Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 371 The Special Banyan Tree
"Baron, what are you doing?" Cheska, who was lying on the door frame, asked hesitantly.

In the bedroom, Lori, wearing a very simple white silk robe that was almost a piece of cloth, was sitting cross-legged. In front of him was an image of a starry sky, and at his feet was a small silver white dragon pot emitting white smoke.

A strange yet pleasant aroma lingered in the bedroom.

Cheska couldn't smell what it was, but after smelling it, he felt that although his mind was calm, his mental strength became more active.

It is probably a blend of fragrance developed by Lowry himself.

These barons love to do this.

She had seen Lori grinding and mixing incense many times, but this was the first time Chesca had seen Lori like this.

"I need to think about some things together, so that I can calm down a little." Lori opened his eyes and looked at her, "What's the matter, Cheska?"

"Princess Rosalind has settled down at the original caravan camp outside the territory." Cheska quickly replied, "Although according to your suggestion, Qingfeng Valley will not accept their request to settle in, it seems a bit excessive if they still don't allow them to do so.

After all, she is also our princess of the North.

However, according to our prediction, the first caravan coming from the south should arrive in a month.

Valeera plans to build a new caravan camp nearby.

But I always feel that something is not right... Are we really going to let our princess from the north be neighbors with those caravans?

But if there is too much interference, I would feel unwilling.

Why?

I'm a little unsure, so I wanted to ask you."

Lori frowned slightly: "The caravan camp is on the west side of the camp, and there is a river on the east side, right?"

"Yes!" Cheska nodded quickly, "We dug the moat on the east side very deep, and it is directly connected to the Qingyu River."

Originally, the east side was a plain outside the territory that connected to the hilly area, and they were preparing to expand there.

Public area! Given the strength of the Baronial Territory of Gezale, it doesn't matter if he occupies a part of it.

The caravan camp was their first step.

However, what happened next was too complicated, so Valeera and Chesca decided that instead of messing with other territories, it would be better to simply make this land unusable.

So last year, the knights who needed to train themselves were directly dug out.

The excavated soil was used to build a simple exterior wall for the caravan camp.

As a result, Princess Rosalind and her entourage benefited from it.

Chesca is always unhappy.

If the main road in front of the territory could be cut off, she would have thought about digging out the west side as well, and connecting it to the small river outside the west side of Qingfeng Valley!
"Don't make trouble." Lori, who knew her well, warned, "The vines under the Qingyu River grow very fast, and they are very aggressive towards outsiders.

We will share the river to the west with our neighbors.”

"Yes, Baron." Chesca responded immediately, "I'm just unhappy and won't give any rash advice."

"Tell Valera that her plan to build the inner valley can begin." Lori replied calmly, "I allow her to spread the wings of the banyan tree."

Cheska's eyes suddenly widened.

Ever since the incident with Charles, Valeira had been thinking about the hotel plan he had mentioned.

No one knows if there is any story behind this.

But these buildings have already been built, and even the hired people are in place, just waiting for guests to arrive.

We can't just throw all that away just because it hasn't happened yet!
How should I tell the people in charge then?
Valeera believed that the people who received the news would understand, but... wouldn't it make people feel that Lori, a strong man who had always been disrespectful to the gods, was actually being suppressed by the messengers of the gods?

Especially since this incident was just a casual attack by a bishop of the Church of the Earth.

Valeera didn't want anything to affect Lori's mysterious and powerful image in the hearts of his subjects.

So, she simply came up with an idea, which was to use the roots of the big banyan tree as the main body and the green maple trees to build an inner valley, and then move the hotels and the like to the outer valley.

In this way, the caravans that visit every year can also enter Qingfeng Valley directly.

The caravan station outside is reserved for those caravans that are visiting for the first time.

Lowry was a little hesitant at first.

Over the years, although the big banyan tree has been growing taller, it has not completely extended its exceptionally developed root system into the ground of Qingfeng Valley.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to, but if he does this, there is almost no possibility for him to move again in the future.

Lowry didn't think that such a powerful plant was suitable to be his gatekeeper forever.

Even though Valeera and the banyan tree are becoming more and more integrated.

The people in this world don’t know to what extent the magical plants can do. Doesn’t he understand?
Although the current status of this banyan tree should be related to those strange nutrient potions he spread in the past... the so-called fertilizers taken out from the demiplane... it does not mean that Lori has the right to control this big banyan tree that obviously has its own thoughts and preferences.

But it was obvious that both the banyan tree and Valeira would rather guard this door for him for the rest of their lives.

The sincerity of their proposal made Lowry feel that it would be cruel of him to refuse.

Even if you don't agree with other people's enthusiasm, you should not always pour cold water on them.

Lori went to the banyan tree to communicate twice the other day, and Mr./Ms. Banyan Tree was still determined to take root there completely, as long as Valera stayed with him for the rest of his life... This was a typical functional dioecious fig tree, the kind that could raise fig wasps of its own.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to increase his power without raising the aerial roots. Lori actually didn't notice the fig wasps in the tiny fig flowers.

After all, people only see the banyan fruit on the outside.

However, this also made Lowry realize why the landlord church valued this banyan tree so much.

If you control him, you can directly command the countless fig wasps living in those countless flowers.

The tiny fig wasp may not be lethal enough individually, but when they gather together they can be very scary.

After all, they have been consuming the nectar of the magic banyan tree for a long time and have become golden and transparent. They already have a certain magical power, but they have not yet found their own way and realized their own spells.

Sometimes Lowry doesn't know what to do.

Things that seemed insignificant or had nothing to do with him eventually had an impact on him.

And some of the decisions he made also had a huge impact on others.

Therefore, he can no longer make decisions based on his own thoughts as he did in the past.

Just like this big banyan tree that has grown very tall...the reason it keeps going upwards is because the nutrients provided by the fig wasps are for upward growth.

If you want it to be thicker, you have to plant aerial roots.

The more aerial roots he has, the stronger he is.

But by then, the energy absorbed by the fig wasp will be completely transformed, and his height will no longer change.

Fortunately, the big banyan tree now feels that it is tall enough and can "see" the big cliff.

Then, Lori realized that although the fig wasp had poor eyesight, it could add its abilities to the banyan tree.

Even the banyan tree itself cannot count how many fig wasps there are in its fig fruits.

So, he can see very far away.

In the past, the big banyan tree had no particular concern for where it would take root.

As long as he was with Valeera, it didn't matter where he was.

If Lori doesn't allow it, then don't let him. What if Valeera is transferred back to the castle?

But after what happened to Charles, he also became positive.

What he wants to do most now is to grow more aerial roots, instead of just growing a few randomly in certain places like before.

Only in this way, the banyan bees migrating along with the aerial roots could allow him to see the entire Qingfeng Valley.

Those banyan vines in the past were completely useless.

What can Lowry do?

He could only agree.

He only left some metal plates made of mithril for the banyan tree, and asked him to wrap his roots around them according to the drawings and place them deep underground to ensure that his main roots would not be affected by any external forces.

If a disaster occurs that requires migration to survive, these magic disks can ensure the vitality of the banyan tree's main roots. Even if all the aerial roots are severed at the same time, its level will not be reduced.

This was the only thing Lowry could do for the big banyan tree.

Even in the heart of this tree, everything he did was for Valeera.

Then Lowry returned to the castle and decided to think carefully.

During this period, it seemed that nothing major happened, but there were so many inexplicable things that made Lowry upset.

He clearly intended to shut himself in and live a good life.

However, there are always people who don't want him to stop.

Although Lowry directly fought back Travis's attempt, he felt something was wrong after reviewing his memory: Travis's actions were a bit too deliberate.

It was obvious that there was something he didn't dare to mention to Lowry, but he was not sure whether Lowry would be affected, so he was in such an awkward situation.

If it wasn't Arsalan who delivered the message, Lowry would have probably reacted faster.

After much thought, he decided that the most likely reason for Travis to be so cautious must be something about Princess Rosalind.

Because it was so close at hand and would have an immediate impact, Travis did it so abruptly.

In the past, even if he tried to probe, he would either do it straightforwardly as if he was asking directly, or do it quietly as if he was just mentioning it casually.

Lowry decided to make a move and alert the enemy.

Whatever Princess Rosalind wanted to do, she had to make herself special.

Lowry didn’t read so many novels and comics and play so many games in vain.

If the heroine wants to attract attention, she must make herself unique.

The little white flower only looks unique at the banquets of the rich.

　The male fig fruit has male flowers and short-styled female flowers. The female flowers can be parasitized by fig wasps, which eventually produce pollen and pollen transport carriers - fig wasps. In addition, most dioecious fig trees do not have luxuriant aerial roots (except for Ficus obliquus). The fig flower blooms inside the fruit, also known as the cryptic inflorescence. Each type of fig tree requires a specific fig wasp to enter the fruit for pollination. This obligate symbiotic relationship has formed a unique fig wasp co-evolution system.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)