CHAPTER 478: DIVINE INSECT REPELLENT

It is already a common sight to find the Harvest Goddess lazing around and munching on something every day on the farm. No one dared to question her, and no one tried asking Elaina what her deal was with being lazy while everyone is getting backache pains while she is just not doing her goddess duty. They just silently accepted that, despite being a goddess, she is just someone who is lazy and would occasionally show greediness when it comes to the food that Elaina cooks. Of course, the Harvest Goddess will not deny that, as she is more proud of it than her work.

However, despite her innate greediness and laziness, she doesn’t do any half-baked work. She does what she does best, and she never finishes the day without doing any work. Sure, she prefers to laze around, but she only does this after her work is done.

So even if she does look lazy to the others, at least she did her work. And right now, it seems that the work that she has been slowly working on day after day while also maintaining her laziness has finally arrived.

"Elaina! Use this! Sprinkle the contents of this on the plants and see those pests leave before they can make matters worse!"

Throwing the container to Elaina, the latter quickly catches what the Harvest Goddess has thrown in her direction. The container contains a wet, powdery substance inside that seems to look like the traditional fertilizer sold in the local market and used by regular farmers. Elaina doesn’t use the traditional fertilizer as she has her own fertilizer in the first place, making those things obsolete.

So what is this thing? Considering the instruction that the Harvest Goddess has said to her, as well as the sudden deaths of the insects after the Harvest Goddess appeared, this thing is some kind of insect repellent or insecticide altogether. However, Elaina doesn’t have the luxury to keep thinking about what it was. She trusts the Harvest Goddess enough, she doesn’t need to doubt what she is saying.

"Can I empty this container?" Elaina asked, worrying she might waste the whole thing and the Goddess would be angry.

"Go wild to your heart’s content, Farmer!"

Hearing that, Elaina decided to focus her attention on the pests flying. Taking a handful from the container, she spreads the contents of the container and spreads it into the air and towards the plants that are now blackened due to the insects landing on them.

The moment the powder hits their bodies, it is like the powder itself was an acid, as they suddenly pop and their bodies seem to silently explode as they die. The other insects that seemed to have escaped the initial drop of the powder but were exposed by the other insects that exploded also died. It was like the powder was some kind of biohazard chemical that the insects were not able to resist.

Seeing the results slowly, Elaina looked at Julia, and it seemed the latter understood what Elaina wanted. As soon as she threw the powder into the air, Julia quickly cast a small whirlwind and gathered the insects in the air with the powder included. The air attack was so hard to dodge away that before the insects could evade the whirlwind, they got caught by it and were soon mixed in by the powder. With the powder also swirling all around the whirlwind with the insects, every insect that gets exposed to the powder explodes, and since the insects are all in close quarters in the whirlwind, as soon as one explodes, one follows, and the result is a chain reaction.

Once the process is done, Julia gathers the insects to one side and piles them before gathering more and having Elaina use the powder once more. Yona and the Grand Sage also see the effort that the two are making and joined the fray as they did their best to repel the insects.

Half an hour later, the insects has been significantly reduced in numbers. Yona and Julia also took advantage of the downtime of the insects to fully repel the insects behind the barrier while the Grand Sage is working with Elaina to deal with the insects once and for all in one sweep.

In the end, the insects were annihilated, and the farm is finally free from the insects’ reign. The Grand Sage used his abilities to collect the stragglers of the insects before exterminating them.

With the invasion of the pests on the cleanup, Elaina has finally seen up close what those insects are.

"I see that these are the Black Swarm Locusts. I only heard about them in books, but seeing their destructive power, I can’t help but feel like the situation is pretty grim," Elaina frowned as she looked at the damaged field left behind after those insects had ravaged the whole place down to the very core.

"It’s been centuries since the last attack of the Black Swarm Locusts. I am pretty sure the various kingdoms have made great efforts to exterminate and drive these insects to extinction back then. Didn’t expect they would reappear again, and this time, they are resistant to magic spells," The Grand Sage shook his head. Compared to the others who have managed to take a break from using their magic spells, the Grand Sage didn’t stop until every insect was destroyed in the process. He even used a wide area fire spell to engulf every insect in flames, only for those same insects to fully resist the whole thing.

"If not for the Harvest Goddess giving Elaina the powder, perhaps we wouldn’t have a fighting chance of fully repelling the whole thing. But what the heck is that thing for the insects to die and be repelled from approaching the place due to it?" Julia frowned as she looked over at the floating Harvest Goddess, who had a smug look on her face.

"Even if you think I was being lazy, I also did my work and made sure to keep the whole land clean and fertile for crops to grow. However, with the appearance of those insects, I have to do what I need to do, and that is to exterminate any of those insects to ensure that I won’t have excessive work to do, and the situation is enough for me to take the secret weapon I have in case something like this incident happens. Now, as for the name of that powder, I have already named it the Divine Insect Repellent. A repellent for the skin, for the plants and for everything that are common to be eaten by pests. This thing can easily deal with them without being annoying in the slightest. Give it a try everyone."