"Your Majesty, this picture shows the Small Magic Harvester harvesting wheat." Xu Yi spread a picture across the table and enthusiastically explained it to Cains Lampari, the reigning king of the Lampari Kingdom, beside him. "Look, the wheat in this field is growing very thickly. If people harvested it by hand, it would normally take an entire day to cut it all down, then another three days to a week to dry it. After that, they would spend one or two days using oxen to pull a stone roller to remove the husks, and finally another day or so winnowing and threshing it before the harvest was truly complete. And any unusual weather during that process would have a tremendous impact."
"The whole process takes anywhere from ten days to half a month, and the results aren't very good, either. A great deal of grain and incompletely husked wheat ends up going to waste. But with our Xinfei Merchant Guild's Small Magic Harvester, every step of harvesting this field can be completed in less than an hour. Look, once the wheat is drawn into the front of the Small Magic Harvester, it becomes grain and sprays out the back in the blink of an eye. All the person doing the harvesting needs to do is prepare some cloth sacks. Just think how much time and effort that saves!"
His Majesty the King, Cains Lampari, was forty-eight that year, still in the prime of his life. He had a square, imposing face and not an ounce of excess fat on his body. Clearly, he paid close attention to exercise, and he looked extremely vigorous.
As Xu Yi delivered his flowing explanation, the king only occasionally interrupted to ask about a few details. For the most part, he listened attentively, a thoughtful