As a Domain Knight and an established marquis, Raging Wave Marquis had a total of four Great Sprites: the Barley Great Sprite, pea Great Sprite, Virginia Creeper Great Sprite, and Eucalyptus Great Sprite.
Of these, the Virginia Creeper Great Sprite was undoubtedly the most valuable, because it could grow magical herbs; next came the Barley Great Sprite, which could produce barley, a staple food. But after weighing his options, Liszt chose the youngest pea Great Sprite. This Great Sprite was only seventy-five years old.
Peas were the most common food among ordinary commoners. Nobles generally did not eat beans, using them only as feed for horses.
However, Liszt was different. Beans were highly valuable in his territory, and peas could be used in all sorts of bean products. More importantly, the territory had a specialty—Bacterial Peas. Bacterial Peas could grow large quantities of rhizobia, helping the soil fix nitrogen and increasing crop yields.
After any wasteland was planted with peas for two harvests, it could swiftly become fertile farmland.
During farmland fallow periods, Liszt mainly had the territory plant Bacterial Peas, harvesting rhizobia to coat the seeds of other leguminous plants and increase their yields. Soybeans, peas, cowpeas, mung beans, as well as soapberry trees and peanuts, could all gain abundant nitrogen fixation from rhizobia seed-coating.
However, the rhizobia of Bacterial Peas worked best on peas and broad beans. Thus, Liszt had always been quietly hoping that soybeans and peanuts would mutate into varieties capable of producing rhizobia.
In short.
He could not obtain the Virginia Creeper Great Sprite even if he killed Raging Wave Marquis, while the Barley Great Sprite was too old. Thus, after considering everything, Liszt chose the pea Great Sprite.
With the mutated variety Bacterial peas, along with the continuous spread of beans, the pea Great