Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 568 - 25: Spring Brings Life to All Things Festival (Part 2)
Reya’s generosity is something Su Li absolutely does not doubt.
The entire church, from top to bottom, adheres to the creed of generosity and acts consistently without any compromise in any direction.
The nuns in the territory have beautiful and graceful bodies, which they truly display for everyone to see.
Su Li is filled with anticipation for the upcoming generous dance.
As he walked, he asked, "How are the materials for the blood sacrifice being prepared?"
Although the Spring Brings Life to All Things festival fills the world with light and vitality, certain ceremonies and traditions constantly remind everyone of the bloodiness and cruelty of this world.
Polevik’s blood sacrifices require the use of various creatures’ flesh and remains.
The territory currently has four Poleviks, which is an impressive number. If not for Su Li’s intelligence system, even if the size of the Dawn Church were tripled, they wouldn’t be able to find so many Fathers of Grains.
Their sacrifices will fill the land of the Hesse Territory with divine grace.
In this world, the influence of divine spirits is unparalleled. The evaluation of whether a territory is considered a prosperous and affluent land or a barren and primitive frontier is primarily based on the extent to which the land is blessed by divine grace.
If large areas of the territory are bathed in divine grace, it is undoubtedly a territory that humans have cultivated for a long time with a deep level of development, forming the core of human prosperity and rule. In such a territory, when the golden radiance of the Holy Hall’s morning bell spreads across the wheat waves, and the spring breeze brushes through them, it is the goddess walking through the fields. During the harvest season, the granary will surely pile up golden mountains of wheat, and even the wild grass seeds pecked by crows are soaked in the honey of millennia-old civilization.
If a tract of land, like the Hesse Territory, has less than 10 hectares of good lands blessed by divine grace, yet has over 2000 hectares of farmland, then it can be directly assessed as a barren frontier outside the empire’s core. When the pioneers’ scythes cut through the thorns, all they disturb are the calls of night owls and howling wolves. The sparse hectares of holy light-bathed fertile land are like scattered sparks in the wilderness, struggling in the 2000 hectares of frost-white lean fields. Here, the bent straw bows not to the harvest goddess but is whipped straight by the borderland’s cold wind; what the farmer’s wives offer at the altar is not new wheat, but thorny berries stained with beast claw marks—a mere fading vermillion smudge on the tattered edge of the divine authority’s map.
And the blood sacrifice undoubtedly pertains to how much of this year’s territory will be bathed in the divine grace of Her Majesty Reya.
Vandar immediately replied, "Since after the onset of winter, we have been preparing these sacrificial offerings. The effect is quite good; the Black Steel Redemption Knight Order and the provincial legion have fought in the Blood Pine Forest for an entire winter. They have brought back a large number of beastman and forest bandit corpses. We conservatively estimate that this sacrificial offering can increase the scale of the blood sacrifice to over 1500 acres. If our army can deliver the rebel corpses from the Star Meteorite Land before noon today, our blood sacrifice scale might reach 20 hectares!"
Twenty hectares, which is 2000 acres of blood sacrifice fields.
This scale is quite impressive. Calculating by a yield of 2000 pounds per acre, these 20 hectares could produce 4,000,000 pounds of grain. Over a year, that’s a profit of 1200 Golden Crowns.
And taking care of these farmlands requires only 20 households. In conversion, 100 farmers can support 20 elite knights for an entire year!
Su Li couldn’t help but click his tongue; this ratio is really high. If there were a thousand hectares of divine grace-bathed land, he could support 1000 elite knights just by farming.
Su Li smiled and said, "Then the effect of this sacrificial offering is very strong indeed. I remember last time, the offering barely covered over 900 acres of blood field."
It’s worth noting that the last offering accumulated a large amount of monster corpses during Aeliria’s invasion, which allowed a single Father of Grains to increase the blood sacrifice scale by 500 acres.
And at the Spring Brings Life to All Things ceremony, four Poleviks, relying on much fewer offerings, doubled the land bathed in divine grace!
Vandar straightened his stooped figure and proudly said, "On the day of Spring Brings Life to All Things, it is the day Reya’s divine grace is most intense, and our offering will surely receive the most generous reward from Her Majesty Reya. Lord, let me take you to personally experience the atmosphere of the sacrifice."
As they spoke, the two of them walked out of the manor, and the attendants brought their mounts. Su Li perched himself on the back of the Death’s Claw, while Vandar mounted a Giant Shepherd Deer.
This Giant Shepherd Deer is not the Silver Horn’s Giant Shepherd Deer, as such holy artifacts usually stay in the Holy Forest and do not come out. One has to wait for the Summer Solstice for Tal to take over the annual ring before they walk out of the forest to bestow auspices on the territory.
Vandar’s Giant Shepherd Deer was tamed by him in the forest this winter.
After Aeliria was conquered by Su Li, human entry and exit from the Blood Pine Forest became much more convenient.
A large amount of wealth has been extracted from the Blood Pine Forest, even dispelling a lot of lingering hatred toward her.
This Giant Shepherd Deer is much faster than a warhorse, galloping as if flying on clouds, easily covering one to two meters in a single leap. Under its guidance, Su Li quickly reached the manor where the festival was held—Quesofield Manor.
This manor also belongs to Su Li. Previously, during the Green Dragon’s invasion, it was mostly burnt down, and post-war, the Dawn Nun rebuilt a section of the manor here, right below Jorn Shallow Bay.
