Iron Harvest: When Farming Becomes Conquest-Chapter 330 - 3: It’s Not Time Yet

Mona’s spell allows her to control the flow of time within a certain range.

Roman had an improper analogy.

If time were considered a kind of particle, with time particles evenly distributed everywhere, Mona could gather or disperse them, achieving the purpose of deceleration or acceleration.

As for the spell’s effects, it was up to Mona to weigh them.

In any case, reversing time is impossible.

Time suspension is also beyond reach.

Mona’s spell can only result in an effect infinitely close to time suspension.

Of course, such a spell is already very powerful.

As long as there is no external interference, she can pause a regular person’s time for an entire day, while the latter would only feel that in the blink of an eye it’s the next day.

The premise is that there aren’t many powerful beings in the world who can contend with her.

Those High Order Knights, legendary creatures, Demons, All Gods, and Seat Witches can all interfere with the real universe through spirit, will, and energy.

Admittedly, when a High Order Knight faces such formidable power of a Time Magic, they seem weak and powerless.

Because when a large number of time particles are drawn from or gathered around them, if their senses are sharp enough, they can perceive that everything in the world is accelerating while their own reaction is more than a step slower.

But a High Order Knight possesses more than just their own strength.

Just like Mona, who also relies on auxiliary resources like Blue Gemstone, Amber, and Crystal to release more potent spells during casting.

Any High Order Knight’s equipment is also inseparable from Mithril and Fine Gold.

Such special equipment greatly enhances the importance of a High Order Knight and can disrupt the effects of spells.

In matters like these, it’s not only Mona who feels at a loss, Margaret feels equally helpless.

When facing a Holy Knight clad in Fine Gold Armor, how much mana would it take to shake their body?

Even if it’s Mabel with her Flames, using maximum firepower to scorch them, the Holy Knight could stand unscathed in the blazing flames for two minutes.

Burn as much as you like, if you can make me sweat within two minutes, then you’re capable.

But in that span, even considering Mabel’s fifty-meter flame range, it would be enough for a Holy Knight to charge up and kill Mabel a hundred times over.

If this isn’t a Transcendent who can sprint nimbly even when wearing hundreds of pounds of Extraordinary Armor, then what is?

This is also the biggest dilemma faced by many Spellcasters.

Because only when faced with ordinary matters do those Extraordinary Magics have the greatest effect.

Ordinary matters have too low a weight and can be easily interfered with.

Mona’s shortcomings are very obvious.

Firstly, she can only interfere with the time flow rate within a certain range, and once the coverage range changes, the effect disappears.

She casts a spell on a carriage to speed up its time flow, but as soon as the carriage leaves her spell range, the acceleration effect will gradually disappear, eventually vanishing altogether once outside the range.

If Mona followed the carriage the whole way, continuously accelerating its movement, the consumption would be enormous because she herself would be in motion.

In other words, she achieves the best spell effect on a sufficiently stable and controllable environment.

Secondly, it cannot be used on large objects, it’s best for independent individuals, the more independent the better, and it is susceptible to external interference.

If Mona casts a spell on a gear inside a clock.

Because a clock’s many gear structures are interlinked, they would all ultimately share the acceleration effect. The faster the second hand moves, the faster the hour hand moves.

And if the clock were large enough, she would be quickly drained.

Fear of external interference is also simple.

Mona paused a regular person’s time.

But, during this period, what if someone inflicted an effect on that person?

For example, throwing a flying knife at them, or crushing with a steamroller, what would be the result?

The answer is, whether it’s a flying knife or a steamroller, they wouldn’t hit them, or rather, as they get closer, the time flow slows down, eventually aligning with the same time flow as the time-paused person, but kinetic energy would not disappear.

Other external factors include rain, sunlight, air flow—of course, as long as there are no disasters like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches, other minor natural factors have far less influence than flying knives and steamrollers.

Whether he can avoid them is his own problem.

...

Roman’s first thought was to have Mona join Gwivelle in breeding.

The land is a fixed scene, plant growth interacts less with the outside, absorbing nutrients solely from several centimeters of soil, and the weight of seeds is extremely low.

Mona is an excellent plant breeder.

Her coverage isn’t particularly large, fully casting spells covers about a dozen acres at best, not sustainable for long.

But the difficulty of casting on one acre is very low, as is the consumption, allowing for sustained spell effects.

Considering daily life, Mona can’t work twenty-four hours a day, but she could reduce the growth cycle of rice from April to within two months, and if pushing to Mona’s limits, harvesting within fifty days isn’t a dream.

Double harvest a year?

Nine harvests in two years!

Although Roman made repeated efforts to retain Mona—which was rare for him.

Yet it didn’t change Mona’s idea of leaving.

The Cangyue battlefield can’t do without protective forces, and Mona was just escorting the auxiliary witches this time, with no intention to stay.

"The Queen has shown great kindness to us," said the Time Witch.

Witch Forest is not a vassal of Cangyue, but there is a certain secret and obscure connection between them.

Back when Origin City had not yet emerged, many strongholds of Witch Forest were uprooted by Gael; he ploughed and swept, driving the witches to a dead end, forcing them to launch a suicidal attack on the Holy City. After the witches’ defeat, the Prophet Witch had to lead a group of non-combat witches to Cangyue.

But when the Church Court and Divine Mysterious put pressure on Cangyue to hand over all Spellcasters, the actions of the Vampire Queen and the River Valley King were consistent, fighting to the end with all the country’s might.

The situation in Cangyue was more precarious than that of Origin City.

Roman had the Black Iron King blocking in front of him, maintaining the Black Iron Order, so he didn’t face the war directly, giving him enough space to survive.

But Cangyue truly bore the brunt of the massive army.

Up to now, both sides have been fighting for a whole year, reaching a stalemate.

"You are the Conqueror Lord, Your Highness, you also have the power to mediate the war, just like the Conqueror of old," the Time Witch said. "The Queen also hopes you’ll dispatch troops to break the siege of Cangyue, if so, Cangyue will never forget the grace of the River Valley King!"

Roman only said, "Now is not the time."

The Time Witch looked bitter-faced.

How familiar and ironic this sentence was.

"Come and help me," Roman said again.

It was late summer, an excellent season for farming, especially for the rice, which had reached the period of flowering and fruiting, growing vigorously every day.

As long as the Time Witch helps him, the growth will be even more vigorous.

Although this approach can’t directly change the overall situation.

But the so-called advantage is accumulated bit by bit like this.

When the advantage accumulates enough, nothing can stand in its way.