"My God! What happened?"
He woke up and looked toward the farmland, feeling as though the sky were about to collapse.
When he went closer to look, he found that vast stretches of rice had lost their vitality and withered in the fields.
Everywhere he looked, the fruits of his painstaking labor had vanished.
He was not the only one. Vast stretches of farmland throughout the kingdom had lost their crops for some unknown reason.
Agriculture was the kingdom's foundation, and the incident immediately drew the attention of the royal family and numerous reporters.
After investigating, everyone looked grim.
Yet no one knew what had happened.
On the second and third days, the estimated yield continued to plummet.
After a week, more than ninety percent of the kingdom's farmland had become wasteland.
This was terrifying. As a major grain-producing nation, the importance of grain went without saying.
The news rapidly spread across the seas. Every kingdom that relied to any extent on agriculture, and even ordinary civilians, paid close attention.
The World Economy News Paper even put the story on its front page.
More terrifying still, more than one major grain-producing nation had been affected.
Major grain producers across the Four Seas, and even in the first half of the Grand Line, had fallen victim.
Without exception, their harvests this season amounted to less than ten percent of their original yields.
This was a major incident capable of affecting the entire world.
Without a doubt, it was a premeditated, targeted attack.
Meanwhile, the name of the Red Agent began spreading in secret.
In particular, quite a few factions already possessed this secret weapon and had begun using it.
NESTS had prepared an enormous quantity of the Red Agent.
What was more, the various underground forces that had witnessed its effects