The autumn sun seemed golden, making the vast stretches of farmland around Wilderness Town shimmer with golden light.
It was thanks to Lady Galadriel's gift, the soil imbued with the power of Nenya.
Most of the crops had grown exceptionally quickly that year. By early August, Carl, who oversaw agriculture in Wilderness Town, believed the wheat planted in late May was ready to harvest.
Otherwise, if the crops grew too ripe or encountered rain, the grain would fall into the soil and go to waste.
Faced with this miraculous phenomenon, and prompted by Allen, Carl planned to make use of the growing variety of crops Wilderness Town had acquired in recent years, including soybeans, wheat, potatoes, peanuts, and corn.
She would set aside a plot to test whether different crops could be grown in rotation to yield two harvests a year, making the land even more productive.
Now, groups of workers filled the golden fields, rushing to bring in the crops, just as they had in previous autumns.
Meanwhile, heated arguments rang out from the meeting room in Allen's Lord's House. The voices belonged to Jeremus and Artimenner.
"If you build it that way, you'll waste far too much manpower and material. We're about to go to war. I need to build more reservoirs in town. There won't be enough people left to build your hospital."
"It's precisely because we're about to go to war! Knowing Allen, he won't abandon a single subordinate who's still alive. Large numbers of sick and wounded will come back from the battlefield. If the hospital can't hold them, are we supposed to leave them outside to die?"
Jeremus had come that day to discuss expanding the hospital with Ymira. He was thinking ahead to the aftermath of the war.
Although the settlers Allen summoned