the soil loosened easily and it was tilled. Like this, he wouldn't have to plow the land two or three times, one single plow is enough.
Jack is using his sword energy and used his delicate control to till the land, he is slower than Sam, but at least he is going faster than most farmers.
The rest of them are also doing their best. Watt is using wind energy to till. Even Philip has no problem as he is using a smaller metal plow. But the remaining two are having the most problem as their elements are not suited for him.
At least, they are still able to plow normally.
The work is going on smoothly. But the Minotaurs are a big distraction as they came to the fields in the name of inspection and kept on bugging the farmers who have women with them.
Since they have an extra field to work on, they didn't want to let them easily do that, so that they can get the woman.
Sam looked at the situation and couldn't help but shake his head. This is worse than Naga Loka, at least there people will ask for consent. Here things are worse. The boss clearly gave them a chance, but he is also benefitting as these people will do anything to keep their women and they will increase the harvest.
From the value of wheat in this world, Sam could clearly guess what kind of merit they will get for extra harvest.
The boss must be clearly aiming for that. From the villagers, he heard rumors that Minotaurs generally don't leave women like that and never gave a chance. They are even thinking that this guy is an odd one.
This is clearly because he wants extra harvest to increase his position within his tribe.
But these guys are clearly planning to ruin this.
Particularly one guy is extremely irritating as he was bugging the person right next to his field. The girl is still young, but this minotaur is lusting after her too much.
He is constantly whipping the father of the girl so that he wouldn't finish his own fieldwork much less extra.
The worst part is, this guy happened to be the brother of that fire-type minotaur.
The group clearly felt irritated. Particularly, Watt. If not for the fact that they didn't recover yet. They would have already beaten the crap out of this musclehead.
