Chapter 232 - Different progress.

Although every event going on throughout Ignis leaves little space for the smaller achievements, those achievements are still there! One prime example is what has been taking half of Gaster Kingdom's budget since January, why Alama has rightful ownership over 10% of the monthly income here in Gaster Kingdom. We are talking about the farm project! A.k.a the wheat planting project here in Gaster Kingdom.

Since Mars passed, the 30 Farmers didn't fail to deliver what they have promised. A 3 mile long and wide piece of land, transformed into a farmable field. This roughly calculates to 230 Hectares of farm fields able to be farmed upon. The cheapest option is of course planting wheat! It has low maintenance requirements and can feed the Kingdom year around!

It doesn't require countless channels of water since spring usually brings rainy days throughout half the month and fall shares the same intend. The clear lands give a perk of planting wheat on Mars and harvesting it on the colder seasons. Rather inverted, but it proved useful enough.

The 30 farmers expect that 230 hectares of wheat can possibly yield 40,000 Kilograms of wheat grain! When given an hour to form some rough calculations, to feed 400 people daily with fish meat included, it only requires a bit over 20,000 Kilograms of wheat grain.

The best part is that from now on, Farmers can only be hired seasonally. Half of the budget shouldn't be thrown on them anymore. It is hard to pay 150 Gold Coins to 30 people and it has been eating up small portions of the overall budget. They just need to go such economical nightmare for a couple of months throughout the year. What is lost throughout these two months can be compromised with the 20,000 Kilograms of spare Wheat Grain which calculates to a worth of 8,000 Gold Coins!

The size of the farm is amazingly big, it isn't easy to tackle a 5 kilometer wide and long farm field but the 30 farmers tackled it. The farm field itself is as big as 9 Gaster Kingdoms! Yet it can feeds 400 people throughout 2 years (With fish meat as an aid.).

Throughout Mars the entire farm field was planted, King Michael can't afford to loose these Farmers after losing about 60 men in the war for Pameres Kingdom! The last thing he needs right now, is set more men to farm instead of putting them in the Platoon.

So he gave them an offer a bit hard to refuse. These 30 Farmers will work year around, but when they aren't farming they will go fishing. This will indeed eat a lot of the budget but it will increase profit in other ways since the fishing team will be almost doubled for 10 months each year which will necessarily open more business options, such salaries will be able to be covered. Their salaries will remain 150 Gold Coins with food and heat for them still free.

This rattled the rest of the fishermen and spear fishermen too! Because their salaries are a lot lower comparably. The Fishermen for example, earn 65 Gold Coins while the Spear Fishermen just earn 20 Gold Coins more. So King Michael had to take action, he even personally walked down to the beach and explained why he took such a drastic action with a little speech. Even making them take a break followed by a nice extra meal.

"Friends, your Contribution to Pameres Kingdom is not forgotten nor will it be taken for granted. Show sympathy for these Farmers who have worked around the clock to give us 230 Hectares of farm fields! It wasn't a task easy to tackle, they even had to shovel snow throughout most of their work! They contributed to Gaster Kingdom a lot, but you did as well. Therefore, you all will get 20 Gold Coin raise. But not now! Word is around that two friendly domains plan to use our doc for numerous business reasons, that will aid greatly for a task of raise. Furthermore, Pameres Kingdom has made a permanently ongoing order of 200 eggs each month. That will grant an almost 100% guarantee for you all to receive a raise. All 41 of you are the soul of this Kingdom, now thanks to the farms your contribute will inevitably lead to more and more raises after this promised one. The 30 Farmers bringing in more fish along with you, will aid towards that task. I don't plan to raise their salaries until yours meet theirs."

The 41 men were more than happy of such big promises coming from the man who got this Kingdom up and going once more, they understood how important Gaster Kingdom is becoming thanks to the port. There is so much potential of possible profit which doesn't require any financial maintenance.

Speaking of minor progress, Alama has become a lot more open compared to when she first arrived. Sure the first time she visited, she was almost r.a.p.ed and eaten by Cannibals but she was clear to understand that King Michael is nothing like them, he even spent a fair amount of times trying to catch them on the act and kill them!

Although not commonly used to engaging in romance, he has been noticing what Alama is trying to do. Or at least, what she has been trying to express. It became quite interesting at the first few months since Alama has been nicknamed ad a Honey mouth, yet when it comes to contact with King Michael her mouth froze.

For her to open up towards King Michael for conversation that doesn't include business, it took quite a few weeks. One topic that came into mind, was braiding King Michael's long coal black hair. Of course Alama's hair are literally almost the same, but surprisingly King Michael washes his on a daily basis. Even for men it is all about the hair!

To have his hair touched by anyone else, it wasn't an option before. He strongly refused twice even though his expression was as soft as talking to a new born. He was about to disagree the third time, but Alama did something she didn't ever do in front of anyone ever since she arrived in Gaster Kingdom, she untied her pony tail and let hair down! Accompanied by light brown eyes shinning in the light like honey, King Michael's heart was softened to the point of agreeing to her clear little plan of bonding. She became too cute, he couldn't resist! Imagine a 5.8ft tall lady with a small face giving you that look. Would you be able to disagree?

Once getting her hand deep in his thick voluminous hair, it felt like a thousand very light kisses struck her hand. She even forgot that she is supposed to braid them! Either all Kastarian hair are great to such level, or he is just highly caring for his hair. Which appears to be the case! She can't be for sure before braiding Commander Alia's hair. Which can be a highly difficult case because she hates it even more for them to be touched! She mostly keeps them into a bun unless she is playing with Mogranius or trying to strike a deal with a dumb as hell ill.u.s.tratian. But maybe she won't be able to resist such a face either.

Alama used a wooden comb to brush his hair first, it felt like heaven was at the palm of her hands. The cone went through his hair without any difficulties, as if he spends all day combing them! She took about 10 minutes combing his hair letting out one compliment after the other, such as. "Your hair is otherworldly great. What's your secret?" Of course she wanted to imply whatever routine he does, to her own hair. Because even though she tries to wash and brush her hair dailiy, she just can't catch up with King Michael.

Confident enough, after getting a bit comfortable with her touching his hair. He dared to tease her. "Oh, you'll figure it out eventually. You have been following me everywhere anyway." Although a bit of a cheap shot, it still proved a point. He has been enjoying her presence, but he can still use some private time.

Although not noticable, she was forced into a blush thanks to such wordplay. She took a few seconds before she replied with her face cheeks becoming more and more red by the passing second. "Not necessarily. Do you have a secret room to fix your hair or something?" Eh not her best wordplay, but at least she is talking instead of leaving the atmosphere to become awkward.

"Not specifically but that's a good idea." Continued King Michael to tease, and handed a wider wooden cone. "Try this one, it works even better."

After giving it a couple of tries, she answered. "Oh... this is indeed better!" With her cheeks still set into a blush thanks to the previous wordplay, she still insisted. "Oh common please tell me how you do this?"