Natural Magic Collapsed (Fourth Update, in Celebration of Alliance Leader Low-key Battle Song 1/10)

This chapter is an extra update for Alliance Leader "Low-key Battle Song"'s reward. One update for now; the remaining nine will be made up later.

Digging a canal was no easy task.

However, Thorn Castle was less than a kilometer from the sea, so a seaward canal of this length was still fairly manageable. For this kind of pure manual labor, Liszt once again raised the base wage, adding another Copper Coin per day for every serf on top of their original pay.

As the seaward canal was dug out bit by bit, the drilling team led by well-driller Fred Jingrao completed Mushroom Town's second well.

They were promptly transferred over to dig a well for Thorn Castle.

There was no water source near Thorn Castle. Water could only be fetched from Port Town, but once the castle was put into use, supplying so many people with water by fetching it from Port Town alone would clearly be insufficient.

During the first few days after construction began, Liszt often came by the site to take a look at the progress, filled with anticipation for his own named castle. Of course, they were only building the auxiliary facilities around the castle for now. The main building of Thorn Castle would probably take another half a year or more to complete.

At the very least, it would be next year.

After making several rounds of the site without seeing any new progress, he gave up on such boring inspections and focused on other matters instead.

A Ke's work deciphering nature magic was progressing faster and faster. She had already deciphered more than half of the planting spells related to those magical plant seeds. However, many of the detailed Sun Script passages in the planting spells lacked corresponding references, making them difficult